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LEAD: A draft State Department report has concluded that while Panama and Mexico have failed to take adequate steps to control drug trafficking, they should not be penalized by the United States, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: A top Wall Street speculator was arrested late Thursday on charges of illegal possession of a gun that he purportedly intended to use on witnesses against him in a Government securities investigation.
LEAD: Four years after its troublesome Flxible buses were banished from New York City streets, the Grumman Corporation said yesterday that it had agreed to pay $40 million to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.
LEAD: The New York Post and its unions agreed early today to cut labor costs by $24 million over the next three years, clearing the way for Rupert Murdoch to sell the beleaguered newspaper to the real-estate developer Peter S. Kalikow.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 17, 1988, covering February 20, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Tiffany
INXS
Michael Jackson
1988Ki Bo-bae, South Korean archer[†]
Ki Bo-bae is a South Korean recurve archer and three-time Olympic gold medalist. She was the winner of the women's team and women's individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics and of the women's team event again at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where she also took bronze in the individual competition. Her tally of four Olympic medals places her among the most decorated archers in Olympic history.
1988Jiah Khan, Indian singer and actress (died 2013)[†]
Nafisa Rizvi Khan, better known as Jiah Khan, was a British-Indian actress and singer who worked in Hindi cinema. She appeared in three Bollywood films from 2007 to 2010.
1988Rihanna, Barbadian singer, songwriter and actress[†]
Robyn Rihanna Fenty is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, and actress. One of the wealthiest musicians in the world, her various accolades include nine Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, and thirteen American Music Awards. Rihanna is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales estimated at 250 million units globally.
1988The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast votes to secede from Azerbaijan and join Armenia, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.[†]
The Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) was an autonomous oblast within the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic that was created on July 7, 1923. Its capital was the city of Stepanakert. The majority of the population were ethnic Armenians.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]