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LEAD: The flame lighted 15 days ago by a 12-year-old Calgary girl was to be extinguished tonight by a 32-year-old city engineer who wasato ournro f the gas and thus end the longest Olympic Winter Games ever staged.
LEAD: A group of Roman Catholic homosexuals has asserted that on at least four occasions since October, officials of St. Patrick's Cathedral and the New York City Police Department ''conspired'' to conduct illegal surveillances of the group's protests inside the church.
LEAD: Gather round and listen to the tale of Saul S. Weitzman. It is the oldest one in the book - the docket book, that is, of the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York. For that matter, it ranks among the 100 oldest civil cases still active in the Federal judicial system.
LEAD: The Koch administration and Samuel J. LeFrak have reached an agreement for the developer to build 1,200 apartments for limited profit on the Lower East Side. The plan would involve a creative financing arrangement and would be among the largest middle-income projects built in New York City in a decade.
LEAD: When Roy S. Roberts was manager of the General Motors Corporation's aging assembly plant in North Tarrytown, N.Y., he was instrumental in forging a coalition of management, labor and government that secured a future for the once-endangered plant and its 4,500 workers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 24, 1988, covering February 29, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Lena Gercke, German model and television host[â ]
Lena Johanna Gercke is a German fashion model and television host. She won the first season of Germany's Next Topmodel and was the host of Austria's Next Topmodel.
1988Benedikt Höwedes, German footballer[â ]
Benedikt Höwedes is a German former professional footballer who played as a defender. He spent the majority of his playing career for Schalke 04, which he captained for six seasons, and represented the Germany national football team from 2011 to 2017. At international level, Höwedes won the World Cup with Germany in 2014, and was one of only three players to play every single minute of the tournament. Höwedes described himself as a 'multi-functional player' in the defence, who can play in the centre or as both a left or right-sided full back.
1988Brent Macaffer, Australian Rules footballer[â ]
Brent Macaffer is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Collingwood Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He was recruited in the 2006 AFL draft.
1988Hannah Mills, Welsh sports sailor[â ]
Hannah Louise Mills is a British competitive sailor and two-time world champion in the 470 class, having won in 2012 and 2019. Mills won a silver medal for Team GB with her crew Saskia Clark in the 2012 Olympics, she followed this up with a gold in the same event at both the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and, partnered by Eilidh McIntyre, the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
1988South African archbishop Desmond Tutu is arrested along with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.[â ]
Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a South African Anglican bishop and theologian, known for his work as an anti-apartheid and human rights activist. He was Bishop of Johannesburg from 1985 to 1986 and then Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996, in both cases being the first Black African to hold the position. Theologically, he sought to fuse ideas from Black theology with African theology.
1988Svend Robinson becomes the first member of the House of Commons of Canada to come out as gay.[â ]
Svend Robinson is a Canadian politician. He was a member of Parliament (MP) from 1979 to 2004, representing suburban Vancouver-area constituencies in the city of Burnaby for the New Democratic Party (NDP). He was the first member of Parliament in Canadian history to come out as gay while in office. In 2004, he pleaded guilty to stealing an expensive ring and decided not to run in the June 2004 election. At the time, he was one of the longest-serving members in the House of Commons, having been elected and re-elected for seven consecutive terms. In the 2019 Canadian federal election, Robinson was the NDP candidate for the riding of Burnaby NorthâSeymour but lost to Liberal incumbent Terry Beech by 1,560 votes.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]