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LEAD: A STEEP and surprisingly early increase in magnetic disturbances on the Sun in the last few months may herald a cycle of exceptionally intense solar radiation, and astronomers have warned that satellites in low orbits could face premature destruction as a result.
LEAD: A group led by Montgomery Ward's management agreed to buy the revitalized retailer from Mobil in a deal valued at $3.8 billion. Page D1.
LEAD: WITH the discovery of a yet another kind of superconductor, a distant cousin of the materials found in the breakthroughs of the last year, research on superconductivity has suddenly passed a new milestone.
LEAD: Warner Communications Inc. and the Lorimar Telepictures Corporation said yesterday that they had begun ''very, very early'' merger discussions over the weekend.
LEAD: The takeover contest between two archrivals, General Electric and Whirlpool, for the Roper Corporation, a maker of kitchen ranges and riding lawn mowers, reflects the changes in strategy and the consolidation under way in the maturing home-appliance business, analysts said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 2, 1988, covering March 8, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Benny Blanco, American record producer[†]
Benjamin Joseph Levin, known professionally as Benny Blanco, is an American record producer and songwriter. He is the recipient of the 2013 Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Blanco has also won five BMI Songwriter of the Year Awards, won the 2017 iHeartRadio Producer of the Year Award, and received eleven Grammy Award nominations.
1988Tommy Pham, American baseball player[†]
Thomas James Pham is an American professional baseball outfielder for the Pittsburgh Pirates of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals, Tampa Bay Rays, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds, Boston Red Sox, New York Mets, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago White Sox, and Kansas City Royals.
1988Aeroflot Flight 3379 is hijacked by the Ovechkin family and diverted to Veshchevo in the Soviet Union.[†]
Aeroflot Flight 3739 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight from Irkutsk to Leningrad with a stopover in Kurgan. On 8 March 1988, after the Tupolev Tu-154 operating the flight had left Kurgan, it was hijacked by the Ovechkin family, whose members sought to defect from the Soviet Union.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]