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LEAD: Mayor Koch, seeking to defuse what he predicts will be a significant challenge to his re-election bid next year, says he would like to campaign with black and Hispanic running mates.
LEAD: Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. has agreed to return $90 million to the Government to settle allegations that it fraudulently overcharged the Army on helicopter spare parts, Pentagon sources said tonight.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL OPEC is studying a plan to reduce oil output by 5 percent, several officials of the organization said. The proposal is intended to address the slide in oil prices, which have recently fallen to $13 to $14 a barrel, from OPEC's official price of $18. Non-OPEC oil producers met in London.
LEAD: Huge corporate takeovers have grabbed the stock market's spotlight since January. But these splashy moves have overshadowed a quiet and powerful rally in small stocks.
LEAD: At the center of an exhibition that opens Thursday in the Vienna City hall is a wooden platform that the contemporary Austrian is encouraged to mount to look out over a broad tree-lined lane leading to the ornate Burgtheater.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 1988, covering March 10, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Clarissa dos Santos, Brazilian basketball player[†]
Clarissa Cristina dos Santos is a Brazilian professional basketball player who previously played for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Most recently she has played for Basket Landes in the Euroleague Women.
1988Josh Hoffman, Australian-New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Josh Hoffman is a New Zealand international rugby league footballer who plays as fullback, winger and centre, five-eighth for the Wests Panthers in the Brisbane Rugby League premiership.
1988Ego Nwodim, American actress[†]
Egobunma Kelechi Nwodim is an American actress and comedian. She has been a cast member on the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live since 2018, beginning with the show's 44th season.
1988Quincy Pondexter, American basketball player and coach[†]
Quincy Coe Pondexter is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Washington Huskies men’s basketball team. He played high school basketball in Fresno, California, at San Joaquin Memorial High School. Pondexter played four years of college basketball for the Washington Huskies. At the end of his senior season, he earned first-team All-Pac-10 honors and an All-American honorable mention by the Associated Press.
1988Ivan Rakitić, Croatian football player[†]
Ivan Rakitić is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for HNL club Hajduk Split.
1988Andy Gibb, Australian singer-songwriter and actor (born 1958)[†]
Andrew Roy Gibb was an English singer and songwriter. He was the younger brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb, musicians who had formed the Bee Gees during the late 1950s. Andy Gibb came to prominence in the late 1970s through the early 1980s with eight singles reaching the Top 20 of the US Hot 100, three of which went to No. 1: "I Just Want to Be Your Everything" (1977), "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water" (1977), and "Shadow Dancing" (1978). In the early 1980s, he co-hosted the American music television series Solid Gold. He also performed in productions of The Pirates of Penzance and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Gibb would later have substance use problems and depression. He died on 10 March 1988 from complications due to drug abuse, aged 30.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]