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LEAD: Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee since 1973, yesterday announced his intention to retire from Congress in January after 40 years.
LEAD: The chairman, secretary and staff of the Charter Revision Commission favor a proposal for overhauling New York City's government that would abolish the Board of Estimate and redistribute its vast powers, according to several Commission members and elected officials.
LEAD: A Federal district judge has unsealed several hundred internal documents from G. D. Searle & Company suggesting that the company had safety concerns about its Copper-7 contraceptive device even before it went on the market in 1974.
LEAD: Not so long ago, Poor Richard's Book Shop on Route 202 did a brisk business in romances and books on gardening and farming, crocheting and knitting. Few customers paid attention to the best-seller list.
LEAD: Dock workers at Panama's three major commercial ports went on strike today after the cash-starved Government of Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega failed to pay them, and the police fired tear gas at hundreds of teachers who had gathered at the Ministry of Education to demand wages due them.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 9, 1988, covering March 15, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
INXS
Tiffany
Michael Jackson
1988Lil Dicky, American rapper, comedian, and actor[†]
David Andrew Burd, better known by his stage name Lil Dicky, is an American rapper, singer, comedian, and actor. He first received recognition after the music video for his 2013 song, "Ex-Boyfriend" became a viral hit—earning over one million views on YouTube in 24 hours. His 2014 single, "Save Dat Money", marked his first entry on the Billboard Hot 100, received double platinum certification by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and preceded his debut studio album, Professional Rapper (2015).
1988Éver Guzmán, Mexican footballer[†]
Éver Arsenio Guzmán Zavala is a Mexican former footballer who last played as a forward for Guatemalan team Antigua.
1988James Reimer, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
James Reimer is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League (NHL). Reimer has also played in the NHL for the Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, San Jose Sharks, Carolina Hurricanes, Detroit Red Wings and Anaheim Ducks. He was selected by the Maple Leafs in the fourth round of the 2006 NHL entry draft. He started playing minor hockey in his hometown when he was 12. He played junior hockey with the Red Deer Rebels of the Western Hockey League (WHL), after being selected in the fifth round of the 2003 WHL bantam draft.
1988Dmitri Polyakov, Ukrainian general and spy (born 1921)[†]
Dmitri Fyodorovich Polyakov was a Major General in the Soviet GRU during the Cold War. According to former high-level KGB officer Sergey Kondrashev, Polyakov acted as a KGB disinformation agent at the FBI's New York City field office when he was posted at United Nations headquarters in 1962. Kondrashev's post-Cold War friend and former high-level CIA counterintelligence officer Tennent H. Bagley says Polyakov "flipped" and started spying for the CIA when he was reposted to Rangoon, Moscow, and New Delhi. Polyakov was suddenly recalled to Moscow in 1980, arrested, tried, and finally executed in 1988.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]