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LEAD: A Federal judge yesterday ordered Eastern Air Lines Inc. to abandon its plans to sell or transfer its shuttle to its parent, the Texas Air Corporation.
LEAD: SCIENTISTS may be a long way from finding a cure for AIDS, but they are getting to know the AIDS virus in extraordinary detail.
LEAD: Consumers may be grumbling about the new cutbacks in hours by the United States Postal Service, but some people could not be happier: those offering private mailbox and postal services.
LEAD: More than 50 crewmen from two Iranian supertankers were missing and presumed dead today after an Iraqi air strike Saturday on Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal, shipping officials said.
LEAD: COMPANIES A Federal judge ordered Eastern to abandon its plans to sell its shuttle to its parent, Texas Air. Judge John H. Pratt of the Federal District Court in Washington, who earlier this month had found Eastern in contempt of an injunction he issued last year against the sale or transfer of its assets, said he would fine Eastern $10,000 a day starting April 5 if it continued to violate his order.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 16, 1988, covering March 22, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
INXS
Michael Jackson
Tiffany
1988Chris Ivory, American football player[†]
Christopher Lee Ivory is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Washington State Cougars and Tiffin Dragons.
1988The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.[†]
The United States Congress is the legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a bicameral legislature, including a lower body, the U.S. House of Representatives, and an upper body, the U.S. Senate. They both meet in the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]