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LEAD: Leaders of the Sandinista Government and Nicaraguan contras offered differing proposals today for a cease-fire when they met for their second day of talks at this southern border outpost.
LEAD: LAMB has not been high in favor in this country in recent years, and mutton, its adult counterpart, is almost entirely unknown in modern butcher shops. Once a feature of Colonial banquets, a boned leg of mutton slowly spit-roasted before a bank of embers is something few of us will have the good fortune to taste.
LEAD: The American Stores Company today offered to acquire Lucky Stores Inc., one of the largest food chains in the lucrative and highly competitive California market, for $45 a share, or $1.74 billion.
LEAD: The classroom is in the Correctional Institution for Women on Rikers Island, and the students, all young women, are awaiting trial or serving short sentences - almost all on charges of selling drugs.
LEAD: Israel said today that it was detaining 3,000 Palestinians in connection with the protests in the occupied territories, including 700 arrested in the last week alone.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 1988, covering March 23, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Dellin Betances, American baseball player[†]
Dellin Betances is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees and New York Mets from 2011 to 2021. Betances was named an MLB All-Star from 2014 to 2017.
1988Jason Kenny, English cyclist[†]
Sir Jason Francis Kenny is a British former track cyclist, specialising in the individual and team sprints. Kenny is the winner of most Olympic gold medals (7) and medals (9) by a British athlete. Kenny's seven Olympic gold medals place him joint 15th in gold medals won in the Summer Olympic games since 1896. He holds the records for both most Olympic golds and most Olympic medals won by a cyclist.
1988Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player[†]
Michal Neuvirth is a Czech former professional ice hockey goaltender. He played for the Washington Capitals, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, and Philadelphia Flyers in the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 34th overall by the Washington Capitals in the second round of the 2006 NHL entry draft.
1988Angolan and Cuban forces defeat South Africa in the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale.[†]
The Battle of Cuito Cuanavale was fought intermittently between 14 August 1987 and 23 March 1988, south and east of Cuito Cuanavale, Angola, by the People's Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola (FAPLA) and Cuba against South Africa and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) during the Angolan Civil War and South African Border War. The battle was the largest engagement of the Angolan conflict and the biggest conventional battle on the African continent since World War II. UNITA and its South African allies defeated a major FAPLA offensive towards Mavinga, preserving the former's control of southern Angola. They proceeded to launch a failed counteroffensive on FAPLA defensive positions around the Tumpo River east of Cuito Cuanavale.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]