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LEAD: A Canadian Government tribunal handed a major victory today to the Hyundai Motor Company of South Korea, ruling that the Canadian subsidiaries of the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation had not been injured by Hyundai's policy of selling its cars in Canada at lower prices than it charges in South
LEAD: Americans overwhelmingly oppose pardoning Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North of the Marines before he goes on trial in the Iran-contra scandal, the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll shows.
LEAD: The dispute over the walkout by the top executives of the Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein advertising agency heated up yesterday.
LEAD: In a puzzling new twist in the Tawana Brawley mystery, school books the teen-ager was believed to have been carrying on the day she disappeared in November turned up last week in her former high school in Wappingers Falls, N.Y., according to people familiar with the investigation.
LEAD: If fashion is indeed embarking on a sober, straight and narrow path for fall, Yves Saint Laurent will lead the way. The master of the classic mode, introducing his collection as usual on the last day of the Paris showings, offered wearable clothes on his own terms. Except for square-crowned and three-tiered hats, they were not propped up with zany accessories.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 1988, covering March 24, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete[†]
Aiga Grabuste is a Latvian track and field athlete competing in heptathlon. She represented her country at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and won bronze medal at the 2012 European Athletics Championships, finishing just 10 points behind fellow Latvian Laura Ikauniece.
1988Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer[†]
Ryan Shaun Higgins is a former Zimbabwean cricketer. He played 11 One Day Internationals for Zimbabwe in 2006, highlights include the wicket of Brian Lara and best bowling figures of 4/21 from 10 overs. Ryan Higgins retired from international cricket in 2007 at the age of 18. Higgins is now based in the Cotswolds and is now managing director of Gecko Cricket, the company he founded in 2012.
1988Finn Jones, English actor[†]
Finn Jones is an English actor known for his roles as Loras Tyrell in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011–2016) and Danny Rand / Iron Fist in the Marvel Cinematic Universe television shows Iron Fist (2017–2018), The Defenders (2017), and Luke Cage (2018).
1988Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer[†]
Matías Alfredo Martínez is an Argentine football defender who plays for Atlético de Rafaela.
1988Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer[†]
Kardo Ploomipuu is an Estonian swimmer.
1988Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player[†]
Matthew Brendon Todd is a New Zealand rugby union coach and former player. He is currently an assistant coach for the Crusaders.
1988Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1922)[†]
Turhan Feyzioğlu was a Turkish academic and a politician.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]