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LEAD: West Point-Pepperell Inc. returned with a higher offer for J. P. Stevens & Company yesterday, topping a bid that has already been approved by the directors of Stevens.
Neil Simon's buck private in Mississippi boot camp. Credible and appealing.
LEAD: The disagreement between the United States and the Soviet Union over the Reagan Administration's demand for a halt in Soviet weapon supplies to the Afghan Government has emerged as the only important obstacle to an accord on a Soviet troop withdrawal, American officials and Asian diplomats said today.
LEAD: Seven nights a week Mario Chacon, a guard for Satellite Security Systems, sits in the empty two-story ranch house at 9 Highland Road and listens. He never hears anything much. Sometimes he sits with all the lights on. Sometimes he sits in the dark. As carefully as he listens, the most he hears are the nighttime sounds of a suburban street: A car passing.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 23, 1988, covering March 25, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Big Sean, American rapper, singer and songwriter[†]
Sean Michael Leonard Anderson, known professionally as Big Sean, is an American rapper. He met Kanye West as a teenager, and signed with his record label GOOD Music, an imprint of Def Jam Recordings in 2007. He gained popularity following the release of his third mixtape, Finally Famous Vol. 3: Big (2010). His first two studio albums, Finally Famous (2011) and Hall of Fame (2013), both peaked at number three on the Billboard 200 and spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top 40 singles "My Last", "Marvin & Chardonnay", "Dance (Ass)", and "Beware".
1988Ryan Lewis, American music producer[†]
Ryan Scott Lewis is an American musician and record producer based in Seattle, Washington. Along with producing his own album, Instrumentals, Lewis produced the albums The VS. EP (2009), The Heist (2012), and This Unruly Mess I've Made (2016) as part of the duo Macklemore & Ryan Lewis. He also directed 12 Macklemore & Ryan Lewis videos.
1988Mitchell Watt, Australian long jumper[†]
Mitchell Watt is an Australian track & field athlete. His main event is the long jump and holds the current Oceania record for the long jump – 8.54m. He was the first ever Australian long jump medalist at a World Championship and was the silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
1988Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player[†]
Arthur Zeiler is a German international rugby union player, playing for the Heidelberger RK in the Rugby-Bundesliga and the German national rugby union team.
1988Robert Joffrey, American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (born 1930)[†]
Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy.
1988The Candle demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.[†]
The Candle demonstration on 25 March 1988 in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia, was the first mass demonstration since 1969 against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]