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LEAD: One of New York City's more powerful judges, Surrogate Louis D. Laurino of Queens, was censured yesterday for ethical misconduct by a state agency that investigates the judiciary.
LEAD: On the eve of a visit to Moscow, Commerce Secretary C. William Verity Jr. has won Cabinet approval of an initiative to stimulate trade with the Soviet Union, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev flew to Soviet Central Asia today, apparently for a meeting with the Afghan President, as signs persisted that an agreement was near on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
LEAD: To: Messrs. Dukakis, Jackson, Gore, Simon.
LEAD: President Reagan today denied a Japanese request to catch small quantities of certain kinds of fish in American waters, saying Japan had violated an international moratorium on whaling.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 1988, covering April 7, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Antonio Piccolo, Italian footballer[†]
Antonio Piccolo is an Italian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder.
1988Ed Speleers, English actor and producer[†]
Edward John Speleers is an English actor. He is best known for playing the title role in the 2006 film Eragon, antagonist Stephen Bonnet in the TV series Outlander and Jimmy Kent in the TV series Downton Abbey. He has also appeared as Rhys Montrose in the fourth season of You (2023) and Jack Crusher in the third season of Star Trek: Picard (2023).
1988Soviet Defense Minister Dmitry Yazov orders the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan.[†]
Dmitry Timofeyevich Yazov was a Marshal of the Soviet Union. A veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Yazov served as Minister of Defence from 1987 until he was arrested for his part in the 1991 August coup, four months before the fall of the Soviet Union. Yazov was the last person to be appointed to the rank of Marshal of the Soviet Union on 28 April 1990, the only Marshal born in Siberia, and at the time of his death on 25 February 2020, he was the last living Marshal of the Soviet Union.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]