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LEAD: Gordon Weiss has owned the Red Bull Best Western Motor Inn here since 1979. At times he has set aside a block of his 160 rooms for people staying in the area for extended periods. He has housed I.B.M. workers who are transferred here temporarily for months. He has had construction crews that built the nearby Galleria Mall.
LEAD: The United States announced today that it had reached agreement with the Soviet Union on the remaining terms for a Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. It said the agreement would be signed on Thursday in Geneva.
LEAD: Oil Prices Rise Sharply Oil prices rose sharply after OPEC said it would meet later this month with other oil-producing nations in an attempt to force up prices by reducing supplies of oil. Page D1. Sale Planned by Texaco Texaco's attempt to sell its West German subsidiary for about $1.6 billion raises the possibility that it may be seeking the sale of more assets than previously announced.
LEAD: President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq raised the possibility today that a devastating explosion at a Pakistani ammunition depot on Sunday might have been the work of saboteurs.
LEAD: Gerald Tsai Jr., chairman of the Primerica Corporation and architect of its transformation from the American Can Company, continues to wheel and deal, selling subsidiaries to reduce debts incurred during its rapid expansion into the insurance and securities businesses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 6, 1988, covering April 12, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
Michael Jackson
INXS
Tiffany
1988Ricky Álvarez, Argentinian footballer[†]
Ricardo "Ricky" Gabriel Álvarez is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Álvarez retired from football at the end of 2021.
1988Stephen Brogan, English footballer[†]
Stephen Patrick Brogan is an English semi-professional footballer who plays for Stalybridge Celtic. He has previously played in the Football League for Rotherham United.
1988Amedeo Calliari, Italian footballer[†]
Amedeo Calliari is a former Italian professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1988Jessie James Decker, American singer-songwriter[†]
Jessica Rose James Decker is an Italian-born American country pop singer. At age 15, after auditioning for and being rejected by most of the country labels in Nashville, Tennessee, Decker began working with Carla Wallace of Big Yellow Dog Music. One of her songs attracted the attention of Mercury Records, which offered her a recording contract. She released her debut album, Jessie James, in 2009. A few years later in 2013, she starred with her husband Eric Decker, a wide receiver in the National Football League, in the E! reality show Eric & Jessie: Game On.
1988Moamen Zakaria, Egyptian footballer[†]
Moamen Zakaria Abbas Eldawy is an Egyptian former professional footballer who plays as a winger. In 2020, he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1988Colette Deréal, French singer and actress (born 1927)[†]
Colette Deréal was a French actress and singer. She is best known for representing Monaco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1961.
1988Alan Paton, South African historian and author (born 1903)[†]
Alan Stewart Paton was a South African writer and anti-apartheid activist. His works include the novels Cry, the Beloved Country (1948), Too Late the Phalarope (1953), and the short story The Waste Land.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]