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LEAD: COMPANIES First Republicbank predicted a loss of $1.5 billion for the first quarter, mainly because of increased reserves for troubled real estate loans. The amount, which stunned analysts, would be the second-highest quarterly loss in banking history. First Republicbank also named a new chairman and chief executive.
LEAD: Eight days after it was hijacked, a Kuwaiti airliner took off early today for Algeria, leaving behind 12 freed hostages. [ The Kuwaiti jet landed at the Algiers airport after a nearly four-hour flight, Reuters reported from Algiers. [ The Associated Press said the pilot said by radio to the control tower, ''The terrorists demand that all vehicles be removed from the vicinity of the airplane.
LEAD: In this era of keen global competition, American companies like to portray themselves as penny pinchers with hardly an ounce of fat. But at least one expensive tradition remains inviolate at most companies: the lavish annual report.
LEAD: Calling it a ''singularly historic event,'' the United States today issued to Harvard University the world's first patent for a higher form of life, a mouse specially developed by researchers at the Harvard Medical School through techniques of genetic manipulation.
LEAD: MAURIZIO CASTELLI remembers the American woman who asked about the olive trees that spread in silvery clusters down a terraced Tuscan hillside: were they extra-virgin olive trees, she wanted to know, or the regular kind?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 13, 1988, covering April 13, 1988.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
INXS
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1988Allison Williams, American actress and singer[†]
Allison Howell Williams is an American actress. She first received attention on YouTube and as a member of the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water. She then played Marnie Michaels in the HBO comedy-drama series Girls (2012–2017), receiving a Critics' Choice Award nomination. Her continued television roles include the Netflix black comedy A Series of Unfortunate Events (2018–2019) and the Showtime miniseries Fellow Travelers (2023).
1988Anderson, Brazilian footballer[†]
Anderson Luís de Abreu Oliveira, commonly known as Anderson, is a Brazilian former professional footballer who works as assistant manager of Adana Demirspor. He played as a midfielder and known best for his tenure with Manchester United from 2007 to 2015.
1988Jean Gascon, Canadian actor and director (born 1920)[†]
Jean Gascon was a Canadian opera director, actor, and administrator.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]