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LEAD: The Upper East Side's next big building may have its genesis in the sale of one of its smallest. When Lieb Waldman purchased the one-story building at 1647 Second Avenue this month for $995,000, he completed a $19 million assemblage begun in 1985 at the southwest corner of Second Avenue and 86th Street.

POSTINGS: Yorkville Assemblage; The Final Link

LEAD: WHEN a 22-acre theme park called AutoWorld opened here with great fanfare on July 4, 1984, it was billed as the world's largest all-indoor, year-round entertainment center. Operated by Six Flags, one of the country's largest theme-park operators, it was supposed to draw 600,000 visitors a year.

FOCUS: Flint, Mich.;
Getting AutoWorld Restarted

LEAD: Mark Jackson's driving layup behind a pick by Patrick Ewing with 3 seconds remaining gave the Knicks a 95-93 victory over the Atlanta Hawks tonight and moved them another step closer to their first playoff berth in four seasons.

JACKSON'S LAYUP WINS FOR KNICKS

LEAD: MORE than 30 years after Howard Hughes bought it, plans have been announced for the development of a 25,000-acre tract that stretches from the western boundary of Las Vegas to the foot of the Spring Mountains.

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Las Vegas, Nev.;
Summa Plans A Huge Project

LEAD: In New York, which has more homeless people, AIDS cases, drug addicts and school dropouts than any other city in the nation, the candidates for the Democratic Presidential nomination are talking more about urban issues than they have anywhere else.

Candidates Turn to Problems Of Cities in New York Race

LEAD: Special reports in this issue include:

Special Today; Good Health/Magazine, Part 2

LEAD: The announcement of February's $13.8 billion trade deficit - the largest in six months - sent a shock through the economy. The stock market fell sharply and the dollar dropped too. How should the trade figures for February be understood? Are they part of a trend, or just an aberration?  Carl B.

Will the Trade Gap Grow?

LEAD: FOR the past year, the Presidential race has been highly visible inthe cornfields of Iowa, at the factory gates of New Hampshire and now - with the state primary two days away - on the sidewalks of New York.

The Money Men and the Candidates

LEAD: MUCH wondering comment has been aroused by the enormous and quite unexpected success of Allan Bloom's ''Closing of the American Mind: How Higher Education Has Failed Democracy and Impoverished the Souls of Today's Students.'' Its appearance in a paperback edition next month will earn it renewed attention and almost certainly, judging by past experience, sales two or three times greater than those of the hard-cover original, which was on the best-seller list for almost a year.

THE PAPERBACKING OF THE AMERICAN MIND

LEAD: The Palestine Liberation Organization accused Israel of assassinating the P.L.O.'s most senior military figure at his home in Tunisia early today. Two bodyguards and a Tunisian driver also were slain.

P.L.O. Accuses Israel in Killing Of Senior Arafat Deputy in Tunis

LEAD: There is a growing sense in the Soviet Union that key elements of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's effort to reshape the country have been crippled, if not paralyzed, by inertia and resistance in the Communist Party and in the Government.

GORBACHEV EFFORT TO RESHAPE SOVIET FACING PARALYSIS

LEAD: In the bloodiest day of four months of protests, the Israeli Army shot and killed at least 14 Palestinians today as the Palestinians reacted angrily to the assassination of the Palestine Liberation Organization's military commander in Tunis earlier in the day.

14 PALESTINIANS DIE IN WORST DAY OF ARAB UPRISING

LEAD: THE WITCHES WERE WORKING overtime. That is one explanation for the cauldron of troubles stirred up as the latest version of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth,'' starring Christopher Plummer and Glenda Jackson, lurched its way to Broadway.

Macbeth, Beware the Tour

LEAD: The Indiana limestone to rebuild the facade of 110 East 64th Street will arrive in a few weeks. By then, however, the ginkgo tree in front will be in full leaf and the costly refacing may be hard to see. The town house and the tree, both six stories high, have lived together in peace, more or less, for 25 years.

POSTINGS: The Ginkgo Pact; Detente on 64th

LEAD: FIVE years ago, Tuan Tran, a bright but illiterate 15-year-old, piloted an overcrowded fishing boat out of Vietnam and spent several months in refugee camps before being resettled in the United States.

Program Provides Haven for Asian Refugee Children

LEAD: DOUG JONES, a Cleveland Indians relief pitcher, did it with the bases loaded in the eighth inning and the game tied, 6-6, and the Minnesota Twins won, 7-6. Les Lancaster, a Chicago Cubs reliever, did it with runners at first and second in the seventh inning and the game tied, 3-3, and Bob Horner hit a sacrifice fly that gave St.

Close Scrutiny, More Balk Calls Give Some Players Pause

LEAD: IN the frenzy of the final seconds, Sean Burke peered through his mask as Pat LaFontaine swooped in and shot. Rising quickly, the puck thudded into the chest protector of the New Jersey Devils' goaltender as the final buzzer sounded. That save preserved a 6-5 victory over the New York Islanders that put the Devils into tomorrow night's opener of the Patrick Division final in the Stanley Cup playoffs.

Sports of The Times; Burke's Devilish Impact

LEAD: DESPITE doomsday predictions that initially scared away many home buyers, the most lasting impact of the stock market crash on residential real estate has been a sustained and inviting decline in mortgage interest rates.

A Season of Low Rates, Stable Prices

LEAD: On the campuses of the nation's predominantly white universities, where racial unrest has risen dramatically in recent years, black students say they feel increasingly like outsiders, isolated and unwelcome.

Campus Blacks Feel Racism's Nuances

LEAD: FIREHOUSE construction and expansion are booming on Long Island, and with numerous firehouses dating to the early years of the century, the architectural impact of new design is being felt from Great Neck to Westhampton Beach.

The Impact of Innovative Firehouse Designs

LEAD: The hijacking of a Kuwaiti jet took a more threatening turn today when the men holding the airliner said they wanted to fly it elsewhere to ''liquidate our account'' with the Kuwaiti Government, which has refused to yield to their demand to free 17 convicted terrorists.

AIRLINE HIJACKERS THREATEN KILLINGS

LEAD: THE Suffolk County District Attorney, Patrick Henry, is seeking a court order to bar publication of an investigative report that is expected to depict misconduct and possible illegalities by county prosecutors and police officers.

Court Asked To Bar Report on Police Acts

LEAD: When Sears Roebuck left Kennedy Boulevard in Union City, N.J., for the Newport Center in Jersey City, it was not because the old store was unprofitable. According to Fred Fish, who with Nathan Shmalo bought the 120,000-square-foot building in December for $5 million, Sears was ringing up $30 million a year in sales.

POSTINGS: Art Deco in Union City; Exit Sears, Enter Kennedy Center

LEAD: THE outcome of Tuesday's New York primary will be determined in large measure by who shows up to vote.

The Turnout Arithmetic; On Tuesday, Action Could Speak Louder Than Opinion Polls

Takahiro Moriuchi  , known professionally as Taka, is a Japanese singer and musician who is the lead vocalist of the Japanese rock band One Ok Rock. Moriuchi is the band's main lyricist and composer. In 2017, Kerrang! magazine placed him at number 27 on their list of the "50 Greatest Rockstars in the World". He was also listed by Rock Sound magazine as one of "50 Most Influential Figures in Rock".

Takahiro Moriuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter

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Louise Nevelson was an American sculptor known for her monumental, monochromatic, wooden wall pieces and outdoor sculptures. Born in the Poltava Governorate of the Russian Empire, she emigrated with her family to the United States in the early 20th century. Nevelson learned English at school, as she spoke Yiddish at home.

April 17, 1988

Headlines from April 17, 1988

INSIDE

POSTINGS: Yorkville Assemblage; The Final Link

FOCUS: Flint, Mich.; Getting AutoWorld Restarted

JACKSON'S LAYUP WINS FOR KNICKS

NATIONAL NOTEBOOK: Las Vegas, Nev.; Summa Plans A Huge Project

Billboard 200

Dirty Dancing

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Historical Context for April 17, 1988