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LEAD: Louise Nevelson, a pioneer creator of environmental sculpture who became one of the world's best-known women artists, died yesterday evening at her home on Spring Street in Manhattan. She was 88 years old, and had been in poor health for several months.
LEAD: The office of a New York City agency that provides help for indigent adults in Manhattan who cannot care for themselves is in a state of disarray, with widespread mismanagement and caseworkers who are often poorly trained and inexperienced, according to city investigators.
LEAD: With help from China and many Moslem nations, the United States led a huge international operation over the last eight years to arm the Afghan guerrillas with the weapons they needed to drive the Soviet Army from their country.
LEAD: Iran Reports U.S. Shelling United States warships attacked two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf, the Iranian news agency reported. Page A9. Hijack Talks at Impasse Algerian mediators say they see no sign of flexibility by the Kuwaiti Government or the hijackers of a Kuwait Airlines jet.
LEAD: Forty years after the perilous founding of Israel, the state's pioneer generation finds itself less nostalgic than consumed in dispute about the hazards of wielding power in a watchful, critical world.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 13, 1988, covering April 18, 1988.
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Michael Jackson
George Michael
INXS
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1988Vanessa Kirby, English actress[â ]
Vanessa Nuala Kirby is an English actress and producer. She rose to international prominence with her portrayal of Princess Margaret in the Netflix drama series The Crown (2016â2017), for which she won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actress.
1988Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (born 1914)[â ]
Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder of the Garip movement, together with Orhan Veli and Melih Cevdet.
1988The United States launches Operation Praying Mantis against Iranian naval forces in the largest naval battle since World War II.[â ]
Operation Praying Mantis was the 18 April 1988 attack by the United States on Iranian naval targets in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for the mining of a U.S. warship four days earlier.
1988In Israel John Demjanjuk is sentenced to death for war crimes committed in World War II, although the verdict is later overturned.[â ]
John Demjanjuk, born Ivan Mykolaiovych Demjanjuk, was a Trawniki and Nazi camp guard at Sobibor extermination camp, Majdanek, and FlossenbĂŒrg. Demjanjuk became the center of global media attention in the 1980s, when he was tried and convicted in Israel after being identified as "Ivan the Terrible", a notoriously cruel watchman at Treblinka extermination camp. In 1993, the verdict was overturned. Shortly before his death, he was tried and convicted in the Federal Republic of Germany as an accessory to the 28,060 murders that occurred during his service at Sobibor.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]