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LEAD: A Presidential commission recommended yesterday that the Federal Aviation Administration be made an independent agency with a new ''safety czar'' to oversee regulation of the airline industry.
LEAD: Puppy N-52471 was one of seven in a shepherd litter brought to the North Shore Animal League Feb. 25. The nonprofit shelter arranges adoptions quickly, 40,000 a year, probably more than any place else in the nation. But a shelter vet detected a heart murmur, so N-52471 was separated from the others.
LEAD: An Israeli court today convicted John Demjanjuk, a 68-year-old retired auto worker from Cleveland, of committing war crimes at the Treblinka death camp more than 40 years ago.
LEAD: THE remote Bikini Atoll once again is the setting for critical tests of the effects of technology's most destructive force. But this time, no atomic bombs are exploding - no mushroom clouds or warships blown out of lagoon waters. The new experiments are as simple and serene as palm trees in the sandy soil, but the results, now as before, will determine the destiny of the
LEAD: The State Department today condemned the killing of a top official of the Palestine Liberation Organization as an ''act of political assassination,'' but said that it had no information about who was responsible.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 13, 1988, covering April 19, 1988.
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Michael Jackson
George Michael
INXS
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1988Kwon Ki-ok, Korean pilot (born 1901)[†]
Kwon Ki-ok was the first Korean female aviator, as well as one of the first female pilots in China. Her name in Chinese is Quan Jiyu. Kwon went into exile in China during the Japanese occupation of Korea and became a lieutenant colonel in the Republic of China Air Force. She returned home after the liberation of Korea and became a founding member of the Republic of Korea Air Force.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]