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LEAD: Apparently reversing alliances, South Africa is negotiating to train and equip as many as three battalions of Mozambican Government troops, a South African official asserted here today.
LEAD: Moving to fend off a hostile tender offer from Desert Partners L.P., the USG Corporation announced yesterday that its board had approved a recapitalization and restructuring involving the sale of some businesses and other assets.
LEAD: The New York City Fire Commissioner said yesterday that the police had erred in preventing firefighters from trying to help free a man trapped in a helicopter in the East River Sunday, but the Police Commissioner replied that the firefighters had no business being at the scene.
LEAD: The New York City Police Department held a fashion show at Headquarters yesterday. There were only two models and no runway, but the creations on display represented police haute couture at its hautest: a snappy new, low-maintenance uniform with permanent creases, gold-plated buttons that do not need burnishing - or buttoning, for that matter - a lighter weight jacket with space-age insulation and ''patent leather look-alike shoes'' that never need polishing.
LEAD: The Israeli Army announced tonight that it had sent forces into southern Lebanon in search of Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas who have tried to slip into Israel and take hostages twice in the last week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 27, 1988, covering May 3, 1988.
Soundtrack
George Michael
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Michael Jackson
INXS
1988Ben Revere, American baseball player[†]
Ben Daniel Revere is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Minnesota Twins, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, Washington Nationals, and Los Angeles Angels.
1988Paddy Holohan, Irish mixed martial artist[†]
Patrick Pearse Holohan is an Irish politician and retired mixed martial artist who previously competed in the flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. A professional MMA competitor from 2007 until his retirement in 2016, Holohan also competed for the promotion Cage Contender and was a competitor on The Ultimate Fighter 18.
1988Lev Pontryagin, Russian mathematician and academic (born 1908)[†]
Lev Semyonovich Pontryagin was a Soviet mathematician. Completely blind from the age of 14, he made major discoveries in a number of fields of mathematics, including algebraic topology, differential topology and optimal control.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]