On this day
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LEAD: Najibullah, the Afghan leader, was described by senior Indian officials as willing to share significant political powers with Afghan guerrilla groups and prepared to accept India as a mediator in bringing about such an arrangement.
LEAD: When William F. Harnisch, president of Forstmann-Leff Associates, walked into his trading room last Monday afternoon, he could not believe his eyes. Not one of the dozens of telephone lines linking his money management firm to Wall Street brokers was lighting up.
LEAD: STRINGS are a musical and cultural common denominator: they're found on disco records - a wall of violins wailing away - or in Sudanese pop music. They're found in prim halls of European high culture and in studios seductively backing soul singers. Now an integral part of Indian classical music, the fiddle defines bluegrass music in Tennessee.
LEAD: A boom in facsimile machines is sweeping the business world and beginning to alter the way people conduct their affairs.
LEAD: Returning to its origins as a food company, Kraft Inc. said today that it had agreed to sell its Duracell battery business for $1.8 billion in cash to an investment group led by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 4, 1988, covering May 6, 1988.
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George Michael
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Terence Trent D'Arby
Michael Jackson
1988Ryan Anderson, American basketball player[†]
Ryan James Anderson is an American former professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the California Golden Bears.
1988Dakota Kai, New Zealand professional wrestler[†]
Cheree Georgina "Charlie" Crowley is a New Zealand professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in the WWE, where she performed under the ring name Dakota Kai.
1988All thirty-six passengers and crew were killed when Widerøe Flight 710 crashed into Mt. Torghatten in Brønnøy.[†]
Widerøe Flight 710, commonly known as the Torghatten Accident, was a controlled flight into terrain into the mountain of Torghatten in Brønnøy Municipality, Norway. The Widerøe-operated de Havilland Canada Dash 7 crashed on 6 May 1988 at 20:29:30 during approach to Brønnøysund Airport, Brønnøy. All thirty-six people on board LN-WFN were killed; the crash remains the deadliest accident involving the Dash 7 and the deadliest in Northern Norway. The direct cause of the accident was that the aircraft had descended from 500 to 170 meters at 8 NM instead of 4 NM from the airport.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]