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LEAD: The Senate leadership and key committee chairmen gave all but final approval today to the agreements reached this week in Geneva on the treaty on intermediate-range nuclear forces, essentially clearing the way for the Senate to begin debate on the treaty early next week.
LEAD: The likelihood of a sharp rise in the inflation rate in the next month or two has lessened, the Government reported yesterday. But longer term, an acceleration of the inflation rate seems more of a threat than ever.
LEAD: In a one-room clinic a few paces from Moscow's most popular pedestrian mall, Dzhuna Davitashvili, celebrity psychic healer, gesticulates over the head of a deaf and blind man, as if pulling invisible weeds from his cranium.
LEAD: Responding to election-year pressure, the Senate voted overwhelmingly today to expand the military's role in efforts to reduce the flow of narcotics into the United States. The vote was 83 to 6.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 11, 1988, covering May 14, 1988.
George Michael
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Terence Trent D'Arby
Michael Jackson
1988Willem Drees, Dutch politician and historian, Prime Minister of the Netherlands (1948–1958) (born 1886)[†]
Willem Drees Sr. was a Dutch politician of the Social Democratic Workers' Party (SDAP) and later co-founder of the Labour Party (PvdA) and historian who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 7 August 1948 to 22 December 1958.
1988Carrollton bus collision: A drunk driver traveling the wrong way on Interstate 71 near Carrollton, Kentucky hits a converted school bus carrying a church youth group. Twenty-seven die in the crash and ensuing fire.[†]
The Carrollton bus collision occurred on May 14, 1988, on Interstate 71 in unincorporated Carroll County, Kentucky. The collision involved a former school bus in use by a church youth group and a pickup truck driven by an alcohol-impaired driver. The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third-deadliest bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus, there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29) and 1963 Chualar bus crash (32).
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]