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LEAD: AFTER the defeat of two bond issues in March, city officials and preservationists here are again wrestling with the problem of what to do with with a once-glorious railroad station.
LEAD: President Reagan, the residents of Vorovsky Street thank you. They salute you on Voyevodin Lane, too, and on the roads leading to the Danilov Monastery.
LEAD: AS THEY prepare for another season, youth camps in New Jersey face the prospect of having to deal with problems associated more with urban America than with rustic retreats.
LEAD: AFTER a decade of debate, Center West, a 22-story office tower, is finally beginning to rise in the Westwood section of Los Angeles. It is the result of an unusual compromise between its developer and residents who had opposed the project.
LEAD: LAST Thursday, John W. Bachmann, chairman of the Securities Industry Association, and John J. Phelan, Jr., chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, discussed only one topic over their lunch: how to restore investor confidence in the stock market.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 11, 1988, covering May 15, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Soundtrack
Terence Trent D'Arby
Michael Jackson
1988Indrek Kajupank, Estonian basketball player[â ]
Indrek Kajupank is an Estonian professional basketball player for BC Tallinna Kalev of the Latvian-Estonian Basketball League. He is a 2.00Â m tall small forward and power forward. He also represents the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
1988Scott Laird, English footballer[â ]
Scott Benjamin Laird is an English professional footballer who plays as a left back and midfielder for Southern League Premier Division South club Weston-super-Mare. He is also the club's assistant manager.
1988SovietâAfghan War: After more than eight years of fighting, the Soviet Army begins to withdraw 115,000 troops from Afghanistan.[â ]
The SovietâAfghan War took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the 46-year-long Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen, aided by Pakistan. While they were backed by various countries and organizations, the majority of the mujahideen's support came from Pakistan, the United States, the United Kingdom, China, Iran, and the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, in addition to a large influx of foreign fighters known as the Afghan Arabs. American and British involvement on the side of the mujahideen escalated the Cold War, ending a short period of relaxed Soviet UnionâUnited States relations. Combat took place throughout the 1980s, mostly in the Afghan countryside, as most of the country's cities remained under Soviet control. The conflict resulted in the deaths of one to three million Afghans, while millions more fled from the country as refugees; most externally displaced Afghans sought refuge in Pakistan and in Iran. Between 6.5 and 11.5% of Afghanistan's erstwhile population of 13.5 million people is estimated to have been killed over the course of the SovietâAfghan War. The decade-long confrontation between the mujahideen and the Soviet and Afghan militaries inflicted grave destruction throughout Afghanistan and has also been cited by scholars as a significant factor that contributed to the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991; it is for this reason that the conflict is sometimes referred to as "the Soviet Union's Vietnam" in retrospective analyses.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]