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LEAD: The Soviet Union gets high marks as a trading partner in a survey of American companies that do business there.
LEAD: The chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation has been warning the banking and savings industries that if the long-term problems of the insolvent savings and loan insurance fund are not resolved soon, the next President might come up with some very unpalatable solutions.
LEAD: EARLY in this decade, when the Islanders were Stanley Cup champions and the best team in the National Hockey League, the Edmonton Oilers were refugees from the disbanded World Hockey Association, a team full of fresh kids who were full of fresh talent.
LEAD: After eight years of secrecy, a public portrait of the Stealth bomber is taking shape: an airplane with the range and sophistication to roam elusively over enemy territory for repeated attacks with only two fliers aboard.
LEAD: An international group of computer manufacturers plans to defy an effort to set a software standard initiated last year by the American Telephone & Telegraph Company and Sun Microsystems Inc. The group's challenge could be announced as early as tomorrow.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 11, 1988, covering May 16, 1988.
George Michael
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Terence Trent D'Arby
Michael Jackson
1988JesĂșs Castillo, Mexican footballer[â ]
JesĂșs Castillo Ugarte is a former defender who last played for the Celaya on loan from Monarcas Morelia, in the Ascenso MX.
1988Martynas GeceviÄius, Lithuanian basketball player[â ]
Martynas GeceviÄius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player for BC TelĆĄiai of the National Basketball League (NKL). Standing at 1.93Â m, he primarily plays at the shooting guard position.
1988Jaak PĂ”ldma, Estonian tennis player[â ]
Jaak PÔldma is a retired Estonian tennis player.
1988A report by the Surgeon General of the United States C. Everett Koop states that the addictive properties of nicotine are similar to those of heroin and cocaine.[â ]
The surgeon general of the United States is the operational head of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps (PHSCC) and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government of the United States. The surgeon general's office and staff are known as the Office of the Surgeon General (OSG), which is housed within the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]