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LEAD: Three men were charged yesterday in the slaying of a Queens woman who was killed Saturday as she stood in her kitchen, talking on the telephone with her infant in her arms.
LEAD: In a victory for discount retailers that compete with the authorized distributors of some costly foreign-made goods, the Supreme Court ruled today that the bulk of ''gray market'' imports are legal.
LEAD: After President Reagan's lunch with Soviet cultural figures today, it was Roy A. Medvedev, a historian with a dramatist's eye, who noticed the essential paradox.
LEAD: FOR most people, food serves many purposes: it fuels the body, pleases the palate and satisfies the soul. But increasingly, Americans are also looking to food to prevent disease and promote good health. They cut out egg yolks to avoid cholesterol, load up on fresh vegetables and high-fiber cereals to reduce cancer risks and drink low-fat milk to stave off osteoporosis.
LEAD: The United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement in principle today to increase the number of high school exchange students over the next two years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 1, 1988, covering June 1, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Michael Jackson
Scorpions
1988Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer[†]
Javier Hernández Balcázar, commonly known by the nickname Chicharito, is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a striker for Liga MX club Guadalajara. He is known for his clinical finishing, pace, and technical ability. He is widely considered among the greatest Mexican players of all time.
1988Herbert Feigl, Austrian philosopher from the Vienna Circle (born 1902)[†]
Herbert Feigl was an Austrian-American philosopher and an early member of the Vienna Circle. He coined the term "nomological danglers".
1988The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty comes into effect.[†]
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was an arms control treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev signed the treaty on 8 December 1987. The US Senate approved the treaty on 27 May 1988, and Reagan and Gorbachev ratified it on 1 June 1988.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]