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LEAD: To Phil Donahue, the talk-show host, the experimental, all-concrete house next door to his classic Tudor-style mansion here was a bit of an eyesore, an odd hybrid of Stonehenge and bomb shelter.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL The Group of Seven has a ''nonaggression pact'' for its summit meeting a week from Sunday. When President Reagan meets with the heads of America's leading trading partners, the talk will be of noncontentious issues, including the dollar's stability and the African debt crisis.
LEAD: For the last three days, at a cost of up to $2 million, 100 Federal officials have been busy evaluating 4,000 Long Island Lighting Company workers who pretended to be safely evacuating the Island after a make-believe nuclear accident at Shoreham, a power plant that in reality will probably never open.
LEAD: In a discovery that might require the rewriting of ancient Roman history, archeologists digging on a slope of the Palatine Hill last week unearthed what they believe is the defensive wall built when Rome was founded.
LEAD: Fierce but sporadic battles erupted here this afternoon as riot policemen tried to block students from marching to the North Korean border for a meeting with North Korean students at Panmunjom.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1988, covering June 10, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Def Leppard
Michael Jackson
1988Jeff Teague, American basketball player[†]
Jeffrey Demarco Teague is an American former professional basketball player, who is the head coach for Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. He played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for five teams between 2009 and 2021, including seven seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. Since retiring in 2021, he has worked as regional scout for the Hawks. Teague played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons before being selected 19th overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Hawks. He made an appearance as an NBA All-Star in 2015 and won a NBA championship in 2021 with the Milwaukee Bucks.
1988Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (born 1908)[†]
Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers".
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]