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LEAD: The first large development in Fort Montgomery, N.Y., will be the product of a 19th-century architect's designs, Swedish prefabrication techniques and the work of a developer with an interest in Hudson River Valley history. The $14 million residential-and-retail complex on Route 9W near West Point is the project of John Dodson, a Vietnam veteran, Harvard M.B.A.
LEAD: A research-and-development complex that Reuters Holdings PLC is building in Hauppauge, L.I., lies just off the Northern State Parkway, but a huge, manmade crater hides its major link to the outside world. There, four satellite dishes will be increased to six by the information service that began business in 1850 by linking French and
LEAD: The Mets zigged and zagged tonight and even started eight left-handed hitters in a strategic brainstorm aimed at breaking their slump. But it didn't work, not even with Dwight Gooden pitching.
LEAD: THE adaptive re-use of historic institutional buildings has been successfully achieved in many instances over the last 10 years in former school buildings, hospitals, textile mills and other institutional buildings.
LEAD: A PROPOSAL to establish a zone in which nightclubs could stay open until dawn has touched off a debate in the Franklin Square neighborhood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1988, covering June 12, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Def Leppard
Michael Jackson
1988Eren Derdiyok, Swiss footballer[†]
Eren Derdiyok is a Swiss former professional footballer who played as a striker. He is a former Swiss international. Derdiyok has played for ten different clubs in Europe, as well as a one year stint in Uzbekistan's capital with Pakhtakor Tashkent.
1988Mauricio Isla, Chilean footballer[†]
Mauricio Aníbal Isla Isla is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a right-back and midfielder for Chilean Primera División club Colo-Colo.
1988Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046, a McDonnell Douglas MD-81, crashes short of the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport, killing all 22 people on board.[†]
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046 was an Argentine scheduled domestic flight from Buenos Aires to Posadas, via Resistencia, that undershot the runway at Libertador General José de San Martín Airport in Posadas on June 12, 1988, in conditions of poor visibility. All 61 of the occupants of flight 046 were killed in the crash.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]