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LEAD: The head of a ship-repair company says that he was solicited for a bribe of up to $70,000 in March to obtain a lease at the Brooklyn Navy Yard and that he was told the payoff would go to the counsel for the agency that runs the Navy Yard.
LEAD: Judging by the Chrysler Corporation's low stock price, the financial community is taking a dark view of the company's prospects. But judging by the strong sales of Jeeps, mini-vans and cars that have enabled Chrysler to increase its market share, consumers like what they see.
LEAD: When last we left Karen Goodwin and Elizabeth Williams, they had the aura of prosperous angels. It was a year ago, and they were standing in front of the Broadway Theater, where their investment in the musical ''Les Miserables'' was starting to earn them and their partners a hefty return.
LEAD: Thousands of acres of Israel's scarce forest and natural woodlands were set afire over the weekend and the Police Minister, Haim Bar-Lev, and other officials blamed Palestinian arsonists for the destruction.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 8, 1988, covering June 13, 1988.
George Michael
Soundtrack
Poison
Def Leppard
Michael Jackson
1988Gabe Carimi, American football player[†]
Gabriel Andrew Carimi is an American former professional football player who was a guard in the National Football League (NFL). Carimi had 49 starts at left tackle in his four-year Wisconsin Badgers college career, which culminated at the 2011 Rose Bowl. He was awarded the 2010 Outland Trophy, as the nation's top collegiate interior lineman. He was also a unanimous All-American, and the Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year.
1988Kerttu Niskanen, Finnish cross-country skier[†]
Kerttu Elina Niskanen is a Finnish cross-country skier. She is a four-time Olympic medalist.
1988Reece Noi, British actor[†]
Reece Noi is a British-Ghanaian actor. He is best known for portraying Taylor Mitchell in the BBC school-based drama serial, Grange Hill, from 2004 to 2007, and also Noel Parkin and Earl Kelly in the second and fourth series of Waterloo Road in 2007 and 2009 respectively, and Mossador in the HBO series Game of Thrones. Noi also starred in the 2019 Emmy Nominated Netflix crime series When They See Us.
1988Cody Walker, American actor[†]
Cody Beau Walker is an American actor. He is the youngest brother of actor Paul Walker; and helped complete the final scenes for Paul's character, Brian O'Conner, in the film Furious 7 (2015) following his brother's death. He went on to appear in films USS Indianapolis: Men of Courage (2016) and The Last Full Measure (2020).
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]