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LEAD: The Supreme Court today unanimously upheld a 1984 New York City law aimed primarily at requiring the admission of women to large, private clubs that play an important role in business and professional life.
LEAD: Lieut. Gen. Henri Namphy, who ruled Haiti for two years before yielding to a civilian President in February, seized power today and declared himself President of a military Government.
LEAD: Carl C. Icahn conceded yesterday that he had lost his proxy battle with the management of Texaco Inc. after Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company, which held the second-largest block of voting rights after Mr. Icahn, said it had voted for management.
LEAD: For the first time in at least two decades, a low-income housing complex is being built in New York City without a direct government subsidy.
LEAD: THE human brain lay for 7,000 years in a Florida spring, but scientists using a new technique grew multiple copies of its remaining traces of genetic material to help puzzle out the identity of an ancient American.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 15, 1988, covering June 21, 1988.
George Michael
Poison
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Van Halen
1988Allyssa DeHaan, American basketball and volleyball player[†]
Allyssa DeHaan is an American former collegiate basketball and volleyball player. She played for Michigan State University from 2006 to 2010.
1988Alejandro Ramírez, American chess player[†]
Alejandro Tadeo Ramírez Álvarez is a Costa Rican-American chess Grandmaster and commentator. At the age of 15, he became the first Central American to achieve the title of Grandmaster and was the second youngest chess grandmaster in the world at the time. Born in Costa Rica, he represented Costa Rica before switching to the United States in 2011.
1988Paolo Tornaghi, Italian footballer[†]
Paolo Tornaghi is an Italian footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
1988Thaddeus Young, American basketball player[†]
Thaddeus Charles Young Sr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, before being selected 12th overall in the 2007 NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers.
1988Bobby Dodd, American football coach (born 1908)[†]
Robert Lee Dodd was an American college football player and coach, college baseball coach, and college athletics administrator. He served as the head football coach at Georgia Tech from 1945 to 1966, compiling a record of 165–64–8. His teams won consecutive Southeastern Conference (SEC) title in 1951 and 1952, and his 1952 Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets football team won the 1953 Sugar Bowl and was recognized as a national champion by a number of selectors though they finished second behind Michigan State in both major polls. Dodd was also Georgia Tech's head baseball coach from 1932 to 1939, tallying a mark of 43–64–2, and the school's athletic director from 1950 until 1976. All together, Dodd served Georgia Tech 57 years in various capacities.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]