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LEAD: Now, for the first time, Saleh Rohany's two young daughters will learn the truth about why their father suddenly left home in 1986.
LEAD: A partnership led by the New York arbitragers Herbert B. Abelow and Nicholas L. Ihasz said today that it had a 7.1 percent stake in the Zenith Electronics Corporation.
LEAD: The Long Island Power Authority today gave its approval to the accord between New York State and the Long Island Lighting Company to close the utility's Shoreham nuclear power plant.
LEAD: Canadian officials said today that Soviet diplomats had tried to infiltrate a United States-owned military contractor in Montreal that has access to highly classified American naval technology.
LEAD: Bank of New York executives, disappointed with Irving Bank's inconclusive response to their revised merger offer, said yesterday that the conditions outlined by Irving late Tuesday were yet another tactic intended to prevent the takeover.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 1988, covering June 23, 1988.
Van Halen
George Michael
Def Leppard
Poison
Soundtrack
1988Chet Faker, Australian singer-songwriter[†]
Nicholas James Murphy, known professionally as Chet Faker, is an Australian singer and songwriter. In 2012, as Chet Faker, he issued an extended play, Thinking in Textures, and signed to Downtown Records in the United States. In October 2012, he won Breakthrough Artist of the Year and Thinking in Textures won Best Independent Single/EP at the Australian Independent Records Awards. In January 2013, Work won Best Independent Release at the Rolling Stone Australia Awards for 2012.
1988Chellsie Memmel, American gymnast[†]
Chellsie Marie Memmel is an American artistic gymnast. She is the 2005 world all-around champion and the 2003 world champion on the uneven bars. She was a member of the United States women's gymnastics team at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, China.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]