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LEAD: The dollar rose strongly again yesterday, breaking important price barriers against the Japanese yen and the West German mark in a frantic trading day.
LEAD: Two Egyptian military officers and three Americans were charged today with a scheme to smuggle highly sophisticated American-made chemicals and other materials to Egypt.
LEAD: As negotiations over the future of American bases here seem to have reached a deadlock, a mood of defiance has grown among Filipinos toward their former colonial ruler, the United States.
LEAD: Scientists doing research on drug addiction say that crack, the smokable form of cocaine, is the most troubling drug they have studied. Once people become addicted, these experts say, it is nearly impossible for them to stop using crack and never go back to it again.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 1988, covering June 25, 1988.
Van Halen
George Michael
Def Leppard
Poison
Soundtrack
1988Jhonas Enroth, Swedish ice hockey player[â ]
Jhonas Erik Enroth, is a Swedish professional ice hockey goaltender, who is currently playing with Ărebro HK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Buffalo Sabres, Dallas Stars, Los Angeles Kings and Toronto Maple Leafs between 2009 and 2016. Internationally Enroth has played for the Swedish national team in several tournaments, including three World Championships, winning a gold medal in 2013 and the 2018 Winter Olympics.
1988Miguel LayĂșn, Mexican footballer[â ]
Miguel Arturo LayĂșn Prado is a Mexican former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
1988Therese Johaug, Norwegian cross-country skier[â ]
Therese Johaug is a Norwegian former cross-country skier from the village of Dalsbygda in Os Municipality. In World Ski Championships she won ten individual gold medals along with four gold medals in relays, and she is a four-time Olympic gold medallist.
1988Hillel Slovak, Israeli-American guitarist and songwriter (born 1962)[â ]
Hillel Slovak was an Israeli-American musician, best known as the founding guitarist of the Los Angeles rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he recorded two albums. His guitar work was rooted in funk and hard rock, and he often experimented with other genres, including reggae and speed metal. He is considered to have been a major influence on Red Hot Chili Peppers' early sound.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]