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LEAD: Orders for American-made machine tools surged 28.4 percent in May, to their highest monthly total in seven years, bolstered by higher domestic demand and increased manufacturing levels, a report by the industry's trade association said.
LEAD: The dollar's strong rebound on the foreign exchange markets pushed prices of Treasury bonds sharply higher late last week. Bond dealers said the dollar's rise created a sudden and drastic change in Japanese investor sentiment toward dollar-denominated securities.
LEAD: Roberto C. Polo, a 37-year-old financier and art collector wanted in what court papers described as a $110 million swindle, has been arrested by Italian police at a coastal resort in northwest Italy.
LEAD: When Fyodor Morgun, the Communist Party boss of a Ukrainian farm district, received some Western correspondents last harvest time, he told them that Soviet people should shrug off their dependency on guidance from above and think more for themselves. The main thing, Mr. Morgun said, citing from the catechism of Mikhail S.
LEAD: Governor Cuomo has ordered the special state prosecutor for criminal justice in New York City to review allegations against the Bronx District Attorney, a spokesman for the Governor said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 22, 1988, covering June 27, 1988.
Van Halen
George Michael
Def Leppard
Poison
Soundtrack
1988Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast[†]
Stefani Bismpikou is a Greek artistic gymnast who competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympics. She is the first Greek female gymnast ever to win a medal at the European Championships, and has also won several medals on the World Cup circuit. Her best apparatus is the balance beam.
1988Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer[†]
Matthew Thomas Spiranovic is an Australian former soccer player who played as a defender.
1988Kate Ziegler, American swimmer[†]
Kate Marie Ziegler is an American competition swimmer who specializes in freestyle and long-distance events. Ziegler has won a total of fifteen medals in major international competition, including eight golds, five silvers, and two bronzes spanning the World Aquatics and the Pan Pacific Championships. She was a member of the 2012 United States Olympic team, and competed in the 800-meter freestyle event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
1988The Gare de Lyon rail accident in Paris, France, kills 56 people.[†]
The Gare de Lyon rail accident, occurred on 27 June 1988, when an SNCF commuter train headed inbound to Paris's Gare de Lyon terminal crashed into a stationary outbound train, killing 56 and injuring 57, resulting in the deadliest rail disaster in peacetime France and the third deadliest in the nation's history.
1988Villa Tunari massacre: Bolivian anti-narcotics police kill nine to 12 and injure over a hundred protesting coca-growing peasants.[†]
The Villa Tunari Massacre was a 27 June 1988 mass murder committed by UMOPAR troops in response to a protest by coca-growing peasants (cocaleros) in the town of Villa Tunari in Chapare Province, Bolivia. The cocalero movement had mobilized since late May 1988 in opposition to coca eradication under Law 1008, then on the verge of becoming law. According to video evidence and a joint church-labor investigative commission, UMOPAR opened fired on unarmed protesters, at least two of whom were fatally shot, and many of whom fled to their deaths over a steep drop into the San Mateo River. The police violence caused the deaths of 9 to 12 civilian protesters, including three whose bodies were never found, and injured over a hundred. The killings were followed by further state violence in Villa Tunari, Sinahota, Ivirgarzama, and elsewhere in the region, including machine gun fire, beatings, and arrests.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]