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LEAD: CONSTRUCTION will begin here next spring on one of the nation's largest shopping malls - the $600 million, 2.7 million-square-foot Mall of America. When the three-level complex opens in May 1992, visitors to its 800 stores and food outlets will discover for diversion a 300,000-square-foot enclosed amusement park.
LEAD: A RASH of attacks on members of this city's Indian community has prompted a call from lawmakers for state legislation to protect racial, religious and ethnic minorities from violent crimes motivated by prejudice.
LEAD: IT was only last month that 36-year-old Evonne Goolagong Cawley played her first game of tennis on the clipped green lawns at the casino in Newport, R.I. She returned there yesterday, this time to be enrolled as 1988's only inductee into the International Tennis Hall of Fame.
LEAD: ''I don't know what the future will bring,'' said Abdallah Nofeiri, a Teheran restaurant operator, a devout Moslem and strong supporter of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. ''Life is too expensive, the war has been too long. We live in Iran from day to day now.''
LEAD: At Carlyle Towers in Cliffside Park, N.J., exposure sets expense. Apartments at the Carlyle - the latest, and possibly the last, in a line of residential towers atop the Palisades - will afford views ranging from premium (southeast toward the Statue of Liberty) to prime (northeast at the George Washington Bridge) to economy (west into the Garden State).
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 6, 1988, covering July 10, 1988.
Van Halen
Def Leppard
George Michael
Soundtrack
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1988Antonio Brown, American football player[†]
Antonio Tavaris Brown Sr., nicknamed "AB", is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons. During his first nine seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, Brown developed a reputation as one of the greatest receivers of his era, but his career has also been marked by various controversies.
1988Heather Hemmens, American actress, director, and producer[†]
Heather Hemmens is an American actress, film director, and film producer. She is best known for her role as Alice Verdura in The CW series Hellcats (2010-2011). She starred as Stacy Collins in the Netflix comedy Dad Stop Embarrassing Me! opposite Jamie Foxx and starred as Maria DeLuca in the series Roswell, New Mexico (2019-2022). Previous credits include the OWN series, If Loving You Is Wrong, where she played Marcie Holmes for five seasons.
1988Sarah Walker, New Zealand BMX rider[†]
Sarah Louise Walker is a New Zealand BMX racer. A competitor at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, she won silver in the Women's BMX at the latter event. Missing out on selection for the 2016 Summer Olympics due to injury, she was elected onto the IOC Athletes' Commission during those Games. In 2022, she was elected as its second vice-chair.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]