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LEAD: WHILE reports of the incidence of Lyme disease continue to rise steadily throughout Long Island, other tick-borne diseases are either declining or remaining constant, according to public-health experts.
LEAD: IN the next few weeks, Lloyd Bentsen will have to vote in the Senate on President Reagan's request for new military assistance to the Nicaraguan contras.
LEAD: Long dismissed as an isolated band of violent fanatics, the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru have spread out from their Andean mountain haven and are emerging as a growing urban political force.
LEAD: The Democrats who open their national convention here Monday have been chastened by defeat, tempered by four years of searing internal debate and buoyed by the hope that their long period in opposition is about to end.
LEAD: SITE preparation has started here for a new convention center, the centerpiece of this city's efforts to strengthen its national competitive position in the city-as-host business.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 13, 1988, covering July 17, 1988.
Van Halen
Def Leppard
George Michael
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
1988Bruiser Brody, American football player and wrestler (born 1946)[†]
Frank Donald Goodish was an American professional wrestler who earned his greatest fame under the ring name Bruiser Brody. He also worked as King Kong Brody, the Masked Marauder, and Red River Jack. Over the years Brody became synonymous with the hardcore wrestling brawling style that often saw one or more of the participants bleeding by the time the match was over. In his prime he worked as a "special attraction" wrestler in North America, making select appearances for various promotions such as World Class Championship Wrestling (WCCW), World Wide Wrestling Federation (WWWF), Central States Wrestling (CSW), Championship Wrestling from Florida (CWF), and the American Wrestling Association (AWA) among other events. He worked regularly in Japan for All Japan Pro Wrestling (AJPW).
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]