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LEAD: The 4 P.M.-to-midnight shift has yet to begin, but the longest-serving member of Police Emergency Service Unit No. 1 is already up against the evening's first emergency: Detective Specialist George Toth is sewing his trousers.
LEAD: The unemployment insurance system, created in the New Deal days as the principal welfare program for the nation's jobless, is no longer functioning as a safety net for the vast majority of the unemployed.
LEAD: The General Accounting Office criticized the United States Postal Service in a preliminary report yesterday for the contract it awarded without bidding to a company owned by H. Ross Perot, the Texas billionaire.
LEAD: For the first time since Vietnam invaded Cambodia nearly a decade ago, the four Cambodian groups that have been involved in the conflict held face-to-face peace talks today.
LEAD: RESEARCHERS at the University of California have fabricated an electric motor that is no larger than the width of a human hair.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 20, 1988, covering July 26, 1988.
Def Leppard
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
George Michael
1988Yurie Omi, Japanese announcer and news anchor[†]
Yurie Omi is a Japanese former announcer and news anchor for NHK. She left NHK in March 2021. She was famous for being the co-host of NHK's morning talk show Asaichi as well as its geological television series Bura Tamori.
1988Sayaka Akimoto, Filipino–Japanese actress and singer[†]
Sayaka Akimoto is a Japanese actress and singer. She was a member of Japanese idol girl group AKB48 and its spin-off unit Diva.
1988Fazlur Rahman Malik, Pakistani philosopher, scholar, and academic (born 1919)[†]
Fazlur Rahman Malik, commonly known as Fazlur Rahman, was a modernist scholar and Islamic philosopher from present-day Pakistan. Recognized as a leading liberal reformer within Islam, he focused on educational reform and promoting independent reasoning (ijtihad). His work has attracted both significant interest and criticism in Muslim-majority countries. His reformist ideas led to protests by over a thousand clerics, faqihs, muftis, and teachers in Pakistan, ultimately resulting in his exile.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]