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LEAD: In the first major board room shift by France's month-old Socialist Government, the head of the nation's largest insurance company, Union des Assurances de Paris, was dismissed today.
LEAD: The Employment Cost Index, widely considered the best single barometer of inflationary pressures in the economy, rose 1.2 percent in the second quarter, considerably higher than the increase of seven-tenths of 1 percent in the comparable period of 1987.
LEAD: Beaujolais has declared war on Australia. According to the Interprofessional Union of the Wines of Beaujolais, an umbrella group representing grape growers and wine makers, last year the Australians produced 11 million liters, or about 1.6 million bottles, of red wine labeled ''Australian Beaujolais.
LEAD: It was a permanent wave curling just her bangs that got her expelled right before her high school graduation.
LEAD: In a surprise move, the corporate parent of the Southern California Edison Company made an unsolicited offer today to buy the San Diego Gas and Electric Company in a $2 billion stock swap.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1988, covering July 27, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Adam Biddle, Australian footballer[†]
Adam Biddle is a former Australian footballer who played for Sydney FC and Bankstown City.
1988Yoervis Medina, Venezuelan baseball player[†]
Yoervis José Medina is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the Draci Brno of the Czech Baseball Extraliga. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Seattle Mariners and Chicago Cubs.
1988Ryan Tannehill, American football player[†]
Ryan Timothy Tannehill III is an American professional football quarterback. He played college football for the Texas A&M Aggies, playing wide receiver until his junior year, and was selected eighth overall by the Miami Dolphins in the 2012 NFL draft.
1988Frank Zamboni, American inventor and businessman, founded the Zamboni Company (born 1901)[†]
Frank Joseph Zamboni Jr. was an American businessman and inventor whose most famous invention is the modern ice resurfacer, with his surname being registered as a trademark for these devices.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]