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LEAD: KO NIMO, 54 years old, who will be playing tonight as part of Lincoln Center's Serious Fun festival, is a lab technician and one of Ghana's premier palmwine guitarists. Moses Rascoe, 71, who plays tomorrow at the Central Park Band Shell, is a retired truck driver, and one of America's finest country-blues guitarists.
LEAD: The United States and Vietnam have agreed to make a joint effort to resolve the lingering question of the 1,758 American military men still unaccounted for in Vietnam, American officials said today.
LEAD: The Mayor has upset the Irish New Yorkers by saying the British are safeguarding the peace in Northern Ireland. News analysis, page B1.
LEAD: Interco Inc., the nation's biggest manufacturer of both furniture and men's shoes, came under a hostile takeover attack yesterday.
LEAD: In another attempt to increase its profitability, the International Business Machines Corporation said yesterday that it was raising prices by 5 percent on computers and software sold in the United States. Charges on service agreements will be raised 3 percent.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1988, covering July 29, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Tarjei Bø, Norwegian biathlete[â ]
Tarjei Bø is a former Norwegian professional biathlete. Awarded Olympic gold medals, World Championship gold medals and World Cup victories from 2010 to 2025. Bø debuted in the Biathlon World Cup on 26 March 2009 in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. In the 2010 Winter Olympics, he earned his first gold medal in the 4 à 7.5 km biathlon relay. On 10 December 2010 he won the World Cup sprint race in Hochfilzen, his first world cup victory. He also won the following pursuit race and anchored the winning relay team. Bø is the older brother of biathlete Johannes Thingnes Bø.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[â ]