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LEAD: The Reagan Administration and people who usually oppose arms sales to Arab countries are negotiating a compromise that would permit the United States to sell $1.9 billion worth of warplanes, missiles and bombs to Kuwait.
LEAD: SOME hot weekday afternoon this August, when air-conditioners across Long Island are laboring to keep interiors cool, not for the first time the Long Island Lighting Company will be pushed to its limits trying to meet the demand for power.
LEAD: As dismayed motorists caught in traffic jams are discovering, the State Department of Transportation has resumed work on a 7.4-mile stretch of the 14.5-mile-long Hutchinson River Parkway, making the heavily traveled road safer to drive and alleviating chronic flooding.
LEAD: IN recent months, holders of the American Express card have seen a change in their billing statements. In the past, the bills came with a bulky packet of paper receipts of purchases. Today those slips have been supplanted by neat laser-printed sheets containing as many as eight reduced images of the original receipts on a single page.
LEAD: A NEW skyscraper will soon join the Minneapolis skyline. The International Business Machines Corporation and the Opus Corporation plan to build two office towers, one of 58 stories and the other of 18, that will flank and rise above a circular 14-story atrium.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1988, covering July 31, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Alex Glenn, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Alex Glenn is a former professional rugby league footballer who captained and played as a second-row and centre for the Brisbane Broncos in the NRL. He played for both the Cook Islands and New Zealand at international level.
1988A. J. Green, American football player[†]
Adriel Jeremiah "AJ" Green is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for twelve seasons, primarily with the Cincinnati Bengals. He played college football for the Georgia Bulldogs, earning first-team All-American honors before being selected by the Bengals with the fourth overall pick in the 2011 NFL draft. He is regarded as one of the greatest wide receivers of the 2010’s decade.
1988Thirty-two people are killed and 1,674 injured when a bridge at the Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal collapses in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia.[†]
The Sultan Abdul Halim ferry terminal bridge collapse was a disaster of the Penang Ferry Service which occurred on 31 July 1988, at the Sultan Abdul Halim Ferry Terminal in Butterworth, Penang, Malaysia. The collapse caused the deaths of 32 people and injured 1,634 people. It was blamed on overcrowding and the jetty being made out of steel bars.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]