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LEAD: Things are not the way they were when Imelda Marcos was here. As a fresh breeze gusted off the sea today outside Lindenmere, her erstwhile country place at the edge of this Suffolk County town, members of the Philippine Presidential Commission on Good Government sat around the kitchen table, eating cake.
LEAD: With a conservatism born of adversity and an apparent resistance to pressure to quicken the pace, space agency managers and engineers are moving gingerly in preparing for the first flight of a space shuttle since the Challenger disaster two and a half years ago.
LEAD: Agricultural universities and private farm research centers are working with a new urgency on hundreds of projects to help American farmers sustain harvests in droughts.
LEAD: With a rescue plan finally in place at the First Republicbank Corporation, bank regulators have removed one of the darkest clouds over the United States banking system.
LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that he has accepted a request from Governor Cuomo to try to make peace with Mayor Koch, whose sharp attacks on Mr. Jackson dominated the New York primary in April.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 27, 1988, covering August 1, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Van Halen
Soundtrack
Steve Winwood
1988Mustafa Abdellaoue, Norwegian footballer[†]
Mustafa "Mos" Abdellaoue is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a forward. He is the younger brother of former Norway international Mohammed Abdellaoue.
1988Travis Boak, Australian footballer[†]
Travis Alexander Boak is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Port Adelaide Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). Boak captained the club from 2013 to 2018, and is a three-time All-Australian, dual John Cahill Medallist and three-time Showdown Medallist. He is also the club's games record holder with 378 games.
1988Patryk Małecki, Polish footballer[†]
Patryk Adrian Małecki is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a winger for Avia Świdnik.
1988Nemanja Matić, Serbian footballer[†]
Nemanja Matić is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Ligue 1 club Lyon.
1988Bodene Thompson, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Bodene Thompson is a New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who last played as a second-row forward for Bradford Bulls in the RFL Championship.
1988A British soldier was killed in the Inglis Barracks bombing in London, England.[†]
This is a chronology of activities by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) from 1980 to 1989. For actions before and after this period see Chronology of Provisional Irish Republican Army actions.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]