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LEAD: A four-year investigation by Pentagon auditors discovered repeated overcharges totaling hundreds of millions of dollars on military contracts by 95 suppliers, according to a confidential report by the Defense Department Inspector General's office.
LEAD: Antitrust Waiver in Detroit Overruling his advisers, Attorney General Meese allowed The Detroit News and The Detroit Free Press to merge their business operations while they continue to publish separate newspapers. Page D1. Changes in Heart Surgery Blood vessels in the chest that seem to resist clogging are increasingly being used instead of leg veins for replacing blocked coronary arteries.
LEAD: HEART surgeons are increasingly turning to a new technique for coronary bypass surgery that promises longer-term success and fewer complications than the method that has been common for decades.
LEAD: Publishing industry experts yesterday expressed little doubt about the ability of Rupert Murdoch to finance his $3 billion deal to acquire Triangle Publications Inc., the owner of TV Guide.
LEAD: The day of reckoning for the SmithKline Beckman Corporation has arrived.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 3, 1988, covering August 9, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
1988Anthony Castonzo, American football player[†]
Anthony Salvatore Castonzo is an American former professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons with the Indianapolis Colts. After a college career at Boston College, Castonzo was selected by the Colts with their first round draft pick in the 2011 NFL draft.
1988Willian, Brazilian footballer[†]
Willian Borges da Silva, known mononymously as Willian, is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a winger or wide midfielder. He is currently a free agent.
1988Vasilios Koutsianikoulis, Greek footballer[†]
Vasilios Koutsianikoulis is a Greek professional footballer who plays as a left winger or an attacking midfielder for Gamma Ethniki club Kavala.
1988M. Carl Holman, American author, educator, poet, and playwright (born 1919)[†]
M. Carl Holman was an American author, poet, playwright, and civil rights advocate who was born in Minter City, Mississippi and died in Washington, D.C. One of his noted works is The Baptizin‘ (1971). In 1968, Ebony listed him as one of the 100 most influential Black Americans.
1988Giacinto Scelsi, Italian composer (born 1905)[†]
Giacinto Francesco Maria Scelsi was an Italian composer who also wrote surrealist poetry in French.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]