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LEAD: HERE in a quiet spot in Colorado unheralded by ski brochures or John Denver sits a little cabin on a hill surrounded by pinon and Ponderosa pine. Unpretentious, like its occupants, the simple, copper-roofed structure draws its architectural inspiration from a variety of sources: rickety windswept ghost towns, tacky log-cabin motel courts, early 20th-century Sears, Roebuck &
LEAD: The United States Postal Service plans to allow competitive bidding for part of the contract it awarded without bidding to the Perot Systems Corporation, Postmaster General Anthony M. Frank said today.
LEAD: Dressed in the black, floor-length habit of her traditionalist Catholic order, Sister Mary Cecilia was taking a walk down a quiet country road some 300 yards from the entrance to her convent here when a rented silver car pulled up and made a sudden stop.
LEAD: An agreement to keep the Yankees in New York City until 2032 has unraveled, leaving city officials offering to renegotiate and some state officials suggesting the state would do a better job of it.
LEAD: The Senate narrowly approved a Democratic plan today to provide the Nicaraguan rebels with $27 million for food, clothing and medical supplies through March 1989, but no immediate money for arms and ammunition.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 10, 1988, covering August 11, 1988.
Def Leppard
Steve Winwood
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
1988Rabeh Al-Hussaini, Filipino basketball player[†]
Rabeh Ahmed T. Al-Hussaini is a Filipino professional basketball player for the Basilan Viva Portmasters of the Maharlika Pilipinas Basketball League. A power forward/center, he played five seasons for the Ateneo de Manila Blue Eagles in the University Athletic Association of the Philippines from 2005 to 2009 and led the Eagles to back-to-back basketball championships in his last two seasons with them. He averaged 24.6 point per game, 13 rebounds per game, and 2 assists per game.
1988Patty Mills, Australian basketball player[†]
Patrick Sammie Mills is an Australian professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Mills was born and raised in Canberra, and is of Torres Strait Islander and Aboriginal Australian descent. In 2007, he became the third Indigenous basketball player to play for the Australian national team. Mills was selected by the Portland Trail Blazers with the 55th overall pick in the 2009 NBA draft after playing two years of college basketball for the Saint Mary's Gaels.
1988Mustafa Pektemek, Turkish footballer[†]
Mustafa Pektemek is a Turkish footballer who plays as a forward for TFF First League club Pendikspor.
1988Anne Ramsey, American actress (born 1929)[†]
Anne Ramsey-Mobley was an American actress. She was best known for her film roles as Mama Fratelli in The Goonies (1985) and as Mrs. Lift in Throw Momma from the Train (1987), the latter of which earned her nominations for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Additionally, Ramsey's respective turns in both aforementioned films earned her two Saturn Awards.
1988A meeting between Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, Osama bin Laden, Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, and leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad in Afghanistan culminates in the formation of Al-Qaeda.[†]
Sayyed Imam Al-Sharif, also known as Dr. Fadl or Abd Al-Qader Bin 'Abd Al-'Aziz, has been described as a "major" figure "in the global jihad movement." He is said to be "one of Ayman Al-Zawahiri's oldest associates", and his book al-'Umda fi I'dad al-'Udda, was used as a jihad manual in al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Fadl is reported to be one of the first members of Al Qaeda's top council.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]