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LEAD: The USX Corporation wants to sell its idled Texas steel works to Iraq for more than $100 million. Iraq wants to take the plant apart and ship it home, where it would be reassembled and used to produce pipes for oil production and irrigation.
LEAD: After two consecutive torrid summers, the air-conditioner industry finds itself confronted by an overwhelming clamor for its products that it cannot satisfy immediately.
LEAD: The Federal Home Loan Bank Board announced today that it had sold 12 insolvent savings and loan associations in Texas to an investment group headed by a Chicago banker and backed by a Texas steel company. The Government will provide an assistance package that could reach $1.3 billion over 10 years.
LEAD: Tearful at some times, combative at others, a former Queens homeowner described in court yesterday how his house had been firebombed twice after he complained to the police about neighborhood drug dealers. He pointed to two defendants on trial in the courtroom as among the three arsonists.
LEAD: The Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group announced yesterday that it would establish a new division in the lucrative but increasingly competitive field of remainder and promotional books.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 17, 1988, covering August 19, 1988.
Steve Winwood
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Kirk Cousins, American football player[†]
Kirk Daniel Cousins is an American professional football quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Michigan State Spartans and was selected by the Washington Redskins in the fourth round of the 2012 NFL draft. Cousins ranks sixth all-time in completion percentage with at least 1,500 pass attempts and is 11th in the NFL's all-time regular season career passer rating.
1988Veronica Roth, American author[†]
Veronica Anne Roth is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her bestselling Divergent trilogy which has sold more than 35 million copies worldwide.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]