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LEAD: The Soviet Union's chief cartographer acknowledged today that for the last 50 years the Soviet Union had deliberately falsified virtually all public maps of the country, misplacing rivers and streets, distorting boundaries and omitting geographical features, on orders of the secret police.
LEAD: Lech Walesa, the Solidarity leader, went to the Silesian coal fields today to try to persuade striking coal miners to follow the lead of Gdansk shipyard workers and return to their jobs.
LEAD: A sharp drop in oil prices may be in the offing, industry experts say, as Iran and Iraq move toward peace and full production. World oil stocks remain glutted, and the price of crude oil dropped below $15 a barrel yesterday on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
LEAD: Escalating fines that could bankrupt the City of Yonkers by mid-November were reimposed yesterday, after the United States Supreme Court unanimously rejected the city's final appeal to block a court-ordered housing desegregation plan.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1988, covering September 3, 1988.
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Guns N' Roses
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Jérôme Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer[†]
Jérôme Agyenim Boateng is a German professional footballer who plays for Austrian Bundesliga club LASK.
1988Hana Makhmalbaf, Iranian director and producer[†]
Hana Makhmalbaf is an Iranian filmmaker. She is the younger sister of filmmaker Samira Makhmalbaf and daughter of filmmakers Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Fatemeh Meshkini. She is known for her films Joy of Madness (2003), Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (2007) and Green Days (2009). Makhmalbaf won the Lina Mangiacapre Award at the Venice Film Festival in 2003 for Joy of Madness (2003), which also won the Special Jury Prize at Tokyo Filmex. Makhmalbaf's film Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame won various awards as well, such as the Paolo Ungari UNICEF Prize at the Rome Film Festival and the Peace Film Award at the Berlin International Film Festival.
1988Ferit Melen, Turkish civil servant and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1906)[†]
Ferit Sadi Melen was a Turkish civil servant, politician and Prime Minister of Turkey.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]