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LEAD: Iva Mack nearly always orders a hamburger when she eats in a coffee shop. She is not especially fond of hamburgers. But she cannot read a menu and is fairly sure a coffee shop will have a hamburger.
LEAD: From coast to coast, Vice President Bush and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis attacked each other yesterday as they observed the traditional Labor Day opening of a Presidential campaign that has hardly paused for a kind word in weeks.
LEAD: This is George Adamson country, five miles south of the Equator, a harsh region blanketed with sandy soil and prickly gray thorn bushes and populated by wild game and Somali nomads.
LEAD: The economy's robust growth rate slowed in August, but healthy gains are expected in the third quarter, the National Association of Purchasing Management said in its monthly report, scheduled to be released today.
LEAD: A Titan 2, the first of a new generation of American rockets intended to diminish the military's reliance on the troubled space shuttle, successfully carried a secret payload into orbit yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 31, 1988, covering September 6, 1988.
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Guns N' Roses
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Leroy Brown, American wrestler (born 1950)[†]
Roland C. Daniels, better known by his ring name "Bad Bad" Leroy Brown, was an American professional wrestler. He took his ring name from the Jim Croce song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown", which also became his theme song for many of his in-ring appearances. He later used the ring name Elijah Akeem as he adopted a more militaristic black Muslim character, teaming with Kareem Muhammad as the Muslim Connection and later the Zambuie Express.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]
