On this day
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LEAD: As far as the commander of New York City's hostage negotiating team was concerned, it was the worst situation in the book: an emotionally disturbed man besieged in a barricaded apartment with a shotgun and two small children.
LEAD: Michael S. Dukakis today proposed a college loan program that would allow students to pay back their loans over a lifetime through payroll withholding of a small fixed percentage of their income. He said the program would ''open wide the door of college opportunity'' to American youths.
LEAD: FEW features distinguish a house as readily as a tile roof, especially in the United States, where tile roofs have never been common except in the Southwest, California and Florida.
LEAD: In agreeing to take over the American Savings and Loan Association of Stockton, Calif., the nation's largest insolvent savings unit, the Texas billionaire Robert M. Bass is betting that the resurrected company will be able to make a lot of money by operating the major part of the business as a traditional savings unit - that is, taking deposits from customers and making mortgage loans and other consumer loans.
LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson, Governor Cuomo and Mayor Koch have agreed to have a screening panel recommend a new executive director of the New York City Board of Elections - but the Board of Elections has already chosen someone.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 7, 1988, covering September 8, 1988.
Def Leppard
Guns N' Roses
Tracy Chapman
Steve Winwood
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
1988Arrelious Benn, American football player[†]
Arrelious Markus Benn is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Illinois Fighting Illini and was selected by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the second round of the 2010 NFL draft.
1988Rie Kaneto, Japanese swimmer[†]
Rie Kaneto is a Japanese competitive swimmer who specializes in breaststroke events. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
1988Yellowstone National Park is closed for the first time in U.S. history due to ongoing fires.[†]
The Yellowstone fires of 1988 collectively formed the largest wildfire in the recorded history of Yellowstone National Park in the United States. Starting as many smaller individual fires, the flames quickly spread out of control due to drought conditions and increasing winds, combining into several large conflagrations which burned for several months. The fires almost destroyed two major visitor destinations and, on September 8, 1988, the entire park was closed to all non-emergency personnel for the first time in its history. Only the arrival of cool and moist weather in the late autumn brought the fires to an end. A total of 793,880 acres (3,213 km2), or 36 percent of the park, burned at varying levels of severity.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]