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LEAD: Although supply-side economic theory has lost some of its luster since it helped Ronald Reagan get elected in 1980, the tenets of that philosophy are at the heart of Vice President Bush's proposals to keep the economy strong through a new round of tax cuts.
LEAD: When Barbara Sparhawk bought her 19th-century carriage house for $29,000 12 years ago, Boerum Hill in Brooklyn was on the frontier of gentrification.
LEAD: President Hafez al-Assad summoned virtually all the major leaders of the warring Christian and Moslem factions in the Lebanese Government here today in an 11th hour attempt to end a crisis that threatens to bring renewed warfare to Lebanon.
LEAD: WHENEVER Olinda Turturo, an aspiring actress in New York City, has an important audition, she schedules some time to be alone, either reading or watching television.
LEAD: The Consumer Price Index, the nation's most widely followed inflation gauge, rose in August by four-tenths of 1 percent, the same as in July, the Labor Department reported today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 21, 1988, covering September 22, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Steve Winwood
1988Nikita Andreyev, Russian footballer[†]
Nikita Yevgenyevich Andreyev is a Russian football coach and a former striker. He is the manager of Estonian club Nõmme Kalju.
1988Sana Saeed, Indian actress and model[†]
Sana Saeed is an Indian actress and model, who appears in Bollywood films and Indian television. Her first appearance was as a child artist in Kuch Kuch Hota Hai (1998) and continued to do so in films like Har Dil Jo Pyar Karega (2000) and Badal (2000). She also appeared in television shows such as Babul Ka Aangann Chootey Na (2008) and Lo Ho Gayi Pooja Iss Ghar Ki (2008).
1988Rais Amrohvi, Pakistani psychoanalyst, scholar, and poet (born 1914)[†]
Rais Amrohvi, whose real name was Syed Muhammad Mehdi was a Pakistani scholar, Urdu poet, paranormal investigator, psychoanalyst and elder brother of Jaun Elia. He was known for his style of qatanigari. He wrote quatrains for Pakistani newspaper Jang for several decade. He promoted the Urdu language and supported the Urdu-speaking people of Pakistan. His family is regarded as a family of poets.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]