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LEAD: The day after local officials snubbed Bill Auble's proposal last April to build apartments and a shopping center on farmland that borders this tiny upstate village, something curious happened. A hog farm suddenly appeared on Mr. Auble's land, just off the main north-south route into the village.
LEAD: Nations involved in diplomatic efforts to end the war in Cambodia agree that several leaders of the Khmer Rouge should be sent into exile in China as part of any settlement, Asian officials and diplomats here say.
LEAD: In his strongest response yet to charges that he has violated conflict-of-interest laws, the Federal judge hearing the securities-fraud action against Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. yesterday suggested that a New York law firm representing a major defendant had acted improperly in the case.
LEAD: In a move to head off an unwanted takeover bid, the Best Products Company, one of the nation's biggest catalogue showroom chains, said yesterday that it had accepted an offer of $27.50 a share, or $685 million, from Adler & Shaykin, a Manhattan investment firm specializing in management buyouts.
LEAD: Facing the latest safety problems at the nation's nuclear weapon plants, the Department of Energy has shut down plutonium processing at the Rocky Flats Plant near Boulder, Colo.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 5, 1988, covering October 11, 1988.
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Tracy Chapman
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Omar Gonzalez, American soccer player[†]
Omar Alejandro Gonzalez is an American professional soccer player who plays as a center-back for Major League Soccer club Chicago Fire.
1988Ricochet, American wrestler[†]
Trevor Mann, known by his ring name Ricochet, is an American professional wrestler. As of August 2024, he is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW). He is best known for his tenure in WWE from 2018 to 2024 where he is a former WWE Intercontinental Champion, WWE United States Champion, NXT North American Champion, the 2019 Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic winner, and the inaugural WWE Speed Champion.
1988Bonita Granville, American actress (born 1923)[†]
Bonita Gloria Granville Wrather was an American actress and producer.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]