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LEAD: New Credit for Soviet Union West German bankers will provide a $1.6 billion line of credit for Moscow, which wants to improve its food and consumer goods industries. Page D1. Cubans Detain Cup Yacht A Cuban gunboat forced a ship carrying the 132-foot New Zealand, which failed in its bid for the America's Cup, into a Cuban port.
LEAD: Energy Secretary John S. Herrington said today that he had appointed a special team to correct safety failures at the Savannah River Plant and to put a reactor that produces vital nuclear weapon material back into operation in January.
LEAD: At this moment in world history, is there anything more soul-wrenching than babies with AIDS? For them, things start bad and, one way or another, just keep getting worse.
LEAD: THESE days shoppers assume that stores will carry exotic salad dressings, thick preserves and mustards with complex flavors. They also take it for granted that they can run out at 7 P.M. and grab a great meal to take home to eat in front of the television. Ten years ago, however, such offerings were relatively rare - except at the Silver
LEAD: The New York Mets defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5-1, to tie the National League Championship Series at three games each. The seventh and deciding game is scheduled for tonight in Los Angeles with the Dodgers' Orel Hershiser to pitch against the Mets' Ron Darling. Articles, page A27
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 1988, covering October 12, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Tracy Chapman
1988Sam Whitelock, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Samuel Lawrence Whitelock is a former New Zealand rugby union player.
1988Calum Scott, British singer[†]
Calum Scott is an English singer and songwriter. He rose to prominence in April 2015 after competing on the ITV talent contest Britain's Got Talent, where he performed a cover of Robyn's hit "Dancing on My Own" and earned a Golden Buzzer from Simon Cowell. After placing sixth in the contest, he released his own version of the song as a single the following year, which peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart and became Britain's best-selling single of summer 2016.
1988Ruth Manning-Sanders, Welsh-English poet and author (born 1886)[†]
Ruth Manning-Sanders was an English poet and author born in Wales, known for a series of children's books for which she collected and related fairy tales worldwide. She published over 90 books in her lifetime
1988Coby Whitmore, American painter and illustrator (born 1913)[†]
Maxwell Coburn Whitmore was an American painter and magazine illustrator known for his Saturday Evening Post covers, and a commercial artist whose work included advertisements for Gallo Wine and other brands. He additionally became known as a race-car designer.
1988Two officers of the Victoria Police are gunned down execution-style in the Walsh Street police shootings, Australia.[†]
Victoria Police is the primary law enforcement agency of the Australian state of Victoria. It was formed in 1853 and currently operates under the Victoria Police Act 2013.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]