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LEAD: Donald J. Trump, the real estate developer, agreed to buy the Eastern Airlines shuttle yesterday for $365 million in cash and said he would rename it after himself and turn it into a ''diamond.''
LEAD: In what the Justice Department described as the largest fraud settlement in history, an Illinois aerospace company agreed today to pay fines and penalties totaling $115 million as it acknowledged a conspiracy to overcharge the Government on military contracts.
LEAD: The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it was changing its rules on pesticide residues in foods in a way intended to reduce the overall threat of cancer to consumers.
LEAD: More than five million gallons of water burst through Broadway early yesterday from a 90-year-old high-pressure water main near Columbus Circle and immediately headed for the subway. The cascade flooded tunnels all the way to Queens with up to nine feet of water and affected virtually every subway line for the morning rush hour.
LEAD: FOR three artists living and working along the southern New England coast, the area's architectural heritage held little appeal.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 12, 1988, covering October 13, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Tracy Chapman
1988Norris Cole, American basketball player[†]
Norris Gene Cole II is an American professional basketball player for the Osos de Manatí of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). A 6 ft 2 in tall point guard, he is a two-time NBA champion, winning back-to-back titles in 2012 and 2013 with the Miami Heat in his first and second years in the NBA. In his seven NBA seasons, Cole made the playoffs all but once (2016).
1988Scott Jamieson, Australian footballer[†]
Scott Alexander Jamieson is an Australian retired soccer player who played as a left back.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]