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LEAD: The leaders of Egypt and Jordan reported significant progress today in healing a two-year rift between Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization after unexpected negotiations Saturday with Yasir Arafat, chairman of the P.L.O.
LEAD: After five months of intense speculation, heavy trading of its stock and a $14 jump in the price of its shares since May, West Point-Pepperell Inc., a big Georgia-based producer of sheets and towels, is coming under takeover attack today.
LEAD: An ambitious attempt by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to limit its rampant oil production collapsed over the weekend as Iraq and Iran failed to bridge their political schism.
LEAD: Senator Lloyd Bentsen, the Rev. Jesse Jackson and other Democrats accused the Presidential campaign of Vice President Bush yesterday of inflaming the nation's racial fears with a relentless emphasis on the case of a black prisoner who raped a white woman while he was on leave from a Massachusetts prison.
LEAD: He sounded like the quintessential political reformer, passionately espousing the virtues of public campaign financing and the stronger ethics provisions proposed by commissions on city charter revision and government integrity. Only the special relevance of those proposals to his present circumstances, and his cigar, gave him away.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 19, 1988, covering October 24, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Def Leppard
Soundtrack
Bobby McFerrin
1988Mitch Inman, Australian rugby player[†]
Mitch Inman is an Australian rugby union footballer. His regular playing position is either centre or wing. He represents the Rebels in Super Rugby.
1988Christopher Linke, German race walker[†]
Christopher Linke is a German race walker. He competed in the 50 km event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing in 24th place. In the 20 km event at the 2016 Olympics, he finished in 5th place. He also finished in 5th at the 2017 World Championships in that event. In 2019, he competed in the men's 20 kilometres walk at the 2019 World Athletics Championships held in Doha, Qatar. He finished in 4th place.
1988Demont Mitchell, Bahamian footballer[†]
Demont Mitchell is a retired association football player from The Bahamas who had his career cut short by injuries suffered in a car accident.
1988Tarek Hamed, Egyptian footballer[†]
Tarek Hamed is an Egyptian professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Saudi Pro League club Damac.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]