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LEAD: Vice President Bush and Gov. Michael S. Dukakis appear to be offering voters fundamentally different approaches to America's role in world affairs at the end of the 20th century. But so far these differences remain only in outline, as the candidates have avoided discussing some basic issues in real detail.
LEAD: With Abel G. Aganbegyan, economic adviser to the Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, beaming approval, Hungarian, American and Italian partners today signed into being an American-style management training institute here, the only one of its kind in Communist Europe.
LEAD: CALVIN KLEIN showed a minimalist collection for spring yesterday, with a strong sportswear slant that represented the designer's return to his roots.
LEAD: Copper traded at record levels yesterday as a two-week strike by Peruvian miners further tightened global supplies at a time of strong industrial demand for the metal worldwide.
LEAD: The Government's chief gauge for predicting the economy fell one-tenth of 1 percent in September, the third decline in the latest five months, the Commerce Department said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1988, covering November 2, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
U2
1988Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player[†]
Lisa Bowman is a Northern Ireland netball international. She plays as a goal shooter. She plays for Team Northumbria in the Netball Superleague.
1988Julia Görges, German tennis player[†]
Julia Görges is a German former professional tennis player. A former top-ten singles player, she was ranked as high as No. 9 in the world on 20 August 2018, and was ranked inside the top 15 in doubles, peaking at world No. 12 on 22 August 2016. She won seven singles and five doubles titles on the WTA Tour, as well as six singles and six doubles titles on the ITF Circuit.
1988The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.[†]
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It was written by Robert Tappan Morris, a graduate student at Cornell University, and launched on 8:30 p.m. November 2, 1988, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology network.
1988LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.[†]
LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 was a plane that crash-landed about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) north of Rogóżno railway station, on 2 November 1988. In the accident one person was killed and several were seriously injured.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]