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LEAD: Mcorp, the second-largest banking company in Texas, is following a dicey strategy in trying to outlast the ebbing turmoil in the Southwest economy. But internal battles among regulators in Washington, and judicial rulings needed to sort them out, will ultimately decide Mcorp's fate. Major creditors of
LEAD: A man who heard a mugging victim screaming and sobbing for help sprinted out of his apartment in Brooklyn late Tuesday night, his .38-caliber revolver in his hand, and fired at two assailants as they grabbed for a watch and gold necklace, the police said yesterday.
LEAD: In an extension of one of the most publicized insider trading cases, a Federal grand jury yesterday charged two stock trading firms and three arbitragers with engaging in a criminal conspiracy to exchange inside information.
LEAD: Mayor Koch yesterday ordered the City Health Department to drop plans to give drug addicts clean needles at a neighborhood health clinic in Chelsea because of complaints that the clinic is next door to an elementary school.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1988, covering November 3, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
U2
1988Diante Garrett, American basketball player[†]
Diante Maurice Garrett is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Iowa State Cyclones. He played college basketball for the Cyclones from 2007 to 2011.
1988Jessie Loutit, Canadian rower[†]
Jessie Loutit is a Canadian rower.
1988Henri van Praag, Dutch philosopher, theologian, and educator (born 1916)[†]
Naphthali ben Levi (Henri) van Praag was a Jewish-Dutch writer, teacher, and religious historian, and became known also for his publications in the field of parapsychology.
1988Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the rebellion within 24 hours.[†]
Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, also known historically as Ceylon, is an island country in South Asia. It lies in the Indian Ocean, southwest of the Bay of Bengal, separated from the Indian peninsula by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. It shares a maritime border with the Maldives in the southwest and India in the northwest. Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is the legislative capital of Sri Lanka, while the largest city, Colombo, is the administrative and judicial capital which is the nation's political, financial and cultural centre. Kandy is the second-largest urban area and also the capital of the last native kingdom of Sri Lanka. The most spoken language Sinhala, is spoken by the majority of the population. Tamil is also spoken by approximately five million people, making it the second most-spoken language in Sri Lanka.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]