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LEAD: The Boeing Company received an order yesterday from the national airline of Poland, the first order for advanced American aircraft from an Eastern bloc country.
LEAD: Gov. Michael S. Dukakis embarked on his final weekend of campaigning with combative defiance of the polls and pundits, urging a series of warm and cheering crowds to remember Harry S. Truman's 1948 upset.
LEAD: Defense Department officials said today that they had eliminated an electronic ''virus'' that played havoc with an unclassified military computer network on Wednesday. And, seeking to quell concern that crucial military computers are vulnerable to similar sabotage, they declared it was impossible for such a virus to penetrate classified computer networks that manage nuclear weapons systems and store vital secrets such as war plans.
LEAD: The Soviet Union said today that it was suspending the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan and was supplying the Afghan Army with more powerful weapons because of stepped-up military activity by guerrilla forces.
LEAD: Job growth surged in October as the unemployment rate dipped one-tenth of a point to 5.2 percent, matching its lowest level in more than 14 years, the Labor Department said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 2, 1988, covering November 5, 1988.
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
U2
1988Yannick Borel, French fencer[†]
Yannick Borel is a French right-handed épée fencer.
1988Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer[†]
Virat Kohli is an Indian international cricketer who plays ODI cricket for the national team and is a former captain in all formats. He is a right-handed batsman and occasional right-arm medium pace bowler. Considered one of the greatest all-format batsmen in the history of cricket, he is called the King, the Chase Master, and the Run Machine for his skills, records and ability to lead his team to victory. Kohli is the highest run-scorer in the Indian Premier League, third in T20I, third in ODI, and third in international cricket. He has the most ODI centuries and second-most centuries in international cricket with 82 centuries across all formats of the game. Kohli is the most successful Test captain of India with 3 back-to-back Test mace wins and most victories in his tenure. He is the only batter to earn 900 rating points in all three formats.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]