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LEAD: With Argentines already dismayed by the slump in their living standards since democracy returned five years ago, a surge of support for the opposition Peronist party is feeding new political uncertainty as general elections approach.
LEAD: In the world of Burger King franchisees, Steven M. Lewis is a winner. The 21 Burger Kings he and a partner own in the Philadelphia area generate profits of more than $3 million a year. But Mr. Lewis is not entirely happy with the Burger King Corporation and its owner, the Pillsbury Company.
LEAD: When Viktor I. Korchagin joined the budding private business sector, he was after money, not love. He did not expect, however, to be quite so unloved.
LEAD: At age 31, Roy Green is playing his 10th season in the National Football League. He is a fast and elusive wide receiver, a game breaker.
LEAD: On Friday, when the State Budget Director announced that New York's budget gap had grown to $1.9 billion and the state would have to slash several hundred millon dollars from its spending plan, few state officials seemed eager to propose cost-cutting measures.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 9, 1988, covering November 14, 1988.
U2
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1988Chiyotairyū Hidemasa, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Chiyotairyū Hidemasa is a former Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Arakawa, Tokyo, Japan. A former amateur champion at university, he made his professional debut in May 2011, as a makushita tsukedashi recruit and reached the top division in May 2012. He earned his first gold star or kinboshi by defeating yokozuna Harumafuji in the March 2013 tournament. His highest rank was komusubi. He had one special prize, for Technique. He wrestled for Kokonoe stable.
1988Nanase Hoshii, Japanese singer and actress[†]
Yuma Hoshino , better known as Nanase Hoshii , is a Japanese singer, entertainer, and actress who is represented by the talent agency, Fitone. She was born in Tochigi Prefecture, Japan.
1988Haywood S. Hansell, American general (born 1903)[†]
Haywood Shepherd Hansell Jr. was an American general officer in the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) during World War II, and later the United States Air Force. He became an advocate of the doctrine of strategic bombardment, and was one of the chief architects of the concept of daylight precision bombing that governed the use of airpower by the USAAF in the war.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]