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LEAD: Four black leaders of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement were convicted today on treason charges after a judge here accepted the Government's argument that speeches and demonstrations could involve treasonable activity.
LEAD: Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir met with angry American Jews today as the debate over whether to change the definition of who is Jewish began growing into an issue strong enough to influence the makeup of Israel's next government.
LEAD: Stanley Friedman, once one of the most powerful politicians in New York City, was sentenced yesterday to up to seven years in state prison for his bribery convictions in New York City's political corruption scandals. He is already serving a 12-year term in a Federal prison.
LEAD: Mario Biaggi, the former Bronx Congressman and dean of New York City's delegation in the House, was sentenced to eight years in prison yesterday for his role in the Wedtech racketeering scandal.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 16, 1988, covering November 19, 1988.
U2
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
Anita Baker
1988Víctor Cuesta, Argentine footballer[†]
Víctor Leandro Cuesta is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a central defender for Newell's Old Boys.
1988Timo Eichfuss, Estonian basketball player[†]
Timo Eichfuss is a former Estonian professional basketball player. He is a 2.00 m tall power forward. He represented the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
1988Patrick Kane, American ice hockey player[†]
Patrick Timothy Kane II is an American professional ice hockey right winger for the Detroit Red Wings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the first overall pick in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and played for the Blackhawks until February 2023 when he was traded to the New York Rangers. Kane has represented the United States at the 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics.
1988Christina Onassis, American-Greek businesswoman (born 1950)[†]
Christina Onassis was a Greek-Argentine businesswoman, socialite and heiress to the Onassis fortune. She was the only daughter of Aristotle Onassis and Athina Mary "Tina" Livanos.
1988Peggy Parish, American author (born 1927)[†]
Margaret Cecile "Peggy" Parish was an American writer known best for the children's book series and fictional character Amelia Bedelia. Parish was born in Manning, South Carolina, attended the University of South Carolina, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English. She worked as a teacher in Oklahoma, Kentucky, and in New York. She taught at the Dalton School in Manhattan for 15 years and published her first children's book while teaching third grade there. She authored over 30 books, which had sold 7 million copies at the time of her death.
1988Serbian communist representative and future Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević publicly declares that Serbia is under attack from Albanian separatists in Kosovo as well as internal treachery within Yugoslavia and a foreign conspiracy to destroy Serbia and Yugoslavia.[†]
Serbia, officially the Republic of Serbia, is a landlocked country in Southeast and Central Europe. Located in the Balkans, it borders Hungary to the north, Romania to the northeast, Bulgaria to the southeast, North Macedonia to the south, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the west, and Montenegro to the southwest. Serbia claims a border with Albania through the disputed territory of Kosovo. Serbia has about 6.6 million inhabitants, excluding Kosovo. Its capital Belgrade is also the largest city.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]