On this day
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LEAD: Stephen Thompson took control for Syracuse in overtime last night as the Orangemen defeated Missouri, 86-84, to capture the Big Apple National Invitation Tournament at Madison Square Garden.
LEAD: A military commandant took control of the Armenian capital today as the Soviet Government moved to prevent further ethnic violence in a region shaken by months of unrest.
LEAD: The effects of the huge prices paid at this month's art auctions are reverberating through the art world. Where the sellers and the auction houses happily see profits, many dealers, curators, artists and collectors see problems.
LEAD: The last days of her life were recorded briefly in the ledger of a Rio de Janeiro public hospital: age 23, single, recently pregnant, admitted with a perforated uterus. Her death from overwhelming infection came in less than 24 hours.
LEAD: Declaring that ''we cannot forever hang on to the past,'' President Roh Tae Woo today urged the South Korean people to forgive former President Chun Doo Hwan for the abuses of his eight-year rule but stopped short of granting Mr. Chun a pardon.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 23, 1988, covering November 26, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Soundtrack
1988Blake Harnage, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[†]
Blake Preston Harnage is an American songwriter, music producer, multi-instrumentalist and composer. He has written, produced, engineered, mixed or performed on songs for Versa, PVRIS, Hands Like Houses, All Time Low, With Beating Hearts, and others.
1988Yumi Kobayashi, Japanese model and actress[†]
Yumi Kobayashi is a female fashion model from Tokyo, Japan. She works for the show-business production Burning Production, K.K. and previously worked for Platica Inc.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]