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LEAD: The Reagan Administration announced today that it would not permit Yasir Arafat to enter the United States to make a speech at the United Nations because he ''knows of, condones and lends support to'' acts of terrorism.
LEAD: THE English autobiographer is both intimate and discreet: he speaks to someone exactly like himself, who doesn't need to be told all the details. Yet this tactic is far from exclusionary. That clubby English voice is so grounded in everyday reality, so solidly confident of itself, that it can convert even the female American reader (myself, for instance) into a fellow Englishman.
LEAD: The concern these days in this rustic hamlet of thatched-roof houses and rolling hills is that a pristine truth of England's past, namely a 4,000-year-old circle of megaliths that is one of the most famous neolithic monuments in Europe, is about to be shaken to its ancient core by screams from a torture dungeon and other honky-tonk horrors.
LEAD: Building at the eastern tip of Long Island has never been easy, and East Hampton's Napeague area presents a special challenge. Not much land divides Napeague Harbor from the Atlantic Ocean between the villages of Amagansett and Montauk. There, building sites consist of sandy soil hemmed in by wetlands, a state park and the habitat of the endangered piping plover.
LEAD: JOHN J. CREEDON is not a man who makes hyperbolic statements. But the chairman of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is angry and mincing no words. In explaining the lawsuit he recently filed against F. Ross Johnson, chief executive of RJR Nabisco Inc., Mr. Creedon said he is sending a message to corporate executives and investment bankers who, in his words, ''rape'' bondholders.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 23, 1988, covering November 27, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
Soundtrack
1988John Carradine, American actor (born 1906)[†]
John Carradine was an American actor, considered one of the greatest character actors in American cinema. He was a member of Cecil B. DeMille's stock company and later John Ford's company, known for his roles in horror films, Westerns, and Shakespearean theater, most notably portraying Count Dracula in House of Frankenstein (1944), House of Dracula (1945), Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966), and Nocturna: Granddaughter of Dracula (1979). Among his other notable roles was "Preacher Casy" in John Ford's The Grapes of Wrath. In later decades of his career, he starred mostly in low-budget B-movies. In total, he holds 351 film and television credits, making him one of the most prolific English-speaking film and television actors of all time.
1988Jan Hein Donner, Dutch chess player and author (born 1927)[†]
Johannes Hendrikus (Hein) Donner was a Dutch chess grandmaster and writer. He was born in The Hague. His father Jan Donner was a prominent Dutch politician and judge. Donner won the Dutch Championship in 1954, 1957, and 1958. At the Gijón tournament of 1956 he came third, behind Bent Larsen and Klaus Darga, equal with Alberic O'Kelly. FIDE, the World Chess Federation, awarded Donner the GM title in 1959. He played for the Netherlands in the Chess Olympiads 11 times. He was the uncle of a former Dutch Minister of Social Affairs and Employment, Piet Hein Donner.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]