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LEAD: The top United States trade negotiator said today that no agreement would be preferable to a ''bad'' agreement in the global trade talks that begin next week in Montreal.
LEAD: The nation's economy grew at a 2.6 percent annual rate in the third quarter, somewhat faster than the 2.2 percent initially estimated, the Commerce Department reported today. The inflation rate was also revised upward.
LEAD: ZENA GOZALESHVILI walked into Fairway Market on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, past the star fruit and the figs, beyond the checkout counters, navigating her cart through the crowds as if she had had always shopped at this bustling Broadway fruit and vegetable emporium. Swiftly and expertly, she selected several eggplants, then moved on to the tomatoes.
LEAD: Looking to reaffirm their party's traditional values and sharpen its public image, the Senate's 55 Democrats today selected George J. Mitchell of Maine as majority leader.
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev hopes to visit the New York Stock Exchange, have lunch with bankers, open a Soviet commercial exhibition and do some sightseeing during a visit to New York next week, Soviet officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering November 30, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Phillip Hughes, Australian cricketer (died 2014)[†]
Phillip Joel Hughes was an Australian Test and One Day International (ODI) cricketer who played domestic cricket for South Australia and Worcestershire. He was a left-handed opening batsman who played for two seasons with New South Wales before making his Test debut in 2009 at the age of 20. He made his ODI debut in 2013.
1988Vitaliy Polyanskyi, Ukrainian footballer[†]
Vitaliy Polyanskyi is a Ukrainian professional footballer, who lastly played for FK Utenis. He plays the position of defender. His former clubs include FC Olkom Melitopol, FC Pärnu Vaprus, FC Volyn Lutsk, FC Feniks-Illichovets Kalinine and Lithuanian side FK Mažeikiai.
1988Rebecca Rittenhouse, American actress[†]
Rebecca Rittenhouse is an American actress. She has played Cody LeFever in the ABC prime time soap opera Blood & Oil, Dr. Anna Ziev in the Hulu romantic comedy series The Mindy Project, and Maggie in the Into the Dark television film episode "The Body". Rittenhouse recently starred as the titular character in the Hulu comedy series Maggie.
1988Tomi Saarelma, Finnish footballer[†]
Tomi Saarelma is a Finnish footballer who plays for Möhlin Riburg in the 6th highest level in Switzerland.
1988Pannonica de Koenigswarter, English-American singer-songwriter (born 1913)[†]
Baroness Kathleen Annie Pannonica 'Nica' de Koenigswarter was a British-born jazz patron, photographer and writer. A leading patron of bebop, she was a member of the Rothschild family.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]