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LEAD: Carlos Salinas de Gortari, who will be sworn in Thursday to a six-year term as Mexico's President, faces a host of grave economic problems that demand immediate action.
LEAD: HER name is Maria. She was born on Tuesday, Nov. 22. ''Tuesday's child is full of grace,'' the nursery rhyme says. It's too soon to tell about that, although she does have remarkably pretty hands, long-fingered and oddly elegant. She was big at birth, just over nine pounds, and she came with a full head of very thick, very black hair, so that at times she appears to be wearing a bad toupee.
LEAD: Lawmakers said today they were confident that a bill to prohibit political leaders and school-district employees from serving on community school boards would be approved by the Legislature this week.
LEAD: An administrative law judge at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission yesterday recommended the construction of two natural gas pipelines from Canada that would increase imports of Canadian gas by about 20 percent.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering December 1, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Tyler Joseph, American musician and singer[†]
Tyler Robert Joseph is an American singer, rapper, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the frontman for the musical duo Twenty One Pilots, alongside bandmate Josh Dun. Across his career he has recorded nine albums: one solo, and eight with Twenty One Pilots. He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards as a member of the duo, of which he has won one.
1988Zoë Kravitz, American actress, singer, and model[†]
Zoë Kravitz is an American actress and filmmaker. She made her acting debut in the romantic comedy film No Reservations (2007). Her breakthrough came with portraying Angel Salvadore (Tempest) in the superhero film X-Men: First Class (2011), and she had further franchise roles in The Divergent Series (2014–2016) and the Fantastic Beasts film series (2016–2018).
1988Dan Mavraides, Greek-American basketball player[†]
Daniel James Mavraides is a Greek American professional basketball player. At a height of 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) tall, he played as a point guard-shooting guard. Following his graduation from college, he played professionally in Italy and Greece for two seasons. Mavraides currently competes with the top-U.S. ranked Princeton 3×3 on the FIBA 3×3 World Tour.
1988Michael Raffl, Austrian ice hockey player[†]
Michael Raffl is an Austrian professional ice hockey left winger with EC Red Bull Salzburg of the ICE Hockey League (ICEHL). He previously played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Philadelphia Flyers, Washington Capitals and Dallas Stars, as well as in the Austrian ICE Hockey League (IceHL) with EC VSV and in the Swiss National League (NL) with Lausanne HC.
1988J. Vernon McGee, American pastor and theologian (born 1904)[†]
John Vernon McGee was an American ordained Presbyterian minister, pastor, Bible teacher, theologian, and radio minister.
1988World AIDS Day is proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states.[†]
World AIDS Day, designated on 1 December every year since 1988, is an international day dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection and mourning those who have died of the disease. The acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a life-threatening condition caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The HIV virus attacks the immune system of the patient and reduces its resistance to other diseases. Government and health officials, non-governmental organizations, and individuals around the world observe the day, often with education on AIDS prevention and control.
1988Benazir Bhutto, is named as the Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first female leader to lead a Muslim nation.[†]
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic government in a Muslim-majority country. Ideologically a liberal and a secularist, she chaired or co-chaired the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) from the early 1980s until her assassination in 2007.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]