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LEAD: The Long Island Lighting Company, responding to the State Legislature's failure to adopt Governor Cuomo's plan to close the Shoreham nuclear plant, said today that it would no longer be bound by the accord and would press its efforts to win a license for the plant.
LEAD: In a major change, the United States has begun rejecting applications from some Soviet Jews and other Soviet citizens who want to come to this country as refugees.
LEAD: The Chinese Foreign Minister met today with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and the two sides said afterward that there would be a Chinese-Soviet summit meeting in the first half of next year.
LEAD: The space shuttle Atlantis, swiftly taking advantage of a lull in the menacing high-altitude winds, rocketed into orbit today on a military mission to deploy a secret reconnaissance satellite.
LEAD: The Labor Department reported today that more than 450,000 new jobs were generated in November, a striking performance that indicated the economy is maintaining its vigorous rebound from a summer lull.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering December 3, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Melissa Aldana, Chilean saxophonist[†]
Melissa Aldana is a Chilean tenor saxophone player, who performs both as a soloist and with her band Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]