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LEAD: A dispute over the extent to which the governments of the world's leading food exporters should cut aid to farmers is clouding a global effort here this week to reduce obstacles to trade.
LEAD: A bruising battle is shaping up in Congress and among military experts over the Department of Energy's plan to build two costly new reactors in different states as an urgent first step toward revitalizing the nation's capability to produce nuclear weapons.
LEAD: When a middle-aged man was arrested on a Harlem street last month on charges of buying two vials of crack, there was no reason to believe that this would lead to a broad reassessment of New York City's system of decentralized school administration.
LEAD: ''The testimony of a police officer,'' Judge Robert L. Cohen recently cautioned the potential jurors assembled in New York State Supreme Court, Part 39, the Bronx, ''should not be arbitrarily accepted.''
LEAD: THIS tiny town, just inside the rugged edge of the Canadian Rockies, was originally established as a way station along the country's expanding railroad. In a short time, hot springs were discovered nearby and the town quickly evolved into a popular mountain spa.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 30, 1988, covering December 5, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
1988Ross Bagley, American actor[†]
Ross Bagley is an American former actor and comedian. He is best known for his role as Nicky Banks in The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air as well as Dylan Dubrow in Independence Day. He also played Buckwheat in The Little Rascals (1994).
1988Tina Charles, American basketball player[†]
Tina Alexandria Charles is an American professional basketball player for the Connecticut Sun of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Originally from Jamaica, Queens, New York City, Charles was drafted first overall in the 2010 WNBA draft by the Connecticut Sun. In 2009 and 2010, she and teammate Maya Moore led the Connecticut Huskies to two undefeated national championships. She has won three Olympic gold medals with Team USA and was inducted into the NYC Basketball Hall of Fame at the head of the Class of 2024 - the first female to head a class at any major basketball hall of fame and the first active player ever inducted.
1988Kyle Long, American football player[†]
Kyle Howard Long is an American former professional football player who was a guard for seven seasons with the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). The son of Pro Football Hall of Fame defensive end Howie Long and the younger brother of former defensive end Chris Long, he played college football for the Oregon Ducks following a stint with the Florida State Seminoles. He was selected by the Bears in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft.
1988Joanna Rowsell, English cyclist[†]
Joanna Katie Rowsell MBE is a retired English cyclist on the Great Britain Cycling Team who competed on track and road.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]