On this day
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LEAD: One of the worst earthquakes in Soviet history left a wake of devastation along the Soviet-Turkish border Wednesday, with thousands reported dead in three southern Soviet republics.
LEAD: An East Harlem school district superintendent and a school board member were ordered dismissed yesterday after a report accused them and other officials of using a secret school fund to pay personal expenses.
LEAD: The house that Walter Gropius built and the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities restored for its 50th birthday this fall is at once a modern icon, the youngest antiquity in the society's collection, and ''a nightmare'' that raised one of the hottest questions in the preservation field today: What becomes a legend most?
LEAD: Extensive environmental damage at Federal nuclear weapon plants is largely a result of crude waste disposal practices that were banned in the private sector a decade ago.
LEAD: In the crowded field of catalogue retailing, Lands' End continues to grow, helped by its folksy approach to selling, devotion to service and deft use of computers.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 7, 1988, covering December 8, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
1988A United States Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II crashes into an apartment complex in Remscheid, Germany, killing five people and injuring 50 others.[†]
The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its origins to 1 August 1907, as a part of the United States Army Signal Corps, the USAF was established by transfer of personnel from the Army Air Forces with the enactment of the National Security Act of 1947. It is the second youngest branch of the United States Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence. The United States Air Force articulates its core missions as air supremacy, global integrated intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, rapid global mobility, global strike, and command and control.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]