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LEAD: A jury completed its first day of deliberations yesterday without reaching a verdict in the criminal trial of Bess Myerson, a former Miss America who became the Cultural Affairs Commissioner of New York City.
LEAD: With 30,000 homeless people in Chicago, and 3,000 beds in city shelters, the search for housing can have very personal solutions.
LEAD: A PROBLEM that defied mathematicians for more than two centuries has finally yielded to a supercomputer, but experts say that no human mind could ever grasp all the details of the solution.
LEAD: TWENTY years ago anglers might have stood on this spot, up to their hips in water, and fished for carp or pikeperch under the blazing sun of northwest Uzbekistan.
LEAD: A hundred homeless children in three Queens shelters will be given training in such subjects as music, the visual arts, theater and science in a pilot project announced by city officials yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 14, 1988, covering December 20, 1988.
U2
Anita Baker
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
1988War on drugs: The United Nations agrees upon and promulgates the United Nations Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, one of three major drug control treaties currently in force.[†]
The war on drugs, sometimes referred to in the 21st century as the war on cartels in contexts of military intervention and counterterrorism, is a global anti-narcotics campaign led by the United States federal government, including drug prohibition and foreign assistance, with the aim of reducing the illegal drug trade in the US. The initiative's efforts includes policies intended to discourage the production, distribution, and consumption of psychoactive drugs that the participating governments, through United Nations treaties, have made illegal.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]