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LEAD: WHEN Lisa Van de Water's telephone rings, it means trouble. She is a wine doctor who specializes in spoilage. ''I dissect what went wrong with a wine and why and determine how to fix it and how to prevenlt spoilage the next time,'' she said.
LEAD: The Department of Energy reversed itself again yesterday and said it would indeed keep a promise to Ohio to submit to a Federal court's authority in cleaning up pollution at a nuclear processing plant.
LEAD: Managers of mutual funds said they expect to see more mergers and consolidation in coming months as the mutual fund industry absorbs the impact of the October 1987 stock market crash, which led to a drastic slowdown in business.
LEAD: The Toyota Motor Corporation said today that it would begin exporting its Camry and Corolla car models from the United States to Taiwan.
LEAD: The Government of Margaret Thatcher chose today to order a prototype British-built tank over its American rival for a new $2.3 billion battle force, in a decision that was both politically sensitive and could determine the survival of a strategic British industry.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 21, 1988, covering December 21, 1988.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
1988Danny Duffy, American baseball player[†]
Daniel Richard Duffy is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Piratas de Campeche of the Mexican League. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Kansas City Royals.
1988Perri Shakes-Drayton, English sprinter and hurdler[†]
Peirresha Alexandra Shakes-Drayton is a British retired track and field athlete. After specialising in the 400 metres hurdles in the early part of her career, a knee injury at the 2013 World Championships forced Shakes-Drayton to concentrate on the 400 metres on her return to athletics. She is the 2013 European Indoor Champion in the 400 metres and won a 2012 World Indoor Championship gold medal in the 4 × 400 metres relay. She has also won silver and bronze medals in the 4 × 400 m relay at the World Championships.
1988Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch-English ethologist and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1907)[†]
Nikolaas "Niko" Tinbergen was a Dutch biologist and ornithologist who shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Karl von Frisch and Konrad Lorenz for their discoveries concerning the organization and elicitation of individual and social behavior patterns in animals. He is regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior.
1988A bomb explodes on board Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270. This is to date the deadliest air disaster to occur on British soil.[†]
Pan Am Flight 103 (PA103/PAA103) was a regularly scheduled Pan Am transatlantic flight from Frankfurt to Detroit via a stopover in London and another in New York City. Shortly after 19:00 on 21 December 1988, the Boeing 747 "Clipper Maid of the Seas" was destroyed by a bomb while flying over the Scottish town of Lockerbie, killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew aboard. Large sections of the aircraft crashed in a residential street in Lockerbie, killing 11 residents. With a total of 270 fatalities, the event, which became known as the Lockerbie bombing, is the deadliest terrorist attack in the history of the United Kingdom.
1988The first flight of Antonov An-225 Mriya, the largest aircraft in the world.[†]
The Antonov An-225 Mriya was a large strategic airlift cargo aircraft designed and produced by the Antonov Design Bureau in the Soviet Union.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]