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LEAD: Asserting that it had experienced ''heavy and growing financial injury,'' the American Telephone and Telegraph Company petitioned the Government today to investigate its complaint that companies in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan were selling small-business telephone equipment in the United States at unfair prices.
LEAD: Mayor Koch once offered a historical example to hammer home his point about mispronounced words. A new President is delivering a stirring inaugural address. He is knocking at the threshold of oratorical greatness when he thunders: ''Axe not what your country can do for you, axe what you can do for your country.
LEAD: A damp balmy day in the New York metropolitan region turned suddenly cold and violent yesterday, as thunderstorms and gusting winds toppled trees, cut power lines and slowed traffic.
LEAD: During his 11 years as chief executive, Kari Kairamo transformed Oy Nokia, Finland's largest private corporation, from a stodgy producer of pulp, paper, chemicals and rubber goods into an aggressive international leader in color televisions, mobile telephones and other electronics.
LEAD: Andrei D. Sakharov, reportedly acting at the personal request of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, has joined the search for a settlement between the embattled republics of Armenia and Azerbaijan.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 28, 1988, covering December 29, 1988.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bon Jovi
1988Eric Berry, American football player[†]
James Eric Berry is an American former professional football player who was a safety for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Tennessee Volunteers, earning unanimous All-American honors twice and recognition as the best collegiate defensive back in the country. Berry was selected by the Chiefs fifth overall in the 2010 NFL draft. He was voted to the Pro Bowl five times and named first-team All-Pro three times.
1988Christen Press, American footballer[†]
Christen Annemarie Press is an American professional soccer player, entrepreneur, and sports journalist. She plays for Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the United States national team. She first appeared for the United States national team during an international friendly against Scotland on February 9, 2013. She has made 155 appearances for her country and is currently ninth all-time with 64 goals scored.
1988Ágnes Szávay, Hungarian tennis player[†]
Ágnes Szávay is a former professional tennis player from Hungary. The 2007 WTA Newcomer of the Year achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 13 in April 2008.
1988Mike Beuttler, Egyptian race car driver (born 1940)[†]
Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo, Egypt, the son of Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, O.B.E., and a descendant on his mother's side of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant, grandson of the 6th Earl of Seafield.
1988Ieuan Maddock, Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher (born 1917)[†]
Sir Ieuan Maddock was a Welsh scientist and nuclear researcher. He played a role in the nuclear weapons tests in Australia in the 1950s and the 1973 Partial Test-Ban treaty.
In 1988, the world population was approximately 5,141,992,542 people[†]