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LEAD: New jobs were created at a markedly slower rate in December, but the nation's unemployment rate remained unchanged at 5.3 percent, completing a year of exceptional stability, the Labor Department reported today.
LEAD: The papal envoy to Panama, the pivotal figure in 10 days of tense negotiations that ended in Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's surrender, insisted today that the general's departure from the Vatican mission resulted not from an ultimatum but from a precisely calibrated psychological campaign.
LEAD: Because of an editing error, an article on Thursday about Mayor David N. Dinkins's decision to delay the hiring of 1,848 police officers misstated a campaign promise he made about subway crime. He pledged that by the end of his first term he would put an officer on every train every night, not in every car.
LEAD: Even as the Bush Administration celebrates its success in capturing Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, intelligence experts have turned their attention to the question of how much damage or embarrassment General Noriega can cause the United States in his new role as criminal defendant.
LEAD: President Bush today left open the door for Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega to try to arrange a reduction of the charges in his drug-trafficking case, but the President said he ''is not seeking a deal.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 3, 1990, covering January 6, 1990.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
1990Sean Kilpatrick, American basketball player[†]
Sean Redell Kilpatrick is an American former professional basketball player who last played for the Fujian Sturgeons of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). A 6'4" shooting guard born in Yonkers, New York, during his senior season of 2013–14 with the Cincinnati Bearcats, he was named AP first-team All-American.
1990Alex Teixeira, Brazilian footballer[†]
Alex Teixeira Santos is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Vasco da Gama.
1990Ian Charleson, Scottish-English actor (born 1949)[†]
Ian Charleson was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Charlie Andrews in the 1982 Oscar-winning film Gandhi.
1990Pavel Cherenkov, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)[†]
Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov was a Soviet physicist who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics with Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm "for the discovery and interpretation of the Cherenkov effect".
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]