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LEAD: COMPANIES The directors of the Campeau Corporation took steps to allow the company's American retailing divisions to operate independently. After four days of meetings at the company's Toronto headquarters, the directors said Campeau's U.S. operations would be overseen by a new board, with a majority of American residents.
LEAD: Reversing a Reagan Administration decision, Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. has proposed raising the fee coal companies pay to mine Federal land.
LEAD: Here in the root and stalk of tobacco country, everyone knows that marketing something that carries a health warning from the Surgeon General is bound to provoke an argument. Mix in race and you really have a shouting match. Just ask the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
LEAD: Eight years ago a former Assemblyman named Thomas H. Kean moved his belongings and a wobbly new administration into the Statehouse here, after stunning the public and himself with a 1,797-vote victory over Representative James J. Florio.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 10, 1990, covering January 12, 1990.
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
1990Laurence J. Peter, Canadian-American author and educator (born 1919)[†]
Laurence Johnston Peter was a Canadian educator and "hierarchiologist" who is best known to the general public for the formulation of the Peter principle.
1990A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.[†]
The Baku pogrom was a pogrom directed against the ethnic Armenian inhabitants of Baku, Azerbaijan SSR. From January 12, 1990, a seven-day pogrom broke out against the Armenian civilian population in Baku during which Armenians were beaten, murdered, and expelled from the city. There were also many raids on apartments, robberies and arsons. According to the Human Rights Watch reporter Robert Kushen, "the action was not entirely spontaneous, as the attackers had lists of Armenians and their addresses". The pogrom of Armenians in Baku was one of the acts of ethnic violence in the context of the First Nagorno-Karabakh War, directed against the demands of the Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians to secede from Azerbaijan and unify with Armenia.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]