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LEAD: A Federal judge in Manhattan declared yesterday that poor people have a constitutional right to beg and struck down the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's ban on panhandling in the city's subways.
LEAD: Members of the Soviet Parliament today challenged President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's justification for sending troops to Azerbaijan and demanded an immediate session of the Supreme Soviet to draft more democratic controls on the handling of domestic emergencies.
LEAD: President Bush is preparing to send Congress a $1.2 trillion budget that envisions a dramatic decline in the Federal deficit to roughly half its level in the current fiscal year.
LEAD: There was not a word of warning from the cockpit, Maria Patino said. But inside the plane was all dark, and she knew the passengers were in trouble when the emergency lights over the doors flashed on.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 24, 1990, covering January 27, 1990.
Phil Collins
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
1990Tim Beckham, American baseball player[†]
Timothy Lamar Beckham is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles, Seattle Mariners, and Minnesota Twins. Beckham was the first overall selection of the 2008 MLB draft by the Rays, and received a signing bonus of $6.15 million. He made his MLB debut in 2013, and played for the Rays through 2017, when they traded him to Baltimore. He played for the Orioles in 2017 and 2018, for Seattle in 2019, and for Minnesota in 2022.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]