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LEAD: President F. W. de Klerk today lifted a 30-year ban on the African National Congress, the movement that has been fighting to bring down white minority rule in South Africa, and promised that Nelson Mandela, who has been imprisoned for nearly 28 years, would be freed soon.
LEAD: The Rev. Jesse Jackson repeatedly sought meetings with Housing Secretary Jack F. Kemp last year on behalf of an important Jackson fund-raiser and housing financier whose company has become the subject of an investigation by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, agency officials said today.
LEAD: Genentech Inc., the crown jewel of the United States biotechnology industry, said today that it would sell a majority of its shares to a large Swiss health-products company, Roche Holding Ltd.
LEAD: Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, expressing concern over ''the revival of sinister shadows of the past'' associated with German unification, proposed today that the issue be put to an international referendum.
LEAD: The Federal Government seized Florida's largest savings and loan association yesterday and said the institution was the victim of a flamboyant and spendthrift chairman. But in Texas and California, two other big savings institutions made progress toward recovery, thanks to Federal subsidies.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 31, 1990, covering February 3, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
Janet Jackson
Billy Joel
1990Sean Kingston, American-Jamaican singer-songwriter[†]
Kisean Paul Anderson, known professionally as Sean Kingston, is an Jamaican-American former singer and rapper. Born in Miami, Florida, and raised in Jamaica, he signed with J. R. Rotem's record label Beluga Heights Records, in a joint venture with Koch and Epic Records in 2007. The label released his 2007 debut single "Beautiful Girls", which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 and served as lead single for his eponymous debut studio album (2007). It peaked at number six on the Billboard 200 and spawned the top 40-single "Take You There", while his second album, Tomorrow (2009), saw a commercial decline, but spawned the top five-single "Fire Burning". His third album, Back 2 Life (2013), failed to chart and served as his final release on a major label, but spawned the moderate hit "Beat It".
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]