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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian-American wrestler and trainer (born 1915)[†]
William John Potts, was a Canadian professional wrestler best known by his ring name "Whipper" Billy Watson. He was a two-time world champion, having held both the National Wrestling Association title and the National Wrestling Alliance title. On February 21, 1947, he became the first man to win a world heavyweight wrestling championship on TV.
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LEAD: A SHORTAGE of adoptive babies in Connecticut has become so severe that one adoption agency in the southeastern part of the state has restricted its clientele to childless couples; other agencies have sharply restricted their waiting lists or closed them altogether, and for the 1,000 couples hoping to adopt through the state government, the wait may be seven years.
LEAD: The Soviet Jews now flooding into Israel say that President Mikhail S. Gorbachev's policy of glasnost gave them new freedom to practice their faith, but that it also gave new voice to anti-Semitic expression in the Soviet Union.
LEAD: Nearly a decade after President Ronald Reagan dismissed 11,400 striking air-traffic controllers across the nation, the New York metropolitan region is still short of fully trained controllers, although the number of flights they have to guide through the crowded skies has soared 58 percent.
LEAD: When New York's highest court upheld a judgment of $1.57 million in damages to a Manhattan restaurant from the cooperative apartment house that leases it space, and much of the amount was paid, it seemed that the unusual suit had been largely resolved. It hasn't. The eight-year-old case now has spawned at least two more suits.
LEAD: LAGGING real estate prices in this city's French Quarter are pulling in bargain-hunters from all over the United States and Canada.
LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev has endorsed proposals to end the Communist Party's monopoly on power and to accept rival parties and private property, party members familiar with the documents said today.
LEAD: WHAT I SAW AT THE REVOLUTION A Political Life in the Reagan Era. By Peggy Noonan. 353 pp. New York: Random House. $19.95.
LEAD: AS the shock following the crash of Avianca Flight 52 in Cove Neck began to subside last week, the Federal agency that will investigate the circumstances that led to Long Island's worst air disaster has just begun its work.
LEAD: GOV. JIM FLORIO'S recent appointment of an environmental prosecutor to crack down on polluters fulfilled one of his campaign pledges, and environmental advocates in New Jersey have hailed the move as strong evidence that his administration will usher in an era in which ''the polluter pays.''
LEAD: AN EFFORT is under way to improve the rental prospects at Endicott Center, a foreclosed $5 million office and retail renovation project that city officials consider vital to reviving the business district of this 360-year-old city. The project is at the intersection of Essex and Washington Streets, across the street from City Hall.
LEAD: FACED with aging buildings and reluctant taxpayers, New Jersey school boards are seeking legislation that would allow them to bypass voters on bond issues for school construction and renovation.
LEAD: Graeme Townshend, the rookie forward who is only the third black to play for the Boston Bruins, sat at his locker after today's 2-1 loss to the Rangers, dressing quickly, speaking curtly, deflecting as best he could the controversy that had engulfed him in only his second National Hockey League game.