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LEAD: John Gotti, who has been described as an icon of the underworld and the nation's top Mafia boss, was pronounced not guilty of assault and conspiracy charges in State Supreme Court in Manhattan yesterday.
LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is prepared to accept President Bush's proposal for deeper troop cuts in Europe, but only if the plan leaves both countries with equal levels, Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d said this morning.
LEAD: Lawyers for former President Ronald Reagan said today that he would provide videotaped testimony about his role in the Iran-contra affair, the first time since the episode became public that Mr. Reagan has agreed to furnish a detailed public explanation of his actions.
LEAD: When Lloyd George Cloete pulled his double-decker bus out of the depot at 6:15 A.M. today, he had a sense of being on a mission, though in a modest way, for the ''new South Africa,'' whose creation was heralded last week by the country's leader, President F. W. de Klerk.
LEAD: The company that made bottled mineral water chic is voluntarily recalling its entire inventory of Perrier from store shelves throughout the United States after tests showed the presence of the chemical benzene in a small sample of bottles.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 7, 1990, covering February 10, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
Janet Jackson
The B-52s
1990Trevante Rhodes, American actor[†]
Trevante Nemour Rhodes is an American actor. He won several accolades and achieved recognition in 2016 for his performance as "Black" in the Academy Award-winning film Moonlight. He has since starred in The Predator (2018), Bird Box (2018), and The United States vs. Billie Holiday (2021). In his youth, he was an accomplished track and field sprinter, winning a gold medal at the Pan American Junior Athletics Championships in 2009.
1990Choi Soo-young, South Korean singer-songwriter, actress, and dancer[†]
Choi Soo-young, known mononymously as Sooyoung, is a South Korean singer, actress, and songwriter. She was a member of the short-lived Korean-Japanese singing duo Route 0 during 2002 in Japan. After returning to South Korea in 2004, Choi eventually became a member of girl group Girls' Generation in 2007, which went on to become one of the best-selling artists in South Korea and one of South Korea's most widely known girl groups worldwide. Apart from her group's activities, Choi has also starred in various television dramas such as The Third Hospital (2012), Dating Agency: Cyrano (2013), My Spring Days (2014), Squad 38 (2016), Man in the Kitchen (2017–2018), Tell Me What You Saw (2020), and most recently in Run On (2021), So I Married the Anti-fan (2021), If You Wish Upon Me (2022), and Not Others (2023).
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]