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LEAD: A Federal grand jury indicted Mayor Marion S. Barry Jr. today on five misdemeanor counts of possessing cocaine and three felony counts of lying about being involved with drugs.
LEAD: As Cindy Adams, the New York Post gossip columnist, wrote yesterday about Donald and Ivana Trump: ''Wow! Do they sell papers.''
LEAD: Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., the fallen Wall Street firm, will dismiss thousands of its employees today, Drexel executives said yesterday.
LEAD: Although public service advertising provides some of television's most powerful imagery, the gut-wrenching scenes of tearful teen-age alcoholics and drug-overdose victims shrouded in black body bags are not persuading people to make long-term changes in their behavior, says a new study by the Harvard School of Public Health.
LEAD: Apartheid Backers Rally About 15,000 people rallied in Pretoria to protest the South African Government's actions in freeing Nelson Mandela and legalizing the African National Congress. Page A2. British-Argentine Ties Britain and Argentina decided to resume full diplomatic relations, which had been broken since the war the two nations fought over the Falkland Islands in 1982.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 1990, covering February 16, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990The Weeknd, Canadian singer-songwriter and producer[†]
Abel Makkonen Tesfaye, known professionally as the Weeknd, is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor. He is best known for adding pop, electronic and hip-hop stylings in contemporary R&B music, which became known as alternative R&B. His accolades include four Grammy Awards, 20 Billboard Music Awards, 22 Juno Awards, six American Music Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, a Latin Grammy Award and nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
1990Keith Haring, American painter and activist (born 1958)[†]
Keith Allen Haring was an American artist whose pop art emerged from the New York City graffiti subculture of the 1980s. His animated imagery has "become a widely recognized visual language". Much of his work includes sexual allusions that turned into social activism by using the images to advocate for safe sex and AIDS awareness. In addition to solo gallery exhibitions, he participated in renowned national and international group shows such as documenta in Kassel, the Whitney Biennial in New York, the São Paulo Biennial, and the Venice Biennale. The Whitney Museum held a retrospective of his art in 1997.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]