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LEAD: The governing body of the African National Congress said today that it would send a delegation to South Africa ''as soon as possible'' to meet with President F. W. de Klerk in an attempt to remove obstacles to opening talks with Pretoria.
LEAD: When the two Miami police detectives seized Leroy Strachan on a Manhattan street on Thursday, he told them that he had expected it, that it was only a matter of time before they would catch up with him, they said. He was wanted for the murder of a police officer in Miami 43 years ago.
LEAD: Le Van Kim, once a fisherman, sat in the house of a charitable friend and bemoaned his fate.
LEAD: The United States, West Germany and other major Polish creditors showed support for the Solidarity-led Government today by extending the payment deadlines for $9.4 billion of Poland's hard-currency debt on unusually lenient terms.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 14, 1990, covering February 17, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Marianne St-Gelais, Canadian speed skater[†]
Marianne St-Gelais is a Canadian former short track speed skater. She won two silver medals in the 500 m and 3,000 m relay at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, and a third silver in the 3,000 m relay at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
1990Edin Višća, Bosnian footballer[†]
Edin Višća is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Süper Lig club Trabzonspor.
1990Jean-Marc Boivin, French mountaineer, skier, and pilot (born 1951)[†]
Jean-Marc Boivin was a French mountaineer, extreme skier, hang glider and paraglider pilot, speleologist, BASE jumper, film maker and author. The holder of several altitude records for hang gliding and paragliding, the creator of numerous first ascents and first ski descents in the Alps, a member of the team that broke the record for a sub-glacial dive and the first person to paraglide from the summit of Mount Everest, Boivin was a pioneer of extreme sports. He died from injuries incurred after BASE jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, the highest waterfall in the world.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]