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LEAD: A sharply divided bipartisan commission today recommended an $86.2-billion-a-year program to provide health insurance and long-term nursing care to every American who needs them. But the panel could not recommend specific ways to raise the money.
LEAD: The Israeli military authorities issued a highly unusual order today requiring news organizations to submit all reports on Soviet Jewish immigration to military censors.
LEAD: In the largest act of philanthropy ever directed toward black colleges, Walter H. Annenberg, the former United States Ambassador to Britain, will contribute $50 million to the United Negro College Fund.
LEAD: Poland's pioneering economic ''shock therapy'' appears to be bearing some early results, ending wide-open black-market money changing, putting meat and other formerly scarce goods in the stores and starting to bring down high prices.
LEAD: A retired Federal judge from Philadelphia, Arlin M. Adams, was named as independent prosecutor today to investigate whether the Reagan Administration's Housing Secretary and his senior aides illegally diverted hundreds of millions of dollars in Government rent subsidies to projects backed by prominent Republican consultants.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1990, covering March 3, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Vladimir Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player[†]
Vladimir "Vlado" Janković is a Serbian-Greek professional basketball player who last played for Peristeri of the Greek Basketball League (GBL). Standing at 2.02 m, he mainly plays at the small forward position. He is the son of the late Serbian professional basketball player Boban Janković.
1990Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (born 1898)[†]
Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly was an American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her tables of data are known for their reliability and are still used regularly.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]