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LEAD: With daring and precision, two armed men in masks walked off one recent night with more than 200 valuable statuettes, vases and other objects that had been found in the remains here of the ancient Roman city of Herculaneum.
LEAD: Voters in the Slavic heartland of the Soviet Union went to the polls today in an exercise of limited democracy that pitted an array of grass-roots challengers against the vast Communist Party patronage network.
LEAD: For about 15 miles around, every growing thing in this once-gentle valley looks as if it has been dipped in ink. Trees and bushes are black; the grass is stained. The houses and streets look like the inside of a chimney. Even the sheep on the hillsides are a dingy gray.
LEAD: Hank Gathers of Loyola Marymount University, one of the leading scorers in National Collegiate Athletic Association history, died tonight after collapsing on the court during Loyola Marymount's game against Portland. He was 23 years old.
LEAD: The urban school system here and the suburban district in nearby Millburn are separated by only six miles. Academically, socially and economically, they are worlds apart.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1990, covering March 5, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Danny Drinkwater, English footballer[†]
Daniel Noel Drinkwater is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder.
1990Mason Plumlee, American basketball player[†]
Mason Alexander Plumlee is an American professional basketball player for the Phoenix Suns of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He primarily plays the forward and center positions. As a freshman in 2009–10, he was a back-up forward for the Duke Blue Devils national championship team, playing with his older brother Miles. He was a 2009 McDonald's All-American in high school. During his senior year at Duke, he also played with his younger brother Marshall. He was selected with the 22nd overall pick by the Brooklyn Nets in the 2013 NBA draft. Plumlee was also a member of the United States national team that won a gold medal in the 2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup.
1990Alex Smithies, English footballer[†]
Alexander Smithies is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1990Gary Merrill, American actor and director (born 1915)[†]
Gary Fred Merrill was an American film and television actor whose credits included more than 50 feature films, a half-dozen mostly short-lived TV series, and dozens of television guest appearances. He starred in All About Eve and married his costar Bette Davis.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]