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LEAD: The 1,600 people laid off from the night shift at the General Motors assembly plant here 10 days ago find themselves at a crossroads.
LEAD: Sales of domestic cars and light trucks fell 7.9 percent in late February, dimming hopes that a sales surge at the beginning of the month had signaled an end to the automobile industry's slump.
LEAD: The changes sweeping through Eastern Europe represent a major strategic setback for Palestinians and other Arabs, regional officials and experts say.
LEAD: When Lili and Richard Zanuck and their partner tried to sell the major Hollywood studios on investing in a movie about an elderly Jewish widow and her black chauffeur, the response was an enthusiastic no. The script was brilliant, they were told, but in terms of appeal to a wide audience, it wasn't exactly ''Batman.
LEAD: The marriage of American Express and Shearson Lehman Hutton Holdings Inc. is a permanent one, and the two will be integrated now to a far greater extent than ever before, James D. Robinson 3d, the chairman of American Express, said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 28, 1990, covering March 6, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Phil Collins
The B-52s
1990Derek Drouin, Canadian athlete[†]
Derek Drouin is a Canadian track and field athlete who competes in the high jump. He won gold at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and was the 2015 World Champion. He also won gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and the 2015 Pan American Games, and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal at the 2013 World Championships. Drouin was originally awarded the bronze at the 2012 Olympics which was retroactively changed to silver when the original gold medallist Ivan Ukhov was stripped of his medal for doping violations. He was belatedly presented with the upgraded silver in a presentation during the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, one of 10 Olympians who were presented with “reallocated” medals from previous Olympics.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]