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LEAD: The population of the New York region will increase only moderately but grow significantly older during the next three decades, according to new projections.
LEAD: East Germans will vote on Sunday in an election that marks a turning point for the Germans, Europe and Communism.
LEAD: BENNINGTON COUNTY'S first industrial condominiums, created in the historic Holden Leonard Mill complex here by the nonprofit Southern Vermont Development Council, are attracting interest but sales have been slow. The $3 million project, financed with Federal, state and local loans, is meant to provide space with equity for local businesses and to help attract outside firms, said Thomas Bluto, the council's development director.
LEAD: It takes only a phrase, a few bars of music, an expression:
LEAD: AFTER visiting a campground near Pachaug Pond for 14 summers, Christopher Roddy of Meriden decided to make the spot his own. Three years ago, he bought a campsite at Pachaug Marina and Campground in Griswold, joining a growing group of Connecticut residents who are making similar investments.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 14, 1990, covering March 18, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
The B-52s
1990Robin Harris, American comedian (born 1953)[†]
Robin Hughes Harris Sr. was an American comedian and actor, best known for his recurring comic sketch about "Bé-bé's Kids". He was posthumously nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male for his performance in the film House Party.
1990Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.[†]
East Germany, officially known as the German Democratic Republic (GDR), was a country in Central Europe from its formation on 7 October 1949 until its reunification with West Germany (FRG) on 3 October 1990. Until 1989, it was generally viewed as a communist state and described itself as a socialist "workers' and peasants' state". The economy of the country was centrally planned and state-owned. Although the GDR had to pay substantial war reparations to the Soviets, its economy became the most successful in the Eastern Bloc.
1990In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.[†]
Art theft, sometimes called art napping, is the stealing of paintings, sculptures, or other forms of visual art from galleries, museums or other public and private locations. Stolen art is often resold or used by criminals as collateral to secure loans. Only a small percentage of stolen art is recovered—an estimated 10%. Many nations operate police squads to investigate art theft and illegal trade in stolen art and antiquities.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]