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LEAD: If President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is alert to the omens of his decomposing realm, he may have noticed the strong election-day showing of Genrikh O. Altunyan and Yegor I. Kravtsiv, two former political prisoners who campaigned in Kharkov on a platform of full independence for the Ukraine.
LEAD: Jerome Ford stared at the photographs spread on the table at Public School 67 in the Bronx yesterday. He recognized five faces: his wife's three brothers, a teen-age niece and a cousin. He realized what the photographs meant: the five had been trapped when an illegal social club was transformed from an oasis of dancing and drinking into an inferno.
LEAD: So far, everyone has resisted calling it spring cleaning or spring training, but what will take place on television over the next several weeks is likely to establish a spring tradition for the broadcast networks.
LEAD: The Federal Reserve Board's Open Market Committee is probably not going to approve a change in monetary policy when it meets tomorrow in Washington. But a growing number of analysts say the central bank may now be leaning toward its first tightening of policy in nearly a year.
LEAD: JAMES PATRICK, headed to the locker room after the first period of a game in Hartford on Nov. 18, could not figure out why the official from the Madison Square Garden Network was standing there motioning to him. After all, Patrick, a talented defenseman for the Rangers, had already taped an interview before the start of the game.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 21, 1990, covering March 26, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Michael Bolton
The B-52s
1990Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor[†]
Choi Woo-shik is a Canadian actor based in South Korea. He first gained recognition for starring in the film Set Me Free (2014) and the television series Hogu's Love (2015) before coming to international prominence for his roles in the films Train to Busan (2016) and Parasite (2019) both of which were critical and commercial successes with the latter winning the Palme d'Or at Cannes and the Academy Award for Best Picture. He has since starred in the television series Our Beloved Summer (2021–2022), A Killer Paradox (2024), and Melo Movie (2025).
1990Matteo Guidicelli, Filipino actor, model, singer and former kart racer[†]
Gianmatteo Vittorio Fernan Guidicelli, known professionally as Matteo Guidicelli, is a Filipino actor, military officer, model, singer and former kart racer.
1990Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (died 2016)[†]
Patrick Claude Ekeng Ekeng was a Cameroonian professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He had two international caps for his country's national team, whom he represented at the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations.
1990Yuya Takaki, Japanese idol, singer, dancer, model and actor[†]
Hey! Say! JUMP is an nine-member Japanese boy band under the Japanese talent agency Smile-Up. The group is split into two sub-groups: Hey! Say! BEST and Hey! Say! 7. In Japan they sold more than 10 million physical copies.
1990Xiumin, South Korean singer and actor[†]
Kim Min-seok, better known by his stage name Xiumin, is a South Korean singer and actor. He is a member of the South Korean-Chinese boy band Exo, its sub-group Exo-M and leader of its sub-unit Exo-CBX. He debuted as a soloist on September 26, 2022, with the extended play (EP) Brand New.
1990Halston, American fashion designer (born 1932)[†]
Roy Halston Frowick, known mononymously as Halston, was an American fashion designer, who rose to international fame in the 1970s.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]