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LEAD: In a break with the policy of economic nationalism that has prevailed here since the Mexican Revolution of 1910, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari has agreed to consider negotiations for a free-trade agreement with the United States.
LEAD: Six people were arrested in Britain today in what American and British officials said was an attempt to smuggle electronic devices used to trigger nuclear weapons to Iraq.
LEAD: An exhibit of photographs that ignited a ferocious debate last summer over Federal financing of sexually explicit art is headed for Cincinnati, a city that casts itself as a bulwark in the war against pornography. And the ruckus has begun.
LEAD: ''I sew front pockets,'' Filena Craft says of her work at the Reltoc Manufacturing Company here, where she is among 100 workers who make men's cotton pants. Ms. Craft, who is 27 years old, earns the Federal minimum wage of $3.35 an hour and takes less than $100 a week home to the trailer where she lives with her two young daughters.
LEAD: The Kremlin's decision to try to draw a veil over Lithuania's independence crisis by ridding the republic of foreign journalists amounts to a tribute of sorts to the increasingly fragile presidency of Vytautas Landsbergis. It showed the depth of
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 28, 1990, covering March 29, 1990.
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Bonnie Raitt
Michael Bolton
Phil Collins
1990Lyle Taylor, English footballer[†]
Lyle James Alfred Taylor is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for EFL League Two club Colchester United. Born in England, he represents the Montserrat national team.
1990The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.[†]
Czechoslovakia was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland became part of Nazi Germany, while the country lost further territories to Hungary and Poland. Between 1939 and 1945, the state ceased to exist, as Slovakia proclaimed its independence and Carpathian Ruthenia became part of Hungary, while the German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia was proclaimed in the remainder of the Czech Lands. In 1939, after the outbreak of World War II, former Czechoslovak President Edvard Beneš formed a government-in-exile and sought recognition from the Allies.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]