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LEAD: ''Most of the pitchers could use a few more innings,'' Davey Johnson said, bidding farewell to baseball's short spring. ''Most of the guys could use a few more at-bats.''
LEAD: The Treasury Department has temporarily barred the Bell Atlantic Corporation, one of the seven regional telephone companies, from doing business with the Federal Government, accusing a Bell Atlantic subsidiary of including ''misleading information'' in a bid for a $100 million contract.
LEAD: Come rain, snow or sleet, a gala 25th anniversary party will be observed in grand Texas style tomorrow night in Houston, when the Astrodome will be a quarter of a century old. The world's first domed stadium opened on April 9, 1965, with the Astros defeating the Yankees, 2-1, in an exhibition game before 47,876 fans, including President and Mrs.
LEAD: THE first new, privately financed downtown office building here in nearly a decade is under way, giving hope to local officials that a changing economy in the area - from rubber manufacturing to research and technology - will benefit the city's center.
LEAD: WHAT LISA KNEW The Truth and Lies of the Steinberg Case. By Joyce Johnson. 303 pp. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. $22.95.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 4, 1990, covering April 8, 1990.
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
Alannah Myles
1990Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (died 2017)[†]
Kim Jong-hyun, known mononymously as Jonghyun, was a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer, radio host, and author under the SM Entertainment label. He was the vocalist of the South Korean boy band Shinee for nine years, releasing twelve albums with the group in both Korean and Japanese. He also participated in SM Entertainment's project group, SM the Ballad, for the release of two EP albums.
1990Ryan White, American activist, inspired the Ryan White Care Act (born 1971)[†]
Ryan Wayne White was an American teenager from Kokomo, Indiana, who became a national poster child for HIV/AIDS in the United States after his school barred him from attending classes following a diagnosis of AIDS.
1990The conservative New Democracy party of Constantine Mitsotakis is elected in the Greek parliamentary election.[†]
New Democracy is a liberal-conservative political party in Greece. In contemporary Greek politics, New Democracy has been the main centre-right to right wing political party and one of the two major parties along with its historic rival, the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK). New Democracy and PASOK were created in the wake of the toppling of the military junta in 1974, ruling Greece in succession for the next four decades. Following the electoral decline of PASOK, New Democracy remained one of the two major parties in Greece, the other being the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA). The party was founded in 1974 by Konstantinos Karamanlis and in the same year it formed the first cabinet of the Third Hellenic Republic. New Democracy is a member of the European People's Party, the largest European political party since 1999, the Centrist Democrat International, and the International Democracy Union.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]