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LEAD: Mayor David N. Dinkins has asked the United States Defense Department to stop development of the Navy port that has brought one cruiser to Staten Island and may bring several other ships there.
LEAD: A Frenchwoman, her Belgian companion and their daughter were released in Beirut today, more than two years after being taken hostage by a Libyan-supported militant group as they cruised the Mediterranean on a pleasure boat.
LEAD: The Lockheed Corporation said today that it had successfully beaten back an attempt by the Dallas financier Harold C. Simmons to gain control of the company.
LEAD: Ames Department Stores Inc. had visions of greatness when it acquired nearly 400 Zayre discount stores in October 1988. Overnight, Ames would be transformed from a little-known variety chain operating primarily in New England into the nation's fourth-largest discounter, after K Mart, Wal-Mart and Target.
LEAD: At a time when some Americans are worrying about how much Japan is investing to buy real estate and companies from New York to Honolulu, the bigger concern for the United States may be how much Japan is continuing to invest on its industrial prowess at home.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 1990, covering April 11, 1990.
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
Michael Bolton
Janet Jackson
Alannah Myles
1990Dimitrios Anastasopoulos, Greek footballer[†]
Dimitrios Anastasopoulos is a Greek professional footballer who plays for Charavgiakos as a midfielder.
1990Thulani Serero, South African footballer[†]
Thulani Caleb Serero is a South African soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Cape Town City and the South African national team.
1990Harold Ballard, Canadian businessman (born 1903)[†]
Harold Edwin Ballard was a Canadian businessman and sportsman. Ballard was an owner of the Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League (NHL) as well as their home arena, Maple Leaf Gardens. A member of the Leafs organization from 1940 and a senior executive from 1957, he became part-owner of the team in 1961 and was majority owner from February 1972 until his death. He won Stanley Cups in 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967, all as part-owner. He was also the owner of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats of the Canadian Football League (CFL) for 10 years from 1978 to 1988, winning a Grey Cup championship in 1986. He was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (1977) and the Canadian Football Hall of Fame (1987). His is one of seven names to be on both the Stanley Cup and Grey Cup.
1990Customs officers in Middlesbrough, England, seize what they believe to be the barrel of a massive gun on a ship bound for Iraq.[†]
Middlesbrough, colloquially known as Boro, is a port town in the Borough of Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. Lying to the south of the River Tees, Middlesbrough forms part of the Teesside built-up area and the Tees Valley.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]