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LEAD: FOR the 16 people seated around a horseshoe-shaped mahogany table in their company's conference room here, lunch was sandwiches and park-bench talk. As they ate, they shared worries about a deep concern in their lives: how to pursue a demanding career yet be an involved parent. Here is what some of them had to say: ''I have so little time with my child.
LEAD: American civilian helicopter pilots who are part of the anti-drug effort at this Peruvian jungle base took part in a fierce two-hour firefight Saturday with guerrillas supporting coca growers, American officials said today.
LEAD: The Federal Bureau of Investigation arrested a Cuban-American in Florida today on charges that he detonated the car bomb that killed Orlando Letelier, a Chilean exile leader, in Washington in 1976.
LEAD: In its first detailed comment on a Soviet proposal that a unified Germany belong to NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the Bush Administration rejected the idea today as a guise for making a united Germany neutral.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 11, 1990, covering April 12, 1990.
Bonnie Raitt
Paula Abdul
Michael Bolton
Janet Jackson
Alannah Myles
1990Francesca Halsall, English swimmer[†]
Francesca Jean Halsall is a retired English competitive swimmer who has represented Great Britain at the Olympics, FINA world championships, and European championships, and England at the Commonwealth Games. She competed primarily in freestyle and butterfly events.
1990Hiroki Sakai, Japanese footballer[†]
Hiroki Sakai is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a right back and the inaugural captain for A-League club Auckland FC.
1990Jim Gary's "Twentieth Century Dinosaurs" exhibition opens at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. He is the only sculptor ever invited to present a solo exhibition there.[†]
Jim Gary was an American sculptor popularly known for his large, colorful creations of dinosaurs made from discarded automobile parts. These sculptures were typically finished with automobile paint although some were left to develop a natural patina during display outdoors.
1990Widerøe Flight 839 crashes after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Norway, killing five people.[†]
Widerøe Flight 839, also known as the Værøy Accident, was a de Havilland Canada DHC-6-300 Twin Otter that crashed shortly after takeoff from Værøy Airport in Værøy Municipality in Lofoten, Norway. The accident occurred on 12 April 1990 at 14:44, killing all five people on board. The cause of the accident was strong winds that exceeded the structure's tolerance, causing the tail rudder and tailplane to crack and the aircraft to become uncontrollable. Impact occurred 63 seconds after takeoff and 8 seconds after the crack. The aircraft crashed into the water and a search was conducted for several days to locate the wreckage.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]