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LEAD: President Bush said today that he wanted William Taylor, the Federal Reserve Board's top banking regulator, to succeed L. William Seidman as head of the Government's savings and loan bailout when Mr. Seidman steps down.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY Bush named his choice to succeed William Seidman when he steps down as the nation's top savings regulator. At the same time, trying to limit damage caused by the Administration's effort to push Seidman out, the President praised his work. [Page A1.] Sales of U.S.-made cars and light trucks rose 2.4 percent in the last 10 days of April, auto makers reported.
LEAD: Transit Authority police officers will begin escorting high school students next week on designated subway cars in Brooklyn in a demonstration project that will try to insure students' safety traveling from school, school and transit officials said yesterday.
LEAD: The wife of Genentech's chief executive officer is the focus of an insider trading investigation being conducted by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the company disclosed today.
LEAD: A CHILEAN photographer is called to a dangerous political rendezvous where he may find a trace of information about his brother, who disappeared a dozen years before. If he refuses the meeting, he asks himself, ''What will save me from suicide?'' Yet how can he carry on a normal life with his wife and small son if he is obsessed with his brother's disappearance?
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 2, 1990, covering May 4, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
M.C. Hammer
Paula Abdul
1990Emily Remler, American guitarist (born 1957)[†]
Emily Remler was an American jazz guitarist, active from the late 1970s until her death in 1990.
1990Latvia declares independence from the Soviet Union.[†]
Latvia, officially the Republic of Latvia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is one of the three Baltic states, along with Estonia to the north and Lithuania to the south. It borders Russia to the east and Belarus to the southeast, and shares a maritime border with Sweden to the west. Latvia covers an area of 64,589 km2 (24,938 sq mi), with a population of 1.9 million. The country has a temperate seasonal climate. Its capital and largest city is Riga. Latvians, who are the titular nation and comprise 65.5% of the country's population, belong to the ethnolinguistic group of the Balts and speak Latvian. Russians are the most prominent minority in the country, at almost a quarter of the population; 37.7% of the population speak Russian as their native tongue.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]