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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
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LEAD: Deeply angered at being treated as suspected AIDS carriers, illiterates and unwanted black immigrants, Haitian-Americans are abandoning years of quiet acceptance and sharply demanding redress for what they charge is a pattern of prejudice and abuse.
LEAD: Saying the punishment of prison did not fit the crime, a Federal judge today placed a 24-year-old computer science student on three years' probation for intentionally disrupting a nationwide computer network. The student, Robert Tappan Morris, was also fined $10,000 and ordered to perform 400 hours of community service.
LEAD: Defying Moscow's warning to curb separatist movements, the Latvian Parliament today declared the beginning of a transition period leading to establishment of the republic's independence.
LEAD: The South African Government and the African National Congress reported significant progress today toward full-scale negotiations on the nation's future.
LEAD: A commission appointed by Gov. Mario M. Cuomo to study the future of the Adirondack Park is recommending that New York buy more than 650,000 acres - more than 1,000 square miles - to preserve as wilderness and impose strong rules to limit development elsewhere in the park.
LEAD: Challenging Administration policy on strategic weapons, the head of the Strategic Air Command expressed doubt today about the feasibility of President Bush's latest proposal to reduce long-range nuclear arms.
LEAD: On a bluff overlooking the St. Lawrence River, a group of Indian men in jeans and Army fatigues were standing near a charred 20-foot-high mural of the Mohawk Tree of Peace. It was painted on the side of a burned-out building.
LEAD: ''You have accepted millions of immigrants, but you arrest Haitians and intern them in camps where they are subjected to physical, mental and sexual abuse. What we are now saying is, 'Enough is enough.' '' - Gerard Jean-Juste, executive director of the Haitian Refugee Center in Miami. [1:2.
LEAD: International 3-6 The South African Government and the African National Congress concluded three days of talks and reported significant progress toward full-scale negotiations on the nation's future. Page 1 The Strategic Air Command's chief expressed doubt about the feasibility of President Bush's latest proposal to reduce long-range nuclear arms.
LEAD: Because of an editing error, a brief article in some copies yesterday about the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington misstated the way the project's sculptor will be chosen. The selection will be made by the architect, not the Army Corps of Engineers.
LEAD: The United States gave intelligence and training to the Colombian police officers who killed the leader of a cocaine trafficking ring in a raid in December, the Bush Administration said today. But officials denied a published report that American forces took part in that mission.