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LEAD: Setting the stage for the next major step in the Bush Administration's push to reduce third world debt, Argentina will get approval of renewed assistance from the International Monetary Fund and begin negotations on debt reduction with its commercial banks by the end of the month, Argentine and I.M.F.
LEAD: THEY were ''at home'' with the flu, colds and let-us-not-forget migraines. But there they were at the crack of dawn on a sunny Thursday in Manhattan, 40 adults who never felt better, loaded on a bus headed for Pennsylvania on a pilgrimage aptly named Antiques Mania.
LEAD: The computerized information system used by customs agents to screen visitors to the United States is so flawed that major drug traffickers and other criminals may be able to enter the country without detection, Federal investigators have concluded.
LEAD: Four months after inheriting greatly expanded powers, the New York City Council is struggling to use them. But its new muscle-flexing has often been stymied by its own members, many of whom are mired in the sloppy, sleepy style of the past.
LEAD: A White House decision to oppose financial aid for developing countries to phase out chemicals that are destroying the Earth's ozone layer was sharply criticized today at an international meeting in Geneva.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 9, 1990, covering May 10, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Janet Jackson
Heart
Michael Bolton
1990Salvador Pérez, Venezuelan baseball player[†]
Salvador Johan Perez Diaz, nicknamed "El Niño" and "Salvy", is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball catcher and first baseman for the Kansas City Royals of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is a nine-time MLB All-Star, five-time Gold Glove Award winner, five-time Silver Slugger Award winner, three-time All-MLB selection, Roberto Clemente Award winner, and received the World Series Most Valuable Player Award when the Royals won the 2015 World Series. Pérez has played his entire career with the Royals, and was named the teams' captain in 2023. He represents the Venezuelan national team on the international level.
1990Ivana Španović, Serbian long jumper[†]
Ivana Španović is a Serbian long jumper, the 2023 World champion, a two-time World indoor champion, a two-time European champion, a three-time European indoor champion and a five-time Diamond League Trophy Winner. Considering her achievements and longevity, Ivana Španović is regarded as one of the greatest female long jumpers of all time, with her indoor 7.24m jump ranked 3rd in all-time records.
1990Walker Percy, American novelist and essayist (born 1916)[†]
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]