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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[ā ]
1990Mychal Givens, American baseball player[ā ]
Mychal Antonio Givens is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs, and New York Mets.
1990The DinamoāRed Star riot took place at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, Croatia between the Bad Blue Boys (fans of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (fans of Red Star Belgrade).[ā ]
The Dinamo ZagrebāRed Star Belgrade riot was a football riot which took place on 13 May 1990 at Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, SR Croatia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, between the Bad Blue Boys and the Delije. The incident took place just weeks after Croatia's first multi-party elections in almost fifty years in which the parties favouring Croatian independence had won the majority of votes. The riot resulted in over sixty people wounded, including some stabbed, shot or poisoned by tear gas.
LEAD: Patricia Gemmell met Brian Dear by replying to a friendly note that appeared on her computer screen one day, a message sent on a computer network linking her machine with many others. She responded with a computer quip of her own and the two, who were programmers at different campuses of the University of Maryland, struck up a friendship that went on electronically for weeks before they finally met.
LEAD: PERCHED atop a long, rambling hill and overlooking Huntington Harbor sits a fairy tale-like castle named Coindre Hall. The 52-room, French chateau-style mansion represents the largest of six Suffolk County-owned estates and remains the most problematic.
LEAD: Tensions in Singapore Twenty-five years after independence from Malaysia, Singapore's dominant Chinese are at odds with the Malay minority. Page 14. Prosecutor for Bomb Case The appointment of a prosecutor hints at a break in the case of mail bombings in the South. Page 23.
LEAD: During last Saturday's soccer match between Spartak and Dynamo Kiev, television viewers were presented with a uniquely Soviet half-time entertainment: an interview with a presidential economic adviser, Stanislav S. Shatalin.
LEAD: There were still two games to play before the team returned home, but in the late morning, as a cool wind blew outside and clouds covered the sky, Dave Winfield packed his bags, rode to the airport with his wife, Tonya, and flew home to the New York area.
LEAD: THE SEARCH FOR MODERN CHINA By Jonathan D. Spence. Illustrated. 876 pp. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. $29.95.
LEAD: After a decade of Republican Presidents, years that saw many of the most cherished conservative precepts enshrined in policy, the conservative movement itself is in the midst of an identity crisis, trying to redefine its causes and goals for the 1990's.
LEAD: New Yorkers long used to a vocal white mayor some had blamed for racial tensions were suddenly grappling last week with a quiet new black mayor some blamed for not doing more to ease the turmoil.
LEAD: A 20th wedding anniversary is an appropriate occasion for reflection and self-evaluation, even if husband and wife are happily living the life styles of the semirich and somewhat famous.
LEAD: The new Government of Chile agreed in principle today to pay compensation for the killing of Orlando Letelier, a Chilean exile leader assassinated in Washington 14 years ago.
LEAD: The Soviet Parliament moved to adopt criminal penalties, including prison terms, for public remarks insulting President Mikhail S. Gorbachev or his policies. Page 10.
LEAD: If extraterrestrials have ever visited our planet and decide to return, one of the best gifts they could bring is a home movie showing us in our infancy, as well as now-extinct animals and pristine landscapes. Until that day, the best we can do is turn to nature writers to provide us with visions of bygone creatures, civilizations lost to history and unsullied landscapes.