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LEAD: Seldom has a son of a President of the United States been called before Congress. But on Wednesday, Neil Bush, who followed in his father's footsteps by trying to make his fortune in the oil business, will testify about his role in the $1 billion failure of the Silverado Banking, Savings and Loan Association of
LEAD: Andrew Young offers little homilies of hope as he travels around Georgia in his quest for the governorship.
LEAD: President Bush and some of his advisers are deeply concerned about Soviet reluctance to move toward a treaty reducing conventional forces in Europe, which they see as the key to making political change in Eastern Europe irreversible by getting the Soviet Army out.
LEAD: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 24.77 points in brisk trading yesterday to a high - its fourth since last Monday - of 2,844.68.
LEAD: A semiconductor industry innovator who is highly critical of the United States' strategy for competing with Japanese chip makers will introduce a machine today that he says could dramatically improve this country's ability to keep pace with Japan in the mid-1990's. The machine is at the center of a debate over whether it is the correct technology for the 1990's.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 16, 1990, covering May 22, 1990.
Sinead O'Connor
M.C. Hammer
Heart
Janet Jackson
Michael Bolton
1990Wyatt Roy, Australian politician[†]
Wyatt Beau Roy is a former Australian parliamentarian. He served as the Assistant Minister for Innovation from September 2015 to the July 2016 federal election. He was a Liberal National Party of Queensland (LNP) member of the Australian House of Representatives from August 2010 to July 2016, representing the electorate of Longman. At 20 years of age, he was the youngest person ever to be elected to an Australian parliament. The federal record was previously held by Edwin Corboy, who was 22 when elected in 1918. He also became the youngest Minister in the history of the Commonwealth, being appointed to the ministry at the age of 25.
1990Rocky Graziano, American boxer (born 1922)[†]
Thomas Rocco Barbella, better known as Rocky Graziano, was an American professional boxer and actor who held the World Middleweight title. Graziano is considered one of the greatest knockout artists in boxing history, often displaying the capacity to take his opponent out with a single punch. He was ranked 23rd on The Ring magazine list of the greatest punchers of all time. He fought many of the best middleweights of the era including Sugar Ray Robinson. He was the subject of the 1956 film, Somebody Up There Likes Me, based on his 1955 autobiography, starring Paul Newman as Graziano.
1990North and South Yemen are unified to create the Republic of Yemen.[†]
The Yemen Arab Republic, commonly known as North Yemen or Yemen (Sanaʽa), was a country that existed from 1962 until its unification with the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen in 1990, in the northwestern part of what is now Yemen. Its capital was at Sana'a. It bordered the South Yemen to the southeast, Saudi Arabia to the north and Red Sea to the west, sharing maritime borders with Djibouti and the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]