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LEAD: Faced with the challenge of ending a 20-game losing streak in Portland, the Detroit Pistons' backcourt players came to the forefront today.
LEAD: Amgen Inc. is coming under pressure from Government officials who contend that Medicare is paying too high a price for the company's anti-anemia drug, erythropoetin, or EPO.
LEAD: In its first World Cup finals game in 40 years, the United States was humbled to the point of embarrassment today as it was beaten, 5-1, by Czechoslovakia.
LEAD: The Bulgarian Socialist Party, heir to the Communists who have controlled this Balkan country since 1944, took a decisive lead in early returns in Sunday's parliamentary elections.
LEAD: History fits comfortably on the streets of this city, where the Hessian barracks stormed by George Washington still stand and the 18th-century home of William Trent, the city's namesake, is open to all.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 6, 1990, covering June 11, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Sinead O'Connor
Heart
Soundtrack
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Christophe Lemaitre, French sprinter[†]
Christophe Lemaitre is a former French sprinter who specialised in the 100 and 200 metres. In 2010, Lemaitre became the first white athlete to break the 10-second barrier in an officially timed 100 m event. Lemaitre has run a sub-10 second 100 m on seven occasions: three times in 2010 and four times in 2011. He won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m relay at the 2012 London Olympic Games and in the 200 metres at the Rio 2016 Summer Olympics.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]