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LEAD: During the nine years that the landmark school-financing lawsuit bearing his name inched through New Jersey's courts, Raymond Abbott's young life slid downhill as he went from truant to runaway and then to school dropout, drug addict and burglar.
LEAD: The Supreme Court declared today that the new Federal law making it a crime to burn or deface the American flag violates the free-speech guarantee of the First Amendment, setting the stage for a political showdown in Congress on the emotional issue of the flag.
LEAD: CITING mounting evidence that conventional logging could be causing far more harm to forests than once believed, a group of scientists in the Pacific Northwest has proposed a redesigned approach to logging and forest management that they've dubbed the New Forestry.
LEAD: THE array of infections that strike people with AIDS is undergoing a profound shift that will affect patients, their doctors and the ability of the health care system to cope with the rising number of AIDS cases.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 6, 1990, covering June 12, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Sinead O'Connor
Heart
Soundtrack
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Jrue Holiday, American basketball player[†]
Jrue Randall Holiday is an American professional basketball player for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for one season with the UCLA Bruins before being selected by the Philadelphia 76ers in the first round of the 2009 NBA draft with the 17th overall pick.
1990David Worrall, English footballer[†]
David Richard Worrall is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League Two club Barrow, where he is a player-coach. He is a versatile, aggressive player who can play wide right or in central midfield.
1990Terence O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, English captain and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Northern Ireland (born 1914)[†]
Terence Marne O'Neill, Baron O'Neill of the Maine, PC (NI), was the fourth Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and leader (1963–1969) of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP). A moderate unionist who sought to reconcile sectarian divisions in Northern Ireland society and met with his counterpart in the Irish Republic, he was a member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland for the Bannside constituency from 1946 until his resignation in January 1970.
1990Russia Day: The parliament of the Russian Federation formally declares its sovereignty.[†]
Russia Day called Day of adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of RSFSR before 2002, is the national holiday of Russia. It has been celebrated annually on 12 June since 1992; the day commemorates the adoption of the Declaration of State Sovereignty of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) on 12 June 1990. The passage of this Declaration by the First Congress of People's Deputies marked the beginning of constitutional reform in the Russian Soviet state, culminating in outright independence in 1991.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]