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In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]
1990Ričardas Berankis, Lithuanian tennis player[†]
Ričardas Berankis is a Lithuanian professional tennis player. He is the first and only Lithuanian to enter the ATP top 50 rankings, making him the highest ranked Lithuanian tennis player of all time. Berankis has reached two finals on the ATP World Tour, at the Los Angeles Open in 2012 and at the Kremlin Cup in 2017. He is also a prominent member of the Lithuania Davis Cup team.
1990Sergei Matsenko, Russian chess player[†]
Sergei Vadimovich Matsenko is a Russian chess grandmaster.
1990François Moubandje, Swiss footballer[†]
Jacques François Moubandje is a professional footballer who most recently played as a left back for Swiss club Sion. Born in Cameroon, he represented the Switzerland national team.
1990Håvard Nordtveit, Norwegian footballer[†]
Håvard Nordtveit is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a defender or defensive midfielder.
1990Isabel Pires, Portuguese politician[†]
Isabel Cristina Rua Pires is a Portuguese politician and former member of the Assembly of the Republic, the national legislature of Portugal. A member of the Left Bloc, she has represented Lisbon from October 2015 to March 2022 and Porto from September 2023 to March 2024. She had also been a temporary substitute member of the Assembly from February 2023 to August 2023.
1990Cedric Belfrage, English journalist and author, co-founded the National Guardian (born 1904)[†]
Cedric Henning Belfrage was an English film critic, journalist, writer and political activist. He is best remembered as a co-founder of the radical US weekly National Guardian. Later Belfrage was referenced as a Soviet agent in the US intelligence Venona project, although it appears he had been working for British Security Co-ordination as a double agent.
LEAD: The McDonnell Douglas Corporation, facing continuing losses from its commercial aircraft business, cost overruns on its military planes and declining Pentagon budgets, said yesterday that it was planning extensive layoffs as part of a sweeping cost-cutting effort.
LEAD: 3d World Arms Sales Down A report that arms sales to the third world declined 24 percent in 1989 suggested that cooling regional conflicts and heavy third-world debt were major causes. Page A10. Changes to Hatch Act Gain The House voted to override President Bush's veto of a bill that would loosen restrictions on Federal employees' political activities.
LEAD: The House Judiciary Committee approved legislation today that would strip insurance companies of most of their exemptions from antitrust law.
LEAD: The Federal rescue program to sell billions of dollars worth of property seized from failed savings and loans is just beginning, but Government auditors have already detected evidence of misconduct.
LEAD: It was a teen-age romance that thrived on drugs. Angelo B. and Jacqueline S. shared a crack pipe, snorted heroin and sold the potions that transformed the drab gray streets they roamed in Brooklyn.
LEAD: A campaign of intimidation and harassment of critics of the Mexican Government, apparently by Government security forces, has provoked a growing human rights crisis here, grave enough to have required the direct intervention of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari.
LEAD: Officer Tony Perez squats behind a trash bin, nervously fingers his weapon and mulls what he has just been told: the suspect has a crate of Uzis. ''It doesn't make sense that cops have to go up against assault rifles,'' he says to himself. Nine minutes later, a shootout leaves a partner dead.
LEAD: Nelson Mandela, the living symbol of resistance to South African apartheid, swept tired but triumphant yesterday into an emotional New York welcome.
LEAD: When pasta was merely spaghetti, and ''carbo loading'' was more an indulgence of the fat than the fit, most pasta makers could only hope to sell their products locally.
LEAD: PLACE: A dozen or so apartments around town.
LEAD: CHENILLE bedspreads hang from the windows, and a frieze of magazine covers rings the room. On the top of a desk said to have been Al Jolson's makeup table is a small color photograph of a smiling 7-year-old.
LEAD: After a yearlong delay that cost New York State millions of dollars in Federal aid, legislative negotiators reached a compromise on welfare reform today aimed at expanding educational opportunities and job training for mothers.