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LEAD: THE JVC Jazz Festival, which has rumbled into town and is opening its many doors tonight, is half a jazz festival and half a festival about jazz. For every Dizzy Gillespie, who is playing at Carnegie Hall with a big band, there is a group like the Jazz Passengers, who can play jazz but who mostly use it, query it, poke some fun at it and revivify it.
LEAD: Because of Nelson Mandela's visit, delays are expected today on the East Side of Manhattan from 9 A.M to 9 P.M. Motorists should avoid lower Manhattan from 7:30 A.M. to 10 A.M.
LEAD: To the Walt Disney Company, the opening of ''Dick Tracy'' last weekend was a smashing success, bringing in $22.5 million at the box office in its first three days, the most lucrative debut for any Disney film.
LEAD: Nelson Mandela said yesterday that the African National Congress was not wedded to socialism and supports ''state participation'' in the South African economy only to the extent needed to redress gross disparities in wealth between blacks and whites.
LEAD: The Parliaments of the two Germanys adopted matching measures moving them another step closer to union today, one a resolution guaranteeing Poland's existing borders and the other the treaty on monetary and economic union.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 20, 1990, covering June 22, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
Sinead O'Connor
Soundtrack
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Sebastian Jung, German footballer[†]
Sebastian Alexander Jung is a German professional footballer who plays as a right back for Karlsruher SC in the 2. Bundesliga.
1990Ilya Frank, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1908)[†]
Ilya Mikhailovich Frank was a Soviet physicist who received the 1958 Nobel Prize in Physics, jointly with Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov and Igor Y. Tamm, also of the Soviet Union. He received the award for his work in explaining the phenomenon of Cherenkov radiation. He received the Stalin prize in 1946 and 1953 and the USSR state prize in 1971.
1990Cold War: Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]