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LEAD: The Bush Administration has decided to allow American commercial satellites to be launched on Soviet rockets for the first time, Government and industry officials say.
LEAD: Franz Beckenbauer, the coach of West Germany's soccer team in the World Cup and a former player for the Cosmos, is expected to join the organizing committee for the 1994 World Cup in the United States.
LEAD: They are the masterpieces on the museum walls, the unvarying stars in our artistic firmament, the van Goghs and Goyas and Rembrandts and van der Weydens. In our youth, we stood before them, notebook in hand, feverishly analyzing them for art-history classes. Later, as we revisited them through the years, they became dear friends.
LEAD: THE call came from Washington on a December Friday, shortly after a 1988 earthquake had leveled schools, homes and factories in Armenia. It was the United States Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance calling: how soon could Caroline Hebard be ready to board a plane for the Soviet republic?
LEAD: In Morristown, N.J., $1.2 million will buy a National Historic Landmark: a Second Empire-style house with 10 bedrooms, four bathrooms, a brass plaque at the door and memories of the illustrator and cartoonist Thomas Nast, who lived there from 1872 until his death in 1902. But it will not buy an oyster ranch - although Mark
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 1990, covering July 8, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
Sinead O'Connor
1990Kevin Trapp, German footballer[†]
Kevin Christian Trapp is a German professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt, whom he captains, and the Germany national team.
1990Howard Duff, American actor (born 1913)[†]
Howard Green Duff was an American actor. He started in radio during World War II before appearing in many Hollywood features and television programs from 1947 to 1990. He also directed for television. His career was marked by accusations of disloyalty during the red scare of the 1950s.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]