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LEAD: Mobil Oil has agreed to spend what is expected to be tens of millions of dollars to clean up a vast and hazardous pool of oil that has been seeping under the streets of Brooklyn for more than 40 years.
LEAD: A RISE in hostile actions against homosexuals can be traced primarily to hatred based on fear and self-righteousness rather than to the AIDS epidemic, researchers are finding. Although polls show more Americans are beginning to accept homosexual men and women and support their rights, there has been a great increase in reports of anti-gay bias since the beginning of the epidemic.
LEAD: The Democratic Party will hold its 1992 Presidential convention at Madison Square Garden, Democrats in New York and Washington said yesterday.
LEAD: Leo T. is a Roman Catholic priest who, like Catholic priests around the world, took a vow of celibacy when he was ordained. For the last 10 years, however, Leo T. has had a sexual relationship with a woman.
LEAD: By noon Sunday it was hot and hazy and there were 100,000 human beings at Jones Beach, including James Daw, a lawyer, and his wife and children. ''Well, the main reason we like Jones Beach,'' said Mr. Daw, ''is, as you can see, we're all alone.'' It was true. Mr. Daw was only a 15-minute walk from his car in the West End 1 parking lot, but Jones
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 4, 1990, covering July 10, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
Sinead O'Connor
1990Adam Reynolds, Australian rugby league player[†]
Adam Reynolds is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who captains and plays as a halfback for the Brisbane Broncos in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1990Trent Richardson, American footballer[†]
Trenton Jamond Richardson is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, where he was recognized as a unanimous All-American and was a member of two BCS National Championship teams.
1990Chiyonokuni Toshiki, Japanese sumo wrestler[†]
Chiyonokuni Toshiki is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler from Iga, Mie. Making his professional debut in May 2006, he reached the top makuuchi division for the first time in January 2012. He has a highest rank of maegashira 1, but he has also been restricted by injuries, falling to the sandanme division in 2015 before staging a comeback, and then once again having serious injury in 2019 sending him down the ranks. He made a final comeback which saw him stagnate in the second half of the jūryō division before his demotion and retirement. He is a member of Kokonoe stable where he is an elder under the name Sanoyama.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]