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LEAD: The space agency said yesterday that the planned $37 billion space station would have to be substantially simplified to reduce its need for maintenance by robots and astronauts walking in space.
LEAD: In this ramshackle capital of two million, people are hoarding food and fuel, and long lines at the passport office attest to a rush to leave as a 30-year conflict draws closer from the countryside.
LEAD: Researchers plan to report that they have discovered receptors in the brain that are stimulated by marijuana, suggesting that the body produces a substance similar to marijuana and uses it to relieve pain and stress.
LEAD: Stepping behind a rusty railroad car on the Brooklyn waterfront the other day, Brenda Gonzales stoked her crack pipe and inhaled deeply. Moments later she scooped grains of heroin into her nostrils.
LEAD: The resignation of Justice William J. Brennan Jr. sets the stage for an extraordinary political challenge for President Bush.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 1990, covering July 21, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
New Kids on the Block
Wilson Phillips
Soundtrack
1990Franck Elemba, Congolese athlete[†]
Franck Dannique Elemba Owaka is an athlete from the Republic of the Congo competing in the shot put. He represented his country at the 2014 World Indoor Championships and 2015 World Championships, as well as team Africa at the 2010 and 2014 Continental Cup.
1990Chris Martin, English footballer[†]
Christopher Joseph Martin is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1990Jason Roy, South African-English cricketer[†]
Jason Jonathan Roy is an English cricketer who played for England in One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International (T20I) cricket, and previously played for the Test team. In domestic cricket, he represents Surrey, and has played in multiple Twenty20 leagues around the world.
1990Erislandy Savón, Cuban amateur heavyweight boxer[†]
Erislandy Savón Cotilla is a Cuban heavyweight amateur boxer. He won the 91 kg/201 lbs title at the 2008 Youth World Amateur Boxing Championships, the 2009 Pan American Championships at Super Heavyweight and also the AIBA World Boxing Championships 2015 and 2017 in Heavyweight.
1990Taiwan's military police forces mainland Chinese illegal immigrants into sealed holds of a fishing boat Min Ping Yu No. 5540 for repatriation to Fujian, causing 25 people to die from suffocation.[†]
The Republic of China Military Police is a military police force operating under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of National Defense of Republic of China (Taiwan). Unlike military police organisations in many other countries, the ROCMP functions as a distinct branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]