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LEAD: Japanese who have settled in the New York suburbs, whether for a temporary business assignment or for good, are starting to feel a backlash from their growing presence and the rising economic tensions between Japan and the United States.
LEAD: ''My mother would never have consented to my making my first appearance in a public room, so to Mrs. Morton's we went,'' the novelist Edith Wharton wrote, as she recalled coming out into society in 1879. ''Mrs. Morton's'' was a sturdy brick dwelling, with handsome arched windows, at Fifth Avenue and 42d Street.
LEAD: Three weeks after economic and monetary union with West Germany, the East is beginning to feel the pain of the transition to a market economy.
LEAD: AFTER months of quiescence in American politics, the two parties are finally stirring, lurching into the 1990's and the uncharted political terrain beyond Reaganism.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 18, 1990, covering July 22, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Madonna
New Kids on the Block
Wilson Phillips
Soundtrack
1990Manuel Puig, Argentinian author, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1932)[†]
Juan Manuel Puig Delledonne, commonly called Manuel Puig, was an Argentine author. Among his best-known novels are La traición de Rita Hayworth, Boquitas pintadas, and El beso de la mujer araña which was adapted into the film released in 1985, directed by the Argentine-Brazilian director Héctor Babenco; and a Broadway musical in 1993.
1990Eduard Streltsov, Soviet footballer (born 1937)[†]
Eduard Anatolyevich Streltsov was a Soviet footballer who played as a forward for Torpedo Moscow and the Soviet national team during the 1950s and 1960s. A powerful and skilful attacking player, he scored the fourth-highest number of goals for the Soviet Union and has been called "the greatest outfield player Russia has ever produced". He is sometimes dubbed "the Russian Pelé".
1990Greg LeMond, an American road racing cyclist, wins his third Tour de France after leading the majority of the race. It was LeMond's second consecutive Tour de France victory.[†]
Gregory James LeMond is an American former road racing cyclist. He won the Tour de France thrice and the Road Race World Championship twice, becoming the only American male to win the former.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]