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LEAD: Thousands of mentally ill patients and other people unable to care for themselves are being assigned by New York State authorities to live in unsanitary, dilapidated and poorly supervised adult group homes or halfway houses, inspections by a state monitoring agency have found.
LEAD: Oil tankers take six weeks to travel from the export terminals of the Persian Gulf to the refineries of the Gulf of Mexico, but oil prices, as events last week have shown, make the trip at something near the speed of light.
LEAD: The stock market was buffeted by waves of selling and sharply lower prices last week in the wake of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. But there are signs that most individual investors have not yet begun to sell.
LEAD: Five years ago, Russ and Maggie Miller left their home in southern New Jersey to follow their second-grader, Karin, to the prestigious Nick Bollettieri Tennis Academy in Bradenton, Fla., a tennis think tank that has produced such teen-age luminaries as Andre Agassi, Monica Seles, Aaron Krickstein, Jimmy Arias and Carling
LEAD: A high-level Bush Administration study calls for spending about $500 million a year more to reduce the infant mortality rate in the United States, now higher than in 19 other countries, including Singapore and East Germany.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 1990, covering August 6, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
1990Jacques Soustelle, French anthropologist and politician (born 1912)[†]
Jacques Soustelle was an important and early figure of the Free French Forces, a politician who served in the French National Assembly and at one time served as Governor General of Algeria, an anthropologist specializing in Pre-Columbian civilizations, and vice-director of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris in 1939. Soustelle and his followers opposed any compromise with anticolonial activists in Algeria in the Algerian War.
1990Gulf War: The United Nations Security Council orders a global trade embargo against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.[†]
The Gulf War was an armed conflict between Iraq and a 42-country coalition led by the United States. The coalition's efforts against Iraq were carried out in two key phases: Operation Desert Shield, which marked the military buildup from August 1990 to January 1991; and Operation Desert Storm, which began with the aerial bombing campaign against Iraq on 17 January 1991 and came to a close with the American-led liberation of Kuwait on 28 February 1991.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]