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LEAD: PATIENT trials of new treatments, long a crown jewel of American medical science, are increasingly being conducted overseas, a number of prominent researchers say.
LEAD: Unless a small, determined band of residents have their way, this city of 29,000 people is about to become the site of the nation's largest incineration of dioxin.
LEAD: A Westchester County Court judge today dismissed a murder indictment against Carolyn Warmus, a 26-year-old teacher accused of killing her lover's wife, saying the District Attorney's office had manipulated the grand jury.
LEAD: This summer, 74-year-old Geraldine Jones has been encouraged by the view from her 12th-floor terrace in the East Tremont neighborhood of the Bronx.
LEAD: Pressured to respond to a recent string of alarming crimes in New York City, Mayor David N. Dinkins said yesterday that he would hire 1,058 new police officers by next spring to increase neighborhood foot patrols and would pay for this by cutting a range of other services.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 1, 1990, covering August 7, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
New Kids on the Block
Madonna
Soundtrack
1990Jake Allen, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Jake Allen is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the New Jersey Devils of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the second round, 34th overall, by the St. Louis Blues in the 2008 NHL entry draft and won the Stanley Cup with the Blues in 2019. Allen has also previously played for the Montreal Canadiens.
1990Josh Franceschi, English singer-songwriter[†]
Joshua James Alphonse Franceschi is an English singer and songwriter. He was the lead vocalist of rock band You Me at Six.
1990First American soldiers arrive in Saudi Arabia as part of the Gulf War.[†]
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[†]