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LEAD: In what health officials called a major step toward overhauling Medicare's chaotic reimbursement system, the Secretary of Health and Human Services yesterday gave Congress a model national fee schedule for 1,400 commonly performed medical procedures.
LEAD: Busy smokestacks reach above the sprawling squat buildings of red brick and not-yet-rusty metal on Rikers Island, testament to a decade of frantic building that has more than doubled the size of the nation's largest penal colony. Except for street names like E-1 and the endless loops of razor wire lining every fence, some blocks look from the outside like any industrial swath of Queens.
LEAD: ''I'm what you call a displaced homemaker,'' said Doris Gibson, who is 66 years old and by any measure poor. She traces her poverty to the day 13 years ago when her husband walked out on her, and her survival to a Federal paycheck that will be harder and harder for future Doris Gibsons to get.
LEAD: The Bush Administration is preparing to transfer as much as $1 billion worth of advanced weapons to Israel to buttress the country's defenses against Iraq and address Israeli concerns about recent arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Administration officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 29, 1990, covering September 1, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Poison
Mariah Carey
Anita Baker
1990Aisling Loftus, English actress[â ]
Aisling Sinead Katie Loftus is a British actress. She began her career as a child actress and first gained prominence through her roles in the BBC dramas Five Daughters (2010) and Dive (2010), the play Spur of the Moment, and the film Death of a Superhero (2011).
1990Stanislav Tecl, Czech footballer[â ]
Stanislav Tecl is a Czech former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played in the Czech First League for Slavia Prague, Jihlava, Viktoria PlzeÅ and Jablonec, winning two championships with Viktoria PlzeÅ and a further four with Slavia Prague. Tecl played internationally for the Czech Republic, making ten appearances for his nation between 2013 and 2022.
1990Edwin O. Reischauer, American scholar and diplomat (born 1910)[â ]
Edwin Oldfather Reischauer was an American diplomat, educator, and professor at Harvard University. Born in Tokyo to American educational missionaries, he became a leading scholar of the history and culture of Japan and East Asia. Together with George M. McCune, a scholar of Korea, in 1939 he developed the McCuneâReischauer romanization of the Korean language.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[â ]