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LEAD: The Westchester County Board of Legislators voted today to build a new terminal at the county airport to replace a World War II Quonset hut and other outdated buildings, but the board left it to the voters to provide final approval in a $21 million bond referendum.
LEAD: Amid signs of growing public anger toward politicians, 10 states, including New York and Connecticut, hold primaries today. From Rhode Island to Arizona, candidates are vying to be seen as enemies of negative campaigning. Page B10.
LEAD: Iran and Iraq have announced after two days of high-level talks that they are resuming diplomatic relations, the official Iranian press agency reported today.
LEAD: The Toyota Motor Corporation, which has been projecting robust sales growth in the United States, said today that it would announce the site of a new assembly plant within two months.
LEAD: WHETHER in life or after death, Vincent van Gogh has never been an artist of moderation. He painted ferociously, drank great quantities of the potent liquor absinthe, went for days without eating, slashed off his left ear lobe and committed suicide at the age of 37. He sold only one painting in his lifetime, but today his works command tens of millions of dollars.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 5, 1990, covering September 11, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Poison
1990Jo Inge Berget, Norwegian footballer[†]
Jo Inge Berget is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Norwegian side Sarpsborg 08. He has played professionally in his homeland, Italy, Wales, Scotland, Sweden and the United States, and made his debut for the Norway national team in 2012.
1990Myrna Mack, Guatemalan anthropologist and activist (born 1949)[†]
Myrna Mack Chang was a Guatemalan anthropologist. In 1990, she was stabbed to death by elements in the Guatemalan military due to her criticism of the Guatemala government's treatment of the indigenous Maya, and human rights abuses against the people in general.
1990A Faucett Boeing 727 disappears in the Atlantic Ocean while being flown from Malta to Peru.[†]
Compañía de Aviación Faucett, colloquially known simply as Faucett Perú or Faucett, was a Peruvian airline. Its headquarters were located on the premises of Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]