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LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev compounded the confusion over economic changes today by unexpectedly proposing a national referendum on the question of whether the private ownership of land should be legalized.
LEAD: THE Pentagon's Star Wars plan to develop arms to destroy enemy missiles has suffered a series of technical failures this year that threaten to further erode support for the disputed program.
LEAD: A unanimous appellate court ruled yesterday that the New York City Police Department must enforce a court order to keep black-led demonstrators at least 50 feet away from two Korean food stores in a tense eight-month dispute in Brooklyn.
LEAD: The Emerson Radio Corporation announced yesterday that it had formed an intricate alliance with Fidenas Investment Ltd., a foreign investment group that is the company's largest outside shareholder. The deal calls for the creation of a joint venture to distribute Emerson's products in Europe and gives Fidenas two new seats on
LEAD: On his last day of Senate testimony, Judge David H. Souter said today that he approved of an innovative and ''pragmatic'' Supreme Court, and when asked if he could think of any instances in which the Court had recently ''improperly created new rights,'' he said he could not.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 12, 1990, covering September 18, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Jon Bon Jovi
Mariah Carey
Poison
1990Lewis Holtby, German footballer[†]
Lewis Harry Holtby is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains Bundesliga club Holstein Kiel.
1990Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.[†]
Liechtenstein, officially the Principality of Liechtenstein, is a doubly landlocked German-speaking microstate in the Central European Alps, between Austria in the east and north and Switzerland in the west and south. Liechtenstein is a semi-constitutional monarchy headed by the prince of Liechtenstein of the House of Liechtenstein, currently led by Hans-Adam II. It is Europe's fourth-smallest country, with an area of just over 160 square kilometres and a population of 40,023. It is the world's smallest country to border two countries, and is one of the few countries with no debt.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]