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LEAD: Schools Chancellor Joseph A. Fernandez, with the strong support of Mayor David N. Dinkins, is preparing a plan to distribute condoms to students in New York City schools to help combat the spread of AIDS and unwanted teen-age pregnancies, school officials said yesterday.
LEAD: Contrary to the claims of thousands of cities around the country, a preliminary check of the 1990 census indicated that relatively few dwellings were missed in the original count, according to Census Bureau figures released at a hearing yesterday.
LEAD: At 8:30 yesterday morning, Albert H. Helmig Jr. figured that world crude oil prices were about to head downward. He had the reasons all worked out, based on his assessment of supply and demand, his experience as a broker and his studies of economics and finance.
LEAD: Faced with a sharp rise in enrollment and deep budget cuts, the City University of New York has tightened enrollment procedures and in the process has turned away students for the first time since it began its open admissions policy 20 years ago.
LEAD: Financing the Schools As states move to overhaul public education, a Texas court rejected a school financing plan, and Kentucky is struggling with a sweeping program of its own. Education, page B8. Defining Catholic Education Catholic educators are encouraged by the support for academic freedom in a new pronouncement on Catholic education from the Pope.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 1990, covering September 26, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
Jon Bon Jovi
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Hiram Abas, Turkish intelligence officer (born 1932)[†]
Hiram Abas was a Turkish intelligence official in the National Intelligence Organization (MIT). He retired after the 1980 Turkish coup d'état, but returned in August 1986 as deputy to MIT chief Hayri Ündül, retiring again in 1988. He was assassinated on 26 September 1990 by leftwing revolutionary group Dev Sol.
1990Alberto Moravia, Italian author and critic (born 1907)[†]
Alberto Pincherle, known by his pseudonym Alberto Moravia, was an Italian novelist and journalist. His novels explored matters of modern sexuality, social alienation and existentialism. Moravia is best known for his debut novel Gli indifferenti and for the anti-fascist novel Il conformista, the basis for the film The Conformist (1970) directed by Bernardo Bertolucci. Other novels of his adapted for the cinema are Agostino, filmed with the same title by Mauro Bolognini in 1962; Il disprezzo, filmed by Jean-Luc Godard as Le Mépris ; La noia (Boredom), filmed with that title by Damiano Damiani in 1963 and released in the US as The Empty Canvas in 1964 and La ciociara, filmed by Vittorio De Sica as Two Women (1960). Cédric Kahn's L'Ennui (1998) is another version of La noia.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]