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LEAD: Treasury Secretary Nicholas F. Brady urged the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund today to cushion the economic shock of the Persian Gulf crisis for developing countries.
LEAD: AIDS Peril in South Africa AIDS is spreading among South Africa's blacks at an alarming rate.
LEAD: In colorful costumes and diplomats' pin stripes, more than 70 world leaders have begun arriving in New York City for the World Summit for Children, jamming V.I.P. suites in hotels and threatening to turn midtown Manhattan into a nightmare of meandering motorcades and world-record gridlock.
LEAD: A united Germany, for the last 45 years a dream for most Germans, has seemed more like a nightmare to many of their neighbors.
LEAD: After an anti-tax rally at the State House on Sunday that drew only 4,000 protesters, Gov. Jim Florio and the leaders of the protest movement appear to have settled into a protracted political war in which time is likely to be on the side of the Governor.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 1990, covering September 27, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
Jon Bon Jovi
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Dion Lewis, American football player[†]
Dion John Lewis is an American football coach and former running back who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 10 seasons. He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, earning second-team All-American honors in 2009. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL draft. Lewis is currently the assistant running backs coach for the University of Albany.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]