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LEAD: On disparate fronts, Mayor David N. Dinkins has taken actions that may commit New York City to a costly round of wage settlements and will commit it to raising $649 million in new taxes and charges to hire thousands of police officers and expand other anticrime programs.
LEAD: The lucky people waited two hours in line here Sunday afternoon for the right to pay $6 a person for a 10-minute ferry ride to Ellis Island. For Burt and Elly Goldstein and their family, that was two hours, plus $36. ''Plus $3 to park,'' said Mr. Goldstein. ''It's not right,'' said Mrs. Goldstein.
LEAD: After months of self-analysis, the New York City Police Department has called for expanding its forces by more than 9,000 officers - about a third already budgeted, a third coming from internal economies and replacement by civilian workers, and a third from money not yet found.
LEAD: THROUGH foresighted design, clever alterations of command circuits and a bit of luck, NASA engineers have kept the Magellan spacecraft orbiting Venus and off the long list of failures to befall American space endeavors this year. Its survival, officials say, is the first critical test of the fault-tolerance principles on which the current generation of interplanetary spacecraft is built.
LEAD: The substantial tax increases agreed to by Administration and Congressional negotiators over the weekend would be paid mostly by people of moderate means, despite various provisions aimed specifically at buyers of yachts and others with six-figure incomes, private specialists said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 26, 1990, covering October 2, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
Jon Bon Jovi
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Samantha Barks, Manx actress and singer[†]
Samantha Jane Barks is a British actress and singer who rose to fame after placing third in the BBC talent show-themed television series I'd Do Anything in 2008. She has released three studio albums: Looking in Your Eyes (2007), Samantha Barks (2016), and Into the Unknown (2021).
1990Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301 is hijacked and lands at Guangzhou, where it crashes into two other airliners on the ground, killing 132.[†]
On 2 October 1990, a hijacked Boeing 737, operating Xiamen Airlines Flight 8301, collided with two other aircraft on the runways of the old Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport while attempting to land. The hijacked aircraft struck parked China Southwest Airlines Flight 4305 first, inflicting only minor damage, but then collided with CAAC Flight 3523, a Boeing 757 waiting to take off, flipping onto its back. A total of 128 people were killed, including seven of nine crew members and 75 of 93 passengers on Flight 8301 and 46 of 110 passengers on Flight 3523.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]