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LEAD: THOUSANDS of young Spanish-speaking immigrants, many of them illegal aliens, are flocking to the South Fork. There they work in motels and restaurants and for landscaping companies. On Sundays newcomers play soccer in Montauk.
LEAD: Fifteen years after its costly and humiliating brush with bankruptcy, New York City is edging into fiscal straits that seem painfully familiar.
LEAD: TWO weeks after the Governor's Commission on Health Care Costs called for a new payroll tax to finance the rising cost of hospital care for the uninsured poor, neither the Governor nor key legislators have endorsed the proposal. Although early reaction to the commission's report focused mainly on the tax, attention is now shifting to other recommendations by the group.
LEAD: A Savings Industry Bailout, And the President's Son Jeb After Jeb Bush and a partner bought a Miami office building using money an associate had borrowed from a local savings and loan, the institution failed and the Government repaid most of the loan. Page 28. Le Duc Tho Dies at 79
LEAD: The Crown Prince of Kuwait suggested today that the country's defunct Parliament would be revived and free elections held if Kuwait is liberated from Iraqi troops.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1990, covering October 14, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
George Michael
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Jordan Clark, English cricketer[†]
Jordan Clark is an English cricketer who plays for Surrey. Clark is a right-handed batsman who bowls right-arm medium pace, and occasionally fields as a wicket-keeper. He was born in Whitehaven, Cumbria and was educated at Sedbergh School.
1990Leonard Bernstein, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1918)[†]
Leonard Bernstein was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian. Considered to be one of the most important conductors of his time, he was the first American-born conductor to receive international acclaim. Bernstein was "one of the most prodigiously talented and successful musicians in American history" according to music critic Donal Henahan. Bernstein's honors and accolades include seven Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, and 16 Grammy Awards as well as an Academy Award nomination. He received the Kennedy Center Honor in 1981.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[†]