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LEAD: The islanders call their beloved outsider ''E. T.,'' for Valentin Fyodorov has proved to be a boon-producing alien, rocking the governance of Sakhalin Island with strange events in defiance of the law to make people imagine themselves more and more in a free-market world apart from the rest of the Soviet Union.
LEAD: As soon as Gary Kasparov moved his king's pawn to start the second game of the World Chess Championship, the kibitzers thought something was up. They had been expecting an opening on the queenside. Clearly this called for instant analysis. So, as the players quickly proceeded with the Flohr-Zaitsev Variation, the kibitzers next door at the Hotel Macklowe sought out Eric Schiller, an American player.
LEAD: While the big battles over Medicare, capital gains and income tax rates have been blocking a budget agreement between Congress and the White House, dozens of backroom deals and horse trades on lesser matters have helped shape the deficit reduction packages lawmakers will vote on this week.
LEAD: From the beginning, when the Redskins seemed invincible, until the end, whtn the Giants proved invincible, it was a typical Giants-Redskins game.
LEAD: In response to a 1989 Supreme Court decision, courts across the country are reopening old civil rights cases and allowing white men to challenge the hiring and promotion of blacks under court decrees issued up to 20 years ago.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 10, 1990, covering October 15, 1990.
M.C. Hammer
Wilson Phillips
Mariah Carey
George Michael
Bell Biv DeVoe
1990Jeon Ji-yoon, South Korean singer-songwriter and dancer[â ]
Jeon Ji-yoon, professionally known as Jiyoon or Jenyer, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and songwriter known for her work as a former member of South Korean girl group 4Minute. She debuted as a solo artist on November 2, 2016, under the stage name Jenyer, with the release of her debut digital single, "I Do".
1990Delphine Seyrig, French actress and director (born 1932)[â ]
Delphine Claire Beltiane Seyrig was a Lebanese-born French actress and film director. She came to prominence in Alain Resnais's 1961 film Last Year at Marienbad, and later acted in films by Chantal Akerman, Luis Buñuel, Marguerite Duras, Ulrike Ottinger, François Truffaut, and Fred Zinneman. She directed three films, including the documentary Sois belle et tais-toi (1981).
1990Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to lessen Cold War tensions and open up his nation.[â ]
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991. He served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 and additionally as head of state beginning in 1988, as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989, Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 to 1990 and the president of the Soviet Union from 1990 to 1991. Ideologically, Gorbachev initially adhered to MarxismâLeninism but moved towards social democracy by the early 1990s.
In 1990, the world population was approximately 5,327,803,110 people[â ]