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President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is joining the ranks of "instant book" authors with a memoir describing the August coup attempt against him and reasserting his belief in a socialism stripped of Stalinism. Article, Page 12.
Over the last five decades Arabs and Jews have faced each other across the conference table more than once, and by some measures those earlier experiences carry lessons suggesting that no one should approach this week's meeting in Madrid with high expectations. But the Middle East is a region where precedents quickly lose their value, and unanticipated events can make fools out of those who dare to predict. Some students of Middle East politics are arguing that both the Arabs and the Israelis have already made so many subtle concessions just to get this far that further progress may not be so unlikely.
What is 170 feet long, 60 feet wide, up to 14 feet deep and capable of holding at least 250,000 people? Its builders call it New York City's first indoor, 50-meter, Olympic-standard pool, and it is the centerpiece of the Swim, Sports Training and Rehabilitation Center at Asphalt Green, designed by Richard Dattner Architect of Manhattan.
Although it doesn't open until Nov. 16, Jeff Koons's exhibition at the Sonnabend Gallery in the SoHo section of Manhattan is already a succes de scandale. The sculptures and paintings all depict the plain-looking artist with his glamorous new wife, the Italian former porn star and Radical Party parliamentary deputy, Ilona Staller, more famously known as Cicciolina. In the show's hard-core sexual tableaux, the newlyweds wear little clothing, exhibit even fewer inhibitions, and leave nothing to the imagination. They also display an anatomical prowess that looks like a mix of Hieronymus Bosch and Dr. Seuss. When the exhibition opens, there will be guards at the doors, and anyone under 18 will be turned away.
DESPITE a steep decline in interest rates that has brought fixed 30-year mortgage loans to below 9 percent for the first time since 1977, home buyers are holding back across most of the nation in what experts say are stubborn fears that job cuts and other recessionary pressures will persist. One area of relative strength, according to several studies, is the Northeast, including New York and its suburbs, which were hit first and hardest by the current housing slump, beginning in 1988. Home resales in the region increased suddenly in the spring and have continued since, although prices have continued to weaken.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 23, 1991, covering October 27, 1991.
Garth Brooks
Guns N' Roses
Motley Crue
Public Enemy
Prince And The New Power Generation
1991Shohei Takahashi, Japanese footballer[†]
Shohei Takahashi is a Japanese footballer who plays as a centre-back for J3 League club Matsumoto Yamaga.
1991George Barker, English author and poet (born 1913)[†]
George Granville Barker was an English poet. He identified with the New Apocalyptics movement, which reacted against 1930s realism with mythical and surrealistic themes. His long liaison with Elizabeth Smart was the subject of her cult-novel By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.
1991Turkmenistan achieves independence from the Soviet Union.[†]
Turkmenistan is a landlocked country in Central Asia bordered by Kazakhstan to the northwest, Uzbekistan to the north, east and northeast, Afghanistan to the southeast, Iran to the south and southwest and the Caspian Sea to the west. Ashgabat is the capital and largest city. It is one of the six independent Turkic states. With a population over 7 million, Turkmenistan is the 35th most-populous country in Asia and has the lowest population of the Central Asian republics while being one of the most sparsely populated nations on the Asian continent.
In 1991, the world population was approximately 5,418,735,891 people[†]