NEWS SUMMARY
Date: 14 August 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL/3-23
El 14 d’agost de 1988 era un diumenge sota el signe estrella de ♌. Era el 226 dia de l'any. El president dels Estats Units era Ronald Reagan.
Si vas néixer aquest dia, tens 37 anys. El teu darrer aniversari va ser el dijous, 14 d’agost de 2025, fa 320 dies. El teu proper aniversari és el divendres, 14 d’agost de 2026, d'aquí a 44 dies. Heu viscut durant 13.834 dies, o unes 332.037 hores, o uns 19.922.271 minuts, o uns 1.195.336.260 segons.
Date: 15 August 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-8, A13 Afghan guerrillas are expanding their efforts to include political and administrative matters as Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan. Guerrilla commanders in Afghanistan are cooperating. Page A1
Date: 14 August 1988
By James Barron
James Barron
LEAD: CHRISTINE CRAFT, the television anchorwoman who went to court when her employer said she was too old and too unattractive to go on the air, wants to go back to court, this time for good. But only after she goes to law school.
Date: 15 August 1988
LEAD: Made for TV - Events at the convention have been planned to unroll like a mini-series. Page B6. In the Social Swim - About 500 parties and other affairs will turn New Orleans into one big celebration. Page B6. Politics Louisiana Style - Can a state that loves Democrats and hates decorum satisfy the G.O.P.?
Date: 14 August 1988
By Daniel Schorr
Daniel Schorr
LEAD: Because the road to New Orleans was more clearly charted than the road to Atlanta, the Republicans have escaped most of the orgy of media speculation and confusion that bedeviled the Democrats' nomination process.
Date: 14 August 1988
By James Barron
James Barron
LEAD: IT has been 10 years since Dennis Kucinich, dubbed Cleveland's ''boy mayor'' when he was elected at age 31, won a recall election by 236 votes. Within months, Cleveland became the first American city to plunge into default since the Depression.
Date: 14 August 1988
By James Barron
James Barron
LEAD: IN the 1920's, an outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease wiped out nearly all the dairy cattle in Long Beach, Calif. Now that epidemic is coming back to haunt homeowners.
Date: 14 August 1988
By James Barron
James Barron
LEAD: FOR years, the storage areas at Harvard's Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology were cluttered. ''Access to the collection was poor,'' recalls Una McDowell, the director of the museum's collections department. ''Things were cramped and difficult to get at.''
Date: 14 August 1988
BY Ben Yagoda
Ben Yagoda
LEAD: AFTER LOSING TO Jimmy Connors in the quarterfinals of last year's Wimbledon tournament, Slobodan Zivojinovic had this to say to a reporter: ''If I'm in the crowd, I'd be on Jimmy's side.''
Date: 14 August 1988
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: RUPERT MURDOCH has not lost his ability to astound. Mr. Murdoch, who has gobbled up publishing and entertainment properties in remarkably large bites, announced his biggest deal yet last week: an agreement to buy Triangle Publications, publisher of TV Guide, from Walter H. Annenberg for $3 billion.