Monday, December 12, 1988

From the day

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The Headlines

Freer Trade: Not Yet, Maybe Later

#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Look Away

Chicago

#1 at the box office

$7,781,130

The must-have

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Figures

On This Day

• The Clapham Junction rail crash kills thirty-five and injures hundreds after two collisions of three commuter trains—one of the worst train crashes in the United Kingdom.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Gustave Flaubert (1821)
• Frank Sinatra (1915)
• Edvard Munch (1863)
• Jennifer Connelly (1970)
• Alfred Werner (1866)

Slang

Tech Check

Fiber Optic Cables (Transatlantic), Doppler Radar & Digital Cellular.

Cost of Living (1985)