The August 4, 1988 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♌. It was the 216 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 37 years old. Your last birthday was on the Monday, August 4, 2025, 93 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, August 4, 2026, in 271 days. You have lived for 13,607 days, or about 326,580 hours, or about 19,594,811 minutes, or about 1,175,688,660 seconds.
Date: 05 August 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A2-8 Jordan is dismissing the employees of virtually all its agencies in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The decision affects as many as 21,000 Palestinians who are paid in full or in part by Amman. Page A1 A plan to compensate the families of the 290 people who died when an American warship shot down an Iranian airliner over the Persian Gulf faces solid opposition in Congress.
Date: 04 August 1988
By Dena Kleiman
Dena Kleiman
LEAD: Ordinarily soft-spoken in his courtroom and with a reputation for settling cases long before they get to trial, Judge Leonard B. Sand appears to be an unlikely target for diatribe.
Date: 04 August 1988
By Charles Mohr & David Binder
Charles David
LEAD: The phrase ''journalism is a a young man's game'' was made at least partly obsolete years ago by large numbers of extraordinarily talented women in all branches of the profession.
Date: 04 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Washington investors, Steven M. Rales and Mitchell P. Rales, demanded a list of all of the shareholders of Interco Inc. The Rales brothers have offered to acquire Interco, the nation's biggest manufacturer of furniture and men's shoes, for $64 a share, or $2.1 billion. In a letter to Interco dated Tuesday, contained in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing, the Rales brothers said that the purpose of their demand is to communicate directly with the company's shareholders.
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: A Miami physician, M. Lee Pearce, has applied for permission from Federal antitrust regulators to raise his stake in American Medical International Inc., a Beverly Hills, Calif., hospital concern, to 15 percent from his current 7.5 percent holding. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Dr.
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Plantronics Inc., a manufacturer of telephone headsets and other communications products based in Santa Cruz, Calif., said today that it had agreed to be acquired in a management buyout for $25 a share, or about $128.3 million.
Date: 04 August 1988
AP
LEAD: The Coastal Corporation and a company owned by the Government of China today announced plans to form a joint venture to own and operate Coastal's West Coast refining and marketing properties. The announcement said
Date: 05 August 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: In a move to broaden its health care operations, Britain's BOC Group P.L.C. said today that it had agreed to acquire Spectramed Inc. of Newport Beach, Calif., for $12 a share, or $101 million.
Date: 05 August 1988
Reuters
LEAD: The redesigned 1989 Corvette from the General Motors Corporation's Chevrolet division will have an engine made almost entirely of aluminum, G.M. said. A Chevrolet spokesman, Ed Lechtzin, said the car was scheduled to be introduced next spring.