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Date: 16 September 1988
LEAD: International A3-11
John Bradley West (born 15 September 1988) is an English actor, best known for his role as Samwell Tarly in the HBO fantasy TV series Game of Thrones.
Read more...The September 15, 1988 was a Thursday under the star sign of ♍. It was the 258 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, September 15, 2025, 2 days ago. Your next birthday is on Tuesday, September 15, 2026, in 362 days. You have lived for 13,516 days, or about 324,391 hours, or about 19,463,502 minutes, or about 1,167,810,120 seconds.
Date: 15 September 1988
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A3-19 The strongest hurricane to hit the Western Hemisphere in the 20th century slammed into Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula with 23-foot waves and wind gusts of up to 218 miles per hour, forcing the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. Page A1
Date: 16 September 1988
AP
LEAD: Opponents of the proposed partial merger of two Detroit newspapers asked an appeals court today to delay the business arrangement until the courts can hold a full hearing on the issue.
Date: 15 September 1988
By Albert Scardino
Albert Scardino
LEAD: America's two largest newspaper companies won a Federal judge's approval yesterday to proceed with the partial merger of their Detroit papers, but a group of readers, advertisers and politicians said it would appeal the decision.
Date: 16 September 1988
By Michael Oreskes, Special To the New York Times
Michael Oreskes
LEAD: As many military commanders have, Gov. Michael S. Dukakis this week found his counterattack on defense and foreign policy battling bad weather, in this case the powerful hurricane that was blowing political coverage off the top of the evening news.
Date: 15 September 1988
AP
LEAD: Mayor Kurt Schmoke removed the president of the Baltimore school board Tuesday after he admitted lying to board members as a way of trying to find out who gave information to the news media.
Date: 16 September 1988
By Susan Chira, Special To the New York Times
Susan Chira
LEAD: This nation, for centuries a victim of foreign invasions, is pouring all the fury at its past and pride in its present into an Olympics meant to prove Korea's worth to the world.
Date: 15 September 1988
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: Gov. Michael S. Dukakis, seeking to squeeze some good news out of the state's shaky budget situation, said today that Massachusetts had ended its 1988 budget year in better shape than expected.
Date: 16 September 1988
By Philip H. Dougherty
Philip Dougherty
LEAD: The first issue of World Monitor, a monthly news magazine from The Christian Science Monitor, will be going to newsstands and subscribers early next month.
Date: 16 September 1988
Reuters
LEAD: Federal-Mogul, a maker of auto parts and machine tools, said it had sold its operations in South Africa, which accounted for about $25 million in sales. Federal-Mogul said that National Bolts Ltd., a subsidiary of the FSI Corporation, had purchased its Femo and Huck South Africa operations. ''It was with considerable reluctance that we decided to withdraw from South Africa rather than risk the loss of our financial investment there,'' said Thomas F.