2 oktober 1988 was een zondag onder het sterrenbeeld ♎. Het was de 275e dag van het jaar. President van de Verenigde Staten was Ronald Reagan.
Als je op deze dag bent geboren, ben je 37 jaar oud. Je laatste verjaardag was op donderdag 2 oktober 2025, 265 dagen geleden. Je volgende verjaardag is op vrijdag 2 oktober 2026, in 99 dagen. Je hebt 13.779 dagen geleefd, of ongeveer 330.704 uur, of ongeveer 19.842.282 minuten, of ongeveer 1.190.536.920 seconden.
Date: 03 October 1988
LEAD: International A3-13 News analysis: Soviet leadership changes in the last two days underscore a paradox: the more Mikhail S. Gorbachev tries to disperse power in an attempt to expand democracy, the more he must concentrate it in his own hands. Page A1
Date: 02 October 1988
LEAD: The Cable News Network plans live coverage of the astronauts' news conferences from space, tentatively scheduled for 8:57 A.M. Eastern daylight time. ABC News, CBS News and NBC News will report on the news conference in their regular news broadcasts.
Date: 02 October 1988
>By Gitta Morris
Gitta Morris
LEAD: FOR Lynne Newell and Barry Woods, very old news is very good news. For instance, the discovery in someone's attic of a very old but well-preserved Connecticut newspaper is the kind of thing that makes their day.
Date: 03 October 1988
By Bernard Weinraub
Bernard Weinraub
LEAD: The press corps traveling with Governor Dukakis got an object lesson the other day in the old saying that all politics is local. After a stop at a farm in West Texas reporters were delighted to discover that each of them had been given a bright red or blue cowboy bandana, and many of them promptly tied them around their necks.
Date: 02 October 1988
By Thomas Cangelosi
Thomas Cangelosi
LEAD: ANOTHER secret invasion has been launched, not in the jungles of Southeast Asia or Central America, nor in the mountains of Afghanistan. It one waged not by contras, terrorists, or ommunists. I'm referring to the raid by American developers on Connecticut's leafy backyard.
Date: 02 October 1988
LEAD: OUT of the blue, Woonsocket, R.I., learned that it had fallen heir to a parcel of land that might be worth up to $500,000. But there was a hitch.
Date: 02 October 1988
LEAD: HE WAS described once in a magazine profile as one of the world's most successful agents for fashion photographers, with receipts estimated at $12 million a year. In January he was portrayed in a news article as an ''agent who left by night,'' reputedly leaving in his wake a mountain of debt, unpaid fees to artists and no forwarding address.
Date: 02 October 1988
LEAD: THE Federal charge against 43-year-old Agremiro Espana was smuggling. Drugs? No, boa constrictors - 700 of them.
Date: 03 October 1988
By Jeremy Gerard
Jeremy Gerard
LEAD: In a broad effort to expand its historically modest reach, the organization that publishes The Christian Science Monitor is spending more than $100 million on a new evening news program for cable television and a new general-interest news monthly, both of them called ''World Monitor.'' The name says a great deal about the growing ambition of the newspaper, which has been published in Boston by the Christian Science Publishing