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Two cranes lift the 25-foot high, 8-meter, statue of Vladimir Lenin in front of the State Public House in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, March 5, 1990....

Two Romanian workers secure Vladimir Lenin's head with cable as they try to lift the statue from the red marble pedestal in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday...

Miss Michigan Carole Gist, of Detroit, carries roses as she parades on stage after being crowned Miss USA 1990 in Wichita, Kans., March 2, 1990. (AP...

Miss Michigan Carole Gist, of Detroit, adjusts her crown while seated on the throne after being named Miss USA 1990 in Wichita, Kansas, Friday night,...

Elizabeth Taylor and former U.S. President Richard M. Nixon sit in St. Bartholomew's Episcopal Church during memorial services for publisher Malcolm F...

Health and Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan holds up a copy of a health report as he testifies before the Senate Labor and Human Resources Comm...

ANC leader and symbol of resistance to apartheid, Nelson Mandela, is seen during an interview, a few days since his release from prison after 27 year...

ANC leader and symbol of resistance to apartheid, Nelson Mandela, is seen as he addresses the 120,000 ANC supporters gathered in Soweto's Soccer City...

ANC leader and symbol of resistance to apartheid, Nelson Mandela, is seen as he gives the black power salute to the 120,000 ANC supporters packing So...

Rocker musicians Don Henley, left, Sting, center, and Bruce Springsteen join together for an impromptu jam session on the stage of the China Club in H...

James Douglas shows his WBC world heavyweight boxing championship belt to his grandmother, Sarah Douglas, at a news conference in Columbus, Ohio, Feb....

Nelson Mandela is led by his wife, Winnie Mandela, who gives a black power salute, after his release from Victor Verster prison in Cape Town, South Af...

South African President F.W. De Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela at a news conference in Cape Town, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 10, 1990...

Reputed Gambino family crime boss John Gotti sits in New York Supreme Court, Friday, Feb. 9, 1990, before the jury acquitted him of assault and conspi...

St. Louis Blues player Brett Hull holds a puck with 50 on the front in the team's dressing room in St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday night, Feb. 7, 1990. Hull...

St. Louis Blues player Brett Hull, right, is joined by his father, Bobby Hull, in the dressing room following the Blues-Toronto Maple Leafs game in St...

Mob boss John Gotti, right, listens to lawyers Gerald Shargel, left, and Bruce Cutler at New York State Supreme Court, Wednesday, Feb. 7, 1990. The j...

John Gotti gestures as he listens to proceedings during his trial on assault and conspiracy charges in New York, Jan. 31, 1990. (AP Photo/Mark Lenni...

This United State Air Force SR-71 Blackbird spy plane nears the rear of a KC-135 stratotanker while in the process of being refueled somewhere over Ne...

Reputed Gambino family crime boss John Gotti leans back during a break in testimony in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, Jan. 23, 1990. Gotti and...

Four members of the teen pop group

John Gotti speaks with an unidentified lawyer during the first day of deliberations at New York State Supreme Court, Saturday, Jan. 20, 1990. (AP Pho...

A disciple of the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh pays his last respect to the spiritual leader at their commune in Pune, western city 160 kilomete...

Pete Townsend, playing on guitar, and Roger Daltrey, members of the British rock group The Who, sing during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction c...

Singer Diana Ross, second from left, joins songwriters, from left, Lamont Dozier, Brian Holland and Eddie Holland after the writing team was inducted...

A girl dressed in Ku Klux Klan garb watches her father and imitates his Nazi salute during a rally in Lawrenceburg, Tenn., Saturday, Jan. 13, 1990. T...

Televison broadcast journalist Barbara Walters holds her induction award at the 6th annual Academy of Television Arts and Science's Hall of Fame in Lo...

This police booking photo shows Arthur J. Shawcross, a 44-year old Watertown native, who was arraigned in Rochester City Court on eight separate count...

Singer Diana Ross is seen posing with her husband Arne Naess in this 1990 photo in New York. (AP Photo)

St. James Terminal, a marine unloading and distribution point for crude oil, a U.S. Department of Energy owned site located southwest of Baton Rouge,...

Film director Ron Howard, left, and producer Brian Grazer talk during an interview in a New York hotel room in Jan. 1990. The pair have created Imagi...

New York's Rockefeller Center with the General Electric building rising from the plaza is shown in this aerial view in 1990. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhan...

Playwright Arthur Kopit poses during an interview in Los Angeles, Ca., Jan. 1990. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

U.S. Air Force Col. Marcelite J. Harris, who is promoted to Brigadier General is shown in 1990. Col. Harris is the first black woman to hold the rank...

Former U.S. President Richard Nixon, third from right, holds the hand of Jill Martin, Billy Martin's widow, outside St. Patrick's Cathedral in New Yor...

Tom Tolbert (3) of Golden State Warriors looks for a way out as he is surrounded by Indiana Pacers forward Mike Sanders (33), right, LaSalle Thomson (...

Judith Jamison, who is named artistic director of Alvin Ailey's dance company, speaks to the media in New York City on Dec. 20, 1989. Jamison succeed...

Liza Minnelli attends the gala benefit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, Dec. 13, 1989. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

British musician and activist Sting holds hands with Li Lu, a deputy commander for Chinese students involved in democratic reform in Beijing last spri...

Elke Sommer, center, making her New York stage debut, poses with Carroll Baker, left, and Sting during intermission of the Off-Broadway play

The U.S. Navy successfully launches a Trident II, D-5, Performance Evaluation Missile from the submerged submarine USS Tennessee in the Atlantic Ocean...

A woman weeps after spending hours searching for the body of her husband among the victims of the Avianca Airlines jetliner that blew apart in the air...

Queen Elizabeth II is shown during the annual ceremony of the state opening of parliament in London, England, Nov. 21, 1989. (AP Photo)

Approximately 200,000 people gather on Wenceslas Square to take part in one of the biggest protest rally in recent times in Prague, Czechoslovakia, Mo...

The crew of STS-33 Discovery space mission pose for an official NASA portrait at the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., Monday, Nov. 20, 1989. The crew from...

British tycoon and adventurer Richard Branson, left, and Swedish balloonist Per Lindstrand wave as they sit in front of Capusule during a send-off cer...

New York City mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani and his wife Donna Hanover react to falling confetti after his concession speech in New York, Tuesday...

New York City mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani reaches out for handshakes during his campaign stop in Harlem, Nov. 7, 1989. (AP Photo/Gerald Herber...

New York City mayoral candidate Rudolph Giuliani holds his son Andrew after he and his wife, Donna Hanover, cast their ballots at a polling station in...

Dr. Mostafa Tolba, director of the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), speaks at the opening session of a two-day conference on atmospheric p...