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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
1989Eduardo Escobar, Venezuelan-American baseball player[†]
Eduardo José Escobar is a Venezuelan-American professional baseball third baseman who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago White Sox, Minnesota Twins, Arizona Diamondbacks, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, and Los Angeles Angels.
1989Krisztián Németh, Hungarian footballer[†]
Krisztián Németh is a Hungarian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Hungarian club MTK Budapest.
LEAD: THE peripatetic nature of American society has spawned all sorts of strange creations, among them billboards, Winnebagos, Walkman radios and car telephones.
LEAD: Echoing concerns in neighboring states, Gov. Thomas H. Kean today disclosed growing shortfalls in the state's tax revenues and warned that New Jersey's next budget would be ''very tight.''
LEAD: Michael R. Milken, the head of the high-yield bond unit at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., will be removed from the firm and receive virtually none of his pay for last year as part of Drexel's settlement with the Government of charges of securities law violations, people familiar with the agreement said late yesterday.
LEAD: European nations are undertaking the world's most ambitious high-speed rail project, which will tie Europe closer together by allowing travelers to move across the Continent at speeds up to 186 miles an hour.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL A high-speed European rail network that would sharply cut travel times is in the works. [ Page A1. ] THE ECONOMY The F.D.I.C. wants new powers to increase premiums on banks and to rein in high-risk lending. [ A1. ] President-elect Bush's strategy for the Federal budget has begun to take shape.
LEAD: Money was on the minds of the gov-ernors of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut yesterday. They warned their constituencies separately of budget constraints necessitated by spending that is outpacing revenues.
LEAD: IN the 50's, people bought suites of furniture for the bedroom. In the 60's, the brave slept on water beds, and in the 70's the avant-garde chose platform beds to make a minimal design statement. Today, although four-poster and brass beds are still popular, the beds of choice are reinterpretations of antiques or one-of-a-kind designs.
LEAD: Testimony began today in an attempt by the Government to win more than $600 million in taxes from the estate of Samuel I. Newhouse, who built one of the country's largest newspaper chains before his death in 1979.
LEAD: Calling drug abuse ''the single most ominous phenomenon of our times,'' Gov. Mario M. Cuomo today outlined a major new effort to combat drugs in New York despite the state's tremendous financial problems.
LEAD: They were just a couple of guys from Texas, sitting around talking.
LEAD: President-elect George Bush's strategy for dealing with the Federal budget has begun to take shape, and Richard G. Darman, who has been given unchallenged authority to draft Mr. Bush's budget policy, is trying to sell it to Congress.