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LEAD: The Soviet Union implied today that the United States had no proof for its assertion that Libya had built a chemical weapons plant.
LEAD: The Cuomo administration wants to lower the state's contributions to the pension fund for state workers to save New York hundreds of millions of dollars and help close its huge budget gap without major tax increases.
LEAD: The six senior Reagan Administration officials who decided to prohibit the use of certain classified evidence in the trial of Oliver L. North were advised in advance by the prosecutor that their action could cripple his case, Government sources familiar with the decision said today.
LEAD: Attorneys representing aliens from Central America filed suit here today in an attempt to overturn a new Government immigration policy that has left hundreds of aliens stranded and homeless in one of the nation's poorest areas.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 4, 1989, covering January 7, 1989.
Anita Baker
Soundtrack
U2
Bon Jovi
Traveling Wilburys
1989Hirohito, Japanese emperor (born 1901)[†]
Hirohito , posthumously honored as Emperor Shōwa , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigning emperor as well as one of the world's longest-reigning monarchs. As emperor during the Shōwa era, Hirohito oversaw the rise of Japanese militarism, Japan's expansionism in Asia, the outbreak of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II, and the postwar Japanese economic miracle.
1989Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City in one of the biggest upsets in FA Cup history.[†]
Sutton United Football Club is a professional association football club from Sutton, South London, England. The team competes in the National League, the fifth level of the English football league system.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]