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LEAD: Reflecting the growing rage of car owners over soaring insurance premiums, Gov. Thomas H. Kean today proposed scrapping New Jersey's 16-year-old system of ''no fault'' automobile insurance, an experiment originally intended to save drivers money.
LEAD: In their final annual report, President Reagan's economists today blamed Government regulatory policies for the savings and loan crisis and said the public would have to pay for much of the cure.
LEAD: EVERY morning at 7, Anthony Russo begins making mozzarella, as he has for 15 years and as his father did before him. Six times a day, he plunges his bare hands into a basin of hot water and milk curd and tosses out ball after ball of mozzarella. His kitchen, the size of a closet, is tucked behind shelves of Italian olive oil and canisters of dried porcini mushrooms in his shop, Russo and Son Dairy Products, at 344 East 11th
LEAD: Under considerable American pressure, the West German Cabinet agreed today to tighter controls on the export of nuclear and chemical materials and technology and stiffer penalties for violators.
LEAD: On the day of his sentencing for participating in a $16 million Medicaid fraud, Sheldon Weinberg failed to show up in a Brooklyn court yesterday and was declared a fugitive from justice.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 11, 1989, covering January 11, 1989.
Anita Baker
U2
Soundtrack
Bon Jovi
Guns N' Roses
1989Demario Davis, American football player[†]
Demario Davis is an American professional football linebacker for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the New York Jets in the third round of the 2012 NFL draft. He played college football for the Arkansas State Red Wolves. Davis has also played for the Cleveland Browns.
1989Kane Linnett, Australian rugby league player[†]
Kane Linnett is a retired Scotland international rugby league footballer, who plays as a centre or second-row forward for Sarina Crocodiles in the Mackay & District Rugby League.
1989Ray Moore, English radio host (born 1942)[†]
Raymond Moore was a British broadcaster, best known for hosting the early morning show on BBC Radio 2 between 1982 and 1988.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]