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LEAD: In a landmark copyright case in the electronics industry, a Federal judge ruled today that the NEC Corporation had not infringed on microprocessor copyrights held by the Intel Corporation.
LEAD: Congress killed the proposed 51 percent Federal pay increase today, leaving a tangle of political problems, including judges demanding a raise and critics promising to continue the fight over Congress's taking honorariums from private groups.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY Moving swiftly to carry out President Bush's plan to deal with the saving crisis, regulators assumed control of four insolvent institutions. [ Page A1. ] In Texas, investors and savings executives voiced concern that the F.D.I.C. would move too swiftly to sell assets of the institutions it takes over.
LEAD: President Bush, in a challenge to Congress to set new budget priorities, will propose Thursday that military spending in the next fiscal year rise only enough to keep pace with inflation, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: IN the office of Bread Alone, a bakery in the Catskills village of Boiceville, about 90 miles north of Manhattan, there is a color photograph of two smiling men standing waist-deep in a sunny North Dakota wheat field, an ''America the Beautiful'' kind of scene that brings ''amber waves of grain'' immediately to mind.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 8, 1989, covering February 8, 1989.
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Guns N' Roses
Poison
1989Zac Guildford, New Zealand rugby player[†]
Zachary Robert Guildford is a retired New Zealand professional rugby union player who played as a wing most notably for National Provincial Championship club Hawke's Bay and the New Zealand national team.
1989JaJuan Johnson, American basketball player[†]
JaJuan Markeis Johnson is an American professional basketball player for Hapoel Eilat of the Israeli Basketball Premier League. He played college basketball for the Purdue Boilermakers. During his sophomore season, he was named a first-team All-Big Ten selection. As a junior, he was named a second-team All-Big Ten selection. As a senior, a first-team consensus All-American as well as the Big Ten Player of the Year and Big Ten Defensive Player of the Year.
1989Julio Jones, American football player[†]
Quintorris Lopez "Julio" Jones Jr. is an American former professional football wide receiver who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons, primarily with the Atlanta Falcons. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide where he won a national championship in 2009, and was selected by the Falcons in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft. He is regarded as one of the greatest receivers of the 2010s.
1989Brendan Smith, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Brendan Smith is a Canadian professional ice hockey player for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). Although he is listed as a defenceman, Smith has also played forward professionally. Smith was drafted 27th overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft and was previously a finalist for the Hobey Baker Award.
1989Courtney Vandersloot, American-Hungarian basketball player[†]
Courtney Vandersloot is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She is a five-time WNBA All-Star and two-time WNBA champion. She has also played for UMMC Ekaterinburg in the Russian Premier League, Mist BC in Unrivaled, and teams in several other professional leagues.
1989Independent Air Flight 1851 strikes Pico Alto mountain while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores, killing all 144 passengers on board.[†]
On 8 February 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851, a Boeing 707 on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, struck Pico Alto while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores for a scheduled stopover. The aircraft was destroyed, with the loss of all 144 people on board, resulting in the deadliest plane crash in Portugal's history. All of the passengers on board were Italian and all of the crew were Americans. The crash is also known as "The disaster of the Azores".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]