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LEAD: The campaign for the Democratic mayoral nomination has entered its closing days marked by an increase in racial rhetoric and in the kind of Byzantine maneuvering that often makes Chicago politics resemble those of the Middle East, not the Middle West.
LEAD: Elisabeth Claiborne Ortenberg and her husband, Arthur, who founded Liz Claiborne Inc. in 1976 and became one of Seventh Avenue's biggest success stories, announced yesterday that they would retire in June from active management roles in the company. They will remain as directors. Ms. Claiborne, who will be 60 years old next month, and Mr.
LEAD: Somewhere between the last goodbyes of their final home games of the season and the exhilaration and almost inevitable pain of the National Collegiate Athletic Association basketball tournament, the Wildcats of Arizona and Blue Devils of Duke learned something about themselves today.
LEAD: Had the Russians invaded the West that day, the American Army sergeant perched with elaborate binoculars on the watchtower of Observation Post Alpha could have been the first to spot them.
LEAD: John G. Tower took a public pledge of sobriety today in an extraordinary effort to salvage his nomination as Secretary of Defense and promised to resign if he ever took a drink.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 22, 1989, covering February 27, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Debbie Gibson
1989Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)[†]
Konrad Zacharias Lorenz was an Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist. He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Nikolaas Tinbergen and Karl von Frisch. He is often regarded as one of the founders of modern ethology, the study of animal behavior. He developed an approach that began with an earlier generation, including his teacher Oskar Heinroth.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
