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LEAD: The Bush Administration expects to notify Congress next week that it will go ahead with a $1.2 billion venture with Japan to make an advanced version of the F-16 fighter for the Japanese military, senior Administration officials said today.
LEAD: The Bush Administration, other governments and commercial banks are preparing to grant Venezuela close to $2 billion in emergency loans to help the country weather an economic crisis that has brought rioting and killing to Caracas, government and banking officials said today.
LEAD: The votes to confirm John G. Tower as Secretary of Defense slipped further out of President Bush's reach today as one of the conservative Democrats the White House had been counting on, Senator Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, announced that he would vote no.
LEAD: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d urged Congress today to continue aiding the Nicaraguan guerrillas, but Democratic lawmakers and Central American diplomats said the proposal seemed to conflict with a regional peace agreement that calls for disbanding the contras.
LEAD: Only three days after Gov. Mario M. Cuomo of New York announced an agreement to close the $5.5 billion Shoreham nuclear power plant, the Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission today removed the last obstacle to licensing the plant.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 1, 1989, covering March 4, 1989.
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Debbie Gibson
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
1989Benjamin Kiplagat, Ugandan long-distance runner (died 2023)[†]
Benjamin Kiplagat was a Ugandan long-distance runner specialising in the 3000 metres steeplechase.
1989Tiny Grimes, American guitarist (born 1916)[†]
Lloyd "Tiny" Grimes was an American jazz and R&B guitarist. He was a member of the Art Tatum Trio from 1943 to 1944, was a backing musician on recording sessions, and later led his own bands, including a recording session with Charlie Parker. He is notable for playing the electric tenor guitar, a four-stringed instrument.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]