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LEAD: In a response to the crisis of Salmana Rushdie,28 distinguishedwriters born in 21 countries speak to him from their common land - the country of literature. For expressing their ideas publicly in the past many of these writers have suffered censorship, exile - forced or self-imposed - and imprisonment.
LEAD: American experts who recently completed the most extensive foreign inspection ever permitted in Soviet psychiatric hospitals said today that they found a system still wide open to abuse.
LEAD: For all that Seton Hall had accomplished in the last two years, including a school-record 26 victories this season, the Pirates approached yesterday's Big East Conference semifinal game against Syracuse as a litmus test, not so much of skill but of ingenuity and fortitude.
LEAD: Amid concern that a strike and bankruptcy could lead to the disappearance of Eastern Airlines, members of Congress and the Bush Administration are exploring whether the deregulation of the nation's airlines has led to insufficient competition in the industry.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 8, 1989, covering March 12, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
1989Jordan Adéoti, French footballer[†]
Jordan Souleymane Adéoti is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 2 club Laval. Born in France, he represents Benin at international level.
1989Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer[†]
Vytautas Černiauskas is a Lithuanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for A Lyga club Panevėžys.
1989Tyler Clary, American swimmer[†]
Scott Tyler Clary is an American former competition swimmer and Olympic gold medalist. In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics, Clary won gold in the 200-meter backstroke in Olympic record time. In total, he won sixteen medals in major international competitions: three gold, eight silver, and five bronze spanning the Summer Olympics, the FINA World Championships, the Pan Pacific Championships, and the Pan American Games.
1989Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player[†]
Yevgeny Anatolyevich Dadonov is a Russian professional ice hockey player for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played in two stints for the Florida Panthers where he was originally selected 71st overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, as well as the Ottawa Senators, Vegas Golden Knights and Montreal Canadiens.
1989Richard Eckersley, English footballer[†]
Richard Jon Eckersley is an English former professional footballer who played as a full-back.
1989Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player[†]
Chen Jianghua is a Chinese former professional basketball player and current assistant coach of Guangdong Southern Tigers (China).
1989Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player[†]
Dmitri Nikolaievich Korobov, is a Belarusian professional ice hockey defenceman for HC Dinamo Minsk of the Kontinental Hockey League (KHL).
1989Siim Luts, Estonian footballer[†]
Siim Luts is an Estonian professional footballer who plays as a left winger for Paide Linnameeskond.
1989Maurice Evans, English-American actor (born 1901)[†]
Maurice Herbert Evans was an English actor, noted for his interpretations of Shakespearean characters. His best-known screen roles include Dr. Zaius in the 1968 film Planet of the Apes and Maurice on Bewitched.
1989Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.[†]
Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee, also known as TimBL, is an English computer scientist best known as the inventor of the World Wide Web, the HTML markup language, the URL system, and HTTP. He is a professorial research fellow at the University of Oxford and a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]