The Reality of '89 Chills the Vision of '79
LEAD: Israel and Egypt are not celebrating their 10 years without war.
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LEAD: Israel and Egypt are not celebrating their 10 years without war.
LEAD: President Bush is developing a highly engaged management style that is being praised in Washington as a healthy departure from the detached style of the Reagan years.
LEAD: WHEN Roman Catholic priests retire from their ministries, they often are faced with only limited choices. Many move in with family, or even live on in their rectories.
LEAD: Twenty years ago, E. William Judson opened a real estate office on the East Side of Manhattan and began leasing space for the many midtown galleries that sprang up as New York became the art capital of the world. As he leased more and more space for galleries, he noted that the typical gallery used half its space for storage, making such storage increasingly expensive as rents shot up.
LEAD: BY taking the oath as Secretary of Defense last week, Dick Cheney entered a Pentagon that has undergone a transformation since the heady days of the early 1980's when President Ronald Reagan delivered a series of ever fatter military budgets. Unlike Mr. Reagan's first Defense Secretary, Caspar W. Weinberger, President Bush's first Pentagon chief will preside over a department that can count only on the prospect of budgets that are lean by the standard of the
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1989, covering March 19, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Paula Abdul
1989The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the EgyptâIsrael peace treaty in 1979.[â ]
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 15th-most populated in the world.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]