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LEAD: A prisoner who has served 12 1/2 years for a murder to which another man has all but confessed remained in prison today after one judge granted him release and another judge reversed that decision hours later.
LEAD: rrThe other day Tom Harrison was walking up Palisades Avenue, looking in people's trash. At 355 he peeked in a bag and spotted a six-pack of Budweiser bottles. He slit a second bag, a Pepsi bottle popped out. ''This guy's getting a warning,'' he said. ''No recycling whatsoever.''
LEAD: Next month, while Congress and the Pentagon are nudging American electronics makers toward a new generation of television technologies, Japan plans a quiet demonstration of how far ahead of other nations it is. It will begin the world's first daily broadcasts of high-definition television, which produces images as sharp and detailed as movie images.
LEAD: Donald P. Kelly and the merchant banking unit of Salomon Brothers Inc. said today that they had agreed to acquire Envirodyne Industries for $40 a share, totaling about $836 million.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 15, 1989, covering March 21, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Traveling Wilburys
Paula Abdul
1989Jordi Alba, Spanish footballer[†]
Jordi Alba Ramos is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Major League Soccer club Inter Miami. He is often regarded as among the best full-backs of his generation.
1989Nicolás Lodeiro, Uruguayan footballer[†]
Marcelo Nicolás Lodeiro Benítez, commonly known as Nicolás Lodeiro, is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Major League Soccer club Houston Dynamo.
1989Takeru Satoh, Japanese actor[†]
Takeru Satoh is a Japanese actor. He is best known for his leading role as Ryotaro Nogami in the Kamen Rider Den-O franchise, and as Himura Kenshin in the live-action Rurouni Kenshin film and its sequels.
1989Transbrasil Flight 801 crashes into a slum near São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, killing 25 people.[†]
Transbrasil Flight 801 (TR801/TBA801) was a scheduled cargo flight from Eduardo Gomes International Airport to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport that crashed on 21 March 1989. The Boeing 707 crashed into a heavily populated slum in Guarulhos 2 kilometres from the runway. The crash resulted in the death of all 3 crew members and 22 people on the ground. 200 people were injured.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]