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LEAD: Consumer prices climbed a moderate four-tenths of 1 percent in February, reducing fears of surging inflation that might have brought harsh and risky countermeasures by the Federal Reserve.
LEAD: Willie Bosket, a self-proclaimed ''monster'' whose five-year sentence for two subway murders when he was 15 years old led New York to toughen its juvenile criminal laws, will be sentenced this morning for his latest crime, stabbing a prison guard.
LEAD: THE ECONOMY Consumer prices climbed a moderate 0.4 percent in February, reducing fears of surging inflation that might have brought harsh countermeasures by the Federal Reserve. The latest rise in the Consumer Price Index was less than most analysts had expected. [ Page A1. ] Prices in the New York metropolitan area rose 0.5 percent in February.
LEAD: Severe military setbacks suffered recently by the Ethiopian Government in its 14-year civil war have left the Government politically and psychologically weakened, Western and Soviet diplomats here say.
LEAD: Ten years ago, Jim Thunder, a Cree Indian, had a powerful dream. In it, a revered ancestor and Cree warrior, Big Bear, commanded him to retrieve a sacred Cree symbol - Big Bear's bundle, a two-foot-long grizzly bear paw sewn to a sacred red cloth, with a plug of tobacco and a batch of sweet grass encased in layers of fabric.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 22, 1989, covering March 22, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Paula Abdul
Traveling Wilburys
1989Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer[†]
Ruben Popa is a Romanian footballer who plays for FSV Pfaffenhofen.
1989J. J. Watt, American football player[†]
Justin James Watt is an American former professional football defensive end who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the Houston Texans. He played college football for the Central Michigan Chippewas and Wisconsin Badgers and was selected by the Texans in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1989Peta Taylor, English cricketer (born 1912)[†]
Mary Isabella "Peta" Taylor, married name Mary Jager, was an English cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937, including the first ever women's Test match. She played domestic cricket for various composite XIs, as well as South Women.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]