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LEAD: Betsy Wacker could not figure it out. Rebuilding the rickety old Compo Beach playground seemed like such a civic-minded idea. Who could protest a project designed by children, hand-built by parents, paid for with private money and planned by Robert Leathers, the Frank Lloyd Wright of the Sesame Street set?
LEAD: In a dispute that could threaten the existence of one of the state's minor political parties, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo has warned Liberal Party officials that the Democrats could end their long alliance with the Liberals if they endorse the mayoral candidacy of Rudolph W. Giuliani, a Republican.
LEAD: Nine years of information supplied by Jackie Presser as he balanced lives as teamster union leader, lackey of the mob, Presidential adviser and top-level Government informer provides new details of a union shot through with corruption and dominated by organized crime.
LEAD: When the Board of Estimate was declared unconstitutional last week, the city's argument that the board had for nine decades met a historical need unique to New York City was rebuffed in a footnote.
LEAD: INSIDE the Montreal Forum, where there seems to be a Stanley Cup banner for every rafter, springtime is intruding in the usual way: the Canadiens are revving up to respond to the siren song of their 24th championship and the veterans Larry Robinson and Bob Gainey, who already own almost enough Stanley
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 22, 1989, covering March 27, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Paula Abdul
Traveling Wilburys
1989Matt Harvey, American baseball player[†]
Matthew Edward Harvey, nicknamed "the Dark Knight", is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played nine seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Baltimore Orioles.
1989Camilla Lees, New Zealand netball player[†]
Camilla Lees is a New Zealand netball player.
1989Malcolm Cowley, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1898)[†]
Malcolm Cowley was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his memoir, Exile's Return, written as a chronicler and fellow traveller of the Lost Generation and an influential editor and talent scout at Viking Press.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]