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LEAD: Trans World Airlines Inc. is expected to announce today that it has ordered more than $3 billion worth of wide-body jetliners from Airbus Industrie in a major move to upgrade its aging fleet, industry officials said yesterday.
LEAD: AMERICANS who wonder about the safety of the food they eat are probably worried about the wrong thing, many authorities now say. The most urgent threat, these experts believe, comes not from pesticides and food additives, but from old-fashioned, natural microbes that contaminate poultry, eggs and meat.
LEAD: EXPERIMENTAL drugs made of rare growth-promoting substances are producing dramatic benefits for some seriously ill patients.
LEAD: Here, as in many small towns, it is no longer a matter of survival: after 20 years of doing battle with malls, Highland Park's main street, Raritan Avenue, has proved it can stand up to the air-conditioned competition.
LEAD: Capt. Joseph J. Hazelwood was convicted twice in five years and lost his license three times for drinking while driving, records show. Pag B7.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 22, 1989, covering March 28, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
Paula Abdul
Traveling Wilburys
1989Logan Couture, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Logan Couture is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He played his entire National Hockey League (NHL) career with the San Jose Sharks, who selected him ninth overall in the 2007 NHL entry draft, and where he established himself as one of the best Stanley Cup playoffs performers of his generation. Couture was forced to retire in 2025 after not playing since January 2024 due to injury. Despite retirement, he will remain formally on the Sharks' roster as an injured player until 2027.
1989Lukas Jutkiewicz, English footballer[†]
Lukas Isaac Paul Jutkiewicz is an English former professional footballer who played as astriker. He previously played for Swindon Town, Everton, Plymouth Argyle, Huddersfield Town, Motherwell, Coventry City, Middlesbrough, Bolton Wanderers and Burnley and Birmingham City
1989Mira Leung, Canadian figure skater[†]
Mira Leung is a Canadian former competitive figure skater. She is the 2004 Nebelhorn Trophy bronze medallist and a three-time Canadian national silver medallist (2006–2008). Leung placed 12th at the 2006 Winter Olympics and 5th at the 2008 Four Continents. She now works for Google as a software engineering manager.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]