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LEAD: ''THIS is not the Aaron Spelling residence,'' said Sheila Klein as she described the window grates of her house, which appear to have been designed by drunken spiders. Unlike the television producer's mammoth palace in Beverly Hills, Ms. Klein's house was a typical stucco Los Angeles bungalow before she and her husband, Ries Niemi, a metal artist, got hold of it.
LEAD: The political season is coming into full flower in New Jersey, and nine candidates for governor are running with positions on almost everything. But the man considered the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, Representative James J. Florio, has remained largely out of sight.
LEAD: As law-enforcement authorities in New York City exert more pressure on drug sales, they are discovering an increasing number of dealers operating out of restaurants, grocery stores, automobile parts shops and other seemingly legitimate businesses.
LEAD: The Japan Defense Agency said today that it would sign an $86 million contract on Thursday with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the prime developer of the FSX fighter, even though Japan has not reached a formal agreement about the aircraft with the United States.
LEAD: MEMORIALS are made of this: Duke Ellington seated at his piano, elevated by eight maidens 28 feet above Central Park; a tilted mirror incised with the names of 14 deceased astronauts; Jack Kerouac's description of his hometown carved into slabs in a park in Lowell, Mass., and Joe Louis's outstretched arm and fist at an intersection in Detroit.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 1989, covering March 30, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Paula Abdul
Guns N' Roses
1989Chris Sale, American baseball player[†]
Christopher Allen Sale is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Atlanta Braves of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Chicago White Sox and Boston Red Sox. He throws left-handed and is 6 feet 6 inches (1.98 m) tall.
1989João Sousa, Portuguese tennis player[†]
João Pedro Coelho Marinho de Sousa, known as João Sousa, is a Portuguese former professional tennis player. He achieved a career-high ATP singles ranking of No. 28 on 16 May 2016 and a doubles ranking of No. 26 on 13 May 2019. Continuously ranked in the world's top-100 between July 2013 and March 2021, and with four ATP Tour singles titles, Sousa is often regarded as the best Portuguese tennis player of all time. He is nicknamed Conquistador for sharing his birthplace of Guimarães with Afonso I, the country's first king. Sousa is coached by former player Frederico Marques and practices at the BTT Tennis Academy in Barcelona.Sousa began playing tennis at the age of seven. After winning national youth titles, he decided at the age of fifteen to invest in his career by moving to Barcelona. After an unimpressive junior career, Sousa turned professional in 2008 and won his first singles tournament in 2009. He started playing in the ATP Challenger Tour in 2008, winning his first tournament at this level in 2011. Sousa debuted in the top-level ATP World Tour in 2008, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Malaysian Open, where he became the first Portuguese player to win a World Tour-level singles tournament. Sousa holds several Portuguese men's tennis records. In October 2013, he ranked 49th in the world after his victory at the Malaysian Open, becoming the first Portuguese player to break into the singles top 50. In November 2015, Sousa reached a career-high and Portuguese-best ranking of World No. 33, following his second ATP World Tour singles title at the Valencia Open. In May 2016, he improved his personal ranking best, becoming the first Portuguese player to enter the top 30 at World No. 28, as a result of reaching his first Masters 1000 quarter-finals in Madrid. In 2014, he was the first Portuguese player to compete exclusively at the ATP World Tour in a single season; the first to be seeded in a Grand Slam tournament ; and the second to reach the quarterfinals in a Grand Slam event. Sousa is the fourth Portuguese player to reach the singles top 100, and the second to do so in both singles and doubles rankings, after Nuno Marques. He is also the Portuguese player with the largest career prize money, and the most wins at Grand Slam singles tournaments.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]