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LEAD: Jessica Lee can remember exactly how it felt, the night she attended a dinner party at the Bushes', to drive her rusty blue Datsun sports car through the iron gates and up the driveway to the White House. ''I couldn't get over it, a Washington reporter parking in front of the door,'' said Ms. Lee, the White House reporter for USA Today.
LEAD: The tale has a familiar ring. A division of a company goes private in a leveraged buyout. Freed from their corporate parent, energized managers breathe new life into a moribund business. And then once they do, the managers decide to sell the business and make a killing - a decision that sparks public cries of greed and betrayal.
LEAD: A Seton Hall basketball season that had already become difficult to believe today arrived at its most unlikely moment.
LEAD: For more than a year, interest rates have been rising. The prime rate is now 11.5 percent, 2 1/2 percentage points above its January 1988 level. The Federal Reserve Board has raised its rates as well in an effort to combat inflation. The Federal Funds rate - now at 9.83 percent - is more than three points higher than a year ago.
LEAD: WHEN Star Island, now a 60-acre peninsula, was developed in the 1920's, it was said to be the jewel in the crown of Carl Fisher, the man responsible for trying to make Montauk the Miami Beach of the North.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 29, 1989, covering April 2, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Traveling Wilburys
Paula Abdul
Guns N' Roses
1989Manolis Angelopoulos, Greek singer (born 1939)[†]
Manolis Angelopoulos was a Greek singer of Gypsy origin.
1989Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Havana, Cuba, to meet with Fidel Castro in an attempt to mend strained relations.[†]
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 until it dissolved in 1991. During its existence, it was the largest country by area, extending across eleven time zones and sharing borders with twelve countries, and the third-most populous country. An overall successor to the Russian Empire, it was nominally organized as a federal union of national republics, the largest and most populous of which was the Russian SFSR. In practice, its government and economy were highly centralized. As a one-party state governed by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), it was a flagship communist state. Its capital and largest city was Moscow.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]