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LEAD: The developer of a new retail project in Waterbury, Conn., is using a novel hook to lure tenants: He will lease space in the 49,000-square-foot complex for about $18 a square foot, then allow the tenants the option of buying their stores during the first three years of the lease at a price between $185 and $200 a square foot.
LEAD: Edzard Reuter, the steel-eyed chairman of Daimler-Benz A.G., often sounds like a professor propounding his latest vision of the future.
LEAD: The space agency is worried that another catastrophic space shuttle accident seems almost inevitable in the next decade, so it is improving the winged spaceships still more and considering a switch to unmanned rockets for some missions.
LEAD: THE sweeping new measures announced last week in Poland demonstrate once again how rapid the pace of change has become in parts of the East bloc - more rapid than in Moscow and fast enough to generate new debate in the West about how far it should go in encouraging political transformation in Eastern Europe.
LEAD: NOT trumpets and fanfare, but the sound of stifled yawning arose from the public arena last week as a quarter-century of fighting over the Shoreham nuclear-power plant drew near to a close.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 5, 1989, covering April 9, 1989.
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Tone-Loc
Traveling Wilburys
Roy Orbison
1989Bianca Belair, American wrestler[†]
Bianca Nicole Crawford is an American professional wrestler and fitness and figure competitor. As of April 2016, she is signed to WWE, where she performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Bianca Belair. Belair is one of two women to win at a WrestleMania main event and her 420-day reign as Raw Women's Champion stands as the longest in the championship's history.
1989Danielle Kahle, American figure skater[†]
Danielle "Dani" Kahle is an American former competitive figure skater. She won four medals on the ISU Junior Grand Prix series, including gold in Croatia in 2003, and finished 11th at the 2004 World Junior Championships. She won one senior international medal, silver, at the 2006 Karl Schäfer Memorial.
1989Tbilisi massacre: An anti-Soviet peaceful demonstration and hunger strike in Tbilisi, demanding restoration of Georgian independence, is dispersed by the Soviet Army, resulting in 20 deaths and hundreds of injuries.[†]
Anti-Sovietism or anti-Soviet sentiment are activities that were actually or allegedly aimed against the Soviet Union or government power within the Soviet Union.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]