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LEAD: IT has been two months since the first alarm sounded, two months since Commissioner Peter V. Ueberroth and the National League president, A. Bartlett Giamatti, called Pete Rose to New York City and set off widespread speculation about Rose's gambling.
LEAD: Uruguay Votes on Amnesty Uruguayans voted on whether to retain the amnesty granted to the armed forces for political crimes of the 1960's and 1970's. Page A6. Touring Pros of the Piano The 40 young men and women at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition next month will be competing with familiar rivals.
LEAD: Ibrahim el-Mehana does not live in this mud village anymore. No one does.
LEAD: During a timeout with 5 minutes 16 seconds remaining this afternoon and the Knicks in the midst of coming back from a 26-point deficit, Coach Rick Pitino asked Patrick Ewing if he could play.
LEAD: A special European Community committee has prepared a report saying that community members should harmonize their economic and monetary policies before they move closer toward forming a European central bank.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 12, 1989, covering April 17, 1989.
Tone-Loc
Debbie Gibson
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Roy Orbison
1989Paraskevi Papachristou, Greek triple jumper[†]
Paraskevi "Voula" Papachristou is a former Greek triple jumper and long jumper. She won two gold medals at the European Athletics U23 Championships and took the third place at the 2016 World indoor Championships. She was removed from the Greek team for the 2012 London Olympics by the Greek Olympic Committee after making a racist comment online. At the 2016 Summer Olympics' final in Rio de Janeiro, she took the 8th place. In 2018 she was the European Champion in Berlin with a jump of 14,60 metres.
1989Avi Kaplan, singer and songwriter[†]
Avriel Benjamin Kaplan is an American singer-songwriter. He is known for being the former vocal bass of the a cappella group Pentatonix from 2011 to 2017. As a part of the group, he released five studio albums, won three Grammy Awards, and sold over six million albums.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]