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LEAD: How Far Can Courts Go? The Supreme Court will decide if the courts exceeded authority by ordering tax increases to finance school desegregation. Page A22. Aiding Managua Opponents A federally financed group plans $2 million in aid for the opposition in Nicaragua's elections. Page A8.
LEAD: GRIM new expertise is emerging as psychotherapists confront a growing number of patients for whom torture lies at the heart of their emotional problems.
LEAD: WITH the help of new technology, scientists are gathering clues from tar-pit fossils that may explain why most of America's large animal species died out 11,000 years ago.
LEAD: Rebuffed in its efforts to merge with the Citizens and Southern Corporation of Atlanta, the NCNB Corporation yesterday withdrew its $2.4 billion merger proposal.
LEAD: Like Genghis Khan and Tamerlane, who subdued Herat at earlier stages of its 2,300-year-old history, the Soviet forces that occupied this city for nine years reduced wide reaches of it to rubble.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 19, 1989, covering April 25, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Debbie Gibson
Bobby Brown
Fine Young Cannibals
1989Marie-Michèle Gagnon, Canadian skier[†]
Marie-Michèle Gagnon is a Canadian former alpine ski racer.
1989Michael van Gerwen, Dutch darts player[†]
Michael van Gerwen is a Dutch professional darts player, who competes in Professional Darts Corporation (PDC) events, where is currently ranked world number three; he was ranked world number one from 2014 to 2021. He is also a three-time PDC World Champion, having won the title in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Van Gerwen has won 47 PDC majors, second in the all-time list behind Phil Taylor. This includes a record seven Premier League titles, three titles in the World Matchplay, Grand Slam and UK Open respectively, six World Grand Prix titles, the Players Championship Finals on a record seven occasions, a joint-record four European Championships, as well as the PDC Masters and World Series Finals each a record five times. He is also a three-time PDC World Cup of Darts champion, partnering Raymond van Barneveld for the Netherlands.
1989Gedhun Choekyi Nyima, the 11th Panchen Lama[†]
Gedhun Choekyi Nyima is the 11th Panchen Lama belonging to the Gelugpa school of Tibetan Buddhism, as recognized and announced by the 14th Dalai Lama on 14 May 1995. Three days later, on 17 May, the six-year-old Panchen Lama was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), after the Chinese government failed in its efforts to install a substitute. A Chinese substitute is seen as a political tool to undermine the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama, which traditionally is recognized by the Panchen Lama. Gedhun Choekyi Nyima remains forcibly detained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), along with his family, in an undisclosed location since 1995. His khenpo, Chadrel Rinpoche, and another Gelugpa monk, Jampa Chungla, were also arrested. The United Nations, with the support of numerous states, organizations, and private individuals continue to call for the 11th Panchen Lama's release.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]