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LEAD: A change in American tax laws may have done what shareholders and pressure groups have failed to do, according to newspapers in South Africa. They are reporting that the Mobil Corporation may be pulling out of the country for tax reasons.
LEAD: Lucille Ball, the irrepressible queen of television comedy for nearly a quarter-century, died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles a week after undergoing heart surgery there. She was 77 years old.
LEAD: CERTAIN stretches of cities reflect certain moments in time: the visually raucous Carnaby Street of London in the 1960's; the cool minimalist SoHo galleries of New York in the 1970's. In Los Angeles in the 1980's Melrose Avenue has become an expression not only of chic retailing but also of exuberant, often cheeky, street graphics.
LEAD: In a sign that New York State had successfully overcome a potential $2.8 billion budget deficit, two leading credit agencies today upgraded their estimates of the state's creditworthiness and awarded New York their highest ratings for short-term bonds.
LEAD: The oral arguments in the abortion case before the Court appear on pages B12-B14.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 26, 1989, covering April 27, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Guns N' Roses
1989Lars Bender, German footballer[â ]
Lars Bender is a German former professional footballer who played as a right back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the assistant manager of the Germany national U17 team. He is the twin brother of fellow coach and former player Sven Bender.
1989Sven Bender, German footballer[â ]
Sven Bender is a German former professional footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He is currently the interim manager of 3. Liga club SpVgg Unterhaching. He was raised in Brannenburg and started his youth career playing for TSV Brannenburg. He is the twin brother of fellow coach and former player Lars Bender.
1989Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese businessman, founded Panasonic (born 1894)[â ]
KÅnosuke Matsushita was a Japanese industrialist who founded Panasonic, the largest Japanese consumer electronics company. Matsushita is referred to as the "God of Management" in Japan.
1989The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.[â ]
The Tiananmen Square protests, known within China as the June Fourth Incident, were student-led demonstrations held in Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989. After weeks of unsuccessful attempts between the demonstrators and the Chinese government to find a peaceful resolution, the Chinese government deployed troops to occupy the square on the night of 3 June in what is referred to as the Tiananmen Square massacre. The events are sometimes called the '89 Democracy Movement, the Tiananmen Square Incident, or the Tiananmen uprising.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]