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LEAD: President Bush's chief economist, Michael J. Boskin, warned today that ''bashing'' trade partners like Japan could lead to a trade war and a recession.
LEAD: The protests that continue to disrupt the City University of New York system have been fueled by a growing perception among students, especially minority-group members, that the university is slowly abandoning its historic mission to educate the working-class, student protesters say.
LEAD: New York City yesterday imposed the most stringent drought-emergency measures of an arid spring and also began drawing millions of gallons of water from the Hudson River to handle what could be the worst water shortage in the city's history.
LEAD: Many Experiments, No Proof of Fusion Physicists said many experiments have failed to validate a claim that nuclear fusion had been achieved in a jar of water. Those unable to repeat the experiment included the California Institute of Technology and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Science Times, page C1.
LEAD: In a steady stream driven by bleak economics in America's farm country, a new class of homeless people is emerging from rural areas: farm families and others who are out of work because farms are faltering.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 26, 1989, covering May 2, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Bobby Brown
Debbie Gibson
Guns N' Roses
1989Veniamin Kaverin, Russian author (born 1902)[†]
Veniamin Aleksandrovich Kaverin was a Soviet and Russian writer, dramatist and screenwriter associated with the early 1920s movement of the Serapion Brothers.
1989Giuseppe Siri, Italian cardinal (born 1906)[†]
Giuseppe Siri was an Italian cardinal of the Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Genoa from 1946 to 1987, and was elevated to the rank of cardinal in 1953. A protege of Pope Pius XII, he took part in the Second Vatican Council and was considered a papabile for 20 years, during the conclaves of 1958, 1963, August 1978 and October 1978.
1989Cold War: Hungary begins dismantling its border fence with Austria, which allows a number of East Germans to defect.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]