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LEAD: After a decade of war, the horrors of Afghanistan have become widely known. But here in the mountains of the Hindu Kush, along a river valley fabled for its harsh beauty since the time of Jesus, recent fighting has left a scene of devastation that goes beyond what westerners have previously known about the conflict.
LEAD: A 20-year-old Soviet hockey prodigy arrived in the United States yesterday afternoon, a day after he stunned the international hockey community by becoming the first top Soviet player to defect to the West, in this case to the Buffalo Sabres of the National Hockey League.
LEAD: The jurors in the trial of Oliver L. North saw the defendant as a scapegoat blamed unfairly for following the instructions of his superiors, and that is why they voted to acquit him on the nine charges that involved lying to Congress and Federal investigators.
LEAD: After weeks of official delay, the Georgian authorities have identified a second type of toxic gas used by troops in a fatal clash with demonstrators here last month.
LEAD: A Federal district judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Investigation today to overhaul its system for promoting Hispanic agents and those from other minority groups, saying employment decisions had long been marred by ''significant if not easily measured effects of discrimination.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 3, 1989, covering May 6, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Guns N' Roses
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
1989Dominika Cibulková, Slovak tennis player[†]
Dominika Cibulková is a Slovak former professional tennis player. She is the 2016 WTA Finals champion, becoming the fourth player to win the tournament on her debut. She won eight WTA Tour singles titles and two on the ITF Circuit.
1989Cameron Heyward, American football player[†]
Cameron Phillip Heyward is an American professional football defensive tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes, and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 2011 NFL draft. He is the son of former NFL player Craig Heyward and the older brother of NFL player and teammate Connor Heyward.
1989Earl Blaik, American football player and coach (born 1897)[†]
Earl Henry "Red" Blaik was an American football player, coach, college athletics administrator, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at Dartmouth College from 1934 to 1940 and at the United States Military Academy from 1941 to 1958, compiling a career college football record of 166–48–14. His Army football teams won three consecutive national championships in 1944, 1945 and 1946. Blaik was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 1964.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]