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LEAD: The Senate today defeated, 52 to 47, an attempt to block the Administration's agreement to build an advanced fighter plane with Japan.
LEAD: BELIZA ANN FURMAN was traveling around the country promoting Beliza, her line of beauty products for hands and nails, when she got the idea for Wives of Older Men. Mrs. Furman, 41 years old and the wife of Sam Furman, a dentist 15 years her senior, discovered that other women married to older men were eager to share confidences and to get advice on the subject of age differences between spouses.
LEAD: Home Box Office, the most successful premium channel in the cable industry, said yesterday that it would enter the basic cable business with a 24-hour all-comedy channel.
LEAD: Chinese and Soviet leaders agreed today to increase economic and cultural cooperation, and discussed the possibility of military contacts, as they formally announced the normalization of relations between their two nations and Communist parties to end their 30-year split.
LEAD: Having inspired esthetic appreciation and aroused olfactory indignation, the North River Water Pollution Control Plant on the West Harlem shoreline is now getting something on the rooftop that will certainly add to its distinction - a 28-acre park.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 1989, covering May 17, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Fine Young Cannibals
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
1989Mose Masoe, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Mose Masoe is a former Samoa international rugby league footballer who last played as a prop for Hull Kingston Rovers in the Super League.
1989Rain Raadik, Estonian basketball player[†]
Rain Raadik is an Estonian professional basketball player who plays for Valentino Basket Castellaneta of the Serie C Italian Basketball League. He is a 2.08 m tall power forward and center. He also represented the Estonian national basketball team internationally.
1989Tessa Virtue, Canadian ice dancer[†]
Tessa Jane McCormick Virtue is a Canadian retired ice dancer. With ice dance partner Scott Moir, she is the 2010 and 2018 Olympic champion, the 2014 Olympic silver medallist, a three-time World champion, a three-time Four Continents champion, the 2016–17 Grand Prix Final champion, an eight-time Canadian National champion, the 2006 World Junior champion and the 2006 Junior Grand Prix gold medallists. Virtue and Moir are also the 2018 Olympic gold medallists in the team event and the 2014 Olympic silver medallists in the team event. Upon winning their third Olympic gold they became the most decorated Olympic figure skaters of all time. Widely regarded as one of the greatest ice dance teams of all time, they are the only ice dancers in history to achieve a Super Slam, having won all major international competitions in their senior and junior careers. Virtue and Moir are holders of the world record score for the now-defunct original dance.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]