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LEAD: THE bigger the better, a law of satellite design for more than three decades, is being challenged as advances in miniaturization allow engineers to build unmanned spacecraft that are smaller, lighter, cheaper and smarter than ever before.
LEAD: Samuel R. Pierce, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Reagan Administration, personally selected or promoted projects to receive housing subsidies under a program now being investigated as a source of funds that improperly benefited prominent Republicans, a former senior H.U.D. official says.
LEAD: As the traditional opening of the summer season approaches, beach operators on Long Island are combing trash from the sand with huge mechanical rakes and catamarans in New York Harbor are skimming garbage with steel nets, all in an effort to prevent a repeat of last year's closings of polluted beaches.
LEAD: Of all the rumors that have swept Beijing in the last week, perhaps the most astonishing was that in a nefarious attempt to kill demonstrators the Chinese Government had electrified the metal grates over the city's subways.
LEAD: It was a classic American business story when a dissatisfied group of takeover experts at the First Boston Corporation suddenly quit last year and formed Wasserstein, Perella & Company to do things their own way. And the story could not have been more Japanese when Nomura Securities, which later acquired 20 percent of Wasserstein,
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 17, 1989, covering May 23, 1989.
Madonna
Tone-Loc
Fine Young Cannibals
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
1989Ezequiel Schelotto, Italian footballer[†]
Ezequiel Matías Schelotto is an Argentine-Italian footballer who plays for FC Paradiso in the Swiss Promotion League. A versatile player on the right flank, he started his career as a winger and was later converted into a full-back.
1989Georgy Tovstonogov, Russian director and producer (born 1915)[†]
Georgy Aleksandrovich Tovstonogov was a Russian-Georgian theatre director.
1989Karl Koch, German computer hacker (born 1965)[†]
Karl Werner Lothar Koch was a German hacker in the 1980s, who called himself "hagbard", after Hagbard Celine. He was involved in a Cold War computer espionage incident.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]