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LEAD: Abortion has become a divisive issue in the campaign for the national elections scheduled for June 4.
LEAD: Soviet Radicals Supported Soviet television reported wide public dissatisfaction over the defeat of independents in an election for a new legislature. The broadcast conferred legitimacy on the radicals opposing the party old guard. Page 3. Soviet Bloc Lures Business Western companies are rushing to invest in the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations to take advantage of relaxed rules on joint ventures.
LEAD: For years, Americans have been doing everything from jogging to meditating as part of a sweeping self-improvement movement. Now, unaccustomed as they are to public speaking, more and more people are devoting the same kind of discipline and dollars to overcoming stage fright and sharpening their delivery.
LEAD: Republican Party leaders sought today to keep the pressure on House Democrats to prevent the expected resignations of Speaker Jim Wright and Representative Tony Coelho from pushing the Democrats' ethics problems out of the public mind.
LEAD: As the eyes of the horse racing world focused on the prestigious Preakness Stakes at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore nine days ago, that track's most favored and well-heeled customers spent the afternoon in an opulent gambling den.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 24, 1989, covering May 29, 1989.
Madonna
Fine Young Cannibals
Guns N' Roses
Soundtrack
Tone-Loc
1989Ezekiel Ansah, Ghanaian-American football player[†]
Ezekiel Nana "Ziggy" Ansah is a Ghanaian former professional American football defensive end. Born in Accra, Ghana, he moved to the United States to attend Brigham Young University, where he played college football for the Brigham Young Cougars. He was drafted by the Detroit Lions fifth overall in the 2013 NFL draft.
1989Diego Barisone, Argentinian footballer (died 2015)[†]
Diego Francisco Barisone was an Argentine footballer who played for Unión de Santa Fe, Argentinos Juniors and Lanús.
1989Riley Keough, American model and actress[†]
Danielle Riley Keough is an American actress. Born into the Presley family, she is the oldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley and the eldest grandchild of Elvis Presley. She initially started her career as a model from 2004 to 2008 before transitioning as an actress making her feature film debut in a supporting part in the musical biopic The Runaways (2010), portraying Marie Currie.
1989George C. Homans, American sociologist and academic (born 1910)[†]
George Caspar Homans was an American sociologist, founder of behavioral sociology, the 54th president of the American Sociological Association, and one of the architects of social exchange theory. Homans is best known in science for his research in social behavior and his works The Human Group, Social Behavior: Its Elementary Forms, his contributions to exchange theory, and the different propositions he developed to explain social behavior. He is also the third great-grandson of the second President of the United States, John Adams.
1989Signing of an agreement between Egypt and the United States that allows for the manufacture of F-16 Falcon parts in Egypt.[†]
Egypt, officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west; the Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital, largest city, and leading cultural center, while Alexandria is the second-largest city and an important hub of industry and tourism. With over 109 million inhabitants, Egypt is the third-most populous country in Africa and 15th-most populated in the world.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]