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LEAD: The Food and Drug Administration today approved a long-awaited genetically engineered drug to treat anemia in kidney patients, and experts said it may also help some people with AIDS and cancer.
LEAD: Taking advantage of the recent market rally, a growing number of companies are making initial or follow-up offerings of stock. Though the activity does not come close to the frenzy of several years ago, investment bankers say the markets are as receptive to new offerings as they have been at any time since the crash of
LEAD: On this summer's hottest days, the Dominic Bratta family here plans to go without air-conditioning for 40 minutes every hour.
LEAD: The chief of the K.G.B. said today that the newly elected Soviet legislature should have full authority over the state security agency, including power to approve the appointment of the K.G.B. chairman.
LEAD: A week after the United States named Japan, India and Brazil as unfair traders, the world's industrial nations said today that they rejected unilateral measures that undermine the world trade system.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 31, 1989, covering June 2, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Madonna
Soundtrack
Guns N' Roses
Bobby Brown
1989Steve Smith, Australian cricketer[†]
Steven Peter Devereux Smith is an Australian international cricketer, former captain of the Australian national team in all three formats of the game and the vice-captain of the Australia Test team. He is regarded by many as the best Test batsman of his generation and one of the greatest Test batsmen of all time, having scored over 10,000 Test runs. Smith was a member of the Australian teams that won the 2015 and 2023 Cricket World Cup, the 2021 ICC T20 World Cup, and the vice-captain in 2023 ICC World Test Championship.
1989Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer and footballer (born 1907)[†]
Edward Lambert à Beckett was an Australian cricketer who played in four Test matches between 1928 and 1931. He played in 47 first-class matches for Victoria.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]