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LEAD: In a bid that reflects both the soaring values of cellular telephone properties and the increasing consolidation in that industry, McCaw Cellular Communications Inc. said late yesterday that it would begin a cash tender offer valued at $6.5 billion, or $120 a share, for the Lin Broadcasting Corporation.
LEAD: Solidarity and the Communist Government appear to be moving toward greater cooperation in the face of the opposition's success in outpolling the Communists in Sunday's national elections.
LEAD: COMPANIES Paramount Communications bid for Time Inc., offering $175 a share, or $10.7 billion. The offer is expected to set off a nasty battle involving some of the nation's most visible media and entertainment companies. [ Page A1. ] Martin S. Davis, the head of Paramount Communications, said a year ago, ''I don't like unfriendly takeovers, and I won't participate in them.
LEAD: In a move expected to set off a nasty battle involving some of the nation's most visible media and entertainment companies, Paramount Communications Inc. - known until Monday as Gulf and Western Inc. - offered last night to pay $175 a share, or $10.7 billion in cash, for Time Inc.
LEAD: U.S.-Soviet Military Accord Washington and Moscow will sign a military agreement to prevent accidental encounters from turning into major confrontations. Page A6. Reagan's Judicial Legacy The Supreme Court, in two recent rights rulings, shows that it is the body that President Reagan wanted it to be.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 7, 1989, covering June 7, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
1989Surinam Airways Flight 764 crashes on approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname because of pilot error, killing 176 of 187 aboard.[†]
Surinam Airways Flight 764 was an international scheduled passenger flight from Amsterdam Airport Schiphol in the Netherlands to Paramaribo-Zanderij International Airport in Suriname on a Surinam Airways DC-8-62. On Wednesday 7 June 1989, the flight crashed during approach to Paramaribo-Zanderij, killing 176 of the 187 on board. It is the deadliest aviation disaster in Suriname's history.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]