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LEAD: President Bush said tonight that the United States could not have normal relations with China until the authorities in Beijing ''recognize the validity'' of the pro-democracy student movement.
LEAD: EARLY Saturday and Sunday mornings, a lineup of dilapidated trucks, battered vans and vintage station wagons can be seen outside scores of Manhattan's empty parking lots and vacated schoolyards, with veterans of Manhattan's flea markets unloading everything from Victorian garden benches and 30-year-old copies of
LEAD: When Roger E. Poland, the Town Supervisor here, heard that Gov. Mario M. Cuomo was proposing six new state prisons, he knew he had to have one.
LEAD: To replace striking pilots, Eastern Airlines has begun training 500 new ones, and 51 of them have met federally mandated competency requirements and are already carrying passengers.
LEAD: Federal Housing Secretary Jack F. Kemp yesterday ordered a new investigation into a federally subsidized housing program in Island Park, L.I., and placed on leave his department's New York administrator, who is also a member of Island Park's village board.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 7, 1989, covering June 9, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Guns N' Roses
1989Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer[†]
Dídac Vilà Rosselló is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back.
1989George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903)[†]
George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]