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LEAD: SHOULD museums display dinosaurs as fossil skeletons or as replicas of living beasts, lunging, roaring and perhaps even sporting the bright courtship markings that some scientists believe they wore?
LEAD: The Ford Motor Company said today that it would buy some components now made in North America from foreign manufacturers in a move it said was necessary to insure that it could comply with Federal fuel economy rules through the 1990's.
LEAD: Time Inc. stock fell $5.625, to $156.875, in heavy trading yesterday, but there was no ready consensus among Wall Street traders and analysts about whether Time would be able to complete its $14 billion takeover of Warner Communications Inc.
LEAD: A single investor last week caused a crash in Latin America's largest capital market, and the tremors are still being felt, Today, the president of the nation's central bank resigned and six brokerage houses were at the point of collapse.
LEAD: A chilling recital of murders and assaults unfolded in a Federal courtroom yesterday as the racketeering trial began for a 30-year-old man who the authorities say headed one of the largest and most violent crack-selling rings in Brooklyn.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 14, 1989, covering June 20, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Soundtrack
Madonna
Bobby Brown
Paula Abdul
1989Christopher Mintz-Plasse, American actor[†]
Christopher Charles Mintz-Plasse is an American actor primarily known for his debut role as Fogell/McLovin in Superbad (2007) and Chris D'Amico/Red Mist in the Kick-Ass franchise.
1989Javier Pastore, Argentinian footballer[†]
Javier Matías Pastore is an Argentine professional footballer who is currently a free agent.
1989Terrelle Pryor, American football player[†]
Terrelle Pryor Sr. is an American former professional football wide receiver and quarterback. Considered the most recruited high school football-basketball athlete in southwestern Pennsylvania since Tom Clements, Pryor was widely regarded as the nation's top football prospect of 2008 and was named "Junior of the Year" by Rivals.com. Pryor had originally hoped to be a two-sport athlete, as he was also one of the nation's most recruited high school basketball players, but he later chose football.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]