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In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]
LEAD: A majority of New Yorkers are dissatisfied with the city's efforts to help the homeless and say they are even willing to pay more taxes if the money is dedicated to improving their lot, according to a New York Times/WCBS-TV News Poll.
LEAD: Officials here love their older residents, but with about half of the township's population of 22,000 made up of retirees and the percentage rising, they have decided that there can be too much of a good thing.
LEAD: The Securities and Exchange Commission approved new rules today that would allow the agency to begin paying rewards to people who provided information on insider trading cases.
LEAD: The National Association of Realtors wrote off Greg Laughlin as a probable loser when he ran for Congress in southeastern Texas last year, giving the maximum $10,000 to his opponent, Representative Mac Sweeney, a Republican.
LEAD: What a difference a month has made in the way Consolidated Gold Fields P.L.C. deals with takeover bids.
LEAD: Some of New York City's largest supermarket chains said yesterday that they would limit and possibly end their sales of California table grapes because they are concerned about pesticides used by grape growers.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL Japan agreed to give foreign companies greater access to its mobile telephone market. The agreement, which is the most significant fruit yet of the tough trade law that Congress enacted last year, applies to all foreign companies that seek access to Japan's telecommunications market.
LEAD: BERKELEY, Califs., is a haven for renegade thinkers, and one of the most flamboyant is the architect Christopher Alexander. With his look of an English schoolboy and air of a philosopher, the 52-year-old Vienna-born design theorist has been a hero to students since the 1960's. Young people are drawn to Mr.
LEAD: The Department of Veterans Affairs, whose mortgage guarantee program has helped 12 million veterans buy houses since 1944, is suffering heavy losses from increasing defaults. And the way it handles those defaults is causing problems for another agency, the Government National Mortgage Association, which is known as Ginnie
LEAD: Ending a 17-month racketeering trial, a Federal jury yesterday convicted seven men of being members or associates of a murderous crew of the Gambino crime family that operated out of a Brooklyn apartment.
LEAD: The Rose Garden is getting crowded.
LEAD: The chairman of a group affiliated with the Republican National Committee received $50,000 for what Federal investigators described as ''questionable'' consulting work on behalf of the City of New Haven in its successful bid for a $10 million Federal housing grant.