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LEAD: COMPANIES In Britain's largest takeover, Consolidated Gold Fields agreed to be acquired by Hanson for a revised offer of $:3.5 billion ($5.5 billion). Hanson, one of Britain's 10 largest companies, owns Smith Corona, Ground Round restaurants, Farberware cookware and Jacuzzi whirlpool baths.
LEAD: Even the healthiest savings and loan companies acknowledge that they have a bit of an image problem these days, as the industry continues to suffer widespread failures and record withdrawals.
LEAD: Harlem at twilight. A red van pulled up to 328 Lenox Avenue, and out stepped the visitors from another world.
LEAD: The members of the panel devising a new government for New York City have generally maintained a tone of marked civility in nearly 200 hours of meetings and hearings over the last three months.
LEAD: Retail coffee prices are not likely to drop sharply, food retailers in the United States said yesterday, despite the decision Monday by the International Coffee Organization to suspend ceilings on exports, Coffee prices will ultimately come down, most retailers agreed, but they declined to estimate how much.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1989, covering July 5, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
Madonna
Soundtrack
1989Adam Cole, American wrestler[â ]
Austin Kirk Jenkins, known by the ring name Adam Cole, is an American professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is the leader of The Paragon and is the reigning AEW TNT Champion in his first reign. He is also known for his tenures with WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH).
1989Georgios Efrem, Cypriot footballer[â ]
Georgios Efrem is a former Cypriot professional footballer who last played as a winger for Cypriot First Division club APOEL and the Cyprus national team.
1989IranâContra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions are later overturned.[â ]
The IranâContra affair, also referred to as the IranâContra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply IranâContra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration. As Iran was subject to an arms embargo at the time of the scandal, the sale of arms was deemed illegal. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, passed by Congress in a 411â0 vote and signed into law by Reagan, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration continued funding them secretively using non-appropriated funds.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]