On this day
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LEAD: In mid-1987, U-Haul International Inc. wanted to redesign its trucks for do-it-yourself movers. One of U-Haul's requirements was that assembly begin within a year, a time limit that reportedly caused some truck manufacturers to balk.
LEAD: Sending a strong message to opponents of abortion, Gov. Mario M. Cuomo said today that he would reject legislation limiting abortion in ways sanctioned by the United States Supreme Court on Monday.
LEAD: THE cabins hang off the paths like swimsuits strung up to dry. The lodge squats by the road where tree stumps twist in a coil of confusion. And the campgrounds are as scattered as the pine needles. Welcome to the lazy, hazy ambiance of summer camp. Go past the post office. Turn at the mailbox. The directions mailed to parents reflect the design.
LEAD: Sharp Fall for Vehicle Sales Sales of cars and trucks built in the United States plunged 19 percent in late June over the same period last year, providing the latest evidence of a slowdown in the economy. Page D1. Severe Infections in West Doctors say 20 cases of a life-threatening streptococcus infection have occurred in four Western states, mostly in the last two years, raising public health fears.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 5, 1989, covering July 6, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
Madonna
Soundtrack
1989János Kádár, Hungarian mechanic and politician, Hungarian Minister of the Interior (born 1912)[†]
János József Kádár was a Hungarian Communist leader and the General Secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party, a position he held for 32 years. Declining health led to his retirement in 1988, and he died in 1989 after being hospitalized for pneumonia.
1989The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 suicide attack: Sixteen bus passengers are killed when a member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad took control of the bus and drove it over a cliff.[†]
The Tel Aviv–Jerusalem bus 405 attack was an attack that occurred on 6 July 1989, during the First Intifada, and was carried out by Abd al-Hadi Ghanim, a 25-year-old militant of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad. On a crowded Egged commuter bus line No. 405 en route from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, Ghanim seized the steering wheel of the bus, running it off a steep cliff into a ravine in the area of Qiryat Ye'arim. Sixteen civilians—including two Canadians and one American—died in the attack, and 27 were wounded.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]