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LEAD: Betsy King, the leading winner in women's golf in the United States over the last six years, today made her 19th triumph in that time the biggest one of all: She recovered from near-collapse in the third round Saturday to win the 44th United States Women's Open championship easily, by four shots over Nancy
LEAD: Wall Street lawyers, investment bankers and traders split widely on the significance of a Delaware court's refusal to block Time Inc.'s proposed $14 billion purchase of Warner Communications Inc.
LEAD: There is a question that lingers heavy in the air here, in a forest thick with tall birch and pine trees. Who killed some 4,500 Polish officers whose bodies were discovered here in the spring of 1943?
LEAD: Sir James Goldsmith's hostile $21 billion bid for B.A.T. Industries has bestirred London's financial community because it is the first time the City has witnessed either a huge leveraged buyout offer or the large-scale use of ''junk bonds.'' Only the $25 billion acquisition of RJR Nabisco Inc. by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company has surpassed the
LEAD: For fans who think it just isn't a football game without a beer, the decree from New Jersey officials is disquieting: no more alcohol at night games in Giants Stadium, and a three-hour limit on parking-lot parties.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 12, 1989, covering July 17, 1989.
Fine Young Cannibals
Bobby Brown
Tom Petty
New Kids on the Block
Milli Vanilli
1989Itubwa Amram, Nauruan pastor and politician (born 1922)[†]
The Reverend Alfred Itubwa Amram was a Nauruan pastor and political figure.
1989First flight of the B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.[†]
The Northrop B-2 Spirit, also known as the Stealth Bomber, is an American heavy strategic bomber, featuring low-observable stealth technology designed to penetrate dense anti-aircraft defenses. A subsonic flying wing with a crew of two, the plane was designed by Northrop as the prime contractor, with Boeing, Hughes, and Vought as principal subcontractors, and was produced from 1988 to 2000. The bomber can drop conventional and thermonuclear weapons, such as up to eighty 500-pound class (230 kg) Mk 82 JDAM GPS-guided bombs, or sixteen 2,400-pound (1,100 kg) B83 nuclear bombs. The B-2 is the only acknowledged in-service aircraft that can carry large air-to-surface standoff weapons in a stealth configuration.
1989Holy See–Poland relations are restored.[†]
Holy See–Poland relations are foreign relations between the Holy See and the Republic of Poland. As of 2015, approximately 92.9 percent of Poles belong to the Catholic Church.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]