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LEAD: A Federal jury in Manhattan yesterday decided that five principals of a New Jersey investment partnership and a former trader for Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. would have to forfeit more than $3.8 million for engaging in a racketeering conspiracy to create illegal tax losses through fraudulent stock deals.
LEAD: President Bush and leading members of the Senate agreed today to support legislation that would extend Federal civil rights protection to 37 million handicapped Americans and people ill with AIDS or infected with its virus.
LEAD: The United States Mission to the United Nations, in an effort to defray the high costs of New York housing, plans to raise the pay of its employees by 25 percent.
LEAD: WESTON, Conn., just got its first log house, and the neighbors are furious. Convinced that the cabin, made from a kit of precut parts, would reduce their property values, they petitioned the building inspector to ''do something,'' but the house went up anyway. Now, like a lone mobile home, it is the subject of vitriolic cocktail-party talk.
LEAD: The Justice Department today announced the indictment of 46 commodities brokers and traders, accusing them of repeatedly defrauding customers by stealing and skimming investors' profits.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 1989, covering August 3, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
1989Jules Bianchi, French race car driver (died 2015)[†]
Jules Lucien André Bianchi was a French racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 2013 to 2014.
1989Sam Hutchinson, English footballer[†]
Samuel Edward Hutchinson is an English professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for AFC Wimbledon.
1989Tyrod Taylor, American football player[†]
Tyrod Di'allo Taylor is an American professional football quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Virginia Tech Hokies and was selected by the Baltimore Ravens in the sixth round of the 2011 NFL draft.
1989Nick Viergever, Dutch footballer[†]
Nick Viergever is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for Utrecht. He also made three appearances for the Netherlands national team.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]