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LEAD: Stung by a veto threat by President Bush, Congressional conferees and Administration representatives tonight hammered out a compromise agreement on financing the sweeping savings and loan rescue plan that hit a stalemate earlier in the day.
LEAD: Japanese in Research Deal In an unusual joint venture, Harvard's teaching hospital is accepting $85 million from Japan's leading cosmetics company to create a skin research center. Page A8. Sandinistas Halt the Draft Meeting an opposition demand, Nicaragua said it would suspend the military draft until after elections scheduled for February.
LEAD: Samuel R. Pierce Jr., the former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, was instrumental in providing Federal assistance to friends, former aides and prominent Republicans who sought his help, correspondence from his eight-year tenure shows.
LEAD: The main campaign event one day recently was in a Suffolk County park to which thousands of elderly people from Queens and Brooklyn had been bused. Edward I. Koch, New York Mayor and mayoral candidate, dropped in by helicopter, conducted a blitzkrieg tour of the picnic area, spoke briefly over a fuzzy public-address system and helicoptered out.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 2, 1989, covering August 4, 1989.
Prince
Fine Young Cannibals
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
1989Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer-songwriter and actress[†]
Jessica Hilda Mauboy is an Australian singer. Born and raised in Darwin, Northern Territory, she rose to fame in 2006 on the fourth season of Australian Idol, where she was runner-up and subsequently signed a recording contract with Sony Music Australia. After releasing a live album of her Idol performances and briefly being a member of the girl group Young Divas in 2007, Mauboy released her debut studio album, Been Waiting, the following year. It included her first number-one single, "Burn", and became the second highest-selling Australian album of 2009, certified double platinum by the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA).
1989Wang Hao, Chinese chess grandmaster[†]
Wang Hao is a Chinese chess grandmaster. In November 2009, Wang became the fourth Chinese player to break through the 2700 Elo rating mark.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]