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LEAD: The future of Bonwit Teller and B. Altman & Company, two of New York's oldest retailers, brightened somewhat yesterday when the General Electric Company's GE Capital Corporation unit agreed to extend a $50 million credit line to the stores' parent company, the L. J. Hooker Corporation.
LEAD: Reacting to strong objections from more than 200 members of Congress, the State Department has conveyed concern at least twice to the British Government about the potential impact of the proposed hostile takeover of B.A.T. Industries, department officials said yesterday.
LEAD: New York City's next mayor may confront huge budget gaps, some of the most daunting social problems in decades and a local economy that is no longer generating substantial new tax revenue. All of this, warns Felix G. Rohatyn, chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation, might make the fiscal crisis of the 70's seem ''benign.
LEAD: FAR beyond the familiar routines of metropolitan life and just this side of one's wildest fantasies, real-life adventure lurks.
LEAD: A 24-year-old undercover narcotics officer was shot in the back and critically wounded yesterday afternoon, the police said, as he tried to buy cocaine from two men in a Bronx apartment building described by its residents as infected with drug dealers and violence.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 1989, covering August 11, 1989.
Prince
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Fine Young Cannibals
Tom Petty
1989Junior Heffernan, Irish cyclist and triathlete (died 2013)[†]
Junior Heffernan was an Irish triathlete and then cyclist who at the end of his life was competing mostly in Great Britain. He attended Kelly College on the outskirts of Tavistock, Devon, where he competed under coach Rich Brady.
1989Sebastian Huke, German footballer[†]
Sebastian Huke is a German footballer who currently plays for Tennis Borussia Berlin.
1989John Meillon, Australian actor (born 1934)[†]
John Meillon was an Australian character actor known for dramatic as well as comedy roles. He portrayed Walter Reilly in the films Crocodile Dundee and Crocodile Dundee II. He also voiced advertisements for Victoria Bitter beer. He appeared in several Australian New Wave films including Wake in Fright and The Cars That Ate Paris.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]