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LEAD: At a time when the New York metropolitan region faces a severe shortage of affordable housing, tens of thousands of suburban homeowners are carving apartments out of extra rooms in their houses.
LEAD: In the worst round of fighting since a new wave of violence in Lebanon's civil war began five months ago, some 20,000 shells and rockets struck towns and villages across a third of the nation's area in fierce exchanges from Thursday afternoon until daybreak today.
LEAD: Having difficulty raising funds under the terms of New York City's new campaign-finance law, Mayor Edward I. Koch has had to borrow $200,000 from five businessmen to keep his television commercials on the air.
LEAD: William C. Lucas, whose nomination to be the nation's top civil rights enforcer was rejected by the Senate Judiciary Committee, was named today as Attorney General Dick Thornburgh's ''personal representative'' to law-enforcement groups, civil rights groups and state and local governments.
LEAD: Solidarity Recalls 1968 The Solidarity-controlled Polish Senate condemned the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. Page 5. High Technology in the Air New, highly automated jets are raising fears that pilots will rely on the technology and not on skills. Page 6. Eastern Strike Weakening
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 1989, covering August 12, 1989.
Prince
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Fine Young Cannibals
Tom Petty
1989Tom Cleverley, English footballer[†]
Thomas William Cleverley is an English professional football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. Cleverly is currently the head coach of EFL League One club Plymouth Argyle.
1989Hong Jeong-ho, South Korean footballer[†]
Hong Jeong-ho is a South Korean footballer who plays for Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors as a centre-back. His brother Hong Jeong-nam is also a footballer.
1989Sunye, South Korean singer[†]
Min Sun-ye, known professionally as Sunye, is a South Korean singer and missionary known for her work as a former leader and main vocalist of girl group Wonder Girls. In early 2013, following her marriage, she became an inactive member of the Wonder Girls and officially departed from the group in July 2015.
1989Aimo Koivunen, Finnish soldier and corporal (born 1917)[†]
Aimo Allan Koivunen was a Finnish soldier in the Continuation War and the first documented case of a soldier overdosing on methamphetamine during combat.
1989William Shockley, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1910)[†]
William Bradford Shockley was an American solid-state physicist, electrical engineer, and inventor. He was the manager of a research group at Bell Labs that included John Bardeen and Walter Houser Brattain. The three scientists were jointly awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]