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LEAD: Late this month the first of 30 low-income families will move into a renovated apartment house at 1427 Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn. The building is a joint project of the Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the nonprofit Flatbush Development Corporation and the private Affordable Dwelling Units Inc.
LEAD: Three years ago, as he was working on the novel ''The General in His Labyrinth,'' Gabriel Garcia Marquez found himself with extra time on his hands. Every morning he would sit down at his word processor to write, and at night he pored through letters, books and documents about Simon Bolivar, the Great Liberator of Latin America who is the central figure of the book.
LEAD: AT his confirmation hearing in January 1981, Samuel R. Pierce Jr. promised the Senate Banking Committee that as Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he would improve management to ''deliver a higher quality service with less money.''
LEAD: It is being billed as the race that never happened, and when it happens today at the 100th Amateur Athletic Association championships at Alexander Stadium in Birmingham, England, there will be more than nostalgia at stake.
LEAD: A MOSQUITO-CONTROL program in which bacteria are used to kill mosquito larvae has been judged a success in the village of Mamaroneck in two trial seasons. The project, believed to be the only one of its kind in the county, uses bacteria that are toxic only to the larvae of mosquitoes and a handful of fly species.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 9, 1989, covering August 13, 1989.
Prince
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Fine Young Cannibals
Tom Petty
1989Greg Draper, New Zealand footballer[†]
Gregory Alexander Draper is an English-born New Zealand footballer and coach who is currently a player-coach with The New Saints under-21s.
1989Justin Greene, American basketball player[†]
Justin Pierre Greene is an American retired basketball player and current coach. He played college basketball for the NCAA Division I Kent State Golden Flashes. On May 20, 2008, Greene committed to attend Kent State University. In his freshman season, Greene saw limited playing time, averaging 8.8 minutes per game and 2.2 points per game. His minutes per game increased to 28.1 in his sophomore season and his points per game also went up to 13.6 to go along 6.9 rebounds per game. In Greene's junior season, he averaged 15.4 points per game, 8.3 rebounds per game and 1.6 assists per game, which was good enough for him to be recognized as the Mid-American Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year.
1989Israel Jiménez, Mexican footballer[†]
Israel Sabdi Jiménez Nañez is a former Mexican professional footballer who last played as a defender for the Monterrey Flash of the Major Arena Soccer League. In traditional outdoor soccer, Jiménez primarily operated as a right-back. He is an Olympic gold medalist.
1989Tim Richmond, American race car driver (born 1955)[†]
Timothy Lee Richmond was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series. Richmond was one of the first drivers to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars full-time, which later became an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons.
1989Larkin I. Smith, American police officer and politician (born 1944)[†]
Larkin Irvin Smith was an American Congressman from Mississippi serving for seven months until he was killed in a plane crash in Perry County, Mississippi in 1989.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]