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LEAD: Syria and Iran summoned their Lebanese and Palestinian allies here today for what Syrian officials called a council of war to ''bring down'' the Christian general who leads Lebanon's army.
LEAD: Experts on energy thought for years that oil production in the United States would shrink to insignificant levels by the middle of the next century, making imports the nation's only meaningful supply. Now they are finding that steady advances in the technology for finding oil from large but hard-to-reach reserves discovered years ago seem likely to stretch the nation's era of oil production, possibly well beyond the year 2100.
LEAD: Gay Men's Health Crisis, New York City's largest private organization providing AIDS services, has reversed a long-held position and endorsed widespread voluntary testing for the virus that causes AIDS.
LEAD: The Soviet Union rolled out a green carpet of plastic grass today, hurrying to complete the nation's first baseball stadium and apply the Soviets' patented sports-lab techniques to the subtleties of the hit and run.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1989, covering August 16, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Cedric Alexander, American wrestler[†]
Cedric Alexander Johnson is an American professional wrestler. He is performing on the independent circuit. He is best known for his tenures in WWE and Ring of Honor (ROH).
1989Wang Hao, Chinese race walker[†]
Wang Hao is a Chinese race walker.
1989Moussa Sissoko, French footballer[†]
Moussa Sissoko is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for and captains EFL Championship club Watford. He is a box-to-box midfielder in the centre of the pitch, and is capable of playing in either a holding midfield role, or even as an attacking midfielder, right winger or right-back.
1989Amanda Blake, American actress (born 1929)[†]
Amanda Blake was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the Western television series Gunsmoke. Along with her fourth husband, Frank Gilbert, she ran one of the first successful programs for breeding cheetahs in captivity.
1989A solar particle event affects computers at the Toronto Stock Exchange, forcing a halt to trading.[†]
In solar physics, a solar particle event (SPE), also known as a solar energetic particle event or solar radiation storm, is a solar phenomenon which occurs when particles emitted by the Sun, mostly protons, become accelerated either in the Sun's atmosphere during a solar flare or in interplanetary space by a coronal mass ejection shock. Other nuclei such as helium and HZE ions may also be accelerated during the event. These particles can penetrate the Earth's magnetic field and cause partial ionization of the ionosphere. Energetic protons are a significant radiation hazard to spacecraft and astronauts.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]