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LEAD: IN her article ''How I Became a Croquet Freak,'' published in The U.S. Croquet Gazette, Carol Pyle Fry of West Grove, Pa., described the process through which her verdant lawn sprouted a scoreboard and precisely six wickets.
LEAD: In an effort to control rising Medicaid costs, New York State plans this fall to set annual limits on doctor and laboratory visits and prescriptions for its 2.3 million Medicaid recipients.
LEAD: From Death to Life Gov. Buddy Roemer of Lousiana says he will commute the sentence of Ronald Monroe, who was to die in the electric chair for killing a neighbor as her children watched. Page A16. Dependency on Foreign Oil Imports supplied more than half of the nation's petroleum in July for the first time since 1977, the American Petroleum Institute said.
LEAD: Warring factions fought more artillery and rocket duels today despite urgent calls for an end to the bloodshed from the United Nations Security Council and from Arab mediators.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 16, 1989, covering August 17, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Lil B, American rapper[†]
Brandon Christopher McCartney, known professionally as Lil B and Lil B The BasedGod, is an American rapper. He began his career as a member of the Berkeley, California-based hip hop group the Pack in 2005, who signed with Too Short's Up All Nite Records, an imprint of Jive Records the following year. The group became best known for their hit song "Vans" — their sole entry on Billboard Hot 100 — and released two studio albums before disbanding in 2010.
1989Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer[†]
Rachel Louise Corsie is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender. She is the captain of the Scotland national team.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]