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LEAD: ROBERT WOOLLEY craves beautiful things, and as director of the decorative arts division of Sotheby's, he has access to them. His eight-room apartment on Fifth Avenue at 96th Street is crammed with antique china, architectural drawings, maps, furniture, wooden walking sticks and more. But some of his favorite objets d'art came not from auction houses but from pet stores.
LEAD: THE quiet, residential neighborhood of Parkside in Buffalo was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted and is on the National Register of Historic Places. Yet it is the 1904 Darwin D. Martin House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, that stands out today amid the collection of late-Victorian and early-20th-century houses.
LEAD: It was a world of darkness, a world where grunts took the place of words, a world of shadowy middle-of-the-night rituals illuminated only by candles. It was a world where sleep was put off to go marching in the snow, 11 people in ill-fitting parkas and dirty blankets shuffling along single-file, Herman Carlie McMillan at the head of the line shouting ''TEN-hut!
LEAD: Voyager's Remarkable Aim After traveling for 12 years and 4.4 billion miles, Voyager is a mere 21 miles off target as it streaks toward its Neptune fly-by today. Page A18. Asbestos at Blast Site Asbestos was found at a Manhattan apartment building damaged in a steam-pipe blast Saturday, and residents were evacuated.
LEAD: The ''green card,'' which has not actually been green for years, is taking on a new color and other characteristics, largely as part of a Government effort to stem a black market in alien certification.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 1989, covering August 24, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989Reynaldo, Brazilian footballer[â ]
Reynaldo dos Santos Silva, known as just Reynaldo, is a Brazilian retired professional footballer who played as a forward.
1989RocĂo IgarzĂĄbal, Argentinian actress and singer[â ]
RocĂo IgarzĂĄbal, also known as Rochi IgarzĂĄbal, is an Argentine actress and singer.
1989Colombian drug barons declare "total war" on the Colombian government.[â ]
Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Peru and Ecuador to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments. The Capital District of BogotĂĄ is also the country's largest city hosting the main financial and cultural hub. Other major urban areas include MedellĂn, Cali, Barranquilla, Cartagena, Santa Marta, CĂșcuta, IbaguĂ©, Villavicencio and Bucaramanga. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers and has a population of around 52 million. Its rich cultural heritageâincluding language, religion, cuisine, and artâreflects its history as a colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by the African diaspora, as well as with those of the various Indigenous civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is the official language, although Creole, English and 64 other languages are recognized regionally.
1989Tadeusz Mazowiecki is chosen as the first non-communist prime minister in Central and Eastern Europe.[â ]
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was a Polish author, journalist, philanthropist and politician, formerly one of the leaders of the Solidarity movement, and the first non-communist Polish prime minister since 1946, having held the post from 1989 to 1991.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]