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LEAD: An Olympic official said that a more sophisticated examination of 1,100 urine samples has shown that more than 50 male athletes who took part in the Games last fall at Seoul, South Korea, were found to have used anabolic steroids in the six months before the Games. Article, page 43.
LEAD: President Bush said today that he would send $65 million in emergency aid to Colombia to help fight the drug dealers who have declared war on the Colombian Government.
LEAD: In the August heat, with most Romans having fled the city, calls come in to a small office, bringing stories from people left behind.
LEAD: The New York City police yesterday searched intensively for an 18-year-old white youth who they believe may have shot to death 16-year-old Yusef Hawkins in a racial attack Wednesday night in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
LEAD: Fishing Accord for Taiwan American observers will be allowed on Taiwan vessels to monitor nets that kill marine animals, in what may be a precedent for agreements with other Asian countries. Page 29. Arrest in Huey Newton Case The police in Oakland say that a drug dealer has admitted killing the former Black Panther leader but maintains it was self-defense.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 23, 1989, covering August 26, 1989.
Prince
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Tom Petty
1989James Harden, American basketball player[†]
James Edward Harden Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He is regarded by some as one of the greatest shooting guards in NBA history. In 2021, Harden was honored as one of the league's top 75 players by being named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Harden is also a two-time member of the United States national team, winning gold medals at the 2012 Summer Olympics and 2014 FIBA World Cup. Harden is nicknamed "The Beard" after his characteristic facial hair.
1989Irving Stone, American author (born 1903)[†]
Irving Stone was an American writer, chiefly known for his biographical novels of noted artists, politicians, and intellectuals. Among the best known are Lust for Life (1934), about the life of Vincent van Gogh, and The Agony and the Ecstasy (1961), about Michelangelo.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]