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LEAD: Fall is coming and the autumn sense of expectancy is in the air on the 140-acre campus of Phoenix Academy here. Bryant Norman is looking forward to computer classes.
LEAD: The Pentagon said it would dispatch 50 to 100 military personnel to train Colombians to operate and maintain the $65 million worth of arms and equipment promised by President Bush. Page A6.
LEAD: Deep in the heart of Connecticut, television broadcasters here believe, there is a Texas-sized sense of state identity just waiting to kick off its Topsiders and come out fighting. The best means of expressing it, they suggest, is the remote-control channel switcher.
LEAD: In a new effort to turn world opinion against Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, the United States asserted today that the Panamanian strongman continued to play a major role in the laundering of drug money and the shipment of narcotics through his country.
LEAD: Wednesday's announcement of a new design for the four towers planned for Times Square was a stunning public reversal, less an architectural event than a marketing one, a sort of architectural equivalent of the Coca-Cola Company's abrupt replacement of New Coke. The Times Square towers, too, bombed in the marketplace; though construction had not even begun, critical and public reactions to Philip Johnson and John Burgee's original design were so negative that the New York State Urban Development Corporation and the New York City Public Development
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 30, 1989, covering September 1, 1989.
Richard Marx
New Kids on the Block
Prince
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
1989Astrid Besser, Italian tennis player[†]
Astrid Besser is an Italian tennis player of German and Venezuelan descent.
1989Bill Kaulitz, German singer and songwriter[†]
Bill Kaulitz, also known as Billy for his solo project, is a German singer and songwriter. He is best known for his work as the lead vocalist of the pop rock band Tokio Hotel.
1989Jefferson Montero, Ecuadorian footballer[†]
Jefferson Antonio Montero Vite is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a winger for North West Counties League Premier Division club FC St Helens. He has represented the Ecuador national team at senior international level.
1989Gustav Nyquist, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Gustav Nyquist is a Swedish professional ice hockey forward for the Minnesota Wild of the National Hockey League (NHL). Nyquist was drafted 121st overall by the Detroit Red Wings in the 2008 NHL entry draft, with whom he spent the first portion of his NHL career. He has also played for the San Jose Sharks, Columbus Blue Jackets and Nashville Predators.
1989A. Bartlett Giamatti, American businessman and academic (born 1938)[†]
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamatti was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh commissioner of Major League Baseball.
1989Kazimierz Deyna, Polish footballer (born 1947)[†]
Kazimierz Deyna was a Polish professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder in the playmaker role and was one of the most highly regarded players of his generation, due to his excellent vision. Throughout his career he played for such clubs as Legia Warsaw, Manchester City and San Diego Sockers.
1989Tadeusz Sendzimir, Polish-American engineer (born 1894)[†]
Tadeusz Sendzimir was a Polish engineer and inventor of international renown. He held 120 patents in mining and metallurgy, 73 of which were awarded to him in the United States.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]