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LEAD: PRESIDENT VIRGILIO BARCO VARGAS, who has vowed to crush the drug lords who have turned his country into a killing ground, seems an unlikely field commander. Uninspiring at the microphone and uncomfortable with the grand gestures of leadership, Mr. Barco might be better cast as a university researcher.
LEAD: A Federal affidavit has provided a startling glimpse into the violence and enormous wealth surrounding the Medellin drug ring. Page 20.
LEAD: As the National Football League opens its 70th season today, so do the Chicago Bears, who meet the Cincinnati Bengals at Soldier Field. The Bears were 1 of 12 N.F.L. charter teams that met on Nov. 17, 1920 at Ralph Hay's Hupmobile showroom in Canton, Ohio, and plunked down $100 for membership in the new league.
LEAD: Hungarian Buffer Zone Hungary has proposed a security arrangement with Austria and Yugoslavia that would include arms reductions along their borders. It is the first such proposal by a Warsaw Pact country. Page 19. Reagan in 'Rapid Recovery' A day after surgery to drain fluid that had formed on his brain, the former President ate a full breakfast, read several newspapers and was visited by his wife, Nancy, a spokesman said.
LEAD: New York City's tax collectors and the partnership that built Trump Tower - the 59-story building at Fifth Avenue and 56th Street - are battling over who pays taxes on the tower's commercial space. The partnership is seeking to force owners of 283 luxury condos above the commercial space to bear a higher share of the building's real estate taxes than they now do.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 6, 1989, covering September 10, 1989.
New Kids on the Block
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
Prince
1989Manish Pandey, Indian cricketer[†]
Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian international cricketer. He is primarily a right-handed middle-order batsman representing India national cricket team, Karnataka in domestic cricket and Kolkata Knight Riders in the Indian Premier League (IPL). He played as an opening batsman for his former IPL team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore, and became the first Indian player to score a century in the IPL in 2009 Indian Premier League. He was a part of the Indian squad which won the 2018 Asia Cup.
1989Matt Ritchie, English footballer[†]
Matthew Thomas Ritchie is a professional footballer who plays as a winger or wing-back for EFL Championship club Portsmouth. Ritchie represented the Scotland national team from 2015 to 2018. Prior to joining his first club Portsmouth for a second spell in 2024, he played for Swindon Town, Bournemouth and Newcastle.
1989Lee Sawyer, English footballer[†]
Lee Thomas Sawyer is an English retired professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A graduate of the Chelsea F.C. academy, he never made a first-team appearance for the club, and spent most of his career in non-league football.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]