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LEAD: The Senate voted today to ban smoking on all domestic airline flights, rolling over the objections of tobacco-state lawmakers and illustrating a sweeping change in society's attitudes toward smoking and health.
LEAD: In a reversal apparently prompted by pressure from Congress, President Bush announced today that the United States would double food aid for Poland to $100 million in the next fiscal year.
LEAD: The death of a robbery suspect in the Bronx early Saturday resulted solely from cocaine intoxication, not from injuries suffered in a struggle with police officers, the Chief Medical Examiner said yesterday in his final autopsy report.
LEAD: In a $1.31 billion deal, the British Petroleum Company agreed today to sell an assortment of oil and gas properties in the North Sea and elsewhere to the Oryx Energy Company, based in Dallas.
LEAD: Homosexual rights have emerged as an issue in the race for governor of New Jersey, raised by the repeated calls of the Republican candidate, Representative Jim Courter, for limiting the rights of homosexuals to work as teachers, foster parents and camp counselors or in other jobs that put them in contact with children.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 13, 1989, covering September 15, 1989.
New Kids on the Block
Milli Vanilli
Richard Marx
Paula Abdul
Prince
1989Jan DeGaetani, American soprano (born 1933)[†]
Jan (Janice) DeGaetani was an American mezzo-soprano known for her performances of contemporary classical vocal compositions.
1989Olga Erteszek, Polish-American fashion designer (born 1916)[†]
Olga Erteszek was a Polish-American undergarment designer and lingerie company owner. She was famous for her nightgowns with full, flowing skirt width and generous sweep.
1989Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1905)[†]
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He founded the literary journal The Southern Review with Cleanth Brooks in 1935. He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for All the King's Men (1946) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979. He is the only person to have won Pulitzer Prizes for both fiction and poetry. Yale awarded Warren an honorary Doctor of Letters degree in 1973.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]