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LEAD: Secretary of State James A. Baker 3d moved today to counter charges that the Bush Administration was unresponsive to opportunities presented by changes in the Soviet bloc.
LEAD: COOKBOOK publishers this fall are rolling out weighty new editions intended for an audience of inexperienced but eager cooks. Their needs are seen as different from, and their tastes more wide ranging than, those of the generation that already wore out the basic cookbooks bought in the 60's, 70's and early 80's.
LEAD: Using strengthened Federal and state laws, New Jersey, Connecticut and New York are tracking down parents who fail to pay court-ordered child support and collecting the money by seizing their wages, intercepting tax refunds or putting the delinquents in jail until they pay.
LEAD: Consumer prices over all were unchanged in August, making it the first month in more than three years that the Consumer Price Index did not rise, the Labor Department reported today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 20, 1989, covering September 20, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
1989USAir Flight 5050 crashes into Bowery Bay during a rejected takeoff from LaGuardia Airport, killing two people.[†]
USAir Flight 5050 was a passenger flight that crashed on takeoff from LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York. As the plane took off from LaGuardia's runway 31, the plane drifted to the left. After hearing a loud bang, the pilots attempted to reject the takeoff, but were unable to stop the plane short of the end of the runway. The plane continued past the end of the runway and plunged into Bowery Bay. Two passengers were killed.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]