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LEAD: Pierce Is Not Ready For Hearing, Lawyers Say Former Housing Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr. will not be prepared for a Congressional hearing on Tuesday and will face ''unpleasant options,'' his lawyers said today. Page A20. Ward Turns in His Badge Benjamin Ward said his battle with asthma is forcing him to resign as Police Commissioner as of Oct.
LEAD: Columbia Pictures Entertainment Inc. has received a $3.4 billion cash offer for the company from the Sony Corporation of Japan, and the board is expected to approve the sale, possibly as soon as tomorrow, a person close to the talks said.
LEAD: President Bush, saying it was time ''to rid the earth of this scourge,'' told the United Nations today that the United States would destroy 80 percent of its chemical weapons if the Soviet Union agreed to cut its stockpile to the American level.
LEAD: For a country about to enjoy what could be its first prolonged period of peace in many decades, Vietnam today displays little sense of celebration.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 20, 1989, covering September 26, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
Paula Abdul
Richard Marx
Tom Petty
1989Jonny Bairstow, English cricketer[†]
Jonathan Marc Bairstow is an English cricketer who played internationally for England in all formats as a right-handed wicket-keeper-batter. In domestic cricket, he has played for Yorkshire County Cricket Club since 2009. He has also played for Sunrisers Hyderabad, Punjab Kings, and Mumbai Indians in the Indian Premier League (IPL).
1989Hemanta Kumar Mukhopadhyay, Indian singer-songwriter and producer (born 1920)[†]
Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, known professionally as Hemanta Mukherjee and Hemant Kumar, was an Indian music director and a playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, along with several other Indian languages, including Marathi, Gujarati, Odia, Assamese, Tamil, Punjabi, Bhojpuri, Konkani, Sanskrit and Urdu. He was a artist in Bengali and Hindi film music, Rabindra Sangeet, and various other genres. He was the recipient of two National Awards for Best Male Playback Singer and was popularly known as the "Voice of God".
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]