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LEAD: In an extraordinary public disagreement over intelligence policy, President Bush's national security adviser and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee clashed sharply today over whether President Bush has been handcuffed by Senate restrictions on covert action in Panama.
LEAD: Immunity in H.U.D. Inquiry? The leader of a Congressional investigation into housing programs says immunity from prosecution may be considered for two aides of former Secretary Samuel R. Pierce Jr., but not for Mr. Pierce. Page A12. A Debate on Export Curbs The Bush Administration is under pressure from European allies and American companies to allow the export of sophisticated machine tools to Communist countries.
LEAD: In a game of delirious, delicious knocks where little came easy, the New York Giants jumped on the Philadelphia Eagles early here today. The Giants led by 10-0 early in the second quarter, by 13-7 at halftime and by 16-7 early in the fourth quarter.
LEAD: With the benefit of hindsight, legislators and policy makers in both parties now agree that the seeds of disaster for the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act were sown well before it became law barely a year ago.
LEAD: A day after the Hungarian Communist Party changed its name to the Socialist Party and rejected orthodox Marxism, leaders contended today with criticism from members who thought it had not gone far enough as well as from die-hards who thought it had gone too far.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 4, 1989, covering October 9, 1989.
Paula Abdul
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
New Kids on the Block
Motley Crue
1989Russell Packer, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Russell Packer is a former New Zealand professional rugby league footballer who played as a prop for the Wests Tigers, St. George Illawarra Dragons and the New Zealand Warriors in the NRL, and the New Zealand Māori and New Zealand at international level.
1989Yusuf Atılgan, Turkish author and playwright (born 1921)[†]
Yusuf Atılgan was a Turkish novelist and dramatist, who is best known for his novels Aylak Adam and Anayurt Oteli. He is one of the pioneers of the modern Turkish novel.
1989Penny Lernoux, American journalist and author (born 1940)[†]
Penny Lernoux was an American educator, author, and journalist. She wrote critically of United States government and Papal policy toward Latin America.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]