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LEAD: A late wave of selling swept the stock market yesterday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down 190.58 points, or 6.9 percent, to 2,569.26. In terms of points, the decline was the second largest in history, exceeded only by the 508-point plunge of Oct. 19, 1987, but the decline in percentage terms was not nearly so bad.
LEAD: A financing failure helped set off the drop in stock prices.
LEAD: President Bush encouraged White House aides and Republican Congressional leaders today to continue negotiations to avoid a confrontation over Federal financing for abortions for victims of rape and incest.
LEAD: The Senate approved a $14 billion plan to reduce the deficit tonight, stripping from it hundreds of extraneous measures including child care assistance and Medicare changes, and putting off a battle over cutting the capital gains tax.
LEAD: Joseph A. Fernandez visited New York yesterday to start setting up shop as the new schools chancellor, and he immediately offered some blunt challenges to the city's way of running its schools.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 11, 1989, covering October 14, 1989.
Motley Crue
Paula Abdul
The Rolling Stones
Milli Vanilli
New Kids on the Block
1989Arca, Venezuelan musician[†]
Alejandra Ghersi Rodríguez, known professionally as Arca, is a Venezuelan musician and record producer based in Barcelona, Spain. She initially began releasing music under the name of Nuuro. After attending the Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Ghersi first released the EP Baron Libre (2012) under the name Arca and subsequently released the EPs Stretch 1 and Stretch 2; the latter experimented with hip hop and brought her attention from prominent music publications.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]