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LEAD: Under pressure to respond to a $111.25-a-share plunge in the company's stock last week, the board of the UAL Corporation, the parent of United Airlines, is to meet today in Chicago to consider several options.
LEAD: H.U.D. Jurisdiction Moved housing secretary has decided to shift control over programs in Puerto Rico from the agency's troubled New York office to Atlanta. Page B1. Concern on Home Abortion In a revival of a technique that flourished in the 1960's, scores of self-help groups are teaching women how to perform abortions.
LEAD: INTERNATIONAL Military contractors are turning abroad for parts to build weapons systems, as the Pentagon puts pressure on companies to reduce costs and as foreign suppliers become more adept. The trend is raising fears on dependence, jobs and profits. [ Page A1. ] A plan to phase out many American farm programs if other countries agree to similar cutbacks will be put forward this week by the Bush Administration.
LEAD: Two weeks from tomorrow, either David N. Dinkins or Rudolph W. Giuliani will be mayor-elect of New York City after spending about $10 million and about 10 months campaigning. It's a wonder that anyone would want the job. The city's 106th mayor will lead New York into the final decade of the millenium, an era which Mayor Edward I.
LEAD: What was once an obscure decision to start licensing and paying relatives who acted as foster parents to abused and neglected children has become a vast and costly program that is overwhelming New York City's child welfare bureaucracy and causing city and state officials to question its wisdom.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 18, 1989, covering October 23, 1989.
Motley Crue
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Viktor Agardius, Swedish footballer[†]
Viktor Agardius is a Swedish footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back´for Faroe Islands Premier League club NSÍ Runavík.
1989Alain Baroja, Venezuelan footballer[†]
Alain Baroja Méndez is a Venezuelan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Always Ready and the Venezuela national team.
1989Zach Brown, American football player[†]
Zachary Vinzale Brown is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels and was selected by the Tennessee Titans in the second round of the 2012 NFL draft. He also played for the Buffalo Bills, where he made the Pro Bowl, Washington Redskins, Philadelphia Eagles, and Arizona Cardinals.
1989Jonita Gandhi, Indo-Canadian singer[†]
Jonita Gandhi, credited professionally as Jonita, is a Canadian singer known for her work in the Indian film and music industries. Since 2024, she has performed as a solo pop artist by releasing her debut Independent EP single Love Like That.
1989Andriy Yarmolenko, Ukrainian footballer[†]
Andriy Mykolayovych Yarmolenko is a Ukrainian professional footballer who plays as a winger or forward for Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv and captains the Ukraine national team.
1989Armida, Mexican-American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1911)[†]
Armida, born Armida Vendrell, was a Mexican actress, singer, dancer and vaudevillian born in Aguascalientes, Mexico.
1989The Hungarian Republic officially replaces the communist Hungarian People's Republic.[†]
Communist rule in the People's Republic of Hungary came to an end in 1989 by a peaceful transition to a democratic system. After the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was suppressed by Soviet forces, Hungary remained a communist country. As the Soviet Union weakened at the end of the 1980s, the Eastern Bloc disintegrated.
1989Bankruptcy of Wärtsilä Marine, the biggest bankruptcy in the Nordic countries up until then.[†]
Wärtsilä Marine was a Finnish shipbuilding company.
1989An explosion at the Houston Chemical Complex in Pasadena, Texas, which registered a 3.5 on the Richter magnitude scale, kills 23 and injures 314.[†]
On 23 October 1989 at approximately 1:05 PM Central Daylight Time, a series of explosions occurred at Phillips Petroleum Company's Houston Chemical Complex (HCC) in Pasadena, Texas, near the Houston Ship Channel. The initial blast registered 3.5 on the Richter scale, and the resulting fires took 10 hours to bring under control, as efforts to battle the fire were hindered due to damaged water pipes for the fire hydrants from the blast. The initial explosion was found to have resulted from a release of extremely flammable process gasses used to produce high-density polyethylene, a plastic used for various consumer food container products. The US Occupational Safety and Health Administration fined Phillips Petroleum Company $5,666,200 and fined Fish Engineering and Construction, Inc., the maintenance contractor, $729,600. The event killed 23 employees and injured 314.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]