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LEAD: The economist for the Department of Housing and Urban Development in New York says two former regional administrators improperly pressured him and other subordinates several times to support favored grant applicants. Two examples that he cited as the worst involved projects with ties to Senator Alfonse M.
LEAD: During the months they have been vying for New Jersey's top office, James J. Florio and Jim Courter have appeared as likely adversaries if not natural enemies. But here in Washington, where both candidates for governor are members of the House of Representatives, they do not seem to be cut from very different cloths.
LEAD: President Mikhail S. Gorbachev declared today that the Soviet Union has no moral or political right to interfere in the affairs of its East European neighbors, and held up neutral Finland as a model of stability in stormy Europe.
LEAD: DRIED-FLOWER arrangements are no longer just a humble alternative to fresh flowers. In the hands of floral stylists, they have become a fashionable first choice.
LEAD: Mary McCarthy, one of America's pre-eminent women of letters, died of cancer yesterday at New York Hospital. She was 77 years old and lived in Castine, Me., and Paris.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 1989, covering October 26, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Dre Kirkpatrick, American football player[†]
D'Andre Lawan "Dre" Kirkpatrick is an American former professional football cornerback who played in the National Football League (NFL) for ten seasons. He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide and was selected by the Cincinnati Bengals in the first round of the 2012 NFL draft. He also played for the Arizona Cardinals and San Francisco 49ers.
1989Emil Sayfutdinov, Russian motorcycle racer[†]
Emil Damirovich Sayfutdinov is a motorcycle speedway rider from Russia. He is a member of the Russia national speedway team. He is a three times World team champion, twice World Junior champion and a two-time winner of the European Championships in 2014 and 2015.
1989Charles J. Pedersen, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)[†]
Charles John Pedersen was an American organic chemist best known for discovering crown ethers and describing methods of synthesizing them during his entire 42-year career as a chemist for DuPont at DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, and at DuPont's Jackson Laboratory in Deepwater, New Jersey. Often associated with Reed McNeil Izatt, Pedersen also shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1987 with Donald J. Cram and Jean-Marie Lehn. He is one of three Nobel Prize laureates born in Korea, along with Peace Prize laureate Kim Dae-jung and Literature laureate Han Kang.
1989China Airlines Flight 204 crashes after takeoff from Hualien Airport in Taiwan, killing all 54 people on board.[†]
China Airlines Flight 204 (CI204/CAL204) was a Boeing 737-209 that crashed into a mountain after takeoff from Hualien Airport, Taiwan, on 26 October 1989. The crash killed all 54 passengers and crew on board the aircraft.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]