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LEAD: Town halls around the New York metropolitan region, once the province of public-spirited amateurs, have been inundated in the last decade by lawyers and consultants. Article, page B3.
LEAD: Spanish Prime Minister Wins a Third Term The Socialist party of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez claimed a majority of one seat in Spain's general elections, winning 176 seats in the 350-seat Parliament and assuring Mr. Gonzalez of a third term. Page A3. Ortega's Miscalculation The Nicaraguan President brought a political bombshell to a meeting of Western Hemisphere leaders.
LEAD: Small-town government, once the province of public-spirited part-time amateurs and sleepy local issues, has been surrounded in the last decade by lawyers, consultants, planners, environmental regulators and real-estate developers who have closed in on town halls and changed them forever.
LEAD: ''Candidates see success as the ability to be all things to all people,'' said Frank J. Macchiarola, who has the unusual perspective of an academic, a former New York City Schools Chancellor and a losing candidate for city comptroller. ''They promise $2 worth of services for the $1 we have.''
LEAD: It was predictable, if not disastrous.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 25, 1989, covering October 30, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
Motley Crue
The Rolling Stones
Paula Abdul
1989Ashley Barnes, Austrian-English footballer[†]
Ashley Luke Barnes is a professional footballer who plays as a striker for Premier League club Burnley.
1989Nastia Liukin, Russian-American gymnast and actress[†]
Anastasia "Nastia" Valeryevna Liukin is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2008 Olympic all-around champion, a five-time Olympic medalist, the 2005 and 2007 World champion on the balance beam, and the 2005 World champion on the uneven bars. She is also a four-time all-around U.S. national champion, winning twice as a junior and twice as a senior. With nine World Championships medals, seven of them individual, Liukin is tied with Shannon Miller for the third-highest tally of World Championship medals among U.S. gymnasts. Liukin also tied Miller's record as the American gymnast having won the most medals in a single non-boycotted Olympic Games. In October 2011, Liukin announced that she was returning to gymnastics with the hopes of making a second Olympic team. Liukin did not make the 2012 Olympic team and retired from the sport on July 2, 2012.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]