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LEAD: The National Endowment for the Arts yesterday withdrew its sponsorship of a New York City art show about AIDS that includes images of homosexual acts and criticizes public figures. It was the first such decision by the agency since a law was passed this fall that will curtail Government financing of artwork considered obscene.
LEAD: Dealers in the credit markets are scrambling to cope with a rapid-fire succession of Treasury auctions.
LEAD: Voter surveys for the elections Tuesday in Virginia and New York City produced widely divergent and largely inaccurate results, leaving poll takers divided over whether the survey methods were flawed or people simply lied about voting for a black candidate to avoid seeming biased.
LEAD: To his critics, Charles H. Keating Jr., the Phoenix financier who built and lost the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, represents all that is wrong with a political system in which wealth grants access and influence. To his defenders, Mr. Keating is simply a hard-driving entrepreneur who is being made the fall guy for the savings industry's plight.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 8, 1989, covering November 9, 1989.
Janet Jackson
Milli Vanilli
The Rolling Stones
Motley Crue
Aerosmith
1989Baptiste Giabiconi, French model and singer[†]
Baptiste Giabiconi is a French model and singer. A muse of Karl Lagerfeld, for many years he was the male face of major fashion houses Chanel, Fendi and Karl Lagerfeld.
1989Bill Neilson, Australian politician, 34th Premier of Tasmania (born 1925)[†]
William Arthur Neilson AC was Premier of Tasmania from 1975 to 1977.
1989Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to travel to West Berlin.[†]
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded. Sections of the wall were breached, and planned deconstruction began the following June. It was one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The fall of the inner German border took place shortly afterward. An end to the Cold War was declared at the Malta Summit in early December, and German reunification took place in October the following year.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]