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LEAD: MX Missiles Shifting Seven states have been selected as sites for 50 nuclear missiles that will be removed from silos and placed on trains in an attempt to make them less vulnerable to attack. Page B20. East Cool to Kohl's Plan East Germany reacted coolly to Chancellor Helmut Kohl's proposal for a ''confederative structure'' joining the Germanys.
LEAD: The flight from ''junk bond'' funds seems to be slowing, some mutual fund managers said yesterday as industry figures showed that about 9 percent of the assets in those funds was withdrawn in the four months through October. Indeed, October was the worst month ever for junk bond funds as $1.2 billion poured out of the funds.
LEAD: For a few electrifying moments, two Supreme Court Justices, one of whom holds the constitutional future of abortion in her hands, conducted their own oblique debate today over how far states can go to assure that parents learn about their teen-age daughters' abortions.
LEAD: Nearly eight months after being raped and beaten so severely that the attack was initially listed as a probable homicide, the woman now known to the world as the Central Park jogger has returned to work at Salomon Brothers Inc., company executives said yesterday.
LEAD: The unfinished $1.1 billion North River Sewage Treatment plant that the city regards as state of the art has developed a serious odor problem that angers residents of West Harlem and annoys some motorists who use the West Side Highway.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 29, 1989, covering November 30, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Adelaide Clemens, Australian actress[†]
Adelaide Clemens is an Australian actress. On television, she has played Harper on the W series Love My Way (2007), Valentine on the BBC/HBO series Parade's End (2012), Tawney on the Sundance TV series Rectify (2013–2016), and Blake on the CBS series Tommy (2020). In film, she has played Xandrie in Wasted on the Young (2010), Ladybird in Vampire (2011), Heather / Sharon in Silent Hill: Revelation (2012), Catherine in The Great Gatsby (2013), Hazel in To the Stars (2019), and Carey in The Swearing Jar (2022).
1989Vladimír Weiss, Slovak footballer[†]
Vladimír Weiss is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a winger or an attacking midfielder for Slovan Bratislava.
1989Ahmadou Ahidjo, Cameroonian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Cameroon (born 1924)[†]
Ahmadou Babatoura Ahidjo was a Cameroonian politician who was the first president of Cameroon from 1960 until 1982. He was previously the first Prime Minister from the country's independence in January 1960 until May of that same year following the creation of the presidency.
1989Alfred Herrhausen, German banker (born 1930)[†]
Alfred Herrhausen was a German banker and the Chairman of Deutsche Bank, who was born in Essen and assassinated in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe in 1989. He was a member of the Steering Committee of the Bilderberg Group and from 1971 onwards a member of Deutsche Bank's management board. An advisor to Helmut Kohl and a proponent of a unified European economy, he was also an influential figure in shaping the policies towards developing countries. He was assassinated, when an explosively formed projectile penetrated his armoured convoy. West German far-left terrorist group Red Army Faction claimed responsibility, but the charges against the organisation were dropped due to lack of evidence and nobody has been charged with the murder since.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]