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LEAD: INTERNATIONAL Western European governments are expected to create an enlarged European common market of 18 nations, not just the 12 in the European Community. [ Page A1. ] President Mitterrand of France is eager to extract a new commitment from the European Community to proceed with rapid economic integration.
LEAD: The migration of millions of Mexican workers into the United States in search of jobs has brought a new influx: Mexican politicians and leaders in search of their influence, money and votes.
LEAD: A Long Island planning agency recommended today that almost 5,000 houses and businesses on Fire Island and in other shore resort areas threatened by erosion be gradually eliminated and that the barrier islands they stand on be returned to nature.
LEAD: Western European governments plan to announce an agreement later this month to establish a free-trade zone that includes the 12 nations of the European Community and 6 others, diplomats and community officials said in recent days.
LEAD: A Hispanic police officer was found guilty of manslaughter today in the killings of two unarmed black men that set off rioting in the mostly black Overtown section of Miami. The killings, which occurred in January, have come to symbolize the ethnic tensions of this troubled city.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 6, 1989, covering December 8, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Drew Doughty, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Drew Doughty is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman and alternate captain for the Los Angeles Kings of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected second overall by the Kings in the 2008 NHL entry draft from the Guelph Storm of the OHL, where he was twice voted the league's top offensive defenceman. He is considered to be one of the NHL's top defencemen of the 2010's.
1989Jen Ledger, English musician and singer[†]
Jennifer Carole Ledger is an English and American musician who serves as the drummer and co-vocalist for the Christian rock band Skillet. At the age of 18, she became Skillet's drummer when Lori Peters retired.
1989Andrew Nicholson, Canadian basketball player[†]
Andrew Fabian Nicholson is a Canadian professional basketball player for the Daegu KOGAS Pegasus of the Korean Basketball League (KBL). He played college basketball for the St. Bonaventure Bonnies before being selected by the Orlando Magic with the 19th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draft.
1989Jesse Sene-Lefao, New Zealand rugby league player[†]
Jesse Sene-Lefao is a Samoa international rugby league footballer who plays as a prop or second-row forward for the Sheffield Eagles in the RFL Championship.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]