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LEAD: Amy Anderson, a legal secretary from Jamaica, Queens, was looking for some stray puppies one night last year in what she thought was a garbage-filled lot. As she and two companions picked their way through splintered furniture, old tires and other trash, the beam from her flashlight fell on a tire hanging on a small upright stone.
LEAD: In their zeal to cut the fat out of Government, Reagan Administration officials also cut the managerial muscle that was responsible for watching over the Government's financial liabilities and obligations, reports by Congressional and Government investigators show.
LEAD: President Bush today called the weekend slaying of an American Marine officer by Panamanian soldiers ''an enormous outrage.'' With tensions high, a United States military officer in Panama City wounded a uniformed Panamanian a few hours after the President spoke.
LEAD: U.S. Put Bomb Production Over Safety, Report Says Although the Government was warned before 1950 that nuclear weapons workers were being exposed to dangerous radiation, it decided not to tell them, a Congressional report says. Officials ''swept the problem under the carpet,'' Senator John Glenn said.
LEAD: The envelopes were piled more than two feet high on the floor of Jonathan Poole's office. There were thousands of them - perhaps 4,500 in all - and they filled the small room in a sprawl at least seven feet long and five feet wide.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 13, 1989, covering December 19, 1989.
Billy Joel
Milli Vanilli
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
New Kids on the Block
1989Yong Jun-hyung, South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and producer[â ]
Yong Jun-hyung, known mononymously as Junhyung, is a South Korean singer-songwriter, record producer and actor. Junhyung rose to fame as a member of South Korean boy band Highlight, formed in 2009. He departed from Highlight in 2019, amidst a controversy where he admitted to having watched a video of singer Jung Joon-young making out with a woman, which was filmed with consent but shared without.
1989MichaÅ MasÅowski, Polish footballer[â ]
MichaÅ Adam MasÅowski is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. On 18 January 2014, he made his debut for the Poland national team in a friendly against Norway.
1989Kousei Miura, Japanese jockey[â ]
Kousei Miura is a Japanese jockey who is affiliated with the Japan Racing Association. He won the 2008 JRA Award for Newcomer Jockey with the Most Victories after winning 91 races in a single year as a rookie jockey, surpassing Yutaka Take's previous record of 69 victories.
1989Hamza Riazuddin, English cricketer[â ]
Hamza Riazuddin is an English former cricketer.
1989Stella Gibbons, English journalist, author, and poet (born 1902)[â ]
Stella Dorothea Gibbons was an English author, journalist, and poet. She established her reputation with her first novel, Cold Comfort Farm (1932), which has been reprinted many times. Although she was active as a writer for half a century, none of her later 22 novels or other literary worksâwhich included a sequel to Cold Comfort Farmâachieved the same critical or popular success. Much of her work was long out of print before a modest revival in the 21st century.
1989Kirill Mazurov, Belarusian Soviet politician (born 1914)[â ]
Kirill Trofimovich Mazurov was a Soviet partisan, politician, and one of the leaders of the Belarusian resistance during World War II who governed the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Byelorussia from 1956 until 1965, when he became a member of the Politburo of the CPSU.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[â ]