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LEAD: The United States has won a 20-year fight with the European Community over European soybean subsidies, the United States trade representative, Carla A. Hills, said today. American farmers have complained that the subsidies cost them hundreds of millions of dollars a year in lost exports.
LEAD: Her perfumes line a bathroom shelf, his pipes wait by his desk, and their clothes, a reminder of just how small they both were, still hang in wardrobes, awaiting the call of a garden party or a game of golf or just another of the ''who-was-there?'' dinner parties for which the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were famous.
LEAD: Prague Party Leader Out Czechoslovakia's Communist Party ousted Karel Urbanek as their leader, and replaced him with a former Prime Minister. Page A14. Rumanian Leader Speaks Nicolae Ceausescu addressed Rumanians, justifying a crackdown on protests and blaming 'fascist, reactionary groups' for the unrest.
LEAD: Police Chief Lee P. Brown, who will take over as New York City's Police Commissioner next month, describes himself as a stranger to New York and says he will not make any major changes in the current system until he learns his way around.
LEAD: In a finding that could ultimately open up an entirely new approach to prenatal testing, researchers have determined the sex of a group of fetuses by testing pregnant women's blood.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 20, 1989, covering December 21, 1989.
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Phil Collins
Paula Abdul
1989Mark Ingram II, American football player[†]
Mark Valentino Ingram II is an American former professional football running back and current on-air personality for Fox Sports. He played 12 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Alabama Crimson Tide, becoming the first Alabama player to win the Heisman Trophy after rushing for 1,658 yards in 2009 en route to winning the 2010 BCS National Championship Game.
1989Tamannaah, Indian actress[†]
Tamanna Bhatia, known professionally as Tamannaah Bhatia, is an Indian actress who predominantly works in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. Having appeared in 88 films, she has received several awards, including two Santosham Film Awards, two SIIMA Awards and the Kalaimamani Award. She is considered as one of the highest-paid actresses in South Indian cinema.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]