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LEAD: As Federal investigators press their inquiry into the collapse of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association, the biggest failure in the current savings industry crisis, a number of regulators, auditors and other experts say accounting and auditing safeguards also collapsed during the Lincoln fiasco.
LEAD: ON a Wednesday morning in London last September, Peter Palumbo, the chairman of the Arts Council in Britain, met with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher to lobby for more money for the council. Ten Downing Street is only one of the historic stops in Mr. Palumbo's life.
LEAD: The Hillsborough Holdings Corporation, the company formed by Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Company to acquire the Jim Walter Corporation last year for $2.4 billion, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today after its bondholders rejected a plan to overhaul the company's finances.
LEAD: Some matters that were subjects of this column in the last year continued to unfold after they were first reported. Here's an update:
LEAD: State housing officials said today that they plan to enter Connecticut's glutted condominium market and buy homes at bargain prices to rent or sell to moderate- and low-income families.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 27, 1989, covering December 28, 1989.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
1989Austin Barnes, American baseball player[†]
Austin Scott Barnes is an American professional baseball catcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the Arizona State Sun Devils. Barnes was selected by the Florida Marlins in the eighth round of the 2011 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut with the Dodgers in 2015 and helped the team win the 2020 and 2024 World Series. He has also played for the Mexico national baseball team.
1989Mackenzie Rosman, American actress[†]
Mackenzie Rosman is an American actress. She is known for her television role as Ruthie Camden on The WB's long-running drama series 7th Heaven.
1989Hermann Oberth, Romanian-German physicist and engineer (born 1894)[†]
Hermann Julius Oberth was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and rocket pioneer of Transylvanian Saxon descent. Oberth supported Nazi Germany's war effort and received the War Merit Cross in 1943.
1989A magnitude 5.6 earthquake hits Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia, killing 13 people.[†]
The 1989 Newcastle earthquake was an intraplate earthquake that occurred in Newcastle, New South Wales, on Thursday 28 December. The shock measured 5.6 on the Richter scale and was one of Australia's most serious natural disasters, killing 13 people and injuring more than 160. The damage bill has been estimated at A$4 billion, including an insured loss of about $1 billion.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]