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LEAD: Drug use inside prisons across the United States has become a major problem with a variety of consequences, including threats to prison order, violence among inmates and corruption of guards and other employees.
LEAD: The Vatican blamed the American Government yesterday for the impasse over Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega's fate, calling the United States an ''occupying power'' with no right to demand that the ousted dictator be handed over to its forces.
LEAD: After coping with one last emergency, a fire and a blackout, Edward I. Koch walked out of City Hall for the last time as Mayor yesterday, his tenure virtually at an end. Page 27.
LEAD: The Polish Senate approved a landmark economic package yesterday that should place Poland far in front of other Eastern bloc nations in moving from Communism to capitalism.
LEAD: Nicaragua's Ambassador to Panama said United States troops searched his residence on Friday, and the Nicaraguan Government responded by ordering 120 American diplomats and embassy workers to leave Nicaragua.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 27, 1989, covering December 30, 1989.
Phil Collins
Milli Vanilli
Billy Joel
Janet Jackson
Paula Abdul
1989Tyler Anderson, American baseball player[†]
Tyler John Anderson is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Colorado Rockies, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Seattle Mariners and Los Angeles Dodgers. He played college baseball for the University of Oregon. The Rockies selected Anderson in the first round, with the 20th overall selection, of the 2011 MLB draft. He made his MLB debut in 2016. He is a two-time All-Star.
1989Yoon Bo-ra, South Korean singer, rapper and actress[†]
Yoon Bo-ra, better known by the mononym Bora, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and actress. She is a former member of the South Korean girl group Sistar and its sub-group Sistar19.
1989Ryan Sheckler, American skateboarder and entrepreneur[†]
Ryan Allen Sheckler is an American professional skateboarder and entrepreneur, and the star of the MTV-produced reality television series Life of Ryan, which ran from 2007 to 2009. He also starred in four seasons of the short-format video series Sheckler Sessions on Red Bull TV. Sheckler was listed in Fox Weekly's "15 Most Influential Skateboarders of All-Time" article.
1989Kateřina Vaňková, Czech tennis player[†]
Kateřina Vaňková is a Czech former professional tennis player.
In 1989, the world population was approximately 5,234,431,732 people[†]