in most respects 1989 seemed like a normal year : a soviet sub sank in norway ; tiananmen square in china ; the exxon valdez ; salmon rushdie sentenced to death ; jane fonda , mike tyson , and bruce springsteen all got divorced ; the episcopal church hired a female bishop ; poland allowed striking unions ; voyager went to neptune ; a san francisco earthquake flattened highways ; and russia , the us , france , and england all conducted nuclear tests .