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In 1986, the world population was approximately 4,958,072,838 people[†]
1986Brett Kern, American football player[†]
Brett Alan Kern is an American former professional football player who was a punter in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Toledo Rockets and was signed by the Denver Broncos as an undrafted free agent in 2008.
1986Jiddu Krishnamurti, Indian-American philosopher and author (born 1895)[†]
Jiddu Krishnamurti was an Indian philosopher, speaker, writer, and spiritual figure. Adopted by members of the Theosophical tradition as a child, he was raised to fill the advanced role of World Teacher, but in adulthood he rejected this mantle and distanced himself from the related religious movement. He spent the rest of his life speaking to groups and individuals around the world; many of these talks have been published. He also wrote many books, among them The First and Last Freedom (1954) and Commentaries on Living (1956–60). His last public talk was in January 1986, a month before his death at his home in Ojai, California.
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When the Duvalier family fled Haiti on Feb. 7, they left behind a looted treasury and a country with one of the lowest per capita incomes in the third world. Despite this bleak legacy of nearly 29 years of dictatorship, the prevailing mood among business people here is one of hope. ''I'm extremely optimistic,'' said Claude Levy, executive director of the Manufacturers Association of Haiti. Its members employ 85 percent of the industrial workers here. Confident that Haiti's new junta is serious about implanting democracy here, Mr. Levy and other executives said an open political system would reduce corruption and polish Haiti's image for foreign investors.
Because of a mechanical error, a front-page article on Saturday about organ transplants appeared without a byline. The writer was Andrew H. Malcolm.
John Cardinal O'Connor has brought a fresh assertiveness to the role of Archbishop of New York and has expanded the influence of the Roman Catholic Church on the life and politics of the city, government and church officials say. In his less than two years as Archbishop, these officials say, the Cardinal has reversed the image of reticence the church had acquired during the previous 15 years and has heightened its political impact. He has done this, the officials say, by means of a forceful personality and a remarkable gift for engaging the media. Whether by intuition or by a shrewd understanding of contemporary political dynamics, the Cardinal has used this gift to gain significant leverage in a world where the ability to capture the media's attention translates into political power. A Formidable Adversary As a result, government leaders such as Mayor Koch see the Cardinal as a formidable adversary in matters on which they disagree.
Authoritative Administration officials said today that they expected high-level resignations from the Philippine Cabinet and financial institutions to increase pressure on President Ferdinand E. Marcos to seek accommodations with the opposition. The officials insisted that the Administration was not promoting desertions from the Marcos camp, but was expecting them based on mounting unhappiness among Marcos supporters. No names were mentioned. The officials also said Mr. Marcos's acceptance today of Gen. Fabian C. Ver's resignation as armed forces chief of staff was not enough to quell the dissatisfaction. They said their impression was that General Ver would remain head of intelligence and security. But they said Washington wanted the general out of power entirely.
Harry Van Arsdale Jr., who was a key force in organizing New York City's teachers, taxi drivers and hospital workers. Page D7. (NYT, 1970)
The domestic cement industry, battered by the recession earlier in the decade, has been slowed in its comeback efforts by a surge in low-cost imports, industry officials say. Outpacing a reviving demand for the material in the last few years, the imports have been cited as causing weak prices and depressed earnings. Now, however, some industry experts say the situation should stabilize and perhaps even improve a bit. The American market is looking less attractive to foreign suppliers because of the weakening dollar, they say, and imports should level off or decline slightly in 1986. At the same time, they note, domestic consumption is expected to surpass the industry's 1973 peak, spurred by a boom in construction.
International Corazon C. Aquino claimed victory in the Philippine presidential election and announced a program of strikes and boycotts that she said would be the start of a nonviolent campaign to bring down the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mr. Marcos, speaking a day after the National Assembly declared him the election winner, said he expected his opponent's protests to ''die on the vine.'' At a news conference held while Mrs. Aquino was addressing a rally of hundreds of thousands of people, Mr. Marcos announced that he had accepted the resignation of the armed forces Chief of Staff, Gen. Fabian C. Ver, whose removal had been urged by the United States. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Desertions from the Marcos camp were expected by authoritative Reagan Administration officials. They said that they were looking for high-level resignations and defections from the Philippine Cabinet and financial institutions and that these would add to the pressures on President Marcos to seek accommodations with the opposition. [ A1:5. ]
Corazon C. Aquino, claiming victory in the Philippine presidential election, announced a program of strikes and boycotts today that she said would be the start of a nonviolent campaign to bring down the Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mr. Marcos, speaking a day after the National Assembly proclaimed him the winner of an election marked by widespread fraud and violence, said he expected his opponent's protests to ''die on the vine.'' ''I am the President,'' he said. ''They are not going to drive me out, because the people are behind me.'' General Ver Is Replaced At a news conference held while Mrs. Aquino was addressing a rally of hundreds of thousands of people, Mr. Marcos also announced he had accepted the resignation of Gen. Fabian C. Ver as Chief of Staff of the armed forces.
Mayor Koch yesterday denied an assertion by Roy M. Cohn, the Manhattan lawyer, that the Mayor's attacks on Jimmy Carter during Mr. Carter's 1980 Presidential re-election campaign were part of a deal to gain Republican support in the 1981 Mayoral race. Mr. Cohn made his assertion on the WNBC-TV program ''News Forum'' yesterday. Mr. Koch, who won the Republican endorsement in 1981, said in an interview that his first meetings with the Republicans on the matter were not held until after the Reagan-Carter election.
The pole vault, except for a few exceptions, has rarely produced the kind of intense, personal rivalries that can sustain the public's interest. That has changed this winter as a collection of talented, and outspoken, vaulters makes its way across the country in a series of meets that are beginning to resemble a soap opera. This afternoon, perhaps the most intriguing of the group, Sergei Bubka, the outdoor world-record holder from the Soviet Union, highlighted the Bally Invitational here at the Rosemont Horizon by winning the event with a vault of 19 feet 3/4 inch in front of 7,641 appreciative fans who did not seem to mind that Billy Olson, who has made the best indoor vault, withdrew from the meet just hours before it began because of fatigue. Another no-show was Joe Dial, the American outdoor-record holder at 19-2 1/4. One of the reasons Dial failed to clear a height at the Millrose Games in New York on Friday was because his poles did not arrive in time for the meet and he was forced to use borrowed ones. Today, he withdrew because while he was here his poles were in New York.
The Chase Manhattan Bank's acquisition of a small, insolvent commercial bank in St. Petersburg, Fla., gives the banking giant a coveted toehold in one the nation's most lucrative state economies, industry analysts said yesterday. By acquiring Park Bank of Florida from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for $62.6 million on Friday, Chase became the first New York bank holding company to obtain a full banking license in Florida. Analysts said that gives Chase the legal foundation from which to acquire other banks in Florida. ''This is a first step,'' said Lawrence W. Cohn, banking analyst for Merrill Lynch Capital Markets. ''The next step is to build a full-scale branch system.''
As millionaires' week in salary arbitration began, the Yankees yesterday tried to induce Don Mattingly to stay away from the arbitration table with a Dwight Gooden offer, but Mattingly rejected the $1.32 million salary. Both sides said they expected to be in arbitration at the scheduled time tomorrow. Mattingly's is one of six cases on the schedule this week in which the player will seek a salary of $1 million or more. One of the six players, John Tudor, most likely will settle on a new contract with St. Louis before his hearing.