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In 1986, the world population was approximately 4,958,072,838 people[†]
1986Matt Helders, English drummer[†]
Matthew Helders is an English musician, singer, and songwriter, who is the drummer and occasional singer of the rock band Arctic Monkeys. He has also released a studio album and collaborated with artists such as Dean Fertita, Josh Homme and Iggy Pop.
1986Haldun Taner, Turkish playwright and author (born 1915)[†]
Haldun Taner was a well-known Turkish playwright and short story writer.
1986Canadian Patrick Morrow becomes the first person to climb each of the Seven Summits.[†]
Patrick Allan Morrow, is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber. In 1986 he was the first person to climb the Seven Summits in the Carstensz-Version.
International Top democracies voiced satisfaction over their economic and political agreements at their 12th annual meeting. The Tokyo conference of leaders of the seven major industrial nations of the non-Communist world ended with a lavish formal banquet where they met Crown Prince Akihito. [ Page A1, Column 6. ] Residents near the crippled plant in the Ukraine were not evacuated until 36 hours after radioactivity began spewing from a damaged reactor, an official in Moscow said. Boris Y. Shcherbina, a Deputy Prime Minister and chief of the special commission investigating the April 26 accident, also suggested at a news conference that local officials had initially underestimated the scope of the accident. Izvestia put the number of people evacuated at 40,000. [ A1:2. ]
Sitting on a stoop in Chinatown, Yick-Man Tse watched with satsfaction yesterday as large chunks of Park Street were bulldozed into a pile. ''It's good for the kids, the old people like to come here to breathe the fresh air,'' Mr. Tse said. In a reversal of the way things in cities usually work, a park - in this case, Columbus Park in Chinatown - is taking over part of a street and a parking lot. The expansion of Columbus Park is part of a joint effort by the city's Departments of Transportation and Parks and Recreation to identify underused bits of pavement and add them to existing parks, turn them into ''parklets'' or simply add color to a traffic island.
UNLIKE other residents of the Upper East Side of Manhattan, the wife of the French Consul General will not be found shopping in her neighborhood's food markets. Much as Monique Gadaud would like to patronize the Rosedale Fish Market and Lobel Brothers' meat market, E.A.T. or even the Oriental fruit and vegetable markets that dot each block, she says she cannot afford them. Not when she has to entertain at hundreds of lunches, teas, receptions and black-tie dinners promoting France, French commerce and French culture. In January and February alone, 74 people came to lunch, 40 people to dinner and 459 for cocktails. ''It's like running a restaurant, and catering,'' said Mrs. Gadaud, speaking in the drawing room of the six-story Fifth Avenue town house that is both the consulate offices and the Gadauds' home. ''In the first year there were 2,000 people who ate something in this house.'' There is also, on average, an overnight guest every day. ''That includes breakfast, and that costs money,'' Mrs. Gadaud said. ''It came as a big blow when I learned I had to run a hotel, too.'' Most of it is run at the Government's expense. A chef, butler, chambermaid, car and driver come with the job. But the Gadauds must periodically dip into their own pockets to make ends meet.
Nicholas Athans, as his name suggests, has an affinity for Greece. Indeed, as owner and president of Tourlite, a New York tour operator, Mr. Athans usually sends as many as 50,000 passengers to Italy and Greece for their summer vacation. This month, however, he is hoping to persuade people to visit Rio. Or Venezuela. Or maybe Jamaica. As fear of terrorism spreads following the American air raid on Libya last month, tourists are shunning Mr. Athans's usual destinations, so he is trying to direct them to others. ''I don't know if we'll make it happen,'' he said. ''There's no history of summer traffic to those destinations. But people have to go somewhere or stay home.''
The Economic Summit Leaders said they were pleased by progress toward new trade talks and a revamping of the world monetary system. President Reagan's top aides declared that his Administration was coming away from the conference with real accomplishments. A firm date was not set for trade talks, but a preliminary session is to begin in September. The monetary plan calls for stabilizing currency values through a system based on monitoring key economic indicators. But the nations failed to come to grips with the divisive issue of farm export subsidies. [ Page A1. ] Most leaders achieved their main objectives without having to make punishing concessions, officials involved in the talks said. [ A11. ] President Reagan had an unusual influence at the conference, his sixth such gathering. He has inspired other countries with the spirit of Reaganomics, if not all the substance. [ A1. ] The agreement for economic coordination was greeted with a mixture of praise for its far-reaching scope and skepticism at its effect. [ A10. ]
Leaders of the major industrial democracies, ending their 12th annual gathering Tuesday night, expressed satisfaction that they had confronted terrorism while taking important economic steps toward new trade talks and a revamping of the world monetary system. President Reagan said at a news conference here this morning that the meeting had been ''the most successful of the six that I have attended.'' He added, ''All we sought to accomplish at the summit was achieved.'' The news conference, carried live on television, was seen in the United States on Tuesday night. Mr. Reagan left Tokyo shortly after noon, local time, for the 16-hour flight to Washington aboard Air Force One.
Most of the top Democratic public and party officials in the state and city are boycotting the annual dinner of the Bronx Democratic organization tonight because of the indictments of Stanley M. Friedman, the Bronx party chairman. As he prepared for the dinner, Mr. Friedman and other defendants were told to appear today in Federal court in Manhattan to face expanded charges, according to lawyers familiar with the case. Federal prosecutors have said they planned further charges that would supersede a Federal indictment last month of Mr. Friedman and six others. The original indictment repeated many of the allegations made earlier by a state grand jury, which charged Mr. Friedman with bribery for his role in helping Citisource Inc. obtain a contract to provide hand-held computers for the parking agency.
Wall Street arbitragers bought the stock of the Sperry Corporation heavily yesterday, pushing its price above the $70-a-share offer of the Burroughs Corporation. Rising $6.125 a share, Sperry's stock closed at $71.25. Coming on top of a $10 jump Monday after Burroughs made its surprise bid, the gain was viewed by traders as a sign that the hostile Burroughs offer was just the opening volley in a developing takeover battle between two computer giants that would result in an even higher bid for Sperry.
The nation's 100 biggest black-owned companies generally reflected the pattern of the economy as a whole in 1985, with construction and media companies showing strong sales results and energy and manufacturing concerns reporting more lackluster performances. But there were some notable exceptions, according to the 14th annual survey on the companies published by Black Enterprise magazine. Black-owned companies that sold computer and electronic data services generally showed strong results last year, while such concerns in the general economy were less robust, the survey found. The survey results were published in the June issue of Black Enterprise.
A Jordanian arrested in connection with the explosion in a West Berlin discotheque last month has confessed to an earlier terrorist bombing in the city, saying it was organized by the Syrian Embassy in East Berlin, according to security sources. The suspect, Ahmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi, was also said to have told the police that he had received training in Syria and that the explosives for the earlier attack, on March 29 on the German-Arab Friendship Society in West Berlin, were picked up from the Syrian Mission in East Berlin. Manfred Ganschow, the head of a special police commission investigating the explosion at La Belle Discotheque on April 5, said at a news conference in West Berlin that two other Arabs had been arrested in connection with the March 29 bombing and had admitted involvement along with Mr. Hazi, 35 years old, and his brother, Nezar Nawaf Mansour Hendawi. Mr. Hendawi, who has been charged in London with trying to blow up an Israeli airliner last month, was depicted by the police as the ringleader of the attack on the German-Arab Friendship Society, which wounded seven Arabs. Mr. Ganschow said the brothers had tried to radicalize the organization, which helps Arabs adjust to living in the city, then took revenge after getting into a fight with some of its members.
Radioactivity spewed from a damaged nuclear reactor in the Ukraine for 36 hours before people living near the plant were evacuated, the official heading the investigation of the accident said today. The official, Boris Y. Shcherbina, a Deputy Prime Minister, also suggested at a news conference here that local officials had initially underestimated the scope of the accident. Lack of 'Correct Assessment' ''The first information we obtained was not the same which we obtained when we were in the area,'' he said. ''The local experts had not made a correct assessment of the accident.''
''All we sought to accomplish at the summit was achieved.'' - President Reagan. [ A1:6. ]