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October 22, 1986

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Headlines from October 22, 1986

NEW YORK

By Florence Fabricant

WITH the leaves adrift, the weather cooler and the price of gasoline more bearable, the countryside beckons. Within the most resolute urbanite there is often a yen to watch the swift descent from summer to autumn, and New Yorkers are well placed to observe the fall spectacle. Motorists can head toward the hills and waterways of New York, New Jersey and Conneticut. For those less inspired by autumnal views, picking apples or shopping for antiques and crafts can be part of a foliage field trip. The impulse, though, is to get out and about before the last flaming leaf has fallen.

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BILL WOULD OPEN UP POLICE REVIEW

By Richard Levine

A bill to open the Police Department Civilian Complaint Review Board to members from outside the department - an issue that prompted a citywide referendum two decades ago - was approved yesterday by a City Council committee. The Public Safety Committee's 5-to-2 vote sends the measure to the full Council. It was taken after Mayor Koch had urged the panel ''not to wait for an incident'' to approve the bill, which has been under consideration for several years. ''This is the time to do it,'' the Mayor said. He added that although people on the ''extremes'' would not like the legislation, ''the broad middle will feel better if there are people who are not in the Police Department that are making the judgments.''

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MOBIL OPERATING INCOME DOWN 15.3% IN QUARTER

By Eric Schmitt

The Mobil Corporation, hurt by the depressed price of crude oil, reported yesterday that its third-quarter operating profits dropped 15.3 percent, to $332 million, or 82 cents a share, from $392 million, or 96 cents a share, in the comparable period a year ago. Mobil, the nation's second-largest oil company, after Exxon, said its revenues were down 23.7 percent, to $11.18 billion, from $14.66 billion a year ago. The company said that it would take a $150 million charge against earnings from the sale of its packaging unit, the Container Corporation of America.

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ALBANY SPEAKER'S AIDE INDICTED ON MAIL FRAUD AND TAX CHARGES

By Ralph Blumenthal

Richard L. Rubin, a special counsel to the New York State Assembly Speaker and the former executive secretary of the Queens Democratic Party, was indicted yesterday by a Federal grand jury in Brooklyn on 14 counts of mail fraud and tax evasion. The indictment charged Mr. Rubin, who is 46 years old, with defrauding the state of more than $49,000 by inducing two members of the State Assembly to put two secretaries in Mr. Rubin's law firm on their state office payrolls. The two Democratic legislators were granted immunity from prosecution and cooperated with the grand jury, said Andrew J. Maloney, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York. The two secretaries also cooperated and were not charged, he said. $1.56 Million in Fines But in response to questions from reporters, Mr. Maloney said the legislators ''didn't behave properly.''

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KEEP COVERED, TOP COURT TELLS NUDE SUNBATHER

By Michael Norman

A three-year-old state law that prohibits nude sunbathing was unanimously upheld yesterday by New York's highest court. In its ruling, the State Court of Appeals affirmed the conviction of a 39-year-old computer analyst from New Rochelle, Robert Hollman, who was fined $140 in a Queens civil court in 1984 for removing his clothes at Jacob A. Riis Park in Neponsit in the Rockaways, Queens. Mr. Hollman had challenged the law on the grounds that it violated his constitutional right to freedom of expression, that it was too far-reaching and that it infringed on his ''fundamental right to appear nude in public.''

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 22, 1986, covering October 22, 1986.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi

    Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  2. 2
    Album cover for Fore! by Huey Lewis & The News

    Fore!

    Huey Lewis & The News

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    7
  3. 3
    Album cover for Third Stage by Boston

    Third Stage

    Boston

    Last week
    15
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    2
  4. 4
    Album cover for Top Gun by Soundtrack

    Top Gun

    Soundtrack

    Last week
    3
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    21
  5. 5
    Album cover for Dancing On The Ceiling by Lionel Richie

    Dancing On The Ceiling

    Lionel Richie

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    9

Notable Births

Chancellor (musician)

1986Chancellor, South Korean-American musician[†]

Kim Jung-seung, better known by his stage name Chancellor (챈슬러), is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. Born in Seoul, his family immigrated to the United States in his youth where he lived until returning to South Korea in 2009. He debuted in the trio One Way the following year, which found little success. He partnered with Park Jang-geun to form the songwriting and production duo Duble Sidekick, which garnered success in 2012. Chancellor left the team two years later to pursue a solo career. He released his debut studio album My Full Name in 2016.

Kenji Ebisawa

1986Kenji Ebisawa, Japanese actor[†]

Kenji Ebisawa is a Japanese actor, best known for the role of Gunpei Ishihara/Go-on Black in the 2008 tokusatsu series Engine Sentai Go-onger.

Kyle Gallner

1986Kyle Gallner, American actor[†]

Kyle Steven Gallner is an American actor. He began acting in 2000, earning recognition for playing Bart Allen in the superhero series Smallville (2004–2009), Cassidy "Beaver" Casablancas in the mystery drama series Veronica Mars (2005–2006), and Reed Garrett in the police drama series CSI: NY (2006–2010).

Kara Lang

1986Kara Lang, Canadian soccer player[†]

Kara Elise Lang Romero is a former Canadian soccer player and current sports analyst, who represented her country in two FIFA World Cups and the Olympic Games, and played club soccer for Vancouver Whitecaps Women. She is the youngest woman to be named to Canada National Women's Team, making her National Team debut on 1 March 2002 at the Algarve Cup in Portugal at age 15. Lang retired on 5 January 2011 at the age of 24 due to recurring knee and ACL injuries. Lang began a comeback in 2013, with her ambition being to help Canada in the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup, but suffered a third ACL injury in February 2014, effectively ending her comeback. She now has two sons and a daughter with professional baseball player Ricky Romero. She was inducted into the Canadian Soccer Hall of Fame as a player in November 2015.

Ștefan Radu

1986Ștefan Radu, Romanian footballer[†]

Ștefan Daniel Radu is a Romanian former professional footballer who played as a left-back or a centre-back.

1986Akihiro Sato, Japanese footballer[†]

Akihiro Sato is a Japanese football player for Tokushima Vortis.

Notable Deaths

Jane Dornacker

1986Jane Dornacker, American musician, comedian, and reporter (born 1947)[†]

Jane Carroll Dornacker was an American rock musician, comedian and traffic reporter. She gained fame as an associate songwriter for the San Francisco rock band The Tubes; she also led her own band, Leila and the Snakes.

1986Thorgeir Stubø, Norwegian guitarist and composer (born 1943)[†]

Thorgeir Stubø was a Norwegian jazz guitarist and composer. He was the father of jazz guitarist Håvard Stubø, jazz singer Kjersti Stubø and theater director Eirik Stubø, and he was the grandfather of electronica musician Mathias Stubø.

Ye Jianying

1986Ye Jianying, Chinese general and politician, Head of State of the People's Republic of China (born 1897)[†]

Ye Jianying was a Chinese Communist revolutionary leader and politician, one of the Ten Marshals of the People's Republic of China. He was the top military leader in the 1976 coup that overthrew the Gang of Four and ended the Cultural Revolution, and was the key supporter of Deng Xiaoping in his power struggle with Hua Guofeng between 1978 and 1981, which ended in Hua fading into political obscurity. In his capacity as Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Ye served as China's head of state from 1978 until 1983.

Albert Szent-Györgyi

1986Albert Szent-Györgyi, Hungarian-American physiologist and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1893)[†]

Albert Imre Szent-Györgyi de Nagyrápolt was a Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1937. He is credited with first isolating vitamin C and discovering many of the components and reactions of the citric acid cycle and the molecular basis of muscle contraction. He was also active in the Hungarian Resistance during World War II, and entered Hungarian politics after the war.

Historical Context for October 22, 1986

In 1986, the world population was approximately 4,958,072,838 people[†]