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LEAD: Mayor Koch and 23 black leaders agreed at City Hall yesterday to work together to attack what they called ''pervasive and systemic'' racism in the city.
LEAD: President Reagan has told Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar that he will ask Congress to restore millions of dollars in financial cuts that pushed the United Nations close to bankruptcy, United Nations and American officials said today.
LEAD: Queens District Attorney John J. Santucci, who has been stymied in his efforts to prosecute the Howard Beach case, is considering asking Federal authorities to take on the death of Michael Griffith as a civil-rights violation, city law-enforcement officals said yesterday.
LEAD: Wider Audience for Cuomo Governor Cuomo, widely regarded as a possible Presidential candidate, said he would travel to five states in the next few months. Page 29. Canadian Trade Anger Canadian industry condemned an export tax being imposed to settle a dispute with the United States over lumber trade.
LEAD: President Reagan, in a dramatic shift aimed at compromise with a Congress already preparing to defy him on the issue, is doubling his proposal for Federal spending on water treatment facilities, Administration officials said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 31, 1986, covering January 1, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Huey Lewis & The News
Gilbert Brulé, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Gilbert Jean Marco Brulé is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre.
Meryl Davis, American ice dancer[†]
Meryl Davis is an American former competitive ice dancer. With partner Charlie White, she is the 2014 Olympic champion, the 2010 Olympic silver medalist, a two-time World champion, five-time Grand Prix Final champion (2009–2013), three-time Four Continents champion and six-time U.S. national champion (2009–2014). They also won a bronze medal in the team event at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Patric Hörnqvist, Swedish ice hockey player[†]
Patric Gösta Hörnqvist is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He played in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Nashville Predators, Pittsburgh Penguins, and Florida Panthers.
1987The Isleta Pueblo tribe elect Verna Williamson to be their first female governor.[†]
Pueblo of Isleta is an unincorporated community and Tanoan pueblo in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States, originally established in the c. 14th century. The Southern Tiwa name of the pueblo is Shiewhibak (Shee-eh-whíb-bak) meaning "a knife laid on the ground to play whib", a traditional footrace. Its people are a federally recognized tribe.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]