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LEAD: The State Department, which solicited $10 million in nonlethal aid for the Nicaraguan rebels from the Sultan of Brunei, lost track of the money, according to a secret Senate report, and has no idea how it was spent.
LEAD: Strikes Spread in France A strike movement spread from France's railroads to the state-run electrical power company and the Paris subway. Page A3. Amtrak Signals Tested Signals that should have warned a freight engineer before the crash with an Amtrak train worked in tests afterward, officials said.
LEAD: Wall Street is now three-for-three in 1987 as stock prices rose again yesterday, but this time only by a moderate amount. Still, the move pushed the Dow Jones industrial average a bit closer to the 2,000 level.
LEAD: FOR years, much of the cooking in Ireland's restaurants has been of the ''Gravy, sir? One lump or two?'' school. The current 23 percent tax on all restaurant bills has not exactly helped, nor has the law against serving any liquor except wine; not even Irish whisky or beer is allowed.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 7, 1987, covering January 7, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Bon Jovi
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Huey Lewis & The News
1987Davide Astori, Italian footballer (died 2018)[†]
Davide Astori was an Italian professional footballer who played as a central defender.
1987Stefan Babović, Serbian footballer[†]
Stefan Babović is a Serbian former professional footballer who played as a deep-lying playmaker. He is the current chief operations officer (COO) of Victoria Group.
1987Lyndsy Fonseca, American actress[†]
Lyndsy Marie Fonseca is an American actress. She began her career by appearing as Colleen Carlton on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred between 2001 and 2005. Thereafter, she had a series of other recurring roles, including Penny Mosby on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, Donna on HBO's Big Love, and Dylan Mayfair on the fourth season of the ABC television series Desperate Housewives.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]