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LEAD: Bess Myerson, New York City's Cultural Affairs Commissioner, announced yesterday that she would step aside from her city post for up to 90 days, pending a special city investigation of issues stemming from a grand jury inquiry into a city contractor who is Ms. Myerson's friend.
LEAD: It was an unusual scene in a country famous for harmonious labor relations: hundreds of union members shouting at each other and finally throwing punches as they debated whether to go along with a Government plan to privatize the national railways.
LEAD: The five-day-old Iranian attack against the Iraqi defenses along the Shatt al Arab waterway south of the strategic city of Basra appears to be losing momentum in the face of fierce Iraqi artillery bombardments and air strikes.
LEAD: A 49-year-old airline pilot was charged with murder today after the state police and forensic experts said they had found parts of his wife's body near a lake close to their home in suburban Newtown in northern Fairfield County.
LEAD: Four thousand police officers and firefighters lined Fifth Avenue yesterday for four blocks for the funeral of Officer Francis J. La Sala, who died Saturday from injuries suffered while helping to rescue a dozen people from a burning building.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 1987, covering January 14, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Jess Fishlock, Welsh footballer[†]
Jessica Anne Fishlock is a Welsh professional footballer and coach who plays as a midfielder for Seattle Reign FC and the Wales national team. She is Wales’s all-time record goal scorer. She previously played for Bristol Academy in England's FA Women's Super League, AZ Alkmaar in the Dutch Eredivisie, Rangers Ladies in the Scottish Women's Premier League, Melbourne Victory and Melbourne City in Australia's W-League, as well as Bundesliga club FFC Frankfurt in Germany.
1987Atsushi Hashimoto, Japanese actor[†]
Atsushi Hashimoto is a Japanese actor who is affiliated with Amuse, Inc. He played the role of Kai Ozu, the main character of the 2005 Super Sentai TV series Mahou Sentai Magiranger.
1987Turgut Demirağ, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)[†]
Turgut Demirağ was a Turkish film producer, director and screenwriter. He directed 16 films between 1947 and 1973. His 1964 film Love and Grudge was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival.
1987Douglas Sirk, German-Swiss director and screenwriter (born 1900)[†]
Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Sirk started his career in Germany as a stage and screen director, but he left for Hollywood in 1937 after his Jewish wife was persecuted by the Nazis.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]