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LEAD: Longest Steel Strike Ends After 170 days, USX Corp. and the United Steelworkers reached a tentative agreement to end the industry's longest work stoppage. Page 8. Sale of AIDS Drug Favored An advisory panel recommended that the Government license for sale a promising but not fully explored drug against AIDS.
LEAD: The huge billboards cannot be missed, appearing in just about every black neighborhood in big cities across the country: beautiful black models, always enjoying themselves, smoking cigarettes and urging blacks to follow suit.
LEAD: The Reagan Administration official who initiated the arms shipments to Iran acknowledged today that the United States had virtually no independent intelligence to support its policy.
LEAD: Hu Yaobang, the chief of the world's largest Communist Party, was forced to resign today after being accused of major ''mistakes'' during his tenure. His dismissal followed recent demonstrations for freer expression and democracy in China.
LEAD: The taxable value of property in New York City has been set tentatively at $60.7 billion, an increase of $5.3 billion that is the largest annual rise in the city's history, municipal officials said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 14, 1987, covering January 17, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Bruce Springsteen
Boston
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Bangles
1987Cody Decker, American baseball player[†]
Cody Marshall Decker is an American former professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres in 2015. A right-handed power hitter, he played first base, third base, left field, and could catch.
1987Oleksandr Usyk, Ukrainian boxer[†]
Oleksandr Oleksandrovych Usyk is a Ukrainian professional boxer. He has held the unified heavyweight championship since 2021, and the Ring magazine title since 2022. He held the undisputed championship in two weight classes—cruiserweight and heavyweight—and is the third male boxer in history to become a two-weight undisputed champion in the "four-belt era".
1987Hugo Fregonese, Argentinian director and screenwriter (born 1908)[†]
Hugo Geronimo Fregonese was an Argentine film director and screenwriter who worked both in Hollywood and his home country during the classical era of Argentine cinema.
1987Lawrence Kohlberg, American psychologist and author (born 1927)[†]
Lawrence Kohlberg was an American psychologist best known for his theory of stages of moral development.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]