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LEAD: In a reversal of startling magnitude, the nation's foreign-trade deficit plunged 44 percent in December, to $10.6 billion, the lowest level since March 1985.
LEAD: The Administration announced today that it would immediately ask Congress for funds to start planning and building a giant $6 billion atom smasher.
LEAD: The American official who initiated the Iran dealings said today that he would not have done so if he had known that the Iranian middleman was an expatriate arms dealer judged unreliable by American intelligence.
LEAD: Federal and city authorities said yesterday that they were investigating a contractor's charge that he bribed inspectors of the city's Bureau of Fire Prevention.
LEAD: President Reagan today vetoed a bill aimed at cleaning up the nation's water at a cost of up to $20 billion, but he acknowledged that Congress would override his veto and enact the measure into law next week.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 1987, covering January 31, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Boston
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Marcus Mumford, American-English singer-songwriter[†]
Marcus Oliver Johnstone Mumford is an American-born British singer, songwriter, musician, and record producer. He is best known as the lead singer of the folk band Mumford & Sons. He also plays a number of instruments with the group, including guitar, drums and mandolin.
1987Yves Allégret, French director and screenwriter (born 1907)[†]
Yves Allégret was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]