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LEAD: The Justice Department, calling for expanded competition in the telephone industry, today asked a Federal court here to allow the big regional companies to enter three new areas of business.
LEAD: The patched and potholed two-lane road leading to this sleepy border post on the frontier with Zimbabwe gives little hint of grand design or bitter struggle.
LEAD: The BankAmerica Corporation said today that it had agreed to sell its Charles Schwab & Company discount brokerage unit to a group headed by the unit's chairman, Charles R. Schwab.
LEAD: MANY species of mammals are disappearing from North America's national parks solely because the parks -even those covering hundreds of thousands of acres - are too small to support them.
LEAD: The court-appointed legal guardian of Baby M urged today that the baby's father, William Stern, receive sole custody of the 10-month-old girl and that the surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead, be denied visiting rights for the immediate future.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of January 28, 1987, covering February 3, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Boston
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Elvana Gjata, Albanian singer[â ]
Elvana Gjata is an Albanian singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born and raised in Tirana, she has been referred to as a "Diva of Albanian music". She rose to recognition in Albania and other Albanian-speaking territories in the Balkans following the release of her two studio albums, MamĂ«s (2007) and AfĂ«r dhe larg (2011). The singer saw further success through many acclaimed singles, as well as her extended plays 3 (2018) and Ăelu (2021), and has achieved multiple number one singles in the Albanian singles chart. Gjata has also received numerous awards and accolades, including two Balkan Music Awards, a Festivali i KĂ«ngĂ«s Award, four KĂ«nga Magjike Awards and a Top Fest Award.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]