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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Darren O'Dea, Irish footballer[†]
Darren O'Dea is an Irish retired professional football player, who is the assistant head coach of Swansea City. O'Dea has played as a centre back for clubs in Scotland, England, Canada, Ukraine and India, and represented the Republic of Ireland internationally.
1987Lucie Šafářová, Czech tennis player[†]
Lucie Šafářová is a Czech professional tennis player who was ranked world No. 1 in doubles, and No. 5 in singles.
1987Liberace, American singer-songwriter and pianist, (born 1919)[†]
Władziu Valentino Liberace was an American pianist, singer and actor. He was born in Wisconsin to parents of Italian and Polish origin and enjoyed a career spanning four decades of concerts, recordings, television, motion pictures and endorsements. At the height of his fame from the 1950s to 1970s, he was the highest-paid entertainer in the world with established concert residencies in Las Vegas and an international touring schedule. He embraced a lifestyle of flamboyant excess both on and off stage, and never publicly acknowledged his homosexuality.
1987Meena Keshwar Kamal, Afghan activist, founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (born 1956)[†]
Meena Keshwar Kamal, commonly known as Meena, was an Afghan revolutionary political activist, women's rights activist and founder of Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA), who was assassinated in 1987.
1987Carl Rogers, American psychologist and academic (born 1902)[†]
Carl Ransom Rogers was an American psychologist who was one of the founders of humanistic psychology and was known especially for his person-centered psychotherapy. Rogers is widely considered one of the founding fathers of psychotherapy research and was honored for his research with the Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions by the American Psychological Association (APA) in 1956.
LEAD: Economic Indicator Soars The Government reported the best advance in years for December, but analysts said one-time factors made the report too optimistic. Page D1.
LEAD: Federal health officials said today that they were considering recommending much wider blood testing for infection by the AIDS virus, including tests for all applicants for marriage licenses and for everyone who is hospitalized or who is treated for pregnancy or for sexually transmitted diseases.
LEAD: Former top executives of the Wedtech Corporation, a South Bronx military contractor, told Federal investigators last week that they had made payoffs to 20 government officials, including two Bronx Congressmen and Borough President Stanley Simon, law-enforcement officials said yesterday.
LEAD: A Chicago doctor, Leroy A. Pesch, offered yesterday to pay $1.7 billion in cash for American Medical International Inc. of Beverly Hills, Calif., one of the nation's biggest hospital companies.
LEAD: CREATING a splendid new dish, spicing a familiar one to perfection or simply savoring another's cooking with the culinary equivalent of a jeweler's eye: These are hallmarks of a great palate. Such gustatory distinction is within the reach of all who dare, according to leading chefs, taste researchers and eaters.
LEAD: The Government index designed to predict the course of the economy surged 2.1 percent in December, the biggest gain in nearly four years, the Commerce Department reported today.
LEAD: FOR chefs, a finely honed palate is an essential piece of equipment. Their careers hang on their ability to discern, recall and re-create tastes. In recent interviews, The Living Section asked Dorothy Cann, the director of the French Culinary Institute in New York City; Dieter Hannig, the director of Hilton International's food research center, also in New York, and Joyce Goldstein, chef-owner of Square One Restaurant in San Francisco, to address the role of the palate in a chef's education and performance.
LEAD: Prosecutors in the Howard Beach, Queens, case have obtained new evidence indicating that white youths were in close pursuit of Michael Griffith when he ran onto the parkway where he was killed by a car on the night of Dec. 19-20, according to law-enforcement sources.
LEAD: The son-in-law of Leonid I. Brezhnev, the former Soviet leader, has been arrested and is under investigation for corruption and bribe-taking, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said today.
LEAD: King Fahd and other top Saudi Arabian officials agreed in 1981 to aid anti-Communist resistance groups around the world as part of the arrangement allowing them to buy sophisticated American Awacs radar planes, according to United States officials and others familiar with the deal.
LEAD: PERHAPS it is a simple matter of lingering disbelief, but in an era in which stereotypes are being shattered like so many pieces of china, men who cook at home are still a curiosity.
LEAD: Make no mistake about it: The Executive Mansion may be where New York's Governor lives, but it is where Robert Bennett reigns.