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LEAD: The Reagan Administration, under intense pressure from Congress and Western allies, is likely to defer temporarily a decision on whether to adopt a view of the Antiballistic Missile Treaty that would allow extensive testing of some new types of ''Star Wars'' systems, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: THREE years ago, the Eastern North Carolina Chamber of Commerce initiated an awareness campaign to persuade tobacco-country landowners to raze and remove the ramshackle sharecropper shacks and flue-curing barns that have been rendered obsolete by new and more efficent methods of curing the leaf.
LEAD: President Reagan and his advisers last week were discussing whether to accelerate testing and deploying parts of the missile defense system known as ''Star Wars.'' To prepare the legal ground, they were considering issuing a broad interpretation of the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, which was negotiated with the Soviet Union during the Nixon
LEAD: THERE is always human and political turmoil when a city neighborhood is being retrieved from abandonment and decay and, in this regard, the Clinton Hill section of downtown Brooklyn is no exception. But unlike other minority neighborhoods that have been overrun by middle-income whites in search of affordable housing, Clinton Hill has been propelled into gentrification by an integrated mix of middle-income New
LEAD: Vice President Bush was told last summer by an Israeli official that ''we are dealing with the most radical elements'' in Iran because dealings with moderates had proved unsuccessful, an aide to Mr. Bush said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 4, 1987, covering February 8, 1987.
Bon Jovi
The Bangles
Cinderella
Beastie Boys
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Javi García, Spanish footballer[†]
Francisco Javier "Javi" García Fernández is a Spanish former professional footballer. A defensive midfielder by nature, he could also appear as a central defender.
1987Carolina Kostner, Italian figure skater[†]
Carolina Kostner is an Italian figure skater. She is the 2014 Olympic bronze medalist, the 2012 World champion, a five-time European champion, and the 2011 Grand Prix Final champion. She is also a medalist at five other World Championships, six other European Championships, and three other Grand Prix Finals, the 2003 World Junior bronze medalist, and a nine-time Italian national champion. Kostner has won 11 medals at the European championships, most recently in 2018, and is the most decorated singles skater in the history of that competition.
1987Harriet E. MacGibbon, American actress (born 1905)[†]
Harriet Elizabeth MacGibbon was an American film, stage and television actress best known for her role as the insufferably snobbish, "blue-blooded Bostonian" Mrs. Margaret Drysdale in the sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]