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LEAD: Documents retrieved from the National Security Council's computer suggest that the secret operations conducted by the council's staff were far more extensive than investigators of the Iran-contra affair previously thought, according to officials familiar with the material.
LEAD: Touched by the plight of a 7-year-old boy who needs a liver transplant, sympathizers from a millionaire industrialist to restaurant workers followed President Reagan's lead with more than $400,000 in donations today.
LEAD: Often enough in recent years, whenever a corporation came under a takeover attack, its executives were on the telephone with Martin A. Siegel. In the process, the 38-year-old whiz kid made a reputatiion as an adroit protector of corporations, and made himself a fortune. Yesterday, his prestige, and much of the fortune, was gone.
LEAD: A record surge in gasoline prices helped push the Producer Price Index for finished goods up six-tenths of 1 percent in January, its biggest advance since late 1985, the Labor Department reported today.
LEAD: Martin A. Siegel, a principal architect of takeover strategies at two of Wall Street's most powerful firms, pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges of insider trading.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 11, 1987, covering February 14, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
The Bangles
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Edinson Cavani, Uruguayan footballer[†]
Edinson Roberto Cavani Gómez is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a striker for Argentine Primera División club Boca Juniors. Nicknamed "El Matador", he is considered as one of the best strikers of his generation.
1987Tom Pyatt, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Thomas Cullum Pyatt is a Canadian former professional ice hockey centre. He spent most of his career in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the Montreal Canadiens, Tampa Bay Lightning and Ottawa Senators. Pyatt also played in the National League (NL) with Genève-Servette HC and the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers and in the Swedish Hockey League (SHL) with Skellefteå AIK.
1987David Wheater, English footballer[†]
David James Wheater is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender. Primarily a centre back, he announced his retirement on 1 September 2023. In 2023, he began coaching young players in his own academy W2 Football Academy.
1987Candice Wiggins, American basketball player[†]
Candice Dana Wiggins is an American former professional basketball player. Wiggins played college basketball at Stanford University, where she graduated as the all-time leading scorer in Stanford and Pac-10 women's basketball history. Throughout her playing career, Wiggins played for the Minnesota Lynx, Tulsa Shock, Los Angeles Sparks and New York Liberty of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) and has played overseas in Spain and Greece. Wiggins has won a WNBA championship (2011) and a WNBA Sixth Woman of the Year (2008).
1987Dmitry Kabalevsky, Russian pianist and composer (born 1904)[†]
Dmitry Borisovich Kabalevsky was a Soviet composer, conductor, pianist and pedagogue of Russian gentry descent.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]