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LEAD: The Argentine Government announced a four-month freeze on prices and salaries tonight, saying it needed a ''more serene climate'' in which to carry out structural changes in the economy.
LEAD: Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in his most candid acknowledgment of opposition to his policies, sought today to assure critics that ''democratization'' would not produce disarray in Soviet society.
LEAD: A special prosecutor said today that he would ask a Federal grand jury to indict Michael K. Deaver, the former White House deputy chief of staff, on four counts of perjury. But a Federal district judge temporarily barred any indictments after Mr. Deaver's lawyers challenged the constitutionality of the law authorizing appointment of special prosecutors.
LEAD: REAGAN ON AIDS EDUCATION President Reagan will back Federal AIDS education if it stresses ''responsible sexual behavior,'' a White House memorandum said. Page A14. FREE BLACKS IN THE COLONIES Archeologists say they have found the first American settlement of free blacks, slaves who fled British colonies to Spanish Florida.
LEAD: Southern Methodist University has been barred from fielding a football team next fall and will be permitted only a limited schedule in 1988 because athletic officials improperly paid about $61,000 to players, the National Collegiate Athletic Association announced today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 1987, covering February 26, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Georgia Satellites
1987IranâContra affair: The Tower Commission rebukes President Ronald Reagan for not controlling his national security staff.[â ]
The IranâContra affair, also referred to as the IranâContra scandal, the Iran Initiative, or simply IranâContra, was a political scandal in the United States that centered on arms trafficking to Iran between 1981 and 1986, facilitated by senior officials of the Ronald Reagan administration. As Iran was subject to an arms embargo at the time of the scandal, the sale of arms was deemed illegal. The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, an anti-Sandinista rebel group in Nicaragua. Under the Boland Amendment, passed by Congress in a 411-0 vote and signed into law by Reagan, further funding of the Contras by legislative appropriations was prohibited by Congress, but the Reagan administration continued funding them secretively using non-appropriated funds.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]