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LEAD: A year has elapsed since the first formal charges were lodged in New York's corruption scandal, but anyone who had hoped that the scandal would have faded away by now is in for some rude reminders.
LEAD: Apple Computer Inc. will introduce two Macintosh models on Monday that will usher in a new generation of technology for personal computers and serve as the basis for the company's growth for years to come.
LEAD: While tens of millions of Brazilians spent a long weekend in wild revelry at carnival, their Finance Minister, Dilson Funaro, was in Washington and European capitals for somber negotiations about Brazil's latest debt problems. For those who know the minister well, it seemed quite appropriate.
LEAD: For many of the nearly 600 women in the United States who have acted as surrogate mothers, the experience of bearing children for others has been one of fulfillment, an opportunity to make a gift of life. For others, giving up a child born on contract has left a bitter residue of remorse.
LEAD: The Purolator Courier Corporation has agreed to be acquired by E. F. Hutton LBO Inc. and the managers of its United States courier business in a deal valued at $265 million, the company announced over the weekend.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of February 25, 1987, covering March 2, 1987.
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Cinderella
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
The Georgia Satellites
1987Jonas Jerebko, Swedish basketball player[†]
Jonas Jerebko is a Swedish professional basketball player who last played for the Santeros de Aguada of the Baloncesto Superior Nacional (BSN). He was selected as the 39th overall pick in the second round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Detroit Pistons, becoming the second Swedish-born basketball player to be selected in the NBA draft. Jerebko played a total of 10 seasons in the NBA with four different teams, the Detroit Pistons, Boston Celtics, Utah Jazz and Golden State Warriors.
1987Randolph Scott, American actor and director (born 1898)[†]
George Randolph Scott was an American film actor, whose Hollywood career spanned from 1928 to 1962. As a leading man for all but the first three years of his cinematic career, Scott appeared in dramas, comedies, musicals, adventures, war, horror and fantasy films, and Westerns. Out of his more than 100 film appearances, more than 60 of them were Westerns.
1987Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and academic (born 1935)[†]
Lolo Soetoro, also known as Lolo Soetoro Mangunharjo or Mangundikardjo, was an Indonesian geographer who was the ex-stepfather of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]