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LEAD: For 44 years the Navy and this rural township of rambling farmhouses and sprawling estates have lived together in peace.
LEAD: A Federal grand jury here today indicted a prominent Israeli Air Force officer, Aviem Sella, on espionage charges, saying he had conspired with three other Israelis and a former Navy intelligence analyst to obtain top secret American military information for Israel.
LEAD: Since antiquity, when the first food vendors spread their wares in the marketplace and customers came to choose the best items, there have been home deliveries. The telephone sped up the process - the shopper could call in the order to the neighborhood grocer.
LEAD: When he took command of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 1978, William H. Webster faced an agency in turmoil.
LEAD: In a decisive step to restore its reputation on Wall Street, the General Motors Corporation said today that it would purchase up to 20 percent of its common stock by the end of 1990.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 1987, covering March 4, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Genesis
Janet Jackson
1987Ben McKinley, Australian footballer[†]
Benjamin "Ben" McKinley is an Australian rules footballer who previously played for the North Melbourne Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL). He previously played for the West Coast Eagles.
1987Tamzin Merchant, English actress[†]
Tamzin Claire Merchant is a British actress, best known for her roles as Georgiana Darcy in the film Pride & Prejudice (2005), as Catherine Howard in the Showtime series The Tudors (2009–2010) and as Anne Hale in the WGN America series Salem (2014–2017). She wrote the 2021 children's book The Hatmakers.
1987Cameron Wood, Australian footballer[†]
Cameron Wood is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions, Collingwood Football Club and Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1987Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (born 1884)[†]
Seibo Kitamura was a Japanese sculptor. He is known as the sculptor of the 10-meter-tall Peace Statue in Nagasaki Peace Park. He is most often referred to as "Seibo".
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]