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March 7, 1987

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LEAD: Tower Report Reaffirmed The White House reaffirmed President Reagan's support of the report on the Iran affair, including criticism of two Cabinet officers. Page 8.

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350 ARE SAFE, MANY TRAPPED; 48 REPORTED DEAD

By By Howell Raines, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: A British ferry with more than 500 people aboard capsized Friday night shortly after leaving the Belgian port of Zeebrugge, and the vessel's owners said 48 people were dead and more than 200 missing.

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MOSCOW'S EAST SIDE STORY: TEEN-AGE TOUGHS

By Bill Keller, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: In a jerry-built gymnasium hidden beneath an apartment building in this eastside Moscow suburb, a half-dozen teen-agers are pumping iron. White, well-muscled young bodies strain at the homemade squat bars and leg weights, to the beat of pop music from a boom box.

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Music on My Birthday

Billboard 200

The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 4, 1987, covering March 7, 1987.

  1. 1
    Album cover for Licensed To Ill by Beastie Boys

    Licensed To Ill

    Beastie Boys

    Last week
    2
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    15
  2. 2
    Album cover for Slippery When Wet by Bon Jovi

    Slippery When Wet

    Bon Jovi

    Last week
    1
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    26
  3. 3
    Album cover for The Way It Is by Bruce Hornsby & The Range

    The Way It Is

    Bruce Hornsby & The Range

    Last week
    4
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    38
  4. 4
    Album cover for Invisible Touch by Genesis

    Invisible Touch

    Genesis

    Last week
    7
    Peak
    3
    Weeks
    37
  5. 5
    Album cover for Control by Janet Jackson

    Control

    Janet Jackson

    Last week
    6
    Peak
    1
    Weeks
    53

Notable Births

Niclas Bergfors

1987Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player[†]

Niclas Bergfors is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for Djurgårdens IF then of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He was drafted by the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New Jersey Devils in the first round, 23rd overall, at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, playing for the organization for four-and-a-half seasons before joining the Atlanta Thrashers 2010, Florida Panthers in 2011 and Nashville Predators via free agency in 2011. He later joined the KHL's Ak Bars Kazan in late 2011 before signing with Severstal Cherepovets. In 2013, he joined Admiral Vladivostok, where he played for three seasons before joining Amur Khabarovsk in a mid-season trade.

Notable Deaths

Karl Leichter

1987Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (born 1902)[†]

Karl Leichter was an Estonian musicologist. In 1929 he graduated in theory and composition, studying under Heino Eller with pupils such as Eduard Tubin, Alfred Karindi, Eduard Oja and Olav Roots. Between 1929 and 1931 he worked in the Estonian Folklore Archives.

Historical Context for March 7, 1987

In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]