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LEAD: Two construction unions that the Government describes as ''tools of organized crime'' have agreed to replace many of their leaders and undergo supervision by a court-appointed trustee.
LEAD: Remember Carnaby Street? It was once the heart of swinging England and the symbol, if not the best example, of London's first revolutionary burst onto the fashion scene. Nowadays Carnaby Street is filled with ticky-tacky tourist stands. Things have gotten so bad that Carnaby Street has disappeared from some tourist guidebooks.
LEAD: The Central Intelligence Agency is providing the Nicaraguan rebels with precise information on dams, bridges, electrical substations, port facilities and other targets that the rebels will try to destroy in guerrilla raids deep inside Nicaragua, according to Government officials.
LEAD: It is the stuff of business lore: the battle for the executive suite. At W. R. Grace & Company, three men are pitted against each other, fighting to be the next chief executive.
LEAD: The Navy has asked two competing teams of military contractors for proposals to build 522 modified versions of the advanced fighter jets the companies are developing for the Air Force, industry executives involved in the program said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1987, covering March 19, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Paul Simon
Janet Jackson
1987AJ Lee, American wrestler and author[†]
April Jeanette Mendez is an American author, screenwriter and retired professional wrestler. She is best known for her time in WWE under the ring name AJ Lee.
1987Michal Švec, Czech footballer[†]
Michal Švec is a Czech footballer who plays for SK Slavia Prague B. He is a central midfielder. He made his debut for the Czech Republic national team in 2009.
1987Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player[†]
Miloš Teodosić is a Serbian professional basketball player for Crvena zvezda of the Serbian KLS, the ABA League and the EuroLeague. He also represents the National Basketball Team of Serbia internationally. He primarily plays the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is a six time All-EuroLeague selection, and was voted EuroLeague MVP in 2010.
1987Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)[†]
Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie was a French theoretical physicist and aristocrat known for his contributions to quantum theory. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave-particle duality, and forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics. De Broglie won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1929, after the wave-like behaviour of matter was first experimentally demonstrated in 1927.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]