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LEAD: The United States has offered to extend military protection to Kuwaiti vessels traveling through the Persian Gulf to meet possible threats from Iran, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: Last year Tom Voorhees, building superintedent for the Van Dyke Apartments, bought himself a Panasonic video camera. It took a year to save the $2,000 for the entire unit. His girlfriend, Karen LePore, a nurse, said, ''Why don't you wait until we're married and have kids?'' but he wanted this now.
LEAD: For two decades now, Dr. Claude W. Betty, son of a local farmer, has ministered almost single-handedly to the people of Perryton. He delivered the babies at all hours, took out the gall bladders, sewed up the victims of tractor and oil-rig mishaps.
LEAD: PHYSICS - the same enterprise that regularly predicts the emergence of bosons and mesons from high-energy particle collisions - has been unable until now to explain why the brazil nuts rise to the top of a jar of mixed nuts. But that barrier seems finally to have fallen.
LEAD: MOMENTUM is building in the space agency and among science and aerospace leaders to make Mars the next major goal of the American civilian space program. Proponents hope to explore Mars extensively with robots and then send astronauts on the first human visit to another planet.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of March 18, 1987, covering March 24, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Paul Simon
Janet Jackson
1987Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer[†]
Shakib Al Hasan is a former Bangladeshi international cricketer who played Test, ODI and T20I cricket for the Bangladeshi cricket team. He was a former member of Parliament for Magura-1. He is known for his aggressive left-handed batting style in the middle order and controlled slow left-arm orthodox bowling. He was the captain in all three formats of the game for the Bangladesh national cricket team. He was ranked the 90th most famous athlete in the world by ESPN in 2019. He is widely regarded as the greatest Bangladeshi sportsman, and considered as one of the greatest all-rounders of all time.
1987Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer[†]
Yuma Asami , is a Japanese actress, singer, and a former adult video (AV) actress and model. Starring in more than 600 adult films between 2005 and 2013, Asami was widely recognized as one of Japan's most famous and acclaimed adult film actresses with her popularity resulting in mainstream media appearances as well. A leading actress of two major Japanese AV studios, Alice Japan and S1 No.1 Style, Asami was known for her youthful looks, large bust, and her natural onscreen charisma which was largely credited in helping her establish herself as Japan's top adult performer. Between 2008 and 2013, she was also a member of the idol group Ebisu Muscats, where she performed with numerous other famous AV actresses like Sola Aoi, Akiho Yoshizawa, Tina Yuzuki (Rio) and Aino Kishi.
1987Billy Jones, English footballer[†]
Billy Jones is an English former professional footballer who played as a right-back.
1987Ramires, Brazilian footballer[†]
Ramires Santos do Nascimento, known as Ramires, is a Brazilian former professional footballer. A midfielder, he was comfortable playing in either the centre or right midfielder position. He normally played as a box-to-box midfielder role because of his energy in supporting defensive and attacking play.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]