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LEAD: South Africa has managed to broaden the debate on surrogate motherhood by introducing a new puzzle: Pat Anthony, a 48-year-old grandmother in the northern Transvaal, is now in her third month of pregnancy carrying three fetuses for her own daughter.
LEAD: Top finance officials of the seven biggest industrial democracies today reaffirmed their commitment to stabilize the dollar and also sought to defuse tensions with Japan.
LEAD: Shares of UAL Inc. soared $6.25, to $72, yesterday amid intense speculation that a takeover of the company that owns United Airlines could be in the making.
LEAD: Missouri, the state with the nation's highest percentage of ''deficient'' bridges, narrowly escaped a disaster last month that could have been worse than the bridge collapse that killed at least three people in upstate New York last Sunday.
LEAD: A third marine guard has been detained on suspicion of involvement in espionage in the Soviet Union, the Pentagon said today.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of April 8, 1987, covering April 9, 1987.
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
U2
Paul Simon
Bruce Hornsby & The Range
1987Kassim Abdallah, French-Comorian footballer[†]
Kassim Abdallah Mfoihaia is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Championnat National 3 team Marseille II. Born in France, he plays for the Comoros national team.
1987Graham Gano, American football player[†]
Graham Clark Gano is a Scottish–American professional football placekicker for the New York Giants of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Florida State Seminoles and was signed by the Baltimore Ravens as an undrafted free agent in 2009. Gano has also played for the Las Vegas Locomotives in the United Football League (UFL), the Washington Redskins and the Carolina Panthers. During his time with the Panthers, he achieved the franchise's record for longest field goal at 63 yards in 2018.
1987Craig Mabbitt, American singer[†]
Craig Edward Mabbitt is an American singer and the lead vocalist for the rock band Escape the Fate. He was formerly the lead vocalist for the bands Blessthefall and The Word Alive. He is also the current lead vocalist of his side-project band Dead Rabbitts.
1987Jesse McCartney, American singer-songwriter and actor[†]
Jesse McCartney is an American actor and singer. He achieved fame in the late 1990s on the daytime drama All My Children as JR Chandler. He later joined the boy band Dream Street, and eventually branched out into a solo musical career. Additionally, McCartney has appeared on shows such as Law & Order: SVU, Summerland, and Greek. McCartney has had an extensive voice acting career, voicing characters such as Theodore in the Alvin and the Chipmunks film series, JoJo McDodd in Horton Hears a Who!, Terence in the Tinker Bell series, Dick Grayson in Young Justice, and Roxas and Ventus in the Kingdom Hearts video game series.
1987Jarrod Mullen, Australian rugby league player[†]
Jarrod Stephen Mullen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. He last played for the Sunshine Coast Falcons in the Queensland Cup. A New South Wales State of Origin representative, he played at five-eighth and halfback. He previously played for Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League (NRL).
1987Jazmine Sullivan, American singer-songwriter[†]
Jazmine Marie Sullivan is an American R&B singer and songwriter. She has won two Grammy Awards, a Billboard Women in Music Award, and two BET Awards over the course of her career. In 2022, Time placed her on their list of the 100 Most Influential People.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]