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LEAD: There is a streak of morality in the American character that has perplexed foreigners from de Tocqueville on, but seldom has it been as striking as it has been in this remarkable week. Former Senator Gary
LEAD: With hundreds of the nation's savings and loan associations insolvent, many experts maintain that Congressional rescue plans are inadequate and that the system cannot survive without tens of billions of dollars of taxpayers' money.
LEAD: THE May marathon of sales taking place next week at New York's auction houses offers artworks, prints, antiques, books and manuscripts valued at $120 million, a record total for the week. The crowded auction schedule coincides once again with the blockbuster sales of major Impressionist and modern artworks that attract thousands of bidders and spectators.
LEAD: At 12:59 yesterday afternoon, one minute before the Treasury Department was set to sell $9.25 billion in 30-year bonds, activity on much of the vast trading floor at Salomon Brothers came to a standstill.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1987, covering May 8, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Felix Jones, American football player[†]
Felix Jones Jr. is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football for the Arkansas Razorbacks, earning consensus All-American honors in 2007. He was selected by the Cowboys in the first round of the 2008 NFL draft.
1987Mark Noble, English footballer[†]
Mark James Noble is an English former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. He is currently the sporting director of Premier League club West Ham United. A fan of the club since childhood, Noble spent eighteen years with West Ham playing as a central midfielder, serving as club captain for seven years, before retiring at the end of the 2021–22 season. Aside from two brief loan spells at Hull City and Ipswich Town, Noble played all of his first team matches for the club, earning him the nickname "Mr West Ham".
1987Kurt Tippett, Australian footballer[†]
Kurt Anthony Tippett is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Adelaide Football Club and the Sydney Swans in the Australian Football League (AFL).
1987Doris Stokes, English psychic and author (born 1920)[†]
Doris May Fisher Stokes, born Doris Sutton, was a British spiritualist, professional medium, and author. Her public performances, television appearances, and memoirs made her a household name in Britain. While some believed her to possess psychic abilities, investigations published after her death demonstrated that she used fraudulent techniques including cold reading, hot reading, and planting accomplices in her audience.
1987The SAS kills eight Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and a civilian during an ambush in Loughgall, Northern Ireland.[†]
The Special Air Service (SAS) is a special forces unit of the British Army. It was founded as a regiment in 1941 by David Stirling, and in 1950 it was reconstituted as a corps. The unit specialises in a number of roles including counter-terrorism, hostage rescue, direct action and special reconnaissance. Much of the information about the SAS is highly classified, and the unit is not commented on by either the British government or the Ministry of Defence due to the secrecy and sensitivity of its operations.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]