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LEAD: In an effort to slow the burgeoning AIDS epidemic, New York City officials are turning to an unusally explicit advertising campaign that is likely to generate controversy in certain religious and political quarters.
LEAD: When Merrill Lynch & Company suffered a stunning $275 million loss from mortgage-securities dealings last month, it was quick to blame an unauthorized series of transactions and an adverse market.
LEAD: Five years after the Transit Authority set out to modernize 50 subway stations, the program is years behind schedule and more than $100 million over its original budget.
LEAD: Filling the Void In Iowa, it was ''the first day of the new campaign,'' an aide to one would-be Presidential candidate said, as Democrats studied those who want to replace Gary Hart. Page B6. The Last Picture Show The Thalia, a longtime haven on the Upper West Side for repertory and offbeat films, has closed.
LEAD: President Reagan said today that if black Americans were to progress socially and economically, they must become part of the scientific and technological revolution.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 6, 1987, covering May 11, 1987.
U2
Beastie Boys
Bon Jovi
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Lim Seul-ong, South Korean singer and actor[†]
Lim Seul-ong, also known by the mononym Seulong, is a South Korean singer and actor. He debuted as a singer in 2008 as a member of the K-pop boyband 2AM. He made his acting debut in 2010 in the Korean drama Personal Taste and also had a role in the series Hogu’s Love (2015).
1987Klaus Barbie goes on trial in Lyon for war crimes committed during World War II.[†]
Nikolaus Barbie was a German officer of the Schutzstaffel and Sicherheitsdienst who worked in Vichy France during World War II. He became known as the "Butcher of Lyon" for having personally tortured prisoners—primarily Jews and members of the French Resistance—as the head of the Gestapo in Lyon. After the war, United States intelligence services employed him for his anti-communist efforts and aided his escape to Bolivia, where he advised the dictatorial regime on how to repress opposition through torture. In 1983, the United States apologised to France for the U.S. Counterintelligence Corps helping him escape to Bolivia, aiding Barbie's escape from an outstanding arrest warrant.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]