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LEAD: Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan's former national security adviser, testified today that he had briefed Mr. Reagan ''frequently'' on what his staff was doing to help the rebels in Nicaragua.
LEAD: IN the late 70's, people were still asking about where to put books,'' said Donald Mark, a sales manager for Mobilia, a manufacturer of wall storage units. ''Now the interest is in where you put your VCR, where you stack your stereo. To a great extent, electronics have even displaced the liquor cabinet.
LEAD: A Federal judge replaced the man he named to oversee a crime-ridden New Jersey teamsters local because he was perceived as too lenient with some union leaders, officials familiar with the court's action said yesterday.
LEAD: By his widow's account, Julian Altman was something of a scoundrel - a womanizer and gambler who made a living playing the violin at restaurants and society functions.
LEAD: In a two-hour videotape played in court yesterday, Bernhard H. Goetz - appearing angry, sarcastic and full of rage - told New York City police detectives that he was a murderer in his heart.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 1987, covering May 14, 1987.
U2
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Poison
Paul Simon
1987François Steyn, South African rugby player[†]
François Philippus Lodewyk Steyn is a South African former professional rugby union player. A utility back who represented his country, he was able to play as a centre, fly-half, full-back and wing.
1987Rita Hayworth, American actress and dancer (born 1918)[†]
Rita Hayworth was an American actress, dancer, and pin-up girl. She achieved fame in the 1940s as one of the top stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and appeared in 61 films in total over 37 years. The press coined the term "The Love Goddess" to describe Hayworth, after she had become the most glamorous screen idol of the 1940s. She was the top pin-up girl for GIs during World War II.
1987Vitomil Zupan, Slovenian poet and playwright (born 1914)[†]
Vitomil Zupan was a post-World War II modernist Slovene writer and Gonars concentration camp survivor. Because of his detailed descriptions of sex and violence, he was dubbed the Slovene Hemingway and was compared to Henry Miller. He is best known for Menuet za kitaro, describing the years he spent with the Slovene Partisans. In Titoist Yugoslavia he was sentenced to 18 years in a show trial, and upon his release in 1955 his works could only be published under his pseudonym Langus. He is considered one of the most important Slovene writers.
1987Fijian Prime Minister Timoci Bavadra is ousted from power in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.[†]
Timoci Uluivuda Bavadra was a Fijian medical doctor who founded the Fiji Labour Party and served as the Prime Minister of Fiji for one month in 1987.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]