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LEAD: WHEN THE ENGLISH QUIBBLE about plans for new public buildings in London, the arguments are esthetic. But when the French do battle over proposals to add something new to Paris, it sometimes seems as if the entire Government may tumble.
LEAD: I HAVE been thinking lately about the monsters - or fantasies or whatever - that frightened me as a child, and that probably frightened me into being an artist. I can only come up with a few. My parents, of course. The vacuum cleaner, which still frightens me. My sister. A very few ordinary horrors from movies, books, the radio.
LEAD: IN THE CONTROVERSY OVER TV evangelism, no one seems to have noticed that the most influential preacher in America is not Jim Bakker or Jerry Falwell or John Cardinal O'Connor. Rather it is Bill Cosby. Every week his program and some others - ''Family Ties,'' ''Growing Pains,'' ''Mr. Belvedere'' and ''My Sister Sam'' - present vivid and appealing paradigms of love to vast audiences.
LEAD: THIS is the good time of year on Yorktown's Indian Hill, the time when trees, heavy with leaves, hide any trace of shoppers at the Jefferson Valley Mall and muffle the sounds of cars on busy Route 6, allowing people who hike the 600-foot-high elevation to lose themselves in their thoughts.
LEAD: SANDRA R. GALEF of Ossining, the Democratic minority leader of the County Board of Legislators, says she knows what she will be doing during Lyme Disease Awareness Week, which begins today: studying the County Executive's $240,000 program to combat the tick-borne malady that since 1983 has afflicted 1,400 people in
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 13, 1987, covering May 17, 1987.
U2
Bon Jovi
Beastie Boys
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norwegian cyclist[â ]
Edvald Boasson Hagen is a Norwegian former road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2024. He was ranked as no. 3 in the world by UCI as of 31 August 2009, when he was 22 years old. He is known as an all-rounder, having won the Norwegian National Road Race Championships in 2012, 2015 and 2016. He is also a ten-time winner of the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships.
1987Aleandro Rosi, Italian footballer[â ]
Aleandro Rosi is an Italian professional footballer who plays for Serie C Group B club Torres. Known for his versatility, he plays as a full-back, a winger along the right flank, offensively and defensively, and for his pace.
1987Gunnar Myrdal, Swedish economist, sociologist, and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1898)[â ]
Karl Gunnar Myrdal was a Swedish economist and sociologist. In 1974, he received the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences along with Friedrich Hayek for "their pioneering work in the theory of money and economic fluctuations and for their penetrating analysis of the interdependence of economic, social and institutional phenomena." When his wife, Alva Myrdal, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982, they became the fourth ever married couple to have won Nobel Prizes, and the first and only to win independent of each other.
1987IranâIraq War: An Iraqi Dassault Mirage F1 fighter jet fires two missiles into the U.S. Navy warship USSÂ Stark, killing 37 and injuring 21 of her crew.[â ]
The IranâIraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. Active hostilities began with the Iraqi invasion of Iran and lasted for nearly eight years, until the acceptance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 598 by both sides. Iraq's primary rationale for the attack against Iran cited the need to prevent Ruhollah Khomeiniâwho had spearheaded the Iranian revolution in 1979âfrom exporting the new Iranian ideology to Iraq. There were also fears among the Iraqi leadership of Saddam Hussein that Iran, a theocratic state with a population predominantly composed of Shia Muslims, would exploit sectarian tensions in Iraq by rallying Iraq's Shia majority against the BaÊœathist government, which was officially secular but dominated by Sunni Muslims. Iraq also wished to replace Iran as the power player in the Persian Gulf, which was not seen as an achievable objective prior to the Islamic Revolution because of Pahlavi Iran's economic and military superiority as well as its close relationships with the United States and Israel.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]