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May 27, 1987

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Historical Context for May 27, 1987

In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people^[†]

Notable Births

1987Gervinho, Ivorian footballer^[†]

Gervais Yao Kouassi, known as Gervinho, is an Ivorian professional footballer who plays as a forward.

1987Bella Heathcote, Australian actress^[†]

Isabella Heathcote is an Australian actress. Following her film debut in Acolytes (2008), she had a recurring role as Amanda Fowler on the television soap opera Neighbours (2009). She gained further recognition for her dual roles as Victoria Winters and Josette du Pres in the dark fantasy film Dark Shadows (2012), and Olive Byrne in the biographical drama film Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017).

1987Bora Paçun, Turkish basketball player^[†]

Bora Hun Paçun is a Turkish professional basketball player who last played for Merkezefendi Bld. Denizli Basket of the TBL. He is 6 ft 10.75 in tall center.

1987Matt Prior, Australian rugby league player^[†]

Matthew Prior is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as prop and loose forward for the Leeds Rhinos in the Super League.

1987Martina Sáblíková, Czech speed skater and cyclist^[†]

Martina Sáblíková is a Czech speed skater, specializing in long track speed skating. She is an Olympic gold medal winner and a multiple European and World allround champion. She became the first Czech to win two Olympic gold medals at one Winter Games in 2010. Sáblíková also competes in inline speed skating and road cycling races as a part of her summer preparation for the skating season. In cycling, she focuses on individual time trial discipline in which Sáblíková holds multiple Czech Republic National Championships titles and belongs to the world's top 15 female time-trialists. Sáblíková is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.

Notable Deaths

1987John Howard Northrop, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1891)^[†]

John Howard Northrop was an American biochemist who, with James Batcheller Sumner and Wendell Meredith Stanley, won the 1946 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The award was given for these scientists' isolation, crystallization, and study of enzymes, proteins, and viruses. Northrop was a Professor of Bacteriology and Medical Physics, Emeritus, at University of California, Berkeley.

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Headlines from May 27, 1987

BUSINESS DIGEST: WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1987

By Unknown Author

LEAD: Markets

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2,500 SUSPECTS HELD AS THREATS UNDER BAIL LAW

By Kenneth B. Noble, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: About 2,500 criminal defendants have been held by the Government without bail under the three-year-old law allowing pretrial detention of suspects considered dangerous to the public.

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COURT BACKS LAW LETTING U.S. WIDEN PRETRIAL JAIL

By Stuart Taylor Jr., Special To the New York Times

LEAD: The Supreme Court ruled today that Federal courts may jail criminal defendants before trial if they are deemed a threat to public safety.

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MEROLA ROLE ON DONOVAN BRINGS PROTEST

By Selwyn Raab, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: The attorney for former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan urged yesterday that New York City or State bar associations investigate possible misconduct by District Attorney Mario Merola of the Bronx in his prosecution of Mr. Donovan and seven business associates on fraud charges.

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STANDARD ASSETS TO SHEARSON

By Jonathan P. Hicks

LEAD: The Standard Oil Company said yesterday that it would sell some of its manufacturing and mining assets, as well as a note held by one of its units, in a complex financial transaction valued at about $1.8 billion.

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NORWEST IS TAKING LOAN LOSS

By Eric N. Berg

LEAD: The Norwest Corporation said yesterday that it would set aside $200 million for losses on its $650 million portfolio of troubled foreign loans. The action by the big Minneapolis-based bank holding company, the nation's 24th largest, will result in a $160 million second-quarter loss, wiping out 12.3 percent of its net worth, and a $30 million loss for the year.

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2 ISRAELI INQUIRIES CLEAR TOP LEADERS IN POLAND AFFAIR

By Thomas L. Friedman, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: Two Israeli Government investigations into the Israeli espionage operation in Washington cleared all of Israel's political leaders today of any knowledge of or involvement in the Pollard spy affair.

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By David E. Sanger

LEAD: In a move to ward off a hostile takeover bid by the British publisher Robert Maxwell, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc. announced an elaborate recapitalization plan late yesterday that would saddle it with nearly $3 billion in debt.

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DOLLAR REBOUNDS STRONGLY

By James Sterngold

LEAD: The weak dollar suddenly rebounded yesterday, posting one of its largest gains this year against almost all leading currencies on a wave of buying that began in Japan.

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HOW $18 MILLION GOT SOVIET WEAPONS TO IRAN

By John Tagliabue, Special To the New York Times

LEAD: About the time of the first disclosures about United States arms shipments to Iran, the Soviet Union quietly delivered more than $18 million in advanced weapons to Iranians, according to records of a French arms dealer.

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About New York; How Do You Get To the Subways? Practice, Practice

By William E. Geist

LEAD: There is often a man on board the F train who plays the saxophone so atrociously - almost cruelly, really - that riders pay the man (who incidentally says he hails from Mars) to stop.

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A YARDSTICK OF BEHAVIOR: DEADLY FORCE

By Crystal Nix

LEAD: Somewhere in the dark building lurked a man with a gun and, perhaps, an accomplice wielding a machete or a sawed-off shotgun.

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