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LEAD: A former Air Force colonel described in detail today how Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North directed the secret aerial supply of munitions for the Nicaraguan rebels at a time when the program was dogged by almost comical problems.
LEAD: The Schoharie Creek was narrowed during construction of the bridge that collapsed last month, despite an engineer's warning that a narrower creekbed could increase the pressure on the bridge and endanger it during floods, state officials said today.
LEAD: The investor Asher B. Edelman and Dominion Textile Inc. raised their offer for Burlington Industries yesterday by $5 a share, to $77, or about $2.5 billion.
LEAD: A few years ago, the Boeing Company and the McDonnell Douglas Corporation dismissed Airbus Industrie, the European consortium, as a puny novice in the jetliner business, but no longer.
LEAD: Wilma P. Mankiller, the 41-year-old principal chief of the Cherokee nation, is used to comments about her name. ''Most feminists would love to have a name like Mankiller,'' she said. ''It fits my work real well, and I've broken new ground for women.''
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of May 27, 1987, covering May 28, 1987.
U2
Bon Jovi
Poison
Whitesnake
Paul Simon
1987T.J. Yates, American football player[†]
Taylor Jonathan Yates is an American football coach and former player who is the passing game coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). He played professionally as a quarterback in the NFL. After playing college football for the North Carolina Tar Heels, Yates was selected by the Houston Texans in the fifth round of the 2011 NFL draft. He was also a member of the Atlanta Falcons, Miami Dolphins, and Buffalo Bills.
1987An 18-year-old West German pilot, Mathias Rust, evades Soviet Union air defences and lands a private plane in Red Square in Moscow, Russia.[†]
Mathias Rust is a German aviator known for his flight that ended with a landing near Red Square in Moscow on 28 May 1987. Then a teenage amateur pilot, he flew from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow, without authorization. According to Russian claims he was tracked several times by Soviet Air Defence Forces and civilian air traffic controllers, as well as Soviet Air Force interceptor aircraft. The Soviet fighters did not receive permission to shoot him down, and his aeroplane was mistaken for a friendly aircraft several times. Also, 28 May 1987 was Border Guards Day, leaving many guards distracted. He landed on Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge, next to Red Square near the Kremlin in the capital of the USSR.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]