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LEAD: Israel no longer has an ambassador to the United States and may not have one for months.
LEAD: ''TO describe an olive as black or green is as general and meaningless as to describe a wine as red or white,'' said Sotiris Kitrilakis. ''One must know that there are many kinds of olives, that each is different, and that each has its special purpose.''
LEAD: A man who had just robbed a green grocery led five apron-clad pursuers on a wild foot chase through Times Square yesterday, scattering pedestrians in terror after he finally commandeered a taxi and drove it onto a crowded sidewalk.
LEAD: EUROPE remains a favorite summer destination for many Americans, and dining well remains a favorite occupation when they get there. Happily, restaurants on the Continent are as good and as numerous as ever. What has changed this year is their value. Unhappily, Americans looking forward to a memorable meal at their favorite Michelin two-star can count on paying more for it than at any other time in the last few years.
LEAD: ''NOW there's no way of me knowing who you're seeing or what you're doing,'' the mother says, looking straight into the camera. ''And I hate the idea of you doing things you're not ready for.'' She looks down for a second, then holds up a package marked ''condom'' and continues: ''But listen, if you're doing anything, you use one of these.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 3, 1987, covering June 3, 1987.
U2
Bon Jovi
Whitesnake
Poison
Paul Simon
1987Masami Nagasawa, Japanese actress[†]
Masami Nagasawa is a Japanese actress. She has had a prolific film career since her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters, receiving multiple accolades, including five Japan Academy Film Prizes and four Blue Ribbon Awards.
1987Will Sampson, American actor and painter (born 1933)[†]
William Sampson Jr. was a Muscogee Nation painter, actor, and rodeo performer. He is best known for his performance as the apparently mute Chief Bromden in the 1975 film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and as Crazy Horse in the 1977 western The White Buffalo, as well as his roles as Taylor in Poltergeist II: The Other Side and Ten Bears in 1976's The Outlaw Josey Wales.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]