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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Marcus Thornton, American basketball player[†]
Marcus Terrell Thornton is an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball for the LSU Tigers before being selected in the second round of the 2009 NBA draft by the Miami Heat. He has played in the NBA for the New Orleans Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Brooklyn Nets, Boston Celtics, Phoenix Suns, Houston Rockets and Washington Wizards.
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LEAD: Asserting that American farmers are being hurt by loans to less developed countries, some of the nation's most influential farm organizations today called on the United States to withdraw financial support from the World Bank and three other international development banks.
LEAD: The main agency that accredits hospitals in the United States said today that it would require them to have formal policies specifying when doctors and nurses may refrain from trying to resuscitate patients who are terminally ill.
LEAD: Charles S. Sanford Jr., who played a major role in turning the Bankers Trust New York Corporation into one of the most profitable of the nation's major banking institutions, yesterday was named chairman and chief executive of the company and of its subsidiary, the Bankers Trust Company. The appointment will become effective July 1, when Alfred Brittain 3d, the current chairman and chief executive, retires.
LEAD: Albert Hakim, an Iranian-born businessman, testified today that he thought Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North must have been aware that a secret $200,000 Swiss bank account had been set up for him and that Mr. Hakim had made him a beneficiary in his will for $2 million.
LEAD: Every morning for nearly six weeks, the judge in the trial of Bernhard H. Goetz has carried the same manila file folder under his arm as he strides to the bench in State Supreme Court in Manhattan.
LEAD: If NBC moves to Secaucus, its news crews should be warned they won't get the kind of footage from the big developer here - Eugene Heller - that they now get by going around the corner and talking to Donald Trump.
LEAD: Two rare white tigers in the back of a parked truck were abducted on the West Side of Manhattan yesterday morning, apparently by someone who was unaware of the truck's cargo. Five hours later, after a citywide search by the police, a safety alert by health officials and a news alert by television and radio stations, the tigers were found unharmed in the back of the truck, which had been abandoned in the
LEAD: Former Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada and the McClatchy newspaper chain announced an agreement yesterday to dismiss competing lawsuits that have been seen as a barrier to Mr. Laxalt's plans to run for President.
LEAD: THE spring dance season is bustling along its hectic way with the kind of variety and quantity that have made New York the dance capitol of the world. But this is also a weekend that offers a distinctive blend of the old and the new. The seasoned veteran and the newcomer take to the stage in dance that ranges from performances of 19th-century ballet rarities to the antics of exuberant children and adolescents.
LEAD: THROUGH the first part of the century, Berlin was a city in which culture flourished - not just art movements like German Expressionism and Dada, but also music, literature and theater. Under Hitler, Berlin was the Nazi headquarters. During World War II, it was almost leveled. In 1961 it was divided in two by the Berlin Wall.