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LEAD: Dominion Textile Inc. was uninterested in pursuing a hostile takeover of Burlington Industries until it received valuable information about the company from a former Burlington executive, according to a Federal court's ruling.
LEAD: With the end of the first stage of the Congressional investigation today, one crucial question about the Iran-contra affair and several other important ones remain unanswered.
LEAD: The leaders of the seven major industrial democracies issued a political declaration today that endorsed the principle of freedom of navigation in the Persian Gulf but fell considerably short of the Reagan Administration's wishes for a stern warning to Iran.
LEAD: If political campaigns were judged like prizefights, the combative Neil Kinnock might well be ahead on points as Britain prepares to vote on Thursday.
LEAD: The stock of the JWT Group jumped yesterday as takeover rumors surrounded the advertising company.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 10, 1987, covering June 10, 1987.
U2
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
Poison
Motley Crue
1987Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer[†]
Martin Harnik is a professional footballer who plays for German fifth-tier club TuS Dassendorf. Born in Germany, he has represented the Austria national team. He plays as a forward or as a right winger.
1987Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player[†]
Amobi Okoye is a Nigerian former professional player of American football who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected by the Houston Texans tenth overall in the 2007 NFL draft, the youngest player in NFL history to be drafted in the first round at 19. He was also a member of the Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Saskatchewan Roughriders.
1987Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (born 1943)[†]
Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular 1965 film A Patch of Blue, playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]