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LEAD: In a long-awaited decision, New York State's highest court today upheld the zoning ordinances of the Town of Brookhaven, L. I., rejecting the assertion that they had been used to exclude low-income housing.
LEAD: At 72, after a decade in the Long Island Senior Softball Association, Mike Gurro knows how things are. ''The young guys come in, they push you out,'' he said. ''You know, they play the guys 62, 63. All us old guys know that. We understand guys in their 60's are faster.''
LEAD: Early in 1983 a team of Japanese engineers from the Toshiba Machine Company arrived in Leningrad, the center of Russian shipbuilding since Peter the Great, and was whisked through the back gate of the heavily guarded Baltic Shipyard. There they painstakingly assembled more than $17 million worth of computer-controlled machine tools used to make ship propellers.
LEAD: After two years of negotiations involving opponents of the project, a $2 billion plan to widen the New Jersey Turnpike along much of its congested northern corridor is getting under way this month.
LEAD: The Chemical New York Corporation yesterday became the latest big banking company to acknowledge that many of its third world loans are all but uncollectible.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 10, 1987, covering June 12, 1987.
U2
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
Poison
Motley Crue
1987The Central African Republic's former emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa is sentenced to death for crimes he had committed during his 13-year rule.[†]
The Central African Republic (CAR) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the east, the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, the Republic of the Congo to the southwest, and Cameroon to the west. Bangui is the country's capital and largest city, bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Central African Republic covers a land area of about 620,000 square kilometres (240,000 sq mi). As of 2024, it has a population of 5,357,744, consisting of about 80 ethnic groups, and is in the scene of a civil war, which has been ongoing since 2012. Having been a French colony under the name Ubangi-Shari, French is the official language, with Sango, a Ngbandi-based creole language, as the national and co-official language.
1987Cold War: At the Brandenburg Gate, U.S. President Ronald Reagan publicly challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.[†]
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical rivalry between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the capitalist Western Bloc and communist Eastern Bloc, which lasted from 1947 until the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The term cold war is used because there was no direct fighting between the two superpowers, though each supported opposing sides in regional conflicts known as proxy wars. In addition to the struggle for ideological and economic influence and an arms race in both conventional and nuclear weapons, the Cold War was expressed through technological rivalries such as the Space Race, espionage, propaganda campaigns, embargoes, and sports diplomacy.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]