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LEAD: IT has been 10 years since an innovative behavioral psychologist set out to make life more bearable for a quadriplegic friend. With a grant of $2,000 from the Tufts New England Medical Center, Mary Jane Willard began training capuchins - organ-grinder monkeys - to become the arms and legs of quadriplegics, disabled people who have lost significant use of all four limbs.
LEAD: ''Welcome to the Undersea World of the Bronx.'' That's what the man said, and the people went inside, a few of them half expecting to see aquariums filled with rusty oil drums, assorted garbage and muggers wearing snorkels, masks and swim fins.
LEAD: The Nicaraguan soldiers arrived without warning last month and were not in the mood to give explanations.
LEAD: Three more global financial institutions - Manufacturers Hanover, Bankers Trust and National Westminster of Britain - said yesterday that they would set aside additional reserves for loan losses.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 17, 1987, covering June 17, 1987.
U2
Whitesnake
Motley Crue
Bon Jovi
Poison
1987Kendrick Lamar, American rapper[†]
Kendrick Lamar Duckworth is an American rapper, singer, songwriter and record producer. Regarded as one of the greatest rappers of all time, he was awarded the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music, becoming the first musician outside of the classical and jazz genres to receive the award.
1987Nozomi Tsuji, Japanese singer and actress[†]
Nozomi Sugiura , known professionally by her birth name Nozomi Tsuji is a Japanese media personality, singer, and blogger. In 2000, she began her career as a singer for Japanese girl band Morning Musume. Tsuji later found success with related groups Mini Moni and W. She has participated in the shuffle groups 10-nin Matsuri, Odoru 11, and 11Water, H.P. All Stars, as well as being a member of the Morning Musume splinter group Morning Musume Otomegumi
1987Dick Howser, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)[†]
Richard Dalton Howser was an American Major League Baseball shortstop, coach, and manager who was best known as the manager of the Kansas City Royals during the 1980s and for guiding them to the franchise's first World Series title in 1985.
1987With the death of the last individual of the species, the dusky seaside sparrow becomes extinct.[†]
The dusky seaside sparrow was a non-migratory subspecies of the seaside sparrow, found in Florida in the natural salt marshes of Merritt Island and along the St. Johns River. The last definite known individual died on Walt Disney World's Discovery Island in 1987, and the subspecies was officially declared extinct in December 1990.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]