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LEAD: Abel G. Aganbegyan, for years a maverick among Soviet economists, sat before a crowd of reporters tonight and conjured up a strange new world of Soviet socialism in which the omnipotent central planning agencies have withered, unneeded workers are dismissed, good companies are measured by their profits and bad companies go bankrupt.
LEAD: In a major show of Mikhail S. Gorbachev's political strength, his contentious plan for restructuring the economy won formal backing today from the Communist Party's Central Committee.
LEAD: Two small polyps that the White House said appeared to be noncancerous were removed from President Reagan's colon today in what officials described as a routine medical checkup.
LEAD: OPEC May Curtail Output The oil nations moved near agreement on a smaller increase in production than they had planned for the rest of the year. An agreement would be a victory for Iran. Page 35.
LEAD: The White House started looking for a new Supreme Court Justice today, hoping to tip the ideological balance on key issues without generating a protracted confirmation fight with the Democratic-controlled Senate.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of June 24, 1987, covering June 27, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Motley Crue
U2
Whitesnake
Bon Jovi
1987India de Beaufort, English actress[†]
India de Beaufort is a British actress. She has acted in several films and television shows, including The Better Half (2015), Kimi (2022) and Night Court (2023−24).
1987Ed Westwick, English actor[†]
Edward Jack Peter Westwick is an English actor and musician best known for his role as Chuck Bass on The CW's Gossip Girl as well as Vincent Swan in the TV series White Gold. He made his feature film debut in Children of Men (2006) and has since appeared in the films Breaking and Entering (2006), Son of Rambow (2007), S. Darko (2009), Chalet Girl (2011), J. Edgar (2011), Romeo & Juliet (2013), Bone in the Throat (2015), Freaks of Nature (2015), Billionaire Ransom (2016) and Me You Madness (2021).
1987Billy Snedden, Australian lawyer and politician, 17th Attorney-General for Australia (born 1926)[†]
Sir Billy Mackie Snedden, was an Australian politician who served as the leader of the Liberal Party from 1972 to 1975. He was also a cabinet minister from 1964 to 1972, and Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1976 to 1983.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]