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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Wude Ayalew, Ethiopian runner[†]
Wude Ayalew Yimer is an Ethiopian professional long-distance runner. She was the bronze medallist over 10,000 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and took the silver in that event at the 2011 All-Africa Games. Her sister Hiwot Ayalew is also a top level runner.
1987Guram Kashia, Georgian footballer[†]
Guram Kashia is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Niké Liga club Slovan Bratislava and captains the Georgia national team.
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LEAD: George Washington was pessimistic. The Constitutional Convention was nearing an end and had been so contentious, he said, that more than once it had been ''upon the point of dissolving without agreeing on any system.''
LEAD: In a move that is expected to save New York consumers $100 million a year, Governor Cuomo and the Legislature agreed today on a bill to end a half-century of restrictions on the milk sales in the state.
LEAD: The only man who emerged alive from a locked, ovenlike boxcar described today how his 16 Mexican friends, flailing deliriously in the dark, collapsed and died one by one while trying to ride a freight train to jobs in Dallas.
LEAD: The Soviet Union plans to shift up to 20 million people from its industrial and agricultural work forces by the end of the century, using layoffs, mergers and a program of intense retraining, according to a leading Government economist.
LEAD: Turmoil in Haiti Although the military Government has capitulated on civilian control of elections, calls for its ouster grew amid new outbreaks of violence that left eight more people dead. Page 4.
LEAD: A million dollars for a house? Not so long ago, only movie stars and barons of industry occupied such places. But lesser lights of Hollywood and vice presidents of industry live in them now, as do doctors, lawyers, bankers and partners of accounting firms.
LEAD: Klaus Barbie, the wartime Gestapo chief of this city, was convicted early today of crimes against humanity and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
LEAD: The Soviet Union called today for the withdrawal of all foreign warships from the Persian Gulf and condemned the American military buildup in the region as an effort to establish ''military political hegemony.''
LEAD: Two trans-Atlantic adventurers jumped into the sea today as their disabled hot-air balloon went down within sight of their landing target on the coast of western Scotland.
LEAD: International 2-4, 28 Moscow called for a withdrawal of all foreign warships from the Persian Gulf and condemned the American military buildup in the region as an effort to establish ''military-political hegemony.'' Page 1 Moscow plans to cut its work force in industries and farms by up to 20 million people by the end of the century, using layoffs, mergers and a retraining program to streamline industry, a leading Government economist said.
LEAD: The Cabinet today sent the legislature a proposal to end 38 years of martial law in what Prime Minister Yu Kuo-hwa declared was the beginning of a new era of democracy.
LEAD: Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said today that she did not think the Iran-contra affair had undermined President Reagan's international standing and his ability to achieve an arms control agreement with the Soviet Union.