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LEAD: FOUR Republicans and three Democrats will be scrambling over the next 16 days for their parties' nominations to succeed the Congressman who represented the Fourth District for 17 years.
LEAD: To help revive its older housing stock, New Jersey is encouraging adventurous home buyers to take on ''handyman specials'' through a novel mortgage program.
LEAD: ABALMY SUMMER EVENING AT the Tanglewood Music Festival - seated comfortably in the Shed or stretched out luxuriously on the lawn, listening to great music played by the Boston Symphony Orchestra - counts as one kind of heaven for a lover of classical music. Tanglewood, which got under way this weekend and begins a four-year 50th-birthday celebration this summer, is America's prototypical summer music festival.
LEAD: FOR all the drama and talk of political miracles, democracy did not come to South Korea last week. Nor is it likely to come next week or the week after. Korea - accustomed to centuries of royal dynasty, Japanese colonial rule and postwar division into a Communist North and a usually authoritarian South - will need a lot more time to develop the traditions associated with modern democracies.
LEAD: There is a certain comfort that Martina Navratilova takes in being at Wimbledon. The grass courts are like a security blanket to keep the doubts away. The women's singles final is an appointment she has been keeping for several years, each special in its own way. It is said that only the royal family has a permanent place on Centre Court, but
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 1, 1987, covering July 5, 1987.
Whitney Houston
U2
Motley Crue
Whitesnake
Heart
1987Ji Chang-wook, South Korean actor[†]
Ji Chang-wook is a South Korean actor and singer. He rose to fame for playing the lead role of Dong-hae in daily drama series Smile Again (2010–2011), and has had notable lead roles in television series such as Warrior Baek Dong-soo (2011), Empress Ki (2013–2014), Healer (2014–2015), The K2 (2016), Suspicious Partner (2017), The Worst of Evil (2023), and Welcome to Samdal-ri (2023–2024). He has also appeared in the film Fabricated City (2017).
1987Safiq Rahim, Malaysian footballer[†]
Safiq bin Rahim is a Malaysian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder. He is also a former member of the Malaysia national team. Safiq is widely regarded as one of the best Malaysian midfielders of all time.
1987Alexander Kristoff, Norwegian cyclist[†]
Alexander Kristoff is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.
1987Sri Lankan Civil War: The LTTE uses suicide attacks on the Sri Lankan Army for the first time. The Black Tigers are born and, in the following years, will continue to kill with the tactic.[†]
The Sri Lankan civil war was a civil war fought in Sri Lanka from 1983 to 2009. Beginning on 23 July 1983, it was an intermittent insurgency against the government by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam led by Velupillai Prabhakaran. The LTTE fought to create an independent Tamil state called Tamil Eelam in the north-east of the island, due to the continuous discrimination and violent persecution against Sri Lankan Tamils by the Sinhalese-dominated Sri Lanka government.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]