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LEAD: By almost any standard, William G. Mastropietro has lived a pleasant and successful life. He married the woman he loved. He became a prosperous tobacco salesman. He even achieved some measure of local fame as a part-time troubadour and radio personality.
LEAD: THE ranks of displaced homemakers appear to be growing rapidly, according to a report to be released today in Washington by the Displaced Homemakers Network. The report says that at last count there were almost 11.5 million displaced homemakers in this country - women who had lost their source of support, mainly through widowhood or divorce.
LEAD: President Reagan said today that he was ''heartened'' by prospects for an arms agreement banning intermediate-range missiles, and announced that the United States had formally agreed to a key element of a compromise advanced by the Soviet Union.
LEAD: Last weekend, just before the cold snap plunged temperatures into the 80's, the urgent quest of cool was sending thousands to the squat cavernous blockhouse in Flushing, Queens, that is headquarters of the Beverage Wagon.
LEAD: The New York City school system would receive $600 million from the Municipal Assistance Corporation to help finance a major building program, but only if certain conditions are met, the chairman of M.A.C., Felix G. Rohatyn, said yesterday.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 1987, covering July 29, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
Motley Crue
1987Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay, Indian author, poet, and playwright (born 1894)[â ]
Bibhutibhushan Mukhopadhyay was an Indian Bengali language author.
1987British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Channel Tunnel).[â ]
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was a British stateswoman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British prime minister of the 20th century and the first woman to hold the position. As prime minister, she implemented policies that came to be known as Thatcherism. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and leadership style.
1987Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.[â ]
Rajiv Gandhi was an Indian statesman and pilot who served as the prime minister of India from 1984 to 1989. He took office after the assassination of his mother, thenâprime minister Indira Gandhi, to become at the age of 40 the youngest Indian prime minister. He served until his defeat at the 1989 election, and then became Leader of the Opposition, Lok Sabha, resigning in December 1990, six months before his own assassination.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]