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LEAD: Under sharp questioning by the Iran-contra committees, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d reluctantly conceded today that Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North must have lied either to him or in sworn testimony before the committees.
LEAD: Since its founding during New York City's financial turmoil of 1975, the Municipal Assistance Corporation's role has been, in part, to use its money to force changes it felt necessary upon sometimes unwilling public agencies and public employees. The city's financial crisis is long gone, but the assistance corporation remains willing and able to use its monetary clout to bring change.
LEAD: Ray Williams has been living out of a suitcase here since he received orders Sunday to take over the presidency of the Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park and reverse its troubled image and sagging attendance.
LEAD: HERE are 17 Kirk Camerons, the young star of the television show ''Growing Pains,'' on the wall of Bunk 26 at Point O'Pines Camp for Girls in Brant Lake, N.Y.
LEAD: Six workers and a former employee at the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center in Queens were arrested yesterday after a yearlong undercover investigation. Three were charged with abusing mentally retarded patients and the rest with selling drugs to fellow employees.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of July 29, 1987, covering July 30, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
Motley Crue
1987Anton Fink, German footballer[†]
Anton Fink is a German professional footballer who plays as a striker for Oberliga Baden-Württemberg club FC Nöttingen. He has scored the most 3. liga goals of all time (136).
1987Sam Saunders, American golfer[†]
Samuel Palmer Saunders is an American professional golfer and the grandson of Arnold Palmer.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]