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LEAD: Pope John Paul II has agreed to meet at the Vatican with Jewish spokesmen who are upset over his granting an audience to President Kurt Waldheim of Austria, officials of Jewish organizations said yesterday.
LEAD: ''Walter O'Malley?'' Jasmine Pierce repeated quizzically. ''Walter O'Malley,'' she said again, struggling to place the name.
LEAD: Every time James J. Donaldson wants to drive, he will have to prove to his Oldsmobile Delta 88 that he isn't drunk.
LEAD: After weeks of speculation, Kidde Inc. said yesterday that it had agreed to be acquired by Hanson Trust P.L.C., a rapidly expanding British conglomerate, in a complicated deal that arbitragers and analysts valued at about $1.79 billion.
LEAD: In the first break in New York City's lagging negotiations with its more than 100 labor unions, the Koch administration and the teamsters announced a tentative agreement yesterday that would raise wages by 15.25 percent over three years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1987, covering August 6, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
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1987Leanne Crichton, Scottish footballer[†]
Leanne Crichton is a Scottish football coach, a media pundit and a retired player whose position was midfielder. At club level she played for Hibernian, Celtic, Whitehill Welfare/Edinburgh Ladies, Glasgow City and Motherwell in Scotland and for Notts County in the English FA WSL, and appeared 72 times for the Scotland national team.
1987Ira C. Eaker, American general (born 1896)[†]
General (Honorary) Ira Clarence Eaker was a general of the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. Eaker, as second-in-command of the prospective Eighth Air Force, was sent to England to form and organize its bomber command. While he struggled to build up airpower in England, the organization of the Army Air Forces evolved and he was named commander of the Eighth Air Force on December 1, 1942.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]