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LEAD: The mountains at night appear like silhouettes in a Chinese brush painting - a line of dragon humps and stone spikes occasionally capped by an odd clinging cloud. They are the start of the China White Trail to New York.
LEAD: The peace plan signed by five Central American leaders on Friday fails to address some of the region's most difficult problems, but it still seems to offer a tentative political opening that could take on a momentum of its own.
LEAD: Corporate Britain appears to be trying to buy back the former American colonies. Last week, the recent surge in trans-Atlantic takeovers accelerated with an extraordinary series of bids for American companies that totaled nearly $4 billion.
LEAD: From the linoleum to the blackboard, from the molded plastic chairs to the inspirational posters of swans and rainbows, the classroom resembles any other. Only when the teacher raises the window shade can the guard tower and the barbed-wire fence be seen.
LEAD: He is the great mystery of the Yankee summer.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 5, 1987, covering August 10, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Heart
Whitesnake
U2
LL Cool J
1987Jim Bakkum, Dutch singer and actor[†]
Jimmy Johannes Bakkum is a Dutch singer, actor, stage actor and television personality. Rising to nationwide fame after becoming runner-up in the first season of Dutch singing competition series Idols, he has released five albums and made a career in musicals and film. In television, he appeared in a Dutch version of Dancing with the Stars, which he won.
1987Ari Boyland, New Zealand actor and singer[†]
Ari Boyland is a New Zealand film, television and stage actor. As a child, he had a breakout role in the New Zealand cult hit science fiction drama series, The Tribe. He also played the role of Brodie Kemp in Shortland Street. He currently stars in the TVNZ drama, Testify.
1987Georgios Athanasiadis-Novas, Greek lawyer and politician, 163rd Prime Minister of Greece (born 1893)[†]
Georgios Athanasiadis–Novas was a Greek poet, lawyer and politician who briefly served as Prime Minister in 1965.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]