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LEAD: Ernest McNeill's lips move faintly as his index finger tracks the words of the simple text: ''Ann Smith works in a dress shop. The dress shop is in the city. The dress shop is in a big building.''
LEAD: THE cooking of Cajun and Creole food is not the carved-in-granite affair that most people presume it to be, according to John Folse, one of America's foremost Cajun-Creole chefs. Yes, there are dishes - like jambalaya, gumbo and shrimp creole - that are the foundation on which the cuisine is built.
LEAD: As corruption cases mount throughout New York State, officials are unable to agree on what needs to be done about dishonesty in government and are caught up in a scramble to blame one another for the problem.
LEAD: If any place stands for the right of people to do what they want with their property, it is Orange County, the wealthy territory south of Los Angeles that has boomed over a matter of decades from lush ranchland into the fifth most densely populated metropolitan area in the United States.
LEAD: Mexican businessmen, bankers, economists and investors are glancing nervously at their calendars these days. The ''Year of Hidalgo,'' with all its attendant dangers and potential for economic disaster, has come around again.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 1987, covering August 19, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Heart
LL Cool J
U2
1987Patrick Chung, Jamaican-American football player[â ]
Patrick Christopher Chung is a Jamaican-American former professional football safety who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 12 seasons, primarily with the New England Patriots. He played college football for the Oregon Ducks and was selected in the second round of the 2009 NFL draft by the Patriots, where he spent 11 non-consecutive seasons. In between his Patriots tenure, Chung was a member of the Philadelphia Eagles for one season. A three-time Super Bowl winner with New England, Chung was named to the franchise's All-2010s Team and All-Dynasty Team in 2020.
1987Nick Driebergen, Dutch swimmer[â ]
Nicolaas "Nick" Driebergen is a former Dutch Swimmer who is specialized in backstroke. He currently holds national long course records in all backstroke events and in the 4Ă100 medley relay. At short course he holds the national record in 50 and 100Â m backstroke and in the 4Ă50 medley relay. He was the first swimmer in his country to swim the 100 m backstroke under 55 seconds and 200 m backstroke under 2 minutes at the long course.
1987Nico HĂŒlkenberg, German racing driver[â ]
Nicolas HĂŒlkenberg is a German racing driver who competes in Formula One for Sauber. In endurance racing, HĂŒlkenberg won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2015 with Porsche.
1987Hungerford massacre: In the United Kingdom, Michael Ryan kills sixteen people with a semi-automatic rifle and then commits suicide.[â ]
The Hungerford massacre was a spree shooting in Wiltshire and Berkshire, United Kingdom, which occurred on 19 August 1987 when 27-year-old Michael Ryan shot and killed sixteen people, including an unarmed police officer and his own mother, before killing himself. No firm motive for the killings has been established.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]