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LEAD: Switzerland's highest court, rejecting the claims of several leading figures in the Iran-contra affair, gave the go-ahead today for Swiss banks to turn over confidential documents to American prosecutors in the case.
LEAD: With their work-hardened hands and deep suntans, Bob Wemyss and Vito Randazzo are not the type normally seen at academic conferences. But today they sat in the front row of a stuffy room at Hofstra University, listening carefully as scientists delivered their detailed, complicated papers.
LEAD: The United Orient Bank in New York's Chinatown and five of its officers were indicted by a Federal grand jury in Manhattan yesterday on charges of failing to report cash transactions exceeding $10,000.
LEAD: Central American foreign ministers appear to have failed to make significant progress toward carrying out a new regional peace plan in two days of meetings here, largely because of opposition from Honduras, diplomats involved in the talks said today.
LEAD: A fugitive under indictment for illegally exporting millions of dollars of computer equipment to the Soviet Union was apparently captured late Wednesday, not through a high-tech sting or amid crates of chips, but after being spotted by a Mountie while on a fishing trip in the Yukon.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 19, 1987, covering August 21, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Heart
LL Cool J
U2
1987DeWanna Bonner, American-Macedonian basketball player[â ]
DeWanna Bonner is an American-Macedonian professional basketball player for the Indiana Fever of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). Bonner played college basketball for Auburn University. After a successful college career at Auburn, she was drafted by the Phoenix Mercury with the fifth overall pick of the 2009 WNBA draft, and was traded to the Sun in 2020.
1987Cody Kasch, American actor[â ]
Cody Reed Kasch is an American actor. He is known for his role of Zach Young on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives.
1987J. D. Martinez, American baseball player[â ]
Julio Daniel Martinez is an American professional baseball outfielder and designated hitter who is a free agent. He has played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Detroit Tigers, Arizona Diamondbacks, Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Dodgers, and New York Mets. He made his MLB debut in 2011. A right-handed thrower and batter, Martinez stands 6Â feet 3Â inches (1.91Â m) tall and weighs 230 pounds (100Â kg).
1987Jodie Meeks, American basketball player and coach[â ]
Orestes Jodie Meeks II is an American professional basketball coach and former player who is an assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the University of Kentucky. On January 13, 2009, he gained national recognition by breaking the Kentucky single-game scoring record with 54 points in a nationally televised game on ESPN against Tennessee. In the same game, he broke the university's single-game three-point record by making 10 three-pointers. Meeks won the 2019 NBA championship as a member of the Toronto Raptors. In 2024, Meeks was inducted into the University of Kentucky Athletics Hall of Fame.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]