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LEAD: Runoff from farms and roads causes more contamination of the Hudson River by such chemicals as lead and arsenic than do discharges from factories, according to a study to be released today by Inform, an environmental research group.
LEAD: Almost a year after a crackdown on underage drinking in New York City bars, law-enforcement officials and teen-agers themselves agree that the problem is far from solved.
LEAD: President Reagan's overhaul of the national security apparatus after the Iran-contra affair has not resolved strong differences between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and White House officials over the conduct of foreign policy, according to officials close to Mr. Shultz and Frank C. Carlucci, the national security adviser.
LEAD: BY late August, the dog days of summer are over and ripe tomatoes are hanging thick and heavy on the vines. This is the time of year when tomato lovers go a little crazy, for their favorite fruit is generally bursting with the flavor and sweetness that are the essence of summer.
LEAD: Early Thursday afternoon a scrubby desert valley 22 miles west of here will erupt in a two-minute stream of fire that Morton Thiokol Inc., maker of the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters, hopes will begin to erase memories of the last 19 months.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 1987, covering August 26, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
LL Cool J
Soundtrack
Heart
1987Juan Joseph, American football player and coach (died 2014)[†]
Juan Joseph was a professional Arena football quarterback who also played American and Canadian football. He last played for the Lafayette Wildcatters of the Southern Indoor Football League (SIFL). He was signed by the Edmonton Eskimos as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football for the Millsaps Majors. He was also a member of the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
1987John Goddard, Barbadian-English cricketer and manager (born 1919)[†]
John Douglas Claude Goddard OBE was a cricketer from Barbados who captained the West Indies in 22 of his 27 Tests between 1948 and 1957.
1987Georg Wittig, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1897)[†]
Georg Wittig was a German chemist who reported a method for synthesis of alkenes from aldehydes and ketones using compounds called phosphonium ylides in the Wittig reaction. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Herbert C. Brown in 1979.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]