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LEAD: Americans generally appear to be turning away from the use of illegal drugs, but, at the same time, the poor face mounting deaths and an ever bleaker future because of drug abuse, according to Government statistics and interviews with drug experts.
LEAD: FIVE years ago, a young fashion designer named Rebecca Moses had an offer she couldn't refuse. ''You design,'' said Victor Coopersmith, a former Seventh Avenue salesman. ''In two to three years, we make you famous.''
LEAD: The leaders of an attempted coup were still at large today and the military remained on alert after Government forces put down the most serious armed challenge to the presidency of Corazon C. Aquino.
LEAD: THE problem, among all the problems, is that the spectacle will seem unchanged. The Million Dollar Band at the University of Alabama has not been devalued by inflation, and Traveler III, the great white Trojan horse at the University of Southern California, has never appeared more majestic.
LEAD: ''ONLY connect,'' said E. M. Forster, and what a world of human struggle, folly and failure are compressed into those two words. But for parents and children, in life and in literature, it is not the connecting but the separating that is the problem. Parents ''accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster,'' as Christopher Lasch puts it in ''Haven in a Heartless World.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 1987, covering August 30, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
LL Cool J
Soundtrack
Heart
1987Johanna Braddy, American actress[†]
Johanna Braddy is an American actress. She played the leading role in the 2009 horror film The Grudge 3, and has appeared in Pop Rocks (2004), Hurt (2009), Easy A (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), and The Levenger Tapes (2011). She starred as Jenny Matrix in the web series Video Game High School from 2012 to 2014. In 2015, Braddy co-starred as Anna Martin in the Lifetime dark comedy-drama series Unreal. She also starred as Shelby Wyatt in the ABC thriller series Quantico.
1987Tania Foster, English singer-songwriter[†]
Tania Foster is an English singer-songwriter. Foster has achieved one number one single, in the UK, after featuring on Roll Deep's single "Green Light". Tania is currently working with hit writer and producer Fraser T Smith, and also features on a number of songs on Tinchy Stryder's third album, Third Strike. She has also worked with Roll Deep on their fifth album Winner Stays On.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]