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LEAD: More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa's largest and costliest strike after three weeks.
LEAD: When the U.S.O. signed for new quarters last week, officials said they were relieved they could find a spot in Times Square. That's where military people come, said the center's director, Hazel Cathers, for the ''element of danger and excitement - it gets the adrenaline going.'' In fact, that's why tourists have been coming to Times Square for years.
LEAD: For most of President Reagan's tenure, the nation's intelligence agencies and some senior officials have fought with increasing bitterness over whether intelligence analyses prepared for the President were being distorted to support Administration policies.
LEAD: Iraq, stepping up renewed attacks in the Persian Gulf, today bombed Iranian offshore oil sites for a second day, Baghdad communiques said.
LEAD: New orders for American-made machine tools plummeted 19.7 percent in July from the previous month's level, following strong increases in May and June, according to a report to be released today by the National Machine Tool Builders' Association.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of August 26, 1987, covering August 31, 1987.
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
LL Cool J
Soundtrack
Heart
1987Xavi Annunziata, Spanish footballer[â ]
Javier 'Xavi' Fernández Annunziata is a Spanish former footballer who played as a left winger, currently a manager.
1987Petros Kravaritis, Greek footballer[â ]
Petros Kravaritis is a Greek goalkeeper. He currently plays for Fostiras.
1987OndÅej Pavelec, Czech ice hockey player[â ]
OndÅej Pavelec is a Czech former professional ice hockey goaltender. Drafted in the second round, 41st overall, by the Atlanta Thrashers in 2005, he stayed with the team as they became the Winnipeg Jets in 2011, and played his final season with the New York Rangers. During the 2012â13 NHL lockout, Pavelec played for BÃlà TygÅi Liberec of the Czech Extraliga (ELH) and Pelicans of the Finnish SM-liiga.
1987Thai Airways Flight 365 crashes into the ocean near Ko Phuket, Thailand, killing all 83 aboard.[â ]
Thai Airways Flight 365 was a Thai Airways Company Boeing 737-2P5 with the registration number HS-TBC. On 31 August 1987, the plane crashed during a scheduled flight from Hat Yai International Airport to Phuket International Airport, killing all 83 people on board: 74 passengers and 9 crew. It was the deadliest aviation accident in Thailand at the time, before being surpassed four years later by the crash of Lauda Air Flight 004. Concerned by another aircraft in their vicinity, the crew reduced their approach speed while attempting to land, and failed to recover from an aerodynamic stall. In addition to pilot error, the air traffic controller was blamed for failing to keep Flight 365 and the other aircraft adequately separated.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]