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LEAD: A key committee of the American Bar Association has voted to give Judge Robert H. Bork its highest rating, but the committee was sharply divided, with four members evaluating him as ''not qualified'' for the Supreme Court, sources close to the process said today.
LEAD: The Administration is planning to open its campaign for renewed aid to the Nicaraguan rebels on Thursday with a request for $270 million for both military and nonmilitary purposes over the next 18 months, according to Government officials.
LEAD: Surgeon General C. Everett Koop today denounced doctors and other health workers who refuse to treat AIDS patients as a ''fearful and irrational minority'' who are guilty of ''unprofessional conduct.''
LEAD: IN ancient Greece, the clay mask of a god was often placed on the front of a kiln to keep out the spirits that were thought to flaw ceramics. Today, computers are more likely to officiate over kilns, and with more control. Ceramics manufacturers can even schedule unruly crazing and fugitive iridescences into glazes.
LEAD: The Digital Equipment Corporation introduced several aggressively priced low-end computers today that are three times more powerful than their predecessors.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 9, 1987, covering September 10, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Paul Goldschmidt, American baseball player[â ]
Paul Edward Goldschmidt, nicknamed Goldy, is an American professional baseball first baseman for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and St. Louis Cardinals. He has also represented the United States in international competition.
1987Nana Tanimura, Japanese singer-songwriter and actress[â ]
Nana Tanimura , is a Japanese pop singer.
1987Alex Saxon, American actor[â ]
Alex Saxon is an American actor known for playing Wyatt in The Fosters, Max in Finding Carter, and Ace in Nancy Drew. He has also had roles in other television series: Awkward (2011); Ray Donovan (2013â2015); and The Mentalist (2015).
1987Boris RĂ”tov, Estonian chess player (born 1937)[â ]
Boris RÔtov was a Russian-Estonian chess player who won the Estonian Chess Championship (1978).
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[â ]