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LEAD: Judge Robert H. Bork's fourth day before the Senate Judiciary Committee was marked by further challenges to his candor and by his most spirited defense of his integrity.
LEAD: Senate Rejects Gulf Vote The Senate rejected an amendment that would have forced Congress to vote on the policy of escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers. Page 3. Pope Hears Plea for Laity A Spokane woman urged the Pope to give lay Catholics a greater voice in the church. He said the laity's mission was secular.
LEAD: Propelled by his desire for an achievement in foreign policy and by the perseverance of aides like Secretary of State George P. Shultz, President Reagan is on the brink of concluding the first major arms control agreement with the Soviet Union since 1979.
LEAD: Early this month, grief-stricken villagers gathered here for the funeral of a young man from a prominent local family who had died suddenly, apparently of a ruptured appendix. The cremation ceremony was planned according to Hindu traditions.
LEAD: An AIDS curriculum that will be mandatory in all elementary and secondary schools in New York State was approved today by the Board of Regents.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 16, 1987, covering September 19, 1987.
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
Heart
1987Nicolas Pallois, French footballer[†]
Nicolas Pallois is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Ligue 1 club Nantes. He has previously played for Caen, Quevilly, Valenciennes, Laval, Chamois Niortais, and Bordeaux.
1987Danielle Panabaker, American actress[†]
Danielle Nicole Panabaker is an American actress. She began acting as a teenager and came to prominence for her roles in the Disney films Stuck in the Suburbs (2004), Sky High (2005) and Read It and Weep (2006), and in the HBO miniseries Empire Falls (2005). She won three Young Artist Awards: for guest-starring in an episode of the legal drama television series The Guardian (2004), for her lead role in the TV film Searching for David's Heart (2005) and for her ensemble performance in the family comedy film Yours, Mine & Ours (2005).
1987Carlos Quintero, Colombian footballer[†]
Carlos Darwin Quintero Villalba is a Colombian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Categoría Primera A club Deportivo Pereira. Quintero is also known by his nickname of El Científico del Gol. He has played various roles throughout his career, spending time leading the line as a striker, playing out wide as a winger, and playing underneath another striker as a second striker and central attacking midfielder throughout his career. His main attributes throughout his career have been his pace, creativity, and dribbling ability.
1987Einar Gerhardsen, Norwegian civil servant and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Norway (born 1897)[†]
Einar Henry Gerhardsen was a Norwegian politician who served as the prime minister of Norway from 1945 to 1951, 1955 to 1963 and 1963 to 1965. With a total of 16 years in office, he is the longest serving Prime Minister in Norway since the introduction of parliamentarism. He was the leader of the Labour Party from 1945 to 1965.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]