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LEAD: The International Monetary Fund, generally considered to be tight-fisted in its financing agreements with developing countries, has taken the lead in an initiative to give easy credit to 60 of the world's poorest countries, many of them in Africa.
LEAD: A company run by Chinese-Americans in New York City has contracted to bring a large number of Chinese peasants to the United States as temporary farm workers under a new program established by the 1986 immigration law.
LEAD: The courts did not work for Wilhemina Virginia Burgos, a Brooklyn woman who had obtained a court order of protection as a last defensive shield between her and her former husband, Jose A. Burgos.
LEAD: About 5 A.M. yesterday, two of Mayor Koch's bodyguards found a 33-year-old man in the kitchen of Gracie Mansion with two knives, two spoons and eight forks.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 23, 1987, covering September 25, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Whitney Houston
Whitesnake
Def Leppard
1987Monica Niculescu, Romanian tennis player[†]
Monica Niculescu is a Romanian professional tennis player. She has been ranked by the WTA as high as No. 28 in singles and No. 11 in doubles. She has won three singles and 10 doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one singles and three doubles titles on the WTA Challenger Tour, as well as 19 singles and 22 doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit.
1987Mustafa Yumlu, Turkish footballer[†]
Mustafa Yumlu is a Turkish professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for BB Erzurumspor in the TFF First League.
1987Mary Astor, American actress (born 1906)[†]
Mary Astor was an American actress. Although her career spanned several decades, she may be best remembered for her performance as Brigid O'Shaughnessy in The Maltese Falcon (1941).
1987Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright (born 1905)[†]
George Emlyn Williams, CBE was a Welsh writer, dramatist and actor.
1987Fijian Governor-General Penaia Ganilau is overthrown in a coup d'état led by Lieutenant colonel Sitiveni Rabuka.[†]
Ratu Sir Penaia Kanatabatu Ganilau was a Fijian politician who served as the first President of Fiji, serving from 8 December 1987 until his death in 1993. He had previously served as Governor-General of Fiji, representing Elizabeth II, Queen of Fiji, from 12 February 1983 to 15 October 1987.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]