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LEAD: The deer population in much of the metropolitan region has reached its highest level in centuries, posing serious, as well as occasionally comical, problems for motorists, farmers and suburban homeowners.
LEAD: LETTERS from readers indicate that there is widespread confusion and concern about the relationship between diet and cancer.
LEAD: Everywhere you turn in France, the men selling European products in magazines and on television are Americans. Darkly handsome Joe Gogol of Cleveland shows off suits sewn in Italy. Blond, sun-burnished Christopher Jacobs of Coral Gables, Fla., touts washing machines made in the Netherlands. Wavy-haired Troy Alexander of Laguna Beach, Calif., escapes from spies in Hong Kong by paying bribes with
LEAD: Businessman Evaded Taxes Victor Posner, described as the nation's highest-paid executive in 1985, pleaded no contest to charges of evading income taxes. Page D1. Deer Crowd the Suburbs An increase in deer in the New York area poses problems for motorists, farmers and homeowners.
LEAD: The work New York City's firefighters do each day depends partly on what the National Weather Service has to say.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 30, 1987, covering September 30, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Aida Garifullina, Russian operatic soprano[†]
Aida Emilevna Garifullina is a Russian lyric soprano of Tatar descent. She was the winner of the 2013 Operalia competition and has featured in a number of productions staged at the Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg and the Vienna State Opera. She has a recording contract with Decca Records.
1987Kenley Jansen, Curaçaoan baseball player[†]
Kenley Geronimo Jansen is a Curaçaoan professional baseball pitcher for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, and Boston Red Sox.
1987Alfred Bester, American author and screenwriter (born 1913)[†]
Alfred Bester was an American science fiction author, TV and radio screenwriter, magazine editor and scriptwriter for comics. He is best remembered for his science fiction, including The Demolished Man, winner of the inaugural Hugo Award in 1953.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]