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In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]
1987Starley, Australian pop singer[†]
Starley Hope, known mononymously as Starley, is an Australian singer and songwriter. She is best known for her debut single "Call on Me", released in 2016, which was remixed into a club song by Ryan Riback the following year.
1987Jean Anouilh, French playwright and screenwriter (born 1910)[†]
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was a French dramatist and screenwriter whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.
1987Kalervo Palsa, Finnish painter (born 1947)[†]
Huugo Kalervo Palsa, known as Kalle, was a Finnish artist whose style has been described as fantastic expressionism, often influenced by depictions of sexuality.
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LEAD: A new study of gay men in Finland has found that some who became infected with the AIDS virus through sexual intercourse did not form antibodies for more than a year, far longer than most experts had expected.
LEAD: A.C.L.U. to Aid P.L.O. The American Civil Liberties Union will defend the right of a Palestine Liberation Organization agent to run an information office. Page 7. Payment for Greenpeace An international tribunal ordered France to pay $8.1 million to Greenpeace for sinking the environmental group's ship in 1985.
LEAD: Tension, turmoil and confusion are mounting for illegal aliens here and around the country as the Immigration and Naturalization Service begins to carry out the harsh second phase of the historic amnesty law: penalties against employers who hire illegal aliens.
LEAD: A march for independence by thousands of Tibetans turned violent Thursday, with demonstrators stoning the police and setting a police station afire, witnesses said today. Six people were reported killed.
LEAD: The mob hit man who swore last week that he had lied in court testimony against a Mafia boss reversed his story again yesterday. Appearing in Federal Court, the witness, Luigi Ronsisvalle, said that he had falsely recanted his court testimony because of death threats to his family.
LEAD: Japan has abandoned its ambition to design and build a new home-grown jet fighter for its armed forces. Instead, it will adopt slightly modified American aircraft, Defense Minister Yuko Kuriharo announced today.
LEAD: President Reagan stepped up his direct involvement today in the fight to win Senate confirmation of Judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, but he apparently failed to reverse the trend that is running strongly against his nominee.
LEAD: The Pentagon said today that a Soviet naval vessel operating in the target area for the recent Soviet missile tests in the Pacific apparently directed a laser at two American aircraft.
LEAD: When American negotiators sat down in Canada's capital 16 months ago to begin free trade talks, the Canadians decorated the room with a photograph of a little girl and an elephant.
LEAD: Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger has rejected an invitation from the Soviet Defense Minister for a meeting next week in Geneva, restating his own suggestion that the two should meet this month in Washington.
LEAD: ''I only feel happiness, I am unable to think right now.'' - Ida Nudel, allowed to leave the Soviet Union after 16 years. [ 3:5. ]
LEAD: An international arbitration tribunal ordered France today to pay more than $8.1 million in damages to Greenpeace, an environmentalist and antinuclear group, for the deliberate sinking two years ago of the group's ship, the Rainbow Warrior.