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LEAD: Surveillance Drone Delayed The Army has delayed production of its main unmanned surveillance aircraft because its operators could not spot many targets in a test. Page A16. Help for Airline Passengers The House approved consumer-protection measures for airline passengers. The Senate is expected to back similar legislation.
LEAD: Six nights a week Mildred Green dispatched cabs through the drug-scarred streets of South Jamaica, Queens.
LEAD: To save a free-trade pact with Canada, the Reagan Administration agreed that a Canadian-American dispute settlement panel could review acts of Congress and authorize Canadian trade retaliation if those acts ''violate the spirit'' of the pact.
LEAD: Persuaded that Cheryl Pierson was sexually abused by her father, a State Supreme Court justice sentenced the 18-year-old woman today to six months in jail for her role in planning her father's murder.
LEAD: SCIENCE is still a long way from a cure for the common cold. But maybe that does not matter anymore.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of September 30, 1987, covering October 6, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Joe Lewis, English footballer[†]
Joseph Peter Lewis is an English former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
1987Akuila Uate, Fijian-Australian rugby league player[†]
Akuila Uate, also known by the nicknames of "Aku", and "Akuila the Thriller", is a former professional rugby league footballer who played on the wing. He was both a Fiji and Australian international.
1987Fiji becomes a republic.[†]
Fiji, officially the Republic of Fiji, is an island country in Melanesia, part of Oceania in the South Pacific Ocean. It lies about 1,100 nautical miles north-northeast of New Zealand. Fiji consists of an archipelago of more than 330 islands—of which about 110 are permanently inhabited—and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of about 18,300 square kilometres (7,100 sq mi). The most outlying island group is Ono-i-Lau. About 87% of the total population live on the two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu. About three-quarters of Fijians live on Viti Levu's coasts, either in the capital city of Suva, or in smaller urban centres such as Nadi or Lautoka. The interior of Viti Levu is sparsely inhabited because of its terrain.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]