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LEAD: In the wake of Judge Robert H. Bork's surprise decision to remain a candidate for the Supreme Court, White House officials say they are scrambling to devise a strategy not for winning confirmation of Judge Bork but for putting Democrats on the defensive and paving the way for the next nominee.
LEAD: Jeffrey Leonard made playoff history tonight when he hit his fourth home run in four games and led the San Francisco Giants to a 4-2 victory that squared their series with the St. Louis Cardinals at two games apiece.
LEAD: Conservative members of the Congressional committees investigating the Iran-contra affair have secured major changes in an early draft report that compared the affair to the Watergate scandal and described a ''cover-up'' within the Reagan Administration, according to Congressional officials.
LEAD: PAULINE experienced many perils, but none to compare with the perils of the present tense. She was tied to tracks, left to teeter on window ledges, allowed to hang from cliffs by the lace in her pantaloons. Yet in the week while we waited for her bloomers to rip or the train to come, time held its breath as we held ours -in serial suspension; that is, we calmly ignored the pause in her plight as we went about our business, placing our modest cares in a parenthetical phrase; because, when the lace on her undies relaxed at last, when the train's hoot grew cruelly closer, or when
LEAD: For the first time in the Nicaraguan conflict, Sandinista and rebel troops today held positions within shooting distance of each other, but did not attack.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 7, 1987, covering October 11, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Whitney Houston
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Tony Beltran, American soccer player[†]
Anthony Benjamin Beltran is an American former soccer player who spent nearly all of his entire professional career at Real Salt Lake.
1987Mike Conley Jr., American basketball player[†]
Michael Alexander Conley Jr. is an American professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He was drafted as the fourth overall pick in the 2007 NBA draft by the Memphis Grizzlies.
1987Nathan Coulter-Nile, Australian cricketer[†]
Nathan Mitchell Coulter-Nile is an Australian cricketer who has played at One Day International (ODI) and Twenty20 International level for the Australian national side. Domestically, he is contracted to Western Australia and the Melbourne Stars. From Perth, Western Australia, Coulter-Nile attended Aquinas College, and represented the state under-17 and under-19 teams, later going on to play three youth ODI matches for the Australian national under-19 team. Having held a rookie contract from the Western Australian Cricket Association (WACA) for several seasons, he made his debut at state level during the 2009–10 season, and has since become a regular selection in Western Australia and the Perth Scorchers' fast bowling attacks. Coulter-Nile made his Twenty20 International debut for the Australian national cricket team in February 2013, and his ODI debut in September 2013.
1987The AIDS Memorial Quilt is first displayed during the Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.[†]
The NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt, often abbreviated to AIDS Memorial Quilt or AIDS Quilt, is a memorial to celebrate the lives of people who have died of AIDS-related causes. Weighing an estimated 54 tons, it is the largest piece of community folk art in the world, as of 2020. It was conceived in 1985, during the early years of the AIDS pandemic, when social stigma prevented many AIDS victims from receiving funerals. It has been displayed on the Mall in Washington, D.C., several times. In 2020, it returned to San Francisco, where it is cared for by the National AIDS Memorial. It can be seen virtually.
1987Start of Operation Pawan by Indian forces in Sri Lanka. Thousands of civilians, insurgents, soldiers die.[†]
Operation Pawan was the code name assigned to the operation by the Indian Peace Keeping Force (IPKF) to take control of Jaffna from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), better known as the Tamil Tigers, in late 1987 to enforce the disarmament of the LTTE as a part of the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord. In brutal fighting lasting about three weeks, the IPKF took control of the Jaffna Peninsula from the LTTE, something that the Sri Lankan Army had tried but failed to do. Supported by Indian Army tanks, helicopter gunships and heavy artillery, the IPKF routed the LTTE at the cost of 214 soldiers and officers.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]