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LEAD: New York City officials yesterday announced a tentative settlement with the largest municipal union, District Council 37. The contract would provide three annual raises of 5 percent each.
LEAD: The New York City Police Department, altering a longtime policy at the request of Mayor Koch, will no longer require officers and detectives to handcuff nonviolent prisoners who surrender with their lawyers and are not likely to escape.
LEAD: A political dissident recently released from a Soviet psychiatric hospital said today that the habitual use of punitive psychiatric treatment in the Soviet Union remained unchanged despite recent criticisms of such practices in the Soviet press.
LEAD: The stock market plunge threatened to divide the Republican Presidential field, as the party's candidates scrambled today to contain the damage they feared the downturn on Wall Street could inflict on their chances in 1988.
LEAD: BAD weather stirs up the surf.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 21, 1987, covering October 21, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
Soundtrack
Def Leppard
1987Tonje Brenna, Norwegian politician[†]
Tonje Brenna is a Norwegian politician currently serving as the Minister of Labour and Social Inclusion since 2023. A member of the Labour Party, she has served as its deputy leader since 2023 and previously served as the Minister of Education from 2021 to 2023, chairwoman of the Viken county cabinet from 2020 to 2021, and is currently a deputy member in the Storting for Akershus since 2017.
1987Justin De Fratus, American baseball player[†]
Justin Andrew De Fratus, is an American former professional baseball relief pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Philadelphia Phillies from 2011 to 2015.
1987Andrey Grechin, Russian swimmer[†]
Andrey Vladimirovich Grechin is a Russian swimmer. He competed in the 50 m, 100 m and 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 100 m medley events at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics and won a bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 2012. He won three more medals in this event at the world championships in 2009–2015.
1987The Jaffna hospital massacre is carried out by Indian peacekeeping forces in Sri Lanka, killing 70 Tamil patients, doctors and nurses.[†]
The Jaffna hospital massacre occurred on October 21 and 22, 1987, during the Sri Lankan Civil War, when troops of the Indian Peace Keeping Force entered the premises of the Jaffna Teaching Hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, an island nation in South Asia, and killed between 60 and 70 patients and staff. The rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the government of Sri Lanka, and independent observers such as the University Teachers for Human Rights and others have called it a massacre of civilians.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]