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LEAD: The stock market collapse has reshuffled yet again the complicated politics of trade legislation, raising questions about what kind of bill will emerge from a Congressional conference committee or whether there will be a trade bill at all this year.
LEAD: Soviet analysts believe that deployment of President Reagan's anti-missile defense system, coupled with an agreement to cut long-range nuclear weapons in half, could give the United States a decisive military advantage, the chief of the Soviet General Staff has declared.
LEAD: It was a little more than three years ago that Richard K. Rein, a writer in Princeton who thought he knew a story when he saw one, proposed a story to a local publication about the way the big hotels out on Route 1, just east of town, were competing for the good opinion of corporate travel agents.
LEAD: For the last few years, the fast-growing Nasdaq over-the-counter market has been the darling of investors and corporate issuers.
LEAD: Mayor Koch announced yesterday that he had dismissed Dr. Elliot M. Gross, whose performance as Chief Medical Examiner of New York City has been under official scrutiny for almost three years.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering October 30, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Danielle Fong, Canadian entrepreneur, co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy[†]
Danielle Fong is a Canadian scientist and entrepreneur. She was the co-founder and chief scientist of LightSail Energy.
1987Ashley Graham, American model[†]
Ashley Graham Ervin is an American model and television presenter. Graham made her debut on the cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2016. A year later, she published her first book, A New Model: What Confidence, Beauty, and Power Really Look Like, which contributes to her advocacy in the body positivity and inclusion movement.
1987Ali Riley, New Zealand footballer[†]
Alexandra Lowe Riley is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Angel City of the American National Women's Soccer League (NWSL). Born in the United States, she represents the New Zealand national team. She captains both her club and national teams. As a collegiate athlete, she captained the Stanford soccer team to two NCAA semi-finals and one final.
1987Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, scholar, and author (born 1904)[†]
Joseph John Campbell was an American writer. He was a professor of literature at Sarah Lawrence College who worked in comparative mythology and comparative religion. His work covers many aspects of the human condition. Campbell's best-known work is his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949), in which he discusses his theory of the journey of the archetypal hero shared by world mythologies, termed the monomyth.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]