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LEAD: Senate Votes Airline Bill The Senate approved a consumer protection bill for airline passengers that also would require drug testing of transportation workers. Page 7. Lower Profile for Deng The Chinese leader will drop most of his Communist Party posts but will not lose much authority.
LEAD: A Federal agency made a $375,000 loan in 1984 to a company in Costa Rica formed by an elusive figure in the contra supply network later overseen by Lieut. Col. Oliver L. North, agency officials told two Senate subcommittees today.
LEAD: Within the space of a few days this month, the leader of Colombia's main leftist party was assassinated, the country's best-known sculptor was kidnapped and several prominent writers and artists were forced into exile by death threats.
LEAD: President Reagan's nomination of Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg for the Supreme Court has renewed tensions between White House factions and has frustrated Howard H. Baker Jr., the White House chief of staff, Administration officials said today.
LEAD: The Commerce Department said today that it would not adjust its 1990 census figures to account for people who are inadvertently excluded from the national tally.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering October 31, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Nick Foligno, Canadian ice hockey player[†]
Nicholas Foligno is an American professional ice hockey left winger and captain for the Chicago Blackhawks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 28th overall by the Ottawa Senators during the 2006 NHL Entry Draft. Foligno was traded to the Columbus Blue Jackets six years later, and eventually was named the team's captain for six seasons.
1987Jean-Karl Vernay, French race car driver[†]
Jean-Karl "J. K." Vernay is a French professional racing driver. He was 2010 Indy Lights and 2017 TCR International Series champion. He has won races at the World Touring Car Cup, where he finished fifth in 2018 and won the WTCR Trophy in 2020.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]