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LEAD: Rene Levesque Dies The former Premier of Quebec, a leader in the province's fight to secede from Canada, died of a heart attack last night in Montreal. Page D 15. The Rodent Has Its Day Many residents say New York City seems more rat-ridden of late, and the reason may be the city's recent construction boom.
LEAD: The night before his high school class reunion, the telephone rang for Dean Lechner.
LEAD: A plan by the Soviet Union to export cars with Volkswagen engines to the United States is drawing criticism from the Reagan Administration.
LEAD: Deng Xiaoping retired in triumph today from the Central Committee of China's Communist Party as part of a sweeping overhaul that seems to promise continuation of his policies for economic change.
LEAD: The United States has asked Iran for face-to-face meetings for several months but has been rebuffed, according to Reagan Administration officials.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of October 28, 1987, covering November 2, 1987.
Michael Jackson
Whitesnake
Bruce Springsteen
Soundtrack
Pink Floyd
1987Danny Cipriani, English rugby player[†]
Danny Cipriani is an English former professional rugby union player. He most recently played for Premiership Rugby side Bath and previously played for Gloucester, Sale Sharks and Wasps in the Premiership and Melbourne Rebels in Super Rugby. He plays fly-half and fullback. He has also played for England. Since starting in the Wasps academy in 2003, Cipriani has been capped for England 16 times.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]