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LEAD: The case of Elizabeth Steinberg, a 6-year-old, sandy-haired victim of child abuse, has focused public outrage and criminal investigations on the girl's adoptive parents, who are accused of beating her to death in their Greenwich Village apartment.
LEAD: THE November art auctions - organized over the summer long before the stock market collapsed almost three weeks ago -move into high gear next week with sales that are expected to be the first to show how the financial crisis has affected the international art market. Unlike this week's auctions of contemporary art, at which United States buyers dominated, the sales next week at Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips were organized to attract the bids of collectors and dealers from Europe, Japan,
LEAD: So the stubborn, skeptical Germans have at long last said ''enough,'' and the leading nations of the world are finally moving in concert to calm the financial markets and prevent the disorders of October from building into a global economic tragedy. That, at least, is the
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of November 4, 1987, covering November 6, 1987.
Bruce Springsteen
Michael Jackson
Soundtrack
Whitesnake
Pink Floyd
1987Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player[†]
Ana Schweinsteiger is a Serbian former professional tennis player. She was ranked as the world No. 1 in women's singles by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) for 12 weeks. Ivanovic won 15 WTA Tour-level singles titles, including a major at the 2008 French Open. She was also the runner-up at the 2007 French Open and the 2008 Australian Open. Ivanovic qualified for the year-end WTA Tour Championships three times, in 2007, 2008 and 2014, and won the year-end WTA Tournament of Champions twice, in 2010 and 2011.
1987Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (born 1955)[†]
Zohar Orkabi, known professionally as Zohar Argov, was an Israeli singer. A distinctive voice in the Mizrahi music scene, Argov is widely known in Israel as "The king of Mizrahi music". However, he remains a divisive figure in Israeli culture due to his controversial rape conviction and charges.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]