On this day
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LEAD: Ten days ago, across the Hudson River, the visiting Devils took a severe 9-3 beating at the hands of the Rangers. After the game, the Rangers were angry and accused the Devils of intending to injure Ranger players when New Jersey's strongmen were killing a penalty in the waning moments.
LEAD: CONSUMER groups and legislators are warning that although home equity loans may provide an attractive tax deduction for some, they could lead some homeowners to financial disaster.
LEAD: In 1987, amid all the talk of things like adultery and politicians' stealing speeches, it has been easy to lose sight of what the American people will be deciding in the election of 1988.
LEAD: Li Xiaoyan remembers the day he began working for his master's degree in business administration from an American university.
LEAD: Pat Robertson, the Republican Presidential candidate who resigned his ministry to allay concern that he would impose religion on government if elected, said emphatically when he was a minister that he believed only devout Christians and Jews were qualified to govern.
Music on My Birthday
The Top 50 albums for the chart week of December 23, 1987, covering December 27, 1987.
Soundtrack
Michael Jackson
George Michael
Whitesnake
Tiffany
1987Lily Cole, English model[†]
Lily Luahana Cole is a British model, author, film director, actress and entrepreneur. Cole pursued a modelling career as a teenager and was listed in 2009 by Vogue Paris as one of the top 30 models of the 2000s. She was booked for her first British Vogue cover at age 16, named "Model of the Year" at the 2004 British Fashion Awards and has worked with many well-known brands, including Alexander McQueen, Chanel, Louis Vuitton, Jean Paul Gaultier and Moschino. Her advertising campaigns have included Longchamp, Anna Sui, Rimmel and Cacharel. In 2020, Cole published Who Cares Wins, a book about how humans' lives impact the planet and how humans can respond to climate emergency challenges. In 2021, the book was turned into a podcast in which Cole invites guests with different perspectives to explore critical issues — and their relationship to the environment — ranging from technology and food to mental health and capitalism.
1987Rewi Alley, New Zealand writer and political activist (born 1897)[†]
Rewi Alley was a New Zealand-born writer and political activist. A member of the Chinese Communist Party, he dedicated 60 years of his life to the cause and was a key figure in the establishment of Chinese Industrial Cooperatives and technical training schools, including the Bailie Schools and Peili Vocational Institute, both named after his mentor Joseph Bailie. Alley was a prolific writer about 20th century China, and especially the communist revolution. He also translated numerous Chinese poems.
In 1987, the world population was approximately 5,049,746,397 people[†]