1987 Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Jul 1, US President Reagan nominated federal appeals court judge Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, setting off a tempestuous confirmation process that ended with Bork's rejection by the Senate. (AP 7/1/97) 1987 Jul 2, 18 illegal immigrants were found dead inside a locked boxcar near Sierra Blanca, Texas, in what authorities called a botched smuggling attempt; a 19th man survived. (AP 7/2/97) 1987 Jul 3, Two men became the first hot-air balloon travelers to cross the Atlantic. British millionaire Richard Branson and Swedish-born Per Lindstrand, the balloon's designer, were forced to jump into the sea as their craft went down off the coast of Scotland. (AP 7/3/97) 1987 Jul 4, Bill Graham took Santana, the Doobie Brothers and Bonny Rait to Moscow for an American-Soviet peace concert. (SFC,12/13/97, p.A15) 1987 Jul 4, Martina Navratilova won her eighth Wimbledon singles title as she defeated Steffi Graf. (AP 7/4/97) 1987 Jul 4, Klaus Barbie, the former Gestapo chief known as the "Butcher of Lyon," was convicted by a French court of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in prison; he died in September 1991. (AP 7/4/97) 1987 Jul 5, Pat Cash of Australia defeated Ivan Lendl in straight sets to win the Wimbledon men's singles final. (AP 7/5/97) 1987 Jul 6, The first of three massacres by Sikh extremists over two days took place in India as gunmen attacked a bus with Hindu passengers. Seventy-two people were killed in the attacks in Punjab and Haryana. (AP 7/6/97) 1987 Jul 7, Lt. Col. Oliver North began his long-awaited public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing, telling Congress that he had "never carried out a single act, not one," without authorization. (AP 7/7/97) 1987 Jul 8, Kitty Dukakis, wife of Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential candidate Michael S. Dukakis, revealed she'd been addicted to amphetamines for 26 years but had sought help and was drug-free. She later admitted to dependence on alcohol, and entered a recovery program. (AP 7/8/97) 1987 Jul 9, In his third day of testimony on Capitol Hill, Lt. Col. Oliver North said he had shredded evidence as part of a planned cover-up of his role in the Iran-Contra affair. (AP 7/9/97) 1987 Jul 10, Lt. Col. Oliver North told the Iran-Contra committees that the late CIA director William J. Casey had embraced a fund created by arms sales to Iran because it could be used for secret operations other than supplying the Contras. (AP 7/10/97) 1987 Jul 11, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke won a third consecutive term, becoming the first Labor Party leader in the country's history to be elected to three straight terms in office. (AP 7/11/97) 1987 Jul 12, For the first time in 20 years, a delegation of Soviet diplomats arrived in Israel for what was described as a "technical mission" to document Soviet citizens and make an inventory of Soviet property. (AP 7/12/97) 1987 Jul 13, Jury selection began in Washington for the perjury trial of President Reagan's former aide and longtime confidant, Michael K. Deaver. Deaver was later convicted of lying under oath about his lobbying business; he was fined $100,000 and ordered to perform community service. (AP 7/13/97) 1987 Jul 14, The National League took 13 innings to defeat the American League, 2-0, in the 58th All-Star Game in Oakland, Calif. (AP 7/14/97) 1987 Jul 14, Lt. Col. Oliver North concluded six days of testimony before the Iran-Contra committees. (AP 7/14/97) 1987 Jul 15, Former National Security Adviser John Poindexter testified at the Iran-Contra hearings that he had never told President Reagan about using Iranian arms sales money for the Contras in order to protect the president from possible political embarrassment. (AP 7/15/97) 1987 Jul 16, Former White House political director Lyn Nofziger was charged with violating federal ethics laws in a six-count indictment. Her convictions on three counts of illegally lobbying White House officials were overturned by a federal appeals court. (AP 7/16/97) 1987 Jul 17, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and rear Admiral John Poindexter began testifying to Congress at the "Iran-Contra" hearings. (HN, 7/17/98) 1987 Jul 17, 10 teen-agers were killed when raging floodwaters from the Guadalupe River near Comfort, Texas, swept away a church bus and van holding 43 people. (AP 7/17/97) 1987 Jul 18, President Reagan used his weekly radio address to call on Congress to give more aid to the Nicaraguan Contras. (AP 7/18/97) 1987 Jul 18, Molly Yard was elected the new president of the National Organization for Women, succeeding Eleanor Smeal. (AP 7/18/97) 1987 Jul 19, Residents of Balch Springs, Texas, gathered at the Seagoville Road Baptist Church to mourn 10 teen-agers who died when a flash flood engulfed a church bus and van two days earlier. (AP 7/19/97) 1987 Jul 20, The UN Security Council voted unanimously to approve a U.S.-sponsored resolution demanding an end to the Persian Gulf war between Iraq and Iran, a move supported by Iraq and dismissed by Iran. (AP 7/20/97) 1987 Jul 21, Defying a threatened veto by President Reagan, the Senate approved a trade bill containing a provision requiring companies to give 60 days' notice to employees of impending plant closings and large-scale layoffs. Reagan vetoed the bill, but ended up allowing a separate plant-closing notice measure to become law. (AP 7/21/97) 1987 Jul 22, The United States began its policy of escorting re-flagged Kuwaiti tankers up and down the Persian Gulf to protect them from possible attack by Iran. (AP 7/22/97) 1987 Jul 24, The re-flagged Kuwaiti supertanker Bridgeton was damaged after hitting a mine in the Persian Gulf. (AP 7/24/97) 1987 Jul 24, Hulda Crooks, a 91-year-old mountaineer from California, became the oldest woman to conquer Mount Fuji, Japan's highest peak. (AP 7/24/97) 1987 Jul 24, Tamil Tiger leader Velupillai Prabhakaran arrived in India to sign a peace agreement with the Sri Lankan government. Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi brokered the agreement with Sri Lanka delivering autonomy to Tamil areas in exchange for an end to the war. The peace agreement was signed by Junius Richard Jayewardene, president of Sri Lanka. (SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)(SFE, 9/16/96, p.A9)(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21) 1987 Jul 25, Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige died of internal injuries he sustained while participating in a rodeo. He was succeeded by C. William Verity. (AP 7/25/97) 1987 Jul 26, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger said the Navy's anti-mine capabilities would be improved in the Persian Gulf in the wake of a mine explosion that damaged the tanker Bridgeton. (AP 7/26/97) 1987 Jul 27, Retired Ohio autoworker John Demjanjuk, accused of being the sadistic Nazi guard known as "Ivan the Terrible," testified at his trial in Jerusalem that he was not "the hangman you're after." His subsequent conviction was overturned by the Israeli Supreme Court. (AP 7/27/97) 1987 Jul 28, Attorney General Edwin Meese told the congressional Iran-Contra committees that President Reagan was "quite surprised" the previous November when Meese told him about the diversion of Iran arms-sales profits for use by the Contra rebels. (AP 7/28/97) 1987 Jul 29, Testifying for a second day before the Iran-Contra congressional committees, Attorney General Edwin Meese strongly defended his inquiry into the affair. (AP 7/29/97) 1987 Jul 30, Former White House Chief of Staff Donald T. Regan told the Iran-Contra congressional committees he had repeatedly urged President Reagan to break off arms sales to Iran. (AP, 7/30/97) 1987 Jul 30, Microsoft acquired Forethought, the developer of PowerPoint. (Wired, 12/98, p.196) 1987 Jul 30, 50,000 Indian troops arrived in Jaffna to enforce the peace pact. (SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9)(SFC, 11/2/96, p.A21) 1987 Jul 31, Iranian pilgrims and riot police clashed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. The Saudi government blamed Iranians for the resulting 400 deaths. (AP, 7/31/97) 1987 Jul, The South Korean stock market hit a low. (SFC,11/26/97, p.C2) Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Aug 1, Iranians attacked the Saudi Arabian and Kuwaiti embassies in Tehran as word spread of rioting in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, a day earlier that claimed some 400 lives, most of them Iranian pilgrims. (AP, 8/1/97) 1987 Aug 2, More than a million people gathered in Tehran, calling for the overthrow of the sheiks of Saudi Arabia, where hundreds of Iranian pilgrims had died in rioting in the Muslim holy city of Mecca. (AP, 8/2/97) 1987 Aug 3, The Iran-Contra congressional hearings ended, with none of the 29 witnesses tying President Reagan directly to the diversion of arms-sales profits to Nicaraguan rebels. (AP, 8/3/97) 1987 Aug 4, The Federal Communications Commission voted 4-0 to rescind the Fairness Doctrine, which required radio and television stations to present balanced coverage of controversial issues. (AP, 8/4/97) 1987 Aug 5, President Reagan announced his administration had reached a "general agreement" with leaders of Congress on a new Central America peace plan. Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega offered to discuss the U.S. proposal. (AP, 8/5/97) 1987 Aug 5, In Sri Lanka Tamil Tigers began to surrender their weapons to the Indian army, but later changed course and began to fight the Indians. Official Indian government aid to the rebels was cutoff but the southern Tamil Nadu state and rightist Hindu factions of the Indian army continued helping the rebels. (SFC, 7/24/96, p.A9) 1987 Aug 6, President Reagan's new Central America peace initiative ran into problems as the United States and Nicaragua openly disagreed on procedures for a negotiated settlement. (AP, 8/6/97) 1987 Aug 7, The presidents of five Central American nations, meeting in Guatemala City, signed an 11-point agreement designed to bring peace to their region. (AP, 8/7/97) 1987 Aug 8, In the Persian Gulf, a Navy F-14 "Tomcat" fighter fired two missiles at an Iranian jet approaching an unarmed U.S. scout plane. Both missiles missed their target and the Iranian plane flew off. (AP, 8/8/97) 1987 Aug 9, Independent Counsel Lawrence E. Walsh, vowing to investigate the Iran-Contra affair "vigorously but fairly," told a meeting of the American Bar Association in San Francisco that he would not be deterred by the "popularity of persons involved." (AP, 8/9/97) 1987 Aug 9, In Worcester, Mass., Audrey Santo (3) fell into a backyard swimming pool and was left inert and bedridden. Later Masses were celebrated at her home and pilgrims began visiting her and claimed to be cured of illnesses. (SFEC, 8/28/98, p.A8) 1987 Aug 10, President Reagan said he would nominate C. William Verity Jr., a retired steel company executive, to replace the late Malcolm Baldrige as commerce secretary. (AP, 8/10/97) 1987 Aug 11, Britain and France ordered minesweepers to the Persian Gulf, but said they would not be used in combined operations with the United States as it escorted reflagged Kuwaiti ships. (AP, 8/11/97) 1987 Aug 12, President Reagan addressed the nation on the Iran-Contra affair, saying his former national security adviser, John Poindexter, was wrong not to have told him about the diversion of Iran arms-sale money. (AP, 8/12/97) 1987 Aug 13, A rented Piper Cherokee airplane flew close to President Reagan's helicopter in restricted airspace over Southern California; the pilot and passenger of the plane were arrested. (AP, 8/13/97) 1987 Aug 13, On the fifth anniversary of a bull market, the Dow Jones industrial average closed at 2,691.49 after briefly surpassing 2,700. (AP, 8/13/97) 1987 Aug 14, The government reported that America's merchandise trade deficit had soared to $15.7 billion in June 1987. (AP, 8/14/97) 1987 Aug 15, Thousands of people marched past the grave of Elvis Presley in Memphis, Tenn., as they began an all-night vigil marking the 10th anniversary of his death. (AP, 8/15/97) 1987 Aug 16, Thousands of people worldwide began a two-day celebration of the "harmonic convergence," which heralded what believers called the start of a new, purer age of humankind. (AP, 8/16/97) 1987 Aug 16, 156 people were killed when Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashed while trying to take off from a Detroit airport; the sole survivor was 4-year-old Cecelia Cichan. (AP, 8/16/97) 1987 Aug 17, Rudolf Hess, the last member of Adolf Hitler's inner circle, died at a Berlin hospital near Spandau Prison at age 93, having apparently committed suicide by strangling himself with an electrical cord. His family claims that he was murdered. (AP, 8/17/97)(SFEC, 8/17/97, p.A4) 1987 Aug 18, American journalist Charles Glass escaped his kidnappers in Beirut after 62 days in captivity. (Glass had been abducted June 17 with two Lebanese who were released after a week.) (AP, 8/18/97) 1987 Aug 19, A third convoy of U.S. warships and reflagged Kuwaiti tankers slipped into the Persian Gulf before dawn and headed up the waterway behind a screen of mine-seeking helicopters. (AP, 8/19/97) 1987 Aug 20, A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., rejected Lt. Col. Oliver North's argument that the independent counsel investigating the Iran-Contra affair was operating under an invalid Justice Department regulation. (AP, 8/20/97) 1987 Aug 21, Sgt. Clayton Lonetree, the first Marine ever court-martialed for spying, was convicted in Quantico, Va., of passing secrets to the KGB after becoming romantically involved with a Soviet woman while serving as a U.S. Embassy guard in Moscow. (Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a military prison, and was released in February 1996.) (AP, 8/21/97) 1987 Aug 22, The supertanker Bridgeton and three other reflagged Kuwaiti tankers left Kuwait under U.S. escort and safely cleared Persian Gulf waters where the Bridgeton had hit a mine the month before. (AP, 8/22/97) 1987 Aug 23, Seven Democratic presidential hopefuls traded gentle barbs at a debate in Des Moines, Iowa, with Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis repeatedly called upon to defend his claims of economic revival in his state. (AP, 8/23/97) 1987 Aug 23, Two teenagers in Alexander, Arkansas, Kevin Ives and Don Henry were run over by a train. Later investigations indicate that they were murdered prior to being run over. (WSJ, 4/18/96, p.A-18) 1987 Aug 24, A military jury in Quantico, Va., sentenced Marine Sgt. Clayton Lonetree to 30 years in prison for disclosing U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union. (The sentence was later reduced; with additional time off for good behavior, Lonetree ended up serving eight years in a military prison.) (AP, 8/24/97) 1987 Aug 25, Saudi Arabia denounced Iran's government as a "group of terrorists," and said its forces would deal firmly with any Iranian attempts to attack the Saudis' Muslim holy places or vast oil fields. (AP, 8/25/97) 1987 Aug 26, In an attempt to eliminate a superpower stumbling block, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said his country would destroy its 72 Pershing 1A rockets if Washington and Moscow scrapped all their intermediate-range nuclear weapons. (AP, 8/26/97) 1987 Aug 28, A fire damaged the Arcadia, Fla., home of Ricky, Robert and Randy Ray, three hemophiliac brothers infected with the AIDS virus whose court-ordered school attendance sparked a local uproar. (The Ray family moved to Sarasota, Fla.). (AP, 8/28/97) 1987 Aug 28, John Huston, U.S. actor and film director, died at age 81 in Middletown, R.I. Among his best known films are "The Maltese Falcon,'' "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre'' and "The African Queen.'' (AP, 8/28/97)(RTH, 8/28/99) 1987 Aug 29, Academy Award-winning actor Lee Marvin died in Tucson, Ariz., at age 63. (AP, 8/29/97) 1987 Aug 30, A redesigned space shuttle booster, created in the wake of the Challenger disaster, roared into life in its first full-scale test-firing near Brigham City, Utah. (AP, 8/30/97) 1987 Aug 31, The Justice Department challenged the constitutionality of the 1978 Ethics in Government Act, which provided for the appointment of independent counsels. The Supreme Court upheld the law. (AP, 8/31/97) 1987 Aug, Fahmy Malak, the medical examiner of Gov. Clinton, ruled the Aug 23 deaths of the teenagers as accidental. Malak was investigated and cleared of improprieties. (WSJ, 4/15/97, p.A18) 1987 Aug, The US stock market began a 2 month decline of 41%. (SFC,10/17/97, p.B2) Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Sep 1, In California S. Brian Wilson, Vietnam veteran, had his legs sliced off when a munitions train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station ran him over during the Nuremberg Actions protest against weapons shipments to Central America. (SFC, 6/10/97, p.A19)(AP, 9/1/97) 1987 Sep 1, After Jewish leaders met with the Pope at Castel Gandolfo it was announced that a document would be produced on the Holocaust. The document was made public Mar 16, 1998. (SFEC, 3/15/98, p.A24) 1987 Sep 2, West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki, Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, went on trial in the Soviet capital. Rust, who was convicted and given a four-year sentence, was released Aug. 3, 1988. (AP, 9/2/97) 1987 Sep 3, A Soviet prosecutor accused West German pilot Mathias Rust of seeking "cheap popularity" by landing a private plane in Moscow's Red Square, and demanded that Rust be sentenced to eight years at hard labor. Rust was convicted, but freed the following August. (AP, 9/3/97) 1987 Sep 4, A Soviet court convicted West German pilot Mathias Rust of charges stemming from his daring flight to Moscow's Red Square, and sentenced him to four years in a labor camp. He was released the following August. (AP, 9/4/97) 1987 Sep 5, In his weekly radio address, President Reagan urged American workers to shun protectionist legislation and "meet the competition head-on." (AP, 9/5/97) 1987 Sep 5, Some four-dozen people were killed in an Israeli air raid on targets near the southern Lebanese port town of Sidon. (AP, 9/5/97) 1987 Sep 6, Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore succeeded in separating 7-month-old Benjamin and Patrick Binder, twin brothers from Ulm, West Germany, who were joined at the head, after 22 hours of surgery. (AP, 9/6/97) 1987 Sep 7, The Rev. Jesse Jackson declared his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination. (AP, 9/7/97) 1987 Sep 7, Erich Honecker became the first East German head of state to visit West Germany as he arrived for a five-day visit. (AP, 9/7/97) 1987 Sep 8, Former Democratic presidential candidate Gary Hart admitted during an interview on ABC's "Nightline" that he had committed adultery and said he had no plans to resume his White House bid. (AP, 9/8/97) 1987 Sep 8, Microsoft shipped its first CD ROM application, MS Bookshelf. (Wired, 12/98, p.196) 1987 Sep 9, Appearing before President Reagan's special commission on AIDS, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop denounced doctors and other health workers who refused to treat AIDS patients, calling them a "fearful and irrational minority." (AP, 9/9/97) 1987 Sep 9, A parked tank car containing butadiene ignited in the New Orleans area. A jury in 1997 awarded $3.4 billion in punitive damages to some 8,000 people who claimed to have suffered mental and physical injuries. Five companies were charged with CSX Transportation owing 2.5 bil. (SFC, 9/9/97, p.A10) 1987 Sep 10, Pope John Paul II arrived in Miami, where he was welcomed by President and Mrs. Reagan, to begin a 10-day tour of the United States. (AP, 9/10/97) 1987 Sep 11, The CBS TV network went black for six minutes after anchorman Dan Rather walked off the set of "The CBS Evening News" because a tennis tournament being carried by the network ran overtime. (The tennis coverage ended abruptly, catching the anchorman off guard.) (AP, 9/11/97) 1987 Sep 12, Reports surfaced that Democratic presidential candidate Joseph Biden had borrowed, without attribution, passages of a speech by British Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock for one of his own campaign speeches. (The Kinnock report, along with other damaging revelations, prompted Biden to drop his White House bid.) (AP, 9/12/97) 1987 Sep 13, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze arrived in Washington for talks aimed at a possible superpower summit; Shevardnadze carried with him a letter from Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to President Reagan. (AP, 9/13/97) 1987 Sep 14, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole resigned to devote herself to the presidential campaign of her husband, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole. (AP, 9/14/97) 1987 Sep 15, On the opening day of his confirmation hearing, Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork told the Senate Judiciary Committee his philosophy was "neither liberal nor conservative." (AP, 9/15/97) 1987 Sep 16, Two-dozen countries signed the Montreal Protocol, a treaty designed to save the Earth's ozone layer by calling on nations to reduce emissions of harmful chemicals by the year 2000. The international convention met in Montreal and negotiators from 23 of the world's major industrial nations signed a treaty to slow down global chlorofluorocarbon (CFCs) production to restore atmospheric ozone. By 1997 156 nations had signed the Montreal Protocol. (NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.47)(SFC, 5/31/96, A1,17)(SFEC, 6/15/97, BR p.4)(AP, 9/16/97) 1987 Sep 17, The city of Philadelphia, birthplace of the U.S. Constitution, threw a big party to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the historic document. (AP, 9/17/97) 1987 Sep 18, President Reagan announced that he and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would meet later in the year to sign a treaty banning medium- and shorter-range nuclear missiles. (AP, 9/18/97) 1987 Sep 19, Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork concluded five days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, vowing that he would "interpret the law and not make it." (AP, 9/19/97) 1987 Sep 19, In the Philippines leftist opposition leader Leandro Alejandro was killed. [the same article also said 1986] (SFEC, 7/12/98, Z1 p.5) 1987 Sep 20, Pope John Paul II concluded an 11-day visit to North America as he celebrated Mass for thousands of Indians at Fort Simpson in Canada's Northwest Territories. (AP, 9/20/97) 1987 Sep 21, NFL players went on strike, mainly over the issue of free agency. (AP, 9/21/97) 1987 Sep 21, A U.S. helicopter gunship disabled an Iranian vessel, the "Iran Ajr," that was caught laying mines in the Persian Gulf; four Iranian crewmen were killed, 26 wounded and detained. (AP, 9/21/97) 1987 Sep 22, On Wall Street, the stock market surged higher. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.23 points (the largest one-day gain recorded to that time), closing at 2,568.05. (AP, 9/22/97) 1987 Sep 23, Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden withdrew from the Democratic presidential race following questions about his use of borrowed quotations and the portrayal of his academic record. (AP, 9/23/97) 1987 Sep 24, President Reagan rebuffed congressional calls to limit U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf, and defended the recent U.S. attack on an Iranian mine-laying vessel. (AP, 9/24/97) 1987 Sep 25, The Senate unanimously approved the nomination of Judge William S. Sessions to be the new director of the FBI. (AP, 9/25/97) 1987 Sep 26, In his Saturday radio address, President Reagan said he was reluctantly signing legislation restoring the automatic deficit-reducing provisions of the Gramm-Rudman Act. (AP, 9/26/97) 1987 Sep 27, Football fans suffered through their first Sunday without football since players went on strike. (NFL owners then organized games with replacement and nonstriking players). (AP, 9/27/97) 1987 Sep 28, U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., announced in Denver that she would not run for the Democratic presidential nomination. (AP, 9/28/97) 1987 Sep 29, Henry Ford II, longtime chairman of Ford Motor Company, died in Detroit at age 70. (AP, 9/29/97) 1987 Sep 30, Two top campaign aides to Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis resigned after one of them, campaign manager John Sasso, admitted leaking an attack videotape that helped bring down the presidential candidacy of Delaware Sen. Joseph Biden. (Sasso returned to the campaign a year later). (AP, 9/30/97) Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Oct. 1, Eight people were killed when an earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale and an aftershock measuring 5.3 struck the Los Angeles area. In 1999 researchers reported that data revealed a new active fault system, christened the Punete Hills fault, under Los Angeles that probably caused the 1987 Whittier Narrows earthquake. (AP, 10/1/97)(SFC, 3/5/99, p.A7) 1987 Oct 2, On Capitol Hill, more Democratic senators lined up against Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork as President Reagan continued to lobby undecided lawmakers on behalf of his candidate for the high court. (AP, 10/2/97) 1987 Oct 3, Negotiators for the United States and Canada reached agreement in Washington D.C., on a framework to eliminate all tariffs between the world's two largest trading partners. (AP, 10/3/97) 1987 Oct 4, National Football League owners staged their first games since the players union went on strike, with nonstriking and replacement personnel on the gridiron at sparsely attended stadiums. (AP, 10/4/97) 1987 Oct 5, Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork suffered new setbacks as Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and Republican Sens. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. of Connecticut and John H. Chafee of Rhode Island declared they were opposed to his confirmation. (AP, 10/5/97) 1987 Oct 6, The Senate Judiciary Committee voted 9 to 5 against the nomination of Robert H. Bork to the Supreme Court, and both supporters and opponents predicted rejection by the full Senate. (AP, 10/6/97) 1987 Oct 6, Microsoft announced its first Windows application, Excel. (Wired, 12/98, p.196) 1987 Oct 7, President Reagan's advisory commission on AIDS was left seemingly in disarray as its chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, and its vice chairman, Dr. Woodrow A. Myers Jr., resigned. (AP, 10/7/97) 1987 Oct 8, U.S. helicopter gunships in the Persian Gulf sank three Iranian patrol boats after an American observation helicopter was fired on. (Two of six Iranian crewmen taken from the water later died.) (AP, 10/8/97) 1987 Oct 9, Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, his rejection by the Senate a virtual certainty, angrily told reporters he would not ask that his nomination be withdrawn. (AP, 10/9/97) 1987 Oct 9, Author, politician and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce died in Washington at age 84. (AP, 10/9/97) 1987 Oct 10, The Rev. Jesse Jackson formally launched his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in Raleigh, N.C. (AP, 10/10/97) 1987 Oct 11, Thousands of homosexual rights activists marched through Washington [DC] to demand protection from discrimination and more federal money for AIDS research and treatment. (AP, 10/11/97) 1987 Oct 12, In Houston, Vice President George Bush formally launched his quest for the Republican presidential nomination. (AP, 10/12/97) 1987 Oct 12, Former Kansas Gov. Alfred "Alf" M. Landon, who ran for president against Franklin Roosevelt, died at his Topeka home at age 100. (AP, 10/12/97) 1987 Oct 13, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts on behalf of a Central American peace plan to end the war in Nicaragua. (AP, 10/13/97)(WSJ, 12/12/97, p.A19) 1987 Oct 14, A real-life drama began in Midland, Texas, as 18-month-old Jessica McClure slid 22 feet down an abandoned well at a private day care center. (Hundreds of rescuers worked 58 hours to free her). (AP, 10/14/97)(SFC, 5/14/99, p.A3) 1987 Oct 15, Frantic efforts continued in Midland, Texas, to save 18-month-old Jessica McClure, who had fallen 22 feet down an abandoned well the day before. (Jessica was freed the following evening.) (AP, 10/15/97) 1987 Oct 16, A 58 1/2-hour drama in Midland, Texas, ended happily as rescuers freed Jessica McClure, an 18-month-old girl trapped in an abandoned well. (AP, 10/16/97) 1987 Oct 16, In the Persian Gulf, an Iranian missile hit a re-flagged Kuwaiti ship in the first direct attack on the tanker fleet guarded by the U.S. (AP, 10/16/97) 1987 Oct 17, First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland. (AP, 10/17/97) 1987 Oct 18, President Reagan summoned congressional leaders to the White House to announce he had decided on what action to take in response to an Iranian missile attack on a U.S.-flagged tanker off Kuwait two days earlier. (The next day, U.S. destroyers bombarded an Iranian offshore oil rig.) (AP, 10/18/97) 1987 Oct 19, U.S. Navy warships destroyed two Iranian oil platforms in the Persian Gulf in retaliation for an Iranian missile attack on a U.S.-flagged tanker off Kuwait. (AP, 10/19/97)(HN, 10/19/98) 1987 Oct 19, Black Monday, the stock market crashed as the Dow Jones Industrial Average, amid frenzied selling, plunged 508 points, 22.6%,-- its biggest-ever one-day decline. The crash was preceded by legislation to block tax deductions for debt incurred in corporate takeovers which were fueling the market. It was also preceded by plunges in other international markets. Hong Kong suffered a 46% decline in October. (V.D.-H.K.p.253)(TMC, 1994, p.1987)(AP, 10/19/97)(SFC,10/27/97, p.B2) 1987 Oct 20, Ten people were killed when an Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn hotel near Indianapolis International Airport after the pilot, who was trying to make an emergency landing, ejected safely. (AP, 10/20/97) 1987 Oct 21, Sometimes-acrimonious debate began in the Senate on the nomination of Judge Robert H. Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court. (Two days later, the Senate voted 58-42 to reject the nomination.) (AP, 10/21/97) 1987 Oct 22, In a bid to calm the recent frenzy in the world's financial markets, President Reagan said he would be meeting with congressional leaders to negotiate ways of reducing the budget deficit. (AP, 10/22/97) 1987 Oct 23, The U.S. Senate rejected, 58-42, the Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork. (AP, 10/23/97) 1987 Oct 24, Thirty years after it was expelled for refusing to answer allegations of corruption, the Teamsters union was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO by a vote of the labor federation's executive council in Miami Beach, Fla. The union had been expelled from the AFL-CIO in December, 1957, because of racketeering by its executives, including union president Dave Beck and vice president James R. Hoffa. (AP, 10/24/97)(HNQ, 1/8/99) 1987 Oct 25, The Minnesota Twins won their first World Series championship, beating the St. Louis Cardinals 4-2 in game seven. (AP, 10/25/97) 1987 Oct 25, In China Deng Xiaoping stepped down from all but the top military post. (SFC, 2/20/96, p.A4) 1987 Oct 26, The DJIA dropped 8%. In Miami, an investor who had suffered heavy stock market losses shot and killed a brokerage manager and wounded his personal broker, then turned the gun on himself. (SFC,10/17/97, p.B2)(AP, 10/26/97) 1987 Oct 27, South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution, establishing direct presidential elections and other democratic reforms. (AP, 10/27/97) 1987 Oct 27, Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson, a hostage in Lebanon, spent his 40th birthday in captivity. (AP, 10/27/97) 1987 Oct 28, During a debate in Houston that included the six Republican presidential contenders, Vice President George Bush argued that as President Reagan's "co-pilot," he knew how to "land the plane in a storm." (AP, 10/28/97) 1987 Oct 29, Following the confirmation defeat of Robert H. Bork to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court, President Reagan announced his choice of Douglas H. Ginsburg, a nomination that fell apart over revelations of Ginsburg's past marijuana use. (AP, 10/29/97) 1987 Oct 29, Jazz great Woody Herman died in Los Angeles at age 74. (AP, 10/29/97) 1987 Oct 30, President Reagan announced that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev would visit Washington the following December for a summit, during which the two leaders would sign a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles. (AP, 10/30/97) 1987 Oct 31, Noburo Takeshita, leader of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, was elected party president in his first official step toward replacing Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. (AP, 10/31/97) Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Nov 1, Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya won the New York City Marathon in two hours, 11 minutes and one second; Priscilla Welch of Britain led the women in two hours, 30 minutes and 16 seconds. (AP, 11/1/97) 1987 Nov 1, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping retired from the Communist Party's Central Committee. (AP, 11/1/97) 1987 Nov 2, Zhao Ziyang was appointed head of China's Communist Party, succeeding his mentor, Deng Xiaoping. (AP, 11/2/97) 1987 Nov 2, In Peru during the All Souls holiday a 20 person raiding party of the Maoist Shining path attacked the mountain community of Lucanas. They burned down the municipal hall and several stores and then dragged a local political leader and 7 merchants from their homes and stoned them to death. (WSJ, 6/12/97, p.A12) 1987 Nov 3, On Wall Street, after five consecutive gains, the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 50.56 points, ending the day at 1,963.53. (AP, 11/3/97) 1987 Nov 4, Six-year-old Lisa Steinberg was pronounced dead at a New York City hospital in a child-abuse case that sparked national outrage; Joel Steinberg, a lawyer who adopted her illegally, was later sentenced to prison for manslaughter. (AP, 11/4/97) 1987 Nov 5, Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admitted using marijuana several times in the 1960s and 70s, calling it a mistake. President Reagan named Frank Carlucci as secretary of defense to succeed retiring Caspar W. Weinberger. (AP, 11/5/97) 1987 Nov 6, Education Secretary William Bennett, acting with President Reagan's approval, asked Douglas H. Ginsburg to withdraw as a Supreme Court nominee because of revelations that Ginsburg had used marijuana. (AP, 11/6/97) 1987 Nov 7, Judge Douglas H. Ginsburg asked President Reagan to withdraw his nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court, citing the clamor that arose over Ginsburg's admission that he had smoked marijuana on occasion. (AP, 11/7/97) 1987 Nov 7, In Tunisia Abidine Ben Ali became president after doctors declared Habib Bourguiba medically unfit to govern. Mr. Ben Ali led a peaceful coup that ended the 30 year rule of Habib Bourguiba. "The Tunisians are Sunni Muslims and deny polygamy, admit abortion, and abjure the veil." (SFC, 5/6/96, p.A-4)(WSJ, 6/22/95, p.A-5)(SFC, 10/28/99, p.A13) 1987 Nov 8, Eleven people were killed when a bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. (AP, 11/8/97) 1987 Nov 9, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole formally announced a bid for the Republican presidential nomination during a visit to his hometown of Russell, Kan. (AP, 11/9/97) 1987 Nov 10, President Reagan, seeking to shore up the embattled U.S. dollar, declared the currency had fallen far enough and that his administration was "not doing anything to bring it down." (AP, 11/10/97) 1987 Nov 11, Following the failure of two Supreme Court nominations, President Reagan announced his choice of Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who went on to win confirmation. (AP, 11/11/97) 1987 Nov 11, Vincent Van Gogh's painting "Irises" was bought from the estate of Joan Whitney Payson by an unidentified buyer for $53.9 million at Sotheby's in New York. (HN, 11/11/98) 1987 Nov 12, The American Medical Association issued a policy statement saying it was unethical for a doctor to refuse to treat someone solely because that person had AIDS or was HIV-positive. (AP, 11/12/97) 1987 Nov 12, Boris Yeltsin was fired as head of the Moscow's Communist party for criticizing the slow pace of reform. (HN, 11/12/98) 1987 Nov 13, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega unveiled an 11-point proposal in Washington for a cease-fire that called for the Contra rebels to lay down their weapons and accept an amnesty. (AP, 11/13/97) 1987 Nov 14, A bomb hidden in a box of chocolates exploded in the lobby of Beirut's American University Hospital, killing seven people, including the woman who was carrying it. (AP, 11/14/97) 1987 Nov 15, Twenty-eight of 82 people aboard a Continental Airlines DC-9, including the pilot and co-pilot, were killed when the jetliner crashed seconds after taking off from Denver's Stapleton International Airport. (AP, 11/15/97) 1987 Nov 16,U.S. Supreme Court by an 8-0 vote upheld the federal mail and wire fraud convictions of former Wall Street Journal reporter R. Foster Winans and two co-defendants in connection with an insider-trading scheme. (AP, 11/1697) 1987 Nov 17, Retiring Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger received an elaborate send-off on the grounds of the Pentagon. (AP, 11/17/97) 1987 Nov 17, A federal jury in Denver convicted two neo-Nazis and acquitted two others of civil rights violations in the 1984 slaying of radio talk show host Alan Berg. (AP, 11/17/97) 1987 Nov 18, The congressional Iran-Contra committees issued their final report, saying President Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing by his aides. (AP, 11/18/97) 1987 Nov 18, CBS Inc. announced it had agreed to sell its records division to Sony Corp. for about $2 billion. (AP, 11/18/97) 1987 Nov 18, Thirty-one people died in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station. (AP, 11/18/97) 1987 Nov 19, Congressional budget negotiators finished all but the final details of a two-year, $75 billion deficit reduction pact, but not in time to avert spending cuts mandated by the Gramm-Rudman Act. (AP, 11/19/97) 1987 Nov 20, President Reagan and congressional leaders announced agreement on a two-year, $76 billion deficit-reduction plan designed to reassure jittery financial markets. (AP, 11/20/97) 1987 Nov 21, An eight-day siege began at a detention center in Oakdale, La., as Cuban detainees, alarmed over the possibility of being returned to Cuba, seized the facility and took hostages. (AP, 11/21/97) 1987 Nov 22, The government of Nicaragua released 985 political prisoners in a show of compliance with a Central American peace plan. (AP, 11/22/97) 1987 Nov 23, Two days after a riot by Cuban inmates erupted at a detention center in Oakdale, La., Cuban detainees at a federal prison in Atlanta also rioted, seizing hostages in a drama that was not resolved until Dec 4. (AP, 11/23/97) 1987 Nov 24, The United States and the Soviet Union agreed to scrap shorter- and medium-range missiles in the first superpower treaty to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons. (AP, 11/24/97) 1987 Nov 25, Harold Washington, the first black mayor of Chicago, died at age 65 after suffering a heart attack in his City Hall office. (AP, 11/25/97) 1987 Nov 26, Cuban detainees concerned about the possibility of being sent back to Cuba continued to hold hostages at a prison in Atlanta and a detention center in Oakdale, La. (AP, 11/26/97) 1987 Nov 27, French hostages Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque were freed by their pro-Iranian captors in west Beirut, Lebanon. (AP, 11/27/97) 1987 Nov 28, R.E.M., the quartet from Athens, Georgia, first entered the UK singles chart with "The One I Love." (DT, 11/28/97) 1987 Nov 28, "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" by Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes peaked at #1 on the pop singles chart. (DT, 11/28/97) 1987 Nov 28, A South African Airways Boeing 747 crashed into the Indian Ocean with the loss of all 159 people aboard. (AP, 11/28/97) 1987 Nov 29, Cuban detainees released 26 hostages that they'd been holding for more than a week at the Federal Detention Center in Oakdale, La. (AP, 11/29/97) 1987 Nov 29, A Korean Air jetliner, Flight 858, disappeared off Burma over the Indian Ocean, with the loss of all 115 people aboard; South Korean authorities charged that North Korean agents had planted a bomb on the aircraft. (WSJ, 9/9/96, p.A18)(AP, 11/29/97) 1987 Nov 30, Author James Baldwin died in St. Paul de Vence, France, at age 63. His work included: "If Beale Street Could Talk," "Blues for Mister Charlie," "Notes of a Native Son," "Nobody Knows My Name," and "The Fire Next Time," and "Go Tell It on the Mountain." In 1991 James Campbell published the biography: "Talking at the Gates: A Life of James Baldwin." (AP 11/30/97)(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A2) 1987 Nov 30, In an interview broadcast by NBC, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev acknowledged that his country was engaged in "Star Wars"-related research, but said there were no plans to build a space-based system against nuclear attack. (AP 11/30/97) Jul - Aug - Sep - Oct - Nov - Dec 1987 Dec 1, NASA announced that four companies -- Boeing Aerospace, McDonnell Douglas Astronautics, General Electric's Astro-Space Division and Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell International -- had been awarded contracts to help build a space station. (AP 12/1/97) 1987 Dec 2, After a chaotic meeting that had begun the night before, the Chicago City Council elected Eugene Sawyer acting mayor, succeeding the late Harold Washington. (AP 12/2/97) 1987 Dec 3, Four days before his summit with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to sign a treaty banning intermediate-range nuclear missiles, President Reagan said in an interview with television network anchormen that there was a reasonably good chance of progress toward a treaty on long-range weapons. (AP 12/3/97) 1987 Dec 4, Cuban inmates at a federal prison in Atlanta freed their 89 hostages, peacefully ending an 11-day uprising. The agreement provided for a nationwide moratorium on deportations of Mariel detainees. (AP 12/4/97) 1987 Dec 5, FBI agents searched a federal prison where Cuban inmates had peacefully ended an 11-day hostage siege the day before. The agents reported finding bottle bombs and homemade machetes, but no booby-traps or bodies. (AP 12/5/97) 1987 Dec 6, One day before the arrival of Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, hundreds of thousands of demonstrators pressing for free emigration of Soviet Jews marched in Washington. (AP 12/6/97) 1987 Dec 6, In Moscow, security agents roughed up Jewish activists and journalists during rival demonstrations over Kremlin policy. (AP 12/6/97) 1987 Dec 7, Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev set foot on American soil for the first time, arriving for a Washington summit with President Reagan. (AP 12/7/97) 1987 Dec 7, Forty-three people were killed in the crash of a Pacific Southwest Airlines jetliner in California after a gunman apparently opened fire on a fellow passenger and the two pilots. (AP 12/7/97) 1987 Dec 8, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed the INF Treaty, Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty, under which the superpowers agreed to destroy their arsenals of intermediate-range nuclear missiles. (TMC, 1994, p.1987)(AP 12/8/97)(SFEC, 12/19/99, p.C12) 1987 Dec 8, Kurt Schmoke became the first African-American mayor of Maryland when he was elected the mayor of Baltimore. He was a Rhodes scholar and Harvard Law School graduate. He served 3 terms and decided to run for the Senate. (SFC, 12/4/98, p.A12)(HN, 12/8/98) 1987 Dec 8-9, The "intefadeh" (Arabic for uprising) by Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza began. (AP 12/8/97)(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A17) 1987 Dec 9, On the second day of their White House summit, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev grappled with differences over Afghanistan and cutbacks in long-range nuclear arms. (AP 12/9/97) 1987 Dec 10, President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev concluded three days of summit talks in Washington. (AP 12/10/97) 1987 Dec 10, Violinist Jascha Heifetz died in Los Angeles at age 86. (AP 12/10/97) 1987 Dec 11, NATO allies urged the U.S. Senate to ratify the intermediate-range missile treaty quickly and underscored their support by pledging to let the Soviet Union inspect missile bases in five European countries. (AP 12/11/97) 1987 Dec 12, Secretary of State George P. Shultz, during a visit to Denmark, urged U.S. allies to increase spending on conventional forces, following the signing of a superpower intermediate-range missile ban treaty. (AP 12/12/97) 1987 Dec 13, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the Reagan administration would begin making funding requests for the proposed "Star Wars" defense system. (AP 12/13/97) 1987 Dec 14, Supreme Court nominee Anthony M. Kennedy told his confirmation hearing he had no hidden agenda for abortion and privacy cases. (AP 12/14/97) 1987 Dec 14, Chrysler pleaded no contest to federal charges of selling several thousand vehicles as new even though they'd been driven by employees with the odometer disconnected. (AP 12/14/97) 1987 Dec 15, Gary Hart, who had dropped out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination amid questions about his relationship with Miami model Donna Rice, made a surprise return to the campaign, saying, "Let's let the people decide." (AP 12/15/97) 1987 Dec 16, Former White House aide Michael K. Deaver was convicted of lying to a House subcommittee and a grand jury investigating whether he had violated federal ethics laws (he was fined and ordered to perform community service). (AP 12/16/97) 1987 Dec 16, South Korea held its first direct presidential election in 16 years, choosing the government's handpicked candidate, Roh Tae-woo. (AP 12/16/97) 1987 Dec 17, With election results showing him the winner, South Korea's president-elect, Roh Tae-woo, appealed for "national harmony" while his opponents claimed he had won through fraud. (AP, 12/17/97) 1987 Dec 18, Ivan F. Boesky was sentenced to three years in prison for plotting Wall Street's biggest insider-trading scandal. (He served about two years of his sentence). (AP, 12/18/97) 1987 Dec 18, Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was married in a traditional Islamic ceremony to businessman Asif Ali Zardari. (AP, 12/18/97) 1987 Dec 19, The Palestinian uprising in Israel's occupied territories spread to Arab east Jerusalem. (AP, 12/19/97) 1987 Dec 20, More than 3,000 people were killed when the Dona Paz, a Philippine passenger ship, collided with the tanker Vector off Mindoro island, setting off a double explosion. (AP, 12/20/97) 1987 Dec 21, In New York, three white teen-agers from the Howard Beach section of Queens were convicted of manslaughter in the death of a black man who was chased onto a highway, where he was struck by a car. A fourth defendant was acquitted. (AP, 12/21/97) 1987 Dec 22, The Reagan administration criticized Israel's handling of the Palestinian uprising in the occupied territories, particularly the military's use of live ammunition against civilians. (AP, 12/22/97) 1987 Dec 23, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, serving a life sentence for the attempted assassination of President Ford in 1975, escaped from the Alderson Federal Prison for Women in West Virginia. (She was recaptured two days later.) (AP, 12/23/97) 1987 Dec 24, In Lebanon, the kidnappers of Terry Anderson released a videotape in which The Associated Press correspondent told his family he was in good health, and said to President Reagan, "Surely by now you know what must be done and how you can do it." (Anderson was freed nearly four years later.) (AP, 12/24/97) 1987 Dec 25, Authorities recaptured Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, who had escaped two days earlier from the federal prison in Alderson, W.Va., where she was serving a life sentence for her attempt on the life of President Ford. (AP, 12/25/97) 1987 Dec 26, A bomb exploded at a USO bar in Barcelona, Spain, killing one U.S. sailor and injuring nine others; a little-known group called the Red Army of Catalonian Liberation claimed responsibility. (AP, 12/26/97) 1987 Dec 27, Scores of Palestinian prisoners appeared before Israeli military courts in the first trials of several hundred protesters arrested in the "intefadeh," or uprising, in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. (AP, 12/27/97) 1987 Dec 28, The bodies of 14 relatives of R. Gene Simmons were found at his home near Dover, Ark., following a shooting spree by Simmons in Russellville that claimed two other lives. (Simmons was later executed.) (AP, 12/28/97) 1987 Dec 29, NASA delayed the planned June launch of the space shuttle -- the first since the Challenger disaster -- because a motor component failed during a test-firing of the shuttle's redesigned booster rocket. (AP, 12/29/97) 1987 Dec 30, Manufacturers of all-terrain vehicles agreed to withdraw the three-wheel model from dealers' inventories, but stopped short of a recall, as demanded by groups who felt the ATV's were dangerous. (AP, 12/30/97) 1987 Dec 31, One second was added to the year to compensate for precession of earth's axis. (HN, 12/31/98) 1987 Dec 31, Robert Mugabe was sworn in as Zimbabwe's first executive president. (AP, 12/31/97) 1987 Dec, Sheik Ahmed Yassin founded Hammas, a Palestinian social welfare and military organization. He urged the killing of Palestinians who collaborated with Israeli authorities. Its military wing, called the Izzeddine al-Qassam, used armed operations against Israel. (SFC, 5/25/96, p.A12)(SFC,12/27/97, p.A12) 1987 Dec, Work began on the Chunnel between Britain and France. (SFEC, 9/8/96, zone 1 p.4) 1987 Dec, Slobodan Milosevic, head of a nationalist faction, staged a palace coup and purged Pres. Ivan Stambolic over his moderate treatment of ethnic Albanians. Milosevic had risen to power as head of Serbia's Communist Party (SFC, 6/11/96, p.A14)(SFC, 12/27/96, p.B3)(SFC, 7/24/97, p.C3) 1987 Jasper Johns, American artist, painted "The Seasons (Fall)." (SFC, 3/31/97, p.E6) 1987 The "New Star" sculpture by Mark di Suvero was constructed. (SFEC, 3/16/97, DB p.33) 1987 Cleveland Amory authored "The Cat Who Came for Christmas," a national best-seller about his cat Polar Bear. (SFC, 10/16/98, p.D4) 1987 Molefi K. Asante wrote his: "The Afrocentric Idea." (Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34) 1987 Virginia Reade Belmontez (d.1998 at 68) authored "Mexico Barbarro 1987," a book that exposed the past of Mexico's Pres. Salinas and his party's oppression of the Mexican people. (SFC, 11/7/98, p.C2) 1987 Martin Bernal wrote Vol. 1 of his "Black Athena." Vol. 2 came out in 1991. (Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34) 1987 Allan Bloom, Prof. at the Univ. of Chicago, published "The Closing of the American Mind." (WSJ, 1/7/98, p.W11) 1987 Stewart Brand wrote "The Media Lab." (SFC, 7/1/97, p.A17) 1987 Lincoln Caplan authored "The Tenth Justice: The Solicitor General and the Rule of Law." (SFC, 10/13/99, p.C2) 1987 William Greider wrote "Secrets of the Temple." It was a comprehensive general account of how the Federal Reserve operates. (WSJ, 1/17/97, p.A11) 1987 "Modern Geology Vol. II" by Andrew Kitchener was published. (NH, 8/96, p.58) 1987 Patricia Limerick published "The Legacy of Conquest." She realigned standard history to account for minorities and women in the unbroken settlement of the US West. (SFEC, 1/2/00, BR p.12) 1987 M.I.T. Press published "A Few Good Men from Univac." It was a history of the computer. (WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A12) 1987 Caryl Phillips wrote "The European Tribe," his "impressionistic tour of a continent with a long history of persecuting Jews and ignoring blacks." (WSJ, 5/21/97, p.A12) 1987 Richard Preston wrote "First Light," a book on the romantic era of astronomy. A new edition was published in 1996. (SFEC, 1/5/97, BR p.7) 1987 Richester Register, student of Paolo Soleri, published his "Ecocity Berkeley: Building Cities for a Healthy Future." (PacDis, Spring/'94, p. 29) 1987 George Seldes, former Berlin correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, wrote his autobiography: "Witness to a Century." (SFEC, 7/27/97, p.T5) 1987 George Soros, businessman, published "The Alchemy of Finance." It offered his ideas on a wide range of subjects including his own success. The Quantum Fund is one of Mr. Soros' investment vehicles. (WSJ, 2/27/95, p.A-10) 1987 Walter Weintz (1915-1996) wrote his memoir "The Solid Gold Mailbox." He had been a pioneer of direct mail advertising and used a Persian poet's lines to sell the Reader's Digest: "If thou hast two pennies, spend one for bread." Weintz sent out 100 million pennies in pairs and advertised that the 1st be kept for luck and the 2nd be used as a down payment to Reader's Digest. (SFC, 12/25/96, p.A22) 1987 Chancellor Williams published his work: "The Destruction of Black Civilization: Great Issues of Race from 4500 BC to 2000 AD." He also wrote "The Re-Birth of African Civilization," an account of his 1953-1957 research project on the nature of education in Europe and Africa. (Civilization, July-Aug, 1995, p. 34) 1987 "The Truly Disadvantaged" by William Julius Wilson first discussed the "mismatch thesis," which points to the problem of unskilled inner-city workers trapped in poverty and unqualified and unable to reach jobs in the hi-tech urban environment. The problem continued to be discussed in his 1996 book: "When Work Disappears." (WSJ, 9/3/96, p.A12) 1987 "Southern Food" by John Egerton was published. (SFC, 8/14/96, zz-1 p.1) 1987 Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen master, published "Being Peace," the first of his 35 books and tapes. (SFC, 10/12/97, Z1 p.3) 1987 The "Food of Southern Italy" by chef Carlo Middione won the Tastemaker Award in the International Cookbook category. (SFEM, 7/21/96, p.16) 1987 Dorothy Bryant wrote her historical novel "The Confessions of Madame Psyche." (SFC, 12/13/96, p.C14) 1987 Neil Folberg published "In a Desert Land: Photographs of Israel, Egypt, and Jordan." It focused on the Sinai Desert and was re-issued in 1998. (SFEC, 4/26/98, BR p.6) 1987 "Moon Tiger," a novel by Penelope Lively won the Booker Prize. (WSJ, 9/20/96, p.A12) 1987 Malachi Martin (d.1999 at 78), an Irish-born former Jesuit, published "The Jesuits." (SFC, 7/30/99, p.D8) 1987 Toni Morrison wrote her novel "Song of Solomon." (SFEC, 12/15/96, DB p.61) 1987 Barbara Raskin (d.1999 at 63) published her novel "Hot Flashes." (SFC, 7/27/99, p.A17) 1987 Choreographer Paul Taylor published his autobiography "Public Domain." (WSJ, 4/12/99, p.A21) 1987 William Wilson (d.1999 at 51) authored "An Incomplete Education," designed to fill in knowledge lacked by college graduates. (SFC, 11/3/99, p.C6) 1987 Tom Wolfe published his first novel "Bonfire of the Vanities" in book form, a complete re-write after it was serialized in Rolling Stone Magazine. It was a story of Reagan-era avarice. (WSJ, 10/30/98, p.W1) 1987 Arthur Miller wrote his play "I Can't Remember Anything." (WSJ, 1/14/98, p.A17) 1987 August Wilson won a Pulitzer prize for his play "Fences." Mr. Wilson's work chronicles 20th century life among American blacks. (WSJ, 2/17/95, p.A-10) 1987 The TV show "The 'Slap' Maxwell Story" began a one year run. It was a drama comedy about a sports columnist in New Mexico. (SFC, 12/3/98, p.E5) 1987 The TV show "A Year in the Life" was a drama about a Seattle widower and businessman and his 4 grown children. (SFC, 12/3/98, p.E5) 1987 Henry Hampton (d.1998 at 58) produced his 6-hour PBS TV special "Eyes on the Prize," a look at the civil rights movement. (SFC, 11/24/98, p.A26) 1987 Jan 3, At the top of the record charts: Walk Like an Egyptian by the Bangles. Everybody Have Fun Tonight by Wang Chung. Notorious by Duran Duran. Mind Your Own Business by Hank Williams, Jr. (440 Int'l. 1/3/99) 1987 M.C. Hammer (aka Stanley Kirk Burrell) released his first "rap music" single, "Ring 'Em"/"Stupid Def Yal" on Bustin' Records. (SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.34) 1987 Carl Perkins (d.1998), rockabilly king, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. (SFC, 1/20/98, p.A1,8) 1987 John Santos formed the Machete Ensemble. From Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music the band moved to Latin jazz and traditional classic jazz. (SFEC,10/26/97, DB p.49) 1987 Townes Van Zandt (1944-1997) produced his album "At My Window." (SFC, 1/4/97, p.E1) 1987 John Whelan, button accordionist, recorded "Fresh Takes" with violinist Eileen Ivers. (WSJ, 3/17/97, p.A16) 1987 Philip Glass composed his Violin Concerto. (WSJ, 1/27/97, p.A20) 1987 Lou Harrison composed "Strict Songs." Mark Morris adopted the music to a dance performance. (WSJ, 4/25/97, p.A16) 1987 In Boston the 46 floor Tower One of the International Place was completed. The 35 floor Tower Two was completed in 1992. The architects were Philip Johnson and John Burgee. (WSJ, 1/3/97, p.B10) 1987 The Dia Center for the Arts opened a 40,000-sq.-foot exhibition space on W. 22nd St. in Greenwich Village, NYC. (Hem, 4/96, p.55) 1987 The Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) was formed by the merger of 3 small Lutheran denominations: the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. (SFC, 7/21/97, p.A11) 1987 In Texas George Roden was driven from the Branch Dravidian religious group after a gun battle with David Koresh over the leadership. The 77-acre compound near Waco, known as Mount Carmel, belonged to Roden's mother, who named Koresh as the trustee in her will. (SFC, 12/8/98, p.A3) 1987 John Templeton, financial wizard, founded the John Templeton Foundation to explore the relationship between science and religion. (Wired, 2/98, p.176) 1987 Mickey Weiss founded the Los Angeles Food Distribution Project. It distributed 60,000 pounds of produce free of charge in its first month and by 1991 the program had grown to 1.5 million pounds per month. It reached 100 million pounds per year by 1995. (Hem., Oct. '95, p.17-18) 1987 Milton Feldstein (d.1997 at 78) was chosen as president of the Air and Waste Management Association, a trade group for air quality professionals. (SFC, 5/20/97, p.A21) 1987 The Joseph and Edna Josephson Institute of Ethics was founded by Michael Josephson to survey the character of youths and adults. (Hem., 8/96, p.21) 1987 The National Museum of Women in the Arts was founded in Washington DC. It was the idea of Wilhelmina Holladay. In 1997 a new $1 million wing was added. (SFEC,11/9/97, p.A12) 1987 Samuel Eilenberg (d.1998 at 84), mathematician and art collector, donated over 400 artifacts from his collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In return the museum raised some $1.5 million to create the Samuel Eilenberg Visiting Professorship of Mathematics at Columbia Univ. (SFC, 2/3/98, p.A15) 1987 The Feminist Majority was founded by Toni Carabillo, Judith Meuli, Eleanor Smeal, Peg Yorkin and Katherine Spillar. their goal was to encourage women's empowerment. (LAT, 9/29/97, p.A18) 1987 Mary Shurz, editor of the Danville Advocate in Kentucky, unofficially started the Danville Great American Brass Band Festival. (WSJ, 7/8/96, p.A8) 1987 Sam Moskowitz (d.1997 at 76) was inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame for his extensive work in science fiction. (SFC, 4/26/97, p.A22) 1987 Joseph Brodsky won the Nobel Prize in Literature. "Since we are all moribund, and since reading books is time-consuming, we must devise a system that allows us a semblance of economy." (NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.44) 1987 Susumu Tonegawa of Japan won the Nobel Prize in medicine for the discovery of the process that enables the body to produce thousands of different antibodies to fight disease. (SFEC, 10/8/96, A9) 1987 The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Oscar Arias Sanchez of Costa Rica. (SFC, 10/12/96, p.A13) 1987 Kurt Waldheim, Austrian president and former U.N. secretary general, was barred from entering the U.S. for his past involvement in Nazi war crimes. (HNQ, 10/22/99) 1987 The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set standards for air quality that included a maximum level of particulate matter in air. The standard applied to particles smaller than 10 microns (10 millionths of a meter). (WSJ, 5/21/97, p.A14) 1987 The Federal Abandoned Shipwreck Act gave states control of historic wrecks that were found near their coasts. (SFC, 12/2/97, p.A2) 1987 The Third Int'l. AIDS Conference was held in Washington. (WSJ, 6/18/96, p.A17) 1987 Liet. Col. Oliver North testified before Congress on the Iran-contra scandal. (TMC, 1994, p.1987) 1987 A wrongful death suit filed by Michael Donald's mother gave a $7 million verdict against the United Klans of America. In 1981 Ku Klux Klansman Henry Hays had murdered Donald, a 19-year-old black man, in a random abduction. Donald was beaten, cut, strangled and his body was strung up a tree. Hays was convicted and sentenced to death. He was executed Jun 6, 1997. (SFC, 6/6/97, p.A3) 1987 Sex and money scandals hit TV evangelists Swaggert and Bakker. (TMC, 1994, p.1987) 1987 California passed a law that required unmarried girls under 18 to get written parental consent or to prove to a judge that they are mature enough to make an informed decision in order to get an abortion. (SFC, 4/4/96, p.A-1) 1987 In New York Tawana Brawley (16) charged that 6 white law-enforcement officers abducted and raped her. Her claims were declared a hoax by a grand jury. 9 years later a related trial opened in a defamation suit brought by a former prosecutor against the Rev. Al Sharpton and 2 other advisers to Brawley. In 1998 Steven Paganes was awarded $345,000 in damages. Sharpton was fined $65,000, C. Vernon Mason was fined $185,000 and Alton Maddox was fined $95,000. (SFC,11/19/97, p.A7)(SFC, 7/30/98, p.A9) 1987 There were demonstrations at the California Concord Naval Weapons Station against the base's alleged role in shipping arms to Central America. Writer Alice Walker was arrested. (SFEC, 4/20/97, BR p.6) 1987 AdLib launched a PC audio card that delivered stereo sound. (WSJ, 3/4/97, p.B1) 1987 A.W. Clausen, head of the Bank of America, sold Charles Schwab securities firm and refocused on the domestic market. (SFC, 4/14/98, p.B4) 1987 Cyberonics Corp. was founded to design, develop and bring to market medical devices to treat epilepsy. The company developed an implantable device to stimulate the vagus nerve to reduce the frequency and extent of epileptic seizures. (CYBX, 1997, AR p.19) 1987 Chrysler bought AMC for $600 million. (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl) 1987 General Electric (GE) sold its consumer electronics business to Thompson SA. (WSJ, 11/4/99, p.B6) 1987 The Hearst Corp. acquired the Houston Chronicle. Hearst also acquired Cowles and North America Syndicates, which were consolidated into King Features Syndicate. (SFC, 8/7/99, p.A9) 1987 Mazda opened a new plant in Flat Rock, Mich. (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl) 1987 Matsushita Electric invested significant resources to incorporate fuzzy logic technology into marketable goods. (Hem, Dec. 94, p.102) 1987 In Seattle Howard Shultz and a group of investors bought Starbucks from Jerry Baldwin and merged it with Il Giornale coffee bars. The was the beginning of a rapid expansion. Baldwin kept Peet's Coffee and a proviso that Starbucks stay out of the Bay Area until 1992. (SFEM, 8/1/99, p.8) 1987 TRW developed the first seat belt pretensioners. (F, 10/7/96, p.72) 1987 The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) originally released the ISO 9000 series of standards. Since then, the standards have become recognized around the world and are now accepted in more than 100 countries. (BW, 10/6/98) 1987 Dr. Lameh Fananapazir was hired by the National Institutes of Health [NIH] and expanded the agency's research in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy [HCM], an inherited condition that thickens the heart and can cause sudden death. In 1993 he received approval to begin putting pacemakers into children and claimed results that indicated a reversal of the disease. His work has become very controversial. (WSJ, 6/12/96, p.A1) 1987 The "Breathe Right" strip was invented by an allergy sufferer as a device to enhance air flow in the nose. (SFEC, 2/9/97, Par p.17) 1987 Two millimeter/submillimeter radio telescopes were completed on Mauna Kea, Hawaii: The Caltech Submillimeter Observatory (10.4 m) and the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (15 m). (Hem., 7/95, p.115) 1987 In South Baltimore the Cherry Hill Elementary School became the first public school in the country to adopt a school uniform. (WSJ, 9/11/98, p.W9) 1987 The year proved to be the warmest on record based on studies by NASA's Goddard Inst. for Space Studies in New York, and by a team at the Univ. of East Anglia in Britain led by Thomas Wigley. (NOHY, Weiner, 3/90, p.74) 1987 Hawks Aloft Worldwide as conceived as a cooperative project by the Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, in Kempton, Pennsylvania. (NH, 10/96, p.41) 1987 Chiron Corp. discovered Hepatitis C and then used its patents to control the sale of tests for the bug [virus]. (SFC, 5/31/99, p.E5) 1987 Some 13,000 people fell ill in Carrollton, Ga., from the cryptosporidium parasite in contaminated tap water. (SFC, 6/24/98, Z1 p.5) 1987 The verroa mite first appeared west of the Mississippi. The mite deforms honey bees and shortens their lifespan. It has spread across the upper Midwest in recent years. (SFC, 5/4/96, p.A-17) 1987 Hundreds of bottlenose dolphins died from a morbillivirus infection and washed ashore in New Jersey. The disease spread to Florida in 1988 and more than 1,000 dolphins died. Another epidemic occurred in 1990 among striped dolphins in the Mediterranean. (SFEC, 9/30/96, p.A19) 1987 Giant pandas in China were down to about 35 isolated populations in the wild, most of them of fewer than 20 pandas each. They are confined to the wooded mountains of Sichuan province, on the edge of the Tibetan plateau. (NOHY, 3/90, p.52) 1987 A huge forest fire in China destroyed more than 3.7 million hectares of trees in Manchuria. This forced Chinese officials to open up commercial logging and consequently caused pressure on the Manchurian tiger. In the Black Dragon Fire 20 million acres of forest land along the Heilongjang River, which separates China from Russia, were burned. (NOHY, 3/90, p.287) (HFA, '96, p.71) 1987 Joseph Campbell, writer and professor of mythology, died at 83. (SFEC, 6/1/97, p.A17) 1987 Clifton Chenier, zydeco accordionist, died. In c1999 Michael Tisserand published "The Kingdom of Zydeco" and Rick Olivier and Ben Sandmel published the photodocumentary "Zydeco!" (WSJ, 4/19/99, p.A20) 1987 Morton Feldman, composer, died. His work included a six hour String Quartet, "Why Patterns," "Triadic Memories," "Three Voices" and "Structures." (WSJ, 8/13/96, p.A9) 1987 Henry Ford II (1917-1987) died. He was the grandson of Ford founder Henry Ford and was named president of the car company in 1945. He introduced contemporary styling in 1949. (WSJ, 6/19/96, Adv. Supl) 1987 Peter Hujar, photographer, died. He captured images of New York's gay underground. (SFEM, 10/13/96, p.6) 1987 Clare Boothe Luce, former playwright and congresswoman, died. Her biography by Sylvia Jukes Morris, "Rage for Fame: The Ascent of Clare Boothe Luce," was published in 1997. (SFEC, 6/1/97, BR p.4) 1987 Charles Ludlum, playwright, died. His work included "The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful" (1984). (WSJ, 10/13/98, p.A20) 1987 Dean Martin's son, Dino, died in a plane crash. From then on the singer became somewhat of a recluse until his own death in 1995. (SFEC, 9/8/96, DB p.40) 1987 Arthur M. Sackler died. He donated a large collection of Asian art housed in the National Museum Sackler Gallery, which adjoins the Freer. (WSJ, 11/6/98, p.W10) 1987 Choreographer Antony Tudor died. (SFC, 9/22/96, DB p.31) 1987 Sam Wagstaff, photo collector, died. His collection of 7,500 prints was sold to the Getty Museum in 1984 for a reported $5 million. (WSJ, 1/30/97, p.A14) 1987 In Afghanistan Najibullah proposed a cease-fire, but the Mujahideen refused to deal with a "puppet government". Mujahideen made great gains, and the defeat of the Soviets was eminent. (www.afghan, 5/25/98) 1987 In Azerbaijan Pres. Aliyev resigned from the Soviet Politburo government. (WSJ, 12/18/96, p.A21) 1987 In Canada the Meech Lake Accord was an attempt to modify the Constitution and give Quebec some special recognition. Quebec did not ratify it and it did not take effect. (SFC, 1/29/99, p.A12) 1987 In England Margaret Thatcher privatized BAA. From a lethargic government bureaucracy it grew to become a major airport operator. (TMC, 1994, p.1987)(WSJ, 9/24/96, p.A1) 1987 In England legislation was passed governing animal experiments. (SFEC, 1/10/99, p.A20) 1987 The Sultan of Brunei, leader of the independent sultanate on the northern coast of Borneo, sent $10 million to support the Nicaraguan contras. (HNQ, 12/14/98) 1987 Canada introduced a one dollar coin. (WSJ, 11/6/97, p.A22) 1987 In Egypt the opera "Aida" was staged at the Temple of Luxor by the company Opera on Original Site Inc. (WSJ, 9/16/98, p.A20) 1987 A major famine hit Ethiopia. (TMC, 1994, p.1987) 1987 In Fiji two coups occurred in which the Fijian army overthrew the country's first Indian-dominated government. (SFC, 7/28/98, p.A10) 1987 In France the Monde Arabe (The Arab World Institute) was opened in Paris. The building at 1 Rue des Fosses Saint-Bernard was designed by Jean Nouvel. (SFEC, 1/4/98, p.T7) 1987 In Germany Klaus Barbie, head of the German police in Lyons, France during the war, went on trial for war crimes. He was convicted and died in prison. (SFC, 9/24/96, p.B2) 1987 Hong Kong tycoon Adrian Zecha bought a piece of land in Phuket, Thailand, and started his Amanresorts for luxurious vacations. (SFC, 7/2/96, p.D1) 1987 In India Bodo insurgents began attacking police and soldiers who protected the Muslim settlers in the tea-growing Assam state. (SFC, 12/31/96, p.A10) 1987 In Iran the Bahai Institute of Higher Education began following the virtual banning of Bahais from Iranian universities after the Islamic revolution of 1979. (SFC, 10/30/98, p.A20) 1987 Iraq restructured its security organizations. Hussein Kamel al-Majid, the son-in-law of Saddam Hussein, was placed in charge of the Special Security Organization and the research at Salman Pak. (SFEC, 3/7/99, p.A18) 1987 In Ireland the Social Partnership Agreement was a renewable 3-year pact between government, employers and unions that tied wage increases to the rate of growth. (SFC, 5/26/97, p.A10) 1987 In Jerusalem, Israel, an ancient roadway was discovered that skirts the western foundation of the Temple Mount. A 534-yard tunnel was constructed to follow the roadway. (SFC, 9/25/96, p.A1) 1987 Japan gave its tentative consent to co-develop a version of the US F-16 fighter jet. (WSJ, 3/22/96, p.A-1) 1987 The Lebanese Free Forces, a right-wing Christian militia, arranged to accept and store 15,800 barrels and 20 large containers of toxic chemicals from the Italian firm Jelly Wax in exchange for cash. Later German, Canadian and Belgium firms shipped in toxic chemicals for storage. By 1998 70% of the country's drinking water sources was contaminated. (SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10)(SFC, 9/30/98, p.A10) 1987 In Lebanon Prime Minister Rachid Karami was killed by a remote controlled bomb that blew up his helicopter off the Lebanese coast. In 1996 former Christian faction leader Samir Geagea was charged for the murder. (SFC, 8/28/96, p.A10) 1987 Mauritius opened a stock exchange. (WSJ, 1/11/99, p.R42) 1987 In Mexico PRI chairman Munoz Ledo led a political split from the PRI party and helped form the PRD. (SFC, 9/2/97, p.A7) 1987 In Mexico the peso was devalued and caused the 3rd financial crises since 1976. (WSJ, 12/20/96, p.A17) 1987 In the Netherlands heavy floods inundated the town of Valkenburg as the Geul River overflowed. (SFC, 9/19/98, p.A5) 1987 Pakistan claimed a nuclear bomb-building capability. (SFEC, 5/17/98, p.A15) 1987 In South Africa Ashley Kriel, an anti-apartheid activist was killed. Police officer Jeffrey Benzien later confessed to the killing and was absolved by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1999. (SFC, 2/19/99, p.B12) 1987 In South Korea Roh Tae Woo agreed to hold presidential elections after weeks of student democracy demonstrations. Democracy started to take root and suppression of worker unions ended. The year marked the end of 26 years of dictatorship. (SFC, 1/18/96, p.A10)(SFC, 8/26/96, p.A11)(SFC,12/15/97, p.B2) 1987 In the Soviet Union Gorbachev introduced the terms glasnost and perestroika. (TMC, 1994, p.1987) 1987 In Taiwan martial law was lifted by Pres. Chiang Ching-Kuo, son of Chiang Kai-Shek. (SFC, 6/9/97, p.A8)(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A8) 1987-1991 Gen. Ramon Guillen Davila headed the CIA-financed Venezuelan National Guard antinarcotics group. During his tenure 1-2 tons of cocaine were smuggled into the US. He was indicted by a federal grand jury in Miami in 1996, (WSJ, 11/22/96, p.A12)(SFC, 11/23/96, p.A2) 1987-1992 Earl Edwin Pitts, a senior FBI agent, was arrested on espionage charges in 1996. He was most active as a Russian spy over this period. (SFC, 12/19/96, p.A1) 1987-1993 In Burundi Pierre Buyoya, a Tutsi paratrooper, became the military president. (SFC, 8/26/96, p.A4) 1987-1993 In Palestine the Intifada, a stone-throwing revolt against Israel, began in Gaza's Jebaliya refugee camp. (SFC, 6/10/97, p.A12) 1988 Top