NEWS SUMMARY: MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1987
Date: 09 November 1987
LEAD: International
The November 8, 1987 was a Sunday under the star sign of ♏. It was the 311 day of the year. President of the United States was Ronald Reagan.
If you were born on this day, you are 37 years old. Your last birthday was on the Friday, November 8, 2024, 360 days ago. Your next birthday is on Saturday, November 8, 2025, in 4 days. You have lived for 13,875 days, or about 333,019 hours, or about 19,981,154 minutes, or about 1,198,869,240 seconds.
Date: 08 November 1987
By William G. Blair
William Blair
LEAD: Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the 51-year-old army general who yesterday became Tunisia's second President since it won independence from France in 1956, started out to become an electronics engineer.
Date: 08 November 1987
Special to the New York Times
LEAD: The Government of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has rejected an appeal by The Star against the shutdown of the popular English-language daily on Oct. 28.
Date: 08 November 1987
By Robert Nersesian
Robert Nersesian
LEAD: EVEN WITH all the funds that New Jersey provides for the arts, something's eating at me. It has to do with how we regard the arts, particularly when it concerns young people. Here in Sussex County, sports - especially high school sports - are a big deal. There is wide coverage in the local newspapers, with feature articles, color photographs, all-county teams, athlete-scholar dinners, ''Athletes of the
Date: 08 November 1987
By Frank J. Prial
Frank Prial
LEAD: PIERRE-MARIE DOUTRELANT DIED earlier this year while jogging in the Bois de Boulogne, in Paris. He was 46 years old, left a wife and a couple of kids, and may have been the best wine journalist of our time.
Date: 08 November 1987
LEAD: IT was, in some respects, a New York City subway shooting with similarities to the Goetz case. But it has a different ending. Like Bernhard H. Goetz, James Grimes, a subway token clerk in Brooklyn, carried an unlicensed pistol because he said he had been mugged before. And like Mr. Goetz, Mr. Grimes fired the weapon at four men he said were trying to rob him.
Date: 08 November 1987
LEAD: THE Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, host to vivacious movie stars and ambitious politicians in a glittering era now gone, prepared its last rites.
Date: 08 November 1987
LEAD: ''THE legislation has a simple purpose: to right a wrong committed by the United States 100 years ago.''
Date: 09 November 1987
LEAD: The marriage of Bernice Napach, a reporter for the Reuters news agency, and Charles Paikert, a freelance journalist, took place yesterday at the Swan Club in Roslyn, L.I. Michael Grupp, a leader of the Ethical Culture Society, performed the ceremony. The bride, the daughter of Lillian Napach of Little Neck, Queens, and the late Alex Napach, was formerly the New York bureau chief for Commodity World News.