Miss Universe 1987, the 36th Miss Universe pageant was held at Hall Four at World Trade Centre, Singapore on May 27, 1987. 22-year-old Cecilia Bolocco of Chile was crowned as Miss Universe 1987 by the outgoing titleholder, Barbara Palacios Teyde of Venezuela. 68 contestants competed in the 1987 Miss Universe Pageant. This was the twenty-first and final Miss Universe competition to be hosted by popular American television host Bob Barker. Mr. Barker, an animal rights proponent, requested pageant organizers to ban all animal fur prizes from the pageant. He promptly resigned as host when his request was refused. The program was broadcast by CBS.
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“The white man regards the universe as a gigantic machine hurtling through time and space to its final destruction: individuals in it are but tiny organisms with private lives that lead to private deaths: personal power, success and fame are the absolute measures of values, the things to live for. This outlook on life divides the universe into a host of individual little entities which cannot help being in constant conflict thereby hastening the approach of the hour of their final destruction.”
—Policy statement, 1944, of the Youth League of the African National Congress. pt. 2, ch. 4, Fatima Meer, Higher than Hope (1988)