The U.S. was ready to discuss a joint moratorium on tests of new space weapons with the Soviet Union, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said, but he ruled out a Soviet proposal for a freeze of such tests in advance of actual negotiations. Previously, the Reagan Administration had said it was willing to engage in talks with Moscow on curbing the militarization of outer space so long as there were no conditions. The United States had not specifically addressed itself publicly to the moratorium question. Mr. Shultz’s remarks were apparently meant to convey an American readiness to discuss everything at the table, including a moratorium on future testing, but not to accept any Russian condition — in this case, a ban on tests while negotiations were taking place. The United States is expected to test an antisatellite weapon this fall.
In the Administration view, such a moratorium would be unverifiable, and would only play into Soviet hands by delaying an American program without any guarantee of results. Other State Department officials said the Russians have been told through diplomatic channels of the American willingness to talk about a freeze on testing of antisatellite weapons at an early stage in negotiations. The Administration, however, is firmly opposed, they said, to the moratorium proposed by Konstantin U. Chernenko, the Soviet leader. The Soviet Union proposed in June that the two sides hold talks in Vienna on September 18 on ways of banning the militarization of outer space, and suggested a joint moratorium on space tests as a goodwill gesture in advance of talks. The United States agreed to such talks, but, as Mr. Shultz repeated today, said they should also include ways of renewing the negotiations on medium-range and strategic arms.
Appearing on the NBC News television program “Meet the Press,” Mr. Shultz said there was no question that ties were “cool,” but he added, “I don’t think that the situation is dangerous, in a literal, military sense… The President and all of us working with him have addressed ourselves to this relationship very hard for a very long time and continue to do so to be sure that we do everything possible to see that the relationship is a constructive one,” he said.
Walter F. Mondale, the Democratic candidate for the Presidency, said last week that, if elected, one of his first actions as President would be to call for a meeting with the Soviet leader to take place in six months and that he would announce a “limited moratorium” on development of new American weapons during that six-month period as an incentive for talks. Mr. Shultz, when asked about Mr. Mondale’s plan, said: “I don’t think it’s a good idea to suddenly turn back our own capability to be prepared and to deter. To stop your own capacity to be prepared and to deter aggression is just as reprehensible as not being prepared to engage in negotiations for peace.”
Bulgaria’s leader called off a visit to West Germany later this month, a Bonn Government spokesman said. The decision by Todor Zhivkov followed the recent cancellation of a similar trip by the East German leader, Erich Honecker, apparently in response to heavy Soviet pressure. The West German spokesman, Jürgen Sudhoff, said Bulgaria had informed Chancellor Helmut Kohl that the Zhivkov visit, scheduled for September 19 to September 22, would have to be postponed. Bulgarian diplomats were said to have attributed the decision to the deployment of new American medium-range missiles in Western Europe and to current North Atlantic Treaty Organization maneuvers. The reasons offered by the Bulgarians were regarded here as flimsy pretexts and interpreted as a sign that Mr. Zhivkov, like Mr. Honecker, had bowed to Soviet pressure. Recently diplomats have detected symptoms of unease in Sofia, the Bulgarian capital, over the Soviet Union’s campaign to tighten ranks within the Warsaw Pact.
Eight Spanish Basque exiles on hunger strike for a month at a prison near Paris are no longer able to speak or hear, according to their support committee. The committee said in a statement Saturday night that the men, protesting against a French court decision to extradite all but one of them to Spain, were in an extremely grave condition. A court in Pau, southwest France, has ruled that seven of the eight, all of them suspected of being members of the separatist guerrilla group E.T.A., be extradited on Spanish murder and assault charges. The case of the eighth has yet to be decided. A final decision on extradition rests with the French Government.
An unpublished journal kept by Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann during his 1961 trial in Israel suggests he took a cynical view of anti-Semitism as a ploy to win mass support for the Nazis during World War II. The journal, purchased by the West German state archive, has been made available to an Israeli researcher. One entry reads: “During the fight for power within the (German) Reich, the fight against the Jews played a secondary role. . . . That the Jew was no more and no less responsible for things as they were (in Germany) and carried the same guilt as everyone else was better not mentioned (to the masses).” Eichmann was executed in 1962.
Most Islamic countries in the Middle East will be unable to independently develop nuclear weapons before the end of the century, congressional analysts said. They also said the Middle East will remain an important market for technology, “but the explosive growth of years past will probably not be repeated.” The study, by the congressional Office of Technology Assessment, focused on Algeria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. It said most Mideast nations have not committed themselves to nuclear programs.
Nabih Berri, Lebanon’s minister of justice and leader of the Shia Muslim militia Amal, said he has ordered attacks on Israel’s occupation troops in southern Lebanon to force them out of the region. Berri, who is also minister in charge of southern Lebanon, told a Shia rally in Beirut’s southern suburbs that he will boycott all future Cabinet sessions unless they focus on the two-year-old Israeli occupation. He said more than 50 young Shias have been trained for suicide attacks against the Israelis.
Three Iranians — a police lieutenant and a civilian couple — released an Iranian jetliner and 66 hostages in return for political asylum in Iraq. The policeman, who identified himself only as Toufan, said he and the couple were monarchists and followers of former Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, who headed the shah’s last Cabinet. In Paris, however, the exiled Bakhtiar condemned air piracy. The Iranians, accompanied by the couple’s two young children, seized the Iran Air Boeing 727, with 118 people aboard, on a domestic flight Saturday and forced it to Bahrain, Cairo and finally an air base in southern Iraq. At Cairo, 52 passengers fled the plane.
At least seven people were killed, 130 injured, and more than 100 Muslim shops were burned in the south Indian city of Hyderabad in violence erupting on a Hindu religious holiday. Nandendla Bhaskara Rao, chief minister of Andhra Pradesh state, said more than 300 people, including a legislator, were arrested. The strife in the divided capital of Andhra Pradesh state occurred during a Hindu procession on the day honoring Ganesa, the elephant-faced god of learning. However, some politicians charged that the outbreak was instigated by forces loyal to former Chief Minister N.T. Rama Rao, who faces a showdown vote Tuesday in the Andhra Pradesh assembly. Rama Rao, who was dismissed by allies of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, will try to show that he has assembly support for a return to office.
New Zealand’s governing Labor Party approved non-binding resolutions calling on the administration of Prime Minister David Lange to withdraw from the ANZUS alliance with the United States and Australia and to shut down a U.S. Air Force base. Although the resolutions were passed by large majorities of the 800 delegates to the party’s annual conference, Labor sources noted that they are not likely to find their way into government policy.
Pope John Paul II today became the first Pope to visit Canada, beginning a 12-day visit with a strong call for a return to traditional values. He was greeted by a brass band and troops in bearskin hats and red jackets, by crowds waving yellow and white papal flags and by the departing Prime Minister, John N. Turner. As is the Pope’s custom, he kissed the airport runway immediately upon touching Canadian territory. “I am the pastor who succeeds the first pastor, the apostle, Peter,” he said in his opening remarks. “I am the father: that is what the word Pope means.”
A special audit found no military equipment missing from an Alabama National Guard armory that employs a member of an anti-Communist paramilitary group, a spokesman said. “They found no major discrepancies — nothing of any consequence,” said Captain Ralph Holmes, spokesman for the National Guard state headquarters in Montgomery. Alabama Adjutant General William A. Hornsby ordered the special audit of the Huntsville armory last week after members of the Decatur-based Civilian Military Assistance group returned from Nicaragua. During the trip, two members — one of them an Alabama National Guardsman from Huntsville — were killed when their helicopter was shot down by Nicaraguan forces. One of the five survivors was Chief Warrant Officer William Courtney of Huntsville. Courtney is a member of the Guard’s Special Forces unit at the armory and also works at the armory full time as a supply technician helping maintain the facility between weekend drills. Tommy Posey of Flint City, a leader of the paramilitary group, said its aim is to deliver supplies to “freedom fighters” in Central America.
The disappearance in Nicaragua of two local Sandinista leaders, who were apparently kidnapped, has brought to 82 the number of people believed carried off by United States-backed insurgents since July, officials said.
Jamaica is a heavy contributor to the worsening American drug problem despite its position as one of the closest political allies of the United States. In the face of Congressional threats to cut off millions in economic aid, Jamaica has steadily been producing large amounts of marijuana for export to the United States. It is also increasingly being used as a base for transshipping cocaine from South America, United States officials say.
President Quett K. Masire’s ruling Botswana Democratic Party was returned to power in elections Saturday, but the party dropped at least two seats to the opposition, according to results announced today. With results of two remote rural constituencies still to come, the ruling party captured 27 of the 34 elected seats for Parliament. Four went to the opposition Botswana National Front and one other was retained by the Botswana People’s Party. In the previous Parliament, the ruling party held 29 of 32 elected seats and the Botswana National Front had 2. Two nonelected seats were reserved for the Attorney General and the Speaker of the House. It was the first general election since Mr. Masire assumed power on the death of Sir Seretse Khama in 1980.
The police said today that they fired tear gas and rubber bullets to quell a fresh outbreak of rioting in the township of Sebokeng, one of three black areas south of Johannesburg where 31 people have died in unrest in the last week. A police spokesman, Maj. Kobus van Rooyen, said in Pretoria that protesters stoned police vehicles and set up roadblocks in the township, some 30 miles south of Johannesburg. Several police vehicles were damaged, he said, but there were no immediate reports of any injuries. The violence today came as blacks in several townships buried some of the first victims of the riots, which started after a rent increase was announced.
The abortion issue again was raised by John J. O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, who asserted that Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro had created the mistaken impression that Catholic teaching on abortion was “open to interpretation” when in fact it was monolithic. The Democratic Vice Presidential candidate promptly denied she ever misrepresented church teachings on abortion and said she would seek clarification today from the Archbishop. She has said that she opposes abortion, but supports the right of women to make their own decisions.
Moral Majority leader Jerry Falwell accused Walter F. Mondale of blowing the church-state issue out of proportion because the Democratic presidential candidate “doesn’t have a prayer — even a voluntary prayer — of being elected” in November. “I feel the whole thing’s a straw man,” Falwell said of Mondale’s charges that President Reagan is using religious beliefs for political purposes. “Mr. Mondale looks at an invulnerable President, leading by 20 points, and decides, with strategists’ help: ‘We must create an issue here.’”
Conservative Christian backing for President Reagan’s re-election is being organized more broadly than it was four years ago. Spurred by a gathering at the White House in mid- July of 300 conservative Christian ministers, a group of television envangelists is taking the message of support for Mr. Reagan to the airwaves.
The Federal deficit would be cut by $175 billion in 1989 under a plan to be announced today by Walter F. Mondale, his aides said. The cut would be made through savings in domestic and military programs and a tax increase. The aides said revenues raised by the tax increase would be placed in a trust to reduce the Federal budget and would not be used for social programs.
Democrats in Congress are worrying that Walter F. Mondale’s showing may hurt their campaigns. Republicans are now talking more confidently than in August of maintaining the size of their majority in the Senate and picking up 25 to 30 seats in the House.
President Reagan places a call to Alfred M. Landon, former Republican candidate for President in 1936, on the occasion of his 97th birthday.
President Reagan attends the annual Polish Festival of Our Lady of Czestochowa (The Black Madonna) in Doyletown, Pennsylvania.
New Federal rules sharply reduce the number of counties that must provide bilingual ballots to Hispanic-Americans and other minority groups in the election this November. Congress authorized such ballots. From 1976 through this June, 384 counties and other political subdivisions were required to provide bilingual election materials. The Census Bureau estimates that 197 counties will have to do so under the new formula.
After a weekend of long hours and heated exchanges at the bargaining table, the United Automobile Workers and General Motors began a stepped-up effort today to reach a new contract by midnight Friday. G.M.’s chief negotiator, Alfred Warren, said the union would get a new job- security proposal late Monday. “I’m anxious to get it moving at a faster pace so that we’re not crushed for time come Friday night,” said Donald Ephlin, the union’ chief negotiator.”My optimism has dimmed a little bit on the time; not a great deal, but a little bit.” The union’s drive to keep at least 300,000 G.M. jobs in the United States and out of nonunion shops is its No. 1 demand, and the auto maker’s refusal to move toward the union’s view irritated union bargainers Saturday.
Revised flight schedules agreed to by airlines serving La Guardia Airport in New York could begin easing flight congestion and delays by November. Tentative agreement was reached on spreading out peak travel hour arrivals and departures at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
A Georgia sheriff is in jail, and is being held on a $3 million bond after Federal agents arrested him on charges that he had conspired with five others to import and distribute marijuana, cocaine and methaqualone. Sheriff John D. Davis of Dawson County is one of 21 current or former sheriffs in Georgia and Tennessee to have been indicted in the last three years on various charges.
Timothy Baldwin, convicted of beating an 85-year-old blind woman to death, was electrocuted early today at the Louisiana State Prison in Angola. Baldwin’s last appeal, to the U.S. Supreme Court, was rejected hours earlier. His lawyer, William Quigley, said there was nothing more he could do. Before the execution, Baldwin, 46, ate the bacon and tomato sandwiches he requested and telephoned relatives. “He’s calm, he’s collected,” prison Warden Frank Blackburn said of Baldwin hours before the condemned man was electrocuted.
The number of convicts on parole from federal and state prisons reached a record 251,708 last year, and the number of adults on probation topped 1.5 million, the Bureau of Justice Statistics said. In a report tracking state and federal prison populations for the last four years, the Justice Department agency said that, since 1979, the number of persons placed on court probation has increased 38%.
Prison officials in Virginia transferred 35 prisoners and put 40 extra guards on duty today at the Brunswick Correction Center, where rebellious inmates held a guard and other prisoners hostage Saturday. Calm was restored at the prison, 80 miles south of Richmond, which houses 686 inmates, said Wayne Farrar, a spokesman for the Virginia Corrections Department. A temporary lockdown was lifted “as of breakfast time this morning,” Mr. Farrar said. Prisoners were released from cells and ate in common areas. The floor of the building where a group of inmates held a guard, Donnel Rose, for six hours was emptied after he was released about 8 PM Saturday. He was not injured. The prisoners also held three other inmates hostage briefly and beat two of them, Mr. Farrar said.
A confidential study by the Social Security Administration has concluded that a 3-year-old effort to remove persons from the disability rolls has produced a “huge volume of adverse court decisions,” the New York Times reported. It said the study of litigation problems by senior Social Security officials found the “agency’s credibility before the federal courts is at an all-time low.” Many judges are convinced that the agency “will defend any case in court, no matter how terrible the claimant’s circumstances,” the report said.
Teachers in Sycamore, Illinois, were voting on a tentative agreement to end their week-long strike, but other walkouts in six states extended summer vacation into another week for about 140,000 students. About 62,370 students were affected by strikes in Illinois,. 56,000 in Michigan, 16,000 in Pennsylvania, 3,500 in New Jersey, 1,300 in Louisiana, and 960 in Rhode Island. Contract disputes include higher wages, fringe benefits and smaller class sizes.
A fire in an exhaust vent aboard the cruiser USS Ticonderoga injured 13 crew members and forced the guided missile cruiser to head for its home port for repairs, a Navy spokesman said today. The fire broke out at 2 AM Saturday as the Ticonderoga cruised 450 miles south of here and 180 miles east of Mayport, Florida, Commander Robert Prucha said. Thirteen members of the 366-member crew suffered injuries ranging from minor cuts and burns to smoke inhalation, but all were treated and returned to duty, he said. The 563-foot Ticonderoga, lead vessel in the Navy’s new fleet of Aegis guided missile cruisers, sustained damage to an engine room vent, helicopter hangar and several equipment rooms, he said. The cause of the fire was unknown.
Some Jaycees discourage women from becoming members despite the hundreds of women who were welcomed into the community service organization after the Supreme Court ruled in July that excluding women violated antidiscrimination laws. Chapters in at least three states considered seceding from the Jaycees to become all-male clubs.
High clouds in Southern California spawned by Hurricane Marie helped bring the mercury slightly below 100 degrees yesterday, but stifling humidity meant little relief from a hot spell that has killed at least four people in four days. Forecasters had predicted a record high of 104 in Los Angeles, which would have been the third record-breaker in the six-day heat wave, but the temperature downtown topped out at 11 A.M. at 98 degrees. It was the coolest day since the temperature peaked at 89 on Monday. Saturday’s high of 103 in downtown Los Angeles topped the record of 100 set for the date in 1944. Last week an elderly man and woman died of heat prostration that aggravated other conditions. Several others were hospitalized. In San Diego on Saturday, two young children were found dead in a locked car, victims of apparent heat exhaustion.
Dozens of Federal, state and local agencies involved in the 1984 Olympics spent less than was budgeted, including the Defense Department, which has about $15 million left over. The department got a special Congressional appropriation of $50 million and has the authority to spend all of it, but no further spending is anticipated. “It should not exceed $35 million and it should be somewhat less,” said a department spokesman, Pete Wyro. Los Angeles County had expected to spend up to $6.9 million for the Olympics. But a check of major county agencies showed the total expenses will not exceed $200,000, the Los Angeles Herald Examiner reported today.
U.S. Open Men’s Tennis: John McEnroe wins his 4th U.S. title and final Grand Slam singles event; beats Ivan Lendl 6–3, 6–4, 6–1.
Wade Boggs, the batting champion last season, collected four hits today to pace the Boston Red Sox to a 10–1 victory over the New York Yankees at Fenway Park. The third baseman now has 14 hits in his last 18 times at bat, a .778 clip, lifting his average to .318. The entire Yankee lineup managed only five hits off Al Nipper (9–5). The right-hander, who lasted only five outs in his only previous start against the Yankees, used an assortment of breaking balls and mixed in an occasional fastball to keep the Yanks off balance. By the fourth inning, Nipper had a 6–1 lead and little to fret about the rest of the way. The Red Sox grouped all of their runs in five, two-run bursts, finishing with 13 hits, after yielding 16 runs and 28 hits in consecutive losses to the Yankees on Friday and Saturday.
Don Slaught and Darryl Motley each hit sacrifice flies in the ninth inning to give Kansas City to a 6–5 triumph over the Seattle Mariners today and earn the Royals sole possession of first place in the American League West. Kansas City moved a game ahead of Minnesota and marked the first time the Royals were alone atop the division this season. Slaught lined a pitch off the reliever Ed Vande Berg to left field to score Willie Wilson with the winning run. Jorge Orta had opened the Royals’ ninth with a pinch single. Wilson singled Orta to second and Pat Sheridan was intentionally walked to fill the bases before Motley flied to left to score the pinch-runner Onix Concepcion.
The Texas Rangers thumped the Minnesota Twins, 9–3. Donnie Scott smashed a three-run homer and Charlie Hough continued his career mastery of Minnesota, bringing his record to 8–0 against the Twins. Hough (15–12) scattered nine hits and was helped by two double plays. He struck out eight. The Rangers took a 5–0 lead against the starter Ken Schrom (4–9) in the fourth inning, when Scott’s homer topped off the inning. The Rangers made it 8–0 in the fifth on Gary Ward’s shot and a two-run double by George Wright.
Kirk Gibson hit a 450-foot three-run homer and John Grubb added a homer to lift the Detroit Tigers to a 7–2 win and a sweep of their three- game showdown with the Toronto Blue Jays. The victory increased the Tigers lead to 11½ games over Toronto in the American League East. Milt Wilcox (16–7) scattered eight hits, striking out five, over the first six innings for Detroit.
Mike Boddicker, supported by a two-run homer by Cal Ripken Jr., posted his 18th victory, best in the American League, as the Baltimore Orioles shut out the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–0. Boddicker, who has lost nine, allowed seven hits while hurling his fourth shutout.
The Chicago White Sox downed the California Angels, 8–2. Tom Seaver hurled a four-hitter for the Sox, who built a 7–0 lead after the sixth inning. The Angels could only manage two unearned runs off “Tom Terrific”.
The Oakland A’s beat the Cleveland Indians, 9–5. Cleveland erupted for five runs in the 4th to come back from a 5–1 deficit. Dave Kingman hit his 34 home run of the year for Oakland.
Mookie Wilson got a triple at the start of the sixth inning, Hubie Brooks hit a three-run homer later in the inning, and the five-run flurry carried the New York Mets to a 5–1 victory over the first-place Chicago Cubs yesterday. The victory, the Mets’ second in the three-game series, reduced the margin between the teams to six games. Each team has 19 games to play, four before they meet again next weekend for a three-game series at Wrigley Field, where the Cubs have beaten the Mets six times in six attempts. The Mets, shut out by Scott Sanderson for five innings, kept themselves in the race, albeit barely, with their big inning against George Frazier and Warren Brusstar. Sanderson, who was on the disabled list for five weeks earlier in the season with a back problem, left after five innings because his back stiffened.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the Montreal Expos, 6–5 in 11 innings. Rookie Rick Schu scored the tying run in the ninth inning at Montreal on a balk and scored the winning run in the 11th on a sacrifice fly by John Russell to end the Phillies’ six-game losing streak. Mike Schmidt, who in the third inning hit his 30th home run, doubled home a run in the ninth to cut Montreal’s lead to 5–4. Schu ran for him and went to third on a wild pitch by reliever Bob James. Apparently unnerved by the wild pitch, James then balked.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2–1. Andy Van Slyke scored both St. Louis runs. He walked in the second, scoring on a double by Ozzie Smith, and hit his sixth home run in the fourth. Danny Cox (8–10) got the win. The loser was tough-luck Jose DeLeon (6-13). In six of the games DeLeon has lost, the Pirates have been shut out, and in five others they scored only a single run.
Against the Atlanta Braves, the San Francisco Giants score two in the 7th to win 6–4. Banjo hitter Duane Kuiper hits a leadoff pinch double in the frame for his only extra base hit of the year. He sets the club record for most games in a row without an extra-base hit going 65 straight from August 22, 1983, to September 7, 1984. Rob Deer hit his first major league home run in this game at San Francisco, and another rookie, Chris Brown, drove in two runs with a double.
The Cincinnati Reds clipped the Los Angeles Dodgers, 5–1. Rookie Tom Browning, a late replacement for Mario Soto and making his first major league start, came within two outs of a shutout with a baffling array of curves and screwballs. Orel Hershiser (8–8) took the loss.
The San Diego Padres downed the Houston Astros, 8–4. Steve Garvey and Carmelo Martinez drove in two runs apiece, helping the San Diego Padres build an 8–0 lead after two innings. Mark Thurmond (13–7) went seven innings for the victory. Goose Gossage finished up for the Padres and gave up two runs in two innigns.
NFL Football:
Denver Broncos 0, Chicago Bears 27
Detroit Lions 27, Atlanta Falcons 24
Indianapolis Colts 35, Houston Oilers 21
Kansas City Chiefs 27, Cincinnati Bengals 22
Green Bay Packers 7, Los Angeles Raiders 28
Cleveland Browns 17, Los Angeles Rams 20
New England Patriots 7, Miami Dolphins 28
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13, New Orleans Saints 17
Dallas Cowboys 7, New York Giants 28
Minnesota Vikings 17, Philadelphia Eagles 19
Buffalo Bills 7, St. Louis Cardinals 37
San Diego Chargers 17, Seattle Seahawks 31
Walter Payton ripped off a 72-yard touchdown run and rushed for 179 yards in 20 carries today, breaking Jim Brown’s combined yardage record and leading the Chicago Bears to a 27–0 victory over the Denver Broncos. Payton also caught two passes for 7 yards for a combined total of 186 yards, giving him a career total of 15,517 to Brown’s of 15,459. He now has 11,865 rushing yards, 447 short of Brown’s record of 12,312. It was the eighth-best rushing game for the 30-year-old Payton, who holds the single-game National Football League rushing record of 275 yards, set against Minnesota in 1977. Payton, who did not play in the fourth quarter, broke loose for 72 yards and the longest touchdown run of his 10-year career in the second period as the Bears took a 17–0 lead.
Ed Murray kicked a 48-yard field goal 5 minutes 6 seconds into overtime to give the Detroit Lions a 27–24 victory at Atlanta. The Lions (1–1) drove 51 yards with the extra-period kickoff, with Gary Danielson contributing the key play, a 30-yard pass to David Lewis down the middle for a first down at the Atlanta 34. Danielson, who completed 22 of 31 passes for 250 yards, earlier had a 13- yard pass to Lewis during the drive. The setback left the Falcons at 1–1, despite a brilliant passing day by Steve Bartkowski, who hit on 24 of 28 attempts for 299 yards. Atlanta drove 51 yards to the Detroit 29-yard-line with 2:00 remaining in regulation, but Mick Luckhurst missed a 47-yard field goal attempt that could have prevented the overtime. The Falcons, who earlier overcame a 17–0 deficit to gain a tie, fought back again to tie the game at 24–24 when Bartkowski fired a 29-yard scoring strike to Stacey Bailey in the end zone five seconds into the final period.
Mike Pagel threw three touchdown passes, including two to Ray Butler, to lead the Indianapolis Colts to a 35–21 victory over the Houston Oilers. Pagel’s first touchdown pass of the season, a 31-yarder to Butler with 72 seconds left in the first half, gave the Colts a 21–14 lead. Pagel completed 15 of 20 passes for 215 yards in directing the Colts to their first victory of the season. Houston’s Warren Moon threw for 365 yards. The Oilers’ three touchdowns came on runs by Earl Campbell.
The Kansas City Chiefs edged the Cincinnati Bengals, 27–22. Todd Blackledge passed for two touchdowns and Nick Lowery kicked a 40- yard field goal with 1 minute 50 seconds left to seal the victory for Kansas City. Blackledge completed a 46-yard scoring pass to Anthony Hancock and a 19-yard scoring strike to Carlos Carson to help the Chiefs improve to 2–0. Kansas City also got a 5-yard touchdown run from Theotis Brown and field goals of 52 and 40 yards by Lowery. Cincinnati, which rallied from deficits of 14–0 and 24–17, scored on a 48- yard pass interception return by Ray Horton and a 2-yard run by Charles Alexander. The Bengals (0–2) also got field goals of 48 and 29 yards from Jim Breech. Cincinnati added a safety when Blackledge fumbled out of the end zone. Kansas City took a 7–0 lead 4:20 into the game after a mistake by a Cincinnati rookie, Ralph Battle, and the passing of Blackledge.
The cornerbacks Mike Haynes and Lester Hayes and the rest of the Los Angeles secondary dominated Green Bay’s receivers today as the Raiders whipped the Packers, 28–7. Green Bay’s James Lofton, considered one of the National Football League’s finest wide receivers, was held without a reception. His running mate, John Jefferson, caught only three passes for 19 yards. The Packers (1–1) played all but the opening 1 minute 58 seconds without their starting quarterback, Lynn Dickey, who was forced to the sidelines with a bruised back. He suffered the injury when sacked by Mike Davis and Lyle Alzado on the first series. Randy Wright, a rookie from Wisconsin, took over at quarterback for the Packers. Playing in his first regular-season game, Wright completed only 10 of his 23 passes for 67 yards and was intercepted twice before being replaced by Rich Campbell with 10:37 remaining in the game.
Mike Lansford kicked a 27-yard field goal with 1 minute 25 seconds to play to give the Los Angeles Rams a 20–17 victory over the Cleveland Browns. Led by the running back Eric Dickerson, the Rams marched 61 yards to the Cleveland 9-yard line to set up the winning score. Dickerson, who gained 102 yards on 27 carries in the game, got 48 of his yards on six carries in the winning drive. The victory evened the Rams’ record at 1–1. Cleveland, which lost to the Seattle Seahawks last week, 33–0, fell to 0-2.
The Miami Dolphins’ imaginative passing game stung another team today. Jim Jensen, the quarterback-turned-wide receiver, threw for one touchdown and Dan Marino, the regular quarterback, threw for two, as the Dolphins defeated the New England Patriots, 28-7. The Dolphins now have nine touchdowns in two games, and eight of them have come from passes. The ninth score came in the fourth quarter today, when Mike Kozlowski intercepted a pass from Steve Grogan, returned it 26 yards and then lateraled to William Judson, who ran 60 yards more for the final score. The Dolphins have now defeated the Patriots 17 consecutive times in the Orange Bowl, after losing to them in 1966, Miami’s first season in the National Football League. Today’s victory was aided in no small part by a Dolphin defense that intercepted four Grogan passes, sacked him twice and kept pressure on him throughout the game. But it was the touchdown play involving Jensen, when 5 minutes 37 seconds remained in the first half, that started things off.
Richard Todd hit long passes in the final 2 minutes 35 seconds to lead the New Orleans Saints to a 17–13 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The first was a 24-yard completion to Tyrone Young. The second was a 51-yard pass play to the fullback Hokie Gajan that put the ball at the Tampa Bay 13-yard line. That play went 7 yards in the air and 44 on the ground as Gajan ran down the right sideline past the Buccaneer secondary. Gajan picked up 5 yards from the 13, then bolted 8 yards for the touchdown on the next play. Todd finished with 13 completions in 23 attempts for 213 yards.
It was the New York Giants who made the big plays and the Dallas Cowboys who made the bad plays today at Giants Stadium. The result was an astonishing victory for the Giants, 28–7, over a team that had been so abusive to them over so many years. Gary Hogeboom, the Cowboys’ new quarterback, said afterward, “Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.” That might have been so but the Giants had much to do with the Cowboys’ chaos that helped bring them only their fourth victory in their last 21 games against Dallas. Take, for example, Lawrence Taylor. Playing against Hogeboom for the first time, the outside linebacker sacked him twice on blitzes in the second period and those plays probably cost the Cowboys 21 points. At halftime the Giants were ahead, 21–0, following three Cowboy turnovers. And a fumble of the second-half kickoff led to a fourth touchdown and a 28–0 lead.
The Philadelphia Eagles made a last-minute comeback to beat the Minnesota Vikings, 19–17. Ron Jaworski flipped a 1-yard touchdown pass to John Spagnola with two seconds to win it for Philadelphia. The pass came one play after the Vikings appeared to have made a successful goal-line stand with seven seconds left when Wilbert Montgomery was stopped behind the line of scrimmage on a fourth-and-goal situation from the 1. But the linebacker Robin Sendlein was called for grabbing Montgomery’s face mask and the Eagles had a first-and-goal on the 1. The Vikings (0–2) had taken a 17–12 lead by scoring two touchdowns early in the fourth quarter. The rookie running back Alfred Anderson threw a 20-yard touchdown pass to the quarterback Tommy Kramer and ran 1 yard for another score. The Eagles began the winning drive from their own 41 and moved down field with the aid of a 16-yard pass from Jaworski to Spagnola and the running of Montgomery, who became the team’s career leading rusher. He finished with 98 yards in 19 carries and has 5,867 yards, breaking the mark of 5,860 held by Steve Van Buren.
The St. Louis Cardinals thrashed the Buffalo Bills, 37–7. Neil Lomax passed for 276 yards and two touchdowns and Stump Mitchell set up a touchdown and a field goal with lengthy returns. Neil O’Donoghue kicked field goals of 23, 21 and 52 yards for St. Louis (1–1) as Buffalo fell to 0–2. St. Louis led by 24–0 at halftime, partly as a result of Mitchell’s returns of 39 yards with the opening kickoff and the same distance with a Bills punt.
Franco Harris, after just two practices with his new team, helped bring the Seattle Seahawks out of a first-quarter tailspin today, and they went on to a 31–17 victory over the San Diego Chargers. With the Seahawks trailing by 10–0 and their offense mired, Harris entered the game with 2 minutes 20 seconds left in the first quarter and promptly carried three consecutive times for the team’s first rushing first down. “Yes, I was a little surprised at how much I carried the ball,” he said. “I didn’t know how much I was going to play. It was fun out there. There’s lots of enthusiasm on this team.” Harris signed as a free agent with the Seahawks last Wednesday after being released by the Pittsburgh Steelers. The Seahawks made the move after learning that their running back Curt Warner would be sidelined for the rest of the season with ligament damage in his right knee suffered in the season opener last Monday. Harris carried 14 times for 46 yards, even though the quarterback David Krieg said he had to remind Harris on each play which side he was to run to.
Born:
Brett Pill, MLB first baseman, pinch hitter, and outfielder (San Francisco Giants), in San Dimas, California.
Farrah Gray, American entrepreneur and author (“Reallionaire”), in Chicago, Illinois.
Died:
Walter Kaufmann, 77, German-American conductor (Winnipeg Symphony, 1948-57), composer (Navaratnam), and musicologist (The Ragas of South India).
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