The Japanese terrorists who took over the French Embassy in the Hague Friday freed two women hostages but were still holding Ambassador Jacques Senard and eight others as hostages. The area outside the embassy has been closed off. The police, the Dutch marines, diplomats from several nations and friends and relatives of the hostages had been awaiting a word or some move from the captors. The two women, each 22 years old, were allowed to walk from the door of the French Embassy to Dutch police officers who were waiting by the wall of the American Embassy about 50 yards away. The women then were assisted into the American Embassy, where they were examined by a doctor and a psychiatrist. One was identified as a telephone operator and the other was identified as a secretary. Both women appeared to be weak.
A young man threw a hand grenade from a balcony onto a lower sales floor of the Le Publicis Drugstore in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris. The explosion killed two people and injured 34 others. The store’s owner, Marcel Bleustein-Blanchet, was well-known as a supporter of Israel. In 2017, evidence would link the terrorist “Carlos the Jackal” to the attack.
France exploded its eighth nuclear device in three months of atmospheric tests in the South Pacific, the Australian and New Zealand governments reported. France, in keeping with past policy, would not confirm or deny the latest test in the series that began June 17. But it was reported in Paris that the danger zone around Mururoa Atoll, 720 miles southeast of Tahiti, would be lifted Tuesday and normal shipping movements could resume.
The foreign ministers of West Germany and the Soviet Union began two days of talks in Bonn that sources indicated may help pave the way to an East-West conference on European security and cooperation. Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher of West Germany assured Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko of the Soviet Union today that Bonn was trying to make the European security conference on mutual cutbacks in armed forces a success, a Foreign Ministry spokesman said. Mr. Genscher also pledged that Bonn would continue its policy of reconciliation with the people of Eastern Europe, initiated by former Chancellor Willy Brandt, the spokesman said. Reliable sources also said that Gromyko told Genscher that the controversial question of a divided Berlin need not stand in the way of closer Soviet-German relations.
About 100 sick and wounded Greek Cypriots were to be exchanged today for an equal number of Turkish Cypriots in the first formal prisoner exchange since the end of fighting on Cyprus, authorities reported. The site for the exchange was set up near the “green line” dividing the Greek and Turkish communities in Nicosia. The International Red Cross has drawn up a plan for the general release of all prisoners, but the two sides have not yet approved it.
Police and coast guard boats cut off the strike-bound luxury liner France from contact with the shore and its rebellious crew said it was preparing for a long siege with extra work and movies. The crew immobilized the world’s largest passenger ship three miles at sea off Le Havre last Wednesday when they refused to man the engines. They are demanding guaranteed employment when the ship is withdrawn from service October 25.
What would become known as the “Bulldozer Exhibition” took place in Moscow when Soviet authorities used bulldozers and water trucks to beak up an unauthorized exhibition of contemporary nonconformist art in a park at Profsoyuznaya Street. After the area was cleared, groups of young men destroyed paintings and threw them into a dump truck to be driven away as police watched. Viewers at the exhibit, including foreign diplomats and journalists attending the exhibit, were assaulted or forced to flee. Three American correspondents were beaten by young men who patrolled the area, intimidating onlookers. The police made no effort to stop the violence.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel said on the “Meet the Press” television program that his country hoped to exchange further Israeli troop withdrawals in Sinai for Egyptian agreements to cease diplomatic and economic sanctions against Israel. Mr. Rabin for the first time explained what he meant by his statement on Friday that Israel wanted a state of “nonbelligerency” with Egypt in return, for a further pullback of Israeli forces. “I believe that nonbelligerency is a significant step toward peace if the Egyptians will agree to that,” he said today. “It is not a question only of declarations. We believe nonbelligerency has also practical implications.” “For example, no belligerency in the diplomatic sphere,” Mr. Rabin said. “No belligerency in the economic boycott. I wouldn’t like to spell all of them.”
The Lebanese Ministry of Defense reported that Israeli fighter bombers struck at targets in southeast Lebanon, killing one civilian and wounding two others. The raid lasted 10 minutes and was concentrated in the area of Arkub at Mount Hermon. The dead man was identified as Fuad Abou Saleh, the mukhtar, of local leader, of Hasbaya.The communiqué said a military jeep had overturned during the raid, which lasted 10 minutes. It mentioned no Lebanese military casualties but reported damage to houses and farms. The targets attacked were listed as the outskirts of Choya, Zaglah, and the Morani Bridge, all in the Hasbaya area. The attack was carried out by eight Israeli Phantoms flying at a high altitude, the communiqué added.
The Ministry of Defense in a second communiqué said Israeli planes had returned, a few hours later and dropped time bombs on the Khreibeh Road in the same area. They also strafed the road with machine guns, it said. The communique did not mention casualties or damage. A statement issued by the Palestinian guerrilas said six Israeli planes had participated in the raid, reportedly firing rockets and dropping napalm and phosphorous bombs. Guerrilla anti‐aircraft guns drove off the planes, the statement said and added that the guerrillas had suffered no casualties. The death of the leader of Hasbaya is expected to have repercussions on Lebanese‐Palestinian relations. Two years ago, an Israeli air attack against Hasbaya, in which several inhabitants were killed, provoked a protest to the Lebanese Government and demands for protection or the removal of the guerrillas from the area. The commandos later moved out of the surrounding hills.
Israeli military headquarters announced tonight that “Israel Air Force planes this afternoon and evening attacked terrorist objectives” in the southeastern corner of Lebanon where Palestinian guerrillas reportedly have bases.The air strikes were the first in Lebanon since August 9. The raids were described as part of an Israeli policy of disrupting the guerrillas before they can strike.
All 75 people aboard Air Vietnam Flight 706 were killed when three hijackers detonated grenades as the Boeing 727 was attempting an emergency landing at Phan Rang Air Base in South Vietnam. The terrorists had seized the jet after it had taken off from Đà Nẵng on a flight to Saigon, and demanded to be flown to Hanoi in North Vietnam. All except four of the passengers were said to be Vietnamese.
Communist frogmen blew up a bridge cutting the only South Vietnamese government road link between the old imperial capital of Huế and the northern port city of Đà Nẵng. The damage from the explosion, which government engineers said they remedied eight hours later, came a day after South Vietnamese infantrymen repulsed a fierce Communist assault in the same area,
Thousands of Roman Catholics protested in the South Vietnamese city of Huế against alleged government corruption and police action in dispersing a rally last week. The outdoor meeting marked yet another step in the quickening pace of protest activity in South Vietnam and follows the launching in Saigon of a Buddhist-backed movement for a new peace policy. The Huế protest was organized by priests and laymen. Today’s meeting was organized by priests and laymen who have been pressing for a campaign against, alleged corruption in government. The Rev. Trần Hữu Thanh, the outspoken leader of the movement, said in a telephone interview from Hue today that more than 5,000 people were present in the square outside the city’s main Roman Catholic church. The police stayed away from today’s meeting as they had from last night’s ceremony launching the Buddhist National Reconciliation Force. Government sources suggest that a decision has been made to avoid using force against the growing opposition groups for the present.
Lieutenant General Aman Andom was named as the Chairman of the Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia (more commonly called “the Derg”) three days after the overthrow of the government of Emperor Haile Selassie, becoming the northeast African nation’s new head of state. Aman, of Eritrean descent, would come into conflict with the rest of the Derg for his attempts to resolve the ongoing war of Eritrean independence and would be killed three weeks later.
Frelimo guerrillas and Portuguese troops handed out food in the troubled Mozambique shantytowns of Lourenco Marques, hit by racial violence and looting last week that left more than 80 dead. It was the most public appearance yet for the guerrillas, who arrived Friday to help maintain law and order in the black quarter of the Mozambique capital. A relaxed atmosphere was evident in the shantytowns, but fears lingered of action against blacks by white extremists who sparked last week’s trouble when they made an abortive attempt to seize control of Mozambique.
Former President Nixon remained secluded at his San Clemente estate instead of being hospitalized, as his physicians recommended, amid growing concern and controversy over the true state of his physical and mental health. Air Force General Walter Tkach, the chief White House physician in the Nixon administration, who examined Mr. Nixon Friday, reportedly strongly urged that Mr. Nixon “not get under any more pressure.” This statement has raised speculation that Mr. Nixon may rely on his medical condition to help him avoid testifying in the Watergate cover-up trial, scheduled to begin Oct. 1.
Two prominent lawyers disagreed on the validity of President Ford’s pardon of former President Nixon. Prof. Philip Kurland of the University of Chicago Law School said that he believed the pardon was invalid because it was issued prior to conviction and said that the special Watergate prosecutor should challenge it in court. However, Lawrence Walsh, president-elect of the American Bar Association, said it was in the national interest to keep a President’s pardoning powers broad. Both men expressed their views on the “Issues and Answers” television program.
A Gallup poll taken three days before President Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon showed that a majority of Americans opposed granting the former President immunity, Newsweek magazine reported. A telephone poll of 519 persons taken on September 5 found that 58% opposed immunity, 33% favored it and 9% were undecided. The survey dealt primarily with amnesty for draft evaders and deserters. Only 12% of those polled felt the questions of immunity for Mr. Nixon and amnesty for resisters were related, the magazine said. Seventy-seven percent believed the two questions could not be linked.
Schools will remain closed in Charleston, West Virginia, and surrounding Kanawha County “until I can be assured that students and staff can go to school without fear of violence,” said school Superintendent Kenneth Underwood. He made the statement after meeting with school board members and law enforcement officials in an attempt to settle the dispute over textbooks that has led to violence and picket lines at plants and mines. The dispute began September 3 by parents protesting textbooks they said were un-American and undermined religious faith. Underwood indicated that protestors were considering a plan whereby the books would be removed for 30 days while a committee studied their merit.
Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wisconsin), chairman of a House judiciary subcommittee investigating the amnesty issue, said the group had recommended to President Ford the immediate release of all draft resisters now serving prison terms. Kastenmeier said the suggestion, which he estimated would involve 120 men, had been sent to Mr. Ford at the time the President asked Attorney General William B. Saxbe and Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger to study the issue. The imprisonment of the resisters, Kastenmeir said, “no longer serves the public purpose.”
Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr. of New Hampshire has accused the American Broadcasting Co. and commentator Frank Reynolds of “shallow, inaccurate and misleading” reporting of New Hampshire’s Republican primary. Thomson said in a telegram to ABC President Elton H. Rule that Reynolds had implied Thomson won the gubernatorial nomination last week because his opponent’s last name was Nixon. Thomson called it “a journalistic cheapshot unsubstantiated by the facts.” Thomson, a conservative, defeated state Senate President David Nixon, a moderate. ABC had no comment.
State and land grant universities were able to hold the line on tuition this year, but inflation forced them to raise room and board fees, the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges reported. An annual survey of 130 member institutions showed that average total charges for resident students this year were up 7.7% from last year to $1,666.50. But the tuition and required fees increased only 2.5% to $531. For out-of-state residents, average charges for tuition and required fees were up 2.5% to $1,378. Members of the association enroll 31% of all college students.
Senator William Proxmire (D-Wisconsin) called for an investigation of the space shuttle program’s impact on the environment. Proxmire, chairman of an appropriations subcommittee studying the space agency’s budget request, said he was concerned about emissions of hydrochloric acid, nitric oxides and chlorine. The space shuttle, now in the planning state, is a reusable, solid fuel rocket vehicle NASA expects to begin using in 1980. Proxmire added, “It should be stressed that available information does not indicate that the quantity of exhaust materials or resulting combinations would pose such a hazard — only that the potential requires further examination.”
[Ed: Environment, my ass. Bill Proxmire was an evil tiny dicked piece of shit who hated NASA. And tried to stop every NASA program since forever.]
The Rev. Sun Myung Moon, the Korean leader of the international and controversial Unification Church, some of whose followers believe he is “God’s prophet,” will hold an admission-free proselytizing rally at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday. About 1,000 followers of the sect have been brought to New York City from abroad to help in the $350,000 effort to arrange and publicize the event.
Suzanne Miller, a 26-year-old mother of three, disappeared after leaving her home near Wolseley Barracks in London, Ontario, Canada. Her car would be found on September 23, and her body was discovered on October 12 in a wooded area in Thorndale, Ontario. As of 2018 Miller’s murder would remain unsolved.
Market Square Arena in Indianapolis opens.
Performer Liza Minnelli (whose mother was Judy Garland, Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz) and director and producer Jack Haley Jr. (whose father was Jack Haley, the Tin Man in the same film) married in Montecito, California. Minnelli and Haley would divorce in 1979.
Larry Gura, called “Guru” by his teammates, picked up his fourth victory without a loss for the Yankees today by mesmerizing the Detroit Tigers, 10–2. The triumph stretched the Yankees lead over the second‐place Orioles to 2½ games and to 3½ games over the third-place Red Sox in the American League East race. The Orioles and Red Sox both lost today. Gura, a 26‐year‐old lefthander, lulled the Tiger batters for 6⅔ innings, getting in and out of trouble before needing a bit of relief from Sparky Lyle, who finished the game.
Cleveland’s Gaylord Perry works hard for his 20th win, beating the Baltimore Orioles’ Ross Grimsley, 1–0. Perry will go 21–13 and is the last Indian pitcher this century to win 20. John Lowenstein walked with the bases filled in the ninth to force in a run. Grimsley walked Lowenstein on four straight pitches after the Indians had filled the bases on a single by Buddy Bell, Bobby Grich’s throwing error and a walk to Oscar Gamble. Cleveland’striumph increased the Yankees’ Eastern Division lead over Baltimore to 2½ games.
On a bright, sunny day at Fenway Park, Rico Petrocelli is struck behind the left ear, below the helmet, when he loses Jim Slaton’s pitch due to the blinding glare off the outfield bleachers. The beaning, which causes inner ear damage, results in the third baseman missing the rest of the season and will hasten his early retirement prior to the start of the 1977 season at the age of 33. Gorman Thomas reaches Luis Tiant for a grand slam in the 1st inning as the Milwaukee Brewers do all their scoring in the first three frames to beat the Boston Red Sox, 9–5. Tiant failed in his fifth attempt to gain his 21st victory as he allowed all nine runs, on five hits and five walks.
Nolan Ryan won his 20th game with a three‐hitter, pitching the California Angels to a 6–2 victory over the Chicago White Sox today. Ryan, a 20‐game winner last year, struck out seven Chicago batters to bring his season total to 337. Ryan’s season record is 383 strikeouts. He has lost 15 games this year. John Doherty, who hit a bases‐empty homer in the first inning for the Angels, broke a 2–2 tie with a run-scoring single in the fourth.
The Oakland A’s downed the Texas Rangers, 4–1. Sal Bando’s two‐run homer in the third and Rollie Finger’s strong relief pitching helped the A’s raise their lead over Texas in the West to five games. Texas grabbed a 1–0 lead in the first when Cesar Tovar singled, took second on a sacrifice and scored on Mike Hargrove’s single. But Oakland tied the score in the second when Bill North beat out an infield single with the bases loaded. Then the A’s went ahead, 3–1, in the third when with one out Reggie Jackson walked and Bando followed with his 22nd home run of the season. Fingers took over for the A’s starter, Glenn Abbott, in the fifth with one out and two on. The A’s dropped their magic number to ten.
The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals, 5–2, as Joe Decker (15–12) fired a six-hitter..
Alan Hrabosky is one of the least known of the St. Louis Cardinals. Most people even have trouble pronouncing his name (ruh‐BOS‐skee), but the 25‐year-old Cards’ left‐hander has become a big man in the St. Louis stretch bid for the National League Eastern Division title. Hrabosky pitched the ninth inning yesterday and struck out the side as the Cards defeated the Phillies, 3‐1. The St. Louis victory, coupled with the Montreal Expos 5‐4 triumph over the slipping Pittsburgh Pirates, increased the Cardinals’ lead to 1½ games with 15 games remaining. The 5‐foot‐11‐inch Hrabosky has allowed only one earned run in his last 37⅓ innings. Since July 14 he has won four games, saved five and lowered his earned‐run average from 5.14 to 2.66. He has given up only three hits and no, runs in the last 10 innings. Hrabosky’s fastball was hopping as he struck out Willie Montanez, Greg Luzinski and Tony Taylor, a pinchhitter, with Phillies on first and third.
At Dodgers Stadium, Jimmy Wynn belts a seventh-inning grand slam and Steve Garvey adds a homer as the Los Angeles Dodgers clip the faltering Cincinnati Reds, 7–1. Conditioned to worry by so many past September failures of Dodger clubs that had lost leads, Dodger followers had been living in dread of losing all three games in this series, and Cincinnati did win the first two games, 6–3 Friday night and 4–2 last night. So all the pent‐up apprehension was suddenly released when Wynn, with his 31st homer, turned a 2–1 lead into 6–1. Don Sutton pitched out of a fourth-inning jam and got the win.
In Montreal, Jose Morales, seldom‐used pinch‐hitter, was responsible for the Pirates’ fifth straight loss and the Expos’ seventh successive triumph, as Montreal edged Pittsburgh, 5–4. Morales belted a three‐run homer, his first in the major leagues. The homer came off Ken Brett. “I think he figured I was cold coming off the bench,” Morales said. “I was late on the first pitch he threw me, then I hit the fastball out. I went up there just trying to get the man on third home. I hit the ball good and it got up into the wind.”
More bottom fell out of the New York Mets’ deteriorating season yesterday as the Chicago Cubs scored a 5–4 victory before a paying crowd of 17,288 at Shea Stadium. Met’s starter Hank Webb lasted five shaky innings, giving up seven hits and three of the Chicago runs. Tug McGraw came in to get the final out in the eighth in relief of Bob Apodaca. He gave up two runs in the ninth on an error, three walks (two intentional) a sacrifice fly, and a single by Dave LaRoche, the winner.
Houston and San Francisco split a doubleheader. The Astros won the opener, 6–1 as Paul Siebert pitches a four-hit complete game; the Giants came back to win the nightcap, 8–4, as John D’Aquisto hurled a seven-hit complete game, striking out nine. Cesar Cedeno hit his 25th homer of the year in game one; Bobby Bonds went deep for his 19th in the second.
The Atlanta Braves downed the San Diego Padres, 3–1, as San Diego lost its 95th game of the season, most in the major leagues. The Padres only run off complete game winner Phil Niekro (17–12) was Nate Colbert’s solo homer, his 13th. Niekro singled in the tie-breaking run in the seventh himself.
NFL Football:
Miami Dolphins 24, New England Patriots 34
New York Jets 16, Kansas City Chiefs 24
Detroit Lions 9, Chicago Bears 17
Minnesota Vikings 32, Green Bay Packers 17
Philadelphia Eagles 3, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Dallas Cowboys 24, Atlanta Falcons 0
San Diego Chargers 14, Houston Oilers 21
Los Angeles Rams 17, Denver Broncos 10
Baltimore Colts 0, Pittsburgh Steelers 30
Washington Redskins 13, New York Giants 10
San Francisco 49ers 17, New Orleans Saints 13
Cleveland Browns 7, Cincinnati Bengals 33
The New England Patriots beat the world champions, the Miami Dolphins, 34–24, today to open the National Football League season on a stunning note. The Dolphins were favored by 14 points because they had won 32 of their last 34 games, while the Patriots, who last fielded a winner in 1966, had lost 20 of their last 28. There were many heroes, the most visible being Jim Plunkett who, in his fourth pro season, has some people surrounding him, at last, who can play this game almost as well as he. Plunkett completed 14 of 24 passes for 177 yards and one touchdown. “He was great,” said Shula. “We never could stop their offense.” Complementing Plunketet’s passing were big Sam (Bam) Cunningham, the 225‐pound fullback, and little Mack Herron, the 5‐foot‐5‐inch halfback, who ran for 175 yards. Herron raised absolute havoc with Bob Matheson, the Miami linebacker, who seemed unable to find him. “They think l’in down but I’m really up,” Herron said.
Hank Stram, the dapper coach, called all the Kansas City plays from the sidelines today, but it was two plays he didn’t call that carried the Chiefs to a 24–16 victory over the Jets before 74,854 fans. The pivotal plays were called by the Jets and both resulted in interceptions of Joe Namath passes and touchdowns for the Chiefs. Stram, who has decided to send in all the plays after 14 years of leaving that task to his quarterbacks watched as Marvin Upshaw and then Emmitt Thomas picked off Namath passes and raced for touchdowns of 52 and 38 yards. Earlier, Namath, who was playing with a painful knee and hip, threw touchdown passes of 14 yards to Rich Caster and 7 yards to Eddie Bell for a 13–0 lead over the Chiefs, who played a lethargic first half. That is, they were lethargic until Upshaw, a defensive end, stole a screen pass out of John Riggins’s hands in the closing seconds of the half and rambled 52 yards down the left sideline for a score that narrowed New York’s lead to 16–14. Then, with two minutes left in the game, as the Jets were trying to overcome a 17–16 deficit and pull out a victory in Charley Winner’s Jet head coaching debut, Thomas, a cornerback, darted in front of Jerome Barkum at the Jet 38, picked off Namath’s pass and sped along the left sideline for the clinching score.
The Chicago Bears downed the Detroit Lions, 17–9. Gary Huff, promoted from the secondstring over Bobby Douglass, and Charley Wade, whose previous distinction was his selection last year as the Dolphins’ last‐round pick, combined on long‐pass plays that set up the Bear touchdowns. The first was a 73‐yard play and the other was good for 43 yards. The Bears had lost 11 of the teams last 12 meetings.
The Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers, 32–17. “We can stay with Minnesota if we don’t make mistakes — but we always do against them,” moaned the Packers’ John Brockington after four Packer turnovers were converted into three Viking touchdowns. Fred Cox, the Vikings’ placekicker, moaned a little less. His string of consecutive extra points going back to 1968 was snapped at 199 when Ted (Mad Stork) Hendricks blocked an attempt. Cox’s last attempt also was blocked. Had he made the two he would have tied George Blanda for third place at 201.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Eagles, 7–3. Roman Gabriel’s last four passes, all from the 9‐yard line, were incomplete as Philadelphia was upset. Gabriel was sacked five times as the St. Louis defense hounded the Eagles throughout the game. The winning touchdown came in the second quarter, on an 80‐yard drive that ended when Jim Hart passed to Donny Anderson for a 4‐yard score.
For the ninth straight year the Dallas Cowboys took their opener, and rarely did they do it so convincingly, as they blew out the Atlanta Falcons, 24–0. The Falcons’ quarterback, Bob Lee, missed his first 10 attempts and could complete only four of 22 for 28 yards. But Roger Staubach, who had missed the last two exhibition games because of cracked ribs, showed little fear as he ran for the Cowboys’ first score and passed for their second.
The Houston Oilers got a rare win over the San Diego Chargers, 21–14. The Oilers, 1–13 last year, had not won at home since 1972, and they were helped by five San Diego turnovers. George Amundson, who couldn’t even crack last year’s line‐up, saw his name listed as a bigleague starter for the first time and responded with three touchdowns.
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Denver Broncos, 17–10. William Cullen Bryant, better known as a defensive back, played his first game after being converted to running back and responded with an 84‐yard kickoff return for a touchdown. His score was timely, coming right after the Broncos had cut the heavily favored Rams edge to 7–3.
Joe Gilliam got the start for the Pittsburgh Steelers and led the club to a 30–0 route over the Baltimore Colts. Gilliam, the surprise of training camp as he lifted the No. 1 job from Terry Bradshaw and Terry Hanratty, had to overcome a first quarter in which Steeler fans booed him and in which he completed only 2 of 9 passes for 12 yards. But he then completed 15 of his next 22 passes for 245 yards and two touchdowns. He passed for two second‐quarter touchdowns, the first ending a 99‐yard drive. That one began after a goalline stand by the defense and concluded on a 54‐yard Gilliam‐to‐Lynn Swann touchdown play. The next time the Steelers got the ball, a 64‐yard drive ended with a 4‐yard Gilliam toss to Frank Lewis.
The Washington Redskins escaped with a 13–10 victory over the New York Giants today before an opening‐day crowd of 51,764 at Yale Bowl. A surprisingly tough New York defense shut out the Redskins in the second half and recovered a third‐quarter fumble deep in Washington territory that led to the Giants’ only touchdown, a 6‐yard burst by Doug Kotar behind a textbook block from John Hicks, the rookie right guard. But the inability of the Giant offense to gather momentum, particularly on first down situations, allowed coach George Allen to extend his perfect string in opening game triumphs in the National Football League to nine and his record against the Giants to 10 straight victories. The Giant offense, even with Ron Johnson at running back, generated only 158 yards. A pair of turnovers by the offense produced the first Redskin score and led to the second.
The San Francisco 49ers were gifted a miracle win over the New Orleans Saints, 17–13. With 100 seconds to go, the 49ers appeared doomed as they trailed by 13–10. But on a New Orleans punt attempt, Donnie Gibbs fumbled the ball, couldn’t get off the kick, and the ball was recovered by the 49ers on the 9‐yard line. Sammy Johnson scored from there on the next play.
The Cincinnati Bengals walloped the Cleveland Browns, 33–7. It was the worst opening‐game defeat in the Browns’ once-proud history, and the mastermind behind the victory coached the Browns longer than anyone else. Paul Brown, now the Bengals coach, has a 3–6 won‐lost record against his old team — but none of the victories has been in Cleveland. The Bengals tied the score at 7‐all with one second remaining in the half, and then buried the Browns in the second half with 26 more points.
Born:
Mike Logan, NFL safety (Jacksonville Jaguars, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Elisabeth Dermot Walsh, English TV actress (BBC soap opera “Doctors”) in Merton, London, England, United Kingdom.
Died:
Luis Alberto del Paraná, 48, Paraguayan singer and leader of the musical group Los Paraguayos, died of a stroke in London while the group was touring Europe.
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