The U.S. Embassy move in Beirut was explained by President Reagan at a meeting with reporters in New York. He acknowledged that American personnel had been moved into the new embassy building near East Beirut last summer before all security measures had been completed. But he said that this had been done “because it represented more safety than the one we were in.” Officials noted that while the temporary American Embassy in West Beirut was well guarded by United States marines and by Druse and Shiite militiamen, Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew had been pressing for an early move to the Aukar building. It was felt that the chances of a terrorist attack were less there because of the strong presence of the Christian Phalangist forces, and by the personal assurances of President Amin Gemayel that the embassy would be protected in the East Beirut area.
Lebanese faced mortal danger when the United States Embassy was moved to the Christian suburb of Aukar near East Beirut from West Beirut, neighbors of the embassy said. The attitude of local residents reflects the deep security quandary that the United States faces with all of its diplomatic establishments in Lebanon.
3 U.S. warships arrived off Lebanon, including the USS Shreveport, which is carrying a contingent of combat marines, an American Embassy spokesman said.
President Reagan hosts a working luncheon with Secretary General of the United Nations, Javier Perez de Cuellar.
The President and First Lady attend a reception for Heads of State and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations. Mr. Reagan greeted Andrei Gromyko in New York, in his first direct contact with a ranking Soviet leader during nearly four years in office. The President shook hands with the Soviet Foreign Minister and told him he wanted “nothing less than a realistic, constructive, long-term relationship with the Soviet Union.” With these words and a simple exchange of greetings at a diplomatic reception, Mr. Reagan thus made his first direct contact with a ranking Soviet leader during nearly four years in office. Mr. Gromyko responded by offering the polite, enigmatic glance of a cold war veteran. While a pianist played “It Never Entered My Mind,” the President and the Foreign Minister engaged in smiling small talk as cameras zoomed in and clicked away and diplomats looked on attentively. The Soviet minister listened, but he did not join in the applause at the end of the President’s welcoming remarks. “We have it within our power to make history; let’s not be afraid to do so,” the President declared in serving as host at the reception for United Nations diplomats. The meeting took place at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on the eve of what Reagan Administration officials described as a major Presidential address to the United Nations.
France decided for the first time to extradite Spanish Basque militants to Spain, ordering out three accused murderers. Four other militants were expelled to Togo, a former French colony in West Africa. The decision announced by Premier Laurent Fabius appeared to be a compromise to satisfy Spain and prevent retaliation by Basques in France, yet retain the French tradition of political asylum.
Enver Hoxha, longtime leader of Albania, has Parkinson’s disease and is “deteriorating rapidly,” the Sunday Times of London reported. The Albanian leader was last seen in public at May Day celebrations, when he appeared frail and weak. Hoxha, who will be 76 on Oct. 16, has split with Moscow and Peking and claims that Albania is the world’s only true Communist nation.
PLO guerrillas attacked Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon, making an assault from a rubber dinghy. The Israeli military command said the guerrillas were on a hostage-taking mission. At least three of the rebels, including a French woman, were killed. Reporters said several people aboard the motorized rubber boat in the Awwali River fired at an Israeli patrol. During the five-minute battle, a woman in the craft unleashed a rocket-propelled grenade at the Israelis. Fatah, the main group of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said later that all those in the boat were PLO members and identified them as Francoise Katziman of Nice, France, and four Palestinians.
Israel’s broad coalition government announced new taxes and austerity measures intended to lay the groundwork for economic recovery. Included were a one-time tax on cars, boats and aircraft, and levies on business inventories and property. The government also sharply reduced subsidies on a range of products and services — including bread (which until now cost 25 cents a loaf) and transportation.
Morocco’s treaty of union with Libya was defended by King Hassan II. King Hassan, one of the strongest American allies in the Arab world, said he hoped to maintain good relations with the United States and the West despite the treaty, which startled Western governments when it was announced Aug. 14.
Afghan President Babrak Karmal was quoted as saying that more than 23,000 anti-Communist guerrillas have been killed in a series of military offensives since the spring. The Soviet Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported that Karmal said that 2,000 guerrillas were captured and large quantities of weapons and ammunition seized. Karmal said the next goal of his Soviet-backed government is to seal the country’s borders with Pakistan and Iran, where the Islamic rebels have their bases.
Two people were killed and several were seriously hurt in separate Hindu-Muslim clashes in the troubled city of Hyderabad, the Press Trust of India reported today. The news agency said a man was knifed this morning and another killed during a funeral procession Saturday night. Several people were also seriously hurt in fighting during the funeral march. Despite the violence, an early morning curfew was relaxed in the capital of the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, where at least 29 people have died in clashes in the last two weeks. The official All-India radio said an early morning curfew was relaxed in parts of the Hyderabad’s volatile old quarter. But a night curfew was still in force throughout the city, and the police stepped up patrols. Chief Minister N. T. Rama Rao promised Saturday that brawling between religious groups would be handled with an iron hand.
Japanese fighter planes were scrambled today when Soviet aircraft, including Backfire bombers, appeared off northern Japan, the Defense Agency said. An agency spokesman said 16 planes took off from four bases as the Soviet aircraft flew south over the Sea of Japan after appearing off the northern island of Hokkaido. The Soviet aircraft, which included at least 20 of the bombers known in the West as Backfires, flew over the Sea of Japan. It was the largest number of Backfires ever sighted on a single exercise near Japan, the spokesman said. The Soviet Union is thought to have about 80 of the medium-range Backfires in Asia.
Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, said in a homily from the pulpit of St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York that the Philippines and its people “continue to be enmeshed in an economic and political crisis of calamitous proportions” and predicted “tragic consequences should our leaders continue to mistrust and mislead them.” The Cardinal, an outspoken critic of President Ferdinand E. Marcos’s Government, told the overflow crowd, most of them Filipinos, that “more suffering and even bloodshed” were possible in such an uncertain environment. The 56-year-old leader of 40 million Roman Catholics in the Philippines gave the homily during a concelebrated solemn mass commemorating the marytrdom of Lorenzo Ruiz, a Filipino layman who was executed for adherence to the Catholic faith in Nagasaki in 1637, and who was beatified by Pope John Paul II during his visit to the Philippines in 1981.
Some 50,000 people fled their homes today after the Mount Mayon volcano in the central Philippines erupted, disaster relief officials said. They said 28,000 residents of Santo Domingo, six miles from the volcano, were also preparing to flee as lava flowed down the slopes toward inhabited areas. Panicked villagers clambered on trucks, buses and bicycles to reach evacuation centers. There were no reports of casualties, but some parts of Legaspi, 10 miles from Mayon, could be affected by flowing lava, officials said. They said the explosion, which sent a huge column of fire out of the volcano’s crater, was the strongest since Mayon began erupting two weeks ago after being dormant for eight years.
Nicaragua will not delay elections scheduled for November 4 despite pressure from opposition parties and the Reagan Administratiion, Victor Tirado, one of the nine Sandinista commanders who govern Nicaragua, said in a speech Saturday.
Nicaragua said it accepts a Central American treaty drafted by the Contadora Group and is ready to sign it. The Contadora nations — Venezuela, Panama, Mexico and Colombia — revised earlier peace proposals and agreed on a draft treaty September 8. Details of the accord have not been made public. In Washington, the State Department called Nicaragua’s offer to sign a treaty “hypocritical,” charging that the leftist regime’s refusal to permit full participation in elections violates a treaty provision.
A World Bank program of African aid has been endorsed by developed and developing countries. It would provide $2 billion more a year for sub- Saharan Africa to improve conditions the bank says have left the average African worse off than at any time since 1970. But no government actually pledged money. The program was announced as finance ministers gathered in Washington for the annual meeting of the bank and the International Monetary Fund.
South African police arrested 500 mourners at a funeral in the township of Sebokeng and fired rubber bullets and tear gas to break up crowds throwing rocks in three other black townships south of Johannesburg. A magistrate had banned the funeral for Dursie Sithole, one of dozens killed in recent violence related to labor unrest in the gold mines. Meanwhile, a survey by a South African university reported that 75% of black workers oppose foreigners’ halting investment as a way to end white-minority rule in the nation.
The Democratic contenders differ on a number of issues. Several days before Walter F. Mondale declared last week that he believed American force had been warranted in Grenada to save American students there, his running mate, in a tack consistent with her previous statements, stated precisely the opposite. Geraldine A. Ferraro’s positions on such domestic issues as tuition tax credits for parents of parochial school students, busing to advance racial integration in schools and the death penalty are contrary to Mr. Mondale’s.
President Reagan places a call to Rev. William F. “Billy” Graham.
Walter F. Mondale’s campaign style will not change to overcome President Reagan’s lead, the Democrat said. He charged that Mr. Reagan had built that lead by avoiding the issues.
The surgeon who saved President Reagan’s life called his patient “accurate and gracious” in praising his rise from poor immigrant roots but said he doubted the Administration’s commitment to helping others achieve such success. “I’m concerned about what has happened to these social programs and whether the people will be helped as much as they have been in the past,” Dr. Joseph M. Giordano said in a Washington interview. Giordano, whose grandfather immigrated to the United States from Italy, operated on Reagan when he was shot in the chest in an assassination attempt March 30, 1981.
The Justice Department ordered an Austrian mayor to leave the country after confirming he was a sergeant in a World War II Nazi SS “murder” brigade, officials said. Franz Hausberger is mayor of Mayrhofen, a ski resort town in the Austrian Alps. He came to Miami Beach, a city with a 70% Jewish population, to promote tourism. Miami Beach Mayor Malcolm Fromberg earlier presented Hausberger with a gold medallion, but later Fromberg was aghast when he learned of Hausberger’s past. Hausberger, 64, said he was cleared of wrongdoing by a special commission in Vienna and was never convicted of any war crimes. The mayor, Franz Hausberger “is not eligible to come to the United States and is not welcome here,” said Neal M. Sher, director of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. “The unit he was in was very notorious,” Mr. Sher said. “It’s been established beyond any doubt that that unit was engaged in the wholesale murder of Jews, Gypsies and other civilians.”
The nation’s television stations will be freed today of federal rules that governed the amount of news and advertising they broadcast and the logs they maintain for public inspection. Broadcasters say the deregulation will have little impact on what Americans see on TV. But consumer groups assert that it’s only a matter of time before broadcasters abuse their new-found freedom. Commercial radio was deregulated in 1981.
Thousands of people charged with crimes in Massachusetts each year, including some charged with murder, get away unpunished simply by failing to appear in court, a newspaper reported. The problem is greater in the Boston area than in eight other metropolitan areas surveyed by the federally funded National Institutes for Justice, the Boston Sunday Globe said. The 1981 study found that an average of 2% of the criminal defendants in the eight areas were wanted as fugitives. By contrast, the newspaper said about 9% of the 13,000 persons indicted for felonies in Suffolk County (Boston) in the last 4½years defaulted and remain at large.
A negligence suit against Boeing will be reopened. A Federal district judge in Seattle agreed to reopen the trial record and to allow new evidence in the suit against the Boeing Company and two defendants resulting from the crash of an Air India Boeing 747 in 1978 that killed 213 people.
Suicides among the elderly have increased, especially among men. The National Center for Helath Statistics reports that in 1981 there were 28.4 reported suicides for every 100,000 men from 65 to 74 years old. The rate rose to 41.4 among men 75 to 84 years old. For men over 85 the figure jumped to 50.2 the rate for men 15 to 24 years old is 19.7. Doctors say the true suicide rate is probably much higher.
The regents of the University of New Mexico have offered the post of president of the university to Thomas Farer, a Rutgers law professor. Mr. Farer indicated he will accept the post pending final negotiations and formal approval at the regents’ meeting October 9. The 23,000-student university has been without a permanent president since 1982, and the latest of two presidential searches resulted in a faculty vote of no confidence in the regents, the threat of a lawsuit by some faculty members and bitter confrontations between the faculty, regents, Governor Toney Anaya and the state’s Attorney General, Paul Bardacke.
Georgia’s shortage of teachers of mathematics and science has been eased by West German teachers who have been recruited by state education officials to teach in the state’s high schools. West Germany has a surplus of teachers in the two subjects.
An elementary school principal who introduced classes in religion was suspended after he refused to concede that the courses violated the Constitution, a school board spokesman said. The principal, Dr. Ed Caputo, refused comment after the suspension, which came Friday. A day earlier he had said: “I don’t want to break the law. And if we’re off-base on the law, then we’ll pull back for sure.” A spokesman for the Monroe County School Board, Janet Padron, said, “Dr. Caputo has been suspended, and the superintendent will go to the School Board Monday and request a hearing for termination.” On Wednesday, 47 students at the Key Largo Elementary School reported for classes in Protestantism, Catholicism and Judaism. Dr. Caputo said the classes did not violate the constitutional separation of church and state and were legal under the Federal law that allows religious clubs to meet at public schools after hours. The spokesman for the school board noted, however, that the law applied only to high schools. The disputed classes have been canceled.
Wintry weather chilled the Northwest on the first full day of autumn, leaving a foot of snow in Wyoming, while moist tropical air dropped up to eight inches of rain on parts of southeast Arkansas. A line of thunderstorms drenched Pine Bluff, Arkansas, forcing 40 to 50 persons to leave their homes — some in boats — and prompting evacuation of 10 prisoners from the city jail. In the West, snow that fell overnight in Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota showed no signs of letting up for the next few days, meteorologist Jack Hales said. “It’s quite a snowstorm and there’s no indication it’s going to slow down,” he said. The storm left a foot of snow in Cody, Wyoming, and the mountains around Sheridan, Wyoming, where four inches of snow fell in one hour.
Some citrus growers want the state agriculture commissioner to ban fruit harvesting for two weeks while scientists study the canker that is threatening Florida’s $2.5 billion citrus industry, an official said. “I believe their rationale is they would like to know more about canker, if it infects fruit, how widespread it is. And they just want to make certain that by harvesting we’re not spreading canker around,” said Linda Perry, state division of plant industry spokeswoman in Gainesville. Agriculture Commissioner Doyle Conner has said he would announce his decision on the proposed ban today.
36th Emmy Awards: “Hill Street Blues”; “Cheers”; John Ritter, and Tyne Daly win.
Sparky Anderson becomes the first manager ever to win 100 games in a season with 2 different clubs as the Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees 4–1. Anderson had led the Reds to 100-win seasons in 1970, 1975, and 1976. Tiger closer Willie Hernandez establishes a franchise record when he converts his 32nd consecutive save opportunity, holding New York to one run over two innings.
Rickey Henderson singled, doubled and slammed a two-run homer today, lifting the Oakland A’s to a 5–1 victory over Kansas City and dropping the Royals into a first-place tie with Minnesota in the American League West. The Twins, who started the day a game behind Kansas City, beat Cleveland, so the Royals and Twins both have 80-75 records. California, which lost to Texas, is in third place, one and one-half games behind. Chris Codiroli held the Royals to four hits until Bill Caudill relieved in the seventh and finished for his 34th save. The loser was Mike Jones (2–3). Henderson also stole his 60th base of the season and scored two runs. The outfielder left the game later with a jammed finger he suffered stealing third base after hitting a double to lead off the game. He scored on a sacrifice fly by Joe Morgan.
Randy Bush snapped an 0-for-17 slump with a two-run, tie-breaking homer and Rick Lysander (4–3) pitched four scoreless innings in relief to lead Minnesota to a 5–1 win over the visiting Cleveland Indians. The victory was the Twins’ fourth in a row and completed a three-game sweep of the Indians. The score was tied at 1-1 in the bottom of the sixth when Jerry Ujdur (1–2) walked Kent Hrbek. On a 2-and-2 count, Bush hit his 10th homer to put Minnesota ahead by 3–1. The Twins scored once in the second inning. Hrbek laced a lead-off double and, after Bush popped up, Tom Brunansky walked. Brunansky was thrown out trying to steal when a ball got past the catcher Jerry Willard, but Hrbek advanced to third on the play and scored on Tim Teufel’s two-out single.
Marv Foley’s two-out pinch single in the 10th inning scored Billy Sample from third base to give the Texas Rangers a 2–1 victory over the California Angles in Anaheim. Larry Parrish led off the Rangers’ 10th with a double off Jim Slaton (7–9). Sample ran for him and took third on George Wright’s fly to right. Bobby Jones was walked intentionally and Slaton struck out the pinch- hitter Bill Stein before Foley delivered his winning hit into right field. Dave Stewart (6–14) pitched all 10 innings for only his second complete game. Stewart walked two, struck out three and held the Angels to four hits.
Doug Loman belted his first two major league homers to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 8–5 win at Toronto. Despite the loss, the Blue Jays closed out their home schedule with a record of 49–32, tops in the club’s eight-year history. Jim Kern (1–0) worked one and one- third innings of relief for the victory. Ray Searage pitched the final one and two-thirds innings for his sixth save. The game was played before a crowd of 28,550 as the Blue Jays passed the 2.5 million mark for the first time.
The Boston Red Sox downed the Baltimore Orioles, 6–2. Tony Armas and Jim Rice, battling for the major league lead in runs batted in, each cracked a two-run homer for Boston. Rice had a run-scoring sacrifice fly in addition to his 28th homer, giving him the lead with 121 runs batted in. Armas tops the majors with 42 homers and has batted in 119 runs. Armas connected for his third homer in three games in the first inning off Dennis Martinez (6–9) after Dwight Evans singled and was thrown out at the plate on a double by Rice.
The Chicago White Sox shut out the Seattle Mariners, 4–0. Britt Burns retired the first 13 batters at Chicago and held the Mariners to three hits in 83 innings to improve his record to 4–11. When Burns walked two men in the ninth, Ron Reed came in to get the last out.
Gary Matthews drove in five runs with a double and a homer today as the Chicago Cubs clinched a tie for the National League East championship — their first title of any kind in 39 years —- with a doubleheader sweep of the St. Louis Cardinals. In the first game, which Chicago won, 8–1, Matthews’s three-run double sparked a six-run fourth inning and Steve Trout scattered seven St. Louis hits. The score of the second game was 4–2. The Cubs entered the day with a five-game losing streak, their longest of the season. With seven games remaining, they can wrap up the title Monday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates behind their ace right-hander, Rick Sutcliffe. They need only one victory or a loss by the Mets to move into the league playoffs against the Western Division champions, the San Diego Padres. Matthews’s 14th homer helped Chicago to a fast start in the second game, against Joaquin Andujar (19–14), who failed for the third time in a row to become the major leagues’ first 20-game winner.
Dwight Gooden wins his 17th of the season as the New York Mets beat the Montreal Expos, 6–1. Despite a head cold that weakened Gooden, slowed his fastball and forced his removal after eight innings, the 19-year-old pitcher beat the Expos, and lifted his record to 17–9. He struck out nine batters to bring his season total to 276, best in the major leagues by a wide margin. He also singled twice, scored a run and held runners on base more successfully than he has all season, with Andre Dawson picked off in the first inning and caught stealing in the sixth.
Alan Wiggins singled in the 11th inning at San Diego, stole his 68th base and scored the winning run on a single by Kurt Bevacqua as the Padres edged the Atlanta Braves, 2–1. The Braves’ only run came in the first inning when Rafael Ramirez, in his 565th official at-bat this season, hit his first home run.
The Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–2. John Candelaria has said that if the Pirates want to make him the ace of their bullpen, they will have to pay him more money. They may do just that. Candelaria, a starter in his 10 seasons with the Pirates, made his third relief appearance in this game at Pittsburgh and earned his second save. In the last four days, Candy has pitched 42% innings and has retired all 14 batters, five of them on strikeouts.
Bob Knepper pitched a four-hitter at Houston, and Bill Doran and Terry Puhl hit home runs to enable the Astros to end a four-game losing streak, edging the Cincinnati Reds, 2–1. Knepper, 15-10, struck out eight and walked two as he won his seventh game in nine decisions and completed his 11th game of the year. Doran homered in the sixth to tie the game, and Puhl hit his eighth in the seventh to win it. Nick Esasky homered in the second for the Reds.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–2. Rookie Rob Deer homered, Chris Brown had two RBIS and George Riley got his first major-league victory. Riley was making his third start for the Giants after an 11-7 season for Portland of the Pacific Coast League. He was 0-5 with the Cubs in 1979-80. He lost a shutout in the ninth. He was chased by Jack Fimple’s sacrifice fly and German Rivera’s RBI single. Gary Lavelle got his 12th save.
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NFL San Francisco 49er quarterback Joe Montana misses his first start in 49 games.
Houston Oilers 10, Atlanta Falcons 42
Pittsburgh Steelers 10, Cleveland Browns 20
Green Bay Packers 6, Dallas Cowboys 20
Kansas City Chiefs 0, Denver Broncos 21
Los Angeles Rams 24, Cincinnati Bengals 14
Indianapolis Colts 7, Miami Dolphins 44
Minnesota Vikings 29, Detroit Lions 28
St. Louis Cardinals 24, New Orleans Saints 34
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 14, New York Giants 17
New York Jets 28, Buffalo Bills 26
San Francisco 49ers 21, Philadelphia Eagles 9
Chicago Bears 9, Seattle Seahawks 38
Washington Redskins 26, New England Patriots 10
Steve Bartkowski passed for three touchdowns and Gerald Riggs scored two on short plunges as the Atlanta Falcons routed the woeful Houston Oilers, 42–10. The Falcons converted three Oiler turnovers into touchdowns. “I’ve got enough ability and talent that if I have enough time to operate, I’ll find somebody open,” said Bartkowski, who had only two incomplete passes in 13 attempts — one a dropped ball and the other a bomb off the fingertips of the intended receiver. “I had a tremendous amount of time, and that’s the key.” The setback extended the Oilers’ NFL-record losing streak on the road to 20 games.
Paul McDonald, who became the quarterback this season after Brian Sipe joined the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League, passed for 222 yards and two touchdowns in the second half to rally the Cleveland Browns to a 20-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers today. McDonald helped the Browns end a three-game losing streak. McDonald completed his first five passes of the second half, including the 26-yard touchdown to a wide-open Boyce Green on a safety blitz and a 31-yard pass to Ozzie Newsome that set up Matt Bahr’s 18-yard field goal. The Steelers tied the score with three minutes left in the quarter on Gary Anderson’s 46-yard field goal. The Browns took the lead for good on Duriel Harris’s 3-yard touchdown reception 11 seconds into the fourth quarter, his first since joining the Browns after playing for the Miami Dolphins last season.
The cornerback Everson Walls had two interceptions and the safety Michael Downs had two sacks and blocked an extra-point attempt to highlight a defensive effort by the Dallas Cowboys in their 20–6 victory over the Green Bay Packers today. Despite continuing offensive problems that forced Danny White to punt a club-record 11 times, the Cowboys (3–1) remained tied for the lead in the National Football Conference Eastern Division with the Giants. The Cowboys did not insure the victory until 46 seconds remained when Tony Dorsett, who became the National Football League’s sixth-leading career rusher, scored on a 7-yard run. Dorsett gained 43 yards in 20 carries and moved past Jim Taylor, the former fullback for the Green Bay Packers, on the career-rushing list. Dorsett, an eight-year player from Pitt, has 8,621 yards. Taylor had 8,597.
The Denver Broncos demolished the Kansas City Chiefs, 21–0. Sammy Winder rushed for 139 yards and a second- quarter touchdown, and the cornerback Mike Harden returned an interception 45 yards for another score. Harden’s interception of a tipped pass made the score 21–0 with 4:47 left in the third quarter. Until the closing minutes, the Chiefs mounted only two serious threats, and both ended on missed field goals. The Chiefs drove to the 2-yard line with a minute left, but the Broncos forced incomplete passes on third and fourth downs.
The Los Angeles Rams downed the Cincinnati Bengals, 24–14. Mike Guman, the slotback for the Rams, was not surprised when Jim Breech’s onside kick tumbled his way with the score 17–14 and 1:52 to play. Guman scooped the desperation kick, sidestepped Breech and sprinted 43 yards to the end zone to assure the victory. “He turned and looked our way, so we knew he was going to kick it that way,” said Guman, a fifth-year player from Penn State. “Fortunately, the ball just popped right up to me.” Ken Anderson had hit the wide receiver Cris Collinsworth with a 10- yard touchdown pass before the kick. Making his first NFL start, Jeff Kemp, the son of Representative Jack Kemp, Republican of New York, the former pro quarterback, teamed with the wide receiver Ron Brown, the Olympic gold medalist in the 400-meter relay, on a 52-yard touchdown pass play to put the Rams ahead by 14–7 in the third quarter. “Hey, young man, great job, great job,” the elder Kemp told his son in the dressing room. “I really enjoyed it.” Kemp, a fourth-year quarterback taking over for the injured Vince Ferragamo, completed 13 of 23 passes for 205 yards without an interception. Eric Dickerson, who fumbled three times inside the Bengal 20-yard line in the second half, carried 22 times for 89 yards before leaving in the fourth quarter with a wrist injury.
The Miami Dolphins pummeled the Indianapolis Colts, 44–7. Dan Marino passed for two touchdowns to Mark Duper, and Pete Johnson got Miami’s first touchdown on the ground this season. Marino teamed with Duper on an 80- yard scoring play that snapped a 7–7 tie with 12 minutes 19 seconds left in the second quarter and a 5-yarder that made the score 23–7 at halftime. Johnson, acquired Saturday in a trade with San Diego Chargers because of a shortage of fullbacks, ran a yard for the first touchdown. Before the game the Dolphins announced that Johnson passed a urine test for chemical substances that two other candidates — Chuck Muncie of the Chargers and Rickey Young, formerly of the Vikings — had failed in the past 10 days. Duper’s scoring receptions were his fifth and sixth of the season and they gave Marino, who completed 14 of 29 passes for 257 yards, 12 touchdown passes in four games. Miami (4–0) increased its lead to 37–7 after three quarters as Don McNeal returned an interception 11 yards for a score and Woody Bennett ran 4 yards for the first of his two touchdowns. His second score — a one-yard run capping a 10-play, 56-yard march — made it 44–7 with 9:57 to play.
The Vikings recovered three second-half Detroit fumbles, and Jan Stenerud made five field goals, and the Vikings held on to edge the Lions, 29–28. “Nobody could understand why I’d be interested in a 41-year-old placekicker,” Coach Les Steckel said. Stenerud, who was obtained from the Green Bay Packers, made kicks from 35, 32, 37, 34 and 19 yards. That offset the play of Gary Danielson, who had scoring passes of 1, 66, 10 and 15 yards — the last with 26 seconds to play.
The New Orleans Saints beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 34–24. A reserve running back, Wayne Wilson, caught two touchdown passes, one from the fullback Hokie Gajan in the first quarter and one from Richard Todd in the fourth quarter. Wilson had 29 yards on eight rushes and 69 yards on three receptions. Gajan said the fullback pass play came from the sideline and explained: “Richard Todd told me, ‘Don’t force it, tuck it up and run if you can’t see anybody.’ Everything was fuzzy except except for Wayne.”
The New York Giants, led by linebacker Lawrence Taylor, defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 17-14. Taylor had six unassisted tackles and four sacks. On one of the sacks, he stripped the ball from Tampa Bay quarterback Steve DeBerg to set up the Giants’ first touchdown. When Taylor wasn’t nailing DeBerg, he was rushing him and making it difficult to find open receivers. DeBerg said: “Most offenses are right-handed-ours is. Lawrence Taylor comes from the left side and seems to have a clear path.” Actually, Taylor came from all angles and at times seemed surprisingly neglected by DeBerg’s pass protection. “I was coming from a lot of different places and I always seemed to be wide-open,” Taylor said. “I don’t know what they were doing on offense, but it didn’t seem to work. “Sometimes, they wouldn’t put a blocker on me, and that’s ridiculous,” he said. “I was so wide open, I thought they were trying to trick me. I think I’m invisible out there.” DeBerg: “We didn’t handle him. He’s a good player and a great pass rusher. Hopefully, you can come up with schemes to handle him. We didn’t.”
The New York Jets produced a fine, exciting and exhausting 28–26 victory over the Buffalo Bills. The game was played in a 31-mile-an-hour wind that was so fierce that the first 47 points were scored at the same end of the field. And despite all the scoring, it hinged on several key plays by the Jets’ offense and defense, and the failure of the Bills, now 0–4, to capitalize on the Jets’ errors. The Bills were trailing by 21–19 early in the final quarter when Freeman McNeil, whose sore left elbow was hit so often he fumbled three times, lost the ball for the only time today, on the Bills’ 30. Directed by Joe Ferguson, the scrambling veteran who was to amass 340 yards passing, the Bills got down to the Jets’ 21. But Joe Danelo, who had kicked four field goals, never got the chance for a fifth. On three plays, the Jets’ defense pushed the Bills back 29 yards to midfield. There was a holding infraction called against Joe Devlin, who was taking on Barry Bennett; another holding infraction, by Jim Ritcher, who was attempting to neutralize Marty Lyons, and then a sack of Ferguson by Ben Rudolph good for a 9-yard loss.
The San Francisco 49ers downed the Philadelphia Eagles, 21-9, in Philly. Matt Cavanaugh made his first start in two seasons, replacing the injured Joe Montana, and passed for three touchdowns for the 49ers (4–0). Cavanaugh, who had thrown only eight passes in the first three games, completed 17 of 34 for 252 yards and no interceptions. Cavanaugh fired scoring passes of 35 yards to Roger Craig, 2 yards to Freddie Solomon and 51 yards to Dwight Clark. The bomb to Clark with 10:49 left to play clinched the win. The Eagles, 1–3, had drawn to within 14–9 on a 33-yard field goal by rookie Paul McFadden in the third quarter and had the 49ers backed up to their own 13 following a fourth-quarter punt. But San Francisco needed only seven plays to go the 87 yards. A 16-yard run by Wendell Tyler, who had 113 yards in 21 carries, and a 13-yard pass to Russ Francis helped move the ball to the Niners’ 49. On a third-and-15, Cavanaugh found Clark behind Herman Edwards down the left sideline for the score. “I wasn’t the primary receiver on that play,” Clark said. “But I guess I was the only man open and he found me perfectly.” The 49ers’ defense limited the Eagles to just 241 total yards and hounded Ron Jaworski into a 16-of-40 afternoon. Their special teams also contributed with a 51-yard kickoff return by Derrick Harmon setting up the TD pass to Solomon that made it 14–6 with 12 seconds left in the first half.
Walter Payton of the Chicago Bears passed Franco Harris of the Seattle Seahawks to become the National Football League’s second-leading career rusher behind Jimmy Brown today. But the Seahawks dominated practically every other statistic for a 38–9 triumph. Payton went into the game trailing Harris by 34 yards. He rushed for 116 yards on 24 carries, and Harris had 23 yards on 14 carries. That gave Payton 12,091 yards in his 10th season, leaving him 221 yards from equaling Brown’s career record of 12,312 yards. Harris, in his 13th season, has 12,032 yards. Payton, who passed 2 yards to Matt Suhey for Chicago’s only touchdown, eclipsed Harris with 2 minutes 10 seconds left in the first quarter when he took a pitchout from Bob Avellini round right end for 9 yards. At that point, Payton had 40 yards in seven carries to 3 yards in four carries for Harris. The Seahawks (3–1) got a strong second-half performance by their quarterback, Dave Krieg, and combined it with outstanding defense. The Bears, who had yielded only 21 points in the first three games, suffered their first loss. Krieg, booed repeatedly because of the poor showing in first half, passed 55 yards to Eric Lane for a touchdown and ran 3 yards for a score in the third quarter. The Bears were without Jim McMahon, their regular quarterback who was suffering from a badly bruised back and a hairline fracture of his passing hand.
John Riggins, ignoring an injured back, carried 33 times, ran for 140 yards, scored one touchdown and led the Washington Redskins to a 26–10 victory over the New England Patriots. In so doing, he ran for 100 yards or more for the 18th time in his career and became the Redskins’ career leading rusher, with 5,898 yards, breaking Larry Brown’s record 5,875. His touchdown was the 100th of his career. Overall, the Redskins, who are now 2–2, rushed for 235 yards, their most in a regular-season game under Coach Joe Gibbs, who began in 1981. Only once before the Redskins ran for more yards under Gibbs, the 276 they gained in the Super Bowl. Riggins had 166 of them. The Redskins built a lead of 20–0 before the Patriots scored late in the third quarter.
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Anneliese van der Pol, Dutch-American actress (“That’s So Raven”, “Raven’s Home”), in Naaldwijk, Netherlands.
Louie Stephens, American rock keyboard player and singer (Rooney).
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