Leonid Brezhnev, head of the Soviet Communist party, says the Soviet Union is prepared to take additional steps with the United States to curb the arms race. Mr. Brezhnev, the guest of honor in East Berlin at a rally marking East Germany’s 25th anniversary, said he favored a ban on underground testing of all nuclear weapons and suggested that the two major powers withdraw from the Mediterranean all their nuclear-armed ships and submarines.
In Washington, officials have disclosed that the Ford administration, faced with what it sees as almost certain Senate rejection of the treaty limiting the underground testing of nuclear weapons, is seeking to broaden the agreement to include nuclear tests for peaceful purposes. The treaty was signed in Moscow last July by former President Nixon. Negotiations on the treaty will be resumed in Moscow in the next two weeks.
Officially, inflation doesn’t exist in the Soviet Union. Inflation, according to the Moscow press and party line, is a cancer that grows only in an unhealthy capitalist environment. One Soviet official asserted that the retail price index was down 0.3 percent since 1970. But ordinary citizens scoff at official explanations and groan about higher prices for food, clothing, cars, housing, and entertainment.
Spanish police claimed that 47 alleged underground labor leaders arrested in Barcelona had been plotting to extend a wave of illegal strikes to Spain’s biggest factory, the Seat auto plant, where 2,500 workers staged work stoppages last week. Police said the 47, including Communists and four Italians, were arrested Friday in a church residence. In Madrid, about 200 persons were arrested Saturday during a similar church meeting to discuss labor problems at an electrical factory, the newspaper Ya said.
Some subtle changes have been taking place in French‐American relations since President Valery Giscard d’Estaing came to power four-and-one-half months ago. A thaw has gradually set in that could be important in helping the big oil consumer nations deal more effectively and cooperatively with the problems of oil price increases, inflation and the threat of a world depression. Foreign Minister Jean Sauvagnargues doesn’t needle the United States the way his Gaullist predecessor, Michel Jobert, liked to do. Mr. Jobert spoke of American efforts to dominate Europe and the world. Mr. Sauvagnargues emphasizes a need to find common solutions with the United States. There was always a certain amount of political capital to be made from an anti‐American position in France. Gaullists were prone to take advantage of this. President Giscard d’Estaing, who was elected with Gaullist support and who must therefore deal nimbly with the party’s sensitivities, believes nevertheless that France — and Europe — are too small to manage today’s problems alone.
Polish Communist leader Edward Gierek arrived in Washington for a meeting with President Ford on the development of bilateral relations between Poland and the United States. Gierek will meet with the President Tuesday.
A yes or no election was held in Albania for the 250 seats of the Kuvendi. Only one candidate was nominated in each constituency, and all 250 were members of the Democratic Front of Albania. The Albanian government announced that all 1,248,530 of the eligible voters had cast their ballots, and that 1,248,528 of the ballots were valid.
On the first anniversary of the October war, the consensus of American, British and Soviet experts is that the long‐term strategic balance in the Middle East is weighted against Israel. This view, highly placed sources said, does not contradict a more optimistic assessment of Israel’s position prepared by American intelligence for President Ford before his talks last month with Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel. That assessment dealt with the immediate military situation in terms of weapons and manpower. The long‐term, pessimistic estimate takes into account factors such as the vulnerability of Israel’s oil stocks to missile attacks, signs that Egypt plans a blockade of the Israeli oil supply route through the Gulf of Aquaba, and gaps in the Israeli officer corps. One Israeli advantage, Westarn sources agree, is that the high command and the nation today have a more realistic attitude toward Arabs as soldiers than they did a year ago. The oid attitude — “One Jew can whip 10 Arabs” — has been replaced by a higher appreciation of the courage and skill of the enemy. Another plus for Israel is that although 45 per cent of her 1973 casualties were officers, the high level of national education enabled the armed forces to replace many of the junior officers with skilled noncommissioned officers. The first class of junior officers graduated last month from the military academy.
The Egyptians displayed their military might today in a victory parade celebrating the assault across the Suez Canal a year ago. The 80‐minute show included Soviet-built mobile SAM‐6 ground‐to‐air missiles as well as older SAM‐2’s and SAM‐3’s, and a weapon identified by foreign military attachés as Soviet‐built FROG‐7 ground-to-ground missile. The display included no weapons not known previously to be in the possession of the Egyptian armed forces, the attachés said. An Egyptian military commentator speaking on the radio while the parade was under way, described the ground‐toground missile as “the most modern long‐range, mass destruction weapon capable of hitting the enemy in depth.” He did not give a name for the missile. The commenator echoed a warning by President Anwar el‐Sadat a few days ago that Egypt would strike in the depths of Israel if Israeli forces were to carry out deep‐penetration strikes against Egypt. Also on display were highpressure water cannon on small boats, which the Egyptians used to break through high barriers of sand along the eastern bank of the Suez Canal to open roads for tanks and trucks.
The parade today was the first by Egypt’s armed forces since the six‐day war of June, 1967 which ended in Arab defeat and brought the Israelis to the eastern bank of the canal. Tens of thousands of Egyptians walked for an hour or more under a scorching sun from downtown Cairo to reach the parade ground in Nasser City, a new housing development long under construction on the edge of the desert. The mood of the spectators was festive rather than martial. They surged forward in excitement and, although held back by unarmed soldiers, thousands came within inches of being crushed by heavy tanks passing in formation. The crowd clapped, cheered and whistled happily as the weapons passed and also upon the arrival and departure of President Sadat, who watched the parade flanked by Yasser Arafat, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Field Marshall Ahmed Ismail, the Egyptian Commander in Chief.
Supersonic MIG-23s, the most sophisticated Soviet warplanes shipped to the Mideast, appeared in Syrian skies for the first time as Damascus commemorated the first anniversary of the October war. Military experts believe only Syria has that jet outside of Soviet bloc members. Meanwhile, Egypt’s President Anwar Sadat said in a magazine interview that peace efforts should be given more time even though Egypt was ready for war.
Thousands of shouting Indians paraded through downtown New Delhi to demonstrate growing impatience with food scarcities and high prices for wheat and rice. The protest followed a three-day strike in the eastern state of Bihar which left 12 persons dead from clashes between police and agitators, officials said. Police barriers prevented New Delhi marchers from reaching the home of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
Bangladesh is setting up soup kitchens to feed 3 million people left starving by severe floods, Food and Relief Minister Abdul Momin said. He reported that the food situation should improve considerably at the end of the month, when 600,000 tons of grain pledged by foreign governments are expected to begin arriving. Meanwhile, a newspaper report indicated that Bangladesh has agreed to repay Western governments $400 million in loans made before 1971, when the country separated from Pakistan. Repayment would be made for projects visibly located in Bangladesh, the paper said.
The People’s Republic of China’s agricultural production and food distribution are at a point where that country appears to be well protected against food shortages now afflicting the underdeveloped world. This the opinion of 10 leading American farm researchers who recently returned from China. In a four-week tour of that country, the American experts found the Chinese had made major strides in combining traditional farming methods with domestic scientific advances. China is going to be able to feed her 800 million people despite food problems elsewhere in the world, according to the team of plant scientists who visited the country. The spokesman for the group, Sterling Wortman, vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, told newsmen in New York that China is as well prepared to meet the coming food-population problem as any country could be but that it needs more scientists and scholars if it is to continue its progress.
Police in Santo Domingo ordered newsmen to back off at least three blocks from the guerrilla-seized Venezuelan consulate amid growing signs that Dominican authorities and terrorists holding an American woman diplomat and six other hostages had reached some sort of agreement. Before they pulled back, newsmen saw terrorist leader Radames Mendez Vargas speaking with U.S. Ambassador Robert Hurwitch and the Venezuelan and Spanish ambassadors.
The Supreme Court will return for a new term tomorrow with a partly disabled Chief Justice and a backlog of more than 1,900 cases. Although no case in the next nine months is expected to be as dramatic as the controversy during the last session over the White House tapes, the Justices are expected to make significant rulings on capital punishment, wiretapping, the impounding of Government funds and sex discrimination, among others. The high court’s workload is not so imposing as it first seems. About half the pending cases fall in the “pauper” category, most of them appeals by convicted criminals now in prison acting as their own lawyers. Very few of these ordinarily have enough legal merit to warrant the Court’s hearing them.
Altogether, the Court will accept and decide only about 150 cases from the hundreds now on hand and those to be filed by adjournment next June. Already on the docket are 78 that were accepted but not argued during the previous term. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, injured in a fall from a new bicycle, is expected to preside at the opening session tomorrow with his right hand in a splint. He suffered two broken fingers, a dislocated shoulder and five cracked ribs when a car forced him into an unsuccessful attempt to mount a curb during a late evening ride near his home in Arlington, Virginia. The make‐up of the Court will be the same as it has been since January, 1972, when the junior Member, Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist, was sworn in. In order of seniority, the other Justices are William O Douglas, William J. Brennan Jr. Potter Stewart, Byron “R. White, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and Lewis F. Powell Jr.
President Ford appears to be leaning toward proposals to ease the tax burdens of the poor and increasing the taxes of those in higher income brackets. Such tax revisions would be a key element in the anti-inflation program that Mr. Ford presents to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday. The President has said his program would include both mandatory and voluntary proposals to check inflation, conserve fuel and restore economic stability.
Senate hearings into the propriety of procedures of the Department of Transportation and the Civil Aeronautics Board have been abruptly postponed because two senior Senators said the hearings might upset efforts to save Pan American World Airways from financial collapse. The hearings, scheduled to begin tomorrow, were postponed at the last minute by Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, after Senator Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat: of Washington, who is chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Senator Howard W. Cannon, Democrat of Nevada, chairman of its Aviation Subcommittee, warned that hearings might confuse the financial community about the nature of efforts being made to help Pan American.
Five thousand persons attended a citizens’ rally intended to show racial harmony in Atlanta, the Southern city that likes to say it is “too busy to hate.” Ninety-five per cent of those attending were black. The one complaint voiced by the Rev. Martin Luther King Sr. at the rally was that “the crowd’s too black.” This remark expressed a key element in the crisis of confidence that is confronting the city.
Environmentalists were dismayed when Representative George Mahon of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, had the bad judgment to assign environmental agencies to an agriculture subcommittee headed by Representative Jamie L. Whitten, Mississippi Democrat. Representative Whitten is well known for his opposition to anything that interferes with profits‐as‐usual down on the farm or in business. It now develops that Representative Whitten’s solicitude extends to inner‐city traffic jams and the poisonous, health‐damaging smogs they help generate. He and his subcommittee colleagues have written into this year’s appropriation bill for the Environmental Protection Agency a ban on the use of any funds to enforce its proposed air pollution regulations with regard to traffic congestion in cities and the building of additional parking garages.
About 150 persons picketed the home of Cardinal Humberto Medeiros, archbishop of the Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston, in a continuing protest against busing to achieve integration in the city’s public schools. Members of the group, mostly residents of the Hyde Park section, said the cardinal, who was not at home, had refused to allow Boston school children to transfer into parochial schools to avoid participation in a federal court-ordered busing program. The incident occurred on the second day of what antibusing leaders said would be a three-day period of prayer for an end to busing. A spokesman said an ecumenical service would be held this morning “with or without police permission.”
The chairman of a House subcommittee on intergovernmental relations urged the government to withdraw its approval for the injectable contraceptive Depo Provera because of what he called strong suspicions that the drug might cause cervical and breast cancer. Rep. F. H. Fountain (D-North Carolina), in an 11-page letter, asked Caspar W. Weinberger, secretary of health, education and welfare, to block the Food and Drug Administration’s approval of the drug or else “many women may be irreparably injured.” The FDA approval order is scheduled to go into effect Saturday.
Newsweek magazine said yesterday that the former White House chief of staff, Alexander M. Haig Jr., approached Vice President Ford nine days before the Presidency of Richard M. Nixon ended about a possible pardon for Mr. Nixon. Newsweek said that President Ford would testify about his discussion with General Haig when Mr. Ford appears before a House Judiciary subcommittee. According to Newsweek, General Haig approached Mr. Ford on August 1 about a possible pardon for Mr. Nixon. The magazine said that Mr. Ford gave a negative answer the next day to James D. St. Clair, Mr. Nixon’s counsel. The magazine said Mr. St. Clair then told Mr. Ford that information would soon be released that would force Mr. Nixon to resign.
Police arrested 35 persons and issued summonses to 100 more in a raid on an illegal organized dog fight in a wooded area of Orange County, whose seat is Orlando, Florida. State Attorney Robert Egan said a dozen dogs, some torn and bloodied, were taken into custody by the humane society. An unknown number of dogs were released into fields by their owners when the raid began, policemen said. They said most of the dogs involved were pit terriers.
Charles Goodell, chairman of the presidential clemency board for Vietnam war resisters and military deserters, predicted that President Ford’s earned reentry program ultimately would be accepted by opponents, “I think the initial reaction of the veterans’ groups and the representatives of the resisters in Canada… was predictable.” Goodell said in an interview. “They are very sincere, they have very strong views. On the other hand, I think as they see this program operate, assuming it operates fairly, I think a great many of them are going to come around.”
A man found wandering aimlessly in the main square in downtown Asheville, North Carolina, was charged with killing two highway patrolmen when they attempted to give him a drunken driving test in the courthouse in Asheville. Edward Collins Davis, the object of a massive overnight manhunt before his arrest was alleged to have slain Patrol Sgt. W.D. Arledge, 53, and Trooper Lawrence Canipe Jr., 32, with Canipe’s service revolver. Other persons in the courthouse heard muffled noises they didn’t recognize as gunshots, and Davis “just walked out of the courthouse,” police said.
Science fiction author Isaac Asimov told a gathering in Newport, Rhode Island, of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, that his “own feeling is that the greatest excitement in space is a possible lunar colony.” The author, a professor of biochemistry at Boston University’s school of medicine, said he had doubts that humanity would survive until the next century. It all depends on whether space exploration continues, he said.
Jerry Herman’s musical “Mack & Mabel”, about the romance between silent film figures Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand, starring Robert Preston and Bernadette Peters, opens at Majestic Theater, NYC; runs for 66 performances.
Argentine Formula One racing driver Carlos Reutemann won the 1974 United States Grand Prix at the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York. Brazilian driver Emerson Fittipaldi secured the win of the 1974 World Championship of Drivers with his fourth-place finish. The race was marred by the death of 25-year-old Austrian driver Helmuth Koinigg, who was decapitated after crashing on the 10th lap; his car broke through two catch fences and then went under a guard rail.
David Pearson won the 1974 National 500 stock car race at Charlotte Motor Speedway in North Carolina.
The Oakland A’s even the American League series behind Ken Holtzman’s 5–0 shutout and homers by Ray Fosse and Sal Bando. Holtzman permitted the Orioles only five hits. The Oakland club got an unearned run in the fourth when Bobby Grich dropped a foul pop by Sal Bando for an error. Two pitches later, Bando drove a Dave McNally pitch over the left-field fence for a homer. Joe Rudi tripled home North in the sixth for the second run. In the eighth inning, with two men on — the result of a walk and an error — Ray Fosse hit a home run off reliever Grant Jackson to put the game on ice.
Ron Cey cracks a home run, 2 doubles, and a single, and the Los Angeles Dodgers win the 2nd National League Championship Series game 5–2. The Dodgers struck first in Game 2 on Steve Garvey’s RBI single in the first with two on off of Jim Rooker. Ron Cey’s leadoff home run in the fourth extended their lead to 2–0. The Pittsburgh string of scoreless innings was extended to 15 before the Pirates finally got on the board in the seventh inning off of Andy Messersmith. After two leadoff singles and sacrifice bunt, one run came in on a Richie Hebner groundout and the other on an Al Oliver high bouncer that escaped third baseman Cey’s glove and was scored a single. With the game tied going into the eighth inning, it was a battle between ace relievers Mike Marshall, of Los Angeles, and Dave Giusti. Giusti could not retire even one batter. After a leadoff double and subsequent single, back-to-back RBI singles by Willie Crawford and Manny Mota aided by an error by catcher Manny Sanguillén put the Dodgers back in front 4–2. Davey Lopes’s RBI single off of Larry Demery extended their lead to 5–2 while Marshall retired six straight batters in the last two innings to give the Dodgers a 2–0 series lead heading to Los Angeles.
NFL Football:
Washington Redskins 17, Cincinnati Bengals 28
Denver Broncos 17, Kansas City Chiefs 14
Atlanta Falcons 14, New York Giants 7
Baltimore Colts 3, New England Patriots 42
Buffalo Bills 27, Green Bay Packers 7
St. Louis Cardinals 34, San Francisco 49ers 9
Minnesota Vikings 23, Dallas Cowboys 21
Philadelphia Eagles 13, San Diego Chargers 7
Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Houston Oilers 7
New Orleans Saints 10, Chicago Bears 24
Detroit Lions 13, Los Angeles Rams 16
Oakland Raiders 40, Cleveland Browns 24
The Cincinnati Bengals downed the Washington Redskins, 28–17. The day belonged to Lemar Parrish. The Bengals’, defensive back returned a punt 90 yards and later scooped up a fumble and raced 47 yards for a second touchdown. The 185‐pound speedster broke his team record for punt returns with the 90‐yard runback. Cincinnati also got touchdowns on a 24‐yard pass from Ken Anderson to Isaac Curtis and on a 3‐yard run by Charles (Boobie) Clark.
The Denver Broncos edged the Kansas City Chiefs, 17–14. Joe Keyworth, the rookie from Colorado, scored twice on short plunges in the second half as the Broncos gained their first victory of the season. It was only Denver’s fourth triumph in 29 games with the Chiefs.
It was business as usual for the New York Giants today in a 14–7 loss to the Atlanta Falcons at Yale Bowl. The Giants’ touchdown was a 53-yard scoring burst by Doug Kotar between John Hicks and Doug Van Horn that gave the New Yorkers a 7–0 lead with 6 minutes, 47 seconds left in the first quarter. But that was it for the Giants. Atlanta’s tying touchdown came with 2:42 left in the first half on a 15-yard pass from Bob Lee to Jim Mitchell, the tight end, who got a step inside of Chuck Crist, the Giant strong safety, in the end zone. Atlanta’s game winning touchdown came on a 59-yard interception return by Ray Brown, a safety, with 3:42 left in the third quarter. Saying “I didn’t have anyone else to cover,” Brown gambled on a short second down square-out pattern to the right side and stepped in front of Ray Rhodes, the rookie wide receiver. “They were playing a safety zone,” said quarterback Norm Snead, whose statistics (10 completions in 20 attempts for 85 yards) reflected his futility. “I guess he read the pattern.”
The New England Patriots crushed the Baltimore Colts, 42–3. The change in coaches did little for the victoryless Colts. Joe Thomas, the general manager, made his coaching debut against the Patriots and the game was a laugher as Jim Plunkett threw three touchdown passes. The former Stanford all‐American hit Reggie Rucker on a 69‐yarder on the third play of the game and later passed for touchdowns to Sam Cunningham for 4 yards and to Rucker for 16 yards.
The Packers stopped O. J. Simpson but not Joe Ferguson and Jim Braxton, as the Buffalo Bills routed Green Bay, 27–7. Simpson, who went into the game as the N.F.L.’s rushing leader, was limited to 62 yards in 16 carries. Ferguson, the Bills’ quarterback, completed 13 of 16 passes for 175 yards, including a touchdown pass to Ahmad Rashad, who caught seven passes for 79 yards. Braxton scored three touchdowns and interceptions by Tony Greene and Robert James set up two scores.
The St. Louis Cardinals continue to surprise. After spotting the 49ers a 9‐0 lead, the defensive‐minded Cards rushed back and battered San Francisco, 34‐9, for their fourth straight victory. The last time St: Louis opened with four straight victories was in 1966. That was before the merger of the National and American Football Leagues and the Cards again boasted a strong defensive team. St. Louis remained unbeaten through its first six games, but faltered in the end and finished third in the Eastern. Conference of the NFL. St. Louis had previously beaten Philadelphia, Washington and Cleveland. By limiting the 49ers to 9 points, the Cards have now given up only 29 points, the fewest in the league. They are also one of three unbeaten NFL teams. The New England Patriots and the Minnesota Vikings are the others. San Francisco was “tired and dragging,” said Jim Hart, the St. Louis quarterback, who threw three touchdowns to bring his team back. “We were in better shape and we knew if we sustained a drive we could tire them out. Once you get ahead, you do more things.” Hart completed 11 of 19 passes for 184 yards. Besides Hart, Mel Gray and Terry Metcalf, helped bury the 49ers with a 24‐point third quarter.
A 27-yard field goal in the last second of play — a field goal Dallas claimed was no good — gave the Minnesota Vikings a 23–21 victory over the Cowboys today. Fred Cox, the 35-year-old kicker for Minnesota, put the football either through or over the goal post, depending upon the point of view, to cap a comeback for the Vikings and a virtuoso performance by Francis Asbury Tarkenton, their quarterback. The instant replay on television showed the Cox kick went over the top of the goal post upright. The back judge, Stan Javie, who was standing under the post, called it good. He got a big argument from Lee Roy Jordan, the cowboy linebacker; Tom Landry, the normally taciturn Dallas coach, and voluble Ernie Stautner, his assistant. Landry said later: “Our guys didn’t think it was good. But the official is standing right there. I don’t see how he could miss it. However, it wasn’t a very good kick.” Cox, who has made 233 field goals in his 11 years in the National Football League, could not have cared less about Landry’s review. He saved a game that Tarkenton deserved to win. The quarterback’s statistics were 17 completions of 27 pass attempts for 283 yards, two touchdowns, no interceptions. Those were the bare bones of the matter. His play calling kept the Cowboys off balance. He threw a 66-yard touchdown pass while falling backward with Cliff Harris, the Dallas safety, on top of him. And he executed the game-winning drive in the final 2 minutes and 20 seconds.
Philadelphia beat the San Diego Chargers, 13–7. The Eagles’ defensive unit scored two touchdowns in the first half and held the Chargers in the second half for Philadelphia’s third straight triumph after an opening loss. Bill Dunstan, the defensive tackle, raced 46 yards with a fumble recovery for the first. Philadelphia score and Randy Logan made two key defensive plays. He picked off Dan Fouts’s pass late in the second quarter and set up the Eagles’ second touchdown. Starting on the Charger 46, Roman Gabriel used short passes and the running of Ron James to score in 10 plays.
The Pittsburgh Steelers needed a late comeback to edge the woeful Houston Oilers, 13–7. Preston Pearson scored the deciding touchdown in the fourth quarter, gained 117 yards in 15 carries and caught three passes for 42 yards. Joe Gilliam, detoured by the Oiler defense in the first half, set up the Pearson score by moving Pittsburgh 80 yards in 10 plays, including four straight completions. Houston had taken a 7‐3 half‐time lead on a 47‐yard touchdown run by Billy Johnson.
The Chicago Bears’ defense made it tough on Archie Manning, on their way to a 24–10 win. They sacked the New Orleans Saints’ quarterback four times for 17 yards. Offensively, Gary Huff scored a touchdown on a 1‐yard plunge in the second quarter and then he hit Bo Rather with a 39‐yard touchdown pass after an 84‐yard drive. Ken Grandberry, a rookie out of Washington State, gained 76 yards inn carries, in the first half and was the big difference in the early going for the Bears. He injured his ankle in the third quarter.
The Los Angeles Rams edged the Detroit Lions, 16–13. Lawrence McCutcheon, in his second full pro season, led the Rams in rushing and receiving. A product of Colorado State, McCutcheon carried 21 times for 124 yards and caught fiye passes for 43 more.
The Cleveland Browns took a 10–0 lead after four minutes and then fell apart, as the Oakland Raiders came roaring back to win, 40–24. Ken Stabler took over and the Raider quarterback threw for touchdowns of 11, 45 and 10 yards. Stabler started Oakland back with a 71‐yard drive by passing to Fred Biletnikoff for the first score. He then combined with Clarence Davis and Cliff Branch for his other touchdowns. Stabler completed 19 of 33 passes for 238 yards.
Born:
Kenny Jönsson, Swedish National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, 1994 (gold medal), 2002 (5th), 2006 (gold medal); Toronto Maple Leafs, New York Islanders), in Angelholm, Sweden.
Hoàng Xuân Vinh, Vietnamese sports shooter and the first, and only, Vietnamese athlete to win an Olympic gold medal; in Sơn Tây, Hanoi. Xuan won gold for the Men’s 10 meter air pistol competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Tebucky Jones, NFL safety (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 36-Patriots, 2001; New England Patriots, New Orleans Saints, Miami Dolphins), in New Britain, Connecticut.
Jim Bundren, NFL guard (Cleveland Browns), in Pontiac, Michigan.
Matt Duff, MLB pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals), in Clarksdale, Mississippi.
Jeremy Sisto, American actor (“Six Feet Under”), in Grass Valley, California.
Died:
V. K. Krishna Menon, 78, India’s Ambassador to the United Nations 1952 to 1962.
Helmuth Koinigg, 25, Austrian Formula One driver killed in a race accident at Watkins Glen, New York.
Luther H. Hodges, 76, U.S. Secretary of Commerce from 1961 to 1965 and Governor of North Carolina from 1954 to 1961.
C.J. Latta CBE, 80, British film executive and managing director of the Associated British Picture Corporation.
David Wallace, 66, American sociologist and marketing research specialist, died of a stroke.
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