About 40 East Germans slipped past a police cordon in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and joined at least 100 others who have taken refuge inside the now-closed West German Embassy in hopes of being granted asylum. The Bonn government reported no breakthrough in negotiations with East Berlin over the refugees, and a handwritten sign outside the ornate former palace in Prague advised that the crowded embassy will remain closed indefinitely.
A U.S. airline denied that one of its planes carrying 200 people on a polar route strayed dangerously close to the Soviets’ Kola Peninsula, site of strategic nuclear bases. However, Norwegian aviation authorities stuck to their story and said they are investigating the flight. The president of South Pacific Island Airways, George Wray, denied the report, saying: “They were not heading toward the area… The plane was receiving guidance from Norwegian radar controllers.” In Oslo, a Norwegian official said the pilot of the plane “hadn’t a clue where he was.”
Pope John Paul II attacked the Mafia by name and urged young people in southern Italy not to “succumb to the temptation of criminal and Mafioso violence.” It was the first time in his three-day swing through Calabria, at the tip of the Italian peninsula, that the Pope had referred specifically to the Mafia. In previous statements he repeatedly attacked “organized delinquency” and the Mafia’s code of silence known as omert a. But today, speaking in the town of Reggio di Calabria, three miles across the Strait of Messina from Sicily, John Paul denounced “the phenomenon of criminal and Mafia activity.” Later, gazing across the water at Sicily, the Pope told the group of 20,000 young people, “You must be the most determined moral force to defeat every kind of mentality that leads to insolence, to oppression and vendetta.”
Albania accused Yugoslavia today of sabotaging talks on a joint cultural program that could have improved the thorny ties between the two Balkan neighbors. “Agreement was not concluded because of the obstructionist stand of the Yugoslav side,” the official A.T.A. press agency said in a dispatch from Tirana, the Albanian capital, received here. A second round of talks aimed at establishing a two-year joint cultural program broke up in disarray in Belgrade on Saturday with no date set for resumption. “The aims to sabotage the signing of the program were seen since the first stage of talks held in June,” A.T.A. said. The agency charged Yugoslavia had imposed its own conditions on the talks and refused to discuss Albanian proposals. Yugoslav officials had expressed the hope the talks could lead to generally improved ties with Albania, strained by the Albanian nationalist problem in Kosovo province. The 1.7 million inhabitants of the province are mainly ethnic Albanians.
Six masked gunmen in Lyons, France stole 220 pounds of gold, worth more than $1 million, from a metal refinery today after holding the refinery director, his family and two other people hostage for five hours, the police said. The police said they believed the robbers were professionals who may have had informers inside the refinery. The thieves waited outside the home of Michel Rey-Coquais, the refinery director, and grabbed his 17-year-old daughter and two friends as they returned from a party. Two of the gunmen remained with the family while the other four took Mr. Rey-Coquais to the plant. The thieves, given the codes to the alarm system, opened four safes containing 220 pounds of gold in the form of chains, wires and plaques.
Israel would consider withdrawing its troops from Lebanon in return for a “nonwritten” Syrian commitment to keep its forces where they are and to prevent infiltration by Palestinian guerrillas, according to Israeli officials. Speaking on the eve of Prime Minister Shimon Peres’s visit to Washington, the officials said that in exchange for a pullout, Israel would insist on an expanded deployment of United Nations forces in southern Lebanon.
Egyptian Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel Meguid said all nine nations bordering the Red Sea will meet in Sudan within two months to discuss the recent rash of mine explosions in the waterway. He said the meeting will be attended by Egypt, Sudan, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Djibouti, Somalia, Ethiopia, Yemen and South Yemen. Since early July, 19 merchant ships have been damaged by mines, which Egypt has accused Libya of laying.
A new Ethiopia has been born in the 10 years since the overthrow of Emperor Haile Selassie. Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and a small circle of military men have completed the structures that are transforming Ethiopia from a feudal monarchy into a Communist dictatorship. Experts say Colonel Mengistu is more firmly in control than ever before.
Libyan army units evacuated several forward outposts in Chad’s northern desert over the weekend, nearly two weeks after Libya and France were to begin withdrawing troops, French Defense Minister Charles Hernu said. In return, the French ordered evacuation of their 800-man garrison at Biltine, 50 miles north of Abeche. Libya and France had agreed to pull out all their troops from the sub-Saharan nation beginning September 26, but France said that until the weekend, Libya had not begun withdrawing. Libya has backed the rebels while France supported the government in Chad’s civil war.
Eight people were reported killed, more than 50 injured and 300 arrested in four days of clashes during major Hindu and Muslim religious festivals throughout India. Curfews were imposed in several towns and police were sent as reinforcements. The 10-day Hindu festival of Dussehra coincides this year with the Muslims’ 10-day fast of Moharram. In Amritsar, the Sikh holy city, a ban on demonstrations and public meetings was extended. The police arrested 150 people today in the southern cities of Belgaum and Hubli in connection with Muslim-Hindu battles, raising the number of detentions to 325, Karnataka state authorities said.
Meanwhile, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said China and Pakistan did not appear eager to normalize relations with India. Addressing soldiers in the northwestern city of Jaipur today, she said India had proposed peace pacts with both countries but their response had not been encouraging.
Thailand’s Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, hospitalized with a lung ailment, was “much better” today and was being allowed to walk around his hospital room, his doctor said. The 64-year-old Mr. Prem entered King Mongkut Military Hospital on September 29 for what was diagnosed as a blockage of an artery leading to his right lung. Doctors said the condition was not serious but they expected him to be hospitalized for at least a few weeks.
Cuba is preparing for an attack, it says, from the United States. In the last two months it has conducted large-scale evacuation and combat drills. The Government also says people at factories, hospitals and schools across the island have been building bomb shelters and digging trenches. “We have never felt so threatened,” Jose Raul Viera Linares, the acting Foreign Minister, said in an interview. A State Department spokesman said the United States did not plan to invade. In response to questions about the concerns expressed by Cubans, John A. Ferch, the head of the United States Interest Section in Havana and the senior American official in Cuba, said there had been no changes in United States policy in Cuba in recent months.
Foreign diplomats in Havana say they have been puzzling over what might lie behind the dramatic increase in Cuba’s defense measures. For more than 20 years Mr. Castro has been warning his people to be ready for an attack by the United States. But many have regarded these warnings mainly as political rhetoric aimed at improving morale and diverting attention from shortages and other hardships of the Cuban revolution. Cuban officials denied that they were orchestrating a nationwide drama intended to portray President Reagan as a threat to world peace and thus to influence the United States elections. They also denied that the preparations might be intended to provide a pretext for withdrawing Cuban troops from Africa on the contention that they were needed for home defense.
Some diplomats said in interviews that they sensed that Cuba was now sincerely concerned that an attack was in the offing. “They are making very big investments in these defenses,” one diplomat said. “They have dedicated quite a lot of people to this defense work.” None of nearly a dozen diplomats, from Europe, Latin America, Africa and elsewhere, said they thought an attack was highly likely in the near future, but none of them ruled out the possibility. “None of us thought they would invade Grenada, either,” one diplomat said.
El Salvador’s defense minister, General Carlos Vides Casanova, acknowledged that his country, which is battling leftist guerrillas, has about 25 napalm bombs but said they have not been used. He said his air force does not have the equipment to fire or drop the bombs. Radio Venceremos, the rebels’ station, two weeks ago accused the U.S.-backed government of using napalm but gave no details. Some U.S. relief groups have also reported seeing napalm burns on civilians.
South Africa will use its army to support the police in combatting a wave of unrest in recent weeks that has claimed 80 lives in a crackdown on dissent. A police spokesman said army units had been deployed in Soweto, the black township outside Johannesburg. Moreover, the Minister of Law and Order, Louis Le Grange, said the civilian police would be expanded by 45 percent, apparently an acknowledgement that unrest was unlikely to abate. South African troops moved into the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, and police fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse crowds in two separate incidents of racial violence. Earlier, Soweto Mayor Ephraim Tshabalala warned that troop deployment would aggravate tensions that have led to the deaths of 80 blacks during the last six weeks. The police fired at demonstrators who threw rocks in a sports stadium in Thokoza, south of Johannesburg, and at a stone-throwing crowd in Soweto. There were no arrests.
President Reagan leaves the White House for Louisville and the debate.
President Reagan participates in the first presidential debate, focused primarily on domestic issues. In their first debate of the campaign, President Reagan and Walter F. Mondale engaged in blunt, sometimes highly personal exchanges as they clashed on a wide variety of economic and social issues. Mr. Mondale, who went into the debate trailing badly in the public opinion polls, challenged Mr. Reagan to tell how he would reduce the budget deficit and accused him of a failure of leadership. Mr. Reagan asked “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”
“There you go again,” President Reagan told Walter F. Mondale in their first debate of the 1984 Presidential campaign, reusing his celebrated 1980 debate line. But Mr. Mondale, facing his rival obliquely on the theater stage, was ready for it. He reminded President Reagan he had used that punch line on the subject of Medicare and accused him of attempting to slash $20 billion from Medicare. “People realize this, you know,” he said.
The space shuttle crew saved hours of precious Earth-observation data that would otherwise have been lost by pointing the Challenger’s crippled communications antenna at a tiny satellite 22,000 miles overhead, using it to relay the data to Earth. The maneuver, on the third day of a planned eight-day mission, preserved one of the major goals of the seven astronauts.
Two Green Beret sergeants were jailed on charges of selling a truckload of stolen Army explosives and ammunition to undercover agents posing as South American cocaine smugglers, federal agents said in Miami. The arrests ended a two-month investigation into the illegal distribution of TNT, dynamite, mines and other explosives stolen from Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, said Bill Alfree, special agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.
Indian activist Dennis Banks faces a possible 15-year prison term when he is sentenced today in Pierre, South Dakota, for a 1973 clash between Indians and police. Banks, 47, has been held without bail in Rapid City, South Dakota, since September 13, when he surrendered to face sentencing on convictions of rioting with a dangerous weapon and assault with a weapon without intent to kill. He fled South Dakota before he could be sentenced after his 1975 trial. Attorney William KunIstler said he would present the court with scores of letters from famous persons arguing for a light sentence for the co-founder of the American Indian Movement.
Extra guards were on duty at the Arizona State Prison because of an interracial brawl that killed one convict, while a shakedown discovered homemade weapons at the Maryland Penitentiary where a series of attacks left one guard dead and three others wounded. In Arizona, spokesman Chuck Ryan said inmates at the prison in Florence were allowed out of their cells for breakfast but only in small groups. Union workers at the Maryland institution near Baltimore called for the ouster of the warden and assistant warden because of inmate attacks.
A dozen white-robed members of the Ku Klux Klan rallied on a baseball field in Meriden, Connecticut, with lines of riot-ready police separating them from protesters who shouted “put the sheets back on the bed.” State police said 145 persons passed through a search point to attend the rally at Ceppa Field while about 20 demonstrators gathered on an adjacent street and chanted “Death to the Klan.”
Striking workers at Disneyland have been told that they will be replaced if they do not resume work this week, but picketing continued today. The five striking unions held a candlelight vigil Saturday after the warning was issued by the park. “It was mainly to salute Walt Disney and his ideals and to remind management of his ideals and beliefs regarding harmony between management and employees,” said Michael O’Rourke, a union spokesman. In a letter to the 1,844 strikers and 700 part-time union workers, Dick Nunis, president of Disneyland and Walt Disney World, said the company would begin hiring replacements Thursday. The union has rejected a company proposal for a two-year wage freeze and benefit cuts, mostly for part-time and future employees. The union has said it was seeking a pay increase of 3 percent to 8 percent a year.
Hunters tramped deep into the northern Maine woods to position themselves for the opening of this week’s annual six-day moose hunt. One thousand hunters were picked by lottery from more than 60,000 applicants from North America and Europe. Each will be allowed to kill one moose. Maine outlawed moose hunting in 1935 to protect the animal, whose numbers had dwindled, but renewed the hunt on an experimental basis in 1980.
Facing another winter with nothing but parched grass on grazing lands and little money to buy feed, ranchers in as many as 60 Texas counties are selling livestock in record numbers, officials say. Some cattle owners in drought-stricken central and southern Texas are barely hanging on, agriculture experts say, while others, in areas that did receive rain, are doing well. Tom Neff, co-owner of the Abilene Auction, the largest sales barn in the area, said that in the counties it served at least 60 percent of the stock had been sold. But the drought finally ended in the Texas Panhandle, and the northern feedlots are overflowing with cattle. Dennis Newton, extension agent in Deaf Smith County, said: “Our grass is great, probably the best we’ve had in years. I can’t believe how beautiful the country looks out there.”
People now outnumber cows in Vermont, though the state remains predominantly pastoral. New Hampshire, on the other hand, is heavily industrial. All this runs counter to what Robert Frost once wrote: “Anything I can say about New Hampshire will serve almost as well about Vermont.”
Honeybees are under attack in five states by a parasitic mite that preys on them. Authorities have destroyed millions of bees and have quarantined many of the affected areas. Many of the affected areas have been quarantined to prevent the spread of the infestation, Donald E. Nielson, a spokesman for the department’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, which is overseeing attempts to control the infestation, said in an interview. Although bee experts say the microscopic mite is unlikely to wipe out the multibillion-dollar bee industry in the United States, the infestation, if it spreads, would cause serious economic losses to beekeepers who depend on sales of honey and to the thousands of farmers who depend on honeybees to pollinate their crops. The mite infestations, confirmed by laboratory tests in recent weeks, have been found in apiaries in New York, Florida, Texas, Louisiana and South Dakota. More than 150 million honeybees involved in commercial honey production and crop pollination have been purposely destroyed in infested areas.
Workers used bulldozers to bury 94 pilot whales that became stranded on a Cape Cod beach at Eastham, Massachusetts. It was the largest group of whales to die on the cape in recent years. Some of the sea mammals were put to death by lethal injection because of their slim chance of survival. The whales, some as long as 20 feet and weighing as much as a ton, came ashore on Saturday. The cause of such mass beachings by whales and dolphins is not known.
Thunderstorms drenched the Lower Mississippi Valley with torrential rains and spawned two tornadoes in Texas, destroying farmhouses and downing power lines. More than two inches of rain fell in one hour on Lake Charles, Louisiana, and parts of Texas had seven inches of rain over the weekend. One tornado smashed a farmhouse and damaged two trailers near Nacogdoches, Texas. A second twister slashed through Odem, just north of Corpus Christi, cutting power and peeling off a barn roof. No injuries were reported. In Corpus Christi, power outages and scattered property damage were reported as heavy thunderstorms struck. Meanwhile, another band of fast-moving storms was poised to move into North Texas.
The striking Major League umpires return to work in time for game 5 of the National League Championship Series, and San Diego rallies for 4 runs in the 7th inning to beat Chicago 6–3 and earn its first trip to the World Series. Leon Durham hit a two-run homer in the first after a two-out walk and Jody Davis added a homer in the second to give the Cubs a 3–0 lead off of Padres’ starter Eric Show. Rick Sutcliffe, who was 17–1 since joining Chicago in a mid-June trade, and had also beaten the Padres twice in the regular season, allowed just two infield hits through five innings. However, two singles and a walk loaded the bases with no outs for San Diego in the sixth before back-to-back sacrifice flies by Graig Nettles and Terry Kennedy cut the Cubs lead to 3–2. In the bottom of the seventh, Carmelo Martínez led off the inning with a walk on four pitches from Sutcliffe and was sacrificed to second by Garry Templeton. Martínez scored when pinch hitter Tim Flannery’s sharp grounder went under Durham’s glove and through his legs for an error. Alan Wiggins singled Flannery to second. Gwynn followed with a hard grounder at Sandberg’s feet, which the second baseman expect to stay low, but instead bounced over his head into right center for a double; Flannery and Wiggins scored to give the Padres a 5–3 lead as Gwynn reached third. Garvey followed with an RBI single to stretch the lead to 6–3. Steve Trout then replaced Sutcliffe and got out of the inning without further damage.
The Cubs got three baserunners over the final two innings against Gossage but could not score, and San Diego took home its first National League pennant. They became the first National League team to win a Championship Series after being down 2–0. Garvey finished the series batting .400 with seven RBIs, and was named the NLCS Most Valuable Player for the second time in his career. The Padres would go on to lose the World Series to the dominant Detroit Tigers in five games. The Cubs’ inability to win the series after a 2–0 lead, coupled with Durham’s error, added to the Curse of the Billy Goat lore regarding the Cubs’ championship drought.
NFL Football:
Atlanta Falcons 30, Los Angeles Rams 28
New Orleans Saints 7, Chicago Bears 20
Houston Oilers 3, Cincinnati Bengals 13
Denver Broncos 28, Detroit Lions 7
Seattle Seahawks 14, Los Angeles Raiders 28
Miami Dolphins 31, Pittsburgh Steelers 7
New England Patriots 17, Cleveland Browns 16
New York Jets 17, Kansas City Chiefs 16
Philadelphia Eagles 27, Buffalo Bills 17
St. Louis Cardinals 31, Dallas Cowboys 20
San Diego Chargers 34, Green Bay Packers 28
Minnesota Vikings 31, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 35
Washington Redskins 35, Indianapolis Colts 7
Mick Luckhurst kicked his third field goal of the game, a 37-yarder, as time expired to give the Atlanta Falcons a 30–28 victory over the Los Angeles Rams. After Eric Dickerson raced 47 yards for a touchdown to give the Rams a 28–27 lead midway through the fourth quarter, Atlanta went 66 yards on 12 plays to set up the winning field goal. Luckhurst earlier had kicked field goals of 50 and 52 yards, while the Atlanta running back Lynn Cain scored on runs of 31, 1 and 9 yards. His 145 yards on 35 carries was the most of his career. His third touchdown gave the Falcons a 24–21 lead early in the fourth quarter. The game left both teams at 3–3.
The Chicago Bears defeated the New Orleans Saints, 20–7. Walter Payton passed Jim Brown as NFL’s career rushing leader. The moment finally came on the second play from scrimmage in the third quarter today. Jim McMahon, the Chicago Bears’ quarterback, called “Toss 28 Weak,” a pitchout for Walter Payton and a play the Bears have run countless times before. Only this time there was something special about it. This time, Payton ran the pitchout to his left behind the fullback Matt Suhey and the left guard Mark Bortz for a 6-yard gain and a place in history. The yards moved him him past Jim Brown to become the National Football League’s career leading rusher. More importantly for the Bears, however, all the record-breaking occurred in a game they needed badly to win. After winning their first three games, they lost two in a row, the last to the Dallas Cowboys, a game in which Payton gained 155 yards. With the victory today, the Bears maintained their lead in the Central Division of the National Conference, while the Saints slipped to 3–3 in the N.F.C. West.
The Cincinnati Bengals downed the Houston Oilers, 13–3. Boomer Esiason, making his first start, scored the game’s only touchdown on a 3-yard quarterback draw to lead Cincinnati to its first victory and drop Houston to 0–6 in a steady rain. It marked the first National Football League victory for Coach Sam Wyche, whose Bengals are 1–5. The Oilers’ league record for consecutive road losses was extended to 21 games.
A bruising Denver defense led by Steve Wilson and Rulon Jones smothered Detroit’s mistake-prone offense as the Broncos routed the Lions, 28–7. The Broncos recovered three of four Detroit fumbles, including one which Jones returned 5 yards for a touchdown. Denver also intercepted seven passes, four off Gary Danielson, who hadn’t been intercepted before, and had six sacks. The victory improved the Broncos’ record to 5–1. Detroit slipped to 1–5. Denver scored two touchdowns in a span of 54 seconds in the first quarter. Sammy Winder capped a 69-yard, 11-play drive by diving in from 1 yard out with 7 minutes 40 seconds left. On Detroit’s second play following Winder’s touchdown, the Broncos’ Louis Wright popped the ball out of Billy Sims’s hands at the 3 and Jones picked it out of the air at the 5 and returned it for another Denver touchdown at 8:34. John Elway completed 16 of 22 for 210 yards and one touchdown. He was intercepted once.
Marc Wilson, filling in for the injured Jim Plunkett, threw a 58-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Allen with 5 minutes 32 seconds remaining to break a 14–14 tie, and the Los Angeles Raiders added a late defensive touchdown to beat the Seattle Seahawks, 28–14. Wilson, seeing his first action of the season, completed 12 of his 19 passes for 309 yards and two touchdowns. The go-ahead touchdown came on a third-and-3 play. Allen caught Wilson’s pass at about the Seattle 30-yard line and raced into the end zone untouched. The Raiders (5–1) clinched the victory 19 seconds later when the linebacker Rod Martin returned an interception of a Dave Kreig pass 14 yards. The Seahawks dropped to 4–2. Plunkett suffered a pulled muscle in his stomach late in the first quarter. Seattle’s Franco Harris, the third- leading career rusher, was held to 13 yards in nine carries, lifting his total to 12,097 yards.
Dan Marino threw two second-quarter touchdown passes in a return to his hometown as the Miami Dolphins remained unbeaten today with a 31–7 rout of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Marino, the former University of Pittsburgh star, completed 16 of 24 passes for 226 yards as Miami rolled to a 21–0 halftime lead with a pair of second-quarter touchdowns within just over a minute. The anticipated passing duel between Marino and David Woodley, the Steelers’ quarterback whom Marino supplanted in Maimi, never materialized. Woodley, who led the Dolphins to the Super Bowl in 1982 before being traded to the Steelers last winter, suffered a concussion midway through the first quarter and never returned. His replacement, Mark Malone, couldn’t move the Steelers inside the Dolphins’ 40-yard line until Miami led by 24–0 in the third quarter. The loss was the Steelers’ worst in their 14-year history in Three Rivers Stadium. Miami (6–0), one of just two remaining unbeaten National Football League teams, drove 61 yards on 6 plays to score with 2 minutes 21 remaining in the first half when Marino rifled a 34-yard scoring pass to the tight end Joe Rose. Three plays later, Malone fumbled after being hit from the blind side by Charles Bowser, a linebacker. A defensive tackle, Bob Baumhower, scooped up the ball and ran 21 yards for the first touchdown of his eight- year pro career. The Steelers (3–3) didn’t score until the last play of the third quarter, when Frank Pollard ran a yard to close out an 80-yard march. But the Dolphins, with Marino completing passes of 33 and 23 yards to Mark Clayton on a 76-yard drive, struck back on Woody Bennett’s 1-yard scoring run with 11:10 remaining to restore their 24-point lead.
The New England Patriots mounted a comeback to edge the Cleveland Browns, 17–16. Tony Eason threw a 42-yard touchdown pass to Stephen Starring on a flea-flicker play and hit Starring with a 24-yard pass to set up Tony Collins’s fourth-quarter touchdown run in as New England overcame a 16–3 deficit. Cleveland (1–5) had two chances to regain the lead in the final 3 minutes 12 seconds. But Matt Bahr, who had kicked three first-half field goals, hooked a 36-yard attempt just left of the goalpost, and Paul McDonald was intercepted by Raymond Clayborn near the New England goal line with seven seconds to play. New England (4–2) trailed by 9–3 at the half and fell behind, 16–3, when McDonald drove the Browns 69 yards with the second-half kickoff.
A change of attitude and a change of personnel — and even perhaps a change in glove colors — played a role in the Jets’ 17- 16 victory today over the Chiefs. This was another inelegant decision for the Jets, but it did serve to lift their record to 4-2. It came just a few days after the team’s defense was torn apart and restructured after allowing opposing quarterbacks more than 1,000 passing yards the previous three games. Five first-time starters began the game for the Jets. Perhaps the freshness of the situation was summed up best by Greg Buttle, who was playing right linebacker for the first time in his football life.” “It’s like driving a car,” said Buttle, normally a left linebacker, “while looking in the rear-view mirror.” At first, the Chiefs confused the Jets, driving deep into their territory on their first three possessions. But each time, all they managed was a field goal by Nick Lowery. So, despite the Jets’ early mistakes, they trailed by only 9-0 midway through the second quarter. Meanwhile, the Jets’ offense, using three-tight-end alignments, got rolling as Freeman McNeil, with his extraordinary slashing style, ran to his fourth 100-yard game of the season before coming out with a rib injury after amassing 107 yards on 19 carries. The Jets have won each time McNeil has gained 100 yards or more; they have lost the two games he has been held under that figure. Perhaps a dash of color helped, too. Both Marvin Powell, the right tackle, and Reggie McElroy, the left tackle, wound red tape around their black gloves. The Chiefs’ jerseys happened to be red, too. Thus, the camouflage may have prevented the tackles from being caught for holding penalties against two very strong pass rushers, Art Still and Mike Bell, the second and third top quarterback-sackers in the American Conference. Neither Jet permitted a sack.
The Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Buffalo Bills, 27–17. Ron Jaworski threw a pair of touchdown passes and ran for another score to help deal Buffalo its sixth loss without a victory. Jaworski, a native of nearby Lackawanna, threw a 4-yard scoring pass over the middle to the tight end Vyto Kab at 14:11 of the second quarter to give the Eagles (2–4) the lead for good at 14–10.
Neil Lomax thwarted a blitzing Dallas defense with three touchdown passes and the Cardinals ended seven years of frustration in Texas Stadium today with a 31–20 rout of the punchless Cowboys. Dallas fell into a tie with the Washington Redskins for first place in the National Conference Eastern Division with a 4–2 record. St. Louis (3–3) beat the Cowboys on the road for the first time since 1977 and won for only the second time in Texas Stadium, where the Cardinals have lost 11 times. It was Dallas’s worst loss to St. Louis since a 38–0 whipping in a Monday night game in 1970. Lomax hit the wide receiver Roy Green with touchdown passes of 70 and 45 yards as St. Louis broke the game open with a 17-point third quarter. Green caught 8 passes for 189 yards. While Lomax was picking apart the one-on-one Dallas secondary coverage for more than 300 yards, a crippled Cardinal defense intercepted Gary Hogeboom twice and sacked him twice. Coach Tom Landry replaced Hogeboom with Danny White in the third period. White threw a 10-yard scoring pass to Fred Cornwell. “When you get whipped, you get whipped,” Landry said. “No excuses. We got knocked back all day. I put Danny White in there to try to get something to happen.” Asked if White would be his starter next week, Landry said, “I don’t know yet.”
Dan Fouts riddled the Green Bay secondary for 369 yards and three touchdowns to lead the San Diego Chargers to a 34–28 win over the Packers. The Chargers are 4–2. The Packers lost their fifth straight after an opening victory. Fouts completed 30 of 49 passes. It was the 38th time in his 12-year career that he has passed for more than 300 yards. San Diego’s Earnest Jackson rushed a club-record 31 times for 94 yards, while Kellen Winslow had a team-record 15 catches for 157 yards. Green Bay’s Lynn Dickey completed 25 of 39 passes for 384 yards and was intercepted twice. James Lofton had five Packer receptions for 158 yards, the 23d time he has had more than 100 passing yards.
The Buccaneers’ Steve DeBerg passed for two touchdowns and James Wilder ran for two to lead Tampa Bay to a 35–31 win over the Minnesota Vikings. Wilder scored on an 11- yard run in the second period to pull Tampa Bay into a 21–21 tie, and his 10- yard touchdown run in the final period put the game out of reach. The victory improved Tampa Bay’s record to 3–3. Minnesota fell to 2–4.
The Washington Redskins walloped the woeful Baltimore Colts, 35–7. Joe Theismann riddled the young Indianapolis pass defense with 17 completions in 20 attempts for 267 yards and four touchdowns. The victory, Washington’s fourth straight, raised the Redskins’ record to 4–2. Indianapolis is 2–4. Washington’s John Riggins, used sparingly after the first half, rushed for 94 yards and one touchdown, leaving him 24 yards short of becoming the fifth player in National Football League history to rush for 10,000 career yards. Theismann, who had passed for only four touchdowns in five previous games this season, had 162 yards in the second quarter alone as the Redskins broke from a 7–7 tie and turned the game into a rout.
Born:
Tavares Gooden, NFL linebacker (Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers, Houston Texans), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Ikuta Toma, Japanese singer and actor, in Hokkaido, Japan.
Died:
Hermann Schroeder, 80, German composer.
[34, Hell. Just put an “S” on his chest and be done with it.]
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