The Soviet Union’s major Communist party newspaper, Pravda, marked the 10th anniversary of the present Soviet leadership’s ouster of Nikita Khrushchev by stressing achievements in the decade. Pravda did not mention the late Mr. Khrushchev in its editorial, but it hailed the present leadership’s shunning of “subjectivism, voluntarism, posturing and fuss.”
Treasury Secretary William Simon arrived in Moscow to promote-Soviet-American business relations and soothe Kremlin anxieties over a controversial grain purchase from the United States. President Ford has announced he will block a $500 million grain sale to the Russians on grounds that the United States cannot spare the grain. But Simon told reporters he had “no instructions on grain” and did not know if he would renegotiate the grain contracts in terms more favorable to the Americans during his four-day visit.
More than 100 Soviet Jews from five cities have addressed an appeal to President Ford asking that he intercede on behalf of a Jewish activist who they contend has been falsely accused of responsibility for the injury of a young woman struck by his automobile last March. The activist, Viktor G. Polsky, a physicist who lost his job after having applied to emigrate to Israel, is expected by Jewish sources to go on trial Thursday at 11 AM Some witnesses have said the woman threw herself under his car in a suicide attempt after a quarrel with her parents. If convicted, Mr. Polsky could face up to three years in prison for the Soviet equivalent of reckless endangerment. The statement by 110 Jews, which was made available to Western newsmen here, asserted that the prosecution of Mr. Polsky was official revenge for “his active participation since 1970 in the struggle of Soviet Jews for their right to leave for Israel.”
A letter from a group of Western correspondents protesting mistreatment while covering an unofficial art show outside Moscow September 15 has been returned without comment by Soviet authorities. The letter, protesting police harassment, detention and assault on several correspondents, carried about two dozen signatures. It asked for assurances against such actions by police in the future and for a meeting with Foreign Ministry officials to discuss the problem.
The battered, bullet-riddled body of a young man was found outside Belfast. He was the 1,076th fatality in five years of violence in Northern Ireland and the fourth Roman Cathòlic murdered in the last three days. The Protestant Ulster Freedom Fighters claimed credit for the four deaths, which they said were in retaliation for recent bombings in Northern Ireland and England, widely thought to be the work of the Irish Republican Army.
More than 100,000 people assembled to pray for national peace and reconciliation at the huge outdoor sanctuary of Fatima, Portugal, where the Virgin Mary is said to have appeared before three peasant children 57 years ago. The political Left which took power last spring feared the event might provoke anti-clerical demonstrations but one security officer said all his men had found by noon were prayer books, rosaries and bedrolls.
A U.S. Senate subcommittee issued report today charging the Administration with using humanitarian relief on Cyprus for political ends. At the same time, a State Department memorandum has been obtained that tends to confirm these charges in emphasizing the “political advantages” to Washington and Ankara of relief aid to Cypriote refugees. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, chairman of the esnate subcomcommittee an refugees, charged the Ford Administration with providing humanitarian relief “in the context of promoting Turkish interests rather than in pursuing a resolution of the crisis which will permit the return of refugees to their homes.”
Secretary of State Kissinger, on leaving Tel Aviv for a flight to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, said he had reached agreement with Israeli leaders on principles and procedures that might be followed in the next round of Arab-Israeli talks toward a Middle East peace agreement. Mr. Kissinger went to Saudi Arabia for talks with King Faisal before returning to Egypt to meet President Sadat again. In a statment made at the Ben‐Gurion Airport in Israel before he flew to Saudi Arabia this afternoon, Mr. Kissinger provided no details on the apparent understanding reached in talks last night and this morning in Jerusalem with Israeli leaders.
But correspondents aboard Mr. Kissinger’s 707 jetliner were told that the “principles” would essentially provide that any agreement between Egypt and Israel or between Jordan and Israel would have to include further territorial concessions by Israel to the Arabs in return for political moves by the Arabs that would improve Israel’s security.
King Faisal of Saudi Arabia assured Secretary of State Kissinger today that his country would use its influence to try to bring down the world price of oil. He authorized Mr. Kissinger to state that he would take “constructive” steps in that direction. In an unexpected statement at the Riyadh airport before flying to the Egyptian capital, Mr. Kissinger told newsmen that he had explained the American view on high oil prices to the King, whose country is the world’s largest exporter of oil. With Foreign Minister Omar Saqqaf sitting next to him, Mr. Kissinger made the following statement: “I explained to His Majesty our view with respect to the price of oil and the impact this can have on the whole structure of the world economy and the stability of the whole international system. His Majesty’s attitude was constructive and enlightened. I believe the policy of the kingdom will be in a constructive direction keeping always in mind what we also believe that the ultimate solution must be found on a multilateral basis and cannot be found by isolated actions.”
About 1,000 South Vietnamese gathered at Tân Mỹ Church in Hóc Môn, about 10 miles from Saigon, to hear the Rev. Trần Hữu Thành denounce both the Việt Cộng and the South Vietnamese government and attack corruption among public officials. Police were present but did not interfere and there was no violence, Father Thành, a Redemptorist priest, began his campaign against the government a month ago and in some speeches has leveled charges of corruption at President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and demanded that he resign.
Tokyo was rocked with its second large bombing in two months today with an explosion on the third floor of the Mitsui Trading Company’s head office. Reports said that 15 persons had been injured. The first explosion occured in August when a noontime bombing at the head office of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries killed eight persons and injured more than 330. Despite an extensive police investigation the bombers, believed to be left‐wing radicals, have not been caught. Today’s explosion, at the home office of another major zaibatsu, or conglomerate, went off after three threatening telephone calls were received. That may have accounted for the relatively low casualties compared with the earlier bombing.
Signals believed to be from a missing U.S. Hercules weather reconnaissance plane with six people aboard were picked up by rescue aircraft over the South China Sea. A spokesman for Clark Air Base in the Philippines said that possible aircraft debris such as soundproofing material and an orange cushion were also sighted in stormy seas about 400 miles northwest of the base. The missing C-130 was on a typhoon-tracking mission when it failed to return to the base Sunday.
Pravda, the Soviet Communist Party newspaper, scoffed at Western press allegations that Russia is helping Peru prepare for an invasion of Chile. It cited reports that the new Lima-Moscow air route for Aeroflot, the Soviet airline, was a thinly disguised channel for military aid. Pravda said the reports had “with a stroke of a pen, transformed passenger flights into a military airlift” and called them “a smokescreen to divert the attention of the Latin American public to the events in Chile.”
Talks are expected to begin soon between the Portuguese and Angolans on the formation of a predominantly black coalition government, in preparation for the independence of this largest and richest of Portugal’s African territories. While no date has been set for negotiations — in which Portugal, Angolan guerrilla groups and the territory’s white minority will be represented — it is expected that talks will follow a formal cease‐fire Tuesday between Portugal and the strongest of the three guerrilla movements, the National Front for the Liberation of Angola. The guerrilla organization’s president, Holden Roberto — who announced the cease‐fire yesterday in Kinshasa, Zaire‐has said that he would enter talks with the Portuguese only after a cease‐fire. Angola’s two other guerrilla movements, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, both agreed to ceasefire some weeks ago.
The resignation of Leon Jaworski as special prosecutor, effective October 25, should have no effect on the Watergate cover-up trial, according to officials in his office, The government’s case will be outlined to the jury today. That task and others in the trial were assigned long ago by Mr. Jaworski to his team of assistants. Henry S. Ruth Jr., Mr. Jaworski’s deputy, spent the day today in his office, going over final preparations for the trial with James F. Neal, the associate special prosecutor, who heads the cover‐up prosecution team. Mr. Jaworski, who announced yesterday that he would resign, was in New York for the weekend. In his letter of resignation, he recommended that Mr. Ruth be appointed his successor.
The personal fortune of Nelson Rockefeller, which used to look like a political asset, now more and more looks like a liability. The Vice President-designate’s generosity, from which sundry friends and associates have benefited to the extent of nearly $2 million since 1957, has come under scrutiny from the congressional committees considering his nomination to be Vice President. The committees want to know whether Mr. Rockefeller spent the money in the public’s interest or in his own.
Senator Howard W. Cannon, chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, said yesterday that “in all probability” he would recall Vice President‐designate Nelson A. Rockefeller to testify before his committtee. The testimony, the Senator said, would concern $2‐million in gifts that the former Governor of New York had made to political associates, aides and friends from 1957 through 1974, and the use of his brother’s funds to produce in 1970 a derogatory book about his opponent, Arthur J. Goldberg, when the two were running for Governor in New York. Other Democrats in both the Senate and House responded to the revelations by expressing some doubt that Mr. Rockefeller would win confirmation as Vice President.
President Ford’s popularity rating has dropped 21 percentage points since he took office, the Gallup Poll reported. It represents the sharpest drop recorded for any President during his first two months. In the September 27-30 survey of 1,527 adults, 50% said they approved of the way Mr. Ford was handling his job, 28% disapproved and 22% had no opinion. In a survey taken a week after Mr. Ford assumed office, 71% had approved, 3% disapproved and 26% were undecided.
Senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas) said 50 senators had joined him in signing a letter to President Ford meant to head off a threatened veto of an education bill for Vietnam-era veterans. Dole said the veterans “have been particularly affected by the bite of inflation, as expressed in harsh increases in the cost of education, housing and other things essential to maintaining an acceptable lifestyle.”
About 500 persons marched from the predominantly black Roxbury section to Boston Common and held a rally to support school integration. Oversize black balloons bearing the message “Black Is Beautiful” flew from autos in the 70-car motorcade that followed the marchers on the 1½-mile route. The meeting broke up after an hour and the crowd dispersed without incident. Violence has plagued Boston since schools opened a month ago under a federal desegregation order requiring the busing of 18,200 of 92,000 pupils.
Senator Thomas F. Eagleton (D-Missouri) accused the Navy and Air Force chiefs of staff of keeping secret from Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger tests which disclosed that a new Air Force jet, the F-15, outperformed a Navy jet, the F-14, which costs far more to build. Eagleton said the F-14, with a projected price of $15.1 million, performed less than half as well as the $10.1 million F-15. The Pentagon denied Eagleton’s charges and said there had been no competitive fly-off, merely a familiarization program for test pilots. A spokesman for Grumman Aircraft Co. of New York, which makes the F-14, noted that the F-15 is built by McDonnell Douglas, which is headquartered in Eagleton’s hometown, St. Louis.
[Ed: What a moron. There is that little bit about the F-14 needing to land on a pitching carrier deck. An F-15 would be scrap very quickly, even if it had a tailhook.]
Only a new Arab oil embargo could precipitate a fuel crisis this winter, Federal Energy Administrator John Sawhill indicated, pointing out that existing stockpiles will be adequate even if the season is unusually cold. He added, however, that fuel prices will remain high, with electricity costs probably increasing.
Vandalism and thefts of ancient Indian stone carvings known as petroglyphs have been curtailed in the Mojave Desert, the Bureau of Land Management reported. The decrease in activity of this kind has been made possible by the addition of 29 new federal rangers to patrol the sites, a spokesman for the BLM office in Barstow, California said. Also, a “desert watch” established last December by several volunteer groups has helped protect the sites. “We also have plans to place some electronic sensing devices which would warn us of anyone in those areas,” said William Mortimer, area manager for the BLM.
School systems throughout the nation, now well into the new school year, are facing not only the familiar problems of rising costs and growing racial imbalance but also some new ones. These include an increase in student violence and a greater militancy by teachers seeking to protect their jobs in a declining market for teachers.
Major urban systems find a relentless decline in white enrollments leaving the schools increasingly segregated. In the suburbs, a sagging birth rate and a frozen home-buying market have brought a decline in the overall enrollment and sparked controversies over the closing of unneeded neighborhood schools.
Chief Justice Warren Burger, faced with the heaviest accumulation of unresolved cases in Supreme Court history, has called on Congress and the legal profession to find a way to bring under control the Court’s continually expanding workload. The Chief Justice said the high court’s annual caseload, which was 1,000 40 years ago and 2,000 25 years ago, had grown to more than 5,000 this year.
The United States Attorney General for New Jersey, Jonathan Goldstein, has spoken out sharply against the state’s referendum in the upcoming general election, which, if approved, would permit casino gambling. Mr. Goldstein said the state would receive “no benefits of any kind” from gambling casinos, adding that they would provide an economic resurgence for organized criminal elements and not for Atlantic City. The city is hoping that casino gambling will bring a general economic revival to the shore’s tourist center.
The Montgomery, Alabama police said today that two more men involved in a three‐hour shootout with the police yesterday had surrendered. Three men were arrested after the shootout and a tear gas attack by the police on a radio station that the men had seized. They are being held under $100,000 bond on charge of murder in the shotgun slaying of a retired city policeman. Officers said there originally were five persons in the group, but they split up when the shooting began. The three arrested were identified as Arthur Lewis, alias Arthur X; Reginald Robinson, alias Miliku Shabazz, and Julius Davis, alias Dawud Baciarah Allah.
American singer Frank Sinatra performed 11 songs at a Madison Square Garden concert, televised (live or on tape delay) throughout the Western Hemisphere as “Sinatra: The Main Event.”
The first Berlin Marathon was held, with 274 runners moving along a “mostly forested route through the city’s Grunewald forest.”
Hall of Fame outfielder Sam Rice dies at Rossmor, Maryland, at age 84, leaving a letter—opened at Cooperstown—confirming his controversial catch in the 1925 World Series. The letter, dated July 26, 1965, details the entire play and ends with Rice’s punch line, “at no time did I lose possession of the ball.”
The Cardinals trade Joe Torre to the Mets for pitchers Ray Sadecki and Tommy Moore. Torre will not solve the Mets’ third base problems but he will be named manager in 1977. When he retires he will be the second player (along with Gene Tenace) to play more than 500 games at catcher and at first base. He also plays more than 500 games at third base, the only player to do that.
NFL Football:
Jane Chastain became the first woman on U.S. television to be a commentator on a nationally-televised NFL game, appearing alongside play-by-play announcer Don Criqui and commentator Irv Cross on the CBS telecast of the New Orleans Saints playing against the Denver Broncos, to a mostly negative reception from the public.
New Orleans Saints 17, Denver Broncos 33
Chicago Bears 10, Atlanta Falcons 13
New England Patriots 24, New York Jets 0
Oakland Raiders 14, San Diego Chargers 10
Pittsburgh Steelers 34, Kansas City Chiefs 24
Cincinnati Bengals 34, Cleveland Browns 24
Buffalo Bills 27, Baltimore Colts 14
Miami Dolphins 17, Washington Redskins 20
Houston Oilers 10, Minnesota Vikings 51
Dallas Cowboys 28, St. Louis Cardinals 31
Los Angeles Rams 6, Green Bay Packers 17
New York Giants 7, Philadelphia Eagles 35
The Denver Broncos defeated the New Orleans Saints, 33–17. Steve Ramsey took advantage of his first starting assignment at quarterback in two years to throw a pair of touchdown passes against his former teammates, the Saints. Ramsey, who connected on 17 of 26 passes for 291 yards, hit Riley Odoms with a 3-yard scoring toss and Billy Van Heusen with a 43-yarder. Otis Armstrong also tallied for Denver on a pair of short runs. New Orleans touchdowns came on a 24-yard run by Terry Schmidt and a 1-yard plunge by Tod McNeil.
Nick Mike-Mayer booted a 31-yard field goal with 6 seconds remaining to lift the Falcons to a 13–10 victory, winning their second straight game after a three-game losing streak. The Bears scored all their points in the final period on a 59-yard touchdown pass from Gary Huff to Bo Rather and a 37-yard field goal by Miro Roder. The Falcons had built a 10-0 lead on a 1-yard scoring sneak by Bob Lee and a 35-yard field goal by Mike-Mayer.
The Jets were at Shea Stadium for their home opener yesterday in appearance only and they encountered an unbeaten New England team that easily won its fifth game, 24–0. The Patriots’ defense mercilessly battered Joe Namath and handed the Jets their first shutout in the 100 games they have played at home in their 15‐year history. The outcome, which was the Jets’ fourth loss in five games, represented a stunning reversal of form from when the teams last met. The Jets had won eight straight times over the Patriots at Shea, 14 times in the previous 15 games on all fields and in the 14 games in which Namath played, the Jets had a 12–1–1 won‐lost‐tied record. The difference in the latest encounter was a Patriot defense that seemed to come at Namath from all sides, but mostly his left. Having been dumped for losses only three times in the first four games, Namath was sacked four times, twice by Julius Adams, one of three linemen the Patriots use in the new defensive system that has helped turn the team around. On offense, fullback Sam Cunningham ran for two Patriot touchdowns.
The Oakland Raiders edged the San Diego Chargers, 14–10. Oakland rebuffed San Diego’s bid for an upset when Ken Stabler passed 4 yards to Bob Moore in the end zone early in the fourth quarter to overcome a 10–7 San Diego lead. Earlier Stabler had thrown a 46-yard scoring pass to Cliff Branch who had seven receptions for 124 yards. The Chargers tallied on a 52-yard run by Don Woods and a 42-yard field goal by Ray Wersching
The Steelers beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 34–2. Pittsburgh’s defenders intercepted seven passes — three by Glen Edwards, the safety — to frustrate the Chiefs before a booing crowd of 65,517 at Arrowhead Stadium. Edwards, with the Steelers leading, 14-10, in the second period, grabbed a pass from Mike Livingston and ran 43 yards for a touchdown. Livingston, though, tossed three scoring passes to Barry Pearson, Otis Taylor and Elmo Wright. Pittsburgh’s other touchdowns came on runs by Rocky Bleier and Preston Pearson and a 31-yard pass from Joe Gilliam to Frank Lewis.
The Cincinnati Bengals downed the Cleveland Browns, 34–24. Cincinnati scored its first triumph in Cleveland after four losses and maintained its slim lead over Pittsburgh in the Central Division of the AFC. Ken Anderson threw three touchdown passes and ran 19 yards himself for a score. Cleveland scored spectacularly in the final quarter when Greg Pruitt, a running back, tossed a 60-yard touchdown pass to Gloster Richardson.
The Buffalo Bills topped the Baltimore Colts, 27–14, for the second time this season and set up an important game next week against the Patriots in Buffalo. The Bills, who trail New England by one game, could not nail down yesterday’s victory until Larry Watkins crashed over the I goal line with 1 minute to play. O. J. Simpson gained 127 yards on 23 carries and Joe Ferguson completed 11 of 27 passes for 155 yards to pace the Bills. The Colts scored on a 9-yard run by Bert Jones and a 6-yard carry by Lydell Mitchell.
Sonny Jurgensen, back in his old slot as the starting quarterback, marched the Washington Redskins 60 yards in 90 seconds yesterday, hitting six of seven passes. His final completion — 6 yards to Larry Smith — gave the Redskins the winning touchdown in a 20–17 victory over the Miami Dolphins at Washington. The 40-year-old passing ace reclaimed the starting job from Billy Kilmer after a strong relief performance last week against Cincinnati. He completed 26 of 39 tosses against the Dolphins for 303 yards and two touchdowns. Early in the fourth quarter, he hit Roy Jefferson for 37 yards and a touchdown. On the last-minute drive Jurgensen threw completions to Moses Denson, Smith, Charley Taylor and Jefferson. After his only miss on the march, he hit Taylor with 16 seconds left.
Minnesota won its fifth straight game with Fran Tarkenton passing for three touchdowns, as the Vikings crushed the hapless Houston Oilers, 51–10. They went to John Gilliam (80 yards), Stu Voight (8 yards) and Chuck Foreman (24 yards). Foreman also scored on a 6-yard run. Tarkenton completed 18 of 24 passes for 274 yards before leaving midway in the third period. Houston tallied on a 29-yard field goal by Skip Butler and a short plunge by Vic Washington.
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Dallas Cowboys for their fifth straight, victory. The score was 31–28 and the Cowboys went down fighting, losing on a field goal with 62 seconds to play. Terry Metcalf, a vestpocket pest, ran a kickoff back 56 yards to the Dallas 35 and six plays later Jim Bakken kicked a 31‐yard field goal for the winning score. It was the third time this season that Dallas had lost on a field goal in the, last minute or so. More important the Cowboys now have a won‐lost record of 1–4, which puts them four full games behind the Cardinals in their division with nine games left. When the N.F.L. eight‐team playoffs come in December the familiar Dallas colors of silver and blue may be absent for the first time in eight years, which would end the longest run, of success in N.F.L. history. The Cardinals, undefeated, untied and largely unsung, ran off the field accompanied by the verbal adulation of a full stadium in one of the few cities of the United States that has never before experienced the heady enthusiasm that goes with a winning pro football team. The Cards have long been losers. The last time this team won a title was 26 years ago and the club’s hometown then was Chicago.
A strong Green Bay Packers’ defense limited the Los Angeles Rams to a pair of field goals by David Ray, as the Packers won, 17– 6. Four pass interceptions — three by all-pro linebacker Ted Hendricks — frustrated the Ram offense. The Packers tallied on a 68-yard punt return for a touchdown by Jon Staggers, a 5-yard plunge by John Brockington and a 32-yard field goal by Chester Marcol. Larry McCutcheon, the league’s leading ground gainer, rushed for 109 yards on 21 carries for Los Angeles.
The New York Giants tried a face‐lifting for their offense with Jim Del Gaizo at quarterback today, but the wrinkles of despair continued in a 35–7 defeat to the Philadelphia Eagles. This time, the New Yorkers could not even claim they were in contention until the closing minutes. What did emerge from the Eagles’ fourth victory in five games was their offensive punch, which accounted for 387 yards. Tom Sullivan scored three times and Roman Gabriel threw his first two touchdown passes of the season. Gabriel’s second‐quarter scoring toss of 4 yards to Don Zimmerman came with 26 seconds left in the first half and broke a 7–7 tie. It followed a 22‐yard return of a Del Gaizo pass by John Outlaw, the Eagle left cornerback. Why the Giants were passing from their 20‐yard line in the final 70 seconds when they could have left with the score tied at halftime and the opportunity to receive the second‐half kickoff was a mystery.
The Los Angeles Dodgers, behind Don Sutton, even the 1974 World Series with a 3–2 Game 2 win over the A’s. Don Sutton pitched superbly, shutting out the A’s on four hits through eight innings. The Dodgers scored first in the second off Vida Blue when Ron Cey walked, Bill Russell singled, and Steve Yeager singled home Cey. Joe Ferguson slammed a two-run homer off Blue in the sixth inning to make it 3–0. The A’s threatened in the eighth when pinch hitters Jim Holt and Claudell Washington hit back-to-back singles with one out. Bert Campaneris reached on an infield error to load the bases. The rally was squelched when Bill North hit into a double play in which first baseman Steve Garvey made an exceptional pickup of a low throw by Russell. In the ninth inning the A’s finally got on the board when Sal Bando led off with being hit by a pitch, Reggie Jackson followed with a double, and Joe Rudi singled both runners home. Mike Marshall then relieved Sutton and struck out Gene Tenace. Herb Washington was sent in to pinch-run for Rudi, and Marshall picked him off. Herb Washington was the only “designated runner” to appear in a World Series. Washington was a track star with no baseball experience whom the A’s Charles Finley signed solely to appear as a pinch runner in late game situations. His stats for 1974 were 92 games, zero at bats, 29 runs scored, 29 stolen bases, but he was caught stealing 16 times. Sure enough, with the A’s trailing 3–2 in the ninth inning of Game 2, Washington pinch ran. Just after announcer Vin Scully said that Washington better be careful because pitcher Mike Marshall has a good pickoff move, he was promptly picked off first base. Marshall then retired Ángel Mangual for the final out.
Born:
Hawick Lau, Hong Kong Chinese actor (“Sealed with a Kiss”) and singer, in British Hong Kong.
Shiraz Tal, Israeli fashion model, in Netanya, Israel.
Skip Hicks, NFL running back (Washington Redskins, Tennessee Titans), in Corsicana, Texas.
Died:
Ed Sullivan, 73, U.S. newspaper columnist and TV host known for the variety series “The Toast of the Town” (later renamed “The Ed Sullivan Show”), of esophageal cancer at the age of 73.
Sam Rice (born Edgar Charles Rice), 84, American baseball pitcher and outfielder (Washington Senators), enshrinee of the Baseball Hall of Fame, of cancer.
Wojciech Rubinowicz (aka Adalbert Rubinowicz), 85, Polish theoretical physicist known for the Maggie-Rubinowicz representation for which scalar and electromagnetic fields are interpreted as a transformation of a surface integral into a line integral.
Otto Binder, 63, American science fiction, non-fiction and comic book writer, co-creator of Supergirl, of a heart attack.
P. Schuyler Miller, 62, American science fiction writer and critic.
Anatoli Kozhemyakin, 21, Soviet Russian footballer who had played for the Soviet national team, in an elevator accident.
Marcel André, 89, prolific French film actor known for playing Belle’s father in La Belle et la Bête.
Reuven Rubin, 81, Romanian-born Israeli painter and diplomat.
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