The Brighton blast was the second plot by the I.R.A. to kill Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, according to The Sunday Press. The Dublin newspaper said the first attempt, planned for last year during the Conservative Party conference, was abandoned at the last minute because of a snag in the planning. A special I.R.A. bomb unit formed for the attack was manned by British-born rather than Irish volunteers, the paper said. It cited no sources for its information. According to The Sunday Press, members of the squad who carried out the attack Friday at the Grand Hotel in Brighton visited the building several times well in advance of the Conservative Party conference there to familiarize themselves with the layout. Only then, the paper said, did they plant the device that killed four people, including one Member of Parliament and the wife of another, and wounded 32 people, several of them seriously. Mrs. Thatcher escaped injury.
It was the most serious assault against the upper echelon of the British Government since 1605, when Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament and King James I.
Scotland Yard warned, meanwhile, that the Brighton explosion might be only the beginning of an autumn offensive by the Irish guerrillas. Commander Bill Hucklesby, the head of the antiterrorist squad, said politicians, judges and military leaders should be especially carefully protected from attempted assasination in coming weeks.
Poland’s Roman Catholic bishops have accused the Communist government of encouraging abortion, charging that “terrorism is raging in our country against the immense number of helpless unborn.” The bishops said in a pastoral letter read in churches that the government is encouraging abortion by fanning anxiety over the economic consequences of a rapid rise in population, which is expected to grow from 37 million to 41 million by the end of the century. Abortion up to the 12th week of pregnancy has been legal in Poland since 1956.
A member of the Soviet Union’s ruling Politburo appears to have confirmed speculation that a former Soviet chief of staff, Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, has been given command of Soviet forces in the western part of the Soviet Union. Grigory V. Romanov said in a speech in Helsinki marking the 40th anniversary of Finland’s World War II armistice with the Soviets that “Marshal Ogarkov commands the Soviet Union’s largest western forces.” Ogarkov was suddenly replaced last month as chief of staff, with no official explanation for his removal.
20 years ago, Nikita S. Khrushchev became the only Soviet leader to be removed from office. He officially faded into oblivion, although his legacy lives on through programs and ideas that no longer are associated with his name. The only Soviet leader to be removed from office, Khrushchev was recalled the day before from a vacation at his Black Sea villa near the town of Gagra and read out of the leadership at a sometimes abrasive meeting of the Communist Party Presidium. On October 14, 1964, Leonid I. Brezhnev succeeded him in the top post of party First Secretary, and Aleksei N. Kosygin was named Prime Minister, inaugurating a turn toward a low-key style of leadership that has continued, in contrast to Khrushchev’s flamboyant style, ever since.
Yet to a remarkable extent, a Khrushchev legacy lives on, though his programs and ideas are not associated with his name. Diplomats in Moscow, looking back over the last two decades, say they see a continuation of some of his main policy changes and the reappearance of others. “He saw the need for change,” a diplomat said, “but overestimated his ability to carry it out.”
President Reagan places a call to Queen Elizabeth.
Guerrillas attacked three Israeli patrols in southern Lebanon, wounding at least five Israeli soldiers, Beirut radio said. Israel Armed Forces radio reported only two attacks and said two Lebanese were killed but acknowledged no Israeli casualties. Israeli media, meanwhile, said winter clothing and supplies are being shipped to troops in southern Lebanon, indicating that there is little likelihood of plans for an early withdrawal of the occupation force.
Jordan’s King Hussein has informed U.S. officials that he expects to turn to the Soviet Union for arms later this year, after unsuccessful efforts to buy U.S. weapons, the Washington Post reported. Credit terms are believed to be an important factor in Hussein’s attitude, the newspaper said, quoting an unnamed U.S. official as saying that most countries other than the United States and the Soviet Union require cash on delivery in arms deals. Jordan last bought arms from Moscow three years ago, but Washington officials said they expect a far larger purchase this time.
Libya has sent strong protests to the United States and Britain over legal actions taken against Libyan students, the official Libyan press agency said today. The Belgian charge d’affaires and the Italian Ambassador, who respectively look after American and British interests in Tripoli, were summoned today to the Foreign Ministry to receive the protests, the press agency said. Libya complained about a court ruling in the United States against two students on charges that it said were “fabricated by American intelligence.” The protest note demanded the immediate return of the students to Libya, the press agency said. A Federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced two Libyan students to seven and eight years in jail on Friday after they pleaded guilty of buying three handguns equipped with silencers from an undercover Federal agent. In the protest to Britain, Libya complained of the arrest of a student named as Omran al-Zuweid, calling it “arbitrary, unjustified and inhuman,” the press agency said. The note demanded a full explanation.
A spokesman for Scotland Yard said a Libyan arrested in Birmingham on Thursday was released tonight after antiterrorist officers questioned him about bombings in London last March. Scotland Yard did not identify the man, but said he was neither charged nor deported.
Afghan authorities, plagued by increasing urban guerrilla attacks, appear to be trying to introduce a Soviet-style internal passport system, Afghan exiles in neighboring Pakistan said. Travelers from Kabul and areas to the east said that security officials have urged residents to register for new identity cards. That drive was coupled with new orders for all Afghans to seek official permission for travel outside their cities. The exiles said the moves seemed intended to cut the link between rebels in cities and countryside.
Bangladesh opposition leaders, addressing hundreds of thousands of people at rallies in Dhaka, announced a non-cooperation campaign to try to force the martial law government of President Hussain Mohammed Ershad to meet their conditions for elections. The two main opposition alliances called for a 24-hour national strike on Dec. 8, the date set by Ershad for parliamentary elections, which the opposition says it will boycott unless martial law ends. They also said they will stage two weeks of resistance starting October 27, and they urged people to stop paying taxes December 9. Mustafa Jamal Haider, a senior leader of the seven-party group, estimated that at least a million people came to Mosque Square for its rally. The crowd 3.5 miles away at Parliament Square for the rally held by the 15-party alliance was said to be larger, and more than 250,000 people were reported to have attended the Jamat- e-Islami rally in the Motijheel commercial area.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz is due to travel to Canada Monday for a 23-hour visit that officials say is intended to maintain a rapid improvement in relations with Canada’s new Progressive Conservative Government. It will be the first opportunity for Mr. Shultz to review with the new Foreign Secretary, Joe Clark, the disputes between the two nations that arose under the Liberal governments of Pierre Elliott Trudeau and John N. Turner. The new Government, led by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who was elected last month, has pleased the United States by moving quickly to bolster Canada’s armed forces and by promising to revise nationalistic investment policies. The two sides could also discuss progress in a longstanding dispute over salmon quotas on the Pacific coast. There is no indication of any movement on an impasse over acid rain. Canada wants smokestack emissions in the Midwest reduced immediately, and the Reagan Administration insists that more study is needed.
Leaders of Eskimos who live in northern Quebec are protesting the refusal by the province’s Premier, Rene Levesque, to hold an independent public inquiry into the drowning of 9,600 caribous during the annual migration earlier this month. The provincial Environment Department’s plan to hold an internal investigation denies the Eskimos the right to “question the type of environmental and social standards that the government, and its agencies, is applying in our region,” Mary Simon, spokesman for the Makivik Corporation, which represents the interests of the Eskimos, said Saturday. The caribous drowned while fording the Caniapiscau River. At a news conference Friday, Mr. Levesque ruled out a public inquiry, saying he agreed with the provincial power utility that heavy rains had raised the water level in the river. The Eskimos have said the power company released too much water from its dams from June through September, bringing the rivers up to spring flood levels.
Two Salvadoran rebel leaders flew to El Salvador, setting the stage for their meeting with President Jose Napoleon Duarte. The leaders, Guillermo Manuel Ungo and Ruben Zamora, are the top officials of the rebel opposition. Mr. Ungo said that they came “to start a dialogue” that will “win peace for our homeland.” Mr. Ungo and Mr. Zamora arrived safely this evening in this northern town, the site of the talks. They were escorted on the 70-mile trip from the airport by International Red Cross officials.
Men of similar backgrounds will meet during the talks scheduled between President Duarte and leaders of the Salvadoran left. In the past, Mr. Duarte and the leftist rebel leaders, Guillermo Ungo and Ruben Zamora, all supported peaceful change in El Salvador’s dictatorship, but they veered to sharply different paths in their efforts to remedy their country’s social injustices.
A manual for Nicaraguan rebels has been produced by the CIA, according to intelligence officials. The manual, written in Spanish, encourages the hiring of criminals for “selective jobs” and suggests that some government officials can be “neutralized” with the “selective use of violence.”
A new labor contract was agreed to by negotiators for the Ford Motor Company and the United Automobile Workers Union, and union officials said its pact with the General Motors Corporation had been ratified by 57 percent of the rank and file. The tentative agreement with Ford, reached after a 24-hour bargaining session, resembles the one reached at General Motors.
No large Republican gain is likely in the House of Representatives as a result of the revival of the Democratic Presidential campaign after last Sunday’s debate, according to strategists in both parties. Walter F. Mondale’s strong performance in his televised debate with President Reagan appears to have altered the dynamics of the Congressional battle.
Walter F. Mondale criticized President Reagan’s plan to test and deploy space-based anti-missile systems as a “hoax” and questioned Mr. Reagan’s understanding of the complexities arms control. The remarks came on a day in which Democratic and Republican aides assessed on television news shows the impact of last Sunday’s debate.
Efforts to stop Soviet eavesdropping were initiated by President Reagan, who has accepted intelligence estimates that show such eavesdropping represents a serious security threat to the United States. Mr. Reagan ordered the creation of a cabinet-level council that will head an intense government campaign to combat the loss of both government and private industry information.
Engineers began a detailed inspection of the space shuttle Challenger to determine whether it suffered much damage during its successful eight-day orbital trip. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a preliminary look after Saturday’s picture-perfect landing at the Kennedy Space Center showed that the space plane received some minor nicks on a few of its thermal protection tiles, which keep the craft from burning up when re-entering the atmosphere.
An “alarming” increase in cancer deaths has shown up in rural counties where employment in petroleum and chemical industries has risen in the last 25 years, a New York research group said. The finding suggests a stronger link between toxic waste and cancer than previously shown, the Council on Economic Priorities, a private research center on public policy, said in a preliminary report on a five-year study. Cancer deaths increased 265% from 1950 to 1975 in 59 rural counties with large concentrations of chemical and petroleum industries, the council said. The increase was 148% in 71 industrialized urban counties.
One inmate was found stabbed to death in a shower and five others suffered minor stab wounds in the Darrington Unit prison in Rosharon, Texas, one day after seven prisoners were injured and one was killed in racial violence at another Texas prison. The weekend incidents raised to 20 the number of inmates killed so far this year in Texas prisons. The body of David Paul Alto, 26, was found with 24 stab wounds not long after a disturbance in the Darrington Unit’s main hallway, where the other five inmates were wounded, said Texas Department of Corrections spokesman Phil Guthrie.
A Federal crime legislation package that was passed by Congress before it adjourned last week gives the government the most far-reaching authority in more than a decade. The legislation, which was attached to a spending bill and was signed into law Friday by President Reagan, authorizes preventative detention of allegedly dangerous defendants before trial for the first time, abolishes parole and overhauls the Federal bail and sentencing systems.
New ways to prevent illegal aliens from slipping into the society are being tried by the border patrol in El Paso, Texas, in an effort to control the tide of illegal aliens crossing the Mexican border. Border patrol officials criticized the demise of the immigration bill in Congress, calling it “a real disaster.”
A tentative settlement was reached late tonight in the 20-day strike of Disneyland ride operators and other workers, and five striking unions were scheduled to vote on the agreement Tuesday, a Federal mediator said. “Disneyland has modified their offer and a tentative agreement has just been reached between Disneyland and master services union,” the mediator, Bonnie Castrey, said after meeting with both sides for more than nine hours. “Terms are being withheld pending notification of the membership.” The strike was called September 26 after the unions rejected a two-year wage freeze. International presidents of the five striking unions announced Friday that their 4.1 million members nationwide would boycott both Disneyland and the Disney World amusement park in Orlando, Florida.
Thousands of drunken Kansas State University football fans in Manhattan, celebrating a victory over their archrival, the University of Kansas, attacked police shortly after midnight Saturday in a violent outburst in which several officers were injured and 25 persons were arrested, police said. As many as 8,000 fans, most of them students, had packed into a two-square-block area of shops and bars known as Aggieville to celebrate Kansas State’s 24–7 victory over Kansas and possession of the Governor’s Cup.
An Illinois man stole a police car, used it to pull over another car, killed the motorist and drove to Iowa, where he killed himself, the police said today. The incident began early today in North Chicago, Illinois, about 35 miles north of Chicago, when Mario Rosado hailed a police officer and reported a traffic accident, according to Dave Williams of the Illinois State Police. Mr. Rosado, 22 years old, of nearby Waukegan, got into the squad car and directed the officer to the site. When the officer got out to investigate, Mr. Rosado sped off in the patrol car, Mr. Williams said. Near the northwest suburb of Arlington Heights, Mr. Rosado turned on the police car’s flashing lights and pulled up behind Walter Smith, 24, of Schaumburg. Mr. Rosado killed Mr. Smith and stole his car, Mr. Williams said. Mr. Rosado led police on a high- speed chase in the afternoon on Interstate 80 from near Newton, Iowa, to about 15 miles east of Des Moines, said Sgt. John Abeltins of the Iowa State Police. Mr. Rosado then shot himself, Sergeant Abeltins said.
Striking Yale University workers were out on the picket lines in force as more than 1,000 parents visited the Ivy League campus in New Haven, Connecticut, for the annual Parents’ Weekend. More than 1,600 clerical and technical workers who are negotiating their first contract with Yale walked off their jobs September 26 over what they say is the issue of comparable worth. They allege that Yale underpays jobs traditionally held by women and minorities, a claim the university denies.
A tongue infection found in male homosexuals appears to be a possible “early warning sign” of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, researchers at the University of California at San Francisco report. Nine of the 37 homosexual men on whose tongues the infection was found developed AIDS a month to 19 months later, the researchers reported in the British medical journal The Lancet. The infection is characterized by small painless whitish patches. The team named it hairy leukoplakia because the patches are covered with tiny projections resembling hairs.
Rock ‘n’ roll entertainer Jerry Lee Lewis goes on trial today in federal court in Memphis, Tennessee, charged with evading $994,000 in taxes by concealing income and assets from the Internal Revenue Service from 1975 to 1980. The government alleges that Lewis kept funds and personal property in the names of other people. If convicted, he would face a prison term of up to five years and a $10,000 fine.
Sulfites may cause “allergic-type” reactions in asthmatics, according to a federally financed study. The panel said it was suspected that four deaths were linked to the food preservative, but did not recommend a ban. The panel said that warnings should be placed on food labels and notices posted in restaurants where sulfited foods are served.
Waters whipped by Hurricane Josephine sent a cabin cruiser crashing into a jetty, forced Coast Guard workers to leave two lighthouses and flooded roads in eastern Long Island and New Jersey before the storm turned away from shore. The storm, the season’s third Atlantic hurricane, is packing 85 mph winds at its center; gales stretch for several hundred miles. At last report Josephine was centered about 400 miles east of Norfolk, Virginia. The hurricane was moving east at 12 mph.
NFL Football:
The Cleveland Browns’ Ozzie Newsome sets club records with 14 receptions for 191 yds, in 24–20 loss to the visiting New York Jets.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7, Detroit Lions 13
San Diego Chargers 13, Kansas City Chiefs 31
Minnesota Vikings 20, Los Angeles Raiders 23
Los Angeles Rams 28, New Orleans Saints 10
Houston Oilers 10, Miami Dolphins 28
Cincinnati Bengals 14, New England Patriots 20
New York Giants 19, Atlanta Falcons 7
New York Jets 24, Cleveland Browns 20
Indianapolis Colts 7, Philadelphia Eagles 16
Pittsburgh Steelers 20, San Francisco 49ers 17
Chicago Bears 21, St. Louis Cardinals 38
Buffalo Bills 28, Seattle Seahawks 31
Dallas Cowboys 14, Washington Redskins 34
The Detroit Lions defeated the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 13–7. Gary Danielson passed 37 yards to the wide receiver Leonard Thompson for a touchdown 4:34 into overtime for the victory that ended the Lions’ four-game losing streak. The score culminated a 4-play, 59-yard drive that was set up when the defensive lineman William Gay recovered James Wilder’s second fumble of the game on the Lions’ 41. “I probably wanted to win this one more than any game I ever wanted to win,” Danielson said. “I told everybody when we went into overtime, ‘What’s the difference between 1–6 and 2–5?’ There was no pressure.” Each team’s kicker missed fourth-quarter field-goal attempts. Tampa Bay’s Obed Ariri missed a 42-yarder as regulation time ran out. Earlier, the Lions’ Eddie Murray missed a 32-yard attempt. Danielson, who replaced the injured Eric Hipple with 6:09 remaining in the first half, tied the score at 7–7 on an 18-yard run late in the second quarter.
The Kansas City Chiefs thumped the San Diego Chargers, 31–13. Bill Kenney came off the bench in the second half to pass for 238 yards and two touchdowns in his season debut for the Chiefs. Kenney, who passed for a club-record 4,348 yards en route last season, suffered a broken thumb on his passing hand in the final exhibition game and sat out the first six games of the regular season. The Chargers failed to score an offensive touchdown with Dan Fouts at quarterback for the first time in 68 games since 1979. Kenney was summoned midway through the third quarter with the Chiefs clinging to a 13–10 lead and Todd Blackledge struggling to move the team. Kenney completed 13 of 22 passes with scores of 18 yards to Stephone Paige and 5 yards to Ed Beckman. Kenney completed his first four passes and five of his first six to move the Chiefs 66 yards to the San Diego 25. But the cornerback Gill Byrd stepped in front of the tight end Willie Scott to intercept a Kenney pass and returned it 99 yards to give the Chargers a 17–13 lead. Undaunted, Kenney completed a 51-yard pass to Carson on the next offensive play to move the Chiefs to the San Diego 20. Three plays later, Kenney threw the 18-yard touchdown pass to Paige to put ahead for good at 17–13.
Chris Bahr made the winning 20-yard field goal at the final gun to lift the Los Angeles Raiders to a 23–20 win over the Minnesota Vikings. He earlier made field goals from 22 and 24 yards and had a 44-yard attempt blocked in the first period. Marcus Allen scored on a short run to open the fourth quarter, and in the closing minutes the Raiders forced Minnesota to punt from its end zone. Los Angeles got the ball at the Vikings’ 37 with 3 minutes left and began the winning drive.
The Los Angeles Rams walloped the New Orleans Saints, 28–10. Eric Dickerson rushed for 164 yards, including a 69-yard run that set up a touchdown, and Jeff Kemp passed for three touchdowns for the Rams, who had a 21-point second quarter. Those scores came on passes of 25 yards to Drew Hill and 13 yards to Henry Ellard, and a 33-yard return of an interception of a Richard Todd pass by the safety Nolan Cromwell. Coach Bum Phillips of the Saints alternated Todd and Ken Stabler as well as the running backs Earl Campbell and George Rogers throughout the game. But the Saints had only 95 yards rushing and three of their passes were intercepted. In the first half, Todd completed 8 of 13, with two being intercepted, for 75 yards, and Stabler completed 1 of 8 passes, with one being intercepted, for 8 yards. Todd did not play in the second half, with Stabler taking over. Stabler finished with 17 of 36 passes completed for 148 yards. By the end of the third quarter, Saints’ fans were chanting: “Wilson. Wilson.” Dave Wilson, the No. 1 draft choice out of Illinois three years ago, has not played this season. For the game, Rogers got 11 yards on 5 carries, and Campbell, who was acquired from the Houston Oilers in a trade last week, had 19 yards on 5 carries. Afterward, Dickerson said pointedly about alternating Rogers and Campbell: “You can’t split the ball in half.” Kemp, who completed only 8 of 19 passes for 243 yards and did not throw in the final 19 minutes, got a handshake and praise in the dressing room from his father, Representative Jack Kemp, the New York Republican and the former American Football League quarterback, who was on a campaign trip here.
The unbeaten Miami Dolphins won their seventh game today when Dan Marino passed for three touchdowns and 321 yards in the 28–10 triumph over the Houston Oilers. Marino, increasing his season totals to 2,074 yards and 20 touchdowns, completed 25 of 32 passes, including scores of 27 yards to Mark Clayton; 17 yards to Mark Duper and 32 yards to Nat Moore, who tied a club record for career touchdowns with 57. Houston, 0–7 under the first-year Coach Hugh Campbell, lost for the 29th time in its last 32 games. The rookie Joe Carter, a fourth- round draft choice from Alabama, ran for a touchdown, his first as a professional, and 105 yards, becoming the first Dolphin to gain 100 yards since Andra Franklin in 1982. “He’s a young guy and this is a whole new world for him. Today he helped us immensely,” said Coach Don Shula said. Marino completed 18 of 20 passes for 218 yards in the first half, but the Dolphins could only manage a 7–0 lead on Clayton’s sixth touchdown reception of the season. The Dolphins’ 515 total yards was their third-highest ever.
Tony Eason scrambled 25 and 13 yards for touchdowns as the New England Patriots earned their fourth come-from-behind victory, beating Cincinnati, 20–14. After Boomer Esiason’s two touchdown passes lifted the Bengals to a 14–3 halftime lead, the Patriots surged ahead with 3:52 gone in the fourth quarter on Eason’s 25-yard run on a third-and-8 play. It was his fourth rushing touchdown of the season. The victory gave the Patriots their first three-game winning streak since 1980.
The New York Giants started two rookie linebackers today against the potent Atlanta Falcons, seemingly an invitation to disaster. Instead, the rookies led a strong, opportunistic defensive performance that helped the Giants achieve a 19–7 upset victory. The rookies were Carl Banks, 22 years old, 6 feet 4 inches tall, 235 pounds and a first-round draft choice, on the left outside, and Gary Reasons, 22, 6-4, 234 and a fourth-round choice, on the left inside. Banks was there because Andy Headen was injured, Reasons because Joe McLaughlin had not been playing well. “Before the game,” said Banks, “when Gary and I were standing in the tunnel, we told each other, ‘Let’s go have a good one.’ ” And they did. In the first quarter, Banks helped the Giants stop the Falcons four times from the 1-yard line and then recovered a Falcon fumble. In the last quarter, Reasons broke up a fourth-down pass and then intercepted a pass, leading to a 34-yard field goal by Ali Haji-Shiekh. The Giants, after two bad losses to the Los Angeles Rams and the San Francisco 49ers, improved their record to 4–3. The victory, said Coach Bill Parcells, put them back “in pretty good shape.” The Falcons, 5-point favorites, are now 3–4. The 50,268 spectators in Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium sat in 82-degree heat and high humidity and watched their team fall victim to big plays. The Giants intercepted Steve Bartkowski three times, and each play was significant.
“Now I know what it’s like to be in a gas chamber,” Cleveland Browns’ coach Sam Rutligliano said after a 24–20 loss to the New York Jets. “We were suffocated by our own mistakes.” Rookie Tony Paige plunged one yard with 5:39 left for the winning touchdown to hand the Browns their third straight loss. Matt Bahr put the Browns (1–6) ahead, 20–17, with an 18-yard kick 2:26 into the fourth quarter. But he later sailed a 31-yard attempt wide right for his sixth miss in 16 attempts this season, and the Jets (5–2) took over on their 20. Pat Ryan guided them 80 yards in 12 plays, including a 26-yard pass to Johnny Hector, to Paige’s score. Ryan completed 11 of 26 passes for 145 yards but threw three interceptions. Hector led the Jets with career-highs of 10 carries for 97 yards and three receptions for 42 yards. Freeman McNeil, the AFC’s leading rusher, had 11 carries for 54 yards and scored twice in the first half. He sat out much of the second half with sore ribs. Cleveland’s Paul McDonald hit 25 of 37 passes for 299 yards but was sacked five times, including twice in the closing minute by Mark Gastineau, the NFL sack leader with 12.
The Philadelphia Eagles downed the Indianapolis Colts, 16–7. Ron Jaworski, playing only the first half, directed drives for a touchdown and two field goals for the Eagles. Jaworski, who played with a pad protecting a cracked rib, suffered back spasms as the result of a hit by the linebacker Vernon Maxwell on which the Colts were assessed a roughing-the-passer penalty. Before he left, Jaworski completed 29 of 21 passes for 194 yards. He threw a 6-yard scoring to Mike Quick at the end of an 11-play, 65-yard first-period drive for a 7–0 lead. The Eagles made it 13–0 in the second quarter on 34- and 32-yard field goals by Paul McFadden after drives stalled at the 17- and 14-yard lines.
The linebacker Bryan Hinkle’s one-handed interception and return of 43 yards set up the winning 21-yard field goal by Gary Anderson with 1:42 to play as the Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the San Francisco 49ers, 20–17. The 49ers (6–1) suffered their first loss of the season, leaving the Miami Dolphins as the only unbeaten team in the National Football League. San Francisco’s Ray Wersching missed a 37-yard field goal attempt with 7 seconds left. Hinkle’s interception, on a pass intended for the running back Bill Ring, was only the second of the season off Joe Montana. Hinkle ran down the right sideline to the 3 before being tackle. A 51-yard field goal by Wersching in the first half was nullified by a penalty. The Steelers drove 78 yards the first time they had the ball, scoring on Rich Erenberg’s 2-yard run, and led 10–0 after Anderson’s 48-yard field goal in the second quarter. After trailing by 10–0, the 49ers drove 76 yards and tied the score at 10–10, when Wersching made a 30-yard field goal on the opening play of the fourth quarter. San Francisco got the ball back a few minutes later when linebacker Keena Turner intercepted a pass by Mark Malone, who started at quarterback for Pittsburgh in place of the injured David Woodley. Turner returned the ball to the Pittsburgh 20. Wendell Tyler ran seven yards, spinning into the end zone, to send the 49ers ahead for the first time, 17–10. Pittsburgh came back to tie the score, 17–17, on Malone’s six-yard touchdown pass to John Stallworth with 3:21 remaining.
Neil Lomax scrambled for a 9-yard touchdown and Earl Ferrell added another score late in the game to lead the Cardinals to a 38–21 victory over the Chicago Bears. The Lomax score was set up when the rookie linebacker Niko Noga blocked a punt by Dave Finder with 6 minutes 10 seconds to play, giving the Cardinals the ball on the Chicago 11-yard line.Ottis Anderson, who had two touchdowns, including the one that gave the Cardinals the lead for good, rushed for 3 yards, then was dropped for a 1-yard loss, giving St. Louis third down and 8 at the 9. On the next play, Lomax dropped back to pass, rolled to his right and scrambled for the score. Neil O’Donoghue’s extra point with 4:38 to play provided the 31–21 lead. The Cardinals then stopped the Bears on downs and took over at the Bears’ 32. Five plays later, Ferrell went over the right side for the touchdown and O’Donoghue’s extra point with 38 seconds left provided a 38–21 lead. Walter Payton of the Bears, who last week broke Jim Brown’s league career rushing record, ran for 100 yards on 23 carries. The Bears had taken a 21–17 lead on their first possession of the second half. They moved 79 yards in 14 plays with Matt Suhey scoring from a yard out. Bob Thomas kicked the extra point with 5:43 remaining.
The Seattle Seahawks outlasted the Buffalo Bills, 31–28. Dave Krieg and Steve Largent teamed on the deciding 51-yard touchdown pass play with 8:07 to play as the Seahawks rallied after losing leads of 17–0 after the first quarter and 24–14 in the third period. Largent made the catch alone at the Buffalo 25 after the defender Charles Romes had fallen on the play. The reception gave Largent 496 for his career, making him the 12th leading receiver in the league. The Bills went ahead by 28–24 with 11:10 remaining on Joe Ferguson’s second touchdown pass of the second half. He threw a 3-yarder to Preston Dennard in for the Bills’ only lead. Krieg finished with three touchdown passes but had two passes intercepted and lost a fumble that Lucious Stanford ran back 46 yards for a touchdown.
With one of their finest performances of the season, the Washington Redskins staked the Dallas Cowboys to a touchdown lead today and came roaring back with 34 consecutive points to win the first meeting of the year between these divisional opponents, 34–14. The victory, the Redskins’ fifth straight, not only left the Redskins alone at the top of the National Conference East, with a 5–2 record, it improved their record against teams in their division to 3–0, an important factor in the National Football League’s tie-breaking procedure that determines playoff teams and sometimes division champions. The Cowboys’ record fell to 4–3, which moved them into a tie with the Giants and St. Louis Cardinals, both of whom won today and have better records within the division. The Giants are 2–1; the Cardinals, 1–0; the Cowboys, 1–3. As is usually the case when the Redskins win impressively, no one was more impressive than John Riggins, their tractor of a running back who today became the fifth player in N.F.L. history to run for more than 10,000 yards. Riggins punctured the Dallas defense for 165 yards on 32 carries and now has a 13-year total of 10,141.
The Detroit Tigers won the 1984 World Series with an 8–4 victory over the San Diego Padres. The Tigers took the series four games to one, climaxing a season in which they were in first place in the American League East every single day. Series MVP Kirk Gibson blasts 2 upper-deck home runs at Tiger Stadium in game 5, including a 3-run shot off Rich Gossage in the 8th inning, to lead Detroit to its first World Championship since 1968.
For the fourth consecutive game, the Padres’ starting pitcher did not make it past the third inning, as the Tigers jumped on Mark Thurmond for three runs in the first inning. Lou Whitaker singled to lead off, then Kirk Gibson homered an out later, followed by consecutive singles by Lance Parrish, Larry Herndon and Chet Lemon. The Padres got on the board in the third when Bobby Brown hit a leadoff single off of Dan Petry, moved to third on two groundouts and scored on Steve Garvey’s single. The Padres rallied to tie the score in the fourth when with runners on second and third Brown’s sacrifice fly and Alan Wiggins’s RBI single scored a run each to knock Petry out of the game, but the Tigers loaded the bases in the fifth off of Andy Hawkins when Rusty Kuntz’s sacrifice fly put them up 4–3. Parrish’s home run in the seventh off of Rich Gossage made it 5–3 Tigers, but the Padres cut the lead back to one on Kurt Bevacqua’s home run off closer Willie Hernández. Kirk Gibson came to the plate in the bottom of the eighth for the Tigers with runners on second and third and one out. Gibson had homered earlier in the game, and Padres manager Dick Williams strolled to the mound to talk to Goose Gossage, seemingly with the purpose of ordering him to walk Gibson intentionally. Just before the at-bat, Gibson made a US$10 bet (flashing ten fingers) with his manager Sparky Anderson that Gossage (who had dominated Gibson in the past) would pitch to him. Gossage talked Williams into letting him pitch to Gibson, and Gibson responded with a three-run blast into the upper deck to clinch the Series for the Tigers. Gibson wound up driving in five runs and scoring three, including the run that gave Detroit the lead for good when he raced home on a pop-up sacrifice fly by little-used reserve Rusty Kuntz. In the ninth, Willie Hernández closed out the series for the Tigers by getting Tony Gwynn to fly to Larry Herndon in left field for the final out.
While Alan Trammell won the Sport Magazine variation of the World Series Most Valuable Player Award (the official one), Jack Morris won the Babe Ruth Award from the New York City chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America. Kirk Gibson had a stellar World Series as well, batting .333 with 6 hits and 7 RBIs, including two home runs, and scored 4 runs. After being fired by the Cincinnati Reds in 1978, Sparky Anderson was hired by the Tigers in June 1979. Anderson, who had led the Reds to Series victories in 1975 and 1976, became the first manager to win a World Championship in both the American and National Leagues.
President Reagan places a call to Sparky Anderson, Manager of the Detroit Tiger professional baseball team.
Born:
LaRon Landry, NFL safety (Pro Bowl, 2012; Washington Redskins, New York Jets, Indianapolis Colts), in Metairie, Louisiana.
Matt Smaby, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Kris Johnson, MLB pitcher (Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins), in West Covina, California.
Died:
Martin Ryle, English radio astronomer (Astronomer Royal 1972-82, Nobel Prize for Physics 1974).
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