Leftist British labor leader Arthur Scargill confirmed a newspaper report Sunday that he has sought Libyan financial aid for Britain’s striking coal miners, an action widely condemned by members of all major political parties and some of his union allies. Scargill, head of the 183,000member National Union of Mineworkers, issued a statement after the Sunday Times of London reported that union representatives held talks with Libyan officials, including a session with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, regarding the 72-month-old walkout. Scargill, an avowed Marxist, said that he and the union’s chief executive officer, Roger Windsor, visited the Communist-led French labor federation in Paris on October 8 to arrange for a food convoy from France to the British coal fields. He said that during that visit, they also met other labor delegations that were in Paris, including representatives from Libya. He said Windsor later flew to the Libyan capital of Tripoli and met with Qaddafi.
Some of the harshest criticism of the Libyan contacts came today from Neil Kinnock, leader of the Labor Party, which has publicly supported the miners despite qualms about violence on the picket lines. Mr. Scargill said today that the miners had not received “a single penny” from Libya, but he refused to condemn the regime of Colonel Qaddafi and left the door open to Libyan aid, provided it came from unions. That stand is certain to further upset British public opinion, which is still inflamed by the death six months ago of a policewoman when occupants of the Libyan Embassy opened fire on a demonstration here, and by the detention in a Libyan jail of four Britons without charges. Britain severed diplomatic relations with Libya after the embassy incident. In his remarks, Mr. Kinnock said: “By any measure of political, civil, trade union or human rights, the Qaddafi regime is vile. Any offers from them would be an insult to everything the British labor movement stands for. If such offers are ever made, then, of course, they must and will be rejected.”
An outdoor mass in Warsaw was held for a pro-Solidarity priest who the Interior Ministry said was kidnapped and possibly killed by three ministry officers. Church officials said 50,000 people attended the mass for the priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, and Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder, urged calm. The priest has been missing since October 19, when he was kidnapped near the northern city of Torun. The huge throng gathered at Father Popiełuszko’s church, St. Stanislaw Kostka, for a “Mass for the Homeland.” Father Popiełuszko had celebrated such masses on the last Sunday of each month since January 1982, one month after martial law was imposed.
A spectator may have saved Pope John Paul II in 1981 by shoving the arm of the Turkish gunman convicted of shooting him, according to Judge Ilario Marella, who investigated the purported plot to assassinate the Pope. In an interview published in the Turin daily La Stampa today, Judge Ilario Martella was quoted as having said that Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man convicted of attempting to assassinate the Pope, “was very clear” in declaring that he would have continued shooting at the Pope had he not been pushed. The Pope was badly wounded in the attack on May 13, 1981. According to the report in La Stampa, the judge quoted Mr. Ağca as having said, “I would have continued to fire if someone near me had not shoved me with force.”
Federal officials have been “unwitting or in some cases, perhaps, even witting tools” of a Soviet campaign to divert attention from a purported plot to murder the Pope, Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to former President Jimmy Carter, said in an interview broadcast today. “What I find very troublesome over the past two years,” Mr. Brzezinski said in the interview with the RKO Radio Network, “was the frequency with which senior officials, in fact, participated in the campaign of pooh-poohing what turns out to be a very serious plot.”
Most Spaniards oppose their country’s membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and 70% want to end U.S. use of military bases in Spain, according to a survey published by the independent newspaper El Pais in Madrid.
A cut in oil production by all 13 members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was recommended by the group’s oil markets committee to prop up sagging prices. The key committee also urged the group to address some basic problems in its oil price structure. But the proposals, to be considered in an emergency OPEC meeting in Geneva today, were dealt a setback when Nigeria refused to cut its oil production or raise its discounted price.
An economic crisis in Israel has come to preoccupy the nation more than any immediate military threat for the first time since its founding in 1948. The crisis, economists say, arises not only from military burdens but also from the structure of Israel’s political system, the economic restraints of Zionism, and years of living beyond the nation’s means.
Terrorists fired an antitank rocket at a crowded Arab bus in central Jerusalem, killing one Arab youth and wounding 10 other passengers. The Jerusalem police chief said the attack may have been carried out by Jews seeking revenge for the killing last week of two Jewish students in the West Bank. Three men, all Jews, were being held for questioning, but no arrests were made.
Residential areas of Beirut came under shellfire for the first time in months from the Shouf Mountains, where the army battled Druze gunmen. A radio report said artillery rounds were hitting suburban Baabda, site of the presidential palace. At least six people were reported wounded. The fighting erupted after opposition leaders Walid Jumblatt and Nabih Berri threatened to resign their Cabinet posts to protest the Christian-dominated government’s failure to agree on ways to give the country’s Muslim majority a larger share of power.
Brigadier General Ghassemali Zahir-Nejad, Iran’s armed forces chief, was appointed one of two representatives of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on Iran’s Supreme Defense Council, joining the influential Speaker of Parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani. The spot had been vacant for more than three years. Colonel Ismail Sohrabi, 45, replaced Zahir-Nejad as armed forces chief. Diplomats suggested that the reshuffling may give Iran’s army more influence in disputes with the paramilitary Revolutionary Guards over the Iran-Iraq war. The guards advocate human-wave assaults, but the army favors more conservative tactics.
Iran accused delegates of the International Committee of the Red Cross today of provoking a riot at a prisoner-of-war camp during which five Iraqi prisoners of war were killed. An Iranian Foreign Ministry official was quoted by the national press agency IRNA as saying the incident occurred October 9 and three of the Iraqis were killed by fellow prisoners. The official, Mohammed Jaafar Mahallati, the ministry’s director general for international affairs, accused the Red Cross of distorting the incident and using it for anti-Iranian propaganda by announcing Thursday that six prisoners of war had been shot to death by Iranian guards. The riot broke out during a visit by Red Cross officials to the camp at Gurgan in northern Iran. The Tehran Radio said today that “provocations” by Red Cross representatives “disrupted order in the camp.”
India’s untouchables no longer bow automatically to the will of those above them on the Hindu social ladder. In India’s lush Ganges plain and other parts of the country they are refusing to do the bidding of the Brahmans and there is tension and frequent violence.
Yasuhiro Nakasone was elected to a second term as head of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, making it certain that he will be the first prime minister in more than a decade to serve more than two years. Nakasone, 66, became party and government leader in November, 1982, succeeding Zenko Suzuki, who stepped down amid customary factional squabbling. After more than seven hours of closed-door meetings today, senior party officials gave the vote to Mr. Nakasone and accepted his pledge to work for party unity and reform in his next administration, Shin Kanemaru, the party executive council chairman, said in a television interview. The Liberal Democrats, who hold a majority in Parliament, are to meet early next week to formally name Nakasone to a second two-year term as prime minister.
Military commanders in the Philippines rallied behind General Fabian C. Ver, armed forces chief, who has been accused of involvement in the killing of opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. in August, 1983. A published manifesto signed by 68 senior officers including the army, navy and air force chiefs declared their “unwavering loyalty and support” for General Ver. Lieutenant General Fidel Ramos, acting armed forces chief while Ver is on leave to prepare his defense, was not among the signatories.
Grenada formally opened its new international airport, begun with Cuban assistance and finished with U.S. aid after the American invasion a year ago. The 9,000-foot runway facility at Point Salines was started by the Marxist government of the late Prime Minister Maurice Bishop in 1980. Washington contributed $19 million toward its completion. U.S. officials called the airport a “giant step” toward prosperity in Grenada.
A Peace Corps volunteer from Michigan was shot to death in Guatemala City, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said. Peter Harper Wolfe, 27, assigned to Guatemala’s Tourism Institute, was returning home from a party when unidentified assailants shot him and stole his wallet. The embassy said the crime did not appear to be politically motivated.
Meanwhile, attackers with machine guns killed a university dean on his way to the funeral of a slain colleague yesterday, bringing the number of assassinations in the last three days in Guatemala City to at least five, the police said today. Vitalino Giron, head of the economics department at the University of San Carlos, was killed while sitting in his car at a gas station, the police said. The unidentified gunmen fled in a car. Mr. Giron, 56 years old, was on his way to the funeral of his colleague, Carlos de Leon Gudiel, an economics professor at the university who was gunned down Friday night. Mr. Giron and Mr. de Leon Gudiel belonged to the only department at the university not taking part in a four- month strike over wages.
Peru was accused of “fighting terror with terror” by Americas Watch, a human rights group, in its effort to combat a guerrilla movement that has been active since 1980 in Indian villages surrounding Peru’s Ayacucho region. The organization said several hundred people had disappeared and more than 4,000 had died as a result of the continuing conflict between Government security forces and the Sendero Luminoso — “Shining Path” — guerrilla movement that has been active in Indian villages surrounding the Ayacucho region of Peru since 1980. In a 161-page report, Americas Watch described the group, which has also carried out sabotage and occasional assassinations in Lima, as “the most brutal and vicious guerrilla organization that has yet appeared in the Western Hemisphere.” But it blamed many “extremely serious abuses of human rights” – torture, disappearances, executions and massacres – on Government forces. Over the past three months, in the Ayacucho region, numerous mass graves have been uncovered containing some corpses “identified as individuals who were reportedly arrested by the security forces,” the report said.
Negotiations to end Chad’s 20-year civil war have collapsed in a continuing dispute over which warring faction is the legitimate representative of the north African nation. Foreign Minister Antoine Ndinga-Oba of Congo suspended the conference indefinitely late Saturday. Although he described the talks as “only a first phase in the peace process,” no future negotiating date was set. The weeklong talks broke down after representatives of Hissen Habre, the French-backed President, insisted that he had to be recognized by all parties as the legitimate head of Chad. Those representing the Libyan-backed rebel leader, former President Goukouni Oueddei, rejected the demand. And on Friday, each side accused the other of planning to resume the war after French and Libyan troops pull out in mid-November.
Voter registration drives added millions of new names to election rolls this year, according to election officials. As a result, a steady 20-year decline in the percentage of eligible voters who turn out for Presidential elections may be reversed.
The President and First Lady return to the White House from Camp David.
Walter F. Mondale’s record from 12 years as a senator and four as Vice President forms the basis for his Presidential candidacy, an examination of his record shows. In his campaign, he has renounced only one part of his record, his support of the Vietnam War, though he has modified other positions.
After receiving a baboon’s heart, a 16-day-old infant known only as Baby Fae remained in critical but stable condition at Loma Linda University Medical Center in California. Doctors said she was “doing remarkably well.” Nevertheless, Dr. Leonard L. Bailey, the pediatric surgeon who performed the five-hour operation, said, “She may be in for a very long battle in the weeks ahead.”
In shows of support for the presidential candidates by newspapers across the country, President Reagan won endorsements from the San Francisco Examiner, the Miami Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the New York Daily News, the Hartford Courant in Connecticut, the Omaha World-Herald, the Sunday Oklahoman in Oklahoma City, the Oregonian in Portland and the Albuquerque Journal. Democrat Walter F. Mondale was supported by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Detroit Free Press, the Minneapolis Star and Tribune, the Milwaukee Journal and the St. Petersburg Times in Florida.
President Reagan’s only black Cabinet member, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Samuel R. Pierce Jr., reportedly may not serve during a second Reagan term. Pierce told the Detroit News that he is considering resigning for personal reasons. The White House denied that Pierce is being forced out of the Cabinet. Reagan has said he wants no Cabinet changes except at Justice, where William French Smith wants to return to private law practice. Pierce said he is not being pushed out. “I’m sure I could stay. But there’s no sense in speculating. I’ll cross that bridge when I get to it,” he said.
Former Atlantic City Mayor Michael J. Matthews, who authorities allege was “bought” by associates of an organized crime family, goes on trial in Newark, New Jersey, today on extortion charges. Prosecutors charge that Matthews, 50, sold his influence to the southern New Jersey-Philadelphia organized crime family, which authorities say is headed by Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo. Standing trial with Matthews is Frank Lentino, 73, a business agent with Local 54 of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees and Bartenders International Union.
The Food and Drug Administration failed to adequately test for the presence of the pesticide ethylene dibromide, a suspected cause of cancer, even after indications arose that it did not dissipate in grains, citrus fruit and other foods as had been thought, a House subcommittee said. The report said the FDA did not begin testing for residues of EDB in grain until last year, even though studies warned of the danger as early as 1969. The report was based on hearings last March before the House Government Operations Committee’s intergovernmental relations subcommittee.
About 114,000 members of the United Auto Workers wrapped up voting on a new contract with Ford Motor Co., and the pact was virtually certain to be approved. Union officials said the final results would be made public today, although results during the last week showed the three-year contract winning the support of about 72% of the rank-and-file. The pact includes wage and job security programs that follow the pattern Set in a recently approved UAW contract with General Motors Corp. The Ford agreement was reached October 14.
Parts of a DC-10 airline engine fell on a residential area shortly after the plane took off Saturday, causing no injuries but forcing the jetliner with 265 passengers aboard back to O’Hare Airport, officials said. Parts of the engine fell in the suburban Wood Dale and Hillcrest areas. Sarah Adams, a dispatcher for the Wood Dale Police, said five engine pieces were found by local residents. “People found them in their backyards,” she said, “but no injuries were reported whatsoever.” The crew of the United Airlines plane, bound for Honolulu, was forced to dump about 15,500 gallons of fuel to lighten the load before landing safely at O’Hare, said Chuck Novack, a spokesman for United. Mr. Novak said airline officials are not yet sure what happened, but it appeared that the rear part of the tail engine came apart after takeoff.
A wave of gang killings is sweeping Los Angeles after several years of declining gang violence, and officials say it is tied to narcotics trafficking. Since October 12, 12 people have been killed in incidents the police suspect are gang-related and there are now an estimated 40,000 youths who claim affiliation with 420 gangs in Los Angeles County. They also say that a suspect arrested in the killing in late August of four members of the family of Kermit Alexander, a former Los Angeles Rams football star, was a gang member who may have attacked the wrong house. Law-enforcement and criminal justice officials say the recent violence here is not the familiar fighting among gangs for reputation and hegemony. Instead, they say, it stems from competition among criminal syndicates to control cocaine trafficking.
[Ed: It’s only going to get worse. Crack has arrived in Los Angeles.]
Vice detectives in Hollywood arrested 96 men and women over the weekend as part of a continuing crackdown on prostitution along Santa Monica and Sunset boulevards. The arrests, concentrated just east and west of Highland Avenue, were made by members of a special task force working to curtail prostitution in the area, Los Angeles Police Sgt. George Haines said. Bail for some of the repeat offenders was set at $5,000, he said. In recent months, police efforts and tougher legal penalties have reduced prostitution in an area where arrests once numbered 200 to 300 on any given weekend, Haines said.
A speeding motorboat carrying nine people slammed into an unlighted buoy and broke apart early today in darkened Anaheim Bay, killing five people aboard and injuring the other four, the authorities said. Divers recovered the five bodies near the entrance to the bay, 25 miles southeast of Los Angeles, said Lieutenant Dan Spratt of the Orange County sheriff’s department. The survivors were all thrown clear of the wreckage. Two were found clinging to one of the buoys, a third swam ashore to summon help and the other remained near the buoy with the others, Lieutenant Spratt said. He said the speed limit at the harbor mouth is 5 miles per hour, but that the type of damage the boat sustained indicated it was moving faster than 5 m.p.h.
Interest in foreign languages is reawakening in the nation’s schools and colleges, paving the way for what educators hope will be a breakthrough in the resistance to learning a second language. Colleges are reinstituting language requirements abandoned in the late 1960’s and high schools are finding it easier to prod students into foreign language courses.
When John K. Tidswell vanished during a sailing trip 14 years ago, Kathleen Tidswell thought she had become a widow. But now Mr. Tidswell has turned up in Colorado with a new wife and a new name, and Mrs. Tidswell is suing him for divorce and at least $100,000 in retroactive alimony and child support. “She was obviously very surprised and upset” when she learned that her husband had resurfaced as Robert Halfyard of Broomfield, Colorado, said Richard Rinella, Mrs. Tidswell’s attorney. Mrs. Tidswell, 54 years old, of suburban Wilmette, filed the lawsuit Thursday in Cook County Circuit Court. In 1970, Mr. Tidswell, also 54, vanished during a solo sailing trip on a Canadian lake. He was declared dead in 1971. Meanwhile, Mr. Tidswell assumed the alias Robert Halfyard, married Ruth Campbell in Chicago on September 30, 1973, and moved to the Denver area, Mr. Rinella said. As Halfyard, Mr. Tidswell sold cars and was named the top Volkswagen salesman in Colorado in 1979. The honor, which included a trip to Europe, turned out to be a mixed blessing. When he applied for a passport for the trip, immigration officials learned about the double identity, Mr. Rinella said.
Heavy thunderstorms rumbled through East Texas, filling creeks and streams to bankfull with six inches of rain. The mercury fell to 5 below zero in the Northern Plains, and eight inches of snow blanketed Deadwood, Idaho. More than six inches of rain soaked Wheelock, Texas, and water stood eight inches deep in Main Street in Mount Vernon, Texas. Flash flood warnings were posted for Brazos and Madison counties, where all creeks and streams were filled. West Yellowstone, Montana, got seven inches of snow while six inches fell at Yellow Pine, five inches at Dixie and Mullan and four inches at Elk River, all in Idaho.
15th NYC Marathon won by Orlando Pizzolato in 2:14:53.
14th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:29:30.
NFL Football:
Minnesota Vikings 7, Chicago Bears 16
Cincinnati Bengals 31, Houston Oilers 13
Indianapolis Colts 3, Dallas Cowboys 22
Denver Broncos 22, Los Angeles Raiders 19
Detroit Lions 9, Green Bay Packers 41
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20, Kansas City Chiefs 24
Buffalo Bills 7, Miami Dolphins 38
New York Jets 20, New England Patriots 30
New Orleans Saints 16, Cleveland Browns 14
Washington Redskins 13, New York Giants 37
Atlanta Falcons 10, Pittsburgh Steelers 35
St. Louis Cardinals 34, Philadelphia Eagles 14
San Francisco 49ers 33, Los Angeles Rams 0
Jim McMahon passed for 180 yards and a touchdown, and the Chicago defense, No. 1 in the league, registered a club-record 11 sacks as the Bears beat their division rival Minnesota Vikings, 16–7. Archie Manning, filling for the injured quarterback Tommy Kramer, was dropped 11 times for losses totaling 101 yards. Walter Payton rushed for 54 yards giving him 1,001 yards for the season and putting him over the 1,000-mark for the eighth time in his career to tie the N.F.L. record held by Franco Harris.
The Cincinnati Bengals pounded the Houston Oilers, 31–13. Cincinnati’s Ken Anderson conducted a passing drill against Houston’s secondary, completing 13 in a row at one point, and Larry Kinnebrew scored four close-range touchdowns. Anderson, who has beaten the Oilers six consecutive times and set an N.F.L. record of 20 consecutive completions in a 1982 game, continued his mastery over the Oilers, hitting 18 of 24 for 154 yards.
Danny White, returning to the starting lineup after spending the first half of the season in a backup role, threw for 219 yards and two touchdowns in the first half, as the Dalals Cowbopys easily disposed of the Indianapolis Colts, 22–3. White had an outstanding first two quarters and the Cowboys, taking advantage of a series of Indianapolis miscues, turned conservative in the second half.
Rich Karlis, getting a second chance, booted a 35-yard field goal as time expired in overtime today to give the Denver Broncos a 22–19 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders. The Broncos got their chance at victory when Roger Jackson, a safety, intercepted a pass from the Los Angeles quarterback Marc Wilson and returned it 23 yards to the Raider 22-yard line with 38 seconds remaining. The interception came on a third-and-20 play. Sammy Winder then ran for 4 yards before the Broncos let the clock run down to five seconds and called time. Karlis, a bare-footed kicker, had been wide left on a 42-yard field goal attempt with 3 minutes 30 seconds remaining. The victory was the seventh in a row for the Broncos (8–1). The Raiders (7–2) fell out of a first-place tie with Denver in the American Football Conference West. The Raiders blew what appeared to be a solid shot at victory in the opening minute of the overtime. A 41-yard pass from Wilson to Malcolm Barnwell on the second scrimmage play put the ball at the Denver 11-yard line, but on the next play the running back Frank Hawkins fumbled.
The Green Bay Packers shredded the Detroit Lions, 41–9. Lynn Dickey picked apart the Detroit defense for four touchdown passes, Eddie Lee Ivery rushed for 116 yards and the rookie safety Tom Flynn intercepted three passes as Green Bay broke a seven-game losing streak.
Bill Kenney passed for 332 yards and two touchdowns to guide the Kansas City Chiefs to a 24–20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Kenney completed 26 of 46 passes, with scoring strikes of 5 yards to Ken Lacy and 27 yards to Henry Marshall.
The Miami Dolphins defeated the Buffalo Bills, 38–7. Dan Marino continued his assault on Miami’s team record book by passing for 282 yards and 3 touchdowns to lead unbeaten Miami to its ninth straight victory. Marino completed 19 of 28 passes, including scoring ones of 7 and 65 yards to Mark Clayton and 10 yards to Dan Johnson, as Miami improved to 9–0, the best start in the National Football League since the 1975 Minnesota Vikings went 10–0. Buffalo, a 21–17 loser to Miami six weeks ago, dropped to 0–9 after its 11th straight loss dating to the 15th week of the 1983 season. Marino, the second-year quarterback, shattered Bob Griese’s Dolphins single-season passing yardage mark of 2,473 yards late in the first quarter and finished the day with 2,672 yards.
The New York Jets and New England Patriots played a hard, bitter game today that was decided in part by events the players seemed to have no control over: the bounce of a ball, a coaching change, another coach’s decision near the goal line and injuries. The Patriots won, 30–20, after trailing by 20-3 in the second period, and improved to 6–3 as the teams started the second half of the season knowing there will probably not be room in the playoffs for both. The Jets, now tied with the Patriots for second place in the American Conference Eastern Division, said afterward that they sensed momentum slip away even when they were leading by 20–6 just minutes into the second half. At that point, a not-so-exceptional punt by Luke Prestridge started bouncing after it hit about 40 yards upfield and was misplayed by Kirk Springs, who was harassed by charging Patriots. The ball bounced another 42 yards, winding up as an 82-yard punt at the Jets’ 1. From there, the magic that had been generated in the first half by Ken O’Brien at quarterback vanished in the face of a suddenly revived, and pressure-packed, New England defense. The Patriots outscored the Jets, 24–0, in the second half. O’Brien, in his second season, had come in when Pat Ryan suffered a concussion on the Jets’ second drive. It was the first time O’Brien had ever played with a game on the line.
Morten Andersen’s third field goal, a 53-yard kick in a driving rain with no time remaining, lifted the New Orleans Saints to a 16–14 win over the Cleveland Browns. The Saints’ victory snapped a three-game losing streak and raised their record to 4–5. The Browns absorbed their fifth straight loss, spoiling the debut of a new head coach, Marty Schottenheimer. Paul McDonald’s second touchdown to Ozzie Newsome was a 6-yard pass that gave Cleveland a 14–10 lead at the 8:38 mark, capping a 12-play, 88-yard drive off the second-half kickoff.
Although the Washington Redskins played in the last two Super Bowls, the Giants looked like the Super Bowl team today in upsetting the Redskins, 37–13. On offense, the Giants hammered the Redskins with Phil Simms’s passing and the slashing running from the almost-forgotten Joe Morris. On defense, the Giants threw a new look at the Redskins and stopped John Riggins, the fifth-leading runner in professional football history. Much of Joe Theismann’s good passing yardage was accumulated after the game had been settled. Simms passed for two touchdowns — 22 yards to Earnest Gray and 8 yards to Bobby Johnson. Morris ran 2, 1, and 5 yards for the other touchdowns. Through the years, four other Giants had run for three touchdowns in a game, but no Giant has run for four. The Giants’ 37 points were their most in a game since a 38–35 victory over the Dallas Cowboys in 1980. Their 24-point margin of victory was their most since last season’s 27–3 triumph over Green Bay. The Giants had lost six straight to the Redskins. The Redskins were 6½-point favorites on this warm, humid afternoon. The crowd of 76,192 at Giants Stadium cheered lustily as the Giants led by 23–0 late in the second quarter and 37–6 after the first play of the fourth.
Mark Malone, a backup making just his fourth start at quarterback in his five-year pro career, passed for 162 yards and three touchdowns for Pittsburgh as the Steelers thumped the Atlanta Falcons, 35–7.
Quarterback Neil Lomax completed 20 of 26 passes for 286 yards and 2 touchdowns, and Stump Mitchell ended long drives with a pair of 1-yard scores as the St. Louis Cardinals rallied to defeat the Philadelphia Eagles today, 34–14. Lomax’s game-winning touchdown of 8 yards to Pat Tilley capped a 27- yard second-period drive after the St. Louis tackle Mark Duda recovered a Wilbert Montgomery fumble at the Eagles 27. The Eagles had taken a 7–0 first-period lead on a 2-yard pass from the quarterback Ron Jaworski to the tight end Vito Kab, ending a 10-play, 72-yard drive. The Cards tied it in the second period on Mitchell’s 1-yard run at the end of a 10-play, 68-yard offensive.
The San Francisco 49ers routed the Los Angeles Rams, 33–0. Joe Montana threw for 365 yards and 3 touchdowns as San Francisco blanked Los Angeles in an important N.F.C. West contest. Montana, the conference’s top-rated passer, completed 21 of his 31 attempts — including a stretch beginning in the second quarter when he completed 13 straight — accounting for 263 yards, including a screen pass to Roger Craig that went for a 64-yard touchdown, a six-yard scoring pass to Freddie Solomon and a 44-yard look-in to Dwight Clark for a score. Craig also scored on a six-yard run in the third quarter. Ray Wersching kicked two 46-yard field goals in the first half. “We knew we could throw the ball against them,” Montana said. “We know we can throw the ball against any team. We’re in a good position now. We’re in the second half of the season and feel we can take it all the way. “It was truly a great defensive game. It was our best game as a team this year. The 49ers, who in midweek had 14 players ill with flu, improved to 8–1 while the second-place Rams fell to 5–4. It was the first time Los Angeles had been shut out since a 24–0 loss to Pittsburgh in 1981.
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Finn Wittrock [Peter L. Wittrock Jr.], American actor (“All My Children”, “Unbroken”), in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Amanda Paige, American model and actress, in North Carolina.
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