A pro-Solidarity Polish priest was beaten, gagged and tied up before he was thrown into a reservoir, according to people who attended his autopsy. They said the autopsy showed that the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko was probably alive but unconscious when his body was dumped into the reservoir at Wloclawek, 80 miles northwest of Warsaw, where it was found last week. Some water was found in his lungs, they added. The Government has blamed three members of the security police for the slaying. Father Popiełuszko, an outspoken supporter of the outlawed trade union Solidarity, was kidnapped October 19. The Communist authorities announced 12 days later, last Tuesday, that his body had been found.
A crowd estimated at 250,000 mourners from across the country attended his funeral at his Warsaw church Saturday in one of the largest public gatherings in Poland since World War II. The sources, who saw the priest’s body on Tuesday, said it was badly bruised, indicating he had been beaten after he was kidnapped on a highway near the town of Torun. The autopsy also showed that Father Popiełuszko had been gagged at the mouth and apparently tied with a rope from neck to feet so that if he struggled he would strangle himself, they said. The sources said they could not confirm reports quoting members of the slain priest’s family as saying he had suffered injuries to his jaw and skull.
More than 24 hours after Father Popiełuszko was buried, a line of Poles stretching more than half a mile moved steadily past his grave. As darkness fell tonight, the queue winding around St. Stanislaw Kostka, the parish where the slain priest preached, contained 4,000 people. Those at the end took more than four hours to pass the grave, which was encircled by four-foot-high hedges made of wreaths. Memorial candles glowed for blocks and the scent of melted tallow drifted in the air. The parish church has already become a shrine, with messages to the dead priest and to the nation hung on church gates. Traffic was snarled in the area all day although policemen tried to keep things moving. The atmosphere was calm, with young children and old people participating, but there was a growing awareness that tension might increase if such crowds persist. Church figures said as many mourners came to pay their respects as came to the 1981 funeral of Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate.
The Soviet Union’s Communist Party daily, Pravda, repeated claims that “external forces” — by implication, the United States — were involved in the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The commentary followed by one day a meeting in New Delhi between U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Premier Nikolai A. Tikhonov in which Tikhonov denied that the Soviet media had linked the United States to the slaying.
A British hotel where Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had been scheduled to speak was evacuated after a suspicious tin box was found behind a bathroom panel. Thatcher was to have addressed a conference of industrialists at the hotel in Eastbourne but canceled when she left for India to attend the funeral of Indira Gandhi. The tin box was determined to be harmless. Last month, a bomb exploded at a Brighton hotel where Thatcher and members of her Cabinet were staying, killing four people and injuring 32.
Six Yugoslav dissidents are due to go on trial today in Belgrade on charges of anti-state activities in a case that Western diplomats see as a test of the nation’s tolerance for criticism since the death of President Tito in 1980. The defendants are described as former left-wing radicals who now generally favor a multiparty system and the overthrow of the Communist regime. The six deny the charges.
An Israeli soldier has admitted in a Jerusalem court that he carried out the October 28 rocket attack on an Arab bus that killed one person and wounded 10 in revenge for the killing of two Israeli hitchhikers on October 22. David Ben-Shimol, 18, was ordered held for 15 days but was not formally charged in the attack.. A Palestinian from a Bethlehem suburb was charged with murder in the hitchhiker deaths. Ben-Shimol was also accused of throwing a bomb into a crowded cafe in Jerusalem’s Old City on September 22, injuring four Palestinians.
Chicago’s archbishop, Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, urged Israel to take an active role in establishing a homeland for Palestinians and warned that any Israeli attempts to absorb the West Bank of the Jordan River would create “immediate tension in the Jewish-Christian relationship… Justice demands that we recognize the necessity for a Palestinian homeland mutually agreed upon by the key actors in the region,” Bernardin told the National Executive Council meeting of the American Jewish Committee.
A price freeze in Israel accompanied by a cap on wages for the next three months was formally approved by the Cabinet. Its action followed an agreement reached with labor unions and leading industrialists.
Israel’s pullout talks with Lebanon have been postponed at Lebanon’s request until later in the week, Lebanon announced. The talks had been scheduled to begin today.
A chartered United States transport plane flew into Addis Ababa today. It was the first American aircraft to join the airlift of food and supplies to six million Ethiopian famine victims. Two Hercules transports have been chartered by the United States Government to take part in the 50-plane airlift. The plane that arrived today carried none of the food included in the nearly $60 million in emergency aid the United States Agency for International Development, or A.I.D., earmarked for Ethiopia. Instead it brought in crew members and spare parts to keep the planes flying during the two-month airlift. M. Peter McPherson, administrator of A.I.D., also arrived in Addis Ababa from Washington today for a first-hand look at relief operations.
Rebels, meanwhile, accused Ethiopia’s Marxist Government of withholding aid to two secessionist strongholds. The Tigre People’s Liberation Front said in a statement issued in the Sudan that drought victims were being denied aid in Tigre and Wallo provinces.
Sikh refugees in New Delhi described the mass slayings of Sikhs that followed Indira Gandhi’s assassination, calling them a mixture of class and political warfare condoned or abetted by the police. The killings, which wiped out entire Sikh neighborhoods in the Delhi area, have generated enormous refugee problems. “I am coming here from Kashmiri Gate,” shouted a young, well-dressed Sikh student in a camp thrown up at the Government Model School No. 2 in Old Delhi. “Otherwise, they would have set me to fire.” Other camps in New Delhi and its outskirts have been established in police compounds. One of the biggest is in the dusty outlying neighborhood called Punjabi Bagh, where more than 2,000 survivors of mass slayings in nearby Mangolpuri are guarded by three truckloads of Indian Army troops. Through conversations with the Sikh refugees and others in the last few days, a rough picture of the pattern of the post-assassination violence has emerged. In most instances, the killers appear to have been inhabitants of the shantytowns that typically exist at the fringes of more prosperous neighborhoods.
New Delhi was back in business after four days of silent empty streets, deserted by fearful people. The irrepressible life of the city began to reassert itself with a temporary lifting of the curfew imposed in the last several violent days.
Violence in India subsided. There were no new major outbreaks of murder, looting or burning reported anywhere in the country as the army, equipped with shoot-to-kill orders and backed by armored vehicles, clamped down. The three-day convulsion of violence, mostly directed by Hindus against Sikhs, left as many as 1,000 people dead, including as many as 600 in New Delhi, by unofficial estimates. Officials today placed the New Delhi toll at 485. The police have identified Mrs. Gandhi’s assassins as Sikh members of her bodyguard.
In Amritsar, the holiest of Sikh cities, the prayers this morning at the holiest of Sikh shrines, the Golden Temple, were for peace and brotherhood, as they are every day of the year. But the mood among many worshipers was of deep anger over the plight of fellow Sikhs in other parts of India. The mood was mirrored in today’s choice of the handwritten daily quotation from the Sikh bible, the Granth Sahib, which was prominently displayed on a temple wall. “This world is a transitory place,” the quotation read, in the local language, Punjabi. “Some of our compatriots have already gone, and some day the rest of us also have to go. This world is only a temporary abode.” Balwant Singh, a storekeeper here, was one of those who lingered near the handwritten quotation. He had brought along a non-Sikh visitor, who felt some trepidation at being in this inner sanctum of Sikhism at a time when non-Sikhs were attacking and killing Sikhs in areas not far from Punjab. “The very fact that you are here must tell you how tolerant Sikhism is,” said Mr. Singh, a large man with a thick beard. “But look around you in India. What do you find? You find that an entire community is being held to ransom because of the mad actions of two misguided Sikhs.”
France has detonated another underground nuclear explosion at its Mururoa Atoll testing ground in the Pacific, New Zealand scientists reported today. The Seismological Observatory at Rarotonga said the explosion on Friday had a yield of about 40 kilotons. France had exploded five previous devices this year. The last, a week ago, was estimated at six kilotons and was apparently the first in a new series. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand said last week that he was disappointed that France had exploded another nuclear device.
Bahamian officials today took custody of 180 Haitian refugees who were intercepted by the United States Coast Guard when their 40-foot sailboat ran aground while trying to reach Florida. The Haitians, who say they are fleeing poverty in their homeland, were sighted Thursday on Jamaica Cay, a coral outcropping in the Bahamas about 350 miles southeast of Miami. “The Bahamians went ashore this morning and are checking the people out and talking to them,” said Lieut. Jim Simpson of the Coast Guard. “We’re standing by in case they need help. Pretty much, it’s the Bahamians’ show. It’s their island.” “It’s simply a matter of we were there,” Lieutenant Simpson said. “There were 180 people on an island with no food or water. Rather than letting people starve to death, we thought we’d help out.”
Returns from Nicaragua’s election were expected this morning by election officials. The national election yesterday was the first since the Sandinistas took power five years ago after an insurrection. They were Nicaragua’s first suppposedly free elections in 56 years; the Sandinistas won 63%.
Salvadoran guerrillas threatened to attack farms that refuse to pay peasants a rebel-decreed wage scale declared in effect for the upcoming harvests of coffee, cotton and sugar. The leftist Radio Venceremos said the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, a coalition of five rebel armies, has decreed a minimum daily wage equivalent to about $1.25 for the current harvest. In 1982 and 1983, landlords who paid the rebel scales reported that their farms were not attacked during the harvests.
An estimated 2,000 troops sent to Chad by Zaire to support President Hissen Habre’s pro-Western government will return home this week, military sources said. A senior military delegation from Zaire arrived in Chad to inform the government of the pullout, the sources said. Last year, Zaire and France sent troops to Chad to support Habre against an offensive by Libyan-backed rebels led by former Chadian President Goukouni Oueddei. The Zairean pullout had been expected after France and Libya announced agreement in September on a troop withdrawal.
A Republican advertising blitz is being used in the campaign finale to try to convert President Reagan’s broad personal popularity into a Congressional sweep. But Democrats contend they will pick up seats in the Senate and hold Republicans to moderate gains in the House.
President Reagan holds a press conference in Mondale’s home state of Minnesota. Mr. Reagan went to Minnesota in a campaign effort to include Walter F. Mondale’s home state in what his campaign strategists predict could be a coast-to-coast victory for the Republicans on Election Day. Mr. Mondale, on his way to California, Mr. Reagan’s home state, discounted public opinion polls that continue to show Mr. Reagan far ahead and attacked what he called the President’s lack of commitment to social justice.
President Reagan campaigns in St. Louis, Chicago, and Sacramento.
Mr. Reagan is favored by voters aged 27 to 38, members of the “baby boom” generation. According to the last four New York Times/CBS News Polls, 54 percent of that age group is backing Mr. Reagan, a higher proportion than any age group except voters aged 18 to 26.
A new law approved by Congress to end three years of bitter disputes over the Social Security disability program has instead raised more conflict. It was intended to correct improper denial of benefits to thousands of disabled workers, but the Reagan Administration would curtail the payments restored in court.
New blood tests indicate that exposure to the AIDS virus may be more widespread than earlier suspected, health officials said. At least 300,000 persons, most of them homosexual men, already may have been infected. Dr. James Curran, head of the AIDS task force at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, said that the more than 6,600 U.S. victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome, nearly half of whom have died, may be a conservative indication of a growing problem.
Baby Fae, the infant who received the heart of a baboon nine days ago, has been weaned from a special solution of sugar, salts and water to full-strength baby formula and is kicking, yawning and stretching “just like any other baby,” a hospital official said today. “She is eating very well,” said Richard Weismeyer, a spokesman for Loma Linda University Medical Center. “She is still listed in serious but stable condition. She is doing very well.” The baby, which was born prematurely about three and a half weeks ago in Barstow, California, to an unidentified young couple described as poor and Catholic, suffered from a heart condition that is always fatal.
The FBI arrested accused terrorist Raymond Luc Levasseur, who has been on the agency’s “10 Most Wanted” list for seven years, and four of his associates, the agency said. Levasseur, 38, was apprehended with his common-law wife, Patricia Gros, FBI Director William H. Webster said. They were seized while riding in a van in Deerfield, Ohio. Arrested in Cleveland were Jaan Karl Laaman, 36; Richard Charles Williams, 37, and Barbara J. Curzi, 26, Webster said. The FBI identified Levasseur as a member of the Sam Melville-Jonathan Jackson Unit, which the agency said has financed terrorist activities through bank robberies and has claimed responsibility for several bombings in New England.
The Labor Department will lift the ban on home knitting, Senator William S. Cohen (R-Maine) announced. The ban began in the “sweatshop days” of the 1930s when the department feared that employers would dodge new federal minimum wage laws by having persons work at home for substandard pay. “I can find no evidence to suggest that those who choose to work at home today are being exploited by their employers,” Cohen said.
Tax collections declined between 1982 and 1983 for the first time in 12 years, the Census Bureau reported. The bureau said the total tax take was $665.8 billion in the 1983 fiscal year, a 0.8% dip from the $671.4 billion collected in 1982. The decline came at the federal level, where taxes were down 5.9%, led by a 25% drop in corporate income taxes because of tax cuts and the effects of the 1981-82 recession, analysts said. At the state level, taxes rose by 5.9% in the 1983 fiscal year. At the local level, levies rose by 9% in 1983.
Corporations gave an estimated $3 billion to charities in 1983, an increase of about 7% over 1982, according to a survey by the Conference Board, a private, nonprofit organization funded by businesses. Such programs as community improvement, housing, jobs, transportation and the environment received 14.8% of all contributions last year, up from less than 12% during the three previous years. The share for health and human services dipped from 34% in 1980 to 28.7% in 1983.
Lawyers for Cuban inmates who rioted at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last week will go before a federal judge today seeking an order allowing them to tour the facility and talk with the prisoners. The lawyers said they want to observe conditions at the penitentiary, where hundreds of Cubans protesting their confinement went on a rampage Thursday night.
District Lodge 776 of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, representing 6,400 workers, voted to go on strike against General Dynamics’ Fort Worth Division, a major defense contractor and the city’s largest employer. The strike would idle construction of about 15 F-16 jet fighters currently being built each month, lodge President Pat Lane said. He said the union had insisted on a 22-year contract while General Dynamics wanted a 3-year pact. The union also sought a wage increase while General Dynamics offered a cash bonus instead.
Timothy Palmes, one of two convicted murderers scheduled to die Wednesday in Florida’s electric chair, was denied a stay of execution tonight by Judge Howell Melton of Federal District Court. But Mr. Palmes’ attorney, Tom McCoun, said he will request a stay Monday from the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. Meanwhile, the attorney for a second convicted killer, Chester Maxwell, was expected to file an appeal Monday in circuit court.
A decision on currency alterations to prevent counterfeiting by the use of copying machines that can duplicate in several colors is expected to be announced by the Secretary of the Treasury by mid-1985.
Homosexuals would run a new city in Los Angeles County if voters decide on Election Day to establish a new incorporated city between Los Angeles and Beverly Hills. The new city would be called West Hollywood.
The Los Angeles Times reports:
“About 700 suspected drug dealers and users were arrested during a weekend crackdown, Los Angeles police said. The sweeps by a 300-officer task force focused primarily on street drug-dealing in Hollywood and narcotics transactions made in South-Central Los Angeles “rock houses,” fortified residences where cocaine is sold in hardened form. The operation was intended to discourage small-scale drug dealing and not to seize large quantities of narcotics, Police Chief Daryl F. Gates said. The majority of the people arrested possessed only small amounts of heroin, cocaine, PCP and marijuana.”
[Ed: The media has not even caught on to the name, “crack,” yet. The scourge of the 1980s is just beginning.]
Funk-rocker Prince opens his “Purple Rain” tour featuring his new band ‘The Revolution’ with the 1st of seven shows at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan.
NFL Football:
Los Angeles Raiders 6, Chicago Bears 17
Cleveland Browns 13, Buffalo Bills 10
New England Patriots 19, Denver Broncos 26
Green Bay Packers 23, New Orleans Saints 13
Los Angeles Rams 16, St. Louis Cardinals 13
Miami Dolphins 31, New York Jets 17
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24, Minnesota Vikings 27
New York Giants 19, Dallas Cowboys 7
Philadelphia Eagles 23, Detroit Lions 23
Houston Oilers 7, Pittsburgh Steelers 35
San Diego Chargers 38, Indianapolis Colts 10
Cincinnati Bengals 17, San Francisco 49ers 23
Kansas City Chiefs 0, Seattle Seahawks 45
Walter Payton rushed for 111 yards and two first-half touchdowns and the Chicago defense forced five turnovers and recorded nine sacks today in sparking the Bears (7–3) to a 17–6 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders (7–3). Payton, carrying 27 times and exceeding the 100-yard mark for the 61st time in his career, scored on an 18- yard run in the first quarter and added an 8-yard touchdown run in the second quarter. The defeat marked the first time since the end of the 1981 season that the Raiders have lost two games in a row. The Raider quarterbacks Marc Wilson and David Humm were injured in the game and Los Angeles could manage only two field goals by Chris Bahr. He kicked a 44-yarder in the second quarter and a 40-yarder in the third quarter. Wilson started the game but had to leave in the first half. He returned in the second quarter when Humm went out with an injured knee. Jim McMahon, the Bears’ quarterback, left early in the third quarter with a kidney injury and was hospitalized. Chicago’s defense, ranked first in the NFL, recorded nine sacks for losses of 58 yards and forced three fumbles and two interceptions. Chicago had 11 sacks in its victory over Minnesota last week. One of the interceptions in the game today game led to Payton’s second touchdown, which gave the Bears a 14–0 lead.
The running back Ernest Byner ran 55 yards with a fumble recovery midway through the fourth quarter to pace the Cleveland Browns (2–8) to a 13–10 win over the Buffalo Bills in a game played in a steady rain. Byner’s touchdown run came after the wide receiver Willis Adams caught a pass from Paul McDonald, then fumbled at the Cleveland 45-yard line. Byner, following the play and running at full speed, scooped up the loose ball and raced untouched down the left sideline to give the Browns the lead. The Bills (0–10) were unable to move the ball on its next possession and Cleveland ran out the clock. The Bills have not won in 12 regular-season games going back to the 1983 season. Following an interception of a Joe Ferguson pass by the Browns’ safety Al Gross, Cleveland took a 3–0 lead at 11:50 of the opening quarter on a 28- yard field goal by Matt Bahr.
The safety Dennis Smith recovered a fumble by Mosi Tatupu with 1 minute 45 seconds to play today and ran 64 yards for a touchdown, giving the Denver Broncos (9–1) a 26–19 victory over the New England Patriots (6–4). The Patriots had led all the way until the Broncos linebacker Stever Busick stripped the ball from Tatupu. Smith scooped it up on the run and ran untouched down the right sideline to keep Denver’s winning streak alive at eight games. It was the Denver defense’s seventh score of the season. The Broncos were stopped on the ground and missed two of three extra-point kicks. With 25 seconds remaining, the Broncos’ safety Steve Foley intercepted a pass at his 10-yard line to seal the victory. The Broncos’ quarterback John Elway passed for 315 yards tossed touchdown passes of 5 and 17 yards to Butch Johnson and 35 yards to Steve Watson. Tony Franklin’s kicked four field goals for the Patriots, who led, 19–12, in the fourth quarter. The Patriots’ only touchdown came on Tony Eason’s 15-yard pass to Clarence Weathers.
The Green Bay Packers downed the New Orleans Saints, 23–13. The tight end Paul Coffman caught two touchdown passes, of 33 yards and 5 yards, from Lynn Dickey. Green Bay (3–7) won its second straight game, the first time this season it has won consecutive games. Richard Todd completed 18 of 32 passes for the Saints, but threw for only 163 yards. Al Del Greco added three field goals to give the Packers breathing room.
Eric Dickerson ran for 207 yards on 20 carries, and Mike Lansford kicked field goals of 27 and 32 yards in the second half, giving the Los Angeles Rams a 16–13 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals today. Los Angeles converted two St. Louis fumbles into its tying and winning points while rallying from a 13–3 halftime deficit. Reggie Doss and Greg Meisner, the Ram defensive tackles, recovered bobbles by the quarterback Neil Lomax, who also was sacked six times for losses of 48 yards. Lomax teamed earlier with the wide receiver Roy Green on a 58-yard touchdown pass in the first half. But during a turnaround third quarter, Lomax was guilty of an infraction which enabled the Rams to climb back. Three plays after Lomax passed to an ineligible receiver on fourth down, the Ram quarterback Jeff Kemp found Ron Brown for a 52-yard touchdown pass play. The Los Angeles defense also blocked a 49-yard field-goal attempt on the game’s closing play. Neil O’Donoghue booted field goals of 49 and 43 yards for the Cardinals.
The undefeated Dolphins were shocked into victory against the Jets today, after trailing twice in a game for the first time this season. Inevitably, behind Dan Marino’s passes, thrown accurately beyond the reach of second-string defensive players, the Dolphins came back in the fourth quarter to topple the swarming Jets, 31–17. But when it remained close for the Jets, it was a bruising, competitive game, the “kind of game you like to play, playing the big boys,” said the center Joe Fields. And the Dolphins are big. They are 10–0 this season, and have captured their last 15 regular-season games. Marino and the Dolphins recovered from a first half in which they trailed by 10–7. Marino then stunned the depleted secondary and sent the Jets to a 6–4 record. The Jets’ left cornerback, Johnny Lynn, suffered a first-period ankle injury. He shuttled in and out, finally remaining on the bench. The right cornerback, Russell Carter, suffered an injury to an ankle in the third period that sidelined him. Darrol Ray, the free safety, suffered a foot injury in the third quarter. Little wonder, then, that the Dolphin receivers did remarkably: Mark Duper produced a long gain of 54 yards, Nat Moore 37, Mark Clayton 47. Marino tore apart the secondary. The Jets’ rush, which had pressured Marino the opening half, was hardly effective once Marino found receivers free. He amassed 173 passing yards in the third quarter alone, 272 for the second half, as his teammates scored 17 unanswered points in the fourth quarter. The Dolphins produced a third-quarter touchdown to take the lead, yielded it for less than two minutes in the final period, then struck back. Overall, Marino had a 23-for-42 day, recording 422 yards and two scores, although he was sacked twice and intercepted twice.
The Minnesota Vikings squeaked past the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 27–24. Jan Stenerud kicked a 53-yard field goal with two seconds left to end a five- game losing streak for Minnesota (3–7). It was the ninth concecutive road loss for Tampa Bay (3–7). The Buccaneers’ linebacker Chris Washington was penalized for pass interference with 16 seconds left, setting up Stenerud’s game-winner. Tampa Bay tied the score at 24–24 with 1:03 left when the quarterback Steve DeBerg fired an 11-yard touchdown pass to Kevin House. James Wilder of Tampa Bay scored two touchdowns on runs of 6 and 2 yards. Wilder, the only Buccaneer running back who carried the ball, ran 30 times for 146 yards.
One week after they upset the Washington Redskins, the Giants upset the Dallas Cowboys, 19–7, today. The victory, with the St. Louis Cardinals’ 16–13 loss to the Los Angeles Rams, left the Giants, Cardinals and Cowboys tied for the division lead. The Redskins will also be 6–4 and tied for first if they defeat the Atlanta Falcons Monday night. If not, the Redskins will face an uphill battle in the tight Eastern Division race in the National Conference. The Giants scored on a 9-yard touchdown pass from Phil Simms to Lionel Manuel and got four field goals in four attempts by the beleaguered Ali Haji-Sheikh. The touchdown pass late in the third quarter rallied them from a 7–6 halftime deficit. On defense, the Giants harried Danny White, the Cowboys’ quarterback, and twice knocked him out of the game. They also harried his successor, Gary Hogeboom. That pressure, said Coach Bill Parcells of the Giants, was the key to the game. The Giants beat the Cowboys, 28–7, on the second Sunday of the season. They had not swept a season series from the Cowboys since 1963 and they had not won here since 1974, when Norm Snead was their quarterback. The first time the teams met this year, Hogeboom was the Cowboys’ quarterback and Lawrence Taylor of the Giants spent much of the game in his lap. White regained the starting job a week ago, but he paid a price today for the honor. He suffered a bruised left shoulder in the second quarter when Taylor and Leonard Marshall sacked him for an 8-yard loss. Hogeboom relieved and had little success. White tried again with almost 11 minutes left and the Cowboys trailing, 16–7. Five minutes later, he reinjured the shoulder and left the game again. The pressure on the Cowboys’ quarterbacks was fierce. They suffered five sacks — two and a half by Marshall, one by Casey Merrill, one by George Martin and a half by Taylor.
A 21-yard field-goal attempt by Detroit’s Eddie Murray in overtime hit the right upright and bounced away and the Detroit Lions settled for a 23–23 tie with Philadelphia. The Eagles (5–4–1) had forced the overtime on a 40-yard field goal by Michael McFadden, his third of the game, with 3 seconds remaining in regulation. McFadden had kicked field goals of 52 and 51 yards in the first half. The Lions (3–6–1) won the toss in overtime and marched from their own 41 to the Eagles’ 3. The drive was sparked by a 25-yard third-down pass from Gary Danielson to Jeff Chadwick and a 27-yard pass play from the fullback James Jones to the tailback Ken Jenkins. The Lions attempted the field goal on first down at 4:44 of the overtime and neither team was able to mount a serious threat for the rest of the period.
In a steady, driving rain, Mark Malone threw three touchdown passes to John Stallworth and ran for one to lead the Pittsburgh Steelers (6-4) to a 35–7 victory over the Oilers. Houston has not won a game. Stallworth moved into a tie with the retired Lynn Swann for the Steelers’ all-time lead in career touchdown catches with 50. Malone passed to Stallworth for a 43-yard score in the first quarter, an 18-yarder in the second and a 39- yarder in the third. The Oilers lost their top draft choice, the offensive tackle Dean Steinkuhler, to injury in the first half. A team spokesman said the Nebraska star had suffered a severe injury to his right knee. Malone scored Pittsburgh’s second touchdown, in the second quarter, on a 13-yard run. Playing for the injured starter David Woodley, Malone completed 9 of 14 passes with one interception for 139 yards. The linebacker Bryan Hinkle scored the Steelers’ fifth touchdown on a 21-yard return of a fumble recovery in the third period. Hinkle also set up the Steelers’ first touchdown by recovering a fumble by Stan Edwards on the Houston 40. The regular Oilers’ quarterback Warren Moon left the game early in the third quarter. He completed 10 of 20 passes with no interceptions for 133 yards and was sacked five times for 51 yards.
San Diego’s Dan Fouts passed for 283 yards and three touchdowns and the Chargers’ defense, the worst in the league against the pass, made four interceptions as San Diego downed the Indianapolis Colts, 38–10. The Chargers (5–5) snapped a three-game losing streak and the 16-year veteran receiver Charlie Joiner moved into second place in NFL career catches with 653. He also moved into second place in career reception yardage with 10,466. He caught 9 passes for 119 yards. Fouts was intercepted twice. But his 7-yard touchdown pass to Joiner helped San Diego take a 17–7 halftime lead and a 20-yard scoring pass to Wes Chandler broke the game open early in the final period. The Colts’ Mark Herrmann, making his second start at quarterback this season, passed for 222 yards, including a 74-yard touchdown to Raymond Butler. But two of his four passes that were intercepted set up scores by the Chargers.
Joe Montana, intercepted a career-high four times, threw a 4-yard touchdown pass to Freddie Solomon with 1:39 remaining for the comeback victory, as the San Francisco 49ers edged the Cincinnati Bengals, 23–17. The 49ers (9–1) trailed, 17–7, at halftime. The Bengals (3–7) rolled up 263 yards in the first half but were held to only five first downs in the second half. Cincinnati’s Ken Anderson, who was sacked six times in the game, completed two passes for first downs after Solomon’s touchdown, getting the ball into 49ers’ territory, but safety Carlton Williamson intercepted a pass at the San Francisco 30-yard line with 35 seconds left. In the second half, the 49ers settled for three field goals by Ray Wersching before finally getting their touchdown. The winning, 58-yard drive began when Montana hit Dwight Clark on a pass play covering 39 yards. Solomon, deep in the end zone, leaped high to make his game-winning catch behind the defender Robert Jackson.
Three defensive backs for the Seattle Seahawks — Dave Brown, Keith Simpson and Ken Easley — put themselves into the National Football League record book today in the 45–0 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs. The trio ran back four intercepted passes for touchdowns, a league record, as the Seahawks achieved their second consecutive shutout and fourth consecutive victory. Brown ran back interceptions of 95 and 58 yards for scores, Simpson returned his interception 76 yards for a touchdown and Easley raced 58 yards after his interception. Brown’s two interception returns for touchdowns equalled a league record. The Seahawks ran back six interceptions 330 yards, also a league record. Dave Krieg added two touchdown passes for Seattle.
Born:
Dustin Brown, NHL right wing (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup, 2012, 2014; NHL All-Star, 2009; 1,296 NHL games; Los Angeles Kings), in Ithaca, New York.
Branden Albert, NFL tackle (Pro Bowl, 2013, 2015; Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins), in Rochester, New York.
Tony Hills, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers, Denver Broncos, Indianapolis Colts, Dallas Cowboys, New Orleans Saints), in Dallas, Texas.
Ryne Robinson, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers), in Toledo, Ohio.
Jimmy Verdon, NFL defensive tackle (New Orleans Saints), in Pomona, California.
Kirk Barton, NFL guard (Chicago Bears), in Massillon, Ohio.
Navonda Moore, WNBA guard (Minnesota Lynx), in Jackson, Mississippi.
Died:
Merie Earle [Ireland], 95, American film and television character actress (Maude Gormley – “The Waltons”), of uremic poisoning.
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