Phalanxes of riot policemen, backed up with water cannons, blocked several thousand marchers in Warsaw tonight as they sought to place wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on the 66th anniversary of Poland’s independence. The police held back the marchers without using the water cannons or their clubs, but many agreed that the atmosphere was more tense than it had been on any occasion in Warsaw in the last six months. About 5,000 people were said to be in the procession as it started out from St. John’s Cathedral in the old town section of Warsaw, but the police cordons cut the crowd into segments and those at the head of the march were not allowed to reach the tomb. Turned back from their goal, the wreath-bearers deposited their offerings at a church along the way where a cross of flowers has been maintained for more than a year as a symbol of resistance.
The Irish police have begun searching for a woman sought by Britain in connection with a series of Irish Republican Army bombings. But today Irish authorities accused Scotland Yard of hampering the search by divulging the suspect’s name to newspapers. The Press Association, Britain’s domestic news agency, reported that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who narrowly escaped injury in an I.R.A. bombing in Brighton last month, was also angry after the woman’s identity was published by newspapers on both sides of the Irish Sea today. In Dublin, a senior antiterrorist Special Task Force agent said, “It was stupid of the Yard to leak this information while we’re trying to track down this woman.” The Dublin police confirmed that the British had asked them to arrest the fugitive, identified as Evelyn Glenholmes, a 28-year-old Belfast-born woman who lived in Dundalk near the Northern Ireland border for several years.
Two Red Army soldiers who deserted in Afghanistan and defected to the West flew home to the Soviet Union after they asked the Kremlin’s embassy in London to be reunited with their families. Sgt. Igor Rykhov, 22, and Pvt. Oleg Khlan, 21, were escorted by Soviet officials to a Leningrad-bound airliner after British authorities said they were convinced that the two were returning voluntarily. Having deserted in the summer of 1983, they were captured by Afghan guerrillas, then taken to Britain.
Deputy Soviet Finance Minister Alexander N. Kamenskov, 54, has died unexpectedly, the Soviet news agency Tass reported. Western diplomats in Moscow said his death was unlikely to have been the reason some announcers were seen on Soviet television dressed in dark clothing, usually a sign that a member of the Kremlin leadership had died. There had been speculation over the possible death of Defense Minister Dmitri F. Ustinov, 76, who has not been seen for more than six weeks, but the rumors have not been confirmed.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres said he has invited Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to meet with him on their border to discuss ways to improve relations. Peres told a group of visiting U.S. Jewish fund-raisers that Mubarak wants to “prepare the ground” for such a session, apparently by first sending a special envoy to Israel. A meeting would be the first between heads of government since Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin met in the summer of 1981 with then-Egyptian President Anwar Sadat.
Israel offered to begin a cease-fire in south Lebanon with the Shiite Muslim militia there. The move was a response to Lebanon’s suspension of troop withdrawal talks over the arrest of a group of Muslim militiamen. Israel said it hoped the proposed arrangement with the militia, Amal, would break the cycle of violence against Israeli occupation forces in south Lebanon and pave the way for a resumption of troop withdrawal talks with the Beirut Government. The talks were being held under United Nations auspicies at Naqura, Lebanon. There was no immediate response from the Lebanese Government. On Saturday, the Government announced that it had suspended its participation in the negotiations to protest the arrest by the Israeli Army last week of a group of Amal militia leaders in south Lebanon. Four of the militia leaders are still in custody, and the Israelis made it clear today that they do not intend to free them in exchange for a resumption of the talks.
Israel destroyed 28 homes of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank of the Jordan Valley. Israel has now destroyed nearly 80 such houses in the last 10 days, according to a spokesman for the Civil Administration, the Israeli agency that governs occupied territories, who said the houses were built without permission. “Everyone who lives there is not a resident of the valley,” she explained. “Whoever isn’t a resident of the valley cannot live there without a permit because of the security sensitivity of the area. Also, they built houses without licenses.”
Syria has warned the Palestine Liberation Organization against holding a meeting of its government in exile in Amman, Jordan later this month. Al Fatah, the largest of the P.L.O.’s eight official factions, decided to convene a meeting of the long-delayed Palestine National Council here after months of bitter disputes among the various groups over whether the meeting should be held. Fatah leaders, in announcing their decision, denounced Syria for trying to divide the P.L.O. The Syrians back rebel factions within the P.L.O. that oppose the organization’s chairman, Yasser Arafat.
Iran’s governing clergymen appear to have begun a campaign against corruption in the government in an attempt to improve the public image of their leadership. Seventeen people are being tried for corruption, and many others have been charged or are under investigation. Those on trial are 5 officials from the Heavy Industries Ministry and 12 businessmen charged with giving them bribes. The widely publicized trial has been accompanied by an official campaign begun by Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi against corruption in the Government.
Fourteen tourist hotels in Manila have agreed to search the luggage and handbags of all guests and to make quick searches of everyone who enters their lobbies following a series of fires that killed 40 people, including 13 foreigners, a hotel official said today. “If a guest refuses inspection, then we politely tell him to go look for another hotel,” said Arturo Adriano, general manager of Aurelio Hotel in the Ermita tourist district. He said members of the Tourist-Oriented Association of the Philippines, a group that includes owners and managers of two- and three-star hotels in the capital, insisted at a meeting Saturday on the strict security measures. Guards in at least six of Manila’s 30 tourist-class and luxury hotels began the searches Saturday after some of the hotels reported receiving warning telephone calls that they were “next on the list.”
Forty Japanese jet fighters chased a Soviet bomber that violated Japan’s airspace despite repeated warnings, a Defense Agency spokesman reported in Tokyo. He said nine Soviet bombers were flying south — past the Strait of Tsushima between South Korea and Japan — in international airspace. Four of the bombers turned back, he said, but one of the four, a TU-16 Badger, violated Japanese airspace over Okinoshima for two minutes. Then, the Soviet plane left the area as it headed northward. The five other Soviet planes continued flying southward over the Pacific, the spokesman said.
About 14,200 workers at Ford Motor Company of Canada voted overwhelmingly today to ratify a three-year contract, heading off a general strike against the company’s nine Ontario plants, union spokesmen said. Eighty-two percent of the union members voting to accept the proposed pact, which was reached Thursday between bargainers for Ford and the United Automobile Workers, union representatives said. “I’m very satisfied with an over 80 percent vote,” said Robert White, director of the union in Canada. “I think it’s excellent.” Mr. White said the tentative contract was almost identical to a pact accepted by 36,000 workers at General Motors of Canada last week after a 13-day strike.
U.S. officials appeared to differ about whether new military and diplomatic measures were under consideration to counter what the Reagan Administration asserts is an increased flow of Soviet-bloc arms into Nicaragua. The issue of the arms shipments gained prominence last week after Administration officials said a Soviet freighter that had arrived at a Nicaraguan port might contain advanced MIG’s fighter planes. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in a statement issued to reporters here, said he knew of no plan to interdict arms shipments to Nicaragua or to undertake other new military and diplomatic initiatives to slow such shipments to Nicaragua, A report in The New York Times today quoted senior Administration officials as saying that the Administration was considering placing additional military and diplomatic pressure on Nicaragua.
In Washington today, the same senior officials said that various proposals on how to accomplish this were circulated among top officials at the State Department, the White House, the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency last week but had not been reviewed by Mr. Shultz. Among the options being discussed, the officials said, were the withdrawal of the United States Ambassador from Managua, the interdiction of arms shipments at sea and an increase in the frequency of United States military maneuvers in the area. They said that the proposals were advocated by national security officials who believed that current policy had failed to halt a Nicaraguan arms buildup that could upset the balance of power in Central America and ultimately threaten the security of the Panama Canal.
Salvadorans will meet in Los Angeles Wednesday for a public debate on peace prospects in El Salvador. Both sides confirmed that senior Salvadoran Government and leftist rebel officials agreed to participate in the debate, which is being sponsored by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of California at Santa Barbara.
Nearly 100 U.S. troops have parachuted into Honduras to begin work on roads at the Palmerola military base, a U.S. Army officer said in Tegucigalpa, the capital. The troops are from the 82nd Airborne Division and a civil engineering detachment at Ft. Bragg, North Carolina, the officer said. He denied that the troops’ arrival had anything to do with rising U.S.-Nicaraguan tensions.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz and foreign ministers of other Western Hemisphere countries — gathering in the Brazilian capital for the opening today of the Organization of American States assembly — held talks on Latin American debt and economic development. Latin and Caribbean officials stressed the need to refinance $330 billion in loans and to attract development funds after three years of recession. Central American political issues were not raised.
African leaders flew into the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa for the annual meeting of the Organization of African Unity, landing amid an airlift aimed at alleviating drought and famine threatening millions with starvation. Some Western envoys predicted that at least 22 countries will attend the session, which has been in doubt because of a continuing dispute over admitting Polisario Front rebels as the Saharan Arab Democratic Republic. Talks are underway seeking a compromise.
Ghana has dismissed several key ministers, the Accra radio said today. The radio, monitored here, said the ruling Provisional National Defense Council had named new ministers of industry, education, information, agriculture and trade. The radio also announced the creation of a national commission to promote Ghana’s economic recovery program, which has received substantial support from the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
Nigeria said today that it would recognize the rebel movement fighting Moroccan rule in Western Sahara, an issue crucial to the success or failure of the Organization of African Unity meeting opening here tomorrow. As heads of state began to arrive here, Foreign Minister Ibrahim Gambari announced that Nigeria would recognize the government proclaimed by the Polisario rebel group in the former Spanish territory. The Western Sahara dispute has split the O.A.U. between supporters of Morocco and backers of Polisario. Mr. Gambari said Nigeria would press for Polisario to take its seat at the meeting. “The O.A.U.,” he said, “has been paralyzed by the seemingly intractable problem of Western Sahara.”
An 18-year-old Black youth died today after he was shot when a Black policeman opened fire on a mob attacking his house as rioting, looting and arson continued across South Africa, a police spokesman said. About 200 Blacks stormed the house of the Black policeman who shot the youth, the police said. Attacks were also reported on other Black local officials, who are often singled out by rioters as agents of the white minority Government.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which was built near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington with private financing, was formally accepted by President Reagan for the nation in ceremonies attended by 150,000 people. President Reagan and Secretary of the Interior, William Clark, participate in a signing ceremony of a document witnessing the acceptance of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on behalf of the U.S. “This memorial is a symbol of both past and current sacrifice,” Mr. Reagan said to a throng estimated by the United States Park Police at 150,000 people. “The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent,” he said. “It’s been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.”
Baby Fae showed the first signs of rejecting her implanted baboon heart two days ago but now appears to responding favorably, her physicians said. The rejection flare-up was treated with drugs and appears to have subsided, they said. The brief episode was the first hint of trouble in the pioneering animal-to- human transplant operation that has otherwise been portrayed as progressing remarkably well. But Baby Fae’s doctors stressed that the infant has responded to treatments and looks normal and well. “She’s doing very nicely this morning,” said Dr. Robin Doroshow, a pediatric cardiologiost on the medical team caring for Baby Fae, who appeared today on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.” “She is breathing normal air now and not receiving any extra oxygen, and she’s off of antibiotics and eating well.”
[Ed: In fact, time is running out. It had been hoped that rejection would not occur so soon because Baby Fae’s immune systm was so immature, but now a terminal crisis is just a matter of time. And still no donor heart for an infant is available.]
The Strategic Air Command’s commander in chief would prefer to wait until there is unmistakable proof that the United States is under missile attack before retaliating. In a copyright story in the Omaha World-Herald, General Bennie L. Davis said he does not advocate the launch-on-warning doctrine because warning systems can give false indications of an attack. Davis said the United States should conduct “a prompt launch” of missiles while the confirmed attack is underway. U.S. law provides that only the President can order the use of nuclear weapons.
Roman Catholic bishops denounced many elements of present economic practices in the first draft of a pastoral letter on the United States economy. In calling for “a new commitment to economic justice” the draft proposes sweeping reforms to better aid the poor. The 120-page draft, “Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy,” was prepared over a four-year period by a five-member committee headed by Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland, of Milwaukee.
Provincetown-Boston Airlines’ board of directors elected Edwin J. Putzell Jr., a board member, as interim chairman to replace John C. Van Arsdale Jr., who quit after the Federal Aviation Administration grounded the nation’s largest commuter airline’s planes for safety violations. Van Arsdale was cited by the FAA for piloting a passenger plane that he was not qualified to fly from Jacksonville, Florida, to Naples, Florida, in 1983. His pilot’s license was revoked. A PBA plane crashed near Naples September 7, killing one woman. Officials said the plane carried the wrong fuel.
Teachers voted to end a strike in a Toledo, Ohio, school district as their counterparts in a Pittsburgh-area district said they would resume a strike. Teachers in Ohio’s Washington Local District approved a new pact after a 24-day walkout. If the school board agrees, classes for the district’s 8,000 students could resume today. In the South Fayette School District, near Pittsburgh, officials said classes were canceled for 1,100 students because 73 teachers voted not to work. The teachers, who earlier staged a six-week strike, are disputing wording in a tentative agreement reached October 3.
The Rev. D. Douglas Roth defied a court order and conducted worship services at the Clairton, Pennsylvania, church he has been barricaded inside of since Monday. Roth was suspended from his post at Trinity Lutheran Church last month because some members of the congregation complained about his involvement in the Denominational Ministry Strategy, a small group of ministers allied with militant steel workers. A Common Pleas Court judge ordered him not to preach in the church or act as its pastor.
A 2-year-old girl who underwent the nation’s second simultaneous heart-liver transplant Friday underwent emergency surgery to have her new malfunctioning heart replaced, doctors at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh said. Kellie Cochran of Birmingham, Alabama, was in critical condition. She suffered from intrahepatic biliary hypoplasia, a hereditary illness that degenerates the bile ducts in the liver. Her natural heart also deteriorated, possibly because of a viral infection, her parents said.
An Oregon State agency investigating “threatening” living conditions at a commune has removed 11 children to foster homes, officials said Saturday. The police said the state charged that the children were subjected to overly harsh discipline, including confinement for extended periods, The Salem Statesman Journal reported Sunday. No one was arrested in a raid Friday and officials would not comment further, nor would commune residents. The raid followed an investigation by the state Children’s Service Division, the agency’s deputy director, Thomas Toombs, said. He said the children, aged 4 to 11, were in foster homes.
Oil shortages could develop again before the end of the century, the American Petroleum Institute warned in its annual report. “The so-called ‘glut’ of oil and natural gas — which has lulled many Americans into a state of complacency — could disappear if economic conditions continue to improve, or if events in the Middle East lead to the effective closing of the Strait of Hormuz (a passageway out of the Persian Gulf),” Stephen Potter, senior vice president of the institute, wrote in the report.
Users of computer bulletin boards are rallying to the defense of Thomas G. Tcimpidas, a 33-year television engineer in Los Angeles whose home computer was seized by the police in May. He was using his computer as a high-technology version of the supermarket bulletin board to which other computer owners could connect their computers at no charge. But one of the messages on his board contained unauthorized telephone credit card numbers. He is facing charges that he published the numbers with the intent they be used by people to avoid telephone charges.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is beginning a study of gases found in minute amounts in the atmosphere that could cause global warming comparable to that expected from carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide lets sunlight enter the atmosphere, but does not allow heat to escape, and apparently trace gases do the same thing, scientists said. Resulting warming has been called the greenhouse effect, but scientists differ over how severe it will be.
The Boy Scouts have arranged for tests at a Virginia Army post where 32,000 Boy Scouts camped in 1981 near dioxin contamination. In addition, an official said today, the Scouts still planned their jamboree there in 1985. “We don’t think there are any serious problems,” said J. L. Tarr, chief executive of the Boy Scouts of America. “It’s been more than three and a half years and we don’t have any record.” Mr. Tarr said an independent laboratory would test the site Tuesday. The Army said soil tests in 1983 at the site, Fort A. P. Hill in central Virginia, found 200 parts per billion of toxic dioxin in a storage building and 3 parts per billion around it. The report was given to the Scout organization Friday. Dr. Barry Rumack of the Rocky Mountain Poison Control Center in Denver said more than 1 part per billion was unsafe.
The New Orleans World Fair closed in debt for more than a $100 million, a figure that is expected to grow. When the 1984 fair opened in May it was already burdened with money troubles. Hopes for a total attendance of 15 million were never realized.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., one of the South’s most influential Black clergymen for decades and the father of the slain civil rights leader who bore his name, died of heart disease in Atlanta. He was 84 years old. Mr. King, who suffered from cardiac problems in recent years, was stricken at home yesterday evening and rushed to Crawford W. Long Memorial Hospital in Atlanta where he was pronounced dead, a hospital spokesman said. For 44 years Mr. King served as pastor of the Ebenezer Baptist Church, one of the South’s leading Black congregations, and he remained a major force in the civic life of Atlanta after retiring from that pulpit. Though he was a pioneer leader in Atlanta civil rights battles, the national influence of “Daddy King,” as he was called, came largely through his son.
“Three Musketeers” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 9 performances.
NFL Football:
Pittsburgh Steelers 20, Cincinnati Bengals 22
Dallas Cowboys 24, St. Louis Cardinals 17
Denver Broncos 16, San Diego Chargers 13
Minnesota Vikings 17, Green Bay Packers 45
Houston Oilers 17, Kansas City Chiefs 16
Chicago Bears 13, Los Angeles Rams 29
Indianapolis Colts 9, New York Jets 5
Philadelphia Eagles 23, Miami Dolphins 24
Buffalo Bills 10, New England Patriots 38
New Orleans Saints 17, Atlanta Falcons 13
San Francisco 49ers 41, Cleveland Browns 7
Detroit Lions 14, Washington Redskins 28
New York Giants 17, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20
Larry Kinnebrew powered through the left side of the Pittsburgh defense for a 3-yard touchdown run with 35 seconds to play to give the Cincinnati Bengals a 22–20 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers. The second-string quarterback, Turk Schonert, guided the Bengals to the winning points on a 49-yard drive that started with under six minutes to play to lift Cincinnati to 4–7 and drop Pittsburgh to 6–5. Schonert took over when Ken Anderson bruised his shoulder on a third-quarter sack. It was the fourth straight game in which the Steelers have injured Anderson. The Steelers led by 13–12 at the time.
Gary Hogeboom threw a 26-yard fourth-quarter touchdown pass to Ron Springs to break a 17–17 tie today as the Dallas Cowboys took advantage of six turnovers to beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 24–17. The victory left the Cowboys tied with Washington for first place in the National Conference East, both with 7–4 records. The Cardinals are 6–5. Hogeboom’s toss to Springs with 9 minutes and 3 seconds left came three plays after Victor Scott had intercepted a Neil Lomax pass that had been tipped away from Roy Green by Dennis Thurman. St. Louis fumbled four times and was intercepted twice. A Cardinal touchdown was called back because of offensive pass interference, and a St. Louis field-goal attempt was blocked to set up the Cowboys’ first score. Lomax was also sacked six times. Trailing by 17–7 at the half, the Cardinals took less than two minutes to take the ball 62 yards for a touchdown as Lomax began to find Green, held to only 25 yards in three catches before intermission. The key play came on third-and-1 situation from the Dallas 25, when Lomax hit Green on the 1. On the next play, Lomax flipped off a scramble to Randy Love for the touchdown to cut the lead to 17–14. Neil O’Donoghue’s 30-yard field goal tied the game for the Cardinals. But St. Louis kept getting thwarted by its own mistakes, including an offensive interference call on Green that nullified a 39-yard TD pass from Lomax.
Sammy Winder’s 1-yard plunge with 38 seconds left capped a 77-yard drive that lifted the Denver Broncos to a 16–13 victory over the San Diego Chargers today. The Chargers’ Rolf Benirschke was wide to the left on a 46-yard field-goal attempt with two seconds remaining that could have forced an overtime period. The triumph was the ninth in a row for the Broncos (10–1). The Chargers fell to 5–6. After Winder’s touchdown, Dan Fouts guided the Chargers from their own 20-yard line to the Denver 27 to set up Benirschke’s kick. Most of the yardage was on passes of 20 and 31 yards from Fouts to Wes Chandler.
Lynn Dickey passed for 303 yards and four touchdowns, including two third-quarter strikes to the fullback Jessie Clark, as the Green Bay Packers routed the Minnesota Vikings, 45–17. Dickey completed 22 of 40 passes and was intercepted once. The Packers (4–7) got 107 yards on 10 carries from the halfback Gerry Ellis in winning their third straight game.
Warren Moon rushed 1 yard for a touchdown and passed 2 yards to Jamie Williams for another score to enable Houston to win its first game after 10 losses, as the Oilers edged the Kansas City Chiefs, 17–16. The triumph was also Houston’s first on the road since a 9–3 victory over the Cleveland Browns on September 13, 1981. The Oilers had lost 23 straight road games, a National Football League record. Nick Lowery kicked a field goal in each of the first three quarters to stake the Chiefs (5–6) to a 9–7 lead. But the Houston nose tackle Mike Stensrud recovered a fumbled snap from center by Todd Blackledge at the Oiler 45 with 62 seconds left in the third period. Moon capitalized on the turnover by driving Houston 55 yards in eight plays for a 14–9 lead with his 1-yard run. Joe Cooper closed the scoring for the Oilers with a 44-yard field goal with 1:34 left to give Houston a 17–9 lead. Blackledge threw to Henry Marshall for a touchdown with 26 seconds left.
The Los Angeels Rams downed the Chicago Bears, 29–13. Eric Dickerson, outgaining Chicago’s Walter Payton in a duel of the National Football League’s top runners, rushed for 149 yards and scored twice early in the final period as Los Angeles rallied for the victory. Dickerson carried 28 times as he became the first runner in 12 games to roll up more than 100 yards against the Bears’ defense, first in the league in total defense and against the run going into the game. The outcome left both teams at 7–4.
The New York Jets’ offense could generate only a field goal in a rainy 9–5 loss to the Indianapolis Colts that may have washed away their playoff hopes. The rest of the odd final score fashioned from three Raul Allegre field goals and a safety when a bad Colt snap sailed out of the end zone — was no less odd than the way things went for the Jet offense. Pat Ryan was ineffective and replaced as the quarterback by Ken O’Brien, who could do no better and was replaced by Ryan, who eventually left again after suffering his second concussion in two weeks. The defeat was the Jets’ third straight, and the first this season against a squad they had been expected to defeat. It sank their record to 6–5. “I think we’d have to win our remaining games to get in the playoffs,” said Joe Klecko, the defensive tackle.
Doug Betters, a defensive end, blocked an extra-point attempt by Paul McFadden with 1 minute and 52 seconds left today, enabling the Miami Dolphins to beat the Philadelphia Eagles, 24–23, and stay unbeaten in the National Football League. Dan Marino and the Dolphins struggled from a 14–0 deficit to take a 24–17 lead into the final two minutes. But Ron Jaworski fired a 38-yard touchdown pass to Melvin Hoover to bring the Eagles to a point behind. Then came the dramatic block by the 6-foot-7-inch Betters, who drove straight up the middle to preserve Miami’s 11th victory. Philadelphia (4–6–1) scored the first two times it had the ball on passes of 19 yards to Mike Quick and 13 to Tony Woodruff. Then the Dolphins, forced to rally for the second straight week, went to work. Marino made it 14–7 at the half by throwing an 11-yard scoring pass to Tony Nathan. The Eagles opened the margin to 17–7 on a 45-yard field goal by McFadden, but Miami scored on a 2-yard run by Woody Bennett late in the third quarter and went ahead early in the final period when Pete Johnson punched over from the 1. Uwe von Schamann added a 27- yard field goal with 4:27 left.
Tony Collins scored twice on 1-yard bursts and Tony Eason threw for three touchdowns to lead the Patriots to a 38–10 triumph over the Buffalo Bills. New England (7–4) had eight sacks, including six on Joe Ferguson, and three interceptions. The Patriots, as has been their custom, played their best in the second half, scoring 28 points and shutting out Buffalo (0–11) for the final 26:37. With the score 10–10 late in the third period, Buffalo’s cornerback, Brian Carpenter, was called for interference on a 35-yard pass from Eason to Cedric Jones at the goal line. Collins ran through the right side for the lead. Buffalo had to punt, and Irving Fryar returned the kick 28 yards to the Bill 35. Eason hit Derrick Ramsey for 23 yards, then Jones, who had two scoring catches, grabbed a pass at the 1. Collins took the ball in again for a 24–10 lead.
Saints quarterback Richard Todd threw scoring passes of 37 and 17 yards to Hoby Brenner as New Orleans (5–6) handed Atlanta (3–8) its fifth straight loss, downing the Falcons, 17–13. Brenner extended his 6-foot-4 frame to the limit on the 17-yard reception in the end zone that erased a 13–10 Atlanta lead with 12:11 left in the game. Todd sparked the 87-yard go-ahead scoring drive that started in the final minute of the third quarter by connecting on 4 of 6 passes for 68 yards and gaining 9 more yards when he scrambled out of trouble.
Roger Craig ran for two scores and Freddie Solomon caught two passes for touchdowns as the San Francisco 49ers romped in the rain, crushing the Cleveland Browns, 41–7. Ray Wersching converted two Cleveland first-quarter fumbles into field goals for the 49ers (10–1), who posted their seventh straight road victory. A rookie fullback, Earnest Byner, fumbled away the first two possessions for Cleveland (2–9), and the turnovers helped San Francisco take a 13–0 halftime lead.
Otis Wonsley scored three touchdowns as the Washington Redskins continued their mastery over Detroit, beating the Lions, 28–14. Keith Griffin, a rookie subbing for the injured John Riggins, rushed for 114 yards as the Redskins downed the Lions for the ninth straight time, the longest current streak for one team over another in the National Football League. The victory raised the Redskins’ record to 7–4. The Lions (3–7–1) have never won in Washington in 12 tries. Wonsley, who usually serves as Riggins’s blocking back in short- yardage situations, was called on with Riggins sidelined by a back injury. He responded with two 1-yard touchdowns as the Redskins took a 21–0 lead at the half. The touchdowns were his first in a regular season game in four years as a pro. Wonsley scored his third touchdown in the third quarter, from the 3-yard line, giving Washington a 28–0 lead three minutes into the second half. The Lions closed the gap to 28–14 before the end of the quarter on James Jones’s 1-yard touchdown run and a 19-yard pass from Gary Danielson to Rob Rubick.
The Giants found prosperity too much to handle today. After keeping the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in check for two and a half quarters, they allowed the Bucs to score 17 points in 15 minutes and earn a 20–17 victory. No matter how much pressure the Giants put on Steve DeBerg, the Bucs’ quarterback started connecting with his receivers. No matter how many times the Giants stopped James Wilder, the Bucs’ tailback made key yardage and helped run the clock. DeBerg completed 16 of 28 passes for 238 yards and Wilder carried 34 times for 99 yards. Meanwhile, the Bucs allowed the Giants to complete short passes, but few long ones. The Giants’ running game contributed little. The Giants’ defense made big plays, but not enough. On the two previous Sundays, the Giants upset the Washington Redskins and Dallas Cowboys, two perennial powers. That put the Giants in a four-way tie with the Redskins, Cowboys and St. Louis Cardinals for first place in the National Conference’s Eastern Division, each with a 6–4 record. Now the Redskins and Cowboys are tied for first at 7–4, with the Giants and Cardinals next at 6–5. The Giants meet the Cardinals next Sunday at Giants Stadium in a game both teams must win to stay in playoff contention.
Born:
Hilton Armstrong, NBA center and power forward (New Orleans-Oklahoma City Hornets, Sacramento Kings, Houston Rockets, Washington Wizards, Atlanta Hawks, Golden State Warrriors), in Peekskill, New York.
Died:
Rev. Martin Luther King Sr., 84, Black minister in Atlanta, father of Martin Luther King, Sr.
Jan Novák, 84, Czech classical composer and contemporary Latin poet.
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