A large demonstration in Madrid was held to protest Spain’s proposed regulation of most church-run schools. Hundreds of thousands of people protesting a law that restricts the role of the Roman Catholic Church in Spanish schools demonstrated in Madrid in the country’s biggest anti-government rally since the Socialists took office two years ago. The protesters demanded the withdrawal of the law, which gives the state tight control over the curriculum at subsidized schools and limits many of the church’s privileges in education that it held under the dictatorship of the late Francisco Franco. Conservatives in Parliament have challenged the constitutionality of the law, which the body approved last March.
A terse announcement over the weekend saying Polish authorities had arrested a fugitive Stalinist official appears to underscore a growing view here that long latent rivalries in the Polish Communist Party have risen to the surface after the slaying of a pro-Solidarity priest. The former official, Kazimierz Mijal, a former Minister of Economics in the mid-1950’s, was said to have slipped into Poland after 18 years in Albania and Belgium. The announcement Saturday of Mr. Mijal’s arrest came as murder indictments against three security policemen were about to be filed in the case of the slain priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popieluszko. It also came as Poland’s ruling party was steeling itself for a possible showdown between the dominant, professed liberal wing and those party members who have opposed such policies as overtures to Western Europe, dialogue with the church and the amnesty for Solidarity detainees last summer.
The Soviet Defense Minister, Dmitri F. Ustinov, who has not been seen in public since September 27, issued the customary “order of the day” for Monday’s observance of the Day of Rocket Forces. Marshal Ustinov, 76 years old, was not present on November 7 to review troops in Red Square during the Revolution Day parade, although newspapers carried his order of the day then on ceremonies for the country’s No. 1 holiday. His absence prompted speculation that he was ill. The official press agency Tass said Marshal Ustinov’s order of the day was issued today, praising the rocket troops and other military personnel for perfecting their training in the face of a deteriorating international situation.
A British candy company began removing its chocolate bars from stores today after animal rights militants warned that they had injected rat poison into candy bars and at least three people said the candy had made them sick. The Mars company said it was arranging for all its Mars Bars, one of Britain’s best-selling candies, to be removed from shops and checked. But it said there was no evidence any of the bars had actually been poisoned. A group called the Animal Liberation Front said Saturday that it had injected rat poison into the bars in five British cities. The group said its attack was directed against Mars because the company is financing a project in which monkeys are fed a sugar-rich diet to investigate tooth decay.
The Israeli Cabinet was told that 15,000 government employees will have to be dismissed if the battle against the nation’s 1,000% annual inflation is to succeed. Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai told reporters that the Cabinet has decided in principle to slash a further $550 million from its budget over the next year, mostly in defense spending. It has already cut $250 million. Labor and Welfare Minister Moshe Katzav predicted that unemployment will rise 50% within a year. It now stands at 90,000 or 5.9% of the work force.
Middle East terrorist groups calling themselves holy warriors were criticized as abusers of a sacred tenet of Islam by a Saudi Arabian religious leader. The secretary general of the Muslim World League, Abdullah Naseef, issued a statement from the league’s headquarters in Mecca distinguishing between a jihad, or Islamic holy war, and modern terrorism. “Jihad in Islam was instituted to further the causes of justice, dignity and Koranic law through a formal declaration of war against forces bent on undermining these values and rights,” he said Saturday. The league is a Saudi organization striving to promote Islamic study and research throughout the world.
Colonel Muammar el- Qaddafi’s success in bluffing French troops out of Chad while keeping a contingent of his own army in place has created not only deep embarrassment for President Francois Mitterrand, but also problems for the United States. Perhaps more than the Reagan Administration would have wished, the botched withdrawal process in Chad appears to be drawing the United States into a more visible role in the future of the fragmented country. The potential difficulties involving the United States became apparent last week when France announced that French and Libyan troops had totally withdrawn from Chad. Then, six days later, after a meeting between Mr. Mitterrand and Colonel Qaddafi on the Greek island of Crete, France acknowledged knowing all along that the Libyan pullout was incomplete and that as many as 1,200 Libyan troops were still holding positions north of the capital of Ndjamena.
The Soviet Union helped deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine. The 100-pound sacks of wheat being loaded from a truck onto a Soviet MI-8 helicopter bore the stamp, “Furnished by the People of the United States of America.” The wheat was part of an airlift taking food and supplies to millions of starving Ethiopian famine victims. Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of Ethiopia’s relief effort, said the cooperation is such that sometimes “we are transporting supplies by Soviet aircraft with the fuel paid for by the American Government.” Journalists are usually not allowed to photograph Soviet aircraft or interview Soviet crew members in Ethiopia. But an unscheduled stop last week by an Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation Commission DC-3 carrying reporters gave them a rare glimpse into the Soviet role in the airlift.
At first officials shooed reporters away from the four MI-8 transport helicopters at this military base 165 miles north of Addis Ababa on the eastern edge of Ethiopia’s central highlands. But then the Russian chief of the 20- member Soviet crew at Kembolcha allowed the journalists to take photographs of the helicopters, painted in shades of camouflage green and bearing the name of the Soviet airline Aeroflot, as the American wheat was being loaded.
Vietnamese tanks and artillery attacked a Cambodian resistance camp, the Thai army operations center in Bangkok reported. It said Vietnamese artillery began shelling a base of the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front, a member of the U.N.-recognized coalition government of Cambodia, at Nong Chan, 150 miles east of Bangkok, before dawn. Reports from the camp said there were some injuries among its 13,000 residents, but no deaths. Nong Chan, situated a few miles from the Thai border, was routed by Vietnamese soldiers in January 1983, and civilians have only recently returned there.
Two people were killed in the latest outbreak of guerrilla fighting in the southern Philippine city of Davao on the island of Mindanao. Military sources said today that on Saturday night gunmen shot dead a banana plantation security guard and a woman suspected of being an informer for the Communist New People’s Army.
French settlers opposed to independence for France’s Pacific territory of New Caledonia won control of the territory’s new National Assembly in an election marred by clashes between police and militants seeking to disrupt the balloting. With nearly all votes counted, the settler-supported Republican Party won 34 seats in the 42-seat assembly. The legislature will give the territory greater autonomy, but a referendum on independence will not be held until 1989.
A Cuban defector whose position, according to United States authorities, gave him entree to high-level Government meetings in Havana says that Fidel Castro’s style of leadership in domestic affairs is personal, impulsive and at times intrusive. The characterization of the Cuban leader came from Jose Luis Llovio Menendez, who before his defection served as chief adviser to the head of the Cuban State Committee for Finance from 1977 to 1980 and as chief adviser to the Minister of Culture from 1980 to 1982. He was described by officials in Washington knowledgeable about his case as one of the highest-ranking members of Mr. Castro’s Government to defect. Mr. Llovio said he was mainly involved in domestic matters and attended many meetings with Mr. Castro.
Nicaragua’s Foreign Minister accused the Reagan Administration today of whipping up “official hysteria” against his Government and said the success of talks beginning Monday rested with the United States. Appearing on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto Brockman reiterated that the Administration was planning military action against Nicaragua. He said that Nicaragua wanted peaceful relations with the United States but that Washington had been “contaminating the American public with official hysteria over Nicaragua.” Asked whether he expected any progress to be made in United States-Nicaragua discussions beginning Monday in Mexico, the Foreign Minister replied: “It all depends on whether the Reagan Administration is into engaging in fruitful and constructive dialogue. We want to do that.”
At least 15 gunmen opened fire on customers eating breakfast in a restaurant in the town of Jagua, Colombia today, killing seven and wounding four, the authorities said. The town is in a region known for guerrilla activity and marijuana growing and the attack may have been rebel- or drug-related, said Luis Rodriguez, Governor of Cesar State, where Jagua is situated. At least one of the dead and two of the injured were doctors and dentists who had just attended the opening of a new dentistry office in Jagua, 325 miles north of Bogota, officials said. The doctors and health officials were in the region providing care to victims of recent floods, which left at least 40,000 people homeless. Governor Rodriguez said the first person killed was a local landowner, Jacobo Lacutir. A police spokesman said 15 to 20 men who appeared to be rebels of the National Liberation Army pulled up outside in a four-wheel drive vehicle, jumped out and sprayed the restaurant with gunfire. Murders and kidnappings, many related to the country’s multibillion dollar illicit drug trade, are almost daily occurrences in Colombia.
About 50 cocaine traffickers burst into a campsite in the Peruvian jungle and opened fire with submachine guns, killing at least 17 people employed by a U.S.-financed program to destroy coca crops, Peruvian police reported. Three people were critically wounded during the attack at Monzon, 200 miles northeast of the Peruvian capital of Lima. All the victims were Peruvian employees of the Coca Reduction Organization, part of a $30-million program financed by the United States in an area where the prime ingredient in cocaine is grown. The slayings took place at a jungle campsite.
The archbishop of Santiago denounced the state of siege reimposed by Chile’s military government as a “serious setback for peace and understanding.” In a pastoral letter read from the pulpit at every Mass in the Chilean capital, Archbishop Juan Francisco Fresno called on Chilean Catholics to hold a day of fasting and prayer November 23.
Democracy stirred for the first time in KwaNdebele, South Africa’s second smallest tribal “homeland” for black people, which is near Pretoria. Last week there was voting for the 16 elected places in the 72-member Legislative Assembly, the first elections ever. No votes were counted at some polling places.
South African riot police shot and killed a black youth in renewed racial strife after a week of mass arrests and government crackdowns on opposition activists. Police said the 19-year-old male died when officers fired birdshot into a crowd of blacks who were hurling stones at the home of a local councilman in the black township of Vosloorus, near Johannesburg. Unrest in recent weeks has been fueled by black protests against South Africa’s system of racial separation.
The American public, its level of confidence in government rebounding after more than a decade of doubts, expects President Reagan to avoid an economic recession in his second term and to make a real effort to negotiate an arms control treaty, a New York Times/CBS News Poll shows. But at the same time, the public expects him to break his most insistent campaign promise and ask Congress to vote an increase in taxes. Fifty-seven percent of the public and 40 percent of his own voters expect him to ask for higher taxes. The poll detailed the depth and solidity of the national swing toward the Republican Party, showing Americans now about equally divided between those who identify with them and those who identify with the Democrats. This development prompted a leading Republican poll taker, Robert M. Teeter, to say, “We are in the midst of a major political realignment in this country.” But he said that how that shift played out would depend on how well Republicans handled themselves after Mr. Reagan left the White House, especially how they handled their own potential cleavages over social issues.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride around the ranch.
Some corporate taxes would be raised by the modification of depreciation rules and taxes of many other companies would be cut by a general reduction in rates under a legislative proposal the Treasury Department is completing, according to Reagan Administration officials. The Administration tax bill would also reduce tax rates and simplify the tax code by limiting special write-offs for individuals and corporations, but would not contribute to a reduction in the Federal deficit. Leading tax specialists in both parties in Congress say there is little support for the bill.
Former Secretary of State Dean Rusk has criticized President Reagan’s endorsement of a so-called “Star Wars” defense program, saying its costs would “boggle the mind” without ending the risk of nuclear war. “We should make a maximum effort with the Soviets to prevent this space wars concept before it begins,” Rusk said during a public forum in Atlanta sponsored by the Southern Center for International Studies.
A federal grand jury investigating possible criminal acts by Nuclear Regulatory Commission employees is examining whether workers improperly handled the investigation of the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Citing federal sources close to the investigation, a newspaper said an NRC licensing board received evidence recently that NRC employees investigating the TMI accident limited the scope of the probe and made misleading statements about information given out by company officials after the accident, the Philadelphia Inquirer said.
The sixth anniversary of the murder-suicide of 913 persons in Jonestown was marked with a ceremony at which Patricia Ryan, daughter of slain Rep. Leo J. Ryan, said the tragedy is “becoming a faint glimmer” in the nation’s memory. About 40 spectators were present on the Capitol grounds in Washington for the hour-long commemoration for the victims of the tragedy in Guyana, where the Rev. Jim Jones moved his Peoples Temple cult from California. Ryan was shot to death while leading a fact-finding trip to Jonestown.
A panel of Vietnam veterans completed a two-day meeting in Washington to discuss a plan for dividing up the $180 million from seven companies that has been tentatively approved in a settlement for veterans who claim they were harmed by the herbicide Agent Orange. The panel plans to meet at least one more time before submitting its recommendations. In another Agent Orange case, Monsanto Co. was preparing its defense in a $28-million lawsuit by seven former workers who claim their health was ruined in making the herbicide at a West Virginia plant.
A breakthrough in solving equations that often grow too vast or complex for the most powerful computers has been made by a 28-year-old mathematician at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories. The discovery, to be published next month, is already circulating through the mathematical world. It has set off a deluge of inquiries from brokerage houses, oil companies and airlines, which have millions of dollars at stake in problems known as linear programming. The A.T.&T. mathematician is Dr. Narendra Karmarkar.
The Federal crime reporting system might change substantially after a final consultants’ report is submitted to the Justice Department early next year. The effectiveness of the Uniform Crime Reporting System, used for the last 54 years by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, has long been questioned by governmental officials and criminologists.
A Miami youth was fatally shot in the head while trying to escape a rowdy crowd terrorizing people on a public bus after a high school football game Saturday. He died today despite surgery to remove the bullet from his brain. Learon Williams, 14 years old, was shot Friday night after he jumped from a Metro Transit bus to escape a crowd that had taken it over. A spokesman at Jackson Memorial Hospital said the student, an eighth- grader at Allapatah Junior High School, died at 11:10 AM Sunday. Homicide detectives were trying to witnesses. They had no suspects, but said 100 people were on the bus at the time of the shooting. Mr. Williams was shot after leaving the Orange Bowl, where Northwestern High School and Miami Jackson had played football. He and several friends fled the bus, which had been taken over by a young crowd that broke windows and tossed out rocks and bottles.
The highly publicized downtown Philadelphia commuter rail tunnel, opened a week ago, was virtually shut Saturday because of a deteriorating bridge further out, in north Philadelphia, the local transit authority reported. Repairs will take “several months,” according to Joaquin Bowman, a spokesman for the authority, Septa, forcing commuters using the former Reading Railroad lines to switch to the subway to reach Center City. The tunnel connects Suburban Station, the last stop on the former Pennsylvania Railroad lines, with the new Market Street East Station, the terminus of the Reading lines. All the Reading lines pass over the bridge. Only the Paoli line of the Pennsylvania system will continue into the commuter tunnel, Mr. Bowman said. Other commuters will have to switch to the Broad Street subway at either Logan Station or the North Philadelphia Station.
Harry (the Hunchback) Riccobene and two other men were convicted in Philadelphia in a 1982 slaying that authorities said was part of an underworld power struggle. Riccobene, 74, and Joseph Casdia, 41, were found guilty of first-degree murder and criminal conspiracy to commit murder. Vincent Isabella, 46, was convicted of third-degree murder and providing the gun used to shoot Frank Monte, counselor to mob boss Nicodemo (Little Nicky) Scarfo of Atlantic City, on May 13, 1982.
As union activists sat in the front pew, the wife of a minister jailed in a dispute with his church delivered a sermon Sunday attacking “corporate evil” and the Lutheran officials who disciplined her husband. “We must expose the works of darkness,” Nadine Roth said from the pulpit of Trinity Lutheran Church. “Whenever evil confronts us we must stand up and speak the truth in love.” For the fifth Sunday, union members turned away the synod-appointed replacement, the Rev. Mont Bowser. A blob of shaving cream was thrown at him as he approached the church. The Rev. D. Douglas Roth, 33 years old, is serving 90 days in the Allegheny County Jail for defying a court order to leave the church and obey Bishop Kenneth May of the Western Pennsylvania- West Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church in America. The bishop fired Roth over his support of an activist clergy group that claims to be exposing union-busting tactics by several companies.
A woman who married a United States citizen earlier this year and is five months pregnant has been deported to her native Philippines because she lived here illegally for nearly 10 years and ignored early deportation orders. Although her lawyer contends her marriage makes her eligible for legal residence here, the woman, Eleanor Parnes, 29 years old, was put on a plane Thursday after Immigration Judge Jay Segal lifted an order barring the Immigration and Naturalization Service from deporting her. Her husband, Richard Parnes, said, “I couldn’t even say goodbye.” Judge Segal said Mrs. Parnes could not apply to re-enter for five years. Immigration officials said she lived in Los Angeles illegally since leaving her job as a housekeeper to the Philippine consul general in 1974. Judge Segal said he based his decision on Mrs. Parnes’s failure to comply with previous deportation orders, which he said “overcomes the favorable factor of her marriage.” He also refused to let her leave voluntarily, which would have allowed her to apply immediately to return. It was Judge Segal who originally ordered her deported in 1979.
Video display terminals are revolutionizing the workplace but whether the revolution will result in salvation or slavery is yet to be determined, a study on effects of VDTS on employment said. By 1990, as many as 40 million workers in the United States may use VDTS on a daily basis, according to the report compiled by the Bureau of National Affairs, a private publisher of research studies. Many employers argue that VDTS can lead to economic salvation by increasing. productivity up to 500%.
NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”, based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children.
“3 Musketeers” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances.
34th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins.
Flyers’ Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders.
Dwight Gooden becomes the second consecutive New York Met player to be named the National League’s Rookie of Year. The 19-year-old right-hander, who compiled a 17-9 record along with a 1.53 ERA and a league-leading 268 strikeouts, joins his teammate and close friend Darryl Strawberry to be honored the award.
[Ed: I hate to be brutal, but if Doc could have stayed away from the booze and the blow, he might have been up there with Koufax and Ryan by the end. His rookie and 1985 seasons were phenomenal.]
CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton: Winnipeg Blue Bombers beat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17; Winnipeg scores final 44 points of the game.
NFL Football:
The Cleveland Browns set team records for most sacks (11).
Dallas Cowboys 3, Buffalo Bills 14
Detroit Lions 14, Chicago Bears 16
Cleveland Browns 23, Atlanta Falcons 7
Minnesota Vikings 21, Denver Broncos 42
Los Angeles Rams 6, Green Bay Packers 31
New York Jets 20, Houston Oilers 31
Kansas City Chiefs 7, Los Angeles Raiders 17
New England Patriots 50, Indianapolis Colts 17
St. Louis Cardinals 10, New York Giants 16
Washington Redskins 10, Philadelphia Eagles 16
Miami Dolphins 28, San Diego Chargers 34
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 17, San Francisco 49ers 24
Seattle Seahawks 26, Cincinnati Bengals 6
The rookie running back Greg Bell scored two touchdowns, one on an 85-yard run on the first play of the game, as the Buffalo Bills won their first game of the season, stunning the Dallas Cowboys, 14–3, today. The Bills (1–11) snapped a 13-game losing streak dating to last season. Bell, who gained 206 yards on 27 carries, broke through the middle of the Dallas defensive line and outsprinted several Cowboy defensive backs to the end zone to score 21 seconds into the game. It was the longest run from scrimmage against the Cowboys and the third-longest run from scrimmage ever for a Bills’ player. Bell, the first runner to rush for more than 200 yards against Dallas since Jim Brown did it in 1963, scored early in the fourth quarter on a 3-yard pass from Joe Ferguson. Entering the game, the Buffalo defense had allowed 322 points, the most in the league. The only Cowboy points came on a 20-yard field goal by Rafael Septien in the second quarter. The Cowboys gained 309 yards in total offense. They were hurt by three first-half turnovers.
Bob Thomas kicked his third field goal of the game — a 19-yarder — with two seconds remaining to give the Chicago Bears (8–4) a 16–14 victory and eliminate the Detroit Lions, the defending N.F.C. Central champions, from the playoff race. Trailing, 14–13, with 3:46 to go, Chicago took over at the Lions’ 47 after a poor punt by Mike Black. Steve Fuller connected with the tight end Emery Moorehead on a 27-yard pass on fourth down to give Chicago a first down at the Lions’ 18. Four plays later Thomas kicked the game-winner. Thomas also connected on field goals of 24 yards in the second quarter and 52 yards in the fourth quarter.
Cleveland recorded 11 sacks, tying a league record, and Paul McDonald threw two touchdowns as Atlanta lost its sixth consecutive game, bowing to the Browns, 23–7. The Falcons’ quarterback Steve Bartkowski severely sprained his right knee in the fourth period and will miss the rest of the season. Clay Matthews led the Browns with three and a half sacks. Cleveland caught Bartkowski 10 times for 89 yards in losses and Mike Moroski 1 time for a 6-yard loss. Two of the sacks of Bartkowski forced fumbles. The Browns also intercepted two passes that set up field goals. The 23 points were the most the Browns have scored in a game this season. Only twice before have they reached 20.
The Denver Broncos routed the Minnesota Vikings, 42–21. John Elway threw five touchdown passes in less than three quarters of playing time, setting up an A.F.C.-West showdown with second-place Seattle (10–2) in Denver next week. Elway, in the best performance of his two-year pro career, completed 16 of 19 passes for 218 yards. His five touchdowns tied the club record set by Frank Tripucka in 1962. Elway staked Denver (11–1) to a 35–7 halftime lead on four touchdown passes, including a 26-yarder to Steve Watson. Three of the first-half scores were set up by turnovers. Elway directed another touchdown on the opening series of the second half, hitting Watson from 13 yards out for a 42–7 advantage.
Eddie Lee Ivery rushed for three touchdowns and the cornerback Tim Lewis returned an interception 99 yards for another score as the Green Bay Packers gained their fourth consecutive victory, routing the Los Angeles Rams, 31–6. Green Bay improved its record to 5–7 to stay alive in the N.F.C. Central race. The Rams fell to 7–5 in the N.F.C. West. In his first start of the season, Ivery, who rushed for 77 yards on 15 carries, helped give the Packers a 14–6 first-half lead on two 1-yard touchdown runs. Lewis’s interception of a Jeff Kemp pass came with 5:24 remaining in the game to give the Packers a 31–6 advantage.
The New York Jets started brightly today, just like their season, then they were swamped by a relentless Houston Oiler team that played as if its 10 season-opening losses had happened to someone else. The 31–20 defeat was the fourth straight for the Jets. They had led by 13–0 in the first half behind Ken O’Brien, making his first pro start in place of the ailing Pat Ryan. The loss evened their record at 6–6, hardly promising a wild-card playoff berth, with the Dolphins the next opponents at Miami. For the Oilers, it was their second straight victory. Warren Moon, the veteran of Canadian League play but a rookie quarterback in the National Football League, was cool and exciting in exploiting the Jets’ injured secondary. The problems of that unit were typified by Ken Schroy, whose shoulder hurt so much that he merely tried to bump people from his free- safety position. And he was there only because Darrol Ray was hurt and seeing spot duty. “I couldn’t take it anymore,” Schroy said of the pain that kept him from tackling Larry Moriarity on a 51-yard touchdown run. “I had to take myself out.”
Raiders’ linebacker Rod Martin returned one Kansas City fumble for a touchdown and forced a second that set up another score as Los Angeles broke a three- game losing streak, beating the Chiefs, 17–7. Martin, scooped up the quarterback Bill Kenney’s fumble and ran 77 yards to break a scoreless tie with 4:44 remaining in the first quarter. The safety Mike Davis forced the fumble. In the second quarter, Martin hit Kenney, who fumbled. The ball was recovered by Howie Long, setting up a 48-yard scoring drive that was capped by a 12-yard touchdown pass from Marc Wilson to the wide receiver Dokie Williams with 13 seconds left in the half. The victory kept the Raiders (8-4) from losing four in a row for the first time in 20 years, but they remained in third place in the A.F.C. West. It was the third consecutive loss for the Chiefs (5-7). Kenney completed 19 of his 37 passes for 194 yards. Wilson was 12 of 21 for 103 yards.
Tony Eason threw four touchdown passes, including three to Derrick Ramsey in the first half to spark the New England Patriots (8–4) to a 50–17 rout of Indianapolis and spoil Colts’ quarterback Art Schlichter’s first professional start. Eason completed 29 of 42 passes for 292 yards, breaking the club mark for completions, 28, which he set against the Jets earlier this season. The first Eason-to-Ramsey scoring play came with 7:19 left in the first quarter and covered 4 yards. The New England safety Roland James gave the Patriots a 9–0 lead by tackling the running back Frank Middleton in the end zone for a safety. Then Eason threw another touchdown pass to Ramsey a 25-yarder, for a 16–0 lead. Schlichter scored on a a 13-yard run in the second quarter, but Eason again connected with Ramsey for a 26–yard touchdown with 3:04 left in the first half.
Not long after Phil Simms found Lionel Manuel for the 11-yard touchdown that turned out to be the difference in the Giants’ 16–10 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals yesterday, Bob Sheppard’s voice was heard over the public-address system. “Here are scores of other games,” he announced. “In the fourth period, Philadelphia 16, Washington 10. And in the third period, Buffalo 14, Dallas … (a long pause) … 3.” All over Giants Stadium, a roar went up from the long-suffering loyalists. They knew that if the Giants held on to win while the Redskins and Cowboys lost, the Giants would share first place again in the National Conference East with those two teams, each with a 7–5 record. With a 16–10 lead and about a minute and a half remaining, the Giants had to punt. And that’s when it was up to the Giants’ defense to preserve the victory. But with 14 seconds remaining, the quarterback Neil Lomax had moved the Cardinals to the Giants’ 26-yard line. Enough time for three passes into the end zone for the touchdown that, with the extra point, would force sudden-death overtime. On first down, Neil Lomax threw the pass out of bounds to stop the clock. Nine seconds remaining. On second down, Neil Lomax lofted a pass toward the wide receiver Roy Green, surrounded by three Giant defenders at the rear of the end zone. But the ball bounced off several hands onto the artificial turf. Three seconds remaining. On the last play, Neil Lomax lofted another pass toward the wide receiver Cedric Mack, surrounded by three Giant defenders in the end zone. Incomplete. Giants win.
The lead in the division was there for the taking. A touchdown would have done it, and the Washington Redskins had almost 25 minutes to get it. But they couldn’t. The Philadelphia Eagles made an 89-yard return of a kickoff for a touchdown in the third quarter stand up for a 16–10 victory, and in so doing, kept the National Conference East in its usual state of uncertainty.The Redskins’ loss, combined with the Dallas Cowboys’ 14–3 loss to the Buffalo Bills and the Giants’ 16–10 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, left the Redskins, Cowboys and Giants in a three-way tie for the division lead. Each team has a 7–5 record with four games to play. The Giants hold the current edge based on their record in games with the other two. Less than two minutes had elapsed before the Redskins had an idea that it might be a toad-like afternoon. After Washington’s defense stopped the Eagles on the opening series, Mike Nelms mishandled a punt, and the Eagles recovered the ball at the Washington 49-yard line. “It just drifted away from me,” Nelms said. “That’s the first time that ever happened to me.” Seven plays later, Paul McFadden kicked a 43-yard field goal to give the Eagles a 3-0 lead. Even though the Redskins would lead at the half, 7-6, on a 3-yard touchdown pass from Joe Theismann to the tight end Clint Didier, other plays through the first two quarters would prove more telling: The strong safety Ray Ellis intercepted a Theismann pass at the Philadelphia 8, Riggins fumbled the ball away on a second down at the Philadelphia 5 and Vernon Dean was called for pass interference, at a cost of 34 yards, which put the Eagles in position for McFadden to kick a field goal of 34 yards with one second before the half.
Buford McGee bounced off tackle and scampered 25 yards for a touchdown 3 minutes 17 seconds into overtime today as San Diego ended Miami’s unbeaten streak with a 34–28 comeback victory. The Dolphins lost for the first time in 12 games this season and fell one short of the National Football League record of 17 consecutive regular-season victories set by the Chicago Bears in 1933–34. The loss also prevented the Dolphins from clinching the American Conference East crown. The Chargers trailed, 28–14, after three quarters, but rallied behind the quarterback Dan Fouts’s passing for two fourth-quarter scores. Fouts, who set club records with 37 completions and 56 attempts, hit Charlie Joiner with a 19-yard scoring strike 1:31 into the final period to make it 28–21. Fouts, who passed for 380 yards, then directed a 91-yard, 19-play drive that ate up 10 minutes of the fourth quarter and ended with his fourth touchdown pass of the day, a 3-yarder to Eric Sievers with 51 seconds to play. Dan Marino, who completed 28 of 41 passes for 337 yards and 2 touchdowns, moved Miami within striking distance of victory in the closing seconds but Uwe Von Schaumann’s 44- yard field-goal attempt was wide to the left. The Chargers won the coin toss in overtime and started at their 31-yard line after a 25-yard kickoff return by Lionel James. Fouts moved the team with 15-yard passes to Sievers and Pete Holohan before McGee ended the game with his scoring run on the right side of the field.
Fred Dean made two big plays in his first game of the season as the San Francisco 49ers (11–1) clinched at least a wild-card berth in the playoffs, downing the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 24–17. Dean, the defensive end who finally rejoined the 49ers only last Wednesday after settling a contract dispute, hit the quarterback Steve DeBerg and forced a wobbly pass that was intercepted by the linebacker Keena Turner early in the second period. The 49ers then drove 44 yards and scored the first points of the game on Roger Craig’s 2-yard touchdown run. In the closing minutes of the game, Dean registered his first sack of the year. The 49ers scored on runs by Craig, Wendell Tyler, and Freddie Solomon. The Buccaneers kept pace behind Steve DeBerg’s 316 yards passing. Gerald Carter caught nine of DeBerg’s passes, for 166 yards. A last-minute chance to tie the score ended when San Francisco’s Gary Johnson recovered a fumbled center snap.
The Seattle Seahawks thumped the Cincinnati Bengals, 26–6. Dave Krieg fired a 12-yard touchdown pass to Steve Largent and Zachary Dixon ran for two touchdowns as Seattle (10–2) gained a club-record sixth consecutive victory. It is the first time the Seahawks have won 10 games in the regular season. The Seattle defense forced three turnovers in the first half and mounted a goal-line stand in the second half. Seattle, which leads the N.F.L. in fumble recoveries and pass interceptions, scored after two Cincinnati turnovers and stopped a long drive by the Bengals (4–8) with another turnover in the first half. Also, Jeff Bryant tackled quarterback Turk Schonert in the end zone for a safety.
Born:
Johnny Christ [Seward], American heavy metal bassist (Avenged Sevenfold), in Huntington Beach, California.
Ryohei Chiba, Japanese pop singer, rapper and dancer (W-inds), in Sapporo, Japan.
Kamil Kreps, Czech NHL centre (Florida Panthers), in Litomerice, Czechoslovakia.
Died:
Mary Hamman, 77, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping).
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