Ground for compromise with Moscow will be sought by the United States in preliminary arms-control talks between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Secretary Andrei A. Gromyko in Geneva on January 7-8. Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser, said the United States was prepared to “flexible and constructive” in the negotiations. Although the tone of some his remarks on the talks was positive, Mr. McFarlane cautioned that he expected no quick, dramatic, general agreements on arms control to result from the renewed talks. He was interviewed in Washington on the CBS News program “Face the Nation.” On Thursday the United States and the Soviet Union announced that the new talks would consider “the whole range of questions” on nuclear arms and outer-space weapons. Involved are three areas of negotiation: medium- range missile talks, broken off by Moscow a year ago; strategic arms talks, last held in December 1983, with the Russians refusing to set a date for another session, and talks on antisatellite and space weaponry, proposed by Moscow in June. Mr. McFarlane said the United States would not on its own impose a moratorium either on the deployment of its nuclear missiles in Europe or on the testing of antisatellite missiles in space before the January talks.
Soviet President Konstantin U. Chernenko will visit France next year, French President Francois Mitterrand said in Paris. The trip, which was not immediately confirmed in Moscow, would be the first foreign trip for the Soviet leader to be announced since he came to power in February. Mitterrand visited Moscow last June and delivered the invitation then. Western diplomats said Chernenko’s Paris visit could be expected early in 1985.
At least 25,000 people braved a biting wind in Warsaw, Poland to celebrate mass tonight at the parish church of the pro-Solidarity priest who was abducted and slain last month, apparently by Government security men. The service tonight redeemed a pledge to continue a tradition established by the priest, the Rev. Jerzy Popiełuszko, to hold a “Mass for the Fatherland” on the last Sunday of each month. The priest began holding the masses just after the declaration of martial law in December 1981. The service took place after a letter was read in all Polish Roman Catholic churches today from the Polish Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp, asking the Government for a full explanation of the killing of the priest, for which three employees of the Interior Ministry have been arrested. Cardinal Glemp is to leave Monday for Rome, where he is reportedly to discuss the case with Pope John Paul II. Also today the Conference of Polish Bishops announced the conclusions of its consideration of the killing and its consequences. “Evil has to be called by its name,” it said in a statement. “It rises against the law of God and man. It also threatens national reconciliation, especially when when it exists in the very structures responsible for public order.”
Four grenades exploded today at the United States Embassy in Lisbon, Portugal, damaging three cars but causing no casualties. A left- wing urban guerrilla group claimed responsibility for the attack. Messages to Portuguese press agencies in the name of the shadowy Popular Forces of April 25, named for the date of Portugal’s 1974 revolution, condemned what the group called imperialist threats to economic, political and military independence here. An embassy spokesman said four 60- millimeter grenades had exploded in gardens surrounding the building. A month ago the same group said it had tried to hit the embassy with a crude double bazooka that misfired.
A bomb exploded in front of a Paris concert hall an hour before more than 2,000 people showed up for an evening of Armenian folk music and dancing. Police said six people believed to be passers-by were injured, two seriously. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the blast at the Salle Pleyel, one of Paris’ largest concert halls. Armenian nationalists blamed Turkish extremists for a wave of bomb attacks against Armenians last June in Paris.
Frequent U.S. opposition to loans requested by developing countries through the World Bank reflects a widening division between Washington and some other capitals about the role of the bank. During President Reagan’s first term, the United States has voted against nearly 50 loans that have been come before the boards of the World Bank or smaller multilateral development agencies. No other previous Administration has dissented so often. Washington’s tough attitude reflects budgetary and ideological considerations.
A group of 26 Jewish and Roman Catholic members of the U.S. House of Representatives issued a letter today calling on the Vatican to recognize Israel. The 26, in a letter delivered on Friday to Pope John Paul II, said, “Because of Your Holiness’s unswerving commitment to religious toleration, we seek Your Holiness’s personal intervention to bring about this monumental affirmation of the kinship between the world’s Catholics and Jews.” The Vatican has reportedly been considering establishing formal diplomatic relations with Israel. But Vatican officials have said such a change is unlikely to take place soon since the Pope remains committed to an international status for Jerusalem, which Israel strongly opposes.
Lebanon postponed until tomorrow a plan to bolster government control in Beirut by sending troops to demolish militia roadblocks and barricades. The delay followed talks that included Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam as well as the Lebanese Cabinet, the army and leaders of the nation’s still-warring religious factions. In the latest of a series of attempts to restore order to the capital, officials of President Amin Gemayel’s government are ordering large numbers of troops into the city. The Lebanese Army issued orders today for troops to begin enforcing a security plan for Beirut by dismantling militia barricades and taking up positions in predominantly Muslim West Beirut. At Suk al Gharb, nine miles east of Beirut, two civilians were killed as troops fought with Druze militiamen in neighboring villages with mortars and rocket-propelled grenades.
Hijackers of a Somali Airlines plane with 108 hostages aboard set a new deadline for Somalia to agree to free a group of political prisoners. Hijackers of a Somali Airlines Boeing 707 set a new deadline of noon tomorrow on their threat to blow up the jetliner. It was the fourth deadline set by the hijackers since the three armed Somali army officers seized the plane carrying more than 100 passengers and crew Saturday and forced it to land in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Somalia has rejected demands that it release seven young men facing death sentences for anti-government activities and free about a dozen other political prisoners.
Iran published documents that it said support its contention that the International Red Cross is guilty of espionage and of violating the group’s traditional neutrality. Kamal Kharazi, head of Iran’s War Information Bureau, displayed POW lists that he said Red Cross delegates had prepared. The Red Cross appended prisoners’ registration numbers, he said, charging that this is tantamount to espionage. At the same time, he confirmed that six Iraqi POWs died in a clash at a POW camp last month. Meanwhile, Iraqi newspapers demanded Iran’s ouster from the Red Cross for mistreating Iraqi POWs.
Anti-Government protests by South Korean college students have surged in recent weeks, with demonstrators adopting increasingly bolder tactics in an attempt to force confrontations with authorities. The most dramatic display of campus unrest came recently when 264 students from three Seoul universities stormed the headquarters of the ruling Democratic Justice Party. They occupied the building for nearly 13 hours, issuing a long list of demands for democratic changes before being led away by riot policemen.
Seventeen armed Muslims surrendered after a 21-hour siege in Zamboanga, Philippines, in which they took 63 hostages and waged a gun battle with soldiers that left four people dead and 18 wounded. More than 500 soldiers ringed the building near downtown after the shooting broke out. Authorities identified the leader of the clan as a former policeman, Rizal Alih, who they said is among the suspects in the November 14 assassination of Zamboanga Mayor Cesar Climaco, a critic of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Military officials said the shootout began when Alih and his men opened fire on a group of marines searching the area.
A Philippines Communist insurgency is growing rapidly, largely because people have begun to accept its presence, Filipino officials say. The insurgency is strongest on the big southern island of Mindanao. A gun-toting Wild West atmosphere prevails there. Law and order is often lacking and, according to human rights groups, abuses by the Philippine military are frequent.
Separatists on the French island of New Caledonia announced that they had created a provisional government today, prompting a denunciation of the Mitterrand Government by five former Gaullist Prime Ministers. The former Prime Ministers criticized what they said was the Socialist Government’s failure to cope with “an insurrectional situation” in the South Pacific territory. Violence continued in New Caledonia, according to French news agency dispatches, worsening what has become a volatile political problem for President Francois Mitterrand. More than 20 years after France left Algeria at the end of a brutal colonial war, the government is faced with a situation in which it is being accused of turning its back on the New Caledonia Europeans, who make up 37 percent of the population of 140,000.
A predawn explosion today in a 21-story Montreal building killed 4 men, wounded 8 people and wrecked 8 apartments, the police reported. A police spokesman said detectives were investigating the possibility that the men who were killed were making a dynamite bomb in their ninth-floor apartment when the device exploded. He said another possibility was that the men, all middle-aged, were the victims of a bombing by some rival group. The spokesman said officers had found what they believed were sticks of dynamite in the debris. The explosion blew off a balcony and wrecked three elevators, two of which crashed to the basement. Several parked cars were damaged by debris. One of those hurt, a 22-year-old woman, was in serious condition.
Government and leftist rebel representatives will meet in El Salvador for a second round of peace talks on Friday, the country’s Roman Catholic Archbishop announced today. Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, who is serving as an intermediary, said the site of the meeting had been decided but for security reasons was not being announced.
General elections in Uruguay restored a democratic tradition that had long distinguished the country within Latin America. If General Gregorio Alvarez surrenders power on March 1 as planned, Uruguay will become the eighth nation in the region to switch from military to civilian rule since 1980. The voting was the first in 13 years. Julio M Sanguinetti wins the presidential election.
For the second day, Chilean police and troops raided neighborhoods in Santiago and arrested dozens of people. Authorities provided no information on the raids or the number arrested. But the roundups were believed to be part of an effort by the government of General Augusto Pinochet to head off anti-government demonstrations planned for later this week.
Argentines today approved a treaty with Chile to end a century of conflict over the Beagle Channel, a strategic and potentially oil-rich waterway at the tip of South America. With almost all the votes counted, official returns showed 10,391,019 voted in favor of the proposed treaty while 2,105,663 opposed it – a margin of 82 percent to 16 percent opposed, with 2 percent casting blank or null ballots.
An artificial heart was implanted in a 52-year-old man in a seven-hour operation at a hospital in Louisville, Kentucky, by a 17-member surgical team. The diseased heart of William J. Shroeder, a retired Federal employee, was removed and replaced with a plastic and metal pump without a major hitch, a hospital spokesman said. It was the second operation of its kind. But later the patient, William J. Schroeder, was taken back to the operating room because of “excessive bleeding,” his doctors said. Officials at Humana Heart Institute International here, where the surgery was performed, said tonight that the doctors had identified the source of the bleeding as needle holes in scar tissue where the artificial heart was sewn to the back wall of the aorta, the major blood vessel of the body. They said that they were able to stop the bleeding but that Mr. Schroeder had required a transfusion of almost 16 pints of blood, half before the surgery and half during it. They termed the blood loss “significant.”
The President and First Lady return to the White House after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Colleges shortchange the humanities, educators brought together by the National Endowment for the Humanities says in a report. The panel concluded that colleges have caved in to vocational and other pressures from students and have abdicated their authority over what students should study. “Most of our college graduates remain shortchanged in the humanities — history, literature, philosophy and the ideals and practices of the past that have the society they enter,” the report says.
New members of the Senate who possess little institutional memory disregard many of the accepted traditions of political behavior, according to members and critics. As a result, new members have spoken out more and the Senate has been plagued with problems of leadership.
Bob Kasten, a Wisconsin Republican, typifies the changing character of the 98 men and 2 women in today’s Senate. After less than three years in office, he picked a major fight with President Reagan and his own party leadership over a new law requiring banks to withhold taxes on interest and dividend payments. With the aid of the banking industry, the Senator stirred up a tidal wave of protest. Depositors deluged Congress with objections, and the legislators finally capitulated, repealing the law. Mr. Kasten was elected to the Senate in 1980 at the age of 38 after two terms in the House and an unsuccessful run for Governor. He was part of a radical upheaval in membership that gave Republicans control of the Senate for the first time in a generation and turned it into a younger, less experienced and more conservative body.
Inspection of secret Israeli files for use in former Defense Minister Ariel Sharon’s libel suit against TIME magazine was recommended to the Israeli Government by Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir. He proposed that a person or people acceptable to both Mr. Sharon and Time be permitted to make the inspection and answer certain questions asked by Federal District Court in Manhattan where the libel trial is taking place.
The Westmoreland-CBS libel trial has been interrupted many times by lawyers seeking to avail themselves of the legal procedure known as the “side bar” conference. The side bar conferences in this complex trial in Manhattan’s Federal District Court play a significant role in helping the judge and the lawyers ultimately focus the case for the jury. They also provide unusual insights into the legal maneuvering inherent in major trials.
Car theft has become a multibillion-dollar criminal industry, a government agency said in releasing a manual — “Vehicle Theft Prevention Strategies” — to cut motor vehicle theft. About 1 million cars, trucks and other vehicles are stolen in the United States each year, representing a loss of around $3.5 billion, said James Stewart, director of the National Institute of Justice, an agency of the Justice Department. “Stealing cars and trucks is no longer just a matter of kids going on joy rides,” Stewart said.
For six years, America’s fourth largest city has led the nation in traffic deaths among cities of a million people or more. According to the National Safety Council, Houston had 320 traffic fatalities in 1983, an average 20.3 deaths per 100,000 people. The rate was more than 50 higher than that of Los Angeles, which had the second worst record of 13.8 deaths per 100,000 residents.
A malfunctioning generator caused a reactor to shut down automatically as the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant in California continued operational tests, officials said today. The shutdown of Unit 1 Saturday came after an unidentified problem in the electronic control system for the turbine generator, not the reactor itself, said Ron Weinberg, a spokesman for Pacific Gas & Electric. The problem was listed as an “unusual event,” the least serious of four categories set by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. “We’re looking for these kinds of things so we can fix them at this time,” Mr. Weinberg said. “Everything responded as it should have under the circumstances.” Testing at the $5.3 billion plant began after the commission issued a full- power operation license for Unit 1 on November 2. A legal challenge to the operation of Unit 1 is pending. The Unit 2 reactor, now in the final stages of construction, is undergoing preliminary tests.
Massachusetts officials have begun reviewing the records of the 8,500 day-care homes licensed in the state in a probe initiated after several such facilities were closed over allegations of child abuse. Meanwhile, officials also are considering revisions in day-care licensing regulations which currently require owners to inform clients of abuse allegations. “We’re going to change the regulations so that when we get a substantiated report of abuse, there will be a procedure for quick action when a director or family member related to the owner is involved,” said Nancy Kaufman, assistant secretary of social and mental health services.
A defiant pastor’s sermon sent from his prison cell was read in his church in Clairton, Pennsylvania, after parishioners turned away a substitute minister appointed by the bishop. The Rev. Douglas Roth, pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church, was serving his second week in jail on a charge of contempt after rejecting an order of suspension from the bishop. He is an activist minister who has supported acts of civil disobedience by group of unemployed steel workers against corporations and executives they blame for their problems.
A thriving economy in Massachusetts has created 100,000 jobs this year, and an additional 30,000 available jobs are listed with the state. With unemployment at 3.7 percent, the lowest level in 14 years, the Boston area has more jobs than people to fill them.
Three people in Winston-Salem, North Carolina who mistook a corrosive liquid for wine were in critical condition today with internal injuries, including one whose esophagus and stomach had to be removed, officials said. Nine people were hospitalized Saturday after a party in Conover, where they drank potassium hydroxide, or lye, thinking it was wine, according to the Catawba County Sheriff’s Department. For reasons that were unclear, a bottle of the red liquid had been in a refrigerator, sheriff’s deputies said. Lye, or caustic potash, is used to make soap, bleach, liquid fertilizer and herbicides, among other things. Three of the partygoers treated at a Winston-Salem hospital had to have at least part of their stomachs removed because of severe burns, officials said.
Insects and other pests are becoming increasingly resistant to chemical pesticides, posing public health dangers and raising food production costs, an environmental policy research institute said. The number of harmful insects immune to one or more pesticides reached 428 by 1980, nearly doubling from 224 in 1970. The World Resources Institute, in its first policy study, blamed a resurgence of malaria on the resistance of 51 of 60 malaria-carrying mosquitoes to the most effective insecticides.
A natural gas pipeline exploded in a tower of flame, killing five persons and injuring at least 21, authorities said in Jackson, Louisiana. Residents were evacuated from the area, which was blacked out by the blast. The explosion came as a crew was repairing the pipeline, a major artery that carries Texas natural gas to the Eastern Seaboard. Contractors were replacing a section of pipe at the time of the blast, said Jim Young, a spokesman for the pipeline’s owner, Texas Eastern Gas Pipeline Co. of Houston. The explosion was so fierce that it knocked out electricity for a mile.
America made only half-hearted efforts to rescue Jews from Adolf Hitler’s Germany because of anti-Semitism, fear the refugees would take already scarce jobs and a dislike for aliens in general, according to University of Massachusetts-Amherst Professor David Wyman. In his book, “Abandonment of the Jews,” Wyman says the State Department knew Jews were being killed but did nothing about it because “to do anything would interfere with the war effort.” Also, word of the Jews’ plight was not widely disseminated in the media, Wyman writes.
Provincetown-Boston Airlines is returning to the air “a lot tougher” two weeks after being grounded for alleged safety violations. Peter Van Arsdale, president and chief executive officer, said the nation’s largest commuter airline had resumed flights of its smallest planes. About 600 of PBA’s 1,500 employees were back at work. The rest of the workforce will be called back as more flights are restored to the airline’s 35-city network.
The national Centers for Disease Control said three strains of influenza are circulating worldwide, and officials warning of the approaching flu season urged vaccinations for people in high-risk groups. The flu season in the United States has in recent years begun in late December or early January. It takes three weeks after getting a flu shot before top immunity develops. People in the high-risk groups who are unvaccinated still have time to get vaccinated, officials said.
Winds and seas along the east coast of Florida subsided today, ending a three-day storm that gouged beaches and caused millions of dollars in damage along the hundreds of miles of shoreline from St. Augustine to Palm Beach. “The storm is over,” said Allen Cummings, a forecaster. “The wind is pretty much down to normal levels now, and I don’t think the beach erosion will continue.” Hundreds of people who had been evacuated returned to their homes today, and many found them damaged. Officials who surveyed the devastation said they had found millions of dollars in damage to property. Bill Wodtke, Commissioner for Indian River County, estimated damage in Vero Beach alone at $3.4 million. In Martin County, to the south, the estimate was $4 million. Governor Bob Graham, who was trying to determine whether to seek Federal disaster aid for the area, said it would be at least a week before the tabulation of the damage would be complete.
NFL Football:
Chicago Bears 34, Minnesota Vikings 3
Atlanta Falcons 14, Cincinnati Bengals 35
Houston Oilers 10, Cleveland Browns 27
Indianapolis Colts 7, Los Angeles Raiders 21
Los Angeles Rams 34, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 33
Kansas City Chiefs 27, New York Giants 28
San Diego Chargers 24, Pittsburgh Steelers 52
Philadelphia Eagles 16, St. Louis Cardinals 17
San Francisco 49ers 35, New Orleans Saints 3
Seattle Seahawks 27, Denver Broncos 24
Buffalo Bills 14, Washington Redskins 41
Walter Payton, Steve Fuller and a tough defense helped the Chicago Bears to blow out the Minnesota Vikings, 34–3, and clinch the National Conference Central Division championship with a 9–4 record. Minnesota (3–10), suffering its worst season since 1962, has allowed 121 points the last three losing weeks. Payton ran 23 times for 117 yards and a 2-yard touchdown and caught two passes for 33 yards. Fuller, who replaced the injured Jim McMahon at quarterback three weeks ago, threw a 30-yard touchdown pass to Willie Gault in the first quarter and a 13-yarder to Emery Moorehead 24 seconds before halftime. He completed 12 of 19 passes for 143 yards. Fuller was kicked in the back of the leg in the third quarter and replaced by Rusty Lisch. The Bears’ defense sacked the Minnesota quarterback Wade Wilson three times and allowed only a 19-yard Jan Stenerud field goal in the first quarter. Since beating the Giants for the league championship in 1963, the Bears have made the playoffs only twice, as a wild-card team in 1977 and 1979, losing both times in the first round.
The Cincinnati Bengals downed the Atlanta Falcons, 35–14. Turk Schonert threw a 57-yard touchdown pass to Cris Collinsworth on the fourth play of the game, sparking Cincinnati’s 21-point first half. Schonert, a backup quarterback making his second straight start for the injured veteran Ken Anderson, completed 11 of 12 as the Bengals rolled to a 21–0 lead, their most productive first half of the season. The Bengals capitalized on a fumble recovery for a 28–0 lead early in the third quarter, and Schonert hit Collinsworth with a 20-yard touchdown pass late in the fourth quarter to thwart a Falcon rally. Atlanta (3–10) suffered its seventh straight defeat. Cincinnati (5–8) maintained a slim playoff hope. The Bengals made it a tough afternoon for Atlanta’s backup quarterback, Mike Moroski, who started for the injured Steve Bartkowski. One of two interceptions yielded by Moroski was returned 28 yards for a second-quarter touchdown by the safety Robert Jackson.
Paul McDonald threw three touchdown passes and Matt Bahr kicked a pair of field goals as the Cleveland Browns capitalized on the first interceptions given up by Warren Moon in four games to thump the Houston Oilers, 27–10. The victory left the Browns at 4–9 and the Oilers at 2–11. McDonald completed 16 of 26 passes for 151 yards, including scoring passes of 7 and 14 yards to Brian Brennan and 12 yards to Ozzie Newsome.
Marc Wilson threw two touchdown passes and ran for another as the Los Angeles Raiders beat the Indianapolis Colts, 21–7, and raised their record to 9–4. Wilson hurled scoring strikes of 7 yards to the tight end Todd Christensen and 1 yard to the tight end Dave Casper and scored himself on a 14-yard scramble. The Colts (4–9) had only four first downs in the first three quarters and didn’t have possession in Los Angeles territory until the third quarter, when the Colts recovered a fumble to set up their touchdown. Wilson completed 13 of his 23 passes for 146 yards and was intercepted twice. He was sacked six times by the Colts. The Indianapolis quarterback, Art Schlichter, hit on just 10 of his 27 passes for 125 yards and was intercepted once. He also was sacked six times.
Eric Dickerson rushed for 191 yards and three touchdowns and sparked a fourth-quarter rally by the Los Angeles Rams, who edged the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 34–33. Dickerson, increasing his league-leading rushing total to 1,632 yards, scored on a pair of 2-yard runs and ran 33 yards for a fourth-quarter score that gave the Rams a 31–26 lead with 10:18 remaining. The victory lifted the Rams to 8–5 and dropped Tampa Bay to 4–9. The difference in the game turned out to be a blocked extra point. The Rams blocked the attempt after a holding penalty nullified a successful conversion following the Buccaneers’ first touchdown. Dickerson’s performance overshadowed a 322-yard, two-touchdown passing effort by Steve DeBerg of Tampa Bay, who completed 27 of 44. The Buccaneers led by 26–17 after three quarters. Dickerson, who gained his game-high rushing total on 28 carries, launched the Rams’ comeback by bolting 51 yards on the first play of a 4-play, 66-yard march that Jeff Kemp capped with a 1-yard quarterback sneak. The Buccaneers regained possession after a Los Angeles punt with 54 seconds left in the game, but LeRoy Irvin intercepted a DeBerg pass intended for Theo Bell to kill Tampa Bay’s hopes.
With little more than 9 minutes remaining in the game today, the Kansas City Chiefs completed their third touchdown pass and took a 27–14 lead over the Giants. Many of the 74,383 spectators at Giants Stadium, confident the Giants were finished, headed for the exits. Too bad. The Giants were just beginning. They drove 90 yards and then 80 yards, each time finishing with a touchdown pass from Phil Simms. Then Mark Haynes recovered a Chiefs’ fumble, and the Giants ran out the clock for a 28–27 victory. When it was over, the Giants were still tied for first place in the National Conference’s Eastern Division with the Washington Redskins, who won today, and the Dallas Cowboys, who won Thursday. All have 8–5 records. Each team has three games left. The three division champions will advance to the playoffs with two wild- card teams. The Giants’ victory kept them in the running for one playoff berth or another. The comeback started on the kickoff following the Chiefs’ touchdown pass to Carlos Carson. Zeke Mowatt, the Giants’ tight end, had not been a factor until then, but he started getting free in creases in the Chiefs’ zone defense. In five plays, the Giants scored. Simms passed 28 yards to Mowatt, then 21 to Mowatt. After a deep pass to Bob Johnson was broken up, Simms hit Joe Morris for 19 yards. Then Simms threw a soft lead pass to Johnson in the left corner of the end zone, and Johnson caught it for a 22- yard touchdown play. “I didn’t get excited,” said Simms. “I expected him to catch it.” Now 7 minutes 30 seconds remained and the Chiefs’ lead was down to 27–21. The remaining spectators gave the Giants a standing ovation. The Giants gave them, and themselves, the best thank-you they could think of. With 5:03 remaining, the Giants regained possession on their 20, and the big plays started again. After Lionel Manuel had caught a pass barely out of bounds, Morris caught one inbounds for 17 yards. Simms, unable to find a receiver, ran for 14 yards. Then he passed to Mowatt for 14 and 31 yards, giving the Giants a first down on the Chiefs’ 4. On first down, Rob Carpenter ran for a yard. On second down, Mowatt was almost alone in the left side of the end zone when Simms’s 3-yard pass landed in his hands. That tied the score at 27–27, and Ali Haji-Sheikh’s conversion kick put the Giants ahead.
Mark Malone riddled San Diego’s secondary for four scoring passes, three to John Stallworth, and ran for a touchdown as the Pittsburgh Steelers routed the error-prone San Diego Chargers, 52–24, today. Despite his team’s loss, the wide receiver Charlie Joiner caught 6 second-half passes to give him 651 career receptions, breaking the previous league record of 649 by Charley Taylor of the Washington Redskins. Before the game, Joiner’s pass-catching yardage totaled 10,610, second only to the 11,834 amassed by Don Maynard, who played for the Giants and Jets. The 52 points were the most by the Steelers in their 16 seasons under Coach Chuck Noll. The Steelers (7-6) ended a two-game losing streak. They bolted to a 24-3 second-quarter lead with the help of two of the Chargers’ five turnovers, then withstood two San Diego touchdowns in a 90-second span. Stallworth, who caught 7 passes for 116 yards, landed scoring catches of 30, 5 and 45 yards and now has 11 this season, the most of his 11-year career. San Diego surged to 24–17 on Lionel James’s 58-yard punt return score with 15 seconds left in the first half and a 63-yard scoring shot from Ed Luther to Wes Chandler with only 1:12 gone in the second half. But Pittsburgh quickly regained control when Frank Pollard scored his second touchdown on a 5-yard run following a 41-yard pass from Malone to Louis Lipps that made it 31–17. Malone then hit Stallworth for consecutive scores following a 46-yard pass-interference call on the Charger cornerback Lucious Smith and an interception by the linebacker Robin Cole.
Neil O’Donoghue kicked a 44-yard field goal with eight seconds left today to give the St. Louis Cardinals a 17–16 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles were forced to play nearly the entire game without their starting quarterback, Ron Jaworski, who suffered a fractured left ankle on the third play of the game. Jaworski was injured when he was sacked by Curtis Greer and David Galloway. Jaworski was carried from the field and X-rays detected a fractured bone in his left ankle. The game marked Jaworski’s 116th consecutive start, tops in the league for quarterbacks. He is out for the remainder of the season. The Eagles had taken their first lead at 16–14 on Paul McFadden’s 32-yard field goal with 1 minute 50 seconds left, but the Cardinals drove 48 yards in nine plays in the final minute to set up O’Donoghue’s kick. McFadden got a chance at a 26-yard field goal with 4:18 remaining but was wide left. He got a second chance after the St. Louis quarterback, Neil Lomax, fumbled with Dennis Harrison recovering for Philadelphia at the St. Louis 23. After Jaworski was injured, Joe Pisarcik took over and finished with 24 completions in 39 attempts for 226 yards, including a 16-yard touchdown pass to Mike Quick to bring the Eagles within 13–14 midway through the final quarter. Lomax finished with 16 of 34 for 134 yards, as both teams mustered little offense. There were 17 punts in the game. The Cardinals’ only touchdown of the second half came late in the third quarter after Wayne Smith recovered a fumble by the running back Mike Haddix at the Philadelphia 31. Two plays later, Lomax threw a 19-yard pass to Pat Tilley, who made a diving catch in the end zone.
Joe Montana overcame a slow start to throw for two touchdowns and set up another as the San Francisco 49ers crushed the New Orleans Saints, 35–3, and clinched the National Conference Western Division championship. The 49ers (12–1) hold a four-game lead over the Los Angeles Rams with three games left in the regular season. The loss dropped New Orleans to 6-7, leaving the Saints with a slim mathematical chance for a first-ever playoff berth. Montana was 0-for-6 through the first quarter Sunday, but wound up with 14 completions in his next 24 attempts for 177 yards. His passes accounted for 32 of 36 yards on the 49ers’ first scoring drive, which ended when Roger Craig plunged a yard into the end zone late in the second quarter. Montana threw two touchdown passes, one for 19 yards to Earl Cooper and the other for 28 yards to Freddie Solomon. A rookie linebacker, Todd Shell, led the San Francisco defense. Shell had two of his team’s eight sacks and returned one of Richard Todd’s passes 53 yards for a fourth quarter touchdown. Fred Dean added two sacks in just his second game of the season. Bill Ring added the last 49ers touchdown on a 1-yard plunge in the 4th quarter. Saints’ starter Todd finished 9-for-17 for 72 yards and was relieved by Dave Wilson, who made his first appearance of the season with 11:27 remaining in the game.
The Seattle Seahawks defeated the Denver Broncos, 27–24, to break Denver’s 10-game winning streak this season and pull even with them in the Western Division of the American Conference. Each team now has an 11–2 record with three games to play. One of those games is a rematch in Seattle on the final Sunday of the season. The margin of victory today was preserved when Rich Karlis, the Broncos’ usually reliable kicker, missed a 25-yard field-goal attempt with 35 seconds left. The ball hit the right upright and bounced away, giving the Broncos their first loss at home in 13 games, a streak that stretched back to early last season. From an entertainment standpoint, it almost didn’t matter who won today. This game had everything, including a wildly partisan sellout crowd in Mile High Stadium. There were also several spectacular plays, one fight and a record-setting performance by the Seahawks’ wide receiver Steve Largent, who set career highs with 12 receptions and 191 yards. He also caught one pass for a 3-yard touchdown early in the fourth quarter that put the Seahawks in the lead for good at 24–17. The Seahawks opened the game with an 80-yard touchdown pass from Dave Krieg to Daryl Turner, a rookie wide receiver. But a good deal of the high drama occurred in the fourth quarter, which began with the score tied at 17–17 and the Seahawks in the middle of a 70-yard drive that would end with the scoring pass to Largent. The Seahawks scored again about six minutes later on a 28-yard field goal by Norm Johnson. But then the Broncos, exhorted by their fans, came surging back, as John Elway finished a 78-yard drive with a 9-yard touchdown pass to Gene Lang, a reserve running back. Then, after the Denver defense forced the Seahawks to punt, the Broncos began moving toward the field-goal attempt that might have sent the game into overtime.
Charley Brown, Keith Griffin and Art Monk were key players today for the Washington Redskins, who routed the Buffalo Bills, 41–14. John Riggins left with a stiff back after three carries in the first period, the third one good for a touchdown, the 106th in his long career. Griffin, the rookie from Miami, replaced Riggins and ran through and around the Bills for 92 yards on 25 carries. Monk caught 11 passes from Joe Theismann for 104 yards, a career high for the wide receiver, who victimized the cornerbacks Charles Romes and Brian Carpenter. Brown, the little receiver who had missed seven games because of an ankle injury, caught four passes, one for a touchdown. Dave Butz, the Redskin defensive tackle, missed the game after having been hospitalized because of a stomach virus. The Redskins had more a workout than a contest. They went ahead by 24–0 in the first minute of the second period against a team that had lost 11 of 12 games, the only victory being an upset of Dallas last Sunday. In the second half, announcements of the scores of the Giants-Kansas City game brought as much response from the 51,513 spectators as the action before them.
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Gaspard Ulliel, French actor (“Hannibal Rising”; “Saint Laurent”), in Boulogne-Billancourt, France (d. 2022, following a skiing accident).
Nick Tarnasky, Canadian NHL centre and left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning, Florida Panthers, Nashville Predators), in Carolina, Alberta, Canada.
Ryan Baker, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins), in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Steve Octavien, NFL linebacker (Dalals Cowboys, Cleveland Browns), in Belle Glade, Florida.
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