President Ford and President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France held extended discussions at their meeting in Martinique on energy policy and other key issues, but failed to report any substantive agreement. However, a White House official said privately that it was still possible that the two sides would announce an agreement on energy policy tomorrow, when the talks are scheduled to end.
The French Senate approved an abortion law that seeks to make the operation subject only to the decision of the mother. The new bill allows any woman to have an abortion during the first 10 weeks of pregnancy. The operation must be carried out by a doctor in an established hospital or clinic. Women under 18 must obtain their parents’ permission. The law was sponsored by the government. The National Assembly, lower house of the French parliament, approved the law in its first reading last month. The amended text approved by the Senate must return to the assembly for a second and final reading next week.
French Premier Jacques Chirac, who in a surprise move yesterday won control of the Gaullist party, issued a “solemn appeal” for unity to party members today. His call to “regroup, to take up action” was made over the heads of divided party leaders, many of whom threatened to break away. Mr. Chirac’s move for control of the party, made suddenly while President Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, a non‐Gaullist, was away conferring with President Ford in Martinique, brought into the open the smouldering feuds that have riven the Gaullists since President Georges Pompidou died last April. The Premier argued at a meeting of the party’s Central Committee yesterday and today that he had to make the move to “take the offensive” against the Socialist‐Communist Opposition and to defend the policies established by de Gaulle. Several important Gaullists described Mr. Chirac’s move as, in the words of one, a “fascist-type power‐blow.” The Socialist Opposition leader, François Mitterrand, bluntly described it as “a mini‐coup d’état” that showed that “the system is in peril.”
The U.N. General Assembly approved 21 disarmament resolutions last week-a record for a United Nations session. But as usual, it was the policy statements by the big powers that received the most serious consideration and not the substance of the resolutions, which were largely noncontroversial.
General Phaedon Gizikis, President of Greece since being appointed by the ruling military junta on November 25, 1973, announced his resignation, pending the election of a provisional president by the new Hellenic Parliament. General Gizikis, who is 57 years old, was appointed president on Nov. 25, 1973, after an army coup that toppled President. George Papadopoulos. Last July in the wake of the Cyprus crisis, President Gizikis initiated moves by the military rulers to hand over power to politicians.
Economic Cooperation Minister Egon Bahr said that West Germany would no longer grant financial aid to countries enjoying higher incomes from oil and other raw-material exports. Instead, he told a radio interviewer, aid would be channeled to the poorest nations, particularly those hit most by rising oil prices.
An Italian Army general, Ugo Ricci, was arrested here last night and charged with political conspiracy, it was reported today. It is the second arrest of a general in the armed forces in six weeks. General Vito Miceli, head of the Italian military intelligence agency until last summer, was arrested on similar charges on October 31. He had been under investigation in connection with right‐wing activities that allegedly were to have culminated in a coup in December, 1970. The coup was never attempted.
Pope Paul VI exhorted all Christians to “open our souls to this spirit of Christmas.” The Pope told thousands of pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter’s Square that Christmas was a time for thinking of the needs of others. He reminded the crowd that Christmas this year also would coincide with the opening of the Catholic Church’s 1975 Holy Year celebration which begins at midnight Christmas Eve.
Eighteen people died in a fire at a nursing home in Nottingham, England. Patients were trapped in their bedrooms by the fire. Fifteen more residents, two policemen, two ambulance men and two firefighters were taken to the hospital suffering from shock and smoke inhalation. Firefighters said it was not clear how the blaze started, but flames swept quickly through the 13‐year‐old building housing 49 residents ranging in age from 52 to 98. Nottinghamshire’s chief fire officer, Albert Thornhill, said that most of the victims appeared to have been overcome by smoke. They were found lying in bed or on the floor when firefighters wearing breathing apparatus broke into the dormitories. Officials said the dead have not yet been individually identified. Among them were 16 women.
Israel probably already has nuclear bombs mounted aboard some of its warplanes, a writer in the British magazine New Scientist said, not so much for use against the Arabs as for Israel’s biggest bargaining chip in the Middle East. “Personally,” Nicholas Valery said, “I find it difficult not to accept that Israel already has half a dozen nuclear bombs mounted beneath suitably instrumented Phantoms, that the individual aircraft are widely dispersed around the country, that their targeting remains Aswan, Cairo, Alexandria, Suez Canal, Damascus, and Amman.
Ariel Sharon, the tank general who led the Israeli breakthrough to the west bank of the Suez Canal in the war last year, resigned his seat in Parliament today to take a reserve military appointment. Military headquarters here announced that Major General Sharon had been given a “senior emergency appointment.” The announcement came two days after Major General Israel Tal, a former Deputy Chief of Staff, also received such an appointment. Mr. Sharon, a member of the Opposition Likud political grouping, told newsmen that he believed Israel might become involved in a crucial war, and “anyone who is able to contribute to the security effort should do so.” The military command said that the appointment to a “senior emergency position” meant that General Sharon would be called to a senior field‐command post in time of war. A spokesman said that the general, like other reservists, would serve 30 to 40 days active duty a year.
The Palestine Central Council has called for a military court to try the four hijackers of a British Airways VC-10 from Dubai to Tunis last month, the Palestine news agency WAFA reported. The agency said the central council, which serves as a link between the Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee and the Palestine National Council — the Palestinians’ Parliament — recommended the setting up of the court.
Premier Raschid al-Solh of Lebanon last night reported a Syrian promise of military assistance against Israeli attacks such as the air raid on refugee ‘camps in Beirut last Friday.
Ambassador Daniel P. Moynihan said today that the United States would shortly supply 300,000 tons of food to India, but that major assistance by Arab oil producers was crucial.
A United States consular official said today that an American missionary, expelled from South Korea yesterday, appeared to have been illegally detained aboard a Korean airliner when it stopped in Tokyo last night. The Rev. George Ogle, a Methodist minister, was ordered out of Seoul by the South Korean Government for alleged “illegal political activities.” The 45‐year‐old missionary, a resident of Korea for 20 years, was notified yesterday that he must leave within the day after he refused to sign a statement withdrawing his criticism of the Government of President Park Chung Hee. Leaving his wife and four children behind, Dr. Ogle was taken to Seoul’s airport by Korean policemen and was forced to board a Korean Air Lines plane. American newsmen who tried to see Dr. Ogle aboard the plane here last night were barred by Korean security guards. The plane’s captain told them he had the right to keep Dr. Ogle on board as the plane was under Korean law even if it was in Japan. The pilot also said he had been instructed by the “highest authorities” in South Korea to prevent anyone from talking with Dr. Ogle and to take him to the plane’s final destination, Los Angeles.
A U.S. Air Force officer has acknowledged that nuclear weapons were stored at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa before the island’s reversion to Japanese rule in 1972, Japanese newspapers reported. They said the commander, identified as “Lieutenant Colonel Hohrenback of the 8th Strategic Bombing Air Squadron,” did not say whether such weapons were still kept in the Okinawa arsenal. If accurate, the admission would be the first such by a U.S. commander in the U.S. forces in Japan that nuclear weapons were stored on Okinawa before its reversion.
Former Manila newspaper publisher Eugenio Lopez Jr., 46, and Sergio Osmena III, 30, son of defeated presidential candidate Sergio Osmena Jr., denied in separate letters to Philippines Defense Secretary Juan Ponce Enrile that they had plotted to kill President Ferdinand E. Marcos and said his martial law regime reneged on its pledge not to put them on trial. Lopez and Osmena were referring to an agreement that they would stop issuing statements critical of martial law and in return would be released with some of their imprisoned associates.
The first FM radio station in Australia, 2MBS of Sydney, began broadcasting.
President Mathieu Kerekou of Dahomey, in the latest of series of moves aimed at extending the control of his military Government over that small West African country, has ordered the establishment of “Defense of the Revolution Committees” in all businesses to “protect the revolution from sabotage.”
There were indications in Rhodesia’s capital city of Salisbury that numerous problems remained in the way of a settlement between the country’s white government and the black majority. There appeared to be continuing divisions among black Rhodesian nationalist movements. A leading black nationalist said his faction had agreed only reluctantly to new constitutional talks with the government of Prime Minister Ian Smith, who said he would resist quick political change.
The Security Council is expected to meet tomorrow afternoon at the request of black African delegates to consider the question of SouthWest Africa, which is called Namibia by the United Nations. African delegates to the United Nations are moving to increase pressure on South Africa over the issue of South-West Africa, which they call Namibia. The African initiative coincides with new developments in the eastern tier of southern Africa, where the white-minority governments of South Africa and Rhodesia have started talks with their black neighbors and black liberation movements. South-West Africa, renamed Namibia by the United Nations in 1968, is a mineral rich territory about twice the size of the state of California.
And So It Begins… Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter contended today that two of his undeclared competitors for the 1976 Democratic Presidential nomination were violating the spirit of the new campaign reform law. Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program, Governor Carter referred to an article today in The New York Times reporting that Senators Lloyd M. Bentsen of Texas and Henry M. Jackson of Washington were seeking $3,000 contributions from individuals before the new law takes effect on January 1. The law will limit contributions to Presidental campaigns to $1,000 from individuals. A spokesman for Senator Jackson said that the Jackson campaign committee was working with a self‐imposed $3,000 contribution ceiling despite the fact that current law established no limit. Senator Bentsen could not immediately be reached for comment.
General Alexander Haig assumed supreme command of Allied Forces in Europe, the military arm of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, in a brief ceremony in Casteau, Belgium. General Haig, former White House Chief of Staff under President Nixon, replaced General Andrew Goodpaster, and asked “to be judged on my performance, and not how I got here.”
A Bronx resident accused by authorities of being the mastermind of a $25-million-a-year cocaine ring was arrested at Kennedy Airport in New York as he got off a plane from Lima, Peru. The man, James Austin, 45, was arrested in connection with an indictment charging three drug sales to undercover agents. Bronx District Attorney Mario Merola said the ring had been operating for five years from La Paz, Bolivia, and distributing the drugs in New York, Philadelphia and Washington. Merola described the 100 kilos of cocaine smuggled by the ring in the last year as “the best possible stuff — about 98% pure, which is why it fetched so much on the street level when repackaged into small amounts.”
Members of 10 small United Mine Workers locals voted in Ernest, Pennsylvania, to join striking mine construction workers to protest an impasse in the construction workers’ contract negotiations. Picketing last week, despite restraining orders issued by Pennsylvania courts, idled at least 20,000 miners. Legal representatives for two Pittsburgh area steel firms that own and operate coal mines said petitions for injunctions against picketing would be filed today in district court in Pittsburgh.
Military personnel shopping at tax-free commissaries avoided paying more than $100 million in state sales taxes during 1973, Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said. Aspin, who frequently criticizes Pentagon activities, said that commissaries did more than $2 billion in grocery business in 1973, making them the fourth largest food chain in the country in terms of sales volume. His figures show that California lost $3.57 million in revenues.
A gunman who forced a twin-engine aircraft to fly to Cuba from Tampa was in custody in Havana while American officials negotiated for the return of the pilot. It was the first domestic skyjacking to Cuba since an anti-hijacking agreement was reached by the United States and Havana in early 1973. The pilot, Frank Haigney, 30, was in good condition, James A. Chesson Jr., owner of the Tampa Flying Service, which owns the plane, said. “We are just waiting now to find out how much money we will need to pay before they will allow our pilot to fly out,” Chesson said. The Cuban government usually charges hijacking victims for fuel, airport space and room and board.
Leaders of the Ku Klux Klan faction led by Dale Reusch of Lodi, Ohio, voted to open membership to Catholics and immigrants. Previously only white, Protestant, American-born men were admitted. The faction, the National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, announced also at a governing board meeting in Stone Mountain, Georgia, that Reusch will be the Klan’s presidential nominee in 1976. Another major Klan faction, the United Klans of America, is headed by Robert Shelton of Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
Officials of the Texas state hospital for the criminally insane here have begun releasing 190 patients over protests from Texas prosecutors and district attorneys. The mass releases resulted from a ruling by a three‐judge Federal panel that struck down long‐standing Texas law establishing the procedure for restoring sanity to persons found to be “insane‐insane” — the term applied to persons found insane by juries both at, the time crime was committed and at the time of trial for that crime. The three judges ruled unconstitutional the Texas procedure under which laws for the criminally insane differed from those for patients committed to mental hospitals in civil proceedings not involving law violations. It said that this deprived persons of equal rights.
A bill of rights for women applicants for mortgage loans was announced by the Federal Home Loan Bank under a 1974 law banning sex discrimination. The new rules require lenders to consider the combined income of both husband and wife or either one. They also spell out discriminatory practices, such as requiring single women who are otherwise credit-worthy to obtain a co-signer or guarantor if the institution does not require it for a single man in the same financial situation.
The Shell Oil Co. received a permit from the Environmental Protection Agency to burn a third load of chemical wastes aboard its incinerator ship, the Vulcanus, in the Gulf of Mexico. EPA Dep. Administrator John Quarles said the permit to burn 9,200 tons of liquid waste was issued because no adverse environmental effects were produced by the two previous burns.
Energy-saving proposals to be presented to President Ford were prepared by top Administration offlcials meeting at Camp David, Maryland. Officials said they “made very important progress” during the weekend meeting. About a dozen participated in the program, which contains recommendations designed to help conserve energy and boost domestic energy production. Details of the proposals will not be disclosed until after the recommendations are received by the President.
Instrument problems forced an unscheduled stop in Denver for a United Air Lines DC-8 flying from New York City to Las Vegas. After the plane reported difficulties with air speed and altitude indicators, another United plane in the area made contact with it and guided it in. The 34 passengers aboard resumed their flight on another United plane.
Travel industry leaders said in interviews that they expected this year’s holiday travel to be one of the slowest such periods in a decade, The nation’s depressed economy — with widespread layoffs, inflation and apprehension about what lies ahead in the new year — will apparently keep many Americans at home instead of on a warm beach or with relatives in distant cities.
The recent amendment requiring colleges to allow students to see their own files has indirectly led a team of Harvard biochemists to consider the repudiation of a major series of experiments. Serious doubts about the experiments’ validity arose when it was discovered that an honors student who had a key role in the research had forged or doctored four letters of recommendation for medical school, for admission to Phi Beta Kappa and for a scholarship.
Interviews with college placement officers and graduating students in universities in many parts of the country indicate that major companies are still sending their recruiters to campuses, although at several institutions the number of recruiters scheduling interviews is fewer this year than last. Several college placement officers expressed surprise at the number of jobs available. For example, majors in accounting and engineering, especially chemical or petroleum engineering, will find better job opportunities this year and the starting salaries will be 5 to 7 percent higher than last year.
Actor Richard Burton, 49, spent several days in a clinic in Switzerland for treatment of an undisclosed condition. The London Daily Mail said that his romance with Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia was over. Columnist Richard Lay said the breakup had been caused by Burton’s heavy drinking.
[Ed: I know a lot of people in the 70s thought Taylor and Burton were glamorous… but they were actually fucking train wrecks. Alcoholic narcisist train wrecks. The best thing about it when they were together was it kept that crazy from being inflicted on someone else. I said what I said.]
Guillermo Vilas of Argentina beats defending champion Ilie Năstase 7–6, 6–2, 3–6, 3–6, 6–4 to win his first and only season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis final in Melbourne, Australia.
Jim (Cattish) Hunter, baseball’s most successful pitcher in recent seasons, is now free to offer his services to any of the 24 major league clubs, including the Oakland A’s, who failed to live up to the terms of his existing contract. The formal announcement is expected tomorrow, but Hunter’s representatives confirmed it today.
NFL Football:
Cleveland Browns 24, Houston Oilers 28
New Orleans Saints 21, San Francisco 49ers 35
Denver Broncos 0, San Diego Chargers 17
Green Bay Packers 3, Atlanta Falcons 10
New York Giants 14, St. Louis Cardinals 26
Detroit Lions 17, Philadelphia Eagles 28
Chicago Bears 0, Washington Redskins 42
Buffalo Bills 14, Los Angeles Rams 19
New England Patriots 27, Miami Dolphins 34
New York Jets 45, Baltimore Colts 38
The Houston Oilers edged the Cleveland Browns, 28–24. After having lost nine games to Cleveland, the Oilers topped the Browns for the first time and finished with a 7–7 record, their first non‐losing season since 1969. The Browns ended at 4–10, the worst record in their 29‐year history. Dan Pastorini threw two touchdown passes and Fred Willis and Willie Rodgers ran for decisive second‐half scores. Mike Phipps passed for two Cleveland scores — 41 yards to Steve Holden and 9 to Fair Hooker — and Greg Pruitt ran 4 yards for a touchdown.
The San Francisco 49ers finished out their season with a 35-21 win over the New Orleans Saints. San Francisco took advantage of two New Orleans miscues to finish with a 6‐8 won‐lost record. The 49ers broke away from a tight 14–7 lead on the first play of the final period when Gene Washington took a 17-yard touchdown pass from rookie Tom Owen. 23 seconds later, Bill Belk, a defensive tackle, recovered a fumble and ran 17 yards for another touchdown. Then linebacker Dave Wilcox intercepted a pass thrown by Bobby Scott and returned it 21 yards for another touchdown with 1:12 left to play. Scott had replaced Larry Cipa in the final period with the Saints losing, 28–7.
Don Woods set two rushing records while pacing the San Diego Chargers to a 17–0 shutout upset of the Denver Broncos. He gained 104 yards to run his total to 1,161 for his first year as a pro, breaking John Brockington’s previous record rookie total of 1,105. Woods also broke the San Diego singleseason record of 1,121 held by Paul Lowe. Otis Armstrong of the Broncos also continued to gain ground impressively. He ran his league‐leading total to 1,407, gaining 142 yards. Both Woods and. Armstrong gained more than 100 yards in seven games. Woods opened the scoring with a 6‐yard scoring dash in the first quarter. Bo Matthews smashed over from a yard out in the second period and Ray Wersching completed the scoring with a 37‐yard field goal late in the fourth quarter. Coach John Ralston of Denver signed a five‐year contract just before the game.
The Atlanta Falcons snapped an eight‐game losing streak with a 10–3 victory over the Green Bay Packers, but there were only 10,020 fans in the stands to witness the upset. A record total of 48,830 ticket‐purchasers chose not to attend in the chilly, rainy weather. Atlanta’s total of 143,488 “no shows” for the season was also a record, well above the previous record of about 110,00 set last year at Miami. Dave Hampton, who gained 95 yards, scored the game’s only touchdown on a 5‐yard run round left end in the first quarter. The Falcons led, 10–0, after a 47‐yard field goal by Nick Mike‐Mayer. The Packers tried four field goals, but succeeded only on Chester Marcol’s 43‐yarder late in the third period. Two attempts were blocked by defensive end Claude Humphrey. John Hadl of the Packers could connect on only 15 of 38 passes for 138 yards. Coach Dan Devine of the Packers, who finished with a 6–8 won‐lost record, said of next season: “I’ll be coaching somewhere.”
In a game that seemed to mirror the season for both teams the St. Louis Cardinals recovered from a 14–0 halftime deficit and overwhelmed the New York Giants, 26–14, today for their first Eastern Division title in the National Football Conference. The defeat was the sixth in a row for the Giants and left them with a 2–12 won lost record, the second worst in the club’s history and little consolation after last season’s 2–11–1 mark. Emotion and big plays, themes in the Cardinals’ surprising early season rush to the top, again became the focal points for today’s victory, which represented an important psychological comeback. The Cardinals, who had not won a division title since moving here from Chicago 15 years ago, had lost their last two games and four of their last six. Now, they will enter next Saturday’s NFC playoff match at Minnesota as probable underdogs, but with renewed confidence and momentum. St. Louis and Washington finished with identical 10–4 records, but the Cardinals beat the Redskins twice to qualify as division champions. Washington will be the conference wild‐card entry against the Rams next Sunday in Los Angeles. Until the Cardinals caught fire with a three‐touchdown splurge within a 4‐minute‐4‐second span of the third quarter, the Busch Stadium crowd of 47,414 spent much of the windy and chilly overcast afternoon booing the Big Red for five dropped passes, five penalties and only 87 total yards’ offense in the first half. Terry Metcalf accounted for 33 of the 54 yards in the scoring drive that put the Cardinals in front for the first time. He turned a routine pitchout around the left side into a 17‐yard scoring run for the last St. Louis touchdown, slipping through tackles by Spider Lockhart and Chuck Crist.
The Philadelphia Eagles downed the Detroit Lions, 28–17. Mike Boryla, the rookie quarterback, had his third straight winning game replacing Roman Gabriel, completing 20 of 34 passes for 181 yards and two touchdowns. Seven completions went to Charley Young, the second‐year man who took over the conference lead in pass receptions with 63, one more than Drew Pearson of Dallas. Both teams finished the season with 7–7 records. Gabriel believes, despite Boryla’s success in the last three weeks, that he will return as the starting quarterback next year.
Tuning up for their playoff game against the Rams at Los Angeles, the Washington Redskins also rested some starters, but still ran the Bears ragged, shutting out Chicago, 42–0. Sonny Jurgensen, replacing Bili Kilmer at quarterback, completed 14 of 22 passes for 205 yards and one touchdown. Joe Theismann, the third‐string quarterback, then replaced Jurgensen and chipped in another scoring aerial — a 13-yarder to Charley Taylor. Duane Thomas gained 102 yards on eight carries to pace Washington’s running game. The Redskins’ defense, meanwhile, tortured the Bears with four pass interceptions and four sacks of the quarterback. Washington rubbed salt in the Bears’ wounds by letting Deacon Jones, a defensive lineman, kick the extra point after the sixth Redskin touchdown. The 42 points were the most scored by Washington since a 72–41 triumph over the New York Giants on November 27, 1966.
In a battle of playoff‐bound teams, the Rams made up a 7–0 half‐time deficit with three second‐half touchdowns, and managed a 19–14 victory over the Buffalo Bills. James Harris connected with Rob Scribner on a 14‐yard scoring pass midway in the third period, then ran a yard for a touchdown later in the quarter. Ron Jaworski, a rookie, replaced Harris in the fourth period and scored the Rams’ final touchdown on a 1‐yard plunge.
Resting many of their starters, including Larry Csonka and Bob Griese, the Miami Dolphins spotted the New England Patriots a 24–0 lead yesterday before rallying to win their 31st consecutive home game, 34–27, in the Orange Bowl. The defending Super Bowl champions finished the regular National Football League schedule with an 11–3 won-lost record. They will open the playoffs on Saturday in Oakland, California, against the Raiders, who finished at 12–2, the league’s best record. The Dolphins apparently were thinking ahead to Oakland in the early minutes yesterday and the Patroits took full advantage. New England recovered two fumbles and John Sanders intercepted Earl Marrall’s pass for a 23‐yard touchdown and the big lead in the second quarter. But Morrall, the 40‐year‐old quarterback making his first start of the season, recovered and tossed touchdown passes of 37 and 46 yards to Melvin Baker, a third ‐ string receiver. Don Nottingham, Csonka’s replacement at fullback, chipped in with a pair of 1‐yard scoring plunges, the second set up by a 73‐yard kickoff return by Benny Malone. Garo Yepremian’s two field goals provided the Dolphins a safe margin of victory. The outstanding player on the field, though, wore a New England uniform. He was Mack Herron, the 5‐foot‐5‐inch, 170‐pound running back. He rushed for 56 yards, caught five passes for 68 yards, returned one kickoff 17 yards and ran back four punts for 44 yards. The 185 yards gave him a season’s total of 2,444, or 4 more than the league record set by Gale Sayers of the Chicago Bears in 1966.
In a fittingly furious finish to the team’s bizarre season and perhaps the quarterback’s playing career, Joe Namath fired the New York Jets to their sixth straight victory today, a 45–38 decision in a passfest with the Baltimore Colts. Namath’s passing figures — 19 completions in 28 attempts for 281 yards and two touchdowns — weren’t as prolific as those of Bert Jones, the young Colt quarterback — 36 of 53 for 385 yards and four touchdowns. But Namath’s tosses enabled the Jets to highlight his 10th season with a 7–7 won‐lost record, a feat no one could have envisioned five weeks ago when they had won only one of eight games. The outcome never really was in doubt because the Jets had amassed a 45–24 lead midway through the fourth quarter. No one knew it at the time, but Namath wasn’t to return in the final eight minutes. Whether or not he’ll return next season retains unknown. “I don’t want to go anywhere else,” Namath said afterward, the customary postgame icepack bulging from his right knee. “I’ve been here 10 years. I like it here.” But, he added, he still didn’t know what the future would be. “Last February,” he explained, “when I said I was playing out my option, I gave my reasons for it and I don’t think it’s right to expect an answer now. I have my reasons and they’re still the reasons.” Early in the first quarter, Namath completed a pass to Eddie Bell at the Baltimore 1‐yard line, but Jerome Barkum was called for offensive pass interference and the penalty shoved the Jets back to the 25. On the next play, though, Namath passed to Barkum in the end zone for the first of the game’s 11 touchdowns. Then early in the second quarter, on the first play after the Colts had tied the game, 7–7, on Jones’s 5‐yard pass to Lydell Mitchell, Namath was sacked by Dan Dickel for a 10‐yard loss. This time the quarterback struck on the next play with a 39‐yard pass to Barkum that sent the ball to the Baltimore 18. Minutes later, John Riggins burst across from the 1 for the score that put the Jets ahead to stay.
Born:
Cory Branan, American singer-songwriter (“The No-Hit Wonder”; “Adios”), in Memphis, Tennessee.
P. J. Byrne, American actor (“The Wolf of Wall Street”), in Maplewood, New Jersey.
Died:
Anatole Litvak, 72, Ukrainian-born American filmmaker known for directing “The Snake Pit”, “Anastasia”, and “Sorry, Wrong Number.”
Erich Walter Sternberg, 83, German-Israeli composer (co-founder of Israel Philharmonic Orchestra).
Karin Branzell, 83, Swedish opera mezzo-soprano with New York’s Metropolitan Opera, died of an embolism while recovering from a pelvic fracture.
Harry Hershfield, 89, American humorist, newspaper columnist and radio personality, and the writer of the comic strip Abie the Agent.
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