President Reagan and his top foreign policy advisers completed discussions today on the United States position in arms control talks with the Soviet Union next week in Geneva. Mr. Reagan met for about an hour with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser, on the estate of the publisher Walter H. Annenberg. Earlier the President relaxed by playing golf and watching college football on television. In a statement after the meeting, Mark Weinberg, a White House spokesman, said Mr. Reagan had “finalized instructions on how Secretary Shultz should represent the United States position with Foreign Minister Gromkyo.” He did not elaborate. Mr. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, are to meet Monday and Tuesday. Administration officials are believed to have recommended to Mr. Reagan that the United States not agree before the talks to limit research on anti-satellite weapons, and that it pursue the possibility of two sets of arms control talks, one on offensive weapons and the other on defensive weapons.
The new arms control talks scheduled next week in Geneva have raised hopes among many Russians for improved relations with the United States. However, Soviet officials seem to be approaching the ministerial talks cautiously. Recent articles in the Soviet press have called the meeting in Geneva next Monday and Tuesday between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko a hopeful sign. But they warn against optimism. Soviet statements have portrayed the meeting as a Soviet initiative and placed the burden for success on Washington. But they say the United States has so far offered little encouragement to hope. “The New Year gives rise to new hopes,” Pravda said today. “It is with such sentiments that peace-minded people in the world have received the news of the new Soviet-American talks.”
The Soviet Union has confirmed the demotion of Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, who was ousted in September as Chief of the General Staff. According to the latest information from Moscow, he has become a political commissar. The status of Marshal Ogarkov, who was once viewed as a potential Defense Minister, remained unclear after he was replaced by Marshal Sergei F. Akhromeyev on Sept. 6. Marshal Ogarkov was reported to have disagreed with military policy decisions. He was first reported to have been appointed chief of the General Staff Academy. Later he led a military delegation to East Germany.
The Pope called the arms talks planned for next week “a beam of hope” and urged Washington and Moscow to realize “they share the same risk.” John Paul II also called for “effective systems of verification” of any agreement. He also declared that the arms talks could affect not only East-West relations but also those between the wealthier countries of the Northern Hemisphere and the poorer nations of the Southern.
The first British mobile phone call is made by Ernie Wise to Vodafone.
Firing tear gas and rubber bullets, Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron prevented hundreds of Arabs from holding a mock funeral for Fahd Kawasmeh, Hebron’s former mayor, who was assassinated in Jordan last week. Kawasmeh, ousted from the West Bank by Israel in 1980 because of his sympathies with the Palestine Liberation Organization, was recently elected to the PLO’s Executive Committee. Israel said it would allow the burial of Kawasmeh in Hebron in exchange for four missing Israeli soldiers. Kawasmeh was buried in Amman on Monday.
The Egyptian government announced that Pope Shenouda III, patriarch of the Coptic Church, will be allowed to resume his duties and leave the desert monastery to which he was banished three years ago. Shenouda, who heads the country’s largest Christian community, was stripped of official recognition in September, 1981, by President Anwar Sadat, who accused him of fomenting unrest. Sadat was assassinated by Muslim extremists a few weeks later. With six million members, the Coptic church is Egypt’s largest Christian group. A statement distributed today by the Middle East News Agency said President Hosni Mubarak had issued a decree allowing Pope Shenuda to “resume his papal duties as of today.” Government sources said the decree in effect restored full recognition of Pope Shenuda, reversing Mr. Sadat’s decree. It confirmed a report Saturday by church officials that the 62-year-old Pope would be released in time to conduct a Christmas service January 7.
Clashes between Lebanese troops and Druze militiamen in the Beirut area threatened a government plan to extend army control along a key coastal road leading to Israel’s occupation zone in southern Lebanon. The clashes erupted into artillery duels, killing at least one person. A six-man council of military commanders had agreed to begin securing the coastal road today, and militias were to remove their weapons from the area.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said yesterday that he was considering making another trip to the Middle East, this time to seek the release of three Americans kidnapped by gunmen on the sidewalks of Beirut. Mr. Jackson said he did not know who was holding the hostages or where they were. “But we have reason to believe that they are alive,” he said. “I’m willing to go there if there’s any likelihood that we can gain their release.”
More than 7,000 victims of last month’s gas leak at the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, blocked the city’s traffic for six hours to protest delays in welfare payments. The demonstrators marched from the factory where the leak occurred into the center of the city, and one protester said, “I prefer to die by sitting here rather than die at home without help.” The leak killed more than 2,000 people and injured 25,000 others. Official aid to the victims was suspended last week until the completion an investigation into eligibility. Ranjeet Singh, a senior city official, told a group of demonstrators today that the inquiry had been completed and that payments would resume Thursday, a member of the group said.
Separatist Tamil guerrillas in Sri Lanka blew up a railway bridge near the northern city of Jaffna, the government reported. A government statement said the sabotage of the bridge will seriously affect the transportation of food and fuel to the Jaffna Peninsula, where most of the island nation’s Tamils live and where the guerrillas have been most active.
Thailand’s National Security Council chief says the Soviet Union has stationed 14 MIG-23 fighter-interceptors at Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam, the first such advanced planes to be based in the region. The official, Squadron Leader Prasong Soonsiri, Secretary General of the National Security Council, told the publisher of The Bangkok Post, an English-language paper, in an interview published today that Thailand was concerned that the Soviet Union might be tempted to use the planes in Cambodia to support Vietnamese forces in their attacks on rebels trying to overthrow the Phnom Penh Government. Fighting between the Vietnamese and three Cambodian rebel factions has been going on since mid-November, when Hanoi and its Cambodian allies began to attack rebel camps in what has become an annual dry-season offensive. The fighting increased last week when the Vietnamese overran the largest camp of the Khmer Peoples National Liberation Front at Rithisen, just inside Cambodia near the Thai border. Rebels are now trying to retake it.
Vietnamese gunners poured artillery and tank fire on Cambodian guerrillas today, a day after Thai and Vietnamese troops clashed. A Thai Army officer predicted heavy fighting would persist for months. It was the eighth day of combat in and around rebel camps in Cambodia. Hundreds of Cambodians and Vietnamese have been reported killed or wounded in the offensive, but independent verification of the reports has been impossible. The guerrillas said about 20 Cambodians were killed and 40 wounded Monday night and today by Vietnamese artillery and tank fire on positions near Rithisen. Mea Saphien, a 20-year-old guerrilla among those trying to retake Rithisen, said: “We had to retreat from the shelling. They rained hundreds of rounds on us. We can see the pith helmets of the Vietnamese all over the place.”
Two Thai-Vietnamese skirmishes were reported Monday. A Thai ranger patrol was ambushed at midday in Buriram Province, Thailand, and Major General Aroon Srivuthai said six Thais were wounded. He said Thai troops had secured the border area by late today and the Vietnamese had pulled back. Also Monday, Thai soldiers used mortars to attack a lightly armed Vietnamese patrol near the Thai border town of Klong Luek, according to a Thai officer.
China’s new “open door” policy to the West is the only way to overcome the legacy of “poverty, backwardness and ignorance” the country brought on itself by hundreds of years of isolation, according to Deng Xiaoping. China’s pre-eminent leader made the statement to his fellow Communist Party leaders in a speech made public in Peking. In the speech to the party’s Central Advisory Commission that was published today, Mr. Deng said people should not worry about China’s sticking to his policy of attracting foreign investment, encouraging more modern ways of thinking and otherwise linking the country to the outside world. He said that China had learned its lesson from history and the nation’s one billion people would allow no retreat. “No country can now develop by closing its door,” Mr. Deng said in the speech, which was given on Oct. 22. “We suffered from this, and our forefa thers suffered from this,” he declared. “Isolation landed China in poverty, backwardness, and ignorance.”
El Salvador’s government and leftist guerrillas will meet later this month for a third round of peace talks aimed at ending the country’s five-year-old civil war, Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said. The prelate, who helped mediate the first talks between the two sides October 15 and a second set November 30, gave no details on where or on what day the meeting will be held. A third session planned over the Christmas holidays was canceled.
Piles of rocks at several street corners are all that remain of the barricades residents erected last Thursday to prevent Sandinista army recuiters from entering this country town. At houses where recruiters apparently believed draft dodgers were hiding, windows were smashed and doors were broken down. Several residents, including mothers of draft-age youths, showed bruises they said they incurred in fights with recruiters. More than 50 people were reported hurt in Thursday’s clash, the most serious since conscription began a year ago. Parents said in interviews that they did not support the Sandinista Government in its war against rebels and did not want to send their sons to fight. Clergymen and other residents estimated that several hundred draft-age youths are still hiding in Nagarote.
Maoist guerrillas burst into a small town in the Peruvian Andes, dragged 12 villagers from their homes and killed them, a government official said in Ayacucho. The New Year’s Eve attack on Huayhuas, 30 miles from Ayacucho in Peru’s guerrilla war zone, was the third in three days by rebels of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) movement.
At 19:37 the flight crew of Eastern Air Lines Flight 980 (Captain Larry Campbell, First Officer Kenneth Rhodes and Flight Engineer Mark Bird) told air traffic controllers at El Alto International Airport in La Paz, Bolivia, that he estimated landing at 19:47. The crew was cleared to descend from 25,000 to 18,000 feet (7,620 to 5,486 m). At some point after this exchange, the aircraft veered significantly off course for unknown reasons, possibly to avoid weather. The Boeing 727 jetliner struck Mount Illimani at an altitude of 19,600 feet (6,000 m), killing all 29 people on board. The accident occurred 25 miles (22 nmi; 40 km) from runway 9R at El Alto airport. The passengers were from Paraguay, South Korea and the United States. Among them was the wife of the then-U.S. Ambassador to Paraguay, Arthur H. Davis, and two Eastern pilots flying as passengers. Due to the large area of wreckage and heavy snow, no data recorders were ever recovered. The exact cause of the accident remains unknown.
The head of Ethiopia’s Relief and Rehabilitation Commission thanked international aid donors for helping the famine-stricken nation with emergency food, drugs and other supplies last year. “If we had not received this assistance, millions of people would have died,” Major General Dawit Wolde Giorgis told reporters in Addis Ababa.
The Sahara has been widening its desert barrenness southward at the rate of 6 to 12 miles a year for more than a decade, gradually incorporating the Sahel, the semiarid belt at its fringe. But in 1984, in the worst drought that has been recorded across Africa, all of the Sahel has become Sahara, at least until the next rainy season.
Nigerian leader Major General Mohammed Buhari said today that his military government had ordered the release of 2,551 prison inmates, including 144 political prisoners, to mark the first anniversary of a military coup. General Buhari said in a radio and television address that the amnesty was “in furtherance of our policy that no person will be kept in detention longer than necessary.” The military took power December 31, 1983, overthrowing the civilian government of President Shehu Shagari.
William P. Clark plans to resign as Interior Secretary and to return home to his California ranch, a spokesman for Mr. Clark said. Mr. Clark, a 53- year-old longtime associate of President Reagan, has played the role of troubleshooter in several areas for the Administration and succeeded James G. Watt at the Interior Department in November 1983. The spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said Mr. Clark met with Mr. Reagan in California on Monday to tell him that he felt his task at the Interior Department was completed and that he planned to leave in two or three months. Albert R. Brashear, a spokesman for Mr. Clark, said the Secretary told the President “his job was substantially accomplished and it’s time to go home.”
President Reagan spends New Years Day in Palm Springs, California with friends and family.
Hiring of temporary Federal workers is being spurred by the Reagan Administration because they receive fewer fringe benefits and can be dismissed much more easily than career Civil Service employees. Patrick Korten, a spokesman for the Federal Office of Personnel Management, said the policy, designed to hold down the cost of Government, represented a “big change, a significant turnaround in this area of personnel policy.” For more than 15 years the personnel agency has discouraged use of temporary employees in place of career workers. Critics of the new policy said it could easily be abused for political patronage because it enabled agencies to keep high-level employees on a temporary basis for four years or even more.
A law authorizing the G.A.O. to review whether Government contracts have been properly awarded has generated a struggle between the White House and Congress. The Administration has instructed Federal agencies not to comply with disputed provisions of the law.
The tax simplification plan proposed by the Treasury is having a chilling effect on some real estate investments despite its uncertain fate. Economists predict that the plan, if enacted, would depress home values and make many types of new construction unprofitable.
Doctors prepared to test candidates for the world’s third artificial heart implant while William J. Schroeder celebrated New Year’s Day with his family and watched football games on television. Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, Schroeder’s home since his diseased heart was replaced with a plastic and metal device on November 25, has received dozens of calls from persons hoping to undergo the surgery, a hospital spokeswoman said. Although no potential patients have been admitted to the hospital, doctors planned to interview and test candidates immediately after New Year’s Day, spokeswoman Donna Hazle said. “Mr. Schroeder remains in serious but stable condition and continues to recover from the stroke,” she said.
The first mandatory seat belt law in the U.S. goes into effect in New York. A Vermont woman who crossed the state line for a brief New Year’s celebration in New York received the first citation under the nation’s first law requiring use of seat belts. Betty Shufelt of Rutland was driving home from a holiday celebration in Whitehall when she was pulled over by state policemen at 12:10 AM. With the start of the new year at midnight, police throughout New York state began enforcing the mandatory seat belt law, under which drivers and front-seat passengers may be fined up to $50 for failing to buckle up.
A convicted killer was able to hijack a jetliner to Cuba Monday night by emerging from a lavatory with a pistol, a Virgin Islands prison official said. The hijacker, Ismael LaBeet, was serving a life sentence for the murder of eight people at the Fountain Valley Golf Course in St. Croix in 1972. Passengers arriving on the flight in New York expressed anger that three armed guards had removed the prisoner’s handcuffs.
A federal appeals court has ruled that relatives of 17 crew members of an Air New Zealand plane that crashed in Antarctica in 1979 may sue the U.S. government for negligence. The Justice Department said that the government may not be sued for claims arising in a foreign land. But Judge Malcolm Richard Wilkey, in an opinion for the three-judge court, ruled that, because Antarctica is “sovereignless,” it should not be treated as a foreign country in the case. The 17 New Zealand crewmen were among 257 persons killed on November 28, 1979, when their airliner struck Mt. Erebus. Relatives said that American air traffic controllers at the McMurdo Naval Air Station in Antarctica had not warned the pilots that the plane was nearing mountains.
American Agriculture Movement founder Jerry Wright has agreed to peacefully leave within 10 days the 320-acre wheat and milo farm near Campo, Colorado, auctioned to pay off overdue loans, Baca County Sheriff Willard Goff said. At the first auction of Wright’s farm in January, 1983, about 300 angry farmers caused a near-riot on the Baca County Courthouse steps in Springfield. Last week, U.S. District Judge John L. Kane Jr. refused to issue an order that would have stopped the sheriff from enforcing a state court order to remove Wright. The southeast Colorado farm was sold at auction to the Federal Land Bank of Lamar, Colorado, last year when Wright failed to pay back more than $500,000 in government loans.
A fire destroyed valuable paintings, art objects and manuscripts, including letters by Lincoln and Dickens, in a museum in Evanston, Illinois. Officials said the museum was totally lost and the treasures feared lost were worth $12 million. Another New Year’s Eve blaze destroyed the historic Toll House Restaurant in Whitman, Mass. The frame structure was the birthplace of the chocolate chip cookie 55 years ago.
An abortion clinic was blasted by a bomb in Washington that caused wide damage but no deaths or injuries. An anonymous man telephoned The Washington Times to claim responsibility. A bomb exploded outside a Washington abortion clinic today just after midnight, causing extensive damage but no deaths or injuries. The bombing was the latest is a series of attacks against abortion facilities around the country, including three bombings in Florida on Christmas Day. Two suspects are now being held in that case. The second suspect turned himself in today, it was announced this afternoon. In the Washington bombing, a man telephoned The Washington Times this afternoon to claim responsibility for the bombing on behalf of the “Army of God, East Coast division.” He warned that the attacks would continue and said the next target would be an unidentified clinic in Ohio.
Nearly 450 passengers were stranded at two airports when crew shortages at American Airlines forced the cancellations of at least 275 flights, airline officials said. Lee Elsesser, a spokesman for American, said Monday that under a contract with the airline its pilots could not work more than a specified number of hours each day and each month. Bad weather in December that delayed and diverted flights caused the pilots to reach their maximum hours before the end of the month, he said. American canceled 102 flights, about 9 percent of its total, on Sunday and 173 flights, or about 15 percent, on Monday. The airports most affected were Dallas-Fort Worth International, where 405 passengers were stranded Sunday night, and Chicago’s O’Hare International, where 41 were stranded. American offered passengers the option of taking another American flight the same day, another airline’s flight the same day or, if forced to stay over a day, a free flight on American the next day and a $100 travel voucher.
A compromise Chicago budget totaling $1.9 billion has been adopted by the City Council just before a deadline and after weeks of confrontation between Mayor Harold Washington and his opponents on the Council. A key dispute was over how much to roll back property taxes.
Hopes for revival of Rhode Island were expressed as Edward D. DiPrete, a pro-business politician, became Governor.
About 2,500 people were allowed to return to their homes in North Little Rock, Arkansas today after railroad workers sealed a tank car that was leaking a volatile and toxic chemical. Investigators had not determined why the car began leaking 19,000 to 22,000 gallons of ethylene oxide, a substance manufactured by Union Carbide and used in making agricultural chemicals, officials said. Vapor floated around the car after the crew of a passing train reported the leak shortly before 5 AM Monday, officials said. The vapor was flammable and could have irritated eyes and burned skin on contact, but no injuries were reported. Police Captain A. W. Winn said residents within a one-mile radius of the car were evacuated because “there was a chance there could be an explosion and toxic fumes given off.”
Daily monitoring of rain and snowfall at six sites in the eastern United States over a five-year period showed no apparent major increase or decrease in acid rain, according to a study released by the Electric Power Research Institute. The median annual acidity at five of the six stations was slightly less in 1982 and 1983 than in the three previous years, but a more detailed analysis now under way should determine whether the change is anything more than normal variation, the study said.
A numbing New Year’s storm struck the Middle West yesterday, leaving up to 19 inches of snow and ice, cutting electricity to thousands of homes and businesses, and clogging roads with wrecked cars. Meanwhile, Texas cleaned up after tornadoes and floods that caused $5 million damage and left hundreds homeless. Nine people died, one was missing and three dozen were injured in storms that battered the nation’s midsection for the second consecutive day. Five people died in Wisconsin, four of them shoveling snow; three died in floods in central Texas, and the ninth death was a highway fatality that occurred on a snow-covered road in Missouri. From Kansas to Michigan, 1985 opened with the worst winter storm of the season, with freezing rain, snow and high winds that piled drifts up to 4 feet deep in parts of Wisconsin and Illinois. By yesterday afternoon, the snow was 19 inches deep in Lake County, Illinois. Some 200,000 homes and businesses in Illinois and Michigan were without electricity in sub-freezing temperatures as ice-heavy power lines cracked.
The Internet’s Domain Name System is created.
VH-1 made its broadcasting debut.
14th Fiesta Bowl: #14 UCLA beat #13 Miami, 39–37. UCLA took an early lead off a six-yard touchdown run by freshman halfback Gaston Green. Miami responded following a 34-yard touchdown run by tailback Darryl Oliver, knotting the game at seven. Later in the quarter, All-American wide receiver Eddie Brown fielded a punt, and took it 68 yards for a Hurricane touchdown, giving Miami a 14–7 lead. In the second quarter, quarterback Bernie Kosar threw a 48-yard touchdown pass to wide receiver Brian Blades to increase Miami’s lead to 21–7. UCLA responded in a big way, riding a 72-yard touchdown run by Green to pull within 21–14. The defense continued the momentum by forcing a safety on punter Rick Tuten, bringing the score to 21–16. All-American kicker John Lee kicked two field goals of 51 and 33 yards to give UCLA a 22–21 lead at halftime. Miami reclaimed the lead in the third quarter, after Greg Cox drilled a 31-yard field goal, putting them up 24–22. Bruin quarterback Steve Bono found wide receiver Mike Sherrard for a ten-yard touchdown pass to reclaim the lead for UCLA, 29–24. In the fourth quarter, Bono found Mike Young for a 33-yard touchdown pass, increasing UCLA’s lead to 36–24. Miami responded with a 19-yard touchdown run from running back Melvin Bratton. The attempted two-point conversion failed, leaving the score 36–30. Kosar later found Bratton on a three-yard slant pass, giving Miami a 37–36 lead. With 2:58 remaining, Bono moved the Bruins down the field. Lee scored the winning points on a 23-yard field goal, giving UCLA the 39–37 win. Miami mounted one last charge, but Terry Tumey forced a fumble after a sack of Kosar to seal the win. Green had 144 yards rushing on 21 attempts, and was named the game’s offensive MVP
51st Sugar Bowl: #5 Nebraska beat #11 LSU, 28–10. In the first quarter, Ronnie Lewis kicked a 37-yard field goal to give LSU an early lead. In the second quarter, Tiger running back Dalton Hilliard scored on a two-yard touchdown run and LSU led 10–0. Nebraska quarterback Craig Sundberg threw a 31-yard touchdown pass to I-back Doug DuBose as Nebraska closed the gap to 10–7 at the half. In the third quarter, Sundberg scored on a nine-yard run to give the Huskers a 14–10 lead. In the fourth quarter, Sundberg threw touchdown passes of 24 and 17 yards to tight end Todd Frain as Nebraska won 28–10. For his four touchdowns (three passing, one rushing) Sundberg was named the game’ MVP.
71st Rose Bowl: #18 Southern California beat #6 Ohio State, 20–17. Tim Green’s two touchdown passes led Southern California to a 17–6 halftime lead and the Trojans’ defense forced Ohio State out of its game plan. The Buckeyes rushed Keith Byars, the nation’s leading rusher, scorer and all-purpose runner this season, just 23 times. Fifty of his 109 yards rushing came on one play. Earle Bruce, Ohio State’s coach, wanted to run his Heisman Trophy runner-up at least 35 times and only pass the ball a maximum of 25 plays. Instead, quarterback Mike Tomczak threw 37 times. Tomczak completed 24 for 290 yards. He threw an 18-yard touchdown pass to split end Cris Carter. But Tomczak also committed four turnovers. Two of his interceptions set up Green’s passes. After Tomczak’s scoring strike to Carter with 7:34 left, Ohio State had one more opportunity in the final minutes. The Big Ten champions, 9–3 for the fifth successive year, moved as close as the Trojans’ 38 before defensive tackle Brent Moore sacked Tomczak for an 8-yard loss in the closing seconds.
49th Cotton Bowl: Boston College defeated Houston, 45–28. Doug Flutie led Boston College to victory over Houston. The Heisman Trophy winner passed for three touchdowns in the first 20 minutes, but had trouble later, completing only 2 of 14 passes in the second half and being intercepted twice. The Eagles rolled to a 31–14 lead at halftime on Flutie’s three touchdown passes (to three different receivers) and a Steve Strachan 2-yard touchdown run, despite the Cougars’ two quick ways of scoring touchdowns, one of which occurring when Larry Shepherd caught a Gerald Landry pass for a touchdown with 22 seconds left in the half. Raymond Tate narrowed the lead with his touchdown late in the third quarter. Audray McMillian intercepted a Flutie pass and returned it 25 yards to the end zone to make it 31–28 as the third quarter ended. But the Eagles scored with 5:45 remaining on a Strachan 4-yard touchdown run. Troy Stradford sealed the game with a 18-yard touchdown run with 1:06 to go in the fourth quarter as Boston College won their first Cotton Bowl.
51st Orange Bowl: #4 Washington beat #2 Oklahoma, 28–17. Danny Greene gave the Huskies an early lead on his 29-yard touchdown catch from quarterback Paul Sicuro, and tailback Jacque Robinson made it 14–0 after one quarter on his touchdown plunge. Sooner quarterback Danny Bradley cut the lead with a touchdown sneak, and Derrick Shepard tied the game before halftime on his 61-yard catch from Bradley for a touchdown. The third quarter was scoreless, and Tim Lashar’s 35-yard field goal gave Oklahoma a 17–14 lead with under nine minutes remaining. After Sicuro was intercepted for a third time, Hugh Millen took over at quarterback for Washington in the fourth quarter. He guided the Huskies on a 74-yard drive in seven plays, capped by a twelve-yard pass to Mark Pattison in the end zone for a four-point lead with less than six minutes to go. The Sooners muffed the ensuing kickoff return and started at their own two; Washington intercepted a tipped Bradley pass deep in Oklahoma territory and soon scored again on a touchdown run by fullback Rick Fenney to make the final score 28–17.
The nation’s stock and commodities markets were closed today in observance of the New Year’s holiday.
Born:
Jeff Carter, Canadian NHL centre (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Kings, 2012, 2014; NHL All-Star 2009, 17; Philadelphia Flyers, Columbus Blue Jackets, Los Angeles Kings, Pittsburgh Penguins), in London, Ontario, Canada.
William Gay, NFL cornerback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 43-Steelers, 2008; Pittsburgh Steelers, Arizona Cardinals), in Tallahassee, Florida.
Stephen Tulloch, NFL linebacker (Tennessee Titans, Detroit Lions, Philadelphia Eagles), in Miami, Florida.
Ray Edwards, NFL defensive end (Minnesota Vikings, Atlanta Falcons), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Tiago Splitter, Brazilian NBA center and power forward (NBA Champions-Spurs, 2014; San Antonio Spurs, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers), in Blumenau, Brazil.
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