The Soviet press today described the disarmament negotiators appointed by President Reagan as hard-liners on Soviet- American relations who would treat the new negotiations “skeptically.” Initial commentaries carried by Tass, the official press agency, specifically referred to an article whose co- author was Max M. Kampelman, the new chief American negotiator. The article will appear in The New York Times Magazine next Sunday but was described in The Times today. The article, Tass said, “expressed serious doubt about the possibility of much progress at the talks on arms control in the near future.” “Kampelman is a staunch supporter of the President’s known initiative in the field of strategic defense,” it said.
That initiative is a research plan on space-related defenses against missiles, often called ‘Star Wars.’ Stopping it has been Moscow’s major interest in the new negotiations, announced this month by Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Andrei A. Gromyko. A week ago, Mr. Gromyko declared in a television interview that Moscow would reject any American effort to separate talks on space weapons from talks on nuclear missiles, the element of the new negotiations that is of greater interest to Washington. All Soviet commentaries since have centered on the Soviet view that space weapons are a central component of the negotiations. Tass said that in his magazine aricle, Mr. Kampelman “is expressing the views opposed by the Soviet Union, which believes that Reagan’s initiative to create a large-scale system with outer-space-based elements will be the cause of further instability.”
Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man convicted of shooting Pope John Paul II, was quoted in an Italian newspaper today as having told investigators that he was trained as a marksman by Bulgarian agents in Syria. The Milan newspaper Corriere della Sera, citing documents, said Mr. Ağca had told Judge Ilario Martella, the investigating magistrate, that his training had taken place at a camp in Latakia, Syria. Mr. Ağca said that his co-conspirators had promised that if he were arrested they would get him out of prison by bribery or by kidnapping a hostage to exchange for his freedom. The newspaper’s account added few new details to Mr. Ağca’s account, which was outlined by Judge Martella last October in his 1,243-page report, which included the indictments of three Bulgarians and four Turks for conspiring with Mr. Ağca to kill the Pope. The trial is planned for this spring. Mr. Ağca, who is also under a new indictment, is the prosecution’s leading witness against the Bulgarians and the Turks.
A four-day conference between Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders ended today in their failure to agree on a framework for unifying the island. The Cypriot President, Spyros Kyprianou, and the head of the self-proclaimed Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Rauf Denktaş, agreed to meet again at some later date. But this did not conceal the failure of the meeting to achieve substantive progress.
Israel began the first stage of its military pullback from Lebanon today as scores of trucks and armored vehicles rolled south from the Sidon area. The military command here confirmed that the “initial logistic stage of the redeployment” had begun.
All refugees in the Sudan, including Ethiopian Jews, are free to leave the country provided they do not go directly to Israel, President Gaafar al-Nimeiry said. Acknowledging that he is an enemy of Israel, Mr. Nimeiry said, “I won’t help Israel by sending them more people.” According to United Nations estimates, more than a million refugees, most of them from Ethiopia, are in the Sudan, and 300,000 to 400,000 are expected to arrive in the next few months. The refugees now in the country may go to Europe or the United States, Mr. Nimeiry said, but he said his government would not be involved in their departure.
Iraq said its warplanes hit three large vessels near Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island, but there was no independent confirmation of the report. Iraq claims to have hit 17 ships this month in the Persian Gulf as part of its 52-month-old war with Iran. Shipping and salvage sources have confirmed hits on only four vessels, including a West German oil-field supply ship on Friday.
The French deputy military attaché in India was recalled after an Indian newspaper reported that a French diplomat was being deported for involvement in an espionage ring that funneled secrets to the United States Central Intelligence Agency. France said it was recalling Colonel Alain Bolley for consultations.
Tamil guerrillas blew up a train in northern Sri Lanka, killing 34 people and wounding 25 others, the Defense Ministry said. The train was on its way from the country’s northern province to Colombo, the capital, the ministry reported, when the bomb blew 11 of the train’s 13 cars off the track. In an ensuing gun battle with the guerrillas, “it is believed that at least three terrorists were killed,” the ministry said.
Two Pakistani opposition leaders were jailed by the military government after their 11-party alliance announced plans to meet Tuesday in defiance of a government ban, opposition sources said. Nawabzada Nasrullah Khan, head of the rightist Pakistan Democratic Party, was sentenced to three months in jail, the sources said. Malik Mohammed Qasim, a leader of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy alliance, reportedly was placed under house arrest for three months. The government forbade the alliance to meet after the group announced plans to boycott elections scheduled for February.
Lawyers in Bangladesh began an indefinite boycott of courts today in a bid to force President H. M. Ershad to restore democracy and the powers of the judiciary. They said in a statement that the boycott was designed to back demands by opposition political parties for an end to nearly three years of military rule and establishment of a civil government through free parliamentary elections next April. The lawyers urged opposition parties, including two alliances headed by Sheik Hasina Wazed and Begum Khaleda Zia, not to contest elections on April 6 that they said were aimed only at legalizing General Ershad’s powers. The two alliances want General Ershad to end martial law before the elections, declare himself neutral and promise that intelligence agencies and other Government organs will not interfere in the voting.
Vietnamese occupation troops and Cambodian rebels fought on three fronts as 20,000 refugees evacuated temporary border shelters and crossed from Cambodia into Thailand to escape the battles. The fighting took place at Ampil, the former stronghold of the anti-Communist Khmer People’s National Liberation Front, which had been overrun by the Vietnamese on Christmas Day; at Phnom Hakeun village, where the Communist Khmer Rouge attacked, and at San Lo Changan, where Vietnamese shelled insurgent positions.
Philippine opposition leader Jovito Salonga stepped off a commercial airliner at the Manila airport today, ending nearly four years of self-imposed exile in the United States. Mr. Salonga, 64 years old, was greeted by applause and cheers from about 200 supporters.
France’s South Pacific military base in New Caledonia is to be strengthened. President Francois Mitterrand ordered it to be bolstered to protect what he called France’s strategic interests in the region, where he said foreign powers were trying to become involved. Mr. Mitterrand made the announcement on television in Paris after returning from a 12-hour visit to New Caledonia, where native Melanesians and French settlers are fighting for and against independence from France.
Two hurricanes sweeping through Fiji one after the other have left 24 people dead and as many as 200 injured in what a government official described as the worst such disaster since 1972. More than 3,000 residents have been left homeless in the South Pacific country, which is composed of more than 800 scattered islands. No American tourists were reported hurt, but about 700 visitors were forced to evacuate resorts.
Backers of Mexico’s main opposition party have adopted new, tougher tactics – including violence – to respond to what they say has been election fraud by the governing party. In recent weeks, angered at officially proclaimed losses in local elections, supporters of the opposition National Action Party in the northern border state of Coahuila have blocked the international bridge between Piedras Negras, Mexico, and Eagle Pass, Tex.; burned down the Piedras Negras City Hall; occupied and barricaded this city’s municipal palace, and stripped and tied and shaved the heads of ruling party officials in the town of Escobedo, abandoning them in the desert. Charges of election fraud are common in Mexico, where the governing group, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has won every presidential and gubernatorial race since its founding 55 years ago and has also won the vast majority of municipal and legislative offices. But the National Action Party, although still a very distant No. 2, has been capitalizing on Mexico’s continuing economic problems to increase its percentage of the vote, if not the number of offices it holds.
A third round of peace talks between the U.S.-backed government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador does not appear likely to occur soon, according to Roman Catholic Auxiliary Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chavez. Church officials mediated two previous sessions on October 15 and November 30. Rosa Chavez said in San Salvador that “certain sectors of the government” do not want more talks and that a date has not been set. Officials of the government of moderate President Jose Napoleon Duarte have blamed rightists, who control the legislative assembly and the army, for opposing further talks.
President Reagan’s national security adviser said today that the Administration had not formally decided to seek additional military and economic aid for El Salvador this year. But he stressed that the United States “will be there with the support they need.”
Black South Africans angered by the cost of living started a riot in which a 14-year-old girl was wounded by gunfire and tear gas was fired, police reported. The trouble began when thousands of residents gathered at a stadium at Katlehong township, southeast of Johannesburg, and threw stones at officials. They then set fire to a beer hall, stoned shops and vehicles and hurled two gasoline bombs at a black officer’s home. In the police counterattack that followed, one man was arrested. Officers did not shoot the girl, police said.
President Reagan attends the second swearing-in ceremony as President of the United States. In a one-minute ceremony at the White House, witnessed by 97 guests and by a national television audience, President Reagan took the constitutional oath, and began his second term as the 40th President of the United States. He will repeat the oath in a public ceremony tomorrow, but indoors at the Capitol, not outdoors, because of freezing temperatures. Because of the bitter cold in Washington, Mr. Reagan followed the recommendation of the Inaugural Committee and canceled the traditional inaugural parade along Pennsylvania Avenue.
Cancellation of the inaugural parade was greeted with relief by most people in Washington. The parade’s cancellation was the first anyone could remember. Many people echoed the sentiments of Theodore Jacobs, a House Congressional aide, who said the decision “makes sense.”.
Americans’ approval of conditions in the country and their optimism about its future have climbed to the highest levels in several years, according to The New York Times/CBS News Poll. As President Reagan begins his second term, these hopeful attitudes are closely tied to his personal popularity and to the public’s strong overall approval of his performance in office, the poll found. Even among such groups which have given Mr. Reagan limited support, as blacks, the poor and union members, there is a widespread feeling that the future will be better.
After rehearing key sections of testimony from three TIME magazine employees, the jury in New York deciding Israeli cabinet minister Ariel Sharon’s $50-million libel suit against Time Inc. adjourned to watch the Super Bowl game. The federal court panel was wrestling with the most complex issue in determining whether Sharon was libeled: whether TIME knowingly or recklessly published a false report about him. The jury, which is sequestered, will resume deliberations this morning.
The five astronauts who will fly America’s first military man-in-space mission arrived at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, but although the countdown was set to start at 4 a.m. today, the exact shuttle launch time Wednesday afternoon remained a military secret. The astronauts, all military officers, skipped the usual arrival statements to reporters after flying from their training base at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Twenty-four nuns who signed a declaration saying Roman Catholics have a “diversity of opinion” on the morality of abortion are refusing to retract their statement, despite a Vatican threat of dismissal, one of the group said in Chicago. “We are not pro-abortion; not one of us is,” said Sister Margaret Ellen Traxler, one of the 24 nuns and 50 members of the laity who met over the weekend to discuss the nuns’ situation. The nuns have unanimously agreed to stand by their statement, said Sister Traxler, a member of the School Sisters of Notre Dame.
Mayor Kathy Whitmire says her administration’s policy against discrimination toward homosexuals would continue in spite of the overwhelming vote in a referendum Saturday to deny them legal protection in city hiring. The Mayor said in a statement after the vote, however, that she could not insure that future administrations would follow the same policy. Despite the four-to-one defeat, the leader of Houston’s Gay Political Caucus said homosexual men and women would continue to back candidates and press for nondiscriminatory policies.
Dressed as bishops and emulating Martin Luther, founder of the Lutheran Church, by attacking church financial practices, labor activist supporters of jailed minister D. Douglas Roth taped a modern-day list of 95 theses to the doors of a Roman Catholic church in Pittsburgh. Calling themselves “bishops for the working class,” three members of the radical pro-labor groups read the theses at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
A cut in biomedical research funds below the levels intended by Congress has been decided on by the Reagan Administration as part of its effort to reduce the budget deficit, officials said. They said they had found a legal way to limit research spending to the amount proposed by President Reagan last January, rather than the larger amount approved by Congress. The proposed reduction would reduce the number of grants awarded this year by the National Institutes of Health by 23 percent.
More abortion clinic bombings had been planned by the three men charged Saturday with several clinic bombings in the Washington area, authorities said. They had warned of bombings to coincide with the 12th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision that legalized abortions but did not say if the suspects had particular plans. The authorities have said the anniversary posed a risk for violent protests. In response, the National Organization for Women has organized vigils at clinics around the country beginning this weekend.
International Harvester Co. and the United Auto Workers union reached a tentative contract agreement, ending a walkout by more than 11,000 workers that had begun less than 48 hours before, a company spokesman said in Chicago. Workers were to return to the job immediately, Harvester spokesman Bill Greenhill said in a statement announcing the proposed three-year contract. He said no further details were available on the pact. The strike began at midnight Friday, with the union saying it was seeking restoration of benefits it conceded to the ailing farm equipment giant in 1982.
Fear of being sent back to Cuba has kept more than half of Florida’s estimated 100,000 boatlift refugees from registering for permanent U.S. residency, despite government assurances that they will not be deported, federal immigration officials said in Miami. Mariano Faget Jr., a program director for the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service in Miami, said, “It must be that they just don’t trust us.”
The police said they arrested 58 people today on trespassing charges at a rally at the South African consulate to protest South Africa’s policy of racial separation. There have been 111 arrests, including today’s, at the consulate since the protests each Sunday began in September. City Attorney Doug Jewett has dropped charges against the 53 people arrested in earlier demonstrations but said recently that those arrested in the future would face prosecution. The demonstrations have been organized by the Seattle Coalition Against Apartheid. The coalition’s co-chairman, Gerald Lenoir, said 15 University of Washington professors planned to be arrested at the consulate next Sunday.
A publicity-shy man who shot to death a knife-wielding teen-ager during a robbery attempt in Chicago has failed to surrender and police believe he may have been deterred by reporters camping on his doorstep. Police say it is unlikely he will be charged. A third party who talked to police on the behalf of the unidentified man said the suspect feared the amount of coverage his case has received because of its parallels to New York’s so-called subway vigilante case. Chicago police have played down any similarity between the Thursday night shooting and the case of Bernhard Goetz, who wounded four teenagers after one of them asked him for money on a New York subway.
Crime among Vietnamese in the U.S. is spreading, law-enforcement authorities believe, but they differ on whether it is organized. Some officials believe there is at least a minimal link between gangs in different cities, while others contend there may be a nationwide criminal syndicate headed by former South Vietnamese generals.
A runaway barge with 20,000 barrels of gasoline broke away from its tug and drifted near Block Island for 14 hours before the tug recaptured it today. Crew members from the tug Emily S. jumped aboard the 264-foot barge shortly before 11 AM and reattached the tow line, ending a threat that the barge would run aground on the island, 10 miles off Rhode Island, the Coast Guard said. A spokesman at the Coast Guard station at Woods Hole, Massachusetts, said the barge was owned by Berman Enterprises of Bayonne, New Jersey.
A cold front strikes the U.S., and at least 40 people die. Temperature records shattered like icicles yesterday from the upper Middle West to the Gulf states, as Arctic cold covered much of the United States. “Keep by the fire,” warned Bob Davis, a forecaster in Pittsburgh. Temperature records were set in at least 58 cities, including Chicago, which reached 27 degrees below zero Fahrenheit, one degree below the previous record of January 10, 1982. In Atlanta, temperatures of 7 degrees set a record early yesterday. But by 10 PM, it was 3 degrees below zero.
President Reagan flips the coin for Super Bowl XIX via a special hookup between the stadium and the White House.
NFL Championship Game, Super Bowl XIX:
Miami Dolphins 16, San Francisco 49ers 38
The San Francisco 49ers routed the Miami Dolphins, 38–16, in Super Bowl XIX in Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California, winning their second National Football League Championship in three years. Instead of the predicted shootout between quarterbacks Dan Marino and Joe Montana, the game was mostly one-sided. The 49ers’ defense only allowed 25 rushing yards and 16 Dolphins points. San Francisco also intercepted Marino twice and sacked him 4 times. The Dolphins set a Super Bowl record for fewest rush attempts in a game (9).
In the opening minutes of the game, it seemed that the game would live up to the hype. On the opening kickoff, 49ers running back/kick returner Derrick Harmon caught the ball too close to the sidelines and stepped out of bounds at the San Francisco 6-yard line. The 49ers managed to advance to their own 41, but were forced to punt, and Dolphins cornerback Fulton Walker returned the punt 8 yards to the Miami 36-yard line. Then on their first play of the drive, Marino completed a 25-yard pass to running back Tony Nathan. Four plays later, Miami reached the San Francisco 23-yard line. But on third down, 49ers cornerback Eric Wright tackled wide receiver Mark Clayton 2 yards shy of the first down. The Dolphins had to settle for a 37-yard field goal from kicker Uwe von Schamann to give them an early 3–0 lead. Miami’s lead did not last long, as San Francisco stormed down the field on their next possession. The 49ers drove 78 yards in 8 plays, which featured a 16-yard run by Montana, followed by his 33-yard touchdown pass to running back Carl Monroe to give them their first lead of the game, 7–3. But Miami retook the lead on their ensuing drive. After a 5-yard rush by Nathan, the Dolphins went into a no-huddle offense, preventing the 49ers from making substitutions and keeping their run defense on the field. Marino completed five consecutive passes, hitting Clayton for 18 yards, wide receiver Mark Duper for 11, Clayton again for 13, and tight end Dan Johnson for 21. On the next play, Marino finished the drive by hitting Johnson for a 2-yard touchdown pass, giving the Dolphins a 10–7 lead with 45 seconds left in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, the 49ers began to take control of the game. After being forced to punt, Bill Walsh switched to a 4–1–6 (or dime defense) to slow down the Dolphins’ passing attack, with Keena Turner as the sole linebacker. Miami tried to run against the 4–1–6 alignment, to no avail. Safety Dwight Hicks broke up two consecutive Marino passes, and the Dolphins were forced to punt from their own 10-yard line. Then after taking the ball at the Miami 47-yard line, Montana scrambled for a 19-yard run, and then completed a 16-yard pass to wide receiver Dwight Clark to reach the 12-yard line. From there, running back Wendell Tyler rushed for 4 yards, and then Montana threw an 8-yard touchdown pass to running back Roger Craig, putting the 49ers back in front with a 14–10 lead. San Francisco never trailed again for the rest of the game. Miami then had to punt again on their ensuing possession, and 49ers cornerback Dana McLemore returned the ball 28 yards to the 49ers 45-yard line. After advancing 15 yards with two running plays by Tyler and Craig, Montana completed a pair of passes to tight end Russ Francis to move the ball 29 yards to the Miami 11-yard line. Craig ran for 5 yards on the next play, and then Montana finished the drive himself with a 6-yard touchdown run, increasing San Francisco’s lead to 21–10. After the ensuing kickoff, the Dolphins again were forced to punt after a three-and-out, and McLemore returned Reggie Roby’s 39-yard punt 10 yards to the 49ers 48-yard line. Montana was sacked for a 5-yard loss by defensive end Doug Betters on the first play of the ensuing drive, but he struck back with a 20-yard completion to Craig and a 7-yard run over the next two plays. On the next play, wide receiver Freddie Solomon appeared to catch a pass from Montana at the 12 before losing a fumble to safety Lyle Blackwood. However, field judge Bob Lewis blew the play dead, ruling that Solomon’s fumble was an incomplete pass. Bill Quinby, the side judge, who was nearest to the play, did not make any call. Five plays later, Craig finished the 9-play, 52-yard drive with his second touchdown of the game on a 2-yard run, increasing the 49ers’ lead to 28–10.
With nearly two minutes left in the half, the Dolphins finally managed to get a good drive going on their next possession. Marino completed seven out of nine passes, the last one being a 30-yard pass to tight end Joe Rose, to reach the 49ers 12-yard line. However, San Francisco’s defense tightened up on the next three plays, forcing two incompletions and a completed pass for no gain, and Miami was forced to settle for von Schamann’s 31-yard field goal to cut their deficit to 28–13 with 12 seconds left in the half. Then the Dolphins caught a break as the 49ers botched the ensuing kickoff. San Francisco guard Guy McIntyre received von Schamann’s short kick and was about to down the ball, but then changed his mind at the last second and decided to return it after being urged by teammates Monroe and Harmon. This turned out to be a mistake; McIntyre fumbled while being leveled by running back Joe Carter, and wide receiver Jim Jensen recovered the ball for Miami at the San Francisco 12. After that, von Schamann kicked a 30-yard field goal on the last play of the half, cutting the Dolphins’ deficit to 28–16. “I can laugh about the play now, but it wasn’t funny at the time,” McIntyre said after the game. “My first instinct when I got the ball was to fall down. Then I heard everyone yelling, ‘Get up! Get up!’ So I got up, and here comes someone sneaking underneath me, and he hit the ball.”
Any thoughts of a Dolphins comeback ended early in the third quarter, as they were shut out by the 49ers for the rest of the game. On the first play of the second half, San Francisco defensive end Dwaine Board tackled Nathan for a 1-yard loss. After an incompletion, Board sacked Marino for a 9-yard loss on third down, and McLemore returned Roby’s 45-yard punt 8 yards to the 49ers 47. Montana went on to complete a 14-yard pass to Tyler and gain 16 yards on a scramble as he led San Francisco 43 yards in 9 plays to score on kicker Ray Wersching’s 27-yard field goal, increasing their lead to 31–16. On the Dolphins’ ensuing drive, they were forced to punt again after Marino was sacked twice, first by defensive tackle Manu Tuiasosopo, then by Board. Starting on their own 30-yard line after a 5-yard return by McLemore, Montana completed a 40-yard pass to Tyler, followed by a 13-yard pass to Francis to reach the Miami 17. Three plays later, Craig scored his third touchdown of the game on a 16-yard reception to make the score 38–16. Craig’s third touchdown marked the first time in Super Bowl history that the same player scored three touchdowns, and also proved to be the last score from either team, as the defenses of both teams took over for the rest of the game – especially the 49ers’ defense, who intercepted Marino twice. On Miami’s ensuing drive following Craig’s third touchdown, Wright intercepted a pass intended for Clayton at the 49ers 1-yard line. Montana then managed to escape a safety by completing a 9-yard pass to Craig. After the Dolphins were forced to punt on their first possession of the final period, McLemore fumbled the catch, and wide receiver Vince Heflin recovered the ball for Miami at the San Francisco 21. On the next play, however, Marino was intercepted again, this time in the end zone by safety Carlton Williamson. The 49ers responded by driving to the Dolphins 2-yard line on a 33-yard reception by Clark, only to then turn the ball over on downs with less than three minutes remaining in the game. Miami then reached the San Francisco 30 to end the game.
Montana, who was named the Super Bowl MVP, completed 24 of 35 passes for a Super Bowl-record 331 yards (breaking the mark of 318 yards set by Terry Bradshaw) and three touchdowns. He also broke the Super Bowl record for most rushing yards gained by a quarterback with his five rushes for 59 yards and one rushing touchdown. Overall, San Francisco gained a Super Bowl-record 537 yards, breaking the Oakland Raiders’ record of 429 yards in Super Bowl XI, while limiting Miami to 314, with just 25 rushing yards. San Francisco’s 38 points also tied a Super Bowl record set by the Raiders in Super Bowl XVIII. The 49ers’ 288 offensive yards in the first half also tied the Raiders in Super Bowl XI for the most offensive yards in a half during a Super Bowl. Marino finished the game with 29 out of 50 pass completions for 318 yards, 1 touchdown, and 2 interceptions. Clayton was the top receiver of the game, with 6 receptions for 92 yards. Walker returned 4 kickoffs for 93 yards and gained 15 yards on 2 punt returns. Nathan was the Dolphins leading rusher with 18 yards, while also catching 10 passes for 83 yards. Craig had 58 rushing yards, 77 receiving yards, and 3 touchdowns. He was the first player to score 3 touchdowns in a Super Bowl, and his 2 touchdown catches also tied a Super Bowl record. Tyler led San Francisco in rushing with 65 yards, and also caught 4 passes for 70 yards. Clark caught 6 passes for 77 yards. Board recorded 2 sacks. McLemore recorded 51 punt return yards, the second most in Super Bowl history. Sports Illustrated called 49ers defensive tackle Gary Johnson the Super Bowl’s “unofficial defensive MVP” after he recorded one sack, flushed Marino out of the pocket numerous times, and had four unassisted tackles. 49ers rookie defensive tackle Michael Carter became the first athlete to win an Olympic medal and Super Bowl ring in the same year. Before this game he had won a silver medal in the shot put competition at the 1984 Summer Olympics. This would be the final game for San Francisco linebacker Jack Reynolds.
Born:
Tony McDaniel, NFL defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 48-Seahawks, 2013; Jacksonville Jaguars, Miami Dolphins, Seattle Seahawks, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, San Francisco 49ers, New Orleans Saints), in Hartsville, South Carolina.
Ali Highsmith, NFL linebacker (Arizona Cardinals), in Miami, Florida.
Luis Pérez, Dominican MLB pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays), in Guayubin, Dominican Republic.
Fabio Castro, Dominican MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies), in Monte Cristi, Dominican Republic.
Grant Lewis, NHL defenseman (Atlanta Thrashers), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Jo Juda, 75, Dutch musician (1st concertmaster of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra).
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