At a state dinner for President Ford in Belgrade, President Tito of Yugoslavia declared that Israel should withdraw from occupied Arab territories as soon as possible and should recognize the “legitimacy of the national rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to establish an independent state of their own.” He said it was “obvious that the efforts so far have not been sufficient to attain a durable and just solution.” His remarks, which surprised American diplomats who had accompanied Mr. Ford to Belgrade from Rumania, appeared to some observers to be an indirect criticism of Secretary of State Kissinger’s Middle East mediation efforts.
Betty Ford excused herself from an excursion to Transylvania today because of a recurrence of a fatigue that had forced her to curtail her program earlier in the Presidential tour of Europe. The 57‐year‐old First Lady, who underwent surgery for removal of her right breast last September after discovery of a cancerous tumor, rested at the Spring Palace, where the American party is staying while President Ford and President Nicolae Ceaușescu of Rumania traveled by train to the former royal retreat at Sinaia, in the foothills of the Carpathian Alps. Later, Mrs. Ford felt well enough to have tea with Mrs. Ceaușescu at the Spring Palace. Sheila Weidenfeld, Mrs. Ford’s press secretary, said the First Lady’s condition did not approach physical exhaustion.
President Ford called it “tragic” that the Central Intelligence Agency investigations and the limitations on its covert operations make it impossible for the United States to help stem Communist influence in Portugal, according to an interview in U.S. News & World Report. “We don’t like the fact that Portugal is in turmoil now,” he said. “I think it is undoubtedly recognized that the Soviet Union is quietly helping the Communist elements in Portugal.”
Despite official warnings against disorder, anti-Communist Portuguese demonstrators again went into the streets of various towns last night and today. The unrest persisted as the three‐man military junta sought to forge a new Cabinet to replace the one that fell apart three weeks ago with the resignation of the Socialist and Popular Democratic parties. Last night in Famalicão, near Oporto in northern Portugal, two persons were wounded by gunfire in an attack on the Communist party headquarters. Forty Communists trapped inside the building were said to have fired to fend off the crowd until they could be rescued by soldiers. The Communists were themselves detained by the military for a while after automatic weapons and shotguns were found inside the building. The party complained that some of the soldiers had sided with the demonstrators.
Hundreds of Turkish Cypriots in villages in the western area of the island got ready to move to the northeastern area, which has been controlled by Turkey since the invasion last year. They will be permitted to move under an agreement reached by Cypriot leaders last week in Vienna. Greek Cypriots living in enclaves in the northeastern area will be free to stay or leave as they choose.
Gunmen fired submachine guns from a car at a police patrol on a suburban Madrid street, killing one policeman and injuring another, police sources said. In another development reflecting political unrest in Spain, the military command of the Madrid region announced the arrests of two more military officers. Seven others were detained a few days ago for what government sources called a political matter.
The chief of Israel’s army engineers, Brigadier General Yitzhak Ben-Dov, said in Tel Aviv that Israel would have to abandon about $160 million worth of fortifications in the Sinai Peninsula in any withdrawal resulting from an interim agreement with Egypt. He said the fortifications would have to be abandoned in the Mitla and Giddi mountain passes if Israel returns the passes to Egypt.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin returned from a meeting of European Socialist leaders in Stockholm and said he had managed to mobilize unanimous support and win a pledge of “active action” to counter an Arab-initiated campaign to oust Israel from the United Nations. Rabin also had an hour and a half talk with U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim while in Sweden.
A $510,000 Lockheed Aircraft Corp. contract to train 56 Libyan air force personnel to fly C-130s should be rejected by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger because of Libya’s opposition to his Mideast policies, Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wis.) said. He also urged the immediate withdrawal of a Lockheed team of 24 technicians in Libya training Libyan air force personnel in the use of the transports.
Moments before it had been expected to land, a Royal Air Maroc chartered Boeing 707 passenger flight from Le Bourget Airport in Paris to Inezgane Airport in Agadir, carrying Moroccan workers home from France for vacations, crashed into a mountain on approach to Agadir Inezgane Airport, Morocco. All 188 passengers and crew on board were killed. Local residents of Imzizen, 30 miles northwest of Agadir, had to walk for 12 miles (19 km) to reach a telephone to notify authorities about the crash. Rescue teams arrived by helicopter and found wreckage over a wide area after searching for hours in the thick fog. The extent of the destruction was such that nothing bigger than 1 square metre (10 sq ft) in size was found. This is the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Boeing 707 and the deadliest in Morocco. The cause of the crash was determined to be pilot error in not ensuring positive course guidance before beginning descent. The aircraft had not followed the usual north-south corridor generally used for flights to Agadir.
The government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of India has drafted retroactive legislation that would end her personal entanglement with the courts by changing the election laws under which she was convicted in June of improper practices. The amendments, which were written to fit the particular circumstances of the case against Mrs. Gandhi, are expected to be presented today to Parliament. They will probably be enacted quickly. By apparently removing the basis for possible action against the Prime Minister by the Supreme Court of India, the legislation will further solidify her position in the present state of emergency, in which her government has assumed sweeping new powers and jailed thousands of its political opponents. The Supreme Court is scheduled to begin hearing arguments on Mrs. Gandhi’s appeal on August 11. Her opponents had looked to that date hopefully, maintaining that if the court ruled against her, she might be forced to resign. But the text of the proposed legislation seems to remove that possibility in these words: “The amendments made by this act shall have retrospective operation so as to apply to any election held before the commencement of this act, in respect of which appeal from any order is pending before the Supreme Court.” Since the Parliament is changing the rules regarding its own elections, something that is clearly within its power, there was no obvious ground for constitutional challenge to the new legislation.
From the time of the ruling against Mrs. Gandhi, there were loud opposition demands that she resign, based on the fact that the conviction, if upheld on appeal, would deprive her of her seat in Parliament. Under the parliamentary system, loss of her, seat would mean that she could no longer be Prime Minister. But she held firm. Then, two weeks after the verdict, as the demands mounted, with calls for strikes and civil disobedience, the Government declared the emergency and began the crackdown to deal with what Mrs. Gandhi called “the threat to internal stability.” Most of the people who had been leading the campaign against her are now in jail, including Jayaprakash Narayan, her principal opponent, and Morarji R. Desalt a former Deputy Prime Minister. The remaining opposition members of Parliament, their ranks thinned by more than two dozen arrests, have boycotted most of the current session to protest what one of them called “the trampling of democracy.” They were expected to meet tomorrow to consider whether to change their position in light of the new legislation.
Less than four weeks after becoming the first President of the Comoros, Ahmed Abdallah was overthrown in a bloodless coup. Foreign mercenaries, sponsored by French soldier of fortune Bob Denard, seized the lone radio station and television station in Moroni, the capital city. An hour later, opposition leader Ali Soilih announced that he was the new President. Solih would place Said Mohamed Jaffar in the office of president, before assuming the job himself in January.
A high-level North Vietnamese delegation recently visited Cambodia “to bind the fighting unity and friendship” between the two countries, South Vietnam’s Liberation Radio announced. The broadcast said the delegation, headed by Lê Duẩn, first secretary of North Vietnam’s Worker’s Communist Party, was “warmly welcomed by the revolutionary body and people of Cambodia” and that “various matters were discussed in a cordial atmosphere.”
Burma, Southeast Asia’s principal producer of opium, has quietly begun cooperating with the United States in fighting the traffic that begins with the gum of the poppies grown in the Burmese mountains, and ends with heroin in the streets of American cities. For many years Burma, fearful of breaching her extreme neutrality, had been reluctant to accept American assistance. In June, the first four American helicopters of a projected total of 18 over the next two years arrived here. They will be used against smugglers. Burmese Air Force pilots are being instructed by a Bell Helicopter Company instructor, and Burmese maintenance men have been trained in the United States.
Newly declassified documents show that the United States gave high-level consideration during the Korean war to staging a coup against President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. The plan which called for Dr. Rhee’s arrest, was known as Operation Everready. It was never put into effect on the two occasions it was under active study, the documents show. Dr. Rhee made concessions that, in the view of the Americans involved, made his overthrow unnecessary and undesirable. The American military officers and diplomats who conceived the operation said before and after that they had high regard for Dr. Rhee’s leadership and respected his deep anti-Communist convictions, even though they often sharply disagreed with his policies.
Typhoon Nina battered Taiwan with heavy rains and winds of up to 138 mph, then moved toward the Formosa Strait and the Chinese mainland. Police said five persons were killed and 18 seriously injured in the first typhoon to hit Taiwan this year.
500 people drown when 2 river boats collide and sink in China’s West River.
Argentina did not respond publicly to a truce offer from Marxist guerrillas, increasing apparent political confusion on the eve of an eight-day holiday rest planned by President Maria Estela Perón. The People’s Revolutionary Army, fighting a rural guerrilla war against an army brigade in northern Tucuman province. offered to call a truce if the government lifted its state of siege, freed political prisoners and removed its ban on the guerrilla group.
Officials of the Justice Department said that the department’s lawyers who are looking into possible wrongdoing by the Central Intelligence Agency had concluded that the agency’s employees illegally opened and photographed mail between the United States and Communist countries. It was uncertain, however, whether the department would be able to get enough substantial evidence that would warrant criminal prosecution of the C.I.A. employees. The officials’ assertion is the first report that the department panel set up to examine the range of the C.I.A.’s domestic activities, as well as its alleged involvement in foreign assassination plots, has reached a determination of illegality of any of the agency’s operations that have been questioned.
Clarence Kelley, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, announced that the agency “is assuming investigative jurisdiction” in the disappearance of James Hoffa, because “during the past 24 hours extortionate communications have been received.” Mr. Hoffa disappeared last Wednesday in Michigan. A source close to the bureau’s investigation said that the communications did not involve demands for money but rather threats against the lives of a member of Mr. Hoffa’s family, and one of the close associates1 of the former teamsters’ union president. The source characterized the tone of the communications as “You saw what happened to him [Mr. Hoffa]—you’re next.”
The end of government controls on domestic oil prices August 31 may cause an increase in the rate of inflation of nearly 2% eventually and boost the retail price of gasoline by as much as 7 cents a gallon, federal energy officials said. But they also predicted that the inflationary results of decontrolling oil prices would occur over many months, and gasoline prices are not expected to jump immediately. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana warned, however, that decontrol would send consumer energy costs “through the roof.” He said he hoped President Ford would “give further consideration” to an extension of oil price control and allocation legislation.
Runaway youngsters have made increasingly heavy use of the year-old National Runaway Switchboard Service, the government reported, and Caspar W. Weinberger, secretary of health, education and welfare, announced a $152.000 grant to Metro-Help of Chicago to continue the project. A report said the number of SOS calls to the center from youths had tripled from 500 in the first month of service to 1,500 last month. More than 60% of the callers were teenage girls seeking a place to stay, legal aid, medical care, or relay of a message home. Most of the callers, the report said, want to go home. The toll-free hotline number is 800-621-4000 everywhere except in Illinois, where it is 800-972-6004.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) said he was “completely satisfied” with the Warren Commission’s report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the case should be reopened only “were there to be new evidence.” But he said he did not think there would be new evidence. In an interview on a Brazilian television network, the senator said that “members of my family have also been satisfied with it.” Kennedy said, “I am completely satisfied with the Warren Commission report, as Robert Kennedy was. That is the way it is.”
There is no change in the scheduled early morning strike deadline set for tomorrow by 1,500 pilots of Northwest Airlines, said a spokesman for the Air Line Pilots Association. “We’re standing by waiting to talk anytime they’re ready.” Union spokesman Rob Rezenka said. But no contract talks had been scheduled. The pilots set the deadline last week after disagreement developed between the airline and the pilots over terms of a July 19 tentative contract agreement. Northwest has requested that the dispute be submitted to binding arbitration. The pilots have been working without a contract since July, 1974.
The federal board that supervises government-backed loans to the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation is looking into whether Lockheed has violated its contractual obligations to the government by not disclosing to the board the $22 million the company said it had paid foreign officials and political organizations to help it obtain contracts. Edward Schmults, Undersecretary of the Treasury and executive director of the Emergency Loan Guarantee Board, said that if the board decided that Lockheed has not met its obligations, the board could refuse to guarantee any more loans unless the company promised to disclose completely any future overseas payments. He said that the board had not been told by Lockheed about any foreign payments at all.
Tourist officials in Carolina Beach, North Carolina, have invited representatives from coastal communities from Maine to Florida to discuss the impact of the movie “Jaws” on the tourist business. Ted Seawell, executive director of the Pleasure Island Tourist Bureau, says he thinks the film. which portrays a New England community terrorized by a killer shark. has scared people away from the beaches. “We feel this movie is adversely affecting our coastal economy.” Seawell said. He said local motels were reporting a 15% decline in weekend business over last year. But mountain resorts, he said, were having a boom year.
Residents of San Francisco and Minneapolis reported the highest level of violent crime in 1973 among 13 large cities included in a new government “victimization” survey. Residents of Miami and Boston were far less likely to be raped, robbed or the victims of physical assault, according to the survey, which was conducted by the Census Bureau for the Justice Department’s Law Enforcement Assistance Administration and released Thursday. The conclusions were based on specially constructed interviews with crime victims. The law agency said its survey results could not be compared with annual uniform crime reports by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Studies have shown the amount of crime turned up by interviews is two to five times the amount reported to the police, it said. The agency said San Francisco residents reported having been victims of violence at a rate of 71 persons per 1,000 population. In Minneapolis, the rate was 70 per 1,000 population. Boston followed with a rate of 67 persons per 1,000. The other 10 cities were ranked this way: Cincinnati, 63; Milwaukee, 61: Oakland, 59; Houston, 53; San Diego, 53; Buffalo, 49; Pittsburgh, 47; New Orleans, 46; Washington, 31, and Miami, 22.
An estimated 100 professional persons who wanted to try LSD have been given the drug on an experimental basis since 1970 by the state health department, according to the head of the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center in Catonsville. Dr. Albert A. Kurland said those requesting the hallucinogen included psychiatrists, psychologists, physicians and theologians. “We had numerous requests from professionals who wanted to understand this drug.” Kurland said, adding that an “overwhelming majority” of those treated in the program reported a “positive experience.” The subjects, all volunteers. were closely supervised and followup work was done. Kurland said.
Compensation of $17,500 was demanded by the Bureau of Land Management from Gulf Oil Corporation, which the bureau claims destroyed more than three miles of a historic stage trail between South Pass City and Point of Rocks in Wyoming. Dan Baker of the BLM said 3 ½ miles of the trail, which was important in the development of the South Pass mining area during the late 19th century, was destroyed in November, 1974. He said the BLM will take legal action against Gulf if the company does not respond within a month. “We hope by this action to promote greater awareness of the need to control unneccesary damage to all historical trail systems and sites that the BLM is responsible for protecting.” Baker said.
A special congressional committee on offshore oil development toured drilling sites near Santa Barbara, then flew to San Francisco for one in a series of public hearings. The House Hoc Ad Select Committee on the Outer Continental Shelf earlier had heard testimony here from California Governor Jerry Brown, Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley and other officials calling for a delay in leasing offshore sites. The Interior Department plans to sell leases in October for development of 12 million acres off Southern California.
A0620-00, the first x-ray nova to also be visible on an optical telescope (designated V616 Mon), was seen and detected to flare. After eight months, the flare diminished, and the object is considered to be likely to be a black hole that was created around the time of the 10th century BCE based on its distance from earth of an estimated 3,000 light years.
The Louisiana Superdome is dedicated in New Orleans. The Louisiana Superdome, newest and grandest of the nation’s sports palaces, was opened to the public today 10 years after it first gleamed in a New Orleans promoter’s eye. Awe‐struck New Orleanians appeared to be mildly inebriated by the size of the structure — the ceiling spreading 9.7 acres overhead at a height of 27 stories, mountain slopes of brightly colored seats sweeping up from the playing field in the valley, six giant, closed‐circuit television screens playing solemn dedication speeches and automobile commercials.
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The Brewers posted a 4–1 victory behind the three-hit pitching of Jim Slaton to snap a string of six straight losses to the Orioles. Singles by Lee May and Elrod Hendricks, sandwiched around a passed ball, spoiled Slaton’s shutout bid in the seventh inning. Brewers’ scoring included a homer by Bobby Mitchell.
The Red Sox smashed three homers, bringing their club total to 100 for the season, and defeated the Tigers, 6–4, to complete a sweep of the five-game series. Denny Doyle, hitting safely in his 21st straight game, started the Red Sox scoring with a two-run drive in the first inning. Fred Lynn batted in a run with a double in the third before the Tigers countered with a two-run homer by Aurelio Rodriguez in the fourth. After Rick Burleson made it 4–2 with a round-tripper in the seventh, the Tigers tied the score with a two-run single by Ben Oglivie in the eighth. Cecil Cooper broke the deadlock with a circuit clout in the home half and another run followed to insure the Red Sox victory on a pass to Burleson, an infield out and single by Doyle.
The Yankees scored more than enough runs to win the first game of a doubleheader, 12–1, but then failed to score enough and lost the second game to the Indians, 3–2. In the opener, the Yankees enjoyed their biggest single-inning spree of the season, pushing across seven runs in the fifth on six hits, two walks and a pair of hit batsmen. The Yankees’ five-game winning streak, the last two coming under new manager Billy Martin, was snapped in the nightcap. Larry Gura, pitching with a 2–1 lead, was removed in the eighth inning after yielding a single by George Hendrick. Rico Carty, who had previously hit two doubles and a single, greeted the arrival of Dick Tidrow in relief with a homer to win the game for the Indians.
Led by the hitting of Eric Soderholm, Dan Ford and Rod Carew, the Twins posted 7–4 and 12–9 victories to sweep a doubleheader with the White Sox for the second time in two days. Soderholm batted in four runs in the opener, hitting a homer with two men on base in the first inning and getting his other RBI with a grounder in the third. Ford homered in the fifth. Ford and Carew drove in seven runs between them in the nightcap. Ford accounted for three of his RBIs with a double in the third inning when the Twins erupted for eight runs. Deron Johnson had three hits for the White Sox, including a homer, and batted in three runs.
The Angels lost a 4–0 lead after Nolan Ryan aggravated an old muscle injury and had to leave the game, but then scored twice in the ninth inning to defeat the Rangers, 6–4. Adrian Garrett drove in three of the Angels’ early runs with a homer and single. Ryan walked Dave Moates to open the sixth inning and had a 3–2 count on Lenny Randle before yielding the mound. Jim Brewer completed the pass and, with two out, gave up run-scoring singles by Jim Spencer and Toby Harrah. Roy Howell added a Ranger run with a homer in the seventh and tied the score with an RBI single in the eighth. However in the ninth, Ike Hampton singled and Mike Miley sacrificed. After an intentional pass to Morris Nettles, Mickey Rivers singled, driving in the tie-breaking tally. Jerry Remy added another run with a sacrifice fly.
Paul Splittorff gave up a one-out pass to Phil Garner, yielded an infield hit by Claudell Washington and then retired the last 26 batters in a row while pitching the Royals to a 5–0 victory over the Athletics. John Mayberry homered with a man on base in the fourth inning and George Brett knocked in three runs with a double in the eighth.
A homer by Duffy Dyer in the 15th inning of the first game and the batting of Richie Hebner in the second game carried the Pirates to 5–4 and 4–3 victories in a doubleheader with the Mets. The Pirates took a 3–0 lead against Tom Seaver in the opener, but the Mets came back with the aid of a homer by John Milner to tie the score before going ahead in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Rusty Staub. Al Oliver pulled the Pirates even in their half with a double that drove in Hebner. The game then went scoreless until Dyer broke up the four-hour, seven-minute marathon with a homer off Bob Apodaca to beat his former Mets’ teammates. In the nightcap, Hebner drove in two runs with a double in the first inning and two more with a homer in the third. Mets’ scoring included a round-tripper by Gene Clines.
Playing before 32,691, their largest crowd of the season, the Cubs erupted for six runs in the eighth inning and won the first game of a doubleheader, 6–3, before losing the second game to the Cardinals, 7–4. Ted Sizemore batted in the Cards’ three runs in the opener. The Cubs, after being held to three hits in the first seven innings, batted around in the eighth, knocking out Lynn McGlothen after their first run scored on two walks and a single by Jerry Morales. Al Hrabosky, in relief, passed two more to force in another run. Gene Hiser and Tom Dettore then whacked singles off Mike Garman, driving in two runs apiece. In the nightcap, Willie Davis batted in four runs with a single and homer to lead the Cards’ attack. Reggie Smith had a homer, double and single, driving in two runs.
After Mike Schmidt committed an error that resulted in four unearned runs in the third inning, the Phillies’ third baseman hit a score-tying homer in the eighth and then doubled in the 10th to lead the Phils to a 5–4 win over the Expos. Tim Foli singled in the third and after Barry Foote reached on Schmidt’s miscue, the Expos took a 4–2 lead with their runs on a walk to Steve Rogers, sacrifice fly by Pepe Mangual, pass to Pete Mackanin and double by Jose Morales. The Phillies picked up a run in the sixth on a double by Garry Maddox and single by Jay Johnstone. Following his homer in the eighth, Schmidt hit his double in the overtime stanza and scored the winning run on a pinch-single by Tommy Hutton.
Pat Darcy allowed only five hits and one run in 6 ⅔ innings and gained his sixth straight victory when the Reds defeated the Dodgers, 3–1. A blister on his pitching finger forced the rookie’s departure. Rawly Eastwick finished the game. The Reds began the scoring in the second on a walk to Tony Perez and singles by George Foster and Cesar Geronimo. Ken Griffey walked and Joe Morgan doubled for another run in the third before the Dodgers picked up their tally in the sixth on singles by Davey Lopes and Steve Garvey around an infield out. The Reds then iced the victory with a homer by Dave Concepcion in the seventh.
Carl Morton yielded a run in the first inning but then shut out the Padres the rest of the way while pitching the Braves to a 5–1 victory. The Padres’ tally counted on a double by Johnny Grubb, a sacrifice and infield out. Dave May tied the score with a homer in the fourth. The Braves then took the lead with singles by Rowland Office and Darrell Evans around a sacrifice in the sixth before clinching the verdict with three runs in the eighth on a homer by Evans, single by Earl Williams, double by Dusty Baker and single by Mike Lum.
Milt May batted in five runs with a homer, triple and infield out to pace the Astros to a 10–9 victory in the second game of a doubleheader for a split with the Giants, who won the first game, 5–4. In the opener, the Giants scored all their runs in the first two innings. A single by Derrel Thomas and doubles by Bobby Murcer, Gary Matthews and Chris Speier accounted for three runs in the first. Singles by Von Joshua, Thomas, Murcer and Matthews added the deciding pair in the second. The Astros, after falling behind in the first inning of the nightcap, 4–0, battled back to take a 6–4 lead in the fourth. The Giants knotted the count with a pair in the fifth, but two errors, a double by Jose Cruz and infield out by May produced three runs for the Astros in the sixth. Their winning tally followed in the seventh on singles by Jerry DaVanon, Rob Andrews and Jim Crawford, whose hit earned him credit for the victory in relief.
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
Detroit Tigers 4, Boston Red Sox 6
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Chicago Cubs 6
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Chicago Cubs 4
Oakland Athletics 0, Kansas City Royals 5
Cincinnati Reds 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Chicago White Sox 4, Minnesota Twins 7
Chicago White Sox 9, Minnesota Twins 12
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Montreal Expos 4
Cleveland Indians 1, New York Yankees 12
Cleveland Indians 3, New York Yankees 2
New York Mets 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
New York Mets 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Atlanta Braves 5, San Diego Padres 1
Houston Astros 4, San Francisco Giants 5
Houston Astros 10, San Francisco Giants 9
California Angels 6, Texas Rangers 4
Born:
Trevor Pryce, NFL defensive tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 32-Broncos, 1997, Super Bowl 33-Broncos, 1998; Pro Bowl, 1999–2002; Denver Broncos, Baltimore Ravens, New York Jets), in Brooklyn, New York, New York.
N. D. Kalu, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, Washington Redskins, Houston Texans), in Baltimore, Maryland.
Roosevelt Brown, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Chicago Cubs), in Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Died:
Jack Molinas, 43, gambler and former college and professional basketball player convicted for “fixing” games, was shot and killed while standing in his backyard at his home in Hollywood Hills, California, in what was believed to have been a mob hit. The gunman, Eugene Conner, was convicted of murder in 1978 after being turned in by his own brother.
Andreas Embirikos, 73, Greek surrealist poet known for “The Great Eastern”, photographer and critic.
Ruth Lee, 79, American actress (Middleton Family at 1939 World’s Fair).
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