A delegation of United States Senators returned today from a visit to Moscow and reported “movement” in the Soviet position on arms reduction, which they attributed to the “flexibility” of Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. The Senators said they got the impression that Mr. Gorbachev was anxious for success at his meeting with President Reagan, scheduled for November in Geneva. Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, the Senate minority leader and leader of the eight-member delegation, said Mr. Gorbachev was “tough, highly educated, very well prepared, and showed some flexibility.” Mr. Byrd said the Russians had yielded slightly in their opposition to the United States plan to develop a space-based missile defense, and were willing to accept what Mr. Gorbachev called “fundamental research.” Mr. Byrd said the Soviet leader objected to anything outside of the research laboratory. Mr. Byrd also said the Senators were told that if the United States was prepared to discuss “the prevention of the militarization of space,” the Soviet Union was prepared to make “radical proposals” on arms.
New U.S. foreign trade moves are expected to be announced soon by President Reagan, Administration and Congressional sources said. They will be aimed at what the government regards as unfair trade practices by Japan, the European Economic Community, South Korea and Brazil that keep out exports from the United States and other countries. If the trade practices are not stopped, the officials said, the President could restrict American imports from these countries. A senior official also reported that the Administration was preparing a revised statement of its trade policy that would emphasize “fair trade,” a phrase that has been used by organized labor and other advocates of protectionism.
When Israel established its “security zone” in southern Lebanon three months ago, many Israeli policy makers were dubious about how long it could be maintained. Some Israeli officials, fearing continued strife between Israeli-supported militiamen and their Shiite Muslim adversaries, were so pessimistic about the security zone’s chances that they spoke of letting “nature take its course” and allowing the mainstream Shiite militia, Amal, to gradually assume control of the area. But officials now say those days are over — as is the debate in the Israeli military establishment over the security zone. Israeli military officials in southern Lebanon and Tel Aviv now say the security strip has proven its worth, even though there have been car bombings almost every week. “After three months in operation we can say that the security zone is fulfilling its function — even better than some of its original proponents expected,” said Uri Lubrani, the coordinator of Lebanese affairs in the Israeli Ministry of Defense. “We intend to maintain it for the foreseeable future.”
Palestinian gunmen and Shiite militiamen fought with mortars and rockets today for a fourth straight day in southern Beirut. The new clashes came after a night of heavy gunfights between Druze and Shiite militias in the rest of the Muslim part of the Lebanese capital. . The police said 23 people were killed and 70 wounded overnight and today in the fighting, the worst outbreak of such violence this city has seen in three months. Today the streets of West Beirut were strewn with debris, smashed glass and burned cars. Before the clashes between Druze and Shiite gunmen died down at dawn, fires raged out of control in several buildings as firefighters were unable to reach the scene because of the intensity of the clashes.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that there was “a definite need” for the sale of advanced American arms to Jordan even though his aides said such a deal would lead to a confrontation with Congress. Speaking to reporters at the State Department, Mr. Shultz said President Reagan had not yet decided on the timing or composition of the long-awaited arms package, which also includes advanced arms for Saudi Arabia. But he added that “it is clear to us that Jordan has definite security problems” and that “help from the U.S. is justified.” Mr. Shultz came down to the lobby of the department to speak to reporters after meeting earlier this morning in his seventh floor suite with Yitzhak Modai, the Finance Minister of Israel. Mr. Modai, when questioned about Mr. Shultz’s seeming endorsement of the arms package to Arab countries, answered with his Government’s standard response — that Israel “will resent” the supply of arms to Arab countries that do not have normal relations with Israel.
A small group of helicopter-borne Iranian commandos seized an Italian cargo ship off Saudi Arabia today, the ship’s captain reported. The captain, Furio Gerbec, said in a telephone interview that the commandos had allowed him to proceed to Kuwait after inspecting his cargo. Iran also said its warplanes had bombed an oil installation deep inside Iraq, but the Baghdad command denied it. The Iranian press agency quoted military sources as saying several Iranian planes had destroyed the installation at Ain Zaleh in northwest Iraq, 155 miles from the Iranian border.
Afghan guerrillas said today that their counteroffensive against a Soviet thrust near the Pakistan border had forced Soviet troops to retreat in at least one sector. Red Cross and guerrilla sources reported a continuing influx of wounded from the fighting in Paktia Province into Peshawar, capital of North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan.
India, the police have arrested at least 400 Sikhs in an effort to avert a threatened disruption of elections set for September 25 in Punjab State, officials said today. The police said they expected the number of arrests to rise. An official spokesman said the Sikhs arrested today were “antisocial elements” who might disrupt campaigning for the elections, which will return the state to local rule after two years of control by the central Government. He said the police had not directed the arrests at any particular group or party. But a Punjab newspaper, The Tribune, quoted official sources as saying those detained included members of the radical Sikh political party, the United Akali Dal, and the once-banned All-India Sikhs Student Federation.
Japan’s limit on military spending to 1 percent of the country’s gross national product will stay intact despite Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s urging that it be abandoned. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone suffered a major political defeat today when he failed to convince his governing party that Japan should abandon a self-imposed restriction on military spending. After a series of intense meetings this week, Government and party leaders agreed to adopt as official policy a Japanese Defense Agency plan to steadily increase weapons purchases over the next five years. But the leaders thwarted Mr. Nakasone’s wishes by refusing to take the additional giant step of scrapping the nine-year-old policy that limits the overall military budget to 1 percent of the country’s gross national product. On the surface, the two decisions seemed contradictory. Barring unexpectedly high economic growth in the next few years, it would be difficult, perhaps impossible, for Japan to carry out the arms buildup and to also stay within the 1 percent barrier.
China replaced its heads of police and state security today in a Government shuffle that brought younger people to five ministries. Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang nominated a Deputy Mayor of Shanghai, Ruan Chongwu, 55 years old, as Public Security Minister to replace Liu Fuzhi, who had held the post since June 1983.
An international relief worker who says she was the only outside witness to a Honduran Army raid on a Salvadoran refugee camp last week has given an account of the incident that contradicts that offered by the Honduran Government and by the United States Embassy here. The witness, Josefina Purgimon, a 35-year-old relief worker with the Caritas refugee agency, gave a report of an army operation that went out of control when soldiers manhandled refugees and both sides began to panic. Relief officials representing four agencies in the camp say two refugees were killed in the raid, 13 were wounded and 25 were seriously beaten. The dead and wounded included four young children, among them a 2-month-old baby girl who was kicked or beaten to death by a soldier, they said.
A delegation from the Guatemalan Constituent Assembly met today with the chief of state, General Oscar Mejia Victores, to urge him to take emergency measures to stem popular protest. One member of the delegation, German Scheel Montes, said he hoped General Mejia Victores would resign. “This is what all the people of Guatemala want,” Mr. Scheel Montes said. There was no indication that General Mejia Victores would comply with the demand for his resignation. His chief of staff, General Rodolfo Lobos Zamora, said rumors of an imminent change in leadership were “absolutely not true.”
A spokesman for the United States Embassy in El Salvador said today that the United States was sending 12 helicopter gunships to the Salvadoran Air Force. The spokesman said that six of the helicopters had already arrived in El Salvador and that the others were expected soon.
South Africa closed 454 schools for students of mixed race after days of unrest in Cape Town’s mixed-race areas. A Cabinet official said the Government could no longer guarantee the students’ safety. The announcement came as Nelson Mandela, the black nationalist and South Africa’s most prominent political prisoner, underwent medical tests for the second time this year. He is 67 years old. Mr. Mandela, who has been in prison for more than two decades, is serving a life sentence on charges of sabotage. A prison statement said Mr. Mandela, 67 years old, was returned to his cell at Pollsmoor Prison after being examined. The outcome of the test, the second of his urinary tract this year, was not immediately known.
The head of the African National Congress says the spread of black protests into white areas of South Africa is an inevitable step in the fight against apartheid. “We gave the people a strategic objective: simply to make the apartheid system unworkable, to stop apartheid by their actions,” said Oliver Tambo, the 67-year-old head of the African National Congress, the exiled and outlawed organization that is fighting the South African Government. “There has been a tremendous response to this call,” he said. “The people have made the townships ungovernable. The next target is to m
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, the 1984 winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said today that he saw “no light at the end of the tunnel” in South Africa, with more and more blacks concluding that violence is the only way to bring about change. The Bishop, the country’s Anglican leader, said in an interview that the continuing violence was the worst the country had ever experienced. In sharp criticism of the Reagan Administration, Bishop Tutu said President Reagan was unconcerned about how repressive the South African Government was, as long as it stood against Communism. He added that the West “wanted to be hoodwinked” into believing that true reform was taking place in South Africa.
President Reagan said today he was sorry that he “carelessly gave the impression” last month that racial segregation had been eliminated in public places in South Africa. “I didn’t intend to say that,” Mr. Reagan said, referring to his remarks in a radio interview last month. The President’s comments came as the White House weighed a series of compromises designed to prevent Congress from overriding an expected Presidential veto of legislation providing for sanctions against South Africa. A Senate vote is expected next week that would give final Congressional approval to a package of modest economic sanctions.
The sanctions legislation the Senate is expected to consider next week is a compromise measure approved by a House-Senate conference committee on July 31. The House agreed to the conference report on August 1. The legislation provides for three classes of sanctions.
The first class would be enacted immediately on the passage of the bill and includes a ban on computers and software for all the apartheid ministries in the South African Government, a ban on the sale of nuclear equipment and technology until South Africa signs the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and a partial ban on new loans to the South African Government.
The second class includes a ban on the importation of Krugerrands until the South African Government complies with at least one of eight changes, among them giving full citizenship to blacks and removing forces from South-West Africa, the territory also known as Namibia that South Africa rules in defiance of the United Nations.
The third class of sanctions could be enacted 12 months after passage of the bill if the President thought that South Africa had not made “significant progress” toward eliminating apartheid. The list of possible sanctions includes a ban on new commercial investment in South Africa and a prohibition against the importation of South African coal or uranium.
All 31 people aboard were killed when a Midwest Express Airlines twin-engine Douglas DC-9 jetliner crashed and burned after taking off from Mitchell Field in Milwaukee. Midwest Express Airlines Flight 105 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight that crashed into an open field in Oak Creek, Wisconsin shortly after taking off from General Mitchell International Airport on September 6, 1985. The airplane, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9, was carrying 31 passengers and crew. None of them survived the crash. Multiple eyewitnesses reported that the plane was on fire shortly after it took off from the airport. The fire was caused due to a failure on the right engine where one of its removable sleeve spacers detached. The removable sleeve spacer suffered metal fatigue that caused the engine to explode.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), the investigation team who was responsible for the investigation of the crash, concluded that despite the plane suffering engine failure, it was still controllable, and instead the response of the crew to the failure was the main cause of the accident. The crew failed to properly control the plane during the emergency. Breakdown of the crew’s coordination, and poor FAA oversight also contributed to the crash.
President Reagan hosts a luncheon for Republican Women elected officials.
President Reagan travels to Camp David for the weekend.
A sharp drop in the jobless rate in August was widely regarded as a sign that a long-anticipated economic rebound might be near. The Labor Department said the rate fell three-tenths of a percentage point to 6.9 percent, the lowest level since President Reagan took office. The rate had held steadily at 7.2 percent in the six previous months.
Representative Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat who is chairman of a House subcommittee on space science, was invited by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration today to be the next Congressional passenger on the space shuttle. Mr. Nelson, whose district includes Cape Canaveral, held a news conference at his office in Melbourne, Florida, to announce his acceptance of the invitation. The date of the flight was left open. The first Congressional observer on a space flight was Jake Garn, a Utah Republican who is chairman of the Senate committee that oversees space agency spending. He was on a seven-day flight of Discovery last April. Unlike Mr. Garn, Mr. Nelson has no flying experience. But like the Senator, he has been an outspoken supporter of the space program. The Congressman, who will be 43 years old on September 29, is married and has two children.
Most of the effects of the strokes that the latest artificial heart patient suffered Thursday “disappeared” today, according to his doctors, who continued their urgent search for a human heart. At a news conference tonight, a spokesman for the University Medical Center said a four-member hospital team was to fly to an unidentified Texas city to examine a possible donor. The team is to determine if the donor’s heart would be suitable for Michael Drummond, the recipient of the artificial heart. Nina Trasoff, the spokesman for the medical center, which is an affiliate of the University of Arizona, said the prospect that the donor’s heart was appropriate appeared good. She said that Dr. Jack G. Copeland, head of the heart transplant team, thought the blood-type match was good, the size of the heart appropriate and that the condition of the donor led him to believe “the heart would be in good shape and viable for transplant.”
The four Gulf Coast states hit by Hurricane Elena reported an estimated total insured private property loss of $543.3 million, insurance officials said today. “That makes it the fourth costliest hurricane on record,” said Bill Davis, the Atlanta-based Southeastern regional manager of the Insurance Information Institute. “Frederic remains No. 1 at $752.5 million.” Mr. Davis said Hurricane Elena’s insured damage in Mississippi was $352.4 million, $100.3 million in Alabama, $46.8 milion in Florida and $13.8 million in Louisiana. He said the total for vehicles, boats and miscellaneous amounted to $30 million. The hurricane, which followed an erratic course along the Gulf Coast before making landfall last Monday near Biloxi, Miss., cut a path of destruction along a 600-mile stretch from New Orleans to South Florida.
An obscure comet has swung around the Sun and is traveling outward to an intersection with the flight path of an equally obscure American spacecraft that is to fly through the comet’s tail next week. The meeting of the comet, named Giacobini-Zinner, and the spacecraft is expected to provide many new data about the composition of comets.
Details of the Titanic’s discovery were given by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, the expedition’s chief scientist. He said the ship was a “noble sight,” and that there were heaps of luggage and coal lying beside her.
Election of a new presiding bishop will preoccupy the triennial General Convention of the Episcopal Church which begins today in Anaheim, Calif. The bishop will be the church’s leader for perhaps the next 12 years. Four bishops have been nominated, but there is no clear favorite, church members say.
The Navy’s plans for a fighting fleet of 600 ships would commit so much of its future budgets to shipbuilding that it may be unable to provide enough aircraft, crews, munitions, maintenance and other essentials to keep the ships operating, a Congressional panel was told. The testimony, before the House Subcommittee on Seapower, was the latest demonstration of mounting concern that the Navy cannot sustain its huge shipbuilding program without sacrificing combat readiness. Officials of the Congressional Budget Office told the subcommittee that even if the cost of building and operating ships did not increase, the Navy would need to increase its budget at least 3 percentage points above the rate of inflation well into the 1990’s to make ends meet.
Union employees went on strike early today against The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News early today in a dispute over wages, benefits and working conditions. “The strike is on,” said William Gullifer, a teamsters union vice president and president of the Council of Newspaper Unions, which bargains collectively on economic issues for nine labor groups representing 4,774 employees at The Inquirer, a morning newspaper, and The Daily News, which publishes in the afternoon.
The first-born of the Frustaci septuplets left the Orange County Children’s Hospital today amid pink balloons, a crowd of well-wishers and a sea of reporters and cameramen. Patricia Ann Frustaci, now 15 weeks old, is the first of three surviving septuplets to leave the hospital. Doctors expect that her brothers, Stephen Earl and Richard Charles, will be released early next month.
Attempts to eradicate marijuana with the herbicide paraquat was ruled out this year by the Reagan Administration. It said, however, that it would resume the use of other chemical herbicides in its campaign to end production of marijuana on Federal lands, and that paraquat was still being seriously considered for use in future years. Environmentalists oppose paraquat’s use.
Mark Messier loses control of his Porsche and totals three cars, and would later be charged with hit and run and careless driving (he would pay a fine).
When the United States Open began 11 days ago, it was a almost a foregone conclusion that Chris Evert Lloyd and Martina Navratilova — the top-seeded players — would meet in the final, renewing a fierce rivalry. But there will be no rematch. Third-seeded Hana Mandlikova of Czechoslovakia shocked Mrs. Lloyd in yesterday’s semifinals by playing a near-perfect match, eliminating her in three stirring sets at the National Tennis Center at Flushing Meadows. The scores of the two-hour match were 4-6, 6-2, 6-3. The temperature, which approached 100 degrees on the court, did not appear to be a factor.
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Cocaine use by Keith Hernandez was admitted publicly by him for the first time. At the trial of an accused cocaine dealer in Pittsburgh, the Mets’ first baseman testified that he used cocaine for three years from July 1980 to June 1983 and played one game in 1980 under the drug’s influence. He was the second player to testify at the trial that he had used cocaine.
In Los Angeles, Fernando Valenzuela and Doc Gooden match zeroes for 9 innings before Gooden is lifted for pinch hitter Keith Hernandez in the 10th. Hernandez did not start the game because he was in Pittsburgh earlier in the day giving testimony at the federal drub trials. Given immunity, he admitted playing under the influence of coke while with the Cardinals, but gave it up before his trade to the Mets. Valenzuela lasts through 11, but the Mets score 2 in the 13th on Strawberry’s 2-run double to win, 2–0.
Pete Rose slugged two hits this afternoon at Wrigley Field to come within two of tying and three of breaking Ty Cobb’s record of 4,191 base hits. Rose went 2 for 5, striking out twice and grounding out to third. The day’s events on the field not only pleased Rose the batter and the record-chaser, but also pleased Rose the manager. The Reds beat the Cubs, 7–5, and stayed in second place in the National League West, eight games behind Los Angeles and one ahead of San Diego.
John Tudor tosses his second consecutive shutout and Cesar Cedeno belts a pinch grand slam in the 6th as the Cardinals shut out the Braves, 8–0. Cesar Cedeno hit the slam, and Darrell Porter hit a bases-empty home run to back John Tudor’s seven-hit pitching. Tudor (17–8) has won 16 of his last 17 decisions. The shutout gives Tudor a league-high total of eight and lowered his earned-run average to 1.95. He struck out seven and walked one in pitching his 11th complete game. The Cardinals scored five runs in the sixth inning. Tom Herr walked and went to second on Porter’s single. Herr stole third, and the starter Rick Mahler (17–14) was replaced by Zane Smith, who walked the pinch-hitter Tito Landrum. Terry Pendleton followed with a run-scoring single. Gene Garber came on in relief, and Cedeno hit his first pitch into the left-field stands for his fifth career grand slam.
The Giants down the Expos, 8–3, as Chris Brown is 4-for–4 with 6 RBIs. Brown collects 2 doubles and a homer. Chili Davis and Jose Uribe also homer for San Francisco. Jim Gott (6–10) gets the win.
Bill Doran raced home on Don Robinson’s wild pitch with two outs in the 10th inning to give Houston a 4–3 victory over the Pirates. With one out, Doran walked before Robinson struck out Craig Reynolds. Tony Pena, the Pittsburgh catcher, then tried to pick off Doran but threw wildly for an error, allowing Doran to reach third. Robinson (4–11) got two strikes on Denny Walling before making the wild pitch. Pittsburgh has won just one of its last 23 road games.
The Padres edged the Phillies, 3–2. Tim Flannery hit a sacrifice fly with the bases loaded and one out in the 11th inning at San Diego to end the Padres’ three-game losing streak. Rich Gossage pitched two scoreless innings of relief to improve his record to 3–2. Greg Nettles opened the 11th by reaching base on an error by pitcher Dave Shipanoff. Bobby Brown ran for Nettles and stole second. Kevin McReynolds bounced to first, and Mike Schmidt’s throw to third was too late to get Brown. Terry Kennedy was given an intentional walk, but Kurt Bevacqua forced Brown at the plate before Flannery ended the game.
Don Mattingly drove in a run with a single in the first inning and smashed a three-run homer to spark a seven-run fifth inning as Yankees defeated the Oakland A’s, 8–4, before 22,519 at the Stadium. The victory was the seventh straight for the Yankees, matching a season high, but more importantly keeping New York two and a half games behind the division-leading Toronto Blue Jays, who defeated Minnesota, 8–3. Don Shirley (5–4), who earned a save on Wednesday against Seattle, relieved Joe Cowley with two outs in the second inning last night and finished to get the victory. Shirley gave up only five hits and one earned run. Chris Codiroli (10–12) took the loss. But for all the gusto of Shirley’s second clutch performance, it was Mattingly who supplied the impetus for the Yankees’ victory. His towering three-run homer in the fifth came with the Yankees trailing, 3–2.
The Royals sweep a doubleheader from Milwaukee 4–3 and 7–1 to move past California into first place in the American League West. The sweep gave the Royals their sixth straight triumph, and — combined with Baltimore’s 6–2 victory over California — nudged the defending division champions into a half-game lead over the Angels, who had occupied first place since June 21. It is the first time the Royals have been in first since June 8. Steve Farr (1–0), making just his second start of the season, earned the victory in the second game. Dennis Leonard, who has spent more than two years rehabilitating his knee, brought the crowd to its feet when he came out to pitch the ninth inning. The former 20-game winner had suffered a broken tendon in the left leg while pitching on May 23, 1983. Leonard allowed one hit in facing four batters in the ninth.
At Texas, Carlton Fisk blasts 2 three-run homers and drives in 7 runs to lead the White Sox to a 12–1 rout of the Rangers. Fisk, with 35 homers, leads by one over Atlanta’s Dale Murphy. Britt Burns posted his 16th victory against 8 losses. Tomorrow Fisk will record his 300th double and 900th RBI.
Rookie Cecil Fielder drove in five runs with a two-run home run and a bases-loaded double to lead Toronto to a 8–3 win over the visiting Twins. The Blue Jays maintained their two-and-a-half-game lead in the American League East over the Yankees, who also won. Fielder, promoted to the Blue Jays on July 18, hit his homer in the second inning, then cleared the bases in the third when the left fielder Dave Meier misjudged his two-out line drive. Frank Viola (13–13) suffered the loss and his career mark against the Blue Jays fell to 0–8. The left-hander Steve Davis (2–1) worked five innings to gain the victory in his second major league start. He allowed six hits and struck out six before Dennis Lamp came in. Tom Henke and Bill Caudill also pitched for Toronto.
The Orioles topped the Angels, 6–2. Dennis Martinez (12–8) allowed three hits in seven innings and retired 14 consecutive batters in one stretch for Baltimore. Cal Ripken Jr. drove in three runs with his 22d home run and a pair of singles, and Larry Sheets hit a bases-empty home run, his 15th.
The Mariners downed the Tigers, 8–4, as Mike Moore earned his 13th victory of the season, and Alvin Davis drove in three runs with a double and his 14th homer. Moore, whose record is 9–4 since he returned to action June 21 following a shoulder injury, allowed eight hits to increase his overall record to 13–8. The Mariners gave Moore to a 3–0 lead before he threw a pitch. Jack Perconte singled off Walt Terrell (13–8) to open the game, Phil Bradley was hit by a pitch and Davis followed with a double for the first run. A wild pitch by Terrell allowed Bradley to score and Davis to advance to third. Gorman Thomas then hit a run-scoring groundout.
The game between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Red Sox at Fenway is rained out. It will be made up tomorrow.
California Angels 2, Baltimore Orioles 6
Cincinnati Reds 7, Chicago Cubs 5
Seattle Mariners 8, Detroit Tigers 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Houston Astros 4
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Kansas City Royals 4
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Kansas City Royals 7
New York Mets 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Oakland Athletics 4, New York Yankees 8
Philadelphia Phillies 2, San Diego Padres 3
Montreal Expos 3, San Francisco Giants 8
Atlanta Braves 0, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Chicago White Sox 12, Texas Rangers 1
Minnesota Twins 3, Toronto Blue Jays 8
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Born:
Mitch Moreland, MLB first baseman and outfielder (World Series Champions-Red Sox, 2018; All-Star, 2018; Texas Rangers, Boston Red Sox, San Diego Padres, Oakland A’s), in Amory, Mississippi.
Robert Ayers, NFL defensive end (Denver Broncos, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Frank Summers, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills), in Oakland, California.
Sean Singletary, NBA point guard (Phoenix Suns, Charlotte Bobcats), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Alberto Valerio, Brazilian racing driver, in Ipatinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Lauren Lapkus, American actress and comedienne (“Orange is the New Black”), in Evanston, Illinois.
Webbie [Webster Gradney, Jr.], American rapper, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Died:
Eurreal “Little Brother” Montgomery, 79, American jazz, boogie-woogie and blues pianist, singer, and composer (“Crescent City Blues”).
Jane Frazee [Mary Jane Frehse], 70, American actress, singer, and dancer (“Beautiful But Broke”, “Beulah”), of pneumonia.
Johnny Desmond [Giovanni De Simone], 65, American radio and big band singer (Bob Crosby; Gene Krupa; “Your Hit Parade”; Glenn Miller’s Army Air Forces Orchestra), of cancer.
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