Pope John Paul II visited tiny Liechtenstein. For nearly 10 hours, the Pope made his way across the country’s green valleys and spoke in the shadow of craggy mountainsides. He watched parades of Liechtensteiners in traditional costumes and visited the Vaduz castle, which still dominates the city — there are no skyscrapers — and received the devout homage of the royal family. He visited a monastery where for 300 years, the faithful could receive a plenary indulgence, a kind of guarantee of safe passage to heaven, by praying on their knees on a Saturday as the bells rang.
A London newspaper reported today that Britain plans to stop granting the more prestigious status of prisoner-of-war to Northern Ireland inmates convicted of political terrorism. Britain’s effort to phase out the prisoner-of-war status several years ago touched off a 1981 hunger strike by Irish Republican Army inmates in which 10 men starved to death. The Sunday Times reported that the remaining 149 “special category” prisoners in the Maze prison near Belfast will lose their P.O.W. status beginning in December. A spokesman for Britain’s Northern Ireland office said some changes were planned at Maze, but he “wasn’t aware at this time” of plans to change the prisoners’ special status. More than 100 prisoners are Protestant extremists and the rest are members of the outlawed I.R.A., The Times said.
Voting in Norway’s national elections got off to a strong start today, thanks to mild weather. The balloting concludes early Monday evening and returns are expected to be complete enough by midnight for the nation to know whether the coalition led by Prime Minister Kaare Willoch’s Conservative Party has won a second four-year term. The opposition, a Socialist coalition dominated by the Labor Party, campaigned strongly. In the final days, pollsters could not agree on who was leading.
Harald Muller is one of the busiest men in Geneva these days. He can be found almost anytime at the Palais des Nations here, where delegates from 90 countries are spending a month at a conference reviewing the treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, defending or attacking the 15-year-old accord. Mr. Muller, a West German, is not a delegate. He is one of a variety of lobbyists who attend the sessions, collect copies of speeches, and buttonhole the delegates to express views.
Former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon’s two-year legal campaign against TIME magazine moved to a Tel Aviv courtroom, where he has filed a libel suit. TIME’s attorneys asked that the suit be dismissed, arguing that a U.S. court disposed of the matter in January. Sharon is suing TIME over a report indicating he had previous knowledge of Christian Falangist plans to massacre Palestinians in Beirut refugee camps in September, 1982. The New York jury ruled that TIME defamed Sharon, but it denied him damages for lack of proof that the article was malicious. Sharon need not prove malice under Israeli law.
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said his group stands by the “peace for land” formula in its dealings with Israel and the United States. The formula was included in a PLO-Jordanian peace initiative announced earlier this year. It also forms the basis of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, in which Israel would receive security guarantees in exchange for returning land it seized in the 1967 war.
Israeli President Chaim Herzog compared the anti-Arab campaign of the Kach Party, led by Rabbi Meir Kahane, to anti-Jewish legislation in Nazi Germany. Speaking to high school students near Tel Aviv, he said, “I think it is a disgrace to the Jewish people and to the people of Israel… that a man could emerge in the Jewish state with a program that is very similar to the (Nazi) Nuremberg Laws.” Kahane advocates expelling Arabs from Israel.
Shiite Muslim militiamen trying to gain control of a Palestinian refugee area here bombarded positions inside the district today with mortar shells and heavy machine-gun fire. Security officials said “a large number” of people were killed and wounded in the sixth day of fighting for control of the Palestinian quarter of Burj al Brajneh, which is situated in a densely-populated Shiite area on the southern outskirts of the capital. “I cannot say how many casualties we have because we are overloaded and have not had time to count them,” a spokesman at the American University Hospital said. “We will know tomorrow.”
Iran said today that its soldiers recaptured a key mountain post and eight border villages from Iraqi forces in the northern sector of the border battlefront. Iraq had no comment on the report, which could not be independently confirmed. “In an operation launched by Iran’s Islamic combatants Sunday some 34 square kilometers of Iranian territory was liberated from enemy occupation,” the Islamic Republic News Agency said. It added that “in this successful operation” the Iranian forces captured the “strategic” Gazil high ground, an Iraqi base and eight border villages, inflicting “high casualties on the enemy troops.” Iraq’s daily military communique said Iraqi warplanes mounted air raids on Iranian positions in the northern sector and “destroyed several troop concentrations and positions.”
Afghan exiles today challenged Afghanistan’s assertion that guerrillas shot down one of its airliners with an American-made missile. They said that the plane might have crashed or that it was a military transport. Afghan guerrilla groups based in Pakistan said today that they had no independent reports of the incident. No guerrilla organization asserted responsibility for shooting down such a plane.
Two Sikh gunmen killed a village leader in Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress-I party, and more than 25,000 Sikh militants took part in a rally at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, calling for a boycott of parliamentary elections September 25 in the northern state of Punjab. Subash Chandar Shingari of Adamopur, 45 miles southwest of Amritsar, was killed as he left his house for a campaign trip, state police said. The gunmen escaped. At the rally, militants shouted anti-Gandhi slogans and called for a Sikh nation.
New communal violence was reported on the Indian Ocean island of Sri Lanka. Indian news agencies quoted Sri Lankan Tamils living in Madras as saying that thugs of the Sinhalese majority set fire to a bus, killing 35 Tamils, and that Sinhalese security forces burned three villages in the northern region, killing 50 Tamils. The Sri Lankan government said it had no information about the bus incident, and later, officials could not be reached to comment on the reported raids on Tamil villages.
A coup by a military faction in Thailand toppled the Government, abolished the Constitution and dissolved Parliament, according to a radio broadcast in Bangkok by General Serm Na Nakorn, a former supreme commander who appears to have taken charge. A rival military faction broadcast its own announcement, asking troops to stay in their barracks and await orders.
Cuban forces in 1980 sank an excursion boat being hijacked to the United States by fleeing refugees, Radio Marti, a U.S. station broadcasting to Cuba, charged. The broadcast said many of those aboard the vessel were killed. Ernesto Betancourt, Radio Marti’s director, said the report was based partly on interviews with Cuban exiles. It said the hijacking occurred July 6, 1980, near the Cuban port of Matanzas, but it did not say how many of the 70 aboard died.
The Reagan Administration cannot expect military victory for its allies in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and it needs more money for Latin America from a reluctant Congress, according to a secret State Department draft paper. The document, prepared for a weekend meeting of Administration officials in Panama, also says that collapse of the Contadora regional peace talks “wouldn’t be a total disaster for U.S. policy.” Officials said the draft was later revised and does not necessarily reflect U.S. policy.
The Sandinistas have the upper hand in the conflict with Nicaragua’s rebel forces despite the widening of the rebel area of operation and some rebel successes, diplomats and Western military officers in Managua say. They say Sandinista forces are far better armed than the rebels and maintain overwhelming numerical superiority. Another Sandinista advantage is said to be the greater role of the Nicaraguan Air Force. Aircraft including Soviet-made MI-24 helicopter gunships were said to have played a key role in turning back rebels in several recent battles.
U.S. peace efforts in Central America will be undertaken by Elliott Abrams, the Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. He said he would meet today in Panama with with the region’s American ambassadors to explore ways to give new impetus to the search for peace in the region and support elections in Guatemala and Honduras. A four-page working paper that circulated in the State Department last week in preparation for the meeting said that the so-called Contadora peace process “remains central to our policy” in Central America but that “collapse would be better than a bad agreement.” “A good agreement remains the goal,” it said. Mr. Abrams, interviewed by telephone today from Key West, where he stopped en route to Panama for the one-day gathering, said the paper did not reflect precisely what he planned to say to the ambassadors on the subject, but other State Department officials said it fit within established policy guidelines.
The occasion of the largest anti-Government protests in a year, organized by a fragile alliance of usually fractious opposition parties, has given Chilean political leaders renewed hope for the return of civilian democracy. Such hopes have have been raised and dashed from time to time in the 12 years since General Augusto Pinochet seized power. But this week, political leaders said, the opposition showed that it had faced reality, moderated its demands substantially by acknowledging that the restoration of democracy will take years, and offered the armed forces a united front that rejects political violence. “In 1983 we were asking for the immediate resignation of Pinochet, congressional elections and a transition government,” said Genero Arriagada, a Christian Democrat. “We have matured since then.”
President Reagan meets with Chief of Staff Donald Regan and Assistant for National Security Affairs Robert McFarlane to discuss South Africa.
Postponement of a Senate vote scheduled this week on a bill placing economic sanctions against South Africa will be sought by the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, because President Reagan is expected to agree to put most of them into effect administratively. The expected announcement by Mr. Reagan and the move to delay a vote could avoid a major confrontation between the President and the Republican-controlled Senate. Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana and the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, will also back the President’s sanctions and not fight for the Congressional version by seeking to override a Presidental veto, according to Congressional sources.
President P. W. Botha opposes reported plans of leading South African business executives to meet with the outlawed and exiled African National Congress. He said such actions were “disloyal,” and strongly denied that he had given his approval for such talks with the rebel group. The business executives, representing some of the country’s largest corporations, reportedly initiated the plans for a meeting with the African National Congress, or the A.N.C., in a move to begin talks on South Africa’s political and financial crises. It was unclear whether they would proceed with the discussions in the face of Mr. Botha’s sharp objections.
An employment code for U.S. firms doing business with South Africa has come to the forefront of the political debate in the United States over how to respond to South Africa’s system of racial separation. The code, written by the Rev. Leon Sullivan of Philadelphia, a veteran of American civil rights struggles, has become known as the Sullivan Principles.
Political action committees and individuals spent nearly $23 million on the 1984 election, much of it disbursed by conservative groups for what turned out to be a sure thing — Ronald Reagan’s reelection. The biggest individual spender was Michael Goland, a rich California businessman who staged a one-man advertising campaign to help unseat former Senator Charles H. Percy (R-Illinois). Goland spent $419,573, according to a report on independent expenditures released by the Federal Election Commission. The National Conservative Political Action Committee, which won a Supreme Court victory over the FEC last March ensuring its right to spend an unlimited amount independently, shelled out $9.8 million for President Reagan.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
The heart transplant patient kept alive by a mechanical device until a human organ was found for him was in critical but stable condition after surgery Saturday at University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. The 25-year-old patient, Michael Drummond, was able to take a few steps in his hospital room.
The trial of members of a neo-Nazi group called the Order, charged with counterfeiting, arson, armed robbery and murder in a plot to overthrow the United States Government, begins under heavy security in Seattle Monday, with the number of original defendants sharply reduced. Twenty-three members of an anti-Semitic group calling itself the Silent Brotherhood, or the Order, were charged in a Federal indictment in April with crimes that included the $3.6-million robbery of an armored car in California and the machine-gun killing of a talk-show host, Alan Berg, in Denver. Mr. Berg, who was Jewish, often baited white supremacists on the air. The 23 members of the group were charged under a 1970 Federal statute that provides penalties of up to 20 years in prison and a fine of $25,000 for operating a criminal enterprise, which is defined in the statute as a racketeer influenced and corrupt organization. Ten of the individuals who were originally indicted have since negotiated guilty pleas to one count of violating the statute, and some of these are expected to be witnesses for the Government.
A family of seven people — five of them children aged 2 to 14 — die in a car and Amtrak train crash in San Jose, California. A firefighter on the scene called it “the most gruesome accident I’ve seen in ten years.” The car pulled out of a rural driveway onto the tracks and was hit instantly.
One of four jet engines on a Delta Air Lines DC-8 with 106 persons aboard caught fire, forcing the plane to abort its takeoff from Florida’s West Palm Beach International Airport, officials said. Nobody was injured, Delta spokesman Jim Ewing said in Atlanta. The plane taxied back to the terminal, where the passengers transferred to another Delta plane and continued their trip to Atlanta. Flight 790 carried 97 passengers and 9 crew members.
About 5,200 employees of the Ford Motor Co.’s Lorain, Ohio, assembly plant went on strike, protesting unsettled health and safety grievances. Two bargaining sessions failed to produce a settlement of nine grievances filed by the union August 30, a Ford spokesman said. He declined to discuss the exact nature of the grievances. A plant worker who asked that his name not be used told the Lorain Journal that employees were being asked to speed up production unreasonably.
More than 4,000 teachers were on strike in six states, disrupting school schedules in Washington, Michigan, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island. Nearly 1,000 teachers in Pontiac, Michigan, who were warned to report for the start of classes today or be fired, agreed to work, although no settlement has been reached. The nation’s biggest walkout — by 3,700 Seattle teachers, substitutes, aides and secretaries — bogged down further, with a breakdown in talks and no new sessions scheduled.
Five people were sent to hospitals today after a poisonous chemical leaked at a plant in Nitro, West Virginia, the authorities said. An unknown quantity of methyl mercaptin, a sulfur-based compound, leaked from the Fike Chemical Company plant about 3 PM, emergency officials said. The leak was stemmed after about 2 ½ hours. Methyl mercaptin can be fatal if inhaled or absorbed through the skin and may burn eyes and skin on contact. It is extremely flammable. Doug Stump, a Kanawha County Commissioner, said no evacuations had been ordered, but the Emergency Broadcast System was activated. The company was making the chemical for the Union Carbide Corporation plant in nearby Institute. That plant was the site of chemical gas leak August 11 that sent 135 people to the hospital. The leak today was the fourth major chemical leak in the Kanawha Valley since that accident. Hours after the Nitro leak today, sirens wailed at Union Carbide’s plant at South Charleston about 7 miles east while crews worked on an unrelated problem in a hydrogenator, officials said. It was not known whether a leak was involved, but a plant spokesman added the community never was in danger.
The FBI joined police in Providence, Rhode Island, in the search for two masked thieves who stole more than $1 million from a vault after overpowering the only guard on duty at the Brink’s Armored Car building. “There’s a possibility” a former employee could have been involved in the robbery, said Brink’s official Thomas Donovan. Auditors were working to determine the exact amount stolen.
Theodore Streleski, who bludgeoned a Stanford professor to death for belittling his 19 years of trying to earn a doctorate, was freed after seven years in prison today, and he insisted he felt no remorse for his crime. Mr. Streleski, who is 48 years old, said in a statement: “I have no intention of killing again. On the other hand, I cannot predict the future.” Mr. Streleski, who was released from the California Medical Facility, was convicted of the second-degree murder of the professor, Karel DeLeeuw, on Aug. 18, 1978. Mr. Streleski rejected parole three times because he had refused to accept restrictions.
The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church has accused President Reagan of misunderstanding the causes of human suffering and enforcing policies that lead to a “chain reaction” of oppression, despair and death. Bishop John M. Allin, whose successor is to be elected Tuesday to a 12-year term, said in his speech Saturday at the church’s triennial convention that if Mr. Reagan understood the causes of injustice and poverty, he would not pursue his present policies. “I believe him to be too humane, sensitive and courageous a man,” Bishop Allin said, “to push his Administration’s present policies if he clearly perceived that there is another threat to world peace as destructive as atomic attack, namely the chain reaction of desperately oppressed, suffering human beings, losing hope and life.”
A New York City child with AIDS is no danger to other schoolchildren, Mayor Koch, the Schools Chancellor and other officials insisted. They sought to allay fears among parents and local community school officials over the admission of the child to school today. The groups opposed to the admission threatened a lawsuit and a boycott of classes.”I hope good judgment prevails — we want informed judgment and a caring school system,” said Nathan Quinones, the Schools Chancellor, who spent much of the day discussing the case with parents, teachers and local school officials. He also disclosed new procedures for discovering and monitoring AIDS cases among teachers.
A Harvard University report concluded that hundreds of thousands of low-income American smokers might quit and hundreds of thousands of teen-agers might never take up the habit if Congress raises the tax on cigarettes next month. The report, details of which were just released, “confirms what we have sensed for some time: An increased excise tax would likely impact the number of smokers, particularly young smokers,” said Harvard official John M. Pinney. The 16-cent cigarette excise tax is scheduled to be cut in half on October 1, although some legislators have urged Congress to double it.
A series of bursts from two tiny rockets steered a half-ton spacecraft so it will pass through the center of the long tail of the obscure comet Giacobini-Zinner Wednesday morning, National Aeronautics and Space Administration officials said in Greenbelt, Maryland. The American craft, now called the International Cometary Explorer, or ICE, is assigned to explore Giacobini-Zinner after spending four years monitoring charged gases from the sun. It will be the first intercept of a comet.
The NASA 747 transport with space shuttle Discovery flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB.
Company-paid medical costs of retirees have soared to hundreds of millions of dollars, far beyond what most companies had anticipated when they began to pay for such programs 20 years ago. Concern is growing in the government and private sectors that industry may not be prepared to meet the staggering obligations.
Money for rural housing is sought as assistance from Washington is beginning to dry up under Federal budget cuts. The Farmers Home Administration, the agency that supplies most rural housing aid, and which the Reagan Administration has sought to abolish, has suffered heavy cuts. Housing advocates are increasingly turning to state governments and private agencies.
A stereotypical view of immigrants to the United States as young working-age men has been upset by a Labor Department study that says women and children account for two-thirds of all legal immigratiion to this country. The conventional immigration view is correct for nearly all other countries, the study says.
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Alayson Gibbons sets 24 hr women swim record of 42.05 mi in 25 m pool.
U.S. Open Men’s Tennis: Czech star Ivan Lendl wins his first U.S. title; beats NYC home town favourite John McEnroe 7–6, 6–3, 6–4.
Major League Baseball:
The Reds and Cubs battle to a 5–5 tie after 9 innings, suspended because of darkness. The National League announces afterwards that the game would stay a tie and all stats would be officially recorded. Each team records 13 hits, with Pete Rose collecting a pair and Buddy Bell hitting a 3-run homer. Keith Moreland and Shawon Dunston each have 3 on the Bruin side. Manager Rose inserts himself into the game after lefty Steve Trout is scratched when he falls off a bike and righty Reggie Patterson is picked to start. Pete has two hits to tie Cobb’s 4,191 hits, and then makes outs his last two turns at bat. The Reds return home tomorrow and everyone expected Pete to top the record there.
Their seasons have been full of bumps and twists and occasional dead-end streets, but New York’s Doug Sisk and Mookie Wilson came back today. An afternoon that stretched into the early evening was suddenly in their hands, and the two missing Mets responded admirably. Their contributions led to a 14-inning, 4–3 victory over the Dodgers that came when Wilson, making his first start since June 28, hit a home run to left field off Carlos Diaz. It sent the Mets home with a 7–3 record on a critical road swing through the West and moved them a half-game from first place.
Bob Horner’s pinch-triple with the bases loaded in the seventh inning and a three-run rally in the eighth powered the Atlanta Braves to a 7–3 victory today over the St. Louis Cardinals. Horner’s hit gave St. Louis its second straight defeat. The Cards wound up the season series with a 9–3 winning margin against the Braves.
The Expos beat the Giants at Candlestick, 9–6. Tim Raines and Tim Wallach scored on San Francisco throwing errors and Terry Francona added a two-run single for Montreal in the 10-inning victory. Raines led off the 10th with a single and stole second. Vance Law beat out a bunt single and Raines scored the go-ahead run on a throwing error by Scott Garrelts (8–4). After Law stole second, Hubie Brooks was walked intentionally. Tim Wallach walked, loading the bases, and Francona followed with his two-run single. Wallach scored on a throwing error by the Giants catcher Bob Brenly. Gary Lucas (5–2) worked one and one-third innings for the victory. Jose Uribe hit a bases-empty homer, his third, for the Giants in the 10th, and Tim Burke finished for his seventh save.
Luis Aguayo hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning and added a bases-empty homer in the eighth to lead Philadelphia over the Padres, 9–7. With the Phillies trailing, 6–5, in the sixth, John Russell led off with a single and Aguayo followed with a drive over the left-field fence against Ed Wojna (1–3).
Lloyd Moseby hit a pair of two-run homers, Jesse Barfield hit a three-run homer and Damaso Garcia added a two-run homer today to power the Toronto Blue Jays to a 10–9 victory over the Minnesota Twins. The triumph went to Dennis Lamp (8–0), who worked two innings in relief of Jim Clancy. Clancy, making his first start since tendinitis in the right shoulder forced him on the disabled list on July 27, worked five shutout innings and checked the Twins on a pair of hits. Gary Lavelle got the last out in the ninth for his sixth save.
In Arlington, the White Sox edge the Rangers, 7–6, with Tom Seaver picking up the win. Texas makes it close when Bob Jones hits a 9th inning pinch 3-run homer. Carlton Fisk scores 2 runs and steals 2 bases, including home. He stole home twice with the Red Sox. Fisk will lead Major League catchers in steals with 17, the second time he’s reached that number. Seaver (13–10) had not won since August 4 when he beat New York for his 300th career victory. Since that time, Seaver had made five starts with two losses and three no-decisions. Seaver pitched six and one-third innings and gave up eight hits, striking out three and walking two. Bob James, the sixth Chicago pitcher, gave up the pinch-hitter Bobby Jones’ three-run homer on his first pitch, but got the final two outs for his 24th save. Charlie Hough (14–14) took the loss.
Phil Niekro, now on the brink of gaining career victory No. 300, made a startling admission yesterday. “I’m just not as young as I used to be,” he said after recording victory No. 299. Niekro, 46 years old and counting, never has tried to hide his age; nor has he ever used it as an excuse for anything. On the contrary, he has ignored it and wishes everyone else would, too. But when your back and your hip and your arm are aching, it’s inevitable that you start thinking about your age, especially if you’re 46 years old and you are a major league pitcher. Age and aches aside, though, Niekro battled his way through six innings, and the Yankees scored enough runs to prevail over the Oakland A’s, 9–6, for their ninth straight victory. They remain one and a half games behind the division-leading Toronto Blue Jays, who outlasted Minnesota, 10–9. Ron Hassey, Niekro’s catcher, provided the most significant help offensively, collecting four hits and driving in four runs. Dan Pasqua hit a two-run home run, Dave Winfield drove in two runs with his 23rd home run and an infield single and Don Mattingly raised his league-leading runs-batted-in total to 118 with a run-scoring single.
Tim Lollar pitched a five-hitter and Tony Armas had three hits to lead Boston over Cleveland, 8–1. Armas singled home a run in the first inning with the 1,000th hit of his career, and scored later in the inning on a single by Mike Easler.
Gus Polidor singled in his first major-league time at bat and scored the tiebreaking run in the 11th inning on a throwing error, to help California break a three-game losing streak, downing the Orioles, 7–4. The Angels, who rallied for two runs in the ninth inning to force extra innings, began the series in Baltimore with a one-game lead over the Royals in the American League West. They now trail by one and one half games. Polidor’s leadoff single started the Angels’ three-run 11th inning. Polidor, who got his hit off Tippy Martinez (2–3) moved to second on a single by Bobby Grich against Nate Snell, the fifth Baltimore pitcher. Reggie Jackson then hit a grounder to Alan Wiggins, who threw wildly to second on an attempted forceout. Polidor scored on the play and Grich reached third. Darrell Miller and Bob Boone then delivered run-scoring singles. Donnie Moore (8–8) the fourth California pitcher, got the victory. He allowed one hit over the final three innings.
Steve Balboni hit a two-run homer just inside the left-field foul pole in the bottom of the 11th inning to give Kansas City its eighth straight victory, as the Royals out-slugged the Brewers, 13–11. The Brewers had tied the game 11–11 with a run in the ninth on Randy Ready’s two-out single off Dan Quisenberry. After Milwaukee put runners on first and second with no outs, Quisenberry replaced Mike Jones. Ed Romero bunted into a forceout at third and Charlie Moore bounced into a force at second before Ready singled home the tying run.
The Mariners topped the Tigers, 6–2. Alvin Davis doubled and scored twice and Jim Presley drove in two runs as Seattle completed a three-game sweep over Detroit. Roy Thomas (6–0) worked four and two-thirds shutout innings and gave up three hits for the victory. Frank Tanana (7–14) lasted two and one-third innings, allowing four runs on two hits.
California Angels 7, Baltimore Orioles 4
Cleveland Indians 1, Boston Red Sox 8
Cincinnati Reds 5, Chicago Cubs 5
Seattle Mariners 6, Detroit Tigers 2
Milwaukee Brewers 11, Kansas City Royals 13
New York Mets 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Oakland Athletics 6, New York Yankees 9
Philadelphia Phillies 9, San Diego Padres 7
Montreal Expos 9, San Francisco Giants 6
Atlanta Braves 7, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Chicago White Sox 7, Texas Rangers 6
Minnesota Twins 9, Toronto Blue Jays 10
NFL Football:
The Pittsburgh Steelers crushed the Indianapolis Colts, 45–3. Mark Malone, tying a team single-game record set by Terry Bradshaw against Atlanta in 1982, threw five touchdown passes, three to the fleet Louis Lipps. The Colts quickly fell behind by 24–3 as Malone threw first-half scoring shots of 7 and 11 yards to Lipps and 11 yards to Rich Erenberg. Malone finished with 21 completions in 30 attempts for 287 yards.
Mike Rozier scored his second touchdown of the game on a 1-yard run with 25 seconds left today, giving the Houston Oilers a 26–23 upset of the Miami Dolphins, last year’s Super Bowl finalists, in the season opener. Miami had taken a 23–19 lead with less than 9 minutes remaining when Don Strock, playing for an ineffective Dan Marino, threw a 66-yard scoring pass to Mark Duper. Marino had also missed a few series in the first half after injuring his left elbow. The Oilers used a pair of new additions — Butch Woolfook and Tony Zendejas — to score their other points. Woolfolk caught an 80-yard touchdown pass and Zendejas hit field goals of 35 and 46 yards. The Dolphins also scored on three field goals by the rookie Fuad Reveiz and a 61-yard interception return by the cornerback William Judson. After Duper’s touchdown catch, Houston was faced with a fourth-and-4 from the 9. Warren Moon passed into the end zone to Woolfolk, who was interfered with by Fulton Walker. Two plays later, Rozier went around left end for the winning touchdown.
The Giants crushed the Philadelphia Eagles, 21–0. The New York defense sacked Philadelphia quarterback Ron Jaworski eight times in manhandling the Eagles offense, and got two touchdowns runs from Joe Morris and a touchdown pass from Phil Simms. It was the Giants’ first shutout in two seasons and they accomplished it by keeping the pressure on Jawor ski and taking advantage of some inexperience on the right side of the Eagle line. The eights sacks threw Jaworski for 73 yards in losses.
The Raiders recorded their first shutout since leaving Oakland as the Los Angeles defense shut down the Jets, 31–0. The Raiders hadn’t blanked an opponent since September 18, 1977, when they topped San Diego, 24–0. Even as shutouts go, this was very impressive. The Raiders sacked New York quarterback Ken O’Brien 10 times and allowed the Jets to gain only 193 yards in total offense. “The Raider defense was unbelievable,” said running back Freeman McNeil of the Jets, who gained only 44 yards on 17 carries. “It was a tough day at the office, isn’t that what they say? “They were everywhere, it seemed like. I couldn’t get rolling. They’re a great team.” Los Angeles took command of the game early. Marcus Allen ran for two first-half touchdowns and Jim Plunkett passed for 165 yards in the opening 30 minutes to spark the Raiders to a 21–0 advantage at that juncture. Plunkett finished with 14 completions in 21 attempts for 242 yards.
The Chargers downed the Bills, 14–9. Dan Fouts hit tight end Eric Sievers for San Diego’s final score in the second quarter, and Buffalo was unable to put the ball in the end zone. All of the game’s scoring came in the first half, with the Chargers’ Curtis Adams dashing for a 1-yard scoring run in the first quarter before Fouts hit Sievers for the 30-yard touchdown in the second quarter.
Dave Krieg passed for three first-half touchdowns, and Curt Warner celebrated his N.F.L. return with a scintilating fourth-quarter scoring run that gave Seattle a 28–24 victory at Cincinnati. Warner, who tore knee ligaments in the 1984 opener, evaded three tacklers on an 11-yard touchdown run that put Seattle ahead to stay with 7:07 to play. Krieg threw touchdown passes of 28 yards to Byron Walker, 6 yards to Daryl Turner and 19 yards to Charle Young for a 21–7 lead.
Jim McMahon threw for a pair of touchdowns and rushed for two more and Leslie Frazier’s 29-yard interception return for a touchdown triggered a 14-point third-quarter rally for Chicago as the Bears defeated the Buccaneers, 38–28.
Neil O’Donoghue kicked a 35-yard field goal 5:27 into sudden-death overtime, giving St. Louis a 27–24 victory in Cleveland. Cleveland took a 24-17 lead after Gary Danielson hit Ozzie Newsome with a 25-yard scoring pass with 38 seconds left in the game. St. Louis tied the score with five seconds left when Neil Lomax tossed a 5-yard touchdown pass to Pat Tilley.
The Lions edged the Falcons, 28–27. Eric Hipple overcame what he described as the worst start in his life to spark Detroit and hand Darryl Rogers a victory in his N.F.L. coaching debut. After seeing the Lions fall behind by 14–0 in the first quarter, Hipple fired three touchdown passes to engineer the victory. He fired a 9-yard scoring strike to Jeff Chadwick with 7:29 left in the third quarter and James Jones rambled 21 yards for the go-ahead score 2:37 later.
Bill Kenney threw for 397 yards and three touchdowns for Kansas City as the Chiefs walloped the Saints in New Orleans, 47–27. Richard Todd took over for Dave Wilson at quarterback for the Saints in the fourth quarter and led the team to 24 points in 14 minutes.
Charles White scored on an 8-yard run with 2:07 remaining to give the Los Angeles Rams a 20–16 triumph at home over the Broncos. White’s scoring run capped an 80-yard drive engineered by the 34-year-old rookie Dieter Brock, formerly a quarterback in the Canadian Football League.
Ted Brown’s 10-yard touchdown run with 1 minute 49 seconds to play today powered the Minnesota Vikings to a 28–21 upset over the defending National Football League champion San Francisco 49ers and made Vikings Coach Bud Grant’s return a triumphant one. Brown’s winning sweep around left end followed a fumble on a kickoff return by Derrick Harmon, the second of two San Francisco bobbles in the game’s final 3:27. With 3:27 left, Doug Martin, the Minnesota defensive end, scooped up Wendell Tyler’s third fumble of the game and raced 29 yards to San Francisco’s one-yard line. Two plays later, Alfred Anderson’s 1-yard dive tied the game at 21–21.
Tony Eason threw for 241 yards and one score and Tony Collins and Craig James each ran for a touchdown for New England as the Patriots beat the Packers, 26–20. New England increased its lead to 10–0 lead on Tony Franklin’s 34-yard field goal in the second quarter. Lynn Dickey, the Green Bay quarterback, was sacked for a safety in the second quarter. The Patriots scored again with 8 seconds left in the quarter on a 78-yard drive, Eason hitting Cedric Jones on a 3-yard scoring toss, making the score 19–6. New England scored again with 6:23 left in the game, James taking a pitchout and cutting up the middle for a 65-yard scoring run.
Indianapolis Colts 3, Pittsburgh Steelers 45
Miami Dolphins 23, Houston Oilers 26
Philadelphia Eagles 0, New York Giants 21
New York Jets 0, Los Angeles Raiders 31
San Diego Chargers 14, Buffalo Bills 9
Seattle Seahawks 28, Cincinnati Bengals 24
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 28, Chicago Bears 38
St. Louis Cardinals 27, Cleveland Browns 24
Detroit Lions 28, Atlanta Falcons 27
Kansas City Chiefs 47, New Orleans Saints 27
Denver Broncos 16, Los Angeles Rams 20
San Francisco 49ers 21, Minnesota Vikings 28
Green Bay Packers 20, New England Patriots 26
Born:
Teddy Purcell, Canadian NHL right wing (Los Angeles Kings, Tampa Bay Lightning, Edmonton Oilers, Florida Panthers), in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Yendi Phillips, Jamaican beauty pageant contestant (Miss Jamaica Universe 2010), in Kingston, Jamaica.
Died:
John Franklin Enders, 88, American microbiologist (1954 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for culturing poliovirus, developed measles vaccine).
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