Vice President Bush said today that the Soviet Union, in preparation for the meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev in November, was trying to divide Western opinion rather than engage in serious talks. Speaking to a student audience of several thousand at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Mr. Bush appeared to be answering in detail Mr. Gorbachev’s accusation that the United States was stepping up its anti-Soviet statements. In a speech that aides said had been drafted in consultation with the State Department and the National Security Council, the Vice President showed no signs of backing off the Administration’s tough polemics.
Mr. Bush, who acknowledged that Mr. Gorbachev was an articulate Soviet spokesman, said the campaign to appeal to the West was not new. But in terms of the summit meeting, he said, the “atmospherics” highlighted a “basic difference between the way the Soviets appear to be approaching this meeting and the way we are.” The Vice President said he hoped that Mr. Gorbachev, in putting his leadership stamp on the Soviet Union, would show “concrete displays of good will in his foreign policy.” “Such displays might including taking troops out of Afghanistan, abiding by both the spirit and letter of the Helsinki Final Act and allowing more Jewish emigration and indeed more emigration in general,” Mr. Bush said.
Jewish leaders, emerging from a meeting with President Reagan, said they are satisfied he will make a strong plea for the free emigration of Soviet Jews when he meets with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in November. Morris Abrams, chairman of the National Conference on Soviet Jewry, and French, Argentine and Australian leaders of similar groups also registered their concern with Reagan over Soviet human rights abuses.
There is a race riot in Birmingham, England. Tonight gangs of youths rioted in Birmingham, setting fires that destroyed more than 50 buildings and then attacking firefighters trying to extinguish the blazes, a police spokesman said early today. The second Handsworth riots took place in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, West Midlands, from 9 to 11 September 1985. The riots were reportedly sparked by the arrest of a man near the Acapulco Cafe, Lozells and a police raid on the Villa Cross public house in the same area. Hundreds of people attacked police and property, looting and smashing, even setting off fire bombs. Handsworth had been the scene of a less serious riot four years earlier, when a wave of rioting hit over 30 other British towns and cities during the spring and summer of 1981. Two brothers (Kassamali Moledina, 38, and his 44-year-old brother Amirali) were burnt to death in the post office that they ran. Two other people were unaccounted for, 35 others injured, more than 1500 police officers drafted into the area, about 45 shops looted and burnt, and a trail of damage running into hundreds of thousands of pounds. As well as racial tension, unemployment was seen as a major factor in the riots; fewer than 5% of black pupils to have left school in the summer preceding the riot had found employment.
I.R.A. gunmen kidnapped a young Roman Catholic couple accused of being paid police informers, “convicted” them and put them to death, authorities said toaay. The outlawed Irish Republican Army took responsibility for the slayings in West Belfast late Sunday night and issued a long indictment accusing the couple of having turned their apartment into an I.R.A. “safe house” to inform on the group in return for money and vacations.
Withdrawal of U.S. troops from West Germany and a sharp reduction in West Germany’s military forces were advocated in a strategy document by Andreas von Buelow, chairman of the Social Democratic Party’s security policy commission. The document was condemned by officials of Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Christian Democrat-led coalition as anti-American.
President Reagan meets with 18 visiting Generals from NATO member nations.
Prime Minister Kare Willoch’s three-party coalition managed a one-seat victory over the leftist opposition in Norway’s elections. It was the first time that a Conservative Party leader has won a second term as prime minister in this century. Willoch’s coalition won 78 seats in the 157-seat Parliament to 77 for the alliance of three leftist parties led by Gro Harlem Brundtland’s Labor Party. The two other seats were won by the anti-tax Progress Party. Willoch campaigned on curbing inflation, unemployment and taxes. Brundtland urged more spending on social welfare.
Basque separatist guerrillas set off a car bomb in central Madrid, wounding 16 guards aboard a bus and two passers-by, one an American engineer jogging past, Spanish state radio reported. The American was identified by hospital sources as Ken Brown, 40, an employee with the Johnson & Johnson company who was staying at a nearby hotel. He suffered serious neck wounds. State radio reported that the guerrilla group ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom) claimed responsibility for the attack.
Israeli soldiers shot and wounded three Arab youths in Hebron today after they started to run away from an army patrol approaching to check their identification, the Israeli Army spokesman announced. A 12-year-old Arab boy, who was standing nearby, was also accidentally wounded by the gunfire, the spokesman said. He described the boy’s condition as serious. The shooting was the latest in a series of violent confrontations between Arabs and Israelis in the occupied West Bank that has led some Israeli newspaper columnists to talk of an incipient “civil war” in the territories.
Palestinian guerrillas besieged in a Beirut refugee camp fought tank-led Shia Muslim militiamen for the seventh straight day, with the total killed exceeding 40. The fighting at the Borj el Brajne camp is part of the Syrian-backed Shias’ drive to prevent the Palestinians from re-establishing a power base in Lebanon. In Damascus, meanwhile, Elie Hobeika, leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces coalition, held talks with Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam on ways to quell Lebanon’s violence.
Syria’s official press agency said today that President Hafez al-Assad had conferred in Damascus with four senior leaders of Lebanon’s Shiite fundamentalist group, the Party of God. The report came amid speculation here that the Syrian leader was engaged in new efforts to obtain the release of seven Americans, four Frenchmen and a Briton kidnapped in Muslim West Beirut over the last year and a half. Mr. Assad’s intervention is widely believed to have been a key factor in the release of 39 Americans held hostage on a Trans World Airlines plane that was hijacked to Beirut by Shiite gunmen in June.
Iraq said its planes bombed Kharg Island for the eighth time in four weeks, dropping eight tons of explosives on Iran’s main oil terminal in the Persian Gulf. In other action in the five-year-old war, Iran said its troops penetrated 18 miles behind Iraqi lines on the northern front, killing nearly 200 soldiers and capturing strategic territory. However, Iraq said it repelled the attack and killed more than 2,500 Iranians. None of the claims were independently verified.
The U.S. Defense Department said today that it had approved more than $100 million in arms sales to Pakistan, and a $178 million sale of combat helicopters to South Korea. Pakistan is buying 88 tracked, self-propelled howitzers at a cost of $78 million, built by the Bowen McLaughlin York Company of York, Pennsylvania, the Pentagon announced. It said Pakistan was also buying 110 armored personel carriers costing $25 million. The prime contractor is the FMC Corp. of San Jose, California. The department announced that South Korea was buying 21 AH-1S Cobra helicopters armed with TOW guided antitank missiles at a cost of $178 million. The prime contractors are Bell Helicopters Textron, of Fort Worth, Texas, and AVCO Corp. of Stratford, Connecticut.
Thai leaders thwarted a coup attempted by former Army officers. Loyal Government troops forced the rebels to surrender after less than 10 hours of fighting. At least four people were killed in artillery and automatic weapons fire, and 60 people, at least 29 of them soldiers, were reported wounded. Two of those killed were members of an NBC News television crew who were slain during a battle at an army compound shortly after the rebels proclaimed the coup early this morning. A soldier also died, and a civilian Thai riding in a taxi was fatally wounded when a shell landed in traffic in central Bangkok.Officials here estimated that 400 to 500 soldiers and officers were involved in the uprising, and that most of them had surrendered by midafternoon. Most were said to have returned to their barracks.
A delegation of prominent Canadians said today that conditions in Central America were deteriorating and blamed United States policy for the lack of peace in the region. The private fact-finding delegation of seven Canadians with backgrounds in international and domestic affairs spent two weeks in Central America and will make recommendations on Canada’s role in the region to the Ottawa Government.
An unidentified attacker threw a hand grenade onto a crowded dance floor at a high school students’ party in the northern town of Ocotal, Nicaraguan police said. Seven people were killed and 35 were wounded, according to a witness who asked not to be identified. A spokesman for the Nicaraguan Red Cross confirmed the attack and the number wounded but not the number of dead. It was not immediately clear whether the attack was linked to rebel activity. Ocotal has been the scene of fighting between troops of the leftist Sandinista government and U.S.supported contras.
A Honduran Government informant today supported the official version of what happened when the Honduran Army raided a Salvadoran refugee camp 11 days ago. The informant, Jose Antonio Chicas Sanchez, was presented at a Honduran Army news conference this morning. Mr. Chicas appeared instead of a promised appearance by 10 Salvadoran refugees who were captured in the army raid on suspicion of being guerrillas. A senior Honduran officer had previously said the captured men would be present today, but an army spokesman said that “military reasons” had kept the men from coming.
The President, in a major reversal of the Administration’s opposition to economic sanctions against South Africa, announced he was adopting most of the trade and financial actions against apartheid that are sought by Congress. Mr. Reagan barred most loans to Pretoria and the sale of computers to its security agencies. In an announcement at the Oval Office, Mr. Reagan banned the sale of computers to South African security agencies; barred most loans to the Pretoria Government; proposed a ban on the importation of the Krugerrand, the South African gold coin, subject to consultations with trading partners, and prohibited most exports of nuclear technology. Hours after Mr. Reagan’s statement, the Republican-controlled Senate voted to postpone action on legislation imposing stricter sanctions against South Africa. But Democrats in the Senate as well as some Republicans made it clear that they would fight to get a tougher package of sanctions through the Senate and to the President’s desk, forcing him to veto the legislation. The House has already approved a sanctions bill.
President Reagan made his decision to impose some limited sanctions against South Africa to avoid foreign policy disarray abroad and political humiliation at home, Administration officials said today. They acknowledged that in adopting for the first time a set of modest punitive steps to press South Africa to renounce apartheid, Mr. Reagan was significantly altering his often-stated policy of “constructive engagement” to a new approach he called “active constructive engagement.” Behind the change in language lay what appeared to be a significant shift in policy. Today the Administration appeared to be switching from a policy of passive, sympathethic encouragement of change toward one of active pressure on Pretoria.
South Africa denounced President Reagan’s announcement of sanctions and said “outside attempts to interfere” in Pretoria’s affairs could only retard racial change. President Reagan’s move, he added, would “diminish the ability of the United States to influence events in southern Africa.” President Botha’s comments coincided with the publication today of the results of an opinion survey among 800 black urban residents that showed about three-quarters of them in favor of some form of economic measures to speed racial changes. “Sanctions cannot solve our problem,” Mr. Botha said. “South Africa’s decisions will be made by South Africa’s leaders. The leaders of South Africa will themselves decide what is in our interests.” He did not elaborate on who those leaders were.
The economic sanctions announced by President Reagan will have a negligible impact on South Africa’s economy and on American companies doing business there, according to international trade experts. But they said the United States actions might strengthen the resolve of other countries to expand their sanctions against Pretoria, which could eventually hurt its economy.
Former Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro said that she and her husband, John A. Zaccaro, will be questioned by the Department of Justice as part of its yearlong investigation into whether the former member of Congress violated financial disclosure laws. Ferraro said in a Washington interview that she has been cooperating fully with the investigation and that the couple plan to meet with lawyers in the department’s public integrity section by month’s end. Justice Department spokesman John Russell had no comment on Ferraro’s remarks.
The chairman of a House oversight panel accused the federal government of “dragging its feet” on funding to install advanced airport equipment that could detect bad weather conditions. But Rep. Norman Y. Mineta (D-California) stopped short of saying that more advanced radar equipment could have prevented the August 2 crash of Delta Air Lines Flight 191. The crash at the Dallas-Fort Worth airport killed 135 persons. “We need to get the (Federal Aviation Administration) to deploy what (equipment) we have right now,” Mineta said.
University scientists who contend the “Star Wars” defense system is “science fiction” and a “colossal waste of money” are asking colleagues to join them in rejecting millions of dollars in research grants. Hundreds of scientists on more than two dozen campuses have pledged not to accept money for work on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative project. “Our major emphasis is not to make a political statement but to point out that the bulk of the scientists who would be working on it think it is technically infeasible and at the level of science fiction,” said John Kogut, a physics professor at the University of Illinois.
A man accused of one of 14 slayings that the police believe are linked delayed entering a plea today, and his attorney said intense publicity would make a fair trial difficult in Los Angeles. The man, Richard Ramirez, 25 years old, showed no emotion at the hearing. His lawyer, Allen Adashek, the deputy public defender, was granted a continuance until September 27 by Judge Elva Soper of Municipal Court. Mr. Adashek said publicity about the case might make it difficult to get a fair trial here, but no decision has been made on whether to move the case. Philip Halpin, a deputy district attorney, said he would oppose attempts to move the trial because it would be expensive. Mr. Ramirez, who was arrested a week and a half ago in East Los Angeles, was charged Tuesday with one count of murder and seven other felony counts stemming from two early morning attacks in May in Los Angeles County. He is being held without bail. Mr. Ramirez is suspected in a wave of attacks, including 14 killings, since last February that the police have labeled the “night stalker” case.
The scheduled execution tomorrow of a Texas man for a murder committed in 1975 when he was 17 years old has raised a thorny issue. If the punishment is carried out — the condemned man has told his lawyers to drop further appeals — it would be the first execution in this country for a crime committed by a person under 18 in more than two decades.
A new offshore drilling plan for California will be sought by Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel. Mr. Hodel said he would ask the state’s Congressional delegation today to revise a preliminary agreement on offshore drilling operations so that more oil and gas could be produced.
Two friends of John Belushi testified they looked on as Cathy Evelyn Smith injected the comedian with heroin and cocaine in the days before he was found dead of a drug overdose in a Hollywood bungalow in 1982. Nelson Lyon, a writer, testified that on the day before Mr. Belushi’s body was found Miss Smith injected him and the actor at least seven times with the drug combination.
A Puerto Rican independence group with alleged links to Cuba threatened to retaliate “with great force” for the arrests of 14 suspects charged in a $7-million Wells Fargo robbery in 1983 in West Hartford, Connecticut. “Let the Yankees and their blind followers know that the Macheteros are here, with our machetes in our hands and our hearts full of revolutionary fervor,” the group — whose name means “machete wielders” — said in a letter mailed to United Press International.
Three Cuban exiles were charged in New York with the execution of a Cuban U.N. official, plotting and threatening to kill foreign diplomats and carrying out a series of bombings. U.S. Attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani said Pedro Remon, 40, Andres Garcia, 45, and Eduardo Losado-Fernandez, 48, were charged in a federal indictment with shooting to death Felix Garcia-Rodriguez in New York on September 11, 1980. The anti-Castro group Omega 7 claimed responsibility for the slaying.
Five Sun Belt states will account for more than half of the nation’s population growth through the year 2000, a private research group said. The National Planning Association projected that California will continue to be the nation’s biggest population gainer, adding 6,668,000 people between the 1980 Census and 2000. And California, Florida, Texas, Arizona and North Carolina will account for 21.8 million added people by 2000, or 54% of the nation’s total growth.
Teachers in Newport, Rhode Island, ended a six-day strike that kept 3,900 students home, while a judge refused to order 550 striking teachers in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, back to work. Meanwhile, the Seattle School District negotiated with the union representing 3,700 employees whose week-old strike has forced cancellation of classes for 43,500 students. A total of 8,192 teachers in five states were on strike.
Negotiators for the union representing reporters at Philadelphia’s two daily newspapers said today that they were prepared to move on several contract issues, but no talks were scheduled in the third day of the newspaper strike. For the third day, no editions were published of the The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Daily News as 4,700 reporters, truckers, mailers and other employees continued their walkout.
A Texas inmate was stabbed to death today, the fourth fatal stabbing in state prisons in two days, prompting officials to impose an emergency lockdown at 13 units to quell violence among rival gangs. The inmate, Leonel Perez, 31 years, was the 26th person to die this year in the nation’s second-largest correction system, one more than the record of 25 last year. O.L. McCotter, director of the Texas prison system, which contains 37,000 inmates, said: “Our major concern is that it appears to be open warfare.” Mr. Perez died of 15 stab wounds in the infirmary at the Ramsey II unit, a prison spokesman said. A Mexican-American inmate serving a 17-year sentence for burglary convictions was being held in the death.
The finders of the Titanic arrived at their home port of Woods Hole, Massachusetts, and were greeted by cheering throngs, soaring balloons and the blare of airhorns. Among those who met them was Marshall Drew, a 81-year-old artist and photographer, who, as a child of 8, survived the liner’s sinking in 1912. He and an aunt entered a lifeboat, and his uncle went down with the ship.
Classes resumed for 946,000 pupils in New York City’s public schools amid scattered protests against the city’s decision to allow a second-grade pupil with AIDS to attend regular classes. Parents in two community school districts in Queens organized a boycott that kept more than 11,000 pupils out of first-day classes.
Screen star Rock Hudson is writing about his battle with AIDS in an autobiography and plans to donate proceeds from the book to help fight the deadly disease, his publisher said in New York. Hudson will dictate the memoirs, titled “My Story,” from his bedside to writer Sara Davidson, said a spokeswoman for William Morrow & Co., which is publishing the book. The spokeswoman added that the proceeds from the book would go toward the battle against acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Hudson, 59, stunned the world in July when he announced through a spokeswoman that he suffered from AIDS. The diagnosis had been made a year earlier. The revelation that Hudson suffered from the incurable disease gave AIDS increased national attention. The top male star of the late 1950s and 1960s, big, rugged, Hudson was the stereotypic masculine American hero of the time. He won an Academy Award nomination for his portrayal of a determined and independent Texas rancher in “Giant” in 1956.
Dr. John F. Enders died at the age of 88 at his summer home in Waterford, Connecticut. The discoveries of the Nobel Prize-winning virologist paved the way for vaccines against polio, measles, German measles and mumps and to major advances in genetics and cancer research.
Major League Baseball:
Franklin Stubbs and Mike Marshall delivered two-run singles to highlight a five-run eighth inning that gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 9–7 victory over the Braves in Atlanta. Mike Scioscia had three hits for the Dodgers.
Ryne Sandberg and Keith Moreland drove home first-inning runs, and Shawon Dunston singled home another in the second, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 3–1 triumph tonight over the St. Louis Cardinals. With their third straight loss, the Cardinals dropped into a first-place tie in the National League East with the idle Mets. The Cardinals open a three-game series Tuesday night in New York. Today’s game was scheduled as a makeup for a contest postponed by the August strike.
Dave Concepcion’s ninth-inning single off Rich (Goose) Gossage scored Dave Parker from second base with Cincinnati’s winning run as the Reds edged the Padres, 2–1. Parker led off the ninth with a single to center off Gossage (3–3), who was making his third appearance since coming off the disabled list after arthroscopic knee surgery. Eric Davis bunted Parker to second and Concepcion singled one out later, his third hit of the game. John Franco (12–2) pitched one perfect inning for the victory in relief of Andy McGaffigan. The Reds’ player-manager, Pete Rose, who singled twice Sunday to equal Ty Cobb’s career hit record of 4,191, did not play.
Mike Scott picked up his 16th victory and doubled home a run as the Astros beat the Giants at Houston, 4–2. Scott gave up five hits in seven innings and won for the fifth time in six games. Frank DiPino and Dave Smith finished, Smith getting his 22nd save. Scott, whose 16–7 record is the best of his career by six wins, was 5–11 last season. Scott added a forkball in the off-season and credits it with his success.
John Candelaria combined with Doug Corbett on a two-hitter, and Ruppert Jones and Daryl Sconiers hit home runs tonight as the California Angels beat the Kansas City Royals, 7–1. The California victory snapped an eight-game winning streak by the Royals, and moved the Angels one-half game behind Kansas City in the American League West race. It was the opener of the three-game series against Kansas City for the Angels, who had led the division for two months before the Royals took over first place during the weekend. Craig Gerber drove in three runs with three hits to support the pitching of Candelaria, who gave up two hits over eight innings. Corbett pitched in the ninth.
The Yankees extended their winning streak to 10 games tonight, but if they are to make it 11 and 12, they’ll have to do it without the services of Dave Righetti and Brian Fisher. At least that is what Manager Billy Martin concluded after the Yankees erupted for five runs in the 10th inning and downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 9–4. “I’m going to give Righetti and Fisher two days’ rest,” Martin said. “I’m not going to use them the rest of the series. I’ve got to rest them up for the weekend.” The weekend, which actually begins Thursday night, brings the Toronto Blue Jays to New York for a four-game American League East showdowns. The Yankees remained a game and a half behind the first-place Blue Jays, who defeated Detroit, 5–3, tonight. Butch Wynegar began the winning rally with a pinch-hit single to left. Don Baylor followed with a double to left, and Mike Pagliarulo drove them both home with a single to right-center.
Cecil Fielder, George Bell and Garth Iorg hit home runs for Toronto as the Blue Jays downed the Tigers, 5–3. The winning pitcher, Jimmy Key (12–6), scattered seven hits and took a 5–1 lead into the ninth. But Lance Parrish singled with one out and Chet Lemon followed with his 14th home run of the season. Tom Henke relieved Key and got the final two outs for his 10th save.
The Twins blanked the White Sox, 5–0. Gary Gaetti hit two homers, both to deep center field, and John Butcher pitched a four-hitter to spark Minnesota. Kent Hrbek also hit a home run to help the Twins notch their fourth consecutive victory at Comiskey Park this season. The White Sox have yet to beat the Twins at home this year.
The Rangers beat the A’s, 3–1. Don Slaught had a pair of two-run singles, including one in the eighth inning to break a 1–1 tie, and lead the Rangers past the A’s at Oakland. Texas starter Jeff Russell (2–5), struck out 5, walked 3, and allowed 5 hits and 1 run in seven innings. Greg Harris finished for his ninth save. The A’s run came on a 450-foot home run by rookie Jose Canseco, his first in the majors.
The Mariners topped the Indians, 8–7. Gorman Thomas, who earlier broke the club home run record with his 30th, hit a fielder’s choice grounder in the 12th inning to score Spike Owen and give the Mariners the win at Seattle. Owen led off the 12th with a walk and was sacrificed to second by Jack Perconte. Phil Bradley was walked intentionally and Alvin Davis walked to load the bases, setting the stage for Thomas. Rich Thompson (3–7) took the loss, while Dave Tobik (1–0), who was called up from Calgary earlier Monday, got the victory. Jim Presley hit his 27th home run for the Mariners. Thomas broke the Seattle club record of 29 homers set by Willie Horton in 1979.
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Atlanta Braves 7
Kansas City Royals 1, California Angels 7
Minnesota Twins 5, Chicago White Sox 0
San Diego Padres 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
San Francisco Giants 2, Houston Astros 4
New York Yankees 9, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Texas Rangers 3, Oakland Athletics 1
Cleveland Indians 7, Seattle Mariners 8
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Detroit Tigers 3, Toronto Blue Jays 5
NFL Monday Night Football:
Dallas’s determined defense intercepted Joe Theismann passes five times tonight and the Cowboy quarterback, Danny White, and the place-kicker, Rafael Septien, made Washington pay for its mistakes with a 44–14 victory over the Redskins. White, wearing a flak jacket for the first time in his career, directed a 98-yard scoring drive and combined on a 55-yard scoring strike with Mike Renfro while Septien kicked field goals of 53, 39 and 43 yards. Cornerback Victor Scott completed the humiliation of Theismann on his 36th birthday by plucking off a pass and returning it 26 yards for a touchdown to build Dallas’s lead to 30 points midway through the fourth quarter. The Washington reserve quarterback, Jay Schroeder, didn’t fare any better than Theismann, serving up a 21-yard touchdown interception return to Dennis Thurman with 2:50 left in the game. The Cowboys put Washington away with a 13-point third quarter on two Septien field goals and a nine-yard touchdown run by Tony Dorsett following Fellows’s interception and 29-yard return.
Washington Redskins 14, Dallas Cowboys 44
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1339.27 (+3.58)
Born:
J.R. Smith, NBA shooting guard and small forward (NBA Champions, Cavaliers-2016; Lakers-2020; New Orleans Hornets-Pelicans, Denver Nuggets, New York Knicks, Cleveland Cavaliers, Los Angeles Lakers), in Freehold, New Jersey.
Matthew Slater, NFL wide receiver and special teams gunner (NFL Champions, Super Bowls 49, 51, 53-Patriots, 2014, 2016, 2018; Pro Bowl, 2011-2017, 2019-2021; New England Patriots), in Los Angeles County, California.
King Dunlap, NFL tackle (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers), in Nashville, Tennessee.
Died:
Paul Flory, 75, American chemist (1974 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for work on polymers).
Rod Funseth, 52, American golfer (U.S. Masters runner-up, 1978), from cancer.
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