A recall to Moscow for consultation prompted the head of the Soviet K.G.B. in Britain to seek asylum in a “safe house” in the south of England in July, according to a senior British official. The official said the K.G.B. man, Oleg A. Gordiyevsky, feared that, after more than 15 years as a double agent for Britain and the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency, his superiors had learned about his role.
A United States military crew was detained at gunpoint by Soviet troops in East Germany for about nine hours last weekend, the Pentagon said today. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, who disclosed the incident on the CBS News program “Face the Nation,” said it was the “third or fourth” such episode recently. In March, an Army major, Arthur D. Nicholson Jr., was shot and killed by a Soviet sentry while on a reconnaissance mission in East Germany. No one was injured in the incident last weekend, the Pentagon said. A Pentagon spokesman said the American crew, presumably an officer and an enlisted man, was leaving the area of a Soviet communications installation near Suhl, in southwestern East Germany, on September 7 when its vehicle stalled. The spokesman said the stalled vehicle was then rammed by a Soviet truck and the crew was directed, at gunpoint, to remain inside. After questioning the Americans for several hours, the spokesman said, the Soviet forces towed the disabled vehicle to a place where there was a “restricted” sign and photographed it there. The vehicle — the spokesman said he did not know if it was a car or a truck — was later towed back to its original location, the spokesman said.
Solidarity leaders got accolades from leaders of Poland’s Roman Catholic Church, who prayed also for the ideals of the outlawed labor union at an outdoor mass in Czestochowa attended by more than 50,000 workers from all parts of the country. “Hang in there, as we are hanging in,” said Henryk Cardinal Gulbinowicz, after he celebrated mass at the shrine of the Black Madonna, Poland’s most revered icon. Below, on a large open field in front of the outdoor altar, came cheers and two-fingered Solidarity salutes from the tens of thousands who came from all parts of Poland to this third annual pilgrimage of workers who identify with the outlawed union, many of them carrying forbidden placards and wearing banned insignia. By the time the pilgrims began to drift homeward, Cardinal Gulbinowicz, who was named Poland’s third cardinal earlier this year by Pope John Paul II, had joined Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder, in sending a telegram to the Pope in the name of Polish workers. He also issued an invitation to next year’s pilgrimage, asking workers to tell their colleagues to mark the date on their calendars.
Sweden’s Social Democrats won re-election by a slim margin. The party’s leader, Mr. Olof Palme, won a second consecutive three-year term after a bitter campaign. He charged that his opponents wanted to dismantle Sweden’s welfare state and that the three major non-Socialist parties would not be able to agree on policy if they came to power.
Bombs exploded outside two Jewish-owned shops in central Copenhagen, injuring 12 people, police said. One bomb exploded at a Jewish food shop, blasting a hole in the sidewalk. The second, five minutes later, damaged a nearby Israeli travel agency. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts. Last July, 27 people were injured, one of them fatally, when a bomb wrecked a U.S. airline office in Copenhagen and two others damaged the city’s synagogue. The Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War) organization claimed responsibility for those blasts.
Israel denounced Britain’s plans to sell military aircraft to Saudi Arabia. A Foreign Ministry statement expressed concern over reports that Britain will provide the Saudis with Tornado jet fighters, Hawk jet trainers and other military hardware in a package totaling at least $3 billion. Israel also criticized what it called Britain’s intention to sell arms to Jordan, saying the sales to both nations would undermine Mideast stability.
Israel expelled from the occupied West Bank 18 Palestinians whom it recently freed from prison. It accused them of infiltrating back into the territory illegally. The 18 were among 1,150 convicted guerrillas released May 20 in exchange for three Israeli soldiers captured in Lebanon by Palestinian guerrillas. Israel allowed 600 of the freed Palestinians to stay in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, but military authorities and courts ruled that the 18 were not legal residents of the area before their original arrests.
Switzerland offered to act as host for a proposed international conference on the Middle East. Foreign Minister Pierre Aubert made the offer in Amman, Jordan, at the end of a four-nation Mideast tour. Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization have proposed a conference involving all parties to the Mideast conflict, but the United States is holding out for direct talks between Israel and Arab nations.
President Reagan receives a call from Assistant for National Security Affairs Robert McFarlane regarding the release of one of the hostages from Lebanon (Benjamin Weir).
Saudi Arabia decided to buy more than $4 billion worth of British fighter aircraft after President Reagan assured King Fahd that the United States would not object, Saudi sources said. The Saudis had decided not to wait any longer for 40 to 48 additional American F-15’s that had been promised them by Mr. Reagan in December, but whose sale was repeatedly delayed by Israeli-backed opposition in Congress. The White House was informed during the summer, Saudi sources said, that the Saudis were considering buying two squadrons of 48 Tornado fighter planes and 30 Hawk trainers from Britain because of Washington’s inability to proceed with the F-15 sale. After Mr. Reagan indicated in a letter to King Fahd that he sympathized with the Saudi predicament, the negotiations with Britain were concluded, the Saudi sources said.
Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini expressed unhappiness with his country’s official media, declaring that the press can be “boring.” In a meeting with editors, he told them not to print repetitious accounts of his daily meetings. “Such things are boring to the people,” he said, adding, “Whenever the radio is turned on and I hear my name, I hate it.” Another prominent cleric, the Ayatollah Hussein Ali Montazeri, told editors of Tehran’s three major daily newspapers that they are free to criticize the government.
The Indian Government has banned a report on violence in Punjab state and arrested two people involved in putting out the report. The report, published by a group called Citizens for Democracy, charges that the government has been the major cause of bloodshed in the state, which has been the focus of an often violent agitation by Sikhs for greater autonomy. Government officials said the report was banned and copies were seized and destroyed last week because of the sensitive situation in the state, where an election is to be held September 25.
Sri Lankan President Junius R. Jayewardene said his government has declared war on Tamil guerrillas fighting for a separate state in the north of the island nation. “We cannot wait any longer, no matter whether there are peace talks or not,” he told a meeting of his United National Party. Jayewardene warned that all Sri Lankans will have restrictions placed on their freedom, but he did not elaborate. Meanwhile, leaders of four Tamil guerrilla groups agreed to meet with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to discuss proposals for halting the ethnic strife.
Terrorists threw grenades into a crowded movie house in the southern Philippines today, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, the authorities said. The attack occurred in Maranding, a remote coastal town on the island of Mindanao, 510 miles south of Manila, officials said. Witnesses said that many of the dead were women and children and that some of the victims had been crushed in a rush for the doors. Communist guerrillas seeking the overthrow of the 20-year-old Government of President Ferdinand E. Marcos, Muslim separatists and various vigilante groups operate in Mindanao.
A day after returning from a trip to French nuclear weapons testing sites in the South Pacific, President François Mitterrand today invited the leaders of the 14 countries in the region to visit the area and assure themselves of its safety. But Mr. Mitterrand, in a nationally televised statement tonight, reaffirmed France’s intention to continue its nuclear testing in the region “for as long as it is judged necessary.” Mr. Mitterrand, whose trip to Mururoa Atoll on Friday was criticized by Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand as “an obscene gesture,” seemed to be trying to introduce a note of conciliation into France’s strained relations with the Pacific countries, particularly after the sinking of the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in Auckland in July. New Zealand has accused French intelligence agents of responsibility for sinking the ship.
Two high-level Salvadoran Government officials flew to Mexico this afternoon to meet Salvadoran rebels who may be holding the daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, according to a foreign diplomat here and a Salvadoran source aware of the negotiations. The reported departure of the two Salvadoran officials to meet rebel representatives is the first indication that the guerrillas of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front may be responsible for kidnapping Mr. Duarte’s eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, last week. But the rebels have not publicly taken responsibility for the kidnapping, and the possibility remains that a small splinter group may have seized Mrs. Duarte Duran. Salvadoran Government officials refused to comment tonight on the reports of contacts with the rebels. It appears that Government officials believe either that the official rebel front is holding Mrs. Duarte Duran or that the front is in a position to influence a rebel splinter group that may have seized her.
A human rights group accused the Reagan Administration of cynically crediting successive Guatemalan military regimes with “progress” on human rights and condemning their abuses only after they were ousted from office. In a 20-page report, Americas Watch said the Administration revised its assessments of ousted leaders so the new governments would be put in a more positive light in requests to Congress for military aid.
Two army officers who served under President Idi Amin in the 1970’s were among four guerrilla leaders named to Uganda’s ruling Military Council after agreeing to cooperate with the new Government, Radio Uganda announced. The two appointees who served under President Amin are Major Amin Onzi, a commander of the Uganda National Rescue Front, and Major General Isaac Lumago, who broke with the dictator and headed an irregular force of other soldiers from President Amin’s army. President Amin was overthrown in 1979 after eight years in power. The current government took power in a coup July 27.
South Africa’s credit crisis since apartheid became an international issue has shaken bankers abroad who ask how the country’s economy could have deteriorated so quickly before they had a chance to get their money out. A picture of what went wrong has been provided by interviews with concerned bankers.
Treating smoking-related diseases will cost $12 billion to $35 billion this year, according to a study by a Federal agency. The agency, the Office of Technology Assessment, an arm of Congress, estimated that smoking-related diseases would also result in productivity losses to the economy this year of $27 billion to $61 billion. The study was made at the request of a member of Congress. Its conclusions will probably influence a debate over the size of the Federal cigarette tax, now at 16 cents a pack, but due to revert to 8 cents a pack October 1 unless Congress renews it.
Young Americans for Freedom, a conservative group, has agreed to pay a $9,400 civil penalty for a 1984 fund-raising letter signed by Agriculture Secretary John R. Block that urged President Reagan’s reelection, the Federal Election Commission disclosed. The election watchdog agency decided not to take any action against Block. But the Justice Department chided Block for allowing the Young Americans for Freedom to use a likeness of the Great Seal of the United States on the letter. YAF is registered as a nonprofit, membership corporation, not a political action committee, and it is illegal for corporations to make contributions to federal campaigns.
A leadership role for women in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States was urged by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops. The bishops called on the church to affirm the “rights and dignity” of women in the church and to further “their advancement to positions of leadership and decision-making” short of the priesthood. Bishop James W. Malone, president of the conference, also said that the church must do more to reach such groups as Hispanic-Americans, blacks and recent immigrants, and to develop leadership from them. The remarks were contained in a report requested by Pope John Paul II in preparation for a special synod of bishops.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
Concerned about the potential nationwide health hazards of naturally occurring radon gas, the Environmental Protection Agency is designing a survey to first determine the risks posed to residents in a three-state area, an EPA official said. Sheldon Meyers, director of the EPA’s office of radiation, said the survey would take nine months to design. At the same time, Meyers said the EPA had no authorization or funding to carry out the survey, noting that the responsibility for doing so may fall within the jurisdiction of state and local authorities. Meyers cautioned that it was not clear that the agency’s survey would lead to any federal regulations on naturally occurring radon. “We’re not sure what the proper role of the (federal) government is in this,” Meyers said.
The number of unmarried couples living together has more than tripled since 1970, climbing to nearly 2 million as young Americans continue to postpone marriage, the Census Bureau reported. There were 1,988,000 unmarried-couple households as of March, 1984. The report also found that young people are marrying at an older age than at any time since the turn of the century. And it noted that just since the 1980 census, young people have shown less. inclination to set up housekeeping on their own, with those not married or cohabiting more often remaining with their parents.
General Dynamics Corp., the nation’s third-largest defense contractor, reached a tentative contract agreement with the United Auto Workers, which represents 5,000 workers in three states, company officials said. The agreement came in the early morning, nearly three hours after the old pact had expired and picket lines were set up at two Michigan plants and a site in Lima, Ohio, company spokesman Pete Connolly said in Warren, Michigan. The tentative settlement covers production and maintenance employees at tank plants in Warren and Lima and component plants at Sterling Heights, Center Line and Scranton, Pennsylvania.
A posse of 300 officers using helicopters, planes and bloodhounds swarmed over rugged Doggett Mountain in a door-to-door search of isolated farmhouses for two armed fugitives suspected of killing a state trooper, authorities said in Hot Springs, North Carolina. Officers believe the fugitives from the Franklin County, Arkansas, jail fled into the Blue Ridge mountains after rookie Highway Patrolman Bobby Coggins was shot to death Saturday when he stopped a “suspicious” vehicle on a highway. The fugitives, identified as William Richard Bray and Jimmy Rios, both 23, were armed and “considered very dangerous.” Among the searchers were members of a United States Border Patrol class in tracking that happened to be practicing in the area. Volunteers from other law enforcement agencies, using four bloodhounds, were also patrolling the area. Other searchers were posted at roadblocks and checkpoints. Mr. Bray, of Lexington, North Carolina, had been jailed on charges of reckless driving, fleeing a police officer, possession of a controlled substance and possession of a concealed weapon. Mr. Rios had been jailed on charges of theft and forgery.
Negotiators reported progress in settling a school strike in Rhode Island, where 600 teachers have defied a judge’s back-to-work order, as striking Seattle teachers planned to vote today on what their leaders called a “totally unacceptable” offer. About 8,000 teachers nationwide were on strike, affecting almost 115,000 students in seven states, including Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, New York and Illinois.
A safety valve accidentally opened in a waste treatment facility at the Union Carbide Corporation’s plant in South Charleston, West Virginia Saturday night, allowing up to 100 pounds of mono methyl amine to leak out, a spokesman for the company said today. He said the material was contained inside the facility. The chemical company initially reported that a vapor cloud escaped from the plant but the spokesman said Carbide workers detected no cloud. The spokesman said “there was no impact on workers or anyone else” from the release of the liquid, which is used to make various chemicals. It was the seventh reported leak in the Kanawha Valley in the last five weeks.
Court-ordered negotiations were conducted yesterday in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, in an effort to end a strike by teachers that began September 4. But nearly all 600 striking teachers were expected to continue their walkout despite an injunction ordering them back to work issued Thursday by Judge Corinne Grande of Superior Court.
Little progress was reported in Seattle’s strike, despite concessions by both sides. The strike by 3,700 teachers, which began September 3, has idled 43,500 students out of classes.
In Flint, Michigan, the school board is seeking a court injunction to force 1,643 teachers who have been on strike since August 27 back to work.
In Marquette, Michigan, where teachers have been on strike since September 3, officials said an agreement was near. The dispute in the Upper Peninsula district has affected more than 4,600 students.
Strikes continued in five western Pennsylvania school districts and in Charleston, Illinois.
Schools say that day-care programs for school-age children have become too costly for them as the number of children in need of such care increases, and are looking to government sources and to the parents themselves for more aid.
Transplant surgery in Pittsburgh is performed so frequently that is called the world’s foremost transplant center, attracting patients from around the world to the Presbyterian University Hospital, an affiliate of the University of Pittsburgh. Transplant surgery has brought the university international recognition and research grants from grateful patients. It has become Pittsburgh’s largest employer, a status formerly occupied by steel companies.
A speech by Louis Farrakhan in Los Angeles drew nearly 15,000 people, representing all segments of southern California society. The scheduled appearance of the controversial black leader of the Nation of Islam, a Black Muslim sect, had at first attracted little attention. But the turnout of thousands was regarded as evidence that he has gained recognition, it not followers, substantially beyond his small, nationalist sect.. The sect is one of two competing branches of the Black Muslims. James and Cleo Moore, both retired civil servants, brought guests from San Diego to hear Mr. Farrakhan’s talk. They blended into a crowd that ranged from small children to the over-60 group, clad in everything from blue jeans to business suits.
The dispute among Queens parents over admitting a child with AIDS to school and the classroom boycott voted by parents in Districts 27 and 29 were rooted to a large extent, many people say, in an earlier dispute over a plan to place AIDs patients in a nearby nursing home and in the history of independence among Queens school boards.
CBS premieres its TV adaptation of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman”, starring Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid, Stephen Lang, and Charles Durning.
Ryder Cup Golf, The Belfry: Europe beats US, 16½-11½; first US loss since 1957; Sam Torrance clinches for Europe beating Andy North, 1 up.
Major League Baseball:
The San Francisco Giants bowed to the Atlanta Braves, 4–1. Steve Bedrosian and Bruce Sutter, two of the Braves’ biggest disappointments this season, combined on a six-hitter. Sutter pitched the last two innings for his 23rd save.
Danny Heep, the perennial understudy, replaced the hurting Darryl Strawberry at curtain time, hit a three-run home run in the first inning and played the starring role as the Mets beat the Montreal Expos, 6–2. The Mets thereby salvaged a split of their four games in Olympic Stadium. The victory keeps the Mets half a game ahead of the Cardinals, who also won today.
The Reds downed the Dodgers, 10–6. Gary Redus hit a three-run homer and Nick Esasky delivered a two-run double as the Reds scored nine runs in the sixth inning to defeat Fernando Valenzuela (17–10). The Reds overcame a five-run deficit to earn a split of their four-game series and remain eight and a half games behind the first-place Dodgers in the National League West. The Dodgers’ magic number for clinching the division is 13. Los Angeles handed Valenzuela a 6–1 lead after five innings, using a balanced attack against the rookie left-hander Tom Browning. But the Reds sent 12 batters to the plate in the sixth to rescue Browning (17–9), who has the most victories by a rookie pitcher this season in the major leagues. Dave Parker’s RBI single opened the scoring in the sixth, and Esasky’s two-run double made it 6–4. Run-producing singles by Dave Concepcion and Bo Diaz tied it, and reliever Carlos Diaz came on to give up a go-ahead single to Ron Oester.
The Pirates edged the Phillies, 5–4, after Denny Gonzalez’s infield single broke a 4–4 tie in the eighth inning. Rick Reuschel (13–7) pitched his seventh straight complete game. He allowed seven hits and one walk while striking out six. The reliever Dave Shipanoff (1–2) took the loss.
Cesar Cedeno went 5 for 5 and drove in four runs, two with a homer, and Danny Cox won his 16th game today as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago Cubs, 5–1. The victory kept the Cardinals a half game ahead of New York in the National League East. Cedeno, who hit two doubles, recorded the fourth five-hit game of his career. He is now 18 for 36 with 13 runs batted in for St. Louis since being acquired from Cincinnati in late August.
Glenn Davis blasted a solo shot in the bottom of the eighth off Craig Lefferts (7–6) for a 2–1 Astros victory over San Diego. Jose Cruz notched the 2,000th hit of his career.
Reggie Jackson hit a three-run homer in the first inning, and the Angels added five runs in the eighth as they trounced the Rangers, 12–4. Kirk McCaskill (10–11) threw the first six and a third innings to snap his four-game losing streak. Stu Cliburn finished the game with scoreless relief to earn his sixth save. The Angels built a 5–0 lead before McCaskill gave up a two-run homer to Larry Parrish and a homer to Duane Walker in the sixth inning. Gary Pettis, now 20 for 52 in September, led off the Angel first with a single, stole second and took third on a passed ball. With one out, Rod Carew got aboard on a fielder’s choice with Pettis holding at third. Jackson followed with his 24th homer.
The Red Sox beat the Brewers, 4–2. Jeff Sellers won in his big league debut, and Dwight Evans collected three hits. The Red Sox broke a 2–2 tie in the sixth. Tony Armas led off with a walk and the pinch-runner Steve Lyons took second on a fly ball to left. Mike Easler moved Lyons to third with an infield hit and Glenn Hoffman drove in the go-ahead run with a single.
George Brett hit a three-run homer and Bud Black threw a four-hitter in the second game to help the Royals beat the A’s, 7–2, and salvage a split of their doubleheader. With the split, the Royals saw their lead in the American League West shrink to two and a half games.Brett tagged a fastball from the reliever Keith Atherton over the center- field fence for his 25th home run of the year in the fifth inning, tying a career high and giving the Royals a 5–1 lead. Black (9–14) struck out eight batters and did not walk any in his first victory since August 9. In the first game, Mike Heath’s three-run homer broke a 1–1 tie in the fourth inning and sent Oakland to a 4–2 victory.
Usually reliable Orioles’ shortstop Cal Ripken made a two-out wild throw that triggered a three-run rally in the eighth at Detroit that gave the Tigers a 4–1 victory.
Carlton Fisk had three hits and drove in two runs at Seattle to power the White Sox to a 6–3 victory over the Mariners. The White Sox catcher has driven in 96 runs this season.
The Twins topped the Indians, 5–2. In his first appearance against his old mates since the Indians traded him to the Twins, Bert Blyleven improved his record to 14-15. He needed help in the ninth and failed to get his 21st complete game.
Doyle Alexander, the new ace of the staff, pitched seven strong innings Sunday at New York and the surprising Toronto Blue Jays outlasted the Yankees, 8–5, for their third win in a row to build their lead in the East to 4 ½ games. Alexander held the Yankees to three hits in seven innings and departed with one out in the eighth after giving up two more hits. The Yankees made it look close when Ken Griffey hit a two-run homer in the ninth, but the Blue Jays seem to have taken command of the race. The game and possibly the race was decided in the third inning when the Blue Jays knocked out Ed Whitson (10–8) with four consecutive hits and went on to score six runs.
The Yankees trade minor league pitcher Jim Deshaies and two other minor leaguers to be named later to the Astros for 40-year-old Joe Niekro, reuniting the Niekro brothers as teammates for the first time since 1974 with the Braves.
San Francisco Giants 1, Atlanta Braves 4
Texas Rangers 4, California Angels 12
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Chicago Cubs 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Cincinnati Reds 10
Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 2
Baltimore Orioles 1, Detroit Tigers 4
San Diego Padres 1, Houston Astros 2
Boston Red Sox 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
New York Mets 6, Montreal Expos 2
Toronto Blue Jays 8, New York Yankees 5
Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 4
Kansas City Royals 7, Oakland Athletics 2
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle Mariners 3
NFL Football:
Dave Krieg fired five touchdown passes, four of them to the wide receiver Daryl Turner, and Curt Warner rushed for 169 yards and a pair of scores as Seattle rolled to a wild 49–35 victory today over San Diego. The Seahawks, now 2–0, prevailed convincingly despite a brilliant passing performance by the San Diego quarterback Dan Fouts, who completed 29 of 43 passes for 440 yards and four touchdowns. After trailing by 23–14 at halftime, Seattle exploded for four touchdowns in the third quarter as Krieg completed 12 of 14 throws in the period for 192 yards. Three of his completions went for touchdowns. Warner, who carried 28 times, scored his second touchdown of the game on a 1-yard plunge with 15 seconds remaining in the period to give the Seahawks a 42–29 advantage. He scored earlier on a 3-yard run. Krieg, who completed 22 of 32 passes for 307 yards, threw a 34-yard touchdown pass to Turner in the second quarter and connected with the fleet wide receiver on scoring throws of 15, 30 and 7 yards in the second half. Krieg also tossed a 6-yard touchdown pass to Steve Largent.
The Los Angeles offense sputtered, but the Rams’ defense collected five sacks, recovered three fumbles and intercepted four passes in pacing a 17–6 victory over Philadelphia. The unbeaten Rams earned their second victory with an 80-yard punt return for a touchdown by Henry Ellard, plus Mike Lansford’s 33-yard field goal in the opening period and a 17-yard touchdown burst by Charles White in the final quarter. The Eagles gambled and lost in their effort to put points on the board by replacing the veteran quarterback Ron Jaworski with the rookie Randall Cunningham. Cunningham did a respectable job as he completed 14 of 34 passes for 211 yards and ran for 90 more, but he was unable to direct a touchdown drive because of the poor pass protection and fumbles.
The Washington Redskins flirted with danger time and again today, and time and again they wiggled free. The result was a 16–13 victory over the Houston Oilers, to even the Redskins’ record at 1–1 and help them find some of the confidence they left in Dallas last Monday night, when they lost to the Cowboys, 44–14. The Oilers, who upset the Miami Dolphins last Sunday, are also 1–1. The Redskins were lucky. The Oilers had two apparent touchdowns called back because of penalties, and they just missed with another, after officials ruled that the receiver caught a pass just beyond the end zone. The Redskins also benefited from a pair of missed field-goal attempts by Tony Zendejas in the fourth quarter, either of which would have tied the score, 16–16. Not to mention 12 penalties called against the Oilers.
The cornerback Rufus Bess set up two touchdowns with a fumble recovery and a blocked punt to overcome a brilliant effort by James Wilder and spark Minnesota over Tampa Bay, 31–16. The Vikings, who stunned San Francisco with a 28–21 victory last week, jumped to their first 2–0 start in 10 years while the Buccaneers dropped to 0–2 for the fourth consecutive season. Wilder set two Buccaneer club records as he rushed for 113 yards on 22 carries and caught 13 passes for an additional 71 yards. The Pro Bowl tailback replaced the late Ricky Bell as the top career rusher in Tampa Bay history and he broke his own single-game team mark for receptions.
Dan Marino, ignoring his first Orange Bowl boos, passed for 329 yards and two touchdowns to lead Miami past Indianapolis, 30–13. In his first home game since he held out in a contract dispute, Marino hit 29 of 48 passes. He was booed when he first trotted onto the field and again when his first pass was behind Mark Duper and fell incomplete. But he connected on the next two attempts and the 53,693 fans were on his side. Marino, who turned 24 today, hit Mark Clayton on 6-yard score in the second period and Nat Moore from 3 yards out in the fourth quarter. The Colts, beaten 45–3 last week by Pittsburgh, led 7–6 after a 2-yard touchdown pass from Mike Pagel to Pat Beach in the second period, and trailed only 16–7 at the end of three periods. But on the second play of the final quarter, the Miami running back Tony Nathan bulled through the middle of the line and then ran 21 yards for a touchdown that made it 23–7.
The New York Jets beat the Buffalo Bills, 42–3, paced by Freeman McNeil’s rushing 192 yards for a club record, and by the return of the three holdouts whose continued absence might have wrecked the team. Instead, the Jets looked, simply, awesome, against a team that now has won only 2 of its last 18 games under Coach Kay Stephenson. Ken O’Brien threw for two touchdowns; McNeil and Tony Paige each scored twice; and O’Brien completed 16 of 24 passes, amassing 181 yards. He was not intercepted.
Neil Lomax atoned for an early fumble by tossing touchdown passes of 27 and 25 yards to Earl Ferrell and Roy Green to lead St. Louis over Cincinnati, 41–27. Neil O’Donoghue booted field goals of 46 and 49 yards for St. Louis, the first putting the Cards ahead to stay at 17–14 as time expired in the second quarter. Lomax, before unwinding to pass for 250 yards, was stripped of the ball when sacked on the Cards’ first play, setting up Stanford Jennings for a Bengals score. Ken Anderson found the second-year running back from the St. Louis 4-yard line on Cincinnati’s fourth play. But the Cards answered with a fumble recovery of their own that spawned Ferrell’s touchdown and later rebounded again after Anderson and Eddie Brown hooked up on a 44-yard Bengals touchdown pass play.
The Giants were defeated, 23–20, by a Green Bay Packers team that capitalized on Giants’ mistakes. Even when they had a final chance to compensate for their failures, the onus fell to their kicker, Ali Haji-Sheikh, whose left leg was bandaged from his ankle to his thigh. His 47-yard field-goal attempt with 1 minute 6 seconds remaining fell about 6 yards short and raised an immediate question: Should Coach Bill Parcells, knowing his kicker had pulled his left hamstring muscle earlier in the day on a kickoff, have elected to keep the ball with the offense on the 30-yard line? The situation was fourth down with a tad less than 3 yards to go for the first down. “We called a timeout,” said Parcells. “I asked him if he thought he could make it. He said yes.” The Giants were put into this compromising circumstance partly because of Lawrence Taylor, the league’s most acclaimed linebacker, who stepped offside just when it seemed that the Giants had stopped the Packers from making a first down. His lapse negated a 5-yard Packer gain on a third-and-10 play from the Giant 28, keeping alive a 75-yard drive that brought Green Bay back from a 20-17 deficit. Finally, with 4:07 to play, Eddie Lee Ivery reached the end zone from a yard out. But the place kicker Albert Del Greco missed the extra point, creating the possibility of a tie.
Eric Hipple passed for one touchdown and ran for one and the Detroit defense forced five Dallas turnovers today as the Lions held off the Cowboys for a 26–21 victory, their second straight under Darryl Rogers, their new coach. Hipple, who completed 10 of 23 passes for 141 yards, flipped a 21-yard scoring pass to Jeff Chadwick in the first quarter and ran 1 yard for a touchdown in the third quarter. The Cowboys, who appeared flat after their emotional victory over Washington Monday night, didn’t score until the fourth quarter when Gary Hogeboom came on for the injured Danny White. Hogeboom fired touchdown passes of 11 and 44 yards to Tony Hill and ran 1 yard for the Cowboys’ final score with 20 seconds remaining. Hogeboom completed 17 of 24 passes for 255 yards. White finished with 23 of 38 for 226 yards and 3 interceptions.
Roger Craig’s 62-yard touchdown run, his fifth touchdown in two games, highlighted a 35-point second-half explosion that carried San Francisco over Atlanta, 35–16. The 49ers, losers to Minnesota in their opener a week ago, trailed Atlanta, 10–0, at halftime of their first home game of the season, and they heard some boos from the sellout Candlestick Park crowd. But the boos turned to cheers as San Francisco spurted to a 28–13 lead. Craig ran 9 yards for the 49ers’ first touchdown and Joe Montana scored the go-ahead touchdown on a one-yard quarterback sneak.
John Elway threw for a career-high 353 yards and four touchdowns, including a 65-yard bomb to Butch Johnson, to lead the Denver Broncos over New Orleans, 34–23. Elway’s performance marked the second straight game a quarterback has thrown for more than 300 yards against the Saints. Kansas City’s Bill Kenney passed for 397 yards against New Orleans last week.
Mike Singletary, the Bears’ middle linebacker, registered three sacks and intercepted a pass today to lead Chicago over New England, 20–7. The Patriots were able to cross into Chicago territory only once until Tony Eason hit Craig James with a 90-yard touchdown pass in the fourth quarter. Jim McMahon threw a 32-yard pass to Dennis McKinnon for a touchdown on the Bears’ first possession and set up another with a 43-yard pass to Willie Gault before leaving the game with a stiff neck. McMahon completed 13 of 21 passes for 232 yards. Walter Payton left the game in the third quarter with bruised ribs after gaining 39 yards in 11 attempts. Kevin Butler booted field goals of 21 and 28 yards, the second being set up when Singletary intercepted an Eason pass and returned it 23 yards to the New England 19-yard line. The Bears sacked Eason six times for losses totaling 55 yards. But Eason put the Patriots on the board with 9:03 left with his pass to James, the longest touchdown pass in Patriot history.
Seattle Seahawks 49, San Diego Chargers 35
Los Angeles Rams 17, Philadelphia Eagles 6
Houston Oilers 13, Washington Redskins 16
Minnesota Vikings 31, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 16
Indianapolis Colts 13, Miami Dolphins 30
Buffalo Bills 3, New York Jets 42
Cincinnati Bengals 27, St. Louis Cardinals 41
New York Giants 20, Green Bay Packers 23
Dallas Cowboys 21, Detroit Lions 26
Atlanta Falcons 16, San Francisco 49ers 35
New Orleans Saints 23, Denver Broncos 34
New England Patriots 7, Chicago Bears 20
Born:
Chris Clemons, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins, Arizona Cardinals), in Arcadia, Florida.
Died:
(Charles) “Cootie” Williams, 74, American jazz, jump-blues, and R&B trumpeter (Duke Ellington Orchestra, 1929-40 & 1962-74), of kidney disease.
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