The United States and the Soviet Union resumed negotiations on nuclear and space weapons in Geneva today with no sign of a break in the six-month-old deadlock. The two-hour session, the first in a series of meetings expected to last six weeks, like the previous two rounds, is the last opportunity for progress on the issues of medium- and long-range nuclear weapons and space defense before the planned meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, here in November. The chief negotiators, Max M. Kampelman of the United States and Viktor P. Karpov of the Soviet Union, appeared jovial and friendly at a brief public session before facing each other across the negotiating table at the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency building on the outskirts of downtown Geneva. At his news conference Tuesday, President Reagan ruled out negotiations with the Soviet Union on the development and testing of his proposed missile defense in space in exchange for deep cuts in the Soviet nuclear arsenal. The program is known officially as the Strategic Defense Initiative and popularly referred to as “Star Wars.”
As he entered the grimy Arms Control and Disarmament Agency building for the talks this morning at 11, Mr. Karpov said in reply to a question about Mr. Reagan’s statement that progress in the current round was now solely up the United States. “I have instructions to reach effective solutions during the negotiations, solutions that will lead to the nonmilitarization of space and terminating the arms race on earth,” he said, speaking to reporters in Russian. “And concerning progress, this depends on our negotiating partner. If they show a willingness to reach effective solutions, then there will be progress. And if they don’t show willingness, then there won’t be progress.” Mr. Kampelman, who in an arrival statement Monday challenged the Russians to make good on hints perceived in recent interviews and statements by Mr. Gorbachev of a possible Soviet willingness to discuss some aspects of the “Star Wars” plan, made no public statement today. But when asked by a reporter if he had a “special goal” in this session, he replied, “The goal is agreement and stability.”
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said today that the United States should reduce the number of Soviet citizens it allows to work and travel here in order to curtail their collection of American military technology. The Defense Secretary, speaking at a news conference the day after his department released a study detailing a widespread Soviet quest for American military technology, said that the number of Russians in the United States was “far out of proportion” to the number of Americans in the Soviet Union and that “a reduction in numbers would be a useful start.” Mr. Weinberger asserted that “the Soviets don’t send people to countries like the United States unless they are fully equipped, fully trained, and either part of K.G.B., or might just as well be.” Mr. Weinberger took several opportunities at today’s wide-ranging news conference to reiterate his harsh view of Soviet behavior and intentions.
France’s intelligence agency will be overhauled by order of President François Mitterrand. The order was issued after press reports that senior French officials had apparently authorized the sinking of an antinuclear protest ship in New Zealand. French President Mitterrand directed his premier to shake up the secret service, which has been accused of sinking the Greenpeace ship that was to lead a flotilla protesting French nuclear tests in the South Pacific. Mitterrand’s office made public his letter to Premier Laurent Fabius noting that the French press was uncovering “new elements” and complaining of “lack of necessary information from the competent services.” France admitted that its espionage agents were in Auckland, New Zealand, when the Rainbow Warrior was sunk July 10, but denied placing the bombs.
A Turkish witness for the prosecution in the papal plot trial today contradicted Mehmet Ali Ağca’s assertion that Bulgarians had organized and paid for the assassination attempt on Pope John Paul II in 1981. The witness, Yalcin Ozbey, based his testimony on what he said two other Turks, Oral Celik and Sedat Sirri Kadem, told him. Mr. Ağca has testified that both Mr. Celik and Mr. Kadem were his accomplices in St. Peter’s Square when he shot and seriously wounded the Pope on May 13, 1981.
The American clergyman freed by Shiite militants Saturday has told President Reagan that his captors continued to insist they would not release the six American hostages still there until the United States secured the release of 17 convicted terrorists held in Kuwait. The clergyman, the Rev. Benjamin Weir, had been held for 16 months. Mr. Weir, a 61-year-old Presbyterian minister whose release over the weekend was announced on Wednesday, said his captors had asked him to convey the message to the President. He said Mr. Reagan did not respond directly to him. Mr. Weir said he had told the President that the militants, who are believed to be holding six other Americans, warned that the remaining hostages might be executed if Kuwait did not release the 17, who were convicted of terrorist assaults on Western diplomatic installations.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, in Amman, signed a deal with Jordan to supply British arms worth $360 million. The sale includes military vehicles and electronic-warfare and field-communications equipment, as well as tank ammunition and spare parts. Thatcher later toured Jordan’s largest Palestinian refugee camp and told residents that they have been extremely patient in waiting for a Mideast settlement.
The Palestinian group Black September claimed responsibility for killing Jordanian publisher Michel Nimri in Athens, and a Muslim group said it was behind an explosion in a Rome cafe Tuesday. Statements to a Beirut news agency described Nimri-shot to death outside the offices of his Athensbased magazine An Nashra-as a “spy and agent” working for Western intelligence agencies. The “Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims” said it blew up “an American-British intelligence den” at the Cafe de Paris in Rome, wounding 39 people.
The police arrested one of two junior officers accused of fatally shooting two television journalists during the unsuccessful coup last week, the newspaper Thai Rath reported today. Thailand’s largest newspaper said the police arrested Lieutenant Dendaung Pimwatana, a tank commander. Also wanted on an arrest warrant was Lieut. Nakarintara Nakathit, Lieutenant Dendaung’s fellow tank commander, who fled after the coup was crushed, the newspaper said. The Thai military said several low-ranking soldiers were among 34 people arrested or sought for treason in the coup but refused to confirm the role of Lieutenants Dendaung and Nakarintara in the deaths of the journalists, Neil Davis and William Latch. Mr. Davis, 52 years old, a cameraman for NBC News, and Mr. Latch, 35, a sound technician, were killed when tanks fired on an army radio station during the attempted coup. NBC executives charged one of the tanks deliberately fired on Mr. Davis and Mr. Latch and demanded that the soldiers involved and their superiors be tried for murder.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry gave its official blessing to antiJapanese demonstrations by 1,000 university students in Peking earlier this week. In an official statement, the ministry said that Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s visit last month to a Tokyo shrine commemorating Japan’s war dead ignored Chinese protests and resulted in “hurting seriously the feelings of the Chinese people.”
The Philippine Army was placed on full alert today as anti-Government activists called for strikes and a mock trial of President Ferdinand E. Marcos to mark the 13th anniversary Saturday of the declaration of martial law. Military headquarters said Lieutenant General Fidel Ramos, the nation’s military chief, also ordered regional commanders to adopt measures to prevent Communist rebels from using the demonstrations to promote violence. Militant student groups, workers, farmers and human rights campaigners have said they will paralyze major areas as part of a national protest against the Marcos Government. Other opposition groups said they would stage a mock trial of Mr. Marcos and his wife, Imelda, at a Manila stadium for violation of the Constitution and of human rights, accumulation of wealth and other serious crimes.
The United States and New Zealand failed agree today on a formula for ending their dispute over nuclear policy, State Department officials said. New Zealand’s deputy prime minister met in Washington with top Administration leaders to discuss repairing the rift caused by his country’s anti-nuclear policies, but the Pentagon and State Department later said nothing was resolved. Geoffrey Palmer met with both Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and Secretary of State George P. Shultz to discuss a compromise on New Zealand’s refusal to allow port visits by U.S. Navy ships without a guarantee that they are not carrying nuclear weapons.
The Mexico City area is struck by the first of two devastating quakes (8.0) that officially claim 9,500 lives. A powerful earthquake rocked central and southwestern Mexico, devastating parts of Mexico City and three coastal states. The event caused serious damage to the Greater Mexico City area and the deaths of at least 5,000 people. The sequence of events included a foreshock of magnitude 5.2 that occurred the prior May, the main shock on 19 September, and two large aftershocks. The first of these occurred on 20 September with a magnitude of 7.5 and the second occurred seven months later on 30 April 1986 with a magnitude of 7.0. They were located off the coast along the Middle America Trench, more than 350 kilometres (220 mi) away, but the city suffered major damage due to its large magnitude and the ancient lake bed on which Mexico City sits. The event caused between three and five billion USD in damage as 412 buildings collapsed and another 3,124 were seriously damaged in the city.
Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid and the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) were widely criticized for what was perceived as an inefficient response to the emergency, including an initial refusal of foreign aid.
The epicenter of the earthquake lies along the front where the Pacific floor drives under the Central American coast, tearing at the underpinnings of the continent. The relentless pressure has caused scores of earthquakes along this line.
Bolivia declared a state of siege and arrested 150 labor leaders who refused to end a 16-day-old general strike against a wage freeze intended to fight raging inflation. President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s conservative government told tens of thousands of strikers that they will be fired unless they return to work, but most stayed home. Riot police raided the Congress building, five union halls, a radio station, San Andres University and the state mining company, unionists said.
Guerrillas are besieging Ugandan Government troops in the western town of Mbarara, leaving hundreds of civilians dead and forcing hundreds of others to flee, witnesses were quoted as saying today. The Roman Catholic daily newspaper Munno quoted travelers who fled the town as saying the rebels, stepping up their offensive two months after the coup that ousted President Milton Obote, were allowing no road traffic in or out. They said troops and civilians from Mbarara, 150 miles west of Kampala, flooded into Masaka 80 miles to the east, spreading panic in Uganda’s third largest town.
President Reagan greeted the President of the People’s Republic of Mozambique Samora Moises Machel. The two held talks and then joined in a call for a “rapid end” to Apartheid in South Africa. Reagan met today with the President of the Marxist-ruled nation of Mozambique and told him he was “distressed” to learn that South Africa had violated a nonaggression pact with his country. But Mr. Reagan and the Mozambican leader, Samora M. Machel, agreed in a two-hour meeting at the White House today that the treaty, which was signed by the South African and Mozambican Governments in March, 1984, was worth preserving, a senior official said. American officials had previously called the agreement a triumph for United States policy in the region, but the official, who spoke today on the condition his name not be used, appeared to be trying to play down the American role in brokering the agreement, which is known as the Nkomati accord. “We are distressed to hear the recent news which has come to light, which includes allegations that the South Africans have in various respects not respected some of the commitments in the Nkomati agreement, a point which appears to be confirmed by the South African Government itself in a statement today,” said the official. The official said that Mr. Reagan used the term “distressed” in his conversations with Mr. Machel.
Amid conflicting reports about its latest invasion of Angola, South Africa acknowledged today that its forces had also violated an nonaggression pact with neighboring Mozambique. The agreement with Mozambique had been seen as a cornerstone of United States regional diplomacy. Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha, at a meeting with Mozambican officials at Komatipoort on their common border, was reported to have countered word of South African violations by accusing Mozambique of infringing on the agreement too. The admission of South African violations was made shortly before President Samora M. Machel of Mozambique met in Washington today with President Reagan.
South Africa’s highest court ruled that the forced removal of 300 black farm families from Mogope early in 1984 was illegal. Lawyers said it is uncertain whether the families can return to their ancestral land 120 miles west of Johannesburg but that the unanimous ruling does mean that no more such forced removals from “black spot” villages can be ordered without approval of Parliament. Forced removals to tribal homelands have been one of the most criticized aspects of apartheid.
Undaunted by gloomy predictions from top congressional leaders, President Reagan remains “strongly committed” to passage of a tax reform bill by the end of the year, the White House said today. White House spokesman Edward P. Djerejian said Reagan believes that “it is both possible and very important for the Senate to join the House in completing their work on a tax bill this year. We think there’s plenty of time.” House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole (R-Kansas), have agreed that there is insufficient time for a bill to clear the House and the Senate.
Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole announced plans today to add nearly 1,000 air traffic controllers over the next two years and 500 aircraft safety inspectors over the next three years. The announcement came after Mrs. Dole gave President Reagan and some Cabinet members a “status report,” as she described it, on the Transportation Department’s efforts to improve air safety. The plans to increase the number of air traffic controllers and aircraft safety inspectors at the Federal Aviation Administration come after more than a dozen air crashes this year, an increase in near collisions on the ground and in the air, and growing concern over whether the incidents may reflect on the quality of traffic control and enforcement of regulations.
Illegal immigration would be curtailed by a comprehensive bill that the Senate passed by a vote of 69 to 30. The measure would prohibit employers from hiring illegal aliens, provide more funds for enforcement of immigration laws, and offer legal status to illegal aliens who entered the United States before January 1, 1980, and had lived here continuously since then. The final vote, after seven days of debate, was closer than the margins by which the Senate passed similar bills in 1982 and 1983. Those votes were 80 to 19 and 76 to 18. Opponents of the bill, especially growers of fruits and vegetables, were better organized this year.
President Reagan’s trade policies came under accelerated attack from Congress as a House subcommittee approved legislation that would reduce imports of textiles and apparel by up to 40 percent. The caucus of House Democrats also adopted a resolution directing House committees to report legislation by the end of October that would overhaul the nation’s trade policy.
A controversial agricultural bill passed the Republican-controlled Senate Agriculture Committee by a vote of 10-to-6 although it was opposed by the panel’s chairman and the White House because it would exceed the 1986 budget adopted by Congress in July. Three Republicans voted for the bill, including the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, of the farm state of Kansas.
The House gave final congressional approval to the release of $4.8 billion in federal money for interstate highways and mass transit, sending the bill to President Reagan. The measure was passed by a voice vote in the House, following similarly quick action on the Senate floor on July 30. The bill sets out the amounts each state will receive in fiscal 1986, which begins October 1.
The House Ethics Committee said that it has begun a preliminary inquiry into Democratic Rep. Dan Daniel’s acceptance of free rides on an airplane owned by a corporation. The action, the first step in a process that could lead to formal charges or exoneration of the Virginia Democrat, was announced in a statement by the committee’s chairman, Rep. Julian C. Dixon (D-California). Daniel, senior member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in a statement that he will cooperate with the investigation.
The head of the Civil Rights Commission accused a House subcommittee chairman of racism for questioning on why more women and minorities were not appointed to the commission’s new state advisory panels. “I heard a lot of racism in there today,” Clarence M. Pendleton Jr., told reporters after he appeared before the Judiciary subcommittee on civil and constitutional rights. Rep. Don Edwards (D-California), the subcommittee chairman, who is white, repeatedly questioned Pendleton, who is black, about what he called “a noticeable decrease in the number of minorities and women” on the newly appointed State Advisory Committees.
Seventeen more striking Rhode Island teachers were sent to jail yesterday for defying a back-to-work order, bringing to 53 the number of union members imprisoned in a 12-day strike. In Seattle, site of the nation’s largest teacher strike, members of the school board and union officials agreed to negotiate for the first time since the walkout began 13 days ago.
The “epidemic of fear” about AIDS that has swept the country is “absolutely unnecessary,” three Federal scientists responsible for research on the disease said. At an unusual news seminar called to allay the growing public alarm, the scientists cited an array of statistics and studies indicating that the disease did not appear to be spreading appreciably into the heterosexual population from its current concentration among male homosexuals and intravenous drug addicts. They said the data showed that the disease posed an infinitesimal risk to schoolchildren and others who had only casual contact with victims of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The disease, which destroys the body’s immune system, is almost invariably fatal.
More than 2,500 people, including Elizabeth Taylor, Shirley MacLaine and Mayor Tom Bradley, crowded into the Westin Bonaventure ballroom here tonight to raise money for AIDS victims, a cause that was far from popular a few months ago. The sponsors of the “Commitment to Life” dinner, the AIDS Project Los Angeles, set the target of raising $1 million. The dinner had originally been scheduled in the much smaller Century Plaza Hotel ballroom, but after Rock Hudson announced last July that he was suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome, the deadly disorder that attacks the body’s immune system, the response became so great that the dinner had to be moved to a larger hall. “I’ve handled a hundred dinners and when the news started about Rock Hudson, I’ve never seen anything take off like this one,” said Lucille Polachek of Events Unlimited, which handled sales of tickets at $250 to $500 a person.
When Jozef Cardinal Glemp, the Primate of Poland, visited Villanova University today, he was greeted by sights and sounds he might encounter at any college in the land: rock-and-roll blaring from a car radio, students munching burgers at the Connelly Center snack bar and young women wearing slightly punkish haircuts. In the lecture hall the prelate in red scullcap and dignified black cassock gazed at students in shorts and cutoff jeans. But when the proceedings began, Villanova’s Roman Catholic heritage asserted itself full force. A solid phalanx of black-clad priests lined the walls as ancient supplications were intoned — in Polish, as befit both Cardinal Glemp’s nationality and greater Philadelphia’s ethnic profile.
Militant right-wing groups are conducting a recruiting and propaganda effort among financially troubled farmers in the Middle West. In newsletters and meetings, farmers, who are experiencing their worst financial crisis since the 1930’s, are being urged to stop paying taxes and, in some cases, to arm themselves. The extremist organizations, some of them militantly anti-Semitic, range from Ku Klux Klan splinter groups to a reborn Populist Party.
Citing a farm economy that “went to hell in a handbasket” this summer, Iowa Governor Terry E. Branstad has proposed a 3.85 percent across-the-board cut in the state’s $2.2 billion budget. Governor Branstad said Wednesday that the cuts, totaling $91 million, would force state government to do what farmers and businessmen had already done, “pare back and adjust to the economic realities of today.”
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled that Unit 1 of the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, can be restarted next week unless it is blocked by an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, in a 10-2 vote, refused to hear an appeal from the state and other parties that say more safety hearings are needed. The court said it will keep its order closing the plant in effect until 4 PM Wednesday. Unit 1, shut down for refueling at the time, was not damaged when the adjacent Unit 2 suffered the worst accident in the history of commercial nuclear power plants on March 28, 1979.
New York state and city officials gave up a 10-year fight and abandoned Manhattan’s proposed $2billion Westway highway and real estate development project. Governor Mario M. Cuomo and Mayor Edward I. Koch said they will seek to use the project’s federal funding for mass transit and a smaller substitute road, as opponents had urged since Westway was proposed in 1974.
Government medical researchers reported the first cases of gonorrhea that cannot be treated with tetracycline, a drug often prescribed for patients allergic to penicillin. Twelve cases of tetracycline-resistant gonorrhea have been identified since February — nine in the Atlanta area and three in Philadelphia, according to the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
The U.S. Senate holds hearings on labeling records to warn of explicit lyrics; representatives from the Parents Music Resource Center (PMRC) testify in support, and musicians Dee Snider, Frank Zappa, and John Denver speak in opposition.
Major League Baseball:
The Cincinnati Reds score 9 runs in the 9th inning to blow out the host Braves, 15–6. Dave Parker’s second grand slam of the month, hit off Bruce Sutter, is the big blow in the frame. Pete Rose reached another hitting milestone with his 100th hit of the season, a sixth-inning single that gave him at least 100 hits for a record 23d straight year. Rose, who broke Ty Cobb’s career hit mark last week, had been tied with Cobb and Carl Yastrzemski with 22 straight 100-hit seasons. Tom Browning (18-9) scattered nine hits as the Reds won their fifth straight and the Braves lost their fourth straight game.
Vince Coleman steals his 100th base of the season and teammate Tom Herr drives in his 100th run, but the Cardinals lose. The Cardinals had a seven-game winning streak snapped tonight as they lost to the Phillies, 6–3, and saw their lead over the Mets in the National League East cut to one game. Philadelphia’s Don Carman pitched three strong innings in relief and Ozzie Virgil and Luis Aguayo drove in two runs each. The Philllies’ Dave Rucker (3–1), making his first start since May 18, 1983, when he was with Detroit, pitched the first five innings. Carman earned his sixth save.
The New York Mets beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-1, as Sid Fernandez pitched one-hit ball for eight innings. The other game the Mets were watching was being played on the large television set in the manager’s office, and that, too, was a smash for the Mets. In Philadelphia, the St. Louis Cardinals were losing, 6-3. Fernandez, who had won only one game in his last five starts, won this one in style with 11 strikeouts. The only hit he allowed was a home run in the third inning by Gary Matthews. The heavy hitters in the batting order did some exceptionally heavy hitting in clusters. In the second inning, Gary Carter and Darryl Strawberry nailed Ray Fontenot for consecutive home runs, three pitches apart. In the third, George Foster hit a two-out, two-run home run. The three of them have now hit 73 of the team’s 122 home runs.
Craig Reynolds had two triples and a single and drove in the go-ahead run to pace a 17-hit attack that carried Houston to its ninth straight victory, beating the Dodgers, 6–5. The Dodgers’ lead over the Reds in the National League West was cut to 5 ½ games. Los Angeles has lost four of its last five games. Dave Smith picked up his 25th save in relief of Bob Knepper (15–10), who recorded his fifth straight victory. The Dodgers loaded the bases with one out in the ninth, but Enos Cabell forced Luis Gonzalez, a pinch-runner, at the plate. Then Greg Bock, pinch-hitting, grounded out. Houston, which has won 20 of its last 23 games, touched Bob Welch (11–4) for a run in the first and took the lead for good with three runs in the third.
Hubie Brook hits his second grand slam in a week but Montreal falls short, losing to the visiting Pirates, 8–6, in 10 innings. R.J. Reynolds hit a homer in the top of the 10th inning to give the Pirates the victory at Montreal.
The Padres routed the Giants, 11–3. Left-hander Dave Dravecky, a frequent loser this season because of a lack of hitting support, got plenty of support in this game at San Francisco as the Padres jumped on loser Atlee Hammaker (4–12) for an 8–0 lead after two innings, helping Dravecky (11–11) snap a three-game losing streak. The victory put the Padres, last year’s league champions, back at .500 with a 73-73 record.
The Detroit Tigers hit five more home runs, giving them 13 in the three-game series, and completed a sweep of New York with a 10–3 victory, extending the Yankees’ losing streak to seven. Darrell Evans had two more homers, giving him five in the series and 36 this season, one more than Carlton Fisk of the Chicago White Sox, who had been the American League leader. The Yankees, who have 16 games to play, fell another half-game behind Toronto, which had the night off and now leads the by five and a half games. But the most discouraging aspect to their fall is the fact the Yankees have dropped four games in the standing over the last seven days — while at the same time the Blue Jays lost two games and had two days off. The Yankees started Joe Niekro tonight, but his success was no better than that of his brother Phil, who was beaten Wednesday evening in his second bid for career victory No. 300. Joe Niekro, whose last appearance in an American League game was 13 years ago today when he pitched for Detroit, never made it out of the second inning. He gave up a home run to John Grubb, a two-run single to Alan Trammell, a run-scoring double to Kirk Gibson and a two-run homer to Evans before being replaced by Rod Scurry.
The California Angels moved into a tie for first place with Kansas City in the American League West by defeating the White Sox, 8–0, tonight. California’s Reggie Jackson hit two home runs and drove in three runs to back John Candelaria’s six-hit shutout. The Angels scored one run off Tom Seaver (13–11) in the third inning and three in the seventh. The Angels and the Royals both have 16 games left.
In Kansas City, Missouri, ninth-inning doubles by Alvin Davis and Dave Henderson helped give the Seattle Mariners a 6–4 victory over the Royals. Davis doubled to lead off the ninth against the reliever Dan Quisenberry (9–7). A pinch-runner, Ricky Nelson, moved to third on a sacrifice and scored when Henderson doubled down the left-field line. Henderson scored on a single by John Moses.
The Brewers beat the Orioles, 5–2. Rookie Billy Joe Robidoux and Cecil Cooper hit home runs, and Bob McClure saved rookie Bill Wegman’s first major league victory as the Brewers won at Baltimore.
Cincinnati Reds 15, Atlanta Braves 5
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 2
California Angels 8, Chicago White Sox 0
New York Yankees 3, Detroit Tigers 10
Seattle Mariners 6, Kansas City Royals 4
Houston Astros 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Montreal Expos 6
Chicago Cubs 1, New York Mets 5
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 6
San Diego Padres 11, San Francisco Giants 3
NFL Thursday Night Football:
Jim McMahon, who was placed in traction earlier this week because of neck injuries, threw three third-quarter touchdown passes tonight to power the Chicago Bears to a 33–24 victory over the Minnesota Vikings. He entered the game in the third quarter and completed 8 of 15 passes for 236 yards to help the Bears improve their record to 3–0. The Viking quarterback Tommy Kramer was able to avoid the Chicago pass rush and completed 28 of 55 for 436 yards and three touchdowns. But he was intercepted three times. Minnesota (2–1) led, 17–9, lead after Kramer’s second touchdown pass, a 9-yard strike to Mike Jones, before McMahon relieved Steve Fuller in the third quarter and threw for touchdowns on his first two passes. McMahon hurled a 70-yard scoring strike to Gault on the quarterback’s first play to pull the Bears within 17–16 with 7 minutes 13 seconds left in the quarter. Gault finished with 6 receptions for a career-high 146 yards and Dennis McKinnon caught 4 for 133 yards. McMahon threw a 25-yard touchdown pass to McKinnon with 5:25 left in the period. McMahon capped a 68-yard drive with his third touchdown, hitting McKinnon for 43 yards with 33 seconds left in the quarter to open a 30–17 edge.
Chicago Bears 33, Minnesota Vikings 24
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1306.79 (+6.39)
Born:
Gio González, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2011, 2012; Oakland A’s, Washington Nationals, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Sox), in Hialeah, Florida.
Willie Young, NFL defensive end (Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears), in Riviera Beach, Florida.
David Jones, NFL cornerback (Cincinnati Bengals, Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington Redskins), in Greenville, South Carolina.
Weston Dacus, NFL linebacker (Kansas City Chiefs), in Searcy, Arkansas.
Brittany Lincicome, American golfer (ANA Inspiration 2009, 2015), in St. Petersburg, Florida.
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