French intelligence agents sank an antinuclear protest ship in New Zealand, the French Government admitted. Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said orders to sabotage the Rainbow Warrior, a ship operated by the environmentalist group Greenpeace, had been given to agents of the French intelligence service. But he did not say who had given the orders or who had known about the plan in advance. The July 10 explosion killed one person aboard the vessel, which was to have led a flotilla protesting French nuclear tests in the Pacific.
Many longtime diplomats say the inability of the United Nations to resolve disputes along with the eclipsing of the United States’ role had contributed to a loss of glamour for the organization. “We really have very little to show for all our efforts,” said Sir John Thomson, Britain’s chief delegate, in a recent speech. “In my three years I have very little to take home to my electorate and say, ‘This, I have achieved.’ “
World economic officials discussed preparations to drive down the value of the dollar at a meeting in New York City. The objective of the decision between West Germany, France, Japan, Britain and the United States would be to improve the economies of the countries involved and in many others as well. The meeting is clearly tied to a speech that President Reagan is planning today. He is expected to propose a new trade policy in an effort to derail a movement in Congress toward protectionist laws to stem the flow of foreign goods into the country and the loss of jobs in the affected industries.
Polish Cardinal Jozef Glemp said his country has been forced to “take from the poor and give to the rich” in paying $3 billion in annual interest on its foreign debt. He attributed Poland’s economic distress in part to U.S. trade sanctions. Glemp, in Detroit on a U.S. tour, said that easing sanctions could help rejuvenate Poland’s economy. “Poland is a poor country, especially after the crisis of martial law,” Glemp, the spiritual leader of 34 million Catholics in his country, said. President Reagan has said he will not lift trade sanctions because he considers the Polish government oppressive.
Despite criticism from Jewish leaders in the United States, 25 U.S. Army veterans and three former Nazi SS soldiers who fought against each other in the Battle of the Bulge in France in World War II were reunited at Frankfurt Airport, West Germany. The Americans called off their traditional get-together with the Germans at a French cemetery but planned to meet in the small Bavarian town of Bad Windsheim later in the week. The veterans of the U.S. 70th Infantry Division will visit the American military cemetery at St. Avold in northeastern France, where they fought the 6th SS Mountain Division. The veterans have met annually in the United States and Europe since 1976.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres assailed British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher for inviting members of the Palestine Liberation Organization to London. “It is difficult to understand Thatcher’s readiness to agree to the meeting with representatives of an organization which engages even today in active terror, at a time when she herself repudiates surrender to terror,” Peres said at a Cabinet meeting. Thatcher has invited a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, including two members of the PLO, for talks next month with Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe.
Lebanon’s President Amin Gemayel urged all Lebanese today to set aside their differences and join hands in ending the country’s 10-year-old national strife. Mr. Gemayel, 42 years old, spoke in a nationwide radio and television interview to mark the third anniversary of his election. He is halfway through his six-year term in office. He has no intention of resigning, he said. As the President spoke, Muslim militiamen battled with rockets, mortars and heavy machine guns in a number of residential quarters in mostly Muslim West Beirut. Army troops in the hills east of here exchanged artillery fire with Druze fighters. Prime Minister Rashid Karami was reportedly in his home town, Tripoli, in the north, trying to bring an end to eight days of clashes between pro- and anti-Syrian factions that have left more than 100 people dead and 300 wounded.
Iraqi air attacks have severely restricted Iran’s ability to export oil, Persian Gulf shipping and oil industry sources said. The recent raids on Iran’s main oil terminal of Kharg Island reportedly slowed a tanker shuttle from Kharg in the northern gulf to Sirri Island in the south. Iran has been using Sirri Island facilities to load most of its exports out of range of Iraqi jet fighters. Only one berth in the main Kharg terminal area was reportedly in operation, out of a total of 14.
Five years of fighting between Iran and Iraq have resulted in a toll of war dead that may be approaching a million, according to intelligence estimates here. The estimates in London and in other NATO capitals range from 420,000 to 580,000 Iranian dead, with the number of Iraqi dead put at 300,000. Western intelligence officers agree that the number of deaths from wounds is high because most major operations have been carried out in intense heat, which kills the seriously wounded. “We must accept an ultimate casualty total higher than anything experienced in the West since World War II,” a senior intelligence official said.
Afghan rebels claimed they shot down an unidentified Soviet transport plane last Tuesday, killing 26 soldiers. Rebel sources in Pakistan said they hit the transport with a SAM-7 missile at Massai, nine miles south of Kabul, the Afghan capital. The report was not confirmed by independent sources.
Pakistan’s President Zia ul-Haq has confirmed that eight years of martial law will be lifted on December 31. Zia, speaking at the 125th anniversary of the British-founded Lawrence College in mountains north of Islamabad, said he is honor-bound to fulfill the pledge made by Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo last month to lift martial law. Zia said political parties, banned in Pakistan since 1979, will be restored both inside and outside the civilian assembly, once a new law governing them is passed.
Despite continuing threats to his safety, Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has been traveling through Punjab State exhorting Sikhs and Hindus to vote for the governing Congress Party and end three years of turmoil. Extraordinary security surrounds Mr. Gandhi’s travels by helicopter across the Punjab region, where hundreds of people have been killed in attacks involving Sikh extremists. The Prime Minister’s aides make no secret of their concern about the danger to his life, but they say he has no choice but to campaign here. In anticipation of the Punjab state election next Wednesday, the government has sent at least 85,000 paramilitary policemen to the state, and some Sikh leaders say 1,000 Sikhs have been arrested as suspected troublemakers.
The Communist Party took a second major step toward rejuvenating its leadership today when it named 64 newcomers, mainly middle-aged, to its Central Committee, replacing the same number of officials who retired last week. An announcement from a special party conference in the Great Hall of the People said the conference had elected 29 full members to the Central Committee and 35 alternate, or nonvoting, members. It said the average age of the new appointees was slightly more than 50 years, and that 76 percent had college educations. Only 4 percent of the party’s 42 million members are college educated.
Feverish rescue efforts continued in stricken neighborhoods of Mexico City today, but hope for survivors of two devastating earthquakes last week appeared to be waning. Many mourning families turned to the task of burying their dead. Estimates of casualties remain incomplete but continue to rise. A presidential spokesman, Ricardo Ampudia, offered preliminary figures today of 1,700 known dead, with 2,000 others still believed trapped under fallen buildings. In addition, 600 city residents have been hospitalized, more than 5,000 others have been treated for light injuries, and tens of thousands more have been left homeless by the two quakes that hit the capital last Thursday and Friday. The United States Embassy listed 11 American tourists as missing in the earthquake. Four Americans are known to be dead, according to an embassy spokesman.
The earthquakes last week have left thousands of Mexico City residents refugees in their hometown. The Government said today that about 6,000 people were staying in schools and other public buildings. But El Universal, one of Mexico City’s leading newspapers, estimated that more than 250,000 had either lost their homes or believed that, at least for the moment, their homes were unsafe. For the last four days Rosa Contreras, a 25-year-old secretary, her 60-year-old mother and about 40 neighbors have been living on a patch of grass under a jacaranda tree within sight of their destroyed apartment building. Guadalupe Cavazos, a 40-year-old textbook distributor, has been sleeping in her car with her dog and three neighbors. Roberto Mercado, a 35-year-old messenger, and his mother have been staying on cots in a government culture center.
Pope John Paul II appealed “to every human heart” today to join in an international effort to aid the victims of the Mexican earthquakes. He asked that “the God of every consolation” grant comfort to the suffering. The Pope made his remarks during a two-day visit to this northern Italian port city and mountainous countryside that surrounds it. In coming here, the Pope braved threats from groups purporting to be the Red Brigades, the terrorist organization that was especially active here in the 1970’s.
The Sudanese Government banned street demonstrations today after 2 people were killed and 45 were wounded in fighting Saturday. The Cabinet decided Saturday night that no more mass marches would be allowed so long as the state of emergency is in effect, official sources said. Political parties have been using demonstrations to test and show their support as they prepare for parliamentary elections promised by next April. During the march Saturday to denounce the southern rebel leader, John Garang, fighting broke out between northerners and a group of southerners who smashed windows and car windshields in the city center. Two people were reportedly killed.
Guerrillas seized a bridge atop the Nile River dam that supplies hydroelectric power to Uganda, cutting off the capital’s main route to Indian Ocean ports, and held it for several hours, travelers and nearby residents reported. There were conflicting reports on whether the rebels of the National Resistance Army simply abandoned the Owen Falls dam, near Jinja, or were routed by government troops.
South African troops were said today to have withdrawn from southern Angola after a weeklong invasion depicted here as a campaign against forces of the insurgent South-West Africa People’s Organization. The announcement of the pullout, however, made no reference to battles said to be raging further east in Angola between Cuban-backed Government forces and South African-supported rebels fighting under the banner of Jonas Savimbi. The South Africans said they had suffered no casualties in the thrust by 500 soldiers and had killed 15 insurgents — a far lower figure than is usually reported after forays into Angola.
The World Health Organization has announced a series of measures to combat acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Officials at the organization’s headquarters in Geneva said Friday that the number of cases of the fatal disease reported worldwide had surpassed 15,000 by mid-September, showing an increase in the United States alone to 13,074, from 12,612 cases reported Aug. 30. Figures issued by officials of the World Health Organization, which is an agency of the United Nations, included 1,284 cases in Europe, 103 in Australia, 15 in Asia and 723 in Latin America. No cases were reported from Africa, although several hundred are suspected there, the officials said, adding that many countries, including New Zealand and those in the Soviet bloc, also reported no cases.
President Reagan, determined to fight for his No. 1 domestic priority, has asked Congress to stay in session as long as it takes to pass major tax revision legislation this year, Administration officials said. The officials said Reagan may mount a publicity campaign to prevent the Senate from putting off action on a tax bill until next year. If necessary, they said, the President may consider calling Congress back into session to force the Senate to finish work this year. One official described Reagan as “sympathetic” to the political realities of the situation and “the tremendous pressure on the Senate,” but he said the President “is quite firm and quite determined.”
The Defense Department, in an effort to cut its long-range spending plan without reducing its nuclear weapons program, has approved sweeping cutbacks in projected spending on conventional military forces, according to Reagan Administration officials. In a process described as painful and divisive, senior Pentagon officials have been rewriting their five-year plan for weapons, personnel and operations in light of Congress’ success in ending the Reagan Administration’s military buildup. The cuts will mean long delays in the scheduled replacements of older tanks, aircraft, ships and missiles, the officials said in interviews over the last week. They will also sharply curtail efforts in the next five years to replenish stockpiles of ammunition and spare parts, key indicators of the ability to outlast an enemy in a conventional war, the Pentagon officials added.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, believed to be a potential contender for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination, said President Reagan is “probably the most effective” communicator ever to occupy the White House. “In the television (era), even including Kennedy, there has never been a communicator as effective,” Cuomo said in an interview in the October issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
Power was lost in both engines of the Midwest Express Airlines DC-9 in which 31 persons were killed in Milwaukee earlier this month, an official said. Authorities had determined that the right engine failed completely, but new tests have shown that the left engine experienced a 20% power loss, Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington, said. The new finding is important because the twin-engine jets are built to enable a crew to fly the plane even with one engine malfunctioning.
Parents afraid that their children might be contaminated by an AIDS-stricken second-grader marched on City Hall in New York as officials called for increased federal funding to help end the spread of the disease. The furor surrounding a decision by a Board of Education panel to allow a 7-year-old girl diagnosed as having AIDS to attend school continued to fester, with 50 Queens parents marching on City Hall hoisting placards and chanting protest slogans.
A heavy security force will be called into action for the 40th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. Officials said the five-week session would require more than half the Secret Service agents in the nation, about 10 percent of New York City’s police force, Coast Guard patrols on the East River and a new computer system to coordinate the mobilization of city, Federal and international security agencies.
U.S. Air Force F-15 jet fighters intercepted eight Soviet bombers near Alaska four times in eight days this month and chased the aircraft away from U.S. air space, a military spokesman said. Although there have been 15 other interceptions this year, “this is an unusual level of activity,” said Major Darrell C. Hayes of Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage. None of the Soviet bombers carried visible armaments, Hayes said, and none actually entered U.S. air space. In one encounter, he said, the Air Force obtained what is believed to be the first videotape ever made of the Soviet Bear-H bomber.
The smaller of two striking unions voted to end its 22-week-old walkout at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine, as the company said it would make one more attempt to settle with 4,500 striking shipbuilders before inviting union members to return on their own. Clerical and technical workers of Local 7 of the Industrial Marine and Shipbuilding Workers of America voted 213 to 47 to accept a contract that leaves wage, insurance and pension issues pending while Local 6, representing production workers, continues its strike. The smaller union would accept the contract provisions of a settlement with Local 6, which has been on strike since July 1. About 350 Local 7 workers were expected to re-enter the shipyard today.
United Auto Workers members at the Ford Motor Co.’s Lorain, Ohio, assembly plant voted to ratify an agreement to end their two-week strike over health, safety and production grievances. The agreement, covering 5,200 workers, provides for the recall of 45 workers who were laid off or have been out of work because of other grievances, said Michael Pohorence, UAW Local 425 president.
A corporate jet and an ultralight one-person plane collided today near Auburn, Alabama, killing two people and injuring five. The accident was the “first fatal collision involving an ultralight and an aircraft,” said Ira Furman, a spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board in Washington.
John Z. DeLorean, who was indicted in Detroit last week on charges of defrauding investors in the failed DeLorean Motor Company, said yesterday that he was innocent. Mr. DeLorean, who was acquitted 13 months ago in Los Angeles on federal charges of conspiracy to distribute 55 pounds of cocaine, said in a brief interview in New York that he was being “hounded” by the federal government. “They destroyed my life, my family, my children,” he said as he signed copies of his book “DeLorean,” which went on sale last week. “There is nothing left financially. There’s nothing left to destroy.” Mr. DeLorean questioned the timing of the charges. “The indictment seems designed to prevent the truth,” he said at a bookstore at 52d Street and Fifth Avenue in Manhattan where he was promoting his book. “I find it really strange that it happened at this very moment, on the eve of the book tour and the week the book came out.” The indictment charges Mr. DeLorean with defrauding investors in the automobile company of $12.5 million and using $8.9 million of the money for his own enrichment.
Merchandise earmarked for the needy has been systematically siphoned from a Salvation Army thrift store operation and sold for profit or transferred to associates of a key executive of the charity, The Dallas Morning News reported today. The newspaper also said in a copyrighted article that the executive, Major Lairon T. White, 61 years old, an ordained Salvation Army minister, had converted into his own name a $7,150 fishing boat, a $4,000 car and a $660 motorcycle that had been donated to the Salvation Army.
Recommended dietary allowances for many nutrients should be lowered, according to a draft report prepared by a panel of the National Academy of Sciences. Some nutrition experts, however, say the report could be used by Government officials to justify further cuts in food stamps and other feeding programs.
Samantha Smith’s mother said she is establishing a foundation in memory of her daughter, who went on a peace mission to the Soviet Union at the invitation of Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov. In the first in-depth interview since her husband and 13-year-old daughter were killed in a plane crash last month, Jane Smith said in the inaugural edition of Picture Week magazine that the foundation would “foster international understanding in the spirit of Samantha.” She had not yet decided how to spend contributions to the Samantha Smith Foundation. Among the ideas to be considered, she said, are underwriting an international children’s exchange, scholarships for foreign-affairs students and an endowment for foreign college professors. “When bad things happen, other people may need to go to a mountain or something, but I’m not like that. I need to keep busy,” said Smith, who has agreed to be on the advisory committee of the U.S.-Soviet Bridges for Peace organization. She said a “terrific group of friends” has helped her through the ordeal. “When I stop and think what will never be,” Smith said, “then I get weepy, but I’m trying to look at the future and the positive aspect.”
Tropical Storm Gloria, born off the coast of Africa last week, gathered enough strength to become the fifth hurricane of the 1985 Atlantic season as it headed toward the Caribbean’s Leeward Islands, forecasters said in Miami. The storm maintained maximum winds of 75 mph for much of the day.
37th Emmy Awards: “Cagney & Lacey”, “The Cosby Show” and Tyne Daly win.
First Farm Aid benefit concert, Champaign, Illinois; organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp; performers included Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Hoyt Axton, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, and Emmylou Harris. Dozens of musicians performed in a concert to raise money and focus attention on the plight of the nation’s farmers. The concert, called Farm Aid, drew 78,000 fans to the University of Illinois stadium and was televised around the country.
Major League Baseball:
Billy Martin, once more the Yankees’ embattled manager, and Ed Whitson, one of his pitchers, became involved in a fight with each other early today, marking the second time in 26 hours that Martin had an incident in the bar at the team’s hotel. Early Saturday morning, Martin had a mostly verbal encounter with a man he had been drinking with. One night after scuffling with a patron in the bar of the Cross Keys Inn, the Yankees’ Baltimore hotel, manager Martin has his right arm broken by pitcher Ed Whitson in an early-morning brawl in the same bar. Joking that “I hurt my arm bowling,” Martin, the embattled manager of the Yankees, showed up at Memorial Stadium today with a broken arm following an early-morning punching, kicking, grappling brawl with Ed Whitson, one of his pitchers. The fight, which began in a hotel bar but extended to the lobby and then outside before ending verbally on the third floor, was the second incident in 24 hours in which Martin was involved in the bar of the Cross Keys Inn, where the Yankees stay here. The incident early Saturday morning, involving a man Martin had been drinking with, was generally verbal, although Martin later acknowledged, “I didn’t get to him, but I wanted to.” After Martin and Whitson returned to their rooms following their fight, a Yankee source said, Martin telephoned Whitson in his room and challenged him to go out to the parking lot and continue the fight, but the 30-year-old pitcher declined. George Steinbrenner, the Yankees’ principal owner, hadn’t been able to receive reports on the first incident when the second occurred. The incidents could become two major elements of the case Steinbrenner could use against the manager if he decides to dismiss him again. That possibility seemed to be growing almost daily.
Ron Guidry becomes the American League’s first 20-game winner this season as the Yankees beat Baltimore, 5–4. Guidry, whom some people were ready to bury last year, became a 20-game winner for the third time. As an added benefit, the victory also reduced Toronto’s lead over the Yankees to five and a half games, marking the first time since the Yankees beat the Blue Jays 10 days ago that they gained a game in the standing. The Blue Jays lost to Milwaukee today, 2–1. Guidry, who had a 10–11 record last season, retired the first 11 batters he faced and allowed only two hits until the seventh inning. At that point, with the Yankees ahead, 5–0, Eddie Murray hit his 31st home run, and the Orioles scored a second run on a double, a single and a wild pitch. When Floyd Rayford hit a two-run home run with no one out in the ninth, Dave Righetti relieved Guidry and preserved his 20th victory against six defeats. Guidry gave up a total of seven hits. Guidry, the American League’s lone 20-game winner, thus became the first Yankee pitcher to register three 20-victory seasons since Mel Stottlemyre did it in 1965 and 1968-69.
The Brewers edged the Blue Jays, 2–1. Paul Molitor hit a double in the seventh-inning to snap a tie in the Milwaukee victory. Molitor stretched his hitting streak to 13 games. The loss, coupled with the Yankees’ 5–4 victory in Baltimore, sliced Toronto’s American League East lead to five and one-half games over the Yankees. Dave Stieb’s league-leading earned run average dropped to 2.46, yet he suffered his 12th loss against 13 victories. Ted Higuera (14–7) pitched a five-hitter and set a team record for victories by a rookie. Bill Parsons posted a 13–17 mark in 1971 with the Brewers.
Julio Franco’s error on a grounder by Rod Carew enabled Rufino Linares to score from second base with one out in the 12th inning today, giving the California Angels a 10–9 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The Angels’ fifth straight victory gave them a one-game lead in the American League West over Kansas City, which lost to Minnesota. Linares, batting for Craig Gerber, led off the 12th by drawing a walk from Bryan Clark (3–4). Linares moved to second on Bob Boone’s sacrifice bunt and Gary Pettis also walked before Carew slapped a 1–2 pitch right at Franco. Bobby Grich has a grand slam in the 1st for the Haloes and Doug DeCinces hits a 3-run homer.
Frank Viola scattered eight hits for his 16th victory and Mark Funderburk drove in three runs to lead Minnesota past Kansas City, 7–3. Viola (16–14) struck out four and walked one in winning his third straight decision. Funderburk, Mickey Hatcher and Tom Brunansky each had three of Minnesota’s 14 hits.
Luis Salazar hit a two-out, two-run homer in the 10th inning that gave the Chicago White Sox a 7–5 victory over the Oakland A’s. Salazar, who had four hits and drove in four runs, hit his ninth homer of the season after a two-out single by Rudy Law. The home run came off Jay Howell (9–6). Bob James (7–6) got the victory. Dave Kingman’s 28th lifted the A’s into a 5–5 tie in the eighth.
Dwight Evans hit Dan Petry’s first pitch of the game for a home run, helping Boston to a 6–2 victory over Detroit. Dennis Boyd (15–11) scattered six hits through seven innings and earned his fourth consecutive victory with relief help from Bruce Kison. Wade Boggs, leading the major leagues with a .374 average, went 2 for 4 in his 69th multi-hit game of the season, tying the Boston club set by Jim Rice in 1978.
Mike Mason scattered six hits and struck out 11 and Pete O’Brien went 3 for 3, including a homer, and drove in three runs as Texas Rangers beat Seattle, 6–0. Mason (8–13) pitched his first complete game of the season. He walked one and his 11 strikeouts were a career high. O’Brien hit a bases-empty home run, his 19th, in the first inning off Frank Wills (4–9). The Rangers scored twice in the third on a sacrifice fly by Curtis Wilkerson and a single by O’Brien.
Tommy Herr hit a two-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the St. Louis Cardinals a comeback 6–5 triumph today over the Montreal Expos. The victory, coupled with the Mets’ 5–3 loss to Pittsburgh, extended the Cardinals’ lead to three games over the Mets. Both the Cardinals and Mets have 13 games remaining. Herr’s blast, over the left-field fence, came on a 3–2 delivery from the reliever Jack O’Connor (0–2). O’Connor, who came on in the eighth, retired Brian Harper and Vince Coleman to start the ninth before Willie McGee rapped his 200th hit of the season, a ground single to right. Herr’s homer made a winner out of Ken Dayley (4-2), who relieved Joaquín Andújar to start the eighth. The Cardinals were trailing by 5–3, but pulled to 5–4 in the seventh when the reliever Tim Burke wild-pitched a run home. The St. Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man.
The Mets lost another game yesterday, and now they are losing time. They approach the final two weeks of the regular season knowing their last scheduled road trip will likely determine whether they win a division title or drift hopelessly out of a race. Yesterday, under a bleak sky at Shea Stadium, the Mets were handed a distressing 5–3 defeat by the Pittsburgh Pirates, a team that has spent virtually the entire season in last place. Not long after, Tommy Herr’s two-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted St. Louis to a 6–5 victory over Montreal, pushing the Cardinals to a three-game lead over the Mets with just 13 left to play.
Dave Concepción smashed two hits and drove in three runs, including a game-winning ninth-inning run, to lift Cincinnati to a 6–5 victory over Houston. With the score tied 5–5, Concepción hit a sacrifice fly to right field, scoring Dave Parker from third with the winning run. Parker had doubled and moved to third on Eric Davis’ sacrifice bunt. Ted Power (7–4) was the winner and Bill Dawley (4–3) took the loss.
Orel Hershiser gained his ninth consecutive victory as Los Angeles came from behind to defeat San Francisco, 5–3. Hershiser (17–3) was touched for three runs in the first inning, but blanked the Giants until he was lifted in the eighth for Tom Niedenfuer, who gained his 16th save. The Dodgers went ahead to stay with two runs in the seventh off the loser Vida Blue (7–7).
Bob Dernier scored four runs and stole two bases in Chicago’s 9–2 victory over Philadelphia. Shawon Dunston hit a two-run homer and Leon Durham added a bases-empty shot to help the Cubs sweep a three-game series in Philadelphia for the first time since 1974.
Claudell Washington and Glenn Hubbard each knocked in two runs as Atlanta ended a six-game losing streak with a 7–5 victory over San Diego. Milt Thompson hit a two-out runscoring single to break a 2–2 tie in the seventh inning and Atlanta staged a three-run rally in the eighth to pin the defeat on Andy Hawkins (17–8) who has gone 0–3 in his last four starts.
New York Yankees 5, Baltimore Orioles 4
Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 6
Cleveland Indians 9, California Angels 10
Oakland Athletics 5, Chicago White Sox 7
Cincinnati Reds 6, Houston Astros 5
Minnesota Twins 7, Kansas City Royals 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, New York Mets 3
Chicago Cubs 9, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Atlanta Braves 7, San Diego Padres 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, San Francisco Giants 3
Montreal Expos 5, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Seattle Mariners 0, Texas Rangers 6
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Toronto Blue Jays 1
NFL Football:
Danny White, forced from the game last week with an injured thumb, threw a touchdown pass and caught another as Dallas defeated Cleveland, 20–7. Dallas (2–1) had a 10–0 lead midway through the third period and the ball on the Cleveland 12-yard line. There, White took the snap out of the shotgun and shoveled the ball to the running back James Jones, moving right. White then trotted to the left. Jones stopped and lofted a pass to the quarterback for a touchdown and a 17–0 lead. The Cowboys added a 33-yard Rafael Septien field goal to increase the edge to 20-0 before Earnest Byner burst over from 1 yard out for the touchdown for Cleveland (1–2).
The Patriots edged the Bills, 17–14. Irving Fryar returned a third-quarter punt 85 yards for a touchdown to ensure New England’s victory over Buffalo. The Bills, trailing by 10–7, stopped Fryar’s original punt return, but Buffalo was penalized for having an illegal man downfield and Fryar got a second chance. The punt return was the second-longest in the history of the Patriots (2–1), who also scored on a Tony Franklin field goal and on a 5-yard touchdown pass from the running back Craig James to Tony Collins. Buffalo (0–3) finally scored its first touchdown of the season when Greg Bell took a Vince Ferragamo swing pass and went 16 yards for the score in the second quarter.
John Elway threw for 291 yards and three touchdowns to lead Denver over Atlanta, which has not won, 44–28. Elway threw a 63-yard touchdown pass to Vance Johnson on the opening series of the game and he added a 17-yard scoring pass to Clint Sampson in the opening minutes of the second quarter, set up a third first-half touchdown with a 47-yard pass to Steve Watson and capped his game with a 31-yard touchdown pass to Butch Johnson with 1:11 left. He finished the game with 19 completions in 38 attempts and a pair of interceptions. The Falcons tied the score on the opening play of the second half — a 62-yard pass from Steve Bartkowski to Billy Johnson and took a 28–27 lead with 7 seconds left in the third period on Bartkowski’s 6-yard pass to Johnson. The final period, however, belonged to Denver (2–1). The Broncos scored on a 2-yard run by Gene Lang with 1:28 gone in the fourth period to take a 34–28 lead, added a 47-yard field goal by George Karlis with 7:11 remaining and wrapped up the scoring with Elway’s third touchdown pass.
With barely any offense and with Freeman McNeil sputtering in the face of a gamble by the Packers, the Jets displayed resourcefulness today in halting the Green Bay Packers, 24–3. That is a habit — finding ways to win when the offense fails — that the Jets have rarely managed. The game turned into a showcase for the defense, which has not allowed a touchdown in 10 quarters. The defense, on turnovers, also positioned two Jets’ touchdowns by Tony Paige. The third touchdown came on a fumble recovery as the nose tackle Tom Baldwin scored for the first time in his career — grade school, high school, college or professional. Also showcased was the punting of Dave Jennings, who put six of his eight kicks inside the 20-yard line continually to back up the Packers.
Randall Cunningham passed to Earnest Jackson for a fourth-quarter touchdown today and Paul McFadden connected on four field goals to lead the Philadelphia Eagles to a 19–6 upset of the Washington Redskins. Both National Football Conference East teams are now 1–2. Cunningham, a rookie making his second start, shot a pass to Jackson at the Redskins’ 13-yard line as he scrambled away from the Redskin rush. Jackson, acquired just before the season from San Diego, sprinted into the end zone with 8 minutes 38 seconds left to end a string of more than 11 quarters in which the Eagles had not scored a touchdown. The drive, which gave the Eagles (1–2) a 16–6 lead, was sparked by Wes Hopkins’s 42-yard return of a fumble by George Rogers. McFadden added a 34-yard field goal with 3:20 left to complete the scoring. The bare-footed kicker also hit from 41, 36 and 37 yards. His two field goals last week against the Los Angeles Rams had been the only points the Eagles had scored this season. The Redskins (1–2) were limited to two Mark Moseley field goals and have failed to score a touchdown in seven straight quarters. The crowd of 53,748 repeatedly booed the Redskins offensive unit after failed drives. Joe Theismann completed 15 of 34 passes for 124 yards and was intercepted once.
Dan Marino tossed touchdown passes of 9 and 27 yards as Miami broke away from a scoreless halftime tie to roll to a shutout victory over Kansas City, 31–0. Marino, who completed 23 of 35 passes for 258 yards, directed scoring drives on five of Miami’s seven offensive possessions in the second half. Marino snapped the 0–0 deadlock with his pass to Hardy 3:06 into third quarter, and then found Bennett open down the middle of the field for a 14–0 lead with 3:16 left in the period. Rookie fullback Ron Davenport also scored on runs of 1 and 4 yards in the fourth quarter as Miami (2–1) put the contest away before an Orange Bowl crowd of 69,791. Kansas City, which started the day averaging 41.5 points per game, lost for the first time in three outings.
Bob Thomas connected on a 34-yard field goal in the closing seconds after Dan Fouts had hit Lionel James with a 60-yard touchdown pass, his fourth of the game, to give San Diego a wild 44–41 victory over Cincinnati. Fouts’s pass to James came with 3:45 to play and tied the game, 41–41. Thomas’s third field goal broke the tie with just four seconds to play. James also dashed 56 yards on a third-quarter draw play to help the Chargers (2–1) overcome a 28-point second-half by the Bengals (0–3). James ran for 126 yards on 11 carries and caught 5 passes for 118 yards. Fouts had 25 completions of 43 attempts for 344 yards. Boomer Esiason, making a surprise start at quarterback for the Bengals, completed 25 of 42 passes for 300 yards and three touchdowns.
Joe Montana threw two touchdown passes and linebacker Milt McColl ran 28 yards with a fumble recovery for another today as the San Francisco 49ers stopped the Los Angeles Raiders, 34–10, before a crowd of 87,006 at the Los Angeles Coliseum. Montana fired a 20-yard scoring pass to running back Roger Craig after just 3 minutes 6 seconds of play to put the 49ers ahead for good and a 14-yarder to wide receiver Dwight Clark with 2:27 left in the third quarter to cap an 80-yard drive. McColl’s touchdown came only 24 seconds later. On the Raiders’ first play following Clark’s touchdown, the Raider quarterback, Jim Plunkett, fumbled when he was hit by Jim Stuckey and McColl picked the ball up and raced into the end zone, making it 27–3.
The Pittsburgh Steelers shut out the Houston Oilers, 20–0. Mark Malone threw two first-quarter touchdown passes to Louis Lipps and Pittsburgh’s defense easily handled Houston. Donnie Shell set up one of Lipps’ scores with an interception and his fumble recovery halted Houston’s only scoring threat as the Steelers (2–1) recorded their first shutout since a 24–0 victory over the Los Angeles Rams in 1981. The Oilers (1–2) crossed midfield only once in the second half.
George Wonsley, a reserve fullback pressed into service by injuries to other running backs, rushed for a career-high 170 yards to spark Indianapolis to a 14–6 win over the visiting Lions. The victory gave Rod Dowhower his first triumph as an N.F.L. head coach, while Darryl Rogers suffered his first N.F.L. setback. The 6-foot, 217-pound Wonsley also caught 5 passes for 32 yards. Wonsley accumulated 42 yards in a 66-yard first-quarter scoring drive, rushing for 27 yards on 5 carries and catching a pair of Mike Pagel passes for 15 more yards. A 33-yard Pagel to Mark Boyer pass helped Indianapolis (1–2) score an insurance touchdown with just 46 seconds left.
The Giants, using a pulverizing defense, swarmed over Neil Lomax, the Cardinal quarterback, and blanketed Roy Green, the talented wide receiver, to earn a 27–17 victory before 74,987 at Giants Stadium. While Lomax’s touchdown pass to the running back Earl Ferrell with 3 minutes 39 seconds left gave the final score the appearance of a tight game, the die, in reality, had been cast long before. The Giants, throwing a myriad of zone coverages at Lomax on defense, and dominating the Cardinals with a punishing running game on offense, seized control of the game midway in the third quarter, when they began running round both ends seemingly at will with Joe Morris and Rob Carpenter doing most of the work. Phil Simms completed 10 of 23 passes for 167 yards and three touchdowns — two of them to Bobby Johnson, the second-year receiver who hadn’t caught a pass in the first two games. Simms was intercepted once.
Dave Wilson threw two touchdown passes and Terry Hoage led an opportunistic defense as New Orleans won for the first time this season, downing the Buccaneers, 20–13. Wilson, operating behind a patched-up offensive line for the final two quarters, was 16 for 25 for 246 yards. The touchdown passes were for 23 yards to Larry Hardy in the first quarter and for 3 yards to another of his tight ends, Hoby Brenner, in the second quarter. Hoage, playing strong safety in place of the injured Russell Gary, forced a James Wilder fumble and intercepted a Steve DeBerg pass, both in the second half. Morten Andersen kicked field goals of 37 yards in the second quarter and 40 yards in the third quarter for New Orleans. Tampa Bay (0–3) got two first-half field goals of 38 and 51 yards by Donald Igwebuike and a 22-yard touchdown pass from DeBerg to Gerald Carter with 1:01 left in the game.
Cleveland Browns 7, Dallas Cowboys 20
New England Patriots 17, Buffalo Bills 14
Denver Broncos 44, Atlanta Falcons 28
New York Jets 24, Green Bay Packers 3
Philadelphia Eagles 19, Washington Redskins 6
Kansas City Chiefs 0, Miami Dolphins 31
San Diego Chargers 44, Cincinnati Bengals 41
San Francisco 49ers 34, Los Angeles Raiders 10
Houston Oilers 0, Pittsburgh Steelers 20
Detroit Lions 6, Indianapolis Colts 14
St. Louis Cardinals 17, New York Giants 27
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13, New Orleans Saints 20
Born:
Tatiana Maslany, Canadian actress (“Orphan Black”), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Gary Barnidge, NFL tight end (Pro Bowl, 2015; Carolina Panthers, Cleveland Browns), in Middleburg, Florida.
Aaron Diehl, American jazz pianist, and composer (Three Streams of Expression), in Columbus, Ohio.
Died:
Axel Springer, 73, German newspaper magnate (“Bild Zeitung”).
Dickie Henderson, 82, British comic and actor, dies of pancreatic cancer.
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