Defense Secretary James R. Schlesinger told reporters in Bonn that U.S. troops were being sent to northern Germany for the first time since World War II “to achieve more effectiveness on the northern sector of the front” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. After a day of talks with his West German counterpart, Georg Leber, Schlesinger said the GIs being sent to the northern area were a tank brigade of 3,000 men. As the North Atlantic Treaty allies move toward a new generation of weapons, a policy dispute is developing over whether the United States, which has dominated the arms business, will now start buying more European equipment for its forces. This has been the major issue in discussions between European officials and Defense Secretary Schlesinger, who went to Europe to urge the European nations to increase their defense spending. The Europeans are demanding “standardization,” under which the NATO allies would abandon their nationalistic approach and agree upon similar weapons for their forces, This way, they believe, the United States would purchase more weapons from its allies.
Despite a steady modernization and strengthening of the 925,000-man Warsaw Pact ground force in Central Europe, Western experts believe the situation is not a cause for alarm. In the past, any increase in Soviet military strength in Eastern Europe has been regarded by military and civilian “hawks” as a threat to Western defenses. But here at the formal discussions on troop reductions in Central Europe, where diplomats and military experts from 19 countries have been talking about reducing military strength in Europe, Western analysts feel that they have a more enlightened view of the Warsaw Pact force than they did before the negotiations started two years ago. “It’s just not true that they’re getting stronger and stronger all the time while we’re getting weaker and weaker,” a high-ranking West German diplomat involved in the talks said in Bonn recently. And an American official here said: “The other side has been increasing their strength little by little over the year, but we’ve been modernizing and rationalizing our forces too.”
Civil guards fired on a crowd of about 2,000 Basque demonstrators in Algorta, a suburb of Bilbao in northern Spain. They wounded at least six people. The clash was the first serious incident following the execution on Saturday of five terrorists convicted of killing policemen and civil guards. Two were members of E.T.A., the Basque nationalist organization. Tension increased with the call by Basque and leftist groups for a general strike today and tomorrow to protest the executions.
Three gunmen released one of eight hostages they had been holding in a London restaurant “as an act of good faith.” But Scotland Yard said it was not inclined toward compromise in the siege of the restaurant, where the bandits had been surprised in the middle of a holdup by the quick arrival of police. The men herded eight employees into a basement storeroom but the man who was freed, Alfredo Olivell, said the remaining hostages were not suffering unduly.
Tension between Portugal’s new government and organized leftist challengers who have taken to the streets increased tonight, with the added dimension of harshly strained relations with Spain. Thousands of demonstrators, perhaps as many as 10,000, marched through the capital again, converging this time on the square in front of no Bento Palace, a major government building. Among their chanted slogans was “Revolutionary government, yes!—Sixth government, no!” The present cabinet is known as the Sixth Government. For the first time since the government was formed with their participation a week ago Friday, the Communist party allowed open display of its role in the leftist opposition with banners and wall slogans signed with the initials of the party.
With voters apparently expressing uneasiness over the country’s economic problems, West Germany’s leading political party suffered a major setback in a state election. The Social Democratic party barely held its majority in the Bremen state legislature, receiving 49 percent of the vote, down 6 percentage points from the election four years ago. The Christian Democrats, the Social Democrats’ principal opposition, had a gain of only 1½ percentage points over 1971, getting 33 percent of the vote.
A recent meeting between Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Communist party chief, and a Soviet editor who criticized some practices of Communist parties in Western Europe has stirred speculation among diplomatic analysts in Moscow. Pravda, the Communist party newspaper, gave prominent coverage to the meeting, and diplomats have been wondering since why Mr. Brezhnev chose to publicize it at a time when the Kremlin had been having serious problems convening a conference of Conununist parties from both Eastern and Western Europe. Plans for the conference have apparently been frustrated by the unwillingness of some European parties, notably the Rumanian, Yugoslav and Italian, to join in any meeting that would seek to lay down binding guidelines or mobilize opposition to China.
Dissident Soviet physicist Andrei D. Sakharov appealed to all those who value freedom of thought to speak out in defense of Vladimir Osipov, former editor of an underground Russian journal who has been jailed for eight years for “antistate activities.” In a statement circulated among foreign newsmen Sakharov said that “this kind of repression against a man for his convictions goes against the principles laid down in the final act of the Helsinki (European security) conference and is incompatible with the spirit of detente.”
Israel said its security forces have arrested 55 suspect Arab guerrillas of the Syrian-backed Al Saiqa organization in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It was the second such roundup in less than a week. At the same time, Israelis learned of the toughest austerity measures taken in nearly a year to combat a $1 billion budget deficit. They included a 10% devaluation of the Israeli pound and a 21% fuel price hike.
President Anwar el‐Sadat said today that American technicians had helped Israel in the 1973 war. He said that he had accepted the cease‐fire ending the October war with Israel when the United States sent technicians and new weapons into battle against Egypt and the “Soviet Union was on my back.” Mr. Sadat spoke at a meeting of parliament and the Arab Socialist Union, the country’s sore political party, to observe the fifth anniversary of the death of President Gamal Abdel Nasser. “When I accepted the ceasefire on. Oct. 22, 1973 — and I want our brothers in the Syrian Baath party to hear this — I was facing both the Americans and the Jews,” Mr. Sadat said. “America with its strength and its new weapons that had never before left the United States,” he said They brought the weapons and experts and entered the battle in the days of the breakthrough.” This was a reference to the Israeli move, across the Suez Canal.
Lebanese security forces combed suburban areas of Beirut today in search of 71 people missing and believed abducted during the last two weeks of fighting between Christian and Muslim elements. The police also reported that “a handful of snipers were being hunted down” in various districts north and east of Beirut. Security patrols were removing barricades and roadblocks from streets and highways in and around the battered capital. The patrols had orders to ishoot to kill if they encountered armed elements on streets or snipers on roofs in residential areas. Explosions, the rattle of machine guns and the thud of heavy guns punctuated the quiet of the fragile cease‐fire declared Wednesday.
Witnesses said that shops were blown up and passing cars were machine‐gunned at dawn today in areas near Baalbek, the site of Roman ruins 24 miles east of Beirut. Sporadic shooting was reported in the suburb of Antilias and abductions were reported in Borj Hammoud, a suburb inhabited mostly by Lebanese Muslims and Armenians. Special security units were searching the city for missing persons. The Voice of Lebanon, a clandestine broadcasting station set up by the right‐wing Phalangist party, said 21 Christians had been kidnapped by leftists and Muslim gunmen. The Muslim side said that 50 people, some of them Palestinians, were missing and believed abducted by Christian Phalangists.
The most senior North Vietnamese delegation to visit China since the Communist victory in South Vietnam last April returned to Hanoi after meeting with Chairman Mao Tsetung and receiving an interest-free loan. The amount of the loan was not disclosed. The visit came at a time of increasing speculation that Hanoi was edging away from Peking and closer to Moscow.
Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos continued his cleanup of the martial law government by ordering another 940 rank-and-file workers fired, bringing to 2,091 the employees purged from the regime’s service in nine days. Marcos ordered 1,191 workers fired Saturday.
Secretary of State Kissinger told Foreign Minister Angel F. Robledo of Argentina yesterday that the United States was watching his country’s efforts to strengthen parliamentary government “with understanding and sympathy.” In a joint statement issued after a discussion at the Waldorf‐Astoria they said they had “explored a number of specific steps to bring Argentina and the United States closer together.” Relations between the two nations were slightly strained over Argentina’s courting of Cuba last year and opposition to the new United States trade law early this year. Mr. Kissinger and Mr. Robledo said that the two governments would decide on cooperation measures in economic development, trade, finance and culture in the coming weeks.
The African National Council, Rhodesia’s black nationalist movement, elected Joshua Nkomo as its president, ousting Bishop Abel Muzorewa who is living in self-exile in neighboring Zambia. Nkomo, 58, told 5,500 delegates to the council’s congress in Salisbury he was prepared to hold constitutional talks with Prime Minister Ian Smith, but if these failed, “an armed struggle is inevitable.”
This country might not be warned in advance of a surprise attack because United States security agencies have become such unwieldy bureaucracies, the chairman of the House Select Committee on Intelligence said in an interview. Representative Otis Pike, a Suffolk County Democrat, praised the men who gather intelligence, but said that “above the gathering level” the intelligence system “just bogs down every single time.” After Mr. Pike’s television appearance, William Colby, Director of Central Intelligence, issued a rebuttal.
The Federal Election Commission has issued a ruling that strengthens the political arm of Associated Milk Producers, Inc., a dairy cooperative with 35,000 members, which in 1974 pleaded guilty to making illegal corporate contributions in the 1968, 1970 and 1972 election campaigns. The commission authorized a political committee of the milk producers to spend unlimited amounts of money for “nonpartisan” registration and get-out-the-vote drives, even though the milk producers had confined their drives to districts heavily in favor of candidates backed by them.
Federal prosecutors have decided against prosecuting Donald C. Alexander, the Internal Revenue Service commissioner, in an investigation linking him to a Seattle customs case, a Justice Department spokesman said in Washington. He said the U.S. attorney’s office in Seattle had decided that it lacked evidence that Alexander had violated any laws in advice he reportedly gave as a private attorney to the Procter & Gamble Co. in 1973 prior to his appointment as IRS chief. The Chicago Sun Times reported that a U.S. Customs Service investigation had implicated Alexander in an alleged coverup to defraud the government of import duties.
The National Council of Churches is endeavoring to in form 192,000 young men who registered for the draft in the Vietnam war but who failed to report for induction that only 4,400 of them still face charges. The Council’s Special Ministries program is trying to reach these men or their families to encourage them to find out whether they are still on the wanted list. Special Ministries will provide information to those not on the list and will furnish free legal assistance to those facing prosecution.
A six-day strike by 90% of Tucson’s policemen and firemen ended as a bitter and divided City Council approved a pay raise agreement. The 4–3 approval came after a four-hour council fight behind closed doors. The agreement gave policemen of sergeant rank and above, firemen from captain upwards, and other city employees in administrative jobs an immediate 7.5% raise. Others will get 5% and all 4,000 municipal employees will get a cost-of-living raise not to exceed 8% next July.
House Republican leader John J. Rhodes of Arizona said he would introduce legislation to make it a federal violation to use a firearm in the commission of a crime. He added, however, that he remained opposed to gun control in general but felt use of such weapons in crime should be made less attractive. He made his comments on ABC’s “Issues and Answers.” A gun control law would only hurt honest citizens and hunters, he said, while criminals would still be able to get guns.
Afterthoughts on John A. Durkin’s Democratic victory over Republican Louis C. Wyman in New Hampshire’s re‐run Senate election this month dwell on a variety of implications for the Presidential race in 1976, and particularly on the hazards for President Ford. The former New Hampshire House. Speaker, Stuart Lamprey, former Governor Hugh Gregg and a former state party chairman, David Gosselin, are among the “moderate” Republicans in the state now on the verge of joining Ronald Reagan’s organization for the February primary. Mr. Lamprey managed Richard M. Nixon’s New Hampshire primary victory in 1968, and he would supply the Reagan campaign (for a price) with the only computerized list of all the state’s voters. Mr. Gosselin, as G.O.P. chairman in 1974, did battle for the moderates against the archconservative Republican Governor, Meldrim Thomson Jr. Rut, he is moving to the Reagan camp not only out of trustration with President Ford’s staff but also because of a conviction that Mr. Ford’s “center of the party” cannot hold.
William Loeb, publisher of The Manchester Union Leader, would have favored Mr. Reagan in any event, but he also argues that the former California Governor looks stronger against Mr. Ford after the Wyman defeat. “Reagan campaigned very briefly for Wyman,” Mr. Loeb said in an interview today. “Ford’s trip across the state left him open to some devastating town‐by‐town comparison of the Republican vote for Wyman in 1974 and then in 1975. Nobody’s mad at Ford, but nobody takes him seriously. That’s what the vote showed.”
Police in Columbus, Ohio, have recovered the auto they believe was used in the kidnaping of Dayton businessman Lester C. Emoff. The car was found in Columbus Saturday night. Emoff’s body was found Friday near Dayton. Authorities have arrested three men in connection with the incident but so far have recovered only $20 of the $400,000 ransom. The car was registered to Mrs. Emma Taylor, mother of suspect Willis Leroy, 44, of Dayton. Also in custody and charged with aggravated murder, kidnaping and extortion are Albert Lee Scott Jr., 41, and Herman Lee Moore, 46. Scott is a former employee of Emoff.
Now that the Army has decided to pay its bill, Mayor Jack B. Freeze of Fort Smith, Arkansas, says the city won’t turn off the water to Fort Chaffee, the nation’s largest Vietnamese refugee center. The city had threatened to turn off the water on October 10 if an arrangement was not made to pay the estimated $40,000 in back payments the city maintained the Army owed. More than 15,000 refugees currently are at Chaffee. With the arrival of the refugees in May, Chaffee’s water consumption jumped from 103,000 gallons a day to 2.5 million gallons. An Army spokesman said an appeal would be made to the Arkansas Public Service Commission over Ft. Smith’s decision to more than double wholesale water rates.
The authorities found bombs today at three Pittsburgh area gasoline stations and said that they had been placed in gasoline tanks as part of a plot to obtain $45.5 million from seven major oil companies. None of the bombs detonated, but agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation termed, the situation “volatile” and the authorities cordoned off areas near the three stations — an Exxon, an Amoco, and a Gulf station‐and evacuated some residents. The F.B.I. announced in Washington yesterday the arrests of Paul Methven, 32 years old, of Virginia Beach, Va., and Larry Shaffer, 34, of Chicago, on charges of conspiracy to violate Federal extortion laws.
The eradication of smallpox is expected in the near future by officials of the World Health Organization. They believe that the battle against the disease will end early next year, if not sooner. Two years of further searching for new cases will be necessary before an international commission will be able to declare officially that smallpox has been wiped out. The W.H.O. says it knows of only 16 people in the world infected with the most devastating kind of smallpox, a viral disease, and all are quarantined in Bangladesh.
The first x-ray burster star to be discovered from Earth was observed by a team led by astronomer Jonathan Grindlay, who observed two x-ray bursts from the source 4U in NGC 6624.
Saint John Macías (1585–1645) was canonized by Pope Paul VI.
The first Long Beach Grand Prix was held on the streets of Long Beach, California and won by Brian Redman, who beat out early leaders Mario Andretti and Al Unser. The route of the Indy-car race took drivers along Ocean Boulevard, Linden Avenue, Shoreline Drive and Pine Avenue.
New York City Marathon: Tom Fleming claims men’s title in 2:19:27; Kim Merritt wins women’s event in 2:46:14.
Major League Baseball:
In a Major League first, 4 pitchers share in a no-hitter, as the A’s shut down the Angels 5–0. Vida Blue, Glenn Abbott, Paul Lindblad, and Rollie Fingers are the unique quartet. This is a tune up for the LCS opener against Boston the following Saturday. Leron Stanton steals a base for the Angels giving them 220 steals for the year. They are the first club since 1918 to swipe more than 200 bases in a season. American League base stealers swipe 1348, the most in either league since 1916. Vida Blue (22–11) pitched the first five innings and permitted the only Angels’ baserunners of the game — two on walks and one on an error by Bert Campaneris. Glenn Abbott came in for the sixth inning, Paul Lindblad pitched the seventh and Rollie Fingers hurled the last two frames. Among them, the relievers retired the last 12 straight batters. Reggie Jackson drove in three of the A’s runs with his 35th and 36th homers.
Put me in, coach! Two hours before game time, Milwaukee fires manager Del Crandall. Harvey Kuenn fills in as the Brewers win their finale, 7–0, behind Larry Anderson. Anderson is just the fourth pitcher this century to throw a shutout in his only Major League start (Don Fisher, Luis Aloma, Frank Williams) (as noted by J.G. Preston). Darrell Porter, who caught Anderson, backed the young righthander with a homer and triple, driving in three runs. George Scott drives in 2 runs to give him the American League lead with 109. Fisher will win one more Major League game, in 1977, in relief for Milwaukee.
A grand-slam homer by Alan Ashby featured the Indians’ 11–4 victory over the Red Sox, who rested all their regulars except platoon outfielder Juan Beniquez. Joe Lis hit a two-run homer for the Indians in the second inning, but the Red Sox were leading, 4–2, before the Tribe exploded for six runs in the fifth. Singles by John Lowenstein and Jack Brohamer, together with a sacrifice fly by Tommy Smith, accounted for the first run. Boog Powell singled and Oscar Gamble and Lis both walked to force in the tying tally before Ashby came to the plate and hit his grand slam off Dick Pole.
Jim Palmer turned in his 10th shutout and posted his 23rd victory, beating the Yankees, 3–0, in the first game of a doubleheader, but the Orioles lost the second game, 3–2, to end their season. Don Baylor homered in the second inning for the only run that Palmer needed, but the Orioles added a pair in the sixth on a single by Royle Stillman, double by Paul Blair, an error and sacrifice fly by Lee May. In the nightcap, the Orioles held a 2–0 lead going into the last half of the ninth when the Yankees rallied to win on an error. Roy White and Thurman Munson hit singles, Rick Dempsey walked to load the bases and Terry Whitfield singled to drive in the tying tallies. Rich Coggins, coming up as a pinch-hitter, missed an attempted squeeze bunt and Dempsey was hung up between third and home, but when Dyar Miller the dropped ball in the rundown, Dempsey scored to end the game.
Frank Quilici, who was fired earlier in the day, managed the Twins for the last time and wound up with a defeat when the White Sox scored twice in the 10th inning to gain a 6–4 victory. Nyls Nyman and Bill Melton hit homers for the White Sox before the game went into overtime. In the 10th, Bucky Dent and Pete Varney singled with two out. Tom Burgmeier, pitching to Pat Kelly, uncorked a wild pitch, allowing Dent to score. Kelly then singled to drive in Varney.
The Rangers, who finished third in the West Division, capped their season by defeating the Royals, 3–1. The Rangers sent Stan Perzanowski on the road to victory by scoring twice in the first inning. Lenny Randle led off with a single and Roy Smalley sacrificed. When Jim Wohlford mishandled a fly by Mike Hargrove, Randle scored. Hargrove reached second on the error and counted on a single by Jim Spencer.
Although chased in the sixth inning, Tom Seaver was able to receive credit for his 22nd victory when the Mets defeated the Phillies, 5–4. Skip Lockwood relieved and saved the decision for Seaver. Rusty Staub hit two sacrifice flies and Mike Phillips added one for the Mets, who took advantage of three errors to score four unearned runs. Dave Cash was hitless in four trips for the Phillies, but set a major league record for most times at bat in one season, 699.
Andre Thornton, Manny Trillo and Rick Reuschel each batted in two runs as the Cubs gained a 9–6 victory to finish in a tie with the Expos for fifth place in the East Division. Bill Madlock went hitless in four trips, but won the batting championship with an unofficial mark of .354. Thornton delivered his RBIs with a homer and single. Trillo rapped a double and single, while Reuschel had three hits before being chased from the mound in the sixth inning. Darold Knowles finished. The Expos’ production included a two-run homer by Mike Jorgensen.
The Pirates, who performed like a sandlot club rather than division champions, committed seven errors and lost their last game of the regular season to the Cardinals, 6–2. The victory enabled the Cards to finish in a tie with the Mets for third place. Five of the Redbirds’ runs were unearned. A double by Mario Guerrero and two errors by John Candelaria resulted in the first run in the third inning and Reggie Smith drove in two more with a single. After the Pirates picked up their pair, also unearned, on a throwing error by Ted Simmons in the fifth, Smith homered in the Cards’ half.
The Reds defeated the Braves, 7–6, and ended the regular season with 108 victories, most for any National League club since the 1906 Cubs won 116 games. The Reds, after taking a 3–0 lead in the first inning, fell behind, 5–3, before rallying to go ahead with three more runs in the eighth. Dave May homered for the Braves to tie the score in the ninth, but the Reds then won with an unearned run in their half. With one out, Bill Plummer was safe on an error by Darrell Evans and took second on a passed ball. After a walk to Ed Armbrister and infield out by Ken Griffey, Cesar Geronimo singled to drive in the winning run.
A three-run homer by Cliff Johnson in the eighth inning carried the Astros to a 4–2 victory over the Dodgers. The Astros began the eighth with a run on an error, infield out and single by Art Gardner to tie the score at 1–1. Jose Cruz then was hit by a pitch before Johnson smashed his homer.
Although Randy Jones (20–12) lost to the Giants, 5–3, the Padres’ ace lefthander won the league’s earned run average title with a mark of 2.24. Jones gave up four runs, but only two were earned. Gary Matthews homered with a man on base off Jones in the first inning and Gary Thomasson added a solo swat off reliever Danny Frisella in the eighth.
Cleveland Indians 11, Boston Red Sox 4
Montreal Expos 6, Chicago Cubs 9
Atlanta Braves 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Houston Astros 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Detroit Tigers 0, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Chicago White Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 4
Baltimore Orioles 3, New York Yankees 0
Baltimore Orioles 2, New York Yankees 3
California Angels 0, Oakland Athletics 5
New York Mets 5, Philadelphia Phillies 4
San Francisco Giants 5, San Diego Padres 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Kansas City Royals 1, Texas Rangers 3
NFL Football:
The Lions beat the Falcons, 17–14, as Altie Taylor crashed for a 1‐yard touchdown with 1:20 remaining. Detroit remained undefeated and scored its eighth straight victory over the Falcons. Taylor’s score capped a 35‐yard drive, which included a critical fourth‐down pass from Greg Landry to Ray Jarvis for 14 yards to the Atlanta 20.
Midway through the third period of today’s game between Buffalo and Pittsburgh, the Bills were improbably leading the Steelers, 23–0. The game finally ended with the Bills on top, 30–21. But how come 23–0? It was a matter of a blend, a mix of early Steeler incompetence that centered on Terry Bradshaw, the quarterback for the Super Bowl champions, and the incredible skills of O. J. Simpson and his supporting cast. Simpson galloped through the National Football League’s alleged best defense for 227 yards, 88 of which came on a touchdown sprint down the sideline, that raised the score to 22–0. Simpson averaged 8.1 yards a carry, and after two games his total for the young season is 400 yards.
The Oilers remained unbeaten as Don Hardeman and Ronnie Coleman each ran for more than 100 yards and a touchdown to lift Houston to a 33–17 victory over the Chargers. Other Houston touchdowns came on a 3‐yard pass from Dan Pastorini to John Sawyer and on a 38‐yard run with a fumble recovery by Curly Culp, a middle guard, his first pro touchdown. The Oilers have won eight of their last 10 regular‐season games.
The Bengals blanked the Saints, 21–0. Although Cincinnati’s running game was ineffective, the Bengals chalked up their second straight triumph as Ken Anderson passed for three touchdowns, two to Isaac Curtis. Anderson, the N.F.L.’s leading passer last season, connected on 17 of 21 aerials for 203 yards in three quarters of play. The Saints never penetrated beyond Cincinnati’s 20‐yard line and were booed by a crowd of 52,531 most of the second half.
Roger Staubach of the Dallas Cowboys and Jim Hart of the St. Louis Cardinals put on such a superb passing duel yesterday and it took almost eight minutes of overtime play to decide their game at Irving, Texas. The Cowboys won, 37–31. The first overtime game of the two‐week‐old National Football League season and the first for both teams went into a 15‐minute sudden-death period when Hart threw his fourth touchdown pass, a 37‐yarder to Mel Gray, with 46 seconds left in regulation play. The Cardinals, who had rebounded from a 14‐point deficit in the fourth quarter, seemed to be ready to win in the overtime session, marching to the Dallas 26‐yard line. But Lee Roy Jordan intercepted Hart’s next pass and carried it 38 yards to the St. Louis 37. The Cowboys then needed 10 plays before Staubach hit Billy Joe Dupree alone in the left corner of the end zone on a play that began from the 3‐yard line. It was Staubach’s third scoring aerial and Dupree’s sixth reception of the day.
The Rams, upset last week by Dallas, recovered from a 14–3 half‐time deficit to down the 49ers, 23–14, and now lead the Western Conference with a 1–1 record. Tom Dempsey kicked three field goals. including a 51‐yarder which gave the Rams a 16–14 lead early in the fourth quarter. The Rams nailed down the decision on a 22‐yard touchdown pass from James Harris to Lawrence McCutcheon. Norm Snead tossed a 30‐yard scoring pass to Gene Washington and Darrell Williams ran 38 yards for a touchdown to account for the 49ers’ points. The Rams have defeated San Francisco 10 straight times since 1970.
The Vikings crushed the Browns, 42–10. Fran Tarkenton fipped two passes for touchdowns and scored himself on a 2‐yard run as the Vikings won their second game. The quarterback, who connected on 17 of 27 passes for 170 yards, threw 29 yards to John Gilliam and 13 yards to Chuck Foreman for touchdowns. The Minnesota defense intercepted four Cleveland passes.
On the second‐greatest rushing day in the team’s checkered history, the New York Jets were forced to go to the final seconds before they were assured of a 30–24 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs today. “If we had lost this one,” said the Jets’ Eddie Bell later, “we’d be wondering do we have it or don’t we.” Instead, the Jets have a 1–1 won‐lost record in what promises to be the tightest race in the National Football League — the Eastern Division of the American Conference. The rushing heroes were two of football’s curiosities: John Riggins and Carl Garrett. Riggins bullied his way for 145 yards on 27 attempts, most of them coming after he twisted an ankle in the opening quarter. And Garrett ran to a career high of 135 yards on 16 attempts for a brilliant 8.4‐yard average. In all, the Jets rushed for 291 yards, a figure eclipsed only once by them — three years ago at New England, when they gained 333 yards.
After New England had taken a 14–0 lead on touchdown passes from Neil Graff to Randy Vataha and Russ Francis, the Dolphins bounced back on the running of Don Nottingham and three field goals by Garo Yepremian to win, 22–14. Nottingham, held to 15 yards in the first half, wound up with 120 on 16 carries. He scored on a 4‐yard run in the third quarter to bring the Dolphins to within 14–9. Then Norm Bulaich, following an interception by Jake Scott, put Miami ahead for good by diving into the end zone from the 1.
The Bears edged the Eagles, 15–13. Bob Thomas kicked a 26‐yard field goal —his third of the day—with 8 seconds remaining to give the Bears their 10th straight victory over Philadelphia in Chicago. Gary Huff had moved the Bears from their own 30‐yard line in 13 plays. The key play was a 23‐yard run to the Philadelphia 13 by Walter Payton, a rookie, in the final minute. Huff threw a scoring pass to Cid Edwards and Philadelphia’s Roman Gabriel tossed a touchdown pass to Harold Carmichael.
The Raiders downed the Colts, 31–20. Neal Colzie, a rookie defensive back from Ohio State, set up three Oakland touchdowns with punt returns of 26, 43 and 23 yards and added a fourth‐period interception as the Raiders averted an upset..
Those Giants actually thought they had a chance to surprise Washington and make a mark for themselves in the early season. But the Redskins buried these Giants, 49–13, today in an everswarming onslaught of defensive linemen that left Craig Morton grateful that he could depart Robert F. Kennedy Stadium without assistance. The Washington front four, fired by Diron Talbert, sacked the Giant quarterbacks eight times — Morton seven and Carl Summerell one. They also sparked their team to a 28‐point second quarter that decided the outcome.
Detroit Lions 17, Atlanta Falcons 14
Buffalo Bills 30, Pittsburgh Steelers 21
San Diego Chargers 17, Houston Oilers 33
Cincinnati Bengals 21, New Orleans Saints 0
St. Louis Cardinals 31, Dallas Cowboys 37
Los Angeles Rams 23, San Francisco 49ers 14
Minnesota Vikings 42, Cleveland Browns 10
New York Jets 30, Kansas City Chiefs 24
Miami Dolphins 22, New England Patriots 14
Philadelphia Eagles 13, Chicago Bears 15
Oakland Raiders 31, Baltimore Colts 20
New York Giants 13, Washington Redskins 49
Born:
Lenny Krayzelburg, Ukrainian-American swimmer (Olympic gold medals, 100/200m backstroke, 2000; 4×100m medley, 2000, 2004), in Odesa, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union.
Mandy Barnett, American country singer (“Maybe”; “The Whispering Wind”), in Crossville, Tennessee.
Karan Ashley [Jackson], American actress (Aisha-“Mighty Power Rangers”), in Odessa, Texas.
Nadine Domond, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs), in Stamford, Connecticut.
Died:
Sidney Fields, 77, American comedian and actor (“Abbott & Costello”).
Agnes Windeck, 87, German actress (“A Time to Love and a Time to Die”).
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