The Soviet Union formally proposed that the United States cut by 50 percent its long-range and medium-range nuclear weapons, while offering a reduction that would cover only Soviet long-range weapons, American officials said. The proposal made such cutbacks conditional on a ban on research into space-based defenses and on testing or development of space-based defenses or anti-satellite weapons. The officials here said the proposal was regarded in Washington as a retreat from recent indications — in a TIME magazine interview with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and comments to a group of United States Senators visiting Moscow — that the Kremlin might accept basic laboratory research on antimissile defenses. Another central element in the Soviet proposal, officials here said, was a ban on deployment of new strategic weapon systems. American officials said this appeared to allow Moscow to proceed with deployment of two land-based intercontinental missiles, the SS-24 and the SS-25, but to bar the United States from deploying the land-based MX and Midgetman missiles, the submarine-based Trident D-5 missile and the Stealth bomber, which are at earlier stages of development.
The Defense Intelligence Agency has significantly lowered its estimate of the range of a Soviet bomber that has figured in the Geneva arms talks, Reagan Administration officials said today. Administration experts said the new estimate reinforced the contention by some arms-control proponents that the bomber, known in the West as the Backfire, was designed to attack ships and targets in Europe and Asia, not in the United States. The new, lower intelligence agency estimate of the bomber’s range raises questions about the Administration’s decision to treat the Backfire as part of Moscow’s long-range nuclear arsenal in the Geneva talks. But some Administration officials said they expected the United States to keep to its position that the Backfire should be limited by any future arms control agreement because the Soviet Union could add to the bomber’s refueling capabilities.
Leaders of six nations and President Reagan plan to meet next month to discuss the President’s summit meeting in November with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The White House said Mr. Reagan had invited the leaders of Britain, France, West Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan to the allied talks October 23–24. A White House spokesman, Edward P. Djerejian, said the allied talks would focus on arms control as well as East-West economic and political questions. The meeting will take place while Mr. Reagan is in New York to attend ceremonies commemorating the 40th anniversary of the United Nations.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s national security adviser called today for a governmental agreement with the United States to coordinate the participation of West German industry in the Reagan Administration’s research program for an antimissile shield. The security adviser, Horst Teltschik, said it was “a vital interest” for the Federal Republic to take part in the American research effort, and he said a decision to strike a government-to-government accord could reached by the end of this year or early next year. Mr. Teltschik’s endorsement of West German participation in the strategic defense initiative, often called the “Star Wars” program, was the Kohl Government’s first public statement on the issue since Mr. Teltschik returned from an 11-day fact-finding mission in the United States earlier this month.
The United Nations has been overwhelmed by outdated and imprecise ideas and is in a state of virtual paralysis on its 40th birthday, a U.N. watchdog group said in Geneva. A report prepared for the anniversary called for reforms to set up a “third generation world organization after the two experiments of the League of Nations and the United Nations.” The report’s author, a former French official, said that attempts at reform failed because member states have failed to try to understand the reasons for U.N. ineffectiveness.
The General Assembly’s budget committee began debating assessments to be levied against U.N. members for 1986-88, with the United States still expected to pay 25% of the total. A subcommittee report took no account of a new U.S. law requiring Washington’s contribution to be lowered unless progress is made toward a system of weighting members’ votes according to the amount they pay in assessments. The subcommittee set the Soviet assessment at 11.82%, making Moscow the second largest contributor but reducing its share by .34%.
Demonstrations were held in West Germany in a third straight night of anti-police protests that have left a trail of destruction, looting and injuries in 15 cities. More than 300 people have been arrested. The rioting began after a man taking part in a demonstration against a meeting of neo-Nazis in Frankfurt was run over and killed by a police water-cannon vehicle. About 200 protesters staged a vigil at the spot where the victim, Guenter Sare, 36, was struck.
The prosecutor’s office in Cologne, West Germany, said it is convinced that a counterspy who defected to East Germany did not kill his wife two years ago as some reports had suggested. A spokesman said it is ending an inquiry into the death of Ute Tiedge, 44, the wife of Hans Joachim Tiedge, 48, the senior counterintelligence agent who crossed over to East Germany on Aug. 19. He said there is no evidence to support reports that Tiedge might have been responsible for her death.
The newly confirmed defection of a senior Soviet military intelligence official who was based in Greece and the arrest of three purported Greek spies has fueled an intense political dispute here over the extent of Soviet spying in this NATO nation. Last week Constantine Mitsotakis, the leader of the conservative opposition, said revelations by the defector, Sergei Bokhan, made it evident that Russian spies had extensively infiltrated Greece, including the foreign ministry, the armed forces, Greek businesses and the press. Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou denied the allegations, saying that no one beyond the three people arrested were involved in spying. He also criticized the United States for what he said was its refusal to allow Greek officials to interrogate Mr. Bokhan and for withholding information on the case.
Spain today ordered representatives of the Polisario Front, the guerrillas fighting for the independence of Western Sahara, to leave within three days. In addition, the Polisario offices in Spain were ordered closed. The Foreign Ministry said Spain was retaliating for the killings of a Spanish fisherman and a Spanish sailor by Polisario guerrillas in separate attacks off the coast of Western Sahara. “The Government has taken a very serious view of the attacks,” Foreign Minister Francisco Fernandez Ordonez said in a radio interview today. In Ceuta, a Spanish coastal enclave in North Africa, the Spanish Government representative announced tonight that 21 Saharan students would also be expelled, probably on Tuesday. Polisario reacted with indignation. In a statement from its base in Algeria, it called Spain’s move “treasonous” and said that “more than ever it exposes hundreds of Spanish fishermen to dangers without precedent.”
The reaction of Israeli officials to a speech last week by King Hussein of Jordan has highlighted the many divisions within Israel’s coalition Government on the issue of direct peace talks between Israel and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. In contrast to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, many Labor Party officials hailed the King’s United Nations speech Friday as a potential key to breaking the deadlock in the Middle East peace process. The response offered by Mr. Peres, the Labor Party leader in the national unity Government, was widely seen as cautious. According to a communique issued after the Cabinet meeting Sunday, Mr. Peres welcomed the King’s “vision of peace” and Middle East cooperation, but questioned whether the Jordanian’s proposals were workable.
Four Soviet officials were abducted as they rode in official cars in West Beirut. Radio reports said the Russians were kidnapped by gunmen in two separate incidents. In one incident, the police said a group of heavily armed men pulled two Russians from their car on a street near the Soviet Embassy, pushed them into another vehicle and drove them away.
President Reagan meets with King Hussein I of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Direct Israeli-Jordanian peace talks could begin by the end of December, President Reagan said after a meeting with King Hussein of Jordan. The President said Jordan, Israel and the United States shared a desire for “direct negotiations, under appropriate auspices, before the end of this year… There are complex and sensitive issues which must be resolved before actual negotiations can begin,” Mr. Reagan said. “But I believe these issues can be resolved.”
Indian and Pakistani troops are battling for control of a border area in the Kashmir region and have exchanged heavy fire at a frontier pass, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency, reporting that Pakistan has moved troops, armor and artillery into the region, said there were no Indian casualties. An Indian newspaper, the Tribune, reported that Pakistani planes strafed Indian positions on the 18,000-foot-high Siachen Glacier. There was no comment from Pakistan. Since independence in 1947, India and Pakistan have frequently clashed over the divided Kashmir region.
The new chief minister of India’s Punjab state ordered the release of 224 prisoners detained under the National Security Act and pledged to deal softly with Sikh extremists. Surjit Singh Barnala’s moderate Akali Dal party won an overwhelming majority in last week’s elections, returning the Sikh-majority state to local control after two years of federal rule from New Delhi. Thousands of Sikh separatists, including Barnala, were jailed last year, and Barnala has said that most of the 3,000 or so who remain in custody are innocent.
The Reagan Administration said it is offering to sell China the technical expertise and equipment to build a factory for making artillery shells. If Congress does not block the $98-million deal within 30 days and the Chinese accept the offer, it would be the U.S. government’s first major military sale to Peking.
In a rebuke to both the Soviet Union and the United States, China’s Foreign Minister called today for both countries to halt the arms race in outer space immediately. An international treaty on the “complete prohibition and destruction of outer-space weaponry should be concluded as soon as possible,” he said. The Foreign Minister, Wu Xueqian, told the 40th General Assembly that “outer space belongs to all mankind and ought to be used for peaceful purposes for the benefit of all.”
The Salvadoran armed forces have virtually halted their operations in the region where the kidnapped daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte may be held, according to military and civilian sources. Almost all military actions have been suspended for more than two weeks, the sources said, in the Northern province of Chalatenango, where the rebels control large areas. The cutback appears to be at least a partial response to conditions set by the leftist guerillas who have been holding the President’s oldest daughter, Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran, for the last three weeks. In radio messages, the kidnappers have demanded that the Government halt all military operations, embargo information and propaganda and release 34 rebels.
Angola said South African airplanes attacked its forces in a southeastern province early today, killing more than 50 soldiers in an operation aimed at supporting South African ground troops helping Angolan rebels. The Angolan Defense Ministry, quoted by the official Angolan press agency in a dispatch received in Lisbon, said six helicopters were shot down by more than eight South African planes in the attack on Angolan forces near Mavinga, in Cuando Cubango province.
President P. W. Botha of South Africa, facing his Government’s deepest racial crisis, delivered a speech tonight in which he set out what he termed an agenda for racial reform. Hedged with qualifications, it offered political rights to blacks, including citizenship and an undefined vote. But it seemed to suggest that those rights would be exercised in complex and undefined political structures designed to “insure that one group is not placed in a position where it can dominate other groups.” The language is the Africaners’ way of saying that white dominance in national affairs will be retained.
President Reagan requested that Margaret M. Heckler, Secretary of Health and Human Services, relinquish her post and accept the ambassadorship to Ireland. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said that Mrs. Heckler, in a private meeting with the President, asked Mr. Reagan for a few days to think about taking the ambassadorship, and that he agreed. Mr. Reagan’s action stopped short of a formal dismissal, and some White House officials portrayed it as a “promotion.” But for several months, in the face of pressure from some White House aides, Mrs. Heckler has been struggling to keep her Cabinet position and the responsibility for the Health and Human Services Department’s $330 billion budget, the largest of any department.
President Reagan attends the retirement ceremony for Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Vessey at Andrews Air Force Base. General John W. Vessey Jr. closed out 46 years of military service today by turning to an honor guard and saying, with a gentle wave of his hand, “Thanks, troops, thanks.” In the ceremony marking his retirement, General Vessey sat on the reviewing stand in a cavernous hangar with President Reagan, Vice President Bush and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger to hear himself lauded after three years on duty as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the nation’s top military officer. Seated in stands behind them were senior civilian officials, the chiefs of staff of the services, most of the 28 other four-star generals and admirals, and hundreds of other officers, senior noncommissioned officers and their families.
The House and the Senate, faced with fiscal-year deadlines at midnight, voted today to extend several programs, including a ceiling on dairy price supports and the 16-cent-a-pack cigarette tax. However, two Administration officials said President Reagan, who favors letting the cigarette tax drop to 8 cents, might veto the extension. Senate Republican leaders, who were surprised that the President might take his opposition to tax increases that far, were informed of Mr. Reagan’s opposition to the cigarette tax extension just before the legislation was approved by voice vote and sent to the White House. Mr. Reagan’s budget early this year had contemplated letting the tax fall.
Facing fiscal year-end deadlines, Congress voted to extend several programs that would have expired at midnight last night, including a ceiling on dairy prices and the 16-cent-a-pack cigarette tax. But Administration officials said that President Reagan, who favors a drop in the cigarette tax to 8 cents, might veto the extension. Such a veto would also block the extension of four other programs, including trade adjustment assistance.
A study of 300 health care workers who handle acquired immune deficiency syndrome cases at San Francisco General Hospital discovered no instance in which the disease was transmitted to a worker who was not already a member of a high-risk group, such as intravenous drug users, homosexual men or blood transfusion recipients. University of California, San Francisco, clinical instructor Julie Gerberding said physicians, nurses, lab personnel and other employees exposed to AIDS patients were included in the study, begun in 1984, which showed no antibody for AIDS virus present in any subject who had no additional risk factor.
Former auto maker John Z. DeLorean pleaded not guilty before a federal magistrate in Detroit to a 15-count criminal indictment charging that he defrauded the investors in his defunct sports car company. DeLorean, 60, was released on a $1-million unsecured bond, and a trial date was set for November 18 in federal court in Detroit. DeLorean was ordered to surrender his passport and report his whereabouts on a weekly basis until his trial begins.
California’s two senators, Democrat Alan Cranston and Republican Pete Wilson, moved to postpone final congressional action on a bill to fund operations of the Interior Department, arguing that approval of the legislation might give Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel the go-ahead to sell offshore oil leases along the state’s coast. In past years, the Interior appropriations bill included a temporary moratorium on offshore drilling, but the language was dropped for fiscal 1986 after it appeared Hodel had agreed to a plan to confine offshore drilling to a small number of tracts. Hodel later changed his mind.
A union representing nearly 1,600 welfare workers in Ohio’s most populous county went on strike in a pay dispute, and three pickets were arrested on disorderly conduct charges. Officials said they would try to continue serving the roughly 200,000 welfare clients in Cuyahoga County, which includes Cleveland. Both sides described tense scenes outside offices, and a restraining order was issued late in the day limiting the number of pickets at each site.
A single-engine plane, whose crash at Jenkinsburg, Georgia, killed the pilot and 16 sky divers, carried contaminated fuel and may have been overloaded, federal aviation investigators said. A black discoloration was found in the right fuel tank of the Cessna 208 Caravan, said Jim Burnett, chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. Investigators did not know what had contaminated the fuel, he said. The Federal Aviation Administration said it grounded the plane Friday because of contaminated fuel, but Burnett said the plane’s owner took off without correcting the problem, which was a violation of FAA rules.
Milwaukee will pay $600,000 under a settlement reached in a lawsuit by the family of a black man who died while in police custody for a rape it was later determined he did not commit. U.S. Magistrate Robert L. Bittner, who conducted talks between lawyers for the family of Ernest R. Lacy and the city, announced the settlement as jury selection in the lawsuit was about to begin. Lacy, 22, died in police custody on July 9, 1981, after he was brought in for questioning about a rape. The woman involved later identified another man as her attacker. The death led to demonstrations by pickets who criticized the police for failing to administer first aid to Lacy.
Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards’ $800,000 debt to Nevada gambling casinos gave him a motive to become involved in an illegal scheme that earned $10 million, U.S. Attorney John Volz suggested in opening arguments in New Orleans. The Volz argument began the testimony phase of the trial for Edwards and seven others accused of participating in a scheme to improperly gain state certification for hospital corporations in which they had an interest.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation today added to its list of the 10 most-wanted suspects a member of the Order, a white supremacist group. The suspect, Richard Scutari, 38 years old, was one of 23 neo-Nazis named in a Federal racketeering indictment here in April. He is the only known member of the Order still at large, and he has vowed never to be taken alive. Mr. Scutari is accused of taking part in the slaying of a Denver radio personality, Alan Berg, in June 1984 and the robbery of an armored car in Ukiah, Calif., that netted $3.6 million in July 1984.
Followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh sang and danced around a bonfire tonight as they burned about 5,000 copies of the sect’s former holy book and the robes of the guru’s former secretary. The books and the flowing red robes of the former aide, Ma Anand Sheela, who abruptly left the Oregon commune about two weeks ago, were heaped onto four wooden pallets covered with flowers and juniper branches. The ceremony, in the community’s crematorium, was part of guru’s announced intention to repudiate ideas and projects that he says were conceived by Miss Sheela, who left with about a dozen other top officials. The 53-year-old guru has accused Miss Sheela of heading a gang that committed crimes ranging from attempted murder to arson.
Teachers in Seattle ended their walkout and went back to school, but a total of 12 strikes by 3,500 teachers kept about 62,000 students at home in Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio. Seattle’s 3,700 teachers, aides and secretaries returned to work to prepare for the arrival today of the city’s 43,500 students, who missed 19 days of class during the dispute that dealt largely with class size.
A Texas nursing home and its owner and management went on trial on charges of murdering an 87-year-old woman by neglect in a case that has landmark implications in the alleged abuse of the elderly in this country.
Public awareness about alcohol is growing nationally, but so is the number of problem drinkers. The Federal excise tax on alcohol rises by 19 percent today, and debate continues about future trends in alcohol consumption. Experts say there has been a significant decline in per capita consumption of alcohol, especially liquor, but they add that there is cause for concern because teen-agers seem to be experimenting with alcohol at a younger age.
Weather resembling a tornado is believed to have caused the crash of a Delta Air Lines plane August 2 that killed 136 people at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, according to documents revealed. Dialogue on the cockpit recorder of another Delta plane that landed moments before the crash cited weather that looked “like a tornado or something.”
Howard Stern gets fired from New York City radio station WNBC-AM.
Island Records releases “Rain Dogs”, the ninth studio album by singer-songwriter Tom Waits; the album features guitarist Marc Ribot, guest appearances from Keith Richards, and one of Waits’ most covered songs, “Downtown Train”.
Major League Baseball:
Jerry Davis singled home Miguel Dilone with the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning tonight to lead the San Diego Padres to a 6–4 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The loss prevented the Dodgers from clinching a tie for the National League West title. The second-place Cincinnati Reds, who trail the Dodgers by 5 ½ games, lost, 4–3, to the San Francisco Giants earlier in the day. Ken Howell (4–7) who relieved Fernando Valenzuela in the eighth inning, walked Kevin McReynolds to lead off the ninth. Dilone, running for McReynolds, stole second and scored on Davis’s single. Davis later scored on a double by Garry Templeton.
Dan Gladden’s two-out single in the ninth inning gave San Francisco a 4–3 victory over the Reds. The Giants got singles by Greg Nokes, Jose Uribe and Gladden in the ninth off the reliever Ted Power (7–6). The victory went to Scott Garrelts (9–4). Mario Soto, the Reds’ starter, struck out 14 batters and allowed only three hits in seven innings. The right-hander had not pitched since September 13 because of foot and shoulder problems. San Francisco broke a five-game losing streak and snapped the Reds four-game streak.
The Braves topped the Astros, 6–3. Pascual Perez survived a shaky start and pitched six strong innings and Dale Murphy drove in the winning run with a bloop single in the 11th. “This was his best outing of the year. He has had a lot of bad luck,” said Braves manager Bobby Wine. “We hope this outing will have a positive effect going into next spring.” Murphy drove in his 110th run with his 13th game-winning RBI of the year.
Bret Saberhagen pitches a complete-game 3–1 victory over the Angels to win his 20th game of the year. George Brett and Jim Sundberg homer for KC. Reggie Jackson made his reputation on these kinds of confrontations, but tonight he simply stood motionless at the plate. Bret Saberhagen, whose value to the Kansas City Royals is no less than Dwight Gooden’s is to the Mets, fired three straight fastballs. Jackson watched them all, then walked quietly back to the dugout. The strikeout was Saberhagen’s 10th, and it put the finishing touch to the Royals’ victory over the California Angels, tying the two clubs for first place in the American League West with six games left in the season, and three remaining in this series.
Where the gallant Phil Niekro failed, the triumvirate of Don Mattingly, Dave Winfield and Don Baylor succeeded, and the Yankees are still in a pennant race. They defeated the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium last night, 5–4, scoring three runs in the ninth on a two-run homer by Mattingly, followed by a double by Winfield, and the game-winner, a groundball single to right field by Baylor. The victory clipped a half-game off the lead of first-place Toronto in the American League East, and it kept the Blue Jays’ number for clinching the title at any combination of three victories or three Yankee defeats. It also gave the Yankees their fifth consecutive victory, and their 12th victory in 13 meetings with the Orioles. But Niekro could not achieve what he has now tried and failed four times — getting his 300th victory. When he left the game in the eighth inning the Yankees were behind, 4–2, the Orioles had the bases loaded and Niekro was on the verge of becoming the losing pitcher. Niekro’s replacement, Neil Allen, who would receive credit for the victory — his first as a Yankee — struck out Eddie Murray to end the threat.
The Twins routed the White Sox, 7–1. Bert Blyleven pitched a five-hitter and Kent Hrbek scored the go-ahead run in the third inning on Chicago catcher Carlton Fisk’s error. Kirby Puckett went 4-for-4 and Dave Engle added a three-run homer in support of Blyleven, 16–16, who struck out seven and completed his major-league high 23rd game. With the score tied 1–1 in the third, Hrbek’s smash off Britt Burns, 18–11, eluded two Chicago outfielders for a triple. Shortstop Ozzie Guillen took the relay and threw home in plenty of time to get Hrbek, trying for an inside-the-park homer, but Fisk dropped the ball attempting to make the tag.
Bobby Jones hit a two-run pinch-hit home run with one out in the eighth inning to lift Texas to a 5–3 win over the A’s. Jones’ fifth homer of the season helped Jeff Russell, 3–6, gain the victory. Russell gave up six hits and three walks and struck out a season-high eight batters in eight innings. Dwayne Henry pitched the ninth to earn his third save of the season. The game-winning hit came off Jay Howell, 9–7, Oakland’s third pitcher of the night. Oakland starter Tim Conroy scattered four hits over the first six innings and was followed by Steve Ontiveros, who left the game after walking Toby Harrah with one out in the eighth. Jones greeted Howell with his first game-winning hit of the season. The Rangers then added an insurance run as Pete O’Brien singled and came home on a double by Larry Parrish.
Trying to circumvent the Mariners’ ‘escape clause,’ which is based on attendance at the Kingdome, the King County Council attempts to modify the deal it made with the team. A proposed amendment, making it necessary for the club to play .500 ball before a move could be considered, a record the M’s have never achieved, angers owner George Argyros so much he threatens to move the team out of Seattle.
Atlanta Braves 6, Houston Astros 3
California Angels 1, Kansas City Royals 3
San Diego Padres 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 7
Baltimore Orioles 4, New York Yankees 5
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Oakland Athletics 3, Texas Rangers 5
NFL Monday Night Football:
Boomer Esiason threw two touchdown passes to the tight end Rodney Holman and picked apart Pittsburgh’s league-leading defense with short passes as the Cincinnati Bengals rallied for a 37–24 victory over the Steelers tonight. It was the first victory of the season for the Bengals, who had lost three straight. The Steelers are 2–2. James Brooks, who ran for 133 yards, scored two touchdowns — one on a 14-yard run late in the first half and another on a 32-yard scamper with 1:45 to play. The Bengals bounced back from a third-quarter rally by the Steelers, who relied on their quarterback, Mark Malone, to turn a 21–10 deficit into a 24–21 lead in a span of 1:28. Holman, taking advantage of the coverage on the wide receivers Cris Collinsworth and Eddie Brown, had scoring passes of 26 and 4 yards. With the Steelers leading by 24–21 in the fourth quarter, the wide receiver Louis Lipps fumbled while attempting to pitch the ball back to Malone on a flea flicker play and the linebacker Reggie Williams fell on the ball at the Pittsburgh 33. Esiason scrambled for 4 yards, had a 24-yard completion to Brown for a first down at the Pittsburgh 5, and then hit Holman over the middle for what proved the deciding score. Jim Breech had a 32-yard field goal with 4:27 to go, and Brooks got his second touchdown with 1:45 left.
Cincinnati Bengals 37, Pittsburgh Steelers 24
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1328.63 (+7.84)
Born:
Danny Worth, MLB second baseman, shortstop, and third baseman (Detroit Tigers, Houston Astros), in Northridge, California.
Daniel Robertson, MLB outfielder (Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Angels, Seattle Mariners, Cleveland Indians), in Fontana, California.
Jamie Romak, Canadian MLB pinch hitter, outfielder, and first baseman (Los Angeles Dodgers, Arizona Diamondbacks), in London, Ontario, Canada.
Chris Chamberlain, NFL linebacker (St. Louis Rams), in Bethany, Oklahoma.
Jason Shirley, NFL defensive tackle (Cincinnati Bengals, Carolina Panthers), in Fontana, California.
Cédrick Desjardins, Canadian NHL goaltender (Tampa Bay Lightning), in Edmundston, New Brunswick, Canada.
Katrina Law, American actress (“NCIS”), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Simone Signoret, German-French BAFTA, Emmy, and Academy Award- winning actress (“Room at Top”; “Diabolique”), of pancreatic cancer at 64
Charles F. Richter, 85, American physicist and seismologist (developed the Richter scale for measuring earthquake magnitude).
Helen MacInnes, 77, Scottish-American spy writer (“Agent in Place”; “The Salzburg Connection”), of complications from a stroke.
Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-American Bauhaus trained graphic artist (invented Universal typeface), photographer and designer.
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