Mikhail S. Gorbachev laid out a formal arms proposal to the United States and offered to make a “separate agreement” with France and Britain to halt what he called the “infernal train” of the arms race.”It is time to start between us a direct dialogue,” the Soviet leader said, referring to proposed talks with Britain and France, “and try to find an acceptable way out through joint effort.” Mr. Gorbachev, speaking to members of the French National Assembly on the second day of a four-day visit to France, said it was now possible to achieve an agreement on European missiles “outside of direct connection with the problem of space and strategic arms.” In the past the Soviet Union has insisted that the independent nuclear arsenals of Britain and France be included in any agreement with the United States on missiles based in Europe. The Russians have also insisted that all aspects of arms talks, including space weapons and missiles in Europe, be linked to each other.
President Reagan welcomed the change in the Soviet position on arms control outlined in Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s speech in Paris. The President called the alterations substantial and said he had no objection to separate negotiations between Moscow and Britain and France. Mr. Reagan made the remarks, his most detailed comment on Moscow’s proposals, in response to a speech in Paris today by Mr. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. Mr. Reagan spoke in an impromptu news conference at a soap manufacturing plant near Cincinnati. The President’s generally positive tone about Mr. Gorbachev’s speech contrasted pointedly with the skeptical assessment in recent days by Administration officials who voiced disappointment in the new Soviet proposals at the Geneva arms talks and termed them unbalanced. Other ranking Administration officials reacted cautiously to Mr. Gorbachev’s speech, gently chiding the Soviet leader for publicly disclosing the Soviet arms control position when it was on the negotiating table during private talks in Geneva.
The Soviet Union has abandoned the idea of “mutual assured destruction,” Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger charged, and raced ahead with its own antimissile defense program, even as it denounced the Reagan Administration for doing the same. In a speech to the Philadelphia World Affairs Council, a text of which was made public in Washington, Mr. Weinberger said the United States had rejected dependence on arms-control treaties and the threat of mutual destruction as “the ways of the 60’s” only after the Soviet Union had abandoned them long ago in practice. “We have learned that the dogma of agreed mutual vulnerability, over the long term, is not a safe guarantee against nuclear war, particularly when the Soviets do not accept it,” he said. He defended the United States quest for a way to defend against attacking missiles as the only strategy that can protect America and its allies from nuclear war “regardless of Soviet activities.”
A missing former C.I.A. officer is believed to have given the Soviet Union significant secret information about the methods the United States uses to gather intelligence in Moscow, Congressional sources said tonight. The sources said the former officer, Edward L. Howard had been trained by the Central Intelligence Agency in the secret techniques when he was prepared to be sent to Moscow as an operational officer. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has said Mr. Howard, who is 33 years old, served in the C.I.A. from January 1981 to June 1983. One official said today that he left the agency after failing to pass a routine polygraph, or lie-detector, test and had not served in Moscow.
The U.S. will not agree to join a July 30 Soviet moratorium on all nuclear testing or agree to a total test ban treaty for the foreseeable future, senior Reagan Administration officials said.
Britain’s main opposition Labor Party called for the renationalization of state industries sold to private investors by the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At its annual conference, held this year in Bournemouth, England, the party approved motions condemning Thatcher’s sale of state enterprises and reaffirming its socialist commitment to public ownership. However, the resolutions on public ownership are not fully binding on the party leadership.
Pope John Paul II beatifies Dutch Roman Catholic priest and anti-Nazi activist Titus Brandsma (1881-1942); canonized as a saint in 2022.
Syria and a Sunni Muslim militia chief agreed today on a draft accord aimed at halting fighting in Tripoli, a move that some officials believed raised hopes for three surviving Soviet Embassy men held hostage in Lebanon under threat of death. One Soviet diplomat was found slain on Wednesday. The development came as intensive efforts were under way among the Lebanese authorities to try to win freedom for the three hostages. They are Valery Mirkov, the commercial attache; Oleg Spirin, the press attache, and Nikolai Versky, the embassy doctor. Arkady Katakov, the secretary of the Soviet Consulate, was found shot to death in an empty lot near the shell-blasted Beirut stadium.
Islamic Jihad issues a statement saying it had killed American hostage William Buckley. The newspaper An Nahar reported today that the terrorist group known as Islamic Holy War said in a statement that it was about to execute William Buckley, a United States Embassy official who is one of six Americans missing in Lebanon. In the statement, which was delivered to the West Beirut offices of the newspaper, the terrorist group said that Mr. Buckley, 57 years old, would be killed in retaliation for Israel’s raid on the P.L.O. headquarters in Tunisia, after the statement was published.
Lebanese officials and commmentators say the kidnapping of four Russians connected with the Soviet Embassy in Muslim West Beirut has dealt a heavy blow to Soviet diplomacy at a time when Lebanon was moving closer to Moscow and away from Washington. The abduction, and the subsequent murder of one of the hostages, came only a few days after a senior adviser to President Amin Gemayel said that Lebanon’s relations with the United States were declining and its relations with the Soviet Union were improving. “For the first time, the Soviet Ambassador is being treated by us on an equal footing with the American Ambassador,” Dr. George Deeb, the Government’s counselor on foreign policy, said in a television interview to mark the third anniversary of the election of Mr. Gemayel as President.
Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati of Iran denounced the United Nations today as a post-war alliance of victors that “does not represent the shared values of the majority” of its members. Dr. Velayati, an Iranian-educated pediatrician who briefly did postgraduate work at Johns Hopkins University, said, “The indifference and feeble reactions of the United Nations, and especially those of the Security Council, to the repeated acts of aggression by the Iraqi regime against Iran has given the world a very unfavorable impression of the United Nations in dealing with international tensions and crises.”
The United States and Thailand signed a five-year agreement that guarantees the rapid movement of U.S. military equipment to Thailand at times of armed threat. Officials said that the accord, which provides for quick Thai access to spare parts and logistical support for U.S.-made weapons, is intended to help Thailand when Vietnamese troops make incursions from Cambodia. It was signed in New York by Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Thai Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda.
South Korean opposition leader Kim Young Sam, in Japan en route home from a monthlong U.S. trip, said he fears that “ever-increasing oppression” by President Chun Doo Hwan may cause those affected to “rise up in anger” and risk bloodshed. Kim said U.S. officials he met in Washington gave the impression that American policy is changing from what he called a sole emphasis on security against attack from North Korea to the view that security and democracy are compatible in South Korea.
President Reagan attends a National Security Planning Group meeting to discuss the situation in the Philippines.
The governor of Australia’s state of Victoria resigned after a dispute with the state’s Labor government over his acceptance of free air travel from a U.S. air carrier, Continental Airlines. State Premier John Cain told Parliament that Brian Murray, Queen Elizabeth’s representative in Victoria, resigned after a five-hour meeting between the two officials. Murray admitted that he and his wife accepted tickets on an inaugural Continental flight from Houston to London in August. Continental also gave them free tickets for the flight from Australia to Houston.
Rescuers digging with shovels and their bare hands fought today to reach a 9-year-old boy thought to be still alive in the rubble of an apartment building wrecked two weeks ago in the earthquake disaster. It was unclear tonight whether they could reach him in time. The rescue workers, including miners brought in from outside the city, carefully bored tunnels through the concrete debris, periodically stopping to listen for sounds of life. Using sensitive microphones, rescuers said the boy, identified as Luis Ramon Nafarrete, communicated with them as early as 1 P.M. today by responding with knocks to their shouted questions.
An American woman diplomat was robbed and beaten while taking an afternoon stroll in Havana, diplomatic sources said. The elderly diplomat, who arrived here only two weeks ago on temporary duty, was mugged Sunday by a young assailant who snatched her purse, leaving her dazed and bleeding on the pavement. The diplomat was taken to a hospital, where she was treated for a broken shoulder and cuts to her face. Her name was withheld by U.S. officials.
The Salvadoran Government has freed three political prisoners and is preparing to hand over others in its bid to obtain the release of the kidnapped daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, according to a Salvadoran close to the case. The source said the release was a “gesture” to show the Government’s willingness to “deal seriously” with the kidnappers. Without disclosing the names of the freed prisoners, he said that the three had been detained in the last month and that their release was “easier than other cases” because “they had not yet been formally charged.” He said all three were included on the list of 34 rebels whom the kidnappers have said they want to exchange for Miss Duarte. The three left El Salvador by commercial flight on Tuesday to an undisclosed destination.
Representatives of Bolivia’s striking miners agreed to end a monthlong walkout and return to work at the country’s largest silver and tin mines, union officials said. The decision came hours after top labor leaders signed an agreement with the government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro calling for an end to the walkout in exchange for the release of 97 detained union members, including union chief Juan Lechin.
One of the nine Argentine armed forces officers on trial for large-scale human-rights abuses addressed the court today for the first time. Admiral Emilio Massera asserted that he had not come to defend himself, saying, “Nobody has to defend himself for winning a just war, and the war against terrorism was a just war.” Speaking directly to the six judges, Admiral Massera said that he assumed full responsibility for the Navy’s actions while he was its commander. Admiral Massera was charged by the government prosecutor with 83 homicides, 523 illegal detentions and hundreds of lesser crimes.
The Security Council, which was convened today to consider an Angolan complaint against South Africa, heard a proposal from the Pretoria Government for a resolution demanding the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Angola. The South African proposal came as a surprise to many members of the 15-nation Security Council. Delegates agreed that it was the first such action by South Africa in the Council in recent memory.
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and his chief political foe, Joshua Nkomo, met for talks on a possible merger of their two parties, a government spokesman said in Harare. It was the first formal meeting of the two since Mugabe fired Nkomo from a coalition Cabinet in 1982 on charges of plotting a coup. Sources said that the proposed accord would give Nkomo the No. 3 position in the ruling party. Diplomats said a merger could end the three-year rebellion in southwestern Zimbabwe and pave the way for a one-party state.
George P. Shultz urged South Africa to free Nelson Mandela, the jailed apartheid foe. The Secretary of State said that by such an action, South Africa would “signal” its willingness to engage in the search for a political compromise with the country’s black majority. “That would be a huge event for the South African Government to do,” Mr. Shultz said, “and that would be traumatic for them.” Mr. Shultz, speaking in an interview at The New York Times, elaborated on his comments Wednesday night that apartheid was “doomed” and that the South African Government should move promptly to negotiate with the black majority before it was toppled by a “violent revolution.” “Apartheid is through,” he said yesterday. “It is not only wrong in our view, but at least in my judgment it is over. It can’t last.
A second spying suspect has been identified in the investigation into a defector’s charges that American intelligence officers had been recruited by the Soviet Union, Government officials disclosed.
President Reagan travels to Camp David for the weekend.
The House defeated a farm plan that could have led to severely restricted production of wheat and corn and to higher consumer prices.
The House Appropriations Defense subcommittee approved a defense budget bill that would freeze Pentagon spending at last year’s level of $292 billion. The bill was approved by voice vote of the 13-member committee after three days of closed deliberations, according to congressional sources. The spending package now goes to the Appropriations Committee and will eventually have to be approved by the full House. It calls for appropriating $275 billion for the Pentagon in fiscal 1986, which began Tuesday.
The new space shuttle Atlantis flew into space with five military officers aboard on a secret mission, STS-51-J, for the Defense Department. The flight is the second in the shuttle program’s history with military aims.
The Senate Appropriations Committee voted to earmark $221 million for AIDS research, model treatment programs and a special hot line for victims of the disease. The Senate bill expands the $189 million approved by the House on Wednesday for AIDS. The measure includes $203 million for AIDS research, adds $16 million to develop model treatment programs in areas of the country with the highest concentration of AIDS victims, and sets aside $2 million for a national, toll-free AIDS hot line. The funding increase for research on AIDS-acquired immune deficiency syndrome-was proposed by Sen. Lowell P. Weicker Jr. (R-Conn.) as part of a $105-billion fiscal 1986 spending bill.
New York Mayor Koch rejected a plan to permit the over-the-counter sale of hypodermic needles and syringes, which the city’s Health Commissioner, Dr. David J. Sencer, had recommended in an effort to curb the spread of AIDS among drug users who share dirty needles.
Three New York children were removed from classes by superintendents of community school districts this term because of suspicions that boyfriends of the students’ mothers had AIDS, Schools Chancellor Nathan Quinones disclosed. None of the students themselves had been reported as having the disease, he said.
New Jersey ordered two public schools to admit a kindergartner with AIDS and a boy whose sister suffers from AIDS-related complex. “With AIDS, we have the most preventable adult disease the medical world has ever seen,’ State Commissioner of Health J. Richard Goldstein said in announcing the decision. “As for children, there is absolutely not one single shred of evidence that infected children transmit the disease.”
The Office of Management and Budget engaged in an “unlawful abuse of power” by pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency to shelve plans to control asbestos, House investigators charged. The accusation was made in a report by the Energy and Commerce oversight and investigation subcommittee, which said interference has caused at least a year’s delay in regulating the cancer-causing material found in schools, homes and offices. OMB officials disputed the charges, saying the report was politically biased. The OMB is a branch of the White House.
A nuclear reactor was started at Three Mile Island, six and a half years after the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident occurred there. Ending the longest shutdown in the history of nuclear power, a self-sustaining chain reaction began at 1:30 PM in the reactor, according to officials for the plant’s owners, the General Public Utilities Corporation. The reactor’s twin, Unit 2, where the 1979 accident occurred, remains closed. “It’s a big day for the town,” said Benjamin P. Lepperd, who was manning Judy’s News Stand on Main Street. “It’s about the best thing that could happen here. It’s not dangerous and I’m not scared. We’ve all got to go sometime.”
Candy Lightner, who founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving after a drunken driver killed her daughter in 1980, was stripped of two posts and much of her authority yesterday in an apparent power struggle within the organization. Her removal appeared to reflect dissatisfaction by MADD’s board of directors with her performance as leader and financial manager of the group, which has grown to national prominence with some 360 chapters, thousands of members and a budget of more than $10 million. Under Mrs. Lightner, the nonprofit campaign against drunken drivers has been criticized by the Council of Better Business Bureaus and the National Charities Information Bureau for spending too little on its programs and too much on fund-raising efforts. The organization has disputed the criticisms but has promised to do better.
The attorney for a second “ghost employee” involved in the labor fraud investigation of Teamsters Union President Jackie Presser said he would file a motion in Cleveland to withdraw his client’s guilty plea. Miami attorney Barry Halpern said negotiations with the Justice Department aimed at averting a prison sentence for defendant Jack Nardi, 43, had fallen through.
The FBI said in Atlanta that a plane that crashed on a skydiving flight, killing all 17 people aboard, may have been sabotaged and agents were investigating links between the plane’s owner and a drug smuggler named Andrew Thornton who plunged to his death Sept. 11 while carrying cocaine. “We may be investigating 17 murders instead of 17 accident deaths,” Butts County Sheriff Billy Leverette said. The Cessna 208 Caravan crashed Sunday in Jenkinsburg, Georgia.
The two-month trial of this city’s Mayor, Roger Hedgecock, who is charged with criminal conspiracy and perjury in connection with his campaign financing, went to the jury at 11:46 AM today. Judge William L. Todd Jr. of Superior Court gave the jurors instructions on the law governing the case, and ordered them sequestered. The Mayor is charged with conspiring to violate election laws to funnel about $350,000 into his 1983 campaign. He is also charged with lying about his campaign finances on state reports. He is charged with accepting illegal campaign contributions from J. David Dominelli, a convicted swindler, and Nancy Hoover, a political associate.
Officials of the Federal Aviation Administration are defending air traffic controllers who were criticized by the captain of a Delta Air Lines jet just before it crashed in a thunderstorm Aug. 2, killing 137 people. Officials of the agency said Tuesday that the captain’s statements were either incorrect or were reported out of context from transcripts of the cockpit voice recorder that were made public Monday by the National Transportation Safety Board.
NBC won broadcast rights for the 1988 Summer Olympic Games from Seoul, South Korea, using a formula that for the first time links the price for broadcast rights to the amount of money that is taken in from advertising.
Damage estimates climbed to more than $210 million in states struck last week by Hurricane Gloria as a quarter of a million homes and businesses remained without power for a sixth day. State officials in New York were preparing Wednesday to ship 500,000 pounds of dry ice to between 150,000 and 165,000 customers estimated to be without power on Long Island, Governor Mario M. Cuomo said. About 45,000 Long Island customers had no phone service, said John Quinn, spokesman for New York Telephone Co.
People who make or sell small, cheap handguns should know that they are used mainly by criminals, and therefore the makers or sellers can be sued by victims shot in criminal attacks with them, Maryland’s highest court ruled today. The unanimous decision by the Court of Appeals was the first in the nation to hold that the manufacturer or seller of cheap pistols, often called Saturday night specials, is liable for damages if the weapon is eventually used by a criminal to wound or kill.
[Ed: Spoons made me fat…]
Global fire helped kill off dinosaurs and many other forms of life, according to direct evidence reported by scientists. They said the evidence, 65-million-year-old soot, could only have been produced in flames or hot gases and represented fallout from a dense smoke cloud that must have brought a killing darkness and chill to the world.
Major League Baseball:
The Yankee Stadium crowd of perhaps no more than 5,000 roared in the third inning of the game with the Milwaukee Brewers when the scoreboard told them the Detroit Tigers had taken a 2–0 lead against the Toronto Blue Jays . The fans erupted with an even lustier roar in the seventh inning when the scoreboard flashed the news that the Tigers had held onto that lead and defeated the Blue Jays, 2–0. Finally, the sodden faithful roared with delight when the Yankees completed the 3–0 victory over the Brewers that vaulted them three games behind the suddenly staggering Blue Jays. Ron Guidry supplied most of the pitching last night, striking out 10 Brewers in seven innings and gaining his 22nd victory against six defeats. Brian Fisher finished the game, retiring all six batters he faced. Rickey Henderson led off the first inning with his 24th home run, and Don Mattingly singled home two runs in the eighth inning, giving him 144 runs batted in for the season.
Tom Brookens tripled home two runs to back the six-hit pitching of Walt Terrell as the Tigers completed a three-game sweep of the Blue Jays tonight, beating Toronto, 2–0. Terrell (15–10), who got his fifth complete game, struck out six and walked three. The Blue Jays’ Jim Clancy (9–6) gave up two runs on three hits in the four and two-thirds innings he worked.
On the fourth day of their four-game series with the California Angels, the Kansas City Royals finally regained first place in the American League West, winning, 4–1, tonight and placing their immediate future in their own hands. The Angels arrived here with a one-game lead but lost three times and now need help from others to tie or beat the Royals, who had not been alone in first place since September 18. “Where does it leave us?” asked California’s Gene Mauch, who has managed in the big leagues 24 years without winning a pennant. “We’ve got to play like hell in Texas and pull like hell for Oakland.” Steve Balboni hit one of three home runs for Kansas City, each of them measuring at least 400 feet off Don Sutton, the Angels’ starter. Frank White and George Brett had the others, and by the time they were through, Sutton was losing, 4–0, after five innings. Brett hit three homers in the series. The Royals received another lift from their pitching, getting superb work from the left-hander Danny Jackson, who had lost five of his last six decisions but toyed with the Angels, throwing just 93 pitches, 13 of them over the fifth, sixth and seventh innings.
Eddie Murray doubled home the tying and go-ahead runs as Baltimore scored five times in the eighth inning to defeat Boston, 9–8, in the second game and earn a split with the Red Sox. The Red Sox won the opener 6–2 after scoring five runs in the first three innings, two on a home run by Tony Armas. The victory in the nightcap snapped a six-game losing streak by the Orioles. Trailing 8–4 in the nightcap, the Orioles chased reliever Tim Lollar and continued the rally against Steve Crawford, 6–5, as three of four pinch hitters delivered hits.
Spike Owen, who earlier had hit a two-run homer, triggered a three-run rally in the top of the eighth inning with a run-scoring single to lead the Mariners to a 5–4 win over the White Sox in Chicago.
After two rousing nights of classic baseball, the Mets took a noble but mighty tumble at the gates to first place tonight when they lost to the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–3, and fell two games behind with three to go. They were not yet beaten, but they headed home as the longest of long shots in a pennant race that would have been deadlocked if they had won tonight and completed a three-game sweep. They will play the final three games of the season in Shea Stadium against the Montreal Expos while the Cardinals brace for three at home against the Chicago Cubs. One more victory by the Cardinals, or one more loss by the Mets, and the Cardinals clinch a tie for the championship of the National League East. Two more — or a Cardinal victory combined with a Met loss — and the Cardinals win it all.
They did not add any stolen bases to the total that has become an important part of their trademark, and they did not have an extra base hit. But the speed that has symbolized the Cardinals this season helped them stay close to the Mets when the most important game of the season could have slipped away in the first inning, and was a decisive factor in the 4–3 victory that put St. Louis two games ahead in the National League East with three to play. “That shows you,” said Vince Coleman, whose line-drive single in the fourth inning gave the Cardinals their first lead in this series and a lead that was never lost. “We can win without stealing bases.” In the second inning, with the Mets ahead by a run, a Rick Aguilera pitch skipped past Gary Carter to the screen. But when Carter was slow to retrieve the wild pitch, Pendleton kept going to third. And when Ozzie Smith hit a ground ball to second base and beat the relay to first to avoid a double play, Pendleton was able to tie the score.
Chicago Cubs’ Manager Jim Frey took heart in the Cubs’ 15-hit attack as the Cubs crushed the Pirates, 13–5. “We’ve hit well for the last couple of weeks,” said Frey. “When you don’t hit, you don’t score. I’ve felt all along we’re capable of scoring. It’s good to see us hit at the end, it makes you feel good about next season.” A crowd of 7,437 boosted the Cubs’ record attendance for the season to 2,161,534.
Dale Murphy’s RBI double broke a scoreless tie and triggered a five-run eighth inning that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 5–0 shutout win over the Dodgers. Rookie Zane Smith pitched a four-hitter and singled home two runs in the eighth inning as the Braves won in Los Angeles. Smith, 9–10, allowed only one base runner to reach third base as he struck out four and walked four.
Rick Schu had two doubles and Mike Schmidt homered to highlight an eight-run third inning and carry the Philadelphia Phillies to an 8–7 triumph in Montreal. The Phillies sent 12 men to the plate and collected eight hits to overcome a 4–0 lead the Expos had given starter Bill Laskey, 5–16. Schu’s first double led off the inning and then Juan Samuel was hit by a pitch before Schmidt hit his 33rd homer of the year.
Phil Garner hit two triples in Houston’s 7–2 victory over the San Francisco Giants Thursday. The Astros, 81-78, assured themselves of at least a .500 season in a 14-hit attack against the hapless Giants, who suffered a franchise record 99th defeat. “You can’t afford to let a losing attitude take over your team, ” Garner said. “Something like that can carry over into next season. You have to go out and have fun, make the best of your situation.” San Francisco manager Roger Craig had a different viewpoint. His team must sweep the Atlanta Braves to avoid losing 100 games. “I don’t want to lose 100, but what if we do?” said Craig, who replaced Jim Davenport two weeks ago. “I just want to get this over with and we can start working seriously toward next year. The Giants are the only nonexpansion team never to lose 100 times in a season.
Carmelo Martinez drove in four runs two with his 21st homer of the season and Tony Gwynn and Graig Nettles each knocked in a pair to lift San Diego to a 9–4 win over the Reds. Andy Hawkins, who had lost four straight, went the distance for the first time since August 22 to improve his record to 18–8. Righthander Jay Tibbs, who had won five in a row, dropped to 10–18. Hawkins gave up eight hits, walked four and struck out one.
Boston Red Sox 6, Baltimore Orioles 2
Boston Red Sox 8, Baltimore Orioles 9
Seattle Mariners 5, Chicago White Sox 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Chicago Cubs 13
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Detroit Tigers 2
California Angels 1, Kansas City Royals 4
Atlanta Braves 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 0
Philadelphia Phillies 8, Montreal Expos 7
Milwaukee Brewers 0, New York Yankees 3
Cincinnati Reds 4, San Diego Padres 9
Houston Astros 7, San Francisco Giants 2
New York Mets 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1333.11 (-0.56)
Born:
Courtney Lee, NBA shooting guard (Orlando Magic, New Jersey Nets, Houston Rockets, Boston Celtics, Memphis Grizzlies, Charlotte Hornets, New York Knicks, Dallas Mavericks), in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Died:
Charles Collingwood, 68, American news commentator (“Chronicles”).
Maurice Copeland, 74, American actor (Ralph-“Those Young Charmings”).
History Diaries 