More than 100 demonstrators from various Jewish activist groups were arrested in front of the White House, winding up a six-hour protest against the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. The police said that the protest was a demonstration against the treatment of Jews in the Soviet Union. But a spokesman for the demonstrators later disputed the police account and said the demonstration had been called to protest “the pressure against Israel exercised by Ford and Kissinger to abandon territory without any concessions in return.” About 600 persons were involved, including 15 who handcuffed themselves to the White House fence. Most of the arrests were made when the protesters refused to disperse after their demonstration permit expired, police said.
In elections for the Austrian Nationalrat, the Social Democratic Party of Austria, led by Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, retained its slim majority in the lower house of Parliament, with 93 of the 183 seats.
Angry leftists shouting “Fascist!” and “Assassin!” today mobbed Mario Soares, leader of the Socialist party, despite an appeal from President Francisco da Costa Gomes for order and discipline. The attack, which left Mr. Soares shaken but still smiling, was indicative of the political mood, which has left Portugal facing the possibility of open clashes between rival political factions. President Costa Gomes returned today from a visit to Poland and the Soviet Union and spoke at a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Portuguese republic. He called for an end to divisions between the political groups striving to install socialism and appealed to all Portuguese to join in restoring authority, discipline and order. But a few minutes after the President left, 100 booing and jostling extreme leftists surrounded Mr. Soares menacingly as he left the town hall, where the ceremony took place.
Socialist bodyguards and naval policemen armed with machine pistols had to struggle hard to prevent the crowd from overwhelming Mr. Soares and allow him to drive away safely. The extreme left is furious with the Socialist party for accusing it of planning to stage a coup and physically attack the Premier in the middle of last week. Socialist sources said this was the second time Mr. Soares had been jostled in public since then. The state‐owned press, mostly dominated by Communists or the extreme left, has poured scorn on the Socialist allegations, but Premier Jose Pinhairo de Azevedo has publicly blamed “the extreme left and part of the left” for making it impossible to govern properly.
Eighty-six prisoners were escorted from East German jails to West Germany and West Berlin in a bartering process — human beings for money — that has been going on secretly between the two Germanys since the Berlin wall was put up by the Communists in 1961. The Bonn government bought these men and women out of prison for an undisclosed sum. The price in the past, it is said, has been up to $15,000 a captive. Two buses carrying prisoners from East German jails arrived recently at the West German border in the Thuringian hills at Wartha. A police escort left the convoy before the final five-mile passage to the heavily guarded customs and police checkpoint next to the railroad track. A few minutes later the group was in Herleshausen, in the West, and on its way to freedom.
Northern Ireland, locked in a spiral of terrorist violence, is facing a constitutional crisis over the role of the Roman Catholic minority in future governments. With Protestant and Catholic politicians angry over British policy — and with a wave of sectarian killings in the province — negotiators have concluded their discussions about the future of Northern Ireland on a bitter and uncertain note. “There is a constitutional crisis of major proportions and we’re down to the basics,” said the Rev. William Arlow, secretary of the Irish Council of Churches, who has served as an unofficial link between the British and the militants on both sides. “We’re working on a very tight time scale.” John Hume, a key figure in the predominantly Catholic Social Democratic and Labor party, said: “The violence is getting very ugly, very dangerous. We’ve got to work quickly now. There is no real solid optimism for a political settlement.”
Three civil guards were killed and two were badly injured in Spain today when their Land-Rover was blown up near the Basque town of Aranzazu. The attack was officially ascribed to terrorists and brought to six the number of police agents killed in the last five days by terrorist action. A special Cabinet meeting was called for tomorrow to decide what to do about the latest display of defiance of Generalisimo Francisco Franco and his government. Eight days ago five terrorists convicted of killing policemen were executed by firing squads and last Friday the government warned it would apply the full weight of the law, but neither move has had much effect except to encourage a further challenge. The Land‐Rover containing the five civil guards was traveling along the road near Aranzazu, 12 miles southeast of Bilbao, when an explosive charge was set off. The vehicle was hurled 65 feet and three of the occupants were killed instantly. The two others were reported in serious condition, one with a fractured skull.
A powerful bomb explosion heavily damaged the Paris apartment of former Gaullist Premier Michel Debre. The blast knocked down partitions, shattered doors and furniture and ripped a hole in the floor at the main entrance of the flat. There were no injuries. Debre and his family were away at their weekend residence. Debre said he had been threatened a number of times in recent years by all kinds of political enemies.
Work on a dam in Senta, Yugoslavia, has uncovered the remnants of a 1,900-year-old city that may yield significant information about the Huns and other enemies of the Roman Empire. The archeologist who took charge of the site in early September believes there is even a remote hope of finding the fabled grave of Attila, king of the Huns, somewhere in the vicinity.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
Arab leaders have been told that Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger secretly promised to push for an overall Middle East peace settlement including Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. The paper said Kissinger vehemently denied making any such promises. The paper quoted diplomatic sources as saying Kissinger promised that the United States would work for a full Israeli pullback within the life of the new Sinai disengagement agreement which runs to 1979.
A Soviet newspaper denounced “irresponsible attempts” to harm the Kremlin’s relations with Arab countries and said they would “finally act against the initiators and launchers of these improper efforts.” The paper, Selskaya Zhizn, mentioned no names but diplomats said the criticism may be designed as a reply to recent anti-Soviet remarks by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat accusing Moscow of undermining Middle East peace efforts.
The Israeli cabinet decided to impose a 90-day price freeze on essential goods and services following labor unrest sparked by a 10% devaluation of the Israeli pound and a 21% hike in the cost of gasoline. Prices officially were expected to rise 5% after last week’s devaluation but economists forecast increases as high as 20%.
The recent increase in crude oil prices, which is expected to make insecticides more costly, has seriously jeopardized India’s chances of controlling a growing epidemic of malaria, according to Indian and World Health Organization experts. At the same time, the malaria parasite—which causes people to suffer periodic bouts of fever, sweating, chills, headache, even coma and death—has developed resistance to conventional doses of chloroquine. This drug is a key weapon in the fight against malaria. These and other developments have made it all the more difficult for health officials to see the day when India’s 600 million people will be as free of malaria as they were a decade ago.
The Communist-led Pathet Lao, having seized and closed the once vast United States aid mission here during the summer, is now reportedly angry with the United States for having cut off further economic assistance, including a promised $5-million contribution to a large dam project. Diplomats say that the continued existence of the United States Embassy in Vientiane, the only one left in Indochina, may depend on whether Washington is willing to resume its aid. Prospects for a resumption of aid, which totaled $30‐million last year, look poor. United States officials take the position that there must be some form of settlement of the troubles of the summer, when students, Laotian employes of the United States Agency for International Development and Pathet Lao soldiers took over the A.I.D. compound, a large American housing complex and other United States property valued at millions of dollars. Moreover, American diplomats point out, Congress in July prohibited further aid of any sort to Indochina, including assistance given through international agencies.
The South Korean navy and air force sank a North Korean spy boat in a three-hour operation off the southwestern tip of the Korean peninsula, the Defense Ministry in Seoul announced. The ministry’s counterespionage operations command said the South Koreans had sustained no damage or casualties. The size of the North Korean vessel and the number of crewmen on it were not announced.
Typhoon Cora smashed into an island south of Tokyo with winds of 150 mph, hurling automobiles against buildings and sending rocks “flying like leaves,” residents reported. Reports reaching Tokyo from Japan’s Hachijo Island said about 2,000 homes had been damaged and 50 persons had been injured. There were no reports of deaths. The storm, which passed close to Tokyo, deluged the Japanese capital with rain, interrupting train service and flooding some areas.
Senator Frank Church said that the Central Intelligence Agency not only planned but also tried to kill Premier Fidel Castro of Cuba during the administrations of three Presidents. The Senator, a Democrat of Idaho, who is chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said the panel had evidence of attempts on Mr. Castro’s life in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson. He said the committee had no “hard evidence” that the presidents were aware of the C.I.A. activities.
At least 26 people were killed tonight when leftist guerrillas attacked an army regimental headquarters in the northern Argentine city of Formosa, army headquarters announced. A communiqué said that 11 soldiers and more than 15 guerrillas died when about 60 guerrillas attacked the headquarters of a mountain infantry regiment. At least one more man, a frontier guard, died when another guerrilla force took over Formosa’s airport at the same time. A third group of guerrillas hijacked a Boeing 737 jet of the state airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, landed it at Formosa, and flew 15 or 20 guerrillas to a private airfield hundreds of miles south, where they escaped. Some reports said bitter fighting was still going on in hills around the regimental headquarters five hours later. Several more soldiers were killed in this fighting, these reports added.
Black Rhodesian leader Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole said in London that armed struggle was now the only way to black majority rule in the white-ruled country. He said the date of a stepped-up armed struggle was a secret but hundreds of young blacks were leaving the country to train so that they could return and fight.
Fewer than half of the Americans questioned in a recent poll consider President Ford acceptable as the next President, TIME magazine, reported. But it also showed that his announced Democratic rivals were even less acceptable. TIME said that in the survey, by the Yankelovich; Skelly and White, Inc., New York-based polling firm, 46% of those who responded found Ford acceptable. This compared with 56% in a similar survey last October. Mr. Ford was outranked by Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts), who was found acceptable by 56% of respondents, TIME said. Kennedy has said he will not seek the nomination. Governor George C. Wallace of Alabama was unacceptable to 59%, former California Governor Ronald Reagan was unacceptable to 37% and acceptable to 41%.
Previously classified documents disclosed that the F.B.I. continued using a technique of its controversial program to disrupt activities of rightist and leftist domestic political groups for at least 2½ years after the April, 1971, date given by the bureau for formally ending the program. The documents, made available by the Socialist Workers party, showed that F.B.I. agents continued to seek personal data about members of the party.
Because of persistence by the new Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, the Ford administration has reversed its policy and agreed to continue providing operational funds for medical and dental schools that it had planned to phase out. The new Secretary, Dr. F. David Mathews, left his post as president of the University of Alabama to bring what he termed a “consumer” viewpoint to the department.
Vice President Rockefeller said that Congress should consider whether New York City should be granted temporary federal aid. The former New York Governor said this should be weighed after the city restored its “fiscal integrity” by moving to balance its budget and trimming its $3 billion short-term debt. His latest views became known after he had been quoted in an interview as contending that having Washington “pick up the check . . . would be the beginning of the end” of the nation’s solvency.
The father of a 27-year-old housepainter accused of harboring Patricia Hearst in San Francisco says it was information from him that led the authorities to her. The father, Martin Soliah, an English teacher at nearby Palmdale High School, said that he had helped the F.B.I. locate his son, Steven, by telling agents that Steven had a painting job at a San Francisco drug treatment center, Synanon. The 58‐year‐old Mr. Soliah made his remarks in an interview with two Southern California news organizations. He said he had requested the interview in an effort to refute reports that the fugitives were located through F.B.I. tracers on mail the Soliahs had received from their children. Steven Soliah was charged with harboring a fugitive after Miss Hearst and Wendy Yoshimura were taken into custody at an apartment he allegedly rented for them in San Francisco. His sisters, Kathleen, 28, and Josephine, 24, are being sought for questioning.
The story of a young woman who was held prisoner, mistreated, threatened and forced to take part in a bank robbery rests in the Federal District Court files in San Francisco. It is not the story of Patricia Hearst, the 21‐year‐old member of a wealthy close‐knit family who has a retinue of expensive lawyers, but of Hedy Sarney, 27. Miss Sarney had lawyers, but they made their best move at the wrong times and she is now serving a 30‐month term in Federal prison across San Francisco Bay at Pleasanton. There is no indication in the files that she had the support of a well ‐ financed defense team, the backing of a rich family, or any special consideration from society.
Ronald Reagan, who is expected to announce his candidacy for the Republican Presidential nomination within the month, will make three major appearances in the metropolitan area — Vice President Rockeller’s “turf” — later this month. The Californian, who is viewed as a potential challenger to Mr. Rockefeller if his Presidential quest does not succeed, will be the principal speaker at the Conservative party state dinner at the Americana Hotel on October 20 and the Suffolk Republican organization dinner in Hauppauge on October 22. These appearances will sandwich a speaking engagement at Yale University, October 21.
Officials in Kansas City, Missouri, began to fire striking firemen, dismissing 59 of the 858-member force who failed to report for duty in response to telegrams. At the same time, a wave of fires, some suspicious, continued. Fire Chief John Wass said the men were dismissed as Mayor Charles B. Wheeler Jr. had warned. The firings were based on a state law. prohibiting strikes by public employees. They came as national guardsmen, policemen and a volunteer force tried to keep up with a growing number of blazes across the city of 510,000. Officials said they believed some were arson. The number of fire calls in one six-hour period was around 50, or 10 times the normal number, one official said.
A mother, three of her children and a fourth child who was visiting died in a fire in Philadelphia that police said was caused by a fire bomb thrown into their home. A neighbor was charged with murder as the result of a neighborhood feud. The father, another child and a family friend survived. Police charged Robert Wilkerson, 26, with the murders. A witness told police a bottle was thrown through a window at the row house about 3:30 AM. Killed were Ramona Santiago, 37, her two daughters, Nancy, 14, and Roberta, 6, and a son, Isradames, 13, and Luis Carrucini, 14.
Repairs still have not been started on the Washington Post’s damaged presses and Post executives said abbreviated 24-page editions, printed at out-of-town plants, would continue for much of this week. The pressmen’s strike began Wednesday and there still is no estimate of the damage done when some men knocked out the paper’s nine presses in what the union’s president called a moment of “temporary insanity.” President James A. Dugan of Local 6 of the Newspaper and Graphic Communications Union said his members “just went crazy and panicked” when they set fire to one press and damaged the others. Negotiators are scheduled to meet Tuesday.
Federal officials said a plan to reduce the salinity of the Salton Sea in California will not be enacted because of a lack of federal interest. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had set forth a proposal that would have involved building a dike across much of the inland seas. Some environmentalists have contended that unless the rising salinity rate is slowed, all fish in the sea will be dead within five years.
Long distance calls from more than half the nation’s 115 million Bell System telephones now are assisted by operators using a little-known type of electronic switchboard that was installed first in Morristown, New Jersey, in January, 1969. The 100th installation of the so‐called Traffic Service Position System, or T.S.P.S., at Northbrook, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, was dedicated Saturday by the Illinois Bell Telephone Company. More than 25,000 of the 90,000 long‐distance operators of the Bell System now use the computer‐linked, cordless, pushbutton consoles of the traffic service system, according to a spokesman of Bell Telephone Laboratories, the New Jersey-based research arm of the Bell System where the system was invented.
The Algerian nuthatch (Sitta ledanti), a small passerine bird which is the only bird species endemic to Algeria, was first discovered. A team led by Belgian botanist Jean-Pierre Ledant, had been at the Djebel Babor mountain in the Petite Kabylie range in northern Algeria, for a different purpose, the study of the Algerian fir tree species.
The ten-team Swedish Hockey League (Svenska Hockeyligan or SHL) began playing as Sweden’s top professional ice hockey league. The first game was an 8 to 7 win by MoDo AIK (of Örnsköldsvik) over Färjestads BK (of Karlstad), and the first goal was scored by Färjestads’ Benny Andersson of Färjestad. On March 22, after a four-team playoff Färjestads would win the first championship, 2 games to 1, over Leksands IF.
Austrian Niki Lauda wins the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen to claim his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 19.5 points from Emerson Fittipaldi of Brazil.
American League Divisional Championship Series, Game Two:
Carl Yastrzemski hit a two-run home run to lead the Red Sox past the Athletics, 6–3, in Game 2. Boston starter Reggie Cleveland was solid through five innings, allowing three runs on five hits with two strikeouts and one walk. Rico Petrocelli also homered, Carlton Fisk went 2-for-4 with an RBI and a run scored, and Fred Lynn went 2-for-4 with one RBI for the Red Sox. Athletics starter Vida Blue lasted three innings and gave up just three runs on six hits. The win went to Roger Moret, who tossed one scoreless inning of relief, and Dick Drago worked the final three innings to close out the contest. Rollie Fingers took the loss, allowing three runs on five hits over four innings. Reggie Jackson hit a two-run homer and Sal Bando went 4-for-4 with two doubles and a run for the Athletics.
Oakland Athletics 3, Boston Red Sox 6
National League Divisional Championship Series, Game Two:
The Reds also win for the 2nd time 6–1, as Tony Pérez drives in 3 runs with a home run and single. Pérez’s two-run home run in the first off Jim Rooker gave the Reds a lead they never relinquished. The Pirates cut it to 2–1 in the fourth off Fred Norman when Willie Stargell hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a wild pitch and after a walk, scored on Richie Hebner’s groundout, but in the bottom half, three straight leadoff singles gave the Reds that run back. After a double steal, Norman’s sacrifice fly extended their lead to 4–1. In the sixth, Ken Griffey hit a leadoff single off Kent Tekulve, stole second and third, and scored on Ken Brett’s balk. Next inning, Bruce Kison hit Joe Morgan with a pitch to lead off. After stealing second, Morgan scored on Perez’s RBI single. Rawly Eastwick pitched three innings of relief as the Reds’ 6–1 win gave them a 2–0 series lead.
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Cincinnati Reds 6
NFL Football:
The New York Giants played football respectably today — in the second half. But the first half was what really counted and the St. Louis Cardinals won that part easily en route to a 26–14 victory. “I liked what I saw in the second half,” said Bill Arnsparger, the Giants, coach, as he sat on a trunk and smoked a cigarette in the locker room after the game. How about the first half, coach? “23–0,” he replied. “We couldn’t stop anybody. We couldn’t move the ball.” In the other locker room the coach of the defending champions of the National Conference”s Eastern Division, Don Coryell, said the Cardinals had played at their optimum in the first half — “we ran well, we completed passes and we got to their quarterback.” Terry Metcalf, the churning litte halfback, gained 106 yards rushing in the first two quarters, caught two passes and scored one touchdown. Jim Otis, the fullback, gained 71 yards in the half, and wound up with 101 rushing. Craig Morton, the Giant quarterback, was sacked four times in the second period. It was not his fault three times, but on the fourth he was gawking at covered receivers too long. This was an improvement over last week when he went down seven times before the Redskins’ assault.
Playing lethargically through the first three quarters, James Harris and the Rams woke up with two fourth‐quarter scores that pulled out a 24–13 victory over the Baltimore Colts. Lawrence McCutcheon, fullback, dashed 25 yards for one of the Rams scores and Harris passed to Ron Jessie, wide receiver, 21 yards for the other. Despite 16 completions in 22 attempts for 294 yards by Barris, Los Angeles trailed the Colts, 13–7, at the half, and 13–10 going into the final period. Bert Jones, the Colts’ quarterback, connected on scoring passes of 28 yards (to Bill Olds) and 3 yards (to Jimmy Kennedy) early in the game. Harris hit Harold Jackson with a 37‐yard scoring pass.
The Falcons downed the Saints, 14–7. In a play that started with a pass and covered 77 yards, Jim Mitchell, the Falcons’ tight end, scooped up a fumble by his teammate, Ken Burrow, midway through the second period and raced 50 yards to score what proved to be the winning touchdown in Atlanta’s first victory. New Orleans lost its third straight game but scored its first touchdown of the season on a field left soggy by a steady drizzle. Alvin Maxon scored for the Saints in the third period after Joe Owens had recovered a fumble by Steve Bartkowski, Falcons’ quarterback, on the Atlanta 1‐yard-line.
Buffalo turned “The Juice,” O. J. Simpson, loose again yesterday, and he became the first National Football League player to gain more than 500 yards rushing through three consecutive games as the Bills routed the visiting Denver Broncos in Rich Stadium, 38–14. Simpson gained 138 yards to go with the 400 yards rushing in his two previous games. It was Simpson’s 27th 100‐yard plus rushing performance and it put him in fifth place on the N.F.L. career list with 6,844 yards. He also scored a touchdown on a 16‐yard run, but he was not the only star in the undefeated Bills’ third triumph, their best start in 10 years. Jim Braxton, the Bills’ other running back, rushed for 102 yards and scored three touchdowns, one of them on a 19‐yard pass from Joe Ferguson, the quarterback. Braxton’s scoring runs were for 3 and 4 yards.
Coolly, with the arrogance of a card player who knows everyone’s hand, Joe Namath directed the Jets’ offense to a crushing 36–7 victory over the New England Patriots yesterday. It was one of the neatest games he has fashioned, helped by the threat of the New Yorkers’ running attack that kept the Patriots off balance. Meanwhile, not even the dramatic appearance of Jim Plunkett as the visitors’ quarterback, fewer than four weeks after surgery for a separated left shoulder, could deflate the Jets’ defense. The Jets’ defense had been scolded and prodded all week after yielding 66 points in its first two games. But before the Emperor of Japan and 57,365 paying fans at Shea Stadium, the New York defense closed off the Patriots’ running game (72 yards) and simply laid back and waited for Plunkett and his replacements to throw. “I felt accurate,” said Namath later. And he was. Before J.J. Jones became the first black quarterback to appear in a regular‐season game for the Jets, Namath had tossed for four touchdowns and completed 15 of 21 passes. The first half was one of the most efficient 30 minutes he has had. Of 16 passes, 13 were on target and one was intercepted. The club traveled 201 yards on his arm.
The Eagles whipped the Redskins, 26–10. Roman Gabriel, the former Rams’ quarterback, did the most damage to the forces of the Washington coach George Allen, his former boss at Los Angeles. Gabriel threw two touchdown passes and scored from the 1 on a run. The Redskin’s had managed a 10–9 lead at half‐time despite Gabriel’s 62‐yard scoring connection to Harold Carmichael and Horst Muhlmann’s 20‐yard field goal for the Eagles.
The Vikings routed the Bears, 28–3. Fran Tarkenton completed 19 of 30 passes for 250 yards, including three touchdown tosses, to keep Minnesota undefeated. Chuck Foreman ran 2 yards for the other Viking score. Jim Marshall, the Vikings’ defensive end, set a league record by starting in his 211th straight N.F.L. game. Jim Otto, the retired Oakland Raiders’ center, held the old mark.
Thanks to a dazzling performance by Billy Johnson, who had a 62‐yard kickoff return and a 30‐yard punt return that set up second‐quarter scores for Houston, and a 63‐yard punt return for a third‐quarter touchdown, the Oilers seemed on their way to an upset. But Ken Anderson, the Bengals’ rifle‐armed quarterback, took advantage of a couple of fourth‐quarter penalties and a fumble by Dan Pastorini, the Houston quarterback, and connected on two touchdown passes that pulled out a 21–19 victory. Cincinnati (3‐0) is alone atop Central Division.
The 49ers beat the Chiefs, 20–3. A disappointed home crowd of 54,490 saw the Chiefs lose three of four fumbles and get charged with 11 penalties (124 yards) in losing their third straight. Norm Snead, San Francisco’s seasoned 15‐year pro quarterback and a former Giant, tossed a 24‐yard pass to Tom Mitchell, his tight end for one touchdown, and handed off to Larry Schreiber on a 5‐yard scoring run. Rookie Steve Mike-Mayer of the 49ers kicked field goals of 19 and 29 yards. Jan Stenerud’s 19‐yard field goal gave Kansas City a brief second‐quarter lead. Willie Lanier, linebacker, and John Lohmeyer, defensive end, both of the Chiefs, were ejected for slugging during the game. The victory was the first for San Francisco.
While Kenny Stabler, the Raiders’ regular quarterback, sat out the first half with a sore knee, Larry Lawrence, his understudy, guided Oakland into position for the first of two field goals by George Bianda, the ageless pro. Blanda first connected on a 35‐yarder, then in the second half, with Sabler back in, he booted a 29‐yarder. And that was all the scoring as Oakland won, 6–0.
The Dolphins rocked the Packers, 31–7. Mercury Morris and Don Nottingharn, the “Human Bowling Ball,” led a Miami ground attack in the Dolphins” first visit to Green Bay. Morris gained 125 yards on 31 carries and Nottingham gained 107 yards on 21 carries, bulling his way to touchdown runs of 11, 1, and 11 yards. The Dolphins scored on five of their first six possessions, picking up their second victory in three outings and keeping the Packers without a victory. Bob Griese Connected on a 58‐yard scoring bomb to a rookie, Freddie Solomon, for another score. For Green Bay, this is the poorest start since 1954.
The Steelers crushed the Browns, 42–6. The defending Super Bowl champions rebounded from their humiliating defeat by Buffalo last week. Terry Bradshaw completed his first seven passes, including a 3‐yarder for a touchdown to John Stalworth 6 minutes into the game. Then Franco Harris and Mike Collier capped drives of 85 and 75 yards with 1‐yard scoring plunges. Bradshaw suffered a cut on his throwing hand and came out midway in the second period, and Joe Gilliam, his replacement, threw a 43‐yard scoring pass to Lynn Swann before coming out late in the game, also with a finger injurry.
New York Giants 14, St. Louis Cardinals 26
Baltimore Colts 13, Los Angeles Rams 24
New Orleans Saints 7, Atlanta Falcons 14
Denver Broncos 14, Buffalo Bills 38
New England Patriots 7, New York Jets 36
Washington Redskins 10, Philadelphia Eagles 26
Chicago Bears 3, Minnesota Vikings 28
Cincinnati Bengals 21, Houston Oilers 19
San Francisco 49ers 20, Kansas City Chiefs 3
Oakland Raiders 6, San Diego Chargers 0
Miami Dolphins 31, Green Bay Packers 7
Pittsburgh Steelers 42, Cleveland Browns 6
Born:
Kate Winslet, British film actress (“Titanic”), in Reading, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom.
Parminder Nagra, British film actress (“Bend It Like Beckham”), in Leicester, England, United Kingdom.
Scott E Weinger, American actor (Steve Taylor-“Family Man”, “Full House”), in New York, New York.
Diane Morgan, English actor, comedian and writer, known on-screen as Philomena Cunk (“Cunk on Earth”), in Farnworth, England, United Kingdom.
Gao Yuanyuan, Chinese television actress (“The Prince of Qin”, “Li Shimin”), in Beijing, China.
Monica Rial, American voice actress (“Dragon Ball Z”), in Houston, Texas.
Brandon Puffer, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, San Diego Padres, San Francisco Giants), in Downey, California.
Died:
Lesley Molseed, 11, was murdered in England at West Yorkshire. Stefan Kiszko would be convicted of the crime and would spend 16 years in prison before forensic evidence proved his innocence. Molseed’s killer, Ronald Castree, would not be identified and caught until 2006.
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