One policeman, PC Keith Blakelock, was killed and 54 others were wounded as black and white rioters armed with shotguns, gasoline bombs and bricks fought with 500 policemen in the Broadwater Farm estate in Tottenham, north London. Officials said the slain policeman, who died from multiple stab wounds in the neck, was the first to die in inner city riots in Britain. Three of the wounded officers and four British journalists, including two members of a BBC television crew, were reported to have been hit by shotgun fire. The riots were sparked by the death of a black woman who collapsed as police searched her home in Tottenham for stolen goods.
The Soviet Union’s proposal for a 50 percent cut in strategic nuclear weapons would increase Moscow’s ability to launch a “first strike” on American missiles, Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser, said today. Such an ability would permit the Soviet Union to “coerce or blackmail our behavior during a crisis without firing a shot,” Mr. McFarlane said on the NBC News program “Meet the Press.”
A Soviet claim that it has fewer medium-range missiles in Europe than the United States alleges is unlikely to influence a Dutch missile deployment decision, Lord Carrington, secretary general of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said in Washington. The Dutch have said they will agree to the placement of 48 cruise missiles if the total number of deployed Soviet SS-20s exceeds 378. The United States puts the number at 441, but Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev said in Paris last week that his country now has only 243 of the mobile missiles in Europe.
The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Mario Soares was defeated in parliamentary elections on Sunday by its former partners, the centrist Social Democrats. It appeared almost certain that the Social Democrats’ assertive new leader, Anibal Cavaco Silva, would be the next Prime Minister. But he will probably lead a minority government, continuing Portugal’s political instability. Mr. Cavaco Silva, a 46-year-old former Finance Minister, said his victory was unlikely to bring significant policy changes, underlining that the election turned mostly on personalities.
Six incendiary bombs exploded in department stores in Hamburg, and police suspected a connection to continuing anti-police violence and street battles in West German cities. Five of the bombs sparked small fires. A police spokesman said the bombs did little damage but activated automatic sprinkler systems that drenched merchandise on display. No injuries were reported. Anti-police demonstrations have been held for more than a week to protest the death of a left-wing demonstrator who was run over by a police vehicle Sept. 28 at a Frankfurt rally against a neo-Nazi party.
Guards at the Leczyca prison in central Poland have again beaten political captives, and former Solidarity union official Wladyslaw Frasyniuk may have suffered a broken rib, an activist in the banned union said. The injury occurred when Frasyniuk was moved forcibly into solitary confinement last week, Zbigniew Romaszewski said in a signed statement circulated in Warsaw. Other prisoners were beaten at about the same time, the statement added. Last month, an official said force was used to move inmates to new cells.
A Soviet Deputy Health Minister said today that there were no recorded cases of the disease AIDS in the Soviet Union and attributed its incidence in the West to dissolute and unnatural sex lives.
The U.S. might support a general capital increase for the World Bank, according to an official who attended a closed-door meeting of leading industrial powers. The increase would permit the World Bank to lend much larger sums to the third world than the $11 billion to $12 billion a year of the last two years. It would also enhance the role of the bank.
Recognition of the World Court by the United States will end in all but nonpolitical cases, Administration officials said. President Reagan is expected to sign a measure that formalizes the decision. The Administration move redefines and severely limits the United States role in the World Court. Officials said however that the United States would continue to deal with the court on “mutually submitted” disputes involving commercial, legal or border problems with other nations. The officials said that a measure that would withdraw the United States from World Court jurisdiction in political cases had been approved by the National Security Council and that President Reagan was scheduled to sign it either today without making a public announcement, or Monday. The details were quietly drawn up in recent weeks by Attorney General Edwin L. Meese and Secretary of State George P. Shultz and their staffs.
Khalil Wazir, deputy commander of the Palestine Liberation Organization, led thousands of mourners at a funeral near Amman, Jordan, for 31 victims of the Israeli bombing attack on PLO headquarters outside Tunis. The rite followed one held Saturday in Tunisia for 17 of the victims of last week’s raid, which was launched in retaliation for the slaying of three Israelis in Cyprus. Another funeral is scheduled today in Cairo.
The Reagan Administration decided not to veto a Security Council resolution condemning Israel’s attack on the P.L.O. in Tunisia after Washington received intelligence warnings that an American veto might lead to the overthrow of the pro-Western Tunisian Government by Libyan-backed mobs, Administration officials said today. In the face of criticism from Israel and American Jewish organizations over its decision to abstain Friday night, the Administration moved today to explain its position privately to Israelis and others. The Council voted 14 to 0 to condemn the Israeli attack, which took place last Tuesday at the headquarters of the P.L.O. chairman, Yasser Arafat. Secretary of State George P. Shultz telephoned Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir of Israel, who was in New York, to assure him that the Reagan Administration remained committed to strong action against terrorists. He also told Mr. Shamir that the United States agreed the Israeli attack on the Palestine Liberation Organization headquarters was a legitimate act of self-defense against a series of terrorist acts ordered by the P.L.O., Israeli and American officials said this afternoon. Mr. Shultz authorized the Israelis to make his comments public.
The U.S. Embassy in Beirut says it is investigating reports that an American who vanished in Lebanon last month, reportedly while doing research for a book on drug smuggling, may have been kidnaped. The embassy said there is no apparent link between the reported abduction of Steven James Donahue and the kidnapping of other Americans by Islamic extremists. A spokesman declined to comment on Beirut press reports that Donahue was a U.S. drug agent and was seized by Christians.
Syrian troops entered the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli today to enforce a cease-fire arranged after 19 days of fighting between rival Moslem militia groups. According to radio reports, the troops took up positions at the northern and southern entrances of the city as well as in the port and the center of town. The reports added that the Syrians had also begun to collect heavy weapons from the militiamen, one of the conditions of the cease-fire accord. The agreement was announced on Thursday after talks in Damascus among representatives of the combatants.
Two unidentified gunmen in an Athens suburb shot and wounded a Libyan businessman believed to be an opponent of Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi. Youssef Akeila, 43, who was hit in the chest and leg outside his home, was in satisfactory condition after surgery, police said. Arab diplomats said that Akeila, a textile businessman in Greece for five years, had transferred all his money out of Libya and repeatedly refused requests to return. He is the sixth Libyan to be attacked in Athens since 1980.
The Iranian navy held what it said were its biggest maneuvers in history in the Strait of Hormuz, which it has threatened to blockade as a last resort if its oil exports from the Persian Gulf are halted. Tehran radio reported that “tens of warships, battleships, missile-launching and gunship frigates, planes, helicopters, logistic and personnel carriers and some submarines participated in the military exercise.”
Tamil groups told India today at a meeting in New Delhi that until the lives of Tamils were safe, there was no chance that Sri Lanka peace talks would resume, an Indian news agency said. Representatives of two guerrilla groups, the Eelam National Liberation Front and the People’s Liberation Organization of Tamil Eelam, and the island’s main Tamil political party, the Tamil United Liberation Front, attended the meeting, the Press Trust of India news agency reported. The talks aimed at ending the ethnic conflict between Sri Lanka’s majority Sinhalese and minority Tamil populations broke down nearly two months ago. India, which has a large Tamil population, is mediating the negotiations. Sri Lanka has has reported clashes almost daily between its security forces and Tamil guerrillas in the last few weeks. The agency said the Indian Foreign Secretary, Romesh Bhandari, had assured the groups that he would take up the question of cease-fire violations with the Sri Lanka Government.
A ferry in Bangladesh carrying 200 passengers broke in half and sank after hitting a fishing trawler, and as many as 100 people were missing and feared drowned, a newspaper reported today. The ferry sank Saturday night on the Karnaphuli River near the port city of Chittagong, 217 miles southeast of the capital, The New Nation said. According to the English-language daily newspaper, as many as 100 people swam ashore while others were believed trapped inside the boat’s hull or swept away by the strong current. Navy divers recovered the bodies of a 23-year-old woman and a 5-year-old, the newspaper said.
Prosperity and expectations are rising among the people who live in the Asian side of the Pacific Basin. This dynamic economic growth has political, social and international consequences for the nations and people of this vast region.
A crackdown on political dissidents in South Korea has begun under the authoritarian government of President Chun Doo Hwan. Foreign diplomats and analysts say the Government has adopted a hard line after a period in which it seemed to show a greater tolerance for dissent. Opponents of President Chun say they fear a tightening of controls by the President and harsher policies like those that characterized his government after he seized power in a military coup five years ago.
An army anti-insurgency patrol killed at least 14 Communist guerrillas in a gun battle on the southern island of Mindanao, the official Philippine news agency said today. The agency said the soldiers clashed with a force of guerrillas from the Communist New People’s Army on Saturday at Polanco in Zamboanga Province, 450 miles southeast of Manila. There were no army casualties, the agency said, and the soldiers recovered assorted firearms and ammunition at the scene.
The Senate, meeting in an unusual Sunday session, today failed to shut off debate on a proposal to balance the Federal budget by 1991. But the Republican leadership said the vote showed that a bipartisan majority supported the legislation. The Sunday session, only the third since 1981 and the fourth in 12 years, came as the Senate worked under pressure to vote on the balanced budget proposal and an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling by Monday, when the Treasury Department has estimated it will run out of cash and not be able to pay bills unless the ceiling is raised. Democrats and some Republicans in the Senate have prevented a vote on the budget measure since Friday because they either oppose it or argue that they need more time to consider it. The Senate met after President Reagan urged its members to move quickly to pass both the balanced budget bill and an increase in the debt ceiling.
President Reagan calls Coach Eddie Robinson of Grambling State University.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
Crime fell 4.1% to 35.5 million incidents in 1984, the lowest level in the 12-year history of the National Crime Survey of randomly selected American households, the government said. The number of violent crimes excluding murder and manslaughter, however, rose 0.9%, from 5,903,000 in 1983 to 5,954,000 in 1984. Those incidents include assaults, armed robbery and rape. The rape victimization rate for females, for instance, was 1.6 cases per 1,000 women, contrasted with 1.3 per 1,000 in the preceding year. The newest report on crime in America, issued by the Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics, was a victimization survey, in which a random sample of people are asked if they have been victims of crime. Such surveys include crimes that have not been reported to police, and therefore are considered more comprehensive than FBI statistics.
The Administration has a standing list of three names of possible candidates for the next Supreme Court vacancy and some advisers and officials meet weekly to discuss choices for other federal court positions, Newsweek reported. The magazine said the candidates for the Supreme Court are federal appeals court Judges Robert Bork and Antonin Scalia, both known for their conservative judicial philosophies, and Senator Orrin G. Hatch, (R-Utah), who has led legislative battles to allow prayer in public schools and to outlaw abortion. The magazine said the Administration also has an auxiliary list of 20 additional names for any Supreme Court vacancy.
President Reagan’s military buildup can claim only tiny improvements in United States security, a key Congressman asserted today. Representative Les Aspin, the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, made public 25 pages of statistics that he said even showed a decline in some capabilities, such as research and development of new technology, despite $1 trillion being spent so far. “The results are discomforting and disconcerting, to say the least, for they indicate miniscule improvements — outside of the personnel area — despite immense budgetary increases,” the Wisconsin Democrat said. The Defense Department responded to Mr. Aspin’s statement by saying that there have been marked improvments in readiness, in weapons, and in personnel over the last four years. “Progress has been made,” the department said in a statement. “Our military strength has improved over the last four years but there is much to do.”
Officials of the space agency, breaking three days of silence, announced today that the space shuttle Atlantis and its crew of five military officers would land Monday, ending a secret mission for the Department of Defense. The Atlantis is to touch down at 10 AM (1 PM Eastern daylight time) at Edwards Air Force Base in California, bringing to a close its four-day maiden voyage.
Margaret M. Heckler said in an interview published Saturday that she had been ousted from her post as Secretary of Health and Human Services because of “a long-term vendetta by one individual in the White House.” Mrs. Heckler, who resigned from the department last week to become the Ambassador to Ireland, said that the vendetta “went on for years” but that she was able to accomplish a great deal with the support of President Reagan.
An insurance company has suggested that underwriters try to screen possible AIDS victims by examining applicants’ lifestyles, prompting a gay activist to warn that unmarried heterosexual men may be unjustly denied coverage. Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. of Fort Wayne, Indiana, suggested in a memo to health and life insurance underwriters that they use marital status as an indicator of possible homosexuality, the Dallas Times Herald said. A Lincoln National spokesman confirmed the suggestions. The memo said that age and residence also could be used to screen single and divorced men between the ages of 20 and 49.
Mormon leaders sought to rebuff critics and reaffirm basic doctrines as the church’s 155th Semiannual General Conference drew to a close in Salt Lake City. The peril of criticizing the faith’s leaders and doctrines was a prevailing theme of the two-day conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Eight of the 26 sermons that were delivered referred specifically to theological attacks by anti-Mormons.
Colombian drug smugglers sabotaged a plane that crashed, killing 16 skydivers and the pilot, because the plane’s owner botched the delivery of $591 million worth of cocaine, a drug agent told a newspaper. David L. Williams, who died when his plane crashed last week in Georgia, had safely parachuted 22 weeks before on the same flight with a parachutist who fell to his death here with 75 pounds of cocaine strapped to his chest, said the Knoxville, Tennessee, News-Sentinel, which quoted an unidentified government drug agent.
The bombing of the Move house by the Philadelphia police in May will be the focus of public hearings that begin tomorrow. The attempt to evict the radical group from their home resulted in the worst residential fire in the city’s history and the deaths of 11 people. The mayoral commission’s hearings are widely seen as holding the key to the future of several city officials, among them the Mayor, W. Wilson Goode, and his Police and Fire Commissioners. A committee of bishops reaffirmed their conviction that American society must act more generously towards the poor and vulnerable in a second draft of a pastoral letter on the nation’s economy. The letter, authored by a committee of Roman Catholic bishops, also expresses concern for middle class Americans. “Many working people and middle-class Americans live dangerously close to poverty,” the pastoral letter notes.
Six residents of a Unionville, Missouri nursing home, ranging in age from 72 to 90, died in a fire that apparently started in a mobile trailer unit and spread to the main facility, the authorities said today. The blaze appeared to have started about 8 P.M. Saturday in the southeast corner of a trailer next to the brick Monroe Manor Adult Boarding Facility, according to Sheriff Danny Peto of Putnam County.
A Dallas hospital has temporarily halted all non-emergency abortions after anti-abortionists threatened to boycott the facility. Bill Mays, a spokesman for Presbyterian Hospital, said that until the hospital board reviews its policy, the facility will perform abortions only if the mother’s life is threatened. Bill Price, head of the Greater Dallas Right to Life Committee, said a meeting with hospital officials Friday averted a planned demonstration outside the hospital Saturday.
A man who lost both legs when he stepped on a mine in the Vietnam War vaulted from a truck in St. Louis Friday and made his way several hundred feet on his hands to help capture a man who tried to grab an elderly woman’s purse. Sircy Scruggs, 74 years old, said she was surprised when the veteran, 40-year-old John D. Booker, arrived and helped another neighbor wrestle and hold down the suspect until the police arrived. Mr. Booker said the four-foot vault from his truck aggravated an old shoulder injury, but he said he did not regret it. “I didn’t think it was right for anyone to abuse her like that,” Mr. Booker said.
California has sold 30 million tickets in the first two days of its new lottery, officials say. The director of the lottery, Mark Michalko, said sales of the $1 “instant-winner” scratch-off ticket through Friday surpassed the entire first week of sales for any other lottery on record. “I think the level of interest will remain high,” Mr. Michalko said, “but we certainly won’t see those figures matched again.” A spokesman, Bob Taylor, said the sales estimate was based on a sampling of 200 key retail outlets. The tickets, which offer prizes ranging from $2 to $5,000, went on sale at 12:30 Thursday afternoon at more than 21,000 retailers across the state. Winners of $100 will be eligible for drawings for prizes up to $2 million.
Houston’s Wortham Theater Center, a palace of the performing arts that represents the city’s new vision of itself, giving the lie to Houston’s image elsewhere as an uncultured oil town. “If this is going to be a great, world-class city, we’ve got to have facilities for artistic and educated people,” said Terrylin G. Neale, chief fundraiser for the $70 million center, which is to open in 1987.
French McLaren driver Alain Prost clinches his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with a 4th placing in the European Grand Prix at Brands Hatch.
Marita Koch of East Germany sets 400m woman’s record (47.6) in Australia.
Major League Baseball:
Chet Lemon hit a pair of homers and drove in four runs as Detroit snapped a third-place tie with the Orioles on the final day of the American League East season, beating Baltimore, 11–3. Baltimore finished with 214 homers and Detroit with 202, marking the first time in major league history two clubs from the same league topped the 200 mark in the same season.
Phil Niekro won his 300th game in his fifth attempt, pitching virtually an entire game without throwing his knuckleball, the pitch for which he is famous. The change in style worked and Niekro became the 18th player in baseball history to win 300 games as the Yankees defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 8–0. “A lot of people thought I couldn’t get people out without the knuckleball,’ Niekro said. “I always wanted to pitch a game without throwing a knuckleball,” he said. “It just shows you don’t need a 95 mph fastball or a Dwight Gooden curveball to win in the big leagues.” Niekro, mixing a not-too-fast fastball, curves and a blooper-like pitch, managed to baffle a reserve-filled Toronto lineup. The Blue Jays flailed away, as if they were trying to hit fluttering knucklers.
It may have been a makeshift lineup and a meaningless game being played out by a team with more important things on its mind. But Oakland manager Jackie Moore was happy to close out the 1985 regular season with a 9–3 victory over the American League West champion Kansas City Royals. “A win is a win, I say,” Moore grinned. “Now we’ll be on a winning streak all winter.” The Royals finished the regular season with a 91–71 record, while the A’s wound up in fourth place on the final day of the season with a 77-85 mark.
The Angels edged the Rangers, 6–5. Rufino Linares hit a three-run homer in the eighth inning and Mike Witt struck out 13 over seven innings.
The Brewers topped the Red Sox, 9–6. Milwaukee rookie Billy Joe Robidoux belted a pair of two-run homers and Boston’s Wade Boggs wrapped up the American League batting championship with three hits.
The White Sox beat the Mariners, 3–2. Ron Kittle hit his 26th home run and scored twice and Ed Correa won in his first major-league start.
The Twins downed the Indians, 4–2. Rookie Mark Salas scored a run, drove in a run and set-up the go-ahead rally in the fifth inning for Minnesota.
The Cubs routed the Cardinals, 8–2, as Davey Lopes hit a three-run pinch homer and Shawon Dunston doubled home two more runs for Chicago. Chicago’s Reggie Patterson, 3–0, checked St. Louis on nine hits in his sixth major-league start. Patterson struck out three and walked one.
Dave Parker hit a tiebreaking solo home run in the ninth inning for Cincinnati as the Reds edged the Dodgers, 6–5. Parker’s blast gave him 34 homers and 125 RBI, both career highs. It came with two outs on a 3–2 pitch from reliever Tom Niedenfuer, 7–9. Ted Power, who relieved 20-game winner Tom Browning to start the eighth and yielded two runs that tied the game, got credit for the victory to finish the season at 8–6.
Hubie Brooks drives in his 100th run of the season in Montreal’s season-ending 2–1 win over the Mets‚ becoming the first NL shortstop with 100 RBI since Ernie Banks in 1960. Dan Schatzeder and two relievers combined on a six-hitter. The Mets finished their season at 98–64, the second best mark in the club’s history, good enough for second place in the National League East. In the same division, the Expos were fourth at 84–77.
Kevin Gross pitched a four hit-shutout and John Russell’s three-run homer capped a five-run third inning as the Phillies closed out 1985 by blanking the Pirates, 5–0. The loss was the 104th for the Pirates, who finished with only 57 victories.
Until the Houston Astros beat San Diego on Saturday to pull within a game of the third-place Padres in the National League West, rookie right-hander Charlie Kerfeld thought he would start Sunday’s finale between the two teams. But Astros manager Bob Lilis decided to go with 18-game winner Mike Scott in search of a victory that would pull Houston even with San Diego and give the Astros a share of the division’s third place money. Jose Cruz and Alan Ashby homered to lead the Astros to a 6–4 win.
Letting Atlanta get ahead 6–0, the Giants scored seven runs in the bottom of the sixth to take the lead. But the Giants lost the season’s finale, 8–7, when Atlanta scored two runs in the seventh off the Giants’ best reliever, Scott Garrelts. The defeat was their 100th of the season. This marked the first time a Giants team accumulated that many losses in a season. Until this year, the Giants were the only franchise in baseball history to never lose 100 games in a season.
Detroit Tigers 11, Baltimore Orioles 3
Milwaukee Brewers 9, Boston Red Sox 6
Seattle Mariners 2, Chicago White Sox 3
Oakland Athletics 9, Kansas City Royals 3
Cincinnati Reds 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Cleveland Indians 2, Minnesota Twins 4
Montreal Expos 2, New York Mets 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Houston Astros 6, San Diego Padres 4
Atlanta Braves 8, San Francisco Giants 7
Chicago Cubs 8, St. Louis Cardinals 2
California Angels 6, Texas Rangers 5
New York Yankees 8, Toronto Blue Jays 0
NFL Football:
Walter Payton scored twice today to become the sixth man in National Football League history to score 100 career touchdowns as the Chicago Bears rallied from a 9-point halftime deficit today to beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers by 27–19. Jim McMahon threw a 21-yard touchdown to Dennis McKinnon and Kevin Butler also kicked field goals of 30 and 31 yards for Chicago, which improved its record to 5–0, the club’s best start since 1963. The Bears defense, meanwhile, held James Wilder, the league’s leading rusher, to only 29 yards on 18 carries. McMahon’s 10th touchdown pass of the season — and McKinnon’s sixth scoring reception — cut Tampa Bay’s 12–3 halftime lead to 12–10 with 3 minutes 40 seconds left in the the third quarter. Butler’s 31-yard field goal gave Chicago a 13–12 advantage as time expired in the third quarter, and Payton’s 100th career touchdown covered the final four yards of 10-play, 77-yard drive that made it 20–12 with 7:51 left in the game.
Joe Montana, operating a short passing attack, threw five touchdown passes as San Francisco downed Atlanta, 38–17. Montana, mostly throwing passes of 10 yards or less, broke the club record for attempts, completions and yardage as he hit on 37 of 57 passes for 429 yards. The five scoring passes equaled the 49er record. Montana’s touchdown passes covered 46 yards to Roger Craig, 14 to Wendell Tyler, 25 to Jerry Rice, 5 to John Frank and 32 to Dwight Clark. Craig had a club record 12 receptions for 167 yards for the the 49ers.
The Dallas offense finally came out from under the shadow of its defense and Rafael Septien emerged from a cloud of his own making and it was just enough to get Cowboys past the New York Giants. Danny White shredded the Giants defense for three touchdown passes and Septien emerged from a one-week slump with three fourth-quarter field goals, including a game-winning, 31-yard boot with 2:19 to play, as Dallas edged the Giants 30–29 in a nationally televised game Sunday night. Septien’s deciding field goal came just a week after he missed four of five attempts in a Cowboy victory over Houston. The victory raised the Cowboys’ record to 4–1 and it came as a redhot White hit scoring passes of 18 yards to Tony Hill and 8 and 24 yards to Mike Renfro. There were nine turnovers in the game, four by Dallas and five by New York, and it was a fumble by Phil Simms late in the game that set up the game winning field goal.
Curt Warner scored touchdowns on runs of 1 and 18 yards in the second half as Seattle ended a two-game losing streak, beating San Diego, 26–21. The Seahawks (3–2) forced the Chargers to commit five turnovers, four of them by the San Diego quarterback Mark Herrmann, who started in place of the injured Dan Fouts. Bruce Scholtz’s recovery of Herrmann’s fumble on the snap set up Warner’s 1-yard touchdown run with 3:18 gone in the third quarter for a 13–7 Seattle lead. The Seahawks made the score 19–7 on Warner’s 18-yard scoring run in the fourth quarter after Dave Brown intercepted a Herrmann pass and ran it back 24 yards to the San Diego 25. Brown also recovered a Gary Anderson fumble in the first quarter to set up a Norm Johnson field goal.
Phillip Epps caught two touchdown passes, James Lofton had 10 receptions for 151 yards as Green Bay romped past the Lions, 43–10. Epps’s third-quarter touchdowns came on a 9-yard pass from Lynn Dickey and a 28-yarder from Randy Wright, who came in for Dickey after the veteran hurt his right thumb in the third quarter. Detroit (3–2) had six turnovers in the game — four lost fumbles and two interceptions. The Packers (2–3) sacked Lion quarterbacks four times.
The Jets downed the Begals, 29–20. Former Cal-Davis star Ken O’Brien passed for 211 yards, including a 7-yard touchdown to Mickey Shuler, to lead the New York Jets to their fourth straight victory in a game marred by 29 penalties for 223 yards in losses. The Jets, 4–1, trailed 13–7 just before halftime. But then they exploded for 22 straight points.
John Elway threw three touchdown passes as Denver defeated Houston, 31–20. Elway’s two other scoring passes — a 6-yarder to tight end Clarence Kay and a 29-yarder to the rookie Vance Johnson — helped the Broncos raise their record to 3–2. Houston (1–4) was penalized 15 times for 188 yards, both of which were team records. Eleven of the infractions produced first downs for Denver — an N.F.L.record. With Broncos leading by 10–3 early in the second period after a Tony Zendejas 27-yard field goal for Houston, Denver ended an 81-yard, 4-play drive with a bit of razzle-dazzle. The score came when Elway pitched back to the running back Sammy Winder, who handed off to the wide receiver Butch Johnson on an apparent reverse. Johnson, however, flipped the ball back to Elway, who passed downfield to Steve Watson for the touchdown.
Randy McMillan, returning after a two-week absence with an ankle injury, rushed for 112 yards and two touchdowns to lead Indianapolis past Buffalo, 49–17. The Colts (2–3) also got pass interceptions by Barry Krauss and Duane Bickett that set up two second-quarter touchdown runs by George Wonsley, and Anthony Young scored in the third period on a 28-yard return of a Buffalo fumble. It was the 11th consecutive loss on the road for the Bills (0–5), and it spoiled the N.F.L. head-coaching debut of Hank Bullough. The two touchdown runs by Wonsley came on his only carries of the first half. The bulk of the Indianapolis ground attack came from McMillan, who had 66 yards in the first half and got his first touchdown on the Colts’ first possession of the second half.
Dan Marino, held in check most of the day by the Steelers, engineered a last-quarter drive that was capped by Lorenzo Hampton’s 2-yard touchdown run with 47 seconds left today to give the Miami Dolphins a 24–20 victory over Pittsburgh. The Pittsburgh defense intercepted Marino three times. One of them, by Robin Cole, set up a 33-yard field goal by Gary Anderson with 8 minutes 25 seconds left that gave the Steelers a 20–17 lead. But with the Dolphins at their 25-yard line with 4:10 left, Marino, who finished with 27 completions in 45 atttmpts for 277 yards, found Mark Clayton for 27 yards over the middle, then threaded the ball 21 yards to the tight end Bruce Hardy on a third-and-9 from the Steelers 37. Finally, on a second-and-goal from the 2, he pitched out to Hampton, who went around left end for the winning score. The Steelers (2–3) took a 17–14 lead at halftime on a 1-yard touchdown throw toss from Malone that the 6-foot-6-inch Weegie Thompson plucked out of the air with 12 seconds left in the half. That came after Miami (4–1) had taken a 14–10 lead with just under two minutes left.
Bernie Kosar, the Browns’ rookie quarterback, completed the first seven passes of his National Football League career and directed Cleveland to two second-half scores as they defeated New England, 24–20. Kosar, the 21-year-old from the University of Miami, replaced Gary Danielson late in the first half after Danielson strained his right shoulder. Kosar fumbled away his first snap from center to set up a New England field goal, but then completed his first seven passes in the second half, four of them on a 42-yard drive capped by Matt Bahr’s 44-yard field goal for a 17–13 lead for the Browns (3–2). New England (2–3) responded with a 22-yard touchdown pass from Tony Eason to Stanley Morgan for a 20–17 lead midway through the third quarter, but Kosar hit Brian Brennan with a 33-yard pass to set up Kevin Mack’s game-winning 10-yard touchdown run with 12 minutes left in the game.
The Los Angeles Rams edged the Minnesota Vikings, 13–10. Eric Dickerson scored on a 2-yard run, Mike Lansford kicked a pair field goals, and the Los Angeles defense held Minnesota on the goal line on the game’s final play. The Rams (5–0) stopped Minnesota’s Darrin Nelson for no gain as the Vikings went for a touchdown from the 1-yard line as time expired.
Marc Wilson, playing despite a sprained ankle, passed for 241 yards and a touchdown and Chris Bahr kicked four field goals as Los Angeles downed Kansas City, 19–10. The Chiefs (3–2) moved from their own 20-yard line to the Los Angeles 18 the first time they had the ball to get into position for a 36-yard field goal by Nick Lowery. But the Raiders shut them down after that until Bill Kenney threw a 41-yard scoring pass to Anthony Hancock in the fourth quarter. Los Angeles went ahead for good on a 6-yard scoring pass from Wilson to the wide receiver Jim Smith with 10:26 remaining in the second quarter. The Raiders extended their lead to 10 points on a 37-yard field goal by Chris Bahr with 13 seconds left before halftime and a 25-yarder with 8:44 to go in the third quarter. He added a pair of 41-yarders in the fourth quarter.
Johnnie Poe raced 40 yards to score with an interception and Morten Andersen kicked three field goals as New Orleans overcame a sputtering offense to defeat Philadelphia, 23–21. The cornerback Dave Waymer picked off three Eagle passes, the final one coming witth 1:24 left in the game as Philadephia (1–4) made one last attempt to pull the game out. It was almost exclusively a defensive victory for the Saints. The only touchdown for the Saint offense came on a 31-yard pass from Dave Wilson to Eugene Goodlow with 3:45 left in the first quarter. Poe’s interception return came with 6:34 left in the second quarter and gave New Orleans (3–2) a 20–0 lead.
Chicago Bears 27, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 19
San Francisco 49ers 38, Atlanta Falcons 17
Dallas Cowboys 30, New York Giants 29
San Diego Chargers 21, Seattle Seahawks 26
Detroit Lions 10, Green Bay Packers 43
New York Jets 29, Cincinnati Bengals 20
Houston Oilers 20, Denver Broncos 31
Buffalo Bills 17, Indianapolis Colts 49
Pittsburgh Steelers 20, Miami Dolphins 24
New England Patriots 20, Cleveland Browns 24
Minnesota Vikings 10, Los Angeles Rams 13
Kansas City Chiefs 10, Los Angeles Raiders 19
Philadelphia Eagles 21, New Orleans Saints 23
Born:
Sylvia Fowles, WNBA center (Basketball Hall of Fame, inducted 2025; WNBA Champions-Lynx, 2015, 2017; WNBA All-Star, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2017–2019, 2021, 2022; Chicago Sky, Minnesota Lynx), in Miami Florida.
Andrew Albers, Canadian MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners), in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Died:
Nelson Riddle, 64, American Grammy Award-winning bandleader, conductor, and orchestrator for Capitol Records (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dean Martin), dies of complications from cirrhosis of the liver.
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