Efforts to extradite a Palestinian for planning the seizure of the Achille Lauro were virtually given up by the Reagan Administration. The Palestinian guerrilla leader, Mohammed Abbas, fled to Yugoslavia from Rome on Saturday. Administration officials said they expected Yugoslavia to confirm formally Monday that it would not hold the Palestinian in custody, nor would it extradite him. This information was given informally to the United States in Belgrade, Justice Department officials said. As officials awaited the formal Yugoslav response, the White House and State Department considered diplomatic moves against the Italian Government for not arresting the Palestinian. The White House called Mr. Abbas, who is known as Abul Abbas, “one of the most notorious Palestinian terrorists,” and said he “has been involved in savage attacks on civilians.”
Italy’s release of a Palestinian against Washington’s express wish was being explained by the Government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi as necessary to avert a collapse of its ties with the Arab world. There were strong indications that Italy feared a sharp outburst of Palestinian terrorism if it had handed over Mohammed Abbas, leader of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front, to the United States. The United States Ambassador, Maxwell M. Rabb, met with Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti for more than two hours today. Emerging from the meeting, he said he had repeated the Reagan Administration’s contention that the release of Mr. Abbas, also known as Abul Abbas, was “incomprensible to the United States.”
Reagan Administration officials said today that they had transcripts of radio conversations that took place during the hijacking of an Italian cruise ship between the hijackers and a Palestinian guerrilla leader who was later freed by the Italian Government. According to American sources, transcripts of conversations between the hijackers and the guerrilla leader, Mohammed Abbas, were provided to the Italian Government. The sources said Italy was given evidence showing that Mr. Abbas remained close to the ship and directed the hijacking. Nevertheless, Italian officials allowed Mr. Abbas to leave Italy and fly to Yugoslavia this weekend.
A Philadelphia judge gave an account of the slaying of Leon Klinghoffer aboard the Achille Lauro. The judge, Stanley L. Kubacki, who was also on the cruise ship, said the ship’s head bartender had told him he saw two hijackers kill Mr. Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old Manhattan resident. Judge Kubacki said the bartender — the only known witness to the murder — had given Egyptian authorities details of the slaying Thursday morning, 12 hours before Egypt released the hijackers under a safe-passage agreement. “I told him everything I knew,” Kubacki said. “I showed him the spot where Mr. Klinghoffer was shot. We were talking and he told me: ‘Don’t worry anymore. They are in prison now.’ ‘
A conciliatory letter from President Reagan was delivered today to President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt by the American Ambassador here in what a senior United States diplomat described as an effort “to heal the breach” caused by the interception of an Egyptian airliner carrying four Palestinian hijackers. The American Ambassador, Nicholas A. Veliotes, further tried to smooth relations by summoning foreign journalists today to the Embassy to read them a statement praising Mr. Mubarak’s handling of the crisis. “There can be no doubt that the action taken by the Government of Egypt prevented a catastrophe of incalculable proportions,” Mr. Veliotes said. The Ambassador’s statement also addressed the American interception of the Egyptial plane. “We deeply regret that this action was necessary,” he Ambassador’s statement said, referring to the United States diversion of the airliner to Sicily. “This was done after the most serious consideration and with reluctance.”
Diplomats and Egyptian officials said today that President Hosni Mubarak’s harsh condemnation of the United States was a response not merely to the American diversion of an Egyptian airliner but also to an American assault on Egyptian pride and dignity. The humiliation of Egypt, they said, was intensified by America’s unconcealed jubilation over the interception of the Egyptair Boeing 737 and lingering Egyptian fury over what was seen here as the Reagan Administration’s condoning of Israel’s air attack on the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters in Tunis two weeks ago. “Egypt has lost almost everything since 1967, the year of its war with Israel — its wealth, its military prowess, its traditional leadership of the Arab world,” said one Arab diplomat here today. “Almost everything has been taken from Egypt,” he said, except its dignity and self-esteem. Western and Arab officials interviewed here in the last few days said that in addition to trying to salvage some of his country’s self-esteem, Mr. Mubarak’s harsh denunciation of the United States was also aimed at protecting his political flanks from internal criticism stemming from Egypt’s ties to the United States and his handling of the hijacking episode.
A large turnout in Poland’s elections was announced by the government. It said that more than two-thirds of all eligible voters had cast ballots seven hours before the polling place closed. The voting was for the first parliamentary election since the Solidarity movement was outlawed. Underground Solidarity figures urged an election boycott, and Lech Walesa, their leader, said in Gdansk that fewer people were voting than had participated in last year’s local elections. Those elections were also targets of a Solidarity boycott. The conflicting assertions of voter turnout dominated the elections much more than any tension over the outcome of any of the contests. In all, 820 candidates are at least technically vying for 410 seats, while 50 men and women, including General Wojciech Jaruzelski, are on a list of unopposed nationally known candidates.
The Finnish Communist Party defied Moscow and initiated a large-scale purge of hard-liners that could soon lead to two rival Communist parties in Finland. The party Central Committee decided at a meeting in Helsinki to expel eight of the party’s 17 district organizations, officials said, a move that could lead to the expulsion of individual members. The party has long been split into a Eurocommunist majority and a hard-line minority supported by Moscow. The Soviet Union has warned the Finns that a purge of hard-liners could adversely affect relations between the two countries.
West German riot police fired tear gas and clashed with protesters during a demonstration in Munich by 27,000 people against a planned nuclear-waste processing plant near the city, authorities said. Police said 155 protesters were arrested. The demonstrators carried banners reading “Against the Atomic State” and “Stop the March Toward Atomic Death.”
The center-right coalition of Prime Minister Wilfried Martens appeared certain of retaining power after today’s Belgian general elections, according to computer projections. With more than 60 percent of the vote counted, the Martens coalition, which includes Christian Democrats and Liberals from the country’s Flemish and French-speaking areas, was expected to keep its majority in the 212-seat Parliament and perhaps add two seats to its current 113. The results were apparently a vote of confidence in the Government’s stringent economic policies and its decision this year to start deploying as many as 48 United States cruise missiles. But the Flemish Socialist Party, which campaigned strongly against the deployment, also made gains.
Leaders of France’s governing Socialist Party emerged early this morning from an all-night meeting and announced in the predawn gloom that they had agreed on a unified party platform for key legislative elections next year. The announcement of unity, coming at the end of a national party Congress held over the weekend in this southwestern city, seemed to represent a hard-fought political truce by the party’s leaders to suppress their differences. The well-publicized differences had threatened to split the party just five months before the elections. “There are no significant disagreements in the orientations for the near future,” Michel Rocard, the leader of a strong minority in the party that has been questioning traditional party doctrine, said after the announcement this morning. “This shows that the modernization of Socialism is proceeding well in our minds and in our texts.”
The United States should consider broad steps to help Third World countries protect their environments, such as training foreigners and supporting small-scale development projects, a report said. The report was commissioned by the Environmental and Energy Study Institute, a privately supported group associated with a congressional study group. It suggests, among other things, expansion of Peace Corps environmental activities; allowing Food for Peace money to be used for conservation and land management, and investigating the possibility of forgiving or rescheduling debt as an incentive for environmental management.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres told the Cabinet today that he had received a message from Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak promising all the facts surrounding the killing of seven Israelis at a Sinai resort October 5 by an Egyptian policeman or soldier. According to Mr. Peres, the message said Egypt’s concern about the incident is no less serious than that of Israel. At the time of the shootings, Egyptian authorities said the man had gone berserk. But Israeli intelligence sources said he was a Muslim fundamentalist who was a follower of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian leader, and that he had a history of aggression against Israelis.
A caller claiming to represent the fundamentalist Islamic Liberation Organization said three Soviet hostages will be killed and the Soviet Embassy in Beirut blown up unless the mission is closed within 48 hours, a Lebanese Christian radio station said. The Islamic organization has claimed responsibility for kidnaping four Soviet Embassy officials September 30 and killing one of them two days later. It is believed that only about 50 people remain at the embassy.
The Iranian Parliament today approved the nomination of Prime Minister Mir Hussein Moussavi for a second term in a vote that indicated a slight increase in opposition to his policies. The vote was 162 to 73 in favor of Mr. Moussavi, with 26 abstentions. In August 1984, he won by 163 to 21. The Prime Minister had the endorsement of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. “It seems quite likely that had the Imam not expressed his view somebody else would have been named in the Parliament,” the daily newspaper Kayhan said last week. President Hojatolislam Ali Khamenei nominated Mr. Moussavi three days ago at the start of his own second four-year term. Mr. Moussavi now has two weeks to choose his ministers, who must be approved by both the President and Parliament. Teheran newspapers said the President had originally wanted a Prime Minister closer to him and with a less radical reputation than Mr. Moussavi, a 43-year-old former architect who has held the job since October 1981.
Gunners in Pakistan shelled the garrison town of Barikot in eastern Afghanistan early this month, killing 14 Afghan civilians and wounding 11, Kabul radio charged. Afghanistan filed a strong protest with the Pakistani government, the second in a week over alleged cross-border attacks. The report described the attack as shelling with heavy weapons and said it took place from October 1 to October 4 in the residential area of Barikot at the northern end of Kunar Valley near the Pakistan border. The protest is the second to Pakistan in a week about cross-border attacks charged by the Kabul Government. On October 7, Kabul said Pakistani forces shelled Barikot on September 30, killing eight civilians and destroying six houses. Pakistan rejected the charge as fictitious.
Three Sri Lankan soldiers were wounded when separatist guerrillas set off a land mine under their jeep in Northern Province today, security officials said. The officials said the incident at Mullaitivu was the third violation in the last 24 hours of a cease-fire arrangement that the guerrillas agreed Thursday to honor. The attacks came as President J. R. Jayewardene left for the Commonwealth summit meeting in the Bahamas, where he was expected to discuss ways to end Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict with Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone has asked the Soviet Union to resume talks on a World War II peace treaty. Tokyo newspapers said that Japan’s ambassador to the Soviet Union, Yasue Katori, met with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and delivered a letter from Nakasone to Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, proposing the resumption of talks on a peace treaty. A major thorn in their relations has been a territorial dispute over four northern islands seized by the Soviet Union from Japan in 1945.
Vice President Bush had barely begun a six-day visit to China today when one of the country’s top leaders issued an unusually direct warning about the state of relations between the two countries. At a banquet that followed a red-carpet welcome for Mr. Bush, Prime Minister Zhao Ziyang appeared to revive the issue of arms sales to Taiwan, a problem that soured Mr. Bush’s last visit here as Vice President, in 1982. That visit led to a formal agreement that the United States would gradually lower the quantity and quality of the sales, but Peking has been restive over the marginal declines registered so far. “We all know that there are obstacles in Sino-U.S. relations which prevent the proper and full tapping of the potentials in the mutually beneficial cooperation between our two countries,” Mr. Zhao said in his banquet toast.
A year ago, Salvadoran leftist guerrillas and President Jose Napoleon Duarte met for the first time in the mountain village of La Palma and raised the hopes of their countrymen that peace might come after five years of civil war. Those hopes may have been impossibly high, but their loss today is palpable and has even reached into Mr. Duarte’s home. The President, who walked unarmed into the heart of a war zone to meet the guerrillas, is now imploring them to release his kidnapped daughter. Conversations with dozens of Salvadorans from all classes of society give the strong impression that exhaustion is gaining hold in a country that has joined Northern Ireland and Lebanon as a land in which violence is normal. Resignation, cynicism and a simple hunger to survive have replaced the fragile faith that many placed in Mr. Duarte and the rebels’ promise to try to stop fighting 12 months ago.
Britain made clear that it will resist attempts at this week’s Commonwealth conference to impose economic sanctions on South Africa. Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, in an article in the Sunday Times of London, wrote that sanctions would “destroy neighboring African economies as well as damaging our own.” Howe also said that some recent South African reforms “cannot be dismissed as irrelevant.” In Johannesburg, meanwhile, four white opposition politicians who met with African National Congress rebels said the two delegations agreed on dismantling apartheid but not on how to accomplish it.
The African National Congress, the most prominent of exiled groups fighting white rule in South Africa, said today that it was not yet ready to negotiate a peaceful settlement in this divided nation. After meeting Saturday and today in Lusaka, the Zambian capital, with leaders of South Africa’s white opposition, Alfred Nzo, the organization’s secretary general, told reporters, “The A.N.C. does not consider that there has come into being a conducive climate to reach a negotiated resolution of the crisis.” A joint statement after the talks said both sides had agreed on “the urgent need to dismantle apartheid and establish a nonracial democratic society.” The statement also called for the release of Nelson Mandela, the Congress’s leader, who is incarcerated in Pollsmoor prison, near Cape Town.
The Defense Department has asked Congress to adopt a sweeping proposal to revamp the federal Civil Service system by replacing the pay and grade scale with a pay-for-performance approach, according to documents released by Rep. Michael D. Barnes (D-Maryland). The proposal would give most agencies the authority to establish their own classification, pay and performance systems, and give managers maximum flexibility to adjust salaries without the constraints of existing grade and step levels. Barnes attacked the proposal, saying it “would politicize the federal work force by allowing managers to reward political loyalists and penalize career federal employees.”
Access to confidential tax data by the government would be expanded greatly and information about the private insurance coverage of all Americans would be available to federal agencies, under a Reagan Administration proposal, which needs Congress’s approval. Under the proposal, the tax information would be used by the government to determine the eligibility of millions of people applying for such widely used federal programs as guaranteed student loans and veterans’ insurance. The access to private insurance records would allow federal agencies to make sure an individual was not eligible for privately financed insurance benefits before it paid a claim under such government programs as Medicare. The government does not now have the legal authority either to use tax information for such purposes or to gain access to private insurance files. The Office of Management and Budget said legislation authorizing such action would be sent to Congress this month or early next year.
President Reagan goes horseback riding at Camp David.
Retail gasoline prices dropped in early October, continuing a 14-week slide and outpacing the drop in wholesale prices for the first time since April, said Dan Lundberg, oil industry analyst in Los Angeles. An October 11 survey of 17,000 gasoline stations nationwide showed the average price for all grades of gasoline dipped to $1.20 a gallon, compared to $1.21 a gallon in the previous survey on September 20. Wholesale prices dropped an average of 0.84 cents, he said.
Rescuers searching for survivors of a mud slide that may have killed up to 500 people in Puerto Rico last week have concluded there is no hope of finding any, Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon said. The governor said efforts to find survivors in Mameyes, 45 miles southwest of San Juan, will stop, but that authorities will continue to search for bodies among the 275 homes that were buried under tons of clay, rocks and debris last Monday.
Specially trained dogs that had been searching for people and bodies buried in a mud slide last Monday near Ponce were taken to another site today to help search for bodies where a bridge collapsed in the same heavy rains. About six cars trying to cross the bridge, near Santa Isabel, plunged into the Coama River until the police blocked off the area.
Several scholars planned to withdraw from a conference on Islamic fundamentalism this week at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after learning the CIA was one of its sponsors. The CIA connection was disclosed Friday when A. Michael Spence, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences, issued a statement saying Professor Nadav Safran had failed to go through proper university channels by not reporting a $45,700 grant from the intelligence agency.
Workers plugged a leak in a derailed railroad car from which lethal ammonia gas had seeped since the day before, and authorities ended an evacuation that had forced 350 people from their homes in a sparsely populated area west of Lake City, Florida. Chemical experts pumped the anhydrous ammonia. from the tanker, which derailed along with 37 other cars of a 144-car Seaboard System Railroad train. Railroad spokesman Mark Sullivan said the accident probably was due to equipment failure. No injuries were reported.
Timmy and Lisa Ann Stamatis, adoptive parents of a 23-month-old girl with Down’s syndrome, plan to ask the Court of Appeals in Albany, New York, to overturn an August ruling by the Appellate Division of state Supreme Court that annulled the adoption consent given by the natural parents, Warren and Christine Kosher, and ordered the child returned. The Koshers surrendered their daughter for adoption November 11, 1983, five days after her birth. During court adoption proceedings, the Koshers decided they wanted their child. They said they hadn’t realized they had up to 30 days to change their minds from the time the adoption proceeding began.
Profits from New York’s homosexual bathhouses are still coming in despite the AIDS epidemic and the prospect of stringent regulation or closure. Attendance declines of 25 to 50 percent have been reported by owners, who said they would close if they were not making money. “I’ve gone through my own particular moral crisis with this,” said Bruce Mailman, a homosexual and a Lower East Side real-estate entrepreneur who owns the St. Marks Baths, as well as the Saint, a homosexual discotheque. “Am I profiting from other people’s misery? I don’t think so. I think I’m running an establishment that handles itself as well as it can under the circumstances.”
[Ed: How noble of you.]
A chartered bus carrying a church choir rammed a freight train at a railroad crossing near Bramwell, West Virginia, today, killing at least four people and injuring 26 of the 32 passengers, the authorities said. Trooper L.J. McCarty of the State Police said the age of the bus, 18 years old, and the absence of skid marks seemed to indicate that the bus’s brakes had failed before it slammed into the train at the bottom of a 1 ½-mile grade about 12:15 PM. The bus driver died shortly after the accident.
Only about one in five convicted felons said they obtained their guns through legitimate channels such as retail stores, according to a Justice Department study released today. A survey of some 1,874 felons in 11 institutions found that criminals much more frequently stole their guns or got them from relatives or friends, the department’s National Institute of Justice said. The study was conducted by the Social and Demographic Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts. The authors said that the felons in the survey were not representative of all criminals in the country.
Light snows fell in the mountains of Colorado and southeastern Wyoming and the cold front brought rain and fog to much of the Midwest, southeastern Texas, Louisiana and southern Florida. New England and eastern New York state had freezing rain along with unseasonably cool temperatures. Tropical Depression Isabel, with winds of up to 30 mph, triggered thunderstorms off the coast of North Carolina.
Country life has soured in small towns in the Middle West. As farmers struggle against a continuing economic crisis, rural towns appear to be losing people, and with them the taxes that they and their businesses paid. For the people left behind, the government services that have helped to nourish the country way of life are being eroded.
Physicists switched on the world’s largest atom-smasher today, producing energy levels three times higher than had previously been achieved and thrusting the United States to the forefront of high-energy physics, scientists said. Particle accelerators and storage rings at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, a complex 4 miles in diameter in Batavia, Ill., smashed subatomic particles called protons into counter-rotating particles called antiprotons, yielding energy of 1.6 trillion electron volts, officials at the laboratory said. The underground facility, known as Fermilab, is expected to make the United States the world leader in high-energy physics research, a position the nation lost in the mid-1970’s to a consortium of researchers from a dozen European countries.
“Sunday in the Park with George” closes at Booth NYC after 604 performances
American League Championship Series, Game Five:
A well-rested Danny Jackson pitched for Kansas City trying to stave off elimination in the ALCS. The Blue Jays sent in their own well-rested starter, Jimmy Key, to pitch with the goal of playing in the World Series for the first time in franchise history.
In the bottom of the first inning, Lonnie Smith doubled, stole third, and scored on a ground out by George Brett. In the second inning, Frank White reached first on a bunt, advanced to third on a Balboni single, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Darryl Motley.
Danny Jackson earned the victory. The Blue Jays scattered eight hits but couldn’t score a run. In the fourth inning, the Jays led off with back to back singles but were unable to score after George Bell was thrown out by Royals Left fielder Lonnie Smith after trying to go first to third on a single to left. In the fifth inning, the Blue Jays had runners on second and third with no outs and were again unable to do anything. In the sixth inning, they loaded the bases with two outs and again failed to score. Through the final three innings, no Toronto hitter was able to reach base. Jackson pitched a complete-game shutout to cut the Blue Jays lead to three games to two, sending the series back to Toronto.
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Kansas City Royals 2
National League Championship Series, Game Four:
The most important event of Game 4 occurred over two hours before the first pitch was thrown. Rainy conditions in St. Louis — combined with the stadium’s lack of a dome — mandated deployment of the protective tarpaulin. The tarp in Busch Stadium was automated and came out of the ground. Standing next to it was Cardinal rookie Vince Coleman, the catalyst in the Cardinals’ Game 3 win. Coleman was trapped under the tarp and several players had to lift the tarp so Coleman could escape. But the damage was done: Coleman suffered a broken ankle and would miss the rest of the 1985 postseason. The question entering the fourth game was whether the Cards could win with their catalyst on the bench. And the resounding answer from Game 4 was “No problem!”
The pitching matchup for this game was the Cardinals’ Tudor against Jerry Reuss for the Dodgers. In the first, both pitchers allowed no hits, and Tudor continued his mastery in the top half of the second. But the bottom of the second saw the floodgates open on Reuss. Three straight singles by Jack Clark, Tito Landrum (Coleman’s replacement) and César Cedeño gave the Cardinals a 1–0 lead. Back-up catcher Tom Nieto, starting his first game in the series, walked after a Pendleton ground out scored Cedeño. With the score 2–0 and runners at first and third, Tudor tried a squeeze play that worked beyond the Cardinals’ dreams. A throwing error by Reuss put the Cards up, 3–0, and sent Nieto to second with Tudor on first. McGee’s hit lined out to Mike Marshall in right, moving Nieto to third. With two outs, Ozzie Smith hit an infield single to the shortstop that scored Nieto, and when Herr followed with his own single, Reuss departed in a 5–0 hole.
Rick Honeycutt came in to put out the fire, but Clark’s single scored Smith. Cedeno’s walk loaded the bases, and an infield single by Landrum made it 7–0 with the bases still loaded. Pendleton then singled to score both Clark and Cedeño, and Tudor had a nine-run lead. Honeycutt was pulled in favor of Bobby Castillo, who struck out Tom Nieto to end the inning.
Next inning, Cesar Cedeno hit a leadoff double and scored on Tito Landrum’s single. Next inning, Willie McGee hit a leadoff double, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Tom Herr’s sacrifice fly. Madlock homered off Tudor in the seventh, the only run he permitted, but by that point the Dodgers were trailing 11–1. They got another run in the eighth when Len Matuszek hit a leadoff single off of Ricky Horton, moved to second on a groundout and scored on Pedro Guerrero’s single, but the Cardinals got that run back in the bottom half off of Carlos Diaz when Jack Clark singled with two outs and scored on Andy Van Slyke’s single. Bill Campbell retired the Dodgers in order in the ninth en route to a 12–2 Cardinals’ win that tied the series at two. Tudor went seven innings for the win while Castillo hung around until the ninth.
In past years, this would set the stage for the clinching Game 5, but the new format gave leeway to each team’s pitching arrangement.
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, St. Louis Cardinals 12
NFL Football:
New York quarterback Phil Simms couldn’t even manage a smile after passing for the second-highest yardage total in NFL history. Simms set three team records by completing 40 of 62 passes for a whopping 513 yards against Cincinnati’s beleaguered defense, but his third-quarter interception and fumble handed the Bengals a pair of easy touchdowns and a 35–30 victory. “It doesn’t mean much,” Simms said of amazing passing feats. “When we look at the game (films) tomorrow, all I’ll see is what I screwed up. We gave away too many opportunities to win this game.” The Bengals, 2–4, stunned the NFL’s top-ranked defense by rolling off 21 unanswered points to start the game behind the precise passing of Boomer Esiason. But the Giants, 3–3, used a pair of field goals by Jess Atkinson and a touchdown by the rookie kicker on a fake field-goal try to trim the lead to 21–20 late in the third quarter. Simms’ 513 yards passing trails only Norm Van Brocklin’s 554-yard effort for Los Angeles in 1951. But Simms fumbled and threw two interceptions.
“There isn’t any way you can be a Cinderella team forever,” said coach Bill Walsh, whose 49ers lost to the Bears, 26–10. “You saw it for yourselves. We’re now in a position in which we must be considered as a very average football team.” Defending Super Bowl champion San Francisco didn’t look that good against the unbeaten Bears, who led 16–0 before the second quarter was two minutes old. Joe Montana, an extraordinary rollout passer who is usually protected like the crown jewels, was sacked seven times, the most in his career, and he did not complete a pass for more than 17 yards. And more: Payton, who had a quiet 44 yards rushing in the first half while Jim McMahon led the Bears to a 16–10 lead, finished with 132 yards on 24 carries, his best game of the season. He also scored both of Chicago’s touchdowns, on runs of 3 and 17 yards. Then, perhaps, the final indignity: William Perry, the Bears’ 325-pound defensive lineman, carried the ball on the final two plays of the game, gaining 2 yards each time and giving new meaning to the phrase “eating up the clock.” The 49ers, who won the National Football League’s Super Bowl nine months ago, are 3–3 and fighting for survival in the NFC West, where they trail the 6–0 Los Angeles Rams by three games. “It’s a cruel world out there. We’ve got a lot to do,” said 49er tight end Russ Francis, whose first-quarter fumble set up Kevin Butler’s 38-yard field goal that gave Chicago a 13–0 lead. The Bears, who lost to San Francisco 23–0 in last January’s NFC title game, are 6–0 and lead the NFC Central by three games over Detroit, Green Bay and Minnesota.
The Eagles crushed the Cardinals, 30–7. Ron Jaworski, starting for the first time since he was replaced by a rookie after opening day, passed for three touchdowns as Philadelphia upset St. Louis. The Eagles (2–4) and Jaworski, who completed 18 of 28 passes for 243 yards, got help from Paul McFadden, who made field goals of 39, 21 and 52 yards. The Eagles held St. Louis (3–3) to 73 yards on the ground and forced the starting quarterback Neil Lomax from the game with three of their four sacks and two interceptions. The Eagles (2–4) took a 13–0 halftime lead with a first-period 39-yard field goal, a second-quarter 21-yarder by McFadden and Jaworski’s 10-yard scoring pass to John Spagnola.
LeRoy Irvin intercepted a Steve DeBerg pass and returned it 34 yards for a touchdown with 5 minutes 58 seconds remaining today to give the unbeaten Rams a 31–27 triumph over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Carl Ekern, the Ram linebacker, also picked off a DeBerg pass and ran it back 33 yards for a score in the third quarter as Los Angeles overcame four turnovers of its own to improve its record to 6–0. The Bucs (0–6) took a 27–24 lead with 13:13 to go when DeBerg threw his second touchdown pass of the day — a 13-yarder to Gerald Carter. Turnovers and penalties proved costly for Los Angeles in the first half. Tampa Bay built a 20–14 lead as James Wilder scored on a 1-yard run; DeBerg threw a 17-yard touchdown pass to Kevin House, and Donald Igwebuike kicked field goals of 34 and 49 yards.
Dave Krieg hit Paul Skansi with a 12-yard touchdown pass, his fourth of the day, as Seattle came from behind to beat the Falcons, 30–26. The Seahawks (4–2) trailed by 26–21 when they started on their 14 with 5:17 to go. They went 86 yards in 16 plays, all but one in the air, for the game-winning touchdown. Krieg also had scoring passes of 12 yards to Steve Largent, 32 yards to Charle Young and 24 yards to Byron Walker.
Tony Dorsett today became the sixth player in National Football League history to rush for 10,000 yards as the Dallas Cowboys beat the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27–13. Dorsett rushed for 113 yards on 21 carries for a career mark of 10,082 yards. He also caught a 56-yard scoring pass from Danny White. Dorsett joined Walter Payton, Jim Brown, Franco Harris, O. J. Simpson and John Riggins in the 10,000-yard club on a 19-yard run with 6:16 left in the third period. Dorsett’s touchdown catch erased a 3–0 deficit in the second quarter. Dallas led by 10–3 at halftime as Rafael Septien made a 38-yard field goal with 5 seconds left. Septien’s 39-yard field goal and Eugene Lockhart’s 19-yard interception return for a touchdown gave Dallas (5–1) a 20–3 lead in the third period.
The Raiders downed the Saints, 23–13. Marcus Allen ran for two touchdowns to give Los Angeles an early lead as the Raiders went on to defeat New Orleans. It took Los Angeles (4–2) only two plays to break a scoreless tie after Lyle Alzado forced a fumble by the Earl Campbell at the 40-yard line of the Saints. On the first play, the rookie quarterback Rusty Hilger, who had temporarily replaced Marc Wilson, fired a 29-yard completion. Allen then scored on an 11-yard run with 1:36 remaining in the first quarter. Los Angeles made it 14–0 at 1:57 of the second quarter on an 8-yard run by Allen after Fulton Walker’s 26-yard punt return gave them excellent field position.
Mark Herrmann threw two touchdown passes as San Diego defeated Kansas City, 31–20. Herrmann’s second touchdown pass covered 10 yards in the fourth period. Herrmann hit all six of his passes in the go-ahead drive for 71 yards and finished the day with 26 completions in 36 attempts for 320 yards. San Diego (3–3) added an insurance score with 6:17 remaining on Tim Spencer’s 1-yard run. Wayne Davis ended a late scoring threat by the Chiefs (3–3) when he picked off a pass from Bill Kenney in the end zone with 3:45 remaining. With San Diego trailing 10–0, Herrmann tossed a 39-yard scoring strike to Charlie Joiner midway through the second period. Herrmann then engineered a 9-play, 89-yard march capped by Gary Anderson’s 6-yard touchdown run.
The Packers edged the Vikings, 20–17. Al Del Greco made two fourth-quarter field goals, the second with only 7 seconds left, to lift Green Bay. Del Greco’s 22-yard kick capped a 66-yard drive that started with less than 1:30 to play. The big play came on a 26-yard pass from Lynn Dickey to James Lofton at the Minnesota 10. Minnesota’s Jan Stenerud made an 18-yard field goal with 1:24 left in the game after the Vikings (3–3) failed to score on three plays from inside the Green Bay 5.
Steve Grogan, playing quarterback for the first time in more than a year, pased 16 yards to Irving Fryar for a touchdown in the third quarter to lead New England past Buffalo, 14–3. Grogan, who replaced Tony Eason late in the second period, completed of 15 of 19 passes for 282 yards. It was his first game at quarterback since September 16, 1984, when Eason took the job from him. Eason suffered a separated left shoulder after being sacked on three consecutive plays midway through the second period. The teams had combined for just 125 offensive yards before Grogan hooked up with Fryar for a 56-yard gain on the last play of the first half. The pair then teamed up for the game’s only offensive touchdown on an 80-yard drive on the first series of the second half. The Patriots (3–3) sealed the game and sent Buffalo to its sixth loss of the season when Raymond Clayborn returned an interception of a Vince Ferragamo pass for a touchdown midway through the fourth period.
John Elway, forced to scramble by an aggressive Indianapolis defense, rushed for a career-high 51 yards to help Denver beat the Colts, 15–10. Elway, averaging nearly 280 yards a game passing, managed to complete 17 of 36 passes for 239 yards and set up a Denver touchdown with a 45-yard pass completion. He also kept two scoring drives going with runs of 22 and 15 yards in the third quarter. Rich Karlis, who missed an extra point after Sammy Winder’s 2-yard touchdown, gave the Broncos (4–2) a 9–3 halftime lead with a 32-yard field goal and added two more field goals in the second half. Raul Allegre made a 28-yard field goal in the second quarter for the Colts (2–4) and Mike Pagel found Matt Bouza in the end zone for a 19-yard touchdown.
Bernie Kosar, starting his first regular-season game, and Clarence Weathers collaborated on a a 68-yard touchdown pass play to spur Cleveland past Houston, 21–6. The Browns (4–2) struggled in the first half as Kosar completed only 3 of 12 passes. But on his first pass attempt of the third quarter, Kosar retreated into the pocket on third and 9 and threw a strike to Weathers. On Cleveland’s next drive, Weathers’ 21-yard reception to the Oiler 6 set up a touchdown run by Kevin Mack Kosar, who completed 8 of 19 passes for 208 yards, hit Weathers for a 57-yard pass play to the Oiler 30 to set up a 5-yard touchdown run by Earnest Byner with 6:37 to play.
The Redskins buried the Lions, 24–3. John Riggins scored three times and ran for 114 yards to power Washington past Detroit. Riggins scored on runs of 1 and 21 yards in the first half to join Jim Brown as the only players to rush for 100 touchdowns. After spotting the Lions (3–3) an early 3–0 lead on Ed Murray’s 33-yard field goal midway through the first quarter, the Redskins (3–3) roared back with 17 unaswered points before the half.
New York Giants 30, Cincinnati Bengals 35
Chicago Bears 26, San Francisco 49ers 10
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Philadelphia Eagles 30
Los Angeles Rams 31, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 27
Atlanta Falcons 26, Seattle Seahawks 30
Pittsburgh Steelers 13, Dallas Cowboys 27
New Orleans Saints 13, Los Angeles Raiders 23
Kansas City Chiefs 20, San Diego Chargers 31
Minnesota Vikings 17, Green Bay Packers 20
Buffalo Bills 3, New England Patriots 14
Denver Broncos 15, Indianapolis Colts 10
Cleveland Browns 21, Houston Oilers 6
Detroit Lions 3, Washington Redskins 24
Born:
Brian Hoyer, NFL quarterback (New England Patriots, Arizona Cardinals, Celveland Browns, Houston Texans, Chicago Bears, San Francisco 49ers, Indianapolis Colts, Las Vegas Raiders), in North Olmsted, Ohio.
Will Franklin, NFL wide receiver (Kansas City Chiefs), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Andrej Meszároš, Slovak NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Philadelphia Flyers, Boston Bruins, Buffalo Sabres), in Povazska Bystrica, Czechoslovakia.
Died:
Francesca Bertini, 93, Italian actress (“Odette”; “Assunta Spina”).
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