Parts of Moscow’s arms plan could possibly provide a basis for eventual progress, a senior American official said in a briefing for reporters as Secretary of State George P. Shultz concluded his strategy talks for his meetings in Moscow Monday and Tuesday. The official said that although the United States had rejected last month’s Soviet proposals as a whole, it saw “seeds” or “nuggets” in four ideas introduced by the Russians. He said it was now decided that they needed to be “nurtured.”
The Soviet media have so far failed to publish President Reagan’s interview with four Soviet journalists. The session, the first by Soviet reporters with an American President since John F. Kennedy was interviewed in 1961, was expected to be printed in Sunday’s editions of Izvestia, but no word of it appeared in any Soviet outlet. Soviet editors were reluctant to say why it was not reported, but one suggested that the official media were not sure how to handle Reagan’s comments. A transcript of the interview will be released after publication in the Soviet press, the White House has said.
In an effort to increase the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union and improve Soviet treatment of dissidents, American officials have formulated a carefully calibrated strategy for President Reagan to use in his Geneva meeting with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. According to officials involved in the planning, the President will avoid angry accusations and public declarations. He does not intend to present Mr. Gorbachev with a list of cases, although he is expected to mention several prominent dissidents during the talks. Instead, Mr. Reagan is being advised to dwell on the importance of observing international agreements — specifically, the 1975 Helsinki accords, which contain provisions on family reunification and the free flow of information -to reassure the American public and Congress that the Soviet Union would adhere to an arms control treaty if a new one is negotiated.
Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army, today characterized the negotiations between the British and Irish Governments on Northern Ireland as an effort “to put a diplomatic veneer on British rule” and to make it more stable in the long term. The outcry by Unionists, who want the talks stopped, will be used by both Governments, he told his party’s annual conference at the Mansion House in Dublin, to “exaggerate the substance of whatever concessions are produced.” The Unionists want Northern Ireland to remain a part of Britain. The agreement, still not reached but considered possible in the next few weeks, is expected to give the Dublin Government an advisory role in affairs north of the border. Sinn Fein leaders said this weekend that, while they welcomed anything that would improve life for nationalists in the north, they rejected any settlement that would fortify the political status quo.
Lech Walesa, the founder of Solidarity, and 76 leading Polish intellectuals appealed today for the release of political prisoners and sought the support of Pope John Paul II and the United Nations Human Rights Commission. Their petition, distributed for signature in churches around Poland, marked the start of a week of action called by the banned labor union on behalf of almost 400 political prisoners. Mr. Walesa and senior Solidarity activists also issued a statement deploring the death Saturday of a student named Marcin Antonowicz, hospitalized in a coma on October 19 after being detained by the police in the northern town of Olsztyn.
The national action for political prisoners was called to coincide with the first meeting on Wednesday of the Polish Parliament elected last month.
The appeal addressed to John Paul also went to the Polish Council of State and Poland’s Roman Catholic Primate, Jozef Cardinal Glemp. It urged that “all prisoners of conscience should be released from Polish prisons and allowed to return to a normal life.”
A theater in Frankfurt, West Germany, decided to postpone until November 13 a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder that Jewish groups denounced as anti-Semitic. Director Guenther Ruehle said an attempt to stage the play today was canceled for fear that demonstrations could become violent. Members of Frankfurt’s Jewish community stormed the stage last Thursday and prevented what would have been the premiere of “Rubbish, the City and Death.”
A Lebanese woman on a donkey laden with explosives was shot and wounded as she rode toward a barracks of the pro-Israeli South Lebanon Army, security sources said. Militiamen fired at the woman when she ignored orders to halt near the barracks at Aramta, six miles south of Jezzine. Militiamen found explosive devices on the donkey and believe the woman may have been planning a suicide attack on the barracks.
A covert plan aimed at weakening the regime of the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, has been approved by President Reagan, according to Congressional sources and Administration officials. An Administration official said today that disclosure of the plan today would not necessarily derail it. “We went ahead with the world’s most open covert operation against Nicaragua,” the official said. “I would not assume that the opponents of this can kill it with leaks.” The official said disclosure was damaging, but added, “Qaddafi probably already assumes we’re doing this.” An account of the Central Intelligence Agency operation appeared in today’s issue of The Washington Post. Congressional sources said members of the House Intelligence Committee had questioned the plan, which was said to call for the C.I.A. to help countries opposing Colonel Qaddafi. It could not be learned whether the agency had begun to carry out the operation or which countries were expected to cooperate.
Thousands of Iranian students held a noisy demonstration in front of the old American Embassy compound today on the eve of the anniversary of the takeover of the embassy in 1979. Many demonstrators swore they would never tolerate the return of American diplomats to Tehran. The students burned mock United States flags — skulls and stripes trampled with boot marks. They chanted the slogan “Death to America!” and listened to speakers from a building on the edge of the huge park-like compound. “The three million war volunteers and their families would have to die before we allow Americans back here,” said the protest organizer, Mostafa aqadossi, a 26-year-old chemistry student who said he had fought on the war front with Iraq six times.
A Soviet soldier who ran into the United States Embassy in Kabul on Thursday and has remained there met with the Soviet Ambassador to Afghanistan and will see him again on Monday, United States officials said. The 19-year-old soldier, who had refused repeated requests for a meeting with the Soviet envoy, changed his mind, the officials said. They added that the soldier, identified only as a 19-year-old private, has “asked for more time to think over any decision he may take.”
The young Soviet soldier taking refuge in the United States Embassy in Kabul has turned international attention on one of America’s most isolated diplomatic outposts. While Kabul itself is removed from the fierce fighting in the countryside between Afghan guerrillas and Afghan Government forces backed by Soviet troops, the Soviet Army’s drive into Afghanistan in 1979 made the city a largely inhospitable place for Americans to live or work. According to the State Department, there are only a handful of American citizens in Kabul beyond the total of 20 diplomatic personnel and Marine guards assigned to the embassy. Indeed, the State Department has been under pressure from some in Congress to close down American operations there, but department officials say they have resisted because they consider the embassy valuable for both symbolic and strategic reasons.
Pakistan freed opposition figure Benazir Bhutto from house arrest and placed her aboard a plane bound for Zurich, Switzerland. She told supporters along her route to the airport that she will return “to serve my people.” Bhutto was released after asking permission to answer a summons to appear November 6 before a French court investigating the death of her younger brother, Shahnawaz. His body was found in his Cannes, France, apartment July 19. French authorities have not said how he died. Benazir Bhutto was put under house arrest when she returned to Pakistan for her brother’s funeral.
Fourteen students seized the office of the American Chamber of Commerce in Seoul, South Korea, and held three people to protest “U.S. economic aggression,” a spokesman for the group said. About 150 riot policemen stood by outside the building as negotiators tried to talk the students into calling off their occupation and dispersing. The students were identified as being from Seoul National University and six other schools. It was not known if they were armed.
Early elections in the Philippines will be held, President Ferdinand E. Marcos announced. He said that he intended to call for a presidential election in January to settle what he called a “silly claim” that his Government is inept. His announcement in an American television interview followed pressure from Washington for changes in his country’s policies, and seemed to reverse earlier assertions that he planned to serve out his six-year term, which ends in 1987, without an election. After the interview on the ABC program “This Week,” he told reporters he would like to begin the campaign in December and hold the vote on January 17.
Two French secret agents pleaded guilty at their trial in Auckland, New Zealand, to manslaughter in the July 10 sinking of the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpace environmental group, in which a Greenpeace photographer was killed. The surprising move came as New Zealand’s Solicitor General, Paul Neazor, intervened and dropped the murder charges against Major Alain Mafart, 34 years old, and Captain Dominique Prieur, 36. Mr. Mafart and Miss Prieur, both identified in court as French Army officers, were then asked to plead to the reduced charges of manslaughter and arson. They both stood in the dock and said, “Guilty.”
The killers of 21 Mexican policemen were sought by the police and soldiers. Drug smugglers are believed to have slain the policemen when they found a cache of marijuana. Reports reaching the capital from the area along the border between the states of Veracruz and Oaxaca said the ambush occurred before dawn Friday. Mexican officials said some of the policemen were captured by the smugglers, taken to a nearby farm and tortured and killed. High-level Mexican officials who are supervising Mexico’s efforts to combat drug smuggling directed the search from the town of Minatitlan on the Gulf of Mexico coast, which is about 60 miles from the area of the killings.
A total of 181 people were killed last month in fighting in El Salvador, adding to the approximately 55,000 previously killed in six years of civil war, the armed forces announced today. Fighting between the United States-backed Salvadoran Army and leftist guerrillas last month killed or wounded 694 combatants on both sides, the armed forces said.
A national election in Guatemala brought out voters in large numbers hoping that the new government would be free of military influence. The Christian Democratic candidate for President, Marco Vinicio Cerezo Arevalo, appeared to be running ahead, but election officials doubted any presidential candidate would win the required majority, making a runoff election likely. They said results should be known by Tuesday.
Nicaragua’s rebel leaders are divided by politically damaging disagreements over the objects and tactics of the rebel movement, according to rebel and American officials and Congressional sources. Despite new civilian directors, renewed American financing and advice from the Central Intelligence Agency, the guerrillas have not begun to make the political impact in Nicaragua or abroad that rebel and American officials say they had hoped for.
President Alfonsín’s Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections. For the first time in 20 years and the only time under a state of siege, Argentines voted today in midterm Congressional elections. The election was seen as a test of President Raul Alfonsin’s strength and of support for his four-and-a-half-month-old economic program, according to politicians and political analysts. The austerity measures have reduced inflation sharply, but have pushed unemployment to decade-high levels and seriously eroded wages. The election took place on the kind of warm and clear day that Argentines used to call a Peronist day because of the late President Juan Domingo Perón’s good luck with the weather.
Jailed South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela underwent successful prostate surgery at a Cape Town hospital and is in stable condition, his doctors said. The South African Department of Prisons issued a statement saying that Mandela’s inflamed prostate gland was removed and that no complications are expected. Mandela, 67, is serving a life sentence for treason and sabotage. Campaigners for his freedom have charged that he has not been receiving adequate medical care.
Some federal scientists are selling their research on President Reagan’s proposed Strategic Defense Initiative with the encouragement of the Reagan Administation. Hundreds of their colleagues are expected to do the same. White House officials strongly defend the practice, which is permitted under law and has grown rapidly since Mr. Reagan took office. The officials say the public interest is best served when federal scientists can commercialize aspects of their work. This is particularly true, they say, of research on the Strategic Defense Initiative, known popularly as “Star Wars.”
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
President Reagan speaks with former President Gerald Ford about the arms negotiations.
The chairman of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission said he expects President Reagan to adopt a new executive order on hiring that abolishes preferential treatment for women and minorities. “I think it’s going to be clear that there’s going to be an order signed where there won’t be any preferential treatment and where statistical imbalance in the work force will not trigger a finding of discrimination,” commission Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. said on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation.”
Nearly one in four Americans drives a vehicle with altered pollution-control devices, and one in six drivers pumps leaded gasoline into vehicles designed for unleaded fuel only, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Results of an EPA survey of 1975-84 cars and light trucks being driven in 14 cities showed obvious tampering with emission controls in 22% of the 4,426 vehicles. The EPA classified another 29% as “arguably tampered,” meaning that inspectors could not determine whether damage was inflicted intentionally, and 4% as “malfunctioning.” Fourteen percent were fueled with leaded gasoline instead of the required unleaded fuel.
A fugitive fruit fly named Willie overshadowed the experiments aboard the space shuttle Challenger today, but West German officials said the research mission had its most successful day yet. For the first time since the liftoff last Wednesday, there had been no significant problems in the space laboratory, according to Hauke Dodeck, the deputy mission chief at the science control center near Munich. German scientists wanted to have the mission lengthened by a day to give the astronauts more research time, but the flight director said that might not be possible. Landing is scheduled for Wednesday at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
Kidneys for transplants are in such great demand that some have been sold for more than $13,000, or more than seven times their weight in gold, the Pittsburgh Press reported. Last year, while almost 10,000 Americans underwent regular dialysis while waiting for transplants, at least 300 kidneys gathered in the United States were sent abroad, the newspaper said. The U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees the kidney-sale system, could not explain why the organs were sent abroad while Americans wait for transplants, the report said.
A Bates College junior was being held in Lewiston, Maine, on a charge of attempted murder in the shooting of a dean with whom he had dealt in a disciplinary matter, authorities said. Cain M. Rollins, 20, of Peekskill, New York, was expected to be arraigned early this week. Dean James W. Carignan, 47, was released from a hospital last Saturday. He was shot in the back October 21 by a sniper who fired through his kitchen window.
A United Auto Workers leader said the latest contract offer from General Dynamics Corp. was turned down because the company is holding employees hostage in the strike against Army tank plants in Michigan, Ohio and Pennsylvania. James Coakley, president of Local 1200 in Detroit, said the rejection of the proposal Saturday was due to lack of an amnesty clause for nine workers fired for strike activities and about 100 others facing disciplinary actions. “We won’t consider this while General Dynamics holds our people hostage,” Coakley said. The walkout, which began Sept. 18, involves almost 5,000 employees.
Pro-Israel political action committees gave more money to Republicans than to Democrats during the first six months of this year, a sharp break from past patterns, and one that has triggered a debate among Jews about the costs and benefits of single-issue politics, the Washington Post reported. At issue is whether support of Israel should be the sole criterion for awarding “Jewish money,” with the majority of pro-Israel PACS reportedly taking that position.
A review of seismic data challenges the scientific basis of accusations by the Reagan Administration that Soviet underground nuclear tests may have violated the Threshold Test Ban Treaty of 1974. The review was made by a panel of scientists chosen by the Defense Department. The Administration has said the test explosions were “likely” to have been bigger than the legal limit. The panel of eight scientists made its recommendation last month in a classified report to a Pentagon research agency and to Richard L. Wagner Jr., the assistant Defense Secretary for atomic energy. If the group’s recommendation is followed, the Government’s estimates of the yield of Soviet tests would be lowered by about 20 percent, according to experts familiar with the report. An Administration official said the panel’s report would lead to a reassessment of whether the Russians had violated the treaty.
A recovery team that included Government investigators this morning brought out the first five bodies to be recovered from the Wilberg coal mine fire, which killed 27 miners last December. The recovery brought a sense of wearied relief to the victims’ families and to members of the coal mining community here in central Utah. They had waited for the bodies to be recovered since just before Christmas last year, when hope was abandoned that trapped miners could be rescued. The recovery had been delayed until now by the difficulty of containing the mine fire, which continues to smolder although the mine has been sealed off from fresh air.
The California Supreme Court has entered the tangled legal case of Mayor Roger Hedgecock of San Diego, postponing a Monday hearing at which the trial judge was to decide if the Mayor wins a new trial on campaign law violations. The issue before the state’s highest court centers on Judge William L. Todd Jr. of Superior Court. Mr. Hedgecock wants Judge Todd to disqualify himself from conducting a hearing into possible jury tampering, but the judge has refused, saying there was no “legal basis” to step down.
An explosion and fire at a Marion, South Dakota grain elevator blew open a 100-foot concrete silo with a column of flame, fatally injured three people and threatened the community’s economic base. Four other people were injured in the blast Saturday night. The storage elevator is a vital part of local agriculture and “if it doesn’t get restructured, there will be a whole lot of hurt,” said Duane Tieszen, Mayor of this town of 830 people.Investigators had not determined the cause of the explosion. Grain dust suspended in air can explode if ignited.
Rules requiring certain hospitals to offer free care to the poor would be eliminated under a change proposed by the Reagan Administration. Officials say the change would eliminate unnecessary administrative burdens imposed on publicly owned and operated facilities.
The tailored suit’s effectiveness in helping women up the corporate ladder is being questioned. One problem: Everybody is wearing a suit because suits are in fashion.
Frigid weather chilled the nation’s midsection, with some temperature readings in the teens, and frost warnings were posted as far south as Texas. Overnight temperatures were mainly in the 30s and 40s, and readings dropped to the 20s in parts of Nebraska and the upper Mississippi Valley. It was 14 degrees in Gunnison, Colorado, the nation’s coldest spot. Temperatures dropped into the 40s in southern Texas, where a frost warning was issued for the hill country.
Bill Elliott wins Atlanta Journal 500 at Atlanta Raceway to become first driver to win 11 super-speedway races in 1 season; also first driver to win $2m in prize money in a single season.
French McLaren driver Alain Prost wins his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship, finishing 4th in the Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 20 points from Italian Michele Alboreto.
NFL Football:
Cornerback Terry Taylor scored on a a 75-yard pass interception and blocked a field- goal attempt that his teammate, Byron Walker, returned 56 yards for another score as Seattle routed Los Angeles, 33–3. Dave Krieg teamed with Curt Warner for a 27-yard score in the second quarter and threw a 38-yard touchdown pass to Daryl Turner in the third quarter as Seattle (5–4) scored 23 points in the second quarter.
The Houston Oilers edged the Chiefs, 23–20. Tony Zendejas kicked a 38-yard field goal with 14 seconds to play to give Houston a share of the A.F.C. Central lead. The Oilers (4–5), who led by 20–6 going into the fourth quarter, got their chance at victory by driving 57 yards in the final two minutes. The quarterback Warren Moon hit Jamie Williams with a key third-down pass and a holding penalty against Kansas City’s Albert Lewis kept the drive alive. Moon then hit Tim Smith with a 24-yard pass to set up Zendejas’s winning kick. The Oilers took a 6–3 halftime lead on Moon’s 17-yard pass to Drew Hill and built it into a 20–6 margin on Moon’s 3-yard touchdown pass to Chris Dressel and a 3-yard scoring run by Butch Woolfolk. But Bill Kenney rallied the Chiefs (3–6) to a 20–20 deadlock with 4:34 to play on touchdown passes of 6 yards to Herman Heard with 13:40 to play and 18 yards to Stephone Paige with 4:34 to go.
Instead of watching the Giants’ game on television today, Eric Schubert played in it. It was a good thing for the Giants because the 5-foot-7-inch kicker they signed two days ago made five field goals in leading them to a shaky 22–20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. This was supposed to be a comparatively easy day for the Giants. They had won two straight games and were favored by 12 points. They were a winning team, while the Bucs were the only National Football League team without a victory. But the Giants’ offense struggled in the so-called red zone, the area inside the opposition’s 20-yard line. Still, the Giants scored on five straight possesions from the second, third and fourth quarters, four of those scores coming on Schubert’s field goals. Schubert, from nearby Wanaque, New Jersey, tried five field goals and made them all — from 24, 36, 24, 41, and 33 yards. In four years at the University of Pittsburgh and part of the 1984 season with the Pittsburgh Maulers of the United States Football League, he never even tried five field goals in one game.
Dan Fouts threw two touchdown passes to Wes Chandler, and Gary Anderson rushed for one score as San Diego defeated Denver, 30-10. Anderson, who joined San Diego from the United States Football League five weeks ago, scored on a 16-yard run that gave the Chargers (4-5) a 24-3 lead with 3:16 remaining in the third period. Down by 17-3, Denver (6-3) appeared ready to get back in the game midway through the third period as its quarterback, John Elway, drove the Broncos to the San Diego 13. But Gerald Willhite fumbled into the end zone after catching an Elway pass and the rookie San Diego defensive back, Wayne Davis, pounced on the ball for a touchback.
With a superb first half of error-free football that saw them grab a 35–3 lead over the Colts, the New York Jets began the second half of the season today by producing a 35–17 victory that gave them the finest record in the American Football Conference. They have not had a 7–2 start since 1969. Along the way to that mark today, they chased still another quarterback to the sidelines after he proved ineffective against them. This time it was Mike Pagel, who entered the game having been sacked only nine times all season, no more than three times in a game and not at all the last time the teams met. But by the time the Jets were through with him, he was tackled four times and replaced by Matt Kofler, who was sacked twice more. It was an imposing showing by the Jets, a commanding performance watched with admiration by their former coach, Charley Winner, who now does the advance scouting for the Miami Dolphins — next Sunday’s opponent. The Jets were led by the usual Sunday heroes — Ken O’Brien and Freeman McNeil, Joe Klecko and Lance Mehl and Mark Gastineau — and an unlikely new one, cornerback Kerry Glenn. O’Brien tossed for three touchdowns while completing 16 of 25 passes for 164 yards. He was not intercepted, although a recent failing of not finding his receivers — and forcing his offensive line to hold its blocks too long — led to a sack and a fumble. And McNeil, the league’s leading rusher, added 149 yards on 26 carries, an average of 5.7 yards a carry.
Gary Anderson kicked a 25-yard field goal with 9 seconds to play today as the Pittsburgh Steelers edged Cleveland, 10–9, in a driving rain. The Browns (4–5), who fell into a tie with the Steelers (4–5) for the American Conference Central Division lead, have not won in Pittsburgh since Three Rivers Stadium was opened in 1970. The Browns were apparently about to end the jinx when Matt Bahr’s 30-yard field goal — his third of the day — gave them a 9–7 lead with 4 minutes 1 second to play. But a pass interference call on Browns’ cornerback Frank Minnifield on Pittsburgh’s final drive helped quarterback David Woodley mount the Steelers’ only sustained push of the day. With both the Steelers’ and Browns’ offenses sputtering in the rain, Pittsburgh turned a key mistake by Cleveland’s rookie quarterback Bernie Kosar into a Walter Abercrombie touchdown that gave them a 7–6 lead. With the Browns facing a third-and-4 at their 25, Kosar complained three times to the officials that his signals could not be heard. As Kosar stood with hand on hip, apparently about to complain again about the noise, the center Mike Baab suddenly snapped the ball to him and a rattled Kosar was dumped for a 12-yard loss.
Keith Griffin ran for 164 yards and a pair touchdowns and George Rogers had 124 yards rushing and a touchdown as Washington crushed Atlanta, 44–10. Atlanta (1–8) opened the scoring in the game on Mick Luckhurst’s 28-yard field goal, but the Redskins (5–4) gained a tie on the first of three Mark Moseley field goals. Washington then got touchdowns from Griffin, Rogers, Joe Theisman on a bootleg and Art Monk on a 34-yard reception to take a 31–6 halftime lead.
Boomer Esiason threw two touchdowns and Larry Kinnebrew rumbled for another as Cincinnati rallied to beat Buffalo, 23–17. Esiason threw a 68-yard scoring pass to the rookie Eddie Brown and a 22-yard touchdown to the tight end M. L. Harris. Aside from Esiason’s 11 completions in 21 attempts for 193 passing yards, the Bengals (4–5) also got 128 rushing yards from Kinnebrew and a 31-yard field goal by Jim Breech in handing Buffalo its eighth loss against one victory.
A little imagination, a lot of solid running and exceptional pass defense when it mattered most enabled the New England Patriots to overcome an otherwise sloppy performance today and beat the Miami Dolphins, 17–13. The victory had a profound effect on the standing in the Eastern Division of the American Football Conference, which now has a distinctly different look. The Patriots improved their record to 6–3, one game behind the Jets, who defeated the Indianapolis Colts. The Dolphins, the defending conference champions, dropped to 5–4. A year ago, they were 9–0. After taking a 10–0 in the first 23 minutes of the game, the Dolphins managed only another field goal. Marino had a particularly bad game, completing only 15 of 35 passes for 171 yards with no touchdowns and two interceptions. The Patriots, meanwhile, scored two touchdowns within a 9-minute span of the fourth quarter to hand the Dolphins their third defeat in four games. The Patriots’ first touchdown drive covered 80 yards and ended with the kind of play that is becoming rather chic in the National Football League. With a fourth down at the Miami 28-yard line, needing a yard for a first down, Coach Raymond Berry sent in Steve Moore, a 295-pound offensive lineman, to line up to the left of Mosi Tatupu in the backfield. After the snap, Moore led Tatupu into the line, but just before he got there with the ball, Tatupu pitched it back to Steve Grogan, who threw it to Greg Hawthorne, who caught it at the 5 and ran it in for a touchdown. That cut the Dolphins’ lead to 13–10, and triggered comparisons between Moore, who is usually the starting right tackle, and William (The Refrigerator) Perry, the Chicago Bears’ defensive lineman who has run for one touchdown and caught a pass for another. Moore, incidentally, is known as House.
Walter Payton rushed for 192 yards, including a key 27-yard, fourth-quarter touchdown today, as the Chicago Bears remained undefeated by beating the Green Bay Packers, 16–10. Payton’s touchdown run followed a sack of Jim Zorn, the Green Bay quarterback who started in place of Lynn Dickey, that resulted in a safety and a short free kick by the Packer punter Joe Prokop. The game, a rematch of National Football Conference Central Division rivals, was a defensive struggle that saw a fired-up Packers squad battle to overcome a thin defensive secondary weakened by injuries. The game also featured the first National Football League touchdown catch by the Bears’ all-purpose, 300-pound rookie William (Refrigerator) Perry. The defensive lineman, who ran for a touchdown against the Packers earlier in the season, gathered in a Jim McMahon pass in the second quarter to give Chicago (9-0) its first lead of a game marked by penalties and scuffles. The Packers (3–6) entered the final quarter with a 10–7 lead thanks to a 55-yard touchdown by Jessie Clark, who hauled in Zorn’s first touchdown pass in a Green Bay uniform. The Bears took a 7–3 halftime lead at an unfriendly Lambeau Field by going to the Packers’ nemesis, Perry, on a 4-yard touchdown pass with 25 seconds remaining in the second quarter. With Green Bay lined up in a goal-line defense on a second-and-goal situation on the 4, Perry lined up in the left slot and went in motion to the right. He was unguarded in the end zone and caught the pass from McMahon to cap a 65-yard drive that featured the steady running of Payton.
Jan Stenerud kicked three field goals, including a 28-yarder as time expired to lift the Minnesota Vikings to a 16–10 win over the Detroit Lions. Minnesota had taken a 13–3 lead 5:37 into the third quarter when Ted Brown scored from the 1-yard line. But Detroit came right back on a 1-yard touchdown by the reserve quarterback Joe Ferguson, who relieved a shaken up Eric Hipple, and a Jim Murray field goal with 11:46 left.
Matt Cavanaugh filled in for the injured Joe Montana and threw a touchdown pass to Jerry Rice as San Francisco beat Philadelphia, 24–13. Rice, taken out of the 49ers’ starting lineup two weeks ago because of some dropped passes, caught a 14-yard strike from Cavanaugh in the second period and gained 41 yards on a reception in the third quarter on a drive that ended with Ray Wersching’s 36-yard field goal.
The Los Angeles Rams downed the New Orleans Saints, 28–10. Dieter Brock passed for 256 yards and a pair of touchdowns as Los Angeles Rams bounced back from its first loss of the season. The Rams defense sacked the Saints’ quarterback Dave Wilson nine times.
Los Angeles Raiders 3, Seattle Seahawks 33
Kansas City Chiefs 20, Houston Oilers 23
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20, New York Giants 22
Denver Broncos 10, San Diego Chargers 30
New York Jets 35, Indianapolis Colts 17
Cleveland Browns 9, Pittsburgh Steelers 10
Washington Redskins 44, Atlanta Falcons 10
Cincinnati Bengals 23, Buffalo Bills 17
Miami Dolphins 13, New England Patriots 17
Chicago Bears 16, Green Bay Packers 10
Detroit Lions 13, Minnesota Vikings 16
Philadelphia Eagles 13, San Francisco 49ers 24
New Orleans Saints 10, Los Angeles Rams 28
Born:
Brian Hernandez Jr., American jockey (Breeders’ Cup Classic 2012; Kentucky Derby 2024; U.S. Champion Apprentice Jockey 2004), in Lafayette, Louisiana.
DeMario Pressley, NFL defensive tackle (NFL champions, Super Bowl 44-Saints, 2009; New Orleans Saints, Carolina Panthers), in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Rob Jackson, NFL defensive end (Washington Redskins), in New Haven, Connecticut).
Tyler Hansbrough, NBA power forward (Indiana Pacers, Toronto Raptors, Charlotte Hornets), in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
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