Numerical simulations of the storm have indicated the Fitzgerald perished in 25 ft. seas amid 50+ mph sustained winds with likely gusts of 80-85 mph. Modeling indicates the conditions present in the November 10th storm could, in rare cases, produce rogue waves topping 40 feet.
A summary of the disaster from the National Weather Service-Marquette, Michigan office notes that of the 6,000 ships which have sunk on the Great Lakes, the Edmund Fitzgerald was the largest — 729 feet in length. The disaster was memorialized by the late Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot’s “Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. (Photo by Robert Campbell, May 1975)
On the eve of a vote by the General Assembly of the United Nations on a draft resolution that has termed Zionism “a form of racism and racial discrimination,” leaders of American-Jewish organizations told United Nations officials and delegates that approval may provide a pretext for some countries to impose restrictions on Jews. Efforts by some United Nations delegates to avoid a vote apparently failed.
Governments that vote for a U.N. resolution equating Zionism with racism should understand it could mean the loss of U.S. aid, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) told a rally on the Boston Common. “When they call the roll in the United Nations we Americans will be watching,” he warned. The General Assembly is due to vote today on an Arab-backed and committee-approved resolution equating Zionism with racism.
News of the mutiny on the frigate Storozhevoy reached the KGB, and Vice Admiral Anatoly Kosov ordered the Soviet Baltic Fleet to locate, chase and intercept the ship as it sped away from the U.S.S.R.
A Soviet dancer on a visit to Britain has asked permission to stay, a Home Office spokesman said in London. The spokesman would not name the man, but he was commenting on a report in the Daily Mail that he was Syren Arutunian, 25, a member of an Armenian dance troupe. The newspaper said the dancer first went to the U.S. Embassy and was told he should first get in touch with British officials.
As Prime Minister Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo of Portugal denounced growing anarchy in the country and a lack of discipline in the armed forces, a rally in Lisbon, called by Socialists and Popular Democrats in support of his government, was broken up by tear-gas bombs and gunfire. Panic followed as people tried to flee. It was estimated that 30,000 to 40,000 people had crowded into Government Square, many waving red Socialist flags and orange banners of the Popular Democrats, chanting “socialism yes, dictatorship, no.”
As Spain announced that it would not fight for the Western Sahara, Morocco’s King Hassan II called off the “Green March” and ordered the 200,000 marchers to return home. In a nationally broadcast address, the King said, “Spain is not only a friendly country, it also is a neighborly and fraternal nation.” King Hassan II of Morocco called off his people’s annexation march into Spanish Sahara and said that the takeover would have to be accomplished by other means. He told the marchers — about 150,000 had crossed the border — to return to their base in Tarfaya, Morocco, and repeated the order three times in the course of a 10-minute radio and television address. “We must return to our points of departure,” he said, “the volunteers to Tarfaya, your humble servant to Marrakesh.” The order followed a meeting he had the day before with a Spanish official, Antonio Carro Martinez.
A bomb was defused early today outside the London home of Edward Heath, the former Conservative Prime Minister. Mr. Heath, who was not at home when the bomb was detected at 1:30 AM under a car parked on Wilton Street in the fashionable Belgravia district, said he believed it had been intended for him. “If it had not been defused it would have gone off at about the same time as I came back,” he said.
Egypt’s search for arms in Western Europe, the result of the virtual cutoff in Soviet military supplies, has led four British aerospace companies to set up a school to teach advanced management techniques to Egyptian military and civilian personnel, according to qualified British sources. French and Belgian arms companies are also taking advantage of Egypt’s plight by sending salesman to Cairo who seek bids on weapons systems ranging from advanced aircraft to surface‐to‐surface missiles. The Egyptian armed forces were described by one source, as “almost desperate” for an alternative source of weapons and deeply disturbed by President Anwar el‐Sadat’s failure to obtain anything but the vague indications of future arms aid from the United States during his visit here. The Egyptian Army and Air Force, because of the shortage of spare parts resulting from the reduction in Soviet supplies, have resorted to “cannibalization” of weapons systems.
Beirut, the war-nervous capital of Lebanon, remained relatively calm today despite widespread public fears and rumors that fighting between Christian Phalangists and Muslim leftists would erupt again over the weekend. By 9:30 PM on the sixth full day of the 12th cease‐fire in seven weeks, there had been only isolated incidents of shooting, one reported death and half a dozen politically inspired kidnappings — a low daily toll in a war that has killed more than 1,000 people and injured some 3,000. The Government of Prime Minister Rashid Karami and leaders of the warring factions were silent today, and there was no public indication whether they had renewed negotiations toward a political and military settlement of the national crisis. Through the relatively nonviolent six days of cease‐fire, the capital remained tense, with many residents expecting the bloody fighting to begin again any day. The reasoning was that both leftists and rightists had agreed to stop shooting long enough to replenish arms supplies and plan new tactics. The most recent round of fighting ended in a virtual standoff, as the Phalangists consolidated their hold on some sectors of the capital, but failed in attempts to advance through the downtown hotel area.
Now that Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has finally won her long battle in the courts, many Indians expect to see in coming months at least a partial relaxation of the emergency measures instituted last summer. Perhaps the press will become a bit freer; perhaps political prisoners will be released; and the government, some think, might even go ahead with a‐parliamentary election some time before next spring, now that the Supreme Court has reversed the Prime Minister’s conviction of two electoral offenses. But, like many things in this infinitely complex country, the prospects of Mrs. Gandhi’s turning the nation from the authoritarian course she set last summer are neither clear nor simple. Mrs. Gandhi has said time and again that “India can never go back to what it was.”
Bangladesh’s new leader said the goal of his martial law administration was to hand over power eventually to the elected representatives of the country, Bangladesh Radio reported. The radio said former Chief Justice Abu Sadat Mohammed Sayem, the new president, outlined the role of his administration to senior officials from all government ministries. Meanwhile, Indian Airlines said it will not operate its flights to Dacca today despite an announcement by Bangladesh Radio that the airport was open for international traffic.
North and South Vietnam announced a move toward reunification today and indicated there would be elections to create a new government “based on socialism.” China’s official news agency, Hsinhua, reported from Hanoi that a national assembly for “one Vietnam” will be set up after the elections, which will also create “leading state organs.” A Hanoi radio broadcast monitored in Bangkok said the North Vietnamese Prime Minister Phạm Văn Đồng, unveiled “a plan of governmental reunification” at sessions Wednesday and Thursday of the Current Affairs Committee of the North Vietnamese National Assembly. A Saigon radio announcement broadcast at the same time said a similar conference was held in the South Vietnamese capital to discuss reuniting the North and South.
North Korea accused the United States of “open blackmail” in trying to get other U.N. members to vote for a U.S.-sponsored resolution considered favorable to South Korea. The charge followed a State Department comment that the vote on Korea will be taken as a reflection of how U.S. allies “regard their relationship with the United States.” The resolution calls for negotiations between China, the United States, North Korea and South Korea to work out an alternative to the 1953 Korean armistice agreement and dissolving the U.N. Command in Korea by Jan. 1.
China reported its 14th consecutive year of good harvests, despite floods in some areas and droughts in others, and declared it is now “at an initial stage of prosperity.” The official Hsinhua news agency said, “The growth of China’s agriculture has ensured both adequate food and clothing for her nearly 800 million people and a rapid development of her industry and the national economy as a whole.”
With prospects of new wealth from what are believed to be extensive deposits of oil and natural gas, China has been eagerly searching for arms and other business in Western Europe. Persuaded that China represents a growing market — perhaps “the next growth market,” as The London Financial Times put it — European companies have responded by sending more and more executives to China to participate in trade fairs and technical forums and to negotiate contracts. Within the last 18 months French and West German industry have staged gigantic exhibitions in Peking. China has opened a trade fair of its own, in Cologne, its first outside its own frontiers. And Peking has established formal diplomatic contacts with the European Common Market in Brussels and the Paris‐based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Despite French objections, Canada is continuing to press President Valery Giscard d’Estaing for an invitation to the economic summit conference in Paris on November 15. The Sedetary of State for External Affairs, Allan J. MacEachen, said last week that the exclusion of Canada from the meeting would have an adverse effect on French‐Canadian relations. He rejected the French argument that the addition of Canada to the list of participants would open the meeting to still others and make the session unwieldy. “We don’t think others have the same claim as Canada,” he said at a news conference. “We still hope we can succeed in getting an invitation.”
Several Ontario cities were plunged into darkness under circumstances similar to those of the Great Blackout a decade ago. A spokesman for Ontario Hydro said blackouts lasting up to 15 minutes struck Ottawa, Oshawa, Cornwall and Kingston after two separate power surges in 230,000-volt lines feeding northeastern New York state. On November 9, 1965, a relay switch near the Niagara Falls also automatically shut off in response to a surge, triggering a chain reaction blacking out much of eastern Canada and northeastern United States.
Argentine troops fighting guerrillas in northern Tucuman province killed six Marxist rebels but lost one officer and a soldier in a weekend battle, the army said. The fighting broke out Saturday in the zone of operations set up by the army in the mountain jungles of Tucuman, 720 miles north of Buenos Aires. The newspaper La Nacion said air force involvement in the drive indicated the military’s determination to unite the armed forces in the fighting and thus direct attention away from the political crisis over President Maria Estela Perón’s refusal to resign.
On the eve of Angolan independence from Portugal, a new and critical front may be opening in that African territory, which has been ripped into three parts by battling nationalist movements. Some 1,500 Zaire troops are reported massed on the border of Cabinda, a steamy jungle province with a population of 70,000 that is separated from the rest of Angola by a narrow arm of Zaire. It is in the rain forests of Cabinda that Gulf Oil of the United States pumps 160,000 barrels of oil a day in what is the second largest oil field in black Africa. Gulf has poured $40 million a month into the Angolan treasury during Portuguese rule and at least that amount should go to whoever establishes definitive claim to the 2,800‐square-mile province.
President Idi Amin of Uganda threatened today to break diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union in 48 hours as a protest against Soviet intervention in the Angolan civil war. A Uganda radio broadcast said that General Amin objected to attempts by Andrei Zakharov, the Soviet Ambassador to Uganda, to bring pressure on the country to back an Angolan nationalist faction aided by Moscow. General Amin, the radio said, “is not a puppet and will not be dictated to.” Mr. Zakharov informed President Amin a week ago that the Soviet Union would recognize the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola as the sole governing body when Angola, a Portuguese territory for 400 years, becomes independent on Tuesday. A Soviet note to the President called on Uganda and other African countries to recognize the Popular Movement. The Uganda broadcast said that President Amin had demanded that Leonid I. Brezhnev, the Soviet Communist Party leader, send a message with high‐ranking official within 48 hours explaining Soviet activities in Angola and Mr. Zakharov’s behavior. If the message is not sent before a 6 PM deadline, the President was quoted as saying, or if it is carried by a low‐ranking official, Uganda will give all Soviet diplomats and technical experts two days to get out of the country.
President Ford conceded on the NBC-TV program, “Meet the Press” that “growing tension” in his cabinet had contributed to his decision to dismiss Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. In an hour-long interview, Mr. Ford acknowledged the “tension” between Mr. Schlesinger and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger after saying, minutes earlier, that he told “the simple truth” at a news conference last Monday when he denied that there were any personal or policy differences between the two cabinet officers. Mr. Ford also said that one of his major contributions to the nation had been “a restoration of credibility and confidence in the White House.”
Officials of the Central Intelligence Agency, despite repeated public avowals of diminished prestige and operational ability because of inquiries into intelligence operations, are now convinced that the agency will weather the current congressional hearings with no serious loss of authority and no erosion of ability to produce professional intelligence estimates and reports. Key agency officials now expect neither the Senate nor the House Select Committee on Intelligence to recommend a ban on clandestine intelligence activities. Instead, they said, the committees will seek more stringent controls on such operations. This is a compromise welcomed by the agency.
Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said on the CBS program “Face the Nation” that the committee’s forthcoming report would contain “some new information” on the activities of the Central Intelligence Agency, but no new revelations of its assassination plans or attempts.
Senator Richard S. Schweiker (R-Pennsylvania) said the Senate Intelligence Committee report on alleged CIA involvement in foreign assassinations should be made public. “The only possible way that we’re going to solve this problem for the future is get it out in the public,” he said in a television interview. “In fact, I think if we don’t do it, just the opposite will occur. The people who tried to assassinate people will figure that they got away with it and that even Congress didn’t have the guts to tell the people about it.” The committee voted last week to submit the report to the Senate despite President Ford’s request that it be suppressed.
Federal prosecutors will press tomorrow for an early trial date for Patricia Hearst to avoid the possibility of being forced to turn her free on her promise to be available later for trial. The government has vigorously opposed‐ even admitting her to bail in any amount, fearing that her wealthy family would put up any sum the court might set and that she then would run away to live again as a fugitive underground. United States Attorney James L. Browning Jr. has also said he is seriously considering a request for the court to forbid prosecution and defense members to talk about the Hearst case outside court. Al Johnson, one of the defense lawyers, said he would oppose a gag order on the ground that many agents of the government have talked freely in public about Miss Hearst for many months and that she is entitled to answer.
If farmers do not control water and wind erosion of their soil voluntarily, “somebody is going to try to make soil conservation a mandatory thing and that could turn into a bureaucratic nightmare,” said Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. His aides indicated it is likely that federal conservation subsidies will be curbed. In calling for a voluntary drive to prevent the annual erosion of 1 to 2 billion tons of soil, Butz said the problem threatens efforts to step up food production in the face of worldwide population growth.
The Federal Trade Commission proposed a crackdown on advertising for nonprescription drugs, beginning with a ban on claims that antacids can cure hangovers or emotional disturbances. The agency issued a proposed trade regulation to bar advertising of any claim about a product that the Food and Drug Administration does not allow manufacturers to put on its labels. The FDA for several years has been conducting a massive review of all over-the-counter drugs, which number up to a half million and include such products as soaps and deodorants and are advertised at a rate reported to be over $305 million a year.
Judith Ann Debro, in a coma since October 16 and subject of a court fight to have her life-supporting machines disconnected, died at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis. Hospital officials said Mrs. Debro, 33, died with the machines connected to her lungs and heart still functioning. Cause of death was not immediately diagnosed. Mrs. Debro’s husband, Gary, 31, had filed a suit seeking to have the machines turned off because her brain was “biologically dead.” A circuit court ruled it did not have jurisdiction and the Missouri Court of Appeals refused to order the lower court to hear the case. Debro then filed a second suit, still pending, asking the court to update the legal definition of death.
Propane gas in three tank cars exploded after a freight train derailed along the Connecticut River five miles south of Fairlee, Vermont, authorities said. No injuries were reported. About 100 firemen tried to contain the fire that followed the explosion. Authorities quickly sealed off the area and began evacuating persons from nearby houses. The derailment occurred in an open area along the river, which forms the boundary between New Hampshire and Vermont.
General Motors Corp. spokesmen said they were “unaware” of plans by the federal government to break up the world’s largest auto company in what would be the biggest antitrust suit in many years. NBC News reported last week that the economics and competition bureaus of the Federal Trade Commission had recommended antitrust action but the issue had yet to be voted on by the commissioners, because GM’s share of the domestic auto market was so large.
Electrical emissions from ultra high-voltage power lines that have been strung over the eastern United States are suspected of being potentially harmful to humans and animals, and the federal Environmental Protection Agency’s radiation division has begun an investigation to determine whether such lines should be curbed. The controversy over the suspected hazard has delayed the licensing of two proposed power lines in northern New York state and has blocked another project in Michigan.
When President Ford again rejected current legislation to help New York City avoid default, Governor Carey canceled a meeting with the legislative leadership. Mr. Ford’s latest remarks were scrutinized by state politicians and some, including the Senate majority leader, Warren Anderson, believe that Mr. Ford left “a crack in the door” that might permit a compromise.
Oil exploration off the coast of New England will not begin without consideration of its environmental effects, an official of the Environmental Protection Agency said. Deputy EPA Administrator John Quarles Jr. said in Boston that all oil exploration projects in the area will be carefully reviewed before being allowed to proceed. So far the U.S. Interior Department has approved some oil well drilling off the New England coast, but only to obtain sediment samples. Environmental impact statements would have to be filed before the process goes any further, Quarles said.
Producing electricity at nuclear power plants will be economically impractical 10 years from now, in the view of environmentalist Barry Commoner. The director of the Center for Biology of Natural Systems at Washington University in St. Louis said a soon-to-be-released study has convinced him the economic base for the entire nuclear power industry “is being eroded and very likely will collapse within the next five to 10 years or even sooner.” Capital costs for the nuclear industry are going up three times as rapidly as those for coalpowered plants, he said.
Breast cancer in its early stages can be controlled by radiation, without resort to radical mastectomy, according to a report from a Harvard medical school research team. Treatment “by radiation therapy alone.. should be considered in women with strong emotional fears regarding the surgical deformity of mastectomy” if the cancer is detected early, the report, published in the Journal of the American Medical Assn., said. The report was based on a study of 100 women treated with radiation therapy from 1968 to 1973. For 40 of the women, treatment also included surgical removal of the tumor, a far more limited procedure than the traditional mastectomy, which can involve removal of the breast, underlying muscles and adjoining lymph nodes under the arm.
NFL Football:
Minnesota, the league’s only undefeated team, rolled to its eighth triumph by forcing eight turnovers — five on interceptions of Kira McQuilken passes, as the Vikings blasted the Falcons, 38–0. Chuck Foreman scored three touchdowns (one on a 3‐yard pass from Fran Tarkenton), and gained 102 yards on 26 carries. Jim Marshall recovered a fumble to set a league record of 26 for his career. Paul Krauss intercepted two passes to run his totals to seven for the year and 71 for his career, second only to Emlen Tunnell’s record of 74. The Vikings’ shutout was their first of the season.
The Steelers took some steam out of the high-flying Oilers today, defeating them, 24–17, for their seventh victory of the season. But it was not easy. The Super Bowl champions had to score in the last minute after Houston, which had won six of seven times this season, tied the count at 17–17 with 2 minutes 18 seconds to play. This was a brutal hitting game and the quarterbacks were among those who got hit. Dan Pastorini, the fine Houston passer, was knocked unconscious but came back after missing two series of plays to help tie the score. Terry Bradshaw, who continues to improve in all phases of the game, was decked five times by the Houston defenders. When he was on his feet he was outstanding, especially adept at finding open receivers on broken plays. He completed three touchdown passes, to Lynn Swann, Larry Brown, the tight end who caught seven passes, and John Stallworth. Stallworth made the game-winning score, breaking clear from his defender, Zeke Moore, on the 21‐yard play.
The Browns, who have never won a regular‐season game in Detroit, went down to their eighth loss without a victory, losing to the Lions, 21–10. A 62‐yard pass play involving Joe Reed and Ray Jarvis on the first play from scrimmage set up a 1‐yard scoring plunge by Altie Taylor. Jarvis later caught a 21yard touchdown pass fromg Reed. Ben Davis intercepted a Will Cureton pass and returned it 67 yards for Detroit’s third touchdown. Cleveland’s touchdown came on a 12‐yard pass from Cureton to Oscar Roan in the final minutes.
In the 112th renewal of the N.F.L.’s oldest rivalry, the Bears broke a five‐game losing streak, downing the Packers, 27–14, and scoring their most points in a single game since they beat Green Bay, 31–17, more than two years ago. Craig Clemons scored on a 76‐yard interception, Gary Huff tossed 12 yards to Bob Parsons for another touchdown and Walter Payton ran 5 yards for a third. Bob Thomas kicked two field goals. Don Milan starting at quarterback for the Packers in place of the injured John Hadl, threw a 42‐yard scoring to Steve Odom.
The Bengals edged the Broncos, 17–16. A bad snap on the conversion after Denver’s first touchdown made the eventual difference and kept Cincinnati tied with Pittsburgh for first place in the Central Division with a 7–1 record. The Bengals, trailing at the half, 13–7, rallied for 10 points in the third quarter to win. After a field goal by Dave Green, a razzledazzle play covering 33 yards set up a 1‐yard touchdown plunge by Boobie Clark. On the trick play, Ken Anderson passed 8 yards to Chip Meyers, who lateraled to Isaac Curtis
Eight field goals were kicked, equaling a league record, as the Chargers went down to their eighth straight loss, bowing to the Patriots, 33–19. John Smith of New England and Ray Wersching of San Diego each kicked four field goals. Randy Vataha, who scored on a 13‐yard pass from Steve Grogan, caught at least one aerial for the 25th straight game. Grogan riddled the San Diego secondary for 214 yards. Sam Cunningham, who gained 90 yards, ran 4 yards for a second Patriot touchdown, and the third came on a 44‐yard pass interception by Bobby Howard, a former Charger.
The 49ers came from behind in the final minute to beat the Rams, 24–23. After losing 10 straight decisions to the Rams, San Francisco snapped a six‐game Los Angeles winning streak on a 54-yard field goal by Steve Mike‐Mayer, a rookie from Maryland, with 38 seconds to play. Steve Spurrier threw three second‐half touchdown passes, two to Gene Washington. Ralph McGill of San Francisco was injured in the second half when struck by the kicking foot of Tom Dempsey of the Rams during a field‐goal attempt. He was taken, unconscious, to a hospital where he was treated for a concussion and possible neck injuries.
Taking over for Billy Kilmer, the regular Washington quarterback who suffered a shoulder injury in the second quarter, ex-Giant Randy Johnson rallied the Redskins to a pair of fourth quarter touchdowns and 21–13 victory over the Giants at Shea Stadium. The scoring drives, capped by Larry Brown’s 1‐yard run and Bob Brunet’s 2‐yard burst, consumed 12 minutes of the final 15‐minute quarter and destroyed whatever chance the Giants had of upsetting the Redskins, who remained in a tie for first place in the National Conference’s Eastern Division. The drives — the second lasted 7 minutes 50 seconds — also wiped out what had been a superlative effort by the Giant defensive unit, which had intercepted three passes and recovered one fumble. Interceptions by Spider Lockhart (his first of the year) and Brad Van Pelt, and Jack Gregory’s recovery of Johnson’s fumble, led to all three Giant scores — two 22-yard field goals by George Hunt and Craig Morton’s 36-yard touchdown pass to Ron Johnson. In the fourth quarter, though, the defense couldn’t take the ball away from the Redskins as Randy Johnson dazzled them and kept them off balance with his play calling. Four times, for example, on the second scoring drive, the Redskins went to third down, but each time Johnson called the play that got the first down.
O. J. Simpson, probably pro football’s most glamorous name, was upstaged yesterday by one of the Jones boys as the Baltimore Colts beat the Buffalo Bills in an upset, 42–35, at Buffalo. The Juice was at his dazzling best in the early minnutes, scoring three quick touchdowns to give the Bills a 21–0 lead. He first tallied on a 44‐yard run, then took scoring passes of 22 and 32 yards from Joe Ferguson. But then Baltimore’s Bert Jones went to work, throwing two touchdown passes and running 19 yards for a third score. His touchdown passes were 89 yards to Roger Carr and 9 yards to Lydell Mitchell, who also ran for a pair of touchdowns. Jones, a third‐year quarterback from Louisiana State, completed 12 of 22 passes for 306 yards and carried the ball 9 times for 59 yards. He drove the Colts to their third straight triumph, evening their won‐lost record at 4–4. Simpson, slowed down in the second half by a rugged Baltimore defense, finished with 123 yards in 18 rushes. His eight‐game total for rushing this season is 1,128 yards. The defeat, Buffalo’s third in four games after opening with four straight triumphs, was costly for the Bills. They dropped two games behind Miami in the American Conference’s Eastern Division with six weeks left on the regular schedule.
The Raiders gained a three‐game lead in the American Conference’s Western Division with an easy victory, crushing the Saints, 48–10. Ken Stabler, who played less than three quarters, passed for 232 yards on 16 completions, including touchdowns of 36 and 48 yards to Morris Bradshaw. Clarence Davis scored twice on runs of 5 and 13 yards. The Raiders scored the most points they have managed since getting 50 against Buffalo in 1969. The 34 first downs that Oakland ran up was a club record.
For one half, at least, the Jets regained their pride today. But the National Football‐League requires two halves (barring a tie) and so the New Yorkers bowed to the Dolphins, 27–7. That second half, and indeed this dismal season, was symbolized perhaps by Joe Namath’s act of frustration in the third quarter. The quarterback was trying to move back with his team, which had been stunned by a 59-yard touchdown pass from Bob Griese to Norm Bulaich and which trailed, 13–7. But the Dolphins were in command now, and they weren’t making mistakes. The Dolphins’ defense covered Namath’s receivers and it appeared he was searching the whole Orange Bowl trying to find someone who could latch onto one of his passes. Instead, he had to run. And he was stopped short of a first down. Perhaps if he had better knees he would have made it. He slammed the ball to the artificial turf, and was given a 5‐yard penalty for delaying the game. “A man has pride,” he said later. On the next play, Freddie Solomon returned Greg Gantt’s wind‐held punt 50 yards for the crushing touchdown.
The Cardinal;s squeaked past Philadelphia, 24–23. For the second time in three weeks, the Eagles lost on a last‐second field goal. Jim Bakken booted a 30‐yarder that lifted the Cardinals to victory and made him the N.F.L.’s fourth‐leading scorer with 1,132 points. St. Louis remained in a tie for first place in the Eastern Division by rallying from a 23–7 deficit midway through the third quarter. A 1‐yard scoring run by Terry Metcalf and a 5-yard touchdown scamper by Jim Hart made it possible for Bakken to win the game with his kick on the last play. The Eagles scored on touchdown passes from Roman Gabriel to Charlie Young and Po James and on three field goals by Horst Muhlmann.
Atlanta Falcons 0, Minnesota Vikings 38
Houston Oilers 17, Pittsburgh Steelers 24
Cleveland Browns 10, Detroit Lions 21
Green Bay Packers 14, Chicago Bears 27
Cincinnati Bengals 17, Denver Broncos 16
New England Patriots 33, San Diego Chargers 19
San Francisco 49ers 24, Los Angeles Rams 23
Washington Redskins 21, New York Giants 13
Baltimore Colts 42, Buffalo Bills 35
New Orleans Saints 10, Oakland Raiders 48
New York Jets 7, Miami Dolphins 27
St. Louis Cardinals 24, Philadelphia Eagles 23
Born:
Sean Bennett, NFL running back (New York Giants), in Evansville, Indiana.
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