European leaders agreed on a package of measures to strengthen the Common Market after two days of difficult negotiations in Luxembourg. The compromise package — which includes the first revisions of the 1957 Treaty of Rome, the European Economic Community’s founding charter — is mainly intended to strengthen Europe’s economy by speeding elimination of remaining barriers to trade among the Common Market’s 10 members. The package also modestly strengthens the authority of the European Parliament. It calls for closer coordination of the members’ foreign policies and formally commits Common Market members to Europe’s monetary unification, while also extending the community’s competence into other new fields, including technology and enviromental protection. The agreement, however, fell well short of the grandiose “relaunching of Europe” that European leaders called for at their meeting in Milan in June. Then, at the urging of President Francois Mitterrand and Chancellor Helmut Kohl, they voted to set up an intergovernmental conference to prepare proposals for drafting the Treaty of Rome again along more federal lines, with member governments surrendering more individual authority to community decisions and to the European Parliament.
NATO proposed to the Warsaw Pact that U.S. and Soviet forces in Central Europe be reduced. The proposal was handed by senior ambassadors of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to their East Bloc counterparts at an informal meeting in Vienna in advance of its formal introduction at Thursday’s plenary meeting of the Mutual and Balanced Force Reduction talks. Western sources saw it as an effort to break the deadlock in the talks, which involve 19 countries and have continued for 12 years.
The Dutch Defense Minister said today that despite opposition from other NATO members, his Government planned to stick to a decision to end its obligation to carry out two specific tasks in the event of war. The Dutch decision to give up fighter-bomber and antisubmarine combat roles was criticized by Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and other defense ministers here for a meeting of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The meeting in Brussels ended today, one day ahead of schedule. The Dutch Defense Minister, Jacob de Ruiter, made it clear that the decision was being made in exchange for accepting the deployment of NATO cruise missiles. The criticism of the Dutch decision was the only apparent note of disagreement in the meeting of the 15 defense ministers. The main topic of discussion, officials here said, was the efforts being made by the alliance to strengthen conventional weapons and thereby reduce the dependence on nuclear weapons as the primary deterrent against an attack.
The Soviet Union and its East European allies continue to have a “seriously flawed” record of compliance with the 1975 Helsinki accords on human rights, the State Department told Congress. The semiannual report, covering April through September, said at least 22 Hebrew teachers and other Jewish activists are Soviet political prisoners, while pressure also is being applied to Ukrainians, Pentecostal Christians, Baptists and others. In Poland, the number of political prisoners nearly doubled over the six months, the report said.
Washington plans to warn Rumania that it is in danger of losing its benefits in trading with the United States if it does not improve its human rights record, State Department officials said. They said Secretary of State George P. Shultz, on a visit to Bucharest on December 15, would advise the Rumanians that, unless they met American concerns, it would be difficult if not impossible to extend Rumania’s most-favored-nation tariff status. A State Department official said of Mr. Shultz’s trip, “Even though the visit is a short one, I think it is an important one, and perhaps a watershed visit.” Hungary Also on Itinerary Mr. Shultz will also visit Hungary and Yugoslavia on the trip, which will follow a meeting of foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization next week. [Ed: Ceaușescu Christmas cannot come soon enough.]
Andrei D. Sakharov was separated from his wife and fed forcibly, his nose clamped shut to force him to open his mouth, for 207 days of the last 18 months. And for much of that time, the relatives said, the Soviet authorities tried to conceal Dr. Sakharov’s fast by altering or forging messages addressed to friends from the Sakharovs in their place of banishment in Gorky. Dr. Sakharov’s last hunger strike, which began April 16, continued with an interruption of two weeks until October 23, when the physicist and rights advocate learned that his wife, Yelena G. Bonner, had been given permission to travel to Italy and to the United States for medical treatment. The information about life in Gorky was supplied in interviews and in a news conference today by Yefrem V. Yankelevich, Miss Bonner’s son-in-law, and by Alexei I. Semyonov, her son, both of whom had traveled from their home in Newton, Mass., to Italy to meet her on her arrival from Moscow. They said their account was based on telephone conversations with Dr. Sakharov last month and on facts that had slipped out of Gorky. The information, they said, had been “clarified” but not substantively added to by Miss Bonner.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, will hold talks with President Francois Mitterrand on Wednesday, a Government spokesman said today. It would be the Polish leader’s first visit to a Western head of state. The Polish leader, who French officials said requested the meeting, arrived today from Algiers. He is to meet with Mr. Mitterrand on Wednesday and before leaving for Tunis. Mr. Jaruzelski was in Algeria on Monday after a three-day stay in Libya that was part of his scheduled tour of North Africa. The Libyan press agency said Mr. Jaruzelski and the Libyan leader, Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, signed judicial, consular and information accords.
In the latest purge of pro-Solidarity scholars, a leading university educator was dismissed for failing to urge his students to defy a union boycott and vote in parliamentary elections, academic sources said today. A notice board at the Warsaw Technical University said the educator, Wladyslaw Findeisen, a rector, was dismissed because “there was a low turnout of students during the elections” on October 13. University sources said Mr. Findeisen had failed to urge his 20,000 students to take part in the voting. The notice also suggested the dismissal of Mr. Findeisen was linked to an incident in which anti-Government leaflets were dropped on Communist Party officials in October at a ceremony opening the new school term.
An Italian racketeer turned state’s evidence told a court here today that former officials of the Italian intelligence service, working with organized crime leaders, prompted the convicted assailant of Pope John Paul II to link the shooting in 1981 to Bulgaria. It was the first time that a witness had supplied the court with details of possible ties between the assailant, Mehmet Ali Ağca, and the intelligence service and between his testimony and the machinations of Italian organized crime groups. Testifying to a court looking into the purported plot to kill John Paul, the racketeer, Giovanni Pandico, a leader of a Naples organized crime gang, said he personally attended meetings in a southern Italian jail between General Pietro Musumeci, the former deputy chief of military intelligence, and Mr. Ağca. Mr. Pandico said the goal of the effort was “to persuade Ağca to accuse the Bulgarians.”
The Archbishop of Canterbury hit back today at critics of a church report on urban problems that questioned Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s economic policies. The 400-page report, “Faith in the City,” was a “rigorous, informed and objective” analysis of inner-city troubles, the Archbishop, the Most Rev. Robert Runcie, said at a news conference. The two-year study by an 18-member commission of churchmen and scholars criticized the church’s performance in Britain’s cities and directly challenged Government policy by calling for increased spending for the unemployed and disadvantaged. Archbishop Runcie dismissed the criticism of an unidentified Cabinet minister who called the report “Marxist theology.” The Archbishop said that the phrase was a contradiction in terms and that no one on the committee was a Marxist.
A Briton accused with two Arabs of murdering three Israelis on a yacht said he is “totally happy” that he did something for the Palestinian struggle, according to a police statement read in a Cypriot court. Ian Michael Davison, 27, a carpenter from Southshields, England, and the two Arabs are accused of killing Reuven and Esther Palzur and Abraham Avneri aboard their boat in the marina at Larnaca, Cyprus, on September 25. Israeli jets bombed the Palestine Liberation Organization’s headquarters in Tunisia in retaliation.
Israeli troops and tanks reportedly supervised by the armed forces chief of staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Levy, killed five Palestinian guerrillas in southern Lebanon in the Israelis’ deepest drive into the area since their formal withdrawal last summer. There were no Israeli casualties in the operation, north of the Israelis’ security zone, an army spokesman said. Military sources said that Levy was in the area to supervise the attack against guerrillas based in caves north of Hasbaya.
Aziz Shehadeh, a prominent Palestinian attorney, was stabbed to death outside his home in Ramallah, in the West Bank about 10 miles northwest of Jerusalem. Shehadeh, 73, was a moderate who advocated coexistence with Israel. He was one of the first Arabs to urge creation of an independent Palestinian state as part of a peace agreement with Israel after the 1967 Mideast War. A radical Palestinian guerrilla group called Revolutionary Council of Fatah took responsibility for the slaying and said all “hirelings” of Israel faced the same fate. The guerrilla group, the Fatah Revolutionary Council, led by Mazen Sabry al-Banna, also known as Abu Nidal, called the killing “an execution of the people’s fair sentence against the traitor for all his crimes.”
Western diplomats said in Islamabad, Pakistan today that Afghan guerrillas reportedly destroyed 16 fuel trucks in an attack on a Soviet convoy and that 15 civilians were killed when a bus was caught in the ambush. In another development, travelers said that Pakistan had closed the Khyber Pass, connecting Pakistan with Afghanistan, after moving troops into the area in a hunt for rebellious Pakistani tribesmen.
Last August Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi triumphantly announced a settlement in a bitter ethnic dispute that had cost thousands of lives in the northeastern state of Assam. But now the carrying out of that accord is creating new bitterness and fears of violence in this remote region of India. What had been hailed as a victory for national unity has instead produced sharp new antagonisms between Hindus and Muslims. The focus for the renewed friction is a state election scheduled for December 16.
After a night of angry protests, Union Carbide’s Indian subsidiary settled claims by Bhopal plant workers laid off after the poison gas leak that killed more than 2,000 people last year. The workers will receive a total of $1.8 million, three times the amount reportedly required under Indian law, for compensation and wages due them since the chemical plant was officially closed in July. Earlier, hundreds marched in Bhopal in a second day of observances commemorating the first anniversary of the chemical disaster.
Demonstrators in separate small incidents today burned tires, honked horns and banged on lampposts, threw black confetti from windows and chanted, “Killer! Killer!” But the protests against the acquittal Monday of all 26 men accused in the killing of the opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. seemed to have a ritual air about them, lacking the passion that has fired huge rallies in the past. One day after the acquittals in what had been dubbed here the trial of the century, attention was quickly shifting to what already seem the more pressing matters of military reorganization and a presidential election campaign that opens next week. The assassination of the nation’s most popular opposition figure and the main rival to President Ferdinand E. Marcos, a national trauma that brought the country to the brink of chaos two years ago, remains the divisive backdrop for the new developments.
Latin American bishops defended strongly the teachings known as liberation theology. They spoke as groups of bishops began offering the special Synod in Rome divergent proposals for a final document on the future of Roman Catholicism. The proposals ranged from political statements on peace and third world debt offered by a group of Canadian bishops to a traditionalist call from a German-speaking study group for support of church authority. Support for liberation theology came from two leading Brazilian Bishops who appeared to be answering criticisms made not only by their fellow prelates, but also by the Vatican itself.
The Mexican Foreign Ministry confirmed that President Miguel de la Madrid and President Reagan will meet Jan. 3 in the border city of Mexicali, the government news agency Notimex reported. It said the meeting would be about various bilateral issues as well as regional and international questions. Reagan and De la Madrid last met in Washington in May, 1984. The Mexicali meeting will be their third as chiefs of state.
Eight Latin American nations began a new diplomatic effort today to persuade the Reagan Administration to resume direct negotiations with Nicaragua. The call for new talks was included in a jointly sponsored draft resolution that was worked out here and submitted today for approval by the United Nations General Assembly. The move has been opposed by the United States, which reportedly persuaded three of the draft’s original four co-sponsors last week to request its withdrawal from circulation.
A French medical organization has been ordered to end its relief work in Ethiopia, and today the group’s president asserted that expulsion was the price for speaking out against government policies that he said had killed 100,000 famine victims. The Ethiopian Government announced Monday that it was halting the work there of Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders. The Ethiopian Relief and Rehabilitation Commission accused the group of undermining the famine relief effort, lying, misquoting officials and engaging in a “vicious media campaign.”
Uganda’s military government freed from prison the head of former dictator Idi Amin’s murderous secret police after he agreed to leave the country. Bob Astles, 64, who had been in prison six years, said, “I have no regrets for anything.” He said he hopes to return to his native Britain. The secret police were responsible for the deaths of thousands of Ugandans in Amin’s eight-year reign of terror.
Parliament voted today to investigate reports that Ian Smith, the former Rhodesian Prime Minister, made derogatory statements about the Government and Zimbabwe’s blacks while on a vacation abroad. By a vote of 40 to 14, Parliament created a committee to investigate the reports. Its recommendations could include a parliamentary trial, which in turn could lead to a court trial of Mr. Smith or an official reprimand. During a televised talk with schoolchildren in Scotland, Mr. Smith was reported to have said that the concept of one-man, one-vote was a negation of democracy. He was also reported to have said that most blacks were illiterate and did not understand the political system “foisted on them.”
Winnie Mandela vowed vengeance for the blood of fallen South African blacks at what she said was the first mass rally she had addressed in 25 years. Mrs. Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist who is the wife of the imprisoned nationalist leader Nelson Mandela, broke an officially imposed silence shortly after a mass funeral for 12 people slain by the police in a black township. “This is our country,” Mrs. Mandela said. “In the same way as you have had to bury our children today, so shall the blood of these heroes we buried today be avenged.”
Robert C. McFarlane is leaving the Reagan Administration, White House officials said. They said the Administration was actively seeking a replacement for Mr. McFarlane, who has been the White House national security adviser since 1983. A senior White House official indicated tonight that Mr. McFarlane had told President Reagan that he wanted to leave the White House for personal reasons.. Associates of Mr. McFarlane said the adviser felt the recent Geneva summit meeting, which he saw as relatively successful, marked “a perfect time” to leave the White House. Both Mr. Reagan and his spokesman, Larry Speakes, brushed aside questions about the national security adviser’s intentions. White House officials predicted that an announcement of Mr. McFarlane’s departure would take place this week, and they said Mr. Reagan was hoping to name his replacement at the same time.
President Reagan told Republican Congressional leaders today that both the Senate and House versions of legislation to balance the Federal budget could force “unacceptable” cuts in military spending. Mr. Reagan offered that assessment at a White House meeting in which he also expressed concern that the bills passed by the two houses contained provisions that could jeopardize the President’s flexibility in establishing spending priorities. House and Senate negotiators have been trying to settle differences between the bills, which are intended to balance the budget toward the end of the decade.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss the resignation of Assistant for National Security Affairs Robert McFarlane.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to recognize the National Initiative on Technology and the Disabled.
Senators backed campaign reform in principle and then dodged a vote on a bill to limit the amount that Congressional candidates may accept from political action committees. An amendment proposed by Senator David L. Boren, Democrat of Oklahoma, was buried in a series of parliamentary maneuvers without ever coming up for a vote. However, Senate leaders promised to hold hearings on the issue early next year to consider comprehensive changes in Federal campaign finance laws. Senator Boren’s proposal would have put a cap on the contributions to House and Senate candidates receive from business, labor and other interest groups that have become a mainstay of campaign financing in recent years.
The House tentatively approved a proposal to extend from six to nine months the grace period that former college students have before they must begin repaying federally guaranteed loans for their education. The action is subject to a final vote on a $10.6-billion college aid bill. The House was expected to complete action on proposed amendments and vote on the full bill today.
Overly complex Pentagon purchasing procedures, not just greedy defense contractors, are to blame for the $600 ashtrays and $400 hammers billed to taxpayers, the head of a federal cost-cutting commission said. J. Peter Grace, chairman of W. R. Grace & Co. and head of the President’s Private Sector Survey on Cost Control, testified before a special House Armed Services panel that is studying how the cost-cutting recommendations of the commission affect military procurement. Grace said the Pentagon procurement system was much to blame for taxpayer losses.
The Navy barred General Dynamics from obtaining any new Government contracts a day after the big military contractor and four of its former or current executives were indicted on fraud charges. Meanwhile, Government officials disclosed that one of the indicted officials, James M. Beggs, would take an indefinite leave of absence from his post of chief of the national space agency. Mr. Beggs is a former General Dynamics official. Under the suspension, General Dynamics cannot receive contracts for new work from any branch of the Government. In the last fiscal year, General Dynamics had about $8 billion in sales, all but $1 billion of it from Government contracts.
The NASA space shuttle Atlantis landed safely at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a weeklong mission that included the first construction job in space and three successful satellite launchings. After puncturing the air over Los Angeles with a trail of double sonic booms, the Atlantis glided up to the Mojave Desert, made a 170-degree left turn and landed on the large concrete runway here. It rolled to a stop at 1:33 PM, Pacific standard time. “Welcome home, Atlantis — great landing,” Mission Control told the seven crew members, led by the mission commander, Lieutenant Colonel Brewster H. Shaw Jr. Shuttles usually land on endless dirt runways at the base. But a week of rain left scattered puddles on the usually dry lake bed runways. Remnants of rain clouds and wispy mare’s tails filled the sky as the Atlantis returned to the Earth, seven days and 2.8 million miles after its blazing nighttime liftoff from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
A scientist who resigned in protest from a Pentagon advisory group on the President’s space-based missile defense program told a Congressional committee today that the United States could not have confidence that the computer software for a “Star Wars” defense would ever work. “We cannot trust it,” said David Lorge Parnas, adding that the computer software for such a system would be vulnerable to “catastrophic failure.” Dr. Parnas, a professor of computer science at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, resigned in June from a Pentagon panel on the use of computers for battle management, saying the software for a defensive system in which the United States could place high reliance was an impossibility. Since then, he has been debating with other scientific experts who have defended the “Star Wars” missile defense program, known formally as the Strategic Defense Initiative.
The Supreme Court ruled today that two states may prosecute a person for the same criminal act without violating the constitutional prohibition against double jeopardy. The Justices, in a 7-to-2 decision, rejected a defendant’s contention that Alabama had imposed double jeopardy on him when it tried and convicted him for the same murder to which he previously pleaded guilty in Georgia. The defendant, Larry Gene Heath, was convicted in both states of hiring two men in 1981 for $2,000 to kidnap his pregnant wife from their home in Russell County, Alabama, and kill her. Rebecca Heath’s body was found in an automobile on the side of a road in Troup County, Georgia, where she had been shot in the head.
The Supreme Court heard arguments today on whether defendants in libel suits by private individuals may be penalized for making damaging allegations that have not been proved false. A lawyer representing Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., owner of The Philadelphia Inquirer, urged the Court to strike down a Pennsylvania law under which statements damaging to a plaintiff’s reputation are presumed false unless the defendant can prove them true. The lawyer, David H. Marion, argued that the state statute “turns First Amendment law upside down,” discouraging vigorous free speech and penalizing defendants “for making truthful statements that they can’t prove to be true.” But Ronald H. Surkin, representing Maurice S. Hepps, who sued the newspaper over articles linking his chain of beer and liquor distributorships to organized crime, said Mr. Marion’s position would deny relief to victims of falsehoods they cannot prove false. He said Pennsylvania’s allocation of the burden of proof strikes “the proper balance” between “equally fundamental rights” of free speech and reputation.
A Federal magistrate denied bond for Anne Henderson-Pollard after prosecutors warned she might disclose national security secrets to hostile countries if released. Mrs. Henderson-Pollard is the wife of Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Navy analyst who has been accused of selling secret documents to Israel. In a motion filed late Monday, the Government contended that Mrs. Henderson-Pollard was familiar with the documents her husband has been charged with stealing. It quoted a “witness” as saying she intended to make a “presentation” of some classified material to the Chinese embassy. Patrick J. Attridge, the magistrate, accepted the Government’s argument that there was a substantial danger Mrs. Henderson-Pollard might flee. He also said her release would pose a “danger to the community,” a reference to the Government’s argument that she had learned enough about the documents to provide damaging descriptions of them.
Joseph P. Kennedy 2d will announce today that he will run for the Congressional seat to be vacated next year by Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Speaker of the House, he has told other candidates. Mr. Kennedy, 33, is the eldest son of Robert F. Kennedy. Over almost half a century, only three men have represented the Eighth Congressional District: Mr. O’Neill, John F. Kennedy, who won his first public office there in 1946, and James Michael Curley. “There’s no question that Kennedy will now be the front-runner,” said Thomas J. Vallely, a State Representative from Boston’s Back Bay section who is another of at least eight Democratic candidates.
Nineteen months after David A. Kennedy died of a drug overdose in a $250-a-night Palm Beach hotel room, the State of Florida has closed the cases of two bellhops accused of procuring cocaine for the 28-year old son of Robert F. Kennedy. Peter A. Marchant, 26 years old, one of the bellhops, pleaded no contest today in a West Palm Beach courtroom to a charge that he conspired to sell cocaine. He was placed on probation for 18 months. Mr. Marchant entered the plea after his co-defendant, David L. Dorr, 33, pleaded no contest to a similar charge Monday. He received a simlar term of probation.
The birthrate in the United States dropped sharply last year — to the lowest point this decade — except among women between 30 and 34, the Census Bureau reported. The birthrate in the 12-month period ending June, 1984, was estimated at 65.8 births per 1,000 women between the ages of 18 and 44, a decline of 7.4 births from the previous year and the lowest figure in the 1980s. The rate was 71.1 births in 1980, 70.9 births in 1981, 70.5 in 1982 and 73.2 in 1983. Birthrates for Latino (86.1) and black women (72.2) were significantly higher, as were those for women from lower-income families. Forty-two percent of all the women said they had given birth for the first time.
Three Turkish natives accused of trying to export spare tubes for a highly sensitive radar system to Iran despite a U.S. boycott of the Tehran regime were ordered held without bail until a hearing Friday in New York. The three men were charged with conspiring to violate federal laws regulating the exporting of military equipment. A federal complaint charges that the men made a deal to buy the sensitive military hardware at a meeting with an undercover agent.
A Federal District judge today blocked the execution of a condemned killer just 10 hours before he was to die by injection for murdering a jeweler in Beaumont, Texas. The judge, Howell Cobb, issued the stay after meeting with Sam Dunn, an attorney for Elliot Rod Johnson, the convicted killer. Mr. Dunn said his client had received ineffective legal counsel in his trial.
An arsonist set a fire at the Chicago headquarters of Operation PUSH, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, former head of the civil rights organization, called the incident “a terrorist attack.” The arsonist set fire to the front doors of the building about 10 PM Monday. slightly damaging them, but firefighters had to break the doors down to extinguish flames carried into the building by seeping gasoline, police said.
Five people were fatally wounded and a sixth died of an apparent heart attack as hunters braved high winds, snow and cold on the opening day of Pennsylvania’s two-week deer season. Hunters shot 29,340 deer Monday as the season got under way. In addition to the deaths among the state’s 1.1 million deer hunters, one man was admitted to a hospital with an apparent heart attack, six were wounded in gun accidents and two were injured by trees toppled in high winds. Last year there were 35 accidents and 12 people killed.
Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards defended his Nevada gambling forays at his federal racketeering trial in New Orleans and lashed out at prosecutors, saying they had gathered “truckloads” of documents but failed to produce any evidence of a crime. Edwards and seven others are charged with using their political clout to obtain state certification for hospital and nursing home projects in which they held interests.
The first invasion of the United States by aggressive bees has been checked, state and Federal agricultural officials say. Members of a scientific panel that directed a six-month campaign announced at a news conference Monday that they were ending a bee quarantine in California’s Central Valley. They said the bees, often called “killer bees” because of their fierce attacks on animals and humans that approach their hives, had been neutralized by breeding with native bees. The bees, which originated in Africa and gained a foothold in Latin America in the early 1950’s, were first seen June 6 near the hamlet of Lost Hills, 50 miles northwest of Bakersfield. The quarantine, set up August 1, halted movement of 22,000 commercial bee colonies in a 462 square-mile region. Since then, 12 swarms of the fierce bees have been found and destroyed.
The collar worn by one of the popular Cabbage Patch dolls could endanger children if they place it around their own necks, a consumer group said in Washington. A bright medal on the collar of the Cabbage Patch Koosa attracts children, and it is just their nature to try to place the collar around their own necks, said Ann Brown, chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee of Americans for Democratic Action. Officials at Coleco, the company that makes the dolls, said the collar design had been changed. The committee’s 14th annual preChristmas report on toy safety also criticized some packaging, toys difficult to use or to assemble and items that it called a poor value either because of cost or lack of play interest.
7th ACE Cable Awards: Shelley Duvall wins the Golden CableACE for “Faerie Tale Theatre.”
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Born:
Amanda Seyfried, American actress (“Mamma Mia”, “The Dropout”), in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
László Cseh, Hungarian swimmer (Olympics, 4 silver medals and 2 bronze medals, 2004-2016), in Budapest, Hungary.
Brian Roberts, NBA point guard (New Orleans Hornets-Pelicans, Charlotte Hornets, Portland Trailblazers), in Toledo, Ohio.
Marcus Williams, NBA point guard (New Jersey Nets, Golden State Warriors, Memphis Grizzlies), in Los Angeles, California.
Robert Swift, NBA center (Seattle SuperSonics, Oklahoma City Thunder), in Bakersfield, California.
Died:
Sam Gillman, 70, American actor (“One-Eyed Jacks”, Sam-“Shane”).
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