So Say We All, Little One. With tears, So Say We All.
Officials began a broad inquiry in an effort to determine the cause of the explosion of the shuttle Challenger, history’s worst space disaster. Ships, planes and helicopters searching a 50-by-100-mile rectangle of the Atlantic Ocean recovered hundreds of pounds of debris that might hold clues to the accident Tuesday that killed seven astronauts. A heavy, cone-shaped object was discovered by the search team, but the National Aeronautics and Space Administration declined to identify it immediately. Investigators were organized into teams at the Cape and at Mission Control in Houston and given orders on how to proceed with the technological detective work, which NASA officials said could take months to complete. And space agency contractors, those private companies that built the shuttle, began inquiries of their own, using computer records and any other data that could be relevant. Two pieces of evidence that might have helped solve the Challenger puzzle were destroyed by remote control after the explosion to avoid more damage, space agency officials said today. The shuttle’s two solid-fuel booster rockets, which together with its three liguid-fuel engines power the liftoff, separated from the winged spaceship at the time of the explosion. Flying wildly, they threatened to strike populated areas, the officials said. Air Force range safety officers at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station set off radio-controlled explosions destroying them. Normally the reusable casings of the boosters parachute back to earth.
Dr. William R. Graham, acting Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said shuttle flights had been suspended indefinitely.
The Coast Guard cutter USCGC Point Roberts and its saddened, weary crew docked here this afternoon, bringing back 600 pounds of bits and pieces of the space shuttle Challenger and the first eyewitness accounts of the search. The Point Roberts was the first military vessel on the scene after the Challenger exploded Tuesday, and the wreckage it brought to port is the first physical evidence recovered. The ship’s commanding officer, 24-year-old Lieutenant (j.g.) John Philbin, described a calm, sunlit sea littered for miles with fragments of the shuttle and its rockets and fuel tanks. Little of it was identifiable, he said, and no human remains were seen.
Space agency engineers began poring over manufacturing and test records and flight data in an exhaustive search for answers to the many questions raised by the mysterious explosion of the Challenger. Officials of the Johnson Space Center here conceded that their investigation so far had yielded no clues to the source of the disaster Tuesday. They said they had found no evidence of any anomalies on the Challenger in the last minutes of the countdown or in the short period of ascent until the spaceship blew apart over the Atlantic Ocean. Everyone in Mission Control here at the time, as well as hundreds of technicians and engineers at other space centers, are asking themselves what went wrong and how they can best handle the unanswered questions.
Congressional leaders today generally supported the idea of replacing the space shuttle that exploded over Florida on Tuesday, but they admitted that budget restrictions might make it difficult to find the money. “I would favor a fourth orbiter,” said Representative Edward P. Boland, the Massachusetts Democrat who heads the subcommittee that handles appropriations for the space program. “I don’t think NASA can meet its requirements for space flights without it.” The disaster left the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with only three working space shuttles. Its plan to launch 15 missions this year was based on having four vehicles.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev and officials of the Soviet space program sent condolences over the shuttle disaster today, while Muscovites voiced incredulity and shock at the explosion. The blast was shown on nationwide Soviet television Tuesday and in greater detail today. Some Russians who watched seemed particularly horrified by the fact that two women were among the victims, and one woman dabbed at her tears as the youthful astronauts were shown smiling, headed for their mission. Some Muscovites reported disbelief among their acquaintances that such a disaster could strike an American spaceship. “Russians have been raised with a strong faith in American technology, and people couldn’t believe that this could happen,” said one middle-aged man. “They were surprised to learn that there was no ejection mechanism.”
Pope John Paul II said today that the deaths of seven Americans on the space shuttle Challenger had “provoked deep sorrow in my soul.” Speaking at his weekly general audience in the Vatican, the Pope asked his audience of several thousand to pray with him for those who died, saying, “I lift up to God a fervent prayer so that he accepts in his embrace the souls of these courageous pioneers in progress of science and of man.” The Pope also spoke of his “heartfelt participation in the torment” the astronauts’ families were suffering.
For seven long and mournful minutes this morning church bells pealed all over the city of Houston, the nation’s space capital, from which seven space travelers began a fateful journey that ended Tuesday when the space shuttle Challenger exploded over the Atlantic. Nowhere was the mourning, the sense of helpless grief, greater than in the communities that have sprung up around the sprawling Johnson Space Center, 25 miles south of downtown Houston, where the dead astronauts were just neighbors, fellow churchgoers, people who mowed their lawns on Saturdays. With a walkie-talkie in hand, Stan Avent was standing guard this afternoon in front of the neat, tan-brick home in Clear Lake City where his neighbor, Lieutenant Colonel Ellison S. Onizuka of the Air Force, had lived. “What can I say?” asked Mr. Avent, who, like Colonel Onizuka, was an employee of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “I was a friend and I’ve lost a close friend. I’m grieving like everybody else.”
Child health experts expressed concern yesterday about the psychological impact that the televised death of Christa McAuliffe will have on the nation’s schoolchildren, who were primed to see a teacher’s triumph in space but instead witnessed a mind-searing disaster. The experts were concerned that some children might experience exaggerated fears, nightmares, inability to concentrate and general anxiety about their own parents or teachers or their own safety. Many child psychologists around the country are advising parents and teachers to talk openly about the disaster to give children the chance to vent feelings that could fester, causing emotional stress. Their concerns were shared by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which is drawing up plans to bring psychological support to the nation’s children through television and other means. This afternoon the educational affairs division of the space agency will convene to consider what steps to take, including the selection of specialists on children to guide the agency in measures to help repair the emotional strains they fear many children could suffer.
President Reagan will fly to Houston tomorrow to lead the nation in a memorial service for the seven lost astronauts, the White House announced. As American flags flew at half-staff across the country, Mr. Reagan began calling relatives of the lost crew members to express condolences. Reagan and his wife, Nancy, planned to attend a memorial service for the seven astronauts of the Challenger on Friday in Houston, where the crew, which included Christa McAuliffe, a high-school teacher from New Hampshire, underwent flight training at the Johnson Space Center.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres appealed to the Soviet Union tonight to allow Jews to emigrate to Israel, and he urged Moscow to assume a positive role in the search for peace in the Middle East. “Let me use this rostrum in the city where Nazi leadership had its formidable start and its shameful end -brought about by the Red Army as well — to call upon the new leadership of the Soviet Union not to forget the common suffering of both our peoples,” Mr. Peres told a dinner gathering. “Let those who survived move to their destiny,” the Israeli leader said, referring to Soviet Jews who want to move to Israel. “Let our people go — and come!”
The Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said in an interview published today that he stood by every word of the remarks for which he will stand trial on charges of slandering the state. Mr. Walesa, who supported a boycott of the Polish elections in 1985, is scheduled to face trial next month for suggesting that authorities inflated the turnout figures. But he told the West Germany magazine Bunte that he would not withdraw the comments. “I stand by what I said,” Mr. Walesa said. “It was the truth. But every word I speak now in these circumstances is fuel to the fire of our opponents. Now that we know a trial is coming, even the most trivial thing could give cause for my arrest.”
Authorities have dismissed 11 mining officials to discipline them for a mine explosion December 22 that killed 18 workers, the official Polish press agency said today.
Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi survived two votes of confidence to rescue a crucial budget bill from rebel legislators. The coalition of Socialists, Christian Democrats, Republicans, Liberals and Social Democrats carried the first vote by 343 to 228 and the second by 346 to 226. Defeat on either motion would have meant the collapse of Craxi’s government. It was the second confidence vote in eight days. Another confidence vote is expected before the austerity measure receives final approval.
The Greek Government said today that said it would buy 40 F-16 jet fighters directly from General Dynamics, the manufacturer, and not through an agreement with the United States. Antonis Drossoyannis of the Defense Ministry said offset agreements, to be enacted over 15 years, “will cover almost 100 percent of the cost of the 40 aircraft,” estimated at $900 million. Offset benefits would include transfer of military technology, productive investments and assistance for the Greek tourist industry, Defense Ministry officials said. The government had signed letters of intent for the F-16 purchase in 1984. But the deal went no further until Greece signed an agreement earlier this month to prevent high-technology leaks to Soviet bloc countries.
A strike at four newspapers owned by the publisher Rupert Murdoch went into a fifth day today as union leaders sought to halt publication of the papers and the publisher fought back in the courts. Ron Todd, leader of the Transport and General Workers’ Union, Britain’s largest union, told his members not to drive their trucks through picket lines set up at Mr. Murdoch’s new plants by the 6,000 printers and other workers who have been on strike since Friday. Mr. Murdoch’s company, which has been using new technology to continue publishing in spite of the strike, tonight won a High Court injunction ordering the union to withdraw Mr. Todd’s order or face heavy fines.
The International Chess Federation formally agreed to put off until summer the rematch scheduled for next month between world champion Gary Kasparov and former titleholder Anatoly Karpov. The two Soviet grandmasters joined the federation president, Florencio Campomanes, in Lucerne, Switzerland, to sign a document that said the rematch will start between July 28 and August 4 at a location yet to be decided. Probable sites are Leningrad and London.
A gunman wearing civilian clothes and carrying Jordanian Army identity papers crossed the Jordan River today and shot at an Israeli patrol, killing two soldiers and wounding two others, an Israeli Army spokesman said. A second Israeli patrol rushed to the scene and killed the infiltrator, the spokesman said. Israeli Army officials said they did not believe the gunman who killed the two soldiers near the border was acting on the orders of the Jordanian Army, even though it appeared he had crossed the Jordan River border near a Jordanian Army outpost.
In another development early Thursday, an Israeli police intelligence officer handling Arab affairs was shot dead in an ambush at the busy Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem’s walled Old City, Reuters quoted polices sources as saying. Two other Israeli passengers in his car were reportedly wounded it came under automatic-weapons fire from another vehicle, Reuters said. No other details were immediately available.
Talks between King Hussein of Jordan and Yasser Arafat foundered today, leaving in doubt whether their Middle East peace initiative could be salvaged, according to an official of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The official, Hani al-Hassan, said in an interview that the United States had offered to invite the P.L.O. to an international conference on the Middle East, but had refused to recognize the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination within the context of a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation.
The White House brushed off Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi’s purported offer to urge an end to terrorist attacks in Europe if the United States promises not to attack his country. “This seems to be another of Colonel Qaddafi’s public relations ploys,” said White House spokesman Larry Speakes. “By publicly acknowledging his role in terrorist attacks, he is giving credence to being his own smoking gun. We are interested in deeds, not words, and will be watching his actions very carefully.”
High Southern Yemeni sources said a gangland-style massacre by President Ali Nasser Mohammed al-Hassani of his rivals in the ruling Marxist party’s Politburo touched off more than a week of bitter house-to-house battles and a rebellion that drove him from office. Mr. Hassani called a meeting of the 15-member Politburo at 10 AM on January 13. But he did not attend, Yemeni sources said, traveling instead by car to his tribal stronghold in the Abyan region with a small group of supporters. As the other members of the Politburo entered their low, pastel green headquarters near the harbor, the President’s personal guards reportedly opened fire on them with their Kalashnikov assault rifles, mowing down several of his most prominent critics. But bodyguards of other Politburo members drew their weapons and a wild gun battle broke out, in which other opponents of the President escaped.
Canadian investigators have concluded that an Air-India plane that crashed into the Irish Sea in June with a loss of 329 lives was deliberately blown up. The report came a week after Indian investigators concluded that the plane had been destroyed by an explosion. An Indian report mentioned “a chemical explosion” and did not say explicitly that it was a bomb.
The United States Embassy denied today that any of its diplomats had “engaged in espionage” with an Indian businessman who was accused Tuesday of passing secrets to several American officials. The businessman, Rama Swaroop, was named last year as an agent for Taiwan who passed secrets from Indian officials to various foreign contacts. He was specifically charged Tuesday with giving out classified information, but there were few details of what the information was. In a statement, a United States Embassy spokesman said today that the United States “denies that any United States Government officials have engaged in espionage activity with Swaroop and specifically that any United States Government official has sought or received classified information or documents from Swaroop.”
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, who has not been seen in public since mid-December, is in excellent health, according to Hu Yaobang, Communist Party chief. The official New China News Agency quoted Hu as saying that Deng, 81, made a speech earlier this month at a session of the standing committee of the ruling Politburo. The Foreign Ministry has also denied reports, circulating among diplomats in Peking, that Deng is ailing.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss objectives for the upcoming Tokyo Summit with administration officials.
Marcos aides are denouncing American “meddling” in the Philippine Presidential election campaign. Government officials and other people loyal to President Ferdinand E. Marcos characterize American attentiveness to the campaign as biased, colonial interference that favors Corazon C. Aquino. The President’s Political Affairs Adviser, Leonardo B. Perez, has accused the United States Ambassador here, Stephen W. Bosworth, of behaving as “the self-appointed praetorian guard” in stressing concern that the election count be kept free of manipulation. Similar official comments, as distinct from popular sentiments, are being heard with increasing frequency in this former United States colony as American observers prepare to monitor the election process.
When Corazon C. Aquino is faced with a difficult decision, according to people familiar with her style of leadership, she consults with an inner circle of trusted advisers that includes members of her family, which has been involved in politics for generations, and a small number of opposition politicians and activists. Then, friends say, she will lock her bedroom door, say a prayer and think about her slain husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr. “Help me out,” the presidential candidate says she asks her husband, an opposition leader who was assassinated in 1983. “What shall I do now?
A DC-3 owned by a regional Mexican airline slammed into a hill and burst into flames while attempting to land at a small, foggy airstrip on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The 18 passengers and three crew members aboard the Aero California flight, all Mexican citizens, were killed, airline spokesmen said. The Los Mochis airport, the plane’s destination, was closed due to heavy fog, and the aircraft was attempting to land at an agricultural landing strip 12 miles away when the crash occurred. The privately owned airline serves northwestern Mexico, including Baja California.
Tens of thousands of Haitians took to the streets of Cap Haitien, the country’s second-largest city, to demonstrate against President-for-Life Jean-Claude Duvalier. Circulating among the protesters was an unsigned pamphlet calling for an eight-day general strike against his rule next month. The demonstrators marched to the city’s cathedral and briefly surrounded the police station, but police and army troops were apparently instructed not to react.
At a time when they once promised to begin a major offensive, Nicaraguan guerrillas are instead back in their camps in Honduras, checked by improved Sandinista tactics and a critical shortage of supplies, rebel officials and Western diplomats here say. Two years ago the American-backed guerrillas shut down much of the economically vital coffee harvest in the fertile mountain valleys that slice across northern Nicaragua. This year the harvest appears to be in full swing, without serious threat from the rebels. A guerrilla spokesman said that only some 40 percent of rebel troops were now in the field. Western diplomats put the number far lower, saying the great majority of rebel forces were inside Honduras.
A key adviser to the Nicaraguan rebels said today that they would use American military aid, if it is approved, to create secure supply lines inside Nicaragua and to acquire anti-aircraft weapons, long-range mortars and artillery. John K. Singlaub, the retired United States major general who has assisted the anti-Sandinista rebels in making arms purchases and obtaining private financing, said the military strategy of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force and smaller rebel groups had been limited by “the fact that they don’t have a secure line of supply.” He said they had been able to mount only hit-and-run attacks. Until the rebels are assured of aid to establish better supply lines, he said, they cannot move into urban areas of Nicaragua or take and hold territory.
An Angolan rebel leader began a 10-day visit to the United States in search of more American support. The visitor, Jonas Savimbi, began by meeting with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. After a 30-minute meeting with Mr. Weinberger and Adm. William J. Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a Pentagon official said they had assessed the situation in Angola, where Mr. Savimbi’s rebels, with South African support, are fighting Soviet-backed Angolan Government troops and allied Cuban forces.
Uganda’s new leader pledged to promote democracy and to protect human rights in a country torn by 20 years of coups, massacres and tribal fighting. The new leader, Ugandan rebel commander Yoweri Museveni, was sworn in as the nation’s president, four days after his National Resistance Army stormed Kampala and brought down the six-month-old military government. Museveni, a former defense minister, is Uganda’s seventh head of state since the country of 14 million gained independence from Britain in 1962. In a nearly hourlong inaugural speech, Museveni said his government will be an interim one, but did not give a date for elections.
The Pentagon received $23 billion more than Congress intended during the last three years because the Defense Department overestimated the inflation rate, according to a study. The report by the Congressional Budget Office led to a renewed call by Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, for overhauling the process for figuring inflation. When it approves the budget each fiscal year, Congress factors in the expected inflation rate and in the case of the Pentagon budgets, the Defense Department’s own projections have usually been accepted. Aspin said he is still waiting for the Administration to propose a way to overhaul the inflation projection system to try to come up with more accurate forecasts.
Social Security’s old-age trust fund on Friday will repay $10.6 billion that it borrowed from Medicare in 1982 to stave off bankruptcy. James M. Brown, a Social Security spokesman, said the fund will also repay the last of its debts, $2.5 billion owed to the disability trust, by June. The combined old-age and disability funds had $42 billion in reserve at the end of 1985 — $7 billion more than Social Security’s trustees forecast just nine months earlier.
The government’s toxic waste dump cleanup program will start shutting down next month because it’s running out of money, Lee M. Thomas, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, told reporters in Washington. The Senate and House have passed different versions of a renewed, five-year Superfund cleanup program but have not ironed out their differences. The program has been operating at idle speed since its taxing authority expired last September 30.
Richard E. Lyng was nominated by President Reagan to succeed John R. Block as the 22nd Secretary of Agriculture. Mr. Lyng served Mr. Reagan as Deputy Secretary of Agriculture from 1981 to 1985.
A program for feeding infants, children and pregnant women was at issue. Congressional leaders accused the Department of Agriculture of deleting key sections of an extensive study on the program to obscure its favorable conclusions.
The Justice Department is completing a lengthy investigation into Geraldine A. Ferraro’s finances and currently has no plans to prosecute her, Federal law-enforcement officials said yesterday. Mrs. Ferraro, who was interviewed earlier this month by the department, has said that the outcome of the investigation would not alter her decision to pass up a race for the United States Senate this year. One law-enforcement official knowledgeable about the case said it was “pretty clear” that the former Vice-Presidential candidate would be cleared of allegations involving improper campaign financing, although the official noted that leads were still being followed in the case. He cautioned that information might still be uncovered that could lead to prosecution.
Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards challenged the Legislature to let voters decide his proposals for a lottery and casino gambling, pledging to resign if Louisiana voters don’t agree with him. “I am comfortable enough in my belief that the majority of the people want this that I will lay my political life on the line and resign if either proposal fails,” he told a state assessors convention in Baton Rouge.
National Guard troops sent to quell strike violence at a Hormel meatpacking plant in Austin, Minnesota, were withdrawn over company and police objections, and the company said it will hire 450 more workers to replace strikers. The hiring this week will continue until the plant has 1,025 employees, said Deryl Arnold, manager of the Geo. A. Hormel & Co. flagship plant. Strikers who have not returned by that time will have to wait until there are openings before they can be rehired, he said.
Former White House chief of staff Hamilton Jordan, backed by his physician and a letter from a specialist, says he is cured of cancer and able to campaign for the Democratic nomination for the U.S. Senate from Georgia. “I would not be making the campaign if I were not confident of a complete cure …” Jordan said. In Florida, meanwhile, Governor Bob Graham announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate.
Former President Nixon returned to his home in Saddle River, New Jersey, today after spending two days in the hospital for treatment of a viral infection that he contracted in the Bahamas. Mr. Nixon, 73 years old, was accompanied by his wife, Pat, and a team of Secret Service agents as he left the Miami Heart Institute just before noon, said Dr. Lewis Elias, who treated the former President. “He’s going to be tired and weak for one or two weeks,” Dr. Elias said. “He’s still coughing. But he’s making an excellent recovery and he will complete his recuperation at home.” Dr. Elias said he had advised Mr. Nixon to rest, stay indoors at his home and have no business appointments for two weeks.
A worker at Three Mile Island’s damaged Unit 2 nuclear reactor was contaminated Tuesday, bringing on a low-level emergency, according to the operator of the plant. The employee, slightly contaminated on the back of his head, was taken to a hospital where he was decontaminated and released, said a spokesman for the operator, the GPU Nuclear Corporation. The worker received a dose of less than 1 millirem of radioactivity, said Doug Bedell, the spokesman. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s limit for skin contamination is 7,500 millirems in a three-month period. The contaminated worker was part of a five-man crew involved in the removal of uranium fuel and other debris from the reactor. His name was not disclosed.
The Millstone 3 nuclear plant, under construction for more than 11 years, received approval today from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to begin operating at full power. In a unanimous vote in Washington, the agency’s five commissioners authorized the issuance of a full-power operating license as soon as the commission’s staff determined that the plant was ready. A commission spokesman, Karl Abraham, said the license was expected to be issued by the commission’s Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation “within the next several days.” He said commission inspectors were at the plant in Waterford, Connecticut, monitoring the preparations.
More than 130,000 chickens were ordered destroyed Tuesday as state officials tried to control an outbreak of deadly avian flu. State Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Grubb said two flocks, one with 121,000 chickens and the other with 10,700, would be killed. Six flocks were ordered destroyed earlier this month. The fatal disease has been identified in counties in the central, south central and eastern sections of the state. Mr. Grubb said state officials still hoped they could contain the outbreak. In an outbreak in 1983 and 1984, 16 million chickens were destroyed in Pennsylvania and another million were killed in New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia. The flu does not harm humans, but is easily spread by people to poultry.
Midshipmen who will graduate from the Naval Academy in June decided this week whether they wanted to be aviators or nuclear submariners, destroyermen or engineers, marines or oceanographers. From late Thursday afternoon through the wee hours of Friday morning, the first classmen, or seniors, lined up according to their standing in the class, walked up to a long table lined with officers from each specialty and made their choices on a first-come, first-served basis. The No. 1 midshipman in the class of 1026, Jeffrey D. Semancik of Manchester, New Hampshire, chose to become a nuclear submariner. Altogether, 302 midshipmen opted for aviation, 270 for the surface Navy, 171 for the Marine Corps, and 156 to become submariners.
In testimony that appeared to undermine the defense of a black sailor accused of murdering a white officer, the captain of the ship on which the two men served asserted today that the slain officer was not a racist. Commander William A. Coleman Jr., the captain of the Navy frigate USS Miller, who is black himself, testified in the court-martial of Petty Officer 3d Class Mitchell T. Garraway Jr., 21 years old. Mr. Garraway is charged with murdering Lieutenant James K. Sterner, 35, his superior in the engine room of the Miller.
A witness in the influence-peddling and perjury trial of a Federal district judge testified today that he tipped the Federal Bureau of Investigation to suspect under-the-table dealings involving the judge and a wealthy businessman. In the second day of testimony, the witness, Robert Jarvis, told of his suspicions of extortion, bribery and attempted murder involving his former employer, Wiley Fairchild. “Initially, I called the F.B.I. office in Washington because I didn’t trust anybody locally,” said Mr. Jarvis, a lawyer. He said he made several anonymous calls in late 1983 and met with agents in February 1984.
Benjamin R. Civiletti, who served as Attorney General under President Carter, was named Tuesday as counsel to the Rhode Island House of Representatives for its impeachment proceedings against Chief Justice Joseph A. Bevilacqua of the State Supreme Court. The Chief Justice is accused of having links to organized crime.
Snow fell across the eastern half of the nation, snarling traffic from Michigan to the nation’s capital, as bitter cold air bolstered by wind gusts 20 to 40 mph blew into the Mississippi Valley. A record-setting Southern cold wave spared Florida’s $2.4-billion citrus crop, but growers said freezing temperatures slightly damaged the state’s vegetable crop. Cold, wind and snow since Sunday have been blamed for at least 10 deaths nationwide, including one each in Georgia, Tennessee and Pennsylvania, two in Florida and North Carolina and three in New Jersey.
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Born:
Drew Tyler Bell, American actor (‘Thomas Forrester’ — “The Bold and the Beautiful”), in Indiana.
Thomas Greiss, German National Team and NHL goaltender (Olympics, 2006, 2010; San Jose Sharks, Phoenix Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, New York Islanders, Detroit Red Wings, St. Louis Blues), in Füssen, West Germany.
Chris Bourque, NHL left wing (Washington Capitals, Pittsburgh Penguins, Boston Bruins), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Jair Jurrjens, Dutch-Curaçaoan MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2011; Detroit Tigers, Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Colorado Rockies), in Santa Maria, Curaçao.
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Leif Erickson, 74, American actor (“Invaders from Mars”, “On the Waterfront”).
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