The Geneva arms talks recessed today without progress on the limitation of nuclear weapons, Reagan Administration officials said. The failure to make headway suggested that the meeting in November between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, had not lent impetus to the talks. The latest round began in mid-January amid hopes that advances might be made on medium-range missiles. The hopes were based, in part, on the joint statement at the summit meeting stressing the possibility of an interim accord on medium-range arms. An American official today described the talks as “relatively disappointing.” Another said, “As far as this round is concerned, there were no runs, no hits and no errors.” Viktor P. Karpov, the Soviet negotiator, said in Geneva, “We hope maybe next time there will be more progress than this time.” The negotiations deal with three sets of issues: intercontinental weapons, medium-range systems, and defensive and space arms. American officials said there had been no movement on intercontinental weapons or on defensive and space arms. According to the officials, Soviet negotiators have said that a ban on antisatellite systems might be worked out as a first step toward a total prohibition on space arms. But the officials said there was no sign that Moscow would settle for partial measures banning defensive and space systems.
The Soviet Union has also kept to its position that purposeful research that could lead to the development of space-based defense systems should be banned, officials said. The United States position is that this would set more restrictive limits on research than the 1972 ABM treaty and that the Soviet proposal is unacceptable. Hope on Medium-Range Arms The prevailing view within the Administration is that medium-range missiles still offer the greatest prospect for progress. The United States has proposed that United States and Soviet medium-range missiles be eliminated over a three-year period.
Maynard W. Glitman, the American negotiator on medium-range weapons, said at a seminar in Munich on Sunday that an earlier American proposal to limit each side to 140 medium-range missile launchers that are within striking range of Europe was also on the negotiating table, Officials said there were a number of problems to be resolved. The Soviet Union has accepted the principle that Soviet SS-20 missiles in Asia and Soviet short-range missile in Europe be covered by an accord. But the Soviet Union has taken the position that such limits should be worked out after an agreement on medium-range missiles. The United States wants these systems covered by any agreement that deals with medium-range missiles.
Another issue involves British and French missiles. British-French Freeze Asked Mr. Gorbachev’s three-stage plan of Jan. 15, calling for the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2000, dropped an earlier demand that the Soviet Union be allowed to match the combined number of British, French and American medium-range missiles. But Mr. Gorbachev insisted that the British and French agree not to increase their missile arsenal and that the United States agree not to transfer missiles to other nations, a stipulation that would block the United States from selling Trident missiles to Britain. Britain, France and the United States have rejected the proposal. The United States says the Soviet Union has 441 SS-20 missiles. The United States has deployed slightly more than 140 medium range system in Western Europe. Britain and France are undertaking a modernization program that will expand their arsenal from several hundred to more than a thousand warheads.
Jewish organizations expressed outrage today over published reports that former Secretary General Kurt Waldheim served under the Nazi military command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews, and they called on all international organizations to make efforts to exclude former Nazis from positions of power in the future. Mr. Waldheim’s former colleagues at United Nations, including Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar and a former Under Secretary General, Brian E. Urquhart, refused to comment on the disclosures. Mr. Waldheim, an Austrian who served as Secretary General from 1972 to 1982, is running for the presidency of Austria. According to documents found among German military records and in the archives of the Austrian Justice Ministry and Foreign Ministry, Mr. Waldheim served under a German Army command that fought brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and engaged in mass deportations of Greek Jews. The documents, described in The New York Times today, also show that as a young man Mr. Waldheim was enrolled in a Nazi student union and a branch of the SA, or Brownshirts. The documents were made available to The Times by the World Jewish Congress and were independently corroborated.
There are new reports of Jewish political prisoners being ill-treated in the Soviet Union, possibly due to police resentment over the release of Jewish dissident Anatoly Shcharansky, according to the London-based Women’s Campaign for Soviet Jewry. A spokeswoman for the rights-monitoring group cited reports that interrogators broke both legs of a Hebrew teacher at a penal settlement in the Buryatskaya autonomous republic. In another case, a Hebrew teacher reportedly was beaten while awaiting trial for protesting non-delivery of mail from the West. Shcharansky was freed in a prisoner exchange last month.
The Russian-language editor of Radio Liberty, a U.S.-financed radio station that broadcasts to the Soviet Union, disappeared a week ago with his valuable stamp collection but no money, police said. Bill Mahoney, spokesman for the Munich-based station, said that Oleg Tumanov, 41, a Soviet defector who worked there for 20 years, called in sick February 25 and has not been seen since. A police spokesman said that a woman who lived with Tumanov reported his disappearance two days after he dropped from sight. He quoted her as saying that Tumanov may have gone to Stockholm or Vienna to sell his stamp collection.
Pessimism on a foreign aid bill was expressed by the chairman of a key House appropriations panel. He told Secretary of State George P. Shultz that unless the White House and Congress reached an overall budget compromise the House was unlikely to approve no more than a minimal level of aid this year. The chairman, Representative David R. Obey, Democrat of Wisconsin, said his subcommittee might approve only the Middle East part of the aid measure and $2 billion for the rest of the world. That would total $7.4 billion, less than half the $15.2 billion sought by the White House. Mr. Obey said such a reduction could be avoided only if the Administration and Congress reached a compromise on ways to reduce the overall budget deficit and if some additional revenues were provided. The foreign aid request represents a $2.1 billion increase over this year’s appropriation. It has drawn criticism from many members of Congress because foreign aid is one of the few programs not being cut back while many domestic programs are reduced.
An unmanned Soviet spacecraft today sent back data from its first close glimpse of Halley’s comet to international observers, both scientists and machines, assembled at the Institute for Space Research. The spacecraft, Vega 1, was nearly nine million miles from the comet’s nucleus when the sensors went on this morning, so the initial data were sparse. But the ship, streaking at 47 miles a second, was set to carry out what would be man’s first encounter with the solar system’s best-known comet. That meeting is to take place Thursday at 10:15 AM (2:15 AM, Eastern standard time) as Vega 1, one of two Soviet spacecraft aimed at the comet, passes 5,600 miles in front of the comet’s icy nucleus. The European space agency’s Giotto spacecraft and two Japanese craft are to rendezvous with the comet in the next seven days.
All Palestinians who sought Israeli appointment as mayors in the occupied West Bank have changed their minds after the assassination of Zafer Masri, the moderate Palestinian mayor of Nablus, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said. Masri, slain Sunday, was the apparent victim of Arab extremists. Meanwhile, Israeli troops wounded a Palestinian youth in the leg during a stone-throwing incident in the Nablus marketplace.
Egypt opened a new round of border talks with Israel on the issue of Taba, the Gulf of Aqaba beach site still held by Israel after it returned the rest of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt under the terms of their 1979 treaty. The talks site was moved to eastern Cairo because of the recent security force mutiny in the area near the Pyramids, where the talks were originally scheduled. Egypt said that Cairo’s after-dark curfew will be lifted Friday, a sign that security in the capital has improved.
Christian and Muslim militias resumed shelling in Beirut on Monday, and the police said six people had been killed and 29 wounded. The rival militias ignored four cease-fires called by a four-party security committee to halt the shelling. The fighting broke out during the rush hour on Monday and persisted sporadically until daybreak today, when a fifth cease-fire call took hold. Residents huddled in basements and bomb shelters. Tracer bullets lighted up the night sky, and explosions echoed through the city as militiamen lobbed rocket-propelled grenades and mortars across the Green Line, which divides the Christian and Muslim sectors. Despite a lull at dawn, crossings between the two sectors remained closed because of sniper fire. Christian radio stations accused Muslim Shiite extremists of having started the fighting to sabotage a Vatican peacemaking initiative. Muslim radios denied the charge and accused the Christians of having shot first.
Iran reported 12 civilians killed and 72 wounded today in Iraqi air attacks on the Iranian town of Shadgan. Iraq denied that its planes attacked civilian areas. Shadgan is 40 miles from the Iran-Iraq border, near Abadan. In Baghdad, a military spokesman said the planes hit a Shadgan military camp that housed troops, military supplies and fuel storage tanks. But the Iranian press agency said most of the casualties were war refugees, women and children. The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, which has backed Baghdad in the 5 ½-year-old war, on Monday called on Iran to withdraw from the Faw Peninsula in southern Iraq, which it invaded Feb. 9. Speaking after a three-day meeting in Riyadh of the council members’ Foreign Ministers, Youssef Bin Alawi of Oman told reporters today, “The Iranian presence in Faw is a direct threat to member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council.”
Afghan rebels shot down three Soviet helicopters on successive days last month around Kabul, Western diplomats in Pakistan said. Four Soviet soldiers died in the crash of one of the copters. The diplomats also reported at least six unexplained explosions and exchanges of small-arms fire in the Afghan capital last week and said that two Soviet soldiers were killed earlier by a bazaar shopkeeper.
Western diplomats said today that two senior Afghan Army officers had defected to Pakistan in the latest in a series of desertions from the Soviet-backed Afghan armed forces. A brigadier general in the Kabul Military Academy fled to Pakistan on Feb. 10, the diplomats said. Ten days later, a colonel from the same academy followed his colleague to Pakistan, two diplomats said in separate briefings. The diplomats did not identify the officers. Pakistani officials and rebel sources, however, could not verify the reports. Few Western journalists have been admitted to Afghanistan since Soviet troops were sent into the country in December 1979.
The voters of the small bayside community of Zushi, Japan have recalled their 26-member city council because of its support for plans to build a large housing complex for Americans stationed at a nearby naval base. It was the second time in recent months that Zushi residents had signaled their strong opposition to the project, which the United States Navy says is sorely needed to relieve overcrowding but which local environmentalists contend will destroy a wildlife preserve. The vote, held Sunday with ballots counted today, raised questions about whether American servicemen and their families will ever get to live here. Nevertheless, the results were generally interpreted as less an anti-American statement than a caution to all outsiders, especially the Japanese Government, to respect local wishes.
Ferdinand E. Marcos’s holdings overseas could be worth billions of dollars, according to documents cited by the new Philippine Government. One set of documents being investigated appears to tie two New York real estate investors, Ralph and Joseph Bernstein, to holdings by the Marcos family. The House of Representatives voted last Thursday to cite the Bernstein brothers for contempt for not answering questions about their relationships or business dealings with Mr. Marcos and his wife, Imelda. The vote on Ralph Bernstein was 352 to 34, and the vote on Joseph Bernstein was 343 to 50. In another matter, there were unconfirmed reports that some justices on the Philippine Supreme Court had resigned, as President Corazon C. Aquino has demanded. But Mrs. Aquino’s close advisers said they had not had word that any resignations had been tendered, although they said such a move might come soon.
Filipinos are enjoying a free press for the first time in years. On television, the elaborate Marcos propaganda operation has collapsed. John Peter Zenger never mentioned a chicken farm as the alternative to the fourth estate, but that is how Luis D. Beltran, one of the premier newspaper columnists here, survived during the decade when he was banned from Filipino journalism. Now, while the rest of the nation descends from the euphoria of a revolution, Mr. Beltran is where he wants to be, ahead of his readers, settling into an artfully cranky groove in the pages of The Philippine Daily Inquirer. Only this morning, he was criticizing President Corazon C. Aquino as easily as he had rooted for her in her challenge to Ferdinand E. Marcos. The impishness of a free press is to be seen and believed in Manila these days. It is best visualized in the sidewalk hawkers, those ragamuffins and older entrepreneurs who scatter like roaches across the human flow, confronting pedestrians and walking against traffic as they wave and shout about their great handfuls of newspapers, inky with free flowing words, unfettered curiosity and bombast, at two pesos, or 10 cents, an issue.
The Greenpeace yacht Vega, which the French Navy seized last October 24 in a restricted zone around the Mururoa Atoll nuclear test zone in the South Pacific, has been returned to the environmentalist organization, officials said today. After its crew of four were expelled, French authorities took the yacht from Mururoa to Tahiti and loaded it aboard a freighter that sailed for New Zealand on February 17.
The generals and priests were poised on the dais at the former Haitian presidential palace, ready for oratory to commemorate the end of 29 years of Duvalier family rule. For the first time in years, the palace doors were swung open — a fact widely noted, for the large building had so long sucked all the nation’s power inside. Then nervous whispers began to cross the lawn. Gerard Gourgue, the Minister of Justice who is the most respected man of the new five-member junta had failed to show up.
President Jose Napoleon Duarte said today that he was sending a proposal to President Daniel Ortega Saavedra of Nicaragua under which they would agree to open simultaneous negotiations with the armed rebels opposing their Governments. The offer, which appears to be a restatement of past suggestions by the Reagan Administration for seeking peace in the region, coincides with the debate in Congress over renewed military aid for Nicaraguan anti-Government guerrillas. But when pressed in an interview today, Mr. Duarte said his offer had nothing to do with the debate in Congress and refused to comment on whether he supported American aid for the Nicaraguan guerrillas.
Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Speaker of the House of Representatives, led a Democratic counterattack today against a new Administration request for $70 million in military aid and $30 million in economic aid for the Nicaraguan rebels. In a statement read to reporters, Mr. O’Neill, who is a Massachusetts Democrat, said the Administration should practice the same “smart diplomacy” that worked in the Philippines instead of providing more aid to the Nicaraguan insurgents. The White House has asked action before Congress takes an Easter break on March 26. The reference to the Philippines was an effort to counter the Administration’s argument that those who were concerned about democracy in the Philippines should be even more concerned about democracy in Nicaragua, closer to the United States.
Nearly 200 religious figures formed a human cross on the Capitol steps today, commemorating people who have died in Nicaragua, and they accused the Reagan Administration of preferring “terrorism to the pursuit of peace.” “A scaffold of deception is being constructed around Nicaragua,” the Roman Catholics, Protestants and Jews said in formally declaring that they would fight President Reagan’s proposal to send $70 million in military aid to rebels fighting the Sandinista Government. “The Government’s distortion campaign is to prepare the American people for further U.S. military action in Nicaragua,” said a declaration signed by the religious figures and read by a Roman Catholic Bishop, Thomas J. Gumbleton of Detroit.
The State Department denied reports that U.S. aid to Bolivia has been withheld until the nation eradicates 10,000 acres of cocaine plants. A spokesman said that parts of the $59-million package of economic and military assistance have not yet been disbursed but that the aid has not been suspended. The department said a Bolivian newspaper apparently misunderstood U.S. Embassy statements indicating that the aid was being withheld.
Angolan rebels said they seized the diamond-mining town of Andrada in the northeast, capturing more than 150 foreign workers. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, led by Jonas Savimbi, said in a Lisbon statement that the foreigners — Portuguese, Filipinos, Romanians, West Germans and British — will be freed after being marched 700 miles to rebel base areas in southeastern Angola. It also claimed that its forces killed 60 government troops while losing 19.
South Africa’s state of emergency will be lifted soon, possibly on Friday, President P.W. Botha announced in Parliament. However, Mr. Botha indicated that new laws, replacing the emergency decree, would bolster Pretoria’s pervasive security regulations. Mr. Botha, speaking at a special session of Parliament in Cape Town, acknowledged that unrest was continuing in some parts of the country. But he said the situation had “improved sufficiently” for the emergency decree, imposed July 21 after months of unrest, to be lifted.
Washington’s effort to sell off as much public land in the West as possible and to accelerate development of natural resources on the remaining land has been largely stymied. The effort has been a major objective of the Reagan Administration. Political leaders, environmentalists and some development interests said the Administration’s drive has been halted by a powerful upsurge of environmental activism.
A shuttle explosion on the launching pad could release a harmful cloud of radioactive material under some circumstances, Federal officials acknowledged. But the officials said they could not describe the health or environmental consequences of such an accident in an open session of Congress because the damage estimates are classified. The officials were testifying before two House subcommittees on the safety of using nuclear heat generators aboard the space shuttle. The shuttle Challenger had no such generators aboard when it exploded just after liftoff Jan. 28, killing all seven astronauts aboard, but it had been scheduled to carry one aloft on its next mission.
President Reagan places a call to his Special Assistant and Speechwriter, Peggy Noonan.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to receive the Department of Education’s report entitled, “What Works.”
The director of the program for a shield against attacking missiles said today that he had asked permission to create a Government-financed intensive research group to provide “squeaky clean” advice on the design and operation of the space-based defense. The director, Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, who heads the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization, testified that he had recommended the creation of such an office to Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger as a means of obtaining advice that would be free of any commercial taint. He said he had received formal approval. Federally financed research organizations are common. A notable example is the Rand Corporation, which has conducted analytical studies for the Air Force for many years.
Attorney General Edwin Meese III said it would be legal for the government to order mandatory drug tests for millions of federal workers, a step recommended by President Reagan’s Commission on Organized Crime. At a news conference, Meese also said the Justice Department and the Cabinet would review the proposal that all federal employees, as well as anyone working for federal contractors, submit to mandatory drug tests as a condition of employment.
A Federal district judge today rejected a defense request to hold two trials, one on espionage charges and the other on accusations of tax evasion, for a retired Navy communications specialist accused of spying for the Soviet Union. Defense lawyers have said the decision may mean that the defendant, Jerry A. Whitworth, will not testify at his trial. The trial began today with jury selection. Mr. Whitworth, who has pleaded not guilty, had sought two trials, offering to testify on the espionage counts but not on the tax charges. He is charged with nine counts of espionage and four of tax fraud. Defense lawyers have declined to comment on suggestions that they wanted separate trials to limit the amount of financial information provided to jurors considering the espionage counts. Prosecutors have charged that Mr. Whitworth received more than $300,000 in exchange for Navy secrets and failed to report the money on his income tax returns.
Jonathan Jay Pollard, a Navy intelligence analyst accused of selling military secrets to Israel, has been cooperating with the American authorities in an attempt to strike a plea bargain and avoid a trial, Reagan Administration sources said today. The Israeli Government, which has apologized for its involvement in the affair, has not placed any pressure on Mr. Pollard to plead guilty in the case, the sources said.
Americans have unrealistic expectations of the Medicare program and misunderstand retirement health care insurance coverage, a Gallup Poll showed. The poll, conducted for the Northwestern National Life Insurance Co., found that 76% of those questioned overestimate the proportion of health care expenses that Medicare pays for and nearly half believe that Medicare pays double the actual rate. Company Chairman John Pearson said, “These survey results reinforce our view that . . . most Americans aren’t able to plan effectively for their retirement health care.”
The chemical leak that killed a worker at a Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel plant in Oklahoma on January 4 arose from a safety violation that occurred often, rather than rarely or never, as the company maintained, Federal officials said. The leak of uranium hexafluoride, which sent 100 people to the hospital, occurred when a worker heated an overfilled cylinder of the material, in direct violation of plant procedures, and the cask ruptured. At the time, company officials told the public and Federal regulators that they did not recall another instance of an overfilled cask’s being heated at Kerr-McGee’s Sequoyah Fuels Corporation plant in Gore, Oklahoma. But interviews and a review of documents since then by investigators from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission have suggested that workers there heated cylinders to expand and remove excess material 20 times in 1985, 20 percent of the occasions on which a cask was filled.
The number of reported cases of AIDS in San Francisco rose dramatically in February and the increase in AIDS patients put a strain on San Francisco General Hospital, health officials report. The rate of acquired immune deficiency syndrome occurrences had been relatively stable in recent months, but the city health department said 101 new cases were reported in February, 32 more than the previous monthly high, although 10 of the cases were diagnosed in previous months and reported late. In addition, 47 AIDS sufferers died in San Francisco last month
Postal rates for charities, newspapers, schools and libraries will increase Sunday for the second time this year under a new rate schedule approved by the Board of Governors of the Postal Service. The first-class rate was not changed. The rate increases, approved by an 8-0 vote, range from averages of 2% to 20% for particular types of nonprofit and newspaper mail. They are designed to make up for the $72-million difference between what Congress proposed and what it actually appropriated. It also takes into account $32 million in cuts, effective March 1, required by the Gramm-Rudman budget-balancing law.
A federal jury in Brooklyn convicted six self-described revolutionaries of conspiracy and bombing 11 military sites and corporations in New York between 1982 and 1984 as members of the radical United Freedom Front. The jury returned convictions on 27 counts and was ordered to return today to continue deliberating the remaining charges in the 72-count bombing conspiracy case. All but one of the bombs exploded, causing some damage but no injuries.
Medical scientists warned yesterday that acetaminophen, the painkiller in Tylenol and many other aspirin substitutes, can cause serious liver damage in alcoholics. Two experts recommended that chronic, heavy drinkers not use the drug and called on the Federal Government to require that warnings of the danger be included on product labels. “This is an underappreciated problem,” said Dr. Edward J. Huth, editor of The Annals of Internal Medicine, which is publishing a new report on the problem today. A medical spokesman for Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturer of Tylenol, which has been the nation’s most popular acetaminophen product, responded that such cases of liver damage were rare and confined to severe alcoholics who had exceeded the recommended dosage. The spokesman said company officials had not yet had a chance to review the new study and were concerned that it would create unwarranted alarm because it was appearing in a climate of public fear about the safety of Tylenol products.
A three-year contract was approved in Chicago by United Steelworkers union members at one of five can companies hit by a strike last month, but the walkout remains in effect at the other four, the union announced. The settlement, which provides for no wage increase but includes bonuses totaling $1,000 over three years, was ratified by a committee representing the 2,500 production workers at the National Can Corp. of Chicago. Workers struck the company 16 days ago.
Doctors removed the spleen from the first person to receive two artificial hearts in surgery to stop massive bleeding in her abdomen, a hospital spokeswoman said. Bernadette Chayrez, 40, was listed in critical condition and her prognosis was guarded after the 134-hour operation at University Medical Center in Tucson.
Postal rates for newspapers delivered in the county where they are published, as well as for charities, schools and libraries, will increase Sunday for the second time this year under a new rate approved today by the governors of the United States Postal Service. The increases, designed to make up a $72 million difference between the subsidy the Postal Service expected and what Congress appropriated, range from 2 percent to 20 percent for nonprofit and newspaper mail.
Workers at a fourth General Electric Company plant went on strike today, raising the number of idle employees to 6,100 and halting production of $1 billion worth of military aircraft engines. Although Tuesday’s walkout by 700 employees at the Wilmington plant officially was not related to the strikes at the Lynn, Everett and Medford plants, officials of Local 201 of the International Union of Electronic, Electrical, Technical, Salaried and Machine Workers said the Wilmington workers supported their colleagues. Negotiators met for two hours today but no progress was reported.
Many Federal loan offices are running out of funds that farmers most troubled by debt need to finance their operations as planting time approaches. As it did last year, the Agriculture Department is planning to seek permission to tap the resources of its emergency disaster fund. But this year, unlike last year, that fund is limited.
One-shot bonus payments are increasingly being made by employers because they are cheaper than annual wage increases, according to a study by the Bureau of National Affairs. The practice is strongly opposed by union leaders. The study found that lump-sum bonus payments were provided in 19 percent of all non-construction contract settlements surveyed in 1985, up sharply from 6 percent in 1984.
Playboy magazine is looking for women from Ivy League colleges to pose in the nude for its pages, but The Harvard Crimson has declined to run an advertisement from the magazine soliciting models. The advertisement ran in the campus newspapers of the seven other Ivy League schools last week, although editors at some papers debated over whether to accept it. The Brown Daily Herald and The Yale Daily News later published letters from students who opposed publication of the ads.
Blue-chip stock prices fell sharply on Wall Street yesterday, but the overall market was mixed as investors were forced to weigh the benefits of declining interest rates against signs of a surprisingly weak economy. Most prices were up sharply early in the day as the market reacted favorably to a continuing decline in interest rates in the bond market. But when bond prices weakened and rates rose in late afternoon, Wall Street singled out blue-chip equities for profit taking. In the end, the Dow Jones industrial average, which fell a dozen points on Monday, lost another 10.25 points yesterday, to 1,686.42. The 30-stock gauge was up nearly 14 points in midafternoon.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1686.42 (-10.25)
Born:
Mike Krieger, Brazilian-American entrepreneur and software engineer who co-founded Instagram, in São Paulo, Brazil.
Margo Harshman, American actress (“NCIS”), in San Diego, California.
Park Min-young, South Korean actress (Sungkyunkwan Scandal), in Seoul, South Korea.
Died:
Elizabeth Smart, 72, Canadian author (“By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept”), of a heart attack.
Howard Greenfield, 50, American song lyricist (“Calendar Girl”; “Breaking Up Is Hard To Do”; “Love Will Keep Us Together”; theme to “Bewitched”), of a brain tumor.
Richard Manuel, 42, Canadian rock vocalist and pianist (The Band — “The Shape I’m In”; “Tears Of Rage”), commited suicide.
Ryan Wendell, NFL center and guard (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49-Patriots, 2014; New England Patriots, Carolina Panthers), in Pomona, Texas.
Caesar Rayford, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys), in Spanaway, Washington.
Scott McKillop, NFL linebacker (San Francisco 49ers), in Monroeville, Pennsylvania.
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