Jacques Chirac, the neo-Gaullist leader who has been asked by France’s Socialist President to help form a new Government, spent the day trying to draw up a list of Cabinet ministers. But after numerous conferences with fellow members of the right-of-center coalition that won parliamentary elections here Sunday, Mr. Chirac, the Mayor of Paris, still had not formally accepted the offer to become Prime Minister, which was made on Tuesday by President Francois Mitterrand. Mr. Chirac, at one point in a day of many meetings and statements, said, “Things are developing normally.” But by late tonight he had not yet succeeded in forming a government, and there were signs that his task was being made more difficult both by Mr. Mitterrand’s rejection of some of his choices and by the refusal of some in his coalition to accept ministerial posts.
On Sunday night, Marc Becam, the Mayor of Quimper in Brittany, was elected to the French Parliament as an independent. By Monday morning, he had become an enormously popular fellow. “The Rally for the Republic began calling me early Monday morning,” Mr. Becam said of one of the victorious conservative parties. “They begged me to come to Paris immediately and rally around the party.” Mayor Becam replied that he was too busy with affairs at Town Hall to leave. He would think about it, he told them, and let them know in a few days. Mr. Becam was playing hard to get. He could get away with it. He is one of 14 legislators who were elected not on lists of the two major rightist parties, but as independents. Because the two rightist parties — Rally for the Republic and the Union for French Democracy — won only 276 seats, 13 seats short of a majority in the 577-seat National Assembly, these independents are critical if the right is to obtain a majority.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger announced today that they had reached a basic accord covering West German participation in the Reagan Administration’s missile-defense research program. After two hours of talks with Mr. Weinberger in the northern Bavarian town of Grafenwohr, Mr. Kohl said that his Economics Minister, Martin Bangemann, would travel to Washington next week and sign two accords -one on the space defense program and another on technology transfer. The breakthrough came at what had been meant to be a ceremonial troop and armor review at Grafenwohr, and it cleared the way for West Germany to become the second North Atlantic Treaty Alliance ally to commit itself formally to the so-called Strategic Defense Initiative. Britain signed an accord on December 6.
Stockholm’s police freed a suspect in the slaying of Prime Minister Olof Palme after a key witness could not identify him. The suspect, a 32-year-old Swedish man, had been charged on Monday with involvement in the assassination.
Yelena G. Bonner asked for help in freeing her husband, Andrei D. Sakharov, from exile in the Soviet city of Gorky. “For him to undergo further life in Gorky is a threat to his life,” she said at a Washington reception held in her honor.
Prince Andrew is engaged to Sarah Ferguson, the daughter of a former cavalry major who is Prince Charles’s polo manager. Prince Andrew, the second son of Queen Elizabeth II, said his mother was “over the moon” with happiness.
Andrija Artukovic was formally indicted on war crimes charges in Zagreb, Yugoslavia. The 86-year-old Seal Beach, California, resident, extradited to Yugoslavia on February 12 after a 35-year legal struggle, was accused of complicity in the murder of 700,000 people while he was minister of justice in the Nazi puppet state of Croatia during World War II. The indictment read by the public prosecutor said Artukovic “organized, ordered and carried out mass persecution, torture and physical extermination of the civilian population” and accused him of “genocide against Serbs, Jews, Slovenes, Muslims, Gypsies, and mass murders of Croats and other nationalities.” No date for his trial has been set.
Gunmen opened fire on a car carrying two Israeli diplomats and their wives in Egypt tonight, killing one of the women and wounding the three others. It was the second attack on Israeli diplomats in Cairo in less than a year. An Israeli Embassy official here said the ambush took place around 7 P.M., just after the four had left the Israel exhibit at the Cairo International Trade Fair in the Nasser City section of Cairo. After spraying the car with machine-gun fire, the gunmen apparently sped away in another car. Egyptian television said the authorities were trying to track down the assailants and that witnesses were asked to come forward. An Israeli Embassy official declined to identify the dead woman, whom he said was 24 years old, or the wounded Israelis, pending notification of their relatives.
A third American aircraft carrier entered the Mediterranean Sea today for what President Reagan called “routine exercises” that may involve flights over the disputed Gulf of Sidra. Administration sources said a battery of SAM-5 surface-to-air missiles, stationed since early this year at Sidra, near the Libyan coast, are manned by Russian technicians. An enlarged Soviet fleet is also reported to be in the area. President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the operation was not meant as a warning.
The Iraqi government denied a Syrian charge that it was behind a truck-bomb explosion last week in Damascus, the official Iraqi news agency reported. The explosion in the Abbassien Square area of the Syrian capital, near a compound occupied by Soviet advisers, reportedly killed or wounded more than 200 people, although the toll reported by Syrian officials was much lower. Iraq and Syria are ruled by rival wings of the Baath Socialist Party and have long differed over ideological, political and economic issues.
Two more towns were placed under curfew in the Punjab today after renewed clashes between Hindus and Sikhs. At least 30 people have been killed this month in similar clashes, together with Sikh terrorist attacks and police shootings. Curfews have been ordered in five other Punjabi cities this month. District officials ordered a curfew at Muktsar, about 200 miles northwest of New Delhi, after the police fired to disperse Hindus and Sikhs who battled each other and then attacked law enforcement officers, news agencies reported. The other town where a curfew was imposed today is Nakodar. Officials said they moved to meet a strike called by Hindu militants to protest reported threats to one of their leaders.
Vietnam rejected a proposal by Cambodian resistance leaders to settle the seven-year-old Cambodian conflict through a two-stage withdrawal of Vietnamese troops and installation of a four-party coalition government. The proposal-approved by China, which supports the anti-Vietnamese resistance-was advanced by Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Cambodia’s former ruler; the Khmer People’s National Liberation Front, and the Communist Khmer Rouge. The United Nations recognizes the resistance coalition as Cambodia’s legitimate government in preference to the Hanoi-installed Heng Samrin regime.
Malaysian authorities imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew in the eastern state of Sabah after two people were killed in rioting by Muslims opposed to the mainly Christian state government. Four bombs exploded in Kota Kinabalu, the state capital, but caused little damage. At least two dozen bombs have exploded in the oil-rich state in the last week. The violence erupted after Chief Minister Joseph Pairin Kitingan dissolved the state legislature last month, a response to the defection of several assemblymen of his ruling party to the largely Muslim opposition.
Documents found among the personal effects of Ferdinand E. Marcos show that he and his family maintained bank accounts and other investments around the world worth hundreds of millions of dollars. One document, apparently found in Mr. Marcos’s own suitcase when he arrived in Hawaii last month, lists balances totaling $88.7 million in five banks in the United States, Switzerland and the Cayman Islands, a British possession in the Caribbean. Handwritten notes indicate that $35 million more had been deposited but not yet credited to the accounts. The suitcase also contained negotiable stock certificates from Philippine corporations, all countersigned and made out to a variety of names. Together they carry a par value of $1.9 million. This is the nominal value assigned to shares of stocks regardless of their trading value on stock exchanges.
A document found in the presidential palace lists a $60,000 emerald necklace that Imelda Marcos, wife of Ferdinand E. Marcos, supposedly gave to Nancy Reagan. In Washington, Elaine Crispin, the press spokesman for Mrs. Reagan, said no such gift had been received. She said she had checked with Mrs. Reagan and with the White House gift unit, and had found no record of such a necklace. The Philippine palace document, now in the possession of a commission seeking to recover the Marcoses’ wealth, does not specify when the gift was made. An accompanying handwritten note to Mrs. Marcos’s secretary is dated August 2, 1985.
Ferdinand E. Marcos is expected to move to Panama this week to avoid being forced into United States courts or brought before Congressional committees, Reagan Administration officials said today. The former Philippine President has been living in Hawaii since February 26, the day after he went into exile. One official said Mr. Marcos had concluded after studying legal documents and watching American television that the Administration had not lived up to its promise that he could live in this country in honor, and had “thrown him to the wolves.” Officials said the Panamanian Government officially informed the United States this morning that it had agreed to allow Mr. Marcos and his immediate family and close friends to live in Panama. Mr. Marcos has not formally given notice that he is leaving Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii, officials said. But they said the Administration was proceeding in the expectation that he, some family members and aides would leave by United States Air Force plane in the next few days.
President Corazon C. Aquino ordered a 9 percent cut in fuel prices today in an attempt to support the sagging Philippine economy. As she announced the action and called on businesses to pass the savings along to consumers, Government officials were drastically revising their estimates on the budget deficit. The outlook is for a deficit of up to $950 million for the calendar year, a projection well over the previous estimate of $365 million. The urgent fiscal picture dominated a three-hour Cabinet meeting at which other topics, including the Communist insurgency and constitutional revision, were discussed.
President Reagan hosts a luncheon meeting with Prime Minister Mulroney of Canada. President Reagan formally acknowledged today that acid rain was a serious environmental problem that crossed the border between the United States and Canada. Mr. Reagan fully endorsed a joint Canadian-United States report calling for curbs on airborne pollutants in the second day of an annual meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada. The report, prepared by Mr. Reagan’s special envoy for acid raid, Drew Lewis, and William Davis of Canada, as a result of a meeting of the two chiefs of government in Quebec a year ago, was made public in January. Mr. Mulroney endorsed it almost immediately. Five-Year Program Sought It recommended that the United States carry out a five-year program to cost $5 billion, with half the money coming from private industry, to find ways to control airborne emissions of sulphur and nitrogen oxides, which are generated mostly by industrial coal-fired furnaces. These emissions are chemically changed and return to earth as acidic rain, snow or particles. A scientific consensus says these are considered responsible for damage to freshwater lakes and streams. They may also damage trees and plant life and human health.
President Reagan agreed to a compromise proposal on aid to the Nicaraguan rebels because of a likely rejection of his plan in the House today. Under the compromise, most military aid to the anti-Sandinista insurgents would be halted for 90 days while new efforts are made to seek a negotiated settlement in Central America. The House is scheduled to vote Thursday on Mr. Reagan’s proposal to give the rebels $100 million in aid to continue their efforts to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government, $70 million of it in military assistance. Larry Speakes, the President’s spokesman, said that under the compromise, $25 million of the $100 million would be released immediately. Most of this would go for nonmilitary purposes, such as food, he said, but some would be used to provide portable antiaircraft missiles and intensified military training for the rebels. The surface-to-air missiles, called Stingers, would presumably be used against the Soviet-made attack helicopters that have been a key element in the Nicaraguan Government fight against the rebels. The missiles, which cost $60,000 each, are fired from the shoulder and have a range of more than three miles. They have been in production for several years and the Army appears to have a sizable inventory on hand from which immediate shipments could begin, although a Defense Department spokesman could not confirm that tonight.
About 5,000 soldiers were sent today to reinforce Honduras’ troubled border with Nicaragua in response to a reported mass deployment of soldiers in the area by the Sandinista Government, a military intelligence spokesman said. “Also, as of 2 PM local time, the armed forces of Honduras have been placed on alert,” the spokesman said. He said the alert is being strictly applied to all garrisons, especially those in the south and southeastern part of the country. The spokesman said the action was taken because of “an unusual movement of Nicaraguan troops” that included antiaircraft guns, tanks and militias. Nicaraguan troops also closed down the customs house on their side of the border at the crossing point of El Espino, 100 miles southeast of Tegucigalpa, without prior warning or justification, the spokesman said. The spokesman said the Honduran deployment was authorized by Honduras’s top military staff.
The Salvadoran Army dismantled one of the largest guerrilla-run hospitals last week, according to guerrilla and army spokesmen. The destruction of the clandestine hospital, which appears to be part of an organized drive to eliminate guerrilla-run medical installations, has been criticized as a violation of international law governing conduct toward medical personnel in wartime. Government troops carted away medical supplies from the hospital and captured seven wounded rebels as well as two nurses, publicizing the discovery as a major military victory. But human rights activists, including Americas Watch, a New York-based organization, charge that a military operation against a rebel hospital was a violation of Protocol 2 of the Geneva Convention, which safeguards medical personnel, medical supplies and the wounded in civil wars.
Peruvian guerrillas destroyed a village in the Andes with explosives and fire. Agriculture Minister Remigio Morales Bermudez said that Macaya, a village near the Bolivian border in Puno Province, was “wiped out” by the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), a Maoist movement. “Schools, the church, livestock, homes, medical posts, farming equipment and crops were burned by the terrorists,” the official said. He did not mention if anyone was killed or injured. More than 5,000 civilians, rebels and soldiers have been killed in the six-year Sendero Luminoso insurgency.
General Augusto Pinochet issued a rebuke Tuesday to a United Nations agency for denouncing reported killings and torture by Chile’s security police. “Nobody can tell us what we ought to do,” the 70-year-old President and army commander told 2,000 people at a rally in the southern coal mining town of Curanilahue. “No foreigner, however powerful, can impose his will.” General Pinochet dismissed the resolution approved Friday by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva as the work of “a few politicians who have gone begging abroad” for support in their campaign against him. The resolution urged General Pinochet’s military Government to stop the reported human rights abuses — such as killings and torture by the security police — to let political exiles return to Chile and to relax emergency powers that restrict civil liberties. The resolution closely resembled a draft submitted by the United States.
Two South African blacks were stoned to death in continuing political violence, and a black miner died in tribal fighting, raising the death toll in six days to 33. The stonings occurred in the black township of Soweto, outside Johannesburg, police said, adding that few details were available. The miner was killed during fighting between Xhosa and Basotho tribesmen at Vaal Reefs, the world’s largest gold mine, according to the Anglo American Corp., the mine’s owner.
The Senate budget panel, rejecting President Reagan’s military and domestic priorities, approved, 13 to 9, a bipartisan budget plan for 1987 that would reduce Mr. Reagan’s military budget request by $25 billion and bring in $18.7 billion in new revenue. The Republican-controlled committee sent the budget plan to the Senate floor, where debate is to start Tuesday. Intense disagreements on the military and revenue issues could result in substantial revision of the plan. The Senate majority leader, Bob Dole of Kansas, signaled how some Republicans would try to change the budget on the floor when he said, “I think we should do better on defense and less on revenues.” But the Budget Committee’s chairman, Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, contending there was little political room to revise the plan, said it was “pretty close to a consensus budget” and was “what will ultimately have to be done.” The Administration quickly stated its opposition to the proposal. It “achieves a desirable goal by means of totally unacceptable methods,” said Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, who called the domestic spending cuts “timid and minimal.” The Senate panel’s plan would, at best, limit the Pentagon to an increase to make up for inflation; it would shrink nonmilitary spending by about half as much as the President proposed.
New cuts in higher education aid are planned by the Reagan Administration as part of its effort to trim the budget deficit. Officials plan to reduce Federally-financed research at colleges and universities by hundreds of millions of dollars.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with the leadership of the U.S. Sister Cities Program.
The ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee urged President Reagan today to withdraw a nominee from consideration for a Federal district judgeship in Alabama. The statement by Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware about the nomination of Jefferson B. Sessions 3d, came as one of the nominee’s former deputies accused him of making racially insensitive comments to staff members while serving as the United States Attorney in Mobile. The former deputy, Thomas Figures, who was an assistant United States Attorney for seven years, said in a written statement that Mr. Sessions once admonished him to be careful about what he said “to white folks.” Mr. Figures is black. He confirmed statements disclosed earlier that Mr. Sessions had described the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People as “un-American.”
Police groups are battling the National Rifle Association over major revisions of the Federal gun control law, and Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d has found himself in the middle of the increasingly bitter dispute. The rifle association, long one of the nation’s most powerful lobbies, is supporting a bill already passed by the Senate that would significantly weaken the Gun Control Act of 1968 and ease interstate sale of pistols. Fearing the measure would put more guns into the hands of criminals, police organizations are urging House members to reject the Senate bill and adopt compromise legislation that would bar interstate sales of pistols while allowing rifles and shotguns to be purchased across state lines. The full House is scheduled to vote as early as Friday on the compromise, which is supported by the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Police Foundation and the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation’s largest police union. House members are also set to debate a version of the Senate bill.
A salvage ship returned to port at Cape Canaveral tonight carrying three sections of broken casing from the space shuttle Challenger’s booster rockets. The wreckage included a 10-by-14-foot piece retrieved from the ocean floor earlier in the day. But Lieutenant Commander Deborah A. Burnette of the Navy, spokesman for the salvage operation, said it was not known whether the pieces were from the right booster rocket or the left one. Engineers believe the right rocket ruptured and touched off the explosion that destroyed the Challenger and its crew 74 seconds after launching on January 28.
A kind of electronic war game has broken out off the coast of Florida, pitting the space agency and the Navy against reporters covering the efforts to salvage wreckage from the shuttle Challenger. Because the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has wrapped much of the salvage operation in secrecy, many reporters and news organizations have resorted to a variety of highly technical and expensive means to gather information. They range from the use of advanced lenses and an experimental laser camera to film in darkness to the employment of short-wave radios and elaborate antennas in order to intercept radio communications from recovery ships at sea. The use of radio monitoring by news organizations has proliferated in the 12 days since Navy divers discovered the Challenger’s crew compartment and the remains of the seven astronauts killed when the shuttle exploded over the Atlantic. When that discovery was made, NASA enforced a flat ban on the release of any details of the recovery operation.
Jurors in Governor Edwin W. Edwards’ racketeering retrial in New Orleans will be sequestered throughout the trial to shield them from those who might try to influence their decisions, a federal judge ruled. U.S. District Judge Marcel Livaudais held a final hearing before the trial, which begins Monday. Edwards’ first trial ended December 18 with a hung jury.
President Reagan said he intends to nominate Dorcas R. Hardy, assistant health and human services secretary, to be commissioner of Social Security. If confirmed by the Senate, Hardy, 39, a former health services official at USC, would succeed John A. Svahn as head of the pension system. Hardy was California’s assistant secretary for health under then-Governor Reagan in 1973-74.
A day after the elections that were to have decided who would control the Chicago City Council, Mayor Harold Washington asserted that his side had won while his rival, Alderman Edward R. Vrdolyak, did the same. And each man accused the other side of stealing votes at the polls Tuesday. With most of the votes counted in the races for seven aldermen, the Mayor’s candidates had won two seats, Mr. Vrdolyak’s candidates three seats, one race was headed for a runoff and the other was in dispute. This means that Mr. Vrdolyak controls 25 votes on the 50-member council and the Mayor 23. The Mayor would need to win the remaining two races to gain control. The Mayor, who would also have 25 votes, would cast the deciding vote in case of deadlocks.
Two major election upsets in Illinois have created chaos in the gubernatorial campaign of former Senator Adlai E. Stevenson 3d. Two political unknowns who are followers of the ultraconservative Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. won the Democratic primary nominations for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State on Mr. Stevenson’s ticket. How the LaRouche candidates, who employ card tables and battery-powered megaphones at airports and street corners, were able to upset Mr. Stevenson’s handpicked regular Democratic nominees for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State was a matter of speculation. Mr. Stevenson, whose name has been familiar in the state since the late 19th century when his grandfather was Vice President of the United States, easily won renomination to challenge Governor James R. Thompson, a Republican who was once United States Attorney. In Illinois primaries candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor appear separately on the ballot. In general elections, the two appear together as a two-person ticket.
More than two dozen relatives of soldiers killed when a military chartered transport plane crashed in Newfoundland last December told federal officials in Washington that they are angry and distraught at the way the Pentagon handled the accident. The stormy, 90-minute session occurred on the first day of a three-day trip the families made to the nation’s capital to find out more about the December 12 crash, which killed 248 servicemen in Gander, Newfoundland. The troops were en route home for Christmas from the Sinai.
Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall today accused his colleagues on the Supreme Court of “a bizarre willingness” to sacrifice standard procedures to execute convicted murderers. He made the accusation in a three-page explanation of why the Court voted Tuesday to grant a stay of execution to one Florida inmate but to deny a delay to another who later was saved from the electric chair by a lower court. Both men, who were to have been executed this morning, had appealed to the High Court on similar legal grounds. “This Court has shown a bizarre willingness to ignore standard procedures as it pleases in order to bring about speedy executions,” the Justice said. One of the condemned killers, Davidson Joel James, was granted a stay of execution in a 5-to-4 ruling by the Court. But it voted, 5 to 4, against a reprieve for the other inmate, Roy Allen Harich, who won a stay later from the Unites States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
Richard J. Scutari, the last fugitive member of a neo-Nazi group, the Order, was arrested today at a brake shop where he had worked for several months, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. Mr. Scutari, 38 years old, is charged in connection with a $3.6 million armored car robbery in Ukiah, Calif., in 1984 and is suspected in the 1984 ambush slaying of Alan Berg, a Denver radio talk show host. Mr. Scutari, whose name had been on the bureau’s 10 Most Wanted List since September, was armed with a .45-caliber pistol but did not resist when he was arrested at a local Brake Check repair shop where he had worked for about six months, said Patrick Cowley, a special F.B.I. agent in San Antonio. Ten members of the Order were convicted of racketeering and conspiracy December 30 in Seattle on charges of plotting a right-wing revolution. Eleven other members of the group negotiated plea bargains. The convicted members have received prison sentences ranging from 30 to 100 years.
Hormel officials in Austin, Minnesota, have agreed to a request by striking meatpackers to resume negotiations, but they might not come until next week, a company official said. Hormel officials have said they will ask union Local P-9 to set a date for the talks, the first since February 11. About 1,500 members of Local P-9 went on strike August 17. Workers at other Hormel plants have accepted a new contract with a base wage of $10 an hour.
Fourteen college students, including Amy Carter, a freshman at Brown University, were arrested today in an anti-apartheid protest at a local office of the International Business Machines Corporation. Providence police arrested the students about 30 minutes after they began a sit-in protesting the company’s dealings in racially segregated South Africa. Specific charges were not immediately available. The 18-year-old daughter of former President Jimmy Carter and the other protesters had said they would stay in the building either until they were arrested or until the company stops doing business with South Africa.
A ban on the testing of a genetically altered bacteria in a farming area near Salinas, California has been extended for 45 days. The Monterey County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to extend the moratorium on the testing of Frostban, which Advanced Genetic Sciences of Oakland wants to apply to a field near Castroville. The product is designed to protect crops from frost damage. The board first adopted an interim ordinance to stop the testing on February 11. The company had already won approval from the Environmental Protection Agency and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Opponents of the testing fear that it would cause environmental damage by introducing an unnatural element.
Replacing saturated fats with olive oil in food helps reduce cholesterol, according to new research that suggests Mediterranean fare is a healthy alternative to very low-fat diets for people whose cholesterol levels are too high. Olive oil is high in mono-unsaturated fat, and the research shows that eating food rich in this fat effectively lowers cholesterol levels in the blood, just as a very low-fat diet does. A high blood cholesterol level sharply increases the risk of heart disease, according to a study by Dr. Scott M. Grundy published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Dairymen facing the prospect of having to dump pesticide-tainted milk for up to two years told federal officials they would rather sell their herds to the government and start over. Michael Masterson, who headed a federal task force on fact-finding visits to farms in Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri, said purchase of herds contaminated by heptachlor contained in feed-the chemical can cause cancer in laboratory rats is one of the options officials in Washington will consider this week. About 100 farmers in the three states have been ordered to stop selling milk after their herds ate heptachlor-tainted feed.
A blizzard engulfed Michigan’s Upper Peninsula with nearly two feet of snow and 61-mph wind gusts on the last day of winter, while a tornado snatched cars off a Georgia highway and slammed into a housing development, injuring 15 people. Spring begins at 2:03 PM today. In the Northeast, rain and high winds knocked branches off trees and the wind toppled a wall and killed a construction worker in Buffalo, New York, authorities said. Heavy thunderstorms stretching across the South whipped up a tornado in Marietta, Georgia. The twister damaged buildings and tossed vehicles through the air.
Stock prices fell slightly in subdued trading yesterday. Investors remained nervous about the economy, the oil situation and the expiration of stock index futures and options later this week. The Dow Jones industrial average, which toyed briefly with the 1,800 level on Tuesday, fell 1.92 points yesterday, to 1,787.95.
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Ahmad Bradshaw, NFL running back (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 42 and 46-Giants, 2007, 2011; New York Giants, Indianapolis Colts), in Bluefield, Virginia.
Tyler Bozak, Canadian NHL centre (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Blues, 2019; Toronto Maple Leafs, St. Louis Blues), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Brad Thiessen, Canadian NHL goaltender (Pittsburgh Penguins), in Aldergrove, British Columbia, Canada.
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