The value of U.S. arms sales to foreign nations dropped nearly 12% in the last fiscal year, to $8.3 billion, according to figures assembled by the Pentagon’s Defense Security Assistance Agency. U.S. foreign arms sales reached a high of $10.8 billion in fiscal year 1974. The equivalent figure in 1975 was $9.4 billion. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), a critic of U.S. weapons sales who released the figures, expressed his “continuing concern that our arms sales policy is completely out of control.”
The best way to discourage the spread of nuclear weapons among developing nations is for the United States to become a reliable exporter of atomic power reactor fuel, a nuclear industry agency said. The Atomic Industries Forum, with headquarters in Washington, contended that the spread of nuclear weapons capability might be hampered if others were discouraged from establishing their own fuel processing facilities. The forum urged safeguards but said that any moderately industrialized nation with a supply of enriched uranium and a reprocessing plant to extract plutonium from spent reactor fuel can make an atomic explosive, as India did in 1974.
Portugal’s new Socialist government held its first cabinet meeting to discuss the policy program it will present to parliament within 10 days. Socialist Premier Mario Soares and his 17-man cabinet of Socialists, independents and military officers had been sworn in as the first democratic government in Portugal in half a century. Economic recovery is the main task facing the minority government.
A treaty to allow the United States to continue operating military bases in Spain has been unanimously approved by the 45‐member Foreign Affairs Committee of Parliament. The committee, however, rejected a clause in the treaty that said the United States was hopeful Spain would become a democracy under King Juan Carlos. Spain will stick to the text of the original agreement signed here by Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger Jan. 24, the committee reported after its vote yesterday. It said the democracy clause would represent a unilateral change by the United States and would be “interfering in domestic affairs which are the exclusive competence of the Spanish people.” The treaty, still subject to final ratification by the King, provides for the United States to give Spain $1.25 billion in economic and military aid in return for use of facilities at three air bases and a navy base for five years.
West Germany today asked Greece to extradite Rolf Pohle, a West German fugitive described by the police as linked to the extremist Baader‐Meinhoff gang. Mr. Pohle, 34, was arrested in Athens Thursday. He had been at large since he was freed from prison in 1975 in exchange for the release of a kidnapped West Berlin politician, Peter Lorenz. Mr. Pohle is facing the remainder of a six years and five months prison sentence. West German judicial authorities asked the prosecutor of an Athens Court of Appeal to extradite Mr. Pohle. But Mr. Pohle has the right to appeal to the Supreme Court and legal observers here said it may take months before a verdict becomes final. Mr. Pohle has asked for political asylum in Greece, arguing through a lawyer that his crimes had political motives.
Her engine room a shambles and her funnel blistered by fire, the British ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2 slowly sailed up the English Channel today after a fire halted a voyage to New York. The 66,851‐ton Cunard Lines luxury ship, the only British liner still making the trans-Atlantic run, was heading for her home port of Southampton tonight. Cunard Lines was arranging to fly most of the 1,200 passengers, including about 780 Americans, to New York tomorrow or Monday. Cunard engineers were waiting to assess the damage to the ship’s starboard turbine engine and determine the cause of the fire. The blaze started about 5 A.M. yesterday, when the ship was 80 miles west of the Scilly Islands off England’s southwestern tip, and burned for 50 minutes.
A new cease-fire agreement in Lebanon — the 52nd in 16 months — this time between the Palestinian guerrilla organization and the Lebanese right-wing Christian Phalangist Party — was jeopardized by a report that hundreds of people had been buried alive in the besieged Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar. It was said that as many as 500 people were trapped in an underground shelter that had collapsed under shelling by rightist artillery. The cease-fire agreement was signed Friday in the presence of Dr. Hasan Sabry Kholy, the Arab League’s envoy in Beirut. Dr. Kholy was discussing the agreement with newsmen when he was called to the telephone to speak with Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, who told him of the report from Tell Zaatar. The cease-fire was to go in effect at 8 AM tomorrow, but even as it was announced there was skepticism that the Phalangists could persuade militants among its allies to go along with it.
Oil companies that help Israel prospect for oil in the occupied Sinai desert will be banned throughout the Arab world, the Arab League’s Boycott Office said today. The head of the Boycott Office, Mohamed Mahgoub, said Israel was negotiating with certain oil companies, some of them American, for help in oil exploration in the southern part of the Egyptian desert, occupied in the 1967 Arab‐Israel war. He refused to disclose the names of the companies. Mr. Mahgoub said no formal warning letters have been issued to those companies, but said that “this statement of warning, issued through Western press media, will suffice for the time being.”
The Egyptian Government is pushing plans to enlarge the poultry industry, spruce up the Suez Canal and carry out other development projects despite the country’s burden of debts, now unofficially estimated at $10 billion or more. To help finance development, Egyptian officials hope for more aid from the oil‐producing Arab states. At a recent meeting in Cairo, representatives of Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Saudi Arabia initialed an agreement setting up a $2 billion rund for economic development in Egypt. What it is to be spent for has not been announced. Further negotiations are to be held with Egyptian officials.
Mayor Wu Teh of Peking has taken over the duties of chairman of the National People’s Congress, China’s nearest equivalent to a head of state, it was disclosed today. The post became vacant on July 6 with the death of Marshal Chu Teh. the “Father of the Red Army.” Today Mr. Wu, who is one of 22 deputy chairmen of the People’s Congress and a member of the Communist Party Politburo, received the credentials of Ambassador K.R. Narayanan of India. Indian officials said they were informed by the Chinese that Mr. Wu, 62, had been authorized to perform the functions of the chairman of the People’s Congress but was still designated as deputy chairman. The Congress is a rubber‐stamp Parliament that meets rarely.
Japan’s supreme court confirmed immunity from Japanese prosecution for three Americans to further investigation of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. payoffs in Tokyo, informed sources said. Reportedly, the resolution, which enables Japanese officials to obtain depositions from the three men in the United States, was cabled to the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. U.S. District Judge Warren Ferguson had refused delivery of depositions taken by U.S. commissioners until he received assurances that the three men would not be prosecuted under Japanese law. The resolution applies to A. C. Kotchian, former chief operating officer of Lockheed; A. H. Elliot, a marketing executive, and J. W. Clutter, former head of the aerospace company’s Far East operation.
English was proclaimed the official language for Canadian communications between pilots and air control staff. The decree will go into effect Monday. The only exceptions will be six small airfields in French-speaking Quebec province. The announcement followed a nine-day strike last month by many Canadian pilots and controllers demanding the use of English only. French-speaking pilots and control staff had been trying for more than a year to get bilingual communications over Quebec.
The Cuban consul in the Yucatan city of Mérida has escaped unhurt from a kidnapping attempt in which gunmen killed a companion, a Cuban Embassy spokesman said today. The spokesman said two men approached Daniel Ferrer Fernandez, consul in Mérida, as he was getting into his car yesterday with a friend. After a brief conversation, the two men told the 28‐year‐old consul they intended to kidnap him, the spokesman said. Mr. Ferrer Fernandez backed away, then suddenly dashed for safety. The gunmen fired twice and missed the fleeing diplomat, but killed his companion, Artanan Diaz, the spokesman said.
An exiled Uruguayan who told a House subcommittee last month that United States policies helped maintain dictatorships in Uruguay and other Latin American countries says that as a result an indictment has been issued by a military court and his holdings have been confiscated. In an interview last week, Wilson Ferreira Aldunate, a 57year‐old former senator who was defeated for the presidency of Uruguay in a disputed election in 1972, said: “After my testimony in Washington, I learned of an indictment against me and an embargo on my property.”
A civil war thousands of miles away in Lebanon has brought growing numbers of refugees to Liberia, prompting complaints from unemployed Liberians and action by the Government to limit the influx. There has traditionally been a substantial Lebanese community in this West African country of one and a half million people. Official figures for 1975 showed 33 Lebanese here granted residence permits, 961 had their permits renewed and 159 were given re‐entry permits. But officials say there has been a considerable increase this year. Many of the Lebanese have established themselves as shopkeepers and traders. As their relatives arrive from their ravaged homeland, jobs are found for them in shops and offices.
President Idi Amin of Uganda threatened to cut electricity supplies to Kenya and to attack unless Nairobi lifted its economic blockade and allowed petroleum supplies through. “If the blockade continues. Uganda will have no alternative but to fight for her own survival,” Amin said in a radio broadcast. Uganda radio announced electricity from the Owens Falls power station on the Nile River, which supplies one-third of Kenya as well as Uganda, would be “liable to interruption” because the oil shortage had caused servicing problems with the turbines.
The Rhodesian Government has reportedly begun an international recruiting drive for foreigners to join the Rhodesian Army to fight black nationalist guerrillas. The white minority Government says that the recruits are not mercenaries but immigrants who get the same pay as Rhodesians. The influx of foreigners coincides with departures by some of Rhodesia’s own whites in the face of increasing warfare with blacks intent on bringing down the Government of Prime Minister Ian D. Smith. The recruiting has brought in veterans of Vietnam, the Malaysian antiguerrilla campaign and the Portuguese colonial wars in Mozambique and Angola. The Rhodesian Government officially denies that it seeks mercenaries for the armed forces, but correspondents who visit the operational areas, where security forces are battling black guerrillas, often find Americans, British, South Africans, Germans, Greeks and Portuguese who have only recently arrived in the country. The Viking 1 lander on Mars started tests to determine whether life ever existed there. The lander sniffed the atmosphere to detect the presence of methane or hydrogen sulfide, which would suggest the existence of life.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation joined California authorities in a nationwide hunt for two of three suspects in last week’s kidnapping of 26 school children and their bus driver near Chowchilla in central California. One of the three men, Richard Schoenfeld, 22 years old, surrendered Friday. The search was under way for Fred Woods, 24, and James Schoenfeld, also 24, and brother of Richard Schoenfeld. The judge who signed the arrest warrants for the three men also sealed for 10 days “certain confidential information” provided by law enforcement officials that reportedly establishes that the three were involved in the kidnapping.
President Ford promised families of missing American servicemen that he would not give up on efforts to obtain information about them from the Vietnamese government. In an emotional speech in Washington before the seventh annual meeting of the National League of Families of Prisoners and Missing Americans in Southeast Asia. Ford said his Administration had used every incentive. including withholding of moves to normalize relations, to gain information on the fate of the more than 800 men still listed as missing in action in the Vietnam war. “We will keep trying as long as we have any hope whatsoever.” Ford said. “I promise you that.”
Taxpayers who occasionally use their homes in connection with their jobs and then claim a tax deduction are in for bad news: Congress has voted to end the tax break. The House had approved such a measure last year, and the Senate followed up this week by voting similarly, with House-Senate differences to be resolved in conference. The proposed tax revision would exempt only workers whose employers provide them no office space. Other Senate amendments to the catch-all tax bill for next year would make alimony payments easier for divorced husbands to deduct and would make permanent a $1.7 billion tax cut for small businesses.
An examination of Senator Walter Mondale’s personal financial statement and his tax returns finds that he relatively poor when compared with his Democratic running mate Jimmy Carter and his Senate colleagues. In a financial statement published last April, Senator Mondale estimated his total net worth at $77,361, the lowest net worth claimed by any major party candidate for the presidency or the vice presidency, and about 10 percent of Mr. Carter’s net worth, estimated at $700,000. Mr. Mondale is one of the least wealthy members of the Senate, which has 22 millionaires, and his financial history is noteworthy because it shows no investments for profit. His records show that he owns no stocks, corporate bonds or real estate, except his home.
In a move to quell a growing pubic controversy over Federal regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare is changing its procedures for writing those rules, Secretary F. David Mathews announced today. The change, which takes effect immediately, gives interested public groups and individuals the opportunity to express their opinions on issues before drafts of important and controversial regulations are written, rather than after they have been published, as is now the case. The new approach also requires the 1,000 or so agency employes who write rules to take special English classes to help make regulations more easily understood.
“Serious First Amendment problems” would be raised if two reporters who broke the story about Rep. Wayne L. Hays (D-Ohio) and Elizabeth Ray were forced to talk to federal investigators, a lawyer for the Washington Post said. The Post said it had rejected attempts by the investigators to talk with reporters Marion Clark and Rudy Maxa, who first reported allegations that Hays had put Miss Ray on the congressional payroll for sexual purposes. The FBI, the U.S. Attorney’s office and the Department of Justice all are investigating charges relating to the alleged misuse of public funds.
A Florida circuit judge reduced to five years the 13-year sentence imposed on Alphonso Cain, a key witness against Rommie Loudd, a former UCLA football star, in Loudd’s cocaine delivery trial. Both men were convicted last year on drug charges and Loudd is serving a 14-year term in Florida. Cain’s attorney said that the judge’s action made his client eligible for immediate parole and that he would begin working for his release.
Nearly 30,000 lives may have been saved by federal auto safety standards in an eight-year period, government investigators reported. The General Accounting Office said safety features on 1966-68 cars had cut deaths and serious injuries by 15% to 25% and those on 1969-70 models by 25% to 30% in comparison with pre-1966 autos. But, the report said, “There was little, if any, further improvement in 1971 to 1973 model cars.”
The Labor Department and the Department of Justice have agreed to begin a major investigation of the internal management and financial affairs of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees’ and Bartenders’ International Union. The union, the nation’s 14th largest, has close ties to the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. A major concern of the joint investigation, which is to begin Sept. 1, is whether federal laws were violated in the union’s doubling of expenditures and an increase of more than 400 percent in top-level salaries since a change of leadership in 1973. Close ties between top union officials and Sidney Korshak, a prominent Los Angeles labor lawyer, who is believed to be linked with organized crime, will also be examined.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit has upheld a lower court decision that declared the Milwaukee school system unconstitutionally segregated. The Milwaukee public school system is one of the 15 largest school systems in the nation. The school population increased from 67,000 in 1950 to 128,000 in 1972. Of the total in 1972, 35 percent were black. In 1972‐73, 71 elementary schools had student bodies at least 90 percent white, 23 were at least 90 percent black and 27 were in between, the court said in a review of the case. In that year, it said, some 80 percent of the city’s black students attended majority black schools and more than threequarters of those were in schools 80 percent or more black. The lower court found that the effect of school boundary changes from 1950 to 1968 “was to increase the degree of racial imbalance in these schools.”
The death penalty, was reinstated in Oklahoma today with the completion of legislative action to replace the act that the Supreme Court, said was unconstitutional. The House of Representatives passed the law yesterday, 93 to 5. The Senate approved the measure Wednesday, 45 to 1. Governor David Boren, who had called a special session to write a new death penalty law, signed the measure. The new law defines two types of first‐degree murder for which the death penalty may be imposed and, upon conviction, provides for a second jury trial to determine whether there are mitigating circumstances that would justify reduction of the penalty to life in prison or “aggravating circumstances” to support the death sentence.
The bombing of a theater near Union Square in New York City by anti-Castro Cubans early this morning was foiled by police on a stakeout. Three Cuban men were seized as they allegedly attempted to ignite a powerful pipe bomb outside the Academy of Music at 126 East 14th Street, near Irving Place, shortly after 3:15 A.M. They were said to be followers of an anti-Castro group that has taken responsibility for two bombings in New York. The 3,000-seat theater had been sold out for an evening performance of “In Concert With Cuba,” a musical and dance program sponsored by the “Committee for July 26”, a pro-Castro organization. A spokesman for the Committee said that the police had been notified of a bomb threat received Friday night.
The California Energy Commission has announced it will begin hearings in 60 days on a proposal by San Diego Gas & Electric Co. to build a nuclear power plant near Blythe. The proposed facility will be the first to be considered since passage of the state’s new Energy Act. The commission has the power on the state level to grant permission to build the plant, which must also be approved by federal agencies. The hearings, open to public participation, were announced by commission Chairman Richard Maullin after approval of the utility’s notice of intent to build the plant.
[Ed: The Sundesert Nuclear Power Plant was a proposed California nuclear power station, formally submitted in 1976. Facing firm opposition from the state’s Governor Jerry Brown and denied a permit by a state agency, plans for the construction of the power facility were rejected in 1978 after 100 million dollars had been spent towards its construction. The Sundesert proposal was the last major attempt to build a nuclear plant in California.]
Financially troubled New York City was ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency to close its ocean sewage dump, the world’s largest, in less than five years. The city and 13 other New York and New Jersey disposal agencies representing more than 100 communities and commercial waste haulers dump an estimated 5.8 million tons of wet sewage sludge a year into the New York Bight, 12 miles offshore. The EPA said the agencies could be eligible for up to 75% federal funding for dry land disposal plants.
A 20-year-old park ranger at the Kings Island “Lion Country Safari” wildlife preserve in Ohio was killed by a lion. John McCann was found more than 15 feet away from his vehicle, having gotten out while on duty.
South Africa’s national rugby league team, nicknamed the Springboks, defeated New Zealand’s team, the All-Blacks, 16 to 7 in the first match of the Springboks’ controversial tour of New Zealand. In protest over South Africa’s discriminatory apartheid policy and its recent suppression of the Soweto Uprising that had killed 178 people in June, thirty African nations had withdrawn from the 1976 Summer Olympic games.
John Naber is the first to swim 200 m backstroke in under 2 minutes.
Major League Baseball:
Don Gullett and Jack Billingham combined to pitch the Cincinnati Reds to a 6–3 victory in the second game of a twi-night doubleheader after the Atlanta Braves had won the first game, 5–4, before a Banner Day crowd of 50,419. In the opener, George Foster batted in the Reds’ first two runs with a single and homer before the Braves rallied for three runs in the sixth inning to take a 4–2 lead, but Ken Griffey tied the score by hitting a homer with a man on base in the eighth. However, in the Braves’ half, Willie Montanez singled and scored the winning run on a double by Tom Paciorek. In the nightcap, the Reds’ 10 hits included three for Dan Driessen, who drove in one run, and a homer by Mike Lum. Montanez had three hits and two RBIs for the Braves.
After winning the first game, 4–1, the Brewers got a four-hit pitching performance from Jerry Augustine and also won the second game, 5–0, in a sweep of a twi-night doubleheader with the Orioles. Gorman Thomas hit a two-run homer for the Brewers in the opener and Robin Yount drove in their two other runs while hitting safely in his 16th straight game. Reggie Jackson, who had hit homers for the Orioles in six straight games, was stopped on his slugging streak. In the nightcap, Yount also was halted, going hitless in three official trips. The Brewers had a homer by Jack Heidemann while handing Wayne Garland only his second loss in 14 decisions.
Making their debut under Norm Sherry, who replaced Dick Williams as manager, the Angels swept a twi-night doubleheader with the Rangers, 8–0 and 4–3. In the opener, Paul Hartzell yielded only three hits and posted his first major league shutout. Rusty Torres hit a homer and double in support of the Angels’ rookie righthander, while Mario Guerrero chipped in with two singles and a double. In the nightcap, the Angels scored three runs in the third inning, two counting on a triple by Jerry Remy, and then added an unearned run without the benefit of a hit in the fifth for what proved to be their winning tally.
Lyman Bostock hit for the cycle and Steve Braun and Dan Ford each smashed three-run homers as the Twins overwhelmed the White Sox, 17–2. Bostock, who had a sacrifice fly and walk to go with his homer, triple, double and single, drove in four runs. Braun also accounted for four RBIs with a single in addition to his homer. Ralph Garr collected four hits for the White Sox.
Reliever Jim Kern, who had not given up a homer in 69 ⅓ consecutive innings, had his record ruined when Ben Oglivie hit for the circuit as the leadoff batter in the eighth to give the Tigers a 5–4 victory over the Indians. The Tigers grabbed a 4–0 lead with the aid of a round-tripper by Jason Thompson, but the Indians got to Mark Fidrych for two runs in the fourth and then chased the Tigers’ colorful rookie with two more runs in the fifth on a bases-loaded single by George Hendrick. John Hiller was the winner in relief.
The Astros scored in the 13th inning on a sacrifice fly by Bob Watson and won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 5–4, but then they collected only three hits off John D’Acquisto and Mike Caldwell in the second game and lost to the Giants, 4–0. The Astros had to come from behind twice in the opener, first overcoming a 3–0 deficit. The Giants broke a tie in the 10th with a pinch-homer by Gary Thomasson, but the Astros pulled even again in their half on singles by Enos Cabell and Leon Roberts around a sacrifice. In the 13th, Greg Gross doubled, Rob Andrews singled and, after an intentional pass to Cesar Cedeno, Watson hit his game-winning fly.
Four pitchers for the Expos issued a total of 14 passes, making it easy for the Mets to walk their way to a 10–4 victory. Loser Clay Kirby, who passed six in 3 ⅓ innings, issued four straight walks to force in the Mets’ initial run in the opening frame. John Milner drove in three runs for the Mets with a grounder in the fourth and double in the fifth. Pepe Mangual walked with the bases loaded in the fifth and added two RBIs with a double in the eighth.
Three unearned runs enabled the Yankees to defeat the Red Sox, 4–1, behind the pitching of Ed Figueroa, who racked up his 13th victory of the season. In the second inning, after Thurman Munson doubled and Chris Chambliss walked, Rico Petrocelli booted a two-out grounder by Willie Randolph, loading the bases. Fred Stanley then singled, driving in two runs, and Mickey Rivers laid down a safe bunt for the third counter. The Yanks picked up their only untainted tally in the sixth when Munson doubled again and Graig Nettles singled. Jim Rice wrecked Figueroa’s shutout bid with a homer in the eighth inning.
Jacket Day drew 42,592, Oakland’s largest crowd of the year, but the Athletics put on a fumbling performance, committing seven errors, and lost to the Royals, 6–5. The A’s built up a 4–0 lead before the Royals erupted for all their runs in the sixth inning. Tom Poquette opened with a single and advanced on an error by Bill North. George Brett followed with a single. John Mayberry grounded to Phil Garner, who let the ball slip through his hands, allowing Poquette to score. Six more Royals then went to bat with the inning coming to a climax when Dave Nelson drove in two runs with a single.
After the Pirates won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 8–5, the Phillies came back behind the three-hit pitching of Steve Carlton to gain a 7–1 victory in the second game. Richie Zisk and Dave Parker each drove in two runs for the Pirates in the opener. The Pirates took command of the game with two out in the first inning by scoring four runs on a double by Al Oliver, triple by Willie Stargell, a walk, throwing error by Larry Christenson and singles by Zisk and Manny Sanguillen. Larry Bowa had four hits and Greg Luzinski three to lead the Phillies’ support of Carlton in the nightcap. Luzinski’s hits included a homer.
Reliever Butch Metzger, who pitched to only one batter, received credit for his eighth straight victory when the Padres scored in the ninth inning on a double by Dave Winfield to defeat the Dodgers, 6–5. Randy Jones started for the Padres but went out for a pinch-hitter in the seventh after giving up seven hits and all of the Dodgers’ runs. The Padres, who were losing, 5–1, when Jones departed, rallied in the eighth inning to tie the score and take their ace lefthander off the hook.
Hector Cruz knocked in four runs with a homer and single to lead the Cardinals’ 13-hit attack in a 12–3 victory over the Cubs. The game attracted 32,942, the Cardinals’ second largest crowd of the season. Bob Forsch (5–5) was the winner.
Cincinnati Reds 4, Atlanta Braves 5
Cincinnati Reds 6, Atlanta Braves 3
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 0
Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 8
Texas Rangers 3, California Angels 4
Minnesota Twins 17, Chicago White Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 5, Cleveland Indians 4
San Francisco Giants 4, Houston Astros 5
San Francisco Giants 4, Houston Astros 0
New York Mets 10, Montreal Expos 4
Boston Red Sox 1, New York Yankees 4
Kansas City Royals 6, Oakland Athletics 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, San Diego Padres 6
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 12
Born:
Rashida Tlaib, American politician (Rep-D-Michigan 2018-), one of the first Muslim women elected to U.S. House, in Detroit, Michigan.
Yulia Navalnaya, Russian public figure and economist (widow of opposition figure Alexei Navalny), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Anita Nall, American breaststroke swimmer (Olympic gold, 1992), in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.
Christian Ahrens, American rower (Olympic gold, eight, 2004), in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin.
Rafer Alston, NBA point guard (Milwaukee Bucks, Toronto Raptors, Miami Heat, Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic, New Jersey Nets), in New York, New York.
Nate Bump, MLB pitcher (World Series champions-Marlins, 2003; Florida Marlins), in Towanda, Pennsylvania.
Sheldon Jackson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills), in Culver City, California.
Winfield Garnett, NFL defensive tackle (Minnesota Vikings), in Chicago, Illinois.
Died:
Leo Shuken, 69, American film music composer and arranger (“Stagecoach”; “The Fabulous Dorseys”; “The Unsinkable Molly Brown”).
Afro Basaldella, 64, Italian artist generally referred to as “Afro”
Paul Morand, 88, French short-story author and novelist.
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