High-level U.S. and Soviet delegations will meet in Washington on September 5-6 to discuss pending arms control proposals and prospects for a second summit between President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Administration officials said. The meeting is a follow-up to one held between the two delegations earlier this month in Moscow. It was also reported that Soviet and U.S. officials have held private discussions on a possible date between November 17 and December 5 for the summit. This preliminary planning is based on the assumption that the summit would take place in Washington.
A senior Soviet diplomat said today that a meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev must result in substantial arms control agreements. The diplomat, Viktor F. Isakov, also said a ban on nuclear testing was not a precondition for a summit meeting. The Russians have been pressing the United States to join their own halt of nuclear testing and to agree on a permanent test ban. Mr. Isakov, who as a minister-counselor ranks below the Ambassador, Yuri V. Dubinin, said there was “a very wide area of possibilities” for an arms control agreement. “We are not pinpointing that it should be this or that,” he said, but he went on to say that whatever was agreed on should be “something solid.” He said possibilities included accords on medium-range offensive arms and on space-based defensive weapons. He spoke at a news conference that had been called to discuss Mr. Gorbachev’s announcement Monday that the Soviet Union was extending its yearlong test halt to January 1. The Soviet leader again called on the United States to join in, saying that an accord on a test ban could be a centerpiece at a summit meeting later this year. The Reagan Administration has declined to join the Soviet test halt on the ground that it is a public relations gesture and that the United States needs tests to develop new weapons and to assure the reliability of old weapons. The Communist Party’s Central Committee in Moscow has ordered the Soviet press and information agencies abroad to give the widest possible publicity to the Gorbachev speech.
A big fire at the Chernobyl plant occurred on May 23, nearly a month after the explosion and fire that damaged the number 4 nuclear reactor and sent radioactive fallout over most of Europe, according to a Moscow newspaper, Leninskoye Znamya. It said firefighters had contained the blaze before it spread to an area where oil tanks were stored.
A top official of a Soviet tractor company operating in Milwaukee has been granted permanent asylum in the United States, the State Department said. Georgy Gindra, a Soviet citizen and deputy general director of Belarus Machinery, reportedly made the asylum request from a hospital where he was taken Sunday with an undisclosed ailment. Gindra, believed to be in his 40s, reportedly lives in New York and makes monthly visits to the Milwaukee factory, which makes tractors for the U.S. market.
One engine of an SAS airline Boeing 747 bound for New York caught fire shortly after takeoff from Copenhagen, but the plane managed to turn back and make a safe emergency landing at Kastrup international airport on its remaining three engines, authorities said. No one was injured. The Scandinavian Airlines System jumbo jet carried 337 passengers and a crew of 19.
A bomb is believed to have caused a blast in an Iranian-run shop in the Kensington section of London that killed one man and wounded five, the police said today. Iran and opponents here of the Islamic Government in Teheran traded charges over who was responsible for the explosion Tuesday. The police said the dead man was Bijan Fazeli, 22 years old, a son of the store owner, Reza Fazeli, a former Iranian film actor. Two of the wounded remained in the hospital today. About eight other people were treated for shock.
The U.N. General Assembly will be asked to consider a sweeping reorganization of the administrative machinery of the United Nations this fall, according to a report made available today. The report, compiled by a committee of 18 diplomats, includes a recommendation for staff cuts that could lead to layoffs of as many as 1,700 United Nations employees. The report was requested by the Assembly last year, largely in an effort to address a worsening fiscal crisis brought on by the reluctance of some member governments to pay their dues. The report includes 70 proposed steps to improve what it calls an “overly complex structure, which generally suffers from lack of cohesion and which makes coordination difficult.”
Christian East Beirut was rocked by another bomb explosion today, and the police said four people were wounded and a number of cars wrecked. They said a plastic bag containing 22 pounds of explosives went off near a Mercedes-Benz showroom in the Dora business district shortly before noon, starting several fires. The office of the Christian militia known as the Lebanese Forces is in the area, but no one was reported hurt there.
Kuwait unveiled a string of floating radar and missile platforms in the Persian Gulf that it says will protect it against a spillover from the Iran-Iraq War. Kuwait’s official news agency said each of the 1,300-square-yard platforms has a control room manned by 40 people plus helicopter landing pads, artillery, missiles and radio and radar equipment. The mobile posts will watch ships in Kuwaiti waters and also serve as marine supply and salvage centers, the agency said. Iran has accused Kuwait of aiding Iraq in the six-year-old war.
One person was killed and two were wounded today in a gunfight between anti-Government protesters and the police in Jhudo in southern Pakistan. Elsewhere, the region was generally quiet for the second day in a row after dozens of killings in the last week. Anti-government demonstrators marched in several Pakistani cities and towns, but their numbers were dwindling and riot police appeared to have gained control over the drive to oust President Zia ul-Haq. At least 27 people have been killed and dozens injured in a week of violence that began on Pakistan’s independence day as authorities rounded up hundreds of politicians opposed to Zia and arrested opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.
U.N. officials in Seoul said that North Korean soldiers opened fire Tuesday along the demilitarized zone that divides North Korea from South Korea. No casualties were reported. It was the second time this month that North Korea fired across the demilitarized zone, prompting a return of fire, according to the U.N. officials. North Korea’s official Radio Pyongyang, however, said the incident began when South Korean soldiers fired at a North Korean guard post.
At 1:05 on Thursday afternoon, President Corazon C. Aquino will dedicate a flat granite slab, in the figure of a man with arms and legs akimbo, that has been set into the tarmac at Manila International Airport. The hour will mark the third anniversary of the assassination of her husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., a moment that is now understood, with the hindsight of history, to have been the beginning of the revolution that brought down Ferdinand E. Marcos. The figure of a man in white, sprawled on the runway of the airport with a single gunshot through his head, became the symbol that unified and hardened a growing opposition to Mr. Marcos and gave rise to his unexpected challenger, Mrs. Aquino. Now that her husband, known to Filipinos as Ninoy, has succeeded posthumously, through his widow, in ousting Mr. Marcos, his symbolism as a national martyr has been evolving.
The Mexican authorities have detained 11 people in Guadalajara, including several Jalisco State Police officers, for questioning in connection with the detention last week of a United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent, officials from both countries said today. Although none have been formally arrested and the Mexican Government has made no official statements on the matter, the 11 have been questioned extensively by the Mexican Judicial Police with American officials present at least part of the time, officials said. The police officers have been suspended from their jobs.
The Reagan Administration plans to send United States soldiers to begin training Nicaraguan rebel commanders as soon as possible after October 1, according to Administration and Congressional officials. The officials said the training would most likely be conducted in Honduras, where the anti-Government Nicaraguan forces, widely known as contras, have sanctuaries. But they added that El Salvador and Panama were also being considered. American advisers in Honduras would be legally restricted from going within 20 miles of the Nicaraguan border and would not cross the border, the officials said. The 1,000 United States troops on duty in Honduras now must also observe that restriction.
A Government spokesman said today that a remark by President Reagan that the Nicaraguan rebels might have to “take over” unless Managua made political concessions confirmed once again the real United States objective in Nicaragua. “The Reagan policy is not only a threat to Nicaragua and Latin America,” said the spokesman, Carlos Fernando Chamorro Barrios, “but also for the people of the United States, who are being led toward a repetition of the Vietnam War in Central America.” “President Reagan is explicitly threatening the Government and people of Nicaragua,” he said.
A Communist-led guerrilla group has taken responsibility for the kidnapping of an army colonel and has made public photographs of him with a warning that repression by Chile’s military leaders would jeopardize his life. “The fate of the colonel is in the hands of the regime,” said a statement from the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, which takes its name from a 19th-century Chilean independence hero. “To persist in its repressive maneuvers will put the officer’s life in danger.” Copies of the message were delivered late Tuesday to The Associated Press and United Press International with color photographs showing the kidnapped colonel, Mario Haeberle, in uniform, seated between two hooded men. One of them held a submachine gun to the officer’s head. Each agency received one of the officer’s identity cards. It was the first confirmation of the identity of the group of seven masked men who seized Colonel Haeberle, the army’s chief of protocol, from his driveway on Monday.
Argentina’s House of Deputies approved a divorce bill by a vote of 177 to 35, ending 30 hours of debate and sending the controversial measure to the Senate, where opinion on divorce is more closely divided. The bill would allow divorced people to remarry one year after divorce. Grounds for divorce include three years of separation. The divorce issue sparked a rare show of unity between President Raul Alfonsin’s ruling party, Peronist factions and smaller left-wing parties. Argentina, which is officially Roman Catholic, is the largest of half a dozen nations without a law permitting divorce.
International relief organization officials voiced concern today over the situation in the southern Sudan, saying the worsening of the guerrilla war there could touch off a famine rivaling the Ethiopian famine of 1985. The officials, some of whom said they could not be quoted by name for what they said were political reasons, said a recent step up in warfare between the Sudanese Army and the rebel force, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army, had displaced hundreds of thousands of people, cut the shipment of emergency food aid and threatened to worsen existing famine conditions. In the Sudan today, the rebels said they shelled the Government-held city of Wau and killed 117 troops, according to a report by The Associated Press from Khartoum, the Sudanese capital. The report could not be confirmed. The clandestine rebel radio station urged civilians to flee Wau and three other southern cities — Juba, Malakal and Bentiu. “Anytime from now, the S.P.L.A. will arrive to liberate these towns,” the broadcast said. The situation in the southern Sudan represents a new challenge for United Nations agencies, for unlike the famine in Ethiopia, which was a result of drought, the malnutrition in the Sudan is primarily a result of fighting, making aid efforts more difficult.
In an attempt to stimulate the struggling economy, the Federal Reserve Board today cut its primary lending rate to 5 ½ percent, from 6 percent. The reduction, the central bank’s fourth this year, brought the discount rate to its lowest level since September 1977. But economists voiced doubt that the new cut would stimulate much growth. “I don’t think economic growth is likely to be initiated by lower short-term interest rates,” said Alan Greenspan, who is chairman of Townsend-Greenspan & Company in New York and was chairman of President Ford’s Council of Economic Advisers. “If there are going to be any benefits, they will be very small.”
President Reagan continues with his ranch chores.
President Reagan places a call to William French Smith, attorney with Gibson, Dunn and Crutcher law firm, Los Angeles, California.
A mail carrier in trouble with his supervisors opened fire in a crowded post office in Edmund, Oklahoma early this morning, killing 14 workers and injuring 7 others before killing himself with a bullet in the head. The police said the carrier, former Marine Patrick Henry Sherrill, of Oklahoma City, burst into the rambling, one-story post office about 6:45 AM, pulled at least three pistols from a mail pouch and, without a word, started shooting at his fellow employees. “He was in the center of the room with two .45’s, blazing away,” said Larry J. Vercelli, a postal union supervisor who talked with some of the employees after they had fled when the shooting began. The police said one worker was shot in the parking lot behind the five-year-old brick post office. The police said they believed Mr. Sherrill shot the worker before entering the building and then tried to lock the back doors before unleashing his barrage on approximately 100 workers sorting mail and preparing for the day’s deliveries. Police SWAT teams found Mr. Sherrill and 14 fellow employees shot to death when they entered the post office about 8:30 AM after trying in vain to talk to the gunman. Seven others were treated at nearby hospitals for bullet wounds; two of the wounded were listed in critical condition. They were being treated at Edmond Memorial Hospital here and at Mercy Health Center in Oklahoma City.
The Justice Department is considering proposing a Presidential order requiring narcotics testing for more than half of the government’s civilian employees, Administration officials said today. If President Reagan signs the proposed order, 1.5 million out of the 2.8 million civilian employees — those who have access to classified material — would be tested. Anyone found to have been using illegal drugs would be dismissed. Although Mr. Reagan has previously talked about voluntary testing, he has not proposed broad compulsory drug tests.
A part-time congressional aide and a decorated former Army helicopter pilot were arraigned on charges they carried a homemade 30-millimeter anti-tank cannon to a gasoline station in Arlington, Virginia, where it set off a gas pump explosion. Four people were injured. Officials said they were investigating what Robert G. Dilger, 54, a retired Air Force colonel, of Xenia, Ohio, and Joseph R. Donahue, 40, of Killeen, Texas, were doing with the 8-foot-long device when it accidentally discharged. Dilger had been working in the office of Rep. Denny Smith (R-Oregon) since May, 1985, said Greg Walden, a spokesman for Smith. Mr. Dilger was freed on bail Tuesday night. Mr. Walden said Mr. Dilger was a “weapons analyst” who had known Mr. Smith since they both served in the Air Force in the 1960’s. “He has done some contract work for the Pentagon,” Mr. Walden said of Mr. Dilger. “I don’t know if he’s currently under contract or not.”
A man who said drug use led him to kill a drive-in movie cashier was put to death by injection in Huntsville, Texas, after helping executioners find veins in his needle-scarred arms. Randy Woolls, 36, a construction worker from Median, Texas, was executed for the 1979 murder after an emotional exchange with an aunt and cousin in the death chamber. Woolls reportedly said prominent veins in his arms had collapsed long ago from drug use. Executioners’ needles were inserted into his arm near tattoos of a buzzard grasping a syringe and of the Grim Reaper.
The Kennedy Space Center’s chief will be Lieutenant General Forrest S. McCartney, now commander of the Air Force space division. The Florida center has been the launching site of the space agency’s greatest triumphs as well as its worst disaster, the Challenger explosion Jan. 28 and loss of its seven crew members.
Air fares for Michael K. Deaver and a business associate between Washington and Berlin last February were paid by the American Embassy in Bonn from West German funds earmarked for the occupying powers in West Berlin, the State Department said. It said Mr. Deaver repaid the $3,956 fares in June.
Utah’s only black state senator has asked for a recount in his 323-vote loss in the Democratic primary to choose a challenger to Republican Senator Jake Garn, officials said. State Senator Terry Williams, who lost to real estate salesman Craig Oliver, said he may have lost votes because he is black and a non-Mormon. Less than 1% of the population in Utah is black and 70% is Mormon. In Wyoming, Pete Simpson, former University of Wyoming vice president, won the GOP gubernatorial nomination. Democrats chose Casper lawyer Mike Sullivan.
Most of Houston’s sanitation workers stayed off the job for a third day despite Mayor Kathy Whitmire’s threat to fire more of them for staging a wildcat strike over pay cuts and increased workloads. Police escorted about 30 trucks to prevent confrontations with the strikers. Only 90 workers showed up for work, while 1,010 either called in sick or went to a City Council meeting to complain about the workload.
A former Marine says he was denied a heart bypass operation at an Army hospital in San Francisco because he is infected with an AIDS virus. Retired Capt. Al E. Davis, whose 25 years in the corps included service in Korea and Vietnam, said he was told by a staff cardiologist at Letterman Medical Center that “the surgical department will not operate on you because it would be dangerous to their health.” Davis said he was ordered to take tests after telling a surgeon he was gay, and the tests showed he was infected with the HTLV-III virus, which can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Officials from the federal Department of Health and Human Services said they were investigating Davis’ complaints.
Rev. Charles E. Curran will continue to teach Roman Catholic moral theology, including his dissenting views on sexual issues, he said. Father Curran affirmed his intention despite the Vatican’s ruling that he could no longer teach theology at Catholic University of America. “The theologian has to play the role of the loyal opposition,” he said in his first public comment since the Vatican action Monday. Such dissent, he said, is consistent with the development of Christianity and with accepted “Catholic theological tradition.” Unresolved, however, was whether the 52-year-old priest would be allowed to continue to remain on the faculty of the university, which operates under a papal charter. On Tuesday the president of the university, the Rev. William J. Byron, moved to oust him from the faculty where he has served for 20 years, but Father Curran said today that he was prepared to fight the move through legal and academic channels.
The promoter of “Eric D and Crew Monster Jam ’86,” a Brooklyn, New York, “rap” music event at which four people were shot Saturday night, was charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 14-year-old music fan. The promoter, Eric Adams, 27, was charged in the death of David Drummonds, who was shot once in the head, said Officer Janice Swinney, police spokeswoman. Swinney said Adams, who was at the site for most of the concert, rushed onto a dance floor filled with about 500 teen-agers and began shooting.
Alabama Family Court Judge James Sloan pleaded not guilty in Providence, Rhode Island, to sexually assaulting the teen-age grandson of another judge at a judicial conference on child abuse in July. Sloan, 42, of Anniston, Alabama, was released on $70,000 personal recognizance. Sloan, married and the father of two, has temporarily resigned. He was arrested at a Providence hotel after allegedly raping the 13-year-old grandson of a Mississippi judge at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.
A major forest fire that charred 17,000 acres in Boise, Idaho, continued to burn out of control, while officials in Oregon prepared to close a fire command center because of the progress being made by thousands of firefighters. In Colorado, cooler temperatures helped fire crews, and a 250-acre timber and grassland fire in the Custer National Forest in eastern Montana was close to being under control after fire crews got an assist from light rainfall and diminishing winds.
Torrential rains swept across drought-plagued South Carolina for the second day today, causing flooding and forcing about 100 people in two small communities to evacuate. No injuries or deaths were reported.
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Ron Darling and Tim Teufel were indicted on felony charges of assaulting two police officers who were trying to arrest them at a Houston nightclub on July 26. A prosecutor, Mike Anderson, said Darling, a Mets pitcher, and Teufel, a second baseman, would be arraigned August 29.
David Palmer drove in three runs with a double and two singles to lead a 17-hit Atlanta attack and combined with Jeff Dedmon on a six-hitter as he Braves gained their third straight victory, beating the Chicago Cubs, 8–3.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 3–1. Buddy Bell hit his sixth homer in his last seven games and Bill Gullickson shut out St. Louis for eight innings to boost Cincinnati. Gullickson, 10–8, outdueled Bob Forsch, 12–7, who had his personal six-game winning streak snapped and lost for the first time since July 7. Gullickson, who allowed nine hits in 8 ⅔ innings, struck out two and walked one.
Ernest Riles and Rob Deer hit three-run home runs and Bill Wegman teamed with two relievers on a six-hitter as Milwaukee beat Cleveland, 6–3. Riles homered in the first and Deer hit his 28th home run of the year in the third, giving Milwaukee an early 6–0 lead.
Tigers pitcher Walt Terrell is one out away from a no-hitter when Wally Joyner doubles. Terrell settles for a one-hit 3–0 win over the Angels. Trammell has a double and homer for Detroit. It marked the second time this season that Joyner had broken up a no-hitter in the ninth inning. On June 16, he doubled against Charlie Hough of the Texas Rangers, spoling his no-hit bid with one out in the ninth. Joyner, who hit a slider for the double, said, “I thought about the Hough game, not in the on-deck circle, but in the bottom of the eighth inning.” Terrell (11–9) had retired 16 straight batters when Joyner came up in the ninth. Joyner, a left-handed batter, pulled Terrell’s first pitch into the right-field corner. “I’m not disappointed,” Terrell said. “I just wanted to win the game.”
At Kansas City, Texas is victorious, 7–1. Rookie reliever Dale Mohorcic gets the last out to preserve the win for Charlie Hough (10–8). It is Mohorcic’s 13th straight appearance (beginning on August 6) tying the modern Major League record set by Mike Marshall. Scott Fletcher, who drove in three runs, and Curtis Wilkerson had three hits apiece. Scott Bankhead, 6–7, was the loser.
The Mets are without the player whom supposedly they could not, absolutely not, no matter what, do without, Gary Carter. But tonight was just one more case of the Mets showing how deep their talent goes. They beat the Dodgers, 7–5, and they could add these assorted numbers to their astounding and always-expanding resume. It was their 80th victory, Sid Fernandez became the team’s first 14-game winner this year, and, for the first time since 1968, the Mets swept a three-game series at Dodger Stadium.
The Boston Red Sox clobbered the Minnesota Twins, 9–1. Roger Clemens pitched a two-hitter for his 19th victory of the season and Jim Rice, Don Baylor and Dwight Evans hit home runs. Clemens (19–4), who had lost two of his previous three decisions, struck out six to bring his American League-leading strikeout total to 186. He walked a season-high six in pitching his ninth complete game of the year. Clemens, the leading winner in the major leagues, lowered his league-leading earned run average to 2.54.
He believes the years have made him wiser and more patient, and perhaps Dave Winfield is right. There have been grander summers in his career — a higher batting average, more imposing home run totals — but this has been a time of sweet vindication, an opportunity to prove his importance to the Yankees in their final and most critical weeks. Winfield reached a significant milestone yesterday afternoon, hitting the 300th home run of his 14-year career in the Yankees’ 5–2 victory over the Seattle Mariners. The homer staked Doug Drabek, the starter, to a 2-0 lead in the second inning, and Mattingly’s shot made it a 4–0 game after three. But Drabek allowed a two-run homer to Danny Tartabull in the fourth, and when he loaded the bases one inning later — just one out shy of qualifying for the victory — he was pulled by Piniella. But Stoddard came in and struck out Tartabull on four pitches, then held the Mariners scoreless for two more innings. Stoddard was credited with the victory, his second since joining the Yankees in a trade with San Diego last month.
The Houston Astros bowed to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–1. Bobby Bonilla hit a three-run double and Rick Rhoden pitched a five-hitter for his fifth victory in his last six decisions as the Pirates ended a four-game losing streak. Pittsburgh broke a streak of 21 consecutive scoreless innings with a four-run second against Bob Knepper, who fell to 15–9. Rhoden, 14–7, walked one, struck out five and retired 16 consecutive batters after giving up a fourth-inning single to John Mizerock.
Kevin McReynolds accounted for all of San Diego’s runs with two homers and Eric Show won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions as the Padres edged Montreal, 3–2. McReynolds hit an opposite-field drive to right in the fourth inning and a two-run homer deep into the left field seats in the sixth, giving him his third game-winning RBI in his last five games.
Philadelphia’s Don Carman pitches a perfect game until Bob Brenly doubles leading off the 9th, and Carman ends up combining with Steve Bedrosian for a 10-inning 1–0 win over the Giants. Juan Samuel’s home run in the top of the 10th provides the game’s only run, the 2nd time in Phils’ history that an extra inning homer has won a 1–0 game (Ron Northey, 1944). Don Carman of the Philadelphia Phillies was perfect for eight innings and 100 pitches today. But as pitch No. 101 was driven to left-center field by Brenly, Carman had an awful feeling. “When it was first hit, I was sure it was going to be a home run,” Carman said. “I was thinking about going from a perfect game to a loss in one pitch.”
The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Chicago White Sox, 4–1. Lloyd Moseby hit a two-run homer and Joe Johnson scattered six hits in eight innings plus to lead Toronto to its fifth straight victory. The White Sox, losers in eight of their last 10 games, could manage only six singles against Johnson, who left after Daryl Boston singled to start the ninth.
The scheduled game between the Oakland A’s and the Orioles at Baltimore was postponed due to rain. The game was scheduled to be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow, but it rains again. It is finally made up on August 28.
Atlanta Braves 8, Chicago Cubs 3
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Cincinnati Reds 3
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Cleveland Indians 3
California Angels 0, Detroit Tigers 3
Texas Rangers 7, Kansas City Royals 1
New York Mets 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Boston Red Sox 9, Minnesota Twins 1
Seattle Mariners 2, New York Yankees 5
Houston Astros 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Montreal Expos 2, San Diego Padres 3
Philadelphia Phillies 1, San Francisco Giants 0
Chicago White Sox 1, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Stocks soared yesterday, spurred by several negative economic indicators that strengthened hopes of lower interest rates. After the close of trading, the Federal Reserve did indeed cut the discount rate a half a point to 5 ½ percent, from 6 percent, The Dow Jones industrial average soared 18.42 points, to 1,881.33, yesterday in heavy trading, snapping back smartly from a 6.61-point decline on Tuesday. With yesterday’s gain, it has risen nearly 100 points since the rally began eight sessions ago. Volume on the New York Stock Exchange soared to 156.6 million shares, up from 109.3 million shares on Tuesday. Interest rate-sensitive utility issues lead the surge, as advancing stocks outran declining issues by 1,087 to 547.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1881.33 (+18.42)
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Garry Williams, NFL tackle and guard (Carolina Panthers), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Steven Zalewski, NHL centre (San Jose Sharks, New Jersey Devils), in Utica, New York.
Walter Brooke, 71, American actor (DA Scanlon — “Green Hornet”).
Donn Bennett, 76, TV host (“The Big Idea”).
Thad Jones, American jazz saxophonist, flugelhorn player, arranger, bandleader, and composer (Count Basie; Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Orchestra), of cancer.
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