A Soviet Air Forces pilot, Lieutenant Viktor Belenko, broke away from a routine training flight from the Chuguyevka Air Base in the far southeastern portion of the Soviet Union, and flew to Japanese airspace with the USSR’s newest warplane, the MiG-25 “Foxbat” fighter. Intending to find the Chitose Air Base near Sapporo and land the new MiG-25 jet fighter there, Belenko ran out of fuel and landed at 1:57 PM at a civilian airport at Hakodate, where he over ran the short runway. He requested political asylum in the United States. In that the MiG-25 was new and had never been seen close enough for an inspection, American and Japanese experts gradually disassembled what was, at the time, “considered the world’s most advanced fighter,” which included defusing self-destruct devices that had been wired into the sensitive electronic equipment. The U.S. granted Belenko’s request for asylum the day after his defection.
The fighter would turn out to be much less impressive than its reputation.
An alliance of Communists and two other parties supporting Archbishop Makarios in his capacity as president of Greek Cyprus won all but one seat in the 35-member Greek Cypriot House of Representatives. The 35th seat went to independent Tassos Papadopoulos, interim House president and current Greek Cypriot negotiator. Official results showed the rightwing opposition Democratic Rally Party led by Glafkos Clerides, former speaker of the House, drew 24% to 30% of the vote. But Clerides, an advocate of negotiating with the Turks for a quick settlement of the Cyprus issue, failed to win a single seat.
Switzerland is in trouble. Its money is too strong, its banks are too reliable, its democracy is too stubbornly entrenched and its Government is too responsive to the grass roots. That is the rueful, if not a little smug, assessment by political, financial, labor, intellectual and other leading Swiss figures of the present state of their country. After all, they conclude, being an island of stability in a turbulent world, with a reputation for other liabilities and discretions, is not all chocolate creams and edelweiss. The difficulties that result are both practical and cultural. The luxuriant Swiss franc, overnourished by other people’s money seeking safe haven, has hurt the crucial export and tourist industries by making Swiss goods and services more expensive to foreigners. Traditional prudence and suspicion of what is novel or untried has left the watch industry and some other important sectors behind the times technologically.
The Palestine Liberation Organization was granted full voting membership in the Arab League today. Meeting in regular session following Saturday’s emergency conference on Lebanon, the league made the organization its 21st member. The unanimous vote to raise the P.L.O’s status from that of a nonvoting member to full membership was sponsored by Egypt, which has been trying hard in recent months to bolster its own standing with the Palestinians. At their last conference in Rabat, Morocco, in 1974, Arab leaders designated the P.L.O. the sole legal representative of the Palestinians. The vote today gives the Palestinians slightly more diplomatic status in the Arab world; the practical effect is not likely to be major.
Renewed fighting swept four fronts in Lebanon, and resistance to Syrian occupation of the country’s eastern half precipitated a general strike in the city of Baalbek. Rightist and leftist guerrillas pounded each other with mortars, artillery and missiles along a 25-mile battle line in rugged mountains northeast of Beirut for a third consecutive day. That touched off fighting in Beirut, its southern suburbs and in north and south Lebanon. Meanwhile, Christian and Muslim leaders denied a U.S. press report that they had concluded a secret alliance with Israel against the Palestinian guerrilla movement. Israel also denied the report.
The Government of India, continuing its stepped‐up program of birth control, has decided to limit the size of its employees’ families to three children each. The ruling, an amendment to the civil service conduct rules circulated over the weekend, is part of a major Government policy promulgated last April, giving “top national priority” to slowing the population increase. With the tacit encouragement of the central Government, several states are drawing up legislation providing for compulsory sterilization of people who have more than two or three children, and clinics that offer prizes and cash bonuses for vasectomies are opening up all over the country. “No community or group can be allowed to stand in the way,” Prime, Minister Indira Gandhi said not long ago in a vigorous defense of her new birth control program. “We simply cannot afford to be a flabby nation,” she added.
Vietnam disclosed the names of 12 American pilots (seven U.S. Air Force and five U.S. Navy) who had been listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War but who had been killed after being shot down, and asked that the United States would “show its good will and take concrete action to settle postwar problems between the two countries.” One of the officers, U.S. Navy Captain William M. Roark, from whom the frigate USS Roark was named, had been shot down after taking off from the carrier USS Coral Sea on April 7, 1965. Two pilots on the list, U.S. Navy officers Lieutenant Commander Thomas C. Kolstad and Lieutenant William B. Klenert, had been shot down on October 23, 1966, after their plane took off on a mission from the aircraft carrier USS Constellation.
The rebuilding of Laos by the Communists that took control nine months ago has produced mixed results. A severe food shortage is easing, but its effects are still being felt and fuel is scarce. The government sees the problems as only the growing pains involved in building a new, self-sufficient state, society and economy. In wide areas of the countryside, particularly in the south and northeast, it is still dangerous for Pathet Lao troops or administrators to venture outside the town after nightfall as anti‐Government insurgents are still active. In Vientiane, the capital, little has changed outwardly, though the din of automobiles has largely given way to the soft swish of bicycle pedals as a result of a fuel shortage. But the strict measures that the Government has taken to insure conformity with its plans and philosophy have made the capital a far more intense city.
Representatives of the American-led United Nations Command in South Korea signed an agreement with envoys of North Korea and Panmunjom to amend the 1953 Korean Armistice Agreement that had ended the Korean War. U.S. Army Colonel Terrence W. McClain and North Korean Colonel Choi Yun-chol signed on behalf of the respective parties. Under the agreement, brought about by the August 18 incident in which two U.S. soldiers were killed, the 800 m (2,600 ft) wide Korean Demilitarized Zone was effectively split in half with North Korea to remove the four guard posts that it had maintained on the 400 meter portion of the DMZ that was south of the Military Demarcation Line.
Guam residents have voted overwhelmingly to continue the island territory’s close relationship with the United States and to draft their own constitution. Results of a referendum show that 10,221 of the 17,607 votes favored improving portions of the Organic Act by which the island has been governed since 1950. Other options had included statehood, independence, free association, commonwealth and maintaining the present status.
The nearly 600 American prisoners in Mexican jails were reported ready to begin a hunger strike today to protest what they term inhuman conditions in the jails. The strike reportedly was to go on despite the fact that President Luis Echeverria sent to the National Congress a series of proposals to enable foreigners to serve the remainder of their terms in their home countries. One U.S. prisoner-spokesman in Mexico City explained. “We were given similar promises if we stopped our last hunger strike in 1974. It turned out to be bull. We’re going ahead with the strike.”
The Sandinista government has barred an American Roman Catholic priest from returning to Nicaragua, where he has lived and worked for 12 years, a church spokesman announced. The priest, identified as Father Everett Brown, is the third cleric forced from or kept out of Nicaragua in the last 22 months. Father Uriel Reyes, spokesman for the Nicaraguan Catholic Church, told reporters that Brown was barred on Tuesday when he attempted to return from vacation. Reyes said he does not know why Brown was barred. An Interior Ministry spokesman said he had no information on the report.
South Africa’s pilots and technicians flying with the Rhodesian air force have been ordered back to their own country, the Washington Post reported. The pilots and technicians had played a major role in the guerrilla war, but officially they were not in the country. Numbering about 50, they were mainly used to fly helicopters and spotter planes. Rhodesia neither denied nor confirmed their presence. A South Africa spokesman commented. “We have no more soldiers or pilots in Rhodesia.” The comment indicated that ground troops also had been in Rhodesia.
At least 31 persons were killed and more than 70 were injured east of Johannesburg when a commuter train smashed into the rear of a Mozambique-bound express train that had stopped for a red light. Witnesses said the express train, bound for Maputo, Mozambique’s capital, had stopped for a red signal at Benoni, 30 miles east of Johannesburg, when the commuter train hurtled into it. The impact almost telescoped the express train’s rear coach, which was carrying black workers to a segregated township at Benoni.
Conditions in southern Africa exist now for blacks and whites to settle the problems of Rhodesia and South-West Africa by negotiation rather than by violence, Secretary of State Kissinger said after his talks with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa. The meeting, however, did not seem to focus heavily on the problems of riot-torn South Africa. “These discussions have been fruitful,” Mr. Kissinger said, adding that as a result of his talks with Mr. Vorster, “progress” had been made toward the objectives of majority rule, minority rights and harmony in the area, instead of violence be tween the races and big power intervention that would inevitably occur as it did in Angola. Prime Minister Vorster said at a news conference that followed Mr. Kissinger’s departure that the American Secretary had said all that had to be said. “There is nothing I can tell you that goes beyond that,” he added.
Last week’s disturbances in South Africa, touched off by marches of colored schoolchildren, have alarmed white South Africa perhaps even more than the earlier rioting by blacks in cities across the country. “You have to understand,” said a white columnist who is a longstanding opponent of apartheid, “that in the framework of separate development, the coloreds have traditionally been the most favored.” Unlike the blacks, the mixed‐race “coloreds” have been allowed to own property and are not subject to pass laws. They have greater social and economic mobility than blacks, and whites do not need permit to visit them in their homes. Thus it has long been an article of faith here that the coloreds themselves are afraid of black dominance and aspire to white life styles.
The Viking 2 lander has focused its television eyes on the eastern horizon of Mars and has disclosed in the images received here today a series of distant, flat-top hills. It has gazed more closely than before at the nearby rocks, many of which resemble weathered coral but are thought to be of volcanic origin.
What next on Mars? has become the subject of scientific debate after the successful landings of the Viking research stations. One plan, favored by geologists, envisions a mobile lander that could explore the more rugged terrain on the planet. Biologists, however, would rather see a lander capable of bringing back samples.
The decisive phase of the 1976 Presidential campaign opened today on the orthodox occasion — Labor Day — but in highly unorthodox locations as the two candidates presented contrasting political symbols. For President Ford, the symbol was the White House. He spent the day there, discussing developments in China and the problems of airport noise control, and on the golf course at the Burning Tree Country Club, avoiding campaigning altogether. He hopes that by acting “Presidential” he will reinforce the voters’ traditional reluctance to turn out an incumbent. For Jimmy Carter, the symbol was Franklin D. Roosevelt. The fernier Georgia Governor opened his general‐election campaign with a speech at Warm Springs, Georgia, where President Roosevelt sought relief from the aftereffects of polio. Mr. Carter hopes that by evoking memories of the New Deal, he will able to rebuild Democratic unity in opposition to Republican “misrules.”
Jimmy Carter formally opened his campaign with a speech in front of the Warm Springs, Georgia, home of Franklin D. Roosevelt in which he portrayed President Ford as timid and ineffectual. Offering himself as a representative of a “new generation of leadership,” Mr. Carter attempted to link Mr. Ford with former President Herbert Hoover. Mr. Carter, the Democratic nominee, evoked the names and political images of two Presidents drawn from the American aristocracy, Franklin D. Roosevelt and John F. Kennedy, suggesting that he was in some ways their political heir. But he carefully gave himself a different personal image — that of a Georgia “farm boy,” with his roots in working and middle‐class America, who had “derived my opinions” from listening to the voices of that constituency. “It’s time for a change.” said Mr. Carter this morning as he stood before the simple, small white dwelling where President Roosevelt died in 1945. A crowd of several thousand people were standing before him on a shaded knoll under a canopy of tall and gnarled trees.
Senator Walter F. Mondale today charged the Ford Administration with “economic mismanagement” as he moved west across the country in a Labor Day marathon campaign that began when he shook hands with airport workers and, in a definite break with tradition, shook the leg of one man before leaving Washington.
A former lobbyist for the Gulf Oil Corporation said that he gave Senator Dole, $2,000 in cash in 1970 to distribute to “deserving” Republican candidates around the country. A spokesman for the Republican vice-presidential candidate said the Senator would stand by earlier statements denying that he got any money from Gulf.
President Ford’s re-election would be better for the economy than the election of Jimmy Carter, according to a New York Times sampling of corporation and banking executives. Almost two-thirds of the executives queried supported Mr. Ford, and most agreed with the statement of one who felt the President would be better able to restrain inflation and hold down government spending.
Jeff Carter, the 22-year-old son of Democratic Presidential candidate Jimmy Carter, confirmed today that he has tried marijuana, but he said, “I don’t recommend it to anybody.” Jeff Carter made the comment at a news conference as he and his wife, Annette, joined other members of the nominee’s family in Presidential campaigning in the South. Jimmy Carter’s wife, Rosalynn, disclosed in an interview last week that her three sons have smoked marijuana, and Jeff Carter jokingly commented today to reporters, I “don’t know why she said it. I kind of wish she hadn’t.”
Congress, which returns tomorrow from a long Labor Day recess, will resume its effort to dispose of a number of major bills, including tax revision, before quitting for the year in four weeks. It has set an October 2 adjournment date so that members can campaign for reelection or stump for their Presidential candidates before the November 2 election. Bills pending In the Senate include revenue sharing and antitrust measures. In the House bills covering auto emission standards and industrial pollution are on the schedule. Also, an agreement Is expected this week between Senate and House conferees who have been working on a tax revision package.
Former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas suffered a fractured hip and underwent an operation, said a spokesman for the Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington. D.C. Douglas, 77, was admitted Sunday night and rested “comfortably” before the Monday operation “to repair the fracture.” He was listed as seriously ill because of the injury, his age and medical history, the spokesman said, adding that he had no details on how Douglas was injured. Douglas retired last November after serving for nearly 37 years, longer than any other justice. He has been using a cardiac pacemaker since 1968 and suffered a stroke in 1974, which left him partially paralyzed.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley has permitted a private organization to solicit funds in the bureau’s field offices for the defense of agents accused of burglaries and other illegal acts in connection with investigations of radical groups. But a spokesman insisted that the fund raising did not violate regulations which forbid solicitation on government premises during working hours. He said the bureau had no power to prohibit solicitation by mail. The appeal was sent to each of the bureau’s 59 field offices by the Society of Former Special Agents of the FBI, said spokesman Tom Coll. Kelley sent a note with the society’s letter stressing that contributions were to be entirely voluntary, Coll said.
Retired Justice William O. Douglas of the Supreme Court was “resting comfortably,” after a two‐hour operation tonight to repair a broken left hip, according to a spokesman at Walter Reed Army Hospital. The spokesman said that because of Mr. Douglas’s age and past medical history he was listed in “serious condition.” The physicians caring for Mr. Douglas reported that “the surgery went well,” the spokesman said. Mr. Douglas, 77 years old, was admitted to the Army hospital last night after breaking his hip in a fall at his home here in Washington. Mr. Douglas suffered a stroke in December of 1974 that left him partly paralyzed and confined him to a wheel chair. After extensive physical therapy, he retired from the Court in November 1975.
United Rubber Workers and the B. F. Goodrich Co. reached tentative agreement in Columbus, Ohio, on a new three-year contract, which could bring an end to the longest URW strike in the tire industry’s history. It began April 21. Goodrich was the last of the nation’s Big Four to settle with the union. A ratification vote begins Wednesday. The pact, basically the same as that made with the other companies, calls for wage increases of 84.7 cents the first year, 30 cents the second year and 25 cents the third.
Community relations and police academy officers manned cars after 60% of New Orleans’ Police Department said 135 of the 229 patrolmen scheduled to work called in sick. The patrol force staged a Labor Day sickout to protest holiday pay cuts. It was the second and final day of a hastily organized protest by the 700-member Patrolmen’s Association of New Orleans.
A Federal District Judge has rejected a lawyer’s demand that the judge step down because he has shown “personal bias” in a case involving allegations of the most extensive police misconduct in Montgomery, Alabama in 15 years. Judge Robert Varner was the latest of a growing number of public officials to be drawn into litigation that arose out of the police killing nearly a year ago of a robbery suspect who, most evidence now indicates, was the wrong man. Three policemen have been indicted for perjury in connection with the case. The district attorney has removed himself from the prosecution and asked the State Attorney General to take over. And a number of other policemen, including Public Safety Director Ed Wright are being sued in Federal court for more than $5 million on charges that they took part in a cover‐up of the suspect’s “wrongful and unlawful death.”
Ford Motor Co.’s top negotiator indicated in a Labor Day bargaining session in Detroit with the United Auto Workers that the company plans to sweeten its original offer in hopes of avoiding a September 14 contract strike deadline by 170,000 workers. “There will have to be some alterations in that offer,” said Ford Vice President Sidney McKenna. Ford, the nation’s second largest auto maker, and the UAW are working to set an industry pattern on new pacts covering about 700,000 hourly workers.
Gold prices rose sharply on European markets as the dollar weakened on most exchanges. London dealers said the rise, between $5 and $8 an ounce, was apparently caused by speculators who had recently sold the metal short in the belief the price would fall below $100 an ounce.
The solar energy capital is the future envisioned for New York state in a position paper released by Representative Bella Abzug in her campaign for the Democratic Senate nomination. Mrs. Abzug called for the breaking up of the large oil companies and said the use of solar energy would enable small companies to enter the field.
Two women, Josephine Davis and Aileen Davis, were found stabbed to death in Elizabethtown, North Carolina the day after Joseph Sledge had jumped a fence to escape the nearby White Lake Prison Camp, which was also in Bladen County. After being returned to the camp to serve out a sentence for larceny, Sledge would be wrongfully charged with murder, convicted and sentenced to consecutive life sentences based on the testimony of two inmates at the camp who claimed that he had confessed to the killing. Thirty-six years after making the allegation, one of the inmates, Herman Baker, recanted his testimony and said that he had lied in order to receive a reward for information and to have a lesser sentence. Sledge would be released after spending 36 years behind bars for a crime that he had not committed.
Rabbis in the Conservative Jewish movement have been told not to participate in marriages between Jews and non-Jews, but to try to convert the non-Jewish partner. A report issued by the Rabbinical Assembly’s Committee on Jewish Law and Standards, updating the organization’s stance on the issue of intermarriage said, “The rabbi and all organizations should work to prevent such occurrence.” “However, when in spite of all efforts, an intermarriage takes place, we believe it is in the best interest of the community to win these people over to Jewish life,” the report said. Intermarriage has been of increasing concern in the Jewish community. Some estimates say 10 to 15 percent of all marriages involving a Jewish partner are intermarriages with 70 percent of the offspring of such marriages being lost to the Jewish community.
The nation’s largest ferry fleet was back in operation today after a weekend agreement ended a three‐day strike by deck officers in the Seattle region. The state and San Juan County agreed to drop a variety of legal actions against Local 6 of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Union. In return, the union agreed to provide 72‐hour notice of any future strike action and to provide at least one working ferry full time through the San Juan Islands and one on standby for emergencies. The islands can be reached only by boat or air.
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, whose heart‐transplant patients have lived up to six years, believes that within a fairly short span of years artificial hearts will be routinely implanted in humans. The future of artificial hearts at present seems far more promising than transplanted natural hearts, the Houston surgeon said in an interview with The New York Times. But he said that the long-term goal of research must still be prevention of the diseases that degenerate hearts and other organs.
“The Robert MacNeil Report” becomes “The MacNeil-Lehrer Report” (currently known as “PBS NewsHour”) on PBS.
Singer Frank Sinatra brings surprise guest Dean Martin to his appearance on Jerry Lewis’s 11th Muscular Dystrophy Association telethon, the first time Martin and Lewis share a stage in 20 years.
Major League Baseball:
California’s Frank Tanana strikes out 15 batters in 10 innings but is not involved in a decision. The Athletics edged the Angels, 2–1, when Phil Garner singled with one out in the 11th, scoring Claudell Washington from second base with the winning run. Washington had doubled as a pinch-hitter, setting the stage for Garner’s third successive single. The A’s stole seven bases, increasing their season total to 297 and erasing the old American League record of 291 set by the 1913 Senators.
Dave Kingman drove in three runs with his major league-leading 34th homer and a double to power the Mets to a 7–4 triumph over the Cubs as Jerry Koosman notched his 18th victory. Kingman’s homer was a two-run blow in the first inning. Rick Monday hit his 28th homer for the Cubs leading off the first, and added a two-run single in the sixth.
The Reds exploded for eight runs in the third inning, but it took a run-scoring double by Dave Concepcion in the sixth to produce a 9–8 victory over the Astros. Highlighting the eight-run outburst against loser J.R. Richard (16–14) was a grand-slam homer by Joe Morgan, his 27th round-tripper and second slam of the season. Houston scores 3 in the 9th to make it close.
A four-run rally in the last of the eighth inning enabled the Tigers to overcome the Orioles, 5–4. Capping the comeback was a bloop single by Ben Oglivie, scoring pinch-runner Bruce Kimm from second base with the winning run.
The Rangers sent a record-setting Kansas City crowd home unhappy with a four-run uprising in the ninth inning that produced a 5–4 victory over the Royals. This was Rangers’ 11th victory in 15 games against the Royals and Kaycee’s seventh setback in eight games. The Rangers combined singles by Roy Howell, Joe Lahoud and Juan Beniquez and two-run double by Dave Moates to rout Doug Bird. Reliever Mark Littell then walked Gene Clines and yielded a single to Toby Harrah, scoring Moates with the deciding run. The crowd boosted the Royals’ season attendance to 1,401,121, largest in 21 seasons of major league baseball in Kaycee.
The Brewers defeated the Indians, 3–2, in the first game of a doubleheader, but the Tribe bounced back to take the nightcap by the same score. Rookie Dan Thomas doubled to score Darrell Porter, who had walked, with the deciding run in the ninth inning of the opener. With the score tied at 2–2 in the fifth inning of the nightcap, John Lowenstein doubled and scored all the way from second when Charlie Moore fielded Larvell Blanks’ chopper and pulled Mike Hegan off the bag at first.
Craig Kusick’s 10th home run of the season, with two out in the ninth inning, lifted the Twins past the White Sox, 3–2, and gave Bill Campbell his 15th victory, the major league high for relievers. Dan Ford belted his 15th homer in the second.
The Expos and Cardinals split a doubleheader, the Expos winning the second game, 3–2, on a pinch-single by Earl Williams, after Pete Falcone (12–12) pitched the Cardinals to a 3–1 victory in the opener. Williams’ single scored Mike Jorgensen, who opened the ninth inning with a walk and moved up on Bombo Rivera’s sacrifice. The Cardinals scored three runs in the seventh to back a four-hit effort by Falcone, who had eight strikeouts. Garry Templeton, Lou Brock and Luis Alvarado singled and Willie Crawford delivered a sacrifice fly in a three-run seventh when the Cardinals bunched three of their five hits off Steve Rogers.
A disputed three-run homer by Graig Nettles in the eighth inning powered the Yankees past the Red Sox, 6–5. Nettles 25th homer, which struck the wall behind the right-center field fence, bounced back onto the field and was first ruled in play, but first base umpire Joe Brinkman finally ruled the ball had cleared the fence.
The onrushing Pirates swept a doubleheader from the Phillies, 6–2, and 5–1, and drew to 5 ½ games behind the National League East leaders who had a 15 game advantage on August 24. Bruce Kison (12–8) limited the stumbling Phillies to five hits over the first eight innings and contributed a single and triple to the 12-hit attack in the opener. Bill Robinson hit a two-run triple in the third and Richie Hebner belted a solo homer in the fifth to support Larry Demery’s (10–4) four-hit pitching in the afterpiece.
Don Sutton (18–9), seeking to become a 20-game winner for the first time in his career, outdueled Randy Jones as the Dodgers defeated the Padres, 4–1. Steve Garvey had a double, triple and his 11th homer, driving in two runs. Sutton, headed for his sixth victory in succession and 18th of the season, blanked the Padres on three hits until the ninth inning, when Merv Rettenmund unloaded his second pinch-homer of the season. Dodger catcher Steve Yeager is seriously injured when he is struck in the neck by the loose end of a broken bat. Yeager is in the on-deck circle when the end of teammate Bill Russell’s bat comes off when he is hitting. The splintered end of his bat narrowly misses the windpipe of Yeager. The catcher will return to limited action in three weeks.
Sixth-inning singles by Ken Reitz, Chris Speier and Gary Alexander produced the run that gave the Giants a 4–3 victory over the Braves. Jim Wynn hit 15th homer for the Braves in the eighth. Gary Lavelle (8–5) got the win with four innings of relief work.
Oakland Athletics 2, California Angels 1
New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 4
Houston Astros 8, Cincinnati Reds 9
Baltimore Orioles 4, Detroit Tigers 5
Texas Rangers 5, Kansas City Royals 4
Cleveland Indians 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Cleveland Indians 3, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Chicago White Sox 2, Minnesota Twins 3
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Montreal Expos 1
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Montreal Expos 3
Boston Red Sox 5, New York Yankees 6
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, San Diego Padres 1
Atlanta Braves 3, San Francisco Giants 4
The New York Stock Exchange was closed for the Labor Day holiday.
Born:
Brendon Ayanbadejo, NFL linebacker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Pro Bowl, 2006–2008; Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens), in Chicago, Illinois.
Brad Scioli, NFL defensive end and defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts), in Bridgeport, Pennsylvania.
Micheal Nakamura, Japanese-born Australian National Team, MLB and NPB pitcher (Olympics, 1996, 2000; Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays; Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters, Yomiuri Giants, Saitama Seibu Lions), in Nara, Japan.
Naomie Harris, English film and TV actress (“Moonlight”); in Islington, London, England, United Kingdom.
Hyun Young, South Korean model, actress and TV show host; in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, South Korea.
N.O.R.E. [Victor Santiago, Jr.], American rapper, in Queens, New York, New York.
Died:
Clarice Benini, 71, Italian chess grandmaster, was murdered by her neighbor at her home in Rufina, near Florence.
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