The hijackers of TWA Flight 355 from New York freed 33 passengers of the 93 hostages at Gander Airport in Newfoundland after refueling in Montreal, then departed for Europe. After flying to Reykjavík in Iceland, Flight 355 landed at Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport, where French security forces punctured the Boeing aircraft’s tires to prevent it from taking off again. The terrorists — five men and one woman — released their 60 remaining hostages after their demands had been met for their manifesto to be printed in major U.S. newspapers and for leaflets to be dropped by air over London, Paris, Montreal, Chicago and New York. Four major newspapers in the U.S. had earlier printed the Free Croatia manifesto as demanded by the group. None of the passengers or grew members had been apparently been injured. Soon after the drama ended at the Paris airport, Kenneth Rush, United States Ambassador to France who had conferred with the woman hijacker who was then the first arrested, said that the hijackers had been given the option of returning to the United States for trial. He added that he thought they would accede to returning there.
A chain of terrorism and unsolved murders that stretches from Stockholm to Sydney touched New York last night when Croatian separatists hijacked an airliner and left a bomb behind that killed a policeman. It was the latest skirmish in a clandestine war between rival Yugoslav groups that is as unrelenting ‘and brutal, in its own limited way, as the civil wars in Northern Ireland and Lebanon. Like those conflicts, the Yugoslav struggle is deeply rooted, in the social, political and religious history of the country. And like them, it is a potential threat to the existence of the nation itself. There have been about 10 political murders of Yugoslavs living abroad so far this year. There have also been regular bombings of buildings occupied by Yugoslavs. The actual number of casualties remains small. In Yugoslavia itself, apart from some minor terrorism, quiet has prevailed since 1972, partly as a result of the activities of the secret police in suppressing all forms of dissidence.
The terrorist bomb placed by the Free Croatia group exploded after being taken to a demolition pit at the New York Police Department firing range at Rodman Neck in the Bronx, killing NYPD Officer Brian J. Murray, a specialist who had been attempting to disarm it, and injuring three other bomb squad members, none of whom were wearing protective covering. Police had attempted earlier to detonate the bomb by remote control and, by doing so, had apparently activated the timing device, which set off the bomb as officers had approached to inspect it.
Ambassador Kenneth Rush in Paris met briefly early this morning with the Croatian hijackers of the TWA jetliner to negotiate the freeing of the plane’s passengers and crew. It was not known immediately what agreements had been reached. One of the hijackers of the plane, which landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport after a circuitous route from New York, reportedly was to telephone a contact in the United States after the meeting to verify that the anti-Yugoslav statements distributed by the Croatian hijackers had received wide publicity in the American press.
President Tito of Yugoslavia is suffering from an “acute liver illness” and must have complete rest for several weeks, the presidential office in Belgrade announced. The illness will force the 84-year-old Tito to postpone a scheduled visit by French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, a Yugoslav news agency announcement said. The presidential statement said the disease was discovered at a routine medical checkup just before Romanian President Nicolae Ceausescu arrived for a recent visit. Tito appeared healthy during that visit.
Five Yugoslav air controllers underwent intense questioning as authorities tried to find out why two jetliners were at the same altitude and on a collision course. The controllers were all on duty Friday at the time of the collision, which killed all 176 persons aboard a British Airways Trident 3 and a chartered Yugoslav DC-9 over Yugoslavia. The debris killed a Yugoslav woman working on her farm.
After two and a half years as the United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Walter J. Stoessel Jr. is leaving his post in a mood of temperate optimism about the future of Soviet-American relations. The mood prevails, he said in an interview the other day, despite the risks posed by a continuing arms race, rising military budgets and the Russians’ propensity for opposing American interests in many parts of the world. “It’s hard to be very certain,” he remarked, “but I feel that the detente relationship or the relaxation of tensions, whatever you call it, is rooted in sort of fundamental factors on both sides, for the Soviets and for ourselves, and that the factors will continue to operate.” Most basic is “a concern on both sides about avoiding nuclear war, nuclear confrontation,” Mr. Stoessel said. “I think there is a concern on both sides to try to put some kind of limitation on strategic arms.”
The National Union of Seamen agreed early today to postpone a threatened strike for two weeks. The agreement came after nearly two days of bargaining between the seamen’s union and the Trades Union Congress, confederation that represent more than 10 million workers. The Congress had been asked by Prime Minister James Callaghan to bring pressure on the seamen’s union to prevent a serious challenge to the Government’s strategy for economic recovery and to preserve harmony between the labor movement and the Labor Government. This harmony has been essential over the last 18 months to Britain’s attack on inflation, still the highest among Western industrialized nations. A strike would not only have caused damage to the economy by disrupting imports and exports, but also would have represented the first serious threat to the voluntary acceptance by unions of the Government’s severe policy of wage restraint.
A strong earthquake, reportedly measuring 5 or more on the Richter scale, jolted northeast Italy and southern Austria, killing at least one person and injuring dozens in Italy’s Friuli region, where 1,000 people were killed in a quake in May. Two strong tremors sent tens of thousands of people fleeing into the streets of Udine, which was badly damaged in the May quake, and other towns. Reports from several towns said buildings damaged in the May quake had collapsed. An elderly man in Trento was reported killed when he fell and struck his head. Buildings in Venice swayed.
Pope Paul VI met at the Vatican with French bishop Marcel Lefebvre, who had rebelled against the reforms of the Second Vatican Council by founding the anti-Modernist Society of Saint Pius X on November 1, 1970. Paul VI and, later, Pope John Paul II were unable to persuade Lefebvre to adhere to Vatican directives and Lefebvre would be excommunicated in 1988.
The National Day of Catalonia was publicly observed for the first time since 1938, when it was oppressed by the government of Francisco Franco. The official observance, coinciding with the democratization of Spain, was held 10 months after Franco’s death.
Rival radio stations reported fierce fighting in Beirut as Arab League mediator Hassan Sabri Kholi returned to the Lebanese capital with new proposals for ending the civil war there. Details of the latest plan have not been released, but they are expected to be along lines of previous Arab League proposals. Shells and mortars exploded in both rightist and leftist parts of Beirut in fighting described as some of the worst yet in the city.
Egyptian and Libyan forces face each other across their frontier in significant strength in a confrontation that, in the opinion of United States defense sources, has seriously affected the military balance in the Middle East. The military buildup on what were World War II battlefields was said to impose further strain on Arab unity, already eroded by the differences between Syria and‐Egypt over the Sinai settlement of 1975. The deployment of two Egyptian divisions, including two armored brigades, that had been stationed on the Sinai and Suez fronts is reckoned to have reduced the military pressure on Israel. So has the transfer of three MIG‐23 squadrons from the Nile Delta to airfields in the Mersah Matruh‐El Alamein area.
Nagarjuna University was inaugurated in the Indian city of Namburu in the Andhra Pradesh state, with former Indian President Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed. Since 2004, it has been called Acharya Nagarjuna University.
North Korea has removed all four of its guard posts from the southern side of Panmunjom under an agreement to separate U.N. Command and North Korean guards, U.S. command officials said. Removal of the Communist posts was a major point of a new agreement designed to prevent clashes like the one on August 18 in which two American officers were killed by North Korean guards. Under the new agreement, guards will stay on their own side of the line dividing Panmunjom truce village rather than being allowed to move freely throughout the area.
Uncertainty over China’s leadership in the wake of Mao Tse-tung’s death was evident in some of the official messages of condolence sent by foreign governments. Some of them were addressed to Prime Minister Hua Kuo-feng, some to the Communist Party Central Committee and others to just “The leadership of China.” At the same time, the first responses to Mao’s death from the provinces indicated that factional disputes were likely to continue. In messages to the Central Committee, several provinces pledged to uphold party unity and promote production, following a moderately worded call by Peking after Mao’s death on Thursday. But others, including Liaoning in Manchuria and the city of Shanghai, both leftist strongholds, called for continuing the antirightist campaign and rooting out the “bourgeoisie within the party.” The confusion over the leadership underscores the predicament that Peking now finds itself in. Since January three top figures have died‐Chou En‐lai, the Prime Minister; then Chu Teh, the nominal head of state, and now Mao, the party chairman. In normal diplomatic practice, messages of condolence would be addressed to the counterpart of the sender, but in the Chinese case, that is now largely impossible.
Mourning services for Mao Tse-tung began this morning under tightly controlled conditions as groups of Chinese made their way to the Great Hall of the People, where the Chairman’s remains are lying in state. Thousands of Chinese, weeping and wearing black armbands, filed past the body of Mao Tse-tung in Peking’s Great Hall of the People on the first day of an official week of mourning for the founder of modern China. Amid the mourning, a political power struggle shaped up and the powerful Peking military garrison vowed to continue the battle Mao waged to “criticize modern revisionism with the Soviet revisionist clique at the core.”
A political crisis stemming from the struggle for power in Japan’s governing Liberal Democratic Party was staved off today when Prime Minister Takeo Miki and his rival Cabinet members accepted a compromise. The proposal, put forth by the party’s secretary general, Yasuhiro Nakasone, calls for a special meeting of Liberal Democratic members of Parliament on Tuesday, an extraordinary session of the Parliament on Thursday to act on pressing fiscal legislation and a party convention in October. The compromise further provided that Mr. Miki would pledge at the special meeting Tuesday that he would not dissolve the Parliament for a general election before the fiscal legislation is approved and that he would speak on his ideas to cope with the intraparty strife that grew out of the Lockheed bribery scandal.
The government of Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet released 205 political prisoners on the third anniversary of the 1973 coup that had toppled President Salvador Allende but extended the existing state of siege by an additional six months.
Argentine security forces have seized the secret headquarters of a left‐wing guerrilla group responsible for 10 major assassinations, several kidnappings and several assaults on police stations, the First Army Corps said today. Troops occupied a residential building here that was identified as the center for an action group of the People’s Revolutionary Army. The soldiers found a machine shop for assembling and repairing sub machineguns, an electronic shop to prepare explosives that could be detonated by radio signals, a chemical laboratory and extensive files on past and prospective victims, the authorities said. The army communique said the group had assassinated Rear Admiral Hermes Quijada, a former Navy commander, Jordan Bruno Genta, a leading ideologue of right‐wing Catholic nationalism and other military and police officials and several businessmen and policemen. The leader of the guerrilla organization, Mario Roberto Santucho, was killed in July by an army patrol.
Armed men identifying themselves as policemen have kidnaped nine Argentine psychiatrists from their homes and offices, a psychiatric federation spokesman said in Buenos Aires. “We believe five may be under arrest in military bases, but we are not sure. The rest have not been heard from. It is as if they had been swallowed by the earth,” Dr. Gervasio Paz, the federation’s spokesman, said.
More than 100 persons were feared killed and about 300 injured when two passenger trains collided in south Cameroon on Thursday, survivors reported today. The railroad authorities have said only that the casualty toll was heavy. Previous reports said 10 persons were killed and several hundred seriously injured.
Henry Kissinger and Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, may meet during the Secretary of State’s trip to Africa. Mr. Kissinger said his trip, which is to begin Monday, would probably not result in permanent solutions to the problems of Rhodesia and South-West Africa, but would be used to set a framework for further negotiations.
Americans believe their nation is in better shape this year than in 1974 but see only small improvements in their personal lives, a study of citizen attitudes showed. The fourth edition of the Potomac Institute’s “Hopes and Fears” studies, based on polling by the Gallup organization, used a 10point scale to rate the national situation-zero indicating the lowest expectation and 10 the highest. The survey of 1,071 Americans placed the United States at 5.5, compared to 4.8 in 1974. The main national concerns were crime, violence and corruption, with rising prices in the top rank.
A panel of 12 pathologists has failed in initial tests to come up with an explanation for the mysterious “Legion fever,” which killed 29 persons and made 180 others ill, the National Center for Disease Control in Atlanta reported. The panel spent two days studying tissue samples from victims, most of whom were associated with an American Legion convention in Philadelphia this summer. Meanwhile, Rep. John M. Murphy (D-New York) said the House consumer protection subcommittee would investigate suspicions that the disease might have been caused by “the willful introduction of a poisonous substance.”
The League of Women Voters appealed to the public for $175,000 to help pay for the four nationally televised political campaign debates — three between the presidential candidates and one between the vice presidential candidates — that it is sponsoring. Ruth C. Clusen, chairman of the league’s education fund, said public donations were necessary because the Federal Election Commission had forbidden donations from private foundations or corporate or union treasuries.
A man convicted of threatening the lives of President Ford, Vice President Rockefeller and Ronald Reagan has been sentenced to 10 years in prison. Michael Lance Carvin, 21, was convicted of threatening Reagan with a toy gun in Miami in November, 1975, during the former California governor’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He was also found guilty of making threats against Ford and Rockefeller in telephone calls to the Secret Service and letters to news media in Miami.
Jimmy Carter says he emphasized relatively conservative themes during his first week of Presidential campaign to restore what he thinks is the more “accurate” image he enjoyed in the spring before selecting a liberal running mate and before Republicans branded him an “ultraliberal.”
Senator Robert J. Dole of Kansas, the Republican Vice-Presidential candidate, went before the sharply divided delegates to the Republican state convention here today and determinedly avoided becoming embroiled in the bitter intraparty struggle.
Senator Walter G. Mondale, the Democratic Vice-Presidential nominee, appealed to New Jersey’s top Democratic party leaders here today to resolve their differences and unite behind Jimmy Carter, the party’s Presidential candidate.
Women in “extraordinary” numbers have entered the job market in the last two years, and especially in 1976, according to Alan Greenspan, the administration’s top economist. Labor Department statistics illustrate this by showing that almost two-thirds of those entering the job market in the last five months have been women. The national labor force is now 40.7 percent female, a level that forecasters did not expect until 1985.
Two men and a woman were arrested in Springfield, Massachusetts, and charged with conspiring to murder Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Springfield police said. The woman, Sandra Rondeau, 34, of Westfield, Massachusetts, and one man, David King, 31, of Springfield, were released on their own recognizance but the third suspect, Robert White, 42, of Enfield, Conn., was held on $50,000 bail, police said. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) was in the Springfield area Saturday to campaign for reelection. According to police, one of the suspects had leaked a plan to a companion and police found out about it. In Boston, Kennedy’s press aide, Ann Speakman, said, “No one really knows the nature of the threat.”
Negotiators for Ford Motor Co. and the United Auto Workers met for six hours but the union said no progress had been made. The union is prepared to call its 170,000 Ford workers off the job if there is no agreement on a new three-year pact when the current contract expires at 11:59 PM Tuesday.
Ordination of women as Episcopal priests in areas where they would be accepted was suggested by the church’s Presiding Bishop, John Allin. The Bishop, who has declared his opposition to the ordination of women, said at the opening of the denomination’s convention in Minneapolis that he hoped the church would avoid further division over the issue.
The mysterious decline in the scores of high school seniors on their college boards continued last year. A report shows that the average score of the verbal section of the Scholastic Aptitude Test dropped three points and the average score on the mathematical part remained at its lowest level ever. The worsening scores have become a focus of a nationwide debate over educational quality.
The Ford Administration, with its attention focused on the November Presidential election, has abandoned its efforts to fill a vacancy on the three-member board of the Tennessee Valley Authority, the multibillion dollar Federal regional development agency.
An apparently two-way race between Bella Abzug and Daniel Patrick Moynihan for the Democratic Senate nomination (from New York) in Tuesday’s primary has shifted at least some of the support of the state organization to Mr. Moynihan.
The New River, a 50 mi (80 km) long waterway that flows past Jacksonville, North Carolina and Camp Lejeune, was saved from being dammed when U.S. President Gerald Ford signed a bill cancelling a proposed hydroelectric dam project. Noting that the geologists had estimated the New River, despite its name, to be the second-oldest in the world (at 100 million years, “second in age only to the Nile”), President Ford said “I hope the New River will flow free and clear for another 100 million years.”
A man in Ligonier, Pennsylvania, died from a heart attack just seconds after completing his vows during his wedding ceremony, prompting a legal battle over whether his bride was entitled to inherit from him. Robert Neiderhiser, who suffered from rheumatic heart disease, collapsed at the altar after saying “I do”. His bride sued for control of his estate, stating that she was his widow; his parents filed an objection, stating that the ceremony had not been completed. The probate court would rule in favor of Mrs. Neiderhiser after testimony that the groom collapsed as the pastor said “I now pronounce you man and wife.”
The National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum was inaugurated in Stillwater, Oklahoma, near the campus of Oklahoma State University.
Dorothy Kathleen Benham (Miss Minnesota), 20, is crowned 49th Miss America 1977.
U.S. Open Women’s Tennis, Forest Hills, New York: Chris Evert retains her title, dominating Evonne Goolagong Cawley of Australia 6–3, 6–0.
Major League Baseball:
Rico Carty and Boog Powell batted in two runs apiece to help the Cleveland Indians edge the Boston Red Sox, 6–5. The Indians scored twice in the first inning on a single by Frank Duffy, double by Buddy Bell and single by George Hendrick. Carty drove in a run with a double in the third and hit a homer in the sixth. The Indians then loaded the bases and Powell provided the decisive hit with a pinch-single, batting in two runs. Cecil Cooper homered for the Red Sox and Carlton Fisk drove in two runs with a pair of sacrifice flies.
The Angels broke on top with four runs in the third inning and went on to defeat the White Sox, 7–3, in a game that saw Minnie Minoso, 53 years old, make his appearance as a designated hitter for the White Sox to become the third oldest player in the history of the major leagues. He goes hitless in his 3 at bats against Frank Tanana (16–9), but his appearance makes him one of a handful of ML players to play in 4 decades. His at bat in 1980 will match him with Nick Altrock as a 5-decade player. Only Satchel Paige, who pitched for Kansas City at age 59 in 1965, and Nick Altrock, who had one time at bat for Washington at age 56 in 1933, were older than Minoso. The Angels’ outburst that sent Frank Tanana on his way to victory began with a run-scoring triple by Dave Collins and included a double by Rusty Torres, pass to Tommy Davis and double by Ron Jackson.
The Baltimore Orioles, after winning the first game, 5–1, scored two runs in the seventh inning on a pass with the bases loaded and a wild pitch to defeat the Brewers in the second game, 3–2, to complete the sweep of a twi-night doubleheader. In the opener, Reggie Jackson homered in the first inning and singled, stole second and scored in both the third and the eighth. The Orioles also had a homer by Lee May in the sixth. The Orioles, who were trailing in the nightcap, 2–1, began the seventh with a double by Brooks Robinson and infield hit by Rick Dempsey, Robinson holding second. The runners moved along on an infield out by Al Bumbry. Rich Dauer singled, scoring pinch-runner Bob Bailor. Colborn walked Jackson intentionally to load the bases. Danny Frisella relieved and uncorked a wild pitch while facing May to allow Dempsey to score the winning run.
Bouncing back from an 18–3 beating in the previous night’s game, the Royals came from behind with a five-run rally in the ninth inning to defeat the Twins, 8–6. Dan Ford drove in three runs to pace the Twins to a 6–3 lead before the Royals erupted. The rally began with singles by Al Cowens, Frank White, Jamie Quirk and Jim Wohiford for the first two runs. Amos Otis then came to the plate and smashed a three-run homer.
The Tigers built up a 6–0 lead and then got one-hit relief from John Hiller in the last three innings to hold off the Yankees, 6–5. Ron LeFlore, who had four hits in the game, led off the first inning with a single, stole second and scored on a single by Rusty Staub. Ben Oglivie homered with LeFlore on base in the third. The Tigers capped their scoring in the fourth with an RBI single by Oglivie and two-run single by Willie Horton. Thurman Munson batted in two tuns for the Yankees with a single and homer, while Lou Piniella also accounted for two runs with a double. Munson’s homer to lead off the seventh kayoed Tiger starter Dave Roberts and brought Hiller to the mound.
Pinch-hitting in the 12th inning, Champ Summers homered with two men on base to give the Cubs a 4–1 victory over the Phillies, who went down to their 13th defeat in the last 15 games. As a result, the Phillies’ East Division lead over the Pirates dropped to four games. Rick Monday accounted for the Cubs’ initial run with a homer in the first inning. The Phillies pulled even with an unearned run in the third, scoring with two out on a walk to Mike Schmidt, single by Greg Luzinski and wild throw by Joe Wallis. The deadlock then persisted until the 12th when Manny Trillo and Wallis singled and Summers homered as the pinch-hitter for Bruce Sutter (5–3).
Dave Parker and Richie Hebner each drove in one run and scored one, while Jerry Reuss (13–8) and Kent Tekulve (8th save) combined on a five-hitter, as the Pirates edged the Expos, 4–3. After the Expos nicked Reuss for a run in the first inning, the Pirates came back with three in their half, scoring on RBI singles by Parker and Hebner, plus a wild pitch by Steve Rogers. What proved to be the winning run followed in the fourth on a single by Hebner, a throwing error and infield out by Manny Sanguillen. The Expos fell short with two runs in the seventh on a homer by Earl Williams, singles by Larry Parrish and Pete Mackanin and an infield out by Jose Morales.
Although nicked for 10 hits, Randy Jones won his 21st game, pitching the Padres to a 4–1 victory in the opener of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Astros came back to win the nightcap, 2–1. The Padres provided Jones with a two-run lead in the first inning, scoring on a walk to Johnny Grubb, single by Tito Fuentes, forceout by Willie Davis and double by Jerry Turner. The Astros picked up their tally in the eighth on a hit batsman and singles by Enos Cabell and Cesar Cedeno, but the Padres iced the decision with a pair in their half when Davis doubled, Mike Ivie tripled and Doug Rader singled. J.R. Richard (17–14) was the Astros’ winner of the nightcap, pitching six innings before leaving the game with a stiff arm. Gene Pentz finished. The Astros scored a run in the third on two-out singles by Cabell, Cedeno and Bob Watson. The Padres tied the score in the fourth when Ivie doubled, Turner singled and Rader hit a sacrifice fly, but back-to-back doubles by Watson and Cliff Johnson in the sixth provided the Astros with their winning run.
A bases-loaded double by Dave Concepcion in the eighth inning proved the key blow for the Reds in an 8–5 victory over the Giants. With two out, Bill Plummer and Joel Youngblood singled and Pete Rose walked to load the bases for Concepcion, who cleared the sacks with his two-bagger.
Equalling his career high, Jerry Koosman gained his 19th victory, pitching the Mets past the Cardinals, 4–1. The lefthander retired the first 16 batters before Mike Tyson reached second base on an error by Joe Torre in the sixth inning and scored on a single by Jerry Mumphrey. The only other Cardinal hit was a single by Ted Simmons in the seventh. The Mets put Koosman on the road to victory with two runs in the fourth on a pass to Torre, double by Mike Vail, an error and sacrifice fly by John Stearns.Equalling his career high, Jerry Koosman gained his 19th victory, pitching the Mets past the Cardinals, 4–1. The lefthander retired the first 16 batters before Mike Tyson reached second base on an error by Joe Torre in the sixth inning and scored on a single by Jerry Mumphrey. The only other Cardinal hit was a single by Ted Simmons in the seventh. The Mets put Koosman on the road to victory with two runs in the fourth on a pass to Torre, double by Mike Vail, an error and sacrifice fly by John Stearns.
Mike Torrez (13–10) stretched his string of scoreless pitching to 37 ⅔ innings and Bert Campaneris accounted for the only run with a sacrifice fly as the Athletics nipped the Rangers, 1–0. Torrez’ duel with Nelson Briles was decided in the eighth when Phil Garner doubled, Bill North singled and Campaneris hit his fly to center field.
The scheduled doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and the Dodgers at Los Angeles was postponed due to rain. The games will be made up as a doubleheader on September 13.
Cleveland Indians 6, Boston Red Sox 5
California Angels 7, Chicago White Sox 3
Baltimore Orioles 5, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Baltimore Orioles 3, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Kansas City Royals 8, Minnesota Twins 6
Detroit Tigers 6, New York Yankees 5
Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Houston Astros 1, San Diego Padres 4
Houston Astros 2, San Diego Padres 1
Cincinnati Reds 8, San Francisco Giants 5
New York Mets 4, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Oakland Athletics 1, Texas Rangers 0
Born:
J.P. Vigier, Canadian NHL right wing (Atlanta Thrashers), in Notre Dame De Lourde, Manitoba.
Roger Chanoine, NFL tackle (Cleveland Browns), in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2016, of pancreatic cancer).
Edwards Guzmán, Puerto Rican pinch hitter, third baseman, and catcher (San Francisco Giants, Montreal Expos), in Bayamon, Puerto Rico.
Tomáš Enge, Czech racing driver, in Liberec, Czechoslovakia.
Elephant Man [Oneal Bryan], Jamaican musician (“Let’s Get Physical”), in Kingston, Jamaica.
Died:
Shōjirō Ishibashi, 87, Japanese manufacturer who founded Bridgestone Corporation, now the world’s largest maker of tires, in 1930. The named “Bridgestone” was derived from a literal translation of Ishibashi’s name (Ishi= “stone”, Bashi= “bridge”).
Carl Carmer, 82, American novelist and nonfiction book writer known for the 1934 bestseller “Stars Fell on Alabama”.
Jan Kunc, 93, Czech composer (Czech State Anthem).
Paul Pascoe, 67, New Zealand architect.
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