The Eighties: Saturday, September 13, 1986

Photograph: President Reagan making a Radio Address to The Nation on International Trade from Camp David with Elizabeth Board, 13 September 1986. (White House Photographic Office/ Ronald Reagan Library/ U.S. National Archives)

The Soviet Union presented new espionage charges against an American correspondent today and said the United States was holding East-West relations hostage to the case. The charges were presented by Gennadi I. Gerasimov, the Foreign Ministry spokesman, at a news briefing. He said the Soviet Government had “irrefutable” evidence that the correspondent, Nicholas S. Daniloff of the magazine U.S. News & World Report, had “acted on instructions” of an American diplomat, Murat Natirboff, who ended an assignment here this summer. The Soviet Government press agency, Tass, in reporting Mr. Gerasimov’s briefing, identified Mr. Natirboff as Moscow station chief of the Central Intelligence Agency.

Chernobyl radiation tainted reindeer in Lapland, where deer meat is a food staple. Herders reported that 97 percent of the 1,000 reindeer put to the annual fall slaughter have been measured in excess of permissible radiation levels and declared unfit for humans to eat. The Swedish Government is trying to protect the Lapps by buying and feeding contaminated deer meat to the region’s mink and fox farms.

Police in riot gear fought running battles in Bristol, England, with youths hurling gasoline bombs and rocks in the second straight night of violence triggered by a crime-busting campaign in one of the city’s poorest areas, authorities said. They said about 100 youths went on a rampage in the St. Paul’s district of Bristol, 100 miles west of London, setting seven cars ablaze, hurling gasoline bombs, stones and bricks before fleeing. Two officers were reported injured, and two people were arrested. Violence erupted after police launched a surprise series of raids on 12 locations in a crackdown aimed at curbing drug dealing, illegal gambling and violent crime in the area.

The United States is seeking British approval to station elite Delta Force commandos in Britain to speed up its military response to hijacking and hostage-taking, London’s Sunday Telegraph said. The request followed the recent hijacking of an Pan Am jumbo jet in Karachi, Pakistan, in which the Delta Force failed to arrive in time to help the passengers, the newspaper said. British government sources told the newspaper that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is likely to agree to the request.

State Department officials have assured U.S. residents whose spouses have been denied exit visas by the Soviet Union that their plight will be on the agenda of talks this week between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. Michael Lavigne of Berkeley, Calif., one of 11 American spouses who met with State Department officials last Friday, said the officials pledged to bring up their cases “at every possible opportunity” with the Soviets. The spouses, members of the Divided Spouses Coalition, are asking that the Soviets set a firm policy so that it would no longer be necessary to fight each spousal emigration case individually.

The Polish Government blamed the Roman Catholic Church for the country’s plague of alcoholism and said priests have no right to be righteous on the topic because they drink themselves. The allegations were made in a report by Jan Rem — a pen name for government spokesman Jerzy Urban — which said alcoholism spread centuries ago and the church could be blamed for it. The report claimed last year’s per capita consumption was 17 pints of liquor in a nation of 38 million people.

The Polish Government released more Solidarity union activists from prison today under a general amnesty. Among those released today were Wladyslaw Frasyniuk and Bogdan Borusewicz, two former Solidarity underground leaders; Henryk Wujec, a Solidarity adviser, and Leszek Moczulski, leader of an outlawed anti-Communist political organization, who has been reported in poor health. The amnesty, which the Government says will empty Poland’s jails of political prisoners, runs through Monday. Its wide scope set the stage for possible improvement in Poland’s relations with the United States and other Western nations.

A coalition of socialists, pacifists and religious groups has announced that it has met the requirements for a national referendum on abolishing the Swiss Army, and it presented a petition Friday bearing 113,000 signatures to the Government in Bern. Officials said the initiative, “For a Switzerland Without an Army,” would be put to a national vote in a few years after parliamentary debate if more than 100,000 signatures proved valid. In Switzerland, any issue can be put on the ballot if more than 100,000 people sign a petition on it.

Yugoslavia is in the midst of a crisis involving a 90 percent inflation rate, a $20 billion foreign debt and painful rivalries among its ethnic groupings, all of which has been freely acknowledged. But to have these problems discussed by a top-ranking Yugoslav Communist party official and six Yugoslav university scholars at a public forum in a foreign country — a capitalist one at that — is something new. Such a discussion took place Tuesday under the auspices of the East European program of the Smithsonian Institution’s Wilson Center, and the candor of the Yugoslav participants came close to astounding the Americans.

A powerful earthquake rattled through southern Greece today and a Cabinet minister said at least eight people had been killed in the port city of Kalamata. Environment Minister Evangelos Coloumbis also said that more than 200 people were injured, 70 of them seriously, when buildings collapsed during the quake, which measured 6.2 on the open-ended Richter scale. Another quake measuring 5.4 struck Zakinthos Island in the Ionian Sea a few hours later but there were no reports of damage or casualties, the Athens Seismological Institute said.

After a wave of Congressional budget cuts that could severely hurt the United Nations, the Reagan Administration has quietly started a campaign to reverse that trend and bolster the organization, according to Administration officials. Until recently, the Administration consistently criticized the United Nations, complaining of resolutions and programs hostile to American interests, a mismanaged and bloated bureaucracy manipulated for espionage purposes by the Soviet bloc and irresponsible spending. These criticisms were reflected in Congressional cuts in the last year, from withholdings for specific programs and policies to across-the-board reductions. Congressional cuts and deferments could go as high as $149 million, or 70 percent of the total that the United States is required to pay the United Nations next month.

Right-wing members of Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres’ coalition government vowed to block his efforts to convene an international Middle East conference, which Peres and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak had agreed on last Friday at their summit in Alexandria, Egypt. “In Israel there is no agreement for this, and I don’t think we’ll see such a conference,” Moshe Arens, a Likud minister without portfolio, told Israel Radio. The Likud objects to a broad framework for talks with Arab states and prefers negotiations on a country-by-country basis. The Herut movement, which belongs to the conservative Likud Bloc, said that it would try to block Peres’ agreement with Mubarak.

Egypt briefed Jordan today on the results of the Egyptian-Israeli summit meeting that produced an agreement to prepare for an international Middle East peace conference. Foreign Minister Esmat Abdel-Meguid telephoned the Jordanian Prime Minister, Zaid al-Rifai, and gave him details of the two-day meeting between President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Shimon Peres, officials said.

Thousands of mourners shouting “Revenge! Revenge!” marched through Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, in a funeral procession for 24 people killed when an Iranian missile struck the city Friday. The military command said Iraqi warplanes attacked five Iranian oil fields and later struck an army camp. Iraq also said its jets struck a “large maritime target” — the Iraqi military’s usual description for an oil tanker — in the Persian Gulf. The report was not confirmed.

The Seychelles Government has uncovered a plot to oust President Albert Rene, and the situation remains volatile, an exiled opposition leader said today. The opposition leader, Paul Chow, secretary general of the Seychellois National Movement, said a coup was planned by army officers loyal to the Minister of Youth and Defense, Colonel Ogilvy Berlouis. But he said the soldiers had been divided on the timing. The Seychelles Government said on Thursday that Colonel Berlouis, 36 years old, had resigned. Afterward, Mr. Rene made changes in the armed forces and some senior officers were forced to retire, according to a Government statement.

The Thai Government is considering the forced return of a group of Laotian Hmong refugees in exchange for Thais detained in Laos, according to refugee officials. The move, reportedly being negotiated, would involve 1,000 to 2,000 Hmong. Before the Communist takover in Laos in 1975, the Hmong were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency to fight against the North Vietnamese and their Laotian Communist allies. At least one Western embassy here has reportedly expressed concern over the repatriation plan.

President Corazon C. Aquino flew today to the Cordillera Mountains north of Manila, where her spokesmen said she joined an animist ritual and formed a truce with a small tribal insurgency led by a Roman Catholic priest. Her unannounced journey this morning came after a similar trip last week to the southern island of Jolo, where she cemented a cease-fire with Moslem separatist rebels and said she would “do anything to insure peace.” Her agreement today with the Cordillera People’s Liberation Army, whose strength the military estimates at 100 men, comes in a period of strain in her relations with the Communist insurgency, which fields 16,000 soldiers or more.

The image of Costa Rica as a refuge for people with nowhere else to hide is quickly fading. In recent weeks the Government has begun deporting what Interior Minister Guido Fernandez calls “scoundrels,” and many of these people have lived in Costa Rica for years. “We are not only preventing more scoundrels from coming into Costa Rica,” Mr. Fernandez said in an interview, “but we are sweeping out the ones who are here.” Among recent targets of the Government’s campaign are a Ukrainian accused of war crimes, an associate of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines and a Cuban exile said to be tied to anti-Sandinista rebels and to the Central Intelligence Agency.

The 92-nation trade conference that starts tomorrow in Uruguay will deal only with a symptom of the weak world economy — growing world protectionism — and not with the strains of economic disorder that have caused it, international economists say. The economists say that countries with ailing economies are using protectionist measures as politically expedient adjustments to such problems as the slowest sustained period of growth in two decades.

The South African Government said today that the three-month-old crackdown on unrest was “working well” despite some “slightly troublesome” areas where racial violence persisted. In last 24 hours, a black teen-age girl was shot to death and two other girls were wounded when a policeman in Grahamstown fired on demonstrators, the Bureau for Information said. The Government also said a security guard was stabbed to death in Soweto, the township outside Johannesburg.


Republicans will do quite well by historical standards in the fall elections for the House, political leaders forecast. Both the Republicans and the Democrats agree that the Democrats will maintain control of the House and even pick up a few seats, but nowhere near what has often been the case when one party has controlled the White House for six years.

Potential Republican presidential candidates echoed themes of the Reagan presidency at a forum Illinois party members scheduled to take an early look at who might keep the White House in GOP hands. Rep. John Porter said he and other Illinois GOP congressmen organized the forum, attended by about 1,200 people, so party members could get a close look “to see whose presidential timber is most likely to catch fire.” The session in Arlington Heights attracted Rep. Jack Kemp of New York, Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, television evangelist Pat Robertson, former Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. and former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. Absent from the GOP forum was former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont, who was scheduled to open the 1988 presidential campaign on Tuesday by becoming the first to declare his candidacy.

President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on international trade.

The President and First Lady participate in a rehearsal for their upcoming address to the Nation on the National Campaign against Drug Abuse. It began with a conversation several weeks ago at their mountaintop ranch near Santa Barbara. The idea of President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, making a joint television speech about drugs had been circulating in the White House since early August, but officials say it was at their California retreat that Mrs. Reagan pressed her husband on it. Mr. Reagan enthusiastically endorsed the idea, and the next week Kenneth L. Khachigian, a former White House speechwriter, was called in to help draft the speech that the Reagans will make Sunday from the White House. “When the President first announced a drug program, this speech was somehow a natural transition,” said Elaine Crispen, Mrs. Reagan’s press secretary. Although the Reagans had made a radio speech on drug abuse on October 2, 1982, the joint address tonight over national television marks in some ways a culmination of five years of work by Mrs. Reagan to raise public awareness of the dangers of drugs.

The House Rules Committee is preparing the way for the full House of Representatives to debate a comprehensive immigration bill that would prohibit employers from hiring illegal aliens. A member of the committee, Representative Anthony C. Beilenson of California, predicted, “Immigration reform is going to pass this year.” Mr. Beilenson, a Democrat, said, “Things have changed radically in the last two years.” He said Congress was likely to pass a bill to control illegal immigration even if it was not supported by growers of fruit and vegetables or by the farm workers’ union. He said those groups no longer had “the kind of political strength they did two years ago,” when a similar bill died in a House-Senate conference committee.

Ninety-one striking teachers in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley school district agreed to return to work, leaving walkouts in 18 other districts in five states that have extended summer vacations for more than 74,000 children. Schuylkill Valley teachers reached a tentative pact with the school board and said they would return to work Monday. The strike, which began September 3, has affected 1,550 students. Teachers in eight other Pennsylvania districts are still on strike.

Thirty-one percent of high-achieving teen-agers have contemplated suicide and 4% have attempted it, a survey of students listed in “Who’s Who Among American High School Students” said. Among factors the teen-agers believe contribute to suicide are: feelings of worthlessness, isolation and loneliness; pressure to achieve; failure or fear of it; drugs, alcohol and family problems. An estimated 1,700 15- to 19-year-olds kill themselves annually. The report is based on forms completed by 1,943 of 450,000 students in the current edition and is supposed to have a margin of error of 2%.

A fifth Polish fisherman requested political asylum at Coos Bay, Oregon, a day after four others jumped ship, U.S. officials said. The five gutted and cleaned fish on Polish processing boats. Three said that they are former members of the Solidarity labor union and that if they returned to Poland they could be sent to jail for attempting to defect. The men said they defected because of political conditions in Poland and because they were being persecuted for not joining the government union when Solidarity was broken, a spokeswoman said. The Immigration and Naturalization Service could take up to a month to evaluate the asylum requests.

Telephone service in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which had been knocked out by a fire at the phone company’s headquarters, was restored for most residents and complete restoration was expected by Monday, said Pedro Gallarza, president of the Puerto Rico Telephone Co. The fire knocked out service for most of historic old San Juan, including the governor’s mansion, and about 45,000 residents. Gallarza said the cause of the $2-million fire is being investigated.

The rapid and continuing spread of crack, an inexpensive and extremely addictive form of cocaine, is igniting a groundswell of concern among law-enforcement agencies, rehabilitation workers, and urban residents and groups nationwide. With the number of cocaine-related deaths and drug-related crimes already increasing, the authorities and average citizens in many cities are taking a variety of new steps to combat the problem, from increased drug raids and opening new hot lines for telephone tips on dealers and users, to neighborhood rallies and school educational programs for students as young as first graders. In Philadelphia this month, Temple University’s president, Peter J. Liacouras, outlined a toughened policy on campus drugs, including mandatory drug testing and treatment for all university athletes. The Jersey City police are introducing a special course on crack for teachers there, while Newark schools devoted an entire day in June to classroom discussions and warnings about the drug. “Crack is the biggest seller on the drug market today,” said Newark’s Police Director, Louis E. Greenleaf.

The Pentagon has decided that students enrolled in the service academies or college Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs must be discharged if tests show they have been exposed to the AIDS virus. However, enlisted men and women in officer candidate schools will be allowed to stay in the service if they show no signs of the actual disease, although they will be denied commissions. The new policy is contained in a memorandum to the armed forces signed Aug. 25 by Deputy Defense Secretary William H. Taft 4th and made public Friday.

A soot-like substance coated houses, cars and gardens today in an industrialized area, and the Union Carbide Corporation said it may have come from a fire at its plant in Institute, West Virginia. The black, oily residue was reported in Nitro and across the Kanawha River in St. Albans, said a Nitro police dispatcher, Victor Bonnett.

A hummingbird tagged by naturalists in 1976 turned up in Gothic, Colorado, and scientists said it is at least 11 years old — more than double the life expectancy for the species. The National Geographic Society announced in Washington that the bird, a female Selasphorus platycercus, or broad-tailed hummingbird, is the oldest known hummingbird in North America. The tiny, nectar-sipping birds seldom live longer than five years. University of Arizona ecologist William A. Calder, whose work is sponsored by the society, said that age 11 for a hummingbird is equivalent to 39 years for a goose, and the oldest known Canada goose lived just 24 years.

A Coast Guard cargo plane has arrived in Alaska with volunteers, guides, tons of equipment and a portable base camp to rescue porpoises and seals stranded by a glacier. An advance team has been in Yakutat all week trying to work out airlifting the animals out of Russell Lake, on the Alaska Panhandle. The California Marine Mammal Center and the Whale Museum, based in Friday Harbor, Wash., is to direct the airlift of about 150 seals and porpoises cut off from the sea in spring when a surge of the Hubbard Glacier created Russell Lake. The increase in fresh water cut the animals’ food supply of salt water organisms.

Diamond-coating processes developed by scientists have opened a new era for electronics, optics, machine tools and chemical processing and military technology, scientists believe. Experts expect that diamond coating will be cheap enough to make diamond film a common manufacturing material applicable to tools and bearings, lenses and windows, ultra-high-fidelity diamond loudspeakers, and a new generation of high-speed solid-state devices impervious to the radiation of nuclear blasts.

Modern security technology led to the jailing of Marvin Maurice Wells eight months ago in the slaying of a teen-ager in a convenience store and now it has proved him not guilty. Mr. Wells, 22 years old, of Flint, Michigan, was ordered released Friday by State District Judge John Ovard on a $50,000 bond pending official dropping of the charges against him. Investigators said they determined this week that his electronic voiceprint did not match that of the robber on the store’s security camera’s sound track Nov. 21, 1985, in Carrollton, a Dallas suburb. On Friday afternoon, police arrested Andre Anthony Lewis, 19, who prosecutors now say is responsible for the death of Matt McKay, 17, who died 18 days after he was shot.

Kellye Cash (Miss Tennessee), 21, is crowned the 60th Miss America, for 1987.

11th Toronto International Film Festival: “The Decline of the American Empire” directed by Denys Arcand wins the People’s Choice Award.


Major League Baseball:

The California Angels edged the Chicago White Sox, 3–2. Gary Pettis singled Dick Schofield home from second base with two outs in the 15th inning for California. Bill Dawley (0–7), who started the 13th, got the first two outs in the 15th, before Schofield doubled just inside the right-field line. Pettis, who had scored the tying run with two out in the ninth, singled sharply to left and Schofield slid in easily ahead of the throw.

The Oakland Athletics fell to the Cleveland Indians, 8–6. Joe Carter and Cory Snyder scored on consecutive wild pitches by Jay Howell in the eighth inning. Cleveland extended its winning streak over Oakland to nine games dating back to last year, including an 8–0 record this season. Bryan Oelkers (3–3) pitched a third of an inning in relief of Ernie Camacho, who allowed Oakland to tie the game with two runs in the eighth on Alfredo Griffin’s triple and Mike Davis’s sacrifice fly. Frank Wills relieved Oelkers after a leadoff walk to Dwyane Murphy in the ninth, and recorded the final three outs in order for his third save. Carter and Snyder opened the Cleveland eighth with walks off Bill Mooneyham (4–5). Howell relieved, and Pat Tabler advanced the runners with a sacrifice bunt. With Brook Jacoby batting, Howell skipped a pitch past Terry Steinbach, scoring Carter and moving Snyder to third. Howell’s next pitch again bounced by Steinbach as Snyder scored.

The Detroit Tigers topped the Baltimore Orioles, 7–2. A bases-loaded single by Darrell Evans and a bases-loaded triple by Chet Lemon paced a five-run seventh inning for Detroit. With the score 2–2, Tom Brookens started the Detroit seventh with a single and Alan Trammell followed with a double. After Mike Flanagan (7–10) struck out Kirk Gibson, Larry Herndon was walked to load the bases. Evans lined a shot to right scoring Brookens and Trammell and Ken Dixon relieved Flanagan. Darnell Coles was given an intentional walk, after a double steal, to load the bases for Lemon, who tripled off the center-field wall, driving in three runs.

Seattle Mariners bowed to the Kansas City Royals, 5–4. Dennis Leonard and Bud Black combined on a six-hitter and Kansas City took advantage of two errors by Seattle right fielder Danny Tartabull. Leonard, 8–11, allowed five hits and five walks in seven innings. Black pitched two innings for his seventh save.

The Cincinnati Reds blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–0. A single by Bo Diaz sparked a three-run sixth inning, and Tom Browning pitched a five-hitter for Cincinnati. The complete game was the fourth this season for Browning (13–12) and his second shutout of the season. He struck out four and walked none. Bob Welch (7–12) yielded six hits and struck out four Reds in six innings. With two out in the sixth, Dave Parker singled to right, and Eric Davis walked. Diaz blooped a single, scoring Parker and moving Davis to third. Max Venable then singled under Pedro Guerrero’s glove at first base to drive in Davis and move Diaz to third. Nick Esasky’s single scored Diaz.

The Toronto Blue Jays thumped the Milwaukee Brewers, 7–1. Willie Upshaw hit a two-run homer and Tony Fernandez had four hits in support of four-hit pitching by Joe Johnson and Mark Eichhorn as Toronto snapped a five-game losing streak, against Milwaukee. Johnson, 5–2, allowed four hits and three walks over 7 ⅓ innings. Eichhorn earned his ninth save.

Texas hit a club-record seven home runs, including two each by Darrell Porter and Ruben Sierra, as the Rangers routed the Minnesota Twins, 14–1, today and snapped a six-game losing streak. Texas rocked Bert Blyleven (15–12) for five home runs, raising the total hit off him this season to 44, an American League record. Pete O’Brien hit his 21st homer in the first inning and Pete Incaviglia hit his 25th in the second inning. Mike Mason (7–3) allowed eight Minnesota hits over the first seven innings before being followed by two relievers.

The Boston Red Sox, who have swept through the American League East for the past four months, rushed into the stands in the eighth inning at Yankee Stadium yesterday, an incident that overshadowed their 11–6 loss to the Yankees on the field. Approximately 25 members of the Red Sox vaulted over the railing into the stands next to the left-field foul line. They were not there to sign autographs or greet fans in the crowd of 50,116. Jim Rice, the burly Boston left fielder, was the first to make the leap, to retrieve his hat, which a fan had taken. The others went in to protect him.

Foiled again. And by the Philadelphia Phillies again. On the threshold of clinching their first National League East title in 13 years, the Mets stumbled again tonight. They did it this time in a maddening sequence: Lenny Dykstra hit the first pitch of the game for a home run, the first three Mets all scored and Bob Ojeda went to work with a fat lead. But Ojeda left after five innings with some stiffness in his left elbow. Then Roger McDowell, the ace of the bullpen, yielded a two-run home run to Von Hayes in the seventh. And the Phillies beat back repeated threats before a howling crowd of 47,108 and dropped the Mets, 6–5.

The Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Chicago Cubs, 5–2. Jim Morrison broke a sixth-inning tie by doubling home Mike Diaz. Bob Patterson, 2–2, earned the victory with 2 ⅔ innings of scoreless relief. Don Robinson earned his 11th save.

The San Diego Padres edged the Houston Astros, 4–3. Steve Garvey’s two-run single climaxed a three-run San Diego rally in the ninth inning to give the Padres the victory. Astros reliever Dave Smith, 4–7, failed to retire a batter in the ninth inning. Tony Gwynn led off with an infield single, stole second and wound up at third as shortstop Dickie Thon failed to handle the throw for an error, and scored on Marvell Wynne’s single.

The Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants, 4–1. Dale Murphy belted a three-run homer and the Braves snapped a six-game losing streak. Rick Mahler (13–15) yielded nine hits, but the Giants didn’t score until the seventh inning. Mahler finished with four strikeouts and three walks in pitching his seventh complete game. Glenn Hubbard opened the fifth with a walk and advanced on Mahler’s sacrifice. With two outs, Hubbard went to third on a wild pitch and Rafael Ramirez walked. Murphy then smashed an 0–2 pitch over the left-field screen for his 28th homer.

The Montreal Expos defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 5–1. Dennis Martinez allowed seven hits over 8 ⅔ innings and Mitch Webster and Andres Galarraga hit home runs. Jeff Reardon finished for his 33rd save, tying St. Louis’ Todd Worrell for the most in the National League.

California Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 2

Oakland Athletics 6, Cleveland Indians 8

Baltimore Orioles 2, Detroit Tigers 7

Seattle Mariners 4, Kansas City Royals 5

Cincinnati Reds 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 0

Toronto Blue Jays 7, Milwaukee Brewers 1

Texas Rangers 14, Minnesota Twins 1

Boston Red Sox 6, New York Yankees 11

New York Mets 5, Philadelphia Phillies 6

Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 5

Houston Astros 3, San Diego Padres 4

Atlanta Braves 4, San Francisco Giants 1

Montreal Expos 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1


Born:

Kamui Kobayashi, Japanese auto racer (24 Hours of Le Mans, 2021, 2026; 24 Hours of Daytona, 2019, 2020; FIA World Endurance Championship, 2020, 2021), in Amagasaki, Japan.

Sean Williams, NBA center and power forward (New Jersey Nets, Dallas Mavericks, Boston Celtics), in Houston, Texas.

Reggie Smith, NFL safety (San Francisco 49ers), in Edmond, Oklahoma.

Derek Hardman, NFL tackle (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Spencer, West Virginia.