Nicholas S. Daniloff, the American correspondent charged with espionage, declared today that the charges against him were purely political and warned that any Western journalist in Moscow was a potential target for K.G.B. entrapment. In a news conference two days after his release from a Soviet prison, Mr. Daniloff said he believed his arrest and subsequent indictment on espionage charges “was engineered for the clear, narrow political purpose of giving the Soviet Union leverage with which to gain the release of Zakharov.” He was referring to Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet physicist on the staff of the United Nations, who was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation on August 23 and accused of trying to buy secret jet engine designs from an employee of a military contractor. Neither he nor Mr. Daniloff, who was arrested a week later, have diplomatic immunity.
Senior Reagan Administration officials, ruling out a direct exchange of an American journalist confined to Moscow for a Russian physicist restricted to New York, said today that they were discussing other formulas with Soviet officials to end the latest crisis in relations. Amid signs of strain within the Administration over how to deal with the dual cases of Nicholas S. Daniloff, Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report, and Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Russian employee of a United Nations agency, there were fresh calls by a key Republican Senator today to suspend all substantive talks with Moscow until Mr. Daniloff was allowed to return to the United States. One proposal, said to be under discussion, would be for the Soviet Union to deport Mr. Daniloff without a trial and exchange some prominent dissidents, such as the physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, who is in internal exile in Gorky, for Mr. Zakharov. John C. Whitehead, Deputy Secretary of State, said on television this morning that so far there had been “no breakthroughs” in the talks. “We continue to work at it, there are negotiations going on, we are continuing to insist that Daniloff be set free; he is not yet free.”
Edward L. Howard, the former Central Intelligence Agency officer accused of severely damaging the American intelligence operation in Moscow, appeared on television today and described why he defected but said, “I love my country.” Mr. Howard, who has grown a mustache, answered questions posed by the host, Genrikh Borovik, on an interview program. It was the first public appearance in the Soviet Union for Mr. Howard, who eluded an international manhunt for nearly a year and then appeared in Moscow on August 8, when the Soviet Union announced he had been granted political asylum. The broadcast of the interview tonight appeared to be part of a Soviet campaign to publicize accounts of American intelligence operations.
Five thousand cheering supporters turned out at a Gdansk church today to greet some of the Solidarity activists who were freed from prison this weekend under a sweeping amnesty. Many cried openly as the returning prisoners hugged each other. Bogdan Borusiewicz, the best known of the group of at least 20 that returned to Gdansk, was overwhelmed when the parishioners sang the national anthem, “Poland is Not Lost.” Holding his hand aloft in Solidarity’s now-illegal “V” salute, he pressed his face into his arm so the cameras would not record the tears. The 36-year-old Mr. Borusiewicz had been in prison for eight months, and for the four years before that he was a fugitive directing Solidarity underground activities in the Baltic region. Now, as he stood in the courtyard behind St. Brigida’s Church, next to his colleague, Lech Walesa, Mr. Borusiewicz thanked the parishioners for their welcome and their support.
Solidarity founder Lech Walesa said the release of 225 political prisoners under an amnesty program has created a “new situation” in Poland. After a Mass in his hometown of Gdansk, the Nobel Peace laureate was joined by Father Henryk Jankowski, who said the amnesty was not a favor but “an act of justice” and added, “Amnesty was the first step toward reconciliation with the nation.” Dissident sources said that all imprisoned leaders of the outlawed Solidarity union have been freed under the amnesty. However, other Solidarity activists who have refused to surrender are still in hiding.
Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, speaking minutes after a fatal bomb explosion in Paris, announced measures tonight to combat a wave of terrorism, including a requirement that Americans and most other foreign visitors obtain visas. Only citizens of the 11 other countries of the European Community and Switzerland will be exempt from the visa requirement, which Mr. Chirac said would take effect Monday. The move is part of a French effort to monitor better the movements of potential terrorists from abroad. Mr. Chirac said the requirement would inconvenience foreigners and cause longer waiting times at airports, but he asked visitors to show “understanding” of the priority of the struggle against terror. No details of the visa procedure were announced, but a Foreign Ministry official said visas might be issued at the border and airports during a transition period. In the United States, airlines and French consular officials were caught off guard by the announcement and said they were trying to find out what procedure to follow. An Air France official in New York said he had been informed in a cablegram from France that the new policy would become effective Tuesday and that the French authorities seemed prepared to issue visas on arrival.
Rescuers clawing through debris with their hands and clearing collapsed buildings with bulldozers freed 31 people buried alive by an earthquake in southern Greece. The official toll from the Saturday quake, which measured 6.3 on the Richter scale and was followed by 15 aftershocks, rose to 17; about 300 people were injured. Officials fear that scores of people are still trapped beneath the tons of rubble in Kalamata, a city of 80,000 about 100 miles southwest of Athens. They said at least 80% of the buildings in Kalamata and villages within a 100-mile radius sustained some form of structural damage.
Thousands were homeless in Greece after an earthquake that struck a southern port town Saturday night. Seventeen people were reported dead and 8 to 12 were missing. The official Athens News Agency reported that 70 percent of the buildings in the port of Kalamata had been damaged and that 112 houses had completely or partly collapsed in the town of 42,000 inhabitants.
As Prime Minister Shimon Peres flew today to meet President Reagan in Washington, his coalition Government was torn over his agreement with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to work toward an international conference on Middle East peace. The Prime Minister’s plane was still on the tarmac when Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir told reporters at Ben-Gurion International Airport, “Washington and the whole world know that a big part of the Israeli Government is dead set against an international conference.”
A senior Iraqi consular aide was killed today when an explosion, apparently caused by a bomb, ripped through his car while he was driving in a Karachi suburb. It was the second time this year that a bomb was reported placed in the car of the diplomat, identified as Nathal Abdul Salam.
Seychelles President Albert Rene fired his defense minister, arrested 12 other people and forced several senior army officers to retire after foiling a plot to assassinate him, London’s Sunday Times reported. The plotters in the Indian Ocean island nation “were upset at the country’s poor economic position, made worse by political repression, a decline in tourism and dwindling foreign exchange reserves,” the newspaper said. Soldiers disenchanted with Rene’s left-wing regime planned to assassinate him when he returned from the recent conference of nonaligned countries in Zimbabwe, the paper said. But Rene reportedly learned of the plot and returned a day early to confront the conspirators.
An explosion apparently caused by a powerful bomb killed 5 people and wounded 36 others, 21 seriously, Sunday as they stood outside a terminal building at Kimpo International Airport here. The chief of the South Korean national police, Kang Min Chang, strongly suggested that North Korea was responsible, although he stopped short of making a formal accusation. All of those killed or wounded were said to be South Koreans. The original police report said 19 people were injured, and there was no explanation for the sharp revision in the official casualty figures. Soon after the mid-afternoon explosion, extra squads of combat police officers carrying automatic rifles took up positions at the airport. They had already been out in force throughout Seoul; in the last few days sports teams from about 25 countries have been arriving for the quadrennial Asian Games, scheduled to open next Saturday.
President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, on a four-day visit to Peking, said China has promised to give his country more than $20 million worth of food, consumer goods, tools and other kinds of aid. At a press conference, he declined to answer questions about whether he has persuaded China to sell or supply arms to his Sandinista regime. But he did say that as a result of China’s aid, “Nicaragua will have immediately available more resources to relieve the situation, which has been made more grave by the aggression of the United States.”
Representatives of the Salvadoran government and leftist rebels broke off talks in Panama City, Panama, aimed at preparing for a third round of peace negotiations, jeopardizing the new initiative, officials said. But Julio Rey Prendes, El Salvador’s minister of culture and communications, said government officials will remain in the city until Tuesday in hopes of resolving a dispute with the guerrillas over security arrangements and going ahead with the peace talks, scheduled for Friday in Sesori, 95 miles northeast of San Salvador.
The Bolivian government agreed to free imprisoned trade union leaders and modify its plans to streamline the mining industry in exchange for a return to work by miners and an end to a hunger strike by about 2,000 people throughout the country. Foreign Minister Guillermo Bedregal said that 64 political, trade union and student leaders detained when the government declared a state of siege August 28 will be released beginning today.
A group calling itself the “September 11 Command” has taken responsibility for the deaths last week of four leftists, saying they were killed to avenge the assassination attempt against General Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean President. In a tape recording played today over the telephone to several foreign news agencies, a man noted that five of the President’s bodyguards were killed in the ambush last Sunday night and that “very soon there will be a fifth death, one for each bodyguard assassinated.”
The South African Government said today that it had closed 13 more black schools because of student boycotts and classroom disruption. The announcement from the Department of Education and Training, which last week closed 20 schools in the eastern Cape Province, heightened concern about the crisis in black education. An Education Department spokesman, Job Schoeman, said 10 of the 13 schools were in Soweto, the huge black township south of Johannesburg that has been racked by years of political violence. A statement from the department’s Director General, Braam Fourie, said that attendance at the schools had been virtually zero and that effective education had become impossible.
President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, in a rare joint address, called tonight for a “national crusade” against drug abuse. In the first nationally televised speech by Mr. and Mrs. Reagan, the President warned that “drugs are menacing our society” and that much remained to be done by Government and the private sector to combat what he termed “this cancer of drugs.” “In this crusade, let us not forget who we are,” Mr. Reagan said. “Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is. The destructiveness and human wreckage mock our heritage.” The Reagans delivered the speech, in which they alternated remarks, from the White House living quarters. Mrs. Reagan, who has made combating drug abuse the center of her role as First Lady, pleaded with the nation, and children in particular, to “just say no.” “There is no moral middle ground,” Mrs. Reagan said. “Indifference is not an option.” Mr. Reagan said that on Monday he would present a series of proposals aimed at encouraging “a drug-free America.” Aides have said this will include mandatory testing for Federal employees in sensitive and safety-related jobs and expanded enforcement efforts. Mr. Reagan said the proposals, which would increase Federal spending on antidrug efforts by nearly a billion dollars, or by almost a third, would toughen laws against drug-related crimes, encourage increased drug abuse research and treatment efforts and seek to eliminate illegal drugs in schools and the workplace. The joint address, which gave no specific remedies for curbing illegal drugs in terms of legislation or orders from the executive branch, marked the most visible effort to date by the Reagans to publicize the effect of drug abuse on the nation.
The President and First Lady leave Camp David and return to the White House.
Possible drug use by bus drivers in Los Angeles has caused concern, following more than a dozen accidents that have killed one man and injured at least 137 other people. At least three of five recent accidents were drug-related, the transit system has said, but it no longer discloses results of drug tests of drivers.
Nearly 70% of the respondents in a new poll for Time magazine said they would favor a drug testing program in their company, while 75% said drug use in the nation is a serious problem. But only 35% thought drug abuse was a serious problem in their community. In the poll, done by Yankelovich, Clancy, Shulmann between September 8 and 10, 81% said they would submit to drug tests, while 17% said they would not. And 63% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 34 said that people close to them had tried cocaine.
Teaching of social values, and personal ones, is getting increased attention in public schools around the country, in part reflecting rising concern over drug use and teen-age pregnancy. In Maryland, each school in Baltimore County must have a committee draw up a “common core of values” and design ways of teaching them. Projects have ranged from a study of academic honesty to student production of two original operas based on fairy tales expressing moralism “Goldilocks,” and “The Little Red Hen.”
West Germany and Japan might cut their interest rates soon in response to the Reagan Administration’s appeals, one of President Reagan’s senior economic policy officials said. But the official, who did not want to be identified, and other officials, said they saw little else that Washington could do to tame the volatility in the financial markets of the sort that occurred on Thursday and Friday and saw little reason as yet to try.
Federal Judge Harry E. Claiborne goes on trial in the Senate this week in the first impeachment case since 1936. An unprecedented committee of 12 senators is to hear evidence today. On 13 previous occasions since 1799, the entire Senate handled every phase of impeachment cases. But faced with a busy pre-election schedule, the Senate delegated the committee to hear evidence and then turn the transcript over to the chamber for a ruling on whether he should be removed from office because of his 1984 conviction for tax evasion. Claiborne, 69, is still getting his $78,700 annual salary while serving two years in prison. Since federal judges are appointed for life, he can be removed only by impeachment.
Hundreds of students at Penn State University protested an appearance by Donald T. Regan, calling the White House chief of staff a sexist and racist. “I’m not a sexist and I don’t want to hold women down,” Regan told the college newspaper. Regan was quoted in July as suggesting women would not be prepared to “give up all their jewelry” if the government imposed economic sanctions against South Africa, a leading exporter of gems. Last November, Regan apologized for saying most women would not understand weighty issues like arms control. In his speech kicking off the school’s $200-million fund drive, Regan defended the protesters, saying: “They represent proof of our freedom. You can be certain of one thing: There are no student protests in the Soviet Union.”
Flight delays built up around the country this year as the result of unusually bad weather, bunched schedules and other factors, such as a tremendous growth in air traffic and little corresponding growth in airport capacity, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and other aviation groups. Departures this year are expected to reach a record 6 million, according to industry estimates, up from 5.7 million in 1985.
State and federal prisons held more inmates than ever during the first six months of the year, the Justice Department reported. The prison population grew by 25,630, or more than 5%, in that period to a record of nearly 529,000. The state of California had the biggest prison population, 55,238, and accounted for one-fifth of the increase in the first six months. North Dakota had the lowest prison population, 411. Women made up 4.8% of the total prison population.
About 6,500 people walked a 6.2-mile route through the streets of Hollywood in the second annual AIDS Walkathon that raised $1 million to fight the fatal disease, a spokesman for the event said. The money came from about 49,000 sponsors of the walkers, walkathon co-producer Craig Miller said. The actual dollars raised by the walkers was $965,000, Miller said, explaining that the remaining $35,000 — bringing the total to $1 million — came from Leonard Peterson, a member of the board of directors of AIDS Project-Los Angeles, sponsors of the event.
A teen-ager pinned under about 30 tons of rocks for nearly 18 hours was freed by scores of rescuers who worked through the night in a cave atop Pilot Knob Mountain in southeast Missouri, officials said. Gerald Dwayne Easter, 17, was taken to a hospital in the town of Pilot Knob, then flown by helicopter to a hospital in suburban St. Louis, where he underwent surgery for what a spokesman described as “crush injuries to both legs.” Easter and a friend were exploring a cave called Devil’s Icebox when the rocks came loose.
The final test flight of the experimental plane Voyager was canceled today because of “minor but critical problems,” a spokesman said. The Voyager had been scheduled to leave Edwards Air Force Base on a two-day test flight as a prelude to a record-setting 12-day flight around the world without refueling. Instead, it was returned to the Mojave Civilian Test Flight Center after its seven-hour flight to Edwards Saturday, said Dan Card, a spokesman for the project. A project spokesman, Paul Riva, said aluminum filings were found in an engine drain, one of the engine’s alternators malfunctioned and minor electrical problems were detected in the cabin area.
Jihan Sadat, the widow of the slain Egyptian President, who has been a visiting professor at the University of South Carolina for three semesters, says a lawsuit seeking to learn her salary prompted her to quit her position. Last Monday, Mrs. Sadat did not appear to begin a course on women in Egyptian history. In a brief statement released by the university Friday, she said she was concerned “that my presence in South Carolina might be embarrassing to the University.” The lawsuit was filed in July by a senior journalism major, Paul R. Perkins, 30 years old, and his wife, Cheryl F. Perkins, 31, who were doing research for a freelance article. After the Perkinses requested salary information in July under the state’s Freedom of Information Act, the university turned them down, citing privacy and security concerns.
Amarillo residents were perplexed when Grace Mojtabai came to town on a Greyhound bus four years ago and began hanging around the churches with a notebook and tape recorder, asking a lot of questions. Who was this shy, sparrow-like woman from Brooklyn, who had come to the Panhandle of Texas, land of huge skies, windmills and oil rigs, of fundamentalist religion — and home of the Pantex plant, final assembly point for all American nuclear warheads? Mrs. Mojtabai came out of troubled intellectual curiosity about how such a religious place could coexist with the factory of doom amid cow pastures just 17 miles from downtown Amarillo. Her troubling conclusion came in her book, “Blessed Assurance: At Home With the Bomb in Amarillo, Texas.” Though many here disagree, Mrs. Mojtabai found that Amarillo accepted the bomb partly because many of its church leaders preach what is called “end time” thinking, that the prospect of nuclear holocaust is an almost welcome end to human suffering and that true believers have the “blessed assurance,” taken from a popular hymn, that they will rise to Heaven in a blissful “rapture,” exempt from the suffering that will befall others, when the atomic Armageddon comes.
Rivers receded from record levels across Michigan’s midsection, canceling evacuation plans and sandbagging in several areas, including Saginaw, where officials had expected some of the century’s worst flooding. Looting was reported in the Tuscola County community of Vassar. The flooding had been caused by a three-day storm that dropped as much as 13 inches of rain in some areas. Six dams were breached, six people were killed and at least 52 injured. Governor James J. Blanchard toured southwestern Michigan by helicopter, stopping at some heavily flooded towns to assure officials the state is seeking federal aid.
CBS premiere of true life “The Last Days of Patton”.
Saskatchewan & Hamilton play 1st CFL regular-season overtime game.
Major League Baseball:
The California Angels bowed to the Chicago White Sox, 3–1. Ron Hassey’s second-inning double keyed a two-run rally and Joe Cowley pitched a six-hitter to lead Chicago. California maintained its nine-game lead in the West as Texas lost to Minnesota. Cowley (10–9) walked two and struck out four in beating California’s Kirk McCaskill (16–8), who threw two run-scoring wild pitches. McCaskill struck out nine, walked three and allowed eight hits in six and a third innings.
Tony Bernazard has always wanted to be a leadoff hitter. He just never wanted to make an issue of it. “You can’t ask managers to do this or do that. The situation just happened here,” said Bernazard, who drove in four runs with a homer, single and sacrifice fly Sunday to give the Cleveland Indians a 5–2 victory over the Oakland A’s. It was Cleveland’s 10th straight victory over the A’s, a streak that includes nine games this year and the final game between the teams last season. Bernazard, who replaced Brett Butler as Cleveland’s leadoff batter midway through this season, has hit .315 in his 72 games in the first spot to raise his average overall to .310.
The Detroit Tigers shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 7–0. Frank Tanana and Bill Campbell combined on a five-hitter and rookie Bruce Fields drove in three runs to lead Detroit to a victory over Baltimore and a sweep of their three-game series. Tanana, 11–7, struck out nine and walked one in seven innings as Detroit equaled its season-high fifth straight victory. Campbell pitched the final two innings.
Kansas City beats Seattle, 10–3. Jorge Orta drove in four runs and Bo Jackson hit the longest home run in Royals’ Stadium history for his first major league homer for Kansas City. Royals officials said Jackson’s home run, which hit near the top of a grassy embankment in left-center field, was the longest ball ever hit at the stadium. Jackson’s drive off Seattle’s starter, Mike Moore (10–2), carried approximately 475 feet, about three feet farther than a ball hit by Dick Allen of the White Sox in 1974.
The Cincinnati Reds edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–3. Eric Davis hit a run-scoring single to cap a two-run ninth inning that lifted Cincinnati to a sweep of the three-game series. Ron Robinson, who relieved Ted Power, the starter, in the seventh inning, improved to 10–3 with two innings of work. John Franco pitched the ninth for his 24th save.
The Milwaukee Brewers shut out the Toronto Blue Jays, 5–0. Ted Higuera pitched a five-hitter and Cecil Cooper went 4 for 4 to lead Milwaukee. With the loss, Toronto remained nine games behind Boston in the American League East and was tied by the Yankees.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Texas Rangers, 7–6. Pinch hitter Al Woods and Kirby Puckett delivered key hits in a two-run eighth inning to lead the Minnesota Twins. The rally made a winner of George Frazier, 1–1, who pitched the final two innings. Dale Mohorcic, 2–3, was the loser.
The Yankees, playing the role of those who profess to believe, gave themselves plenty of reason yesterday to profess their belief even more than they had been doing. They outslugged the Boston Red Sox for the second straight day, this time by a score of 11–5, and were only nine games out of first place. “I believe that we can win,” said Mike Easler, whose first-inning two-run home run against Al Nipper ignited the victory. “It’s going to be a storybook finish. It’s not going to be easy, but I believe we can win.”
The New York Mets lost to the Philadelphia Phillies for the third straight time, and failed to clinch the National League Eastern Division title for the third straight time. Not only that, but in the 142nd game of a season of success, they took a 6–0 cuffing and suffered these added indignities: They were swept in a series for only the second time this year, and were held scoreless for only the second time. So they headed for St. Louis and two games with the Cardinals. They had a 19-game lead with only 20 games left to play, but they also had red faces and six cases of unopened champagne stowed in their baggage.
The Pittsburgh Pirates hammered the Chicago Cubs, 9–2. Sid Bream’s two-run single highlighted a six-run fifth inning that carried Pittsburgh over Chicago. With the score tied 1–1, the Pirates sent 12 batters to the plate, loading the bases with Barry Bonds’ double and two walks against Drew Hall, 0–1.
Carmelo Martinez, a pinch-hitter, had a two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning today, lifting the San Diego Padres to a 3–2 victory over the Houston Astros. With one out, another pinch-hitter, Terry Kennedy, singled off Mike Scott (16–10), and Bip Roberts went in as a pinch-runner. Martinez was sent up to bat for Randy Asadoor and lined a 1–1 pinch into the left field seats for his eighth homer of the year.
Giants Bob Brenly, a catcher subbing at third base, ties a Major League record by committing 4 errors in one inning of San Francisco’s 7–6 victory over the Braves. Brenly bobbled Bob Horner’s grounder leading off the fourth. After the Braves loaded the bases with one out, Glenn Hubbard grounded to Brenly, who juggled the ball for one error and then threw wildly to the plate for another error. Charlie Puleo hit a two-run single before Brenly misplayed another grounder by Dale Murphy. Brenly atones for his errors with a homer in the 5th, a game-tying 2-run single in the 7th, and a 2-out game-winning home run in the bottom of the 9th.
The St. Louis Cardinals clobbered the Montreal Expos, 10–2. Willie McGee had four hits, including a home run, to spark St. Louis behind the six-hit pitching of Danny Cox. Mike Laga hit a two-run homer during the Cards’ five-run first inning.
California Angels 1, Chicago White Sox 3
Oakland Athletics 2, Cleveland Indians 5
Baltimore Orioles 0, Detroit Tigers 7
Seattle Mariners 3, Kansas City Royals 10
Cincinnati Reds 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Texas Rangers 6, Minnesota Twins 7
Boston Red Sox 5, New York Yankees 11
New York Mets 0, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Houston Astros 2, San Diego Padres 3
Atlanta Braves 6, San Francisco Giants 7
Montreal Expos 2, St. Louis Cardinals 10
NFL Football:
Joe Montana, the quarterback who has guided the San Francisco 49ers to two Super Bowl victories, will reportedly miss the rest of the season with a ruptured disc and may never play again, a team doctor said today. Montana, the highest-rated career passer in the National Football League entering the season, was at his home in Northern California awaiting surgery scheduled for Monday. The stunning announcement came after the 49ers lost to the Los Angeles Rams, 16–13, at Anaheim Stadium. “We’ll have to wait and see about whether he’ll ever play again,” said Robert Gamburd, a team physician. The 49ers’ chief orthopedic surgeon, Dr. Michael Dillingham, told The Associated Press that doctors should be able to determine the severity of Montana’s injury and how long it will keep him from playing within 24 hours after the surgery.
Boomer Esiason sneaked 2 yards for the tying touchdown with 22 seconds left in the fourth quarter and Jim Breech kicked a 20-yard field goal in overtime today, giving the Cincinnati Bengals a 36–33 victory over the Buffalo Bills. Jim Kelly, the new Buffalo quarterback who came over from the United States Football League, nearly pulled the game out for the Bills after Cincinnati had taken a 21–9 halftime lead. Kelly launched an 84-yard touchdown pass to Chris Burkett to spark a 24-point second-half rally that put the Bills ahead by 33–23 in the fourth quarter. They were the most points the Bills had scored since 1983.
The Cleveland Browns edged the Houston Oilers, 23–20. Cleveland scored two touchdowns in the closing minutes. Bernie Kosar threw a 55-yard touchdown pass to Reggie Langhorne with 2:10 left to give the Browns a 16–13 lead, and after Willie Drewrey fumbled the following kickoff at his 20, the Browns scored in five plays with Earnest Byner going in from the 1 with 1:30 to go.
The Dallas Cowboys walloped the Detroit Lions, 31–7. Tony Dorsett ran for 117 yards and a touchdown and Danny White passed for one score and ran for another. Dallas (2–0) took advantage of mistakes by the Lions (1–1) and scored 17 points in the second quarter. Dorsett appeared to have scored a second touchdown on a 34-yard run with 12:41 remaining in the game, but officials checked a television replay and ruled he had been stopped inside the 1. White dived in for the score on the next play. Herschel Walker, who was used sparingly by Dallas, scored on a 7-yard run with 8:07 left for a 31–0 lead. He gained 51 yards on six carries.
The New Orleans Saints rolled over the Green Bay Packers, 24–10. Eric Martin, a wide receiver, accounted for 156 yards and a touchdown with his first two receptions and the New Orleans defense had seven interceptions, a team record. The Packers threw 59 passes, the most ever attempted against the Saints. Randy Wright threw five of the interceptions and Vince Ferragamo threw two.
The Miami Dolphins crushed the Indianapolis Colts, 30–10. Gary Hogeboom, the Indianapolis quarterback, suffered a separated right shoulder and will miss the rest of the season, the team said. Hogeboom, who was acquired from the Dallas Cowboys in an off-season trade, was injured in the third period when he was tackled by Lyle Blackwood after running 50 yards with a fumble recovery. He was replaced by Jack Trudeau, a rookie from Illinois. The Dolphins (1–1), who had seven sacks, were led on offense by Dan Marino, who passed for 254 yards. The victory was Miami’s 12th straight over the Colts (0–2).
The Seattle Seahawks beat the Kansas City Chiefs, 23–17. Ken Easley set up a crucial third-quarter touchdown with a pass interception and Norm Johnson kicked field goals of 53, 35 and 34 yards. With Seattle (2–0) leading by 16–10, Easley, a safety, picked off a Todd Blackledge pass on the Kansas City 29-yard line and brought it back 24 yards to the 5. Seattle scored its second touchdown three plays later on Curt Warner’s 1-yard leap.
Clint Didier, a big tight end for Washington who specializes in crunching blocks and short pass receptions, surprised the Los Angeles Raiders’ Stacey Toran today, streaking past the defensive back on a 59-yard pass that set up the only touchdown of the game in a 10–6 Redskins victory. It was a game that time after time saw drives thwarted by penalties or alert defenses, and as late as halfway through the fourth period, the Raiders led by 6–3 in a battle of field goals. Los Angeles was helped by Washington penalties and got its first field goal, a 28-yarder by Chris Bahr, on the opening series of play. One of the penalties, for holding on third down against a Washington defensive back, Barry Wilburn, allowed the Raiders to keep possession instead of punting.
The Minnesota Vikings topped the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 23–10. Chris Doleman, a linebacker, returned an interception 59 yards for a touchdown and Tommy Kramer passed 10 yards to Mike Mularkey for another score as the Vikings (1–1) handed the Bucs (0–2) their 40th loss in 50 games. Doleman, a second-year linebacker, picked off a Steve DeBerg pass that glanced off James Wilder’s right hand.
Chicago Bears running back Walter Payton scores his 100th career rushing touchdown, and gains 177 yards, surpassing 15,000-yard career plateau in 13–10 overtime win over visiting Philadelphia Eagles, at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois. Place-kicker Kevin Butler, after an Eagle fumble on the kickoff at the start of overtime, provided the winning points with a 23-yard field goal. But it was Payton who stole the spotlight as Chicago floundered without injured quarterback Jim McMahon.
The Atlanta Falcons routed the St. Louis Cardinals, 33–13. David Archer threw two touchdown passes and Gerald Riggs ran for 111 yards on 29 carries. Atlanta is 2–0 for the first time since 1981. Archer connected with Charlie Brown on a 17-yarder in the first quarter and then put the game on ice with a 22-yarder to Anthony Allen with 5:59 left in the game. The Falcons never trailed, scoring twice within a span of 4:41 on their first two possessions in the game.
Just seven days ago, they had run up so many points (50) and yards (500) on the Miami Dolphins that some of their extremist fans were talking about the San Diego Chargers as the greatest offensive team in history. Seldom has hyperbole died so easily. In beating them today, 20–7, the New York Giants shut off the Chargers’ running game, intercepted five passes and made it an altogether miserable afternoon for Dan Fouts, who hadn’t thrown so many passes to the wrong team since the Chargers lost to the Dolphins in a playoff game following the 1982 season. In the first half, Fouts completed only 10 of 22 passes. Three receptions by Gary Anderson, one for a 29-yard touchdown, accounted for Fouts’s only completions to a wide receiver. He threw seven other times to a wide receiver, Wes Chandler, but didn’t complete any. In the second half, the five interceptions — by Terry Kinard (2), Kenny Hill (2) and Mark Collins — ended all but one of the Chargers’ six drives. The sixth ended when Tim Spencer fumbled, hitting the middle of the line on a carry.
Steve Bartkowski led a 92-yard drive in the waning minutes and Mike Lansford kicked an 18-yard field goal with two seconds remaining to give Los Angeles a 16–13 victory over the San Francisco 49ers. The Rams overcame a fine passing performance by Jeff Kemp, who completed 19 of 24 passes for 252 yards, including a 66-yard touchdown throw to Jerry Rice. Bartkowski, who had completed only 9 of 20 passes for 54 yards before the winning drive, hit 4 of 4 for 60 yards as he marched the Rams down the field. Los Angeles had gotten the ball at its 7-yard line with 6 minutes 10 seconds remaining. The key plays on the long march were a 6-yard run by Eric Dickerson on third-and-2 at the San Francisco 41 and a 35-yard pass to Bobby Duckworth that put the ball at the 49ers’ 4 with 1:11 left. The Rams ran three plays, then Lansford kicked his third field goal of the game.
Buffalo Bills 33, Cincinnati Bengals 36
Cleveland Browns 23, Houston Oilers 20
Dallas Cowboys 31, Detroit Lions 7
Green Bay Packers 10, New Orleans Saints 24
Indianapolis Colts 10, Miami Dolphins 30
Kansas City Chiefs 17, Seattle Seahawks 23
Los Angeles Raiders 6, Washington Redskins 10
Minnesota Vikings 23, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 10
Philadelphia Eagles 10, Chicago Bears 13
St. Louis Cardinals 13, Atlanta Falcons 33
San Diego Chargers 7, New York Giants 20
San Francisco 49ers 13, Los Angeles Rams 16
Born:
David Desharnais, Canadian NHL centre (Montreal Canadiens, Edmonton Oilers, New York Rangers), in Laurier-Station, Quebec, Canada.
Reggie Williams, NBA small forward (Golden State Warriors, Charlotte Bobcats, Oklahoma City Thunder, San Antonio Spurs, New Orleans Pelicans), in Prince George, Virginia.
Dane Fletcher, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Bozeman, Montana,
Randy Phillips, NFL safety (Detroit Lions), in Belle Glade, Florida.
A.J. Trauth, American actor (“Even Stevens”), in Chicago, Illinois.
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