Steps to lessen war risk in Europe were taken by NATO and Warsaw pact negotiators in Stockholm who agreed on a major new security package. Negotiators from NATO and the Warsaw Pact finally agreed today on a major new security package designed to lessen the risk of war in Europe. For the first time, the two alliances have undertaken to give each other advance warning of all significant military exercises and similar activity across an area of Europe stretching from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains. The agreement will also allow foreign inspection of each side’s forces to establish that neither is preparing a surprise attack. The agreement is the first major arms control accord since the signing of the second strategic arms agreement in June 1979. Robert L. Barry, the head of the United States delegation, said at a news conference that although the agreement “shows East and West can say yes to each other for a change,” he was not completely happy with it.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that he was encouraged at a suggestion by the Soviet Foreign Minister that they might be able to resolve at meetings in New York this week the case of the American journalist held in Moscow on espionage charges. At the same time, Gennadi I. Gerasimov, the spokesman for the Soviet Foreign Ministry, said today that the issue of the journalist, Nicholas S. Daniloff, was an unnecessary obstacle to talks on substantial issues and that a way might soon be found to free him. “He is charged, and usually he is going to be put to trial,” Mr. Gerasimov said of Mr. Daniloff, Moscow correspondent for U.S. News & World Report. “But because we don’t want this particular case to be an obstacle in our relations, we can find some kind of solution and let him free.”
After months of sharp disputes, the United States and the Soviet Union seem suddenly on the road to both a summit meeting and conclusion of a major arms control agreement. Both sides agree, however, that further progress depends on a prompt resolution of the Daniloff affair. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, ended two days of talks Saturday on a note of expectation about a summit meeting later this year. But Administration officials said today that the momentum could quickly be lost if Nicholas S. Daniloff, a correspondent for the magazine U.S. News & World Report, is not freed before Mr. Shevardnadze leaves the United States in the next two weeks. He and Mr. Shultz will be in New York for the General Assembly session that starts Monday and Soviet officials have said Mr. Daniloff’s freedom can be arranged there.
The U.N. chief might step down. Facing the worst financial crisis in the 41-year history of the United Nations, Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar says he is not certain he will seek a second five-year term this fall. He wants guarantees from the Reagan Administration that it will pay its dues this year, despite Congressional cuts that could go as high as $149 million, or 70 percent of what the United States is required to pay.
Forty-five thousand workers from all over Poland gathered at a Roman Catholic shrine here today to join in a reaffirmation of the democratic ideals of the Solidarity labor movement. But there were signs of a struggle within the movement as its leaders re-examined their strategy after a Government amnesty that freed political prisoners. Standing behind banners bearing Solidarity insignia, delegations from all industrial centers cheered Lech Walesa, the union leader, and Bogdan Lis and Bogdan Borusewicz, both of whom were freed from prison last weekend under the amnesty. Last year at the annual workers’ pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Black Madonna, most of the placards demanded the release of prisoners. Today, a week after the amnesty, there were different messages. “God save the working class from atheism,” said one, while another proclaimed, “Mother Mary, defend Poland from Communism.”
When Juan Carlos de Borbon y Borbon was crowned King of Spain 11 years ago, many Spaniards looked on him as inept. He would would go down in history, they said, as Juan Carlos the Brief. But when King Juan Carlos addresses the United Nations General Assembly and meets with President Reagan in New York on Monday, he will convey a very different image. He will be speaking as a king often mentioned as a candidate for a Nobel Peace Prize for having steered Spain toward democracy. He is revered from right to left and within the military, though he has little formal power. He almost single-handedly stood down a military seizure of Parliament in 1981 and has given Spaniards a sense of security that the armed forces will stay in the barracks. “He will defend democracy to the end,” Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said of the King in a recent interview.
About 1,000 demonstrators daubed cars and buildings with paint today as they marched to Amsterdam harbor to protest the presence of 22 NATO warships, witnesses said. The protesters said some of the ships were carrying nuclear weapons. Another group tried to approach the warships in 50 small boats but were kept away by the water police. Two marchers were arrested near the city hall and opera house, one for throwing paint at the riot police, a police spokesman said. The warships, including the British carrier HMS Ark Royal, had just taken part in a NATO exercise and will stay in Amsterdam until Friday.
The World Bank reported that it made a record $16.3 billion in loans to Third World countries in its 1986 fiscal year. India remained by far the biggest borrower during 1986, receiving $2.3 billion in loans, the organization said in its annual report. The other top borrowers were Brazil, with $1.62 billion, followed by China, Indonesia and Turkey, each with $1.1 billion. The bank reported that it made $13.1 billion in loans to 41 of the world’s more rapidly developing nations. It also reported that it earned a record $1.2 billion on its operations for the fiscal year that ended June 30.
The number of Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank increased by 50% — to 60,000 from 40,000 — over the last two years despite a government-imposed slowdown on settlement construction, Israel radio reported. The report, based on a survey conducted by the state-owned radio, said the increase occurred over the period beginning when Prime Minister Shimon Peres took office in September, 1984. However, the government’s Bureau of Statistics reported that at the end of 1985, only 41,000 Jews were living in the West Bank.
Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres will delay his departure from the United States to meet with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, a Soviet official said. Israeli officials would not confirm that Peres will meet with the Soviet foreign minister, although Peres said he is delaying his departure to speak at the United Nations and suggested that a meeting is possible. The Soviet Union broke off relations with Israel after the 1967 Middle East War, and the first meeting of the two governments since the break came in Helsinki, Finland, in August. The Soviet delegation ended those talks after 90 minutes.
Iranian troops in the central Lebanese town of Baalbek have been training Shiite guerrillas to undertake a systematic and semi-conventional war against the Israeli-backed militia known as the South Lebanon Army, Israeli military sources said today. The Israeli radio reported that the Israeli Army believed some Iranian troops might have themselves engaged in the most recent attacks against positions of the Israelis and their militia allies in what Israeli calls a “security zone” in southern Lebanon. The latest attack took place Saturday night, when three Israeli soldiers stationed in the 3-to-12-mile-wide zone along Israel’s northern border were wounded by a mortar fired into their position. In the last month the South Lebanon Army has lost at least 12 of its soldiers in hit-and-run attacks by the pro-Iranian militiamen, believed to be attached to the Party of God organization.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said he will visit the United States in late January or February to promote an international Mideast peace conference and seek remedies for Egypt’s economic crisis. Mubarak told reporters that the Reagan Administration wanted him to visit Washington this month, but he said he decided to delay the trip until after the U.S. elections in November. In Egypt, the semiofficial Al Ahram newspaper reported that Mubarak also delayed the trip because he wanted to give the U.S. Treasury time to complete a study of Egypt’s request to reduce interest on its debt and to allow ideas on an international peace conference to “crystallize.”
An Iraqi opposition group said today that French hostages in Lebanon would suffer if two Iraqis deported from France in February were not allowed to return to Paris soon. The statement was issued by the Beirut-based regional office of the Dawa Party, which is made up of Iraqi Shiite Moslems and supports mainly Shiite Iran in its six-year-old war with Iraq.
When illumination flares begin popping and shells falling along the 733-mile border Monday morning, Iraq and Iran will have been at war for six years. No quick or conclusive end is in sight, and the safest prediction may be a prolongation of the costly conflict. But there are a few signs that the deadlock might end or, at least, that the Persian Gulf war might dwindle into a sort of undeclared peace, according to several military analysts and foreign experts. Since July 23 the Iraqi Air Force, which has almost total air superiority and freedom of action, has used more aggressive tactics against Iran’s oil industry, these analysts say. While in previous years efforts to block Iranian oil exports had been largely ineffective, such “low and slow” bombing could tighten the economic screws on Iran if it persists.
Strikes shut Bangladesh’s newspapers, hospitals and universities, stirring fears of violence ahead of the presidential election next month. Autonomy for the nation’s six universities was demanded by striking teachers, who see this as a way to end campus violence. The teachers also want higher pay. All medical services except hospital emergency care were halted by striking doctors, who seek better jobs for new medical graduates. Striking journalists insist on the reopening of the Bangladesh Observer, the leading English-language daily, closed in June after a pay dispute. Observers said that strikes by key professionals could cast a shadow over the Oct. 15 election, when opposition groups plan a general strike.
This was a weekend of rare contrition and humility for the normally self-assured Prime Minister of Japan, Yasuhiro Nakasone. Mr. Nakasone came to Seoul on Saturday ostensibly to watch the opening of the Asian Games, a 16-day sports event that carries political overtones for South Koreans while serving as a warm-up for the 1988 Olympic Games, also to be held here. Athletics placed second to old war wounds, however. Much of the time, the Japanese leader found himself being called to account for his country’s imperial past, especially its harsh colonial rule of Korea from 1910 to 1945.
President Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines received an honorary degree and two medals from three colleges, in a day full of memories she shared yesterday with private friends and crowds of cheering strangers. Mrs. Aquino began with a brief visit to the house in Newton, Massachusetts, where she lived with her husband, Benigno S. Aquino Jr., from 1980 to 1983, a time she called “the happiest period of my life.” The house is now on display and features photographs of the Aquinos. Mr. Aquino, a leading opponent of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos, was assassinated in 1983 as he stepped off a plane in Manila on his return from exile in the United States. Later yesterday Mrs. Aquino received a medal of honor from Boston College before flying to New York City where she visited her alma mater, the College of Mount St. Vincent, a small Catholic women’s school in the Riverdale section of the Bronx.
The Mexican Embassy has made public a formal diplomatic protest to be delivered to the United States Government this week over a newspaper article that linked Mexico’s Defense Minister to drug trafficking. On Monday the paper, The San Diego Union, quoting anonymous United States officials, said the Mexican Defense Minister, Gen. Juan Arevalo Gardoqui, was one of at least 45 present or former Mexican officials that United States investigators had indentified as possible drug traffickers.
A comeback for Michael N. Manley, a former Prime Minister of Jamaica, is indicated by nationwide local elections and a respected opinion poll. Mr. Manley, a leader in international Socialism, is pushing to replace Prime Minister Edward Seaga, President Reagan’s closest ally in the Caribbean. If elections were to be held tomorrow many Jamaicans and foreign diplomats believe Mr. Manley would the winner.
President Reagan places a call to Henry A. Kissinger, Chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America.
South Africa’s national police force is hiring 1,000 blacks and sending them to patrol black townships with guns and full police powers after three weeks’ training, the Johannesburg Sunday Star reported. Regular members of the national police receive a year’s training. The recruits “are simply being trained to make the long arm of the police force a little bit longer,” Brigadier Jaap Venter, a police spokesman, was quoted as saying.
The key solution proposed by the space agency to the problem that caused the Challenger explosion was devised years before the disaster and was being systematically applied to the entire space shuttle fleet, interviews, documents and testimony show. The record shows longstanding worry about seals on the shuttle and application of an innovative remedy to generations of booster rockets. It also shows why the solution was unavailable for the Challenger flight of January 28, in which a leaky booster seal touched off an explosion that destroyed the craft and killed its seven astronauts. To critics, this new history suggests duplicity on the part of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration: While publicly declaring the shuttle safe to fly, these critics say, NASA officials knew the flaw was grave and had quietly embarked on a major program to fix it. NASA officials vigorously deny this charge, insisting they were unaware of the seriousness of the flaw and were simply trying to increase the booster’s margin of safety.
No matter what prompted past action, the fact that NASA had almost five years of experience with the remedy explains how the agency was able to propose a $300 million seal redesign, unveiled August 12, as fast as it did. Both critics and NASA officials agree that the space agency is now following the basic course it set for itself long before the Challenger disaster. The key element of the redesign was invented in 1981 to lock seals tightly in place by latching down an element of the joint. This capture feature was applied to the design of booster rockets in 1982 and again in 1985. In July 1985, amid growing fears of seal failure, NASA officials ordered 72 new steel cases so they could install capture features in boosters already in use. These new cases were in production at the time of the Challenger disaster and today they are the basis for the creation of improved boosters. This history, gleaned from dozens of interviews, hundreds of newly released documents and thousands of pages of testimony, much of it originally kept secret, is sharply at odds with information previously made public. It had been thought that NASA officials were concerned about the booster seals before the Challenger disaster and were searching for a way to fix them. In fact “the solution,” as NASA engineers called the capture feature, was already being systematically if slowly applied.
The President and First Lady host a reception for contributors to the Blair House Restoration Fund.
Legal aid for death row inmates planning final appeals is hard to find. Many lawyers who used to take such cases are shunning them. They are discouraged by the enormous financial and emotional cost of pressing such cases, by growing public support for capital punishment, by the quickening pace of executions and Supreme Court rulings that have rendered most appeals pointless.
College administrators on campuses around the country this autumn are gearing up special programs aimed at educating their students about the risks from AIDS and how to reduce them. But they say the process is painfully slow. Fewer than 700 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome have been recorded in the college age group, but educators and health officials are worried that not enough young Americans are aware of measures to protect themselves in the sexually permissive atmosphere of campus life. The impact of AIDS among homosexual men, who have so far been the most likely victims of the incurable ailment, has already stirred widespread awareness among homosexuals on American campuses. Homosexual student groups, and in some cases campus health services, have been active for some time in educating young homosexuals about protecting themselves against AIDS.
The arrest of 4 suspected kidnappers of a nine-year-old member of the Mueller egg-noodle family in Florida was reported by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The child, Amanda Mueller, who was abducted Tuesday was found safe late Saturday in a cardboard box in Naples, F.B.I. agents said. They said the kidnappers’ plot to collect a $1.5 million ransom stemmed from a soured real estate deal, and that poor communications spoiled the plot.
Hawaii’s Lieutenant Governor John Waihee defied pollsters to win the Democratic nomination to succeed Governor George Ariyoshi, and will face Republican D. G. (Andy) Anderson in November. Waihee defeated former Rep. Cecil L. Heftel, who had a 21-point lead in a recent poll. Mufi Hannemann, formerly on Vice President George Bush’s staff, edged state Senator Neil Abercrombie for the Democratic nomination for Honolulu’s 1st Congressional District seat, vacated by Heftel. Hannemann will face Republican Patricia Saiki and Libertarian Blase Harris in November. Abercrombie won a separate election to fill the remainder of Heftel’s term.
Major General Robert Wagner has criticized the Army’s reserve forces, the training of its active troops and its operating procedures in a confidential letter requested by his commanding officer, General Carl Vuono, leader of the Training and Doctrine Command, the New York Times reported. “Our reserve components are not combat-ready, particularly National Guard combat units…. The Army must solve the problem of disparate readiness levels among our major combat formations,” Wagner was quoted as writing.
The Florida Medical Association adopted a resolution urging doctors to take voluntary drug tests as an example to patients. The resolution was adopted in a unanimous voice vote by about 300 members of the House of Delegates, the policy-making body for the 15,000member association, at a meeting at Hollywood, Florida. The resolution urges the American Medical Association to adopt a similar policy.
A judge has offered to drop criminal charges against more than 200 meatpackers arrested in the bitter yearlong labor dispute at Geo. A. Hormel & Company in return for community service. About 190 of the 240 people charged with misdemeanors have agreed to the proposal, District Judge James Mork of Freeborn County said Saturday. Larry Gullickson, a striker who acted as a liaison with lawyers working on the settlement, said more defendants were expected to sign up for the service work in the next couple of weeks.
Talks have broken off between Continental Airlines and unions trying to salvage jobs for 3,300 employees of bankrupt Frontier Airlines, officials said in Denver. Union representatives said the major sticking point was Continental’s demand that 75% of Frontier’s workers give up rights to bankruptcy court claims against Frontier and its parent firm, People Express, without job guarantees in return. Continental’s parent firm, Texas Air Corp., has offered to buy Frontier and People Express.
A new study found smokers have 50% more auto accidents and receive 46% more traffic tickets than nonsmokers. Dr. Joseph DiFranza of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, who headed the study of about 3,700 drivers, speculated that smokers may be less concerned in general about their health, therefore making them more likely to be reckless drivers. Also, interviews with the smokers found they were often distracted by smoking.
Thousands of former Peace Corps volunteers marched, in a line that stretched through Washington and across the Potomac River into Arlington National Cemetery, on a day of memorial for 199 colleagues who died in service and a day of renewal for ideals that did not. The group marched to the cemetery, first to lay a wreath at the grave of President John F. Kennedy, who established the Peace Corps in 1961, and then to the amphitheater to honor those who died at their Peace Corps posts. Most of the deaths occurred in accidents, though there have been 10 murders and a few suicides, officials said.
Increased rainfall since early August has raised crop yields and cut drought damage in the Southeast, but officials with the United States Department of Agriculture say losses may still surpass $1 billion. Rain came too late and at the wrong time for many crops, and was inadequate for others, officials throughout the region said.
38th Emmy Awards: “The Golden Girls”, “Cagney & Lacey” and Michael J. Fox win.
Major League Baseball:
The San Francisco Giants topped the Atlanta Braves, 8–2. Rob Thompson went 5 for 5 and Mike Krukow won his fifth straight decision for San Francisco. Krukow (18–8) gave up six hits in eight innings.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Baltimore Orioles, 5–4. Charlie Moore reached on catcher’s interference in the 11th inning and scored with the help of Baltimore’s second botched rundown of the game and an error, as the Brewers snapped a seven-game losing streak. From first, Moore reached third when the rundown misfired and he scored when Eddie Murray bobbled a chopper to first by Earnest Riles.
The California Angels blanked the Chicago White Sox, 3–0. Reggie Jackson and Doug DeCinces hit home runs on consecutive pitches in the sixth inning, and John Candelaria (8–2) pitched one-hit ball for seven innings.
Leon Durham hit a seventh inning home run and Lee Smith earned his 29th save, leading the Chicago Cubs to a 3–2 win over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Durham led off the seventh with his 20th home run of the season, a drive over the left-field stands on a 3–2 pitch from Hipolito Pena. 0–2
The Cincinnati Reds downed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 8–4. Eddie Milner capped a five-run eighth inning with a three-run homer for the Reds. Trailing by 4–3, the Reds began their winning rally when Ron Oester opened the eighth with his seventh homer, off Orel Hershiser (13–13).
The Detroit Tigers beat the New York Yankees, 3–1. Tiger pitcher Walt Terrell has struggled recently, but held the Yankees to four hits in eight innings, winning his 13th game. The victory enabled the Tigers once again to close to one game behind the third-place Yankees in the East. The Yankees also took another step toward being eliminated in the pennant race, which Boston will probably claim in the next seven days. Any number of Red Sox victories and Yankee losses totaling three will eliminate New York.
In his Major League debut, San Diego’s Jimmy Jones pitches a one-hitter against the Astros, allowing only a 3rd-inning triple to opposing pitcher Bob Knepper and struck out five on the way to a 5–0 win. He’s the first National League pitcher to debut with a one-hitter since Juan Marichal. Knepper is the only baserunner in Jones’ near perfecto. Jones is the third Padre rookie pitcher to make his debut this week, joining Ed Vosberg and Ray Hayward. That won’t happen again until the Rockies do it in June 2014.
Vince Coleman stole his 100th base of the season and Tim Conroy struck out a career-high 11 batters as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Montreal Expos 7–2. St. Louis took a 3-0 lead in the first against Jay Tibbs, 7–9. Mike Laga hit an RBI double and Andy Van Slyke followed with an inside-the-park home run, his 10th homer of the season.
Another rookie, the Phillies’ Marvin Freeman wins his first Major League game, beating the Mets in New York. Marvin has another cause for celebration: his daughter Paris is born today. The Phillies scored four runs in five innings off Rick Aguilera’s injury replacement, John Mitchell, and went on to a 7–1 victory that gave them the season series against the Mets, 10 games to 8.
Joaquin Andujar allowed eight hits in his fourth straight victory and the A’s scored two unearned runs in the third inning as Oakland defeated Cleveland, 4–2. Andujar, 11–6, struck out six, walked one and threw his sixth complete game. He has four complete games in his last five starts. Dave Kingman homered in the eighth for Oakland’s fourth run, off Tom Candiotti, 14–12, who allowed seven hits.
Jim Sundberg, Willie Wilson and Kevin Seitzer hit two-run homers, supporting nine-hit pitching by Charlie Leibrandt and leading Kansas City past the Mariners, 8–1. Leibrandt, 12–11, walked one batter and struck out six in his first win since August 22. The Royals scored six runs in the fourth inning, two on a double by Bo Jackson and four on the homers by Sundberg and Wilson. Seitzer homered in the eighth.
The Minnesota Twins bowed to the Texas Rangers 2–1. Bobby Witt earned his fifth straight victory and Ruben Sierra singled in both Texas runs in the third inning. Witt (9–9) walked four and struck out nine in six innings. Dale Mohorcic and Greg Harris finished, Harris getting his 18th save.
Roger Clemens recorded his seventh consecutive victory, and Dave Sax, Rich Gedman and Dwight Evans hit homers as the Boston Red Sox scored a 3–2 victory today over the Blue Jays. The triumph put Boston nine and a half games ahead of second-place Toronto in the American League East. Any combination of Red Sox victories or Blue Jays losses totaling four will eliminate Toronto.
San Francisco Giants 8, Atlanta Braves 2
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Baltimore Orioles 4
Chicago White Sox 0, California Angels 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Chicago Cubs 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Cincinnati Reds 8
New York Yankees 1, Detroit Tigers 3
San Diego Padres 5, Houston Astros 0
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Montreal Expos 2
Philadelphia Phillies 7, New York Mets 1
Cleveland Indians 2, Oakland Athletics 4
Kansas City Royals 8, Seattle Mariners 1
Minnesota Twins 1, Texas Rangers 2
Boston Red Sox 3, Toronto Blue Jays 2
NFL Football:
Mick Luckhurst kicked an 18-yard field goal with 20 seconds left today to give the Atlanta Falcons a 37–35 victory over the Dallas Cowboys. The triumph was the Falcons’ first over the Cowboys since 1976 and their third straight without a loss this season. Dallas is 2–1. Working without timeouts, David Archer drove the Falcons 79 yards to the Dallas 1-yard line, setting up the winning field goal. Danny White, who was able to play after taking acupuncture treatments for a thigh injury, threw four touchdown passes for Dallas including a 22-yarder to Mike Sherrard with 9 minutes 5 seconds to go for a 35–27 lead. With 3:28 to play, Gerald Riggs scored on a 2-yard run to bring the Falcons within a point. Atlanta got the ball back and began the winning drive on its 20-yard line with 1:35 to go. On second-and-18 from the 12, Archer completed a 21-yard pass to Ken Whisenhunt. Floyd Dixon then hauled down a 65-yard pass from Archer to put the Falcons on the Dallas 2. The ball was moved to the 1-yard line on a holding call, and Luckhurst kicked his third field goal of the day. But the Cowboys weren’t through. On the final play of the game, White completed a 60-yard pass to Tony Hill, who stepped out of bounds on the Atlanta 8. The Cowboys’ Tony Dorsett became the sixth player in National Football League history to rush for more than 11,000 yards. He passed the mark on a 20-yard gain in the first period and finished with 86 yards on 17 carries.
The Denver Broncos routed the Philadelphia Eagles, 33–7. Sammy Winder and Gerald Willhite combined for 195 yards rushing and the Denver defense and special teams set up the Broncos’ first four scores. Winder gained 104 yards on 20 carries and scored two touchdowns while Willhite ran for 91 yards. The Broncos (3–0) so dominated the Eagles (0–3) that they sent in Gary Kubiak, a backup quarterback, with 9:03 left in the third period. Denver led from the opening kickoff after Mike Harden knocked the ball loose from Junior Tautalatasi and it rolled out of the end zone for a safety. Denver widened its lead to 26–0 at the half with one touchdown coming on a 2-yard pass from John Elway to Dave Studdard on a tackle-eligible play.
The Houston Oilers lost to the Kansas City Chiefs 27–13. Greg Hill’s interception return of a Warren Moon pass gave Kansas City a 27–0 third-period lead and the Chiefs (2–1) held on. Moon, who had not been sacked in Houston’s two previous games, was sacked seven times.
The Los Angeles Rams rolled over the Indianapolis Colts, 24–7. Eric Dickerson gained 121 yards on 25 carries and Los Angeles turned two first-half Indianapolis turnovers into touchdowns. Los Angeles (3–0) spotted the Colts (0–3) a 7–0 lead on George Wonsley’s 10-yard run in the opening minutes of the game, but Indianapolis never seriously threatened after that. The Rams tied the game with four minutes left in the first quarter on a 1-yard run by Barry Redden, then took the lead for good three minutes later on a 10-yard pass from Steve Bartkowski to Ron Brown, Bartkowski’s first scoring pass of the season. Jerry Gray intercepted a pass by Jack Trudeau early in the second quarter and Dickerson took it in from the 1 four plays later. Trudeau, who was starting his first game for the Colts in place of the injured Gary Hogeboom, suffered a strained knee in the third quarter and was replaced by Blair Kiel.
The Jets and the Dolphins stretched football to the breaking point today, and when it seemed nothing zanier or more dramatic could happen, it did. Toying with the emotions of the fans, testing the limits of the scoreboard and their talents, the clubs produced the second highest-scoring overtime game in National Football League history before the Jets finally won, 51–45, at Giants Stadium. First, the Jets tied the game with no time showing on the clock when Wesley Walker rolled into the end zone as the fourth quarter expired with a 21-yard pass from Ken O’Brien safely in his hands. Pat Leahy booted the extra point to tie the game at 45–45. Then, after only 2 minutes 35 seconds of overtime, Walker snared his fourth touchdown pass of the game from O’Brien — this one of 43 yards — and the Jets had an electrifying victory.
The San Francisco 49ers downed the New Orleans Saints, 26–17. Jeff Kemp, taking over for the injured Joe Montana, passed for 332 yards and a touchdown. Ray Wersching added four field goals. Bobby Hebert, the Saints’ starting quarterback, suffered a broken right foot early in the first quarter and was replaced by David Wilson. It was not known how long Hebert would be sidelined. Kemp completed 29 of 44 passes as the 49ers (2–1) overcame a trick-play touchdown by the Saints (1–2) and a 101-yard kickoff return by Mel Gray. Trailing by 10–3 in the second quarter, the Saints tied the game on a 29-yard touchdown pass from Dalton Hilliard, a rookie running back, to Eugen Goodlow. New Orleans moved ahead by 17–13 when Gray returned the second-half kickoff for a touchdown. But the 49ers took the lead for good on a 5-yard run by Derrick Harmon late in the third quarter.
Good football teams usually find a way to win. The Giants found a way today — much skill, much determination and a little luck — and scored a significant 14–9 victory over the Raiders. The Giants played a dull first half. Coach Bill Parcells called it “jumpy.” Harry Carson, the inside linebacker, called it “flat.” But in the second half, Phil Simms threw touchdown passes of 18 and 11 yards to Lionel Manuel, Joe Morris set up the winning touchdown with a 52-yard run and that was enough. The Giants’ defense shut down the running of Marcus Allen and kept the passes of 38-year-old Jim Plunkett from hurting them. To the chagrin of most of the 71,164 spectators, the Raiders’ largest crowd for a home opener in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the Giants allowed only Chris Bahr’s field goals of 22, 35 and 33 yards.
The Minnesota Vikings routed the Pittsburgh Steelers, 31–7. Tommy Kramer connected with Hassan Jones, a rookie wide receiver, six times for 140 yards and two touchdowns. The Steelers, who have scored only 17 points this season, fell to 0–3, their worst start since 1970. The Vikings are 2–1.
The Buffalo Bills defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 17–10. Buffalo gained its first victory of the season and its fifth in the last 37 games. Greg Bell rushed for 79 yards and one touchdown, on a 6-yard run. Buffalo’s other scores came on a 2-yard run by Ricky Moore and a 35-yard field goal by Scott Norwood. St. Louis, which had several long drives and controlled for 37:14 to the Bills’ 22:46, managed only a 27-yard field goal by John Lee and a 19-yard pass from Neil Lomax to Vai Sikahema with 58 seconds to play. The Cardinals (0–3) had a chance to tie, however, when they recovered an onside kick at their 49 following the Sikahema touchdown. After a 12-yard completion, Lomax threw four straight incompletions. For the game, Lomax completed 27 of 47 for 263 yards. Jim Kelly of the Bills (1–2) hit on 6 of 10 passes for 105 yards, with 51 coming on a flea-flicker play that set up Norwood’s second-quarter field goal.
Dave Krieg’s 67-yard touchdown pass to Ray Butler with 1 minute 14 seconds to play capped a 17-point explosion in the final three minutes and gave the unbeaten Seattle Seahawks a 38–31 victory over the New England Patriots today. Butler, who had teamed with Krieg for a 54-yard touchdown pass in the third quarter, beat Ronnie Lippett, a cornerback, down the right sideline for the winning score. Seattle, which began the day with the top-rated pass defense in the American Conference, improved its record to 3–0. New England got 422 yards passing from Tony Eason but fell to 2–1.
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers beat the Detroit Lions, 24–20. The victory was Tampa Bay’s first on the road since November 6, 1983. It was watched by a crowd of 38,453, the smallest ever to see a National Football League game at the Silverdome. Nathan Wonsley had touchdown runs of 22 and 55 yards for the Bucs (1–2), who capitalized on five turnovers by the Lions (1–2). Wonsley’s brother George plays for the Colts and his brother Otis plays for the Redskins. A rookie free agent starting in place of James Wilder, who was out with a bruised chest, Wonsley rushed 18 times for 138 yards. Steve Young started at quarterback for the Bucs instead of Steve DeBerg, who was benched. Young hit on 6 of 15 for just 39 yards and scored a touchdown on a 9-yard run in the second quarter
The Washington Redskins edged the San Diego Chargers, 30–27. Gary Clark caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Jay Schroeder with 1:16 left to give Washington the victory. Clark made the winning catch one play after he had beaten Wayne Davis for a 55-yard gain. The Redskins (3–0) covered 69 yards in 44 seconds on the winning drive, with all the yardage coming on Clark’s receptions.
Atlanta Falcons 37, Dallas Cowboys 35
Denver Broncos 33, Philadelphia Eagles 7
Houston Oilers 13, Kansas City Chiefs 27
Los Angeles Rams 24, Indianapolis Colts 7
Miami Dolphins 45, New York Jets 51
New Orleans Saints 17, San Francisco 49ers 26
New York Giants 14, Los Angeles Raiders 9
Pittsburgh Steelers 7, Minnesota Vikings 31
St. Louis Cardinals 10, Buffalo Bills 17
Seattle Seahawks 38, New England Patriots 31
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 24, Detroit Lions 20
Washington Redskins 30, San Diego Chargers 27
Born:
Blake Mills, American songwriter, session and touring guitarist, producer (Fiona Apple, John Legend), and solo artist, in Santa Monica, California.
Faris Badwan, English vocalist (The Rotters; The Horrors; Cat’s Eye), in Bexley, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
Lindsey Stirling, American pop-classical violinist, songwriter, and dancer (“Crystalize”, “Shatter Me”), in Santa Ana, California.
Zach Phillips, MLB pitcher (Baltimore Orioles, Miami Marlins, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Sacramento, California.
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Pierre Wigny, 81, Belgium politician (Minister of Foreign affairs 1958-61).
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