Gunmen in Belfast, Northern Ireland, killed five persons in 48 hours of weekend assassinations and police said they saw no end to the new cycle of violence. In one incident, a Protestant bank manager was shot and wounded as he stood in the doorway of his home and his 19-year-old daughter was shot and killed when she ran to his aid. In all, three Protestants and two Catholics were slain.
Turkish and foreign analysts in Ankara agree that the prospects for a settlement on Cyprus are worse today than at any time since the crisis erupted on the Mediterranean island more than two years ago. They feel that powerful forces on both the Greek and Turkish sides have hardened their positions in recent months. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim of the United Nations tried and failed last week to persuade the parties to resume the negotiations that collapsed last April after five fruitless rounds. One Western diplomat described the situation as “frozen” with a 5 percent chance of improvement. The analysts also agree that Greece and Turkey have a better chance of resolving their dispute over the right to exploit mineral wealth on the floor of the Aegean Sea. Positions are less rigid on this issue, and the Foreign Ministers of these two ancient foes are scheduled to meet at the United Nations next week and explore the chances for direct talks. The deadlock in Cyprus was aggravated by recent elections in the Greek sector. Moderate forces supporting a negotiated settlement were soundly defeated by coalition loyal to the President, Archbishop Makarios. The Archbishop advocates a hardline policy of “long struggle” against the Turkish occupation, which covers about 40 percent of the island.
Unidentified men burst from a car in a Moscow foreigners’ compound early Sunday and took photographs of Soviet dissident leader Andrei D. Sakharov, his wife and the New York Times bureau chief who had invited them to dinner. Newspaperman Christopher Wren said he tried to identify the men in the unmarked car and was almost hit as the car sped away. Sakharov, a physicist, won the 1975 Nobel Peace Prize.
Portugal’s Communist Party unofficially launched the municipal election campaign this weekend. with the biggest political festival this highly politicized country has ever seen. Communist Party organizers estimated that 200,000 people crowded into the International Fairgrounds during the three-day festival organized by the party’s weekly newspaper, Avante. There were delegations from 20 countries, including Portugal’s former African colonies of Angola, Mozambique and Guinea. The Cuban and Chilean delegates received the loudest applause. The most conspicuous absentee was the Spanish Communist Party. The Portuguese Communist leader, Alvaro Cunhal, made a direct appeal to the Socialists and “all other democrats” to join forces in the December local elections against the conservative parties, who seem to be gaining strength in rural areas in particular.
Pope Paul VI celebrated his 79th birthday by telling 15,000 pilgrims and tourists gathered below his study window in St. Peter’s Square that “we personally, having now arrived at the evening of our earthly day, must thank all those who today have expressed to us their good wishes.” On several occasions, the Pope has spoken of his own death, and his latest remarks were not considered to be an indication that he feels any closer to death than do other men of his age.
Nine strong tremors shook the earthquake-devastated Friuli region of northern Italy, and the Trieste Earthquake Observatory warned another big shock could be on the way. The unprecedented warning from the observatory, which was carefully phrased to indicate that the tremors might not mean any further escalation, added to the fear in Friuli.
Slovenian activists accompanied by Yugoslav journalists held a rally in the southern Austrian mountain hamlet of Globasnitz today to accuse this country of persecuting its Slovene minority. For miles around, the little community was ringed by policemen alert for trouble between the Slovenes and ethnic‐German Austrians, but a holiday atmosphere prevailed. A 50‐piece uniformed band played for the rally and young Slovenes hawked T‐shirts that said in German and Slovenian: “Carinthian Slovenes: Strangers in Their Own Homeland.” Globasnitz, four miles from the Yugoslav border, was selected for the rally because it is in the center of a farming region heavily populated with Slovenes.
Artillery duels and ground fighting were reported in Lebanon along the confrontation line dividing Beirut, its southern suburbs and the northern port of Tripoli. But President Elias Sarkis met with leftist leader Kamal Jumblatt for two hours in an attempt to bring the warring sides closer to an agreement to end the bloodshed.
Four Palestinian guerrillas, opposed to Syria’s occupation of Lebanon, seized the Hotel Semiramis in Damascus and took 90 guests and workers hostage, before the Syrian Army stormed the building seven hours later and captured three of the four terrorists. Four of the hostages were killed in the gun battle, along with the leader of the guerrilla group, while another 34 hostages were wounded. The three terrorists were captured, then hung from a gallows outside the Hotel the next day.
Oil and revolution have changed Libya from one of the world’s poorest nations to the one with the highest per capita Income in Africa. Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, who led a group of young officers in a coup against King Idris in 1969, forced the foreign oil companies to pay higher taxes and royalties and led the drive to raise world oil prices. The oil money is visible everywhere: new buildings are going up all over the capital, Tripoli, and vast slums have been replaced by concrete apartment buildings.
The Soviet Union sent a formal protest to Iran demanding the return of a Russian air force lieutenant and the small nonmilitary plane he landed in Iran, a Soviet Embassy source said in Tehran. The Iranian government said 1st Lt. Valentin Ivanovich Zasimov asked for asylum in the United States but a U.S. spokesman said no official request for asylum had been received.
The military ruler of the Bangladesh Government has charged that India was systematically training Bangladeshi dissidents as guerrillas and was helping them to infiltrate into the country from several dozen special camps it had set up along the border. Major General Ziaur Rahman said yesterday that the Indians were arming the guerrillas and training them to attack rural police stations and villages, to blow up bridges and highways and to spread urban terror. “We have apprehended several hundred of them, and they tell of being trained, by Indian troops along the border, or even as far away as Calcutta,” the general said in an interview at the modest white bungalow he occupies in a military reservation just outside Dacca. In recent months, Tower‐ranking officials here have said that India was encouraging Bangladeshi dissidents. But this was the first time that such specific and detailed charges had been made publicly by General Ziaur Rahman, who took over the leadership of this critically poor country 10 months ago.
In a sign that the long‐standing quarrels among Peking’s leaders are apparently continuing, a leading leftist writer insisted today that the current target of the Chinese revolution should be “the party persons in power taking the capitalist road.” In an article in the October issue or the Communist Party ideological journal, Hung Chi, the author also called for “redoubled” efforts to study the thought of Chairman Mao Tse‐tung and repeated an injunction in a recent editorial to act according to Mao’s “principles.” But analysts here noted that the writer, named Chih Hung, placed much stronger emphasis on the attacks on rightists in the party than did the editorial and the eulogy read by Prime Minister Hua Kuofeng at a mass memorial rally for Chairman Mao on September 18 in China, such a difference in nuance often carries major political force. There was also a growing belief among the analysts that the continued lack of public information about the disposition of Chairman Mao’s body reflects some form of disagreement among Peking’s surviving leaders. The chairman’s body was last seen on September 17 in a large glass coffin in the Great Hall of the People in Peking. In the past, senior Chinese Communist officials have been cremated, but there has been speculation that the Chinese might want to preserve the body for public display the way the Russians did with Lenin and the Vietnamese did with Ho Chi Minh.
The Peoples’ Republic of China performs a nuclear test at Lop Nor, China. China carried out its 19th nuclear test and termed it a complete success, the New China News Agency announced. The agency did not give details of the power or kind of test but stressed that Chinese research in atomic weapons was aimed at the “ultimate abolition” of such weapons. It said that nuclear weapons were being developed by China for purposes of defense and for breaking the nuclear monopoly by the superpowers.
North Korea accused Japan of using military ships and planes to harass North Korean freighters steaming off Japan. The North Koreans said this was “criminal” and a “provocation.” The official Korean Central News Agency said that last Thursday, four Japanese naval ships pursued the North Korean merchant ship Sugun while Japanese fighter planes obstructed her normal navigation in Japan’s Tsugaru Straits.
Mexico’s president-elect, Jose Lopez Portillo, left Washington after a three-day visit. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, who held a meeting with Lopez Portillo shortly before the departure, said the visit was expected to give “new impetus and a more positive direction” to relations between the United States and Mexico, as well as with the rest of Latin America. Kissinger described Lopez Portillo as a “very thoughtful, very human and like all Mexicans a very strong man.”
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith’s proposal for a two year transition to black majority rule was rejected by the presidents of five neighboring southern African nations (Zambia, Zaire, Tanzania, Mozambique and Angola) at a gathering of the five men hosted by Zambia’s President Kenneth Kaunda. Leaders of five African countries refused to accept the plan presented by the Rhodesian Prime Minister, Ian Smith, for the transfer to majority rule in Rhodesia. The presidents of Zambia, Tanzania, Botswana, Angola and Mozambique also called on Britain, as the “colonial authority” over Rhodesia, to convene a conference to work out a new plan. The statement appeared to lessen chances for a quick settlement of the Rhodesian problem, but it did not close the door to further negotiations.
Britain will help organize a temporary government for Rhodesia and its foreign secretary will fly to Africa next week to discuss the situation. Anthony Crosland, the Foreign Secretary, made the statements in the wake of the refusal of five African leaders to accept Prime Minister Smith’s plans for the interim government.
In Washington, Secretary of State Kissinger ordered the State Department to react favorably to the statement by the African leaders and the department issued a statement saying the road to a negotiated settlement was open.
President Ford won the debate, according to a poll conducted by the New York Times and CBS News. Although many politicians and political analysts thought the meeting with Jimmy Carter was a draw, 37 percent of the 1,167 voters asked by the poll thought the President had won. Mr. Carter was supported by 24 percent and 35 percent considered it to be a draw. The poll also showed that the President had roughly cut in half the lead Mr. Carter held in the previous poll.
American foreign policy was assailed by Senator Mondale as frequently being “indifferent to people seeking greater justice.” The Democratic vice-presidential candidate said that the United States could no longer impose its viewpoint on the world, but could not escape being one of the world’s leaders. He said that the country needed a new policy with greater concern for the “so-called third world.”
A memorial procession of 2,500 persons paraded in Washington for Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador killed in a bomb blast last Tuesday, and then attended a funeral mass at St. Matthew’s Cathedral. Hortensia Allende, widow of former Chilean President Salvador Allende, blamed the deaths of Letelier and aide Ronni Karpen Moffitt, who also died in the explosion, on the military junta ruling Chile and which ousted her husband. She demanded “that the United States pursue a thorough investigation which will unmask the perpetrators of this monstrous crime.” Representatives of more than 30 embassies and a dozen members of Congress attended.
Two separate air crashes killed at least 26 persons in northern Michigan and Virginia. An Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed and exploded in a remote section of Michigan near Lake Huron. Air Force officials said that 15 persons were killed and that 5 others had been taken to a hospital. In Virginia, all 11 persons aboard an executive jet belonging to the Johnson & Johnson Corporation died when the plane fell short of a runway. The eight passengers were four officers at J & J and their wives, all of whom were flying to a conference and vacation when the airplane went down while attempting to land near Hot Springs, Virginia. Earlier in the day, the crash of a U.S. Air Force KC-135 Stratotanker killed 15 of the 20 people on board when the aircraft, a military version of the Boeing 707, went down in a remote swamp near Alpena, Michigan and exploded and burned.
FBI Director Clarence M. Kelley disagreed with proponents of legalized gambling, saying the so-called victimless crime could actually increase the nation’s crime rate and enrich the underworld. He said few government or private organizations “have the expertise to compete effectively with the multimillion-dollar underworld gambling operations already in existence.” Kelley’ speaking at a seminar in Miami, said research has shown that state lotteries “not only fail to compete with the underworld but may actually be creating a whole new influx of bettors who will some day switch their wagering to the hoodlum element as their addiction grows.”
Warning of the Soviet Union’s increased naval strength, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld says President Ford plans “a solid shipbuilding program.” Mr. Rumsfeld, the principal speaker yesterday at the launching of the USS Oliver Hazard Perry at Bath Iron Works, said improvement of the nation’s naval forces could he done within the present defense budget. He said a military procurement bill pending before Congress would provide four additional frigates comparable to the 455‐foot Perry, the first in a new class of guided missile patrol frigates. Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf 2d echoed Mr. Rumsfeld’s concern about Soviet naval power. He said the size of the United States fleet was now less than it was a year and a half before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor in 1941.
Patricia Hearst is expected to testify today before a grand jury in Oakland, California about the part played by William and Emily Harris in her kidnapping. Miss Hearst, sentenced to seven years in federal prison Friday for her part in a bank robbery, will be the leadoff witness against her former Symbionese Liberation Army cohorts. A grand jury indictment against the Harrises would eliminate the need for a preliminary hearing and move the kidnaping case against the Harrises directly into Superior Court. The couple already have been sentenced to 11 years in prison for a Los Angeles crime spree with Miss Hearst, who still faces trial here for her role in those events.
A former leader of an American “revolutionary Communist organization” has told a Senate internal security subcommittee of a “direct relationship” between Communist ideology and increased terrorism in the nation. Phillip A. Luce, 40, testified under oath last May. The transcript was just released. He said that from 1960 to 1964 he had been a member of the Progressive Labor Party, which he described as a “Maoist Communist organization” that advocated terrorist tactics.
Rep. Abner J. Mikva (D-Illinois) accused the Army of encouraging the spread of firearms among the public by selling them at cut-rate prices to members of the National Rifle Association. He said a study by the General Accounting Office showed that since the 1950s the Army had sold nearly $13 million worth of handguns and rifles at bargain prices exclusively to NRA members.
Dr. Edward Teller, campaigning in Seattle, has called for the defeat of a nuclear power plant initiative on the Washington state ballot November 2. The noted physicist said development of nuclear energy is a necessity for the United States and the world to obtain “a sufficiency of energy.” The Washington ballot measure would set stringent safeguards for construction of nuclear power plants. Similar nuclear initiatives are on the November ballot in Oregon, Arizona, Montana. Colorado and Ohio. Teller will go to Ohio next to speak against that state’s measure.
Angela Winslow fired a gun at an unidentified intruder after he had sexually attacked and thrown her friend, Denise Dozier, from a 15th floor window of her Chicago apartment building. For that, she was arrested, charged with firing a gun inside city limits, placed on $1,000 bond and scheduled for an October 13 court appearance. Officers said Miss Winslow, 23, fired at the man as he fled her apartment. Miss Dozier, 22, had been waiting in the apartment for Miss Winslow and after she was thrown from the window her fall was broken by a canopy. She was admitted to a hospital with multiple injuries and was in serious condition. Officers said they believed the man was not wounded because they found no blood at the scene.
Timothy Cardinal Manning of Los Angeles said today that the recent action by the Episcopal Church in approving the ordination of women to that denomination’s priesthood had created a “grave obstacle” to ecumenism. Cardinal Manning, named by Pope Paul VI to the College of Cardinals in 1973, said women seeking the priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church were beating against a rock. Cardinal Manning, 66 years old, the spiritual leader of two million Roman Catholics, made the remarks on arriving in Salt Lake City to participate in Catholic Bicentennial celebration. “While there is no official movement for women’s ordination in the church, there are some anxious supporters of it,” he said.
King cotton is making a comeback in the South through new marketing techniques and product research. A decade ago cotton was dethroned by polyester, a man-made fiber, but a strong program of promotion has lifted cotton prices to their highest levels on record. All of this is good news for cotton planters who have sharply increased the acreage planted in the crop.
Corporations have found a new tool to use in their lobbying efforts against proposals that could adversely affect them. The new tool is their own employees, and the corporations have been making increasing use of it. One of the most extensive such campaigns was one recently sponsored by the Rockwell International Corporation urging their employees to help keep the B-1 bomber project alive.
At least 12 persons were injured today, some of them critically, when a tornado swept through the Sky Haven Trailer Park in Seymour, Indiana, a spokesman for Jackson County Hospital said. “I believe we’re still expecting a few more,” said Joseph Joiner, the hospital spokesman, when asked whether the injury list was complete. “The injuries are, varying. We have head injuries, arm juries and everything else.” The tornado moved into Indiana from the west, swooped down just south of Elizabethtown and then moved southward into Jackson County, according to Merrill Henderson, a deputy sheriff in Bartholomew County. “We’ve got wires down, we’ve gob limbs down all over the southern half of the county,” he added.
Major League Baseball:
After scoring four runs in the first inning, the Atlanta Braves erupted for six more in the eighth and defeated the San Diego Padres, 10–4. Two of the Braves’ runs in their opening outburst came on Brian Asselstine’s first major league homer. The Padres pecked away to tie the score before the Braves broke the game wide open in the eighth. Darrel Chaney and Willie Montanez each drove in two runs with doubles.
Cecil Cooper, Jim Rice and Ernie Whitt batted in two runs apiece to support the pitching of Reggie Cleveland (9–9) as the Red Sox defeated the Orioles, 8-3. Whitt accounted for his RBIs with a double in the fifth inning when the Red Sox scored three times. A five-run outburst in the eighth accounted for the winning margin. Cooper drove in two runs with a bases-loaded double and Rice added two more with a single.
The Dodgers, who had lost five times to Pat Zachry this season, caught up with the rookie righthander and defeated the Reds, 2–1. The Dodgers nicked Zachry for a run in the third inning on a single by Kevin Pasley, sacrifice by Doug Rau (16–11) and a double by Bill Buckner. The deciding run followed in the fourth when Steve Garvey scored on an infield out by John Hale. Don Werner batted in the Reds’ run with a double in the sixth.
Frank Tanana turned in his 23rd complete game of the season and brought his record to 18–10 by pitching the Angels to a 4–1 victory over the Twins, who were stopped on their five-game winning streak. Dave Collins and Ron Jackson hit homers for the Angels. Craig Kusick saved the Twins from being shut out by connecting for the circuit in the ninth inning.
In the last big league games at Jarry Stadium, the Phillies sweep the Expos and clinch their division. The Phillies clinched the East Division championship with a 4–1 victory in the opener of a doubleheader and then made it more positive by also defeating the Expos, 2–1, in the nightcap, which was called after seven innings because of rain. Greg Luzinski hit his first homer since August 26 to nail down the Phillies’ title. Dave Cash walked and Jerry Martin singled before Luzinski smashed his round-tripper in the sixth inning. The Expos came back with a run in their half on a walk to Wayne Garrett and double by Andre Dawson, but the Phillies added an insurance marker in the seventh when Garry Maddox singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Jim Lonborg (17–10). In the rain-shortened second game, Terry Harmon was safe on an error in the third inning, stole second and scored the Phillies’ first run on a single by Jay Johnstone. Fred Andrews singled in the sixth, advanced on an error by Pat Scanlon and counted the deciding run on a single by Tim Blackwell. Following the 2nd game, Dick Allen jumps the team in protest of the fact that veteran Tony Taylor is not listed on the post-season roster.
Jerry Koosman (21–9) pitched six hitless innings before being knocked out in the seventh, but Bob Apodaca relieved and saved the Mets’ 2–1 victory over the Cubs. The Mets counted in the second on a triple by Bud Harrelson and infield out by Leo Foster. Their deciding run in the fifth resulted from a spell of wildness by Bill Bonham, who walked Foster, uncorked a wild pitch and, after an infield out, threw another wild pitch. The Cubs chased Koosman with their run in the seventh on singles by Mick Kelleher, Manny Trillo, Jerry Morales and George Mitterwald. Apodaca, relieving with none out, retired three straight pinch-hitters without another run scoring. Bill Madlock, Cubs third sacker, is mugged in his room at New York’s Waldorf Astoria. Two men hit him on the head and escape with $50. Madlock misses tonight’s game with the Mets, as the Mets sweep the three games with the Cubs. Suffering from dizziness, Madlock will also skip the next two games in Pittsburgh.
Collecting four hits, Gary Thomasson scored two of the Giants’ runs and batted in one in a 5–1 victory over the Astros. The Giants broke a 1–1 tie with two runs in the sixth inning on a single by Thomasson, sacrifice by Ken Reitz, single by Chris Speier and double by Dave Rader. Doubles by Thomasson and Reitz produced the final two tallies in the seventh.
Lou Brock batted in two runs with a triple in the fifth inning and Hector Cruz accounted for two more with a homer in the sixth as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–2. John Denny (11–8) gets the win Over Bruce Kison (14–9).
Before going to Oakland for a three-game series, the Royals lost to the Rangers, 3–1, cutting their West Division lead over the Athletics to 4 ½ games. The A’s, who were rained out in Chicago, had seven games left to play while six remained on the Royals’ chart. Lenny Randle drove in two of the Rangers’ runs with a sacrifice fly and single, scoring Jeff Burroughs both times. The Rangers had to call on three relievers in the ninth inning before nailing down their victory. Nelson Briles (11–9) was lifted after giving up a single by John Mayberry. Mike Bacsik yielded a single by Al Cowens and walked Jamie Quirk with one out to fill the bases. Bob Stinson grounded out, scoring Mayberry. Craig Skok took over and passed Jim Wohlford to load the bases again, but Steve Hargan then saved the game by getting Amos Otis on a fly to right field.
The scheduled game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Indians at Cleveland was postponed due to rain.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Tigers at Detroit was postponed due to rain.
The scheduled game between the Oakland A’s and the White Sox at Chicago was postponed due to rain.
San Diego Padres 4, Atlanta Braves 10
Boston Red Sox 8, Baltimore Orioles 3
Cincinnati Reds 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
California Angels 4, Minnesota Twins 1
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Montreal Expos 1
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Montreal Expos 1
Chicago Cubs 1, New York Mets 2
Houston Astros 1, San Francisco Giants 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Kansas City Royals 1, Texas Rangers 3
NFL Football:
Haskel Stanback scored on a three-yard run in the fourth quarter to break a scoreless tie and lead the Atlanta Falcons to their first win of the season, beating the Chicago Bears, 10–0. Stanback’s score came three plays after Dewey McClain recovered a fumbled punt reception at the Bears’ 17. Atlanta’s defense allowed Chicago into Falcons territory only once in the first three quarters and cut short two Bears’ drives in the fourth period with interceptions.
The Denver Broncos crushed the Cleveland Browns, 44–13. Rick Upchurch returned the Browns’ first punt 73 yards for a touchdown and repeated the feat (47 yards) in the third quarter as the Denver defense and specialty teams helped deal Cleveland its second defeat. Calvin Jones’s 43-yard fumble recovery return for a score ignited a three-and-a-half minute, 17-point burst. Upchurch followed with a 47-yard punt return for a touchdown, and Steve Ramsey capped off the barrage with a 36-yard TD pass to Haven Moses. Browns’ quarterback Brian Sipe completed 17 of 31 but had two picked off by Broncos linebacker Tom Jackson.
The San Diego Chargers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 43–24. Dan Fouts passed for three touchdowns in a 27-point second quarter as undefeated San Diego continued on its best start since 1968. Rickey Young scored from the three just three seconds into the second period. Fouts completed a 30-yard touchdown pass to Charlie Joiner and hit Dwight McDonald twice for scores to give San Diego a 33–10 halftime lead. The Chargers’ defense limited the Cardinal rushers to 124 yards and picked up four St. Louis fumbles.
The Buffalo Bills beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 14–9. Joe Ferguson threw touchdown passes to Bob Chandler and Reuben Gant to give the Bills their first victory of the season. Buccaneer kicker Dave Green scored the first points of the season for Tampa Bay and almost turned the tables on Buffalo. In the final minutes of the game Green caught a nine-yard pass from Steve Spurrier on a fake field goal, but was short of a first down at the Bills’ 11. The Buccaneers’ defense virtually shut down the Buffalo ground attack, giving up 109 yards rushing, only 39 to O.J. Simpson.
The Los Angeles Rams topped the New York Giants, 24–10. John Cappelletti’s two-touchdown performance helped the Rams overcome an early 10–0 Giants lead. The Giants picked up all their points in the first quarter, six coming on a Craig Morton to Bob Tucker touchdown pass after a Pat Hughes interception at the Rams 37. Tom Dempsey’s 44-yard field goal after Cappelletti’s first touchdown tied the score in the third quarter and Cappelletti scored again in the fourth on a 32-yard pass from James Harris to put the Rams ahead. Los Angeles’ final score came late in the game after Isiah Robertson intercepted Morton at the Giants’ 18. Doug Kotar led all rushers with 108 yards, his first 100-yard game since 1974.
The Minnesota Vikings squeaked past the Detroit Lions, 10–9. Nate Allen’s block of a bobbled conversion attempt provided Minnesota’s winning margin in a game controlled by the defenses. The Lions’ and Vikings’ defenses gave up 168 and 251 yards, respectively. Both teams were shut out in the first half and were deadlocked 3–3 after three quarters. Chuck Foreman, the game’s leading rusher with 94 yards, scored on the first play of the fourth quarter on a five-yard draw before Detroit got its final score with 2:01 left in the game. Greg Landry completed 13 of 24 passes for 198 yards including a one-yard TD pass to Charlie Sanders.
The San Francisco 49ers downed the Seattle Seahawks, 37–21. Jim Plunkett staked the 49ers to a 31–7 halftime lead on an 11-of-16 passing performance that netted three touchdowns. San Francisco victimized Seahawk punter Rick Engles, blocking his first punt to set up a first quarter field goal and Ralph McGill returned another 50 yards for a touchdown. Hugh McKinnis scored twice for Seattle on short bursts and Jim Zorn threw for 264 yards including a fourth quarter touchdown pass, closing the gap to 10 points before Steve Mike-Mayer ended a perfect day with 45 and 31-yard field goals.
The Miami Dolphins shut out the New York Jets, 16–0. Garo Yepremian converted three of four field goal attempts and Bob Griese connected with Jim Mandich for a third-quarter touchdown as the Dolphins’ defense limited the Jets to 224 yards. The Griese-to-Mandich score came five plays after Charlie Babb intercepted a Joe Namath pass, returning it 20 yards to the Jets’ 49. The Miami defense allowed the Jets no deeper than the Dolphins’ 25 and picked up four New York fumbles.
Rookie running back Tony Galbreath rushed for 146 yards and two touchdowns and his rookie teammate Chuck Muncie added 126 yards to lead the New Orleans Saints to a comeback victory over the Kansas City Chiefs, 27–17. Galbreath’s nine-yard run in the fourth quarter put the Saints ahead for the first time and a Bobby Scott to Henry Childs touchdown pass with just eight seconds left on the clock insured Hank Stram’s first victory as a Saints’ coach, the win coming over the team Stram coached from 1960 through 1974.
The New England Patriots upset the Pittsburgh Steelers at Three Rivers, 30–27. Steve Grogan led the Patriots on a 21-point scoring spree after trailing 20–9 in the third quarter. Grogan, completing six of eight passes for 192 yards in the scoring binge, threw 38 yards to Russ Francis and 58 yards to Darryl Stingley for touchdowns and ran one in from the 6 to give New England its first win ever over Pittsburgh. Terry Bradshaw picked up 291 yards passing, but seven Steeler fumbles, six of which the Patriots recovered, stymied the Pittsburgh offense.
The Dallas Cowboys edged the Baltimore Colts, 30–27. Efren Herrera kicked a 32-yard field goal with three seconds left to break a 27–27 tie and knock Baltimore from the ranks of the unbeaten. Herrera’s kick was preceded by a Roger Staubach to Billy Joe DuPree touchdown pass putting the Cowboys ahead 27–24 with 3:27 remaining and Toni Linhart’s 24-yard field goal to tie the game with 28 seconds left to play. Staubach had his best day in eight years as a Cowboys’ passer, completing 22 of 28 passes for 339 yards. Bert Jones passed for 237 yards. Baltimore’s opening score was countered by another Dallas spectacular, a 39-yard touchdown pass from wide receiver Drew Pearson to Golden Richards off a double reverse.
The Oakland Raiders nipped the Houston Oilers, 14–13. Rookie Mike Rae connected twice with Cliff Branch for touchdowns to overcome a first quarter Houston lead and maintain Oakland’s unbeaten status. Rae, substituting for injured Ken Stabler, hit Branch in the end zone on his first NFL pass and completed 12 of his next 21 for 170 yards. Dan Pastorini brought the Oilers back to within one point on a four-yard pass to Mack Alston with 7:26 remaining after the Raiders twice stopped Houston at the 1-yard line.
The Cincinnati Bengals whipped the Green Bay Packers, 28–7. The Bengals’ defense and Archie Griffin were worse than the rain for the Packers after Cincinnati spotted Green Bay a 7–0 lead. Ken Riley and Tom Casanova each returned interceptions for touchdowns while their defensive mates allowed the Packers 71 yards rushing and minus 35 yards passing. Griffin picked up 78 yards on 20 carries and one touchdown. Green Bay quarterback Lynn Dickey suffered five sacks for 67 yards.
Atlanta Falcons 10, Chicago Bears 0
Cleveland Browns 13, Denver Broncos 44
St. Louis Cardinals 24, San Diego Chargers 43
Buffalo Bills 14, Tampa Bay Buccaneers 9
New York Giants 10, Los Angeles Rams 24
Minnesota Vikings 10, Detroit Lions 9
San Francisco 49ers 37, Seattle Seahawks 21
New York Jets 0, Miami Dolphins 16
New Orleans Saints 27, Kansas City Chiefs 17
New England Patriots 30, Pittsburgh Steelers 27
Baltimore Colts 27, Dallas Cowboys 30
Oakland Raiders 14, Houston Oilers 13
Green Bay Packers 7, Cincinnati Bengals 28
Born:
Tyler Denk, American model and reality show contestant (The Amazing Race, season 10), in Columbus, Ohio.
Quacy Barnes, WNBA center (Sacramento Monarchs, Seattle Storm, Phoenix Mercury), in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Died:
Leopold Ružička, 89, Croatian-born Swiss chemist and 1939 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner.
Pál Turán, 66, Hungarian mathematician and number theorist known for Turán’s inequalities, the Turán sieve, the Turán–Kubilius inequality and the Erdős–Turán inequality.
(Louis Charles) “L. C.” Robinson, 62, American blues singer, guitarist, fiddler, and electric steel guitar player, of a heart attack.
