The Soviet Union yesterday freed Nicholas S. Daniloff, the American journalist who had been confined to Moscow for the last month on spying charges. Mr. Daniloff was allowed to leave without standing trial. He flew to Frankfurt, West Germany, for an overnight stay on his way to the United States. His release seemed to remove an obstacle to setting a date for a meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev later this year. Reagan Administration officials said that as part of the arrangement on Mr. Daniloff worked out in talks in New York, Gennadi F. Zakharov, a Soviet citizen accused of espionage, would be allowed to plead no contest in court and be sent back to the Soviet Union in exchange for a group of Soviet dissidents. Mr. Daniloff’s release occurred suddenly, without public announcement, and appeared to end a dispute that had threatened to paralyze and worsen Soviet-American relations. The breakthrough occurred after a three-hour meeting late Sunday in New York between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze at the Soviet Mission. It was their fourth and longest meeting in less than a week. The first word of the release of Mr. Daniloff, who was in the Soviet Union for U.S. News & World Report, came in news reports from Moscow. “It is wonderful to be back in the West,” he said on his arrival in Frankfurt. “All I know is that I am free, in the West, and delighted to see you.”
President Reagan’s offer to sell 3.85 million metric tons of subsidized American wheat to the Soviet Union expires on Tuesday, and Moscow has shown no interest. Executives of leading grain trading companies and farm organizations said there was no chance a deal could be made now. Even with the subsidy, the executives said, the American price was substantially above that offered to the Russians by other nations. “The sale is not going to happen,” said Carl Schwensen, executive vice president of the National Association of Wheat Growers, a Washington-based group representing 80,000 wheat farmers. “But the Administration needs to try again. The Soviet Union is the world’s largest wheat importer, and if our farmers are going to survive this period of low prices, we need as much trade as we can get.”
One of the four reactors at the Chernobyl nuclear plant was restarted today for the first time since the disaster in the No. 4 reactor five months ago, the Government newspaper Izvestia reported. It said the 1,000-megawatt No. 1 unit was on the minimum standby power level, but would soon supply power to the Ukrainian electricity grid.
The crackdown in France on Arab-related terrorism has raised fears in Spain that many suspected Arab terrorists are shifting their bases here, Spanish officials said. Spanish officials have tightened border controls and even begun to impose curbs on the many thousands of North Africans who go through Spain to France each year. To avoid having any of the North Africans turned back at the French border and remain in Spain, Spanish officials are enforcing French visa requirements at the Strait of Gibraltar and other ferry points. At the same time, the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez has publicly pledged full intelligence cooperation with the conservative French Government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. A Spanish Deputy Interior Minister was in Paris this week seeking to cement the relationship.
Amnesty International accused the British Government today of having failed to conduct a proper investigation into charges that the Northern Irish police deliberately killed unarmed civilians suspected of being members of the Irish Republican Army. British officials, warning against “scapegoat” methods, rejected the accusation as well as a proposal that an independent judicial inquiry be authorized to settle the question of whether some policemen engaged in premeditated killing of civilians. Without confirming the accusations, the human-rights group contended that British officials had “distinctly failed” in their investigation into complaints that civilians have been killed in police ambushes and that police officials have overlooked evidence of a “shoot to kill” policy said to be used by some officers. In particular, Amnesty International focused on the still incomplete inquiry into police conduct by John Stalker, the Deputy Chief Constable of Manchester, England. He was unexpectedly suspended by superiors and made the subject of an unrelated personal inquiry. He later was cleared but he had by then been removed at a reportedly crucial time in his Northern Ireland investigation.
The opposition Labor Party accused the U.S. Secretary of Defense, Casper W. Weinberger, today of “interfering” in British politics but sought to play down the significance of his warning against its “nonnuclear” defense policy. Mr. Weinberger’s warning came in a television interview on the BBC that was broadcast this evening, days after a political storm blew up in anticipation of remarks that were taped for broadcast at the start of the Labor Party’s annual conference here. American officials stressed that the timing of the interview was determined by the BBC, not Mr. Weinberger, but this did not prevent a columnist for The Guardian from characterizing the interview, even before it was broadcast, as a “pre-emptive strike against the election of a Labor Government.”
Turkish Prime Minister Turgut Ozal failed to get the vote of confidence that he wanted, and by-election results showed a shift to the right. It was the first free parliamentary vote since his Motherland Party’s 1983 landslide — when outgoing military rulers barred most of Ozal’s political rivals from the election. In the byelections, the right-wing True Path Party won four of the 11 seats. Ozal’s less-conservative Motherland Party won six seats, but its share of the popular vote in the 11 constituencies fell to 32% from 43% in 1983.
A bomb scare forced a two-hour evacuation of the Anne Frank House today as the former Soviet dissident Anatoly Shcharansky was due to visit the museum, the police said. A Dutch army bomb disposal unit removed a vacuum cleaner bag found in a wastebasket at the museum, according to a police spokesman, Klaas Wilting, who said the bag was found to contain only refuse. The police said they had not received any threats in connection with the Jewish activist’s visit, and Mr. Shcharansky entered the museum shortly after the alert was lifted.
The World Wildlife Fund climaxed its 25th anniversary celebrations in Assisi, Italy, with a ceremony in the medieval church of St. Francis, patron saint of ecologists. Representatives of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism and Islam gathered against a backdrop of the famous frescoes of the life of St. Francis, who lived in the 13th Century and was known for his love of animals. Britain’s Prince Philip, president of the fund, said the group wants the world’s religions to join in the campaign for the survival of endangered animal species.
Israel today formally charged John Demjanjuk, a retired American auto worker, with crimes against humanity for what it said was his role in torturing Jews on their way to the gas chambers at the Treblinka death camp. Mr. Demjanjuk, who emigrated to Cleveland in 1952 and became a naturalized American citizen, was extradited to Israel last February. His trial, which will not get under way until late December or early January, will be the first to be held under the Israeli law for punishing suspected Nazi war criminals since Adolf Eichmann’s trial 25 years ago. Israeli prosecutors say they will prove that Mr. Demjanjuk was the Nazi SS official at Treblinka — it is estimated that 900,000 Jews were killed there — who tortured Jews on their way to the gas chambers and got the nickname Ivan the Terrible.
A senior Lebanese army officer was slain in East Beirut today as tension grew between Christian militiamen and troops loyal to President Amin Gemayel. The victim was Colonel Khalil Kanaan, a Maronite Catholic who commanded the Fifth Brigade. The attackers broke into his home in the Christian quarter of Hazmiye at 2 AM and opened fire with machine guns, the police said. Colonel Kanaan, 55 years old, was hit by more than 20 bullets and died instantly, the police said. His wife was seriously wounded. The state-run Lebanese radio said the killers were members of the Lebanese Forces, a Christian militia commanded by Dr. Samir Geagea. The slaying was carried out shortly after two Lebanese Forces militiamen were killed in a clash with soldiers of the Fifth Brigade.
India indicated it is prepared to use General Electric engines in the development of its new generation combat aircraft, the Washington Post reported, citing informed sources in New Delhi. It would be India’s first major purchase of military equipment from the United States in years. India has depended on the Soviet Union for much of its modern weaponry. The light combat aircraft, as the plane is being described during its design phase, is intended to be India’s first locally produced major warplane and would come into service in the mid-1990s. The powerful F404 engine is used in the F-18 Hornet and in Northrop’s F-20.
A Pentagon panel, after a five-month review of intelligence files, has concluded that American prisoners of war are still alive in Southeast Asia. The head of the group, Lieutenant General Eugene F. Tighe, Jr., a former director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, said in an interview today that “a large volume of evidence points” to the likelihood that Americans are being held by the Vietnamese Government. He said he doubted that the evidence was strong enough to give the United States added leverage to win the release of any prisoners. He suggested Vietnam might accept war reparations in return for the Americans.
Opposition leaders warned today that they would boycott sessions of a committee formed to revise South Korea’s Constitution unless President Chun Doo Hwan met with them. The opposition, which demands direct presidential elections to replace the present electoral-college system, said that continued negotiations were pointless without “talks between the real power holders.”
The Senate voted 51 to 43 today against $200 million in increased economic aid to the Government of the Philippines. But Senator Bob Dole, the majority leader, who opposed the increase, said this evening that his staff was meeting with aides to the Democratic leadership to seek a compromise and approve an increase in aid. Mr. Dole said he might support the $200 million increase if it came out of $300 million in economic aid now earmarked for Central American countries as part of the military aid package to rebels fighting the Government of Nicaragua. The House has approved a $200 million increase in Philippine aid for 1987. In the current fiscal year the Philippines has received $553 million in aid, but will get less in 1987 unless the increase is approved. Supporters of the aid increase in the Senate said the vote today reflected weakening sentiment for foreign aid, especially in an election year when many voters argue that such money should be spent at home first. The vote was largely along party lines, with Republicans opposing the increase and Democrats voting in favor. The House approved its aid increase by only six votes.
Mexico’s debt negotiators worked past a deadline as they pressed efforts to reach an agreement on a $6-billion package of new bank loans. The International Monetary Fund had fixed a Monday night deadline as a condition for a $1.6-billion loan program, but the Mexicans and their commercial bank creditors indicated that the time limit was flexible. Mexico and the banks still had differences on the size of the loan package and the interest rate that Mexico will pay. The bank loans are part of a $12-billion aid program to help Mexico pay interest on its $97-billion foreign debt.
Sudanese rebels threatened to shoot down any aircraft flying to southern Sudan without their authorization, but U.N. organizers continued to prepare to airlift food to famine victims in the region. In a radio report monitored in Khartoum, a spokesman for the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army reiterated an earlier warning that anyone flying over the war-torn, hunger-plagued south “would be doing so at their own risk.” Organizers of the planned airlift said they will fly emergency food to the government-controlled towns of Juba and Malakal on Wednesday. Last month, the rebels shot down a Sudanese airliner over Malakal, killing all 60 people aboard.
The President of Congo denied today that his Foreign Minister had equated the Government of Israel with that of Nazi Germany. President Denis Sassou-Nguesso, in an interview here, called the incident a “misunderstanding.” He said his Foreign Minister compared South Africa, “on the one hand to Israel, for its failure to respect international fora, and its attacks against its neighbors,” and on the other hand to Nazi Germany, “because they practice identical policies based on the concept of racial superiority.”
The House of Representatives brushed aside a new proposal by President Reagan today and voted decisively to override his veto of a bill imposing stiff economic sanctions on the South African Government. The vote was 313 to 83, or 49 more votes than the two-thirds of those voting needed to override the veto. The President picked up six votes from the initial vote in the House, but supporters of the bill added five votes, so Mr. Reagan’s appeal today had virtually no effect. “This bill will send a moral and diplomatic wake-up call to a President who doesn’t understand the issue,” Representative William H. Gray 3d, a Pennsylvania Democrat, said in the debate today. “Sometimes we need to feel good about who we are and what we stand for.”
After weeks of speculation about early parliamentary elections in South Africa, President Pieter W. Botha announced in East London that the balloting will not be held this year. He left open the possibility, however, that he would seek a new electoral mandate next year for his National Party and its program of step-by-step reforms. Senior Cabinet ministers reportedly felt that the party was not ready for elections in November. The next regularly scheduled parliamentary elections are planned for 1989.
President Reagan participates in a rally for Christopher S. Bond, Republican Senatorial candidate for Missouri and former Governor (R-Missouri).
A lawmaker assailed the ethics panel of the Executive Department. David H. Martin, director of the Office of Government Ethics, told a House panel that he preferred to work quietly behind the scenes to assure that Federal officials maintained high ethical standards. Representative Gerry Sikorsi, chairman of the panel, said, “I don’t think the ethics laws were meant to be enforced by cordiality.”
A bill strengthening protection of children against what one proponent called “the slimy underworld of… pornography” was passed unanimously by the House. The measure would make it illegal to take a child across a state line for the production of pornography. It would also make it a crime to advertise to buy or sell child pornography or to offer or seek children for sex acts or to participate with children in sex acts for the purpose of producing pornography. Offenses would be punishable by maximum jail terms of 10 and 15 years and fines of $250,000. A similar bill is pending in the Senate.
The sentencing of admitted spy John A. Walker Jr. was delayed a month, until November 6, by a federal judge in Baltimore at the request of the Navy. In a plea bargain, Walker, presumed head of a spy ring that included his son and brother, had agreed to cooperate with the government in exchange for a sentence that would make him eligible for parole in 10 years. But Walker reportedly has failed lie detector tests concerning the size of the spy ring and who organized it, and the Navy wants more time to assess the scope of and damage done by the ring. The sentencing of Walker’s son also was delayed.
A Manhattan teenager may be freed on bail, Justice Howard E. Bell ruled. He set bail of $150,000 for the release of Robert E. Chambers Jr., the 19-year-old man accused of murdering Jennifer Dawn Levin, 18, during a sexual rendezvous in Central Park last month.
Explosions rocked a federal building, a store and a restaurant in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and state police officers and firefighters spread out over rooftops throughout the city to check for other bombs. A fourth bomb was found atop an armed forces recruiting center but was detonated safely. There were no reports of injuries. The explosions occurred less than two weeks after a bomb damaged the home of the Rev. Bill Wassmuth, chairman of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Rights.
A judge ruled that a law barring non-residents from parks in Dearborn, Michigan, was unconstitutional after it was challenged by civil rights groups who said it was enacted to keep blacks out of the suburb. Wayne County Circuit Judge Marvin Stempien found that the ordinance violated the Michigan Constitution because it would be racially discriminatory at two parks and its enforcement would intrude on the liberty and privacy of all park users.
Searchers surrounded a Wright City, Missouri house where a fugitive was believed to be hiding today but found no trace of the murder suspect in a raid at dawn, prompting a scaling down of the manhunt. Roadblocks that surrounded the farming community were lifted, and the number of lawmen looking for Michael Wayne Jackson, a former convict and mental patient, was reduced from more than 100 to 24. “We need a rest,” said Sgt. Bill Kelems of the Missouri Highway Patrol, but he added, “We’ll keep working as long as the F.B.I. thinks there is a reason to be here.”
Evangelists are rallying to the unannounced drive of the Rev. Pat Robertson for the 1988 Republican Presidential nomination. The audiences of Christian television viewers are seen as a vast potential to the campaign of the founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network.
A sweeping drug testing plan has prompted sharp divisions in Beaumont, Texas. Mary Dages, a respected high school teacher, said that if she had to, she would probably say she was “51 percent to 49 percent in favor” of the policy, which calls for mandatory drug testing of all students, teachers and district employees.
More employers hire replacements at lower pay to fill the jobs of union members who strike or are locked out in walkouts. Charles R. Perry, an expert at the Wharton School, said an increasing number of businesses were following the practice.
The Winery Employers Association, which represents some of California’s largest wineries, today warned members of two striking unions to return to work by next Monday or be dismissed. Reacting to a union-imposed boycott begun in the seventh week of the strike, an employers’ association spokesman, Bob Lieber, said, “Employers will begin to employ permanent replacements, rather than temporary employees, at 11 member wineries as of October 6. Bob Fogg, president of Local 186 of the Winery, Distillery and Allied Workers Union, said he was not surprised at the ultimatum and added that the union would file an action with the National Labor Relations Board, charging the owners with failing to negotiate and with trying to bust the union.
Former Litton Systems Inc. executive Michael J. Millspaugh pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to 20 counts of mail fraud in connection with a $6.3-million plot to cheat the government. Millspaugh was accused of inflating costs on at least 25 defense contracts while working for Clifton Precision, a Litton Systems subsidiary. The government pledged to seek dismissal of a count of racketeering and a count of lying to a government agency. In July, Litton Systems, a subsidiary of Litton Industries, pleaded guilty to 321 counts and agreed to repay the $6.3 million.
A 64-year old blind invalid, her niece and a friend were found hacked to death today with a small ax at their remote, tree-shaded house today in what the Police Chief termed a “crime of passion or rage.” The three women had been dead at least 24 hours, and the police were seeking a maroon station wagon apparently stolen from the house, said Police Chief John Whitehead.
Fifteen students who defied a court order and erected a protest shanty on the Johns Hopkins University campus were arrested today and school officials used a dump truck to destroy the plywood structure. About 100 members of the Coalition Against Apartheid helped erect the shanty moments after the Board of Trustees’ investment committee refused to divest the school of its holdings in companies doing business in South Africa.
A twin-engine propeller plane carrying copies of the national edition of The New York Times crashed and burned in a residential neighborhood in Chicago Sunday night shortly after takeoff from Midway Airport. The pilot, Frank Jaax, 53 years old, of Downers Grove, a suburb, was killed. There were no injuries on the ground. The plane, a Beechcraft BE-18, belonged to Viking Express of West Chicago, Illinois. It took off loaded with 3,500 copies of The Times for the Cincinnati, Louisville and Lexington, Ky. areas. The pilot said he had engine trouble, then radioed for help. The plane glanced off two homes, shearing away chimneys and spilling fuel before falling through the back porch and into the basement of a home on South Kildare Avenue, which later caught fire.
North Montana’s worst flooding in 34 years, which forced at least 350 people from their homes and drowned hundreds of cattle, slowly subsided at the hardest hit areas today but threatened four other small towns. Beaver Creek washed over its banks near Saco Sunday night, destroying “thousands and thousands of acres” of hay fields, but the sandbagged and dirt-filled 50-year-old dikes protecting the town of 245 appeared to be holding, Mayor Gregg Menge said.
Giant icebergs were breaking off of the Alaskan glacier that turned a saltwater fiord into a growing freshwater lake and scientists believed the icy dam could burst, releasing all the trapped marine animals that were the target of an earlier rescue effort. An outburst at the glacial dam near Yakutat was imminent, and a five-mile area along either side of the dam was ordered cleared, said a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. There reportedly was no danger to nearby communities.
Westinghouse Electric Corp. and Space Industries Co. announced a partnership to design and build a $250-million permanently orbiting space facility on which scientists could conduct research. Several space shuttle flights will be required to launch the station, with launch scheduled for 1990. The Industrial Space Facility, a 2,500-cubic-foot space “cabin,” will provide an essentially gravity-free environment for experimentation, company representatives said in Washington.
“Designing Women” TV comedy debuts on CBS.
Mary Lou Retton retires from gymnastics. At an age when most people are embarking on their careers, 18-year-old Mary Lou Retton announced she was retiring and would concentrate on school. “My decision to retire was based on my feeling that I have achieved the goals as a gymnast that I set out for myself several years ago,” said Miss Retton, who vaulted to fame, fortune and a picture on Wheaties boxes in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.
Major League Baseball:
The Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 7–5. Wade Boggs drove in three runs with a double and a single to lead Boston. Al Nipper (10–11) got the victory as the Red Sox, who clinched the American League East title Sunday, won for the 20th time in their last 27 games. John Habyan (1–3) was the loser as the Orioles suffered their eighth loss in nine games. “If you relax, you’re going to get hurt,” said Boggs, who raised his league-leading batting average to .353. “You have to keep playing like you’re still fighting for something.” The Red Sox scored the game’s first three runs in the second inning and never trailed despite several Baltimore comebacks. The first of Eddie Murray’s three doubles, after a single by Ken Gerhart and a double by Cal Ripken, cut Boston’s lead to 3–2 in the top of the third. Boggs improved the Red Sox lead to 4–2 in the fourth with an RBI single, but Baltimore got that run back in the fifth when John Shelby scored on Murray’s ground-rule double. The Red Sox came right back with two runs in the fifth, making the score 6–3. They loaded the bases on singles by Rice and Baylor and a walk to Dwight Evans. Armas’s grounder forced Evans at second base and scored Rice. Sullivan’s double sent Baylor home.
George Brett doubled home the winning run and Mark Gubicza allowed eight hits through 6 ⅔ innings to give Kansas City a victory over the California Angels. Gubicza, who began the season 0–4, raised his record to 11–6. The right-hander had four strikeouts and one walk while outdueling Angels starter Urbano Lugo, 1–1. Bud Black relieved Gubicza in the seventh and picked up his eighth save.
Cleveland second baseman Jay Bell becomes the 9th player in history to hit a home run on the first Major League pitch he sees, but the Indians fall to the Twins, 6–5. Bell tolls his home run off Bert Blyleven, for whom Bell, along with 2 other players, had been traded the previous year. Bell’s dinger is the 47th of the season against Bert Blyleven, breaking the Major League record of 46 home runs allowed by Robin Roberts in 1956. Blyleven will end the year with 50 gophers. Blyleven, who later gave up home runs to Joe Carter and Brett Butler, had been tied with Robin Roberts, who allowed 46 home runs in 1956 for the Philadelphia Phillies. Despite the homers, Blyleven (16-14) pitched eight innings and got the victory as the Twins won.
When Don Mattingly was walked intentionally in the seventh inning last night, Yankee Stadium fans booed lustily. When Dave Winfield, the next batter, bounced a 2-RBI single into center field, they cheered just as lustily. Home fans often react in such fashion in those circumstances, but their reaction in these instances was especially pointed. By walking Mattingly with runners at second and third, the Toronto Blue Jays were depriving him of a possible hit that could be critical in his race for the American League batting title with Wade Boggs of Boston. The Yankees scored three other runs in the inning and, with their 8–1 victory, nudged half a game past the Blue Jays into second place in the American League East. Dennis Rasmussen, who gave up only a ninth-inning home run to Willie Upshaw, pitched a six-hitter for his 17th victory against 6 defeats. His complete game, coming a day after Bob Tewksbury pitched all nine innings, gave the Yankees their first consecutive complete-game victories of the season.
I hope Mom is watching. Two rookie pitchers face each other as the Cubs send Greg Maddux against the Phils to face his brother Mike. Greg (2–4) wins, 8–3, over his brother (3-7) in the first ever encounter between rookie brothers. Greg goes 7 ⅔ innings while Mike is done after 3; each allows 3 runs. Mike allowed hits to the first two Cubs he faced — Chico Walker’s single and Ryne Sandberg’s RBI double — and was down 2-0 by the time the inning ended. He escaped a second-inningjam, stranding runners at second and third, but didn’t survive the fourth — nor get a batter out that inning. Mike hit Leon Durham, then allowed singles to Jody Davis and Brian Dayett. That was it for the Phillies’ entry in the Maddux sweepstakes. Davis’ three-run homer off reliever Mike Jackson in the fifth made it 6-0. Davis, who finished with five RBI, won the night’s Rodney Dangerfield “No Respect” Award. Twice the Phillies intentionally walked Durham to get to Davis, and Davis responded with a three-run homer and a two-run single in the ninth off Tom Hume.
The Los Angeles Dodgers clobbered the San Diego Padres, 10–0. Pedro Guerrero, Jose Gonzalez, and Mike Scioscia each homered, and Orel Hershiser pitched his first shutout in more than a year to help the Los Angeles Dodgers snap a four-game losing streak.
For Texas Ranger slugger Pete Incaviglia in the last 10 games, it’s been feast or famine — with emphasis on the famine. He’s had only four hits in his last 36 at-bats, but all four have been home runs. “I’ve been hitting the ball pretty hard,” Incaviglia said after leading the Rangers to a 3–0 victory over the Oakland A’s with a two-run homer Monday night, “but I haven’t been able to find any holes. The only holes I’ve found have been over the fence.” He homered with a man aboard in the first inning Monday night and that was all rookie right-hander Edwin Correa and reliever Jeff Russell needed to beat the A’s. The homer was Incaviglia’s 29th of the season. Correa, 12–13, allowed only one hit in six innings, and Russell threw three innings of three-hit ball to earn his second save. The loser was left-hander Curt Young, who went the distance and allowed only three hits as his record fell to 12–9. Two of the runs against him were unearned as Incaviglia’s two-out home run followed an error by second baseman Donnie Hill.
Baltimore Orioles 5, Boston Red Sox 7
California Angels 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Cleveland Indians 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Toronto Blue Jays 1, New York Yankees 8
Chicago Cubs 8, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 10, San Diego Padres 0
Oakland Athletics 0, Texas Rangers 3
NFL Monday Night Football:
Danny White passed for 223 yards and three touchdowns to lead the Dallas Cowboys to a 31–7 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals tonight. White, who completed 16 of 29 passes while suffering two interceptions, now has 10 touchdown passes for the season. The Cowboys improved to 3–1 and the Cardinals fell to 0–4. White, operating a Dallas offense with Herschel Walker substituting for the injured Tony Dorsett at running back, threw his touchdown passes in the first, third and fourth quarters. Walker, making his first N.F.L. start, was instrumental in the Dallas attack, gaining 82 yards in 17 carries and catching 5 passes for 57 yards, including a touchdown. The Cowboys mounted a 10–0 lead at halftime before Ottis Anderson’s 10-yard scoring run put St. Louis within reach early in the third quarter. Mike Sherrard, a rookie wide receiver, gathered in White’s arching, 39-yard pass late in the opening period for the first Dallas touchdown and Rafael Septien booted a 32-yard field goal in the second quarter. After Anderson’s scoring run, the Cowboys went back to work with Gordon Banks returning the ensuing kickoff 56 yards to the Cardinal 42. Tony Hill was on the receiving end of White’s 13-yard scoring pass four plays later.
Dallas Cowboys 31, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Wall Street’s disappointment over the inability of the United States and its major trading partners to agree on further interest rate reductions caused stock prices to decline moderately yesterday. Finance ministers of the United States, West Germany, Japan, Britain, France, Italy and Canada met in Washington over the weekend, but they were unable to agree on interest rates or currency rates. The meeting came after weeks of conjecture as to whether Washington would be able to persuade Tokyo and Bonn, in particular, to lower their benchmark borrowing rates. News of the Group of Seven meeting, hitting an already troubled stock market, caused the Dow Jones industrial average to sink as far as 32 points early in yesterday’s session. It closed with a loss of just 14.49 points, at 1,755.20, thanks to a smattering of demand resulting from buying programs late in the day.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1755.2 (-14.49)
Born:
Jordan Norwood, NFL wide receiver (NFL champions, Super Bowl 50-Broncos, 2015; Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns, Denver Broncos), in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Mark Fraser, Canadian NHL defenseman (New Jersey Devils, Toronto Maple Leafs, Edmonton Oilers), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Benoît Pouliot, Canadian NHL left wing (Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens, Boston Bruins, New York Rangers, Edmonton Oilers), in Alfred, Ontario, Canada.
Matt Lashoff, NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins, Tampa Bay Lightning, Toronto Maple Leafs), in East Greenbush, New York.
Jerome Jordan, Jamaican NBA center (New York Knicks, Brooklyn Nets), in Kingston, Jamaica.
