President Reagan hopes to achieve an informal agreement with Mikhail S. Gorbachev on medium-range missiles when the two leaders meet next weekend in Iceland, a ranking White House official said today. The official said that the United States and the Soviet Union were “fairly close” to an agreement on the issue, and that such a step would cement the prospects for a full-fledged summit meeting in the United States between the two leaders later in the year or early next year. At this point, the official said, both sides want to insure that a weeklong summit meeting in the United States would be “fruitful,” and that efforts would be undertaken at the talks in Iceland on October 11 and 12 to reach an “understanding” that would make the later summit meeting productive. In another development today, White House officials said the Administration envisioned a broad agenda for the Iceland meeting that went beyond arms control to include regional issues, such as Afghanistan and the Middle East, and human rights.
The Soviet Yankee-class submarine K-219 suffers an explosion off North Carolina, killing three of her crew, and is severely damaged. The submarine sinks three days later. The sub carried 16 R-27U liquid-fuel missiles powered by UDMH with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO). K-219 was involved in what has become one of the most controversial submarine incidents during the Cold War on 3 October 1986. The 15-year-old vessel, which was on an otherwise routine Cold War nuclear deterrence patrol in the North Atlantic 1,090 kilometers (680 miles) northeast of Bermuda, suffered an explosion and fire in a missile tube. While underway, a submerged seal in a missile hatch cover failed, allowing high-pressure seawater to enter the missile tube and owing to the pressure differential ruptured the missile fuel tanks, allowing the missile’s liquid fuel to mix and ultimately combust. Though there was no official announcement, the Soviet Union claimed the leak was caused by a collision with the submarine USS Augusta. Although Augusta was operating within the area, both the United States Navy and the commander of K-219, Captain Second Rank Igor Britanov, deny that a collision took place.
Fifteen young men were arrested at a downtown shopping center today as they demonstrated openly for the right of all Polish draftees to refuse military service on grounds of conscience. Meanwhile, Lech Walesa and three other leaders of the banned Solidarity movement said they had been summoned to report Saturday for police questioning about their role in a new Solidarity council composed of former fugitive leaders. The 15 men protesting military service were from the Freedom and Peace Organization, an illegal group of pacifists and conscientious objectors. They also called for the release of several of the group’s members, who remained in prison after 225 political prisoners were freed under a recent amnesty. The Government said today that the council formed this week by former underground Solidarity activists was illegal and that they risked imprisonment for their activities.
The State Department said today that Yugoslavia had arrested an American citizen for political activities conducted while the man was in the United States. The American, Pjeter Ivezaj, 30 years old, of Sterling Heights, Mich., was arrested while visiting relatives in Yugoslavia and charged with membership in a hostile organization and hostile activities against the state. The trial of Mr. Ivezaj, a technician, began today in Montenegro and was adjourned. Representative William Broomfield, Republican of Michigan, said Thursday that Mr. Ivezaj, was apparently imprisoned because he took part in a demonstration at the Yugoslav Embassy in Washington in 1981.
The re-election of Javier Perez de Cuellar as Secretary General is virtually assured, diplomats said today. The 159 members of the United Nations are expected to elect Mr. Perez de Cuellar, a 66-year-old Peruvian diplomat, to a second five-year term unanimously next Friday, they said. On Thursday, representatives of the five permanent members of the 15-nation Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union — met secretly with Mr. Perez de Cuellar to tell him officially that they would like him to stay on, according to diplomats and United Nations officials. “It’s in the bag,” a diplomats who attended the meeting said. “It’s a fait accompli.”
Pope John Paul II is scheduled to begin a four-day visit to France on Saturday, and the local authorities and the national Government have mounted what is said to be one of the most extensive security operations ever seen in this country. With tensions heightened by the recent terrorist attacks in Paris, some 10,000 local policemen, gendarmes and riot policemen will be on duty in Lyons and the nearby communities the Pope plans to visit. Charles Pasqua, the Minister of the Interior, who is charged with police and security matters, reportedly asked the Vatican to delay the Pope’s trip, his third to France, until the end of the Jewish High Holy Days. The Vatican reportedly refused, saying plans for the trip were too far along.
Fighting continued for a third day today between Shiite militiamen and defenders of three Palestinian districts in southern Lebanon. The fighting broke out two days ago, with an exchange of machine-gun fire and rocket-propelled grenades between fighters of the Shiite militia Amal and Palestinian guerrillas at Al Rashidiye, a Palestinian quarter in the port of Tyre. It has spread to two neighboring Palestinian districts, Al Buss and Burj al Shemali. Accounts by both sides said 4 people had been killed and 15 wounded. Each side accused the other of starting the violence. The Palestinians say Amal has besieged the three districts, which have 36,000 inhabitants.
The Reagan Administration said today that it was willing to have discussions with those holding the American hostages in Lebanon but that it would not yield to their demands. The Administration called on the captors to come forward and open talks either directly or through intermediaries. It said that despite appeals from the hostages that Washington negotiate for their release, the United States had been unable to establish any contact with the kidnappers.
Earlier today, Western news agencies in Beirut received a videotape in which two hostages appealed to the Administration to work as hard for their freedom as it did for that of the American journalist recently released by Moscow, Nicholas S. Daniloff. The hostages who made the appeal were Terry A. Anderson and David P. Jacobsen. Their statements prompted President Reagan to deny angrily that there was any comparison between the Daniloff case and that of the Americans being held in Lebanon.
The White House has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to find the source of a news report that the Administration organized an elaborate “disinformation” campaign that misled American reporters about Libya, Administration officials said today. The officials said the request was made to a special team of F.B.I. agents after publication of the report Thursday in The Washington Post. A senior White House official said today that the F.B.I. had also been asked to locate the source of an Aug. 25 article in The Wall Street Journal that was purportedly generated by the disinformation plan. The White House official said the disclosures this week had “hurt” the Administration’s credibility with news organizations and had also damaged the credibility of top Reagan aides.
The Arab League called on the U.N. Security Council today to seek an end to the Iran-Iraq war. Chedli Klibi, the Tunisian who is Secretary General of the 21-member Arab League, told the Council, “The mounting Iranian threats to launch a new extensive attack against Iraq endanger the security of the region.” Iran did not take part in the meeting. It has boycotted the Security Council since it passed a resolution calling for a cease-fire at a time, shortly after the war started, when Iraqi troops were on Iranian soil. Now, with Iran reportedly planning a major new offensive, there is nervousness among a number of Arab states that the war could be at a turning point at which it might spread to other countries. The meeting was requested by an Arab League committee seeking an end to the war. Its members include Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Morocco and Tunisia.
Unidentified gunmen kidnapped the Syrian charge d’affaires near his embassy in Tehran on Thursday, the Iranian radio reported today. Officials in Syria later reported that he had been freed. An Iranian exile group, the Mujaheddin Khalq organization, which opposes Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini of Iran, said several of the kidnappers wore uniforms of the Iranian revolutionary guards. In Damascus, a spokesman at the presidential palace said today that the envoy was “in hands other than the kidnappers” after the incident. The spokesman did not elaborate.
In the second major Indian security breach in two days, Sikh extremists slipped into a heavily guarded police compound in Punjab today and fired shots at the top police official in the state. In a related development, the police here raised the strong possibility today that, contrary to earlier reports, the gunman who shot at Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi on Thursday was a Sikh. In the attack this morning, the Punjab police director, Julius F. Rebeiro, escaped unharmed, but his wife was wounded and a police guard was killed. Officials were shaken that the extremists were able to get into the compound disguised as policemen and may have had police assistance in planning the attack. All six attackers escaped.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone apologized once more today for his recent offending remarks about ethnic minorities in the United States. This time, he expressed regrets not to Americans but to his own countrymen, saying he would not repeat the mistake and would “strive for self-discipline to recover the honor of the Japanese people.” It was the third time in two weeks that the Prime Minister had issued a public apology. First, it was for a Cabinet member’s insulting comments about Koreans, then twice for his own observation that blacks, Mexicans and Puerto Ricans had lowered American educational levels.
The Senate reversed itself today and approved $200 million in increased economic aid to the Philippine Government. The vote was 82 to 14. In two earlier attempts this week, the Senate rejected the aid increase to the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino by votes of 51 to 43 and 57 to 41. Approval of the aid was the second political victory this week for Senator Richard G. Lugar, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who bucked both President Reagan and the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, in leading the charge that overturned Mr. Reagan’s veto of economic sanctions against the South African Government.
The Reagan Administration today ordered a halt of all South African goods coming to the United States pending clarification by the Administration of how to enforce the economic sanctions enacted by Congress on Thursday. The sanctions cover both broad categories of South African exports and all products made by companies affiliated with the Pretoria Government. This afternoon the Treasury Department ordered Federal Customs officials at points of entry nationwide to stop all shipments from South Africa, pending issuance of a list identifying the companies whose products are banned under the legislation. They were told they could not release any goods except by orders from very senior Customs officials.
While laden with symbolism, the new United States sanctions against South Africa will not have much direct impact on South Africa’s economy, or on American corporations operating there. The sanctions, some of which took effect Thursday immediately after the Senate’s 78-to-21 vote to override President Reagan’s veto of the legislation, affect about 10 percent of South Africa’s trade with the United States and a much smaller portion of South Africa’s total external trade. The Treasury Department yesterday ordered Customs officials to halt all South African goods coming to the United States pending clarification by the Administration of how to enforce the sanctions. “It is not a question of South Africa’s economy being seriously affected,” Franklin C. Lubke, president of the American Chamber of Commerce in South Africa, said in a telephone interview from Johannesburg. But political and economic analysts said that the United States action could encourage Japan and the European Community to adopt sterner sanctions.
South Africans offered varying responses today to the imposition of United States trade sanctions, in a way that suggested the cleavages of a divided nation. Many black leaders hailed the move as a triumph for their crusade against apartheid, saying it placed the responsibility on South Africa’s white rulers to change its racial policies so as to escape the punitive measures. But the bulk of opinion among white political analysts was that the measures, affecting only a small part of the nation’s export trade, would nonetheless divert attention from social change, deepen the nation’s racial and political divisions and promote white chauvinism. ‘The Fault Lines Will Widen’ “This is another major step in the war of attrition” waged by outsiders against South Africa’s racial policies, said a white official of the Anglo American Corporation, the nation’s biggest conglomerate.
A weary Senate today approved a $557.6 billion bill to finance Government programs for 1987, including $1.54 billion to fight drugs, a measure that pushed spending above a limit approved earlier in the budget resolution for the year. The Senate approved the money for the drug program on a voice vote. The overall bill, which combines 13 appropriation bills, was then approved, 82 to 13. The Senate action today, if agreed to by the House, would allow the deficit for the fiscal year 1987, which began Wednesday, to increase to pay for the program. The House has approved a $2.1 billion drug program that makes cuts in military and nonmilitary programs to pay for the increase.
President Reagan places a call to Clare Boothe Luce, former diplomat, playwright, and former Member of Congress.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Ride the High Country.”
The Senate today passed legislation mandating a stepped-up campaign to rid the nation’s schools of asbestos and sent the bill to an uncertain future at the White House. The measure, approved on a voice vote, would require the Environmental Protection Agency to issue regulations directing states and local school districts to act against asbestos, a carcinogen, in about 30,000 schools attended by some 15 million children. The bill is a Congressional response to the E.P.A.’s current asbestos program, which does not require removal but requires that schools only be inspected and the community be alerted to the presence of asbestos.
The space shuttle faces a heavy schedule of military missions when it resumes flying in early 1988 but will soon cut back to the normal rate of military flights, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today. The schedule will also include a reduced percentage of commercial flights and a heavy percentage of flights for the space agency, primarily devoted to deploying the space station now under development and to major scientific missions. However, agency officials were unable to state whether scientific missions were increasing or decreasing under the new schedule. The first flight since the Challenger explosion grounded the shuttle fleet is now scheduled for Feb. 18, 1988, on the assumption that all will go well in redesigning the faulty rocket joints that caused the Jan. 28 disaster. The schedule issued today details the order of flights for the first three years and provides quarterly projections but no explicit flight dates for the next four years.
A strike by longshore workers that idled ports from Maine to Virginia this week was called off yesterday when the union agreed to return to work under extensions of the old contracts. Thomas W. Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, whose strike by some 30,000 dockworkers on Wednesday shut down operations at about a dozen ports, ordered workers to return to work immediately. He said the contracts would be extended until 11:59 PM on Nov. 17. Full-scale work was expected to resume Saturday, employers said.
The union representing 40,000 machinists for the Boeing Company voted today to reject a new contract, but union leaders asked workers to ignore a midnight strike deadline and both sides agreed to resume negotiations Saturday. A Federal mediator, Doug Hammond, said tonight that he had asked the two sides to meet at 10 AM Saturday at his Seattle office and that both sides had agreed. A strike deadline had been set for midnight tonight, but union leaders advised workers to ignore it, said Jack Daniels, a union negotiator.
Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, a Republican, went to court today to block an Ida County farm foreclosure, saying it was the first step in halting what he called criminal foreclosures by Federal lenders throughout Iowa. “I think it’s criminal for that system to foreclose on that farm and then turn around and sell it for 10 percent down at 10 percent interest,” Governor Branstad said at a news conference.
Police officials say the nation’s increased efforts to curtail marijuana smuggling and cultivation and a shift by many drug traffickers into the more profitable cocaine trade are causing a deepening shortage of marijuana around the country. As a result, they say, the price of marijuana has jumped by 50 percent or more in many cities over the last year. This comes amid heightened concern over drugs and reports that strains of marijuana are much stronger than they were in the 1960’s. At the same time, some investigators and drug counselors say the tight market for marijuana is causing many users, especially young people, to switch to cocaine and other substances that are cheaper and still plentiful. These include the hallucinogenic drug PCP, or angel dust, which can cause brain damage.
The Police Chief in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho said today that three members of the radical racist Church of Jesus Christ Christian (Aryan Nations) had been arrested on charges involving counterfeiting after the search of a house near here. Police Chief Frank Premo of Coeur d’Alene, at a news confernce, made it clear that the charges against the three not involve participation in a series of bombings in this resort town. But the Kootenai County Prosecutor, Glen Walker, according to United Press International, said: “You can anticipate other charges will be filed. It is broader than just the three people arrested.”
An Air Force helicopter rescued a Russian seaman floating in a life raft in the Atlantic Ocean today after he was seen by chance from an Air Force cargo plane, the Defense Department said. The seaman, who was not identified, was taken by helicopter to a naval hospital at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, where he was being interviewed by State Department officials, the Pentagon added.
Reversing three months of improvement, the nation’s unemployment rate climbed two-tenths of a percentage point in September, to 6.9 percent, the Labor Department reported today. The latest figures, the first major gauge of how the economy performed last month, were regarded by most private analysts as quite disappointing and an indication that there might have been only the skimpiest late-summer pickup in business activity. The number of workers on nonfarm payrolls rose half as much as had been expected and manufacturing employment resumed its downward trend after showing signs of stability. “It was a bad report, certainly worse than we were expecting,” said Gordon B. Pye, chief economist for the Irving Trust Company. He said the most distressing element was the loss of another 38,000 jobs in manufacturing.
Chicago suburbanites heeded warnings of flooding by stacking sandbags around their houses as more rain extended the weekslong deluge in the Middle West.
Terry Sanford has toughened his effort to win the Senate seat from North Carolina held since July by James T. Broyhill, a conservative Republican. Mr. Sanford, a moderate Democrat, angrily called Senator Broyhill “no friend of education.”
One of three Marines arrested for burglarizing Southern Pacific trains has also admitted causing a $3.5 million derailment near Palm Springs in August, the railroad police said today. The three privates were arrested September 27 while following a train they admitted burglarizing earlier the same night.
Five Yale undergraduates were suspended for the semester today for participating in an anti-apartheid sit-in at the school’s investment office last month. The suspensions were ordered by the Yale University Executive Committee, a disciplinary body whose voting members are students and faculty.
A Kentucky grand jury has indicted eight people in connection with the sexual abuse of 17 children who investigators say were burned, beaten, sodomized and raped by relatives. The children range in age from 9 months to 11 years old, said A. C. Cantrell, a detective with the Kentucky State Police. They belong to five related families in Magoffin County in eastern Kentucky. No arrests had been made as of this afternoon. The indictments were returned Thursday. Charged in the indictments were: Herbert Gipson and his wife, Gracie, of Masons Creek; Willie Gipson Jr. and his wife, Merlene, of Hendricks; Kernie Gipson and his wife, Grindle, of Hendricks; William Gipson of Hendricks, and Anna Faye Risner of Hendricks.
Eight military policewomen stationed at West Point have been discharged from the Army for what officials said were homosexual activities, the United States Military Academy said today. The women, who were not cadets, were “administratively discharged at various times during the summer,” as investigations were completed, according to Colonel John P. Yeagley, a West Point spokesman. Most of the women were young, about 20 years old, and had served less than a year, he said. “In some cases, they had arrived here only a month or two before the investigation began.”
As yet more rain prolonged the weekslong deluge of the Midwest and the Plains, suburbanites around Chicago heeded flood watches yesterday by stacking sandbags around their homes and Oklahomans braced for rapid flooding. “The demand for bags is incredible, but the people who really need them are getting them,” said Gregg Durham, spokesman for the Illinois Emergency Services and Disaster Agency. Torrential rains overnight sent streams over their banks from Oklahoma and eastern Kansas to northern Illinois and Michigan, closing roads and highways, the authorities said. More than 15,000 people have been evacuated in the region, and in northeastern Oklahoma the authorities said up to 10,000 more people might have to be evacuated after floodgates were opened at two swollen lakes.
TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at Chalk River Laboratories, officially opens.
Major League Baseball:
Vince DiMaggio, the oldest of the baseball-playing DiMaggio brothers, died today at his home in North Hollywood, California. He was 74 years old.
Baltimore loses to Detroit 6–3, assuring the Orioles of their first last-place finish since moving from St. Louis in 1954. Kirk Gibson drove in four runs with two homers and two singles in five trips, and Lou Whitaker added a solo homer, as the Tigers defeated the Orioles. The victory clinched at least a fourth-place finish for Detroit in the American League East.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the San Diego Padres, 6–3. The Reds clinched a second-place finish in the National League West on the eight-strikeout pitching of Ted Power. Four errors by the Padres contributed to the victory. Power, 10–6, gave up 10 hits. Padres’ starter Ed Wajna, 2–2, took the loss. A double by the Reds’ Tony Perez gave him 1,651 runs batted in for his career. Perez is 14th on the all-time RBI list.
The Cleveland Indians nipped the Seattle Mariners, 6–5. Chris Bando singled home the winning run with one out in the ninth inning to give the Cleveland Indians a victory. Mike Trujillo, 3–2, gave up a one-out single to Pat Tabler and Brook Jacoby singled Tabler to third. Bando then dropped a broken-bat hit into short left field to hand the Mariners their seventh consecutive defeat.
The Houston Astros topped the Atlanta Braves, 6–2. Glenn Davis hit his 31st home run and drove in his 100th run, and Nolan Ryan scattered five hits over seven innings to lead the Astros. Davis’ two-run fifth-inning homer drove in Denny Walling and made Davis the first Astro since Bob Watson in 1977 to drive in 100 or more runs in a season. Ryan, 12–8, retired the Braves in order for four innings, before Bob Horner led off the fifth with his 27th homer. Ryan struck out six and walked one. Jim Acker, 5–8, gave up five runs on eight hits over seven innings.
Rookie Kelly Downs pitched a seven-hitter for his first complete game in the major leagues as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers 8–2 tonight. Downs, 4–4, struck out seven and walked one for his fourth consecutive victory. He held Los Angeles to one hit through the first five innings and lost his shutout in the seventh on rookie Ralph Bryant’s leadoff homer to center field, his sixth of the year. Bob Welch, 7–13, suffered only his third loss to the Giants in 20 career decisions. The Dodger right-hander, who surrendered eight runs and 11 hits in 5 ⅓ innings, fell behind 4–0 before retiring a batter. Mike Woodard, who had three of the Giants’ 16 hits, singled, stole second and scored on a single by Will Clark. Mike Aldrete and Candy Maldonado, who also had three hits, followed with run-scoring doubles and shortstop Mariano Duncan’s fielding error allowed Maldonado to score. The Dodgers scored a run in the eighth on an RBI single by Steve Sax. The victory, their 82nd, assured the Giants of becoming the eighth team since 1900 to rebound from a 100-loss season with a winning record.
At the Metrodome, the Twins hit 3 homers, including a grand slam by Steve Lombardozzi, to beat the White Sox, 9–2. Mike Smithson’s four-hit pitching over eight innings sparked the Twins. Smithson, 13–14, struck out seven and walked two before giving way to Mark Portugal in the ninth.
The Kansas City Royals defeated the Oakland Athletics, 8–4. Charlie Leibrandt and Dan Quisenberry combined on an eight-hitter and Jamie Quirk and Frank White homered to lead the Royals. Leibrandt, 14–11, scattered six hits, struck out seven and walked two in 8 innings.
The Montreal Expos edged the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–5. Al Newman’s one-out double in the ninth inning scored Dann Bilardello with the winning run as the Montreal Expos defeated the Philadelphia Phillies. After reliever Kent Tekulve, 11–5, struck out pinch-hitter George Wright to open the inning, Bilardello, who earlier had hit a three-run homer, doubled to left. Newman followed with a drive to left-center. Reliever Andy McGaffigan, 10–5, allowed one hit in 23 innings. Randy St.Claire finished up for his first major league save.
Bobby Witt and Jeff Kunkel, two of the Texas Rangers’ youth squad, turned in key performances to lead the Rangers to a 6–1 decision over the California Angels tonight. Witt, 11–9, scattered three hits over five innings to gain his seventh straight victory. Witt hasn’t lost since July 21 and the Angels are 12–0 in his 12 starts since then. Kunkel, meanwhile, hit his first major league home run in over two years. Witt said when his record sank to 4–9 earlier in the season, “me and the boss (Manager Bobby Valentine) had a talk. There was talk of me going to the bullpen. I knew I had to get my act together.” Valentine said the difference for Witt, who has not lost a decision since July 21, is that “he gets his breaking ball over and is not getting into trouble early.” Kunkel’s homer, his first in the majors since August 28, 1984, came in the third inning off Angels starter Kirk McCaskill, 17–10, who struck out eight, including five in a row.
The Milwaukee Brewers set back the Toronto Blue Jays 4–1. Bill Wegman won his first game since August 20, combining with two relief pitchers on a four-hitter, and Rick Manning hit a solo homer to lead the Milwaukee Brewers. Making his first start in two weeks, Wegman, 5–12, allowed only three hits, including Jesse Barfield’s 40th major league-leading homer in the seventh which sent him to the showers. Relievers John Henry Johnson and Dan Plesac finished up, the latter posting his 14th save.
The scheduled game between the St. Louis Cardinals and the Cubs at Chicago was cancelled due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
The scheduled game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Mets at New York was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Red Sox at Boston was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
Detroit Tigers 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
San Diego Padres 3, Cincinnati Reds 6
Seattle Mariners 5, Cleveland Indians 6
Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 6
San Francisco Giants 8, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Chicago White Sox 2, Minnesota Twins 9
Kansas City Royals 8, Oakland Athletics 4
Montreal Expos 6, Philadelphia Phillies 5
California Angels 1, Texas Rangers 6
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Toronto Blue Jays 1
After whittling away a big first-hour gain, Wall Street saw stock prices close modestly lower yesterday, when investors again became nervous about the economy. “There’s tremendous confusion concerning the likely course of the economy,” said Donald Trott, a market analyst with Mabon, Nugent & Company. “People are waiting for some sort of consensus.” The Dow Jones industrial average rose 18 points early yesterday, but by the close it had a loss for the session of 7.03, to 1,774.18. For the week, the Dow gained 4.49 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1774.18 (-7.03)
Born:
Kyle Nelson, NFL long snapper (San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, San Francisco 49ers, Indianapolis Colts), in Norman, Oklahoma.
Michel Larocque, German-born Canadian NHL goaltender (Chicago Blackhawks), in Lahr, Baden-Württemberg, West Germany.
Joonas Suotamo, Finnish basketball player and actor (Chewbacca in “Star Wars”), in Espoo, Finland.
Died:
Vince DiMaggio, 74, MLB centerfielder (MLB All Star 1943-44; Pittsburgh Pirates), brother of Joe DiMaggio.
