The Reagan Administration has been considering whether to move up the date when the United States will exceed a limit in the 1979 strategic arms treaty, according to Administration officials and Congressional experts. Administration officials declined in interviews to discuss the deliberations in detail or to say how they could be influenced by President Reagan’s meetings next weekend with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. The United States will exceed a treaty limit when it equips a 131st bomber with cruise missiles, unless other systems are dismantled. Administration officials said consideration had been given in recent weeks to carrying out that action as soon as November 11, rather than in late December. They said the decision would turn on policy considerations rather than technical reasons.
A Soviet nuclear submarine, apparently crippled by a fire and explosion on Friday, was being towed by a Soviet merchant ship tonight toward the Soviet Union, the Defense Department said. Pentagon spokesmen said that the latest reports from Navy P-3 Orion reconnaissance planes, flying over the stricken submarine 1,200 miles east of New York, indicated that the submarine tried twice to move under her own power. But at about 5 PM, the spokesman said, she gave up the effort and was put under tow from a merchant ship, the Krasnogvardeysk. However, journalists who flew over the stricken vessel on a flight from Bermuda today at 5:30 PM said they could see no sign that the submarine was under tow. The journalists said that the submarine, which was heading east, was flanked by two large vessels and that what appeared to be a trawler was astern of the craft. They said there was no vessel in front of her, which apparently ruled out the possibility that she was under tow. The journalists also said they could see no sign of a fire aboard the submarine. Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger told reporters aboard his plane, flying from Alaska to Japan, that reconnaissance photos show that “the force of the explosion was very, very great” and also show “a lot of damage.”
Nuclear-powered Soviet submarines like the one that caught fire on Friday have reactors with less protective shielding than their Western counterparts, and Soviet operators have less training, according to American submarine experts with access to intelligence information. The lower amount of heavy steel and lead shielding to contain radiation is aimed at saving weight, to give the Soviet attack submarines more speed, the submarine experts said yesterday. Partly as a result, the Soviet subs are generally faster than American subs, they added. They can also carry more weapons.
European political figures and commentators, assessing the latest twists in Soviet-American relations, have emphasized hopes for easing tensions. “Their very agreement to meet is evidence that a large measure of agreement has been reached,” said John Keegan, the military correspondent of The Daily Telegraph in London, forecasting an accord on the reduction of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe. The Guardian, a newspaper normally a bit to the left of center in British politics, suggested that such a reduction could be “on a quite drastic scale.” The newspaper said in an editorial Thursday, “When all is said and done, both sides actively want and will make sacrifices to achieve a tangible result.”
Nicholas S. Daniloff said today that he had been unwittingly caught up in a complex intelligence confrontation in Moscow between the Central Intelligence Agency and the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence and secret police agency. Mr. Daniloff said he fell into a situation he still does not fully understand when he delivered to the American Embassy in 1985 an unsolicited letter from a bogus priest who he thinks was probably a K.G.B. agent. The embassy’s efforts to follow up the letter, he said in an interview, included two communications with the priest that mentioned Mr. Daniloff indirectly, apparently giving the Soviet authorities the impression that he was involved in American espionage. He said the K.G.B. was planning to present the incident as key evidence against him if he had gone to trial.
Yuri F. Orlov, the Soviet dissident freed from Siberia as part of an arrangement that led to the release of an American journalist in Moscow, arrived in New York with his wife yesterday. He said he was grateful for his freedom but sad for the land and the friends he left behind. “I left behind my homeland, my beloved culture, my language, my friends and dear ones,” Mr. Orlov, a red rose in his lapel, told a crush of reporters at Kennedy International Airport. “This, of course, is not easy. And maybe the hardest is that I left behind people who are still serving time. “I suppose I feel some guilt over this. Why am I here and they there?”
After three years of trying to isolate and punish Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s center-right Government, the Soviet Union has recently moved decisively to improve relations with West Germany. German officials and experts on the Soviet Union say this policy shift was partly dictated by the conviction in Moscow that Mr. Kohl’s coalition was likely to be re-elected in January and would therefore be a factor to deal with over the next four years. According to these political analysts, the policy of castigating Mr. Kohl for having deployed American medium-range missiles in West Germany had not worked and had also inhibited Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, from developing initiatives in Western Europe. “The Soviets clearly have decided to embark on a broader European policy designed to burnish their credentials and extend their influence in all of Europe,” a senior American diplomat said. “And a policy like that can’t get anywhere without including the Federal Republic.”
The Christian Democratic Union of West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl suffered losses in local elections in Lower Saxony but remained the nation’s strongest party in opinion polls. Computer projections for 30,000 seats on district, town and village councils in the state vote gave Kohl’s party 46.2%, the opposition Social Democrats 40.4%, the Free Democrats 5.4% and the radical Greens party 5.5%. The Christian Democratic total was down from 50.2% five years ago. General elections are set for Jan. 25, and national opinion polls show Kohl’s party with 46% support, compared to about 40% for the Social Democrats.
Iceland is bracing for the East-West summit meeting next weekend in Reykjavik, the seaside capital that is shadowed by snow-capped mountains. The Government took over four of the capital’s biggest hotels to house the delegations from Washington and Moscow.
The London Sunday Times reported that Israel is stockpiling nuclear arms. The British newspaper reported today that a former Israeli arms technician said that Israel had been building atomic weapons at a secret underground factory for 20 years. The Sunday Times said it was told by the former technician that Israel had stockpiled about 100 atomic weapons. If true, that would rank Israel sixth in nuclear weapons power behind the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China. Israel has denied it possesses nuclear weapons but has said it has the capacity to produce them quickly. The newspaper quoted the technician, identified as Mordechai Vanunu, as saying Israel has built warheads at the Dimona nuclear research site in the Negev desert for two decades.
Israeli warplanes attacked a Palestinian guerrilla base 12 miles north of Tripoli in Syrian-controlled northern Lebanon and scored accurate hits, the army command announced in Tel Aviv. Military sources said the targets included a two-story building that served as a headquarters for guerrillas of Syrian-backed rebel Palestinian groups. There was no official word on what prompted the raid or whether there were any casualties. The last Israeli air attack against guerrilla targets was made September 25 near a Palestinian refugee camp outside Sidon in south Lebanon.
Shia Muslim Amal militiamen shelled and machine-gunned a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon on the sixth day of an offensive aimed at preventing the Palestinians from rebuilding a base in the area. Security sources in the south said that after the announcement, only sporadic exchanges of machine-gun fire were reported in the refugee district, Rashidiye, which is southeast of the southern port of Tyre. As the battles raged, leaders from the two sides met at the office of Syrian Vice President Abdel-Halim Khaddam in Damascus, and they later announced a cease-fire. The announcement also said that an Amal-Palestinian delegation will be sent today to the south Lebanon camp of Rashidiyeh to monitor the situation.
Palestinian representatives announced today that the cease-fire would go into effect Monday morning, with Syrian observers supervising the truce along with officials of the rival factions. It would be the first deployment of Syrian observers in southern Lebanon.
OPEC oil ministers will begin an emergency meeting in Geneva today to seek a credible oil-price-support agreement. There were signs the 13 ministers might seek to roll over the current accord reached in August to win time to negotiate a permanent settlement.
The oil boom lured many Arab workers to the Persian Gulf, but the oil bust has prompted them to return home. The frustrated workers’ return could have grave consequences in the uneasy region, particularly for Egypt, which exported some two million of the three million expatriate workers.
Iranian planes bombed residential areas in the city of Kut today and artillery fire pounded neighborhoods in the port city of Basra, killing eight civilians and wounding 33, the Iraqi military command said. The command pledged retaliation. Iran said attacks on the two Iraqi cities were in reprisal for Iraqi raids on a sugar factory and a paper mill. Kut, 125 miles southeast of Baghdad on the main north-south highway, was hit by two Iranian fighter jets, the military command said in a communique read over state-run television. It said the dead included three children, two women and a man, and that 12 houses were destroyed and an elementary school and seven cars were damaged. The communique said two civilians were killed in Basra.
Defense ministers from the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, made up of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman, ended two days of secret talks today on a collective defense strategy against stepped-up attacks by Iran on their vital sea lanes.
The Sri Lankan Government said today that 10 militants were killed in its weeklong offensive against Tamil guerrillas in eastern Sri Lanka, that 18 were captured and that a large cache of ammunition was recovered. More than 1,000 soldiers, backed by helicopters and airplanes, mounted the drive in Sambaltivu, about 145 miles northeast of Colombo, a communique said.
The Chinese Communist Party leader, Hu Yaobang, said today that Communist countries should seek peaceful coexistence with capitalist countries, the official New China News Agency reported. In a meeting with the Yugoslav Defense Minister, Branko Mamula, Mr. Hu said Communist nations should strive for better relations with the capitalist world, and that a relaxation of tensions was possible if correct foreign policies were followed.
Philippine government forces. and Communist rebels have agreed on a cease-fire in Quezon province to clear the way for talks on freeing two soldiers held by guerrillas for two weeks. The truce, starting today, will cover 18 towns and more than 300,000 people in the area, 80 miles southeast of Manila. The two soldiers, Lieutenant Romeo Gan and Sgt. Dominador Causapin, were captured in a guerrilla raid Sept. 22. The Quezon truce is independent of efforts for a nationwide cease-fire.
The Ugandan government has detained former Vice President Paulo Muwanga, two Cabinet ministers and a newspaper editor on subversion charges, the state-owned radio reported. Critics had charged that Muwanga rigged the election that brought Milton Obote to power in 1980 after the overthrow of dictator Idi Amin. Obote was ousted in 1985 by a military regime, and Muwanga served briefly in that government before it was driven out last January by the current leader, Yoweri Museveni. The arrested Cabinet members are Energy Minister Andrew Kayiira and Environmental Protection Minister David Lwanga.
Desmond Tutu, who was enthroned last month as Archbishop of Cape Town, installed a white clergyman, the Very Rev. George D. Buchanan, as Anglican bishop of Johannesburg, the position Tutu previously held. Echoing Tutu’s anti-apartheid views, Buchanan told the congregation at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Johannesburg after his installation that few people know one another across race lines in South Africa and that the church must work to overcome such divisions. Buchanan, born in South Africa, obtained a master of divinity degree at England’s Oxford University in 1960. He served as a deacon in Canterbury Cathedral and as a priest in New York before returning to his native country.
With a new Chief Justice and a new member, the Supreme Court will begin its 1986-87 term Monday facing issues that include racial disparities in death sentencing and the constitutionality of teaching creationism in public schools. Job discrimination and the use of affirmative action as a remedy are among the contentious issues posed by the 91 cases the ideologically polarized High Court has agreed to hear in the coming months. One of the employment cases, on whether Federal law bars granting special benefits to pregnant employees, has caused a deep split among feminists. Another involves discrimination against people with such diseases as tuberculosis and AIDS. The Reagan Administration has filed briefs in these and other cases in support of its conservative civil rights policies. It has opposed broad affirmative action plans, special benefits for pregnant employees and the use of Federal law to combat discrimination against people infected with the virus that can cause acquired immune deficiency syndrome.
The President and First Lady host an afternoon concert by Mr. Horowitz. The President and First Lady host a reception for guests attending the afternoon concert. Leading figures in music and politics went to the White House this afternoon for the first United States piano recital of Vladimir Horowitz since his triumphant tour of the Soviet Union, Europe and Japan this year. As a bonus, they heard an unscheduled performance by the violinist Itzhak Perlman and the cellist Yo-Yo Ma, who were in the audience. Mr. Horowitz is seldom upstaged, but that happened during the post-recital speech by the President. Just as Mr. Reagan was describing Mr. Horowitz’s harsh life in Russia after its revolution, Mrs. Reagan, seated near the edge of the foot-high temporary platform next to Mr. Horowitz in the East Room, shifted her position while adjusting her white wool skirt and toppled with her chair to the floor.
As Republican Congressional candidates around the country this year attack their opponents as free-spending “Tip O’Neill liberals,” Democrats are resorting to a variety of tactics to shed that label. In Utah’s Second Congressional District, for example, Wayne Owens runs a television commercial in which a neighbor cheerily calls the Democratic candidate “cheap.” Representative Les AuCoin, an Oregon Democrat, has a television advertisement showing his son washing the car while complaining about his father’s thriftiness. Tom McMillen, a professional basketball player who is running in Maryland’s Fourth District, talks about his cellular telephone company and describes himself as a “tall small-businessman.” This cheaper-than-thou battle is one of the more popular themes showing up in many House campaigns this fall. In an era of tight budgets and rising deficits, candidates sometimes sound like they are running for accountant, not Congressman.
Thousands of people began returning to waterlogged homes today as the waters receded after some of the worst flooding ever recorded in northeastern Oklahoma. Many of the 15,000 residents of Tulsa and nearby communities like Jenks, Bixby, and Bartlesville who were evacuated in the last few days returned to their homes today. But local officials said some areas could remain flooded for several days. Red Cross officials, who provided shelter for 1,500 people Saturday night, were keeping 17 shelters open for those who still needed aid. Attention turned today to the areas downstream from Tulsa where the Arkansas, Grand and Verdigris Rivers intersect. The waters are expected to crest at 41 feet, or six feet above flood stage, on Monday morning.
Flooding on tributaries is pushing the Mississippi River to record and near-record crests, but the threat will diminish this week, experts said. The Mississippi is expected to crest at 40.5 to 41 feet. The highest crest on record was 43.2 feet in April 1973. In St. Louis the Mississippi is expected to crest at 10 to 11 feet above flood stage Tuesday, said an Army Corps of Engineers spokesman, Ken Kruchowski. He said no major damage was expected.
For the Congressional Black Caucus, its five-day legislative conference that lasted through today was a time to reflect upon and to celebrate legislative and personal achievements. Since its founding in 1970, the caucus has gained stature and strength from its longevity and from key appointments to House committees. And one of its most important legislative victories came just Thursday, when the Senate voted to override President Reagan’s veto of legislation imposing sanctions on South Africa.
Negotiators for the Boeing Company and 40,000 machinists returned to the bargaining table with a Federal mediator today under the terms of an agreement Saturday that delayed a strike. The mediator, Doug Hammond, negotiated the agreement, which extends the old contract day to day. A new contract would be retroactive to October 4, the day after the old contract expired, Mr. Hammond said. A retroactive agreement would encourage workers not to take matters into their own hands, such as staging wildcat strikes, he said.
Air Cadets hailed Joseph Heller at the Air Force Academy a weekend celebration on the 25th anniversary of the publication of “Catch-22,” his novel that captured the insanity of war and the human condition. The students repeatedly applauded Mr. Heller and plied him with questions about the novel.
About 19% of all juvenile detentions in 1985 involved murder, rape, robbery or aggravated assault, the Justice Department’s Bureau of Statistics reported. The study found that more than 90% of the approximately 49,000 juveniles in public facilities as of February 1, 1985, were accused of acts that would be criminal if committed by adults. The rest were runaways or in state care because they were neglected or abused. The report said that the number of juvenile detainees rose about 1% from 1983 until 1985, but the rate of confinement increased by 5%, to 185 of every 100,000 juveniles in the general population.
A company can legally dismiss an employee for reporting violations of Federal safety statutes to the Government, the National Labor Relations Board said in a ruling released today. The board upheld its 1984 decision dismissing a complaint by a nonunion Michigan truck driver who asserted he was dismissed in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act for arranging an inspection of his rig after it was involved in an accident because of malfunctioning brakes. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia last year ordered the board to reconsider the case. In its new ruling, which officials of the board said would probably be appealed to the Supreme Court, the board said the truck driver, Kenneth P. Prill, was not protected from being dismissed by Meyers Industries of Tecumseh, Michigan, because he took the action on his own and did not try to enlist the support of other co-workers.
A Bahamian whose boat was damaged in a storm survived on rainwater, raw fish and two cans of beer for six weeks until fishermen spotted him in the Atlantic. Nelson McIntosh, 27, of Shrub Key, Bahamas, had lost 100 pounds and weighed about 80 pounds when rescued, said Dr. Dale R. Lackey, an anesthesiologist who spotted the man about 100 miles northeast of Savannah, Georgia. McIntosh was admitted to Charleston (South Carolina) County Hospital, where he was being treated for malnutrition, dehydration and hypothermia.
A Miami woman and five children died in an apartment fire today after flames blocked the doorway and bars on the windows prevented escape, officials said. The fire, which apparently started in a pan warming on a stove, was Miami’s worst residential blaze in 20 years, officials said. Firefighters found all but one of the victims huddled in a bathroom, said a Fire Department spokesman, Christy Hickman. They were identified as Peggy Williams, 36 years old, her three sons, Freddy, 14, Brad, 12, and Terry, 10; her daughter Risa, also 10, and Chris Rogers, 10 months. The woman’s husband, Frank, and another daughter, Sharon, 12, escaped before the flames blocked the doorway. The department spokesman said the bars complied with a city ordinance, which says windows may be barred if they are near an exit. “Unfortunately, it was the only exit,” she said.
Former auto magnate John Z. DeLorean, 61, goes on trial today in U.S. District Court in Detroit on 15 federal charges, including racketeering and wire and tax fraud. The indictment accuses DeLorean of swindling investors in a complicated international money-laundering scheme. Up to $18 million in research and development funds is unaccounted for, the indictment charges. Two years ago, DeLorean was acquitted of cocaine smuggling in a federal court trial in Los Angeles, partly because the jury believed he was set up by the government. Los Angeles attorney Howard Weitzman said the Detroit case is the government’s revenge for failing to convict DeLorean.
The Drug Enforcement Administration is seizing so many assets from drug traffickers that it is taking in more cash and property than it spends in its annual budget. “We are seizing more than $1 million every day, and that has to hurt the drug traffickers,” DEA Administrator John C. Lawn said in Washington. For the fiscal year that ended at midnight last Tuesday, Lawn said DEA seized $373 million in assets. That compares with an annual budget of $363 million. Al Coward, chief of DEA’s financial intelligence section, said the seizures have ranged from a log cabin in Maine to $7 million in cash buried in Pennsylvania sewer pipes.
Fundamentalists who claim public schools are teaching students a godless religion take their case to the U.S. District Court in Mobile, Alabama, today in a bid to have secular humanism purged from textbooks and curricula. Conservative Christian parents in south Alabama contend that if schools are prohibited from teaching Christianity, Judaism and other religions, they also should be prevented from teaching a religion that sees man as accountable only to mankind. The suit seeks to have 39 social studies and history texts and seven home economics books purged from the Mobile County School system.
Tall children tend to do better on intelligence tests than short children, according to an article in the October issue of Pediatrics, published in Chicago. “We found a small but significant association between relative height and IQ scores,” said Dr. Darrell Wilson, who headed the Stanford University study. “The effect was present in both boys and girls.” The findings, based on data gathered on thousands of children, don’t mean all tall children will do better on such tests, the researchers said. Wilson said it might have something to do with how children of differing heights are treated by adults.
Major League Baseball:
Matt Nokes, who homered earlier in the game, singled home the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning as the Detroit Tigers defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 6–3. Detroit ended the season with five consecutive victories. The Orioles finished last for the first time in their history, losing 42 of their final 56 games.
The New York Yankees blanked the Boston Red Sox, 7–0. Don Mattingly drove in three runs with a homer and double to lead the Yankees.
Jody Davis and Brian Dayett hit home runs and Guy Hoffman combined with rookie Drew Hall on a seven-hitter, leading the Chicago Cubs over the St. Louis Cardinals by a score of 8–1 in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader. The second game was canceled due to darkness.
The Reds manage just 3 hits off Andy Hawkins (8 Innings Pitched) as they lose to the Padres, 2–1. Hawkins, 10–8, allowed three singles as he earned his first victory since August 19. Eddie Milner drives in the only Cincy run, but he is held hitless, snapping his consecutive hitting streak of 20 games.
The Cleveland Indians beat the Seattle Mariners, 4–2. Brook Jacoby’s RBI single broke a seventh-inning tie and Tom Candiotti pitched his American League-leading 17th complete game as the Cleveland Indians gave the Seattle Mariners their ninth straight loss.
Houston believes in a team pitching concept. Bob Knepper, the pitching holdout for Houston the past few weeks, threw five perfect innings and led five Astros pitchers in a four-hitter Sunday in a 4–1 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Though his teammates had thrown six shutouts in their last 11 games, with a 1.38 earned-run average including Mike Scott’s division-clinching no-hitter, Knepper had one victory since August 15 and had given up 32 hits and 20 earned runs in his previous 19 ⅓ innings. With the National League Championship Series starting Wednesday, Knepper felt he had to cast his lot in the pitching alignment. “It was important for the club to see me pitch well here today,” said Knepper, 17–12, who retired the first 15 batters. Knepper, who tied the Houston record for most victories by a lefthander set in 1973 by Dave Roberts, combined with Danny Darwin, Jeff Calhoun, Carson City’s Charlie Kerfeld and Dave Smith for the victory. Knepper was not upset that he was taken out while he had a perfect game. “No, I expected it,” he said. “Personal achievements don’t mean anything when you’re going into a pennant playoff.” Jose Cruz hit a two-run double to lead Houston to its fifth straight victory, improving its record to 96–56, best in its history.
As Candy Maldonado came to bat in the top of the seventh inning Sunday, Mike Krukow was on second base remembering a prediction his teammate had made to him earlier in the season. “It was kind of eerie,” said Krukow, who became a 20-game winner for the first time in his major league career with a season-ending 11–2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. “Candy Maldonado three months ago told me, ‘You’re going to win your 20th game on the last day of the season and I’m going to hit a grand slam to clinch it.’ I swear to God.” Krukow drove in two runs with a single and a suicide squeeze bunt and Maldonado drove in six runs with two homers including a grand slam that capped a six-run seventh. “He didn’t let me forget it,” Krukow said. “He reminded me every step of the way. And this morning, before I went to Los Angeles, he said, ‘You’re going to win it there and I’m going to clinch it.’ And I’ll be doggone.” The victory made Krukow the second 20-game winner in the National League this season and the fifth in the majors.
Frank Viola pitched a two-hitter and Greg Gagne singled twice and scored two runs, leading the Minnesota Twins over the Chicago White Sox, 3–0.
Ron Darling (15–6) and Sid Fernandez combine to shut out the Pirates, 9–0. Ray Knight hits a 2-run homer, Gary Carter chips in a 3-run shot and Darryl Strawberry hits a grand slam to account for the scoring. The Mets (108–54) finish 21 ½ games ahead of the Phillies in the National League East.
At Oakland, Curt Young missed out on a perfect game by a step Sunday. Still, he was happy the way his year ended. Young, who spent the first month of the season in the minors, pitched a one-hitter as the Oakland A’s beat the Kansas City Royals 6–0. The only batter to get on base against Young was Kevin Seitzer, who reached on an infield hit with two outs in the seventh inning. Seitzer hit a chopper to third baseman Carney Lansford, and beat the throw by one step. “I knew it was a hit, unless he falls down,” Young said. “The game’s the most important thing, and we were leading at the time. It didn’t break my heart and I didn’t lose any interest after that.” Seitzer said that when he hit the ball, “I thought it was foul.” “I just took off running. I really had no idea where the ball was. I kind of feel sorry for him.” Lansford said he knew it would be nearly impossible to throw out Seitzer because the ball held up so long in the air. “The ball was hit and there was no chance, it was so high,” he said. “It was not a good feeling. I was helpless.” But Young was all smiles after the game, content with his 13–9 record that led the Oakland staff in victories.
Luis Aguayo scored on Dann Bilardello’s passed ball in the 10th inning, leading the Philadelphia Phillies over the Montreal Expos, 2–1. Aguayo led off the 10th with a single off Curt Brown, 0–1, and moved to third on sacrifices by Milt Thompson and Jeff Stone. With Rick Schu at the plate, Bilardello allowed Brown’s pitch to get beyond him.
Pete Incaviglia hit a two-run homer as the Texas Rangers defeated the California Angels, 7–4.
The Milwaukee Brewers swept two from the Toronto Blue Jays, winning 2–1 and 4–3. Dale Sveum singled home the tie-breaking run with two outs in the ninth inning of the second game, giving the Milwaukee Brewers a victory over the Toronto Blue Jays and a sweep of their doubleheader. In the first game, Robin Yount’s two-out single in the eighth scored Jim Gantner from second base for a victory.
Detroit Tigers 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
New York Yankees 7, Boston Red Sox 0
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Chicago Cubs 8
San Diego Padres 2, Cincinnati Reds 1
Seattle Mariners 2, Cleveland Indians 4
Atlanta Braves 1, Houston Astros 4
San Francisco Giants 11, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Chicago White Sox 0, Minnesota Twins 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, New York Mets 9
Kansas City Royals 0, Oakland Athletics 6
Montreal Expos 1, Philadelphia Phillies 2
California Angels 4, Texas Rangers 7
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Toronto Blue Jays 1
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Toronto Blue Jays 3
NFL Football:
The Buffalo Bills had 12 players on the field, one too many, but not one of them covered Mickey Shuler, the New York Jets’ tight end, as he ran alone toward the Buffalo goal line. Up the field, Shuler’s quarterback, Ken O’Brien, let fly with his 39th pass of the day. Shuler caught that pass and went on to the Bills’ end zone for a 36-yard touchdown play with 57 seconds left on the game clock. Pat Leahy kicked for the conversion point and the Jets won today, 14–13. Deservedly? Not according to Jim Kelly, the Buffalo quarterback.
The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Green Bay Packers, 34–28. Boomer Esiason threw two touchdown passes and James Brooks ran for two scores in a 27-point second quarter for Cincinnati (3–2). Esiason, who was intercepted four times last Sunday, completed 15 of 24 passes for 207 yards against the Packers (0–5), including scoring throws of 13, 7 and 15 yards. James Lofton, the Green Bay wide receiver who is in his ninth season, caught seven passes to pass Don Hutson on the team’s career receiving list with 490 receptions.
The Cleveland Browns edged the Pittsburgh Steelers, 27–24. Ernest Byner ran 4 yards for the deciding touchdown following a fourth-quarter Pittsburgh fumble as Cleveland (3–2) won in Pittsburgh for the first time since 1969. Cleveland had never won at Three Rivers Stadium, which opened in 1970. Gerald McNeil scored on a 100-yard kickoff return and the Browns withstood three fumbles that led to Pittsburgh (1–4) scores. The Steelers are off to their worst start in a decade.
John Elway threw three touchdown passes, Gerald Willhite scored three times and Karl Mecklenburg and Rulon Jones led a dominating defense today as the unbeaten Denver Broncos erupted for 22 second-quarter points and defeated the Dallas Cowboys, 29–14. Two of Willhite’s touchdowns came on passes from Elway and the third was on a 1-yard leap set up by a 50-yard completion from Elway to Mark Jackson. Elway, who completed 12 of 24 passes for 200 yards, also threw a 12-yard pass to Gene Lang for the final score in the fourth period as Denver raised its record to 5–0 and remained one of the National Football League’s three unbeaten teams. The Chicago Bears and the Washington Redskins are also 5–0.
The Detroit Lions triumphed over the Houston Oilers, 24–13. James Jones ran for 76 yards and two touchdowns as Detroit (2–3) won despite a career-high 398 yards passing by Warren Moon, the Houston quarterback. The Lions ended a three game losing streak and handed the Oilers (1–4) their fourth straight loss. Moon completed 21 of 38 pass attempts, including 5 for 155 yards to Ernest Givins and an 81-yard touchdown pass to Drew Hill. But he was intercepted three times.
The San Francisco 49ers defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 35–14. Jeff Kemp’s three second-half touchdown passes to Jerry Rice brought San Francisco (4–1) back from a sluggish start. The 49ers gave up a long scoring drive and an 84-yard touchdown pass from Jack Trudeau to Bill Brooks in the second quarter, but they shut down the Colts (0–5) in the second half. San Francisco turned four Indianapolis turnovers into touchdowns.
The Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Kansas City Chiefs, 24–17. Jim Plunkett threw the go-ahead touchdown pass as Los Angeles (2–3), helped by a “communications breakdown” when the video replay official tried to disallow an earlier score, rallied for the victory. An announcement in the press box during the game said that Jack Reader, the official in the video replay booth, had ruled that Dokie Williams was out of bounds on a 12-yard touchdown pass from Marc Wilson in the second period. But Umpire Jim Keck “had a communications breakdown” with the booth and mistakenly let the play stand, the announcement said. “Apparently, the message was ‘Pass incomplete’ and I heard ‘Pass is complete,’ ” said Keck. “I repeated it back and then our communication broke down. . . . I did not hear any further attempt to get back to me.” Keck then told the Raiders to attempt the extra point and the touchdown stood. Williams’s score was the first of three unanswered Los Angeles touchdowns as the Raiders erased a 17–0 deficit. The Chiefs (3–2) scored all their points on their first three possessions. In the opening minutes of the third period, Napoleon McCallum, playing in place of the injured Marcus Allen, scored on a 12-yard run to cut the Chiefs’ lead to 17–14. Plunkett, who came off the bench when Wilson suffered a hand injury later in the third quarter, put the Raiders on top with an 18-yard touchdown pass to Jessie Hester.
Tony Eason threw two touchdown passes as the New England Patriots scored on five of their six first-half possessions today and routed the Miami Dolphins, 34–7. Dan Marino, the Miami quarterback, was intercepted three times. Last week, he threw a career-high four interceptions. New England, which led by 27–0 at halftime, ended a two-game losing streak and improved to 3–2. Miami suffered its third straight loss and is 1–4, its worst start since Don Shula became coach in 1970.
Jim McMahon’s 58-yard touchdown pass to Keith Ortego early in the fourth quarter helped the undefeated Chicago Bears gain a 23–0 victory over the Minnesota Vikings today. McMahon and Ortego also combined on a 49-yard pass in the second quarter that set up a 2-yard touchdown run by Walter Payton. Kevin Butler kicked three field goals for Chicago. The shutout was the Bears’ first since they posted two in last season’s playoffs. Chicago is now 5–0; Minnesota is 3–2. The game marked the first time the Vikings had been shut out since October 19, 1980, when they lost to Cincinnati, 14–0. The Vikings came into the game having allowed 37 points, the fewest in the National Football League. But the Bears’ defense prevailed by intercepting two Tommy Kramer passes and sacking the Viking quarterback seven times.
If you like punts, it was a great game. Between them, the Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals punted 17 times. Throw in four field goals, two by each side, and it’s a wonder anybody won. The Giants prevailed, 13–6, today, on the strength of a 1-yard touchdown plunge by Joe Morris early in the third period. But all things considered, it wasn’t the kind of performance by the Giants that would crank up Super Bowl fantasies.
The Philadelphia Eagles blanked the Atlanta Falcons, 16–0. Junior Tautalatasi and Ron Johnson turned short passes into long gains that set up two scores as Philadelphia (2–3) handed Atlanta (4–1) its first loss. The defeat ended the Falcons’ six-game winning streak over two seasons. With 4:12 left in the first half, the Eagles broke a scoreless tie on Ron Jaworski’s 8-yard pass to Mike Quick, who made a diving one-handed catch in the right corner of the end zone. The score was set up when Tautalatasi ran 56 yards to the Atlanta 18 after taking a short pass from Jaworski and breaking two tackles along the way. Johnson raced 39 yards to the Atlanta 26 after his short reception from Jaworski to set up Paul McFadden’s 31-yard field goal that gave the Eagles a 10–0 lead two seconds before halftime. McFadden kicked two more field goals in the second half. David Archer, the Atlanta quarterback, had been sacked only nine times in the first four games but was dumped seven times Sunday. The Falcons played most of the final three quarters without their leading rusher, Gerald Riggs, who was sidelined in the second period with a head injury.
Los Angeles Rams’ running back Eric Dickerson runs for an NFL overtime record 42-yard touchdown as the Los Angeles Rams defeat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers 26–20 at Anaheim Stadium. Dickerson ran for his second touchdown of the game 2:16 into overtime to give Los Angeles (4–1) the victory. Dickerson, the league’s leading rusher, ran for 207 yards on 30 carries, including 105 in the first quarter. He also scored on a 40-yard run in the opening quarter. After the Rams took the kickoff opening the overtime at their 27-yardline, Steve Dils completed a 16-yard pass to Ron Brown, moving the ball to Tampa Bay’s 42. Dickerson then burst through the middle and raced into the end zone to hand the Bucs (1–4) their second overtime loss in a row. Donald Igwebuike of Tampa Bay had kicked a 37-yard field goal as time expired in the fourth quarter to force the overtime period.
The Washington Redskins beat the New Orleans Saints, 14–6. Washington (5–0) remained undefeated as George Rogers pounded his former teammates for 110 yards and a touchdown. Rogers, who scored on a 4-yard run in the first quarter, was traded by New Orleans to the Redskins last year. Jay Schroeder hit Art Monk with a 2-yard scoring pass in the second quarter for Washington’s other touchdown. New Orleans (1–4) scored on a pair of field goals by Morten Andersen, a 34-yarder in the first quarter and a 45-yarder in the second quarter. Andersen missed a 51-yard attempt in the third quarter, snapping the league’s longest current string of consecutive field goals at 20.
Buffalo Bills 13, New York Jets 14
Cincinnati Bengals 34, Green Bay Packers 28
Cleveland Browns 27, Pittsburgh Steelers 24
Dallas Cowboys 14, Denver Broncos 29
Houston Oilers 13, Detroit Lions 24
Indianapolis Colts 14, San Francisco 49ers 35
Los Angeles Raiders 24, Kansas City Chiefs 17
Miami Dolphins 7, New England Patriots 34
Minnesota Vikings 0, Chicago Bears 23
New York Giants 13, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Philadelphia Eagles 16, Atlanta Falcons 0
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20, Los Angeles Rams 26
Washington Redskins 14, New Orleans Saints 6
Born:
Tanner Roark, MLB pitcher (Washington Nationals, Cincinnati Reds, Oakland A’s, Toronto Blue Jays), in Wilmington, Illinois.
Jeff Bianchi, MLB third baseman, shortstop, and pinch hitter (Milwaukee Brewers, Boston Red Sox), in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Hal B. Wallis [Aaron Blum Wolowicz], 87, American movie producer (“Casablanca”; “Maltese Falcon”; Martin & Lewis, Elvis movies; “Barefoot in the Park”).
Emanuel Sayles, 79, American jazz banjo player (Preservation Hall Jazz Band).
James H. Wilkinson, 67, English mathematician (numerical analysis), of a heart attack.
