The construction of nuclear reactors around the world for the production of electricity and the resulting spread of material that could be used for making atomic weapons are placing increasing pressure on the United States to devise new policies on nuclear energy and international control. The pressure stems from a realization that the spread of reactors can also mean increasing the availability of plutonium, which can be used to make atomic bombs. This was stressed by most of the 35 nuclear experts interviewed in recent weeks in the executive branch, Congress, industry and academic circles. The subject of preventing the spread of nuclear weapons figured in the Presidential election‐campaign debate on television last Wednesday when Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate, charged that the President had only recently become concerned about the problem. Mr. Ford defended his efforts, and the Administration reportedly plans to issue a major policy statement on the proliferation question this week. Most specialists interviewed in recent weeks said that both the Administration and Congress were faced with two fundamental questions, linking domestic and foreign policy:
• Whether the United States, in view of warnings from the atomic industry that a serious shortage of uranium for reactor fuel could be impending, should foster reactors using plutonium instead, even though it is a material that a nation or terrorist gang could use to fashion an atomic bomb.
• Whether the United States should use more forcefully its leverage as the world’s leading supplier of nuclear equipment and enriched uranium fuel to try to create tougher international controls over the indiscriminate spread of materials that can be transformed into bombs.
Widespread demands for greater controls were set off in May 1974, when India detonated an atomic device manufactured with equipment and materials supplied for peaceful purposes by the United States and Canada. But the concern about the dangers of nuclear proliferation has become even more intense in recent months as such countries as Iran, Pakistan and Brazil have acted to acquire nuclear equipment to produce electricity but which ultimately would give them the option of building nuclear bombs.
Intelligence analysts in North Atlantic alliance governments have reported an expansion of the Soviet Union’s ability to conduct and survive a nuclear war with the United States. Their apprehensions have been sharpened by evidence of a Soviet civil defense program that includes the dispersal of new industrial plants, the construction of underground headquarters, the storage of wheat stocks in subterranean silos and compulsory civil defense training for the labor force. These developments are linked to a buildup of Soviet nuclear strength. The sources believe that the Russians have outstripped the Americans in missile throw‐weight, the total number of land-based and submarine‐based nuclear missiles and overall nuclear megatonnage. Soviet military thought, they point out, never accepted the concept of mutually assured destruction. Some analysts believe that the Soviet planners are now working toward a stage in which, because of civil defense programs, their losses would be at what they would consider an acceptable level, namely no more than the combined military and civilian casualties in World War II. The Western analysts estimate these losses at 11 million; the Soviet Union has publicized a figure of 20 million.
An angry mob punched, kicked and pulled the hair of the two top leaders of the women’s peace movement here today, knocking one of them unconscious for a few minutes. Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan were attacked after a hostile audience prevented them from addressing a meeting in a Roman Catholic section of Belfast. Outside, the mob destroyed the two cars the women and their supporters had arrived in. The meeting of about 600 people at the Turf Lodge Tenants Association, was called to protest the death earlier today of a 13‐year‐old boy who had been shot with a British soldier’s plastic bullet. “It was women who were against us when we arrived who advised us to leave,” Mrs. Williams said. “They were shocked by the animal hatred of most of the crowd.” “Outside the hall there was a group of about 50 women and children. Ralph [her husband] and I walked hand‐in‐hand dead straight towards the church, and I was kicked, punched and my hair was pulled. Just as we got to the entrance of the church, I felt a blow on the back of my head and I passed out.”
Spain has secretly agreed to permit U.S. planes airlifting military hardware to other countries, including Israel. to use joint air force bases and regular airports on Spanish territory, according to the Washington Post and Spanish sources. This is a policy reversal of major significance. During the 1973 Middle East war. Spain barred American cargo planes from ferrying vital supplies to Israel from the bases and from Spanish airspace.
Spain’s King Juan Carlos and Queen Sophia left by plane for Colombia, the first stop on a six-day visit to Latin America. After four days in Colombia, the couple plan to visit the Dominican Republic and Venezuela. This is the second trip outside Spain for the king since he succeeded to chief of state less than a year ago. He visited the United States earlier this year.
More than 500 residents of Seveso, Italy, ignored health authorities and broke through barbed-wire barricades to return to homes they were forced to evacuate three months ago, by poisonous gas escaping from a chemical plant. Police said the 500 reentered a section that had been heavily contaminated by deadly poisonous dioxin, when a safety valve broke in the Swiss-owned Icmesa chemical plant. The residents said they were protesting the slow pace of decontamination efforts. Authorities tried unsuccessfully to persuade them to leave.
A Lisbon military court, in a case against a former secret agent, has ruled that a law passed last year against former collaborators or members of the disbanded secret police is unconstitutional, legal sources said. The verdict acquitting the agent, Jose Coelho Ines, raised doubts among observers here whether any of 1,250 former secret police awaiting trial would now be convicted.
Artillery exchanges were reported today from Lebanon’s far south, so far barely touched by the country’s protracted civil war. Both sides in the 18‐month conflict said that the leftist‐held town of Merj ‘Uyun came under artillery and mortar fire overnight and early today from Kleya, two miles to the south, which is controlled by rightists. A right‐wing capture of Merj ‘Uyun would open a direct north‐south road link between right‐wing communities alongside the Israeli frontier and the fertile Bekaa Valley, which is controlled by the Syrian allies of Lebanon’s rightists.
Prime Minister Hua Kuo‐feng appears to have been chosen chairman of the Chinese Communist Party to succeed Mao Tse‐tung, but there were signs of confusion and possible conflict in Peking today over his appointment and there was still no official announcement confirming it. A Reuters news agency dispatch from Peking said a senior Chinese official had reported that Mr. Hua had actually been appointed and that an announcement would be made in the near future. Many of China’s 850 million people may also have been led to believe that Mr. Hua had been named chairman by a major editorial in Peking’s newspapers today that said Mr. Hua now “headed” the party’s Central Committee. That was a terminology often used to describe Chairman Mao, and it presumably carried a strong implication to Chinese that Mr. Hua had succeeded to his position. In China it is the party chairman who holds the top power. But “head of the Central Committee” is not an official position and thus the term remained ambiguous. Mr. Hua, who is first deputy chairman of the party, had already been the senior ranking member of the party since Chairman Mao’s death on September 9. Yesterday the Chinese press said that Mr. Hua “headed” the party’s Politburo.
Hsieh Tung-min, governor at the time of the Taiwan Province of Nationalist China (and the future Vice President of the nation itself) was seriously injured by a letter bomb that had been hidden inside a book in the package. The explosive had been sent by Wang Sing-nan, a 35-year-old Taiwanese native and opponent of the ruling Kuomintang. Hsieh’s left hand was amputated as a result of his injuries. Hsieh, leader of the Taiwan Provincial Government that encompassed 70 percent of the island, was the first Taiwanese native (as opposed to someone who had come to Taiwan from Mainland China after the Communist revolution in 1949). Wang was sentenced to life imprisonment but would be released in 1990, and would later serve as a leader of the Democratic Progressive Party in Taiwan’s parliament, the Legislative Yuan.
Police armed with bamboo truncheons dispersed about 1,500 people demonstrating against the Philippine martial law regime in the middle of one of Manila’s busiest thoroughfares. No injuries or arrests were reported. Students and laborers, with banners reading “Down With Martial Law,” “Fight for Democracy” and “Marcos-Hitler-Dictator,” poured out of the Roman Catholic De la Salle University after a rally against martial law. They ran into a blockade of about 400 policemen and 200 civilian guards.
Cubans voted in large numbers for 169 municipal assemblies in the country’s first elections since Premier Fidel Castro took power 17 years ago. The 5 million voters had to choose 11.000 representatives from among 30.000 candidates to form assemblies created by the first Communist Party congress in December to decentralize Cuba’s one-party system and make it more democratic. The assemblies have been given wide powers to control local public services and are to be followed in later elections with provincial assemblies and a national assembly.
The Attorney General of Kenya has warned politicians here who have called for constitutional revisions dealing with presidential succession that it is a criminal offense punishable by death for anyone “to imagine, devise or intend the death or deposition of the president.” In his statement released Wednesday, Charles Njonjo, the Attorney General, added that the utterance or declaration of such “imaginations, devices or intentions” was punishable by a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. Mr. Njonjo left little doubt that his reading of the law was intended as a warning to a group of politicians who during the last two weeks have organized rallies calling for the amendment of constitutional provisions covering presidential succession. He declared: “Anyone who raises such matters at public meetings or who publishes such matters does so at his peril.”
Only some of the demands made by Rhodesian black nationalists were conditions for attending the British-sponsored Geneva conference on Rhodesia’s future, one of the nationalist leaders said. Prospects for a smooth start to the Geneva conference on Rhodesia improved with statements by two key African nationalist leaders seeking black majority rule in Britain’s breakaway colony. Both Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, and Robert Mugabe of the more militant Zimbabwe African National Union indicated that they were not insisting on absolute preconditions for joining the talks called by Britain to set up an interim multiracial government in Rhodesia. Mugabe said only some of the nationalist’s six demands were preconditions. Mugabe said the British government knew which of the demands were conditions for attendance, but he would not specify which issues they were.
For Moses Zinyemba, who is president of the student council of the University of Rhodesia, the present bickering over the scheduled Geneva conference to give Rhodesia its first black majority government is interesting but not very important. The important thing is that Smith has admitted there will be majority rule, and the whites can’t go back,” the 22‐year‐old student of English literature said in his office on the campus of the racially integrated university, referring to Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of the present white minority government. Two other black members of the council, on which blacks hold nine of ten seats, said they shared his feeling. All three said they believed their views to be in line with that of most of their generation, not only the university elite, and represented the unexpressed sentiments of the huge silent majority.
White South African rugby players Daniel “Cheeky” Watson and his brother, Valence Watson, defied South Africa’s apartheid laws that prohibited mixed race sports teams, and played as teammates of the 13 black players on the KwaZakhele Rugby Union (KwaRU) team in a match against the South Eastern Districts Rugby Union (SEDRU) team. The next day, eight white rugby players participated with black players on two teams in a match at Port Elizabeth, leading South Africa’s Minister of Sports, Piet Koornhof, to threaten prosecution.
President Ford’s campaign manager acknowledged that the campaign had hit a “bump” during the last week with the resignation of Earl Butz as Secretary of Agriculture and the President’s remarks on Eastern Europe, but he expressed confidence that his candidate would win. Earlier, Mr. Ford listened as the pastor of the nation’s largest Baptist Church denounced Jimmy Carter and gave what amounted to an endorsement of the President.
Jimmy Carter has stepped up his attacks on President Ford in an effort to achieve maximum political gain from his apparent victory in the second debate. In the days since the debate, Mr. Carter has overstated the President’s low-profile campaigning and has drawn increasingly sharp comparisons between Mr. Ford and former President Nixon. He has used such vibrant language that some of his aides have encouraged him to tone his words down.
President Ford sat today in the congregation of the nation’s largest Baptist Church and heard its influential pastor denounce the activities and words of Jimmy Carter, in what amounted to an endorsement of the Republican President. Later, on a flight back to Washington aboard his Presidential aircraft, Mr. Ford’s campaign manager, James A. Baker 3d, told reporters that “we would acknowledge that we hit a bump” last week with the resignation of Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz and Mr. Ford’s remarks about Eastern Europe in the second campaign debate. But Mr. Baker asserted that Mr. Ford had made fewer embarrassing mistakes — and fewer apologies — than his Democratic opponent, Mr. Carter, and that “we are optimistic” of winning the election.
The President attended services today in the large, red brick First Baptist Church of Dallas, which is said to have a membership of about 18,000 and which draws 6,000 worshipers to the main church building each Sunday. The week before last, Mr. Ford had entertained more than 30 evangelical Protestant church leaders at the White House, and the symbolic importance of both events seemed to be that Mr. Ford is clearly challenging Mr. Carter, a “born‐again” Southern Baptist, for the fundamentalist and often conservative Protestant vote. Mr. Ford, listened, along with a largely approving congregation, as the Rev. Wallie Amos Criswell, described as “the Prince of Preachers,” denounced in mellifluous tones Mr. Carter’s celebrated interview with Playboy magazine and his reported suggestion that he might consider taxing some church properties. Mr. Criswell at no point used Mr. Carter’s name but his allusions were unmistakable. As Mr. Criswell said goodbye to Mr. Ford on the steps of the downtown church he was asked if he wanted Mr. Ford to win the November election, and he answered, “Yes.” Mr. Criswell said last week that he would support Mr. Ford.
A vigorous debate has been taking place for the last six months over the country’s economy. Some economists contend that the recovery is still underway, others say it is only in a “pause,” while a few fear a new recession is threatening. Current discussions have revolved around a recent set of unpromising statistics that normally are closely watched for indications on the direction of the economy. Economists say that two broad trends — the stagnation in consumer spending and the lag in capital spending — are largely responsible for the malaise.
After 15 years of debate and discussion and a lobbying effort that was the bread and butter of hundreds of lawyers, Congress has finally reviewed the nation’s copyright law for the first time since 1909. No firecrackers went off when the compromise bill was cleared October 1, the last day of the Congressional session, and no bells are likely to ring when President Ford signs the measure sometime this week. The matter is simply too technical, complicated and cumbersome for anyone but specialists to get very excited. For the many whom it affects, it would be hard to find another piece of legislation enacted by the 94th Congress that was more overdue.
A panel of federal and private health specialists has been accused of being “very misleading” in concluding that mothers can continue to breast-feed their babies despite contamination of their milk by a toxic industrial chemical called PCBs. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare committee “failed to adequately deal with the issue” at a September 23 meeting, according to a joint statement by Dr. Joseph Highland of the Environmental Defense Fund and Stephanie Harris of the Health Research Group. Highland and Harris said that because the data on breastfeeding the PCBs-contaminated milk are too sparse to permit accurate measurement of benefits and risks, the HEW committee “could not” have given sound advice and should not have taken a position.
Ratification of a new three-year contract between the Ford Motor Co. and United Auto Workers remained in doubt. The 170,000 regular production workers were believed to be voting for the pact, tentatively reached by union and company negotiators last week, but skilled tradesmen in some locals were reported voting to reject the contract despite recommendations from the union’s 77-member skilled trades council that they accept it. The 25.000 members of the skilled trades workers have been demanding organization of separate locals. Instead, the union agreed to give them special veto power and they are being polled separately from the production workers.
The General Accounting Office criticized the Energy Research and Development Administration for giving private engineering firms too much responsibility for “basic” planning and management of its programs. The GAO report, released by Rep. Leo J. Ryan (D-California), said the energy agency should cut back the degree to which it relies on such firms to plan and supervise. It said, “In our opinion, the effect of an agency contracting out basic functions for planning and management … is to dilute the agency’s ability to retain essential control.”
An organization of law school professors said the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Warren E. Burger “is making it harder and harder” to challenge governmental actions in federal courts. The charge was in a 31-page report approved by the board of governors of the Society of American Law School Teachers. “Although the pattern is not uniform, the report charged, “it is clear enough: the Supreme Court is making it harder and harder to get a federal court to vindicate federal constitutional and other rights.” It said that by limiting procedures the court had effectively avoided decisions on the merits of many civil and criminal rights issues.
An aide to Boston Mayor Kevin H. White denied that the Democratic mayor had agreed to serve in Eugene J. McCarthy’s hypothetical Cabinet. McCarthy said in Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday that White would serve in a five-member Cabinet that would include ex-Interior Secretary Walter J. Hickel and former North Carolina Governor Terry Sanford. “The mayor did not say he would serve as a member of the McCarthy Cabinet,” White’s press aide said.
A group of white inmates at Nevada’s maximum security prison in Carson City ganged up on black prisoners, stabbing two to death and injuring 11 others. One white inmate was hurt. The attack in the dining hall occurred just one day after officers began a partial release of inmates locked up after racial fighting September 27, which left 36 inmates injured. Names of the dead inmates were not released and the prison was again placed in total lockdown status. No arrests were made pending an investigation.
Southern schools have closed the gap in higher education that a panel of experts found in the region 15 years ago, but as yet there are no Harvards below the Mason-Dixon line. A regional educational board, which set up the original 1961 study, has found that Southern schools have come a long way in overcoming the crippling disparities in expenditures and teaching salaries.
In New York City, a harsh new program of drastic cuts and other steps that would produce $500 million in savings is being drawn up by the Beame administration. Amid fears that the worst budget crises are still ahead, city officials started the process of selecting those services that would be cut. Although officials said it was too early to give any kind of specifics, they said almost everything about city finances in the months ahead was clouded with uncertainty.
Competition has increased between the New York and American Stock Exchanges even as they have begun studying a possible merger. During the last seven weeks, four stocks have been traded on both exchanges and a fifth will begin to be dually marketed next week. Until both exchanges changed their rules last summer, the practice of dual listing had been forbidden since 1911. Another development will come tomorrow when two specialist firms begin trading in the same stocks on the New York Exchange.
At least 2,000 fish, mostly salmon, were fatally poisoned when 240 pounds of copper cyanide were dumped into the Grand River, officials at Grand Rapids, Mich., reported. Health officers cautioned fishermen against eating fish taken from the river between September 30 and October 2. Officials said the discharge came from one of nearly 40 copper plating plants along the river but added it was unlikely they would be able to pinpoint the source.
A U.S. District Court in Alexandria. Virginia, rejected a suit brought by Fairfax County that would have forced an end to Concorde supersonic jet flights into Dulles International Airport. Judge Albert Bryan said the county had no right to enforce noise regulations.
Greece’s 98-year-old Dimitrion Yordanidis is the oldest man to compete in a marathon; he finishes in 7:33.
Major League Baseball, American League Championship series:
Five Yankee errors helped key the Royals series-tying win as the Royals beat the Yankees, 7–3. Lefty Paul Splittorff was solid with 5 ⅔ innings of work in relief of Brooklyn native Dennis Leonard, while Yankee reliever Dick Tidrow was ineffective and permitted three more Kansas City runs to score in the eighth after relieving starter Ed Figueroa with one out in the sixth. The series, now tied at one, moved to New York and newly remodeled Yankee Stadium for the remaining three games.
New York Yankees 3, Kansas City Royals 7
Major League Baseball, National League Championship series:
The Reds win Game 2 by a score of 6–2 over the Phillies. Buoyed by an RBI single by Bob Boone in the second after two leadoff singles and a homer by Greg Luzinski in the fifth off Pat Zachry, Phillies starter Jim Lonborg no-hit the Reds until the sixth. After giving up a leadoff walk, one-out RBI single to Pete Rose, followed by another single by Ken Griffey, Lonborg was removed from the game by manager Danny Ozark. Gene Garber came in relief and after an intentional walk loaded the bases, two runs came across on an error by first baseman Dick Allen on a ball hit by Tony Pérez, then George Foster’s RBI groundout made it 4–2 Reds. They added to their lead next inning on Griffey’s RBI single off Tug McGraw and Perez’s sacrifice fly off Ron Reed. Pedro Borbon pitched the last four innings to close to give the Reds a 2–0 series lead heading home.
Cincinnati Reds 6, Philadelphia Phillies 2
NFL Football:
The $68 million Giants Stadium opening in New Jersey’s Hackensack Meadowlands went smoothly with only minor operational problems and a loss by the home team to mar the day. The 76,042 fans who watched the Giants lose to Dallas, 24–14, arrived early and the anticipated monstrous traffic jams never materialized.
The Detroit Lions downed the New England Patriots, 30–10. Greg Landry completed 15 of 18 passes, including three for touchdowns, while the Lions’ defense picked off five Steve Grogan passes to present Tommy Hudspeth with a victory in his coaching debut. Landry connected with rookie David Hill and Charlie Sanders for touchdowns in guiding the Lions to a 20–3 halftime lead.
The New Orleans Saints shut out the Atlanta Falcons, 30–0. Jim Merlo picked off an Atlanta pass at the Saints’ 17-yard line, one of four first half Falcons turnovers, and raced 83 yards for the Saints’ initial score, the longest interception return in the NFC in 1976. Maurice Spencer picked up two fumbles, both deep in New Orleans territory, the second leading to a 79-yard drive culminated by Mike Strachan’s two-yard touchdown run. Bobby Scott led the Saints by completing 19 of 31 passes for 182 yards, scoring himself on a one-yard run and throwing a 25-yard pass to James Thaxton for the final New Orleans score.
The Cleveland Browns edged the reeling defending NFL champion Pittsburgh Steelers, 18–16. Don Cockroft’s four field goals and a drive engineered by first-year quarterback David Mays proved too much for Pittsburgh as the Browns dealt the Steelers their fourth loss in five games. Trailing 10–6, Mays drove Cleveland 29 yards with Cleo Miller scoring from the 1. Cockroft then kicked 50 and 40-yard field goals to give the Browns an eight-point spread, which was cut to two points on a 22-yard touchdown run by Steelers’ rookie quarterback Mike Kruczek with 1:05 remaining.
The New York Jets nipped the Buffalo Bills, 17–14. Pat Leahy’s 38-yard field goal with 48 seconds remaining broke a 14–14 deadlock, giving the Jets their first win of the season. Buffalo rookie Keith Moody tied the game with four minutes left on a 67-yard punt return but the Jets came right back with an eight-play, 69-yard drive setting up Leahy for his third field goal of the season. Ed Marinaro had his second consecutive 100-yard performance, gaining 119 yards on 31 carries.
The Houston Oilers defeated the Denver Broncos, 17–3. Houston running backs Ronnie Coleman and Fred Willis were limited to a combined 68 yards on 25 carries but they put points on the scoreboard, leading the Oilers to their fourth win of the season. Dan Pastorini threw for 217 yards, 107 to Ken Burrough on five passes. Willis’ second quarter touchdown erased a 3–0 Denver lead and Coleman scored from 10 yards out following Zeke Moore’s interception.
The Baltimore Colts beat the Miami Dolphins, 28–14. Bert Jones picked apart the Dolphins’ defense with nine consecutive passes in four scoring drives for the win. Norm Bulaich’s one-yard touchdown brought the Dolphins even with the Colts at 7–7 midway through the second quarter, but Jones hit Glenn Doughty with a 10-yard touchdown pass and ran in from the seven before the half ended. Earl Morrall came off the Dolphins’ bench after Bob Griese was shaken up to throw a 67-yard touchdown pass to Nat Moore but two other comeback drives were stopped at the Baltimore 13 and 6-yard lines.
The Minnesota Vikings edged the Chicago Bears, 20–19. Fred Cox kicked a 39-yard field goal in the first minute of the fourth quarter, giving the Vikings the point they needed to stay ahead of a second-half Chicago comeback effort. Minnesota took a 17–0 halftime lead on two Chuck Foreman touchdowns and a Cox field goal, but Walter Payton scored twice in the third quarter as the Bears closed the gap to 17–13. Following Cox’s second field goal, Chicago drove 80 yards in nine plays with Roland Harper scoring from the 7, but Bob Thomas’ PAT attempt missed. Payton rushed for 141 yards in 19 carries, his third 100-yard game of the season.
The Green Bay Packers beat the Seattle Seahawks, 27–20. Barty Smith’s six-yard run and Chester Marcol’s PAT with 7:42 remaining put the Packers back on top of the Seahawks 21-20 after Green Bay saw an early 7–0 lead fall to 20 unanswered Seattle points. Lynn Dickey, 16 of 24 for 215 yards, brought the Packers back with a 66-yard touchdown pass to Steve Odom. Following Smith’s fourth quarter score, Willard Harrell added insurance points on a six-yard run with 2:42 left.
The Kansas City Chiefs squeaked by the Washington Redskins, 33–30. Mike Livingston’s 36-yard touchdown pass to Larry Brunson was the end result of flea-flicker play that the Chiefs pulled on the Redskins to put Kansas City on top with 1:04 left for their first victory of the season. Joe Theismann threw for 270 yards and two fourth quarter touchdowns, one to Frank Grant who caught eight passes for 138 yards, but Livingston countered with 332 yards through the air. The Chiefs’ winning score came shortly after John Riggins put the Redskins ahead 30–26 on a six-yard run with 2:50 remaining. The flea-flicker began when Livingston handed off to Woody Green, who gave the ball to Henry Marshall, who lateraled back to Livingston, who threw to Brunson.
The Cincinnati Bengals rolled over the hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 21–0. Tommy Casanova plagued the Tampa Bay offense and a varied Bengals’ attack stymied the Buccaneers’ defense in leading Cincinnati to its fourth victory. Casanova set up a first-quarter Boobie Clark touchdown run with a 21-yard interception and then scored himself in the third quarter after picking up a fumble and racing 25 yards.
The Dallas Cowboys downed the New York Giants, 24–14. Roger Staubach completed his first seven passes, including a 40-yard touchdown to Drew Pearson, and completed 13 of 15 passes for 178 yards to lead the Cowboys to their fifth victory, spoiling the Giants’ new stadium opener. Robert Newhouse scored from the 8 on Dallas’ first possession and the Cowboys took a 17–0 halftime lead, keeping the Giants at bay by blocking a punt and field goal attempt.
The Oakland Raiders defeated the San Diego Chargers, 27–17. Ken Stabler’s 339-yard passing performance, including three touchdown passes, helped defeat San Diego. Dave Casper, with seven catches for 104 yards, got the first Raider touchdown. Then Stabler connected with Cliff Branch on a 74-yard pass play. Later the pair teamed up to score on a play covering 41 yards.
The St. Louis Cardinals whipped the Philadelphia Eagles, 33–14. Jim Hart’s 49-yard touchdown pass to Mel Gray was the only Cardinals’ score that didn’t come as a result of a Philadelphia turnover. St. Louis turned two fumble recoveries and two interceptions into touchdowns with four different Cardinals backs scoring. The Eagles took a 7–0 lead on a three-yard touchdown pass from Mike Boryla to Keith Krepfle and held St. Louis scoreless until midway through the second period when the Cardinals scored 19 quick points.
New England Patriots 10, Detroit Lions 30
Atlanta Falcons 0, New Orleans Saints 30
Pittsburgh Steelers 16, Cleveland Browns 18
Buffalo Bills 14, New York Jets 17
Denver Broncos 3, Houston Oilers 17
Miami Dolphins 14, Baltimore Colts 28
Chicago Bears 19, Minnesota Vikings 20
Seattle Seahawks 20, Green Bay Packers 27
Kansas City Chiefs 33, Washington Redskins 30
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0, Cincinnati Bengals 21
Dallas Cowboys 24, New York Giants 14
Oakland Raiders 27, San Diego Chargers 17
Philadelphia Eagles 14, St. Louis Cardinals 33
Born:
Shane Doan, Canadian NHL right wing (NHL All-Star, 2004, 2009; Winnipeg Jets, Phoenix-Arizona Coyotes), in Halkirk, Alberta, Canada
Pat Burrell, MLB outfielder and first baseman (World Series Champions, 2008-Phillies, 2010-Giants; Philadelphia Phillies, Tampa Bay Rays, San Francisco Giants), in Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
Shaun Williams, NFL safety (New York Giants, Carolina Panthers), in Los Angeles, California.
Jeremy Staat, NFL defensive end (Pittsburgh Steelers, St. Louis Rams), in Bakersfield, California.
Bob Burnquist, Brazilian-born American skateboard champion; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Died:
Silvana Armenulić, 37, and her sister Mirjana Bajraktarević, 25, popular Bosnian Yugoslavian singers, were killed in an automobile accident along with the conductor of the Radio Belgrade orchestra, Miodrag “Rade” Jašarević, 60. The three were traveling back to Belgrade from Aleksandrovac and were passing through the village of Kolari when Jašarević crashed into a truck coming the other direction.
Connee Boswell, 68, American jazz singer (Pete Kelly’s Blue).
