Reagan Administration officials said today that they expected the United States and the Soviet Union in coming weeks to try to conclude two of the tentative agreements they achieved at last weekend’s meeting in Iceland. These understandings dealt with curbing nuclear testing and limiting each side’s arsenal of medium-range missiles. A high-ranking Administration official said Washington believed, on the basis of post-summit contacts with the Soviet side, that the Russians would be willing to go ahead with those two agreements. Meeting in Vienna Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that he hoped to tackle those issues when he meets in Vienna early next month with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze.
The Soviet Union ordered five American diplomats out of the country today for engaging in “impermissible activities,” the diplomatic formula for spying, the press agency Tass reported. A spokesman for the United States Embassy confirmed the action but declined to comment. The Soviet move marked the largest number of American diplomats ever expelled at the same time by Moscow. Western diplomats said they presumed the action was taken in retaliation for Washington’s order on Sept. 17 that 25 diplomats at the Soviet Mission to the United Nations who were identified as intelligence agents must leave the United States. In Washington, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said the United States would retaliate against the Soviet order. Today was the deadline set by the Reagan Administration for the departure of the last of the 25 Soviet officials, although a Soviet spokesman said Thursday that all 25 had left.
In a rare disclosure, the Soviet government announced the exact size of last year’s grain harvest, revealing that it fell below target. Figures published by the Central Statistics Administration showed a 1985 harvest of 191.67 million metric tons, about 50 million tons short of the goal. Overall, the figures indicated that 18 months of effort by Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to revitalize the economy so far have failed to produce the radical improvements he seeks. However, the government said that alcohol sales were down by $12.6 billion and that alcohol-related deaths also fell.
The poet Andrei Voznesky has published a major new article commemorating the suffering of Soviet Jews during World War II, a subject long suppressed by the authorities. The powerful work of prose and poetry, which is also an indirect attack on Soviet anti-Semitism, has stirred public debate but so far generated no criticism from the Government. It is called “The Ditch: A Spiritual Trial.” The subject is a 1941 Nazi massacre of 12,000 Soviet citizens in the Crimea, the Black Sea peninsula, and the recent plundering of their mass graves by Soviet citizens. Most of the victims were Jews.
In an unusual move, representatives of two leading Soviet dissidents are to meet with a Russian diplomat in Washington today to appeal for the release of the dissidents. The son of Vladimir Slepak, a Jewish dissident who has been seeking to emigrate for 16 years, and an activist working on behalf of Anatoly Marchenko, a writer who is serving a sentence in prison camp for “anti-Soviet agitation,” plan to meet this morning with a consul at the Soviet Embassy in Washington, according to Vladimir Slepak’s son, Alexander. The meeting with the Soviet consul, Vladimir A. Kuleshov, stems from a conversation that Mr. Slepak and two others had with the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, Yuri V. Dubinin, on a flight back from the summit talks in Reykjavik, Iceland. At the time, Mr. Dubinin urged the three men, who had been in Reykjavik to lobby for the release of the dissidents, to visit the embassy to present their cases.
A five-day international peace conference in Copenhagen ended in a fracas when about 50 demonstrators stormed the stage. The protesters, calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, battled security officials and delegates until police arrived to eject them. Organizers of the conference, largely financed by the Soviet Union, said the protesters got in using forged cards.
Belgium’s coalition government was thrown into turmoil after the surprise resignation of Interior Minister Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb, who quit as part of a bitter dispute between the country’s French and Dutch speakers. Premier Wilfried Martens nominated former Interior Minister Joseph Michel, a member of Nothomb’s Christian Democratic Party, as a successor. Talks were reportedly continuing to resolve a longrunning dispute over a French-speaking mayor of a small country district who was fired for having an inadequate command of Dutch, the official language in the area.
The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou suffered a painful defeat Sunday as conservative challengers ousted the Socialist mayors of three of Greece’s four largest cities in runoff municipal elections. In a statement congratulating the winners, Mr. Papandreou acknowledged the importance of the results but said he would not change his policies. The result was the first major setback for the Socialists since they gained power in 1981, but it does not immediately threaten their hold over the national Government. They control Parliament by a 160-to-110 margin over the conservative New Democracy Party, the main opposition.
Ireland’s production of cut turf appears to have rebounded after two dismal harvests. This year’s balmy Indian Summer has staved off another disastrous peat harvest.
The commander of the Israeli Air Force confirmed for the first time today that the pilot who disappeared in Lebanon Thursday, after bailing out of his stricken aircraft, was alive and in the hands of militiamen. He also said the plane was not shot down by militiamen but instead blew up when a bomb it had just released exploded. [ Shiite militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas, however, continue to maintain that they shot down the plane and captured its navigator. ] Briefing Israeli military correspondents, the commander, Maj. Gen. Amos Lapidot, would not identify which militia in Lebanon was holding the navigator of the Israeli F-4E Phantom or how Israel had obtained the information.
The blueprints of the bombed U.S. Embassy annex in East Beirut are in the hands of 11 Lebanese construction firms that lack security clearances, U.S. News & World Report said in its October 27 edition. The report said the apparent breach in procedure was uncovered by a confidential General Accounting Office investigation of the State Department’s program to improve security against terrorism. The State Department sold the blueprints for $250 a copy to Lebanese firms bidding for the $7.4-million renovation project, the magazine said.
A tentative OPEC production-sharing accord hit a snag tonight, after several member countries staked last-minute claims to higher quotas. The two-week-old talks of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries appeared close to a breakthrough on Saturday after Saudi Arabia, in a surprise reversal, said it would not oppose extending until the year’s end the production accord that expires at the end of this month. But full agreement faltered today over a demand by Kuwait that its quota under the extended agreement be lifted by 90,000 barrels a day from its current level of 900,000 barrels. Saudi Arabia had had said that it was willing to go along with granting quota increases to certain member countries, but it said the total of the increases should not exceed 200,000 barrels a day.
Ten seamen were killed when an Iranian gunboat fired a missile into a Panamanian oil tanker, shipping sources said today. It was one of the highest death tolls in the “tanker war” in the Persian Gulf. The attack occurred Friday night when the tanker Five Brooks, loaded with fuel from Kuwait, was a few miles off Oman. Those killed were seven Pakistanis, two Maldiveans and one Chinese from Hong Kong, the official said. Twenty-nine crew members survived.
The Afghan leader, Najibullah, has told a group of Western reporters that reconciliation with Muslim guerrillas is his main goal and that he envisions political parties in the future. In an interview on Saturday night, he also indicated that he is not trying to impose a Soviet system on Afghanistan, but seeks an independent path. The Western reporters were invited to Afghanistan to witness what Moscow has said is the withdrawal of six Soviet regiments, or 5,000 to 8,000 soldiers. According to Western estimates, about 118,000 Soviet soldiers have been stationed in Afghanistan since 1979 to help the Government fight a Muslim uprising. Najibullah, who became the Afghan leader in May, said his People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan was willing to accept rival political parties and a style of government markedly different from that of Moscow to end the fighting. He said a reconciliation meeting with the guerrillas was expected to take place “in the next few days.” He declined to elaborate.
Peace talks resumed in Manila between Government and Communist negotiators. The two sides met Saturday for the first time since September 29. “We’re back on the tracks,” said one Government official.
The scene was familiar, both to John Gavin, then the United States Ambassador to Mexico, and to the Mexican officials he was meeting, including President Miguel de la Madrid. United States officials had put together information implicating a Mexican Government official in drug trafficking, and at a meeting last year Mr. Gavin wanted to tell Mr. de la Madrid about the case, as he had done with others before it. But this time the case involved the son of the Defense Minister, who directs a significant part of Mexico’s drug-eradication program. Asked hMw the Mexican officials reacted to his information, Mr. Gavin imitated them with a shrug and a grimace of mock concern. In that case and several others, Mr. Gavin said with frustration, “they would say to me: ‘Show me the proof.’ ” “But as they knew,” he said, “to show the proof would be the death warrant for my sources.”
Haiti held national elections for the first time in more than 30 years. Many voting stations, however, reported light turnout in the elections for a constitutional assembly.
Just south of the Nicaraguan border in northwestern Costa Rica, in an area of savannas, farmlands, pastures and devastated forest land, a scientific project is getting under way: the creation by man of a diverse and complex tropical forest. The project is the dream of Dr. Daniel H. Janzen, a professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania and an expert on tropical forests. Wildlife experts say it is one of the most unusual and important biological experiments undertaken in the last several decades. The project will create a 430-square-mile national park, the major part of which will consist of tropical dry forest areas. Remaining areas will be zoned for recreation, farming and other uses. The land, Guanacaste National Park, is named after the Costa Rican national tree and for the land’s province. Much of the land for the park has already been purchased and zoned for a variety of uses.
A senior Reagan Administration official asserted today that classified information provided to Congress had allayed most suspicions among members of Congress about Government involvement in the flight of a plane downed over Nicaragua. The official, Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams, charged that skepticism about the Administration’s role was being fueled by opponents of United States policy in Central America who wished to use the plane incident as a weapon. But two Democratic members of the House and Senate Intelligence committees who have seen the secret evidence said they remained concerned that the Administration might have violated a Congressional ban on aid to the rebels. Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont and Representative Lee Hamilton of Indiana said they expected Congressional staff to continue investigating the incident during the two-month recess. The surviving crew member from the downed plane, Eugene Hasenfus, said in a television interview that while he believed he was working for the United States Government and the Central Intelligence Agency, he was uncertain who actually ran the rebel supply operation. The dispute over what conclusions can be drawn from the evidence illuminates a central question stirred by the downing of the cargo plane over Nicaragua earlier this month: Did American officials tell the truth when they said there was no direct or indirect connection between Government agencies and the private efforts to arm the rebels?
The American captured when a rebel plane was shot down over Nicaragua said in a television interview broadcast tonight that while he believed he was working for the Central Intelligence Agency he was uncertain who actually ran the rebel supply operation based in El Salvador. The prisoner, Eugene Hasenfus, offered no evidence that the C.I.A. or other United States Government agencies actually ran the supply flights. But when asked what an average American would think about the rebel plane shot down over southern Nicaragua two weeks ago, he replied, “He’s going to make that the Government is backing this 100 percent and that’s what I believe too.” Mr. Hasenfus made his statement in an interview taped Saturday and broadcast on the CBS News program “60 Minutes” tonight. Mr. Hasenfus, who is to go on trial in Managua Monday, is the only survivor from the downed plane. The American pilot and co-pilot and an unidentified Latin man were killed in the crash.
Mozambique President Samora Machel is killed in a plane crash. On October 19, 1986, Machel attended a summit in Mbala, Zambia, called to put pressure on Zairean dictator Mobutu Sese Seko, over his support for the Angolan opposition movement UNITA. The strategy of the Front Line States was to move against Mobutu and Banda in an attempt to end their support for UNITA and Renamo, who they regarded as South African surrogates. Although the Zambian authorities invited Machel to stay in Mbala overnight, he insisted on returning to Maputo. He had a meeting scheduled for the following morning at which he intended to reshuffle the leadership of the armed forces. Machel thus overrode the instruction from the Security Ministry that the President should not travel at night – with fatal consequences. The plane never reached Maputo. That night it crashed into a hillside at Mbuzini, just inside South Africa. Machel and 33 others died. Nine people sitting at the back of the plane survived. The Mozambique News Agency (AIM) in Maputo reported today it had received reports that the plane was bringing Machel home from a meeting in Zambia. South African Foreign Minister Pik Botha said there were 38 people aboard the plane and only four confirmed survivors.
Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe and his longtime political rival, opposition leader Joshua Nkomo, have agreed to merge their parties under Mugabe’s leadership, the state-owned Sunday News reported. Information Minister Nathan Shamuyarira was quoted as saying that Mugabe will formally announce the merger before the end of the year.
Two South African black men were burned to death by fellow blacks in political violence and a former beauty queen was hacked to death in the black township of Soweto, authorities said. The government Bureau for Information said the two unidentified men were victims of “necklace” executions — with gasoline-soaked tires set ablaze around their necks. Masabatha Loate, 29, a former beauty queen and black student activist, was hacked to death by about 20 black youths, police said. Her mother said she may have been killed because she favored nonviolence in opposing apartheid.
The black South African residents of the rundown township of Oukasie, north of Pretoria, vowed today to resist an official edict to move them to a new site 15 miles away. Several hundred residents said after a public meeting that they would stage a one-day strike at local factories on Wednesday to press their demands to stay on here. Some of their spokesmen termed the Government’s plan to move them a return to South Africa’s policy of forced removals, which according to church groups has led to the uprooting of 3.5 million blacks in the last 25 years.
The South African authorities are seeking to intervene in a bizarre and potentially violent dispute between two of their own apartheid creations, the so-called homelands of Ciskei and Transkei, whose rivalries seem to have slipped beyond their creator’s control. It is a story of family feuding and derring-do, of a dramatic jail break at a prison said to have been guarded by drunken wardens, and of pamphlets dropped by low-flying aircraft over townships to denigrate Ciskei’s ruler, Lennox L. Sebe. Pretoria’s efforts to intercede between its squabbling creations seem thus far to have failed, and Mr. Sebe suggested last week that, in the absence of a settlement constructed by South Africa, the whole affair should be brought before the World Court in The Hague. In its most recent phase, the story began to unfold last month, when, in the early hours of a Friday morning, white soldiers brandishing rifles burst into Ciskei’s Middledrift Prison to free Charles Sebe, the Ciskei leader’s half-brother, who was jailed three and a half years ago for plotting to overthrow his relative. Charles Sebe, a onetime officer in the South African security police and formerly the head of his half-brother’s secret police, is a man of flamobyant gestures, given to wearing dark glasses and a medal-bedecked uniform.
While President Reagan has asked voters to consider “Star Wars” an election issue, Democratic National Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr. said voters are more worried in the final weeks of the campaign about the economy than Reagan’s cherished Strategic Defense Initiative. But Republican National Chairman Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. accused Democrats of creating a campaign furor over “Star Wars” by publicly opposing Reagan on what should be a bipartisan issue. The party chairmen appeared on ABC’s “This Week With David Brinkley,” along with Democratic political consultant David Sawyer and GOP political consultant Roger Ailes.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride in the morning around the grounds at Camp David.
President Reagan entertains a group of corporate C.E.O.’s who are helping to fund the Reagan Library.
The 99th Congress adjourned Saturday night, and by this morning most of its members were headed home to present themselves for re-election on the basis of a legislative record that includes major revisions in the tax, budget and immigration laws. But these national issues could have less impact on their campaigns than how well the lawmakers fared in representing their constituents in the competition for local grants and other benefits important to their districts and states. Among the bills passed in the final hours of the session was a measure to allow United States pharmaceutical companies to sell drugs in foreign markets before they are approved for use in this country by the Federal Drug Administration.
If the Democrats take control of the Senate after the elections next month, nowhere will the change be more obvious than in the darkly paneled hearing room of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Many Senate committees would be taken over by Democratic chairmen whose views are roughly similar to the Republicans they would replace. But on the Judiciary Committee, power would be transferred from Senator Strom Thurmond, a devoutly conservative South Carolina Republican, to one of two powerful Democrats: Senators Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts or Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware. It is the stuff of nightmares for an Administration that has already faced stinging opposition from the influential 18-member panel.
The appropriations bill passed by Congress Friday gave the Federal Aviation Administration the money needed to press ahead with tests of a system to avert collisions. But in addition it threw in a $3 million appropriation whose message was that Congress had serious questions about the system and about the agency’s plans to seek a rule requiring airlines to use this system. Specifically, Congress told the agency to use the extra money to draw up immediately a detailed program, including costs, for expanded tests of a more complex system and to bring it back to Congress by January 1. Estimates on such tests have been in the range of $25 million.
Immigration officials say they expect a huge market in bogus documents to emerge soon to help those living illegally in the United States take advantage of or circumvent the immigration measure that Congress passed Friday. Already, the officials say, fake rent receipts, utility bills, income tax forms, driver’s licenses, birth certificates and the like are being tailored to the requirements in the legislation. In the past, fraudulent documents could make someone appear to be a legal resident. But the new measure would be likely to create even greater demand because aliens could use the documents to gain actual legal status and perhaps eventually citizenship. The immigration bill, which the White House has said President Reagan will sign, would allow millions of immigrants who arrived or remained illegally to stay if they can prove that they have resided in this country “continuously” except for “brief, casual and innocent absences” since January 1, 1982. Also, reflecting an effort to slow illegal immigration, it would for the first time impose criminal sanctions on employers who knowingly hire workers who do not have proper documents.
The face of a smiling 12-year-old girl has looked out repeatedly from television screens across California in the last week, followed by an appeal to voters that they remove three Justices from the California Supreme Court in the November 4 election. “My daughter Robin never got to her ballet lesson,” the mother of the child says on the television commercial, “but the man who kidnapped and killed her is still alive.” “Your vote,” she adds, “can stop them from letting other killers escape justice.” The television commercial’s demand by a mother for the execution of her daughter’s murderer exemplifies the emotional intensity of one of the nation’s most bitter and expensive election battles this fall. In a campaign that has preoccupied much of California for more than a year, political conservatives, county prosecutors, some business leaders and others are spending millions of dollars to persuade voters to deny new terms on the court to Chief Justice Rose Elizabeth Bird and Associate Justices Joseph Grodin and Cruz Reynoso.
With the election little more than two weeks away, many California political leaders and pollsters are predicting that Chief Justice Bird will be turned out of office by a large vote. Many say the biggest uncertainty is whether the campaign that has been directed principally against her will also persuade voters to reject Justice Grodin and Justice Reynoso. They, like the Chief Justice, were appointed by Edmund G. Brown Jr., a Democrat, when he was Governor. An opinion survey made public this month by the California Poll indicated that 55 percent of the voters favored the removal of Chief Justice Bird from the court, 31 percent favored her confirmation for a new 12-year term, and 14 percent were undecided.
A toxic red tide off Texas has spread consternation along the Texas and Mexican coasts. The toxic tide, the result of the wild proliferation of microsopic marine organisms, has caused the death of millions of fish, the closing of 63 miles of the Padre Island National Seashore, and the suspension of oyster harvesting along much of the Texas coast. This brick-red-hued “red tide” is made up of an organism, Ptychodiscus brevis, that releases toxins that kill fish and accumulate in shellfish. The toxins, whether encountered physically in the water or in the atmosphere, affect human mucous membranes, causing coughing and wheezing. Biologists are unable to explain what brings on infestations.
The U.S. military buildup cost the nation more than 1.1 million jobs that would have been generated had the money been spent in the private sector, according to a new study entitled “The Empty Pork Barrel: The Employment Cost of the Military Buildup, 1981-1985.” Employment Research Associates, a nonprofit Lansing, Michigan, economic consulting firm, found that the $190 billion spent by the Pentagon during President Reagan’s first term on military procurement and personnel, discounting inflation, generated 7,224,000 jobs. If that money had been spent on normal economic activities, the study said, it would have created 8,370,000 jobs.
A 10-year report on smoking released by the American Cancer Society shows the number of adult smokers in America dropped to 30% this year from 37% in 1976. The percentages of men and women who smoke declined but the actual number of American women who smoke has increased, the report said. In 1976, 42% of American men and 32% of women over age 20 were smokers. By 1985, the percentage for men had dropped to 33%, while the percentage of women smokers dipped to 28%. In the last 10 years the number of teen-age boys who smoke dropped to 16% today from 28%, while the number of teen-age girls dropped to 20.5% from 28.8% in 1976.
Army experts identified weapons that drifted ashore at Jupiter Island, Florida, as fuses for Soviet 122-millimeter rockets, but who owned the devices and where they were headed remained mysteries. Forty-seven explosive devices that washed ashore on beaches near here this weekend are Soviet-made rocket fuses, according to officials at Patrick Air Force Base. “They are Russian rocket fuses,” Robert Ely, the public affairs officer at the base, said today. “They are interchangeable for several items, most of the time used for launching 122-millimeter Soviet rockets.” Officials closed beaches where the weapons washed ashore in crates Saturday, said Palm Beach County sheriff’s spokesman Michael McNamee. “It appears that it is some type of clandestine or illegal type of shipment,” said Robert Neumann, agent in charge of the FBI’s West Palm Beach office.
The N.A.A.C.P. dedicated its new headquarters in Baltimore. The ceremonies honored the people who gave the association its life and strength during the civil rights movement.
Operation of a nuclear reactor is an issue before courts in New York and is expected to reach the courts in Massachusetts in the next few days.
Mazda is showing Americans how to build cars the Japanese way. Its first U.S. assembly plant, scheduled to begin production next fall in Flat Rock, Mich., is expected to employ 3,500 people, and already 48 supervisors have begun a month of training in Japan.
Officials of the United Mine Workers have criticized a Federal agency’s investigation of the 1984 Wilberg mine fire, saying its narrow focus did not explain why 27 miners died. Herschel Potter, chief investigator for the Mine Safety and Health Administration, announced preliminary findings earlier, saying the fire began at a compressor rigged to operate with its on-off switch and heat sensor disconnected. He said his mandate was to identify the cause of the fire, not factors in the miners’ deaths. The union contends that investigators should also have analyzed the mine’s fire detection and suppression systems, its communications and its design. Joe Main, the union’s director of health and safety, said, “The cause is a lesser issue.”
About 20 white supremacists burned an 18-foot-high cross Saturday to signal establishment of what they say will be a white republic in the Northwest. The Rev. Richard Butler, head of the Church of Jesus Christ Christian-Aryan Nations, said “the overwhelming flood of the alien” had driven white people to the Northwest. About 50 people demonstrated in Twin Falls, about 15 miles away, against the cross-burning.
In a news conference via satellite from the bottom of the world today, scientists will report their early results of an investigation of an alarming “hole” in the atmospheric ozone layer above Antarctica. Scientists are concerned about the seasonal phenomenon because the thin blanket of ozone in the stratosphere is Earth’s primary barrier from dangerous amounts of ultraviolet radiation from the sun. The discovery was first reported last year by British Antarctic scientists who detected a 40% thinning of the ozone layer every fall.
The first drug proved effective for obsessive-compulsive disorder is being obtained illegally in Canada by hundreds of Americans because it is not available here, Dr. Thomas Insel of the National Institute of Mental Health said at the annual meeting of the Phobia Society of America in New York City. Insel said surveys have found that about 5 million Americans suffer from the disorder. The drug, clomipramine, also called chlorimipramine, is in a category of drugs called tricyclic anti-depressants. It is available in Canada, Mexico and Europe, Insel said, but has not won approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Its manufacturer, Ciba Pharmaceutical Co. of Summit, N.J., has begun U.S. trials of the drug, Insel said.
The 1986 Christmas sale season looks good to retailers and analysts. Many predict, however, that this season will not match the outburst of buying during the 1985 and 1984 periods.
Joe Raposo’s musical “Raggedy Ann: The Musical Adventure,” starring Ivy Austin, closes at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City after 5 performances.
Musical revue “Flamenco Puro” opens at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC, for a limited run of 40 performances.
Major League Baseball, World Series, Game 2:
In game two of the World Series, Boston has 18 hits against Doc Gooden and 4 relievers to give the Red Sox a 9–3 win. Game 2 figured to be a classic pitching matchup, between the Mets’ young phenom Dwight Gooden and Boston’s own young pitching sensation Roger Clemens, but neither pitcher went beyond five innings. The Red Sox scored first in the top of the third inning, following a leadoff walk to Spike Owen, when Keith Hernandez fielded a Clemens bunt, but threw it away trying to catch Owen at second base. Wade Boggs then drove in Owen with a double, Marty Barrett drove in Clemens with a single, and Bill Buckner drove in Boggs with a single to give the Sox a 3–0 lead. In the bottom half of the inning, the Mets had men on second and third base for Wally Backman, who grounded up the middle, plating Rafael Santana. Hernandez then grounded out, allowing Gooden to score and bring the Mets within one run.
In the top of the fourth inning, Dave Henderson, the hero of the ALCS, drove the second pitch from Gooden to left-center field for a home run. Dwight Evans followed with a two-run home run in the top of the fifth inning, bringing the score to 6–2. Although Clemens had a comfortable lead going into the bottom of the fifth, he was pulled in favor of Steve Crawford after facing three batters, leaving runners on first and third. Crawford promptly gave up a single to Gary Carter that scored Backman, cutting the deficit to three runs. Crawford struck out Darryl Strawberry and got Danny Heep to ground out, but this left Clemens with a no decision. Gooden was relieved by Rick Aguilera in the sixth inning. Aguilera loaded the bases in the seventh, and after consecutive RBI singles by Henderson and Owen, was pulled in favor of Jesse Orosco, who shut down the Red Sox over the next two innings. The Red Sox were not done, however. Facing Sid Fernandez, pitching in relief with runners on first and second base in the ninth inning, Boggs drove in Henderson with a double to make the score 9–3. The Mets were unable to recover from this deficit, and took the loss, giving Boston a 2–0 advantage heading to Fenway Park.
Boston Red Sox 9, New York Mets 3
NFL Football:
Tommy Kramer threw two touchdown passes in the first quarter and the Minnesota defense sacked Steve Fuller seven times today as the Vikings upset the Chicago Bears, 23–7. The game was played before a Metrodome-record crowd of 62,851. Kramer, who completed 12 of 18 passes for 239 yards, also scored a touchdown as Minnesota (5–2) snapped a six-game losing streak to the Bears. Chicago (6–1) had won 12 straight games — including three playoff contests — since losing to Miami last December 2. The Bears had won nine consecutive regular-season games. Gerald Robinson, a defensive end who was the Vikings’ No. 1 draft choice this year, was in on three of the seven sacks. Coming into the game, Chicago quarterbacks had been sacked only six times all season. On the fifth play of the game, Kramer hit Alfred Anderson with a screen pass at the Chicago 25-yard line. Anderson broke Otis Wilson’s arm tackle and raced down the right sideline to complete a 37-yard scoring play. Kramer, who was 6 for 6 for 134 yards in the first quarter, later hit Anthony Carter with a 10-yard slant pass. Carter turned the play into a 60-yard touchdown completion when he sliced between Reggie Phillips and Mike Richardson to make it 13–0. Fuller finally got the Bears on the scoreboard with a 50-yard pass to Willie Gault early in the final quarter.
Rafael Septien’s 38-yard field goal with two seconds remaining lifted the Dallas Cowboys to a 17–14 victory over the Philadelphia Eagles today. The Cowboys won narrowly despite coming up with 10 sacks, including three by Jim Jeffcoat, a defensive end, and two each by Bill Bates, the strong safety, and Randy White, a tackle. Randall Cunningham, the Eagles’ third-string quarterback, took over in the second half after the Eagles had managed only 62 yards in the first half. He ran 14 yards for a touchdown and threw a 15-yard pass to Mike Quick that tied the score at 14–14 with 7 minutes 41 seconds to play. The Cowboys, who are 5–2, began the winning drive at their 37-yard line with 1:50 left in the game. Steve Pelluer, playing quarterback again in place of the injured Danny White, completed a 9-yard pass to Tony Dorsett and then scrambled 21 for a first down at the Eagles’ 33. Coach Tom Landry then sent in White, who had been sidelined three weeks with a groin injury. White hit Timmy Newsome for 18 yards and a first down at the Eagles’ 18. The Cowboys tried three plays and then Septien came on to kick his seventh field goal in eight attempts this year. The loss dropped the Eagles to 2–5. The Cowboys led by 7–0 at halftime on Pelluer’s 22-yard pass to Doug Cosbie in the first quarter. After Cunningham had tied the score with his 14-yard run, Dallas took a 14–7 lead with 1:07 left in the third period on a 15-yard touchdown run by Dorsett. Philadelphia tied it again on Cunningham’s pass to Quick. The Eagles played without Ron Jaworski, their No. 1 quarterback.
The Los Angeles Rams won over the Detroit Lions, 14–10. Nolan Cromwell returned an interception 80 yards for a touchdown and Eric Dickerson ran for 130 yards and also scored for Los Angeles (5–2). The Lions (3–4), held scoreless through the first three quarters, pulled to within 14–10 on a 9-yard touchdown pass from Eric Hipple to Jeff Chadwick with 3:19 remaining. Detroit had one final shot at a score, moving to the Rams’ 40-yard line, but the drive was snuffed when Johnny Johnson, a safety, intercepted a Hipple pass at the Rams’ 22 with 14 seconds remaining.
The Green Bay Packers beat the Cleveland Browns, 17–14. Randy Wright threw a 47-yard touchdown pass to Phillip Epps to give Green Bay (1–6) its first victory of the year. Wright, who passed for 277 yards, connected with Epps with 1:21 to play. The touchdown gave the Packers their first lead in a game since they played Chicago September 22. The Browns (4–3) led by 14–3 at the half but were shut down in the second half. Ozzie Newsome, the Cleveland tight end, was held without a reception in the first half but caught a 3-yarder in the third quarter to extend his streak of catching at least one pass to 105 games, tying him with Danny Abramowicz for fourth place on the career list.
The Cincinnati Bengals edged the Houston Oilers, 31–28. James Brooks bowled over two tacklers on a 21-yard touchdown run with 43 seconds to play, capping a drive that gave Cincinnati (5–2) the victory. It was the sixth consecutive loss for the Oilers (1–6). Houston had taken the lead with just 1:26 to play when Robert Lyles, a linebacker, picked up a fumble by Larry Kinnebrew and ran 93 yards untouched for a touchdown and a 28-24 Houston lead. But the Bengals quickly covered 70 yards in five plays, with Brooks scoring his second touchdown of the game. Brooks led the Bengals with 133 yards on 18 carries.
The Buffalo Bills defeated the Indianapolis Colts, 24–13, as Jim Kelly threw touchdown passes of 6 and 13 yards to Andre Reed. Indianapolis (0–7), the only team in the N.F.L. without a victory, trailed from the beginning after Randy McMillan fumbled the ball on the Colts’ first possession and Rodney Bellinger, a cornerback, returned it 15 yards for a touchdown.
Marcus Allen ran for 96 yards and scored three touchdowns today to lead the Los Angeles Raiders to their fourth straight victory, a 30–28 decision over the Miami Dolphins. Allen, returning to the starting lineup after missing most of the past four games with an ankle injury, rushed for touchdowns on a pair of 2-yard runs and caught a 16-yard scoring pass from Marc Wilson. Los Angeles improved its record to 4–3 and handed Miami, 2–5, its fourth loss in the last five games. Wilson, who sat out last week’s victory over Seattle with a thumb injury, completed 11 of 19 passes for 116 yards. The Los Angeles defense held the Dolphins to 79 yards in the first half as the Raiders built a 23–7 lead with the help of three Chris Bahr field goals. Dan Marino threw two touchdown passes in the second half to bring Miami back, but the Dolphins couldn’t cut their deficit to fewer than 9 points until Mark Clayton caught a 68-yard touchdown pass on the last play of the game. Allen’s first touchdown run gave Los Angeles a 13–7 lead with 10 minutes 31 seconds left in the second quarter, and his 16-yard reception from Wilson made it 20–7 six minutes later.
The New England Patriots crushed the Pittsburgh Steelers, 34–0. Steve Grogan passed for three touchdowns and New England (4–3) raced to a 24–0 lead before Pittsburgh (1–6) managed a first down. Grogan, starting in place of the injured Tony Eason for the second week in a row, completed 18 of 26 passes for 243 yards. The loss was the worst ever for the Steelers at Three Rivers Stadium, where they moved in 1970.
Before today’s game, the New York Giants thought they should beat the Seahawks, and after the game they thought they should have beaten them. But the Seahawks turned two interceptions into touchdowns, then held off the Giants’ furious finish and won, 17–12. “We outplayed them,” said a frustrated Jim Burt, the Giants’ nose tackle. “We gave it away.” The loss ended the Giants five-game winning streak and knocked them out of a first-place tie in their division. It especially hurt because the Washington Redskins and the Dallas Cowboys, their major rivals in the National Conference’s Eastern Division, won today. Now the Redskins lead the division with a 6–1 record. The Giants and the Cowboys are tied for second at 5–2. The standing may be shuffled in the next two weeks because the Giants play the Redskins a week from Monday night and the Cowboys the following Sunday, both at Giants Stadium. The Seahawks were 3-point favorites, and they improved their record to 5–2. Coach Chuck Knox called it their best game of the season.
The Washington Redskins downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 28–21. Jay Schroeder, working against the National Football League’s top-rated pass defense, threw for three touchdowns and 232 yards for Washington. The Redskins (6–1) scored three touchdowns in their first four possessions to take a 21–0 lead midway through the second quarter. St. Louis (1–6), getting three scoring passes from Neil Lomax, pulled to within 28–21 with 8:28 left, but the Cardinals’ final drive ended on the Washington 11-yard line as time expired.
The Kansas City Chiefs came back to win a shootout over the San Diego Chargers, 42–41. Bill Kenney, a backup quarterback, rallied Kansas City (4–3) for two second-half touchdowns in a wild game that saw four defensive players score touchdowns in the second quarter. Lloyd Burruss, a Kansas City safety, intercepted Dan Fouts three times and returned two for touchdowns — tying an N.F.L. record — in the second quarter.
The San Francisco 49ers and the Atlanta Falcons went to overtime but played to a 10–10 tie. Sylvester Stamps of Atlanta took a short pass from David Archer and ran it in for a 39-yard touchdown that tied the game with 1:33 left in the fourth quarter. The result was only the ninth overtime tie in N.F.L. history and the first since November 4, 1984, when Philadelphia and Detroit played to a 23–23 draw. The tie left Atlanta in first place in the National Conference West Division with a 5–1–1 record. San Francisco is 4–2–1. The tying score came on the first play after Billy Johnson had returned a punt 11 yards. Stamps made the catch over the middle at the 35, went to the right sideline and outran the defenders. Neither team threatened in the extra period, although each had three possessions.
The New Orleans Saints clobbered the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 38–7. Rueben Mayes, a rookie, rushed for 172 yards and two touchdowns, and New Orleans scored on its first three possessions. Mayes got 133 yards and both touchdowns in the first half while the Saints (3–4) were opening up a 17–0 lead. He accounted for 50 of the 73 yards on the drive to the first touchdown, which he scored on a 9-yard run on the Saints’ first possession. The Saints got a 31-yard field goal from Morten Andersen on their next possession and Mayes ended their third drive with a 1-yard plunge for a score. Tampa Bay fell to 1–6.
Chicago Bears 7, Minnesota Vikings 23
Dallas Cowboys 17, Philadelphia Eagles 14
Detroit Lions 10, Los Angeles Rams 14
Green Bay Packers 17, Cleveland Browns 14
Houston Oilers 28, Cincinnati Bengals 31
Indianapolis Colts 13, Buffalo Bills 24
Los Angeles Raiders 30, Miami Dolphins 28
New England Patriots 34, Pittsburgh Steelers 0
New York Giants 12, Seattle Seahawks 17
St. Louis Cardinals 21, Washington Redskins 28
San Diego Chargers 41, Kansas City Chiefs 42
San Francisco 49ers 10, Atlanta Falcons 10
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 7, New Orleans Saints 38
Born:
Daniel Descalso, MLB second baseman, pinch hitter, and third baseman (World Series Champions-Cardinals, 2011; St. Louis Cardinals, Colorado Rockies, Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs), in Redwood City, California.
Died:
Samora Machel, 53, Mozambican politician and revolutionary (first President of Mozambique from the country’s independence in 1975–1986), in a plane crash.
Dele Giwa, 39, Nigerian journalist, editor, and founder of Newswatch magazine, is assassinated by a mail bomb.
Moses Asch, 81, Polish-American recording engineer (founder of Folkways Records).
