A senior Reagan Administration official said today that the disclosure by Soviet officials of purported quotations from President Reagan at the Iceland summit meeting was an “unprecedented violation” of diplomatic practice. The official also said the disclosure was an effort to shift blame to the American side for the failure to reach an agreement at the Iceland meeting. The official, Richard N. Perle, an Assistant Defense Secretary who was part of the American delegation to the summit meeting this month, said the Russians were trying to “create divisions between us and our allies and to fuel controversy here.” At issue is a campaign over the last several days by Soviet officials to portray Mr. Reagan as having agreed in his talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the abolition of all strategic nuclear weapons within 10 years. White House officials have said Mr. Reagan did discuss that issue, but in general terms and did not assent to any agreement. The issue of how Mr. Reagan conducted himself in the talks and what he said has become important both in terms of future relations with the Soviet Union and of the public perception of him here and in Western Europe as a leader in command of the issues. “If the Soviet Union wants to move ahead from where we left off in Iceland, then the negotiating table in Geneva is the place to do it,” Reagan spokesman Daniel Howard said. He said the Soviet contention that Mr. Reagan agreed to eliminate all nuclear weapons in 10 years was a distortion of a theoretical discussion that occurred.
A Soviet expert on United States affairs suggested today that his Government might have to make public minutes of the Reykjavik summit meeting to rebut what he termed “a massive disinformation campaign by the American Administration about what really happened in Iceland.” The expert, Georgi A. Arbatov, was in Hungary to take part with 10 other statesmen, including former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance, in a meeting here of the Olov Palme Commission on disarmament and security issues. At a news conference held by the commission, Mr. Arbatov echoed charges in Moscow on Saturday that the Reagan Administration was ignoring and misinterpreting criticism of Washington’s positions that has been made by Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The comments Saturday in a briefing in Moscow by Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh, a Deputy Foreign Minister, were accompanied by the issuing of what he said were statements made in Iceland by President Reagan. The Soviet official said the statements indicated that Mr. Reagan had agreed to the elimination of all strategic nuclear weapons within 10 years and had held out the broader possibility of eliminating all nuclear arms.
The Chernobyl nuclear disaster is leading to major reappraisals of reactor safety and emergency planning around the world, even for nuclear plants far different from the ruined Soviet unit, nuclear experts say. Despite statements soon after the April 26 accident that it involved a reactor design different from Western units, experts are now concluding that Chernobyl in fact has important lessons for all nuclear power plants. This conclusion is evident in a flurry of recent international conferences and local meetings, in a variety of reports on the accident and in dozens of interviews with reactor safety experts. Governments, the nuclear industry, research laboratories and many other groups are assessing the accident. It has long been agreed that nearly all reactors have the theoretical potential, albeit a very low one, for a disaster on the scale of Chernobyl. Now that this potential has been realized in one case, the experts now have more solid ground for worry that such an event could be repeated.
The Soviet Union is more advanced than the United States in “Star Wars” technology and has used lasers to disable three U.S. satellites in space, the Hamburg-published Bild newspaper reported. About 10,000 Soviet scientists are working on high-energy laser weapons that will be able to shoot down nuclear missiles, the newspaper said. Bild said its data came from “top secret” papers. There was no immediate U.S. reaction to the story.
Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel, unable to meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev in Moscow, nonetheless appealed to him to let Jews emigrate to the country of their choice. Wiesel, a survivor of the World War II concentration camps, said on leaving Moscow that he hopes to return for a meeting with Gorbachev and that he would urge him to reverse Soviet policy on Jews who have been refused permission for emigration. Wiesel said Gorbachev did not give a reason for not meeting him. “I say without any anger, without any animosity, with deep compassion, that it would be to the honor of the new style of leadership to allow these men, women and children to be happy again,” Mr. Wiesel said at a news conference shortly before his departure. The Nobel laureate, a survivor of the Auschwitz and Buchenwald death camps who has dedicated most of his life to perpetuating the memory of the Holocaust, spent much of his time in Moscow meeting with Jews, both at private homes and at an emotional celebration of the feast of Simhath Torah on Saturday night at the main Moscow synagogue.
Spain and Portugal agreed to use their membership in the European Economic Community to improve disparate trade relations and overcome centuries of mutual distrust. Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez and his Portuguese counterpart, Anibal Cavaco Silva, pledged after a one-day summit in the northern Portuguese city of Guimaraes to reduce Spanish dominance of bilateral trade-a chief cause of tension.
Caught in the coils of a plot he might well have devised for one of his best-selling novels, Jeffrey Archer resigned today as deputy chairman of the British Conservative Party after a Sunday tabloid disclosed he had made a payoff to a prostitute. Mr. Archer, a politician who turned to fiction after an embarrassing bankruptcy forced him to give up a seat in the House of Commons, had held his unpaid post in Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s party for a little more than a year. His political comeback was abruptly terminated by the appearance in The News of the World, a newspaper that specializes in scandal, of a phone conversation he had Thursday evening with the prostitute. In the recorded conversation, arrangements were made for the prostitute, Monica Coghlan, to receive money from an intermediary the next morning so she could leave the country.
France seemed reluctant to antagonize Syria as foreign ministers prepared to discuss a European response to Britain’s break in diplomatic relations with Damascus. A disagreement between France and Britain seemed to be emerging today as foreign ministers of the European Community prepared to discuss their response to Britain’s break in diplomatic relations with Syria. The Community meets in Luxembourg on Monday, and the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, is expected to press for diplomatic support for London’s decision on Friday. The move came after Britain cited “conclusive evidence” that Syria was involved in an attempt to blow up an Israeli airliner leaving London in April. Although most of the European countries are expected to give at least strong verbal support for Britain, there were signs of widely varying approaches to relations with Syria. Officials of some countries, particularly France, seem reluctant to adopt an antagonistic pose toward Damascus.
An Israeli nuclear technician who reportedly sold the secrets of Israel’s nuclear bomb industry to The Sunday Times of London was secretly brought back to Israel against his will and is now being held incommunicado, a friend of the technician’s said at a news conference today. The Rev. John McKnight, an Australian Anglican priest who befriended the technician, Mordechai Vanunu, said that Mr. Vananu was back in Israel, after having disappeared in London on Sept. 30, and that he had heard reports that the nuclear technician was taken before an Israeli judge on Monday and remanded in custody for 15 days. This was apparently done in a secret proceeding before he is formally tried for treason. “We have solid information that he is here in Israel,” Mr. McKnight said, adding that he could not reveal the specifics of that information without endangering a source. “I do not believe he would have left England on his own free will.”
Shia Muslims of the Amal militia and Palestine Liberation Organization guerrillas fought for the fourth day near the southern Lebanese cities of Sidon and Tyre, with the casualty toll put at 40 dead and 80 wounded. A Syrian observer mediated a truce for the Sidon area, where PLO guerrillas had pushed aside Amal forces and captured five small villages. The truce between the Palestinian and Shiite Muslim militiamen was declared today at two refugee districts in southern Lebanon after three days of fighting, but clashes continued in the third refugee area. The cease-fire, mediated by Syrian observers, was designed to halt clashes between Palestinian guerrillas in the Ain Khilwe and Mieh Mieh districts and Shiite Amal fighters in surrounding villages. The accord did not cover the Tyre front, where Amal fighters tried to storm a refugee camp populated by 17,000 Palestinians. Leaders of the pro-Syrian Amal group have accused PLO leader Yasser Arafat of rebuilding his military forces in Palestinian camps in southern Lebanon after they were crushed in the Israeli invasion in 1982.
Kuwaiti troops fired two missiles at a “hostile” plane that violated the country’s airspace, and the aircraft was believed to have been shot down, a senior government official was quoted as saying. Ali Sabah, governor of the Ahmadi region in southern Kuwait, where the oil industry is based, told the newspaper Al Anba that the plane was detected by Kuwaiti radar. “Two missiles were immediately fired on the unknown aircraft, which disappeared on the radar screens. This means that it has almost certainly been shot down,” the governor was quoted as saying. Other sources suggested it may have been an Iranian warplane looking for a target in the Persian Gulf. Iran accuses Kuwait of supporting its gulf war enemy, Iraq, and Iranian gunboats last Tuesday attacked a Kuwaiti-owned supertanker in the gulf.
A Thai International Airways jetliner carrying 247 people suffered a sudden loss of cabin air pressure Sunday night and, after 20 minutes of wild bucking, made an emergency landing in the central Japanese city of Osaka. At least 62 people were reported injured, 14 of them seriously. The plane, a European-made Airbus A-300, developed trouble as it prepared for a normal landing in Osaka after a flight from Bangkok by way of Manila.
Large sections of Tokyo and its eastern suburbs were under police siege today as farm families and radical supporters rallied here to protest plans to expand Japan’s main international airport. The demonstration was noisy but peaceful. About 3,000 demonstrators, nearly all wearing helmets and covering their faces with masks and towels, gathered in a sweet-potato field and pledged to continue the two decades of resistance to the nearby Narita Airport and to recent proposals for new runways. Speakers warned that they would wage a physical struggle against any expansion. “We are going to have the hottest autumn and hottest winter in 20 years,” a protest leader, Koji Kitahara, said.
Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, in increasingly open defiance of his own Government, addressed a rally of loyalists to former President Ferdinand E. Marcos today amid chants of “Down with Cory!” In the first notes of what his aides said was a new phase of his campaign of criticism, he implied that the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino was tainted by corruption. He said Filipinos needed a Government that was “stable, honest and clean, a Government beyond suspicion and not affected by corruption.” A Defense Ministry official said Mr. Enrile planned to document his accusations of corruption in the near future. It was Mr. Enrile’s fourth address to an anti-Communism rally, but his first open alliance with Marcos supporters, whose campaign of agitation against Mrs. Aquino had become quieter in recent weeks. The crowd today of about 20,000 chanted the old campaign slogan “Marcos forever!” but focused its enthusiasm on Mr. Enrile with such placards as “Cory for Communism, Enrile Democracy” and “Rambo Save the Republic.” Mr. Enrile recently said he might “do a Rambo” if he were pushed too far, a reference to the aggressive lone crusader played in films by Sylvester Stallone.
Haitians recount tales of torture by an ex-Duvalier aide, Luc Desyr, who will the third official in the former Government to be brought to trial for human-rights abuses. For many Haitians, Mr. Desyr symbolizes the worst excesses of the brutal dynastic dictatorship that collapsed in February. For nearly a quarter-century Mr. Desyr was a close aide and confidant to Francois Duvalier and his son, Jean-Claude, and a central figure in a reign of terror in which the Haitian League of Former Political Prisoners estimates more than 40,000 people were slain. Mr. Desyr so enjoyed his work, Haitians say, that he tape-recorded his interrogations, the screams and moans of his victims, and replayed them at home as some men relax to symphonies. A recording of one purported interrogation, in which a man said to be Mr. Desyr orders a victim’s fingers broken, has been widely broadcast on Haitian radio stations.
American military officials are searching for a site within the United States for training Nicaraguan rebels because countries in Central America have refused to allow such activities on their soil, according to an Administration official. The official said that El Salvador, Honduras and Costa Rica had declined to allow the United States to train the anti-Government rebels, known as contras, on their territory. The United States, the official said, has chosen not to press those governments and is instead searching for a suitable location in this country. “It’s a mutual kind of thing,” the official said. “We are trying to respect the position of those governments.”
Thousands of Mozambicans today filed past the coffin of President Samora M. Machel. As church bells tolled in this city on the Indian Ocean, long lines of mourners curled through the streets and up to the City Hall, where Mr. Machel’s body lay in a closed wooden coffin. Mr. Machel, a 53-year-old former guerrilla leader who had led Mozambique since independence from Portugal in 1975, was killed a week ago in a plane crash in South Africa. His coffin will be carried through the city on Tuesday for burial at a monument to Mozambican heroes. Maureen Reagan, the President’s daughter, is expected to lead the American delegation, arriving early Tuesday and leaving the same day, according to Mozambican officials.
The South African Government has reacted to the expulsion of its delegation from a Red Cross conference in Geneva on Saturday by ordering 25 foreign Red Cross workers to leave the country. The vote Saturday to expel the South African delegation from the conference was taken to protest apartheid, but it could have the unintended effect of hurting opponents of apartheid. Among the tasks of the 25 Red Cross workers ordered out, who late Saturday were told to leave in response to the vote in Geneva, are visits to jailed opponents of apartheid. The 300 political prisoners the workers visit have been jailed for such crimes as treason and terrorism, and the prisoners include the black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela.
A cable on an empty mine-shaft elevator snapped in a gold mine near Johannesburg, sending the cage hurtling 2,600 feet to the bottom of the shaft and killing six miners, officials said. Four others were seriously injured, and 22 men cutting a ventilation channel were trapped briefly. K.W. Maxwell, chairman of the Randfontein Estates Gold Mining Co. Ltd., said it took rescue workers seven hours to reach the dead and injured. It was the first serious gold mine accident since September 16, when 177 men died in a fire in the worst disaster in South Africa’s 100-year gold-mining history.
When President Reagan signed the Tax Reform Act of 1986 into law last Wednesday, he set into motion the most sweeping restructuring of the tax system in at least a generation. The signing also spurred what had already been an intense race against the clock by taxpayers looking to take maximum advantage of the transition from the old system to the new system. Although the tax revision legislation is now officially the law of the land, most of its provisions do not take effect until Jan. 1, presenting an opportunity for people to lay claim to some of the more generous tax deductions still available under the old law, and take steps to benefit from the lower tax rates that go into effect next year. Even before the President put pen to parchment, individuals were rushing to rearrange their financial affairs and close transactions before the year’s end. Across the country, people have been unloading stocks, real estate and virtually every other type of asset that has had a big runup in value in order to take a last-chance advantage of the preferential capital gains tax.
In the final days before the November 4 elections, Mr. Reagan is making a campaign tour of 13 states where the Senate contests are close. One of his principal arguments is that voters should “vote for me one more time” by keeping the Senate in Republican hands. At every stop, he uses his antimissile program and his rejection of the Soviet arms offer in the Iceland summit meeting earlier this month as prime examples of why it is important to stop “liberal Democrats” from returning the country “to the grim days of the 70’s.”
The Republican heavy artillery will come to Idaho next week to try to shove Senator Steven D. Symms’s re-election campaign out of a deadlock and into the winners’ column. Despite the Senator’s advantages of incumbency, a solid Republican electorate, and plenty of money to run a campaign, Gov. John V. Evans, the Democratic candidate, has Mr. Symms against the wall, in one of the handful of races likely to decide control of the Senate. President Reagan and Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada, the general chairman of the national Republican Party, will be here to help Senator Symms next week. And his home-state colleague in the Senate, James A. McClure, who is immensely popular here, will take Mr. Symms around Idaho in nine major campaign events to urge voters to re-elect him.
The President and First Lady host the first of four Public Television performances at the White House for the “Tribute to American Music.”
President Reagan and the Presidential party attends a concert of contemporary artists performing music by songwriter George Gershwin.
The billions of dollars the government is spending on President Reagan’s “Star Wars” defense program are going to a handful of well-positioned defense contractors and laboratories, a study said. More than 90% of the Strategic Defense Initiative contracts awarded in fiscal 1985 and 1986 went to contractors in states with senators who sit on two key Senate committees that vote funds for the program, said the study by the Council on Economic Priorities. The study by the New York-based research group concludes that the top 20 contractors and laboratories have received awards totaling $5.7 billion since fiscal 1983, or 75% of the total $7.7 billion awarded.
The commander of the Strategic Air Command wants the United States to build 50 more long-range MX missiles and deploy them on trains that would travel the nation in times of tension. The commander, Gen. John T. Chain Jr., said in an interview at SAC’s headquarters here that the missiles could not be detected from space or the ground while in motion, could be fired with accuracy and could be deployed largely on existing trains and tracks. The general emphasized that this was his personal view and that he had not yet recommended it to the Air Force, the Defense Department or the Reagan Administration for approval. After long and often bitter debate, mostly over methods for basing the MX, Congress has already provided funds for 50 MX missiles, which the Reagan Administration calls the Peacekeeper. The missiles are currently being based in refurbished missile silos.
As President Reagan formally opened the White House’s campaign against drug abuse in early August, he articulated a notion that has been growing among drug law-enforcement officials over the last few years. It is that law enforcement cannot significantly reduce drug abuse. The real answer to the nation’s drug problem, Mr. Reagan asserted repeatedly through the late summer and early fall, was a “national crusade” to educate people not to use drugs. Still, on Monday, when Mr. Reagan plans to sign the most far-reaching drug law ever passed by Congress, the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986, only a handful of its several dozen new programs and provisions will be spent for drug education. Just 12 percent of the $1.7 billion in financing will be spent for that purpose. Most of the rest will go for new boats, planes and weapons, more drug law-enforcement agents, added Federal prosecutors and new jail cells.
A shift in farm policy by the Reagan Administration was welcomed this weekend by farmers from Kansas to Georgia as well as by many agricultural economists. The new policy, announced Friday, will pay farmers more than ever before to cut their production of corn and other livestock-feed grains. The program offers at least a ray of hope for a change from depressed prices and soaring Government costs, according to farmers ranging from Richard Miller, who grows grain and soybeans near Garnett, Kansas, about 80 miles southwest of Kansas City, to Bob Nash, who raises cattle near The Rock, Georgia, south of Atlanta. Economists praised the policy as a welcome recognition of the reality that it is less costly to restrain the nation’s productive capacity than to pay with Federal funds for an abundance so great that surpluses pile up at warehouses like giant pyramids.
U.S. oil technology is off-limits to the Soviet Union, which remains annoyed with constraints on the exchange of information in this area. When the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, met in Iceland with President Reagan this month, he ridiculed the President’s renewed suggestion that information gained through “Star Wars” research could be shared with the Soviet Union. “I don’t want any part of it,” the Soviet leader responded, according to White House accounts of the exchange. “I don’t believe you are going to share it. You don’t even share oil and gas technology with us.”
About 12% of Americans hospitalized last year believe they were sent home too early as a cost-cutting measure and that it may have complicated their medical conditions, a Harris Poll found. The percentage represented a sharp increase over a 1985 poll in which 7% of the previous year’s hospital patients felt they were discharged too soon. Among Medicaid patients, the percentage of patients who believed they were discharged too quickly rose from 4% to 27% in one year. A total of 966 people were polled in the August survey by Louis Harris & Associates. Of the 12% who reported their hospitalization was too short, 42% said they became worse, and 17% said they were still ill.
A Piedmont Airlines jetliner overshot a rain-slick runway in Charlotte, North Carolina, while landing and smashed through a fence, shearing off part of its nose and slightly injuring 34 people, officials said. Flight 467, carrying 113 passengers and five crew members from Newark, New Jersey, skidded about 300 feet off the runway at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, a Piedmont spokeswoman said. The Boeing 737 was making a scheduled stop in Charlotte and was to continue on to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The pilot reportedly said the plane’s brakes failed, but investigators said the cause of the accident had not been determined.
A woman who suffers from dyslexia has filed a lawsuit against her former high school in an effort to force it to pay for special classes she took to catch up on her work. The woman, Karen Morse, filed the suit against Henniker High School in Henniker, New Hampshire, after the town’s school board declined to reimburse her family $17,000 in tuition paid to the Landmark School of Beverly, which specializes in helping dyslexics. Miss Morse, who is who is now a 20-year-old college freshman at Salem State College, has also accused Henniker of not preparing her properly for graduation or college. According to Miss Morse, she was voted president of her senior class and student council and was elected to the National Honor Society, although she could not read. She said that for nine years neither her teachers nor her friends knew she could not read. Miss Morse said she was labeled “learning-disabled” in the ninth grade. But not until the end of her junior year in 1983 was she diagnosed as a dyslexic, to whom words and letters were jumbled when she tried to read them. Miss Morse said “was” became “saw” to her. Dyslexia does not affect intelligence. She got as far as the ninth grade by cheating, she said in a visit to Boston from her home in suburban Beverly.
Even though the campaigns for governor and United States senator are not yet over, Philadelphia’s attention is already turning to another, possibly more riveting political race. This race will not only determine the future of W. Wilson Goode, the city’s first black Mayor, but may also affect the city’s racial climate. Neither the Mayor nor Edward G. Rendell, the former District Attorney who is widely considered the only likely candidate capable of defeating Mr. Goode, is waiting for the votes to be counted November 4. The two men, liberal Democrats and allies until recently, are already engaged in a political dogfight. Mr. Goode says Mr. Rendell, who is white and has not declared his candidacy, promised never to run against him and that Mr. Rendell’s word is not to be trusted because he is acting like a candidate. The Mayor also vows to retire the former prosecutor from public life if he does run in next May’s Democratic mayoral primary.
Mayor Raymond L. Flynn urged hundreds of black churchgoers today to reject a ballot initiative that calls for the city’s minority neighborhoods to secede from Boston. A group of Roxbury activists has initiated a campaign to get several of the city’s minority neighborhoods to secede and form their own city, Mandela, named for the South African black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela. The group gathered enough signatures to put the question on the November 4 ballot in the districts, where 98 percent of the blacks in Boston live. The new city would be 12.5 square miles and would include the Roxbury and Mattapan neighborhoods.
Pratt & Whitney has sent an “alert service bulletin” urging design changes on four of its engines following four in-flight failures’ over the last 16 months, a company official said. The problem involves cracks on and, in four cases, ruptures of a metal air seal on the D, D1. E and El engines in the JT9D-7R4 series, said a spokeswoman for the engine maker, based in East Hartford, Connecticut. The four engines are used on 32 Airbus twin-jet A-310 aircraft and 67 twin-jet Boeing 767s operated in the United States and abroad. The Federal Aviation Administration has begun drafting a proposed new rule that would make it mandatory for U.S. airlines using the engine model to carry out the changes.
A Piedmont Airlines jetliner overshot a rain-slick runway in a Saturday night landing and smashed through a fence into an embankment, slightly injuring 34 people, officials said today. Flight 467, carrying 113 passengers and five crew members, from Newark, New Jersey, skidded off the runway at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport at 8:05 P.M. Saturday, said Rosalind Chostner, a Piedmont spokesman. The Boeing 737-200 was making a scheduled stop on the way to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Charlotte Memorial Hospital officials said 34 people were treated but only four were admitted.
Antinuclear activists today protested the deployment of the USS Alaska, the nation’s seventh submarine with Trident nuclear missiles. The submarine arrived at the Bangor Naval Submarine Base on October 1. Among those who gathered outside the base for a rally today were Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen of Seattle and Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau, Alaska, both Roman Catholics.
A fiery head-on collision between a car and a van in Noti, Oregon, killed seven people, and four people were injured in another vehicle that plowed into the burning van, officials said. In Clifford Township, Pennsylvania, five teen-agers died when their compact car ran off a road, struck a boulder and hit two trees before flipping into a drainage ditch and burning. The Oregon accident was caused when the driver of the car lost control of the vehicle on a curve, officials said. In Pennsylvania, police had not determined why the 16-year-old driver failed to make a sharp curve.
Fires in Arkansas, Michigan and Ohio over the weekend killed nine children, all of whom had been left alone, the authorities said. In Jonesboro, Arkansas, fire destroyed a two-story apartment building Saturday afternoon, killing three children 2 to 5 years old. They had been left in the apartment while their mother, Sandra Grimes, called the Fire Department from another apartment, the authorities said. The mother and two other families escaped without injury. In Cleveland, three children were killed, three children were injured and a man who tried to save them was injured in a house fire Saturday. In Kalamazoo, Michigan, three children 1 to 8 years old died at hospitals Saturday after a fire Friday at their house, the police said.
Hunters killed 841 moose during Maine’s six-day season, down 40 from last year, according to tentative figures. Final figures were expected to change by no more than a half dozen as reports of additional kills came in from remote areas, said a spokesman for the Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife Department. Last year’s total was 881, two less than the record 883 shot in 1982, the year moose hunting was revived in Maine after a 45-year hiatus.
A Japanese firm bought J. Press Inc. Kashiyama USA Inc., the purchaser, paid an undisclosed sum for the tweedy men’s clothier, a favorite of Harvard and Yale graduates for more than 80 years.
American Eagle gold coins go on sale for the second time today. The Mint is scheduled to offer 152,000 ounces of the coins to 24 authorized purchasers. Last week, they snapped up 558,000 ounces.
John Forster and Lee Holdridge’s musical “Into the Light”, starring Dean Jones, closes at Neil Simon Theater, NYC. after 6 performances.
French McLaren driver Alain Prost retains his Formula 1 World Drivers Championship with victory in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins title by 2 points from Nigel Mansell.
NFL Football:
The Los Angeles Rams defeated the Atlanta Falcons, 14–7. Eric Dickerson ran for 170 yards and threw his first National Football League touchdown pass, and Mark Jerue scored on a 22-yard interception return for Los Angeles (6–2). Dickerson, who carried 30 times, surpassed the 1,000-yard mark as the Rams avenged a 26–14 loss to Atlanta (5–2–1) two weeks ago and took over first place in the National Conference West Division. He leads the league in rushing with 1,030 yards. Dickerson’s second-quarter touchdown pass, for 15 yards to David Hill, was set up when Jerue forced Gerald Riggs to fumble at the Atlanta 30.
The Cincinnati Bengals upset the Pittsburgh Steelers 30–9. Earnest Jackson and Walter Abercrombie ran for more than 100 yards each and Mark Malone returned from a two-week injury layoff to throw two touchdown passes as Pittsburgh (2–6) surprised Cincinnati (5–3). Gary Anderson kicked three field goals as the Steelers won for the first time in four home games this season and ended a four-game losing streak against the Bengals. Cincinnati had four potential scoring drives fail inside the Steelers’ 20-yard line, two when Jim Breech missed short-range field-goal attempts. Jackson, a former Pro Bowl back cut last month by the Philadelphia Eagles, finished with 132 yards, including a 1-yard fourth-quarter scoring run. It was his first 100-yard game since joining the Steelers. Abercrombie had 109 yards. Jackson’s 132 yards were the most by a Steeler back since Franco Harris rushed for 132 yards against Seattle on October 23, 1983. The last time the Steelers had two backs gain more than 100 yards each was last November 17, when Frank Pollard and Abercrombie did it in a 31–7 victory over Houston.
The Cleveland Browns edged the Minnesota Vikings, 23–20. Matt Bahr’s third field goal of the game, a 22-yarder with 1:46 to play, gave Cleveland (5–3) the victory. Curtis Dickey of the Browns, who rushed for 106 yards — his first 100-yard effort in more than two years — tied the game at 20–20 with a 17-yard touchdown run with 4:23 to play. On the ensuing kickoff, Rufus Bess of the Vikings (5–3) fumbled when hit by Travis Tucker, and Felix Wright — who earlier had returned a blocked punt for a touchdown — recovered at Minnesota’s 21-yard line. Five plays later, Bahr kicked the winner. Chuck Nelson was short on a potential game-tying, 45-yard field goal with 7 seconds left as Frank Minnifield got a piece of the football.
Wilber Marshall sacked Eric Hipple, stripped him of the football and ran 12 yards for a touchdown today to lead the Chicago Bears to a 13–7 victory over the Detroit Lions. Marshall, a linebacker, made his play on the Detroit quarterback early in the first quarter, producing the Bears’ only touchdown of the game. Kevin Butler added two field goals for Chicago, including a 27-yarder with 18 seconds left to play. Jim McMahon, the Chicago quarterback who missed last week’s 23–7 loss to Minnesota because of back and shoulder injuries, completed 17 of 24 passes for 141 yards. He was intercepted twice, sacked three times and he fumbled once. The Bears have won the last 22 games McMahon has started.
Marc Wilson threw four touchdown passes, three to Todd Christensen, and the Los Angeles defense sacked Warren Moon six times and intercepted four passes, as the Los Angeles Raiders defeated the Houston Oilers, 28–17. It was the fifth consecutive victory for the Raiders (5–3) and the seventh straight loss for the Oilers (1–7). The Raiders played without their leading rusher, Marcus Allen, who was sidelined with an ankle injury. Napoleon McCallum played in his place and gained 82 yards on 22 carries. Los Angeles built a 28–7 lead before Houston rallied in the third quarter. The Raiders’ first touchdown came in the opening quarter on a 2-yard pass from Wilson to Andy Parker. It was set up by Rod Martin’s interception. Wilson hit Christensen, a tight end, for two touchdown passes in the second quarter, and a 3-yard Wilson-to-Christensen pass made it 28–7 in the third period. Bill Pickel, a defensive tackle for the Raiders, led the charge against Moon. He tipped three passes, sacked Moon for a 16-yard loss and recovered a fumble by the quarterback.
The Miami Dolphins squeaked past the Indianapolis Colts, 17–13. Dan Marino passed for 243 yards and a touchdown and John Offerdahl made a game-saving tackle at the Dolphins’ 14-yard line in the closing seconds. It was the 13th straight victory for the Dolphins (3–5) over the Colts (0–8), the longest current winning streak by one National Football League team over another. The Colts, trailing by 17–10 at halftime, pulled within 4 points midway through the final period on Dean Biasucci’s 45-yard field goal, his second of the game. Indianapolis had a chance to win when Reggie Roby, the Miami punter, dropped a snap at the Dolphins’ 45, giving the Colts the ball with 3:37 to go. Three runs by George Wonsley and a 7-yard pass from Jack Trudeau to Matt Bouza took Indianapolis to the Miami 24. A fourth-down pass to Owen Gill from the 22 gained 8 yards before Offerdahl made his tackle.
The New England Patriots rolled over the Buffalo Bills, 23–3. Tony Franklin kicked three field goals and Tony Eason, returning from a two-week absence, scrambled for a career-high 55 yards. Eason, who had been sidelined with a rib injury, completed 17 of 26 passes for 206 yards. The Patriots (5–3) cruised to the victory with 17 first-half points. Craig James scored on a 2-yard run, Robert Weathers ran 16 yards for a touchdown and Franklin kicked a 31-yard field goal. The Patriots sacked Jim Kelly five times and limited the Bills (2–6) to a 26-yard Scott Norwood field goal late in the third quarter.
The Jets recorded their sixth straight victory today and reached the halfway mark of the season with a 7–1 record. But their coach and some key people looked as if they had lost. For in producing a 28–23 decision over the energetic New Orleans Saints, the Jets lost Lance Mehl, their top linebacker; Joe Klecko, the heart of the defensive line, and Johnny Hector, the halfback -and nearly lost the game. Meanwhile, Pat Leahy lost his bid to tie the longest field-goal streak in National Football League history when he badly hit a sodden football on a 46-yard attempt in the final quarter in the rain. It was his first miss after 22 straight successes.
The Dallas Cowboys crushed the St. Louis Cardinals, 37–6. Danny White, making his first start in a month, threw two touchdown passes and Herschel Walker rushed for 120 yards and scored twice. It was Walker’s first 100-yard game in the N.F.L. White, who sat out the second half after aggravating a groin injury and suffering a cut chin, threw a 36-yard touchdown pass to Mike Sherrard and a 20-yard scoring toss to Tony Hill as Dallas (6–2) rolled to a 27–6 halftime lead over St. Louis (1–7).
The Philadelphia Eagles beat the San Diego Chargers, 23–7. Philadelphia’s 46 defense shut down the explosive San Diego offense and Paul McFadden kicked three field goals for the Eagles (3–5). The loss was the seventh straight for the Chargers (1–7). San Diego’s Mark Herrmann, playing for the injured Dan Fouts, completed 11 of 29 passes for 122 yards before leaving with a concussion early in the fourth quarter.
The San Francisco 49ers downed the Green Bay Packers, 31–17. Ronnie Lott, the National Football League’s interception leader, picked off two Green Bay passes and returned one 55 yards for the go-ahead touchdown. Lott, a defensive back, stepped in front of Phillip Epps, intercepted a Randy Wright pass and raced down the sideline to give San Francisco (5–2–1) a 21–14 lead with 14 minutes 7 seconds remaining. Ray Wersching added a 27-yard field goal with 5:13 left, and Tory Nixon returned another interception 88 yards for the final score with 33 seconds remaining, stopping the final drive for Green Bay (1–7). Lott’s two interceptions gave him eight for the season. Mike Moroski, who played quarterback for San Francisco in place of Jeff Kemp, who has an injured hip, completed 17 of 29 passes for 147 yards, one touchdown and one interception. He also ran for a touchdown.
John Elway passed for 321 yards today, including a 34-yard touchdown toss to Vance Johnson on a flea-flicker play, and a tough Denver defense yielded only a pair of field goals until the closing minutes as the Broncos defeated the Seattle Seahawks, 20–13. The victory improved the Broncos’ record to 7–1 and gave them a two-game lead in the American Conference West Division over Seattle, the Kansas City Chiefs and the Los Angeles Raiders, all 5–3. The Bronco defense frustrated Dave Krieg, the Seattle quarterback, who completed only 6 of 16 passes for 26 yards and was sacked five times for 47 yards in losses. That resulted in a net passing yardage of minus-21 yards for Krieg before he left the game in the fourth quarter.
Jeff Smith scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 32-yard run in the fourth quarter to give the Kansas City Chiefs a 27–20 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Smith’s burst, the longest scoring run of the season for Kansas City (5–3), came after a 13-play, 80-yard touchdown drive that had pulled Tampa Bay (1–7) even at 20–20 with 12:52 to go. A 3-yard run by James Wilder provided the tying touchdown.
Atlanta Falcons 7, Los Angeles Rams 14
Cincinnati Bengals 9, Pittsburgh Steelers 30
Cleveland Browns 23, Minnesota Vikings 20
Detroit Lions 7, Chicago Bears 13
Los Angeles Raiders 28, Houston Oilers 17
Miami Dolphins 17, Indianapolis Colts 13
New England Patriots 23, Buffalo Bills 3
New Orleans Saints 23, New York Jets 28
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Dallas Cowboys 37
San Diego Chargers 7, Philadelphia Eagles 23
San Francisco 49ers 31, Green Bay Packers 17
Seattle Seahawks 13, Denver Broncos 20
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 20, Kansas City Chiefs 27
Major League Baseball, World Series, Game 7:
The deciding game of the 1986 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets at Shea Stadium is postponed due to rain. It will be played tomorrow night.
Born:
Austin Spitler, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins), in Dayton, Ohio.
Schoolboy Q [Quincy Hanley), American rap artist (Oxymoron), in Wiesbaden, West Germany.
Died:
Jackson Scholz, 89, American athlete (Olympic gold medals, 4 x 100m, 1920; 200m, 1924).
