The Soviet Union staged a relatively low‐key military parade today — excluding once again its intercontinental ballistic missiles — and repeated its endorsement of détente in celebrations of the 59th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. The parade that moved in a chilly mist through Red Square was virtually identical to last year’s, which broke a tradition of at least a decade and a half by omitting the big missiles and all tanks and other vehicles with metal treads. The 150 vehicles that swept past the rust‐red marble Lenin Mausoleum, where the Communist Party chief, Leonid I. Brezhnev, and other top leaders were positioned. included 10 types of missiles and rockets, most of them defensive antiaircraft weapons. The largest was the SS12, a ground‐to‐ground missile with range estimated at 450 to 500 miles, according to Western military men here. Before 1975, the military section of the parade had included about 300 vehicles. There was speculation last year that the reduction was aimed at projecting a less militant image amid detente and after the signing of the European security accord at Helsinki in August 1975. Some Western diplomats and attachés also favor a second theory: that the crushing weight of the big missiles and the destructiveness of tank treads did too much damage to the cobblestones of Red Square, which was repaired a couple of years ago.
Claims by a Soviet dissident that nuclear waste caused a disastrous 1958 explosion in the Soviet Union are “rubbish,” Sir John Hill, British atomic energy authority chairman, said. Commenting on an article in New Scientist magazine by biochemist Zhores Medvedev, Sir John said that although the Russians probably do bury low-level nuclear waste, “this sort of waste has a very, very low activity and could not possibly give that sort of explosion.”
[Ed: Sorry, Sir John. You underestimate the ability of Soviet Communists to fuck things up. The Kyshtym disaster (Russian: Кыштымская авария), sometimes referred to as the Mayak disaster or Ozyorsk disaster in newer sources, was a radioactive contamination accident that occurred on 29 September 1957 at Mayak, a plutonium reprocessing production plant for nuclear weapons located in the closed city of Chelyabinsk-40 (now Ozyorsk) in Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia in the Soviet Union. An improperly stored underground tank of high-level liquid nuclear waste exploded, contaminating thousands of square kilometers of land, now known as the Eastern Ural Radioactive Trace (EURT). The matter was covered up, and few either inside or outside the Soviet Union were aware of the full scope of the disaster for nearly two decades. The disaster is the second worst nuclear incident by radioactivity released, after the Chernobyl disaster, and was regarded as the worst nuclear disaster in history until Chernobyl. It is the only disaster classified as Level 6 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES). It is the third worst nuclear disaster by population impact after the two Level 7 events: the Chernobyl disaster, which resulted in the evacuation of 335,000 people, and the Fukushima Daiichi disaster, which resulted in the evacuation of 154,000 people. At least 22 villages were exposed to radiation from the Kyshtym disaster, with a total population of around 10,000 people evacuated. Some were evacuated after a week, but it took almost two years for evacuations to occur at other sites. The disaster spread hot particles over more than 52,000 square kilometres (20,000 sq mi), where at least 270,000 people lived. Since Chelyabinsk-40 (later renamed Chelyabinsk-65 until 1994) was not marked on maps, the disaster was named after Kyshtym, the nearest known town.]
The Party of Labor of Albania (Partia e Punës e Shqipërisë), the Communist party of Albania, completed its 7th five-year Congress at Tirana and reconfirmed Enver Hoxha as party chief and Mehmet the posts for 35 years and 32 years. The one-week congress appeared to bear out earlier indications of a cooling of relations between Albania and China since the death of Chairman Mao Zedong. The name of China’s new leader, Hua Kuo-feng, was hardly mentioned in news agency reports of the congress. Albania continued to denounce both the Soviet Union and the United States as dangerous superpowers. Hoxha, who had been the de facto leader of the Balkan nation for more than 30 years, was the last Stalinist in power in Eastern Europe. All twelve members of the Party of Labor Politburo were re-elected by the Central Committee, including Prime Minister Mehmet Shehu.
For all practical purposes the sovereign and independent state of Cyprus has ceased to exist. Cyprus is two nations now, one controlled by ethnic Greeks, the other by ethnic Turks. It is almost impossible even to make a telephone call between the sectors. A Greek and a Turk, old friends who both live in Nicosia, met for the first time in years recently — at a trade fair in West Germany. More than two years after Turkish troops invaded and split the island, the two nations present some striking contrasts. On the Turkish side, which consists of 20 percent of the population of 700,000 and 40 percent of the territory, the economy is almost stagnant and the government is broke, but the people seem relieved and even hopeful. On the Greek side unemployment is down, exports are up. the hotels are full. But the economic boom has not dispelled a lingering cloud of uncertainty.
The prototype of the Dassault Falcon 50 business jet made its first flight.
One of every four Israeli workers was involved in labor strife that closed three ports, shut down industries that build and repair military equipment and caused hospitals to turn away patients. Other workers threatening strikes or go-slow job actions included social workers, state attorneys, high school teachers, customs inspectors and officers in the merchant fleet. About 16,000 architects and engineers took part in a one-day walkout to back demands for wage increases but a Treasury Ministry source said there was no chance. of cracking a government ruling that froze wage increases at 2.5%.
President Elias Sarkis called for an end to “bloodshed and ruin” today and appealed to the heavily armed warring factions in Lebanon to greet with “fraternity and love” the Syrian‐dominated peacekeeping force that is being established in the country. In his first major public declaration since he was inaugurated September 23 in a Syrian‐occupied town in Lebanon with the protection of Syrian troops, Mr. Sarkis emphasized that the peacekeepers — an estimated 30,000 troops, more than two‐thirds of them Syrian — would be directly under his command. He added, in his speech to a national television and radio audience, that he hoped their stay as a deterrent force in Lebanon would be brief, and that he had the right to ask them to leave the country. But, while the President’s remarks seemed calculated to reassure Lebanese who resent the Syrian presence here, Mr. Sarkis gave no indication how long their mission — to disarm and control the opposing camps and end the 18‐month‐old civil war that has killed an estimated 37,000 people — might last. Mr. Sarkis did not say exactly when the peacekeepers, officially referred to as the deterrent force, would take up their positions in Beirut and other areas of the country, but the force, which is to include a total of at least 20,000 Syrians plus 6,000 to 7,000 troops from Saudi Arabia, the Sudan, Yemen, Southern Yemen, Libya and the United Arab Emirates, is expected to start functioning in the next few days.
In an unusual arrangement, the Northrop Corporation and the Navy are jointly promoting a $4 billion sale to Iran of a land-based version of a new Navy fighter, the F-18. The Pentagon has reservations about such an accord. Iran would finance development of the land-based F-18. which the Pentagon does not plan to buy. The proposed deal could set a precedent for a foreign country to influence United States weapons development and foreign military sales programs.
A severe earthquake struck a mountainous region of northeast Iran this morning, killing at least 16 persons and injuring 32, according to the relief agency Red Lion and Sun, the Iranian equivalent of the Red Cross. Most of the victims lived in the village of Vandik, where all of the 150 mud‐brick houses collapsed, a spokesman for the Red Lion and Sun said, Some casualties were reported in the villages of Kalatalam and Noughab. The quake registered 6.2 on the Richter scale, on which a reading of 6 can be severe and one of 7 can indicate a major quake. The Pars News Agency said that rescue teams under the personal supervision of Prime Minister Amir Abbas Hoveida, were rushing medicine, food, clothing and tents to the stricken area.
India’s authoritarian policies, begun as temporary, are now regarded by many Indians as permanent. Prime Minister Indira Gandhi originally called her suspension of civil liberties and jailing of opponents “temporary restrictions.” But milestones in her new order include tough press censorship, a new, dynastic mentality, concentration of power and postponement of a parliamentary election.
The Taj Mahal, India’s 300-year-old white marble masterpiece, is threatened by sulfur dioxide discharged into the air by locomotives, factories and an oil refinery, the Indian news agency Samachar reported. Experts were quoted as saying rain could turn the sulfur dioxide into sulfuric acid that would damage the monument built by the Emperor Shahjahan to immortalize his love for his wife Mumtaz Mahal. The refinery, which poses the biggest danger, has decided to lower the sulfur content of its furnaces, process low sulfur oil from Bombay’s offshore wells and desulfurize fuel gases, the agency said.
The full alert declared by Bangkok’s military commanders during the October 6 coup has been reduced to two-thirds status and troops are dismantling the last of the bunkers they had erected in city streets. A midnight curfew remained in effect, however. Schools, closed after the coup, have reopened, although a large number of university students remained away.
Retired General William Westmoreland, former commander of U.S. Army forces in Vietnam, said he doubts there are many Americans listed as missing in action who are still alive in Southeast Asia. But he added that if there are any still alive, the Vietnamese “have a moral obligation to release their names.” Westmoreland said the idea of bargaining with the Vietnamese for information about MIAs in return for economic aid is “absolutely absurd.”
Nationalist China denied it had sent three high-level officials to Peking to confer on possible unification of Taiwan and the People’s Republic of China. A Japanese newspaper had quoted an unidentified foreign source in Peking in reporting the trip, which it said had the approval of Chinese Premier Chiang Ching-kuo and U.S. Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. The State Department had denied any American involvement and Chinese Foreign Ministry officials had declined comment.
So many aides and confidants of President Park Chung Hee have been linked to cash payments to United States officials and pressing of American businessmen for contributions that certain Korean and American sources here say it is virtually impossible for the South Korean leader to have been unaware of them. The pressuring of the Gulf Oil Corporation for $4 million in campaign contributions to Mr. Park’s ruling party, the $10,000 cash offering to an aide of former President Richard M. Nixon and the alleged disbursement of cash‐filled envelopes in Washington — all this could never have occurred without at least the tacit approval of President Park, the American and Korean sources maintain. Seoul says that these and other cash dealings were freelance operations by individual Korean officials and businessmen for personal or financial gain. But Government spokesmen cannot explain how any of these transactions could have escaped President Park’s attention, since some of them reportedly originated within his executive compound, called the Blue House.
A powerful earthquake rocked eastern Mindanao today, the official geophysical observatory here said, adding that the quake’s epicenter was some 400 miles southeast of Manila. Mindanao is the southernmost island in the Philippines. The temblor registered 6.8 on the Richter scale, the observatory said.
Cuba is in the process of completing a major transformation of its administrative system, including a restructuring of the provinces. The shifts are to take effect December 2, when a newly constituted National Assembly convenes in Havana. The structural change in the regional system of administration will split up the six provinces of prerevolutionary Cuba into 15 units. There will be 14 provinces of roughly equal size and population, plus a special municipality for the Isle of Pines, formerly administered by the western province of Pinar de Rio. Cienfuegos, a new province carved out of the former central province of Las Villas, was named for Mr. Castro’s former comrade in arms, Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared under mysterious circumstances 17 years ago this month.
Intensive British efforts during the weekend failed to loosen the deadlock between Rhodesia’s white-controlled Government and black nationalist leaders on the time needed to prepare for a transfer of power to the nation’s black majority. Although they are divided on many issues, the leaders of the four nationalist delegations at the British‐sponsored conference on Rhodesia’s future agreed that their private meetings with Ivor Richard, chairman of the conference and Britain’s chief representative to the United Nations, had produced no results. Similarly, Foreign Minister P. K. van der Byl of Rhodesia said after a meeting with Mr. Richard today that there had been no narrowing of the gap on a timetable for the transfer of power. His Government is demanding a 23‐month transitional phase; the nationalists want 12 months.
South Africa, suspended from the Congress of the International Chess Federation two years ago because of its apartheid policies, has been readmitted, sources in the congress said. Arab and Soviet bloc nations, who were the main opponents of permitting South African membership, are boycotting the congress and the 22nd Chess Olympiad being held in Haifa, Israel.
A new, strong code of ethics will be one of the first orders of business for next year’s Congress, House Majority Leader Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) told the Boston Globe. O’Neill, unopposed for election as the next Speaker of the House, said Congress’ image has been tarnished by recent disclosures of scandals and cash handouts by South Korean businessman Tongsun Park to congressmen. When asked if he ever had been offered or had accepted money from Park, O’Neill, 63, said, “Never have and wouldn’t have been accepted. Hey, if Tongsun Park came up to me with $3,000, I’d hit him in the puss with it.” O’Neill, who last week won his 13th term to Congress, said he and other Democratic congressmen would give advice on various programs to President-elect Jimmy Carter “even if it isn’t sought.”
The fervent pro-Nixon demonstrations that followers of evangelist Sun Myung Moon staged in Washington during the Watergate scandal had been requested by the South Korean CIA, the Washington Post reported. The FBI recently learned from two- and three-year-old secret intelligence reports that the South Korean agency had asked Pak Bo Hi, at the time a chief aide and translator for Moon, to arrange 1973 and 1974 demonstrations in support of Richard M. Nixon, the newspaper said. The information is being used by Justice Department investigators to help determine Pak’s role in an extensive effort by agents of the South Korean government to manipulate public opinion and influence U.S. congressmen with cash, gifts and campaign contributions.
The Rev. Clennon King, King, the black activist minister who was barred from worship at the Plains Baptist Church a week ago, spent 15 minutes today in the Sunday School class often taught by Jimmy Carter before he was ejected from the church and again locked out of the worship service The study topic of the adult men’s Sunday School class that Mr. King attended was “Together under God.” Mr. Carter is a member of the class and has been its teacher on occasion. He was vacationing at St. Simons Island, Georgia, and did not attend church today, the second Sunday that Mr. King has sought entrance to worship. In Jekyll Island, Georgia, Jody Powell, Mr. Carter’s press secretary, said the President‐elect was “concerned and disturbed” about the incident at the church. He said Mr. Carter was hopeful that a decision would be made next Sunday “which will guarantee the right of all people” to worship there. Mr. Powell said Mr. Carter would attend services and the church conference‐meeting next Sunday after he returns from his vacation.
A labor-management task force recommended that the National Labor Relations Board streamline and speed up its decision-making and election procedures, a step that could help union organizing campaigns. The recommendations, representing a compromise of labor and management positions, were expected to be adopted by the board after a 90-day period for public comment.
Hard world currency decisions will face the Carter administration, according to financial experts in Europe. A priority is loan applications by Britain and Italy to the International Monetary Fund, which needs more money.
Earnings progress by American business continued in 1976’s third quarter. Corporate profits exceeded predictions by many experts in rising 14 percent above the year-earlier levels. Most economists believe that, for all of this year, corporate earnings will be about 25 percent higher than in 1975.
Credit markets zigzagged up and down last week, but closed on Friday with prices and interest rates close to their levels of a week earlier. Bond analysts seemed concerned that Jimmy Carter’s election would lead to policies accelerating inflation. But at week’s end, economists agreed that the concern had been exaggerated and his victory would not threaten bondholders.
Washington’s Governor-elect Dixy Lee Ray repeated her position that nuclear power plants were safe and said President-elect Jimmy Carter will find they were an answer to the nation’s electrical needs. Miss Ray formerly was chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which since has been renamed the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In an interview on NBC’s Meet the Press, she rejected charges that nuclear plants were unsafe. She said of Carter, a nuclear engineer who has expressed doubts about nuclear plants: “His background in nuclears is a long time ago. I suspect he will, as others have done, recognize the need for nuclear power.”
The United Auto Workers wrapped up final details of a new contract with Chrysler Corp. and turned its attention to General Motors, last of the Big Three auto makers without a new labor pact. UAW President Leonard Woodcock and Vice President Irving Bluestone scheduled a news conference for today to announce a strike deadline for a contract for GM’s 390,000 U.S. workers. Woodcock has said he wants an agreement before Thanksgiving. The details of the Chrysler contract covering 109,000 U.S. and Canadian hourly workers were not disclosed. Chrysler, however, still faces possible labor troubles because of the lack of local contracts at 42 of 69 facilities to supplement the national agreement.
Mayors of the nation’s cities met today with a representative of President‐elect Jimmy Carter in a search for ways to stem the flight industry and people from urban centers. The United States Conference of Mayors meeting centered mainly on the question of what the Democratic president will do for the cities. The mayors and Howard J. Samuels, the Carter representative, agreed that the most crucial task was stimulating employment in the cities and stemming the flight of resources and people to the suburbs. “You’ve got to move jobs in or people out,” said Mr. Samuels, a New York Democrat. “The people are there, the unused [factory] capacity is there.”
A woman was in jail, charged with murder, after the bodies of two of her young daughters were found in trash containers. Authorities were searching for a third daughter and the woman’s 16-year-old boyfriend. The bodies of Laurie Jo Davies, 19 months, and Christine, 2 ½, were found Friday, wrapped in plastic bags and stuffed into trash containers in Worthington, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus. Police were hunting for Tonya, whose fourth birthday is November 28. The mother was identified as Margo Davies, 20.
Labor songs reverberated through the grand ballroom of the Pierre Hotel as the United Federation of Teachers observed the 16th anniversary of its first strike in New York City and hailed Charles Cogen, who led the walkout. The occasion reunited two deans of the American labor movement, Jacob Potofsky and David Dubinsky, who sang “We Shall Overcome” and stressed the teachers union’s link with labor struggles of a bygone era.
An engine room fire aboard an American container ship carrying flammable cargoes raged for more than six hours in the North Atlantic. But the Coast Guard reported that seamen snuffed out the blaze by nightfall, with no reports of serious injuries.
The World Trade Center lost nearly $12 million last year, New York state Comptroller Arthur Levitt reported in a study of the 25 facilities operated by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. But he said that operations of all the authority’s units made a profit last year of $38,254,000.
Suspected PBB poisoning of more than 1,000 rural residents of Michigan has produced the first federal mass survey of the effects of an environmental contaminant. In 1972 a quantity of PBB, a fire retardant, was accidentally mixed into animal feed distributed in the state, causing the deaths of many thousands of animals and the destruction of even more to prevent further contamination. Families suspecting PBB-related illnesses are undergoing free examinations in Grand Rapids.
The elections in Puerto Rico upset not only the incumbent Popular Democratic Party. The dramatic victory of the opposition New Progressive Party also disappointed the independence movement in its hopes of becoming the power broker in the new legislature. Neither of the two pro-independence parties made significant gains.
The endangered California condors, threatened both by hunters and a changing environment, now number only 40. They have developed problems in reproducing, and there is a suspicion that pesticides may be interfering with their birth rate.
Up to 1,000 wild burros living in Grand Canyon National Park will be killed over a five-year period because the animals, which are not native to the canyon, compete for food with native species such as desert bighorn sheep and cause extensive damage by overgrazing, a park spokesman reported. The burros are descendants of animals left behind by early prospectors. Field biologists estimate the burro population doubles every four years. Dep. Park Superintendent Bruce Shaw said the eradication program, beginning as soon as Park Service shooting teams and transportation can be arranged, will cost $100,000. Prior control programs began in 1920 and ended in 1969 — some 2,888 burros were killed and at one point the population was reduced to about 20 — when public outcry ended the 49-year effort.
The Pentagon is preparing to conduct history’s largest test of solar electric power at the Navy’s Tudor Hill Laboratory in the Bahamas. Panels of solar cells will be installed there to generate enough electricity to supply half the normal requirements of the laboratory’s headquarters building. Total output from the cells is rated at 60 kilowatts. The biggest presently functioning solar cell generation plant is a California Highway Patrol radio repeater station, which gets about 3.5 kilowatts of power from the sun.
“Gone With The Wind”, 1939 Oscar-winning film epic starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, makes broadcast television debut on NBC; aired in two parts over consecutive nights; earns a then record 65% share of TV viewers
NFL Football:
The St. Louis Cardinals nipped the Philadelphia Eagles, 17–14. Jim Bakken’s 20-yard field goal broke a 14-14 fourth quarter tie and Steve Okoniewski recovered an Eagle fumble at the Cardinals’ 11 with less than 30 seconds to go in the game, saving the lead and maintaining St. Louis’s second place position in the NFC East. Jim Otis rushed 115 yards for his seventh 100-yard game, a Cardinals’ record.
The Seattle Seahawks downed the Atlanta Falcons, 30–13. Jim Zorn threw two touchdown passes in an 18-second span in the second quarter and the Seahawks took advantage of six Falcons’ turnovers for Seattle’s first victory over a member of the NFL establishment. Zorn hit Sherman Smith with a 21-yard scoring pass with 6:55 left in the half and following Ernie Jones’ fumble recovery on the ensuing kickoff, Zorn connected with John McMakin for a 14-3 halftime lead. Smith picked up the final Seattle TD on a 53-yard run following Dave Brown’s second interception and rushed for 124 yards to become the first Seahawk to reach the 100 mark.
The Washington Redskins edged the San Francisco 49ers, 24–21. Joe Theismann ran for a first down on a fake field goal from the 49ers’ 36 yard line to set up Mike Moseley’s winning 39-yard field goal. Delvin Williams provided the bulk of the San Francisco offense, scoring all three touchdowns and rushing for 180 yards. Theismann countered with 302 yards passing, including three scoring passes to Jean Fugett, while Frank Grant caught 11 passes for 200 yards to tie a Redskins record for catches in a game and tie Doug Kotar for the NFC’s best receiving performance in 1976. Williams’ 80-yard touchdown run in the first quarter was the longest run in the NFL in 1976 and his 86-yard TD reception from Jim Plunkett was the year’s longest in the NFC.
The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Detroit Lions, 31–23. Sammy White set a Vikings’ single game receiving record of 210 yards, pulling in two touchdown passes and setting up two Chuck Foreman scores as Minnesota swept the season series with Detroit. White’s second touchdown on a 37-yard pass from Fran Tarkenton with 1:53 left in the game sealed the victory. The Lions managed to stay within one point until then, behind a 116-yard, two touchdown effort by Lawrence Gaines.
The Dallas Cowboys beat the New York Giants, 9–3. The Cowboys turned three big plays into Efren Herrera field goals and stopped the Giants on a fourth-and-five at the Dallas 6 with 1:19 left in the game to win and save their one-game lead over St. Louis in the NFC East. The New York defense held the Cowboys without a touchdown for the first time in 56 games but a Lee Roy Jordan fumble recovery, a fake punt run for a first down by Danny White, and a fourth quarter interception by Charlie Waters were turned into Dallas three-pointers to offset Joe Danelo’s first quarter field goal.
The Denver Broncos walloped the winless Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 48–13. Steve Ramsey’s 71-yard touchdown pass to Haven Moses ignited a 38-point second half barrage as the Broncos scored their second highest point total ever. Denver picked up three defensive touchdowns, Randy Gradishar and John Rowser each returned interceptions, and Bob Swenson lateraled a fumble to Randy Poltl for the final Broncos score. Otis Armstrong rushed for 116 yards and caught three passes for 64 yards, including a 35-yard touchdown pass in the first period.
The Green Bay Packers beat the New Orleans Saints, 32–27. Willard Harrell’s two-yard sweep into the end zone with 4:47 left negated a second half Saints’ comeback. Fred Carr intercepted Bobby Douglass on the second play of the second half and returned it 10 yards for his first TD in his nine years in the NFL, but the Saints came back to score twice in the third quarter for a 27-23 lead prior to Harrell’s TD.
The Cleveland Browns topped the Houston Oilers, 21–7. Safety Thom Darden picked up a fourth quarter fumble and then tipped an Oilers’ pass to Bob Babich, setting up a pair of Cleveland touchdowns in a 21-7 win. Greg Pruitt carried the ball three times following Darden’s fumble recovery, then tossed a 10-yard scoring pass to Brian Duncan for a 14-7 lead. Brian Sipe connected with Oscar Roan on the next series for Cleveland’s final score. Ronnie Coleman scored the only Houston TD on a seven-yard pass from John Hadl late in the first half.
The New England Patriots defeated the Buffalo Bills, 20–10. Sam Cunningham’s 141 yards rushing and Mike Haynes’s 89-yard punt return touchdown, New England’s first in 17 years, led to the Patriots victory and gave them a 2-0 series record against the Bills for the first time since 1965. Haynes’s touchdown put New England ahead 13-0 in the second quarter and Cunningham picked up the Patriots’ final score in the third quarter on an eight-yard run. New England’s defense had four interceptions and picked up four Buffalo fumbles.
The Miami Dolphins rolled over the New York Jets, 27–7. Bob Griese threw a pair of touchdown passes and the Dolphins’ defense held the Jets scoreless until 3:34 remained in the game as Miami picked up its third straight victory. Griese finished an 80-yard drive with an 18-yard scoring pass to Jim Mandich. He connected with Nat Moore for a 17-0 halftime lead. Gary Davis picked up the Dolphins’ final score on a 28-yard run.
The Baltimore Colts downed the San Diego Chargers, 37–21. Lydell Mitchell picked up 91 yards rushing and 125 yards receiving, including a 40-yard touchdown pass from Bert Jones for the first Baltimore score, as the Colts got their sixth straight win and stayed two games in front of New England in the AFC East. Jones threw for 275 yards and two other touchdowns to Roger Carr before giving way to Bill Troup, who got the final Baltimore TD on a six-yard run.
The Pittsburgh Steelers crushed the Kansas City Chiefs, 45–0. Terry Bradshaw, starting for the first time in four weeks, built a 31-0 Steelers lead before leaving. He threw a 19-yard pass to Frank Lewis to finish a 21-point third period barrage. Franco Harris picked up 117 yards rushing and the first two touchdowns of the third quarter while rookie Jack Deloplaine scored twice in the fourth quarter, giving the Steelers their highest point total since 1952. The Chiefs failed to score for the first time in 179 games.
The Oakland Raiders edged the Chicago Bears, 28–27. Ken Stabler’s 49-yard touchdown pass to Cliff Branch with 4:33 left in the game erased a 27-21 lead the Bears gained in a 20-point third quarter. Stabler staked the Raiders to a 21-7 lead early in the third quarter with TD passes of 17 and 75 yards to Dave Casper and Branch. Walter Payton, scoring the game’s initial touchdown and setting a Chicago record with 36 rushes, scored the final two TDs in the third quarter on 12 and two-yard runs, putting the Bears in the lead before Stabler’s TD to Branch.
St. Louis Cardinals 17, Philadelphia Eagles 14
Atlanta Falcons 13, Seattle Seahawks 30
Washington Redskins 24, San Francisco 49ers 21
Detroit Lions 23, Minnesota Vikings 31
New York Giants 3, Dallas Cowboys 9
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 13, Denver Broncos 48
New Orleans Saints 27, Green Bay Packers 32
Cleveland Browns 21, Houston Oilers 7
Buffalo Bills 10, New England Patriots 20
Miami Dolphins 27, New York Jets 7
Baltimore Colts 37, San Diego Chargers 21
Pittsburgh Steelers 45, Kansas City Chiefs 0
Oakland Raiders 28, Chicago Bears 27
Born:
Mark Philippoussis, Australian pro tennis player, 1999 and 2003 Davis Cup team winner, 1998 U.S. Open and 2003 Wimbledon finalist; in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Larry Foster, NFL wide receiver (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals), in Harvey, Louisiana.
Reggie Grimes, NFL defensive end (New England Patriots), in Nashville, Tennessee.
Les Walrond, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Philadelphia Phillies), in Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Kelley Gibson, WNBA forward and guard (Houston Comets), in Easton, Maryland.
Died:
Mathew Charles Lamb, 28, Canadian spree killer who shot four people in 1966 and then joined the Rhodesian Army after his release from custody, was accidentally killed by friendly fire from another member of his unit.
