President Reagan, while asserting that no laws had been broken in efforts to free American hostages in Lebanon, today rejected demands that he disclose details of Administration dealings with Iran. Trying to counter suggestions of a sharp split in the Administration, the White House said the actions toward Iran had the support of Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. It has been reported in the last week that the United States tried to facilitate the shipment of military spare parts to Iran in return for assistance in gaining the release of the American captives. A White House statement today emphasized that “no U.S. law has been or will be violated” and that “our policy of not making concessions to terrorists remains intact.”
Members of Congress, foreign policy experts and Administration officials say the involvement of the National Security Council staff in paramilitary operations represents a fundamental shift in its traditional role. The officials and experts said that for the first time, the President’s closest foreign policy advisers were directly involving themselves in sensitive, potentially embarrassing operations such as the recently disclosed shipment of arms to Iran. They also point to the involvement of the National Security Council staff in assisting the Nicaraguan rebels after Congress cut off aid as evidence that this small, secretive group is taking on new, potentially troubling functions. “What they have done goes far beyond what anyone else has done with the N.S.C.,” said David Aaron, the deputy national security adviser to President Carter.
In secretly initiating a plan of not only talking to a nation accused of terrorism but also supplying arms to it, the Reagan Administration has undercut key policy objectives and left allies and Arab moderates bewildered about the gap between the Administration’s public statements and its private action, according to United States officials. For example, the Administration’s dealings with Iran have run counter to its policies and repeated pleas to European allies not to negotiate with terrorists for the release of their captives. Beyond this, Administration policy has publicly sought to organize a worldwide embargo against arms sales to Iran — an embargo that the White House has secretly breached. Administration policy has also centered on supporting moderate Arab nations, politically and with arms assistance, against neighbors such as Iran. Carrying out a secret arms tie with Iran plainly upsets this policy.
Administration officials said today that the United States would not breach the limits of the 1979 treaty on strategic arms this week, as it had been expected to do. But they said that there had been no change in plans to exceed the terms of the unratified treaty before the end of the year. “The President said he will exceed SALT II limits; SALT II is no longer operational,” said the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, referring to the 1979 agreement. The United States will exceed the treaty limits when the 131st bomber is converted into a plane that can carry cruise missiles, unless other weapons are dismantled at that time. Senior Administration officials said last month that the Air Force had been instructed to be ready to exceed the treaty limits on November 11. Officials now say the tentative date for exceeding the limits is mid-December. Administration officials have not explained why there has been an apparent change in the schedule for converting the 131st bomber into a cruise-missile carrier or why the Administration has been reluctant to say precisely when the conversion will take place. Mr. Speakes said today that work on the 131st bomber had not been completed. But other Administration officials said the decision not to exceed the treaty limits now had been made by the White House for policy reasons.
Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said today that the Soviet Union would agree to the development of prototype American space weapons as part of a comprehensive arms-control treaty as long as the models were not tested in space. Mr. Shevardnadze, speaking at a crowded news conference, said the Soviet Union’s definition of laboratory research — the limit it has proposed for development of space-based missile defenses — was intended to cover the testing of the system’s elements in space. In general, Mr. Shevardnadze, speaking at his first Moscow news conference since becoming Foreign Minister in July 1985, held out little hope for resolving key arms control differences with Washington in the near future. His comments, Western diplomats said, seemed to leave the door open to an American research and development program for space weapons that would go beyond a literal definition of laboratory research and could include the testing of models in the earth’s upper atmosphere.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and Communist Party leaders from nine Soviet allied countries today held the first formal summit meeting of the Comecon trading bloc since June 1984. The official Soviet news agency Tass reported the opening of the meeting in Moscow but gave no details of the agenda or how long it would last. The summit meeting comes one week after prime ministers from the Comecon countries met in Bucharest, Rumania, where they signed accords on setting up joint production enterprises and took other measures aimed at increasing economic integration. Diplomats said the gathering of the party leaders so soon after their heads of government had held a full-scale meeting pointed to the urgency with which Mr. Gorbachev is seeking to inject new dynamism into the Comecon economies. The Rumanian leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, said last month in Bucharest that the Moscow session would discuss closer economic cooperation between the Comecon governments.
Vyacheslav M. Molotov, one of Stalin’s closest aides and a member of the Soviet leadership from 1921 to 1957, died Saturday at the age of 96, the Government press agency Tass announced today. A terse announcement said Molotov had died “after a lengthy and grave disease,” and described him as the head of Government from 1930 to 1941 and as a First Deputy Prime Minister from 1941 to 1957. It gave no indication of funeral arrangements.
A huge discharge of toxic chemicals into the Rhine is confronting Europe with one of its worst ecological disasters in recent years. Tonight, French television reported that more than 1,000 tons of chemicals, including eight tons of mercury, spilled into the river 10 days ago after a fire at a chemical storage warehouse in Basel, Switzerland. The environmental protection office in Basel has put the figure at 10 to 30 tons of chemicals. Spokesmen in France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland — the four countries through which the Rhine flows — said today that it was in danger of becoming a “dead” river as the chemicals kill off fish and destroy the ecological system of the vital waterway.
Poland’s Communist-controlled unions said they disapprove of a government draft of a 1987 economic plan that proposes a wage freeze and a 20% boost in food prices. The unions said the economic plan will be “difficult for the people to accept,” even though some of the proposals may be justified by Poland’s deepening economic crisis. The statement came after a meeting with government officials.
Bombs exploded minutes apart early today, damaging offices of three French companies, the police said. Firefighters said one person was slightly wounded in one of the blasts, at a Peugeot showroom. The French terrorist group Direct Action claimed responsibility for the bombings and said they were a protest against the visit of President P. W. Botha of South Africa.
Britain finally won support today from 10 of its 11 partners in the European Community for a ban on new arms sales and other limited measures against Syria. The British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, contended that the actions sent “the clearest possible message that what has happened is absolutely unacceptable.” Only Greece among the community’s 12 members declined to blame Syria for the attempt by Nezar Hindawi, a Palestinian of Jordanian citizenship, to smuggle a plastic explosive onto an Israeli jumbo jet last April. The explosive was concealed in a bag carried by his pregnant Irish fiancée.
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, visiting Chicago for talks with Jewish leaders, denied that Israel has produced nuclear weapons. “Israel does not intend to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East,” Peres said. He commented in response to questions about the arrest of Mordechai Vanunu, 31, a nuclear technician who told a British newspaper that Israel has been producing nuclear warheads for 20 years at a secret reactor at Dimona. Peres said that even though Vanunu’s information wasn’t true, he should still be prosecuted because “he does not have the right” to discuss such issues and thus “violated the law.”
A Jordanian Embassy interpreter detained in Turkey in connection with the murder last year of a Jordanian diplomat, Ziad Sati, has confessed to having planned and ordered the slaying, police said in Ankara. The interpreter, Adnan Moussa Suleiman Ameri, an admitted member of the extremist Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War) organization, also confessed to planning and carrying out attacks on other diplomats, foreign military personnel and places of worship in Turkey, police said. The announcement did not say whether his involvement included the September 6 attack on an Istanbul synagogue that killed 22 worshipers.
A militant underground organization said today that it would free some of the three French hostages it is holding here in the next 48 hours. In a statement to Western news agencies in Muslim-controlled West Beirut, the group, called the Revolutionary Justice Organization, said the hostages would be released as a result of what it said were promises by the French Government and French contacts with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria. The statement did not specify the French promises, but gave Mr. Assad credit for clearing the way for the release of the Frenchmen. The Associated Press reported from Damascus that two hostages had been freed and brought to the Syrian capital, according to reliable Syrian sources. It said the two hostages, who it identified as Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari, would be delivered to the French Embassy. The underground group’s announcement here came the day the European Community agreed at a meeting in London on an arms embargo against Damascus. The embargo was part of a package of sanctions against Syria over its role in the attempted bombing of an Israeli airliner at Heathrow Airport last April.
Syria closed its airspace to all traffic for a short time as three U.S. warplanes approached, the Turkish newspaper Milliyet said. Turkish Foreign Ministry officials confirmed that they were notified of the Sunday closure. The newspaper report said the three U.S. warplanes were over a Turkish town near the Syrian border when Damascus made the decision. Syrian authorities apparently feared an attack in the wake of British accusations of Syrian involvement in an attempt to place a bomb on an Israeli airliner. An American spokesman in Ankara had no comment on the report, which came as U.S. warplanes were holding a major exercise in eastern Turkey.
Iranian authorities have arrested the nation’s intelligence chief for leaking official secrets, an exile group opposed to Tehran’s fundamentalist Islamic regime said. The leftist Mujahedeen organization said in a statement in Paris that the detention of Colonel Mohammed Mehdi Katibeh is part of a recent wave of arrests in the armed forces. Neither Iranian nor independent sources immediately confirmed Katibeh’s arrest, but the Mujahedeen said the wave of detentions show that Iran is in a state of internal turmoil. The Mujahedeen account did not specify what information Katibeh leaked, or to whom it was given.
The Government of Bangladesh ended four years of martial law today, but violent protests broke out against a new law preventing any legal challenge to the nation’s ruler, President H. M. Ershad. As thousands of demonstrators battled policemen, one youth was killed and more than 100 people were wounded, witnesses and hospital sources said. Five buses were set ablaze and the police said more than 50 firebombs were tossed outside Dhaka University. The police said 34 officers were wounded. Lieutenant General Ershad, who has ruled the country as chief martial law administrator since a bloodless coup on March 24, 1982, had promised a formal return to democracy as soon as an indemnity law protecting his regime was adopted. Tajul Islam, an adviser to General Ershad, said martial law ended this afternoon and that the Constitution, suspended in 1982, was revived.
President Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines, starting a four-day visit, received a pledge from Japan today that it “would not spare its support to the new nation-building efforts” of her Government. Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, who met with Mrs. Aquino for about an hour, told her that his Government would also “cooperate more than ever for the recovery of the Philippine economy.” His remarks brought expressions of “profound gratitude” from the Philippine President, who at the outset set the tone for her trip by asking for increased Japanese Government aid and private investment. Japan is the largest supplier of assistance to the Philippines after the United States.
Philippine military leaders assured the nation today that the situation was “stable and secure” after the departure of President Corazon C. Aquino for Japan. But nervousness gripped people in Manila. The city was swept by rumors of an impending coup by officers close to Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. Several people said they believed the rumors were no more than an attempt to sow fear and instability, but some of them stocked up with extra groceries just in case. Military officers, Cabinet ministers, churchmen, students and even the Communist rebels said they were taking measures to prepare for trouble. The armed forces were placed on alert, and military camps were put under extra security. There were checkpoints at some places in the city. Some Manila residents said they were stocking up on food, preparing safe houses and taking other measures similar to those they took in the tense days before the February elections. As she departed this morning, Mrs. Aquino said she would call on people to mass in the streets if any armed move were launched.
The nation’s oldest biomedical research institution said today that it participated in experiments in Argentina last summer involving field testing of genetically engineered vaccines for animals without the knowledge or approval of the Argentine or United States Governments. The test, involving a living rabies vaccine, stirred criticism in Argentina. And Federal officials and scientists in the United States said it raised questions about the adequacy of a new Reagan Administration program to regulate the products of biotechnology research. The Wistar Institute of Philadelphia, which conducted the test in collaboration with the Pan American Health Organization, said it was not required to inform either government because Argentina has no rules governing the biotechnology industry and the United States rules did not apply. #20 Cows Inoculated In the test, 20 cows were inoculated in July with a gene-altered viral vaccine at an agricultural station in Azul, Argentina.
A large majority of U.N. members approved a resolution calling on the Security Council to adopt comprehensive, mandatory sanctions against South Africa. The resolution, which received 126 affirmative votes in the General Assembly to 16 against with 13. abstentions, also urged the United States and Britain, which have vetoed several sanctions attempts, and other opponents to reassess their positions. There is no power of veto in the 159-nation General Assembly, but only the Security Council is authorized to adopt enforcement measures such as sanctions.
Hundreds of black workers on strike for the past 12 days trooped to the front of two General Motors plants in Port Elizabeth today, but the gates remained locked. Officials of the South African subsidiary of the American auto company met with shop stewards, who said most of the 2,000 strikers wanted to return but approval was needed from the National Automobile and Allied Workers Union.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity while signing H.R. 3737, an immigration-related bill. President Reagan signed into law the bill designed to crack down on fraudulent marriages between U.S. citizens and aliens by closing loopholes in immigration laws. The legislation was aimed at marriages in which an alien marries an American to obtain a residency card and quickly disappears and in which a U.S. citizen accepts payment for helping an alien gain permanent residency by marriage. Marriage to a U.S. citizen, in most cases, instantly results in immigrant status. requiring no visa number or certificate from the Department of Labor.
Many Hispanic leaders, who for years viewed immigration legislation as offering many possibilities for repression, had a greater fear this year that helped enact the new law: that job competition and growing concern about unbridled immigration would produce a backlash of discrimination. Here in San Antonio, where 46 percent of the city’s 900,000 residents are Mexican-Americans, both the pressures that prompted Hispanic leaders to support the legislation signed by President Reagan and the concerns they have about its enactment, are readily apparent. At dawn one recent morning near this south Texas city, young Mexican-Americans and Mexicans emerged along West Commerce Street to wait for the trucks of contractors that cruise by daily for laborers. Mexican-Americans and Mexicans can not be distinguished physically, but they are different. The Mexicans work for less than the minimum wage of $3.35 an hour and the Mexican-Americans generally refuse to. When jobs are plentiful, this does not matter, but now, with work difficult to find, more of the Mexican-Americans can be found on the street when the day’s hiring is done.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony commemorating the 211th Birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps.
Senator J. Bennett Johnston is expected to withdraw Tuesday from the race against Senator Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia for leadership of the Democratic majority, Senate sources said tonight. Senator Johnston scheduled a news conference for Tuesday, but Tony Garrett, his spokesman, refused to confirm that he would withdraw. Nevertheless, most signs indicated that the Louisiana Democrat would drop his challenge and assume the chairmanship of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. If Mr. Johnston does withdraw, Mr. Byrd would be left with no declared opposition in his campaign to resume the post of majority leader. Mr. Byrd held the job for four years, before the Democrats lost control of the Senate in 1980, and has been minority leader for the last six years. The Democrats formally choose their leaders on November 20.
The president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops today warned of “a growing and dangerous disaffection” between some American Roman Catholics and the Vatican, and said he was seeking an audience with the Pope to discuss the tensions. The president, Bishop James W. Malone, said that he hoped the meeting with Pope John Paul II could be held in Rome late this winter or in the spring before the Pope’s visit to the United States, which is scheduled for September 1987. “It would involve the Holy Father, members of the Curia and members of our own conference, and would provide an opportunity for us to share with him information about aspects of the church which will be highlighted when he returns to this country,” Bishop Malone said here in an opening address to the annual meeting of the nation’s Catholic bishops. Several staff members for the bishops’ conference, which includes the nation’s Cardinals, said that although American prelates often traveled to Rome for meetings, a specific audience with the Pope to discuss the state of the American church would be unusual. No such meeting was held before the Pope’s visit to the United States in 1979 when he was cheered by millions.
The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether states may require the death penalty for all murders committed by prisoners serving life sentences without the possibility of parole. In another case, the Court agreed to consider whether criminal defendants have a constitutional right to testify in their own defense about facts they say they have recalled through hypnosis. The death penalty case involves Raymond W. Shuman, a Nevada prisoner who, while serving a life term for a 1958 murder, doused a fellow inmate with lighter fluid and burned him to death in 1973. He was sentenced under a 1973 state law mandating the death penalty for murders by inmates serving life sentences with no chance of parole. The Nevada Supreme Court upheld the sentence, but Mr. Shuman won a reprieve from Federal district and appeals courts, which held the law unconstitutional.
A feud between Alabama Democrats prompted the election of the first Republican Governor there since 1872. Governor Guy Hunt is the first truly country man to be chosen in Alabama in 30 years.
A Federal appeals court today agreed that the city of Atlanta had discriminated against a white man by hiring less-qualified black and women candidates as directors of a Civil War attraction. The United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit upheld a 1985 district court ruling that gave the white man, Dennis A. Walters Jr., the job as director of the Cyclorama, a city-owned tourist exhibit that houses a huge painting depicting the 1864 Battle for Atlanta.
The West Virginia Attorney General, Charlie Brown, a 36-year-old Democrat, went on trial today on misdemeanor charges of forcing his staff to make campaign contributions to pay off a 1984 debt. Mr. Brown’s attorney, Rudolph DiTrapano, tried unsuccessfully to delay the opening of the trial, arguing that Mr. Brown, who was in Washington to argue a case before the Supreme Court, should be present for all stages of his trial, even though he had waived his right to be at the opening hearing. The motion was denied. Mr. Brown is charged in eight counts with forcing workers in his office to buy $100 tickets for a fund-raising event in November 1985.
Serious disciplinary action by state licensing boards against doctors increased by 67% in 1985 over the year before, the Public Citizen Health Research Group reported. Using data compiled by the Federation of State Medical Boards, the consumer group said there were 1,131 serious actions such as license revocations, suspensions or probations recorded, compared to 678 in 1984. Nevada had the highest rate of serious actions, with 9.98 per 1,000 doctors. California ranked 31st, with a rate of 1.75 per 1,000. Alaska, Montana and Nebraska had no cases of serious disciplinary actions.
Greyhound Lines Inc., the nation’s largest inter-city bus company, and the Amalgamated Transit Union Council reached tentative agreement on a two-year contract for 7,500 drivers and mechanics, apparently ending the company’s threat to sell the unit. Ratification of the pact by union members was expected by Dec.ember 8, officials in Phoenix said. Details of the agreement were not released, but the Arizona Republic reported that it contained at least $27 million in concessions, including a 9% reduction in drivers’ wages.
Two candidates for sheriff in Greenville, Illinois, who tied in last week’s election, with 2,192 votes apiece, decided the outcome by flipping a coin. But the loser said he will seek a recount. Bond County Sheriff Bill Willeford, a Democrat who has held the job for 16 years, won the coin flip with tails. The tie-breaking event was witnessed by about 200 people jammed into the Bond County Courthouse. Willeford defeated Republican challenger William Gribble. Under Illinois law, tie votes in county elections are settled by lot, said Eldon Roe, county clerk.
Agnes Mansour, a former Roman Catholic nun who had been forced to choose between her order and her job as director of the Department of Social Services in Michigan, announced her resignation. Mansour, 55, did not explain why she was leaving her $64,100-a-year post. In 1983, she left the Religious Sisters of Mercy but remained a Catholic, after the Vatican ordered her either to resign the director’s job or to leave the order because her department pays for poor women’s abortions through Medicaid.
Lee Jung Sik, the captain of a South Korean fishing vessel, was charged with trying to sexually assault a female federal National Marine Fisheries Service officer, authorities in Anchorage said. The unidentified woman, who was on her first assignment, told how she was berated, attacked and harassed. Court papers also accuse several of the ship’s officers of carrying on in a drunken manner. The vessel and its 56 crew members were in Coast Guard custody in Kodiak, Alaska, while a civil suit was filed seeking confiscation of the 259-foot Shin Yang Ho.
Almost 85,000 computer industry people have gathered in Las Vegas once again for the annual ritual known as Comdex. A few hundred computer companies, ranging from behemoths like I.B.M. to mom-and-pop outfits, push their wares to distributors, retailers, industry analysts and the rumpled group nevertheless known as the press. Many companies are unveiling their 1987 products at Comdex, and, as expected, powerful new desktop computers based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor are all the rage here. With their immediate predecessors, the 80286-based machines such as the I.B.M. PC-AT and its compatibles, the 386’s represent the third and latest generation of I.B.M.-compatible personal computers.
Thomas A. Cooper, the president of the BankAmerica Corporation, said today that the bank planned to sell $7 billion to $8 billion worth of assets in the next two quarters, raising its capital by $750 million to $1 billion. Mr. Cooper also said that, by the end of 1987, the bank hoped to cut loan losses to half the current level. Mr. Cooper, who ranks second, behind A. W. Clausen, the chairman and chief executive officer, spoke to reporters in London, where he made a speech at a banking conference. His remarks were confirmed by a spokesman for BankAmerica at its headquarters in San Francisco.
Burroughs and Sperry, which agreed to merge five months ago, announced the name for their new company. The computer maker will be known as the Unisys Corporation, (prounounced U-ni-sis).
In a speech on Friday, Richard G. Darman, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, criticized big corporations for being bloated, risk-averse, inefficient and unimaginative and for not spending enough on research and development. Corporate executives were paid too much for doing too little, he suggested. Perhaps the unkindest cut was his likening corporate culture to the Federal Government’s bureaucracy. Whether Mr. Darman was simply being mischievous or defending his role in designing the new tax policy -which will raise the tax bill for much of big business — he caught people’s attention. He drew kudos from some unlikely allies, including John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard economist. On the other hand, being called “bloated” was undoubtedly a surprise to the likes of Chrysler, Exxon and General Electric and dozens of others that have put themselves and thousands of their employees through the wringer in the name of raising their efficiency.
McDonald’s acted speedily after two nonfatal swallowing incidents were reported. Parents of children under 3 who were given Legos toys can take them to McDonald’s stores and exchange them for the larger Duplos toys.
The homeless mentally ill benefit from a new kind of partnership between psychiatry and simple compassion that are offered in structured, home-like surroundings.
Early man may have wiped out a race of giant apes that would have towered over their predatory human contemporaries, according to fossil evidence discovered in Vietnam.
Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band “Live/1975-85”, a 5 LP box set of concert recordings.
NFL Monday Night Football:
Bernie Kosar passed for a career-high 401 yards tonight and overcame three dropped touchdown passes by Cleveland receivers to direct the Browns to a 26–16 victory over the Miami Dolphins. Kosar completed 32 of 50 passes without an interception — and without a touchdown pass. His pinpoint passing, however, set up four short Matt Bahr field goals and touchdown runs of 16 yards by Harry Holt and 13 yards by Curtis Dickey. The 22-year-old quarterback, in his second year, had never before thrown for more than 293 yards in a game. The Browns, who improved to 7–3 after their sixth victory in the last seven games, lead Cincinnati by a game in the American Football Conference Central Division. Cleveland led only by 16–10 at halftime despite dominating the half statistically, outgaining the Dolphins, 351 yards to 176 yards. The Browns finished with 558 yards. Dan Marino, the Miami quarterback, threw a 24-yard touchdown pass to Mark Duper, and Fuad Reveiz kicked a 20-yard field goal to keep the Dolphins (4–6) close at halftime. Dickey scored four plays after Miami’s Ron Davenport fumbled the ball away at his own 29 midway through the third period, and Bahr added a 21-yard field goal in the fourth quarter on a drive started by Clay Matthews’s interception. Miami scored on the last play of the game when Marino passed 22 yards to Mark Clayton.
Miami Dolphins 16, Cleveland Browns 26
Influenced by a strengthening bond market, stock prices rose slightly yesterday as Wall Street snapped a two-day slump despite reduced trading volume. As has happened regularly in recent weeks, takeover situations dominated investor interest. Yesterday’s big winner in the buyout sweepstakes was Collins & Aikman, which rose 14 ½, to 52 ½, on volume of 1.6 million shares. Over the weekend Wickes Companies agreed to acquire the fabrics and wall covering maker in a $1.16 billion deal. Things were less exciting for the market as whole. The Dow Jones industrial average, which lost 5 points on Friday, retraced its steps yesterday, gaining 5.76, to 1,892.29.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1892.29 (+5.76)
Born:
Aaron Crow, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2011; Kansas City Royals), in Topeka, Kansas.
Eric Thames, MLB first baseman and outfielder (Toronto Blue Jays, Seattle Mariners, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals), in San Jose, California.
Chase Coffman, NFL tight end (Cincinnati Bengals, Atlanta Falcons, Tennessee Titans, Seattle Seahawks, Indianapolis Colts), in Peculiar, Missouri.
Dexter Davis, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks), in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Andy Mientus, American singer and actor (Smash, Deaf West’s Spring Awakening), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Josh Peck, American actor (“Drake & Josh”), in New York, New York.
Died:
Francis “King” Clancy, 84, Canadian NHL defenseman (Hall of Fame; Stanley Cup 1923, 1927 Ottawa Senators, 1932 Toronto Maple Leafs) and coach (Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Maroons), of septic shock.
Gordon Richards, 82, British jockey (26 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 4,870 race wins), of a heart attack.
Rogelio de la Rosa, 70, Filipino actor (The Sword of Avenger) and politician, of a heart attack.
