Two members of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee today urged a fundamental change in the strategy and a realignment of forces of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to counter the growing ability of the Soviet Union to wage a conventional war in Europe. The recommendations were contained in a statement issued by Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, and Senator Dewey F. Bartlett, Republican of Oklahoma, on their return from a two‐week trip to Europe to study the NATO forces for the committee. The Alliance, they said, “must undertake a fundamental enhancement of its conventional capabilities,” exploiting recent technological advances to achieve. a “quantum jump” in its conventional firepower. In addition, they said, NATO should improve its readiness to counter, through an “eastward repositioning” of forces and ammunition stocks, a Soviet attack that might be launched with little warning. With their statement, which is to be followed by a formal report to the Armed Services Committee, the two Senators have staked out one side in what is expected to be a growing debate in Congress and the new Administration over the future military strategy and position in Europe.
The United States was urged today by a civilian panel to take the initiative in curbing foreign arms sales and to enter into negotiations with the Soviet Union for a mutual freeze on their defense budgets. The recommendations were contained in a report published by the United Nations Association of the United States of America. It is entitled “Controlling the Conventional Arms Race,” and is the product of two years of deliberation by a panel of former government officials, retired military officers, business leaders and academic experts. The report said it was essential for the United States, as the largest arms supplier, to adopt “certain unilateral restraints,” such as in arms shipments to third‐world regions where tensions are high. It said the United States should encourage other arms suppliers to exercise similar restraint and should put its full weight behind regional initiatives toward controlling arms trade. It said the United States and the Soviet Union should agree to consult with each other before undertaking major arms shipments to the Middle East and should discuss the possibility of a freeze on shipment of very advanced arms to the Arab states and Israel. The panel suggested that the United States should explore the possibility that through a process of mutual example, the United States and the Soviet Union could first freeze and then reduce their defense budgets.
Moving to create a new power base, Jacques Chirac regained his seat in the French National Assembly. Mr. Chirac, who was legally required to give up his Assembly seat when he became Prime Minister in 1974, won it back handily in a by-election in his central France district. Chirac, who resigned as premier after a policy dispute with President Valery Giscard d’Estaing, won more than 53% of the vote in his rural Correze constituency. At least four other government members were forced into second votes in their constituencies next Sunday-necessary when there is no overall majority in the first ballot. The elections were seen as an important test of Giscard d’Estaing’s Liberal Conservative coalition with general elections 16 months away. Mr. Chirac called a Gaullist convention for December 5 to reassert his position and set up a revitalized party.
Pro-Soviet hard-liner Alvaro Cunhal won unanimous reelection as secretary general of Portugal’s Communist Party and closed the four-day party congress in Lisbon with a sharp attack on the minority Socialist government. Cunhal accused the Socialists of pursuing “policies of capitalist recuperation” and repeated a call for an alliance of Communists and Socialists to consolidate Portuguese democracy.
With no Soviet flags or other signs of fanfare yet in evidence, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, quietly prepared today for the visit beginning tomorrow of the Soviet Communist Party leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev. Mr. Brezhnev’s scheduled three‐day visit, which has been postponed several times since last spring, will be his first here in five years, although he has conferred frequently with President Tito in the intervening years. While relations between the two countries have been troubled ever since Yugoslavia’s expulsion from the Communist bloc in 1948 for its refusal to submit to Soviet economic and political directives, the meeting tomorrow is expected to be relaxed and more friendly than has often been the case in the past. Relations in the last year have shown considerable improvement.
Slovenian demonstrators blocked entrances to polling places and burned ballots to protest a ballot-box census on what languages Austria’s 7.5 million citizens speak. Bomb threats were received in two communities. The government conducted the poll to find out the size of minorities so that bilingual signs could be erected in mixed-language areas.
Roman Jews demonstrated their opposition to the release of Herbert Kappler, the Nazi war criminal, with a silent pilgrimage to the Ardeatine caves, site of the massacre for which he received a life sentence. Afterward, about 250 demonstrators, led by Rome’s chief rabbi, Elio Toaff, went to the military hospital where Kappler is being treated for cancer to deliver a protest note to the military authorities. Some demonstrators said they would stay outside the hospital all night to prevent Kappler’s removal.
Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten is captured one day after fleeing. Menten was a Nazi collaborator who committed numerous crimes, including murder, on behalf of the regime. After World War II, he was only found guilty of working as an interpreter and served just eight months in prison. Menten lived lavishly in the Netherlands for over 25 years, often storing and selling stolen artwork, In 1976, the case was reopened. During the trial, Menten’s mansion was set ablaze after a survivor of Dachau concentration camp threw a petrol bomb onto its thatched roof. The building suffered extensive damage and some of the art collection was destroyed. The new evidence was used to re-try him, and he was sentenced to 10 years in prison. He was released in 1985 due to old age and good behavior, and he died in 1987.
Maria de Jesus Lopez de Rivas, a Spanish Carmelite nun of the 16th century, was beatified by Pope Paul V1 today, a final step before possible sainthood. The ceremony, attended by some 15,000 people in St. Peter’s Basilica, came a day after Pope Paul had approved the canonization of John Neumann, a 19th‐century Bishop of Philadelphia and the first male American to become a saint. Sister Maria de Jesus, born in 1560 at Tartanedo, a village in the province of Guadalajara, died in Toledo at the age of 80 after having ruled the Carmelite convent there for nearly 50 years.
Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) said he received assurances that there was no reprocessing of plutonium for use in atomic weapons at Israel’s secret nuclear installation at Dimona. Glenn is a member of a 12-man Senate committee in the Mideast studying proliferation of nuclear weapons. He told a news conference at the end of the group’s stay in Egypt that he noticed that while there were many differences in the Mideast, “the one thing that seems to be unanimously agreed on is everyone is deathly afraid— and I don’t use that term lightly— of the introduction of nuclear weapons into the area.”
Syrian combat forces advanced toward the largely devastated center of Beirut this morning to establish a buffer zone between leftist-Muslim and rightist‐Christian militiamen and try to end the civil war in which more than 35,000 people have been killed in Lebanon in 19 months. The advance followed sporadic shelling attacks by both warring factions that thundered through the night in what may have been the last hours of the war. At about 7 AM, a huge yellow bulldozer broke through the barricade on the main road leading toward front lines in the city. Both Christian and Muslim civilian residents at the point waved encouragement to the Syrian troops, who were carrying machine guns and bayonetted rifles and riding in armored personnel carriers and open light trucks. “Yes, the war is over,” said a Christian man in his pajamas, “but you will never understand how we suffered.” Two Lebanese men in civilian clothes jumped on top of a Syrian supply truck and raised a cloth banner saying, “Welcome to Lebanon.” The Syrians encountered no hostile fire or resistance of any kind as they moved the first few hundred yards toward the front line at the National Museum, about a mile and a half ahead. The force included truckloads of special forces soldiers with grenade launchers and 120 mm. howitzers mounted on trucks. The Syrian force of heavily armed troops and Soviet‐made tanks was ready to counter any resistance it might meet as it moved into the center of the city from positions it has held on the edge of the capital since Wednesday, when the Syrian Army took control of the sector of the Damascus highway where it enters Beirut.
[Ed: Sadly, no, the war is not over. You another decade of senseless suffering ahead of you.]
Senator Abraham Ribicoff, Democrat of Connecticut, and a delegation of 11 other Senators wound up a four-day visit to Egypt today with an expression of optimism for a Middle East peace agreement and admiration for President Anwar el-Sadat. Senator Ribicoff, co‐chairman of the delegation, said that after talks with leaders in Israel earlier this week and with President Sadat and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy here he is convinced there is a genuine opportunity for peace. “The Arab world is ready to accept that Israel is here to stay, that Israel has a right to exist,” Senator Ribicoff said at a press conference in Cairo. After an 80‐minute meeting yesterday, Senator Ribicoff told President Sadat: “I believe you are a unique leader. You are candid, you are strong. Our respect for you is unbounded.” Mr. Ribicoff, a strong supporter of Israel, began to applaud Mr. Sadat and the other Senators rose and joined him, according to others who attended the meeting.
A man has been executed in the Chinese city of Changsha for defacing a wall poster proclaiming Hua Kuofeng’s appointment as Communist Party chairman, according to official notices in the city. Travelers arriving in Peking said the notices reported that a “young person” tried to stop the man scratching through Mr. Hua’s name in wall posters. The man was reported to have refused to repent under questioning and was sentenced to death “for crimes of counterrevolution,” they added. Mr. Hua, who was appointed to succeed the late Chairman Mao Zedong last month, made his name as an administrator in Changsha, capital of Mao’s native Hunan Province. The travelers said that other notices in Changsha announced the execution of a woman accused of prostitution — known here as “crimes of the two sexes.”
A key Korean figure in the inquiry into alleged bribery of American Congressmen has been ordered by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency to stay out of the United States indefinitely, according to a former Korean official. The figure, Park Tong Sun, a businessman, is believed to be in London and has avoided reporters.
Cuban exile extremists accused of terrorism against the Castro government have been tolerated, if not encouraged, by several Latin American nations. The terrorist campaign has included bombings of Cuban facilities in Panama, Colombia, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago and an attempt to kidnap a Cuban consul in Mexico.
Leaders of Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana and Mozambique, the four African observer nations at Geneva talks on Rhodesia’s future, urged black Rhodesian leaders to compromise on a date for transition to black majority rule and save the talks from a possible breakdown. Rhodesian nationalist leaders Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe, however, maintained their demands that the transition be completed within one year, a demand to which the white regime will not agree.
African nationalist leaders at the Rhodesia conference insisted today that Britain must face the obligation of breaking a deadlock in the talks by committing itself to an independence date for the territory. Spokesmen for Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, leaders of two of the four nationalist delegations, said they had not changed their position during contacts today with representatives of black African states ranged against Rhodesia’s white minority Government. The spokesmen made it clear that their delegations were awaiting a statement at a full session tomorrow by the conference chairman, Ivor Richard of Britain, before deciding on their next step. Conference sources said Mr. Richard was prepared to name tentative dates to break the 11‐day deadlock but added that Britain would make clear that in its view they could not be binding.
South Africa granted a visa to black U.S. Rep. Charles C. Diggs Jr. (D-Michigan), a Johannesburg official said. Since 1966, Diggs has applied at least seven times for visas to South Africa. All except one were turned down. He visited in 1971 and said he found “an appalling amount of racial injustice.” Diggs, leader of the Black Caucus in Congress, is expected to attend the African-American conference in Lesotho, an independent enclave in the Republic of South Africa.
Members of the church of which U.S. President-Elect Jimmy Carter was a member, the Plains Baptist Church of Plains, Georgia, voted to drop a ban that the church had maintained since 1965 against attendance by non-white people, after Carter spoke to the congregation prior to the evening’s vote. In 1965, the church had voted to ban attendance by African-Americans. By a vote of 120 to 66, the church members amended the bylaws with a statement of purpose “to open the doors to all who want to worship Jesus Christ.” The congregation voted to end the 11-year-old ban, to retain its minister who had opposed the ban and to create a committee to screen all applicants for membership, black or white, without regard to race. Such a “watch-care” group is common in a number of Southern Baptist churches. The President-elect spoke in favor of all three decisions and was apparently instrumental in resolving the controversy that had embarrassed him for several weeks.
In his 21-month campaign, Jimmy Carter promised to put through many programs, reforms and changes, including “a complete reorganization of the executive branch of government.” Those who have studied him closely believe there is a strong likelihood he will fight hard to achieve his programs. His success may depend on his skill and flexibility in dealing with Congress and threatened interest groups.
With a hopeful glance southward at President-elect Jimmy Carter, seven Northeastern governors meeting in Saratoga Springs, New York, put together a specific list of federal programs they said would help their region’s slumping economy. The seven Democrats from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont, joined by 100 economists, business and labor leaders and politicians, spent the weekend hammering out an “agenda” for Carter and the new Congress. The governors are seeking quick help with welfare, high oil prices and energy development.
Vice President Rockefeller and former California Governor Ronald Reagan disagreed on the future direction of the Republican Party but agreed that President-elect Jimmy Carter did not have a lock on the next eight years at the White House. In interviews in the U.S. News & World Report magazine, Rockefeller said he was confident “a moderate, progressive Republican party will emerge” from the “broad center.” Reagan, however, said the party should be developed around the platform adopted at the 1976 convention. “It deals in specifics, in conservative principles— no hedging on where we stand,” Reagan said.
The IRS has reduced its audits of large businesses, a move that may have cost the government millions of tax dollars, the Tax Reform Research Group, a Ralph Nader organization, contends. It said the reduction in audits of large corporations occurred despite major scandals involving corporate political payoffs at home and bribery abroad. The group said the number of large firms checked had fallen from 52,005 in 1972 to 44,194 in 1975, while audits of small firms (assets of less than $1 million) increased from 83,888 to 110,695.
The economic recovery rate in the United States and most other major industrial nations will slow significantly next year unless they foster increased expansion, according to predictions by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. The Paris-based monitoring agency believes that the American recovery rate will slow from 6¼ percent this year to about 4% percent in 1977.
“Legionnaires’ disease,” the mystifying outbreak in Pennsylvania more than three months ago, is still being investigated by scores of researchers trying to determine the cause. One researcher fell ill with a similar disease and has recovered from what was diagnosed as “viral pneumonia.” The case renewed speculation that the disease, which killed 29 persons and sickened 151, was caused by an as yet undetected virus. Other speculation centers on some chemical toxin.
He will enter Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York City on Thursday and will stay overnight to receive the second in a series of three anticancer chemotherapy treatments, said Senator Hubert H. Humphrey (D-Minnesota) in Washington. Humphrey, who recently underwent surgery to have his cancerous bladder removed, said he would get the third treatment in mid-December and that doctors then would review his case.
Representative Morris K. Udall, Democrat of Arizona, who lost his bid for the Democratic nomination to Jimmy Carter, fell from a ladder yesterday while repairing the roof of his suburban Virginia home and broke both his arms. “This hasn’t been my year” the 54year‐old Arizonan said today. Mr. Udall was treated and released from Bethesda Naval Hospital where a cast was put on his left arm, and a less seriously fractured right arm was put in a sling. He had been spending his first weekend at home since being elected to a ninth term in the House on November 2.
Arson is gaining federal law enforcement attention as one of the nation’s fastest growing crimes. The Aerospace Corp., in a study prepared for the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, used 1963–1973 figures of the National Fire Protection Association to sum up the problem. It said arson cases had more than tripled in that period and now accounted for 11% of all building fires. The 144,100 incendiary or suspicious fires in the decade caused more than 1,000 deaths and $1.7 billion in damages. But those figures are from only 10% of all fire departments.
Four leaders of a firemen’s strike in Springfield, Illinois, began serving 30-day jail terms for refusing to call an end to the four-day-old walkout of 158 men in compliance with a judge’s order. Officers of Local 37 of the International Association of Firefighters entered the county jail to a singing, shouting sendoff by a crowd of several hundred supporters. Judge Richard Cadigan ordered the men jailed Saturday and imposed a $5,000-a-day fine on the union.
The state of Idaho is considering a request from Allied Chemical Co. for permission to bury tons of Kepone wastes in an abandoned Titan missile silo, the New York Times reported. Officials of Allied Chemical and WesCon Co., a waste disposal firm, met with members of the Idaho Water Resources and Health and Welfare departments Saturday, the newspaper said, and the state officials agreed to consider the plan. Final decision, however, may rest with Governor Cecil D. Andrus, the newspaper said.
Minority enrollment in medical schools has leveled off after a six-year increase. The shift has raised concern that the drive for special recruitment programs for minority medical students has weakened and that court rulings and charges of “reverse discrimination” may jeopardize such programs.
Criminal charges against some research laboratories will result from a broad inquiry into faults in animal testing of new drugs, according to Dr. Alexander Schmidt, Commissioner of Food and Drugs. He said that most faults found so far by the federal agency appeared to reflect sloppy research but that there had also been evidence of fraud.
The heaviest volume of foreign financing this year will be offered in United States credit markets this week. Bonds scheduled for sale by the World Bank, Australia, France and the Canadian province of Saskatchewan total $925 million. In the municipal market, $1.25 billion of new state and municipal bonds will be offered in what has been called the second biggest financing week this year. However, bankers were doubtful about any rush to get money before interest rates rise.
She was accompanied to church in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, on a sunny, cold day by her son, John, his wife, Barbara, and the family’s four grandchildren, including David Eisenhower and his wife, Julie. Former First Lady Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower, born in Boone, Iowa, in 1896, was celebrating her 80th birthday. The children’s choir at the First Presbyterian Church sang two of her favorite hymns -“That Old-Time Religion” and “Brighten the Corner.” The 400-seat church was filled as the Rev. Robert A. MacAskill preached on faith, drawing his examples from Mrs. Eisenhower’s life. Earlier, Mrs. Eisenhower spoke for a radio broadcast: “The way I’ve always felt about Ike was this -a man has to make the money for the family… I never stood in Ike’s way of anything he ever wanted to do. That was his business, not mine. Mine was the children, my household … ” Mrs. Eisenhower makes frequent trips to Abilene, Kan. the boyhood home of Dwight D. Eisenhower. She will be buried beside him at a chapel there. Asked what her 80th birthday meant to her, she replied, “It is just another day. It’s another decade gone by. Another step on my way to Abilene.”
“Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 performances.
“Network”, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch and William Holden, premieres in Los Angeles and New York City (Finch — Academy Awards Best Actor 1977)
NFL Football:
The Detroit Lions were nipped by the New Orleans Saints, 17–16. Bobby Douglass gave the Saints a third quarter 10–6 lead with a 69-yard touchdown pass to Larry Burton, and Warren Capone added the winning points on a two-yard fumble recovery return with 1:35 left. Greg Landry moved the Lions to within one point with 25 seconds remaining on a TD pass to Larry Walton but the Saints recovered Detroit’s onside kick attempt and ran out the clock.
The New York Jets crushed the hapless Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 34–0. Joe Namath came off the bench to take the Jets to a 24–0 halftime lead and the New York defense took advantage of four sacks and six Tampa Bay turnovers to record their first shutout in 13 years. Clark Gaines carried 14 yards for a TD on Namath’s first play, then the Jets’ quarterback led a 77-yard drive in the second period, capped by a scoring pass to Richard Caster. Lou Piccone scored the final New York touchdown, picking up 60 of his 112 punt return yards on his third quarter TD.
The Denver Broncos blanked the San Diego Chargers, 17–0. Denver’s defense took advantage of six San Diego turnovers, including Tom Jackson’s fourth quarter interception touchdown, to shut out the Chargers for the second time in ’76. Rick Upchurch scored his first touchdown as a receiver in 1976, pulling in a 20-yard pass at the Chargers’ 39 and outdistancing the San Diego defenders. The Broncos sacked Charger quarterbacks six times and limited San Diego’s offensive output to 128 yards.
The Atlanta Falcons beat the slumping San Francisco 49ers, 21–16. Scott Hunter threw 34 and 21-yard fourth quarter touchdown passes to Alfred Jenkins to surpass a 10–7 San Francisco lead and give the Falcons their third win in the last four games against the 49ers. Jim Plunkett and Gene Washington combined for San Francisco’s two touchdowns but the 49ers gave up two fumbles late in the game, setting up the Falcons’ winning TDs. Sonny Collins rushed a club record 31 times for 107 yards in the victory.
The New England Patriots defeated the Baltimore Colts, 21–14. Steve Grogan put the Patriots ahead 21–14 on a three-yard run with 23 seconds left in the second quarter and the New England defense turned back Baltimore in the second half with two Mike Haynes interceptions, a fumble recovery and four quarterback sacks to pull within one game of the AFC East-leading Colts. Grogan negated the Baltimore pass rush by throwing short passes, completing 12 of 17 for 137 yards. Don Calhoun started in place of injured Sam Cunningham and led all rushers with 141 yards.
The Chicago Bears topped the Green Bay Packers, 24–13. Walter Payton became the first player to pass the 1,000-yard mark in ’76, gaining 109 yards on 18 carries to reach 1,008 as the Bears evened their season record at 5–5. Chicago took advantage of two Packers’ fumbles for a 14–0 first quarter lead but Green Bay closed to within one point in the third period before Roland Harper sealed the victory with a 16-yard touchdown run.
The Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Miami Dolphins, 14–3. Mike Kruczek engineered scoring drives of 86 and 78 yards, aided by the 110-yard rushing performances of both Franco Harris and Rocky Bleier, leading the Steelers to victory. Pittsburgh’s defense stretched its string of consecutive shutout quarters to 15, second longest in the NFL, before it was broken in the third quarter by Garo Yepremian’s 45-yard field goal. Kruczek threw only six passes, completing four for 102 yards, but hit Lynn Swann for 20 yards in the second quarter and Frank Lewis for 64 in the fourth quarter, setting up both Steeler touchdowns.
The New York Giants edged the Washington Redskins, 12–9. Joe Danelo’s 50-yard field goal with 4:32 left put the Giants ahead of the Redskins, and Jim Stienke’s end zone interception with 34 seconds remaining sealed New York’s first victory over a George Allen-coached team in 15 tries and snapped a nine-game Giants losing streak. Harry Carson recovered a Washington fumble at the Giants’ 27-yard line and New York held onto the ball for eight minutes in driving to the Redskins’ 33 for Danelo’s winning kick, an NFL record-tying eleventh field goal attempt by both teams in the game.
The Oakland Raiders downed the Kansas City Chiefs, 21–10. Ken Stabler threw touchdown passes to Fred Biletnikoff and Dave Casper while the Raiders’ defense stopped fourth-quarter Kansas City drives at the Oakland 1 and 10 yard lines. Biletnikoff’s two catches boosted his career total to 522, moving him ahead of Bobby Mitchell and into sixth place among the NFL’s all-time leading receivers. Jan Stenerud became the eighth player to score 1,000 career points, his 41-yard field goal in the third quarter giving him 1,001.
The Minnesota Vikings defeated the Seattle Seahawks, 27–21. Fran Tarkenton set an NFL record by passing for 2,000 yards for the 15th straight season. Tarkenton completed 84 percent of his passes and became the first NFL player to throw 300 touchdown passes but needed his 301st, a five-yarder to Stu Voigt with 4:52 left in the game, to overcome the expansion Seahawks. Jim Zorn gave Seattle their first and only lead of the game 3:14 into the fourth quarter on a seven-yard pass to Sam McCullum. Chuck Foreman led the Vikings’ ground attack with 100 yards on 17 carries, his third 100-yard game, as Minnesota moved to within one game of clinching the NFC Central title.
The Cleveland Browns rolled over the Philadelphia Eagles, 24–3. The Browns’ defense shut down the Eagles’ passing attack with six sacks and four interceptions while Brian Sipe tossed a pair of touchdown passes for Cleveland’s fifth win in the last six games. Sipe connected on second and fourth quarter scoring passes to Reggie Rucker and Paul Warfield to put the Browns up 17–3. Ron Bolton added the final TD on a 37-yard interception return three plays after Warfield’s score. Jerry Sherk set a Browns’ club record with 4 sacks.
The Cincinnati Bengals beat the Houston Oilers, 31–27. Ken Anderson and Isaac Curtis combined on a 43-yard touchdown pass with 42 seconds left in the game, culminating a 28-point second half comeback and giving the Bengals their fourth straight victory over the Oilers. Anderson threw two third quarter touchdown passes to Bob Trumpy and then ran over from the 1 in the fourth period. John Hadl, starting for the injured Dan Pastorini, put Houston back in the lead in the fourth quarter with a 13-yard TD pass to Ronnie Coleman. Ken Riley intercepted Hadl on the last play of the game to halt a last-ditch effort by the Oilers.
The St. Louis Cardinals edged the Los Angeles Rams, 30–28. Jim Bakken’s 25-yard field goal with four seconds left clinched the game for the Cardinals after Jim Hart outdueled Pat Haden, 324 to 172 yards, to bring St. Louis back from a 21–6 deficit. Cullen Bryant returned the second half kickoff 90 yards for a TD — the NFC’s longest kickoff return in 1976 — and a 15-point Rams lead, but Hart drove the Cardinals 67 and 87 yards for touchdowns by Terry Metcalf to close within one point. Both teams traded fourth quarter TDs before Bakken’s third field goal, as St. Louis remained second in the NFC East and Los Angeles first in the NFC West.
Detroit Lions 16, New Orleans Saints 17
Tampa Bay Buccaneers 0, New York Jets 34
Denver Broncos 17, San Diego Chargers 0
San Francisco 49ers 16, Atlanta Falcons 21
New England Patriots 21, Baltimore Colts 14
Green Bay Packers 13, Chicago Bears 24
Miami Dolphins 3, Pittsburgh Steelers 14
Washington Redskins 9, New York Giants 12
Kansas City Chiefs 10, Oakland Raiders 21
Seattle Seahawks 21, Minnesota Vikings 27
Philadelphia Eagles 3, Cleveland Browns 24
Houston Oilers 27, Cincinnati Bengals 31
St. Louis Cardinals 30, Los Angeles Rams 28
Born:
Chris Demetral, American actor (“Dream On”; “Dolly Dearest”), in Royal Oak, Michigan.
Ray Schultz, Canadian NHL defenseman (New York Islanders), in Red Deer, Alberta, Canada.
Tim Hamulack, MLB pitcher (New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers), in Ithaca, New York.
