Xuân Lộc, a provincial capital where South Vietnamese forces had made a stand since April 9, has been evacuated, military sources reported yesterday. It was not immediately known where the troops had gone from the city they had defended against heavy North Vietnamese attack. But it appeared that they had been pulled back closer to Saigon to help in setting up a new defense perimeter. Xuân Lộc, 38 miles northeast of Saigon, had been the northeastern anchor of Saigon’s defense line. The city is now in ruins.
Scattered clashes and artillery attacks were reported yesterday in regions to the north and south of Saigon, and the capital itself was rocked by large explosion when North Vietnamese artillery fire hit an ammunition dump at Long Bình, a large base 14 miles to the northeast. With the fighting at a relatively low level yesterday, Western diplomats expressed optimism that the Communists, who now reportedly have an overwhelming military force deployed around Saigon, might be willing to begin talks to end the war rather than assault the capital directly. The diplomats cautioned, however, that it was still too early to tell what the reaction might be to the announcement by President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu Monday night of his resignation.
Meanwhile, government troops fighting in Tây Ninh Province 55 miles northwest of here were reported to have pushed Communist units out of two villages along Route 22. The road, along which supplies, move from Saigon to Tây Ninh city, had been cut for three days. A Saigon spokesman said that 248 Communist soldiers had been killed in a series of clashes along the road. He said that six Government soldiers had been killed and 39 wounded. Clashes were also reported yesterday south of here along Route 4, a vital highway over which the rice, fruit and vegetables of the Mekong River delta are transported to Saigon.
Parts of at least two North Vietnamese divisions have been trying for two weeks to close the two‐lane highway. At last report, the road was still open. According to the Saigon command, government soldiers killed 32 of their enemy in several clashes in Long An Province directly south of the capital, and 43 others were reportedly killed by air strikes.
While military sources were reporting the evacuation of Xuân Lộc, the capital of Long Khánh Province, the Saigon command said officially that the city had not been abandoned. However, the informants said that a series of moves to evacuate the isolated city had been carried out without any hitch. The sources said similar moves were under way to evacuate another provincial capital, Hàm Tân, 65 miles east of Saigon. Later, The Associated Press quoted the Saigon command spokesman as having said it had been overrun.
Xuân Lộc was defended by the 18th Infantry Division and a brigade of paratroops. They suffered heavy casualties in putting up the best defense by Government soldiers since the North Vietnamese offensive began in early March. For a time two weeks ago Communist troops managed to penetrate the city and to hold nearly half of it before being pushed out.
Reports from Long Bình said the explosion that could be heard and felt here had followed a heavy shelling attack in which incendiary shells started a number of fires. Long Bình, formerly the chief United States base in the Saigon area, lies next to Biên Hòa. The Communists have been shelling the big Biên Hòa air base for the last week with long‐range Russian‐made 130‐mm artillery.
North Vietnam and the Việt Cộng, in commentaries on the resignation of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as South Vietnam’s President, insisted that “the only way out” for the Ford administration was to stop all involvement in South Vietnam, including military aid. Top United States officials said the Communist reaction, which appeared to dim chances for a cease-fire and talks, was not unexpected. In commentaries and statements in Hanoi and Paris, the Vietnamese Communists said that the United States must “abandon the Nguyễn Văn Thiệu clique and not just the person of Nguyễn Văn Thiệu.”
The South Vietnamese Government, in an appeal to the signers of the Paris peace agreement of 1973, called Wednesday for an immediate cease‐fire and negotiations with the Communists leading to formation of a joint government. A Foreign Ministry communiqué supported the establishment of a “National Council of Reconciliation and Concord,” a step urged in the Paris accords but rejected by former President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu as a Communist takeover in disguise. The overture was the Saigon Government’s first since Mr. Thiệu resigned Monday, and in some respects paralleled offers he had made. The Associated Press said a statement issued by the Việt Cộng delegation in Saigon derided the new proposal, saying it “fools no one and will hardly help the Americans out of their defeat.”
United States officials had said they would have been surprised if the Communists, now within striking distance of Saigon, had agreed to a cease‐fire and negotiations with essentially the same officials who had served Mr. Thiệu. Some officials believed that the Communists were unlikely to negotiate with any Saigon Government except one ready to agree to what essentially would be capitulation. To bring about such a political development in South Vietnam, Saigon would probably have to be close to military defeat and this might involve stepped‐up military pressure, some officials said.
In a separate development, North Vietnam made public the names of three American pilots killed during the Vietnam war as long ago as 1965 and listed by the United States as missing in action. Information on the three was sent last week to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, in response to his requests. The three were Commander Jesse Taylor Jr., Major Crosley James Fittan and Major Ronald D. Perri. An aide to Senator Kennedy said that he did not attach paricular political importance to Hanoi’s announcement of the names. He said that North Vietnam probably had wanted to appear humanitarian and keep lines of communication open to Mr. Kennedy. During United States involvement in the Vietnam war, Hanoi made lists of prisoners known through Mr. Kennedy, beginning in 1970.
In a television interview on CBS last night, President Ford said that the United States had been exploring “negotiating opportunities” with a number of governments but that no one knew with certainty what the North Vietnamese intentions were. He said that in the last few days the North Vietnamese seemed “anxious to move in very quickly for a quick take‐over” of Saigon, but that in the last day, “there seems to be a slowdown.” The American diplomatic effort consisted of asking third parties to use their influence on Hanoi to bring about a cease‐fire and, it was hoped, negotiations with Saigon. There have been no direct contacts with North Vietnam, but a high official said “they have no doubt about our position.” These inquiries have not yielded any indication so far of willingness on Hanoi’s part to negotiate.
The Justice Department has announced plans to waive immigration restrictions so that up to 130,000 refugees from Indochina, including ranking officials of the Saigon government, could be admitted to the United States. The plans, developed at the request of Secretary of State Kissinger, were approved unanimously by the Senate Judiciary Committee. In a letter to the committee’s chairman, Senator James O. Eastland of Mississippi, Attorney General Edward H. Levi declared: “We were advised that it was deemed essential to begin at once to assist the departure from Vietnam of appropriate individuals if such an effort were to be orderly and successful.”
The first wave of Vietnamese refugees, the vanguard of expected tens of thousands, have arrived at Travis Air Force Base in California in the last two days and hundreds of others are reported aboard planes flying to California from the Philippines. Among the 472 passengers on three planes reaching the United States Sunday, Monday and today were 190 Vietnamese.
The commander of the Communist forces in Cambodia, in his first broadcast from Phnom Penh, today hailed the victory of his troops over the former Cambodian government. The commander, Khieu Samphan, thanked “the people of ‘the entire world” for support during the five‐year war and he selected some Americans for special praise. ‘Our deep thanks and gratitude,” he said, “also go to the peace‐ and justice‐loving American people and to high‐ranking American personalities who have aided and supported our struggle.” He did not say who these people were. And he did not specifically cite those of any other foreign nation for appreciation.
Mr. Khieu Samphan said that the policy of Cambodia would be “one of neutrality, independence within our borders — we will be neutral and nonaligned.” While his statement could have been recorded, it was the first indication that some top leaders of the new regime might have entered the newly captured capital. Since the Cambodian government’s surrender last week the Communist radio, no longer a clandestine service, has filled its broadcast with martial music. This, combined with suspension of all telephone and telegraph service there, has contributed to what has been virtually a total news blackout.
Today’s broadcasts heard here shed little light on life in Cambodia since the surrender. However, in a short statement before Mr. Khieu Samphan’s address. Hou Nim, Minister of Information, said that Communist forces “have taken over and are governing in Phnom Penh and the entire country.” This was a contradiction of earlier reports that fighting was continuing in some areas be tween Communist forces and elements of the former government, most of whose leaders have fled the country or been captured. But there was no way of confirming Mr. Hou Nim’s report.
Much of today’s broadcast was focused on Mr. Khieu Samphan, who is also Deputy Premier and Defense Minister. He is expected to play a major role in the new Government. His address, rambling and often repetitious, was largely devoted to denunciations of imperialism and “traitorous cliques of lackeys.” He praised the sacrifices of the “great and wonderful Cambodian people” and he saluted the memory of those who died in battle and wished prompt recovery of the wounded.
“This is the greatest historic victory our nation and people have ever experienced,” he said. “This army was created, trained and has grown up in the hot fire of a difficult, complex people’s war against U.S. imperialism, the largest, most ferocious imperialist force in the world. This army began fighting empty‐handed and fought until it created an excellent path for the struggle, successfully attacking the enemy everywhere — in the mountains and in the plains — continuously attacking in the dry and rainy seasons, and successfully crushing all forms of the war of aggression of the U. S. imperialists.”
He said the people had waged a courageous and stubborn fight and had endured suffering and hardship. After five years and a month of struggle, Mr. Khieu Samphan said, “finally the enemy died in agony.” As a result, he said, the Cambodian people were “beating the victory drum.” “This great historic victory opens bright prospects,” he said. But, he warned, “there will certainly be many obstacles in carrying out our task of national defense and construction,” and he called for “increasing revolutionary vigilance.”
In Thailand, meanwhile, government officials reported that 5,058 Cambodian refugees had entered in recent days. Some 800 arrived in southern Thailand today aboard two Cambodian landing craft. But harbor authorities reportedly ordered them to remain offshore. The Thai Government is seeking increased allotments to care for the refugees. Thai officials said they would give 75 cents a day to each refugee for food. However, the government, which is anxious to establish diplomatic relations with Phnom Penh, has ordered provincial authorities to return the ‘refugees to Cambodia “as soon as possible”
[Ed: We can expect that everyone sent back will be killed.]
Three Cambodian patrol boats have arrived off the east coast of northern Malaysia with 625 refugees, the national press agency Bernama reported today. The agency said Malaysian welfare officials were distributing food to the refugees, who included 346 soldiers.
French officials reported today that the number of refugees at the French Embassy in Phnom Penh was dwindling and arrangements were being made with local authorities to get food and water to them. They said about 600 remained out of more than 1,000 who had taken refuge there after the Communists took over the capital those leaving were reported to be Cambodians.
Seven private organizations representing Roman Catholic, Jewish, Protestant and nondenominational groups have offered to help resettle at least 1,000 Cambodian refugees in the United States. Each organization has agreed to take at least 150 refugees, help them to find homes and jobs and make a new life in communities across the country. The seven organizations two years ago helped resettle thousands of Asians when they were expelled from Uganda by President Idi Amin as part of a drive to give Africans control of the country’s economy.
The 1,000 Cambodians who would be brought to the United States are now temporarily at U-Tapao air base in Thailand. They were airlifted from Phnom Penh earlier this month. They would presumably be admitted under emergency procedures waiving the customary immigration processes.
Representatives of the seven agencies met today in Washington with Frank Kellogg, the Special Assistant to the Secretary of State for Refugee and Migration Affairs.
The seven are United Hias, a Jewish organization, the United States Catholic Conference, Church World Service which is Protestant and the Lutheran Council of the United States. The nondenominational groups are the International Rescue Committee, the American Fund for Czechoslovak Refugees, and the Tolstoy Foundation.
Portugal’s governing armed forces accused national and international capitalism today of trying to halt the country’s revolution and return to the past. A preliminary report on the unsuccessful military uprising of March 11 warned of a new coup in preparation and called for firm steps toward socialism and a mobilization of the masses behind the armed forces. The report, which contained suggestions and insinuations that moderate political parties had a responsibility in the March crisis, was issued three days before a general election for a constituent assembly. The moderate groups from center left to center right are expected to gain a majority of the assembly.
One of the major participants in Portugal’s revolution announced in Paris today that he had gone into political exile. “The revolution was betrayed from the beginning,” he said, and now “the dictatorship a becoming institutionalized.” Major José Sanches Osorio, 32, was a member of the coordinating committee that planned and carried out the coup of April 25 last year, and then became Minister of Infornation. He is secretary general of be Christian Democratic party, which was banned from taking part in next Friday’s election. In that position, he told a news conference here, “It is impossible for me to live in my country.” He said that he had fled because there was an order for his arrest at the time of the rightist military uprising of March 11 when the ex‐President António de Spínola fled to Brazil. Some of the meetings to organize last year’s coup took place in his home, Major Sanches Osorio said. Most of the officers with whom he worked are “in prison, in Africa, or in exile,” he said. He charged that there were “more political prisoners in Portugal today than there were before,” in an allusion to the rightist Salazar dictatorship. He estimated the number today at 2,000.
Turkey has extended its deadline for closing US military bases on its soil by at least three weeks, according to informed sources in Ankara. Extention of the deadline coincided with talks in Ankara between Turkish leaders and Arthur Hartman, U.S. assistant secretary of state for European affairs. Turkey had threatened to close the bases at the end of this month because of the U.S. arms embargo imposed by Congress on Feb. 5.
Italian workers staged a nationwide strike to protest right-wing violence after four days of rioting in several major cities. The walkouts-ranging in length from 30 minutes to eight hours-originally were called to back demands for social reform and full employment, but turned into an antifascist protest after the death of three young leftists last week.
Gunmen shot and killed a policeman in a Bilbao suburb and Spanish police sources said Basque secessionist guerrillas were to blame. The policeman, Jose Manuel Moran Gonzalez, 33, was gunned down as he left his home. He was reportedly hit by about 40 bullets fired from a parked car. He was the second policeman assassinated in the Basque region in less than a month.
French Premier Jacques Chirac addressed 3.000 delegates from 47 nations at the opening in Paris of the largest conference on nuclear energy ever assembled. Before the 51-day meeting ends, 360 reports will have been read. They deal with such topics as the supply of nuclear power and methods of safely disposing of nuclear wastes. The United States, China and major European nations are attending the conference.
Italian wives gained full equality in law with their husbands. After seven years of debate, the Italian parliament finally passed a new code to replace a century-old law that gave the husband the right to make all key decisions in the family.
The United States protested to the Greek government an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens by hundreds of youths who smashed windows, threw paint and set fires. Ambassador Jack B. Kubisch called on Foreign Minister Dimitrios Bitsios to make his views known on the incidents staged by youths protesting U.S. policy toward Greece, an embassy spokesman said.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yigal Allon said that his meeting in Washington with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger had melted the chill in relations between Israel and the United States since the collapse of Kissinger’s Middle East peace mission.
The Soviet Union and Egypt issued a cautiously worded communiqué today at the end of talks between Kremlin leaders and Foreign Minister Ismail Fahmy. The tone and content of the communiqué indicated that Moscow was still pressing the Arab countries to agree among themselves on major issues and strategy before a resumption of the Geneva peace conference on the Middle East. For a week, high Arab officials leaders have been flying to the Soviet captal for conferences on the Middle East.
In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the summit meeting between the leaders of Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Egypt to work out an Arab strategy against Israel ended in agreement. Conference sources said a committee had been formed to draw up a statement, expected to be issued today.
A ranking North Yemeni diplomat was wounded in an assassination attempt by gunmen who riddled his car with bullets in a street of Beirut. Lebanon, police sources said. Roving Ambassador Ahmed al Shami underwent surgery at American University Hospital and was out of danger for the moment. He is a former foreign minister and ambassador to London. No motive for the shooting was reported.
A secret Mexican organization similar to Brazil’s “death squads” seems to be operating in Guerrero state, killing known or suspected criminals who have not been brought to justice, a police spokesman in the Guerrero city of Ometepec said. The first known victims of the squad were three supposed criminals whose bullet-riddled bodies were found a few days ago.
Oswaldo López Arellano was removed from office as President of Honduras by order of the Central American nation’s high military council. López was presumed to have been the unidentified “official in Honduras” who had been referred to in the April 9 Wall Street Journal”as recipient of a $1,250,000 bribe from the United Brands Company in return for cutting a Honduran export tax on bananas, and was replaced by General Juan Alberto Melgar Castro.
Fifty Americans from the U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires reportedly were evacuated to Uruguay in fear of anti-American demonstrations during the now-postponed visit of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger. Kissinger postponed the visit — due to begin today — because of the Indochina crisis.
Dr. Hector J. Cámpora, former President of Argentina, was expelled today from the ranks of the Perónist movement. The expulsion, decreed by the party leadership, was the culmination of his fall from grace and power during the last two years. Since the death of General Juan Domingo Perón last July, Dr. Cámpora has lived in Mexico City in self‐imposed exile and recently opened a dental office, resuming a profession he had abandoned for politics more than 30 years ago. General Perón chose Dr. Cámpora as his stand‐in candidate for the presidential election in March, 1973, that ended seven years of military dictatorship. Dr. Cámpora won easily after campaigning on a platform of loyalty to General Perón.
The police crushed a prison break plot today by Argentina’s most sophisticated guerrilla group, killing five alleged terrorists in the industrial city of Córdoba, police sources said. They said policemen wounded three persons and made nearly 60 arrests in breaking up a demonstration by at least 3,000 metal workers striking for the 32nd day in the Argentine steel center of Villa Constitucion, 140 miles northwest of Buenos Aires. In Córdoba, the provincial police shot four men and a woman in a 90‐minute gun battle, closing in on a small house concealing an unfinished tunnel to the penitentiary, the sources said. The police, who seized weapons and documents, identified the band as a cell of the People’s Revolutionary Army, the most highly organized guerrilla group in the country, the sources said.
Because of a drop in food prices, overall consumer prices rose last month by the smallest amount since the short-lived government price freeze of mid-1973, according to the United States Labor Department. The Consumer Price Index rose in March only three-tenths of 1 percent. This was only half the rise in January and February and far below the 1974 monthly increases.
The House of Representatives passed today and sent to the President a bill that would increase price supports and income guarantees for farmers. The measure faces an almost certain veto. The House passed the bill by a vote of 248 to 166, 28 votes short of the two‐thirds that would have been needed today to override rejection by the White House. The nays today provided a surplus over the 146 that would be needed to sustain a veto even if all 435 members of the House were present and voting. The bill, passed by voice vote in the Senate, would increase “target prices” and price supports for cotton, wheat and livestock feed grains and price support loans for milk products. Target prices are a trigger for subsidy payments. If market prices fell below the targets provided, the Government would be required to make up the difference in direct payments to farmers.
The House Ways and Means Committee began its final round of voting on an energy conservation bill today as the White House again prodded Congress to make substantial progress this week toward approval of a comprehensive energy program. Frank G. Zarb, the Energy Administrator, intensified the Administration’s psychologicalwarfare effort by hinting broadly at a White House news briefing that Congress would be unable to satisfy President Ford. He pointedly observed last week that Mr. Ford was reserving the right to raise the fee on imported crude oil on May 1 and to go ahead with his announced intention to end domestic crude oil price controls.
The Ford Administration warned the Democratic leadership in Congress again today that the President was likely to repeat his 1974 veto of a bill to control the environmental abuses of strip mining for coal.
Attorney General Edward H. Levi declined an invitation to testify at a Senate hearing today on his proposal for selectively banning handguns in high-crime areas. An aide said Levi wanted to wait until the Justice Department submitted legislation on his recommendation. But a spokesman for Senator Birch Bayh (D-Indiana), whose judiciary subcommittee on juvenile delinquency is conducting the hearings, said Levi also talked about the necessity of bringing the Administration along slowly on the sensitive question.
The Department of Health, Education and Welfare told Congress it had only 23 professional investigators searching for white collar criminals suspected of bilking HEW programs out of millions of dollars every year. Acknowledging there is a “vast potential for fraud and program abuse” in the $110 billion HEW budget, Assistant Secretary John R. Ottina pleaded for more money to investigate Medicaid, Medicare, welfare, and student aid programs.
Criticized by Congress for its slow reaction to air safety recommendations, the Federal Aviation Administration announced plans for a major policy reform to speed the process of updating flight rules. James E. Dow, the agency’s acting chief, said the FAA had spent too much time issuing exemptions to rules when the rules themselves should have been changed. Citing the time needed to process exemptions as a major factor delaying the revision of outmoded or inadequate regulations, Dow proposed new procedures making exemptions harder to obtain by requiring that they be requested six months in advance instead of the current two.
Retailers, banks and others who grant credit would be barred from terminating credit solely because of a change in the marital status of an individual under proposed regulations issued today by the Federal Reserve Board.
One inmate was killed by another prisoner and seven prison employees were injured when rioting prisoners held 10 hostages for six hours at the Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois, authorities said. The hostages were released and the prisoners returned to their cells after Warden Fred Finkbeiner promised to stop plans to transfer three inmates to another penal institution. Prison officials said 200 inmates were involved and that “normal disciplinary procedures” would be followed. The inmate killed was identified as Herbert Catlett.
New York’s year-old, no-fault insurance law for motorists, designed to clear the courts of a logjam of litigation, was ruled unconstitutional and void by Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice George Nicols. The State Insurance Department said the law would remain in effect while the decision was appealed. Nicols noted that the law prevents a victim whose medical expenses were less than $500 from suing for pain and suffering. “There is no reason,” Nicols held, “why an individual who is injured in … other than an automobile may have access to the courts and a person sustaining the same injury… be barred therefrom.”
Twelve corporations in the oil and gas business have agreed to settle lawsuits brought by the government, which charged them with violating a 40-year-old law prohibiting the same director from serving on the boards of two competing companies. The suits will be settled by the resignations of the seven men involved in the cases, each of whom is charged with serving on the boards of competing companies.
The nomination of the former governor of Connecticut, Thomas Meskill, as a United States Court of Appeals judge for the Second Circuit has been approved by the Senate by a 54-to-36 vote. The vote ended a six-month fight for confirmation in which the American Bar Association strongly opposed the Meskill appointment.
Uranium deposits will be sought in the United States in an effort to meet the future needs of an expanding nuclear power-generating industry, the U.S. Geological Survey said in Washington. The nation produced 12,600 tons of uranium ore last year — most of it in New Mexico and Wyoming — but officials of the Energy Research and Development Administration estimate 100,000 tons will be needed in 1990. Exploration will be carried out in northern New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, central Alabama, the Texas Panhandle and south Texas, east-central Arizona, southeastern Utah and southern and eastern Wyoming. The project is backed by grants totaling $240,000.
President Ford’s top environmental policy adviser said the nation would be courting disaster if it allowed water clean-up efforts to be set back for economic reasons. Russell W. Peterson, chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality, said a tendency to minimize the importance of protecting environmental quality when it conflicts with economic development could have disastrous effects on the water supply. Peterson made his comments at the National Conference on Water, a meeting of industrial, civic, and environmental experts discussing the future of the nation’s water supply.
A mild earthquake jolted the Puget Sound area shortly after dark, a University of Washington seismologist said. No damages or injury were reported. A spokesman called the quake “normal background activity” for the area and said it measured 4 on the Richter Scale. The epicenter was put at around 5 to 10 miles south of Tacoma.
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Major League Baseball:
The injury‐riddled Los Angeles Dodgers ran afoul of the National League’s defending batting champion in Atlanta and suffered a 3–2 defeat. Ralph Garr provided the deciding hit when he cracked a two‐run double in the seventh inning to give unbeaten Carl Morton his fourth victory of the season.
The Reds again use a 9th inning rally to win, 5–4, over the Giants at Riverfront Stadium. Morgan scores the winner after cruising into 3rd on a wild pitch and deliberately drawing a throw from catcher Marc Hill. Hill heaves the ball over third base and Morgan scores.
The New York Yankees blanked the Boston Red Sox, 5-0, with a display of superior pitching, base running and hitting. George (Doc) Medich pitched a three-hit shutout for his third victory of the season and he did it with a runny nose. The Doctor had a cold, but his strong right arm was warm.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 1–0, as Bobby Grich hit a two‐out homer in the eighth to help Jim Palmer win his second game in three decisions. Palmer, coming back from elbow trouble last season, gave up six hits. He has allowed only one earned run in his three starts.
Bobby Darwin hit his second homer of the season and also singled, driving in three runs in support of Vic Albury’s six‐hit pitching, as the Twins beat the California Angels, 7–1.
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Atlanta Braves 3
New York Yankees 5, Boston Red Sox 0
Minnesota Twins 7, California Angels 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Chicago White Sox 7
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Chicago Cubs 5
San Francisco Giants 4, Cincinnati Reds 5
Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 6
San Diego Padres 2, Houston Astros 1
Baltimore Orioles 1, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Montreal Expos 4
St. Louis Cardinals 5, New York Mets 9
Texas Rangers 2, Oakland Athletics 1
Born:
Carlos Sastre, Spanish bicycle racer and 2008 Tour de France winner, in Leganés, Spain.
Greg Moore, Canadian race car driver, in Maple Ridge, British Columbia (killed in racing accident, 1999).
Brian Manning, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers), in Kansas City, Kansas.
Julian Pittman, NFL defensive end (New Orleans Saints), in Niceville, Florida.
Died:
Mary Philips, 75, American actress (“Farewell to Arms”).
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