South Vietnam’s National Assembly today adopted a resolution empowering President Trần Văn Hương to “select a man to replace him” in seeking “ways and means to restore peace in South Vietnam” on the basis of Paris peace agreement of January, 1973. The resolution followed a day of hectic debate under enormous pressure from both the Communist military threat and diplomatic peacemakers. It overcame constitutional obstacles to allow General Dương Văn Minh to take over the Saigon government and negotiate with the Communists. Meanwhile, Communist forces began what was described as “massive attack” on Phuoc Le, a town 37 miles southeast of Saigon, as if to emphasize their threat to destroy Saigon. To leave no doubt that the ultimatum threatening to destroy Saigon was still in effect, Communist forces fired five heavy rockets into the central part of Saigon early today, killing 6 persons, wounding 22 and damaging many houses. It was the first such attack since the Paris accord in 1973.
Yesterday, President Hương delivered a tearful but somewhat equivocating speech, asking the assembly to decide whether he should stay in office and fight on, or whether General Minh should replace him to negotiate peace. Mr. Hương had resisted mounting pressure to resign outright and appoint General Minh his successor, saying that such an action would be unconstitutional. While President Hương has not yet resigned as demanded by the Việt Cộng, he is expected to do so shortly. In his speech he said that he would abide by the assembly’s decision, if it provided the constitutional basis to do so.
The Việt Cộng made a semiofficial statement yesterday for the first time saying that General Minh, long an advocate of a policy of peace and neutrality, would be acceptable to them as head of the new government. In the attack on Saigon, all the rockets landed within seconds of each other. One failed to explode. In the worst of the rocket hits, which occurred in a slum area next to the Saigon central police station, a fire started and burned down some 200 houses, leaving at least 3,000 homeless. Another rocket hit was on the top of the once luxurious Majestic Hotel at the foot of Tự Do Street on the Saigon River. The rocket heavily damaged upper floors, where there is a newly completed government guest house, and killed a night watchman. The last rocket attack on Saigon was in 1969.
There were no signs of unusual anxiety in the capital this morning. Saigon is already tense in the fear that it may soon be cut off from the outer world by a final Communist takeover, and that fear, rather than one of the physical danger of bombardment, continued to dominate. Meanwhile, the Hanoi radio early today broadcast in English a new statement on the situation that appeared to analysts here to be markedly more conciliatory toward the United States. While continuing to denounce alleged United States imperialism, it praised the “peace loving efforts of the American people” who “treasure freedom and independence for all nations.” The statement, which was heard here an hour before the rocket attack, also warned Saigon authorities to hasten their work in meeting demands. Vietnamese politicians continued this work today and there were hopes that a resolution would emerge later today.
Meanwhile, the Government reported this morning that an attack last night on Phuoc Le, a town 37 miles southeast of here, had been repulsed and two enemy tanks had been destroyed. But because of the enormous mass of forces available to the Communists in the area, it has obvious that a more determined attack would probably prevail almost Immediately. The Phuoc Le action was therefore also interpreted as being mainly a warning. Phuoc Le is on Route 15, Saigon’s only direct, overland route to the South China Sea and the port of Vũng Tàu. Many Saigon residents regard Vũng Tàu as a final escape hatch, and some have boats there: Loss of access to Vũng Tàu would intensify the danger of hysteria in the capital. Việt Cộng officials who are in Saigon with the joint truce commission set up by the Paris accords were relaxed and made it known privately that they are satisfied so far with the rapid moves the United States and Saigon are making to meet all their demands.
In essence, these demands are that the Americans withdraw all military and intelligence personnel, and that Saigon immediately create government purged of associates of former President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu. The Việt Cộng say this new government must pursue a policy of reconciliation and neutrality, and must carry out the Paris accords and refuse to accept American arms aid. The Communists, however, have made it clear they do not intend to do any negotiating. They will agree to cease‐fire only when their demands have been fully met, they have repeatedly said, and not as the result of any talks or agreements. Only after their demands are met will they resume contacts with the Saigon authorities to carry out their part of the Paris accords, which call for an eventual coalition government. Talks to that end be tween the former Thiệu government and the Việt Cộng never began, because from the start, each side accused the other of breaching the accords.
French and American diplomats have been working around the clock to impress upon Saigon politicians the need for immediate action to meet all the Việt Cộng demands. But lining up some recalcitrant deputies and senators proved extremely difficult. Among them was Deputy Nguyễn Văn Cử, who, as an air force pilot, bombed the Saigon presidential palace in 1962, narrowly missing President Ngô Đình Diệm and his family. After President Diệm was overthrown the following year. Mr. Cử returned from exile in Cambodia. He is an associate of former Premier Nguyễn Cao Kỳ, who until today was publicly advocating a policy of fighting to the end. During today’s debate, in which Mr. Cử held out against the resolution. Marshal Kỳ telephoned him and told him to yield because this was the only remaining chance to save Saigon. Mr. Cử did so.
The majority view was expressed in a speech by Senator Phạm Đình. He said: “If a final battle is fought, thousands of people in Saigon will die. You congressmen can find a way to run away. But think of the thousands of others in Saigon with no means of running away. “People at home and abroad all know that the only man who can negotiate now is General Minh. Please vote in his favor to save the lives of the people.” Former President Thiệu flew to exile in Taipei today. His wife left the country several days ago. President Thiệu resigned Monday, denouncing the United States for having failed to give Vietnam the military aid it needed. Meanwhile, it was revealed that South Vietnam’s gold reserves have been shipped to the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. The amount was not immediately known.
Hanoi [Hà Nội], the capital of Vietnam’s revolution awaits a triumphant climax in the South. It is decked with gold‐starred red flags that hailed the Khmer Rouge victory in neighboring Cambodia just a few days ago. Everyone on the streets seems to expect the Việt Cộng to take over in Saigon within a very short time. A military briefing on developments in South Vietnam was the highlight of tonight’s programing on Hanoi television, which operates twice weekly.
A newly arrived Western correspondent asked a senior official of the Foreign Ministry whether arrangements would he made for a press party to go from Hanoi to Saigon to observe a Việt Cộng victory. “Arrangements like that take time, after an event has already taken place,” the official replied. “But it’s possible to go to Saigon by regular means and wait there for the victory celebration. It might be somewhat risky, but not much.” However, the Foreign Ministry said it has cooperated with the Việt Cộng Provisional Revolutionary Government in South Vietnam in arranging for trip by reporters to Đà Nẵng, which has been taken over by the Việt Cộng. The Western correspondents were told: “You will find everything in order in the liberated territory. Even the streets are safe at night — unlike Washington, D.C.”
The Việt Cộng maintains a special representative in a Hanoi villa. In 1970 foreign reporters were taken to the villa to hear young people from South Vietnam describe physical tortures they said they had been subjected to by American counterintelligence officers. Now the topic for a briefing by the Việt Cộng’s representative, Nguyễn Văn Tiến, is the quick return to normal life in Đà Nẵng, Huế, and other Southern cities.
Hanoi appears to have changed little since 1970. Some buildings are a bit shabber. Others have been newly painted. But the nightly blackouts are gone. The airport is relatively crowded with international traffic. The big change seems to be in people’s feelings. Their elation at the military successes in South Vietnam and Cambodia is unmistakable. The grim concentration on the war effort no longer seems the only way of life for Hanoi’s citizens. They wave at a foreign photographer to take their pictures. Once they would have turned their backs.
A mausoleum of heroic size is being constructed, in the heart of Hanoi for Hồ Chí Minh, the late North Vietnamese President and revolutionary leader. “Visitors from the South were disappointed when they found we had nothing like this,” a Hanoi official explained. “We will provide them with what they have wanted, a symbol of our liberation struggle.”
Hundreds of American soldiers, sailors, Seabees, marines and civilian volunteers on Guam struggled to quickly build an entire city for South Vietnamese refugees — on what had been 50 acres of dense jungle. They were erecting a vast array of tent compounds complete with street designations and numbers. About 20,000 South Vietnamese are already on Guam and most of the existing 10 camps were crowded beyond capacity. To temporarily relieve pressure there, the refugee airlift from Saigon was diverted for a day to Wake Island, 1,334 miles from Guam.
French diplomats in Cambodia expressed concern again today about the shortage of food, Water and medical supplies In the embassy compound housing Siplomats and other foreigners, including five American newsmen in Phnom Penh. The diplomats disclosed this week that two French military planes had been waiting in Vientiane, Laos, for permission to fly food and supplies to the nearly 600 people still living in the French compound. French officials indicated that their government had been given permission by the Khmer Rouge mission in Paris but not by officials in Phnom Penh. They said that the relief planes would not head for Phnom Penh until there was a firm guarantee that they would be allowed to land.
“I don’t understand why the Khmer Rouge want revenge on me,” said In Tam, former Premier of Cambodia. “I am only a rice farmer. I quit politics 16 months ago.” Marked for death on the “traitor” list of the victorious Cambodian Communists, Mr. In Tam is one of several thousand Cambodian refugees in Thailand — a small man with thinning gray hair and a sad, faraway look in his brown eyes, staying with friends and keeping out of the limelight while seeking a place to live in exile.
“I can’t talk about politics — I’m no longer a politician,” he said when asked why the Cambodian Government, supported by the United States, had not been able to withstand the Communists. “Above all, I blame President Lon Nol,” he said. “Lon Nol knew he couldn’t do anything to help the country, but he wanted to keep all the power to himself. The Americans gave enough money, but we failed to help ourselves and the funds flowed into the hands of the corrupt.”
Mr. In Tam said he had been living in Poipet, a Cambodian town on the Thai border, for about a year after stepping down as Premier in December, 1973. He was forced out by Marshal Lon Nol, who considered him too soft when he sought reconciliation with the Communists. “I learned of the surrender from the radio about noon on the 17th and I started to worry about myself and my entourage,” he said, referring to the 300 Cambodians — including a private army of about 100 men — who have followed him and provided security for his properties since the days when he was a provincial governor.
“Then about 7 P.M. the Battambang radio announced that Battambang had surrendered,” Mr. In Tam said. “By then we had started to pack our belongings, and at midnight I sent my people across the border about 50 yards away. We just walked across the stream. Then I went around to where I had set up a farm about two miles away to send the rest to the Thai side,” he went on.
The pro‐Communist Pathet Lao announced today that it would not withdraw its forces from seven strategic positions in northern Laos gained during recent fighting unless the royal Lao forces pulled their reinforcement units out of nearby areas. The Pathet Lao military spokesman, Colonel Phonesay Santavas, a member of the Joint Committee to Implement the Peace Agreement, said the Vientiane side sent one military division and four 105‐mm howitzers to reinforce its troops during the fighting, which began April 14.
Pathet Lao troops seized control of Sala Phou Khoun, a strategic road junction of Routes 13 and 7, about 100 miles north of Vientiane, early this week. The junction lies on the 200‐mile Route 13 linking the administrative capital of Vientiane and the royal capital of Luang Prabang. There was also fighting at the towns of Dane Soung and Nanyang only 14 miles north of Vientiane, the military reported. Defense Minister Sisouk Na Champassak has charged that at least 15,000 Pathet Lao troops took part in the fighting.
President Ford and Leonid Brezhnev, the Soviet leader, have agreed to delay until this fall their summit meeting in Washington that had originally been scheduled for late June or early July. High administration officials said the delay had not been caused by any sudden or critical problem. There were a number of reasons, they said. One of these was that the Washington meeting would clash with the anticipated meeting of 35 nations at the end of the European Security Conference in July.
Portugal’s Communist party ran a poor third behind the Socialists in the election of a constituent assembly, getting less than 13 percent of the total vote, nearly complete returns indicated. The Socialists emerged as the country’s leading party, with 38 percent of the vote, and the centrist Popular Democrats followed in a strong runner-up position with 26 percent. It was an overwhelming victory for the parties that had campaigned on a platform of public freedoms and had become identified as strong opponents of both communism and military dictatorship.
Britain’s Labor party voted against continued membership in the Common Market despite pleas by Prime Minister Harold Wilson and others in favor of staying in the economic community. Party members, at a special conference called to discuss the matter, overwhelmingly voted to urge the British people to say “no” in a referendum on June 5. The antimarket margin of victory was 2 to 1.
Turkey’s new government has a thick file of problems and a thin majority in Parliament, and many analysts here doubt that it can act with the decisiveness needed by the country. Premier Suleyman Demirel’s success last month in forming a Cabinet temporarily ended a seven‐month political crisis, but, as the leader said in an interview: “Instability has given lots of harm to the country. We know what we are facing.” At home, he is facing soaring inflation and unemployment, severe balance‐of‐payments deficits and a slowdown in economic growth. Tension between right‐wing and left‐wing students threatens to explode. Abroad, the Cyprus situation remains unsettled and quarrels with Greece over the Aegean Sea have intensified. The United States arms embargo has lasted more than two months and Turkey’s large military force could soon start to deteriorate.
Talks aiming toward a political solution of the Cyprus situation begin in Vienna on Monday, but diplomats here and in Ankara are generally gloomy about prospects for rapid progress. The problems on that Mediterranean island are so complex, and the fear and distrust run so deeps that negotiations would be difficult under any circumstances. But today Ankara and Athens are also arguing about other issues, including rights to drill for oil under the Aegean Sea and to control the air space over it. Lately relations have grown even more tense, as Greece has fortified her islands along the Turkish coast, and Turkish planes have flown over them taking photographs. A further complication is the decision by the United States Congress to terminate military aid and sales to Turkey until progress is shown on Cyprus. According to most diplomatic analysts, this pressure has only made the Turk more rigid. The Greek side is also tempted to stiffen its position, in the hope that a continued, aid cutoff would eventually weaken Turkish resolve. Negotiations following the Turkish invasion of the island broke down completely in February, when the Turkish Cypriots announced that they were establishing their own separate state.
Archbishop Makarios accused, Turkey today of following an inflexible and unreasonable course on the Cyprus crisis, and said the United States was the only country capable of convincing Turkey to compromise. Speaking at Athens airport after a one‐hour stopover for talks with Greek Premier Konstantine Karamanlis, Archbishop Makarios said that despite the Turkish attitude the Greek Cypriot side was approaching the new round of intercommunal talks beginning in Vienna Monday with good faith and hope that common ground would be found.
Brigadier General Dimitrios Ioannides, strong man in the Greek military regime that collapsed last July, will be tried for sedition for his alleged role in February’s abortive coup attempt, judicial authorities said in Athens. The retired general, formerly head of the military police, is already in jail awaiting trial on charges of high treason which could bring the death penalty. Thirty-nine officers were arrested February 24 for plotting to overthrow the civilian government established seven months earlier.
Four terrorists, charged with murder for their attack on the West German Embassy in Stockholm, were brought back today as the Bonn Government hardened measures for dealing with anarchist groups. Policemen escorted ambulances carrying the four prisoners from the Cologne‐Bonn military airport to jails in different parts of the country to await trial for their part in the Thursday attack on the Embassy. Three were killed and 13 injured in the attack. The four first landed this morning at Hamburg where they were flown after their deportation from Sweden. A fifth guerrilla, aso charged in the attack, stayed in Stockholm, with serious burns received when the terrorist dynamited the Embassy’s top floor rather than give up after the West German Chancellor, Hemut Schmidt, turned down demands to free the so‐called Baader‐Meinhof gang of urban guerrillas in exchange for the 13 hostages. A sixth terrorist killed himself.
The West German prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe was investigating the bringing of charges against four terrorists returned from Sweden after they stormed the German Embassy in Stockholm. Sources said they could be charged with murder, taking hostages, aiding a criminal organization and blackmailing the state. The four were rushed from the military section of Cologne-Bonn airport to unknown destinations with the only women among them. Hanna Krabbe, on a stretcher. Two German attaches and one guerrilla died in the Stockholm siege.
Hitler’s former deputy, Rudolf Hess, serving a life sentence in Spandau Allied prison in West Berlin, marked his 81st birthday with no visitors or change in daily routine. “It is a day like any other day.” an Allied spokesman said. He added that Hess, the only inmate in the 600-cell prison for the past nine years, was in good health.
In an unusual ecumenical gesture, Pope Paul VI invited 40 U.S. Episcopal and Canadian-Anglican clergymen to celebrate a Protestant Mass in the Vatican, a spokesman for the group visiting Rome said. The Rev. Jeffrey Cave, canon of Washington, D.C., Cathedral, said he believed it would be the first time the Anglican Episcopal Mass was offered in a Vatican church. The group, holding their annual informal conference of North American cathedral deans, were given a warm welcome by the Pope last week.
A Palestinian delegation headed by Yasser Arafat is expected to visit Moscow next week as part of a diplomatic campaign by the Soviet Union to reactivate the Geneva conference on a Middle East settlement.
India’s Parliament gave its final approval for making the Himalayan kingdom of Sikkim an Indian state. The upper house of Parliament, by a 157-3 vote, passed a constitutional amendment that annexes the 2,745square-mile territory bordering Tibet and ends its 300-year-old monarchy. Sikkim would formally become India’s 22nd state after the amendment is ratified by the legislatures of at least 11 of the country’s 21 current states.
President Kim Il Sung of North Korea left Peking today after a nine‐day visit to China during which he conferred with Chairman Mao Tse‐tung, the first meeting the Chinese leader has held with a foreign visitor since mid-January. Marshal Kim also met Chou En‐lai in a Peking hospital, where the Chinese Premier is convalescing from a heart ailment. There were no details available on the subjects discussed during these talks.
The Chinese Government on Taiwan appears to have decided not to grant entry to ten former high‐ranking Nationalist military officers, now in Hong Kong, who were among 293 “war criminals” released from prison by China in March. In recent days the local press has published several articles, seemingly Government‐inspired, maintaining that the 10 are being used by Peking for propaganda purposes. The articles have charged that in Hong Kong the members of the group have been in contact with Communist agents and have made statements favorable to Peking. Some accounts suggested that they had been “brainwashed” by the Communists. When it released the 293 prisoners — Nationalist government, party, and military officials of the period before the Communist take‐over on the China mainland in 1949 — Peking announced that they would be free to leave for Taiwan if they wished. The 10 later arrived in Hong Kong, expressing a desire to rejoin relatives and friends in Taiwan.
Ethiopia’s ruling Military Council has arrested at least two of its own members and a number of top security and intelligence officers after what was believed to be an attempt by those arrested to free former Emperor Haile Salassie and overthrow the military leaders. Among those reportedly arrested were Lieutenant Colonel Negussie Haile, head of the Military Council’s own security force, and Captain Debessu Beyene, another top official in the security and intelligence branch.
The South African government proposed the removal of one of its oldest racial segregation laws which bans non-whites from using white hotels. In legislation placed before Parliament, the government plans to give the justice minister powers to exempt hotels from the racial restrictions which prohibit blacks, coloreds — persons of mixed blood — and Indians from drinking in white bars and staying at whites-only hotels. The proposal was described by government sources as “one of the most daring experiments in lowering apartheid.”
Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washington) announced he had become the second Democratic presidential contender to qualify for federal funds under the new federal election law, having received the necessary $100,000 in contributions to qualify for matching federal funds. Jackson told a Seattle news conference that he had raised at least $5,000 in contributions of no more than $250 each in each of 20 states and that his overall total had reached $1.8 million. Alabama Governor George C. Wallace, who plans to formally announce his candidacy for another Democratic presidential drive in June, also has raised enough money to qualify for federal funds.
Federal revenue-sharing has been “a resounding success.” President Ford said in asking Congrees to extend it for nearly six years. The President’s proposals would distribute $39.85 billion to the 50 states and 39,000 local governments between January, 1977, and September, 1982, for use according to their own priorities. To help compensate for inflation, funds would be increased at the rate of $150 million a year from present levels.
Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. said today that he may seek the Republican nomination for President next year and would not rule out a primary election challenge to President Ford.
Senator Jacob K. Javits made a strong plea yesterday for support by his fellow Republicans of President Ford and Vice President Rockefeller as the party ticket next year and he warned against permitting the “Neanderthal wing” to dominate the party.
Tens of thousands of labor union members marched and rallied in Washington to urge government action to provide more jobs, but their speeches were disrupted just as they were getting under way in the Robert F. Kennedy Stadium. Crowds of young demonstrators broke through police lines and rushed out on the field in front of the speakers’ stand carrying signs and shouting, “jobs now” and obscenities. Senator Hubert Humphrey, among others, tried to speak, and labor leaders made vain attempts to quiet the crowds on the field. A labor official suggested that the demonstrators represented radical groups rather than labor unions.
The Central Intelligence Agency is exerting “extensive pressure” on the Securities and Exchange Commission to conduct its investigation of the company that was involved in a project to recover a sunken Soviet submarine in total secrecy to keep the findings from the public, responsible sources have disclosed. If the S.E.C. were to agree to total secrecy it would have the effect of limiting its investigation and would abrogate the Securities and Exchange Act, the source said.
The Pentagon paid 6.2 cents a gallon more for its jet fuel than did commercial airlines during and after the Arab oil embargo, resulting in a $600 million overpayment, a Senate study said. In charging that major oil companies inflated jet fuel prices to the military, Senator Henry M. Jackson (D-Washinton), chairman of the Senate permanent investigations subcommittee that prepared the report, asked the Federal Energy Administration to investigate whether the oil industry had violated FEA price regulations. The report said that the FEA and the Department of Defense Fuel Supply Center had been negligent in failing to determine whether the oil companies were passing a disproportionate share of their increased costs on to government contracts.
The Chrysler Corporation is expected to resume its price rebate program next Thursday, because new car sales have lagged badly since it stopped rebating on March 21.
A Manhattan physician whose patients included President John F.. Kennedy, Nelson A. Rockefeller, and many writers and theater personalities, has lost his medical license as a result of a 22-year investigation into reports that he had prescribed unnecessary depressant and stimulant drugs. The New York State Board of Regents found Dr. Max Jacobson guilty of unprofessional conduct, fraud, and deceit. Jacobson reportedly often injected his patients with a vitamin mixture laced with the drugs.
Carlos B. Gonzalez, 66, brother of Rep. Henry B. Gonzalez (D-Texas), shot two policemen who tried to return him to a San Antonio mental hospital and then surrendered at the request of his brother, police said. The congressman’s brother reportedly had escaped from the hospital earlier in the day and rushed to their mother’s home after hearing the 91-year-old woman was seriously ill. The shooting occurred when two officers went to the house and tried to talk Gonzalez into returning to the hospital. A neighbor notified the congressman and he called his mother’s home and talked his brother into surrendering. The two officers who were shot, one in the eye and one in the chest, were reported to be in stable condition.
“Amateurs” were blamed for the botched $100,000 kidnapping of a wealthy Chicago physician who was found dead in his car in a south side alley along with a young patient and her sister. The body of Dr. Lawrence Gluckman, 60, was stuffed in the trunk of the car and the bodies of Minnie Harris, 20, and her sister. Teressie, 23, were in the rear seat with gunshot wounds in their heads. Gluckman’s wife received three telephone calls demanding $100,000 ransom a short time before she learned of her husband’s death. Police theorized the two women had been abducted just because they were at the doctor’s clinic. Gluckman had been bludgeoned, but police said he might have died of a heart attack.
Nuclear scientists with guilt feelings are behind a push for nationwide nuclear power plants, according to a critic of the effort. Biologist Paul Ehrlich of Stanford University said in San Diego that the need for nuclear power exists only in the minds of “guilt-ridden A-bomb builders.” He added: “These men feel impelled to prove that the nuclear genie they let out of the bottle can ultimately benefit mankind.” The proponents of nuclear power, Ehrlich said, fail to emphasize the dangers of accidents, sabotage or clandestine bomb-building.
[Ed: LMAO. Paul Ehrlich was a self-promoting Malthusian huckster who excelled at claiming he was right even when events showed he had no idea what the Hell he was talking about. I said What I Said.]
Boxer George Foreman, in his first ring appearance since losing the world heavyweight championship to Muhammad Ali (and 19 years away from winning the world title again), fought five different challengers in Toronto as part of a televised exhibition promoted by Don King as “Foreman versus Five.” Rather than facing one challenger for 15 rounds, went up to 3 rounds with each fighter. The “Fearsome Fivesome” consisted of Alonzo Johnson, Jerry Judge, Terry Daniels, Charlie Polite, and Boone Kirkman, and each received $7,500 for appearing.
Major League Baseball:
Hank Aaron, playing his first American League game in New York, hit his 735th home run yesterday. It was, however, a harmless home run because the Yankees unleashed two homers of their own — by Thurman Munson and Ron Blomberg — along with a variety of other well-timed hits, and whipped the Milwaukee Brewers, 10–1.
The Baltimore Orioles rallied in the ninth inning tonight and beat the Cleveland Indians, 3‐2, in the second game of a twilight‐night douNe‐header. The Indians took the opener, 3‐0, on Gaylord Perry’s 5‐hit pitching and Jack Brohamer’s home run.
Frank Tanana and Don Kirkwood combined to shut out Oakland on one hit and Mickey Rivers singled in the only run tonight as the California Angels beat the A’s, 1‐0.
Amos Otis celebrated his 28th birthday today with a two‐run homer, single and double in leading the Kansas City Royals to an 8‐6 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
A five‐run uprising today in the fifth inning, capped by Al Oliver’s two‐run homer, knocked out Wayne Twitchell, the Philadelphia starter, and gave the Pittsburgh Pirates a 7‐3 victory over the Phillies.
Ken Griffey’s bases‐loaded double highlighted a five‐run fourth inning that helped the Cincinnati Reds defeat the Houston Astros, 9‐3, tonight.
Bill Madlock and José Cardenal drove in two runs each today to back the fine relief pitching of Ken Frailing and give the Chicago Cubs an 8–6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in a nationally‐televised game.
Ron Cey blasted his sixth home run of the season today, a three‐run shot in the first inning that started the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 13‐3 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Cey’s homer capped four‐run rally off John D’Acquisto. Walks to Dave Lopes and Willie Crawford and Steve Garvey’s run‐scoring single preceded Cey’s blast to left.
The Mets-Expos game in Montreal is snowed out today.
Cleveland Indians 3, Baltimore Orioles 0
Cleveland Indians 2, Baltimore Orioles 3
Oakland Athletics 0, California Angels 1
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Chicago Cubs 8
Boston Red Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 3
Cincinnati Reds 9, Houston Astros 3
Chicago White Sox 6, Kansas City Royals 8
Texas Rangers 7, Minnesota Twins 2
Milwaukee Brewers 1, New York Yankees 10
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Atlanta Braves 6, San Diego Padres 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 13, San Francisco Giants 3
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Joey Jordison, American drummer (Slipknot – “All Hope Is Gone”), in Des Moines, Iowa (d. 2021).
Jabbar Threats, NFL defensive end (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Springfield, Ohio.
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