Greece’s Socialists won a clear victory over their conservative challengers in the general elections Sunday, but their margin was somewhat reduced. Returns from 9,928 of Greece’s 14,738 districts put the Socialist share of the vote at 46.45 percent, down from the 48.06 percent with which the party, led by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, formed Greece’s first leftist Government in 1981. The conservative New Democracy Party received 40.56 percent of the vote, an improvement from its 1981 total of 35.86 percent.
English soccer clubs were banned indefinitely from European competition because of a riot at a match in Belgium last week that killed 38 people. The decision, announced in Basel, Switzerland, by the 34-nation Union of European Football Associations, was unprecedented. The soccer union’s president, Jacques Georges, said the committee based its decision on a preliminary report by three of its members. Nine committee members, including the representative from Scotland, were present, and two, from the Soviet Union and Italy, were absent. In London, English soccer officials said the ban was deserved and would increase pressure on them “to put their house in order” after the fatal riot. Thirty-eight people were killed and hundreds injured when fans from the Liverpool stands charged into the Juventus stands and a brick retaining wall collapsed, and many fans were either crushed or trampled. The dead included 31 Italians, 2 Frenchmen, 4 Belgians and a Briton.
Willy Brandt, Social Democratic Party chairman and former West German chancellor, said that after a recent visit with the Soviet leader in Moscow, he doubts that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev will meet this year. “The way things are between the two big powers, the Russians have no special desire to make a visit to Washington, and they will also not regard a meeting on the periphery of the United Nations as appropriate,” Brandt told Der Spiegel magazine. There has been speculation that Reagan and Gorbachev will meet in the fall during the U.N. General Assembly session.
The Free Democrats, the junior partner in West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s coalition government, said they will oppose any move by the government that would make West Germany the sole European participant in the U.S.-proposed “Star Wars” research program. The party endorsed a proposal to form a European research agency to develop space technology for civilian purposes. Kohl has said he sent experts to Washington to study the possibility of West German participation in the “Star Wars” project.
Israeli backing for U.S. talks with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation was sought by Secretary of State George P. Shultz in a message to Prime Minister Shimon Peres, State Department officials said. The initial Israeli Government reaction was viewed favorably here. In the letter to Mr. Peres, the officials said, Mr. Shultz reported on the progress that he felt was achieved during a visit by King Hussein of Jordan last week. But Mr. Shultz also underscored the remaining obstacles to peace, such as the lack of agreement with Jordan over the format for negotiations between Israel and a Jordanian-Palestinian group.
Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon would be completed Thursday, the third anniversary of the invasion, Prime Minister Peres said. Israeli leaders had previously said that the gradual withdrawal would be completed in the first week in June, but had given no exact date. “On the third anniversary this week, the war in Lebanon will be completely ended,” Mr. Peres said in an interview from Jerusalem broadcast on Europe 1, one of France’s largest radio stations. “This will be the end of the war in Lebanon,” he said. “There will no Israeli Army unit on Lebanese soil.”
Shiite Muslim militiamen of the Amal movement stormed a Palestinian settlement in southern Lebanon today after a machine-gun clash with armed Palestinians. The incident occurred as a relative calm enabled the Red Cross to evacuate more wounded Palestinians from the Burj al Brajneh refugee district in southern Beirut. Meanwhile, a senior Iranian delegation held talks here with Shiite leaders after Teheran publicly declared its opposition to Amal’s campaign to disarm the Palestinians in Lebanon. The team, headed by Ayatollah Mahdi Karoubi, arrived from Damascus, where the Iranians had met with the Syrian First Vice President, Abdel Halim Khaddam. Most of the one million Shiite Muslims in Lebanon are known to look to Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Iranian religious leader, for guidance.
Iraqi planes bombed the Iranian capital of Tehran for a third straight day, and Baghdad warned Iran to “expect harsher blows” unless it agrees to negotiate an end to the Iran-Iraq War. Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency said that Iraqi planes were chased away by anti-aircraft fire after the attack on Tehran. It did not indicate casualties or damage. Iraq said it also bombed targets in the border city of Ilam. Iran said it shelled “military and industrial targets” in Basra and nine Iraqi border towns. Iran and Iraq pounded each other’s towns and cities with air raids and missile and artillery strikes as the latest flare-up in the war entered its second week. Iran said its aircraft and artillery hit military and industrial targets in 15 Iraqi towns in reply to raids on Iranian civilian centers.
Afghan rebels said today that Soviet paratroops had joined the battle for a strategic valley near the Pakistani border. The rebels said Soviet armored forces had seized half the Kunar Valley after a week of heavy fighting. The paratroops seized ground ahead of advancing tank columns over the weekend and captured hilltops along the valley, guerrilla groups said. Forty Soviet helicopters dropped hundreds of paratroopers in one attack, the Yunis Khalis guerrilla group reported from the Pakistani border city of Peshawar. Western journalists are not allowed near the war front in Afghanistan, and the reports could not be independently confirmed. Iraqi jets hit a large naval target — a term usually used by Baghdad to refer to an oil tanker — near Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island, an Iraqi military spokesman said. Meanwhile, firefighters put out a blaze aboard the container ship Oriental Importer, which was hit in the northern Persian Gulf on Saturday by Iranian aircraft, crew members said.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India met today with President J. R. Jayewardene of Sri Lanka to explore what officials said were terms of a possible negotiated settlement to the increasingly violent ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka. The officials said the discussions would continue Monday, but they would not say whether there would be an announcement. Immediately after the talks, Mr. Gandhi and Mr. Jayewardene flew to Bangladesh to join with Gen. H. M. Ershad, the President of Bangladesh, to tour the southeastern islands swept by a cyclone last week. The visit was described by the leaders as a display of South Asian solidarity and cooperation.
Military courts in Pakistan have sentenced 53 people to 15 lashes each and one-year prison terms for taking part in riots last week in which three people died, the newspaper Dawn reported Sunday. Riots broke out in the west side of Karachi, a poor district, after people became infuriated by power cuts and a water shortage during a severe heat wave. Soldiers and riot policemen dispersed thousands of rioters who charged their lines.
Vietnamese armed forces and civilians killed 288 Chinese troops who crossed the Sino-Vietnamese border, Hanoi radio reported. The broadcast, monitored in Bangkok, said the Chinese conducted 12 “land-grabbing operations” after firing nearly 50,000 artillery rounds in northern Ha Tuyen province but were repulsed by the Vietnamese. China and Vietnam fought a brief border war in the same area in early 1979.
Philippines President Ferdinand E. Marcos said he would consider asking the United States to send ground troops to help his government fight insurgents of the Communist New People’s Army, but only if the rebel problem “gets out of control.” Although the Philippines and the United States have a mutual defense treaty, it was believed to be the first time that Marcos has publicly suggested turning to the United States for help in fighting the rebels. Marcos made his remarks to Paris-based Gamma television.
Gunmen shot and killed a commentator for a labor-run radio station as he watched his 19-year-old daughter compete in a beauty contest in the central Philippines, officials said today. The commentator, Nabokodonosor Velez, 47 years old, was the second from station DYLA to be slain in five months and the 11th Philippine journalist to be killed since January 1984. Mr. Velez was shot in the head late Saturday at point-blank range by six gunmen who sneaked into the crowd at the beauty contest and then fled on two motorcycles, military officials said. A village security guard accompanying Mr. Velez was also killed at the event in which Mr. Velez’s daughter was competing, said officials in Cebu, the country’s third largest city, 360 miles south of Manila.
Two Kanak separatist parties said today that they would take part in regional elections planned by France as a step toward independence for the South Pacific territory of New Caledonia. The centrist Kanak Socialist Liberation Party and the more militant Melanesian Progressive Union announced their decision after weekend conferences to study the French Government’s project. The Kanak Socialist National Liberation Front announced on May 27 that it would take part. The election, part of a plan presented in April by Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, is to be held in August. It will create four regional councils, which together will form an interim congress.
Salvadoran security forces occupied several hospitals before dawn today in an attempt to end a strike that the government said was being manipulated politically to the benefit of leftist guerrillas. Four government agents were killed, apparently by other government forces in the confusion. At the 489-bed General Hospital in the capital, a helicopter landed troops on the roof at 3 AM and other troops stormed in through the basement and the emergency room. More than 100 soldiers, some wearing gas masks, raced through the eight floors, ordering doctors, nurses, technicians and patients to lie down with their hands behind them. Many were tied up.
Guards killed eight prisoners and wounded eight when 19 inmates sought to flee from a prison in the Brazilian city of Campinas. The remaining three escaped. Meanwhile, in a jail in Belo Horizonte, 260 miles north of Rio de Janeiro, inmates strangled another cellmate, bringing to 16 the number of prisoners they have killed to protest against overcrowding and other poor living conditions.
Sudan will put on trial an official in the government of former President Jafaar Numeiri for his alleged role in aiding the airlift of about 7,800 Ethiopian Jews to Israel, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency reported. Omar Tayeb, a first vice president in the Numeiri government, has been in custody since the April 6 military coup in Sudan. During the airlift, officials of the Numeiri government denied any involvment in the operation, but other reports indicate it was carried out from Khartoum with the knowledge of local security forces.
People in Niles, Ohio, pitched in to rebuild the town after a tornado blew it apart Friday evening. Governor Richard F. Celeste, who has asked the Reagan Administration to declare five counties a disaster area, estimated property damage throughout the state at millions of dollars. Throughout the areas of Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario, Canada, struck by the devastating twisters, relief workers and volunteers searched for victims, cleared roads and removed debris, set up temporary housing, and sought to restore power and telephone lines. The tornado blew Niles apart in less than five minutes on Friday evening after a day of heavy rain. It whisked railroad freight cars into the air and plopped them down in damp earth far from the tracks.
Moving with what residents said was an almost electric force, it flattened a shopping center on U.S. 422, the highway between Cleveland and Youngstown. It damaged a steel plant that was once the town’s largest factory. It ripped the roofs off two elementary schools. It did not touch the columned monument to President William McKinley, who was born here 142 years ago, but it demolished a roller-skating rink that, less than half an hour later, would have been filled with high school students celebrating the end of the academic year. “I’ve never seen steel beams bent before, but there were 2 ½-foot ones twisted like pretzels,” said Lieutenant Bruce Simeone of the Niles Police Department. “When you stop and think about the power it had to generate to do that, it’s mind-boggling.”
A cleanup after the tornadoes that struck communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Ontario was started by state and local relief workers and volunteer groups. Immediate attention was given to temporary housing, and restoration of power and telephone lines. The death toll from the storms rose to 93. Rescue workers were trying to find people reported missing. A former Navy worker is implicated in a purported Soviet spy ring, Government sources said. He is now an employee of a California military contractor and is said to have smuggled secrets from a Naval air station. The sources also said that John A. Walker Jr., accused of being the ring’s leader, was hired by the Navy to give lie-detector tests to sailors charged with misconduct, a post that may have given him access to highly classified information.
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David.
The President and the First Lady attend the annual Ford’s Theatre Festival Gala.
More than two dozen representatives of civil rights organizations are preparing to testify against the nomination of William Bradford Reynolds, the Justice Department’s civil rights chief, to be the Associate Attorney General, the department’s No. 3 job. The hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which begin Tuesday, are expected by Congressional aides to be a forum for pent-up complaints and anger over the Reagan Administration’s civil rights policies. To many critics, Mr. Reynolds, a foe of quotas in hiring and promotion, is the personification of a profound shift in the federal government’s approach to civil rights under President Reagan.
Jesse Jackson, speaking from the church where the 1965 civil rights marches started in Selma, Alabama, denounced the Reagan Administration for prosecuting three blacks for alleged vote fraud. “Twenty years ago, it was an enlightened President saying, ‘We shall overcome.’ Twenty years later, it’s an unenlightened President saying, ‘We shall overturn,’” Jackson said. Black leaders have criticized the government investigation of the so-called Marion (County) Three, accusing Justice Department agents of using harassment to dilute minority voting strength.
An R.J. Reynolds-Nabisco merger accord was announced by the companies. They said Reynolds, the nation’s second-largest cigarette maker, had agreed to buy Nabisco, maker of Ritz crackers and Oreo biscuits, for about $4.9 billion. The statement said the merger, which had been expected on Wall Street, would create the largest United States-based consumer products company, with annual sales of more than $19 billion.
Almost two dozen Texas hospitals have filed billions of dollars worth of false Medicare claims in a scandal that the General Accounting Office said rivals overcharges by defense contractors, the Dallas Morning News reported. “With General Dynamics, we were talking millions of dollars,” said Dan Garcia, a senior evaluator in the GAO’s Dallas office. “Here, we’re talking billions.” The newspaper reported that in a GAO audit of 21 Texas hospitals, each was found to have overcharged Medicare in 1981.
A sniper opened fire on cars traveling Interstate 95, wounding six persons, authorities said in Jacksonville, Florida. Nine cars were hit, Jacksonville Police spokesman Charley Hill said, adding: “The suspect is still at large.” One woman was shot through the nose, and two women were hit by bullet fragments. All of those injured were treated at a hospital and released. Police searched a wooded area for a man spotted near the scene but found only two men who were later cleared.
New talks were set in New York for today between management and workers striking at the city’s most renowned hotels, officials said on the second day of the walkout by 14,000 employees. At the 48 establishments targeted in the strike, guests and delivery men were heckled for crossing picket lines, and newly hired replacements and management personnel received mixed reviews on their ability to service guests.
Hundreds of striking United Airlines pilots, their families and members of other unions rallied at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport to protest what speakers called the airline’s union-busting tactics. With the walkout against the nation’s largest air carrier in its 17th day and no new talks scheduled, about 500 persons turned out for the solidarity demonstration.
About 65 prisoners armed with broomhandles and cups of bleach fought riot-equipped deputies for three hours today at the Los Angeles County Jail. Three deputies and about 50 inmates were injured, some seriously, officials said. Deputies used water hoses and explosives that startled the inmates with bright flashes and loud bangs to quell the melee, said Captain Barry King, who was in charge of the downtown facility. All 7,300 inmates were locked in their cells at the jail after the disturbance, which began around 3 PM, said Deputy Steve Fitzsimmons. The disturbance began when guards tried to remove a half-dressed inmate from the lunch line for violating the jail’s dress code. The others ran back to their cells and “started to build barricades in the corridor and within their cells,” Captain King said.
A gang that the police said was seeking revenge drove through a residential neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas early today, firing shotgun blasts that killed one man and wounded nine other people, including two children, the police said. Police Lieutenant L. W. Trussell said police had arrested one man and had identified other suspects. He said the dead man, Domingo Duran Jr., 22 years old, of Fort Worth, had been charged with attempted murder in an earlier incident and was released on bond Saturday. He said the shootings were apparently carried out in revenge for the earlier incident, but offered no other information. Mr. Duran died of a chest wound and five others were wounded, including a 3-year-old girl and 5-year-old boy, at one house. Three teenagers were wounded at another house, as was a woman visiting at a third location.
The number of minority students receiving financial aid to attend public colleges dropped 12.4% between the 1981-82 and 1983-84 academic years, according to a survey released in Washington. “These findings clearly show that we need to increase student aid, not cut it further as the Reagan Administration is proposing,” said Allan W. Ostar, president of the American Assn. of State Colleges and Universities, which commissioned the study. “While college costs are continuing to climb, the type of aid that the lowest-income students depend on the most — grants — is declining.”
Tuition discounts routinely offered by colleges and universities to certain categories of students are, economists say, blurring pricing policy differences between higher education and other extremely competitive industries. According to economists, these pricing policies arise because with competition for able students increasing, colleges often try not to keep tuitions low but to spend as much as possible on academic quality and then redistribute their resources by offering discounts.
The Nevada Senate has given final legislative approval to a bill that requires motorists to wear seat belts. It also directs the state to ask the federal government to allow people to drive at speeds of up to 70 miles per hour in return. The 55 m.p.h. speed limit has always been unpopular in Nevada and the state has been at odds with the federal government over its enforcement. The measure, passed Saturday, would require people riding in the front seat of a car to wear seat belts, beginning in 1986, regardless of the federal government’s response to the request. The bill was drafted by Assemblyman Bob Thomas, a Republican from Carson City, who said an experiment could be conducted on the safety of seat belts combined with the higher speed limit.
One of the largest outdoor sculptures in the world is transforming a forest destroyed by mining on the shores of the Illinois River in Ottawa, Illinois. The work, entitled “Effigy Tumuli,” consists of five earth mounds in the shape of animals indigenous to the region: a catfish, a frog, a turtle, a snake and a water spider. It is perhaps the largest outdoor sculpture to be built in the United States since Mount Rushmore was completed in 1941. Michael Heizer is the sculptor.
Pornographic video cassettes are the target of prosecutors in several cities. The owners of two video cassette shops in Phoenix face obscenity charges lodged by Maricopa County. Officials in Cincinnati, Memphis and other communities have also acted to limit the availability of pornographic cassettes at rental outlets. In New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, there has been no widespread move against the shops, although owners of several Nassau County shops were prosecuted in 1981.
The authorities were searching for a 330-pound lioness that might have been loose in a densely wooded area of southwestern Missouri for as long as two months. The lioness, a 1-year-old named Sheeba, is believed to have escaped from a farmhouse about two miles south of Pleasant Hills sometime within the last two months. However, the authorities have not been able to contact the owners of the house, Ross Spangler and Rod Werner. Officials were alerted to the missing lioness Wednesday after receiving a complaint of a noxious odor coming from the farmhouse. The authorities said they found several dead animals inside, including a monkey, raccoons and birds. They then learned that the owners had kept a lioness as a pet. Cass County Sheriff Homer Foote said the claws on the animal’s front feet had been removed. He said police would try to capture the animal alive. The authorities said the two owners of the house were believed to be in the Kansas City area, but that attempts to find them had been unsuccessful.
39th Tony Awards: “Biloxi Blues” (play) and “Big River” (musical) win.
LPGA Championship Women’s Golf, Jack Nicklaus Golf Club: Nancy Lopez wins by 8 shots from fellow American Alice Miller.
From the onset of the playoffs, the Los Angeles Lakers have denied that their motivation stems from revenge. But they played this afternoon with the kind of fire and emotion that contradicted that assertion. The result was a convincing 136-111 triumph over the Boston Celtics that gave the Lakers a 2-1 lead in the four-of-seven-game championship series, with the next games Wednesday and Friday at the Forum here. Three altercations broke out, one of which resulted in the ejection of the Celtics’ Ray Williams in the final period. Williams and Kurt Rambis fought after the Laker forward came down with a rebound and was grabbed from behind by Williams. The others fights occurred in the first half and both involved the Celtics’ Kevin McHale, who led all scorers with 31 points.
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Wayne Gross snapped a 3-for-34 slump with two home runs and drove in four runs and Eddie Murray went 4 for 4, including two doubles, and drove in three runs, as the Orioles routed the A’s, 10–1. The winner, Scott McGregor, allowed six hits in his third straight complete game. McGregor, who was 1–4 with a 7.92 earned-run average after his first seven starts, evened his record at 4–4. He lost his bid for a second shutout of Oakland in 12 days when Dwayne Murphy hit his seventh home run in the seventh inning. Cal Ripken added three hits in Baltimore’s 13-hit attack.
The Red Sox crushed the Rangers, 12–3. Jim Rice had four hits, including a solo homer, and drove in three runs to lead an 18-hit attack. Bruce Hurst (2–4) scattered nine hits, struck out eight and walked three in eight innings for his first victory since April 10. Leading by 7–3 in the sixth inning, the Red Sox chased the loser Dave Rozema (2–4). Rice and Bill Buckner led off with singles, and Mike Easler walked to load the bases. Rich Gedman reached on a fielder’s choice off the reliever Chris Welsh, scoring Rice, and Marty Barrett’s sacrifice fly scored Buckner to make the score 9–3. Miller then singled Gedman to second before Glen Hoffman doubled both runners home.
Lloyd Moseby and George Bell hit run-scoring doubles during a four-run first inning today that led the Toronto Blue Jays past the Cleveland Indians, 5–2, in the second game for a split of the first doubleheader in the major leagues this season. In the first game, Jerry Willard hit a three-run double off Dave Stieb in the ninth inning to rally Cleveland to a 5–4 victory. The triumph broke the Indians’ four-game losing streak.
The Seattle Mariners won a game yesterday Chuck Cottier’s way. It would not have been, the first stage at least, George Steinbrenner’s way. The Mariners edged the Yankees, 7–6, after Cottier told his players the night before to ignore the club curfew and after he threw just about everything but the game around the field in one of the best tantrums ever seen at Yankee Stadium, in the third inning yesterday. Billy Martin, the Yankee manager, who until yesterday had not lost any of the 11 games he managed at the stadium this season, said he did not think those were the reasons the Mariners won. Martin said the Mariners won because Don Cooper threw Domingo Ramos a fastball that he hit for a home run in the fifth inning and Rich Bordi threw Al Cowens a fast ball he hit for a home run in the seventh inning.
The White Sox downed the Royals, 4–1. Greg Walker hit a three-run homer as the White Sox scored all their runs in the first inning for their fifth straight triumph, including a four-game sweep of the Royals. Chicago scored all its runs before the loser Mark Gubicza (1–4) could retire a batter. Rudy Law led off with a single and Bryan Little walked. Harold Baines doubled in one run and Walker followed with his seventh homer. Richard Dotson (3–3) scattered six hits and struck out six before departing in the seventh. He held the Royals hitless until Jorge Orta singled with two outs in the fourth.
The Angels bowed to the Tigers, 4–3. Darrell Evans hit Donnie Moore’s third pitch of the ninth inning off the facing of the upper deck in right field for his ninth home run of the season. Moore (3–2) entered the game in the eighth inning and gave up a game-tying home run to Lance Parrish. He threw a ball and a strike in the bottom of the ninth before Evans made a winner of Willie Hernandez (4–1). Bobby Grich had hit a solo home run off Detroit’s Aurelio Lopez with one out in the sixth to break a 2–2 tie.
The Twins edged the Brewers, 5–4. Bob Gibson’s low slider didn’t slide quite low enough and Mike Stenhouse hit it out in the eighth inning at Minneapolis to end the Twins’ 10-game losing streak. “I’m a low-ball hitter and I just golfed it out,” said Stenhouse after his two-run homer brought the Twins from behind. Stenhouse has not been seeing much action, because he has been in a deeper slump than even his slumping teammates. When he came up with two out and Kent Hrbek on second in the eighth, he was 1 for 26. Stenhouse’s third home run enabled Ken Schrom, who pitched a five-hitter, to win his fourth.
Pete Rose had three hits in four times at bat today, doubling twice and singling, to lead the Reds to an 8–3 win over the Cardinals. The 44-year-old player-manager now has a career total of 4,138 hits, only 53 shy of Ty Cobb’s major league record. Rose, who also had two runs batted in and scored twice, has hit safely in nine of his last 13 games. The Reds bunched six hits, including a run-scoring double by Rose, to score six runs in the fourth inning to overcome a 2–0 deficit.
Vida Blue, making his first start in the major leagues since July 1983, combined with the relievers Frank Williams and Mark Davis on a one-hitter today to help the Giants beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–1. Blue (3–1), starting in place of the injured Bill Laskey, pitched five innings and allowed the only hit, a one-out triple in the fifth by the rookie third baseman Rick Schu.
The Mets won their first series in San Diego in eight years today when they beat the Padres, 7–3, and scored their fourth victory in five games on a West Coast trip that seemed like an ordeal when it began last week. “We came in here limping a little bit,” Manager Dave Johnson said after the Mets had won two of three from the defending National League champions. “We saw their horses three days in a row. But we played great ball against a powerful team.” The Mets’ Calvin Schiraldi, who spent 15 days on the disabled list with a broken toe, started his first game in nearly three weeks and won his first game in six weeks. Doug Sisk, who spent two weeks in the minor leagues trying to find his major league touch, pitched four shutout innings in relief and saved a game for the first time in seven weeks. And Gary Carter hit his first home run in 26 days.
The Dodgers edged the Expos, 8–7. R. J. Reynolds, Pedro Guerrero and Greg Brock hit run-scoring singles during the decisive five-run rally in the fifth inning. The total of eight runs were a season-high for the Dodgers, and the five-run fifth marked their biggest inning of the season. Los Angeles trailed by 3–0 and had just two hits entering the fifth. Steve Sax led off with a walk and Mariano Duncan singled. Reynolds, Guerrero and Brock then followed with their run-scoring singles to tie the score and force the starter Bryn Smith (5–2) to leave the game.
The Pirates blanked the Braves, 5–0. Johnny Ray had three hits and drove in two runs, and Jose DeLeon pitched five shutout innings. DeLeon (1–7) left the game after the fifth inning with a blister on the middle finger of his pitching hand. DeLeon struck out five, raising his season total to 75. It was his second victory in his last 18 decisions. Al Holland pitched the final four innings for his fourth save in a combined two-hitter. Steve Bedrosian (2–4) was the loser. It was the Pirates’ second straight victory, matching their longest streak of the season.
The Astros edged the Cubs, 4–3, as Terry Puhl drove in two runs with a double and Bill Doran added a solo homer, supporting four-hit pitching by Mike Scott and Dave Smith. Scott (3–2) pitched eight innings, retiring 15 of the first 16 batters he faced and holding the Cubs hitless through the fifth. He walked one and struck out eight, equaling his career high. Larry Gura (0–1) gave up seven hits and three runs in his second start since being released by Kansas City.
Oakland Athletics 1, Baltimore Orioles 10
Texas Rangers 3, Boston Red Sox 12
Kansas City Royals 1, Chicago White Sox 4
California Angels 3, Detroit Tigers 4
Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 4
Montreal Expos 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 8
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Minnesota Twins 5
Seattle Mariners 7, New York Yankees 6
Atlanta Braves 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
New York Mets 7, San Diego Padres 3
Philadelphia Phillies 1, San Francisco Giants 3
Cincinnati Reds 8, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Cleveland Indians 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Cleveland Indians 2, Toronto Blue Jays 5
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Robbie Earl, NHL left wing (Toronto Maple Leafs, Minnesota Wild), in Chicago, Illinois.
Ana Cristina Cash [née Álvarez], Cuban-American pop and country singer-songwriter, in Miami, Florida.
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