President Reagan, saying he was prepared to “go the extra mile” to obtain mutual restraints in nuclear weapons, formally announced today that the United States would continue to honor provisions of the second strategic arms limitation treaty of 1979. After a debate within the Administration that had divided his top aides, Mr. Reagan told Congress that he would not seek to renounce the treaty outright and would not attempt to undercut it in other ways. “Despite my serious reservations about the inequities of the SALT I agreement and the serious flaws of the SALT II agreement,” Mr. Reagan said of the two arms accords signed in the 1970’s, “I took this action in order to foster an atmosphere of mutual restraint conducive to serious negotiation” in the present Geneva talks. One provision of the 1979 treaty sets a limit of 1,200 on the number of missiles with multiple warheads. Mr. Reagan’s decision to continue honoring the treaty will have a direct effect this fall when the latest Trident submarine Alaska will start sea trials carrying 24 missiles, raising the number of American multiple-warhead missiles to 14 above the limit.
Secretary of State George Schultz privately asks for the resignation of U.S. Ambassador to Austria Helene von Damm. President Reagan feels that she did a good job but since she has married a native Austrian it’s best she is replaced. She soon cables a resignation letter to Washington, indicating that it was ″the interests of our country″ that she step down.
Lech Walesa, wearing a T-shirt imprinted with the banned name of his outlawed Solidarity labor union, testified in Gdansk today that three of his colleagues on trial for fomenting disorder were not engaged in illegal activities when they attended a meeting he convened in February. After the court session, which was closed to foreign reporters, Mr. Walesa said he had been asked what he knew of the case of the three men — Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, Bogdan Lis and Adam Michnik. He said he had told Judge Krzysztof Zieniuk, “I know that three innocent people are sitting in the dock.”
The prosecutor in the trial here of eight men accused of conspiring to kill the Pope flew to the Netherlands today to seek information about a Turk arrested there last month with a weapon and a forged passport. The Turk, Samet Arslan, was seized May 14, the last day of a trip by Pope John Paul II to the Netherlands. Court officials said the prosecutor, Antonio Marini, would seek to establish whether there were links between the Turkish suspect and the five Turks and three Bulgarians on trial here. If links are found, they said, the prosecutor is expected to seek extradition.
The two ringleaders of a gang that staged what was said to be Britain’s biggest cash robbery were each sentenced to 22 years in prison by a London court. George Knight, 48, a garage owner, and Terence Perkins, 36, headed the gang that robbed the London headquarters of Security Express in 1983 of $7.5 million in used bills. Three other gang members were sentenced to terms of six to eight years for their part in the robbery.
Seven British servicemen on trial in London for espionage were blackmailed into giving top secret military information to a foreign power by threats that their “homosexual orgies” would be exposed, the prosecution said. The five airmen and two soldiers have pleaded innocent to 28 charges of spying from 1982 to 1984 while stationed at a British base in Cyprus. Prosecutor Michael Wright said the recipient of the secrets was not established but was believed to be the Soviet Union.
Israel offered a peace proposal as an alternative to King Hussein’s recent Middle East initiative. Prime Minister Shimon Peres outlined a five-point plan that he said would lead to an international conference on the region within three months. Mr. Peres, in a speech to Parliament, said his proposal was a realistic alternative to the King’s plan, which he described as doomed to failure. He reaffirmed Israel’s opposition to Jordan’s call for preliminary United States talks with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation to prepare for later talks with Israel. “If he wants peace,” Mr. Peres said of King Hussein, “he must understand that he has to sit with Israel and not keep trying to place her in some darkened waiting room until everything is concluded without her.”
The Israeli army completes the withdrawal out of Lebanon after 1,099 days of occupation. Israel withdrew the last of its combat forces from southern Lebanon today, leaving behind an undisclosed number of patrols, advisers and observers, Israeli military sources said. Five hours before the last unit left Lebanese soil, two Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon hit the western Galilee farming settlement of Moshav Shomera two miles south of the border. No one was hurt and no property damage was reported. Israeli helicopters, along with some ground units and South Lebanon Army soldiers, scoured an area just north of the border for traces of rocket launchers, but found nothing. No group asserted responsibility for the attack.
The hostage dispute between an Israeli-backed militia and the United Nations force in southern Lebanon remained deadlocked today. Twenty-one Finnish soldiers from the United Nations force are being held by the Israeli-backed militia, the South Lebanon Army, and 11 South Lebanon Army troops are in the hands of the Shiite militia known as Amal. Timor Goksel, a spokesman for the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon, said a meeting was held today between his group and the South Lebanon Army to help bring about the release of the prisoners, who have been held since Friday. Mr. Goksel said two United Nations officers met with a South Lebanon Army officer accompanied by an Israeli officer in the south Lebanese village of Ebl es Saki.
Another American has been kidnapped in Lebanon. Professor Thomas M. Sutherland, dean of agriculture at the American University of Beirut, was seized by gunmen last night as he drove from Beirut’s international airport. He was the eighth American to be kidnapped in Lebanon since March 1984. Seven are still missing. The police said Professor Sutherland, 53 years old, was seized by five or six gunmen who were in two cars. They shot out the tires of the car and then fired into the air as the professor was pulled out, put into another vehicle and driven off.
Iran fired a ground-to-ground missile into Baghdad, causing a huge explosion in a residential neighborhood of the Iraqi capital. There were no casualty reports after the attack, which Iran said was in retaliation for Iraqi air raids that killed at least 92 people and wounded more than 135 in the previous 24 hours. The Iranians said the non-nuclear missile attack, the third in 16 days, will be repeated if Iraq’s raids do not stop. Iraq, however, announced that its warplanes made new raids on six Iranian cities.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, due in the United States on Tuesday, continues to enjoy popularity at home. But some of his associates are frustrated at the slow pace of progress in solving India’s problems. More than one political commentator in India has noted that Mr. Gandhi’s recent travels reflect the standard practice of political leaders to shift their attentions to global concerns as a respite from problems at home. Lately, Mr. Gandhi has been spending a lot of time on the road. Two weeks after returning from a six-day trip to the Soviet Union, he was off again for visits to Egypt, France and Algeria before his scheduled arrival in Washington. He is to stop in Geneva before returning to India next Monday.
Paramilitary troops were deployed today at the border between two states in northeast India. Recent clashes between rival police forces there have left 50 dead and scores wounded. Area officials said most of the dead at the border between Assam and Nagaland states were Assamese police officers. An estimated 50,000 Assamese tribesmen, known as the Bodo-Kacharis, have fled to several refugee camps in the Jorhat district, the officials said. The Nagas were accused of helping rioters from their community attack villagers in Assam. No arrests have been reported. The disputed region is called Merapani and is rich in forest and fertile farming land. Merapani, which is in Assam, has been the scene of earlier clashes by the Assamese and the Nagas, who claim the region is part of Nagaland. During the last confrontation, in 1979, the Nagas killed at least 70 Assamese villagers, and the survivors accused the police officers of helping the attackers.
Prince Norodom Sihanouk appealed to the United States today to use its “great influence and prestige” to help Cambodia establish a coalition government of Communists and non-Communists under international guarantees. He spoke in an interview at his residence outside the North Korean capital, where he has made his home for several months each year since the 1970 coup in Cambodia that overthrew him and installed a pro-United States Government under Gen. Lon Nol. The Prince, ruler of Cambodia for nearly 30 years before the coup, suggested that creation of such a coalition government could grow out of a new Geneva conference on the six-year-old conflict in Cambodia, which is between Vietnam and the rebel forces opposing Hanoi’s occupation. “For our people, there is something more important than dollars and weapons, and it is diplomacy,” the Prince said. “The United States should use its very great influence and prestige and put them at the disposal of the Cambodian people.
[Ed: FUCK this guy. Sihanouk did everything in his power to create the chaos that led to the Khmer Rouge, and the Killing Fields, and now wanted the U.S. to help him? We should have helped him fall out of a helicopter back in the Sixties. Worthless corrupt son of a bitch… ]
Chinese officials traveling with Premier Zhao Ziyang signed a letter of intent in Bonn to buy four atomic reactors. They said they want China to offset the cost by accepting radioactive spent fuel from West Germany. The letter calls for the Siemens concern’s Kraftwerk Union to manufacture four 1,000-megawatt pressurized-water reactors to be designed by a joint German-Chinese engineering team. Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s political opposition has assailed proposals to send spent reactor fuel to China because that country has not signed the international treaty limiting the spread of nuclear weapons.
Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping formally announced plans to cut the country’s 4-million-strong standing army, one of the world’s largest, by 1 million men over the next two years, the New China News Agency said. Deng, chairman. of the powerful Communist Party Central Military Commission, said the demobilization plan, first disclosed in April, is “a major strategic decision.” He added, “Economic construction is our main aim and everything must be subordinated to it.” Western military experts said the cuts will include 80,000 officers and thousands of semi-retired or inactive troops.
Defense Minister Koichi Kato of Japan discussed the defense of Pacific sea lanes around Japan and other issues today with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, the Pentagon said. In addition to a five-year Japanese plan to increase its defense of sea lanes within 1,000 miles of its shores, the officials discussed the exchange of technology between Washington and Tokyo and Japan’s request for information on American radar systems that look over the earth’s horizon, the Pentagon said.
Two Democratic Congressmen said today that the Government was withholding a visa for a former Nicaraguan rebel leader to influence the debate in Congress over aid to the insurgents. The former rebel leader, Jose Efren Martinez Mondragon, recently abandoned the insurgents’ cause and requested asylum at the Mexican Embassy in Honduras. He had been scheduled to appear at a news conference here today. Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts said “the Administration is afraid of what we are going to hear.” He said Mr. Martinez Mondragon was prepared to detail activities by the Central Intelligence Agency in support of the rebels.
About 500 Costa Ricans stormed the Nicaraguan Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica today, smashing windows and trampling the Nicaraguan flag to denounce border fighting that left two Costa Rican guardsmen dead. Witnesses said Nicaraguan diplomats threw a tear gas canister at the demonstrators and fired against the inner wall of the embassy to keep them from getting inside during the protest. Costa Rica charges the Sandinista army fired on a Civil Guard patrol May 31, killing two guardsmen and wounding nine across their common border. Managua has denied any responsibility for the attack, saying Nicaraguan rebels fleeing Sandinista soldiers opened fire on the Costa Ricans.
El Salvador’s left-wing guerrillas said they are ending a four-day effort to halt traffic on the nation’s roads and switching to an assault on the country’s electric-power grid. The rebels’ clandestine radio said the insurgents will begin “an intense sabotage campaign against electric energy” throughout the nation.
President Reagan meets with President of Panama Nicolas Ardito Barletta Vallarino
Rolf Mengele will issue a statement shortly about his father’s fate, his secretary said. Rolf Mengele is a lawyer in Freiburg, West Germany. His statement would break his family’s longstanding refusal to discuss the disappearance of Dr. Josef Mengele, the Auschwitz camp doctor, after World War II. The secretary, speaking from Rolf Mengele’s law office in the West German city of Freiburg, said a statement was being prepared and would be given to the West German news agency Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Rolf Mengele and other family members could not be reached for comment tonight. The promise of a statement from the Mengele family came after the Brazilian police exhumed the body of a man they believe may be Josef Mengele near the town of Sao Paulo last week.
For lack of evidence, Sudan ordered the release from custody of five senior officials of the overthrown government of Jaafar Numeiri, Egypt’s Middle East News Agency reported. Most Cabinet ministers and other high-ranking officials were arrested when the armed forces, led by then-Defense Minister Abdul-Rahman Suwar Dahab, ousted Numeiri on April 6. Officials have said they will put Numeiri on trial, although they have not asked for his extradition from Egypt.
The first plane full of food, medicine and clothing bought with royalties from the “We Are the World” hit single and album is on the way to drought victims in Ethiopia and the Sudan. The cargo jet took off today and stopped in New York to pick up more supplies, including 15,000 T-shirts. The 120 tons of supplies consisted of high-protein biscuits and vitamins, medicine, tents, blankets and refrigeration equipment. A spokesman said the foundation has raised $45 million in record sales since late January.
President Reagan greeted more than 100 renegades from the Democratic Party with a “Welcome aboard — welcome home,” and said their switch to the GOP represents “a national movement that is sweeping the electorate.” A joyful President, flanked by Vice President George Bush and chief political lieutenants at the White House reception, tried to soften the anguish of longtime Democratic officeholders by telling them that they had not left their party but “that party left you” by surrendering to special interests.
Regional banking zones are valid under both Federal law and the Constitution, the Supreme Court ruled. The 8-to-0 vote upheld the so-called New England Compact, under which Massachusetts and Connecticut permit New England-based banking companies, but not those from New York or other states outside the region, to acquire local banks. Similar regional banking zones are being established across the country. The zones strengthen regional banking while protecting local banks from acquistion by or direct competition from big banks in New York and other money centers.
The Supreme Court agreed today to decide whether the Federal Government can arrange for aerial surveillance of an industrial plant, to check for pollution, without first obtaining a search warrant. By accepting the case, an appeal by the Dow Chemical Company, the Court expanded an inquiry it opened last week into the constitutional implications of aerial inspection. A week ago the Justices agreed to hear a similar case, an appeal by the State of California concerning aerial surveillance of a marijuana garden in the fenced-in yard of a private home. Both cases will be decided in the Court’s term beginning next October. The initial question in both is whether inspection from the air is a search within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits unreasonable searches.
The Senate was asked to further cut Federal spending by Senator Bob Dole, the Republican majority leader, as House and Senate conferees prepared to meet today to try to put together a compromise 1986 budget plan. Mr. Dole called for $50 billion to $60 billion more in savings over three years.
Claus von Bülow was acquitted today of twice trying to kill his wealthy wife, Martha, with insulin injections that the state had charged were the cause of her falling into two comas. As the jury foreman in Superior Court read the verdict on the second count, Mr. von Bülow lowered his head to his clasped hands. Then he sat up again, in his characteristic straight-backed posture, as his attorneys pounded him on his back and his current companion, Andrea Reynolds, wept behind him. Later Mr. von Bülow, a 58-year-old Danish-born socialite, said at a news conference that he regretted not taking the stand in his own defense, but the verdict proved what he had consistently maintained. “The case was quite rightly conducted as a medical matter,” he said. “There was no crime.” The verdict in the retrial of the case was reached after eight hours of deliberation over four days, and after seven weeks of testimony.
In a sunny Rose Garden ceremony Monday honoring his team’s championship season, Laker star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar presented President Reagan a Laker jersey bearing Reagan’s name and the number 1. “I was telling the President I’m not a Republican,” Abdul-Jabbar said. “But I am one of his constituents. So I thought we should suit him up the right way.” Reagan, accepting the jersey, declared: “I’m proud to have this.”
New York state officials ordered a 90-day suspension of the real estate broker’s license of John A. Zaccaro, husband of unsuccessful Democratic vice presidential candidate Geraldine A. Ferraro. Zaccaro pleaded guilty January 7 to scheming to defraud for altering an appraisal report and overstating his net worth. A hearing officer concluded that Zaccaro “demonstrated untrustworthiness beyond question,” said William Brown, a spokesman for Secretary of State Gail Shaffer. The suspension takes effect August 1.
Washington police arrested 21 rabbis as they chanted and prayed outside the Soviet Embassy to protest what one organizer called “an ongoing, silent holocaust” in the Soviet Union. The protest occurred on the eve of the scheduled trial in Washington of 24 other rabbis and one Lutheran pastor in connection with a similar demonstration on May 1. The government’s decision to prosecute in that case-while dropping charges. against hundreds of persons for demonstrating outside the South African Embassy-has been widely questioned.
The government has begun action against two pilots who it says illegally used their radios “to harass nonstriking United Airlines pilots.” The enforcement action could result in loss of the pilots’ licenses or more severe penalties. The Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday there had been more than 50 incidents of harassment since the United strike began May 17 and that actions against more pilots were expected. The F.A.A. said the incidents involved either jamming a radio frequency by pressing a microphone button or making abusive statements about United pilots who did not join the walkout. The agency said it was using sophisticated electronic equipment to pinpoint the flights from which otherwise unidentified radio transmissions were emanating. Such transmissions are deemed a threat to safety.
Residents of Gary, Indiana, voiced shock and anger over the drownings of five children who tried desperately to claw their way out of a slime-coated municipal swimming pool where they had gone in search of frogs. The four girls and one boy, from 6 to 13 years old and all related, drowned Sunday evening, officials said. The pool contained about five feet of stagnant rainwater at its deep end and the youths apparently slid into it. Mayor Richard G. Hatcher expressed “sadness and shock at… the tragic loss” and called a news conference for today.
The two sides in the 10-day-old New York hotel strike met for four hours, their longest session since the walkout began, but a union leader said there had been no progress. Vito Pitta, president of the New York Hotel-Motel Trades Council, said both sides had agreed to meet again today. Albert Formicola, president of the Hotel Association of New York Inc., left the session without speaking to reporters. The walkout by 16,000 workers has affected 53 of the city’s most prestigious hotels and comes at the beginning of the tourist season.
Hundreds of firefighters used bulldozers today to widen a 50-mile firebreak around a blaze burning on 26,500 acres of timberland and brush in Florida’s Panhandle. Helicopters doused hot spots with 250-gallon buckets of water while dozens of bulldozers widened a cleared strip around the fire. The fire has caused no serious injuries. Meanwhile, a fire broke out in Sarasota County in southwestern Florida, burning more than 1,600 acres. Fires also broke out in Martin County on the southeast coast and in Manatee County on the west-central coast. All three were reported to be under control tonight.
Eleven air pollutants are a greater hazard in homes than they are in the air around the plants at which they are produced, a new study by the Environmental Protection Agency says. The results could change the focus of air pollution efforts by the agency, which has concentrated on outdoor rather than indoor pollution.
Sweeping business insurance changes may increase business costs. Higher premiums and less coverage for most businesses and public agencies are expected from changes initiated by insurers, insurance experts say. The changes range from making payments only on claims made during a policy period to putting limits on the total amount that insurers would pay out for multiple claims.
Storm warnings minimized deaths from tornadoes that killed 74 people in Ohio and Pennsylvania on May 31, according to a preliminary report on the effectiveness of the National Weather Service’s forecasts.
Coca-Cola announces they’re bringing back their 99-year-old formula as “Coca-Cola Classic.” The “New Coke” fiasco is gathering momentum and sales are down.
19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, Barbara Mandrell win.
Herschel Walker broke through three tacklers and ran away from a fourth on a spectacular 55-yard run for a touchdown tonight in the third quarter. That was the first of two big plays for the Generals, who defeated the Jacksonville Bulls, 31–24, and qualified for the United States Football League playoffs. Walker’s big play began as just another run up the middle and ended with several records for the 23-year-old running back. His yards gained by rushing this season reached 2,111 in the Generals’ 16th game. Walker passed the National Football League record of 2,105 set last year by Eric Dickerson for the Los Angeles Rams in 16 games.
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The Braves blanked the Giants, 5–0. Zane Smith, a rookie right-hander, pitched the Braves’ first complete game this season, and Larry Owen capped a five-run first inning with a two-run double, leading Atlanta past San Francisco. The victory was the third in a row for the Braves, who had won no more than two in a row this year. The loss was the reeling Giants’ fifth straight. Smith (3–4), making only his third start of the year, scattered seven hits, struck out six and walked three.
Ryne Sandberg had a two-run single and Keith Moreland added a game-winning single tonight to highlight a three-run eighth inning that helped the Chicago Cubs defeat the Montreal Expos, 5–4, for their fifth consecutive victory. The Cubs also extended their lead in the National League East to 2 ½ games over the second-place Mets and 3 games over the Expos. The Expos had led, 3–1, going into the eighth inning.
By itself, the Mets’ ninth inning wasn’t so bad. With two down, Gary Carter hit a home run over the left-field fence. Then Danny Heep singled and John Christensen hit the next pitch over the left-field fence for his first home run in the big leagues. Not bad at all for a team hitting only .222 and searching for the long, lost big inning. This was a pretty big inning, too, and also the first time in nearly two months the Mets had hit two home runs in one time at bat. But, though rare and explosive, it wasn’t big enough. By the time the Mets began to clear the fences tonight, they were already five runs down to the Philadelphia Phillies. And, after the noise subsided, the Mets were still short, 6–4.
Pedro Guerrero, Mike Marshall and Greg Brock belted home runs to power the Dodgers over the Reds, 7–4. Homers by Guerrero, his ninth, and Marshall, his 10th, cut the Reds’ lead to 3–2 in the fourth, and the Dodgers chased the Cincinnati starter, John Stuper, with five runs in the fifth, two on Brock’s eighth homer. Rick Honeycutt (4–5) gave up seven hits and four runs in 5 ⅔ innings for the victory.
Danny Cox pitched a four-hitter and singled home a pair of runs, and Jack Clark hit his 12th homer as St. Louis won at Pittsburgh, 6–1. The Pirates lost their seventh game in a row. The Cardinals scored five runs in the first three innings against Rick Rhoden (4–6) and won for the fourth time in the last five games. Cox (7–2) has won four of his last five decisions and has a 7–1 lifetime record against the Pirates. He struck out five batters and walked two.
The Padres crushed the Astros, 9–1. The Padres led with their new-found ace, LaMarr Hoyt, and it was strictly no contest. Hoyt gave the Astros 11 hits, but breezed, 9–1, for his fifth victory in a row. Hoyt, who has gone the distance in four of those wins, continued to pitch with remarkable control. He walked one Astro and has walked 10 batters in 89 innings. The 30-year-old right-hander sees similarities with 1983, when he was a 24-game and a Cy Young Award winner.
[Ed: Hoyt was a brilliant pitcher and an All-Star this season, but would self-destruct in shocking fashion the following year as his drug problem became critical. He would be arrested four times in two years and was out of baseball after the 1986 season.]
Tom Brunansky hit a three-run homer to highlight a five-run second inning that carried Minnesota to a 6–4 victory over the Indians. Frank Viola raised his record to 7–5 by pitching 7 ⅔ innings, allowing seven hits. Ron Davis got the final four outs to get his sixth save. Minnesota took a 1–0 lead in the first inning when Kirby Puckett singled and scored on Kent Hrbek’s double. But Cleveland tied it in the bottom of the first as Brett Butler singled and took third on Tony Bernazard’s single. Butler then scored as he and Bernazard executed a double steal.
Bob Shirley emerged from the depths of the bullpen as a starter to help the Yankees beat the first-place Toronto Blue Jays, 4–2, at Yankee Stadium. Shirley had pitched just 5 ⅔ innings since Martin was appointed manager in late April. He appeared only once in May. But he became the club’s emergency starter last night when Joe Cowley was forced out of the rotation with a lower back injury. “I expected only four innings from him, at the most,” Martin said when it was over. “We hoped he would keep us close. He did all of that, and more.”
Barbaro Garbey tied the score with a home run, and Lance Parrish singled home Lou Whitaker in the bottom of the 11th inning to rally Detroit to an 8–7 win over the Orioles. After Baltimore took a 7–6 lead in the top of the 11th on Lee Lacy’s second home run of the game, Garbey tied it again with a shot off Sammy Stewart (2–2). Whitaker singled and went to second on Alan Trammell’s sacrifice. After Kirk Gibson was walked intentionally, Parrish singled to left field to make a winner of Aurelio Lopez (1–4). The victory was the third straight for Detroit while Baltimore lost its third in a row.
Jim Rice hit a three-run homer after fouling off two sacrifice bunt attempts with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning as Boston won their eighth straight, beating the Brewers, 4–2. The Milwaukee starter, Teddy Higuera (4–4), had allowed only three hits through eight innings and held a 2–1 lead entering the ninth. But Wade Boggs led off the ninth with a ground single to left and took second as Bill Buckner got a bunt single on a ball that apparently hit a pebble halfway down the first-base line and skipped fair. Rollie Fingers replaced Higuera and Rice then made two futile attempts to sacrifice, bunting foul down the third-base line and then down the first-base line. After grounding another foul and looking at a ball, he lined his 12th homer of the season over the left-field wall.
The Angels routed the Rangers, 8–1, as Kirk McCaskill got his first major-league victory. McCaskill strengthened a tenuous hold on a starting berth with a seven-hitter that snapped his four-game losing streak. An Anaheim Stadium crowd of 19,687 saw the 24-year-old right-hander do it in style, pitching his first complete game in the majors to help the Angels make it two straight wins in the wake of a three-game losing streak. The Angels, who had scored only four runs in their last 49 innings and two in their last 35, collected 11 hits off Mike Mason and three successors.
The White Sox thumped the Mariners, 9–4. Tom Paciorek, Greg Walker and Rudy Law stroked bases-loaded singles to lead the White Sox over the Mariners at Seattle. Floyd Bannister (5–4) benefitted from an early 4–0 lead to post the victory. Bob James worked the final two innings to pick up his 13th save. Matt Young (4–8) took the loss.
The A’s edged the Royals in ten, 2–1. Mike Heath raced home from third on an error by second baseman Frank White in the 10th inning as the A’s beat the Royals at Oakland. With two out, Heath singled off reliever Dan Quisenberry (3–4), and Alfredo Griffin singled Heath to third. Bruce Bochte hit a ground ball to White, who bobbled it for an error, making a winner of Jay Howell (5–3).
San Francisco Giants 0, Atlanta Braves 7
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Boston Red Sox 4
Texas Rangers 1, California Angels 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Cincinnati Reds 4
Minnesota Twins 6, Cleveland Indians 4
Baltimore Orioles 7, Detroit Tigers 8
San Diego Padres 9, Houston Astros 1
Chicago Cubs 5, Montreal Expos 4
Toronto Blue Jays 2, New York Yankees 4
Kansas City Royals 1, Oakland Athletics 2
New York Mets 4, Philadelphia Phillies 6
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Chicago White Sox 9, Seattle Mariners 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1318.44 (+2.02)
Died:
Bob Prince, 68, American sportscaster (“Monday Night Baseball”, Pittsburgh Pirates), of cancer.
George Chandler, 86, American actor (“Fury”, “Lassie”, “The Fatal Glass of Beer”), of Alzheimer’s disease.
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