The State Department said today that it did not accept as “definitive or final” the negative Soviet response to President Reagan’s decision to abide by the terms of the 1979 strategic arms agreement at least until the end of the year. Mr. Reagan said Monday in a message to Congress that he had decided to dismantle a Poseidon submarine to stay within the treaty limits, despite purported Soviet violations. He said future steps would be dictated by Soviet compliance with the accord. On Tuesday, the Soviet Foreign Ministry issued a statement saying that Mr. Reagan appeared intent on abandoning the treaty step by step and that his assertion that he would continue to abide by its terms was a cover for “crawling out of the accord.” The 1979 treaty, which sets limits on long-range nuclear missiles and bombers, has not been ratified, but has been informally honored by both sides. It expires next December 31. In another reaction to the Soviet Foreign Ministry statement, Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said the Russians’ response was “extremely disappointing.”
“It certainly does not indicate any improvement in their behavior, which led to the violations of the treaty,” he said in an interview with The Associated Press, United Press International and Reuters. Mr. Weinberger, who had urged Mr. Reagan to renounce the treaty because of the purported violations by the Russians, said, “They have crawled out of the treaty practically since the day it was signed.” The President, in announcing his decision Monday, said the United States would continue to honor the terms of the accord for the time being to foster serious negotiations in the new round of arms control talks now under way in Geneva.
Spain and Portugal signed a treaty today admitting them to the Common Market. But the occasion was marred by a series of attacks attributed to Basque terrorists that killed four people in Spain. The police speculated that the violence was intended to ruin the historic occasion. Security for the ceremony, already heavy, was tightened after the attacks as seven European heads of government and 12 foreign ministers descended on Lisbon in the morning, then traveled to Madrid in the evening for the separate signing ceremonies.
A Spanish army colonel and his driver were gunned down by suspected Basque terrorists near the colonel’s home in Madrid’s wealthy Salamanca district. Colonel Vicente Romero, 55, and his civilian driver, Juan Garcia Jiminez, 27, were shot and killed by three suspects who fired at least 10 shots at Romero. The suspects abandoned their booby-trapped getaway car in an underground garage. One police officer was killed trying to dismantle the explosives. No group claimed responsibility for the attacks, but police said the murder weapon and the explosives used in the car blast pointed to the Basque separatist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom).
The Turkish gunman who shot Pope John Paul II testified today that the Soviet Union had commissioned right-wing Turkish terrorists to blow up an American-financed radio station in West Germany that broadcasts to Eastern Europe. The gunman, Mehmet Ali Ağca, who was convicted in the 1981 shooting, also said Bulgarian officials here sought to enlist him in plans to kill President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia; the then Maltese Prime Minister, Dom Mintoff, and Lech Walesa, the founder of the Solidarity labor movement in Poland. The reference to the anti-Communist radio station in West Germany came while Mr. Ağca was describing a meeting with other Turkish extremists in Milan, Italy, in December 1980.
A defense lawyer in the Gdansk trial of three dissidents said today that the court had wrongfully silenced the defendants. According to observers in the courtroom, the lawyer, Jacek Taylor, who represents Adam Michnik, said that even though the indictment charged his client with being a member of a group that directs Solidarity’s underground wing, the court would not let him explain his role. The lawyer said only security police officers were produced as witnesses. The prosecution has called for terms four years for Mr. Michnik and one of the co-defendants, Bogdan Lis, and a five-year sentence for the third defendant, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk. The verdict and sentencing are expected Thursday.
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, elected last week to a second term, will visit the United States later this year for the first time since assuming power in 1981. The Government spokesman said today that there were no plans for a meeting with President Reagan. The spokesman, Dimitrios Maroudas, said Mr. Papandreou would arrive in New York on October 19 to attend events marking the 40th anniversary of the United Nations. He said the Prime Minister would address the United Nations General Assembly and would give a lecture at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York.
Travelers from Gorky say there is no sign of anyone living in the apartment of Andrei D. Sakharov and his wife, Yelena G. Bonner. The reports coincide with apprehension voiced by relatives in the United States that the Sakharovs have been moved from their apartment in Gorky, where Dr. Sakharov, a prominent physicist and civil rights advocate, was involuntarily settled under police surveillance in January 1980.
Soviet hunger striker Yuri V. Balovlenkov agreed to enter a hospital for treatment on the 79th day of his fast. Balovlenkov is protesting the refusal of Soviet authorities to give him an exit visa. He has been trying since 1982 to join his American wife and their two daughters in Baltimore, but the Soviets have rejected his bid to emigrate on the grounds that he had access to state secrets as a computer programmer.
A two-day hijacking of a Jordanian airliner ended at the international airport here today when the assailants, believed to be Shiite Moslems, released the 66 passengers and crew members unharmed, blew up the plane and escaped. Hours later, another airliner, a Lebanese 707 jet carrying 80 passengers and 6 crew members that had landed in Larnaca, Cyprus, from Beirut, was commandeered on the ground by a Palestinian who was quoted as saying he was “retaliating” for the Shiites’ action. All of the passengers had left the plane at the time of the incident.
Shia Muslim forces using tanks and mortars stepped up their three-week attack on the Chatilla and Borj el Brajne Palestinian refugee camps, and scores of Palestinian guerrillas fled to the mountains. The Shia Muslims’ Amal militia and Shia units in the Lebanese army are trying to prevent the Palestine Liberation Organization from re-establishing a power base in Lebanon.
The Israeli army took foreign correspondents for a visit today to 21 Finnish soldiers of the United Nations who are being held hostage near here by an Israeli-supported militia. The hostages, looking fit but tired, are being held about two miles north of the Israeli border in an old house with green window frames and an orange balcony. The house is next to the headquarters of the Christian-led militia, the South Lebanon Army, on the outskirts of Merj’ Uyun. The militia was armed by the Israelis to police the so-called security zone in southern Lebanon that Israel has created along its northern frontier.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss the sale of weapons to King Hussein I of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. The Reagan Administration was under heavy political pressure today to postpone any action to sell advanced arms or to seek additional economic and military aid for Jordan, Administration and Congressional sources said. With 72 Senators now signers of a resolution opposing any new military sales to Jordan before it agrees to direct talks with Israel, and with other members of Congress vowing to oppose any supplemental military or economic assistance, key Administration officials were being urged to hold off on any requests. But the Administration is publicly committed to providing additional economic and military support for Jordan in response to peace moves made by King Hussein while he was here two weeks ago. As a result, State Department and White House officials were trying this afternoon to secure a Presidential decision on whether to go ahead with arms sales and aid, and in what amounts, despite the political opposition, or to delay action again, given the likelihood of a political fight.
Iraqi warplanes attacked five Iranian border cities, including Abadan and Kermanshah, an army camp and a ship in the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran, an Iraqi military spokesman said. The spokesman told state radio that the warplanes made a “destructive hit” on “a large maritime target,” Iraq’s term for an oil tanker, near Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island. However, Persian Gulf shipping sources said they had no information on any new attack on a ship.
President Reagan greets the Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi. President Reagan praised India and warmly welcomed Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to the White House, saying the United States sought to “broaden the understanding and deepen the cooperation” between the two countries. At the same time, Mr. Reagan, standing beside Mr. Gandhi on the South Lawn of the White House, said the United States “remains steadfastly dedicated to India’s unity” in the face of a powerful Sikh separatist movement. “We Americans place great value on India’s friendship,” Mr. Reagan added. “Our shared democratic ideas serve as a bridge between us.”
North Korea still has wide damage from the Korean War nearly 32 years after the armistice. The country is tightly sealed, but a few American reporters are being allowed in for brief visits, and officials guiding them seem anxious not to make too much of the war. For North Korea, the policy marks a major change.
The Philippines put on a display of military strength as the country celebrated Independence Day. President Ferdinand E. Marcos, making his first public appearance in months, reviewed the parade of troops and government workers at a Manila park and vowed that the Philippines will never give up its legacy of freedom. Meanwhile, the opposition United Nationalist Democratic Organization picked former Sen. Salvador Laurel to run against Marcos in 1987.
Three of Mexico’s top four drug barons ordered the killing of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration agent Enrique S. Camarena after he disclosed, under torture, that Washington considered the three “dangerous narcotics traffickers,” a witness said in Mexico City. Francisco Javier Tejeda Jaramillo, 32, who has been charged with murder in the case, told authorities that Rafael Caro Quintero, Miguel Felix Gallardo and Ernesto Fonseca ordered the American smothered to death at a house owned by Caro Quintero.
The House voted aid to the rebels seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government. The representatives voted 248 to 184 to send the rebels $27 million in nonmilitary aid over the next nine months in an action marking a major victory for President Reagan. In April, the House narrowly voted against any form of aid, and the White House has been working to reverse the decision. In today’s vote, 73 Democrats joined 175 Republicans in supporting a compromise package that was attached as an amendment to additional appropriations for the current fiscal year. Under the compromise, military aid would be barred, and the aid could not be distributed by the Central Intelligence Agency or by the Pentagon. An aid measure passed earlier by the Senate allows a C.I.A. role and has a looser definition of nonmilitary aid.
Angola accused South Africa of violating its airspace and massing troops along its southern border and said such activity in the past has indicated that an invasion was being prepared. Angola’s Defense Ministry, quoted by the official Angolan news agency ANGOP, said it recorded 22 violations of Angolan airspace over the last week by South African planes. It charged that South Africa, which formally withdrew its forces from southern Angola in April, has four motorized brigades and 15 battalions totaling 20,000 men positioned along the Angolan border.
A group of black leaders charged today that a group of whites had been plotting to kill or kidnap Bishop Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace Prize winner, and 13 other antiapartheid activists in the next four days. A spokesman at police headquarters in Pretoria said, “We have no comment on that at all.” Bishop Tutu said he was taking “reasonable precautions.” The purported plot was disclosed at a news conference here by 5 of the 14 people reportedly targeted as victims. They said they had not reported the plot to the police and gave few details. “We have positive information that within hours we are to be eliminated,” said the Rev. Frank Chikane, a leader of the United Democratic Front coalition.
House and Senate negotiators made no progress in efforts to resolve the differences in the fiscal 1986 budget resolutions approved by each chamber. Deliberations by the conference committee are expected to stretch past next week as the negotiators struggle to come up with a compromise plan that can cut more than $50 billion from next year’s deficit. “I’m not sure we’re going to be able to get a real budget,” Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico said at the end of the day. Mr. Domenici, the New Mexico Republican who is the chairman of the Budget Committee, said he was discouraged that the conferees from the House did not accept Senate proposals for fees in connection with certain Government-sponsored credit agencies and to cut back further on the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The proposals are relatively noncontroversial, compared with those on Social Security, programs for the poor and military spending. The Senate proposal on the emergency petroleum stockpile would save $1.8 billion more than the House plan would over three years. This item is one of the areas in which the spending proposals differ the most.
Americans are enjoying the lowest interest rates they have seen in five years or more. Mortgage rates are down. Car loan rates are down. The cost of business borrowing has fallen. Even the Treasury Department’s borrowing costs have plunged. The decline has come relatively quickly and spread pretty much across the board. The rates paid on three-month Treasury bills, for instance, are now less than 7 percent – more than three percentage points below a year ago and less than half of what they were as recently as 1981.
Organized labor praised the concept of tax revision but said President Reagan’s plan to revamp the system falls short of fairness and is tilted toward business and the wealthy. “Millions of middle-income Americans will pay higher taxes, while the vast majority of wealthy Americans will pay less,” AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland testified as the House Ways and Means Committee focused on labor views of the plan. “As a package,” Kirkland said, “the President’s proposal does not add up to the major overhaul needed to establish fairness.”
The Reagan Administration and a group of Republican senators proposed that an additional $101.6 million be spent this fiscal year for about 2,000 new agents, high-speed boats, surveillance planes and radar to battle illegal drugs. “We’ve been out-spent, outmanned and out-gunned in this battle,” said Senator Paula Hawkins (R-Florida) at a Washington news conference to announce the proposal. Attorney General Edwin Meese III said that “with these additional resources, we will be able to shake the foundations of deeply entrenched and sophisticated drug empires.” He was joined by Treasury Secretary James A. Baker III and Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole.
The Senate confirmed President Reagan’s 11 candidates for the board of directors of the federal Legal Services Corp. after voting down Democratic objections to two of the nominees. The two were Michael B. Wallace of Mississippi, approved on a 62-34 vote, and LeaAnne Bernstein of Maryland, approved by a 58-38 margin. The 11 have been serving as interim directors of the embattled agency since Reagan chose them last year, but their confirmation has been stalled in the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee, where Democratic members have opposed Bernstein and Wallace.
United Airlines and its pilots agreed tentatively to terms for ending the pilots’ 26-day-old strike, the National Mediation Board announced. The key provision is a formula for settling back-to-work issues that were the last major obstacles to a new contract. The economic issues that precipitated the walkout were resolved three weeks ago. The pact provides for a two-tier pay scale under which newly-hired pilots would initially receive much lower pay than those now employed.
Import curbs on shoes were recommended to President Reagan by an advisory panel that called for a a five-year program that would lead to price increases for both imported and domestic shoes.
A peacetime death penalty for people who sell military secrets to a hostile power may be restored. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger said a panel had been formed to determine whether the Uniform Code of Military Justice should be changed to allow the execution of military officials for spying in peacetime. He said that John A. Walker Jr. and three associates, facing trial on charges of spying for the Soviet Union, “should be shot” if convicted. Under present military law, conviction in a military court on espionage charges carries a mandatory death sentence only in wartime.
Richard W. Miller, the first agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever charged with espionage, told a hushed courtroom today how he became sexually involved with a Soviet emigre with whom he is accused of conspiring to pass secret intelligence documents to the Soviet Union. Mr. Miller, 48 years old, testified that the emigre, Svetlana Ogordnikov, 35, had got in touch with him for the first time on May 24, 1984, and offered information about other Soviet emigres. He said that their affair just “happened naturally.” He said they had sex for the first time at their second meeting, after dark in his car in a Los Angeles parking lot.
A non-government analyst estimates that a proposed defense against intercontinental nuclear missiles could cost $90 billion by 1994 but might cost even more and face delays. The space analyst, John Pike, of the Federation of American Scientists, a group that has as one of its goals the prevention of nuclear war, also said in a newly published 49-page study that the United States was “at least a decade ahead” of the Russians in antimissile technology. In seeking support for the Reagan Administration’s defensive program, non-technicians in the government have sometimes suggested that the Soviet Union enjoys a lead in exotic anti-missile technologies.
A Trans World Airlines jet carrying 223 people landed safely yesterday in St. Louis after a 125-pound aluminum panel fell off one wing, the authorities said. The 12 ½-foot panel fell onto a construction site in north St. Louis County, landing in an area left by workers earlier in the day because of rain. No one was injured on the plane, which was making its approach to Lambert Field on a flight from Boston, a T.W.A. spokesman said. “What this did to the landing was nothing,” said Dann M. Oldani of T.W.A. The panel, called an intermediate flap vane, is one of four on each wing used to ease the flow of air around the wing and flaps on takeoff, Mr. Oldani said.
A Florida woman was arrested yesterday for setting four brush fires, while firefighters aided by heavy rain reduced most of the other fires in the state, including a week-old fire that burned 26,800 acres in the northern part of Florida. Firefighters had been the burning area. Officials also kept an eye on a blaze in the Okefenokee swamp in Georgia, but the rain appeared to have slowed it. Elsewhere a New Mexico fire that blackened 2,000 acres of primarily brush in the San Andres Mountains on White Sands Missile Range appeared to be out yesterday, according to a range spokesman. firefighters in California battled several fires that burned hundreds of acres in the coastal areas of Monterey and Big Sur. The Florida authorities arrested Karen Pearce of Perry, 31 years old, and charged her with setting four fires Sunday in Taylor County, according to a spokesman for the Division of Forestry. The spokesman said the woman set the fires, which were quickly contained, because she was “mad at her family.”
The last of the 900 families forced from their homes in Pine Bluff, Arkansas when a freight train derailed, caught fire and set off explosions, were allowed to return home today after the flames died. “It feels real good,” Darlene Aud said of being back in her own house. People living closest to the site must obtain a pass to return home. A railroad crew moved in to look at the wreckage Tuesday, the first inspection since 42 cars, 13 loaded with hazardous chemicals, of a 95-car train derailed Sunday near the city limits. One tank car exploded Monday morning and another blew up early Tuesday. Nearly 3,000 people were forced from their homes.
A dozen cases of legionnaires’ disease have been confirmed among 350 people who attended a church dinner in suburban Detroit, health officials said today. They said the organism, which has been linked to three deaths, may have struck 10 to 30 other people. Legionnaires’ bacteria commonly exist in soil and water, but the 46 confirmed or suspected victims from the April 27 dinner apparently received higher-than-normal exposure and already were at an above-average risk of infection, one of the officials said. In addition to the dozen cases, said Dr. Donald Lawrenchuk, health director of Wayne County, seven people who attended the Pentecostal Temple Church banquet at the Airport Hilton Inn in Romulus were considered probable cases.
In a settlement approved today by a federal district judge, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and a group of dissidents agreed to allow part-time union members to vote on national contracts and elections. The agreement marks the end to the dissidents’ attempts to overturn the recently ratified teamster contract. The judge, Charles R. Richey, approved the settlement by which any member of the union, including casual workers who have worked 80 days in the preceding year as teamsters, will be permitted a vote on the national contract in 1988 and any national referendum held before that.
A little over three weeks ago a 30-year-old California woman gave birth to septuplets in what will apparently go down in record books as the largest mutliple birth in American medical history. The mother, Patricia Frustaci, was taking fertility drugs at the time she conceived. The dramatic outcome of her pregnancy and the struggle of her three surviving infants have focused attention on the clinic that treated her and raised questions about the likelihood that fertility drugs will cause multiple births and about how to choose a fertility clinic. In southern California alone there are more than 280 private clinics offering medical services to help infertile women have babies. The Tyler clinic, which treated Mrs. Frustaci, is the oldest.
Researchers reported that intestinal polyps — benign growths that sometimes lead to cancer — can be inherited, increasing the evidence that colon cancer can be inherited as well. Doctors said the discovery is likely to lead to better screening programs that may reduce cancer of the colon and rectum, second only to lung cancer as the most common internal cancer. The findings by the University of Utah Medical Center were published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
An obese sex offender whose brief release from prison because of his size prompted national outrage in 1982 has been granted a parole date after serving three years of a 15-year sentence, an official said in Trenton, New Jersey. Joseph A. (Jo-Jo) Giorgianni, 35, was granted a parole date of December 17 after a hearing at Leesburg State Prison, where he lost 64 pounds down to his present weight of 429 pounds, said Christopher Dietz, chairman of the New Jersey State Parole Board. Giorgianni won a brief release from prison in August, 1982, after he convinced a judge that a lack of air conditioning could kill him.
A nuclear device with an explosive force of 20 to 150 kilotons of TNT was detonated underground today at the Nevada Test Site, according to the Department of Energy.
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Dale Murphy, coming off one of his poorest performances ever, hit his 15th home run and a tie-breaking two-run double as the Braves stopped the Giants at Atlanta, 5–2. “It just felt good to make contact after struggling last night,” Murphy said, referring to his 0-for-8 effort in an 18-inning loss to the Giants on Tuesday night, a game in which he struck out four times against four different pitchers. Murphy’s hitting helped Rick Mahler gain his 10th victory and his first complete game of the season.
David Palmer and two relievers combined on a five-hitter tonight as the Montreal Expos ended the Chicago Cubs’ six-game winning streak with a 2–0 victory. Palmer (5–5) pitched in and out of trouble through 6 ⅔ innings, striking out eight and walking five. The Montreal right-hander left the game after he loaded the bases in the seventh by hitting Ryne Sandberg with a pitch. Tim Burke came on to end the threat by getting Davey Lopes to foul out.
Houston’s Phil Garner tripled to right field to drive in the go-ahead run in the seventh inning and scored on Tim Flannery’s throwing error on the same play as Nolan Ryan and the Astros beat San Diego, 3–2. Terry Puhl singled to center field and scored from first base on Garner’s hit off Eric Show (4-4). Ryan (6-2) scattered six hits as the Astros close to 2 ½ games of the Padres in the National League West. Ryan, the career major league strikeout leader, fanned five to raise his total to 3,966.
The Mets held the Philadelphia Phillies to 24 fewer hits and 23 fewer runs than they did the night before, when they absorbed a 27-hit, 26–7 hammering. They rebounded to a 7–3 victory by the simple expedient of scoring two runs in the eighth inning and four runs in the 11th. It was a comeback spiced with lost chances, but the Mets finally achieved it with some unusual hitting of their own. They whacked five pitchers for 18 hits, the most they have managed in any game this season, and they hit three home runs for the first time this season: Gary Carter in the fourth inning, Danny Heep in the eighth and John Christensen in the 11th. And they made an instant winner of the rookie Rick Aguilera, who pitched two scoreless innings in his debut in the big leagues.
The Yankees came within one out of beating the Toronto Blue Jays last night, but eventually lost the game, 3–2, when Rance Mulliniks hit a homer off Rich Bordi in the 10th inning. Dave Righetti, on the verge of collecting his 12th save, gave up the tying run in the ninth when he walked Jeff Burroughs on a full count with two out, then served up a run-scoring double to Willie Upshaw. The Yankees, who won the opener of the series Monday night, dropped the last two games in extra innings and fell nine games behind the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East.
Dan Petry hurled a three-hitter for his American League-leading ninth victory and John Grubb’s two-run single capped a three-run first inning as Detroit won its fourth straight game, downing the Orioles, 6–2. The Orioles, losing for the fifth straight time, played the game amid rumors of the imminent dismissal of Manager Joe Altobelli. Petry (9-4) retired 24 of the last 25 batters he faced, including the final 19. Leading, 3-2, Petry got his final cushion in the eighth when Lou Whitaker hit a three-run homer, his eighth of the season. The Tigers scored all the runs they needed with three off Mike Boddicker (6-6) in the first, capping the rally with Grubb’s two-run single.
Glenn Hoffman drove in two runs in a four-run second inning, sparking Boston to a 7–2 victory over the Brewers. Al Nipper (3-5) allowed 10 hits and walked two, struggling in his first complete game of the season. He struck out five. The Red Sox handed Milwaukee starter Moose Haas (5-3) his first defeat since April 20 with their ninth victory in the last 10 games.
The Royals bested the A’s in extra innings, 3–2. Kansas City’s Pat Sheridan tripled with one out in the 14th inning and scored on a pinch-hit single by Jim Sundberg. Sheridan had three of the Royals’ eight hits. The Oakland center fielder Dwayne Murphy got to the drive in the 14th but he bobbled the ball as he hit the fence, and it was ruled a triple. Sundberg singled after Steve McCatty walked Greg Pryor. Murphy tied the score at 2-2 with a leadoff homer, his ninth, for the A’s in the seventh.
White Sox pitcher Bruce Tanner, son of Pirates manager Chuck Tanner, beats Seattle 6–3 in his Major League debut. It will be Tanner’s first and only Major League victory. Tanner yielded seven hits while striking out three and walking two. Bob James pitched the final 2 ⅓ innings for his 14th save. Rudy Law doubled in two runs and Daryl Boston stroked a two-run homer as Chicago completed a sweep of the three-game series.
In a game in which the Angels got only seven hits off Charlie Hough’s noted knuckleball, Carew had two, including a two-run, fifth-inning single that broke a 1–1 tie and ultimately enabled the Angels to defeat Texas, 3–2. An Anaheim Stadium crowd of 22,874 saw Mike Witt, now 4–6 in his search for consistency, permit five hits in the first two innings, then only one more before Donnie Moore came on with two out in the eighth and ultimately registered his 13th save, surviving a leadoff single in the ninth by Larry Parrish.
San Francisco Giants 2, Atlanta Braves 5
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Boston Red Sox 7
Texas Rangers 2, California Angels 3
Baltimore Orioles 2, Detroit Tigers 6
San Diego Padres 2, Houston Astros 3
Chicago Cubs 0, Montreal Expos 2
Toronto Blue Jays 3, New York Yankees 2
Kansas City Royals 3, Oakland Athletics 2
New York Mets 7, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Chicago White Sox 6, Seattle Mariners 3
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Dave Franco, American actor (“21 Jump Street”, “Now You See Me”) and filmmaker, in Palo Alto, California.
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George Kontos, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Giants, 2012; New York Yankees, San Francisco Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, Cleveland Indians), in Lincolnwood, Illinois.
Paul Hubbard, NFL wide receiver (Buffalo Bills), in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Chris Young, American country music singer and songwriter, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.
Tasha-Ray Evin, Canadian singer and guitarist (Lillix), in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada.
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