U.S. Embassy officials in Moscow have been told that Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev will not attend the opening session of the U.N. General Assembly this fall, according to a U.S. official who spoke on condition he not be identified. However, he said the Soviet leader’s absence would not rule out a possible summit meeting between Gorbachev and President Reagan before the end of the year. In Washington, White House spokesman Robert B. Sims said he has received no official word on whether Gorbachev will attend the U.N.session.
A former Norwegian diplomat was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union and Iraq and sentenced to 20 years in prison. The 42-year-old man, Arne Treholt, gave the Russians a wide range of secret information from 1974 until his arrest 18 months ago. The information included insights into Norway’s civil and military defense and its cooperation with other North Atlantic Treaty Organization countries.
Mehmet Ali Ağca testified today that a letter he sent to the American military attache in Rome in 1983 was designed to blackmail the United States Government into helping him obtain release from prison. Mr. Ağca’s testimony, under intense questioning by Chief Judge Severino Santiapichi, cast considerable light on Mr. Ağca’s motives and behavior during the 23-month investigation that led to the trial of four Turks and three Bulgarians who are accused of conspiring to assassinate Pope John Paul II in May 1981. The idea was evidently to convince American officials that Mr. Ağca was thoroughly familiar with Soviet bloc security operations, in order to bargain information about Bulgarian involvement in the shooting of the Pope for his release from confinement. Describing the letter to the American officials, Mr. Ağca said, “You could consider it simple blackmail, to force them to offer me some support.”
[Ed: Ağca was finally released from prison on 18 January 2010. In 2014, thirty-three years after his crime, Ağca visited Vatican City to lay white roses on the tomb of the recently canonized John Paul II.]
The Frankfurt police said today that they were following several leads in the bombing of the city’s international airport but that they still had no indication of who might have set off the explosion. A Portuguese man and two Australian children were killed when the bomb exploded in a departure lounge Wednesday afternoon, and 42 people were treated for wounds. The police identified the dead man as Enrique de Araujo, the head of the Portuguese chapter of an anti-Communist organization known as the Collegiate Association for Research of Principles. He was said to have just arrived in Frankfurt from West Berlin, where he had taken part in a protest action against the Berlin wall.
Dozens of people were arrested today as much of Spanish industry and transportation was shut down by a one-day general strike called by Communist-led unions. It was the first national strike in Spain since free elections were held in 1977 after the death of Franco. Most of the arrests came in clashes between picketers and the police.
Greece appealed to Americans today to disregard President Reagan’s warnings against travel to this country. In his news conference Tuesday, Mr. Reagan advised Americans to avoid Athens Airport, from where the hijacked Trans World Airlines plane took off last Friday, until security at the airport was improved. Greece’s tourist earnings are a principal source of foreign exchange. Two senior officials of the Government of Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou rejected allegations of lax security procedures, while conceding that official warnings to American travelers were beginning to hurt the tourist industry.
Israel will release 766 detainees if the 40 American hostages are freed unconditionally by the hijackers in Beirut, the Reagan Administration has told several friendly governments. But the Administration reiterated to diplomats that the United States would maintain its policy of not bargaining or giving in to terrorist demands.
Five hostages beseeched the United States not to attempt a military rescue. The five were brought out of detention to say they were well and did not believe their Lebanese Shiite captors either intended or wanted to kill them. Allyn Conwell of Houston, who acted as spokesman for the group, said he had seen the other Americans held at secret locations in Beirut and “can verify they are all in good health.” The three American crewmen of the hijacked airliner apparently remained in custody on the aircraft, where reporters were allowed to speak to them Wednesday. The plane was hijacked on an Athens-to-Rome flight last Friday and has been on the ground here for four days.
If the United States were to attempt a military rescue of the Beirut hostages, it has a counterterrorism unit that might be used. Its members are trained to force entry into and “clear” a room in less than seven seconds, usually by putting two pistol bullets into each terrorist’s head. The Special Forces Operational Detachment — Delta — is trained to freeze and stun opposition with speed. Its credo is “surprise, speed, success.” Whether success could be achieved in the present hostage crisis, or a rescue even tried, would depend heavily on whether the United States could gather reliable and detailed information on where the hostages are held and on those guarding them.
The President urged efforts against terrorism around the world, saying “our limits have been reached.” In an appeal to Western nations, Mr. Reagan said, “The war which terrorists are waging is not only directed against the United States, it is a war against all civilized society.”
Hijackers moved 6 to 10 hostages from the T.W.A. airliner on Saturday because of suspected “Zionist connections,” according to a senior aide to Nabih Berri, the Lebanese Shiite leader. Since then the rest of the 37 passengers have been taken off the plane, and the aide said they and the three crew members who stayed aboard were in good health.
The Senate approved a $250-million economic aid package for Jordan and an offer of future military aid if King Hussein begins direct negotiations with Israel. The economic aid is to be divided between commodity imports and economic development assistance over three years. The Administration had requested $100 million in cash as part of the package, but the committee shifted that money to commodity assistance. The aid is part of a $13.5-billion supplemental appropriations bill that was approved later. Before the vote, the Senate overwhelmingly defeated a sense of the Senate resolution calling for a ban against any arms sales to Jordan until it had reached a peace treaty with Israel.
Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and the Soviet-backed Government in Afghanistan, meeting Thursday under the auspices of the United Nations, opened a fourth round of secret negotiations in Geneva on a political settlement of the Afghan conflict. An Under Secretary General of the United Nations, Diego Cordovez, shuttled between the six-member Afghan delegation, led by Foreign Minister Shah Mohammad Dost, and the eight-member Pakistani delegation, headed by Foreign Minister Shabzada Yaqub Khan, as the teams met in separate rooms at United Nations headquarters here. The two sides have refused to meet face-to-face since Soviet forces joined the fighting in Afghanistan in December 1979 to suppress an Islamic rebellion, and installed the current Government led by Babrak Karmal.
Indian troops opened fire to disperse Muslims throwing rocks at a Hindu religious procession in Ahmedabad in western India, killing seven and wounding 20. As many as 30,000 Hindus had defied a ban on public assembly to parade through the streets of the riot-battered city. At least 176 people have died in Ahmedabad and other cities in Gujarat state during protests against a controversial government plan to increase employment and college quotas for lower castes.
Five bombs exploded at government buildings, the royal palace and a hotel in Katmandu today, killing at least seven people in what is believed to be the first major terrorist attack in this Himalayan kingdom. The government said 16 people were wounded. No one claimed responsibility, but the police suspected the involvement of King Birendra’s political opponents, who are campaigning for a return to multiparty government. There were violent political disturbances in 1979.
North and South Korea agreed to set up a committee on economic cooperation at the deputy prime minister level, a South Korean spokesman said. The two sides exchanged draft agreements on the committee and on proposed trade and economic cooperation at a meeting at the border truce village in Panmunjom. As a first step, the south has proposed buying 300,000 tons of anthracite coal from the north and the formation of joint fishing areas.
Rene Levesque, who took the province of Quebec to the brink of separation from the rest of Canada, resigned tonight as head of the party he founded 17 years ago. He will remain Premier until a successor is named as party leader, within 90 days under current party rules. His resignation followed a steady deterioration in the standing of the Parti Quebecois over the last three years that led last December to the resignation of seven Cabinet ministers. Rumors of Mr. Levesque’s impending resignation have mounted in recent months.
Two bodies found in a shallow grave near Guadalajara have been identified by relatives as those of two missing United States citizens, the official news agency Notimex said today. The badly decomposed bodies were found last Monday after five suspects began their testimony before the police about the killing in April of Enrique Camarena, an agent for the United States Drug Enforcement Administration. The news agency quoted the Jalisco State Attorney General’s office as saying the remains were those of John Walker, 36 years old, a Guadalajara-based writer doing research about drugs, and his friend Alberto Radelat, 33, from Fort Worth. Both had been missing since January 30.
President Reagan is awakened at 6 AM to be informed of a guerilla attack in San Salvador last night wounding 13 people and killing 15, 6 of them Americans. In what officials viewed as evidence of a return of urban terrorism to El Salvador, 13 people, including four off-duty United States marines and two American businessmen, were shot dead at a San Salvador restaurant Wednesday night. At least 15 people were wounded in the attack, carried out by men armed with automatic rifles on a string of sidewalk cafes in the city’s most affluent neighborhood. Though no group claimed responsibility for the incident, United States Embassy and Salvadoran Government officials said they assumed that the killings were the work of some group affiliated with the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, the guerrilla umbrella organization. The officials asserted that the attack was proof that leftist guerrillas were turning to violence in the cities because of their inability to defeat the Salvadoran Army on rural battlefields.
An American citizen was shot and killed by a Honduran border patrol near the town of Cayaguanca when he and another person fled when asked for identification, a Honduran military spokesman said. The other person apparently escaped. In Washington, State Department spokesman Peter Martinez identified the dead man as Robert Joseph Reed, 43, of New York state. Martinez said that Reed was not a U.S. government employee, and it has not been determined why he was in Honduras.
Bomb attacks on three electrical towers outside Santiago plunged the capital and central Chile into darkness in the first outburst of political violence since a seven-month state of siege was lifted Monday. Santiago was blacked out shortly after 9 p.m. as police broke up a march by hundreds of leftwing youths protesting the government’s economic policies and widespread unemployment. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the blackout.
For the second time in two days, the Security Council condemned the actions of the South African Government, this time for an incursion into Angola. The Council unanimously called on South Africa to “unconditionally withdraw forthwith all its occupation forces from the territory of Angola” and “cease all acts of aggression.” On May 21, Angolan troops captured a South African commando unit near a Gulf Oil compound in Cabinda. During the Council debate, Foreign Minister Afonso Van-Dunem of Angola said the action had posed a threat not only to Angolans, but to Americans at the compound, saying Angolan troops had saved “lives and property from certain death and destruction.” Kurt Von Schirnding, South Africa’s delegate to the United Nations, denied the Angolan charges, and suggested that the Council invite the leader of the reconnaissance unit, who is still being held by Angolan authorities, to give “his free and uncoerced version of what transpired.”
The House approved $2.5 billion for research on a space-based shield around the United States that could block an attacking force of inter-continental missiles. The total fell below President Reagan’s request for $3.7 billion in research funds. The Senate approved $3 billion, and the figures will have to be reconciled in a conference committee. The $2.5 billion was the original figure in legislation outlining military programs that is now on the House floor. Five different attempts to raise or lower the total were defeated by sizable margins. An amendment to meet Mr. Reagan’s full request was rejected, 315 to 104. The House then ratified the $2.5 billion figure, 256 to 150. The House’s position reflected a series of conflicting impulses on Capitol Hill regarding the proposed shield, which Mr. Reagan calls the Strategic Defense Initiative. The proposal is commonly called “Star Wars.”
President Reagan presents the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mother Teresa.
Robert Dean Stethem, the Navy diver who was killed by Shiite terrorists in Beirut, Lebanon, last week, was buried today with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Amid hundreds of mourners dressed in black or Navy whites, six Navy honor guardsmen walked in step, carrying the flag-draped, gray steel coffin that bore the body of Mr. Stethem, a 23-year-old from Waldorf, Maryland. Throughout the service Mr. Stethem’s parents, Patricia and Richard Stethem, sat near the grave with their 3 other children, holding hands. “Robert Stethem has not died in vain,” the Rev. Wendell Cover said in the memorial service. “He gave us an example of courage, bravery and love.” Mr. Cover expressed hope that there would be “a means of stopping violence, terrorism and sufferings.”
The wife of an accused spy warned him after she turned him into the Federal Bureau of Investigation, thinking that he would flee to the Soviet Union to avoid prosecution. Barbara Walker’s husband, John A. Walker Jr., is charged with providing classified Navy documents to Soviet agents. “I wanted to give John a chance to run,” she said in an interview here. “That bond goes a lot deeper than you think.” But two months ago, in their last face-to-face meeting, Mrs. Walker said, she assured him she had not told the F.B.I. that she suspected him of running an espionage ring since 1967. Mr. Walker has pleaded not guilty to charges of spying.
The Senate Judiciary Committee today postponed a vote on the nomination of William Bradford Reynolds to be Associate Attorney General after it became clear that he would not win an endorsement from the panel. Senator Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, joined most Democrats on the panel in saying that he would vote against the nominee. Mr. Specter, who is up for re-election next year, said he had been under pressure from the Administration to back the nomination. But he said that Mr. Reynolds had “misled” the committee and “placed himself above the law” in enforcing civil rights.
A House subcommittee handed its chairman a defeat, killing his Superfund bill and agreeing to consider a compromise measure that environmentalists say threatens to gut the toxic dump cleanup program. On a series of 13-5 votes, the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on commerce refused even to discuss the $10.1-billion proposal brought to the table by Chairman James J. Florio (D-New Jersey). The action raised questions about whether a bill extending the program can be passed before the law expires Sept. 30.
The crew of the space shuttle Discovery used the craft’s mechanical arm today to put an X-ray observatory in space that will search for a massive “black hole” that may be hidden at the center of the Milky Way. Black holes are believed to be stars so dense that even light cannot escape their gravitation grip. The laser experiment that failed Wednesday when ground controllers relayed incorrect instructions to the crew was rescheduled for tomorrow. Shortly after midday today, the X-ray observatory, called Spartan, about the size of a telephone booth, was eased into orbit. “Steady as a rock,” said a crew member, Colonel John M. Fabian, 46 years old, of the Air Force, as the observatory drifted away.
The U.S. Government suppressed evidence when it argued in 1943 that the Supreme Court should uphold the conviction of a Japanese-American citizen, a lawyer who represented the War Department then testified today. The citizen, Gordon Hirabayshi, is seeking the reversal of his conviction on charges of violating a military curfew and later refusing to report to a relocation camp, Federal District Judge Donald S. Voorhees is holding a nonjury trial to determine whether prosecutors were fair during Mr. Hirabayashi’s appeal in 1943, or whether the Government misrepresented evidence so that the Supreme Court would uphold the constitutionality of actions to control 120,000 Japanese-Americans. The witness, Edward Ennis, a former Justice Department attorney, told the judge that in 1943 he prepared the Supreme Court brief defending the Army’s position that the entire West Coast was subject to sabotage and espionage by Japanese-Americans. Internal Dispute Is Cited The brief alleged that to protect the nation against this danger, it was necessary to impose a curfew from 8 PM to 6 AM on Japanese-Americans who lived in farms and cities along the West Coast, They were later evacuated to internment camps well away from the West Coast.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is checking the records of 41,000 employees of the Department of Health and Human Services in an attempt to detect workers who may try to steal Government money by computer, officials said today. Richard Kusserow, the department’s Inspector General, said the checks were begun last month after an audit identified 46 agency employees who stole money using the department’s computers. The average theft was about $46,000, but losses in nine cases exceeded $100,000.
When the Navy said Wednesday it would seek formal censure of the second-ranking officer overseeing its hospitals ashore, it was the fourth time in three years that a high-ranking military medical officer was called deficient in cracking down on incompetent or problem doctors. Earlier, an Air Force surgeon general was accused by military investigators of failing to take action against an incompetent surgeon; an Army surgeon general was given a letter of admonition for failing to act promptly against a doctor convicted of improper acts, and another Army surgeon general, in a report by Army auditors, was found lax in overseeing medical quality assurance practices. In those three cases, the medical officers were judged adversely as hospital or regional commanders just before they assumed the very highest positions in military medicine.
The head of the FBI told a federal pornography panel he sees no need for any new anti-smut weapons. FBI Director William H. Webster said measures enacted last year involving organized crime and wiretaps that also make it easier to prosecute child exploitation cases are basically all the federal action he wants. “I want to see how effective we are in dealing with these tools” before deciding whether to seek any others, Webster told the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography.
The former director of a shelter for Central Americans was sentenced to two years in prison after she told a federal judge in Brownsville, Texas, that she would continue to violate immigration laws. “Some things are worth going to jail for,” Lorry Thomas, 41, told reporters. Thomas was convicted of trying to smuggle a Nicaraguan alien past the U.S. Border Patrol in Texas. Thomas, who rejected a plea-bargain offer, told U.S. District Judge Ricardo Hinojosa that her religious convictions would prompt her to continue helping Central Americans fleeing their war-torn region.
A lawsuit filed today charges that the Pittston Company conspired with two supervisors and a Virginia State official to hinder enforcement of safety regulations at a mine where seven miners died in a 1983 methane explosion. The suit was filed by two miners injured in the blast and families of six of the dead miners. It accuses Pittston of not designing a ventilation system that would safely draw off methane and of other violations. The company, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, said it would have no immediate comment.
In a victory for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Albany, New York, a state appeals court ordered the New York Health Department to reconsider its decision allowing two abortion clinics to open. The court said that the Health Department used an invalid regulation to justify the opening of the Planned Parenthood abortion clinics in Albany and nearby Hudson. The regulation has no force because it has never been published or officially adopted, the court said. The Health Department could still allow the abortion clinics to open if it finds other reasons to justify the need for the facilities, the court said.
The Georgia Board of Transportation ordered construction resumed immediately on the Atlanta parkway to former President Jimmy Carter’s presidential library, a road fought bitterly by neighborhood preservationists. Transportation Board Chairman William Evans said the state had to order resumption of construction, regardless of pending court suits, to avoid suits by contractors.
Five people, including Spiver Gordon, a national director of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, have pleaded not guilty in Federal Court in Birmingham, Alabama to charges of vote fraud. Three activists are on trial in Selma on similar charges. The five, indicted June 11, are charged with conspiracy, mail fraud, furnishing false information to an election official, and voting more than once in September’s state Democratic primary.
A series of police roundups in a Puerto Rican neighborhood of Phildelphia after the slaying of a white officer has added heat to the bitter debate over the way the city’s police officers are said to treat members of minority groups. The action aggravated tension between the police and residents of the neighborhood, Spring Garden, that was not abated by a meeting Tuesday night between residents and the presidents of three police associations. A meeting with senior district police commanders is set for Monday afternoon. “It didn’t accomplish anything,” Raul Serrano, a neighborhood leader, said of the meeting. “I feel that the ill feeling will continue on both sides until the killer is found.”
Workers with bulldozers began looking for human remains at two rural sites near Toledo, Ohio, after Lucas County Sheriff James Telb said he had reason to believe as many as 75 persons may have been victims of a satanic cult. No remains have been found yet. Telb said he ordered the digging after a three-month investigation in which informants, whom he termed as familiar with cult activities, said a cult of Satan worshipers from Ohio and Michigan had committed the slayings.
New York Attorney General Robert Abrams filed suit to block people from moving into six houses at Love Canal near the former Hooker Chemical toxic waste dump at Lockport. Abrams is seeking a court order to require the Love Canal Revitalization Agency to prepare a thorough environmental impact statement before selling any of the 450 homes near the landfill. About 800 families have been relocated from the area since the late ’70s, when toxic chemicals were found to be seeping from the landfill.
An all-night protest against Massachusetts State foster parent policy by more than a dozen homosexuals outside the office of Governor Michael S. Dukakis broke up about noon today after the governor agreed to meet with them. The demonstrators spent most of Wednesday and all night singing songs and chanting slogans to protest a state decision to prohibit homosexuals from being foster parents.
Astronomers from California and Arizona said today that they have successfully tested a mechanism to correct the atmospheric light distortion that blurs telescope images, a device similar to one the astronauts on the shuttle Discovery were unable to properly test Wednesday from space. The device is an adaptive mirror designed to correct distortions caused by turbulence in the atmosphere that bend and twist incoming light. The twisted light causes images viewed in telescopes to become blurred and fuzzy; the mirror itself can be bent to compensate for the distortion.
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The Astros blanked the Braves, 2–0, as Phil Garner’s two-run homer in the eighth inning snapped a scoreless pitching duel between Houston’s Bob Knepper and Atlanta’s Rick Mahler. Alan Ashby led off the eighth with a walk, becoming only the fourth Astro base runner allowed by Mahler (10–6). Garner then hit a drive over the center-field fence. Knepper (7–3) scattered six hits over 8 ⅔ innings.
At Shea, the Mets do all their scoring in the 3rd to top the Cubs, 5–3. George Foster hits a grand slam and John Christensen hits a solo. Sid Fernandez struck out 10 batters in six innings to win his first game in five weeks. Whatever it was, whatever it meant, the Mets completed a four-game sweep over the Chicago Cubs yesterday before 37,203 fans in Shea Stadium, and plunged the Cubs to their ninth straight defeat.
Rick Rhoden pitched a three-hitter over seven innings and drove in the winning run with a double as the Pittsburgh Pirates edged the Montreal Expos, 2–1, tonight. The loss left the first-place Expos only half a game ahead of the Mets. Rhoden (5–7) went seven innings, striking out five and walking two and snapped a personal three-game losing streak. Al Holland allowed two hits over the final two innings to record his fifth save. Rhoden, who had two hits, drove in the winning run as Pittsburgh rallied to score a pair of runs against the Expo starter Dan Schatzeder (2–3) in the fifth inning.
Terry Kennedy hit a home run and drove in four runs, two with a double during a three-run San Diego rally in the eighth inning, and the Padres edged the Giants, 6–5. LaMarr Hoyt (9–4) gained his seventh straight victory despite allowing two home runs by Jeff Leonard. Hoyt allowed nine hits in eight innings, walked one and struck out six. Rich Gossage pitched the ninth for his 16th save. The Padres entered the eighth trailing by 5–3, but they scored three times, capped by Kennedy’s two-run double. The right-hand-hitting Leonard went the opposite way on Hoyt’s first pitch in the second inning, lining the ball over the fence in right-center field for a 1–0 lead. He also had a three-run homer in the sixth as the Giants took a 4–3 lead.
The Cardinals thumped the Phillies, 5–0. Willie McGee singled home Vince Coleman in the first inning and scored on Andy Van Slyke’s double for St. Louis, which coasted on Danny Cox’s second consecutive shutout. Cox (9–2) yielded nine hits and struck out seven. He has not allowed a run in 23 innings. Tom Lawless and Tom Nieto singled home additional runs for St. Louis in the third and fifth innings.
Tim Birtsas, backed by home runs from Bruce Bochte, Alfredo Griffin and Carney Lansford, hurled Oakland to victory, as the A’s crushed the White Sox, 12–1. Birtsas (4–1) allowed just four hits in eight innings, striking out four and walking six before Steve Ontiveros came on to pitch the ninth. Bochte belted a homer with a man on in the seventh and Griffin hit one with two on in the eighth and Lansford followed with a homer. All three homers came off the reliever Bob Fallon. Chicago finished with 16 hits. Tom Seaver, who started for Chicago, was touched for 12 hits before leaving in the seventh inning.
Typically, Dave Righetti offered no excuses. He simply talked quietly, unemotionally, about a period that has been the most difficult in his young pitching career. The Yankee reliever, asked to protect a three-run lead tonight in Detroit, turned in another woeful performance. He surrendered three runs in the ninth, then put the winning run on base with a walk to Lou Whitaker in the 10th. Mike Armstrong, who had not pitched since June 8, eventually threw a wild pitch that allowed Whitaker to score from third base and give the Tigers a 10–9 victory.
Damaso Garcia’s two-run triple highlighted a three-run seventh inning that carried Toronto to a come-from-behind 6–5 victory over the Red Sox. Buck Martinez led off the seventh against the left-hander Bob Ojeda with a single, and Garth Iorg then reached on an infield single, his third hit of the game. The pinch-runner Lou Thornton and Iorg advanced on Tony Fernandez’s sacrifice bunt and Garcia greeted the releiver Bob Stanley (2–3) with his game-tying triple. Lloyd Moseby then delivered a sacrifice fly to shallow center field and Garcia, who went 3 for 3 with four runs batted in, beat Steve Lyon’s throw home with the winning run. Jim Acker (4–1), who faced only two batters, earned the victory. Bill Caudill earned his 11th save. Boston led, 5–1, in the fifth on the strength of Bill Buckner’s homer.
Reggie Jackson slugged his 513th career home run, moving him alone into 10th place on the major league career list, and Ron Romanick pitched a four-hitter to spark the Angels to a 4–0 win over the Indians. Jackson’s home run sparked a second inning during which the Angels scored all four runs. Jackson had been tied for the 10th spot in homers with Ernie Banks and Eddie Matthews. Romanick (8–3) pitched his fourth complete game, retiring 20 of the last 22 batters. Doug DeCinces led off the California second with a double off Don Schulze (3–7). Jackson then lifted a ball over the left-center-field fence on a 1–0 pitch for his 10th homer of the season. Ruppert Jones laid down a bunt single one out later, stole second, went to third on Bob Boone’s flyout and scored on Dick Schofield’s double. The final run was forced in on two walks. The four hits in the inning were all the Angels had for the game.
Al Cowens cracked a three-run homer and drove in four runs and Jim Presley added his 15th home run to lead a 20-hit Seattle attack as the Mariners rolled over the Rangers, 11–3. Matt Young (6–8) pitched five innings to earn the victory. He allowed five hits while walking one and striking out four. Karl Best went three innings to pick up his fourth save. Sparked by Cowens’s homer, Seattle batted around and scored six runs in the third inning.
Kirby Puckett belted a bases-loaded triple in the seventh inning to rally Minnesota to an 11–8 victory. Puckett, who had ended an 0-for-15 slump with a third-inning single, tripled to cap a four-run seventh that brought the Twins back from an 8–5 deficit. He had four hits and four runs batted in. George Brett drove in five runs for Kansas City.
Houston Astros 2, Atlanta Braves 0
Oakland Athletics 12, Chicago White Sox 1
California Angels 4, Cleveland Indians 0
New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 10
Minnesota Twins 11, Kansas City Royals 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Montreal Expos 1
Chicago Cubs 3, New York Mets 5
San Francisco Giants 5, San Diego Padres 6
Philadelphia Phillies 0, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Seattle Mariners 11, Texas Rangers 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Toronto Blue Jays 6
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Caroline Polachek, American pop singer-songwriter (Chairlift – “Bruises”; solo – “So Hot You’re Hurting My Feelings”), in Manhattan, New York, New York.
Darko Miličić, Serbian NBA center and power forward (NBA Champions-Pistons, 2004; Detroit Pistons, Orlando Magic, Memphis Grizzlies, New York Knicks, Minnesota Timberwolves, Boston Celtics), in Novi Sad, Serbia, Yugoslavia.
Josh Morgan, NFL wide receiver (San Francisco 49ers, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears), in Washington, District of Columbia.
Matt Flynn, NFL quarterback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Green Bay Packers, Seattle Seahawks, Oakland Raiders), in Tyler, Texas.
Brooks Brown, MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies), in Statesboro, Georgia.
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