The importance of not yielding to the demands of the hijackers holding 40 Americans hostage in Beirut was agreed on by Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. They discussed the hostage crisis on the telephone in the first high-level Israeli-American contact since the Athens-to-Rome T.W.A. flight was hijacked last Friday, with 153 passengers and crew aboard. It appeared to be part of an effort to reduce the strain in relations that has developed since the hijacking. With no visible progress in achieving the release of the hostages, Administration officials were cautioning that the crisis could continue indefinitely if Nabih Berri, the Amal Shiite leader, who has become the central intermediary, refuses to free the Americans unconditionally.
In Dallas, President Reagan said the United States would continue to show restraint in the aftermath of recent terrorist acts, but warned that “no one” should doubt America’s resolve to counter such attacks. Mr. Reagan, addressing the annual convention of the Lions Club International, used what he said was a quotation from President Theodore Roosevelt to describe what he called the country’s impatience with terrorism. President Roosevelt, Mr. Reagan said, once observed that the American people “are slow to wrath, but once their wrath is kindled, it burns like a consuming flame.” Mr. Reagan’s remarks came after a 20-minute meeting with relatives of 3 of the 40 American hostages, who were seized last Friday when a Trans World Airlines plane was hijacked on a flight from Athens to Rome.
The Administration has been seeking support from many foreign governments, particularly those with possible influence on Mr. Berri. A major effort has been concentrated on persuading President Hafez al-Assad of Syria, who is currently in the Soviet Union, to support the unconditional release of the Americans.
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said today that the United Nations had “presented many ideas to the American authorities” on how it might help win the release of the American hostages in Beirut. “It is obvious,” Mr. Perez de Cuellar said when asked how the United Nations could help. “We have a well-known presence in Lebanon. We have both our service in Beirut and several thousand men in the south. This United Nations presence is, of course, at the disposal of the parties concerned.”
President Reagan meets with families of the hostages held in Beirut.
Muslims held an anti-American rally at Beirut airport, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Reagan.” They were cheered by the hijackers of the T.W.A. jetliner there. The march was organized by the pro-Iranian Shiite group called the Party of God. The hijackers are believed to be members of that group. In some ways, it was a scene reminiscent of the Iranian hostage crisis that ended in 1981. Many of the demonstrators carried huge posters of Iran’s fundamentalist Shiite leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
Greece gave its European neighbors a report today on its actions in the Beirut hijacking, including a defense of its airport security and its decision to free a confederate of the Lebanese hijackers in exchange for Greek and other hostages aboard the commandeered American jet. The report was presented to the law enforcement group of the European Economic Community. According to Italy’s Interior Minister, Oscar Luigi Scalfaro, it included a discussion of the way Greece coordinated its handling of the hijacking with the United States Government. He said that Costas Tsimas, the Secretary General of the Greek Ministry of Public Order, told the Common Market group that in the first days of the hijacking affair, the United States had “thanked” Greece for helping to save the lives of the hostage passengers.
A group calling itself the Arab Revolutionary Organization says it was responsible for a terrorist bombing at Frankfurt International Airport Wednesday that killed 3 people and wounded 42. In a statement delivered Thursday night to news agencies and newspapers here, the previously unknown group asserted that it had planted the bomb because West German intelligence agents were recruiting Arabs to assassinate members of Arab revolutionary movements in Lebanon. The statement warned of possible further attacks. In West Germany, the police said they were studying the claim, but were skeptical of its authenticity.
An armed man who wanted to see the Prime Minister hijacked a Norwegian jetliner with 120 people aboard today, but surrendered later in exchange for beer, the police said. It was the first hijacking of a domestic flight in Norway and only the fourth in any of the Scandinavian countries. The authorities identified the hijacker only as a 24-year-old former convict who had been drinking when he boarded the Braathens airliner. They said he commandeered it on a flight to Oslo from Trondheim, threatening an attendant with a gun.
A prominent Polish dissident said today that more than 10,000 Poles had signed a petition calling for the release of three Solidarity activists who were convicted last week for organizing a national strike. The dissident, Jacek Kuron, said the petition, addressed to the Polish Parliament, was written by Solidarity activists and had been in circulation across the country for a week. Independent sources said the first signer was Lech Walesa, the founder of the outlawed independent trade union. The activists, Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, Adam Michnik and Bogdan Lis, were sentenced June 14 to prison terms ranging from 2 ½ to 3 ½ years.
The trial of eight men accused of conspiring to assassinate Pope John Paul II heard more conflicting testimony the other day from Mehmet Ali Ağca. The subject was the question of how many other gunmen were in St. Peter’s Square on the day Mr. Ağca shot and wounded the Pope. Silence hung over the courtroom as the chief judge, Severino Santiapichi, recited earlier testimony of a Turkish extremist named Yalcin Ozbey. Mr. Ozbey had told investigators that Serat Sirri Kadem, also known as Akif, was with Mr. Ağca when he shot the Pope on May 13, 1981. Mr. Ağca — the prosecution’s main witness for the charge that the Bulgarian secret service, at the behest of the Soviet Union, conspired to kill the Polish-born Pope — sat sullenly as the testimony was read. Listeners had the impression that well-guarded secrets were being strewn like pearls before the court.
Scores of arrests were reported today, the day after five bombs exploded in Katmandu, the Himalayan city of temples, killing 7 people and wounding 24. The kingdom’s official press agency said the police had found nearly 100 unexploded bombs. The attack was the first major terrorist act in Nepal. One of the explosions Thursday blew down the lobby roof of the luxury Annapurna Hotel, and another tore the door off the National Assembly chamber, killing a legislator. Two bombs exploded at gates of the royal palace.
Vietnam’s leaders have called for an end to large state subsidies and “bureaucratic centralism” for setting wages and prices, the Vietnam press agency reported today. The Communist Party leadership proposed the changes in a communiqué issued on June 17, after the conclusion of their eighth plenum. The plenum, a full meeting of party members, was devoted to transforming the economy and discussing prices and wages. The text of the communiqué was carried in a Vietnam press agency report monitored here. It appeared that the proposed changes referred only to wages and prices. The communiqué called for increased state control over production and distribution of goods and expansion of the state-run economy.
Japan’s governing party, saying that a crackdown on spies is long overdue, has submitted legislation authorizing the death penalty for anyone convicted of espionage that “severely endangers national security.” The proposed law has drawn denunciations from opposition parties, human-rights activists and newspapers, and as a result its passage by Parliament this year is highly improbable. Opponents complain that the bill is ambiguously worded, saying it would inhibit the press and interfere with the public’s “right to know.” “The Espionage Prevention Bill absolutely must not be passed,” the newspaper Asahi said in a recent editorial. “Its contents trample on the spirit of our peace Constitution at its very foundation.”
The Parti Quebecois, which has governed Quebec for the last nine years, confronted an uncertain future today after the resignation of its founder, Rene Levesque. Mr. Levesque, who has headed the party since it was formed in October 1968, abruptly announced his resignation Thursday night in a letter to the party’s vice president, Nadia Assimopoulos. He said in French that he was resigning after “weighing everything as best as I could,” but avoided offering reasons. He will stay on as Quebec’s Premier until his successor is chosen by the party’s 110,000 members in an election similar to a United States state primary. According to rules adopted by the party’s national council, the campaign to select a new leader will take 90 days.
U.S. Marines were the main target of a sidewalk attack in San Salvador Wednesday, Salvadoran guerrillas said in taking responsibility for the shooting that killed 13 people including four United States Marines and two American businessmen. A communique from the group, Urban Guerrillas-Mardoqueo Cruz, said the off-duty marines were the intended target of the attack. The statement said the nine civilians were killed because several of them pulled out guns and fired at the assailants. Urban Guerrillas is affiliated with the Revolutionary Party of Central American Workers, the smallest of five anti-Government rebel groups operating in El Salvador. The communique, delivered to a news agency office here, said the shootings were part of a campaign titled “Operation Yankee Aggressor in El Salvador – Another Vietnam Awaits You.”
The United States citizen who was shot by a Honduran military border patrol near the border with El Salvador was identified Friday as a 41-year-old welder from Queens. A United States Embassy spokesman said it still did not know why the man, Robert Joseph Reed, and a companion, who was not identified, were in the isolated area, which is frequented by guerrillas and smugglers. Mr. Reed did not work for the United States Government, the spokesman said.
American, Brazilian and West German scientists announced jointly today that a skeleton recently exhumed from a graveyard near here was unquestionably that of Dr. Josef Mengele. A separate report by American experts concluded that the bones were those of the long-sought Nazi death-camp doctor “within a reasonable scientific certainty.” Under questioning, the Americans said they had “absolutely no doubt” of their findings and ruled out any possibility of a hoax. In Washington, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d said the Justice Department accepted the group’s conclusion, while in Los Angeles, officials of the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies said they were “99 percent” satisfied that the skeleton was Dr. Mengele’s. There was no immediate response from the Israeli authorities, who had said last month that they would await the forensic experts’ reports before drawing a conclusion on whether or not the remains were those of Dr. Mengele.
Bombs planted by saboteurs damaged five electrical transmission towers in Chile’s central valley overnight, cutting electricity to at least nine million people in the region, the Government said today. The blackouts occurred shortly after the staging of the first anti-Government protests since a state of siege was lifted last week. The explosions caused partial blackouts from Copiapo, 500 miles north of Santiago, to Concepcion, 320 miles south of the capital.
For the third time in three days, the Security Council condemned the South African Government today, this time for a recent military attack on neighboring Botswana. Sixteen people, including a 6-year-old girl, were killed in the raid on Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, on June 14. The resolution, adopted unanimously, called on South Africa to halt “all acts of aggression” against Botswana and compensate the victims, and instructs the United Nations Secretary General to send a mission to Botswana to assess the damage from the attack. Addressing the Council, Foreign Minister Gaositwe K. T. Chiepe of Botswana charged that South Africa was acting “with the impunity of a modern scientific Goliath,” and said that her country would continue to give sanctuary to refugees from South Africa. Kurt Von Schirnding, South Africa’s delegate to the United Nations, defended the attack as a “pre-emptive operation” against anti-South African forces operating out of Botswana.
A slaying at the State Department took place on the seventh floor, near the office of Secretary of State George P. Shultz. A 20-year-old man, identified as Steven Doster, of Alexandria, Virginia, shot his mother to death with a rifle and then killed himself with the same weapon. His mother, Carole Doster, 44, was a secretary in the office of Edward Derwinski, a former Republican Congressman from Illinois who is the State Department counselor. A senior State Department official said Mr. Doster had a history of mental illness. The State Department said tonight that Mrs. Doster, who had filed an assault complaint against her son with the Alexandria police, had asked the department to revoke his permit to enter the building. The request was still being processed.
President Reagan travels to Dallas, Texas to address the Convention of Lions Club International.
A blue-green laser beam, flashing up from a mountaintop in Hawaii, locked onto the spacecraft Discovery today in what a Pentagon scientist called a “very successful” first shuttle experiment to help develop weapons for President Reagan’s proposed shield against enemy missiles. Knifing through the darkness from the Air Force Optical Station on Maui, the beam of low-powered light hit an eight-inch mirror on the side of Discovery 220 miles overhead as the winged spacecraft traveled at more than 17,000 miles an hour, several hundred miles an hour faster than a speeding warhead. In Wednesday’s unsuccessful trial of the laser system, faulty instructions from ground control inadvertently resulted in their mirror pointing at deep space instead of toward the incoming beam as it struck the ship. Today the light found its intended target. The mirror bounced the beam back to earth, sending data that enabled scientists to adjust the laser in order to counteract the distorting effects of the turbulent atmosphere, keeping the beam locked on the shuttle. “We have the target in sight,” Col. John M. Fabian, a mission specialist aboard Discovery, reported to ground controllers as he viewed the laser beam. “It’s bluish green. It pulsed for a while and locked on steady for short periods.”
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission delayed for almost six years forcing improvements at a nuclear power plant in Ohio that it knew was vulnerable to a failure like the one at Three Mile Island, according to a report made public by a House subcommittee today. The commission’s inaction, the report said, allowed a similar mishap to occur at the Ohio plant June 9. “It was an accident waiting to happen,” said the chairman of the subcommittee, Edward J. Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, at a briefing today on the subject. “Six years is too long to delay in protecting public health and safety.”
Some prominent archivists say they are concerned that President Reagan may appoint a former political adviser to head the National Archives. The White House, according to Senate staff members, decided more than a month ago to give the job to Peter J. Duignan, a specialist on Africa at the conservative Hoover Institution for the Study of War, Revolution and Peace. Dr. Duignan served on the national committee of Democrats for Reagan in 1979-80, and was an adviser in 1980 to the Reagan-Bush Task Force on Foreign Policy. Dr. Duignan has said he expects Mr. Reagan to name him Archivist of the United States as soon as his security clearance is complete. His candidacy has attracted criticism.
A study by the Department of Health and Human Services of 46 people recently convicted of computer crimes against the Government has determined that one-quarter of the 46 had previous felony convictions. As a result of the study Richard P. Kusserow, the department’s inspector general, has asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether any of the department’s approximately 41,000 employees involved in computer operations, processing of claims or other fiscal matters have such convictions. The department has a total of 150,000 employees.
The Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, under orders from a state ethics commission, today agreed to step down from the bench for four months and to be censured for bringing his office “into serious disrepute” through his friendships with men identified as active in organized crime. In the eight-point order by the Commission on Judicial Tenure and Discipline, the Chief Justice, Joseph A. Bevilacqua, agreed that he would “abstain from performing the official duties of his office” beginning July 1 and ending October 31. He will not be paid in that period. The panel, which conducted a six-month investigation into allegations of misconduct against Chief Justice Bevilacqua, said it had found no reason to believe that his conduct “in any way affected his judicial decisions.”
Leaky equipment and faulty pasteurization were found at a plant that made contaminated cheese believed responsible for the deaths of 43 people since March, officials said today. Preliminary tests at the plant of the manufacturer, Jalisco Mexican Products, in Artesia, California, showed pinholes in pasteurization equipment, according to a spokesman for the state Food and Agriculture Department. “Anytime you have pinholes you have the possibility of contamination, because raw milk could contact with hot milk,” the spokesman, Jan Wessell, said. Other tests found phosphatase, an enzyme normally deactivated by pasteurization, in product samples, Miss Wessell said.
A judge today authorized an abortion for a 35-year-old woman suffering from a brain disease who was raped while she was strapped to a bed in a convalescent hospital, and became pregnant. “If the condition is left untreated, it could probably result in death,” said Judge Henry T. Moore of Orange County Superior Court, in granting a request by the woman’s parents for conservatorship, which gives them the authority to seek the abortion. The woman was nearing her 20th week of pregnancy when the condition was discovered last week. Her parents’ attorney, Fred Di Lisio, said he hoped the abortion could be performed this weekend. The woman was married and had a son, now 11, before disease impaired her brain functions. She has been confined for three years and weighs less than 80 pounds. The rape allegedly occurred when she was a patient at Mirada Hills Convalescent and Rehabilitation Hospital in La Mirada. The hospital’s attorney, Robert Gerst, said the conception could have occurred when the woman was taken for medical treatment elsewhere.
A man who escaped from a Kentucky state prison 28 years ago was found living a few miles away and was sent back to finish his term, prison officials said today. David Underwood, 51 years old, was arrested June 5 and returned to the state reformatory at LaGrange, about 20 miles east of Louisville, June De Luca, a prison spokesman said. In 1957 Mr. Underwood was sentenced to seven years at the state prison for operating an automobile without the owner’s permission. He escaped a few months later, and a few days after that he robbed a bank. Escape charges were eventually dropped, but he was sentenced to 15 years in Federal prison for the bank robbery. Mr. Underwood was released from the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kansas, in 1975. Mr. Underwood says he assumed that since the escape charges were dropped and he served the Federal sentence, he was no longer wanted at the state prison.
Investigators said they had found “various ritualistic emblems” but no bodies today as they dug in remote fields and woods in search of possible human remains of a satanic cult’s sacrifices. The officials said they were beginning to think that no bodies would be found. Sheriff James Telb, who suspended the work today, had ordered the digging, saying that informers had reported killings and mass burials by a satanic cult involving about 200 people. The digging began Thursday, he said, because information from three “reasonably reliable sources” indicated a sacrifice would be made today or Saturday, the summer solstice.
A fire that has charred an estimated 57,000 acres of brush land burned out of control today near Winnemucca in north-central Nevada, the authorities said. There were no reports of serious injuries or major property damage. About 525 firefighters, including crews from five neighboring states, battled the fire, one of eight Nevada blazes caused by lightning that have raked more than 76,000 acres of range land since Wednesday. A 15,000-acre fire in northwest Washoe County, 50 miles from Reno, was controlled near midnight Thursday. In southwestern Idaho, a range fire south of Hammett spread to 6,000 acres today, bringing to about 25,000 acres the area consumed by 16 range fires in Idaho since Wednesday.
Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Echo & the Bunnyman, Joe Cocker, and The Boomtown Rats headline; other performers include: The Style Council, Ian Dury and The Blockheads, Nick Lowe, Third World, Gregory Isaacs, Hugh Masekela, Clannad, Midnight Oil, Aswad, and The Pogues.
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Mike Brown tripled home two runs in the sixth inning and scored on Juan Beniquez’s fourth single of the game to lead California over Chicago by a score of 5–2. Reggie Jackson started the sixth for the Angels with a double off Floyd Bannister (5–5). Bobby Grich walked, and Brown followed with his two-run triple before Beniquez singled. The victory went to the rookie starter Kirk McCaskill (2–5).
Suddenly, the Yankees’ momentum has turned. A three-game sweep in Baltimore has now dissolved into a two-game losing streak in Detroit. Rickey Henderson remained a staple in the offense, but Phil Niekro wobbled through a rough sixth inning, and the Detroit Tigers took a 6–4 decision tonight before a crowd of 47,499. Henderson had three hits, two of them for home runs, but Niekro, left in the game because Manager Billy Martin wanted to rest his bullpen, was unable to maintain a 3–0 lead.
Lloyd Moseby singled three times and drove in two runs, and Willie Upshaw hit a home run tonight to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the Boston Red Sox, 7–2. Jimmy Key (5–2) pitched a five-hitter in winning his fifth straight game. Upshaw, who had not hit a home run since June 4, gave the Blue Jays a 5–1 lead when he hit his seventh of the season on Bruce Hurst’s first pitch of the sixth inning. Hurst’s record fell to 2–7. Damaso Garcia drew a leadoff walk in the Toronto first, moved to third on Moseby’s single and scored on George Bell’s groundout.
Twins manager Billy Gardner is fired and replaced by Baltimore pitching coach Ray Miller.
Mark Salas sliced a two-run single with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning, lifting Minnesota and its new manager, Ray Miller, over Texas, 3–2. Charlie Hough (5–8) carried a six-hit shutout into the ninth but walked Tom Brunansky leading off the inning. After Roy Smalley singled, Brunansky was forced at third on Gary Gaetti’s sacrifice bunt attempt. Tim Teufel walked to load the bases, and Smalley scored on Randy Bush’s pinch-hit ground out to make it 2–1. Salas then hit a 1–0 pitch to right field to score Gaetti and Teufel.
Cecil Cooper drove in four runs with three hits, including a two-run single during a nine-run sixth inning that rallied Milwaukee past Baltimore as the Brewers beat the Orioles, 13–10. Baltimore had a 7–1 lead before the Brewers scored three runs in the fifth and then tied a team record by scoring nine times in the sixth.
Jim Gantner opened with the sixth with a walk and Bobby Clark and Ed Romero followed with a singles to load the bases against Mike Boddicker (7–7). Gantner then scored when the reliever Sammy Stewart tried to pick off Romero and the throw went off Eddie Murray’s glove for an error. Paul Molitor walked to reload the bases. Tippy Martinez, who replaced Stewart, got Earnest Riles hit into a forceout at the plate. But Cooper then lined a two-run single to tie the game at 7–7, Robin Yount followed with an single and Ben Oglivie hit a sacrifice fly. Bill Schroeder was intentionally walked and Gantner lined a run-scoring single. Clark then single, and after a walk to Romero, Molitor completed the scoring with a two-run single to center to make it 13–7.
Don Sutton scattered five hits over seven innings for his 286th career victory and Dave Kingman hit his 17th home run as Oakland breezed past Cleveland, 9–1. Sutton (6–5) gave up consecutive doubles to Brook Jacoby and Joe Carter to lead off the second inning, but the Indians failed to move a runner past first base the rest of the night off Sutton.
The Reds won the opener of their doubleheader with the Braves, 4–2, but Atlanta came back to take the nightcap, 5–4. Dale Murphy hit his 17th homer and Rafael Ramirez broke a tie with a sacrifice to give Atlanta a doubleheader split with Cincinnati. Dave Parker’s three-run homer sent the Reds to victory in the first game. The Reds took a 2–0 lead in the first inning of the nightcap that was highlighted by Parker’s run-scoring single off Rick Camp (2–3), who was making only his second start of the season. The Braves came back in the second when Jay Tibbs (4–9) walked Camp with the bases loaded to force in a run. Murphy, who was 5-for-9 in the doubleheader, then hit a homer in the fifth to tie the score. nightcap.
Pitcher Kurt Kepshire doubled and scored two runs, and Jack Clark slugged a three-run triple, leading the St. Louis Cardinals to a 7–5 victory over the Cubs tonight and a share of first place in the National League East with the Mets. Chicago continued to stagger, dropping its 10th straight. Kepshire (4–5) was backed by a fine defense that turned in three double plays in each of the first three innings, but was forced to leave in the ninth when the Cubs scored twice. Davey Lopes, Steve Lake and Ryne Sandberg hit into the rally-killing double plays before Chris Speier hit a two-run homer for the Cubs in the seventh.
The Mets kept rolling last night, won their fifth straight game and swept back into first place when they rallied to defeat the Montreal Expos, 6–3. And the winning pitcher was the much maligned, often booed and newly shelved Doug Sisk, who hadn’t won in two months. They did it before another noisy crowd of 38,554 in Shea Stadium in a performance led by Mookie Wilson, sore shoulder and all, who knocked in four late runs with two singles and a home run.
Juan Samuel’s double down the right-field line with one out in the 16th inning scored Derrel Thomas with the winning run as the Phillies edged the Pirates, 4–3. John Wockenfuss led off the 16th by drawing a walk off Jim Winn (2–2), the sixth Pirate pitcher. Thomas’ single moved Wockenfuss to second and a forceout by Larry Andersen moved Thomas to second and Samuel’s double scored him with the winning run. Andersen (2–2), the sixth Phillies’ pitcher, worked one inning for the victory. The Phillies tied the game with two runs in the ninth inning.
Jerry Royster belted a grand slam and Kevin McReynolds had a pair of run-scoring singles to help Ed Wojna record his first major league victory as San Diego defeated San Francisco, 6–1. Royster also had a double. Wojna (1–0), who was called up from Las Vegas of the Pacific Coast League last week, held the Giants to three hits in six innings, one of them a homer by Bob Brenly in the second inning. McReynolds picked up his ninth game-winning RBI in the fifth when he singled in Steve Garvey from third.
The Dodgers downed the Astros, 7–2. Pedro Guerrero explained his astonishing home run success this way: “When you’re hot, you’re hot. No matter what they throw you, you get your hits.” The L.A. slugger ripped his 15th home run, and his 11th in 16 games in June, and also singled twice and knocked in two runs for the Dodgers. Oral Hershiser and Tom Niedenfuer combined on a five-hitter. Hershiser, 7–1, left after seven innings because of a tender elbow and Niedenfuer finished. Hershiser allowed one earned run on five hits. He struck out four and walked two.
California Angels 5, Chicago White Sox 2
Atlanta Braves 2, Cincinnati Reds 4
Atlanta Braves 5, Cincinnati Reds 4
New York Yankees 4, Detroit Tigers 6
Houston Astros 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Baltimore Orioles 10, Milwaukee Brewers 13
Texas Rangers 2, Minnesota Twins 3
Montreal Expos 3, New York Mets 6
Cleveland Indians 1, Oakland Athletics 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Philadelphia Phillies 4
San Francisco Giants 1, San Diego Padres 6
Chicago Cubs 5, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Boston Red Sox 2, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1324.48 (+24.75)
Born:
Lana Del Rey, American singer-songwriter (Born to Die; Ultraviolence), and model (H&M), in New York, New York.
Michelle Wolf, American comedian, in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Marc Methot, Canadian NHL defenseman (Columbus Blue Jackets, Ottawa Senators, Dallas Stars), in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
Brett Swain, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Green Bay Packers, San Francisco 49ers), in Asheville, North Carolina.
Died:
Tage Erlander, 84, Swedish politician (25th Prime Minister of Sweden 1946-1969).
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