Air India Flight 182: An Air India 747 jet plunged into the Atlantic Ocean off Ireland’s southern coast, apparently killing all 329 people aboard. An Indian official said there was “a distinct possibility” the plane had been destroyed by a bomb. Ships in the area and helicopters sent from Britain and Ireland recovered 103 bodies. Most of the passengers on the flight from Toronto to Bombay were Indian nationals or Canadians of Indian origin, and they included 86 children. An air traffic supervisor said the plane “fell like a rock.” The incident happened en route from Montreal to London at an altitude of 31,000 feet (9,400 m). The remnants of the aircraft fell into the sea approximately 190 kilometres (120 miles) off the coast of Ireland, killing all 329 people on board, including 268 Canadian citizens, 27 British citizens, and 22 Indian citizens.
Security for the Air-India plane had been tightened by Canada at the airline’s request after it had received threats. Canada’s Transport Minister said that extra policemen had been assigned to terminals in Toronto and Montreal and that “on this particular flight, we were advised that all baggage was either checked by X-ray or checked by hand.”
The cause was later confirmed to be an explosion from a bomb planted by Canadian Sikh terrorists. The bombing of Air India Flight 182 is the worst terrorist attack in Canadian history and was the world’s deadliest act of aviation terrorism until the September 11 attacks in 2001. It remains the deadliest aviation incident in the history of Air India. The masterminds behind the bombing are believed to be Inderjit Singh Reyat, a dual British-Canadian national, who pleaded guilty in 2003, and Talwinder Singh Parmar, a Canadian Sikh separatist leader, who was one of the key individuals associated with the terrorist group Babbar Khalsa.
Meanwhile, sometime before 20:22 UTC (1:22 p.m. PDT), “L. Singh” (also never identified) checked in for the 1:37 PM CP Air Flight 003 to Tokyo with one piece of luggage, which was to be transferred to Air India Flight 301 to Bangkok. However, L. Singh did not board the flight. The second bag checked in by L. Singh went on Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 003 from Vancouver to Tokyo. There were no x-ray inspections of luggage on this flight. Its target was Air India Flight 301, due to leave with 177 passengers and crew bound for Bangkok-Don Mueang, but 55 minutes before the Flight 182 bombing, it exploded at the terminal in Narita International Airport. Two Japanese baggage handlers were killed and four other people were injured. It appears the conspirators meant for both bombings to occur simultaneously, but they neglected to take into account that Japan does not observe daylight saving time, as Canada does.
London police defused a bomb planted in a packed hotel near Buckingham Palace. The five-pound device — similar one used in an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher at a hotel in Brighton last October — was found in a first floor room at the Reubens Hotel on Buckingham Palace Road. “We believe the probability is that the bomb was planted by the… IRA,” anti-terrorist squad Commander Simon Crawshaw said, referring to the outlawed Irish Republican Army, which is fighting a guerrilla campaign to end British rule in Ulster.
Italy’s Presidential election today is expected to end the political career of the incumbent, 88-year-old Sandro Pertini, a Socialist who has been one of its most popular post-war leaders. With the political tide running against him, President Pertini formally removed himself from the race last week. To keep Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, also a Socialist, in office, the Socialist Party was prepared to agree to the Christian Democratic leader’s demand for a President from his party.
Turkish Cypriots voted in parliamentary elections today in a further attempt to consolidate their republic in northern Cyprus. This was the third vote in 45 days in the “Turkish Republic of North Cyprus,” which was proclaimed in 1983 and is recognized only by Turkey. A moderate early turnout was reported. Some 94,000 people were eligible to elect 50 deputies. Seven parties and 350 candidates took part. Turkish Cypriots voted last month for a new constitution, and Rauf Denktaş won a landslide victory in the republic’s first presidential elections on June 9. After casting his vote in northern Nicosia this morning, Mr. Denktaş said: “This election completes the final circle in the establishing of this republic.”
Last year a United States military attaché driving a car with diplomatic license plates in the Bulgarian countryside was shot at by a Bulgarian soldier. The soldier missed. Early this year a United States diplomat was stopped in eastern Bulgaria by a soldier who pointed his rifle at him and cocked it. And four times in the last three years, the police have sealed off the approaches to the United States Embassy on Aleksandr Stambuliski Street in Sofia for a day at a time. American diplomats are often trailed by unmarked state security cars during their travels around the capital or out in the country. These incidents are part of the routine life for the small number of American diplomats here in a period of relations that a Bulgarian Deputy Foreign Minister, Lyuben S. Gotsev, described in an interview recently as “at present unfortunately not so good.”
Israel said it would free 31 detainees today from among the group of 766 Lebanese and Palestinians it has been holding. Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, announcing the decision, said it was “not linked whatsoever” to the demands of Shiite hijackers who are holding 40 Americans hostage in Beirut. He said the decision was carried out in accordance with Israeli laws and the army’s overall policy for southern Lebanon. But senior Israeli defense and army sources made it clear that the release of the 31 was being undertaken to give Nabih Berri, the leader of the Shiite Muslim movement Amal, some “room to maneuver.”
Israel’s decision might be helpful toward eventual release of the American hostages, Administration officials said. But President Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz publicly stood by the official position that no connection should be drawn between the hostages and Israel’s 766 detainees. Both went out of their way not to praise Israel’s announcment, pointing up the contradiction between the privately held views of officials and publicly stated positions.
There were no plans in Beirut for the release of any of the American hostages in response to Israel’s announcement, a spokesman for the Shiite Muslim militia Amal said. The spokesman said that the hostages’ captors were demanding the release of all 766 prisoners, most of them Lebanese Shiites, from the Atlit prison near Haifa, Israel, and that until that happened the 40 American hostages would continue to be held. The leader of Amal, Nabih Berri, said, “We were expecting the release of 731 prisoners and not merely 31.” He again called on the United States to abandon what he called its “muscle flexing” and said American warships continued to patrol Lebanon’s territorial waters.
Spanish officials say the Beirut hostage crisis has frustrated Madrid’s diplomacy in the Middle East and complicated the handling of Basque terrorism at home. But senior officials in the Socialist Government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez said in interviews that Spain would remain tough in rejecting a subsidiary demand of the hijackers of the Trans World Airlines jetliner, who are holding 40 Americans hostage in Beirut. In addition to demanding the release of more than 700 Lebanese and Palestinians jailed in Israel, the hijackers want Spain to free two members of the Lebanese Amal militia jailed here. The Government defied threats made against the Spanish Embassy in Beirut and put the two on trial last week on charges of shooting and wounding a Libyan diplomat last year.
Saudi Arabia and Bahrain today condemned the hijacking of the Trans World Airlines jetliner and the taking of hostages, bringing to at least eight the number of Arab governments that have denounced the hijacking. Saudi Arabia, in a statement issued by its official press agency quoting a “responsible source” in the kingdom, asserted that the seizure of the T.W.A. plane was contrary to Islamic and Arab behavior. Bahrain called for “joint government action” against such acts. At the same time, Egypt’s semiofficial press also denounced Israel’s detention of more than 700 prisoners, most of them Lebanese Shiites, and called for their prompt release, which the hijackers in Beirut have demanded.
Militiamen of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army shelled two Shia Muslim villages in Israel’s so-called security zone in south Lebanon and clashed with Muslim forces east of Sidon, security sources said. There was no immediate word on casualties in the shelling of Shaqra and Majdel Selm. Meanwhile, Israeli troops ringed the Lebanese border town of El Tireh and ordered residents to hand over 15 men suspected in rocket attacks on the South Lebanon Army. It was not immediately clear whether the suspects were surrendered to the Israelis.
In a major strategy change, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini has ordered Iranian forces to adopt defensive tactics instead of mounting “human wave” assaults, Ali Reza Afshar, chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, disclosed. Iran has suffered heavy losses in frontal attacks on Iraqi forces in the war, which began in September, 1980. Since June 9, Iranian attacks against Iraq have taken the form of rapid, small-scale operations, in which the Iranians sometime captured territory or destroyed a few Iraqi military outposts before returning to their bases. Five such attacks have been made recently in the southern and central sectors of the 780-mile front between the two countries, which have been at war since September 1980. Iranian casualties reportedly were extremely high in the big offensives that began in March 1982.
Flash floods swept across northwestern Bangladesh, killing at least six people and leaving more than 100,000 homeless. About 20,000 people were moved to safety, but more than 100,000 others were waiting to be picked up from rooftops and embankments. The flooding followed a week of torrential rain. It was the country’s second major disaster in a month; in late May, several thousand people were killed by a cyclone and tidal wave from the Bay of Bengal.
China will spend $350 million to resettle and find jobs for 1 million soldiers being demobilized from the People’s Liberation Army, the world’s largest, over the next two years. Civil Affairs Minister Cui Naifu said 100,000 officers and 400,000 enlisted men will be absorbed into the civil service, while jobs for the other 500,000 will be found by labor and personnel departments throughout the country. Cui said 30,000 apartments have so far been built for retired officers and that preparations are being made to build 47,000 more.
After battering the northern Philippines, Typhoon Hal swept across Taiwan with heavy rain and 97 m.p.h. winds, killing two people and injuring at least three others, authorities reported. Eastern TaiIwan was reported hardest hit by the storm, which was heading for Hong Kong today. The typhoon flooded rice-producing areas in the northern Philippines, where at least seven people were reported dead and thousands were homeless.
Quebec province’s ruling party, the Parti Quebecois, set Sept. 29 as the date to elect a successor to Rene Levesque, who is resigning as premier of the mainly French-speaking province. The election date was unanimously approved by the party’s executive committee. Levesque, who will stay on as premier until a successor is chosen, announced his resignation after a series of by-election losses showing that his party would be badly beaten in the next election if he remained as leader.
Fierce fighting between Government troops and United States-backed rebels in northern Nicaragua left 40 rebels and a Nicaraguan officer dead, the Defense Ministry said today. A ministry communique said Government troops killed 30 rebels in San Juan de Bocay in Jinotega Province. Sub-Lieutenant Roger Hernandez Aguilar, a member of Defense Minister Humberto Ortega Saavedra’s military escort, was also killed, it said. Ten rebels died in a clash in Buenos Aires de Soza in Matagalpa province, the communiqué said. It did not mention other government casualties, nor did it say when the fighting occurred. The fighting was the fiercest reported since the Sandinista Government announced two weeks ago an offensive had driven most of the rebel forces back to their Honduran bases.
A twin-engined airplane crashed today while making an emergency landing in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso in the northern Amazon, killing all 13 people on board, airport officials said. “There were no survivors. Everyone died,” said an airport spokesman, Severino Curvo, by telephone from Cuiaba, the state capital. The dead, all Brazilians, included 11 passengers and 2 crew members, he said. The 19-passenger turboprop airplane exploded while trying to land at an isolated ranch near the Amazon town of Diamintino, about 1,500 miles northwest of Rio de Janeiro, Mr. Curvo said. The Brazilian-made Bandeirante was on a scheduled flight from Cuiaba to Diamintino for Taba Airlines, a regional carrier, Mr. Curvo said. He added that the cause of the explosion was not known.
Ugandan Government troops beat back a guerrilla attack today on an army depot near Jinja, Uganda’s second-largest town, military sources there said. About 60 guerrillas were involved in the action against the depot at Magamaga, seven miles east of Jinja, the sources added. Residents said although there had been heavy gunfire in Jinja there was no evidence any of the guerrillas had reached it. By late afternoon Jinja was quiet and road and rail traffic resumed through the town, which was closed for four hours today. The sources gave no indication of casualties in the fighting, which lasted about two hours. Troops from Jinja were sent to Magamaga and reinforcements were called in from Kampala, local residents said. Parts of northern Uganda have been affected by guerrilla activity by the National Resistance Army since 1980, after elections that brought President Milton Obote to power. The rebels say the elections were rigged. It was not clear whether the National Resistance Army was responsible for the Jinja attack, although the rebels have stepped up their campaign in the past week.
About 12,000 chanting supporters of Prime Minister Robert Mugabe came out today to demonstrate support for their candidate as Zimbabwe prepares for its first elections since 1980. Not far away, Joshua Nkomo, the leader of the main opposition party, held court before a few supporters in the yard of his modest home. He had been denied permission to hold a large rally near the stadium where the Mugabe loyalists were meeting. Mr. Nkomo’s party, the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, one of five parties opposing Mr. Mugabe, is fielding 80 candidates.
Amid preparations for a return to earth Monday, the astronauts of the NASA space shuttle Discovery held a televised news conference today in which they talked of wine, dreams and alien spacecraft, and took time to reflect on the Middle East hostages. On the ground, space agency officials hailed the mission as a complete success. In the weeklong flight, the crew launched four satellites and carried out a test to help develop weapons for President Reagan’s proposed shield against missiles. The 100-ton winged spaceship is scheduled to land at 6:12 AM (9:12 AM Eastern time) at Edwards Air Force Base in California after a trip of more than 2.8 million miles. Space agency officials said the shuttle’s weeklong mission was a complete success.
NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks criticized the Reagan Administration for fighting affirmative action and said confirmation of the President’s choice of William Bradford Reynolds for associate attorney general would be “an insult” to minorities. Reynolds is currently assistant attorney general and head of the civil rights division. Hooks spoke to 2,000 delegates at the opening of the weeklong convention in Dallas of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Taxpayers across the mid-Atlantic region are receiving mysterious refund checks from the Internal Revenue Service — many for amounts not even close to what they were supposed to get, according to a published report. “Some of these cases are ridiculous,” James Forquer, a Lanham, Maryland, accountant, said in a story in the Philadelphia Inquirer. “I have one client who was owed $865 from the IRS. Instead, he received seven checks totaling $612. None of them were remotely related to the amount he is owed,” Forquer said.
This was not exactly an early cattle show for the 1988 campaign, but Republican leaders from the Middle West had no trouble rounding up most of the expected Presidential contenders for a gathering in Grand Rapids, Michigan, this weekend. The gathering, the Republican Party’s Midwest Leadership Conference, gave the prospective candidates a chance to test some political themes and make some early impressions among party leaders and workers from 13 states. Vice President Bush, whose visit here was delayed and then cut short by the Lebanon hijacking crisis, demonstrated the advantage of his incumbency. He was the only likely Presidential contender here who was introduced to the sound of “Ruffles and Flourishes,” and he was surrounded by Secret Service agents, trappings that convey a Presidential aura.
A political consultant sternly warned that “Country Club Republicans” are tarnishing efforts to change the party’s image. Lance Tarrance, a panelist for the final seminar at the GOP Midwest Leadership Conference in Grand Rapids, Michigan, said the most important issue before the party is its ability to attract voters that Republicans previously thought embraced “different values.” He specifically mentioned blue-collar workers, Catholics, Jews and Latinos.
More Americans trust the Republicans than trust the Democrats to handle the nation’s most important problem, according to the latest Gallup Poll. International unrest was cited as the most important problem facing the nation by 23 percent of those polled; 21 percent cited unemployment. In handling the one problem they consider most important, Americans favored Democrats in 1982 and 1983, and split last year over which party they preferred. The latest poll showed 37 percent of those polled believed the Republican Party could better handle the problem they considered most important, while 31 percent believed the Democrats were more capable. The latest findings are based on interviews with 1,528 adults conducted in person May 17-20. The margin of sampling error was three percentage points in either direction.
The president of the National Education Association will press the 7,000 delegates at her union’s annual convention that opens in Washington on Friday for a clear endorsement of requiring all new teachers to pass a certification test. “We have to face reality. You can’t run away from or ignore the fact that the tests are being used and will continue to be used as part of the pre-certification requirement,” Mary Hatwood Futrell said. For several years, the 1.7-million-member union has maintained that it supported testing new teachers but opposed barring anyone from the profession solely because he or she failed such a test.
The parents of a brain-damaged invalid who was raped 20 weeks ago prepared today to move their daughter to a hospital in hopes a doctor there would perform an abortion, their attorney said. Helen and Tom Stegmoyer, the mother and stepfather of Laura Eldridge, 35 years old, have been searching for a doctor to perform the operation since a judge granted them guardianship over their daughter on Friday and authorized an abortion. The procedure had been scheduled Friday night, but a doctor appointed to perform it did not show up. The parents’ attorney, Dick Runels, said the daughter, who suffers from a nerve disorder and cannot communicate, is to be admitted Monday to the University of California Medical Center at Irvine for the “limited purpose of investigation, examination and determination as to the possibility of terminating the pregnancy, with no guarantees given in advance.” Doctors have said that carrying the baby to full term would be more dangerous to the woman than aborting it, but the deteriorating health of the woman makes both options risky.
An American Airlines jetliner with 70 passengers aboard dived suddenly to avoid an oncoming plane over Lake Michigan, injuring three flight attendants and seriously injuring a passenger, officials said. Flight 803 from Chicago’s O’Hare Airport landed safely at Kent County International Airport, Grand Rapids, Michigan, the plane’s destination, after the near-collision with a propeller-driven craft, said Dan White, an airline spokesman.
A recent surge in air safety problems is worrying experts. Collision hazards will be the main topic of a four-day hearing that opens today in Washington before a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. The hearing was called largely because of the disclosure that there were many omissions in recent Federal statistics on near-collisions in the air.
A judge has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a lawyer on Saturday. Circuit Judge Daniel McDonald of Lafayette County, 43 years old, whose term ends July 31, is accused of repeatedly stabbing James Klein, 31, a Darlington lawyer, at the law offices of the judge’s political foe, William Johnston. Mr. Johnston defeated Judge McDonald in an election earlier this year after a bitter campaign. Mr. Klein was a partner in Mr. Johnston’s firm, Johnston & Doherty. At a bail hearing, Judge McDonald contended that he was being framed. Bail was set at $500,000.
Operators of the Rancho Seco nuclear power plant in California reported a leak of radioactive water today from a pipe connecting one of two steam generators inside the reactor building. Kerry Shearer, a spokesman for Sacramento Municipal Utility District, said the leak of about 30 gallons a minute was detected at 4:05 AM The plant was not generating electricity at the time and there was no critical threat to the reactor, he said, adding that the leaking radioactive water was contained inside the reactor building. “Operators immediately began depressurizing the reactor coolant system, and the leak rate diminished rapidly,” he said. Rancho Seco, a 913-megawatt plant about 25 miles southeast of Sacramento, was shut March 15 for refueling, maintenance and modifications.
Proposed San Francisco zoning is expected to affect the development of the downtown area for decades. The Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote today on the zoning rules, which were designed to meet concerns that too many office towers had been built and that the city had lost control of downtown development.
The deep foliage, lush hills and remote valleys of southern West Virginia for decades concealed the illegal activities of backwoods moonshiners. Now the inaccessible back country is hiding a new generation that is once again making money in an illegal enterprise: marijuana farming. In a region haunted by joblessness and failing industries, the cultivation of marijuana has become the most lucrative cash crop, according to state and Federal agents who have begun a crackdown. “These people are using sophisticated argicultural techniques to make a whole lot of money,” said David A. Faber, the United States Attorney in Charleston. “They like the area. There’s cheap land and its secluded and inaccessible.”
A 4-year-old pygmy chimpanzee has demonstrated the most human-like linguistic skills ever documented in another animal, scientists studying the chimp say. Kanzi, as the ape is known, has learned to communicate, using geometric symbols representing words, without the difficult training required of apes of earlier studies, the New York Times reported. It said the chimp also has an extensive understanding of spoken English and is being examined at the Language Research Center in Atlanta.
Hail, tornadoes and lightning wreaked havoc across the Midwest, uprooting trees and downing power lines. Two persons were killed by lightning in Iowa. Severe thunderstorms developed ahead of a cold front extending from the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan to central Nebraska. Five tornadoes were reported on the ground in Cass County in southwest Iowa, but no injuries were reported. But in Council Bluffs, Iowa, two persons were killed and two more hospitalized after a tree they were sitting under was hit by lightning.
Laffit Pincay Jr becomes 2nd jockey to win $100 million.
Senior Tournament Players Championship Men’s Golf, Canterbury GC: Defending champion Arnold Palmer wins his final major by 11 shots from Miller Barber, Lee Elder, Gene Littler & Charles Owens.
Major League Baseball:
Ruppert Jones, Rob Wilfong and Mike Brown hit homers as the Angels completed a three-game sweep of the White Sox, routing them today, 11–1. The Angels had 17 hits, including three by Gary Pettis. Rod Carew drove in three runs with two hits and Reggie Jackson contributed a two-run double. Mike Witt (6–6) limited the White Sox to six hits over seven innings and struck out eight. He was handed a four-run lead in the first inning, with the rally capped by Jones’s bases-empty homer, his ninth of the season, off Bruce Tanner (1–1). The Angels added three runs in the second. Craig Gerber singled for the first of his three hits and scored two outs later on a single by Carew. Daryl Sconiers walked and Jackson doubled home both runners.
Dave Stieb wins his seventh and Ernie Whitt clubs a grand slam as the American League-East leading Blue Jays down the visiting Red Sox, 8–1, in a game marred by a brawl. Dave Stieb (7–5) did not allow a hit until Marty Barrett’s leadoff single in the sixth. Stieb struck out five and walked three while dropping his American League-leading earned run average to 2.09. Stieb and Dennis Lamp combined on a six-hitter. A brawl erupted in the fourth inning after Bruce Kison (3–2), the Red Sox starter, hit George Bell in the helmet with a pitch. Bell, the fifth hit batsman in the four-game series, charged the mound and kicked Kison in the stomach. The Toronto outfielder then punched the catcher Rich Gedman, who was pursuing him to the mound, and both benches cleared. After nine minutes of pushing and shoving, Bell was ejected.
One day, Frank Tanana was laboring for a last-place team. The next, he was thrust into the middle of a pennant race. Don Mattingly says that can make a difference in a man. Perhaps that was one reason why Tanana, the left-hander acquired three days ago in a trade with the Texas Rangers, seemed to handle the Yankees with relative ease today. He pitched seven strong innings, then turned the game over to Willie Hernandez, who finished up the Tigers’ 3–1 victory.
The Mariners crushed the Royals, 8–2, as Spike Owen and Bob Kearney hit home runs, and Mike Moore combined with Ed Vande Berg on a four-hitter. Moore, making his first appearance since suffering a pulled muscle June 4, gave up three hits over six and one-third innings and raised his record to 5-4. In addition to the two home runs, the Mariners hit six doubles, including two by Ivan Calderon and Jim Presley, in rapping 12 hits. Seattle also drew eight walks. Kearney triggered a four-run third against Bud Black when he led off the inning with his fourth home run. Owen followed with the first of his two singles but was forced at second on Jack Perconte’s grounder.Perconte went to second when Phil Bradley walked, and scored on Calderon’s first double. An intentional walk to Gorman Thomas loaded the bases, and Alvin Davis followed with a sacrifice fly and Al Cowens delivered a run-scoring double.
Glen Cook pitched 6 ⅓ shutout innings in his major-league debut, and Pete O’Brien hit a 452-foot homer to lead Texas past the Minnesota Twins by a score of 3–1. Cook scattered five hits before yielding to Greg Harris, who earned his sixth save. The Twins’ only threat against Cook came in the second when Roy Smalley led off with a single and Mickey Hatcher belted a one-out double. But Cook struck out Greg Gagne and got Mark Salas to fly out to left to end the inning. Minnesota finally scored in the ninth on a sacrifice fly by Smalley.
Larry Sheets hit a three-run homer to highlight a four-run eighth inning for Baltimore, as the Orioles topped the Brewers, 6–3. Nate Snell (2–1) pitched three innings of hitless relief. Storm Davis, the Orioles’ starter, gave up three runs in the first six innings. With the Orioles trailing by 3–2, the Brewers’ Rollie Fingers (0–3) walked Jim Dwyer, the leadoff batter in the eighth inning. One out later, Eddie Murray ripped a double down the right-field line and Dwyer scored when the right fielder Ben Oglivie mishandled the ball. Murray went to third. Fred Lynn was walked intentionally before Sheets hit a 3–2 pitch over the right-field wall for his ninth home run of the year.
Mike Heath drove in two runs with three hits and Carney Lansford added three hits, including his third homer in four games, for Oakland as the A’s pummeled the Indians, 9–3. Chris Codiroli (8–3) scattered seven hits over six and two-thirds innings to gain the victory. In the fourth, Heath drove hoee Dusty Baker with a single to give the A’s a 1–0 lead. Oakland made it 4–0 in the fifth. Alfredo Griffin led off with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch and went to third on a throwing error by the catcher Jerry Willard. Griffin scored on Steve Henderson’s single. Lansford and Mike Davis followed with singles to score Henderson and chase Heaton. A double-play grounder scored Lansford. The A’s took an 8–1 lead in the sixth on Heath’s run-scoring triple, Griffin’s sacrifice fly and Lansford’s two-run homer, his 11th of the season.
The Mets were grudging in their assessment of the Montreal Expos yesterday, but the team that was a popular choice to finish last has established itself as a threat to win the division title the Mets covet. The Expos, capitalizing on sloppy play by the home team for the second consecutive game, gained a 5–1 decision, giving them five victories in six games against the Mets in a 10-day stretch. The outcome left the second-place Expos half a game behind division-leading St. Louis, with the Mets in third place, two games back. The Chicago Cubs, who, with the Mets, were supposed to run away from the rest of the National League East, skidded 4 ½ games back with their 12th consecutive loss, the longest losing streak in the majors this season.
The Cardinals blanked the reeling Cubs, 7–0. “What can I say?” Jim Frey, the Chicago Cubs’ manager, asked Sunday after his team had lost its 12th straight game, this time a shutout at the hands of the Cardinals at St. Louis. “Tudor pitched very well. We’re not going to panic.” John Tudor, indeed, pitched well. So well, in fact, that he needed just 82 pitches to record a two-hit shutout for his fifth consecutive victory. After losing seven of his first eight games, Tudor has allowed just six runs — five earned — in his last 39 ⅔ innings. Sunday’s shutout was his second this month.
At Jack Murphy Stadium, the Padres beat the Giants, 6–1, to sweep the 4-game series and give themselves a 4½-game lead in the National League West. Kurt Bevacqua’s grand slam is the big blow for the Pads. It was the fourth straight victory for San Diego, the leader in the National League West. The Padres completed a four-game sweep of the Giants. Dave Dravecky (7–4) struck out a career-high nine batters while yielding nine hits and walking one. He gave up the Giants’ only run on a two-out, ninth-inning homer by Rick Adams.
The Braves edged the Reds, 2–1. Steve Bedrosian shut out the Reds on one hit over the first six innings, but gave up two hits in the seventh and needed bullpen help to complete a four-hitter. Cincinnati’s biggest threat off Bedrosian (3–6) came in the sixth inning, when the Reds loaded the bases on three walks with one out. The right-hander went to a 1–2 count on Alan Knicely, who then hit an easy grounder to the first baseman Bob Horner to start an double play.
Rick Schu’s bunt single, one of only three hits by the Phillies, and a throwing error by the third baseman Jim Morrison allowed Juan Samuel to score the winning run in the ninth inning, and the Phillies triumphed over the visiting Pirates, 3–2. Don Carman (2-1) pitched the ninth to gain the victory. Jim Winn (2–3) took over in the ninth and took the loss. Samuel was hit by a pitch to lead off the ninth and moved to second on a balk by Winn. Schu bunted toward third for an infield single, and when Morrison’s throw went past first, Samuel came in to score. Pittsburgh had tied the score in the eighth when Johnny Ray came home on an error by the shortstop Derrel Thomas on Tony Pena’s grounder.
Pedro Guerrero tied a Los Angeles club record with his 12th home run of the month, and Rick Honeycutt and Tom Niedenfuer combined on a five-hitter, as the Dodgers downed the Astros, 6–2. Guerrero slammed a two-run homer in the third off Ron Mathis (3–2). It was Guerrero’s 16th of the season and seventh this year against the Astros. The blow tied Frank Howard’s club mark for homers in a month, set in July 1962. The victory was the Dodgers’ fourth straight and their seventh in a row over Houston. The Dodgers have won 10 of 12 games with the Astros this season. Honeycutt (5–6), who was chased in the second inning of his previous start, did not allow the Astros a hit until the fifth inning. The left-hander lost his bid for his first shutout of the season in the sixth when Jose Cruz doubled home two runs.
California Angels 11, Chicago White Sox 1
Atlanta Braves 2, Cincinnati Reds 1
New York Yankees 1, Detroit Tigers 3
Seattle Mariners 8, Kansas City Royals 2
Houston Astros 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Baltimore Orioles 6, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Texas Rangers 3, Minnesota Twins 1
Montreal Expos 5, New York Mets 1
Cleveland Indians 3, Oakland Athletics 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Philadelphia Phillies 3
San Francisco Giants 1, San Diego Padres 6
Chicago Cubs 0, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Boston Red Sox 1, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Born:
Marcel Reece, NFL fullback (Pro Bowl, 2012, 2013, 2014; Oakland Raiders, Seattle Seahawks), in Inglewood, California.
Fili Moala, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts), in Buena Park, California.
Eldra Buckley, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Detroit Lions), in Charleston, Mississippi.
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