The Soviet Union is in the midst of nuclear weapons building boom that could double its arsenal of nuclear warheads by the mid-1990’s if treaty restrictions are removed, according to new forecasts by Government intelligence agencies. The report, to be presented to a Senate hearing Wednesday by analysts for the Central Intelligence Agency, says that the Soviet Union has made “major strides” in developing missiles that can travel by rail or road, with nearly a fourth of its warheads expected to deployed in this less vulnerable way by the mid-1990’s. The report also predicts that Soviet military spending will grow by four percentage points more than the inflation inflation rate over the next several years, more than double the intelligence agencies’ estimates of Soviet spending in recent years. A Pentagon official familiar with the report cautioned that the intelligence agency forecasts “are projections, and when you get 5 and 10 years off, they can be fairly shaky. There’s probably a lot of truth, and a lot of misinformation, in those estimates.”
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, visited factories and research institutes in Kiev today, exhorting Ukrainians to undo bottlenecks that slow the introduction of new technology. It was the latest manifestation of the Soviet leader’s informal style. In mid-May, he spent three days in Leningrad.
Mehmet Ali Ağca, serving a life sentence for attempting to assassinate the Pope, contradicted himself repeatedly in testimony about alleged accomplices. “How many truths are in you, Ağca?” Judge Severino Santiapichi asked in exasperation. Ağca announced that he would refuse to answer further questions at the trial in Rome. The prosecution acknowledged that the credibility of the state’s star witness has been badly damaged and implied that Ağca has tried to create a smoke screen to cover up for his accomplices.
Portugal’s Socialist Prime Minister formally submitted his resignation today amid predictions that Parliament would be dissolved and elections called. A spokesman for Prime Minister Mario Soares said Mr. Soares had tendered his resignation in a letter to President Antonio Ramalho Eanes. The President continued talks with leaders of the four major Portuguese parties on the political impasse created by the collapse of the governing Socialist-Social Democratic coalition. Mr. Soares announced his intention to resign on June 13, when the Social Democrats quit the two-year-old coalition and left him without a parliamentary majority.
The British police today questioned three people suspected of causing a riot at a soccer match in Brussels last month in which 38 people died. Police sources said the three were released on bail after having been questioned for a number of hours. The Brussels police, who spent weeks analyzing television film of the riot, recently visited here to try to identify those suspected of provoking the violence.
Vice President Bush said today, apparently in a reference to Israel’s imprisonment of more than 700 Lebanese Shiites and Palestinians, that “people held against international law should be released.” Shiite leaders in Lebanon have insisted that Israel must release the civilians before they will free 40 American hostages. Mr. Bush, responding to a question at a news conference in Bonn, said the Reagan Administration had previously expressed its “concern” to Israel over its transfer of 1,120 mainly Shiite civilians from Lebanon, contrary to the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1947. The Israelis say the prisoners, who have not been formally charged, are being held in connection with attacks against Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. On Monday, Israel freed 31 of the 766 remaining detainees, saying they were being let go because they had been found not to have committed any violent acts against the Israeli Army.
The White House warned of reprisals unless 40 Americans held hostage in Beirut were released in the “next few days.” The warning of economic and military sanctions was issued after Reagan Administration officials retreated from a plan considered earlier in the day to take immediate steps against Lebanon, possibly including an economic blockade and efforts to close Beirut International Airport. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said President Reagan had delayed action to give continuing diplomatic efforts a chance to “bear fruit.” Although Mr. Speakes declined to specify what those efforts were, a senior Administration official said they involved overtures by Syria aimed at convincing the Shiite Amal militia leader, Nabih Berri, to release the hostages. If the reprisals are taken, they would be the most serious steps made by the Administration since Shiite terrorists seized a Trans World Airlines plane June 14 shortly after it took off from Athens. Mr. Reagan and others in his Administration have expressed frustration over the failure of diplomatic efforts to free the captives.
President Reagan attends a National Security Planning Group meeting to discuss the closing of the Beirut Airport in response to the hostage situation.
Pressure on Nabih Berri to take major steps to end the 12-day hostage crisis appeared to be mounting. The predicament of the Lebanese Shiite militia leader heightened when two European ambassadors told him he could face international ostracism for the hostage taking. At the same time, Mr. Berri was facing the problem of dealing with the more militant Shiites involved in the hijacking – members of the fundamentalist Party of God – who are demanding that Israel first free 735 Lebanese and Palestinians in its custody. Israel has said it will not release the detainees unless the United States publicly asks, and Washington has made it clear that it will not do this. In an interview with CBS News, Mr. Berri said he would propose a plan Wednesday that he believed could break the impasse over the hostages. He also said, referring to President Reagan: “I am eager to get more details. I hope he isn’t being too belligerent.” Mr. Berri huddled with his advisers tonight after unofficial reports of the American threats to close down Beirut airport or impose an economic blockade on Lebanon reached Beirut.
The United Nations Secretary General, Javier Perez de Cuellar, called today for the “early release” by Israel of 735 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners whose freedom has been demanded by terrorists holding 40 American hostages in Beirut. The Secretary General did not link the release of the Muslim prisoners for the hostages. In a statement read by a United Nations spokesman in New York, the Secretary General noted Israel’s release Monday of 31 prisoners and said he “would view the early release of the remaining prisoners and their return to their homes and families as a most essential and helpful step in the process of restoring peace and stability in the south” of Lebanon. Israel says the 31 prisoners were freed because they were found not to have committed any violent acts against the Israeli Army.
Hosni Mubarak deplored the hijacking of the TWA airliner and other acts of terrorism, but urged the United States not to use military action in efforts to free the American hostages or to retaliate. “I could tell you that any violence that is going to take place will lead to more violence,” Mr. Mubarak told reporters when asked about the stationing of American warships off the coast of Lebanon following the hijacking. President Mubarak, pressed further about whether he thought it would be a mistake for the United States to retaliate militarily, replied: “I think there is no need for that, because it will not solve the problem at all.” He denounced the seizure of the T.W.A. Boeing 727 and the detention of some 40 American passengers in questions after a major speech that attacked Islamic fundamentalism. Though he did not mention fundamentalist forces by name, Mr. Mubarak said he would not tolerate “agitation and marches” under “slogans that appear good on the surface but have all kinds of evil underneath.”
A Shiite power struggle in southern Lebanon is pitting fundamentalists who seek to turn the region into an austere Iranian-style Islamic republic and more secular, Westernized Shiites who want to preserve the traditionally open Lebanese character of the area. The struggle between the fundamentalist Hezbollah, or the Party of God, and the more secular Amal militia is seen by some Lebanese as being at the root of the hijacking of the Trans World Airlines plane now parked at Beirut International Airport. In some ways, the outcome of the hijacking crisis may determine whether the southern part of Lebanon on Israel’s border ends up being controlled by Shiites loyal to Teheran or by Shiites loyal to Beirut. Judging from conversations with Amal officials and other residents here, it appears that the hijacking was initiated by Shiites associated with the Party of God to embarrass the moderate Amal and to try to win the loyalty of the 735 detainees still held in Israel. Nabih Berri, the Amal leader, is seen as having stepped in to keep from being outflanked by the fundamentalists and to try to win credit by obtaining the release of the detainees.
President Reagan meets with Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the U.S. Prince Iba Saultan Al Saud Bandar to discuss the sale of military equipment to Saudi Arabia.
Afghan and Pakistani officials held three days of talks in Geneva that were described as “intense and fruitful” in an effort to find a peaceful settlement to the six-year war in Afghanistan. They are to talk again in August. U.N. Undersecretary General Diego Cordovez, who acted as a go-between for the delegations, which refuse to meet in the same room, said both sides are eager to find a diplomatic solution. Pakistan harbors Afghan rebels fighting Soviet troops.
Police in Bhopal, India, dispersed hundreds of stone-throwing demonstrators demanding greater medical and financial aid for victims of last December’s leak of methyl isocyanate gas from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal that killed more than 2,000, news reports said. The United News of India said police beat many demonstrators, most of whom were women, when they blockaded the Madhya Pradesh state government office complex. It said 28 policemen were injured and that 12 protest leaders were arrested.
Indonesian forces have systematically tortured and killed civilians in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor since invading the area in 1975, Amnesty International said in a report released in London. It said there was evidence of executions without trial, prisoners disappearing after being arrested and torture, including beating and electric shocks applied to sexual organs. It said rebels of the Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor have also been guilty of human rights abuses.
Japanese investigators were studying the possibility that a bomb that exploded in luggage from a Canadian airliner at Tokyo’s Narita Airport on Sunday went off by mistake and was to have been placed on an Air-India flight from Tokyo to Bombay. Some names on the passenger lists of the arriving Canadian jumbo jet were also on the lists of a connecting Air-India flight to Bombay.
Nicaraguan Government leaders pledged this week to grant autonomy to Indians and other residents of this country’s restive Atlantic Coast region despite a breakdown of talks last week with the Indian coalition known as Misurasata. The Government also announced this week that it would permit thousands of Indians evacuated from villages along the Coco River to return home. But the leader of Misurasata, Brooklyn Rivera, said in an interview that the initiatives were “just for publicity” and would not meet the demands of Miskito and other Indians. The two sides have expressed widely differing views of what an autonomy statute should say.
Guerrilla leaders have issued a warning that the killing of four United States marines in a sidewalk cafe last Wednesday was “only a beginning” and promised to carry the war to “Yankee aggressors” wherever they are in El Salvador. But the killings drew a condemnation from a small non-Marxist party belonging to the rebel coalition, a move that was thought to be the first public split among the insurgents. The June 19 attack, in which nine other people died and 15 were wounded, “constitutes a just action in legitimate defense of our people and our sovereignty,” the five top military leaders of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front said in a communiqué read over the clandestine guerrilla radio Monday night. The communiqué was a response to the angry criticisms made of the attack by President Jose Napoleon Duarte and President Reagan. Both Presidents promised to track down the killers, and President Reagan said the United States would send additional military supplies to El Salvador on an emergency basis.
A Paraguayan judge took under advisement a complaint seeking a nine-year prison term for Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld for slandering President Alfredo Stroessner. Attorney General Clotildo Jimenez Benitez alleged that Klarsfeld, who is based in Paris, and a Paraguayan politician falsely accused Stroessner of shielding fugitive Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele. International forensics experts last week identified a man who drowned in Brazil in 1979 as Mengele. The man had held Paraguayan citizenship between 1959 and 1979.
Nazi war criminal Josef Mengele ran a business under his own name in Buenos Aires in the 1950s after enlisting the West German Embassy’s help in obtaining his birth certificate from home, the West German magazine Stern said. Mengele got the capital for his chemical company, Fadrofarm, from the prosperous Mengele family in Bavaria, Stern said. The magazine added that Mengele visited Switzerland in 1961 and was identified by police as a wanted Nazi but was not arrested.
Mozambique marked its 10th anniversary of independence from Portugal with a parade through the capital city of Maputo by 150,000 cheering people. Marxist President Samora M. Machel ended the colorful, three-hour march with a speech in which he said, “There is no force capable of bringing down the People’s Republic of Mozambique, from whatever corner.” He referred to anti-Marxist guerrillas who have seriously damaged the nation’s economy.
The leader of the African National Congress said today that the group would step up its guerrilla war against white rule in South Africa even if that causes many more civilian casualties. Oliver Tambo told reporters that the first executive gathering of the organization since 1969, held in Zambia from June 16 to 23, resolved “to intensify the struggle at any cost.”
A five-nation poll on the U.N. found hope and frustration on the eve of the 40th anniversary of the signing of the organization’s charter in San Francisco. In the poll by The New York Times, CBS News and the International Herald Tribune, citizens of Britain, France, West Germany, Japan and the United States expressed support for the U.N., tempered by disappointment.
A budget conference broke up after the House and Senate conferees reached a deadlock on Social Security benefits. Senator Pete V. Domenici, the Senate budget leader, said Senate Republicans had refused to negotiate further because House members refused to consider any proposal to freeze or significantly reduce cost-of-living increases for Social Security and other Federal programs.
Overpayments in military contracts were cited as House members overwhelmingly approved a package of measures to crack down on military contracting. One bill, approved 411 to 4, would establish criminal penalties for military contractors who try to charge the Government for such unallowable costs as entertaining, advertising and lobbying.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted to extend daylight-saving time by at least four weeks a year to save energy and provide more time for outdoor activities. The bill would begin daylight time on the first Sunday in April and end it on the first Sunday in November. That was a two-week reduction from the bill approved by a subcommittee, which would have started daylight time on the third Sunday in March. Opponents of the bill said it would make work more difficult for farmers, who must get up before dawn, and force many children to leave for school in the dark. The bill, passed by voice vote, now goes to the full House of Representatives.
The Democratic National Committee voted to drop its midterm mini-convention in 1986, a costly forum that the party has held between presidential elections since 1972. The decision was on a voice vote after a short and surprisingly tepid debate in Washington among members of the 377-member committee. The action was recommended by Chairman Paul G. Kirk Jr., who said the Democrats would be better advised to use their money and efforts in 1986 to try to regain control of the Senate and other congressional and state offices.
A House Energy and Commerce subcommittee approved a five-year renewal of the Superfund toxic-waste cleanup law, despite complaints from the panel’s chairman that the bill contains “basic flaws” that will “cripple the cleanup effort.” The bill, approved by voice vote, would provide $10 billion over five years to clean up the worst of the nation’s toxic dumps. But it does not contain rigid cleanup schedules sought by Chairman James J. Florio (D-New Jersey) and it omits several other provisions that Florio and his allies said are needed to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency into faster cleanup action.
Maryland sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture in federal court in Baltimore, asking that the USDA be barred from lowering food stamp payments to Marylanders after state welfare aid was increased. “This is a classic example of the federal government backing away from its obligation to the poor by shifting the cost to the state,” said Ruth Massinga, secretary of the Maryland Department of Human Resources. The Maryland General Assembly this year provided a 6% increase in welfare grants, totaling $17 million, for 70,648 low-income families. The USDA wants to lower its food stamp payments by about $5 million as a result of the increased aid families will receive.
The U.S. Government today opened its defense against charges that it suppressed evidence in the conviction of a Japanese-American in World War II for violating military law by refusing to report to an internment camp. Its first witness, William H. Hammond, a retired Army colonel in the Combat Intelligence Division that was deployed in Oregon in 1942, testified that “we thoroughly expected” that the Japanese would attempt to establish a Northwest beachhead, or that the coast would face shelling and air attacks. Conviction in 1942 The government’s presentation came in the case of Gordon Hirabayashi, who is seeking to overturn his 1942 conviction for violating the law. He completed his case Monday with testimony on how he turned himself in to the federal authorities in Seattle rather than relocate to a barbed-wire fenced internment camp.
A woman is in control of the largest Teamsters local in the Rocky Mountains after her reform slate defeated union officers loyal to Teamsters President Jackie Presser. Linda Gregg, 30, a former forklift operator elected secretary-treasurer of the Denver Teamsters Local 435 last December, won a second election, which had been called by Presser and the Teamsters international executive board after Gregg’s opponent protested the first vote. More important, three trustees running on Gregg’s slate also won the latest election, placing her firmly in control of the seven-member executive board which runs the 4,000-member union local.
Two men convicted of murder in separate slayings were executed yesterday in Virginia and Texas. Morris Odell Mason, who was mentally retarded, was executed in Virginia last night for raping and murdering an elderly woman and then setting her house on fire during a crime spree. Mr. Mason’s execution was the 14th in the United States in 1985 and the 46th since the Supreme Court cleared the way for renewed application of the death penalty in 1976. Earlier in the day, Charles Milton, convicted of murdering a liquor store owner in a robbery in Fort Worth, Texas, was executed by lethal injection after last-minute appeals to Gov. Mark White of Texas and the United States Supreme Court failed.
I.B.M., challenging A.T.& T., said it was acquiring a major stake in the MCI Communications Corporation, the nation’s second-largest long-distance telephone company. Analysts said the move would greatly accelerate efforts by the International Business Machines Corporation to establish a vast computer communications network around the world.
A fireworks plant blast killed 21 people near the rural hamlet of Hallett, Oklahoma. Bodies were hurled into the surrounding brush by the force of the explosions, which were so powerful they rattled windows in the Cleveland fire department, 13 miles from here. At least five survivors of the explosion, which leveled the plant, were taken to hospitals as rescue workers with heavy equipment dug through surrounding brush in search of workers still missing from the workforce of about 31.
Key environmental groups, in a shift from their established concerns, urged major changes in United States nuclear weapons and population control policies. Leaders of the organizations called on the Government to seek a moratorium on the production, testing and deployment of nuclear weapons and to re-evaluate its strategies for using such weapons.
An abortion procedure that could take 12 to 24 hours was begun on a severely brain-diseased woman, apparently the victim of a rape at a convalescent home, after relatives tried to explain the operation to her, her family said. The woman, Laura Eldridge, was 20 weeks pregnant, and doctors had said the pregnancy could threaten her life. Neither the family nor medical center officials at the University of California at Irvine would explain why the procedure was taking so long. The family said the procedure was started late Monday. Mrs. Eldridge, 35 years old, was reported in stable condition today.
Thurman v City of Torrington decides in favor of Tracey Thurman, 1st woman to sue a police department for violating her civil rights (not protecting against abusive husband). A federal jury in Hartford, Connecticut, awarded $2.3 million to a woman who charged that police violated her constitutional rights by failing to protect her from an attack in Torrington by her estranged husband. In addition to granting the award to 24-year-old Ms. Thurman, the jury awarded $300,000 to her 3-year-old son; who witnessed the June, 1983, attack. Thurman was left heavily scarred and partly paralyzed by the assault.
An Anaheim, California warehouse full of toxic chemicals continued to smolder today, but more than 7,500 evacuees were told they could return home after two of three blazes were extinguished by evening. “It was determined that the toxic level was far below the danger level,” Art York, an Orange County Fire Department dispatcher, said late today. At least 30 chemicals were stored at the fertilizer and pesticide warehouse where the fire broke out late Saturday.
A 14-year-old boy accused of shooting a woman and boasting about it on a subway train within earshot of the victim’s mother was found not guilty today of delinquency charges in the case. The teen-ager, who was not identified because of his age, was found not be be delinquent in a juvenile session of Dorchester District Court. He had been charged with juvenile delinquency with the offenses described as assault, robbery and attempted murder. “Given the evidence, the judge didn’t think the Commonwealth proved its case,” Jonathan Shapiro, the defense attorney, said. The case arose after Frances James, mother of the 21-year-old woman who was shot in Dorchester, said she overheard a boy bragging on a subway train the next day, “I pumped a broad in Dorchester last night because she wouldn’t turn loose her bag.” Her daughter was shot in the back, but the bullet passed through her clothing and grazed her skin. Mrs. James, a jail guard, said she led a police chase for the boy through downtown Boston.
The police said today that an 81-year-old man was tied up and strapped to a bed for nine months while a woman cashed $60,000 worth of his checks and stock certificates. The authorities said the victim, Warren Hastings of Naples, who was taken from his home here in September, was found Thursday in the back of a van by the police in Brewton, Alabama.
Putting a price tag on human life is a common practice among life insurance companies, airlines, other industries and governmental agencies – and even private citizens, albeit unconsciously. People have been calculating the worth of their lives and the lives of others for as long as archeologists, anthropologists and historians have documented human existence.
Major League Baseball:
Due to a bat boy being hit by Butch Wynegar’s line drive foul ball, Yankees officials enact a new rule mandating the team’s bat boys wear protective helmets during all games. All major league teams will soon adopt the new rule of having batboys wearing a protective helmet while working.
Jack Morris pitched his third shutout of the season, and Darrell Evans hit a two-run homer tonight as the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox, 3–0. Morris (9–5), who leads the American League with 96 strikeouts, struck out only three but gave up just four hits and walked two. The Tigers collected 10 hits off Boston’s Bobby Ojeda (4–2), who went 7 ⅔ innings, striking out seven and walking three.
Rickey Henderson, whose last nine games have been routinely phenomenal, had three more hits, drove in three runs and stole his 32nd base of the season last night to help the Yankees crush the Baltimore Orioles, 7–4. Henderson’s average jumped eight points to .360, his season high and the top mark in the major leagues. At the moment, it’s difficult to say who is having greater success against the Orioles — Henderson or the Yankees. The center fielder is batting .700 against Baltimore this season, with 14 hits and 6 runs batted in in 20 times at bat. The Yankees have yet to lose to the Orioles in five games this season and have outscored them, 38–12.
Jim Clancy, backed by a six-run Toronto third inning, tossed a six-hitter as Toronto capitalized on wild Milwaukee pitching to win, 7–1. Clancy (4–4) allowed only two hits in the first five innings before the Brewers ended the shutout in the sixth on a run-scoring bloop single by Earnie Riles. Clancy, who worked eight innings, gave up six hits, struck out five and walked one. Jesse Barfield ignited the third-inning rally with a leadoff triple against the right field fence. He scored on Tony Fernandez’s single to right for a 2–0 Blue Jay lead.
The first-place Angels outlast the Indians, scoring 5 runs after two are out off Neal Heaton in the 13th to win, 7–3. Rupert Jones belts a walkoff grand slam. The Angels had earlier rallied to tie it at 2–2 in the ninth, and Brian Dowling had doubled in the 13th to tie it again at 3–3. After walks to Doug DeCinces and Reggie Jackson loaded the bases, Jones ended the game.
Danny Jackson pitched his second shutout of the season and Lonnie Smith drove in one run and scored another to lift Kansas City over Minnesota, 3–0. Jackson (6–4) pitched his third complete game, giving up four hits while striking out five and walking two. It was the seventh shutout of the season for the Royals’ pitching staff.
Matt Young and Ed Nunez combined on a six-hitter and Alvin Davis stroked a first-inning RBI single to lead the Mariners past the Rangers, 2–1, at the Kingdome. Young (7–8) gave up 5 hits, struck out 4 and walked 2 before giving way to Nunez, who pitched the final inning for his ninth save. Scheduled starter Burt Hooton was sidelined with a stomach virus, and Charlie Hough (5–9) took the loss.
Mike Heath tied the score with a leadoff homer and pinch-hitter Dusty Baker drew a bases-loaded walk in the 13th inning to lift the Oakland A’s to a 5–4 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Oakland. Heath tied the score, 4–4, on the first pitch off Gene Nelson (4–3), the fourth White Sox pitcher. The A’s then loaded the bases when Nelson walked Mike Gallego on four pitches, gave up a one-out single to Dave Collins and hit Carney Lansford with a pitch. Baker hit for Rob Piccolo, and worked the count to 3–1 before drawing the walk for his second game-winning RBI.
The longest losing streak in baseball this season reached 13 games today when the Chicago Cubs encountered Dwight Gooden and did not survive. Before a full house of 36,730 spectators in Wrigley Field, where he had never won, the 20-year-old whiz pitched the Mets to a 3–2 victory over the Cubs and won his fifth straight game. It was also the fifth straight time in nine days that the Mets had beaten the Cubs, and the second time in a week that Gooden had beaten them. The last time the Cubs won against anybody was two weeks ago today. Since then, they have matched a club record for consecutive losses that was set in 1944 and equaled in 1982.
Glenn Wilson’s three-run double in the third inning, and Jerry Koosman’s three-hitter pushed the Philadelphia Phillies to a 3–1 victory tonight over St. Louis that dropped the Cardinals into second place in the National League East. St. Louis fell half a game behind Montreal, which beat Pittsburgh, 3–2. The 42-year-old Koosman (3–1), struck out eight and walked two in his second complete game this year. The Cardinals’ only run was unearned.
Tim Raines hit a home run, and Dan Driessen, who had committed a costly error the inning before, drilled a tiebreaking single as Montreal rallied in the seventh to beat Pittsburgh, 3–2. The Pirates led, 2-1, before Raines hit his his third homer of the season. U. L. Washington then walked, stole second and moved to third after Tony Pena threw the ball into center field. Driessen, whose error on a foul pop contributed to a two-run Pittsburgh sixth inning, singled home Washington to snap the tie.
The Reds nipped the Giants, 7–6. Cesar Cedeno’s two-run homer touched off a four-run eighth inning that carried Cincinnati past San Francisco, which suffered its fifth consecutive loss by wasting a 6–2 lead after seven innings off the Red starter Mario Soto. Cedeno’s second homer of the season trimmed the lead to 6–5 in the eighth against Mark Davis (3–5). Singles by Nick Esasky and Ron Oester and a throwing error by the first baseman Scot Thompson on Eddie Milner’s grounder let Esasky score the tying run. Gary Redus grounded out to send Milner home with the go-ahead run.
Rafael Ramirez hit a two-run triple and Atlanta used six Houston errors to score four unearned runs, three in the sixth inning, to beat the Astros, 6–4. The Astros’ error total was one short of the team record. The third baseman Phil Garner and the shortstop Craig Reynolds made three each. Rick Mahler (11–6) pitched seven and two-thirds innings, then was chased when consecutive home runs gave the Astros three runs in the eighth. Terry Forster and Bruce Sutter finished, Sutter gaining his 12th save.
Goose Gossage may have been crippled by a sneeze, but the Dodgers weren’t about to offer a box of tissues to the San Diego Padres, who lost, 3–2, Tuesday night without their relief ace in front of a crowd of 37,057 at Jack Murphy Stadium. A two-out pinch single by Bill Russell in the eighth inning off Craig Lefferts tied the score, 2–2, and a bases-loaded sacrifice fly by Al Oliver off Tim Stoddard in the ninth won it. That ended the Padres’ four-game winning streak and brought the second-place Dodgers within four games of the lead in the National League West. Gossage has been sidelined since Saturday with back spasms he suffered after a particularly violent sneeze.
Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 0
Cleveland Indians 3, California Angels 7
New York Mets 3, Chicago Cubs 2
San Francisco Giants 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Atlanta Braves 6, Houston Astros 4
Kansas City Royals 3, Minnesota Twins 0
Baltimore Orioles 4, New York Yankees 7
Chicago White Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 5
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Diego Padres 2
Texas Rangers 1, Seattle Mariners 2
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1323.03 (+2.47)
Born:
Annaleigh Ashford, American actress (“You Can’t Take It With You”, “Kinky Boots”), in Denver, Colorado
Died:
Connie “Pee Wee” Crayton, 70, American R&B and blues guitarist and singer (“Do Unto Others”), dies of a heart attack.
Morris Mason, 31, American convicted rapist and murderer known as “the killer for the Eastern Shore,” executed by electric chair.
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