The Eighties: Saturday, June 29, 1985

Photograph: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher gives a press conference at the end of the two-day EEC Summit at the Sforzesco Palace at Milan, Italy on Saturday, June 29, 1985. (AP Photo/Ferdinando Meazza)

A Common Market meeting broke up after Western European leaders failed to resolve their differences over ways to strengthen the organization. The final break occurred over plans by France and West Germany for a special conference to rewrite the Common Market’s charter along more federalist lines intended to speed up decision-making and commit Europe to a greater political unification.

Five suspected IRA guerrillas, under heavy police guard, were flown to London from Scotland, and one of them, Patrick Joseph Magee, was charged in the bomb attack directed against Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Cabinet in a Brighton hotel last October. Magee, 34, was also charged with the murders of the five people who died in the bombing. The others were charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in Britain. The Irish Republican Army suspects were among nine persons seized in Glasgow on June 22 after police found a list earmarking 12 British seaside resorts for bombings.

Release of the 39 hostages was put off after their Lebanese Shiite captors added a new demand, insisting that the United States guarantee that it would not retaliate militarily after the hostages were released. The Shiites apparently reacted to remarks by President Reagan in Illinois on Friday, which they interpreted as a threat to take military action. The Shiites’ principal demand has been the release by Israel of 735 detainees, most of them Shiites.

President Reagan found out from watching the television that the hostages had not been moved to Syria as planned. The delay in freeing the hostages has “obviously disappointed” President Reagan, a White House spokesman said. Senior Administration officials, looking fatigued from being up through the night, said they could not predict when the arrangements for freedom for the 39 Americans from the Trans World Airlines plane would be put together again after the talks had been snagged by a demand from the hostages’ captors for a guarantee that the United States would not retaliate. But later tonight, in what appeared to be an effort to advance the diplomatic efforts to resolve the standoff, the State Department took the unusual step of issuing a statement without elaboration.

The hostages spoke to reporters from the Cable News Network when they thought their transfer to Syria was imminent. They made their comments in a schoolyard, under the guard of militiamen carrying rifles and automatic weapons.

The delay in a plan today to transport the American airline hostages to this capital – and freedom – appeared to take Syrian officials by surprise. Only hours before the Lebanese Shiites holding the 39 Americans issued new terms for their release, Assad Kamel Elias, a spokesman for President Hafez al-Assad had announced “the full success of President Assad’s efforts in arranging the release of all the passengers of the T.W.A. plane.” Later another spokesman, Jibrane Kourieh, acknowledged that “some obstacles” had emerged “at the very last moment,” but he indicated that Syrian efforts to put the plan into effect were continuing.

Israel’s way would be clear after the American hostages are released to free on its own schedule the remaining 735 Lebanese and Palestinians detainees it holds, Prime Minister Shimon Peres said. Freedom for the detainees is the Beirut hijackers’ principal demand.

A U.N. board of inquiry concluded that members of a Finnish contingent in the U.N. peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon acted properly by staging a mock attack to help the defection of 11 Shia Muslim members from the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army. In retaliation, the SLA held 21 Finnish soldiers hostage for eight days, demanding the return of the defectors. The Finnish soldiers were all released, but officials in Helsinki charged that Israeli officers stood by while South Lebanon Army soldiers beat a Finnish officer, Col. Venni Hakala.

Afghan guerrillas killed an Afghan army general and captured a military post at Puzhgur, in the Panjshir Valley north of Kabul, manned by 110 officers and 350 men, a rebel group reported in Pakistan. The officer, identified only as Gen. Ahmaduddin, 45, the deputy corps commander in Kabul, died in a June 15 rebel attack while inspecting the post, halfway up the strategic valley, the Jamiat-i-Islami guerrilla party said. State-run Kabul radio confirmed the general’s death but gave no details.

The United States and Vietnam appear willing to consider opening an American technical office in Hanoi to hasten the process of accounting for American servicemen missing since the Vietnam War, according to statements from both countries. The Reagan Administration, in a statement issued by the United States Embassy in Bangkok, Thailand, made it clear that such a move would depend on a “significantly” higher level of Vietnamese cooperation in the search for missing Americans. The proposal has been discussed with both Hanoi and Washington by Indonesia’s Foreign Minister, Mochtar Kusumaatmadja, who has been serving as go-between with Vietnam for the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in its efforts to resolve the problem of Cambodia. In an interview Friday, Mr. Mochtar said that although Washington was reluctant to establish any presence in Hanoi that might be misconstrued as the beginning of diplomatic recognition, the idea of a technical office was “very much” alive.

The police in South Korea stormed nine major universities across the country today and arrested 65 students, a police spokesman said. He said the police also confiscated anti-government leaflets, placards and gasoline bombs. The National Police Chief, Park Bae Gun, issued a statement saying the arrests were made to prevent campuses from being used as bases for “unlawful activities by a small number of militant students.” Students staged anti-Government demonstrations this year at most of the 100 colleges and universities in South Korea, demanding the resignation of President Chun Doo Hwan, whom they describe as military dictator. Student protests have regularly occurred in South Korea since 1960, when a bloody student uprising led to the overthrow of President Syngman Rhee.

A sewage pipe exploded on a crowded street in the southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, killing at least 24 people and injuring 92, officials said today. Quoting newspaper reports, Chongqing officials said by telephone that the blast occurred Thursday near the downtown Chongqing People’s Hall. They said the cause of the blast that wrecked 80 houses and damaging 130 others still was under investigation. Guo Xinyue, a municipal official, said he could not provide more details, but confirmed a report in the Hong Kong Communist newspaper Wen Wei Po that said more than 200 doctors and medics were rushed to the scene. The Hong Kong account said the blast occurred in a 1,300-foot sewage pipe and started landslides near a vegetable market. Chongqing was China’s capital in World War II and has a population of more than 13.8 million. The city is perched on a bluff overlooking the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers in eastern Sichuan Province.

President Haruo I. Remeliik of the Western Pacific territory of Palau was killed by an unknown assailant, a presidential assistant said. Remeliik, in his second term and the only elected president the island republic has known, was shot as he walked from his car to his home in the capital city of Koror. Vice President Alfonso R. Oiterong, who was in New York, was returning immediately to Palau, officials said. Palau, a string of 200 islands, is part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific, administered by the United States.

Cuban President Fidel Castro, 58, said that in the event he dies or becomes incapacitated, his brother, Raul, because of “his experience and revolutionary merits,” will take power in his place. In a Playboy magazine interview, Castro said that Cuba’s leadership decided on Raul Castro, 54, years ago because he “is the most capable (and) not exactly because he’s my brother.”

Haiti’s President Jean-Claude Duvalier announced today that a national referendum will be held July 22 in which Haitians will be asked to approve recent changes in the nation’s Constitution. The National Assembly recently enacted constitutional amendments establishing the position of Prime Minister and allowing the formation of political parties. However, the parties are severely restricted in their ability to oppose the Duvalier Government.

The leader of a small, non-Marxist rebel political party that publicly criticized a terrorist attack last week in which 13 people were killed, 4 of them United States marines, has declared that American military advisers and President Jose Napoleon Duarte are legitimate targets of war. The statement, issued Thursday, appeared to contradict hopes among Salvadoran and United States officials that more moderate members of the rebel coalition would try to halt attacks on American military personnel and Government figures here. The statement also indicated that there was no significant rupture in the rebel alliance, as some Salvadoran officials have suggested in recent days.

The commander of Army and Air Force combat forces in the United States, General Wallace H. Nutting, says he is strongly opposed to an American invasion of Nicaragua. Instead, the Army general, 57 years old, said in an interview on the eve of his retirement that the United States should seek to isolate the leftist Sandinista Government in Nicaragua by building a democratic coalition among other Central and South American nations. “We have learned to live with Cuba for 25 years,” said General Nutting, who also commanded American forces in Latin America from 1979 to 1983. “I think we are going to have to learn to live with Nicaragua.

In Colombia, armed leftist guerrillas attacked a small western town Friday and battled with police and army forces for six hours, the police said. They reported that at least 16 people were killed and 15 wounded. The rebels, about 100 members of the April 19 Movement, dressed in military uniforms, entered the town of Genova, the police said. They simultaneously attacked a jail, the town hall and two banks with bombs, automatic weapons and rifles, police reports said. The local police force of about 20 fought the rebels for about four hours before being reinforced by army troops based in Armenia, about 120 miles west of Bogota. An army assault helicopter also participated in the battle, the police said. The guerrillas fled about six hours after the attack had begun, according to reports. The police recovered the bodies of 10 policemen, an army soldier and 5 guerrillas and said 15 people were wounded, including 3 civilians, 6 policemen and 6 guerrillas.

Chile announced a foreign debt refinancing agreement that includes potentially unpopular economic measures, including the devaluation of the peso by 7.8%. Import duties are being cut 20%. Economy Minister Modesto Collados said the measures are “destined to make exports truly the motor of our economic growth.” Chile, under the agreement worked out in conjunction with the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, will reschedule $5.93 billion of debt repayments through 1987. Its foreign debt totals $19 billion.

South African troops pursued guerrillas into Angola and killed 45 South-West African rebels, the South African military said. General Constand Viljoen, commander of the South African armed forces, said in a statement from Pretoria that one black South African soldier was killed and one wounded in the battle against members of the South-West Africa People’s Organization. The group is fighting to end South African rule over South-West Africa, the disputed territory that is also known as Namibia. The Defense Force chief said the troops followed the guerrillas after the rebels staged a raid in South-West Africa. He said his soldiers were still six to nine miles inside Angola late tonight and would return to South Africa on Sunday.

The South African government extended a three-month prohibition on public meetings by certain mostly black dissident groups and more than doubled the number of organizations affected by the ban. Law and Order Minister Louis le Grange said 64 opposition groups will not be permitted to hold public protest meetings before December 31.


Spying is so easy for employees at most of the country’s 14,000 military contractors that “a supermarket employee may encounter far more difficulty stealing a loaf of bread.” according to a Defense Department report. The study urges the department to make changes in its security program, but offered no specific suggestions, the New York Times reported in Sunday editions. Most contractors maintain no controls over the use of classified materials at night and over the weekends, the report said. Stealing classified materials “is only slightly less difficult during working hours,” the 250-page study by senior officials of the Defense Department said.

President Reagan makes a radio address to the nation on counter-intelligence activities. President Reagan said today that the United States needed to “counter the rash of spy activities that threaten our security and interests at home and abroad and to improve our own intelligence gathering capabilities.” But he cautioned that “there is no quick fix to this problem.” In his weekly radio address, the President said that the number of Soviet-bloc intelligence officers in this country needed to be brought down to “a more manageable number.” He also said there must be better control over foreign agents working at the United Nations, who he said have used it as a “spy’s nest.”

Close to half the public supports President Reagan’s tax proposal, according to the latest Gallup Poll, although about a third feel that it is neither more nor less fair than the current system and people are evenly divided on whether they believe their own taxes will go up, stay the same or decrease. The features that taxpayers approve of by significant margins, according to the poll, include the proposal’s stated goal of raising more revenue from corporations rather than individuals and lowering the top tax brackets for individuals to 35 percent from 50 percent. But there were sizable margins of disapproval for the planned elimination of deductions for state and local taxes and the taxing of employer-paid benefits to a certain limit.

With the passage of a House bill authorizing military programs, a number of Democrats say their party has taken a critical step toward shedding its antimilitary image and capturing the issue of national security as a political asset. Les Aspin of Wisconsin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, who negotiated the bill through the House this week, said it marked the debut of “defense Democrats” favoring leaner military budgets without voting against virtually every new weapon or Pentagon proposal. Not all his colleagues, however, read such a clear message in the military bill, Republicans and some liberal Democrats said the conservative thrust of much of the military bill simply showed the House moving closer to President Reagan, in response to the hostage-taking in Lebanon, the killing of four American marines in El Salvador and the discovery of what may have been a long-running Navy spy ring. The bill approved by the House Thursday night would freeze military spending in the fiscal year beginning in October at this year’s level, $292 billion, and would bar tests of antisatellite weapons that critics say would kick off an arms race in space.

Oil industry and environmental spokesmen have assailed the Interior Department’s proposals for offshore oil leasing, for sharply divergent reasons. The new five-year leasing program was introduced in March by Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel, who said it would meet environmental concerns by slowing the pace and scope of the leasing instituted by James G. Watt when he was Secretary and by concentrating exploration in the most promising areas. Mr. Hodel also said that the program would remove environmentally sensitive areas from the program at an early stage. Testifying before the outer continental shelf subcommittee of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, Sarah Chasis, a lawyer for the Natural Resources Defense Council, said Wednesday that analysis of the program showed it would increase rather than slow the program’s size and pace.

A U.S. appeals court temporarily blocked implementation of a merit plan for federal workers and ordered a District Court to decide by July 10 whether to issue a temporary injunction against it. The plan would place greater emphasis on employees’ performance when deciding on longevity pay increases or layoffs. The current system relies on seniority. A congressional ban on the new system expires at midnight tonight and Congress is considering legislation to renew it. However, the Office of Management and Budget decided to proceed with the changes. The injunction was sought by two federal employee unions.

Stringent security measures, including bomb-sniffing dogs and metal detectors, were installed in a Chicago courtroom for the trial this week of four Puerto Ricans accused of terrorist activities. The precautions were requested by prosecutors because of a worldwide wave of terrorism, but defense attorneys argue that the publicity about terrorist acts jeopardizes their clients’ right to a fair trial. The four are accused of conspiring to make and plant bombs at two military installations over the 1983 Fourth of July weekend. They are alleged to be members of the Armed Forces for National Liberation, a terrorist group that has claimed responsibility for 103 bombings in the last decade.

Delivery of the first B-1B bomber to the Air Force was prevented by engine damage. The Air Force had planned to have the first operational B-1B, designed to evade dense Soviet air defenses, flown to its new base in Texas from the Strategic Air Command’s headquarters in Nebraska. Instead, the crowd of 30,000 people at Dyess Air Force Base at Abilene had to settle for a B-1 test aircraft that was flown from Edwards Air Force Base in California.

Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the Oklahoma state fire marshal’s office said that the fireworks factory explosion that killed 21 persons at Hallett, Oklahoma, on Tuesday was accidental and that they found no evidence of criminal negligence. Investigators have concluded that the blast began near a pickup truck that was being loaded at the Aerlex Corp. plant. Survivors’ testimony has indicated that containers were being scraped across the bed of the truck moments before the explosion. “It was a freak accident,” said Pawnee County Sheriff Leroy Bryant.

The STS 51-F vehicle with the space shuttle orbiter Challenger moves to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center.

NASA launches the Intelsat VA F-11 communications satellite from Cape Canaveral.

The New York state Legislature approved a bill that would reduce doctors’ malpractice insurance costs and delay any future rate increases until December. But despite the urging by the medical society in the state, there will be no caps on awards to victims of malpractice. The measure would institute tougher standards to weed out incompetent doctors and end the standard one-third contingency fee lawyers get for handling malpractice cases. The contingency fee would be based on a sliding scale that could reduce fees lawyers receive in large awards. The legislation was expected to be signed into law by Governor Mario M. Cuomo.

The international movement founded by Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has shrunk dramatically in membership since the mystic and a group of disciples moved to Oregon in 1981, The Oregonian newspaper reported. “Arid central Oregon rangeland, the changing spiritual climate of the 1980s and an increasingly hostile environment have taken their toll on the group,” the Portland newspaper reported in the first of a 20-part copyright series on the controversial sect, entitled “For Love and Money.”

A grief-stricken man whose 3-year-old daughter was comatose from a freak accident sat quietly by her hospital crib for more than two hours, then drew a gun and shot her to death, the police said today. The father, Charles Griffith, 25 years old, was charged with first-degree murder in the death late Friday of his daughter Joy, who suffered brain damage when her neck became wedged in the footrest of a reclining chair last October. She had been at Miami Children’s Hospital ever since.

Boston University has offered to take over the city’s public school system and could run it less expensively and more effectively than the School Committee, according to the university’s president, John R. Silber. In a letter to the school board, Mr. Silber said the reduced enrollment of white students since court-ordered desegregation began a decade ago could be reversed by improving the schools.

Gary, Indiana Mayor Richard G. Hatcher has said that the municipal pool where five children drowned June 9 had been drained and cleaned the week before the children died in five feet of water at the pool’s deep end.

Federal District Judge Robert Aguilar has issued a temporary injunction declaring that immigration officials cannot deny foreigners entry to the United States simply because they acknowledge they are homosexuals. The case involved a Mexican writer, Juan Jacobo Hernandez, 43 years old, who was invited to be grand marshal of the Lesbian-Gay Freedom Parade in San Francisco on Sunday. Mr. Hernandez, with the support of a number of homosexuals here, acknowledged his sexual orientation as a test of immigration policies.


Major League Baseball:

Floyd Rayford had four hits, including a homer, and John Shelby and Lee Lacy had three each as Baltimore rode an eight-run sixth inning to a 16–4 rout of the Red Sox. Rayford and Lacy drove in four runs each, and Eddie Murray had three RBIs with a home run and a single. Cal Ripken had two RBIs in the big sixth with a pair of singles. The Orioles bombed the Boston starter, Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (9–6), for nine hits and seven runs in four innings en route to a 19-hit game, their biggest assault of the season. The 16 runs were the most scored against Boston since 1981. In the big sixth, there were eight hits and two walks against the recently recalled Jim Dorsey and the veteran Mark Clear as Baltimore sent 13 batters to the plate. The Baltimore starter, Dennis Martinez (6–5), allowed eight hits and three runs in six innings.

Chet Lemon, Dave Bergman and Kirk Gibson hit home runs to back the two-hit pitching of Walt Terrell as the Detroit Tigers beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 8–0, tonight. The victory moved the Tigers to within two-and-a-half games behind the first-place Blue Jays in the American League East. Terrell (9–3), with help from some outstanding defensive plays, faced the minimum number of batters in the first four innings. Lloyd Moseby drilled a two-out double to the wall in right-center in the Toronto first for the Blue Jays’ first hit. But he was thrown out trying to stretch it into a triple on a fine relay from Lemon in center field to Lou Whitaker at second base to Tom Brookens at third.

At Yankee Stadium, Moose Haas (7–3) of the Brewers one-hits the Yankees as Milwaukee wins, 6–0. The Yankees, on the other hand, watched their starter, Phil Niekro, continue in a nightmare that has seen his knuckleball battered and bruised and his earned run average grossly inflated in four staight losing efforts. But it was Haas, a 29-year-old right-hander, who commanded the evening’s spotlight. Throwing only 86 pitches, he gave up only one walk in the first six and one-third innings before Don Mattingly ripped a 1–1 fastball to right-center for a double to break up what Haas’s bid for his no-hitter.

Brian Downing and Doug DeCinces each drove in two runs to back the seven-hit pitching of the rookie Urbano Lugo for California as the Angels ripped the Royals, 7–1. Lugo (3–1) struck out two and walked two to earn his third straight victory and first complete game. The Angels took a 4–1 lead in the seventh, chasing the Royals starter Bud Black (5–8), who suffered his fifth straight loss. Gary Pettis, who had three hits, led off with an infield single. He took second on Mike Brown’s sacrifice and scored on Juan Beniquez’s single. A single by Downing chased Black before DeCinces and Bobby Grich greeted Mike LaCoss with run-scoring singles. California added three in the eighth for a 7–1 lead on a two-run single by Downing and a sacrifice fly by DeCinces.

The A’s edged the Rangers, 7–6. Bruce Bochte hit a three-run homer in the top of the seventh for the key Oakland hit. Bill Krueger (5–7) gained the victory in relief while Jay Howell pitched the last two innings for his 15th save. Dave Rozema (3–5) took the loss, also in relief. The A’s overcame leads of 2–0 and 5–2 by the Rangers, capped by Bochte’s third home run of the season. Dave Collins and Carney Lansford scored on Bochte’s home run after both had reached base with singles.

Mike Smithson allowed one hit over 8 ⅓ innings, and Dave Engle hit a home run for Minnesota, as the Twins downed the White Sox, 1–0. Smithson had a no-hitter in the works until Ozzie Guillen lined a single to center with two out in the seventh inning. Smithson (6–7), who walked five and struck out seven, left the game with one out in the ninth after walking Carlton Fisk. Ron Kittle greeted Frank Eufemia with a single, sending Fisk to second. Jerry Hairston followed with a pinch single to center, but Fisk fell down while trying to stop after rounding third base and was tagged out. Eufemia then retired Guillen on a fly ball for his first save in a combined three-hitter. The triumph was the third straight for the Twins, who also managed only three hits, while the White Sox suffered their fourth straight defeat and eighth loss in the last nine games.

Gorman Thomas and Al Cowens hit solo homers to lead Seattle to its eighth straight victory, winning 3–2 over the Indians. Thomas snapped a 2–2 tie when he led off the sixth with his 12th home run of the season. Mike Moore (6–4) allowed eight hits, walked three and struck out two in eight innings to gain the victory. Ed Nunez pitched in in the ninth, gaining his 11th save.

Garry Maddox had three hits and drove in three runs to back the four-hit pitching of Kevin Gross as the Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Montreal Expos, 6–2, today. Gross (6–7) did not allow a hit until the fifth inning. He struck out five and walked only one en route to his first complete game of the season and also batted in a run with a single. The Phillies struck quickly against the Expos starter, Mickey Mahler (1–2). Juan Samuel led off the first with a single, and Mike Schmidt doubled one out later. After Glenn Wilson grounded out, Ozzie Virgil walked to load the bases and then Maddox blooped a double to right, scoring Samuel and Schmidt.

When it was over, the Mets had a four-game losing streak with 16 defeats in their last 24 games, they were hitting .230, they were four games out and fading fast. And Dave Johnson closed the locker room door for 25 minutes and told them he didn’t like it and wouldn’t stand for it. It wasn’t just what happened tonight: a six-hitter by Joaquin Andujar of the St. Louis Cardinals that muzzled the Mets, 6–0. Nor the fact that they made six singles and three errors, and that only one man got as far as third base.

Tony Pena belted his fifth home run of the season in the bottom of the 15th as Pittsburgh beat the Cubs, 6–5. Pena hit the first pitch of the inning by the reliever George Frazier (3–2) deep into the left-field seats, to break up the 4-hour 34-minute marathon. Rick Reuschel (5–1), the sixth Pirate pitcher, worked a scoreless 15th inning for the victory. The Pirates got their first two men on in the 10th and 11th innings, but the Cub reliever Lee Smith pitched out of both jams. The Cubs tied the game at 5–5 with a run in the ninth. Ryne Sandberg singled to open the inning off the glove of the reliever John Candelaria, who then picked up the ball and threw wildly to first, sending Sandberg all the way to third. Sandberg scored on Keith Moreland’s sacrifice fly.

Bob Knepper pitched a four-hitter and drove in four runs with a homer and a single as Houston handed San Francisco its ninth straight loss, downing the Giants, 8–1. Knepper, who had just one hit in 33 previous times at bat this season (.030) with no runs batted in, hit a two-run single in the top of the fourth off Atlee Hammaker (3–8), the Giants’ starter, to pad Houston’s lead to 4–0. Then in the sixth inning, with a runner on and two out, Knepper slammed a two-run home run into the right-field seats off the reliever Frank Williams.

The Dodgers topped the Braves, 3–2. Jerry Reuss and Tom Neidenfuer combined on a five-hitter as Los Angeles snapped Atlanta’s five-game winning streak. Reuss (6–6) struck out one, walked one and allowed only one hit between the fourth and the ninth, retiring 15 of 16 batters as he took a 3–0 lead into the final inning. But after Reuss retired the first two hitters, Dale Murphy singled, then Bob Horner hit his 11th home run of the season for the two Braves runs. Neidenfuer then came in to retire Terry Harper on a ground ball to first for his sixth save.

The Padres blanked the Reds, 3–0. Dave Dravecky pitched an eight-hitter and Garry Templeton and Tim Flannery both hit triples in the sixth as San Diego snapped the Reds’ four-game winning streak. Pete Rose, the Reds’ player-manager, did not play and still needs 41 hits to break Ty Cobb’s record of 4,191.

Baltimore Orioles 16, Boston Red Sox 4

Minnesota Twins 1, Chicago White Sox 0

Toronto Blue Jays 0, Detroit Tigers 8

California Angels 7, Kansas City Royals 1

Atlanta Braves 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3

Philadelphia Phillies 6, Montreal Expos 2

Milwaukee Brewers 6, New York Yankees 0

Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6

Cincinnati Reds 0, San Diego Padres 3

Cleveland Indians 2, Seattle Mariners 3

Houston Astros 8, San Francisco Giants 1

New York Mets 0, St. Louis Cardinals 6

Oakland Athletics 7, Texas Rangers 6


Born:

Stephen Hauschka, NFL kicker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 48-Seahawks, 2013; Baltimore Ravens, Denver Broncos, Seattle Seahawks, Buffalo Bills, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Needham, Massachusetts.

Dennis Pitta, NFL tight end (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Baltimore Ravens), in Fresno, California.

Quintin Demps, NFL safety (Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Texans, Kansas City Chiefs, New York Giants, Chicago Bears), in San Antonio, Texas


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