A Reagan-Gorbachev meeting will be held over two days in Geneva in late November, Administration officials said. They said that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, had agreed to the relatively brief meeting. A senior Administration official said of the meeting, “Our expectations are not great at all. Its main purpose will be to engage the new Soviet leadership and for each side to have a better understanding of the other.” Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the Soviet Ambassador to the United States, conveyed Moscow’s acceptance of the plans for the meeting during an unpublicized session with Secretary of State George P. Shultz early Monday afternoon, Administration officials said. Mr. Shultz will hold a news conference after the announcement Wednesday. Given the relative brevity of the meeting, American officials said they did not think there would be time to negotiate any breakthroughs on outstanding issues. But they said the meeting could be used as an occasion to announce agreements already worked out in such areas as commerce, cultural and consular exchanges. They added that it might also give some stimulus to the deadlocked arms control talks and promote an easing of tensions on regional issues.
Moscow named Andrei A. Gromyko to the prestigious but in the past largely ceremonial Soviet Presidency, ending his 28-year career as Soviet Foreign Minister. Mr. Gromyko was succeeded by Eduard A. Shevardnadze, the 57-year-old Georgian party leader. Mr. Shevardnadze was promoted to full membership in the ruling Politburo on Monday. The changes in the governmental structure were set in motion in a session of the Supreme Soviet, the nominal Parliament, as Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, nominated Mr. Gromyko for the presidency. In so doing, Mr. Gorbachev broke a pattern set by Leonid I. Brezhnev of combining the party leadership, which is the seat of authority, with the position of the nation’s President. Choice of Georgian a Surprise The choice of Mr. Shevardnadze to succeed Mr. Gromyko as the Foreign Minister came as a surprise to diplomats since the Georgian official has no foreign policy background.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss Mikhail Gorbachev’s appointment of Andrei Gromyko as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
Mehmet Ali Ağca testified today that a Bulgarian diplomat gave him and other Turkish gunmen instructions on when and where to kill Pope John Paul II and how to leave misleading clues for the police. As the prosecution began its case, Mr. Ağca, who was convicted of shooting and seriously wounding the Pope in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981, again rambled on about being Jesus Christ, but insisted he was not crazy. The prosecutor, Antonio Marini, asked Mr. Ağca to explain why he was carrying a letter when captured stating that he wanted to kill the Pope because of Soviet and United States imperialism. Mr. Marini said it made no sense for Mr. Ağca to carry the letter unless he expected to be caught.
The Pope urged “solidarity” with his fellow Slavs, religious tolerance in Eastern Europe and closer ties between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy. In an encyclical, John Paul II said Christianity was “one of the most solid points of reference” for those who would reunite Eastern and Western Europe.
The Polish Government’s chief spokesman said today that appeals for an hour-long strike to protest increases in meat prices Monday had been ignored throughout Poland. But Solidarity sources, while conceding that the response was not as great as they had hoped for, said it was nonetheless more assertive than the spokesman, Jerzy Urban, claimed. Mr. Urban criticized what he said were Western reports of effective strikes mounted in a number of factories. Mr. Urban said that even Lech Walesa, the Solidarity founder, did not answer his own appeal and that he “worked diligently.”
Officials say the chances of recovering the flight recorder from the Air-India jumbo jet that crashed into the Atlantic off the Irish coast on June 23, killing all 329 people aboard, appear to be fading. An Irish official involved in the operation said Monday, “We have to face the fact that the signal intercepted on Friday might not have been from the recorder at all.” The Irish Government’s information service said Friday that the British Navy seabed operations vessel Challenger had picked up underwater electronic bleeps that “tentatively” located the recorder, or black box. But the British Defense Ministry said the recorder had not been positively located or identified.
The Church of England’s policy-making General Synod voted, 320 to 83, to allow ordination of women as deacons, the lowest rank of the Anglican clergy. But it stopped short of allowing them to become priests. A deacon is in the third rank of holy orders, below priests and bishops. Traditionally, women have been allowed only to be deaconesses, a lay position. The change must be approved by the British Parliament before the state church can put it into effect.
President Reagan today welcomed home 30 of the passengers on the Trans World Airlines jetliner that was hijacked to Beirut, vowing that the killers of the Navy diver who had been among them “must be brought to justice.” In a short ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base, Mr. Reagan balanced his expressions of happiness over the passengers’ return with a somber reminder of Robert D. Stethem, the sailor killed on the first day of the hijacking. “Our joy at your return is substantial,” Mr. Reagan said. “But so is our pain at what was done to that son of America. I know you care deeply about Robbie Stethem and what was done to him.
The President and the First Lady travel to Arlington National Cemetery to lay flowers at the grave of Petty Officer Robert Stethem who was killed in the recent hijacking.
Lebanon is legally obligated to put the two hijackers of an American airliner on trial or to extradite them to the United States, the State Department said. Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, said “unilateral” actions could be taken if Lebanon failed to comply. He would not say what actions might be considered. Mr. Kalb said the United States knew the identities of the hijackers but he would not name them. One of the freed hostages, Dr. Arthur W. Toga of St. Louis, said he had identified the two from mug shots obtained by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Lebanese leaders expressed outrage over the Reagan Administration’s plan to take legal and diplomatic action to isolate Beirut’s airport. The Administration said it was taking the steps in response to the hijacking of a Trans World Airlines jet last month by Lebanese Shiite gunmen. Prime Minister Rashid Karami, who is his own Foreign Minister, cabled instructions to the Lebanese Ambassador in Washington, Abdallah Bouhabib, to lodge a protest with the State Department, according to the state-run Beirut radio. “Lebanon has been the cradle of civilization, and if any power is to blame for the state of violence prevailing here since 1975, it is the United States,” said Mr. Karami, who is a Sunni Muslim. The Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975.
A new attitude toward their captors began to emerge among the 39 freed hostages, with several expressing feelings of bitterness and vengeance that stood in sharp contrast to sympathetic statements made earlier by other hostages. Peter W. Hill, a 57-year-old religious guide, said in an interview that in the wake of his 17-day ordeal he felt “anger, frustration, a sense of being raped, ravaged by these animals.”
The Egyptian Parliament today passed a law giving Muslim women the right to divorce a husband who takes a second wife. The legislation passed by the People’s Assembly endorses the provisions of the “Jihan Law,” named after the widow of President Anwar Sadat. She persuaded him in 1979 to decree new rights for married women. Islamic fundamentalists persuaded the Supreme Court in April to overturn that law on technical grounds. Under the version passed today, the first wife may seek divorce if the second marriage would cause her “moral or material harm.” If there are children in her custody, the husband is obliged to see that she is properly housed.
Iraq said its forces repelled an Iranian ground attack in a border area 95 miles northeast of Baghdad. “The Iranian force was wiped out before it could reach Iraqi positions,” a military spokesman said in a statement distributed by the Iraqi news agency. The spokesman denied Iran’s claim that Iranian forces penetrated elaborate fortifications and booby traps farther south in the east Tigris River sector. Iran and Iraq have been at war since September, 1980. The Iranian press agency quoted a joint staff command communique as saying Iranian troops had mounted a new offensive before dawn against Iraqi units at the southern border town of Fakkeh, killing 35 soldiers and wounding more than 60. In Baghdad, a high command communique said an Iraqi unit had raided Iranian positions in the southern sector of the front, killing 32 Iranians.
Iraq today released 30 Iranian prisoners of war, most of them wounded, in a move arranged in Ankara through the Red Cross, Turkish Foreign Ministry officials said. Iranian Embassy officials said some Iraqi prisoners would be released “in the coming days.” They did not say where the release would occur or how many prisoners would be involved.
About 450 Soviet and Afghan soldiers were killed in Afghan rebel attacks against military posts in the strategic Panjshir Valley during the last week, Western diplomats in New Delhi reported. Two Afghan generals and a senior Soviet adviser were killed or captured in the attacks against at least nine posts, the diplomats said. They said 200 Afghan army commandos were killed or captured by waiting rebels when they parachuted into the upper section of the valley.
The remains of 13 American airmen killed in the crash of their Air Force gunship in Laos more than 12 years ago have been recovered by a joint United States-Laotian excavation team and returned to the United States, the White House announced today. The Administration spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the remains, which were recovered last February, had been identified by the Army. A Pentagon spokesman, Maj. Keith Schneider, identified the men, all Air Force personnel, as: Col. Paul O. Meder, of Jamaica, Queens; Lieut. Col. Thomas T. Hart 3d, of Orlando, Fla.; Lieut. Col. Harry R. Lagerwall, of Carmel, N.Y.; Maj. Robert L. Liles Jr., of Shreveport, La.; Maj. Francis A. Walsh, of Westport, Conn.; Capt. Delma E. Dickens, of Omega, Ga. Also Capt. Stanley N. Kroboth, of Savannah, Ga.; Capt. George D. MacDonald, of Evanston, Ill.; Chief Master Sgt. James R. Fuller, of Cibolo, Tex.; Senior Master Sgt. John Q. Winningham, of Grover City, Calif.; Master Sgt. Robert T. Elliott, of El Dorado, Ark.; Master Sgt. Charles F. Fenter, of Tucson, Ariz., and Master Sgt. Rollie K. Reaid, of Dora, Alabama.
After more than a year and a half of inaction, the United States and Japan have set in motion a 1983 accord under which Japan agreed to provide its main ally with advanced military technology. American officials, for the first time, have singled out a piece of Japanese high-tech gadgetry that they want – an “image-seeking” device to help guide missiles to their targets. From the United States viewpoint, the specific technology may be less significant than the fact that a request had been made at all. “The real importance,” a Japanese defense expert said, “is that it finally opens the pipeline” for what the Americans hope will be a steady flow of Japanese technological skill in their direction.
The Philippine insurgency is widening to the cities. For more than a year, the growth of the Communist insurgency in the Philippines has been a matter of increasing concern. Yet the rebellion has been mainly a rural phenomenon, adhering to the Maoist edict of capturing the countryside and isolating the cities. But in recent weeks, gun battles between Communist guerrillas and Government forces have been fought in Manila itself, underscoring the rapid expansion of the insurgent campaign. “Even Metropolitan Manila is now threatened,” said Salvador H. Laurel, president of the United Nationalist Democratic Organization, the largest grouping of opposition parties.
The Salvadoran Army, using leaflets, loudspeakers and radio and television, has begun a major effort to encourage anti-government guerrillas to defect and receive an amnesty. The leaflets, hundreds of thousands of them, are being dropped from planes over guerrilla positions each week. The message appeals to the rebels as errant brothers who are welcome to come home — a departure from the government’s long-standard terms of address, in which the guerrillas have been called terrorists and subversives. Now they are “companeros,” Spanish for comrades or companions.
The Immigration and Naturalization Service has started proceedings that could lead to the deportation of a former Nicaraguan rebel leader who has been critical of Reagan Administration policies, an immigration official said yesterday. The official, Perry A. Rivkind, who is the I.N.S. district director in Miami, said he had reviewed the file of Edgar Chamorro, a former director of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the major guerrilla group fighting the Sandinista Government, after reading an article written by Mr. Chamorro last week that was critical of United States activities in Nicaragua. Mr. Rivkind denied that there was any connection between the exclusionary order issued to Mr. Chamorro and the critical statements made by him.
A French Ariane rocket was fired into space from French Guiana, sending a picture-taking mission on a 465-million-mile journey to intercept Halley’s comet next March. The spacecraft, called Giotto and owned by 11 Western European nations, is designed to pass within 300 miles of the frozen nucleus of the famous comet. Two Soviet and one Japanese spacecraft are already heading for an exploration of Halley’s comet as it makes its once-in-a-lifetime swing around the sun. The United States decided not to send a spacecraft to explore the comet because of budget constraints.
Workers and students spilled into the streets of Panama City to protest planned changes in labor laws, including reduced overtime pay and less stringent conditions on firing workers. Earlier, 17 riot police were injured in a clash with protesting university students. A strike called by several unions affected some industries, but most businesses remained open. The labor-law changes are related to an austerity program supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund and designed to encourage foreign investment.
Zimbabwe extended the period for black voting for two days to accommodate people unable to vote because of long lines and delays at polling stations. Voting will continue through Thursday, and polls will be open three more hours daily. The country’s 2.9 million registered black voters are choosing candidates for the 80 seats reserved for blacks in the 100-seat Parliament. Whites last week selected 20 white members.
At least five South African blacks, including two children, were killed as violence flared in black townships. At Tembisa, a township east of Johannesburg, a boy of 6 and his 10-year-old sister died when a grenade was thrown into their home. In the same township, a bomb killed a woman in a shop owned by the mayor. And the burned and stabbed bodies of two anti-apartheid black activists, Matthew Goniwe and Fort Calata, were found at the edge of a road outside Port Elizabeth. Nearly 20,000 gold miners, meanwhile, ended a two-day wildcat strike.
The Reagan Administration has rejected a request by the Federal Bureau of Investigation for $11 million in extra funds for counterterrorism programs, according to a member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. The Senator, Lloyd Bentsen, said he would introduce legislation to include the money in the budget. Removing it was “just counterproductive,” said Mr. Bentsen, a Texas Democrat.
Education Secretary William J. Bennett said today that the Supreme Court decision Monday barring public school systems from giving remedial and enrichment classes at parochial schools was a “ridiculous” expression of the court’s “fastidious disdain for religion that is hard to fathom.” At the same time, Mr. Bennett announced a reorganization of the Education Department’s research function aimed at increasing its ability to commission studies on emerging policy issues, such as the effects of Government aid to parochial schools. The reorganization would centralize most research work under an assistant secretary, ending the autonomy of the National Institute of Education, the Government’s primary agency for educational research.
The government may exclude funds used for legal defense from the annual charity drive conducted among federal workers as long as the government’s goal is not to suppress a particular point of view, the Supreme Court ruled. The 4-to-3 decision overturned a ruling by a federal appeals court.
The Environmental Protection Agency ordered the nation’s landlords and utilities to remove thousands of electrical transformers containing PCB fluids, or the fluids themselves, from commercial buildings over the next five years. In a major stiffening of rules covering PCB transformers, the agency also said it was requiring increased electrical protection of PCB transformers that did not have to be removed. The net cost of complying with the rules was estimated at $400 million. PCBs, polychlorinated biphenyl compounds, can cause cancer and other disorders in laboratory animals.
Delegates to the National Education Association convention in Washington turned down a bid to lengthen their officers’ terms and refused to join a farm workers’ boycott of Campbell Soup products by the United Farm Workers. A constitutional amendment to allow the teachers union’s three top leaders to serve up to six years instead of four fell fewer than 400 votes short of the two-thirds majority needed for passage. The amendment would have kept Mary Hatwood Futrell as NEA president until 1988. She and two other officers were elected unopposed Sunday to their second, and final, two-year terms.
The Defense Department announced plans to spread 29 of the nation’s warships among nine home ports on the Gulf Coast, sending the battleship USS Wisconsin and the training carrier USS Lexington to Corpus Christi, Texas, and a planned new carrier to Pensacola, Florida. Corpus Christi also would get three smaller warships under the plan, making it the clear winner in the intense competition among Gulf cities for the Wisconsin and the new jobs that will accompany its home port status. The plan, which now goes to Congress, is designed to find home ports for the Administration’s largest warships.
San Francisco imposed tough zoning in its congested downtown area. The city’s Board of Supervisors approved a sweeping new law designed to limit the construction of skyscrapers and reduce by half the number of office jobs projected in the next 15 years. The plan was passed in response to years of complaints by residents that San Francisco’s quality of life was being spoiled by developers.
Ramona Johnson Africa, the only adult member of a radical cult who survived a fiery battle with Philadelphia police May 13, shouted: “Long live MOVE!” after she was ordered held for trial on a variety of charges at the close of a two-day preliminary hearing. The huge fire, which destroyed 53 houses and damaged eight others, erupted after police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the heavily fortified MOVE house, the scene of a fierce gun battle earlier in the day. Eleven MOVE members, four of them children, were killed. Only Ramona Africa, 30, and Birdie Africa, a 13-year-old boy, escaped the burning house.
A flash fire roared through the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles today, killing at least two people and injuring at least 11. At least 52 homes were engulfed by the fire, which damaged 13 others. Mayor Tom Bradley declared the neighborhood a disaster area.
Accused Nazi war criminal Konrads Kalejs was released from a Miami detention camp after a $750,000 bond was posted for him, apparently by friends or relatives in Chicago, immigration officials said. Kalejs, 72, is accused of participating in the extermination of thousands of Jews in World War II. He allegedly commanded the Arajs Commando, a volunteer unit of Latvian auxiliary policemen that acted as a mobile execution squad for the Nazis. A hearing to deport Kalejs to Australia, where he holds citizenship, is set for September 30.
Convicts in Tennessee set buildings ablaze and seized hostages in uprisings Monday night and today at four state prisons in protests over new uniforms. An inmate died tonight after being beaten with a baseball bat in renewed violence at one prison. The inmate was struck by another prisoner when about 150 to 200 prisoners at the Morgan County Regional Facility in Wartburg refused to go back to their barracks, remaining in a prison courtyard, said Cpl. Jim Worthington, administrative assistant to the warden.
An Indian couple has been told to close its casino by a federal judge in Grand Rapids who said gambling on Michigan Indian reservations is illegal. U.S. District Judge Wendell A. Miles ruled against the casino run by Fred and Sybil Dakotas, members of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, saying they violated federal and state laws. The effect on other Indian gambling operations in the state was not immediately clear, but the leader of a Sault Ste. Marie Chippewa tribe in the Upper Peninsula said construction of a half-million-dollar casino will continue.
Calling the bombing of abortion clinics “cowardly and vicious,” a Federal district judge today sentenced a lay minister to 10 years in prison for conspiring to bomb 10 clinics or offices of abortion supporters in three states and the District of Columbia. The convict, Michael D. Bray, 33 years old, who is a house painter and lay co-pastor at the Grace Reformation Lutheran Church in Bowie, Md., was also ordered to pay more than $43,000 in restitution.
There is an air of change at Wimbledon that is as fresh as the breeze stirred by Boris Becker’s serve and has been as well received as the kiss Henri Leconte blew to his admirers at Centre Court today. John McEnroe may be entrenched at the top and Jimmy Connors refuses to concede to athletic old age, but the fans here have taken to Becker, the hard-hitting West German teen-ager, and Leconte, the charming Frenchman who gives the impression he can sweet-talk the ball over the net. On a day when McEnroe and Connors won handily and earned spots in the quarterfinals, Leconte eliminated Ivan Lendl, the second-seeded player, 3–6, 6–4, 6–3, 6–1, and Becker outlasted Tim Mayotte, seeded 16th, 6–3, 4–6, 6–7, 7–6, 6–2, in a quintessential serve-and-volley match. It was played on Court 14, where the stands accommodate 1,250 fans but were spilling over because of the interest Becker has generated here.
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In Baltimore, Darrell Evans hits a 1st-inning grand slam but that is all the scoring the Tigers can muster. Mike Young hit Baltimore’s fourth home run of the game leading off the 10th inning to give the Orioles a 5–4 victory over the Detroit Tigers tonight. It was the sixth homer for the switch-hitting Young, his first as a right-hander, and came off Willie Hernandez, who fell to 4–4. Hernandez yielded a two-out, bases-empty homer in the ninth to Cal Ripken, forcing the extra innings. The winner was Don Aase (5–3), who allowed two hits during a three-inning relief stint.
George Brett hit a pair of three-run home runs, and Charlie Leibrandt shut down Oakland on five hits over eight innings, to pace a 10–1 drubbing of the A’s. Leibrandt (7–5) yielded a double to Carney Lansford in the first and then retired 15 straight batters before consecutive fielding errors led to an unearned run in the sixth. Brett, who also singled during the Royals’ three-run second, hit his first home run since May 29 in the fourth off Mike Warren, who had relieved Rick Langford (0–2). Buddy Biancalana and Willie Wilson singled before Brett’s homer gave the Royals a 6–0 lead. Brett made it 9–1 in the sixth when he lashed a Warren pitch into the right-field bleachers.
At Chicago, the White Sox win 12–4 over the Mariners. Ozzie Guillen highlighted Chicago’s five-run fourth inning with a bases-loaded triple, and the White Sox went on to break a six-game losing streak. Harold Baines had three hits and five runs batted in, including a grand-slam homer in the eighth, to support Tim Lollar (3–4). Brian Snyder, 0–2, suffered the loss and Bob James collected his 17th save by recording the last five outs.
Rickey Henderson began tonight’s game by pulling Key’s first pitch over the right-field wall for his 10th home run of the season. The Yankees went on from there to hand Toronto its second straight defeat, this time by 5–3 before 35,202 at Exhibition Stadium. In addition to Henderson’s surge, which also included two singles and another run batted in, the Yankee victory was notable for two other reawakenings and one continued comeback. Bobby Meacham, who had hit only .172 in his last 28 games, singled twice, tripled and scored the Yankees’ second and third runs. Don Baylor, who was hitting .056 in his last 12 games, gave the Yankees a 4–1 lead in the eighth with a homer off Key (6–3).
Reggie Jackson drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, and Rob Wilfong hit a two-run homer for California, as the Angels pounded the Rangers, 7–2. Kirk McCaskill (3–5) scattered eight hits, walked four and stuck out three in eight innings. Wilfong’s two-run homer and Jackson’s two-run double highlighted California’s five-run first inning. Jackson’s double to left knocked in Rod Carew, who walked, and Daryl Sconiers, who singled off Bob Sebra, (0–1).
Ted Simmons’s sacrifice fly in the bottom of the 10th lifted Milwaukee over slumping Boston, 4–3. Paul Molitor opened the Brewers’ 10th with a double, his fourth hit of the game and 1,000th of his career, off Bob Stanley (3–4). Jim Gantner was then intentionally walked. Cecil Cooper followed with a sacrifice bunt to advance both runners, and Ben Oglivie was intentionally walked to load the bases before Simmons hit Stanley’s first pitch to center to score the winning run. The Red Sox have lost four straight games and 11 of their last 14.
The Minnesota Twins edged the Indians 8–7. Greg Gagne had three hits and keyed a four-run Minnesota seventh inning with a tiebreaking double. The Twins racked a Cleveland reliever, Tom Waddell (2–5), for four hits in the seventh overcome a 7–4 deficit. Waddell relieved Bryan Clark with two on and one out after Kirby Puckett led off with a single and Kent Hrbek walked. Tom Brunansksy greeted Waddell with a single to score Puckett. After Roy Smalley struck out, Dave Engle and Gary Gaetti hit run-scoring singles to tie it at 7–7 before Gagne doubled down the left-field line for the game-winner.
Joe Niekro, with the help of a tiebreaking pinch-hit double by Phil Garner in the eighth inning, notched his 200th career victory as the Houston Astros beat the San Diego Padres tonight, 3–2. Garner, batting for Jerry Mumphrey with runners on first and third with one out in the eighth, doubled off a San Diego reliever, Craig Lefferts, who had just entered in place of Ed Wojna (1–1). Niekro (7–7) pitched seven innings and recorded his fourth straight victory, as he became the 84th pitcher in major league history to reach 200 victories. In combination with the 291 victories by his brother Phil of the New York Yankees, the Niekros are the second brother combination to win 200 games apiece. The Niekros are 38 victories behind the leading brother duo, Gaylord (314 victories) and Jim (215) Perry.
It was nothing to write home about, but the Mets finally did a few things last night that they hadn’t been doing lately — like score and win. They stirred from their great slumber, beat the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–4, and broke their six-game losing streak, all in one performance in Shea Stadium. They also scored five runs in a game for the first time since June 21. And it was good for them that they did, because the Pirates rose up and chased Ron Darling with a three-run rally in the ninth inning before Roger McDowell went to the rescue.
John Tudor hurled a three-hitter, and Willie McGee had four hits and stole two bases for first-place St. Louis as the Cardinals blanked the Expos, 4–0. Tudor (7–6) went the distance for the fourth time this season, striking out six. He did not walk a batter or allow a runner past first base. The Cardinals, in increasing their National League East lead to 1 ½ games over the Expos, took a 3–0 lead in the first inning when they had four hits against David Palmer, who dropped to 6–7. Vince Coleman led off with a single and after a half-dozen pickoff attempts by Palmer, stole his major league-leading 54th base. Palmer’s pickoff attempt at second went into center field, advancing Coleman to third. Coleman then scored on McGee’s infield single. Tom Herr followed with a walk and went to second when McGee was thrown out leading a double-steal attempt. Jack Clark doubled him home and then scored on Terry Pendleton’s base hit.
The Phillies crushed the Cubs, 11–2, as Glenn Wilson and Derrel Thomas hit home runs, and Shane Rawley scattered eight hits for the Phillies. Wilson’s homer, a three-run drive, highlighted a four-run first inning against Rick Sutcliffe, who fell to 7–7. Juan Samuel opened the Phillies’ first with a single, stole second, moved to third on Greg Gross’s single and scored on Von Hayes’ single. Wilson then slammed his eighth home run of the season, over the right-field wall. Rawley (6–6), who ended a personal three-game losing streak, struck out five and walked two. Mike Schmidt struck out three times in five at bats and had his 10-game hitting streak stopped. He stranded six runners.
Manny Trillo drove in two runs with a single and his first home run of the season, and Jeff Leonard and Bob Brenly also batted in two runs each to give San Francisco an 8–3 victory over the Braves. Jim Gott (4–5) allowed six hits and two runs over six and two-thirds innings for the Giants. The Giants rapped out 13 hits and took advantage of four Atlanta errors for only their third victory in 15 games. San Francisco took a 1–0 lead in the first inning against Steve Bedrosian (5–7) when Chili Davis singled to center, took second when Dale Murphy bobbled the ball and scored on a single by Leonard. Trillo’s bases-empty homer in the third inning, only his eighth homer since 1981, made the score 2–0. Davis followed with a walk, went to third on another single by Leonard and scored on a single by Brenly. Atlanta cut the deficit to 3–2 in the sixth when Rafael Ramirez singled and Murphy hit his 20th home run, best in the majors.
Fernando Valenzuela pitched a three-hitter, and Pedro Guerrero had three hits and drove in two runs to lead Los Angeles over Cincinnati, 3–0. Valenzuela (8–8) tossed his ninth complete game and fourth shutout, striking out eight, walking two and allowing only three singles. No Cincinnati runner got beyond second base.
Detroit Tigers 4, Baltimore Orioles 5
Seattle Mariners 4, Chicago White Sox 12
Oakland Athletics 1, Kansas City Royals 10
Cincinnati Reds 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Boston Red Sox 3, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Cleveland Indians 7, Minnesota Twins 8
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Montreal Expos 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, New York Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 11
Houston Astros 3, San Diego Padres 2
Atlanta Braves 3, San Francisco Giants 8
California Angels 7, Texas Rangers 2
New York Yankees 5, Toronto Blue Jays 3
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Ashley Tisdale, American actress and singer (“High School Musical”), in Monmouth County, New Jersey.
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BenJarvus Green-Ellis, NFL running back (New England Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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