A series of summit meetings between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev might be scheduled if their meeting in Geneva in late November turns out well, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Mr. Shultz said the meetings might alternate between Washington and Moscow. Mr. Shultz said the two leaders had exchanged messages expressing the hope that “a more constructive relationship” would emerge from the November meeting, but he cautioned that major differences persisted. Meanwhile, the Soviet Union announced today that Mr. Gorbachev would travel to France in October before holding the meeting with President Reagan. The announcement of the trips, coming after the replacement of Andrei A. Gromyko as Foreign Minister on Tuesday, flouted the common belief that Mr. Gorbachev would set foreign relations aside as he wrestled with domestic issues. Administration officials said today that the nearly five months leading up to the Reagan-Gorbachev meeting should indicate if the decision to hold the first Soviet-American summit meeting in six years presaged a significant improvement in relations or would only underscore the persisting differences.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev will visit Paris in October before he meets with President Reagan in late November, Moscow announced. A spokesman gave the Soviet leader’s visit to France more emphasis than the meeting with Mr. Reagan. The announcement of the two trips, after the replacement on Tuesday of Andrei A. Gromyko as Soviet Foreign Minister, flouted the common belief that Mr. Gorbachev would set foreign relations aside while he considered domestic issues. If the appointment of Eduard A. Shevardnadze, a provincial party leader relatively inexperienced in foreign affairs, expanded Mr. Gorbachev’s power over the Foreign Ministry, the announcement of two major Western missions in his first year confirmed the new leader’s intention to use it.
Never in postwar history has a Soviet leader moved so fast to consolidate his control of Kremlin power. When the position of President was given Tuesday to someone other than Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Communist party leader, Soviet citizens and Westerners alike immediately assumed that this was a sign of Mr. Gorbachev’s strength, not weakness. Since 1977 Soviet leaders have collected for themselves both the nation’s top titles, party General Secretary and President. But in nominating the longtime Foreign Minister, Andrei A. Gromyko, to the job, Mr. Gorbachev said he would simply be too busy to handle the largely ceremonial duties of head of state.
A group of Senate observers at the Geneva arms talks, while pointing to what they called a lack of specific Soviet initiatives, along with a sharpening of Moscow’s tone, said today that they had nevertheless found ground for “cautious optimism.” In a news conference after long meetings with the permanent American and Soviet arms delegations here, several Senators said a little-noticed superpower agreement last month on a “common understanding” of the need to recognize the possibility of nuclear terrorism underscored their view.
U.S. Vice President Bush, apparently trying to calm West European concerns about President Reagan’s strategic defense initiative, today called it “purely and simply a research program” with possible deployment “years off.” Speaking in London to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, he said the program was designed to “explore” whether a new doctrine of deterrence based on defense against nuclear attack rather than retaliation could and should be developed. Publicly, but even more privately, European leaders have been expressing increasing concern that the Administration’s program, popularly known as “Star Wars,” is getting in the way of progress in the arms control talks with Moscow and could unsettle the Atlantic Alliance’s military strategy. Mr. Bush also said that in his 20 years of public life he had “never had such an uneasy feeling about protectionist pressures” from Congress and warned that there were “limits” to Mr. Reagan’s will to resist them.
Spanish officials said today that the country’s Foreign Minister was stepping down as part of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez’s first Cabinet shake-up. Mr. Gonzalez, dined for the last time tonight with the Cabinet in Moncloa, the Presidential complex. Aides to the Prime Minister said he would announce the changes Thursday, after meeting with King Juan Carlos. The major change would be the departure of Foreign Minister Fernando Moran. Foreign diplomats and many Spanish political commentators said the move could be a setback in Mr. Gonzalez’s campaign to keep Spain inside the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The most significant political skirmish of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s second term has been taking place these past two weeks in the bucolic hills and dales of southeastern Wales, and Mrs. Thatcher appears likely to be the big loser. “They’re not from here, I can assure you,” said the manager of a tearoom on the main street of this usually idyllic town of 6,000 people as a sound truck sped by, its loudspeakers thundering. The cause of all the commotion, in a region where the lambing season usually provides the big excitement of the year, is a by-election on Thursday to choose a new Member of Parliament for the constituency known as Brecon and Radnor. He will replace a Conservative, Tom Hooson, who died recently.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz praised the Israeli government for the painful steps taken to put the country’s economy in order. Shultz said Washington is ready to support Israel in its austerity program with “supplemental economic assistance.” Earlier this year, Washington told Israel that economic reforms would be needed to justify a request for $1.5 billion in additional U.S. economic aid. In Israel, the dominant labor organization Histadrut followed a one-day strike with a demand that the government not implement key provisions of the austerity plan.
Israel today freed 300 of the 735 Lebanese and Palestinian detainees it has been holding in Atlit prison south of Haifa, but reasserted that their release was in no way connected to any deals with the Beirut hijackers of the Trans World Airlines jetliner. The 300 detainees, most of them Shiite Moslems, were taken by bus to the south Lebanese village of Ras Bayada, three miles north of the Israeli border and one of the northernmost outposts of Israel’s so-called security zone in southern Lebanon. There, the men were turned over to representatives of the International Commmittee of the Red Cross to be reunited with their families in Tyre, on the Lebanese coast. No decision has been made by the Israeli Cabinet on when to free the rest of the detainees, but senior military officials said they expected it to be sometime in the next two weeks, provided the situation in southern Lebanon remains quiet. No Israeli soldier has been killed in Lebanon in the last three months.
Syria devised the formula that led to the release of the 39 American hostages, United States officials said. They also disclosed that Iran, in an apparent effort to keep in step with President Hafez al-Assad of Syria and thus hold Syria’s support for its war with Iraq, also used its influence with the radical hijackers to persuade them to free the captives. Moreover, while the Americans had originally pinned their hopes heavily on Mr. Berri, they were surprised to see him for a day or two resisting the Syrian formula for solving the crisis, apparently for fear that the Syrians would get the credit and he would be beholden to them. And although both the American and Israeli Governments insist that they made no deal and no concessions to the hijackers or the Syrians, officials in Washington and Jerusalem have disclosed previously secret exchanges about the more than 700 detainees Israel had been holding. Their release was the main demand of the hijackers.
Crew members of the hijacked jet told a grim story of their 17 days in captivity, describing brutal beatings and an alternating cruelty and kindness by their captors. “Survival was obviously the name of the game, and trying to gain as much control of the situation as possible,” said Benjamin C. Zimmermann, the flight engineer, who was beaten fiercely by the original two hijackers, thought to be members of a radical Shiite Moslem group known as the Party of God. Mr. Zimmermann, John L. Testrake, the pilot, and Philip G. Maresca, the first officer, recounted their experience as hostages at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Manhattan at a news conference that began with expressions of gratitude to the American people and pleas that negotiations continue for the release of seven other Americans kidnapped or missing in Beirut. Like many of the passengers who shared the 17-day ordeal that began with the June 14 hijacking and ended with freedom last Sunday, the crew members divided their experience in two parts: the early days when they were in the hands of two marauding gunmen, and the later stage of captivity when their guards on board the Boeing 727 included members of the more moderate Amal militia.
The ex-hostages offered more details of their captivity. Several described the game of Russian roulette played by one hijacker, who loaded his revolver with one bullet, spun the chamber, aimed at a hostage and pulled the trigger. Ralf Traugott of Lunenburg, Massachusetts, told of spending four days and three nights being shown around Beirut by a commander in the Amal militia. He said the excursions included a tour of the Green Line separating Christian and Muslim areas and a visit to the funeral of a slain Amal militiaman. Another passenger, Sue Ellen Herzberg, a newlywed from Norfolk, Virginia, hid her wedding ring because it was inscribed with Hebrew characters. Two hostages from San Francisco, Victor Amburgy, 31, and his roommate, John McCarty, 40, said in an interview in the San Francisco Examiner that they concealed their homosexuality from their captors because they were afraid Muslims would punish homosexuals with death.
Fighting broke out today around one of three Palestinian settlements in southern Beirut, ending a two-week-old cease-fire arranged by Syria between Shiite militiamen and Palestinians. The police said a personal quarrel at the Burj al Brajneh settlement developed into rocket and machine-gun exchanges for three hours, prompting intervention from an eight-man coordinating committee that was formed to supervise the cease-fire arranged June 18.
President Reagan attends a National Security Planning Group meeting to discuss the hostage situation in Lebanon.
President Reagan discusses the possibility of bombing some known terrorist training centers in Libya.
Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq, who have held 26 foreign technicians hostage for months, have released 22 of their captives, but kept four others, a rebel spokesman said today. The rebel group, Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, had released an Italian, a Chinese, 6 Bulgarians, 4 Poles, and 10 Rumanians, the spokesman said. He did not reveal exactly when the men were released from the group’s headquarters in Marga Qaladiza near the Iranian border. The spokesman said the group was still holding two Japanese and two South Koreans. Most of the hostages had been involved in construction projects in Iraqi. The guerrillas had demanded that in return for the hostages, the governments and companies in their countries agree not to “engage in military or related projects in Iraqi Kurdistan without the approval” of the rebels.
Islamic rebels battling Soviet troops in Afghanistan have stepped up attacks in the capital of Kabul, striking at the Soviet Embassy and capturing two security posts within the last week, a witness said in New Delhi. After a month of relative calm, battles with rockets and machine guns have shaken the city, said the witness, a woman who recently returned from Kabul. “We got very worried because the fighting was so close and so intense,” said the woman, who declined to be identified. Her account was supported by Western diplomats.
Bangladeshi President H. M. Ershad appointed seven new ministers today, bringing the number in the Cabinet to 21, the Government announced. He also named three state ministers and one deputy minister. Among the new ministers were the opposition leaders, Kazi Zafar Ahmed of the United People’s Party and Sirakuul Hossain Khan of the Democratic Party.
A team of American experts arrived in Hanoi to discuss the question of U.S. servicemen missing in action during the Vietnam War, sources said. The six-member team, led by Lt. Col. Joe Harvey of the U.S. Joint Casualty Resolution Center, will discuss with Vietnamese officials the search for MIAS and the repatriation of remains. Washington says that the remains of more than 2,100 U.S. servicemen are still in Vietnam.
Peking freed the Bishop of Shanghai, who has spent nearly 30 years in jail, the New China News Agency announced. The 83-year-old prelate, the Rev. Ignatius Kung, is the best known of the hundreds of Chinese clerics who were persecuted by the Communists in the 1950’s.
Cuba’s ruling Communist Party has postponed its showpiece congress from December to February because of what Eastern European diplomats say is internal squabbling over President Fidel Castro’s Cabinet changes. An official statement said only that because of “tense circumstances,” the party decided it needed more time to prepare for the congress, which is held only once every five years.
Rebels bombarded Nicaraguan territory with mortar fire and launched a 2,500-man offensive to recapture a strategic contra airstrip and base in Nicaragua a mile from the Costa Rican border, clandestine rebel radio station reported. The Nicaraguan Defense Ministry, confirming the attack, said, “The mercenary forces have launched at least 20 armed attacks against La Penca from Costa Rican territory, causing the death of two combatants from the Sandinista People’s Army.” Government forces overran the rebel supply depot and base in June, forcing 500 contras to flee to Costa Rica.
A Salvadoran judge ruled today that there was insufficient evidence to arrest an army captain accused by new witnesses of having taken part in the slaying of two American agrarian advisers and the head of the Government’s land redistribution program here in 1981. The decision not to indict the accused officer, Captain Eduardo Alfonso Avila, was seen as a blow to official American efforts to bring suspected killers in the case to trial and to send a message that army officers are no longer immune to prosecution for human rights violations in El Salvador. No army officer has ever been convicted of killing civilians here.
El Salvador’s military spokesman said that U.S. helicopters piloted by Americans twice flew into El Salvador from Honduras last month to pick up damaged Salvadoran army helicopters, not once as Washington acknowledged Tuesday. Major Carlos Aviles said that CH-47 Chinook helicopters flew in June 14 and June 18, the only such missions American pilots have flown in El Salvador. However, video recordings taken by ABC-TV on June 25 apparently show another U.S. Chinook ferrying a Huey UH-1H helicopter over a guerrilla-held town.
Panama’s main labor federation, after an all-night bargaining session, called off a two-day-old strike that had threatened to halt shipping traffic through the Panama Canal. The government reportedly agreed not to call the legislature into special session to vote on proposed changes in the 14-year-old labor code to eliminate featherbedding. The code is viewed by many as an obstacle to sorely needed foreign investment.
A minister in the new military-sponsored Sudanese Government has reported meetings with rebels fighting a guerrilla war in the southern Sudan. It would be the first such contact since the uprising began two and a half years ago. Peter Gatkouth, the transportation and communications minister, was quoted today as saying that the envoys of Colonel John Garang, leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, had promised at an “unofficial” meeting held in London not to obstruct movement of relief supplies to famine areas in the south.
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d said in remarks released today that the Reagan Administration would cite the case of a purported Navy spy ring in pressing for quick passage of a bill to reinstate the Federal death penalty. In an interview, he said the Administration had noted the case of John A. Walker Jr. and three others charged in recent letters to lawmakers on Capitol Hill, urging them to support the bill. The bill would permit the execution of spies, airline hijackers and Presidential assassins, among others. While questioning the need for some anti-espionage legislation now before Congress, Mr. Meese urged tighter restrictions on the use of classified Government documents.
The Air Force said today that its first test of an antisatellite missile against an object in space would be delayed because of technical problems with the target. An Air Force spokesman, confirming information provided by Congressional and non-Government sources, said the Air Force had canceled the launching of two target devices into orbit and sent them to the manufacturer for repair. The launching had been set for June 22. A Congressional source said Air Force officials had told Congress the repairs were expected to delay the launching of the targets by two or three months.
Chief Justice Warren E. Burger cleared the way for implementation of sweeping new rules for federal employees that would swap their existing seniority system for a performance-based rating. Burger, at the request of the Reagan Administration, lifted a lower court order preventing new rules adopted by the Office of Personnel Management from taking effect. They were originally scheduled to take effect Monday.
Governor Edwin Edwards told a United States Attorney he would resign if the official agreed to block an indictment of the governor, a request that was refused, according to grand jury testimony released today by a Federal judge. Mr. Edwards and seven others were subsequently indicted in what the government said was a $10 million scheme to obtain state certificates authorizing the construction of hospitals and nursing homes. The state certificates were then sold to big hospital corporations, which would be able to recoup almost all of their expenditures through government programs, according to the indictment. A trial is scheduled for September 17. One of the cornerstones of Mr. Edwards’ pretrial defense has been the assertion that the United States Attorney, John P. Volz, improperly told grand jurors January 4 of a private conversation he had had with Mr. Edwards on January 2 at Mr. Volz’s office in New Orleans.
CBS, moving to thwart Ted Turner’s takeover offer, announced it would spend nearly $1 billion to repurchase up to 21 percent of its stock. Analysts said the plan, which amounts to a financial restructuring of CBS, contained several provisions that put the broadcast entrepreneur’s $5.4 billion bid for the company in severe jeopardy. The heavy debt that CBS will assume to finance the stock purchase would substantially increase the cost of acquiring the company.
Convicted killer Henry Lee Lucas said he was not surprised that a grand jury cleared him of three murders, even though he confessed to the slayings. “They know I didn’t do the crimes,” Lucas said from Texas’ Death Row in Huntsville, where he has been incarcerated for nearly two weeks. Grand jurors in McLennan County deliberated for less than 15 minutes before deciding that Lucas is not responsible for the 1977 Texas murder of Glen Parks of Bellmead, the 1978 murder of Rita Salazar of Georgetown or the 1981 murder of Dorothy Collins of Waco. Lucas had confessed to hundreds of killings but now says he lied and is responsible for only three.
The Alaska Legislature will convene in a special session July 15 to consider impeaching Governor Bill Sheffield for alleged abuse of power in negotiating a state office lease in Fairbanks, Senate President Don Bennett said. Bennett made the announcement after receiving word that more than the constitutionally required two-thirds of the 60 House and Senate members had voted in favor of a special session on the recommendation of a special grand jury that investigated the incident.
Arizona is preparing to join eight other states in requiring that workers who plant, hoe and harvest be given drinkable water, toilets and places to wash their hands. The regulations, which are expected to cost farmers and labor contractors an average of 72 cents per person per day, will be adopted by the state Occupational Health and Safety Administration, officials said in Phoenix.
Members of two unions representing 56,000 General Electric Co. workers will vote next week on three-year contracts providing wage increases, cost-of-living raises, retirement improvements and an agency shop. The unions announced in New York that the agreement provides, among other benefits, immediate cash payments to each employee averaging $675 and a special pay structure adjustment ranging from 1 cent per hour to 35 cents per hour.
Pennsylvania welfare caseworkers and unemployment workers returned to their desks, ending a two-day strike by two unions representing 11,000 employees. “Government is functioning normally,” Secretary of Administration Murray Dickman said. Members of the Pennsylvania Social Services Union and the Pennsylvania Employment Security Employees Assn. decided against “a long fight… in the streets,” PSSU President Anna Price said.
Four Tennessee prisons were under tight security today with prisoners kept in their locked cells after inmate uprisings that claimed one prisoner’s life, injured five inmates and caused at least $11 million in damage. “The minimum estimate available to us at the moment is $11 million,” Correction Commissioner Steve Norris said tonight. Earlier estimates had put the damage at $1 million.
A 25-year-old man was sentenced Tuesday to six months in jail for refusing to register with the Selective Service System. The man, Paul Jacob, smiled before being driven away to jail and said, “We’re all freer for this.” He was sentenced to the maximum five-year jail term, with all but six months suspended, after a two-day trial in Federal District Court. The jury deliberated about two hours before returning the verdict. Judge George Howard Jr. denied an appeal bond for Mr. Jacob. One of Mr. Jacob’s attorneys, Larry Vaught, said an appeal bond hearing would be sought before a different judge.
Firefighters battled more than a dozen major blazes in California today as a searing heat wave, low humidity, dry brush and wind combined to create explosive fire conditions in much of the state. Before dawn today a small group of firefighters working in 95-degree heat turned back wind-whipped flames as they bore down on the scenic community of Ojai, in the hills of Ventura County, 85 miles northeast of here. Deflected, the flames raced over adjoining slopes, blackening thousands of acres and sporadically menacing other neighborhoods on the outskirts of the town through the day. This evening, yet another blaze was threatening the town.
Some hospitals are discriminated against under the Medicare formula for deciding how much they are paid for treating patients, according to a study from Johns Hopkins University. The study says the system fails to take account of the severity of patients’ illnesses.
Tinker Bell’s first nightly flight at Walt Disney World Resort, Florida.
“Back to the Future” directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd is released.
John McEnroe was defeated in a quarterfinal match at Wimbledon, England by Kevin Curren. Curren used scorching serves to eliminate the No. 1-seeded player and three-time Wimbledon champion, 6–2, 6–2, 6–4. For two weeks, McEnroe’s game has generally lacked fire and he has appeared preoccupied. Thus, for the first time since 1979, the final will be played without the world’s best player and the one the British press likes to call “McNasty” for his argumentative nature on the court.
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Dave Bergman hit the first pitch from Sammy Stewart in the 10th inning tonight for a home run to give the Detroit Tigers a 4–3 victory over the Baltimore Orioles. Stewart (3–3), the fourth Oriole pitcher, had taken over to start the ninth inning. The winner was Dan Petry (10–6), who gave up a game-tying home run to Eddie Murray in the eighth inning but survived to record his seventh straight victory over the Orioles. In the top of the eighth, Lou Whitaker had given Detroit a brief lead with a two-out, two-run homer. It was the Tiger second baseman’s 13th home run of the season.
Mike Smithson allows 5 hits and goes the distance as the Twins beat the Indians, 7–0. Batterymate Tim Laudner has 3 hits, including a two-run home run, and drives in 6 runs. With Minnesota leading, 2–0, Laudner capped a three-run sixth inning with a 400-foot drive off the Cleveland starter Neal Heaton (4–10) for his fourth homer of the year. Dave Engle led off the inning with a long drive to right-center, and raced around the bases for an inside-the-park homer when Brett Butler and George Vukovich collided in the outfield. Two outs later, Greg Gagne doubled and Laudner followed with his home run.
For all of the commotion over their recent baseball move toward the top, the Yankees were beaten by the Toronto Blue Jays, 3–2, today because of a football move. With none out, the score tied, 2–2, in the 10th inning and Toronto runners on first and second base, George Bell hit what appeared to be a routine double play ball to Mike Pagliarulo, the Yankee third basemen. But instead of throwing to second base, Pagliarulo attempted to tag Lloyd Moseby, the runner from second who was barreling toward third base. Just as Pagliarulo went for the tag, Moseby, who had singled and stolen second, faked with his right shoulder and avoided the tag. Pagliarulo then threw wildly to first and Moseby scored to give the Blue Jays the victory in front of 40,376 fans at Exhibition stadium. By winning, the first-place Blue Jays averted a three-game sweep by the Yankees, and pushed their lead over New York to six and a half games in the American League East.
The Red Sox crushed the Brewers 9–0. Bruce Hurst held Milwaukee to five hits as Boston ended a four-game losing streak. The left-handed Hurst (4–7) walked one batter and struck out a career-high 10 in registering his first complete game of the season. The Red Sox pushed across five unearned runs on four hits in the third inning off Danny Darwin (6–8). They loaded the bases when Glenn Hoffman walked, Steve Lyons doubled and Marty Barrett, who had four hits, reached first on Darwin’s error. Darwin struck out Dwight Evans but walked Boggs to force in Hoffman with the first run. Jim Rice followed with a sacrifice fly and Bill Buckner hit a bloop double to left to make the score 3–0. Mike Easler then hit a two-run single to give the Red Sox a 5–0 lead.
Bret Saberhagen and Dan Quisenberry combined on a six-hitter, and Willie Wilson hit a home run to lead Kansas City over the visiting Oakland A’s, 3–0. Saberhagen (8–4), allowed five hits and struck out four before needing help in the ninth from Quisenberry, who posted his 15th save. The 21-year-old Saberhagen, who won five in a row before losing his last decision, struck out four and did not issue a walk. Chris Codiroli (8–4) only allowed seven hits in his losing effort. Two base running blunders ruined Oakland’s only threat in the seventh. After a single by Dave Kingman, Mike Davis hit a chopper to the shortstop, Buddy Biancalana, who threw too late to get Kingman sliding into second. Kingman was tagged out, however, when he overslid the bag. Davis went to third on a single by Dwayne Murphy and attempted to score when a Saberhagen pitch squibbled away from the catcher, Jim Sundberg. But Sundberg retrieved the ball and made an easy put out.
Al Cowens broke a 1–1 tie with a two-out, two-run double in a four-run eighth inning to lead Seattle past Chicago, 5–1. With the score tied in the eighth, Alvin Davis reached on a fielder’s choice, Gorman Thomas walked and Domingo Ramos was inserted as a pinch-runner for Davis. A wild pitch moved Ramos to third and Thomas to second, setting the stage for Cowens’s double down the third base line and just out of the reach of the White Sox third baseman Tim Hulett. Dave Henderson followed with a double, scoring Cowens and chasing Dan Spillner (2–2), who was pitching in relief Gene Nelson. Jim Presley walked and Bob Kearney then singled to score Henderson with the fourth run of the inning.
Bobby Grich’s single in the 11th inning drove home the winning run to give California a 3–2 win over the Texas Rangers. Grich’s shot to left came off reliever Dave Schmidt, 33, and brought home Brian Downing, who had singled to open the inning for the Angels and advanced to second when pinch-hitter Rob Wilfong bounced to first.
Ryne Sandberg ripped a two-run double in the ninth inning to rally Chicago to a 4–3 vitory over the Phillies before 56,092 fans, the largest crowd in the National League this season. The Phillies broke a 2–2 tie in the eighth on a bases-loaded single by Ozzie Virgil. But their ace reliever, Kent Tekulve (4–3), could not hold the lead. With one out, pinch-hitter Thad Bosley and Billy Hatcher singled before Sandberg doubled to center.
The Mets won their second straight game after six straight losses, and even treated themselves to the rarity of a four-run inning for the first time in 11 days. They got the big bang in the big inning from George Foster, who hit his fourth home run in 11 games in the first inning, and they went on to subdue the Pirates, 6–2. So, the slumbering hitters showed signs of stirring.More than that, they got nine innings of pitching from Ed Lynch, who gave the tender arms in the bullpen the night off.
Steve Howe, who said he could “not effectively handle many of the pressures” he felt playing in Los Angeles, was unconditionally released today by the Dodgers. The relief pitcher, who was suspended for the 1984 season because of cocaine abuse, missed Sunday’s game against the Atlanta Braves. Howe and his attorney, Jim Hawkins, met with Dodger officials Monday morning, but there was no explanation from either side of why Howe missed the game. Hawkins did say, however, that Howe had passed a drug test administered Monday.
Detroit Tigers 4, Baltimore Orioles 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Chicago White Sox 1
Oakland Athletics 0, Kansas City Royals 3
Boston Red Sox 9, Milwaukee Brewers 0
Cleveland Indians 0, Minnesota Twins 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, New York Mets 6
Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia Phillies 3
California Angels 3, Texas Rangers 2
New York Yankees 2, Toronto Blue Jays 3
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Born:
Jesse Nading, NFL defensive end (Houston Texans), in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Greg Reynolds, MLB pitcher (Colorado Rockies, Cincinnati Reds), in Pacifica, California.
Minami Keisuke, Japanese singer and actor, in Yokohama, Japan.
Died:
Cooney Weiland, 80, Canadian ice hockey coach (Stanley Cup-Boston Bruins 1941; Harvard Univ) and NHL forward (Boston Bruins, Detroit Red Wings).
Frank J. Selke, 92, Canadian Hockey HOF executive (9 x Stanley Cup Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens).
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