The Reagan Administration, answering Soviet criticism of American plans for a space-based missile defense, today amplified charges that Moscow had been conducting similar research for years. An Administration spokesman said that by the end of the decade, the Soviet Union could be in a position to deploy technologies that would violate the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty, which sought to limit missile defenses. The spokesman, Paul H. Nitze, who is arms adviser to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, said in an interview that the technologies, which are also being studied in the United States, included high-energy lasers, particle beam weapons, radio frequency weapons, and kinetic energy weapons. These new missile-defense technologies have been grouped under what is officially known in the United States as the Strategic Defense Initiative and is popularly called “Star Wars.” “We are concerned,” Mr. Nitze said, “that, in the aggregate, Soviet ABM-related activities could provide them the basis for deployment of an ABM defense of their national territory, which would violate the treaty. I think they could have something by 1990 that would be a partial defense of their national territory, though it would not be something which we could not overwhelm.”
A computer scientist has resigned from an advisory panel on antimissile defense, asserting that it will never be possible to program a vast complex of battle management computers reliably or to assume they will work when confronted with a salvo of nuclear missiles. The scientist, David L. Parnas, a professor at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, who is a consultant to the Office of Naval Research in Washington, was one of nine scientists asked by the Stategic Defense Initiative Office to serve at $1,000 a day on the “panel on computing in support of battle management.” Professsor Parnas, an American citizen with secret military clearances, said in a letter of resignation June 28 and in 17 pages of accompanying memorandums that it would never be possible to test realistically the large array of computers that would link and control a system of sensors, antimissile weapons, guidance and aiming devices, and battle management stations. Nor, he protested, would it be possible to follow orthodox computer program-writing practices in which errors and “bugs” are detected and eliminated in prolonged everyday use.
A Soviet air force pilot was believed killed when his SU-15 jet fighter crashed in the Baltic Sea after pursuing a Swedish fighter plane monitoring a Warsaw Pact naval exercise, officials in Stockholm reported. The incident occurred Sunday when the Swedish fighter approached an East Bloc naval exercise in international waters, defense spokesman Jan Tuninger said. He said both pilots were following routine procedures.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed a foreign aid bill totaling $12.6 billion that appears to reflect growing determination in Congress to confront Communist and other leftist governments around the world. The measure authorizes new aid for insurgents battling the Marxist governments in Cambodia and Afghanistan and would lift a nine-year ban on United States aid to rebels in Angola.
A robot submarine retrieved the remaining so-called black box from the sunken wreckage of an Air-India jet off Ireland, giving investigators an improved chance of discovering why the airliner crashed last month with the loss of 329 lives. Commander Sunil Kulknari, the leader of the Indian investigating team, said that both the flight recorder recovered this morning, which contains information on the aircraft’s speed, altitude and heading, and the cockpit voice recorder, brought up on Wednesday, were undamaged.
Reagan Administration officials said today that the second-ranking Czechoslovak diplomat here had defected to the United States. According to the officials, the diplomat, Milan Svec, the minister-counselor of the Czechoslovak Embassy, had asked for and been granted political asylum in the middle of May. He was the highest-ranking East European diplomat to defect here since Ambassador Romuald Spasowski of Poland asked for asylum after the imposition of martial law in his country in 1981. The Polish Ambassador to Japan, Zdzislaw Rurarz, also defected to Washington then. No details were immediately available on the reasons for Mr. Svec’s move or on his background.
West German authorities announced that they are confiscating thousands of bottles of imported Austrian wine after learning that vast supplies were poisoned by a chemical used as antifreeze. The Health Ministry in Bonn warned consumers to avoid expensive Austrian wines until the scandal is resolved. A spokesman said the government thinks that about 1.5 million liters of the wine has crossed the border. Austrian investigators suspect that up to 27 wine-exporting firms have been lacing cheap wine with the chemical to sweeten it and offer it as costly dessert wine.
About 70,000 Israeli public employees planning to join water and electrical workers already on strike against government austerity measures called off the action. Their unions’ leaders canceled the walkout after an appeal by Prime Minister Shimon Peres that workers give Israel’s sweeping austerity decrees a chance to succeed. The accord grew out of marathon talks among Peres, Finance Minister Yitzhak Modai and Histadrut trade-union federation leader Yisrael Kessar aimed at averting a general strike set for next week.
Israeli agents tracked Josef Mengele to Paraguay and Sao Paulo, Brazil, in late 1962 but did not try to capture the fugitive Nazi war criminal because the hideouts were too heavily guarded, according to a former chief of the Israeli secret service. But others have suggested that Israel, stung by criticism over its abduction of Adolf Eichmann, was reluctant to undertake another one, even if it involved a man of Dr. Mengele’s notoriety. Since investigators found last month, based on an analysis of bones from a grave, that Dr. Mengele died in Brazil in 1979, questions have also been raised about West Germany’s diligence in tracking down Dr. Mengele, who now appears to have had several hairbreadth escapes. And details have begun to emerge indicating that some of his World War II deeds were even more horrific than reported. He was wanted for the gassing and torture of 400,000 inmates of the Auschwitz death camp.
The Sudan’s growing ties with Libya, highlighted this week by an announcement of a mutual defense protocol, have stirred deep concern in Egypt. But at the same time, Egyptian officials and experts on the Sudan say that the historical, ethnic, cultural and political links between the Sudan and Egypt are so strong that it would be very difficult for Libya or any other country to disrupt them. “We are concerned, definitely,” said Ahmed Ezzat Abdullatif, Egypt’s Ambassador to Khartoum between 1981 and August 1984. “But there is no sense of panic here. There is a sense that the affinity and friendship between our two countries and peoples goes beyond agreements and would in many ways be impossible to destroy.”
Although President Reagan’s call for an international boycott of the Beirut airport has aroused little enthusiasm in Western Europe, some officials are holding out the possibility that a common pro-boycott position could emerge later this month. But the likelihood seems remote at this time. The officials note that the question is to be brought up July 22 at a meeting of the 10 European Community foreign ministers.
Bomb blasts tore through two crowded cafes in Kuwait, killing at least 11 people and wounding 89. Witnesses said the two almost simultaneous explosions caused havoc among crowds relaxing on the beachfront on the eve of a Muslim holy day. There were no immediate claims of responsibility. In the same area, Kuwait’s ruler, Sheik Jabbar al Ahmed al Sabah escaped a car-bomb attack May 25. Responsibility for that attack was claimed by the Islamic Jihad terrorist group.
New U.S. arms are going to Pakistan. Washington said it was speeding shipments of 100 portable antiaircraft missiles and new air-to-air missiles to help Pakistani defenses against increasing numbers of air incursions from Afghanistan flown by either Soviet or Afghan pilots. The decision to send the portable missiles, known as Stingers, was made even though many in Congress are wary about the sale of such weapons abroad. Designed to be fired by a person cradling the launcher on one shoulder, the Stingers are regarded as ideal weapons for terrorists seeking to down airliners. Plans by the Administration to provide Jordan with Stingers have been repeatedly delayed because of Congressional opposition. But last year President Reagan authorized the sale of Stingers to Saudi Arabia on an emergency basis, in response to threats to Saudi oilfields from Iran. By invoking an emergency, Mr. Reagan was able to avoid Congressional scrutiny.
Police in Sri Lanka found a van laden with explosives and charged that Tamil separatists planned to blow up the presidential offices in hopes of killing President Junius R. Jayewardene. Two young Tamils were arrested. The 260 pounds of explosives in the van could have brought down the building, officials said. However, Jayewardene, who has been ill, was not in his office, and there was speculation that the intent was not to assassinate him, but to kill other high officials in the government, which is dominated by majority Sinhalese.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz indicated today that the United States is resuming a more active role in Southeast Asia, with increased military, political and economic support for its friends in the region. Speaking to Foreign Ministers of the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, Mr. Shultz said the United States will increase military assistance to Thailand, that it is willing to increase humanitarian and political aid to the Cambodian rebels, and that is prepared to provide antiterrorism training in the region. Mr. Shultz expressed “deep concern” for the security of the six nations, especially the Philippines and Thailand, and said the strengthening of United States naval and air power in Asia and the Pacific demonstrates “our intention and our will to remain of paramount importance” in the area.
Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos ordered an investigation into press reports that government officials and individuals violated Philippine laws by amassing wealth and transferring the fortunes abroad. The order followed stories in both the United States and the Philippines, charging that Marcos, his wife, Imelda, and friends of theirs made multimillion-dollar investments in real estate and other U.S. businesses.
China’s President, leaving for a tour of the United States and Canada, responded angrily today to a vote in the United States House of Representatives that condemned Peking’s one-child-per-family policy. Speaking to reporters at Peking Airport, President Li Xiannian described as “a fabrication and distortion” a measure, approved Wednesday, that accused China of using forced abortion and sterilization. The legislation, an amendment to the foreign aid bill, described such population-control methods as “crimes against humanity” and barred the use of American funds for any nation with a policy of coerced abortion. Mr. Li, visibly agitated, added his remarks on the amendment to a prepared statement in which he spoke of the “positive results” he hoped for from his tour.
Nicaragua’s second-ranking diplomat, Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco, will become Acting Foreign Minister upon his return from a Central American tour Friday, officials said today. The Foreign Minister, the Rev. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, a Maryknoll priest, this week began what he described as a fast to protest “the state terrorism of the United States Government against Nicaragua.” He said his fast would continue “until an evangelical insurrection is sparked in Nicaragua.” Last week, Father d’Escoto wrote to President Daniel Ortega Saavedra asking permission to remain away from his functions as Foreign Minister for the duration of a fast. There was no official indication of when or whether Father d’Escoto would return to his post.
More than 40,000 refugees from drought-affected areas of Mali and Niger have moved across the border into southern Algeria, and the Algerian Government has appealed for international aid, a United Nations official said today. United Nations relief spokesmen said the movement marked Algeria’s first major influx of refugees fleeing the famine in neighboring nations.
Hundreds of women facing eviction from hotels in Nairobi, Kenya, because of a conflict in scheduling two international women’s conferences were given an 11th-hour reprieve when the Kenya government agreed to permit them to double-up and triple-up in their accommodations. Government and hotel officials agreed to the compromise to prevent delegates to Forum 85, a privately organized meeting, from being forced to make way for delegates to a U.N. conference on women.
The U.S. Senate voted economic sanctions against South Africa aimed at pressing the Pretoria Government to ease apartheid. The action, which is opposed by the Reagan Administration, was approved by a vote of 80 to 12. The action means that Congress is likely, for the first time, to approve sanctions intended to force the South African Government to change apartheid. Such a move would be a major rebuff for the Reagan Administration, which has followed a policy that it calls constructive engagement, which is intended to seek change in South Africa’s racial policies by diplomatic persuasion, not by confrontation.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
Saying there would be “a very strong temptation for the defendant to flee,” a federal judge in Baltimore refused to transfer a sailor accused of espionage from jail to a halfway house. Attorneys for Michael Lance Walker, 22, had said his wife’s parents would pledge $97,000 in property to assure his appearance at trial on charges of spying for the Soviet Union. Walker, who was assigned to the aircraft carrier Nimitz, is accused of passing secrets to his father, John A. Walker Jr., 47, of Norfolk, Virginia, the alleged mastermind of an espionage ring.
The House opened negotiations with the Senate on differing Pentagon spending proposals by overwhelmingly reaffirming its support for the execution of military personnel convicted of peacetime espionage. The 320-101 vote came as members of the two chambers began what were expected to be lengthy negotiations aimed at resolving more than 1,000 differences in their bills to authorize Pentagon spending for fiscal 1986.
President Reagan attends a meeting to discuss a Constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget.
President Reagan attends a meeting to discuss immigration reform.
The Federal Aviation Administration has proposed an immediate 400 percent increase in funds for work on an explosives-detecting system it believes could be put into production in early 1988, Government officials said yesterday. The system would show the presence of explosives in bags destined for the hold of an airliner by a technique that detects nitrogen, which is used in all known explosives. The system has been successfully operated in tests using unwieldy laboratory equipment. The tests were completed long before the need for measures to protect aviation operations from terrorists was reinforced by the ordeal of the hostages hijacked to Lebanon, by the Air-India crash in the Atlantic that may have been caused by a bomb and by the explosion in luggage taken off an airliner in Japan.
The newly refurbished space shuttle Columbia moves overland from Palmdale to the NASA Dryden facility at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
The Senate unanimously approved nominations of 24 officials to State Department posts, ending a month-long “hold” imposed by Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) and other conservatives. Four nominees remain in limbo pending votes next week. The bloc vote will allow several key nominees to take office, including Thomas Pickering as ambassador to Israel and Elliott W. Abrams as assistant secretary for inter-American affairs. The four who remain on hold are Richard R. Burt as ambassador to West Germany; Edwin Corr, El Salvador; John A. Ferch, Honduras; and Rozanne Ridgway as assistant secretary of state for European affairs.
The Senate Agriculture Committee took steps virtually assuring that new farm law will contain some of the strongest soil-conservation provisions in years, voting to ban federal aid to farmers who cultivate highly erodible land. The panel voted to set up a long-term reserve of up to 30 million acres — 5 million more than in the House version — by paying farmers to remove their most erosive land from production. Agriculture Department officials estimate that as much as 53 million acres of cropland could qualify for the reserve immediately.
Albert Shanker endorsed merit pay for teachers for the first time. In a speech, Mr. Shanker, the president of the American Federation of Teachers, strongly advocated quality education and proposed that a nationally based merit plan be developed for teachers, giving his backing to a position that has been bitterly opposed by teacher unions. “We’ve heard the arguments about merit pay for at least 50 years and the issue does not go away,” Mr. Shanker said. “Most people in this country believe hard work and better work ought to be rewarded, and opposing this makes us look like we are not interested in quality. So we ought to think about ways of handling the issue while avoiding the pitfalls.”
Municipal governments, especially small ones, are experiencing a modest economic recovery, but nearly half of all cities are running budget deficits, according to a report issued by the Joint Economic Committee of Congress. Federal aid to cities continues to shrink as a proportion of city budgets and is about half what it was in 1979, the report found, and cities are relying heavily on sales, property and income taxes for operating funds, and on industrial revenue bonds for economic development.
A new device has destroyed wastes contaminated by dioxin, the Environmental Protection Agency announced. The agency said that a trial burn in a newly developed mobile incinerator, conducted at a Missouri site contaminated with the most toxic form of dioxin, destroyed 99.9999 percent of the waste. The success of a mobile incinerator in destroying chemical contaminants in soil marks a major breakthrough in hazardous waste cleanup systems, the Environmental Protection Agency said. The incinerator successfully completed a six-week test at the dioxin-contaminated Denney Farm site near the southwest Missouri community of Verona in April. After evaluation, EPA official Bernard Goldstein said: “It’s come out with flying colors.”
Retired Admiral Hyman G. Rickover was reported in stable condition at Bethesda Naval Hospital, where he is recovering from a stroke. Lieutenant David Morris, a Navy spokesman, confirmed that Rickover, 85, had suffered a stroke. Rickover was admitted July 4 in serious condition, but his condition has improved to stable, said Lieutenant Charles Updegrove, a spokesman at the hospital, which is just outside Washington. Rickover, known as the “father of the nuclear Navy,” retired in 1982.
Judge Richard F. LeFevour is either astute in judging horses and made thousands of dollars at the race track, or he made the money by fixing cases for fees. The conflicting portraits have emerged in the eight-week trial of Judge LeFevour, the presiding judge of Chicago’s courts since 1981. He is the highest official indicted as a result of a Federal undercover investigation into corruption in Cook County courts.
Supplies of the widely used vaccine for diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis, or whooping cough, have returned to normal after last winter’s shortage, a Federal agency said today. It recommended resumption of a series of five shots for children of preschool age. The agency, the Centers for Disease Control, recommended in December that parents postpone their children’s last two shots because of vaccine shortages brought about by manufacturers’ concern over lawsuits. But with two manufacturers still producing it, supplies of the vaccine have returned to normal, said Dr. Steve Wassilak of the Centers for Disease Control. The committee noted that vaccinations for children who have had seizures, either with or without accompanying fever, were “no longer necessarily recommended.”
A nationwide recall of cheeses and other Mexican-style dairy products produced by Cacique Fine Foods has been ordered by the Food and Drug Administration. The agency warned consumers in 13 states that the products may contain a deadly bacteria linked to an outbreak of illness that has killed 61 people.
A new law will aid Boston’s finances and give municipalities in Massachusetts authority to levy and spend sales taxes. Gov. Michael S. Dukakis signed the measure, which is intended primarily to help Boston pay off a $55 million deficit.
Opponents of expanded military operations in the area invaded three bombing ranges at Fallon Naval Air Station today, forcing officials to shut down the bomb-strewn areas in a search for camouflaged protesters. Chief Petty Officer Steve Burghardt, spokesman for the station, about 60 miles east of here, said the protesters endangered themselves and searchers who hunted for them in the ranges where there are unexploded bombs. “They succeeded in closing down our ranges,” he said. “But at the same time they succeeded in undermining the combat readiness of Navy personnel.” The incident delayed training involving 57 planes at the Navy’s main West Coast bombing and flight training base. The protest was organized by a group calling itself the Coalition of Rural Americans.
Soldiers prepared today to join the force of 17,000 firefighters battling blazes in 12 Western states. Dangerous conditions also persisted in British Columbia, where the authorities made emergency plans to evacuate more than 20,000 residents of a threatened valley. Meanwhile, two new fires erupted within minutes of each other in Los Angeles County, and a third fire started in Riverside County, California. The Army emergency action center at the San Francisco Presidio began today to plan deployment of 1,000 troops of the Sixth Army, a spokesman said. The troops may be needed soon, because weather forecasters predict few breaks for the thousands of firefighters recruited from around the nation. A 250-acre blaze 30 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles forced evacuation of about 150 residents from a mobile home park near Newhall. Another fire charred at least 160 acres about 30 miles west of downtown. A 350-acre fire near Lake Hemet, 50 miles southeast of Riverside, forced 400 Girl Scouts to evacuate a camp, a spokesman for the Forest Service said.
Against a backdrop of enthusiasm for the United States Football League’s championship game Sunday, the league is faced with the possibility of losing one of its star players. Steve Young, the Los Angeles Express quarterback, and his attorney met for more than three hours yesterday with Harry Usher, the league commissioner, to discuss Young’s future in the U.S.F.L. – if, in fact, he has one. Leigh Steinberg, the attorney, said that Young was considering leaving the Express to join a National Football League team for the 1985 season. Young’s N.F.L. rights are held by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Rafael Ramirez drilled a bases-loaded single with none out in the bottom of the ninth inning to snap a tie and give the Braves a 3–2 win at Atlanta. Ramirez’s single to right-center came after Rick Cerone had opened the inning with a double to left off losing reliever Larry Andersen (3-3). Glenn Hubbard then sacrificed pinch-runner Milt Thompson to third and was safe at first on a fielder’s choice. Claudell Washington was intentionally walked before Ramirez hit his game-winner. Bruce Sutter (5-4) picked up the victory.
Nolan Ryan becomes the first pitcher to record 4,000 strikeouts, fanning Danny Heep in the 6th inning of Houston’s 12-inning 4–3 win over the Mets. Ryan finishes with 11 strikeouts in 7 innings but gets no decision. Bill Doran’s one-out single to left field, off the reliever Tom Gorman, scored Dickie Thon from second in the 12th for the victory. The 38-year-old Ryan, known for his blazing fastball, entered the game needing seven strikeouts to reach 4,000. He got the seventh against Heep on just three pitches in the dramatic sixth inning.
A bases-loaded single by Steve Yeager touched off a three-run seventh inning for Los Angeles, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs, 3–1. The Dodger rally began when Bill Russell and Enos Cabell singled and Greg Brock moved them ahead with a sacrifice. An intentional walk to Candy Maldonado loaded the bases before Yeager singled to left for two runs. Steve Sax then singled Maldonado home with the third run. Earlier, Pedro Guerrero, who hit a home run Wednesday night and then struggled to get around the bases because of spasms in his lower back, was examined at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. A hospital spokesman said the examination showed the spasms were caused by a muscle strain at the site of a previous back injury. Bill Buhler, the Dodgers’ trainer, said team physicians would examine Guerrero Friday. Buhler said Guerrero might be sent home to Los Angeles before the team concludes its road trip Sunday.
The Cardinals blanked the Padres, 6–0. Vince Coleman and Willie McGee both had two hits, three stolen bases and scored two runs, and John Tudor pitched his fourth shutout for St. Louis. Tudor (10-7), who won for the ninth straight time, struck out five and walked one. He retired 18 of the last 20 San Diego batters. In the bottom of the first, Tito Landrum singled home the only two runs Tudor needed against the San Diego left-hander Mark Thurmond (3-7). Ozzie Smith and Andy Van Slyke also stole bases for St. Louis, giving the Cards a major-league season high of eight for the game. It was St. Louis’ fifth victory in a row and San Diego’s third straight setback.
Dann Bilardello and Gary Redus singled home runs in the seventh inning runs, and Ron Robinson and Ted Power combined on a seven-hitter for Cincinnati, as the Reds shut out the Expos, 2–0. Robinson (5-0) struck out six before leaving in the eighth inning in favor of Power, who got his 16th save and seventh in his last seven opportunities.
The Pirates downed the Giants, 6–4. Johnny Ray hit a two-run homer, rookie Joe Orsulak went 4 for 4 and drove in a run, and Cecilio Guante pitched 5 ⅔ innings of two-hit relief at Pittsburgh as the Pirates ended a four-game losing streak and handed the Giants their fifth straight loss.
The Texas Rangers, who haven’t won much of anything this season, might have won a battle last night, but they lost the game. The Yankees won, 11–7, because Don Mattingly stroked a three-run double and Don Baylor pinch-hit a grand slam in the fourth inning. The Yankees’ eight-run fourth, which carried them to their seventh victory in eight games, came one inning after Toby Harrah sent Joe Cowley, the Yankees’ starting pitcher, out of the game with a bone-jarring block. Four Texas runs followed.
Fred Lynn cracks a 3-run homer with two outs in the 9th as the Orioles score 4 times to beat the White Sox, 7–6. It is Lynn’s sixth 9th-inning homer of the year, and his third walkoff. Lynn’s opposite-field drive came on a 2-1 pitch by Mike Stanton. Carlton Fisk knocked in the first three runs for the White Sox with a sacrifice fly in the first and a two-run homer, his 22nd, in the third. The homer by Fisk was his 243rd while playing as a catcher, breaking a tie with Roy Campanella for the No. 3 spot on the career list. Johnny Bench leads all catchers with 389 homers and Yogi Berra had 313.
Willie Upshaw snapped a 3-3 tie with a fifth-inning single, and George Bell contributed a pair of run-scoring singles to lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-3 victory over the California Angels tonight. The Blue Jays, the leaders in the American League East, trailed California, the leaders in the West, by 3-1 in the fifth. But Damaso Garcia led off the inning with a single off Jim Slaton (4-8). Lloyd Moseby walked and Rance Mulliniks singled to score Garcia. Doyle Alexander (8-6) survived 10 hits over six and two-thirds innings to snap a personal four-game losing streak.
The A’s pounded the Brewers, 9–3. Mickey Tettleton hit a home run and and scored three runs and Don Sutton (9-5) won his sixth straight game for Oakland. It was Sutton’s 289th career victory. The A’s handed Sutton an early six-run lead, scoring three runs in the second inning against Pete Vuckovich (3-7) and three more off reliever Jamie Cocanower in the third. Sutton pitched seven innings, allowing seven hits and two earned runs.
Danny Jackson (7-6) pitched his third shutout and George Brett’s first-inning homer provided the game’s only run as Kansas City beat Cleveland, 1–0. Brett cracked his 12th home run with two outs in the first. He was 3-for-4 in the game, raising his batting average to .359, making him the major league leader. He is hitting .575 with 23 hits in 40 times at bat in July.
The Twins downed the Tigers, 5–1, as Mark Salas doubled home a pair of runs to spark a three-run Minnesota rally in the fifth inning. It was Minnesota’s fifth triumph without a defeat over the defending World Series champions this season. Mike Smithson (8-7) took a four-hitter with four walks and four strikeouts into the ninth before giving up two singles. Ron Davis then came in to strike out three and register his 11th save. The Tigers’ Randy O’Neal (5-2) had his winning streak snapped at four games.
The Red Sox thumped the Mariners, 7–1. Al Nipper and Steve Crawford combined on a one-hitter, and Steve Lyons knocked in three runs, two with a homer, to lead the Red Sox past the Mariners at Seattle. Nipper (5-6) allowed only a sixth-inning single by Ivan Calderon but walked six in 5 ⅓ innings before being relieved by Crawford.
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Atlanta Braves 3
Chicago White Sox 6, Baltimore Orioles 7
Toronto Blue Jays 5, California Angels 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Chicago Cubs 1
Montreal Expos 0, Cincinnati Reds 2
Kansas City Royals 1, Cleveland Indians 0
Minnesota Twins 5, Detroit Tigers 1
New York Mets 3, Houston Astros 4
Texas Rangers 7, New York Yankees 11
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Oakland Athletics 9
San Francisco Giants 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Boston Red Sox 7, Seattle Mariners 1
San Diego Padres 0, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1337.70 (+4.81)
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Mike Cox, NFL fullback (Kansas City Chiefs, Atlanta Falcons), in Lewisberry, Pennsylvania.
Sam Giguere, Canadian NFL wide receiver (Indianapolis Colts), in Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Mark Mancari, Canadian NHL right wing (Buffalo Sabres, Vancouver Canucks), in London, Ontario, Canada.
Aki Maeda, Japanese actress (“Battle Royale”), in Tokyo, Japan.
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