A veto of foreign aid legislation by President Reagan is likely if House-Senate conferees do not drastically revise the authorization bill that the House approved Thursday, according to senior Administration officials. They said the House measure was particularly objectionable to the Administration because of many provisions that would curb the power of the President in foreign affairs. A high-ranking State Department official said the foreign aid authorization bills – another version was approved by the Senate in May – provided about $1 billion less than what the President sought. The House bill authorizes $12.6 billion in each of the fiscal years 1986 and 1987; the Senate version authorizes $12.8 billion for 1986.
At least 23 policemen were hurt and 11 people were arrested today in Northern Ireland in clashes linked to Orange Day parades, the police said. Fighting was reported early today in about 20 cities and towns. The worst violence occurred in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of Belfast, where for the first time in 150 years the police barred Protestants from marching through a Roman Catholic district known as the Tunnel. Protestants marched through the district on Sunday and had warned that they would try to do so again today. More than 600 police officers, backed by hundreds of soldiers, came under repeated barrages of rocks, bricks and bottles today as they guarded either end of the Obins Street neighborhood, where about 70 Catholic families live. The police fired plastic bullets to disperse Protestant youths. At least three policemen were injured in the clashes, and two people were arrested. The Orange Day parades commemorate the defeat of the Catholic army of King James II by the Protestant forces of William of Orange in the Battle of the Boyne on July 12, 1690.
Portuguese President Antonio Ramalho Eanes dissolved Parliament today and called elections for October 6 amid speculation that Prime Minister Mario Soares, a Socialist, would soon declare himself a candidate for the presidency in a later election. Mr. Eanes, who is scheduled to leave office in January after serving for 10 years, decided on dissolution and early elections as the solution to a political impasse caused by the collapse a month ago of Mr. Soares’s two-year-old coalition with the Social Democrats.
A Turk who Mehmet Ali Ağca asserts was a key figure in a plot to shoot Pope John Paul II has told the Turkish police that he was involved in arms and drug smuggling operations based in Bulgaria, according to Istanbul interrogation transcripts. But the documents show that the Turk, Bakir Celenk, repeatedly denied that he ever knew Mr. Ağca or had anything to do with a purported Soviet-bloc assassination plot.
The state-run Beirut radio reported today that Lebanese authorities had identified the men who hijacked a Trans World Airlines jet last month and intended to prosecute them. The White House tentatively welcomed the report, which it called ”a step forward.” But State Department officials could not confirm the details of the broadcast. The report was broadcast at 11 AM in Beirut and was dropped in later newscasts.
Iraqi warplanes crippled a Turkish supertanker today, setting its stern section on fire with a missile strike, Persian Gulf shipping sources said. It was the second such attack in a week on a Turkish vessel loaded with Iranian oil. All 38 crewmen abandoned ship, and no casualties were reported. The owners said there was no loss of cargo. The tankers were attacked at dawn about 100 miles south of Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal.
Representatives of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board left today for India to help analyze information that may be obtained from the ”black boxes” that were retrieved this week from the sunken wreckage of an Air-India jet that crashed off Ireland last month. A team headed by John Young, who participated in the efforts to recover the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder from a depth of 6,700 feet, is expected to spend several weeks in the analysis. The voice recorder is designed to keep a record of the last 30 minutes of conversations in the cockpit through a microphone placed in the ceiling of the area between the flight captain and first officer. These activities would include any conversations on the plane, noises and sounds heard in the cabin.
Thirty-seven Vietnamese, believed to be ”boat people” fleeing their homeland, have been returned to Vietnam by a Soviet freighter that plucked them from the South China Sea, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said today. Officials of the United Nations commission said it was the first time to their knowledge that Vietnamese refugees had been returned home in all the years since the end of the Vietnam War 10 years ago began a mass exodus from the Southeast Asian nation. More than 555,000 Vietnamese have fled since the fall of Saigon, many of them in rickety, often unseaworthy craft or private boats. Thousands have died in the South China Sea of starvation, dehydration, accidents and pirate attacks.
Japan told the United States today that by the end of the month the Government would have a plan of action to deal with trade problems between the two countries, a senior State Department official said. The outline of the plan was presented to Secretary of State George P. Shultz today by Japan’s Foreign Minister, Shintaro Abe, at a private meeting. Both men were in Kuala Lumpur for three days of annual consultations with Southeast Asian and Pacific leaders. Mr. Shultz left tonight for Australia. The Secretary of State met today with the Foreign Ministers of the six members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations – Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, Brunei and the Philippines — and with a delegation from New Zealand. Mr. Shultz also took part in wider talks, involving Australia and Canada, on trade and security issues in the Pacific.
Although his name was not to be found on the ballot, Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone appears to have emerged as the big winner in Tokyo municipal elections that were won this week by his Liberal Democratic Party. Tokyo’s voting pattern is regarded by many Japanese politicians as a guide — albeit an imperfect one — to national trends. So Liberal Democrats were heartened by the impressive gains they registered in the balloting. They hoped the results from the voting, which took place Sunday, signaled that the time was ripe for them to call parliamentary elections and reverse the sharp loss of seats they suffered in December 1983.
An American helicopter on a training flight crashed in Okinawa today, killing the four marines on board, a Marine Corps spokesman said. The CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter crashed at 1:15 PM about 45 miles northeast of Naha, the capital of Okinawa. The helicopter had been based at the Futenma Marine base near Naha, 1,000 miles southwest of Tokyo. At the Pentagon, the Marine Corps identified the victims as Captain Neal T. Lippy, 27 years old, of Littletown, Pennsylvania, the pilot; First Lieutenant Charles C. Alsworth Jr., 30, of Paradise Valley, Arizona, the co-pilot; Sgt. Timothy C. Walker, who was to have turned 25 on Saturday, of Muskogee, Oklahoma, the crew chief, and Cpl. Charles R. Tyler Jr., 21, of Great Valley, New York, the first mechanic. A witness said the aircraft spouted gray smoke before exploding in flight and crashing on a wooded hillside at Camp Butler, the main Marine base on the southern Japanese island, according to a police spokesman. It was the third fatal accident involving a CH-53D Sea Stallion helicopter in Asia in 18 months. The Marine spokesman, Captain Dan Trout, said the cause of the crash had not been determined.
The police in Auckland, New Zealand said today that they were looking for a Frenchman who was seen near the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior before a bomb sank it. They said they had asked the international police organization Interpol to help track him. Two explosions Wednesday night blew a 6-by-8-foot hole in the ship’s hull and killed a photographer who was working for the environmental organization. The police said they thought the Frenchman might be in Tahiti, and they have asked authorities there for permission to talk to him. They would not reveal his name. The police said earlier that members of the Rainbow Warrior’s crew had told them that they saw the Frenchman near the vessel shortly before it was sunk at its berth in Auckland Harbor. The international environmental group used the ship in its protests against nuclear testing and waste dumping and the killing of seals, dolphins and whales.
Leftist guerrillas attacked El Salvador’s largest prison today with mortar and rifle fire and 104 prisoners escaped in the confusion, the prison commander said. Jose Vitelio Escobar, commander of the La Mariona Prison, said the attack came as prisoners were about to be locked up for the evening. He said 104 prisoners, including 13 political detainees, bolted from the prison during the half-hour attack, which left three guards wounded, one critically. One prisoner was recaptured, he said.
As a student revolutionary, he helped ignite the war in the streets that shook El Salvador in 1979. Today, as the senior commander of leftist guerrilla forces, he directs a military campaign that has forced the United States to make a major military commitment to this small country. His name is Joaquin Villalobos, a man well known to the Salvadoran Army and the Central Intelligence Agency, but almost never seen publicly in El Salvador and virtually unheard of in the outside world. If records are accurate, he has just celebrated his 34th birthday. Of all the rebel commanders, Mr. Villalobos appears the most militaristic, relying heavily on force of arms. Last weekend, in a rare interview, he vowed to topple the Government of President Jose Napoleon Duarte and to kill more American military personnel in El Salvador.
Unusual heavy rains in the Sudan are seriously hindering efforts to deliver food to hundreds of thousands of famine victims, according to relief workers who have recently returned from the region of Darfur. Unless washed-out bridges and roads can be repaired and normal food supplies quickly resumed, relief workers say, deaths from starvation and disease are likely to increase sharply. Sudanese officials say 450,000 people are most seriously at risk in the region of Darfur, an area roughly the size of France. Darfur, which is home to three million people, has been in the grip of drought for the last three years; some parts have been without significant rainfall for as long as seven years.
Reagan Administration officials said today that they believed at least one Central Intelligence Agency informant in Ghana was murdered after his identity was disclosed by an agency employee charged with espionage. The officials, who asked not to be identified, said there were fears in the intelligence community that reprisals would be taken against as many as 10 other Ghanaians who assisted CIA covert operations in the country. Sharon M. Scranage, a employee of the agency for seven years, was arrested Thursday and charged with giving extensive information about the agency’s operations in Ghana to representatives of the country’s government while she worked there as clerk. The authorities said Miss Scranage turned over sensitive documents and the names of virtually everyone working for the CIA in the country to a Ghanaian with whom she had developed a close personal relationship. Administration officials described the pair as ”lovers.”
The President will undergo surgery today to remove a large polyp that physicians detected in Mr. Reagan’s large intestine, the White House announced. The new polyp was described by physicians as precancerous, meaning it has a higher chance of becoming cancerous than other types of polyps. The major surgery, which will require a general anesthesia, is expected to last at least three hours.
The announcement that President Reagan would undergo general anesthesia and surgery Saturday raised questions tonight about a possible transfer of power to Vice President Bush. Mr. Bush spent the day in Boston and continued on to his summer home in Kennebunkport, Me., where he planned to spend the weekend. His aides said tonight that he had no plans to return to Washington until Sunday but would be in touch with the White House Saturday. Kennebunkport is about an hour and a half from Washington by air.
G.O.P. budget differences widened as the Senate majority leader, Bob Dole, accused President Reagan and both Democrats and Republicans in the House of “surrendering to the deficit.” Mr. Dole also said White House officials were backing away from tough decisions on spending cuts and said the President’s chief of staff was none too eager to deal with the budget. Mr. Dole’s remark reflected anger among Senate Republicans over Mr. Reagan’s decision to accept cost-of-living increases in federal pensions, including Social Security, without insisting on compensating spending cuts in return. House Democrats, led by Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., and House Republicans had insisted that no change be made in the cost-of-living adjustment. The President, in turn, continued to insist that there be no increase in taxes.
Computers aborted a liftoff of the space shuttle Challenger on her STS-51-F mission three seconds before the space shuttle was to be launched. Computers on board the spaceship detected a problem and halted the liftoff. As the 100-ton spaceplane rocked gently on its launching pad, hoses sprayed water on the spaceship’s engines to cool them down and reduce the chance of fire. Tension was high, as hidden flames could have ignited hydrogen fuel leaking from the ship. ”We saw no evidence of fire,” said Tom Utsman, director of shuttle operations at the Kennedy Space Center. Forty minutes after the launching was stopped, the dour crew of seven was taken from the $1.2 billion winged spaceplane. ”The crew is just fine,” said Colonel C. Gordon Fullerton, 48 years old, of the Air Force, the spaceship’s commander, at a news conference afterward. ”We all have mixed emotions. We really were ready to go today but thankful that the system worked as it should. The seven of us had a keener interest in everything being up to snuff than anybody.”
Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the mission would be pushed back at least seven to 10 days as investigators sought to track down the problem and as repairs were made. The incident threatens to throw the agency’s once-a-month launching schedule into disarray. That would be a setback for the program of sophisticated and temperamental shuttles, which have to be launched regularly if they are ever to be a commercial success. The flight was to have been the 19th mission for the nation’s fleet of winged spaceplanes and the 8th for the Challenger. The flight would have also been the 50th manned American space mission, the first being the suborbital flight of Alan B. Shepard in 1961.
A man charged with abducting an athlete in the mountains of Montana and slaying her would-be rescuer was found guilty by a jury in Virginia City. The 54-year-old defendant, Donald Boone Nichols, who, with his son, Dan, abducted Kari Swenson, a biathlon champion, a year ago as she jogged in the mountains near Big Sky, Montana, was convicted of homicide, kidnapping and aggravated assault after a jury in Madison County District Court deliberated for five and and a half hours. He faces a maximum sentence of 140 years. The son was found guilty of kidnapping and assault and acquitted of a homicide charge at his trial in May. He is awaiting sentencing.
A Federal grand jury in San Francisco is trying to find out what happened to hundreds of thousands of dollars said to have been paid by the Soviet Union to a Navy spy ring, law-enforcement officials said today. The jury is considering whether to indict Jerry A. Whitworth, one of four Navy men charged with espionage, on charges of tax evasion or tax fraud, the officials said. Investigators from the Internal Revenue Service, the officials said, have turned up new information about the location of some of the money and believe that much of it could be in overseas bank accounts. Two women who once worked with John A. Walker Jr., a retired Navy communications specialist accused of forming the spy ring, have been called to testify before the grand jury Tuesday, the officials said.
Roy M. Cohn will ask a judicial panel to overturn a disciplinary committee’s recommendation that he be disbarred, the lawyer said. After finding wrongdoing involving fees or accounts of two of his law firm’s clients, the disciplinary committee of the First Judicial Department, which covers Manhattan and the Bronx, notified Mr. Cohn this week that it would recommend that he be prohibited from practicing law. The committee formally makes its recommendations to a five-judge panel of the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court. If the judges agree that a penalty is warranted, they may censure, suspend or disbar a lawyer. The proceedings are confidential until the judges act.
Truck drivers who haul new automobiles to dealers have rejected a new national contract, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said today. Walter Shea, the teamster vice president who led negotiations for the proposed agreement, said the current contract would be extended while bargaining resumed. The 25,000 drivers work for about a dozen trucking concerns, which negotiate as a group. The two largest, Ryder Systems and Leaseway Transportation, reportedly employ about half of those involved.
A Boeing 727 jetliner with engine trouble landed safely at Miami International Airport after raining about 100 bits of debris on a neighborhood, hitting cars and homes but causing no injuries, officials say. Eastern Airlines Flight 144, a three-engine jet bound for Washington, took off from Miami Thursday evening and developed engine trouble, causing the captain to shut down the engine and return to the Miami airport, a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman, Roger Myers, said in Atlanta. Residents of several blocks picked up pieces of metal they said had dropped from the sky, a Miami police spokesman, Mike Stewart, said. The debris was made of lightweight titanium, said Glenn Parsons, Eastern’s public affairs director.
The General Accounting Office says the mobile land-based Midgetman missile under development is too small to carry some planned warheads to military targets in the Soviet Union. In a report on the missile released by Senator Pete Wilson, Republican of California, the accounting office, an investigative arm of Congress, said the Air Force would have to modify the missile’s design or base it in northwestern states in order for it to carry its proposed 1,000-pound nuclear warhead to Soviet targets.
The Environmental Protection Agency today approved the use of poisoned collars on sheep and goats to kill coyotes that attack the animals. The decision overturns a 13-year-old ban on the use of the poison, compound 1080. Ranchers, who welcomed the decision, have argued for more than a decade that coyotes were causing substantial losses of livestock and that use of compound 1080 was necessary to stop them. Animal protection groups, on the other hand, contended that the use of compound 1080 would cause widespread accidental killing of wildlife and that it was an inhumane way to kill predators.
The American Federation of Teachers announced today that it was forming a program to help teachers improve students’ abilities to reason and form judgments. ”Never before have skills in rational thought and reasoned judgment been so urgently needed,” said Albert Shanker, president of the federation. ”There is a growing recognition that our children are not adequately prepared for the demands of an increasingly complex and rapidly changing world.”
Hyman G. Rickover, the retired admiral known as the father of the nuclear submarine fleet, was reported in stable condition today after suffering a serious stroke. Friends said that the 85-year-old admiral, who suffered partial paralysis of the right arm, was eating with his left hand, teasing nurses and calling for work to be brought to his room at Bethesda Naval Medical Center. Senator William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin, a longtime friend of Admiral Rickover, asserted today that the stroke, which occurred July 4, may have been brought on by the Navy’s censure of him after an investigation found he had accepted gifts from the General Dynamics Corporation while he was head of the Navy’s nuclear submarine program.
Nearly five dozen worshipers at a Baptist church have contracted measles since May in the worst outbreak of the disease in Indiana since a 1983 college epidemic, the State Board of Health said Thursday. Arthur Logsdon, a spokesman for the board, said 58 cases, most involving children 2 to 15 years old, had been confirmed. All known victims have attended services since mid-May at the First Baptist Church of Hammond. The church continues conducting services, but health officials have not ruled out a quarantine, Mr. Logsdon said. The congregation’s pastor, the Rev. Jack Hyles, was not immediately available for comment.
Cooler weather and National Guard troops aided firefighters battling wildfires across the West yesterday as napalm dropped on a persistent northern California blaze eased a threat to key mountaintop communication towers. Firefighters in helicopters dropped flaming blobs of napalm, left over from the Vietnam War, on the fire near Los Gatos in a gamble that had paid off Thursday night. The napalm started a controlled burning to head off the main blaze and stopped flames from reaching the towers atop Mount Loma Prieta, said Ken Gilbert, the fire captain. The communication towers are vital to the coordination of firefighting efforts.
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Dale Murphy’s two-out three-run, walk-off homer, his 22nd homer of the season, capped a five-run ninth inning as Atlanta rallied to defeat Philadelphia, 7–4. Murphy drove in five runs, also hitting a two-run single in the first inning. Atlanta has won all six of its games against Philadelphia this season. Terry Forster (1–2) got the win in relief for the Braves; Don Carman (2–2) took the loss.
Twenty-four hours after their nine-game winning streak ended, the Mets, leg weary and perhaps a bit worn, made a dramatic comeback here tonight. Playing their second extra-inning game in two days, the Mets scored a run in the 10th to come away with a 3–2 victory over the Astros tonight in front of 21,035 at the Astrodome. The victory — their 10th in the last 11 games — was largely a tribute to the Mets’ staying power. They glided into the ninth inning with a 2–1 lead behind the steady pitching of Ron Darling. But Alan Ashby homered with one out to send the game into extra innings.
LaMarr Hoyt, saying he was pitching to gain respect and not an All-Star start, outdueled Joaquin Andujar tonight to capture his 10th consecutive victory. He combined with Rich Gossage on a three-hitter as the San Diego Padres stopped the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–0. In his last appearance against the Cardinals, Hoyt gave up eight runs in the first inning against St. Louis in a game at San Diego. That was Hoyt’s last loss. ”I was pitching to take away some of the embarrassment,” Hoyt said. ”I wasn’t pitching for an All-Star start.”
The Dodgers topped the Cubs, 7–4. Len Matuszek and Enos Cabell, acquired earlier this week in separate trades, made key offensive contributions, and Greg Brock hit two home runs to give Los Angeles its fifth straight victory. Tom Niedenfuer (4–2) earned the victory by pitching the seventh and eighth innings. Lee Smith (4–4) took the loss. With Chicago leading, 4–0, Los Angeles scored three sixth-inning runs. Dave Anderson reached base on a fielder’s choice, Ken Landreaux doubled, and Cabell delivered the run with a groundout. Brock then hit his 13th homer of the season, after which the Cubs’ starter, Dick Ruthven, was replaced. In the eighth inning, Cabell singled off the reliever George Frazier with one out. Smith, who leads the Cubs with 19 saves, struck out Brock before Matuszek tripled to tie the score, 4–4. Terry Whitfield then doubled to deep center field to score Matuszek.
Rick Reuschel won for the eighth time in 10 decisions and singled home a run as the Pirates handed San Francisco its sixth straight loss, winning 3–1. Reuschel allowed four hits and one run in six innings before leaving because of a blister on his middle finger. John Candelaria worked the final three innings, yielding three hits, for his ninth save. Sammy Khalifa’s single broke a 1–1 tie in the fourth inning against Jim Gott (4–6). Tony Pena drew one of Gott’s five walks and was forced at second by Joe Orsulak, who stole second and scored on Khalifa’s hit. George Hendrick made it 3–1 in the fifth when he bounced into a force play with the bases loaded.
Just a few hours after being named to the All-Star team, Expo third baseman Tim Wallach committed a throwing error with two out in the 11th inning at Cincinnati to give the Reds a 5–4 victory. With one out in the 11th, Eddie Milner singled and stole second. He went to third on an infield out, and Pete Rose and Dave Parker were walked intentionally. Tony Perez grounded to Wallach, whose throw pulled Al Newman off second base. Earlier, Rose singled. He needs only 35 hits to break Ty Cobb’s record.
At Yankee Stadium, Ed Whitson scatters 4 hits as the Yankees shut out Texas, 6–0. Dan Pasqua has a pair of homers and Don Mattingly has 3 hits, including a double and homer, to drive in 3 runs. He also runs his consecutive game hitting streak to 20 games. The victory put the Yankees into a second-place tie with Detroit, which lost to Minnesota last night, It was the first time the Yankees have been in second since September 9, 1983. Mattingly, the 1984 American League batting champion who raised his 1985 average to .315, deposited a fly-ball double near the left-field line in the first inning, setting up the first Yankee run; lashed a three-run home run over the right-center field fence in the third inning, and lined a single along the right-field line in the fifth.
Greg Gagne singled for a run in the seventh to break a tie and Minnesota held on to beat Detroit, 3–2, extending their record over the Tigers to 6-0. With the score tied, 2–2, Tim Teufel started the Twins’ seventh with a walk. Teufel was bunted to second by Tim Laudner and scored on Gagne’s line shot to left off Frank Tanana (4–8).
Brett Butler singled home George Vukovich from third with two outs in the bottom of the 11th to give Cleveland a 5–4 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Vukovich singled off Dan Quisenberry (4–6). Mike Hargrove then singled Vukovich to third and Butler followed by bouncing his single between the first baseman, Steve Balboni, and the second baseman, Frank White.
The Baltimore Orioles crushed the Chicago White Sox, 10–3. The Orioles, with three more home runs at Baltimore, regained the major league team lead with 101. Mike Young hit a two-run homer, and Fred Lynn and Cal Ripken also homered to help rookie Ken Dixon (5–3) gain his first victory since May 17. It was Lynn’s dramatic home run with two out in the ninth inning that won Thursday night’s game. Lee Lacy didn’t have any home runs, but he doubled in two runs in the sixth and extended his hitting streak to 15 games.
Wade Boggs’ infield single scored Steve Lyons in the ninth inning to give the Red Sox a 5–4 win over the Mariners at Seattle. Boston trailed, 4–3, going into the ninth, but Rich Gedman tied the game by leading off with his sixth home run, off Ed Nunez. Earlier, Red Sox outfielder Jim Rice got into a minor altercation with a Seattle fan in the third inning. Rice was chasing a foul pop-up down the left-field line. He caught it, but a fan reached out and took the ball out of his glove. The All-Star outfielder then climbed up on a railing to slap the fan, knocking the ball out of his hand. In his next plate appearance. which came in the sixth, Rice was soundly booed and responded by smacking Moore’s first pitch over the right-field wall for his 17th home run.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Oakland A’s, 5–3. Jim Gantner, whose error enabled the A’s to tie the score in the seventh inning, singled in the go-ahead run in the eighth inning at Oakland. Robin Yount hit his seventh home run in the ninth. Ted Higuera pitched a six-hitter for the Brewers. The loser was Chris Codiroli (8–6), but the winning hit came off ace reliever Jay Howell.
By driving in five runs on a pair of home runs, Doug DeCinces accounted for the California Angels’ entire run production against the Toronto Blue Jays, pacing a 5–3 victory that improved the Angels’ first-place lead over Oakland in the AL West to six games. With Kirk McCaskill and Donnie Moore combining to limit the Blue Jays to nine hits, DeCinces was a one-man offense, delivering a two-run home run in the second inning and a three-run shot in the sixth.
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Atlanta Braves 7
Chicago White Sox 3, Baltimore Orioles 10
Toronto Blue Jays 3, California Angels 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Chicago Cubs 4
Montreal Expos 4, Cincinnati Reds 5
Kansas City Royals 4, Cleveland Indians 5
Minnesota Twins 3, Detroit Tigers 2
New York Mets 3, Houston Astros 2
Texas Rangers 0, New York Yankees 6
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Oakland Athletics 3
San Francisco Giants 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Seattle Mariners 4
San Diego Padres 2, St. Louis Cardinals 0
Stocks moved up slightly as traders reacted cautiously to signs of a weakening economy and strong money supply growth. The Dow Jones industrial average continued to set records, but only because of a last-minute buying spurt. The average closed at 1,338.60, up 0.90 point for the session and 4.15 points for the week. Transportation and utility issues, which benefit from reduced fuel costs, increased impressively. Volume slipped to 120.3 million shares.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1338.60 (+0.90)
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