President Reagan today said that Americans would be “the greatest fools on earth” not to go ahead with research on a high-technology missile defense, and he said he would assert the country’s right to do so when he meets with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in November. In his weekly radio address, recorded before he entered the Bethesda Naval Medical Center on Friday, Mr. Reagan defended his proposal for research on fending off attacking intercontinental missiles. The Russians have opposed to any research, and the disagreement is one of the central reasons for the deadlock in the arms talks in Geneva. Congressional Democrats usually respond to the President’s weekly radio broadcast but did not do so today because of his surgery.
East German authorities arrested two people carrying diplomatic passports from a Middle Eastern country who planned to hijack a U.S. airliner in West Berlin. The action was intended as a gesture of support for Shia Muslim terrorists who commandeered a TWA jetliner June 14 and held 39 Americans hostage, sources in the West Berlin Senate said. The sources said East German security agents, acting on a tip, arrested the two at East Berlin’s Schoenefeld airport and found explosives in their bags. The West Berlin Tagesspiegel newspaper said the two were deported “out of consideration” for East Germany’s relations with the unidentified Middle East country.
Ulster police fired plastic bullets to disperse rioters after pro-British Protestants were barred from parading through a Roman Catholic neighborhood in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of the capital of Belfast. Authorities said a number of policemen were injured and several arrests were made in the two-hour melee. At least a dozen stores were damaged, and one shop was torched. The demonstration was staged to mark the Battle of the Boyne in 1690, when Protestant forces defeated Catholics and assumed power in the north.
Portugual’s Socialists today named Antonio de Almeida Santos, a 59-year-old politician, as their choice for Prime Minister should the party win general elections in October, party sources said. Mr. Almeida Santos, who was Minister of State and Parliamentary Affairs in the outgoing Government, was nominated byesident Antonio Ramalho Eanes dissolved Parliament Friday after the two-year Socialist-Social Democratic coalition Government collapsed. He scheduled elections for October 6.
The prosecutor in the trial in Rome of eight men accused of conspiring to kill Pope John Paul II met Turkish officials here today to seek information about a Turkish defendant in the trial whom the police here interrogated for five days this week after his arrival from Bulgaria. The Turk, Bekir Celenk, has been named by Mehmet Ali Ağca, who shot and wounded the Pope in 1981, as his link with the Soviet bloc intelligence services that Mr. Ağca says commissioned the shooting.
Jordan received a list of Palestinian negotiators, submitted by the Palestine Liberation Organization, who may take part in talks with the United States about ways of ending the Arab-Israeli conflict, Palestinian sources said. The sources said the list of possible participants in a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, or joint group, as it is to be called, would be given by Jordan to the Reagan Administration as soon as Secretary of State George P. Shultz returns to Washington next week. The submission of the list could set the stage for a possible meeting later this month between the joint group and Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, to discuss American recognition of the P.L.O. and moves to revive the long-stalled Middle East peace talks.
A Kuwaiti diplomat was kidnapped near the nation’s embassy in Beirut, Lebanon, Thursday, making him the 14th foreigner seized or missing in West Beirut in the last 16 months, the police said. There was no immediate assertion of responsibility. News of the abduction, which took place on Thursday, came as Muslim leaders delayed putting a new Syrian-mediated peace plan into effect until about 35 observers arrive from Damascus, the Syrian capital.
Some Afghan rebels have relaxed attacks on Soviet and Afghan Army troops. A live-and-let-live attitude seems to have pervaded some parts of Afghanistan though the war remains ferocious in others. A rebel commander, a bearlike man with a large black mustache who belied his appearance by sniffing a red rose, sat amid the ruins of an Afghan district center 70 miles south of the Soviet border. “There is the Karmal Government,” the commander, known as Abdullah, said, waving his rose toward two nearby hills, where 350 Afghan troops loyal to the Soviet-backed Government of President Babrak Karmal were entrenched behind a minefield. They have been there, he said, since the district center, Shulgara, in Balkh Province, was captured by the rebels about four years ago during fighting in which government buildings and the bazaar were destroyed. “We have a cease-fire with them,” he said. “We don’t shoot at them, and they don’t call in helicopters to destroy our new bazaar.”
A Pakistan Government spokesman said today that Afghan defectors had brought two advanced Soviet Mi-24 helicopter gunships to Pakistan. The spokesman confirmed reports by Afghan exiles that the helicopters landed today at the border town of Miranshah and the defectors surrendered.
After incidents of Shiite unrest, the authorities in Quetta in western Pakistan have banned meetings of more than four people and have ordered residents to stop carrying arms. The ban, announced Friday night, applies to the whole city and not just the Shiite neighborhood of Marriabad, where at least 27 people have been killed in the last week. The authorities have seized large quantities of arms in Marriabad and at checkpoints on main roads into the city.
The trial of three men accused of conspiring to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has started on a raucous note, with the chief defense lawyer maintaining that a conspiracy to kill Mrs. Gandhi may have been hatched within her own family. The first testimony in the trial came this week in a sweltering and stuffy jailhouse courtroom in which prosecution and defense lawyers repeatedly shouted accusations at each other. Power failures periodically shut off the lights and fans as monsoon rains were pouring outside. Opening its case, the prosecution summoned police inspectors and security guards to testify as to the time of death. Under questioning by the defense, one inspector acknowledged that he had failed to enter the names of the accused and failed even to list the death of Mrs. Gandhi in his initial report on the assassination on October 31.
The flight recorders of the Air-India jetliner that went down off Ireland were flown to Bombay today, and there were reports that an examination of the equipment would begin Monday in a search for clues to the June 23 disaster. An Air-India official and a senior Government aviation official in Bombay said the decoding and processing of signals and conversations on the flight recorders could take several weeks. A judge of the Delhi High Court was named by the government today to head the judicial inquiry into the crash, which killed all 329 passengers and crew members. A bomb is suspected as the cause of the crash, although other explanations have been suggested.
Tamil separatists and Sri Lankan officials adjourned talks in Bhutan today and agreed to meet there again on Aug. 12 for further negotiations on ending the ethnic crisis in Sri Lanka. “The talks were not a failure,” a spokesman for the Eelam National Liberation Front, an alliance of four major guerrilla groups in Sri Lanka, said by telephone from Madras. “It was a preliminary step.” The Sri Lankan Government, in a statement, said it had explained its ideas for granting the Tamils more power. Tamil representatives said that if the proposals were to be carried out, their aspirations must be recognized. The talks, which were closed to reporters, were held under Indian sponsorship in the Bhutanese capital of Thimphu. Trouble flared when the Sri Lankan delegation accused one guerrilla group of trying to assassinate President J. R. Jayewardene on Thursday. Tamil delegates denied the charge, saying it was aimed at diverting attention from the deadlock over demands for Tamil autonomy.
Deng Liqun, 70, has been stripped of his title as propaganda chief of the Chinese Communist Party, but he will remain in overall charge of propaganda work as a member of the party Secretariat, the government announced. It said he was replaced because of his age by Zhu Houze, 54, as part of a move to replace Central Committee department heads over 60 with by younger officials. Deng fell into disfavor in early 1984 when a campaign against “spiritual pollution” from the West turned sour, and he was blamed for carrying it to excess by targeting Western literature and fashions. He returned to prominence this year.
Mexico’s opposition National Action Party will stage a large demonstration today in the northern state of Sonora to protest what it considers to be fraud in last week’s elections, a party spokesman said. All of the party’s candidates in Sonora, and their supporters, will converge on city hall in Hermosillo to demand the annulment of all the Sonora elections, he said.
U.S.-backed Nicaraguan rebels claimed that they killed or wounded 312 Sandinista troops in fighting during the first week of July. The rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force said that from July 1 to July 8, its contra fighters clashed with Nicaraguan troops 12 times in Jinotega province, 5 in Esteli and 4 in Segovia. The three northern provinces all border Honduras. It also reported 11 clashes elsewhere.
Salvadoran Army troops suffered roughly the same level of combat casualties in the last year as they did the year before, even as the army sharply increased its offensive operations against leftist rebels, according to the country’s Defense Minister. The Defense Minister, General Eugenio Vides Casanova, announced earlier in the week that 2,834 soldiers were killed, wounded or missing in action between June 30, 1984, and June 30 of this year. The casualties were slightly below the total of 3,108 soldiers reported killed, wounded or missing in action in the previous 12 months. In addition, the number of soldiers killed in combat fell by 20 percent.
A total of 149 inmates escaped from El Salvador’s main prison Friday during an attack believed to have been carried out by leftist rebels, an army spokesman said today. The attack on the prison, which holds more than 400 captured guerrillas and rebel supporters in a total population said to be about 1,300, appears to be one of a series of recent rebel operations here in the capital.
More than 500 inmates, including some convicted terrorists, rioted in three Lima-area prisons and seized at least six Peruvian officials as hostages to press their demands for improved living conditions, authorities reported. There were no immediate reports of injuries. Prison officials said that in “undoubtedly planned” attacks, prisoners took control of sections of Lurigancho Prison, El Fronton Island Penitentiary and the Santa Barbara Women’s Prison.
Bolivians were scheduled to vote in a general election today, but many politicians and diplomats said they feared the vote count could be overtaken by a military coup or annulled because of fraud. The political climate has been confused, and until Thursday, the presidential, congressional and municipal elections planned for Sunday were still in doubt. The Government maneuvered through the week to postpone the vote while the American Embassy tried to discourage a military coup, according to Western diplomats. The uncertainty leading up to the election seemed to go beyond what is considered normal in Bolivia, which has a history of coups.
The Sudanese leader, General Abdel Rahman Siwar el-Dahab, said today that “a closer relationship” was developing between his country and Libya but that he saw no reason why that should weaken ties with the United States. “I am not at all worried that our relations with Libya might affect our relations with America,” he said in an interview. “Because you become friends with somebody, that does not mean you are giving away your friendship with someone else.” Commenting for the first time on the Sudanese-Libyan military agreement announced here this week, General Siwar el-Dahab, who came to power in a coup in April while President Gaafar al-Nimeiry was returning from the United States, said: “There is nothing that our friends in the West should be worried about. This is not a military pact or treaty.”
Angola broke off talks with the United States on peace in southern Africa, charging that Congress’ decision to repeal a nine-year-old ban on aid to Angolan rebel groups shows that the American view of the region is identical to that of South Africa. U.S.-brokered sessions over the last three years have led to the signing of an accord providing for a joint Angolan-South African monitoring commission to oversee the withdrawal of Pretoria’s occupation troops from southern Angola.
President Reagan temporarily turns over presidential power to Vice President George Bush while the President is under anesthesia for surgery on his colon. President Reagan later signs paperwork returning presidential power to himself following his surgery. President Reagan underwent surgery to remove a large intestinal polyp after signing letters temporarily transferring Presidential power to Vice President Bush while Mr. Reagan was under anesthesia. The White House said afterward that the president was doing well.
The decision to transfer power to Vice President Bush has the practical effect making Mr. Bush the “Acting President,” White House officials said. Shortly before his surgery, Mr. Reagan sent a five-paragraph letter to the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House transferring Presidential power to Mr. Bush. At 7:22 PM he signed another letter reclaiming his authority. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said tonight that Mr. Reagan was dozing intermittently but that the anesthesia from the surgery had worn off. Mr. Speakes added that Captain Dale W. Oller, Mr. Reagan’s chief surgeon, had said, “If the President needed to make a decision, he could make it.”
The space agency said a faulty valve actuator probably aborted the launch of the space shuttle Challenger, and technicians were working around the clock to make the vehicle safe so they could retrieve the suspected part. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Jim Ball said at Cape Kennedy that workers won’t have access to the actuator until today, and then it will be examined and tested extensively. Officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that the repair job would take days and that the aborted mission would be delayed at least a week and possibly longer.
Public confidence in the U.S. Supreme Court, Congress, public schools and the military has increased sharply since 1983, the Gallup Poll found. The percentage of survey respondents expressing a “great deal” or “quite a lot” of confidence in the Supreme Court increased 14 percentage points since 1983, from 42% to 56%. The increase was 11 points (to 39%) in the case of Congress over the same period. A nine-point upturn was recorded for public schools (to 48%), and an increase of eight points for the military (to 61%). However, statistically speaking, little change occurred since 1983 in confidence in the six other institutions tested. These were organized religion (66%), banks and banking (51%), newspapers (35%), big business (31%), television (29%) and organized labor (28%).
The suspected Navy spy ring gave the Soviet Union years of access to the Navy’s satellite network, which since the mid-1970s has transmitted virtually all of the service’s sensitive communications, Senior intelligence officials and Congressional authorities say they now believe. The initial focus of the investigation was on John A. Walker Jr., a retired Navy warrant officer from Norfolk, Va. But the officials now say the material they think was provided by another suspect, Jerry A. Whitworth, a Navy communications specialist until 1983, was a more damaging breach of security. Both men have pleaded not guilty to espionage charges. The officials said that with the material they think was provided by Mr. Whitworth, which the military calls key lists, the Soviet Union was able to make use of coding machines taken from the American spy ship Pueblo in 1968 to read coded traffic. The officials said the Navy used the same type of machines well into the 1970’s on the assumption that the Soviet Union could not obtain the key lists necessary to use them. The officials also provided details of the Walker case that go well beyond earlier public statements by the Navy about the extent to which the service’s communications are thought to have been compromised. The assessment is based on an analysis of documents and handwritten notes seized from the homes of Mr. Walker and Mr. Whitworth.
The final hurdle in the path of a concession plan demanded by American Motors Corp. was cleared when a United Auto Workers union local in Kenosha, Wisconsin, overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract. The vote gives AMC a more competitive position in the North American auto market and places the burden of preserving jobs on the company, union leaders said.
The Army announced that it is reducing by half the monthly contract payments of $13 million to Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., one of the Army’s main suppliers of helicopters, and that the company is facing a criminal investigation because of allegedly fraudulent billings for spare parts. The disclosures were made by Army Secretary John O. Marsh Jr. and Ronald C.H. Eddins, an assistant U.S. attorney in Fort Worth, where Bell Helicopter Textron maintains its headquarters. Eddins confirmed that he has been conducting a criminal investigation of the company for the last year.
The Pentagon is investigating evidence that General Dynamics Corp. overcharged the Defense Department at least $1 million during its development of a prototype anti-aircraft gun, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Government sources told the paper that the investigation concerned evidence that one of the company’s divisions spent the extra money on the prototype DIVAD anti-aircraft gun in 1980 and 1981 and then charged the expenditure illegally to another Pentagon contract.
Two A-4 jets in the Navy Blue Angels precision flying team collided during an air show stunt and crashed in flames. One pilot was killed but the other parachuted to safety, officials said. The dead man was identified as Navy Lieutenant Commander Mike Gershon. The second pilot, Lieutenant Andy Caputi, received minor injuries. The two planes collided at Niagara Falls, New York, International Airport during the Western New York Air Show ’85.
A Georgia Army National Guard airplane crashed into a residential neighborhood in Winder, Georgia today, killing one of the two crew members aboard and injuring an unknown number of people on the ground, the authorities said. Colonel Harry Heath, public information officer for the Georgia Department of Defense, said both crew members ejected as the plane was going down. They were not immediately identified. Police Chief Jimmy Terrell of Winder said there also were civilians injured, but details were not immediately available. He said three houses were damaged
Luis Nogales, chairman of United Press International, said a $14 million bid to buy the financially troubled wire service will be allowed to expire on its Monday deadline. “I believe it will take $18 million to invest into UPI,” Nogales told the Virginia Press Association in Wintergreen, Virginia. “The company must show a propensity to return an investment. We are now absolutely confident that UPI will survive.”
A growing number of farm workers are suffering illness from pesticides because laws to protect them are weak and poorly enforced, according to a report released today by the World Resources Institute. The report by the institute, a policy research center concerned with environmental and resource issues, estimates that more than 300,000 farm workers a year in this country are affected by pesticide poisoning, with symptoms that include dizziness, nausea, contracted pupils and severe skin rashes. Delayed effects may include sterility, cancer and birth defects, the study said. All of the four million to five million farmers and fieldhands who come into direct contact with agricultural chemicals are “inadequately protected,” according to the report.
Forty years ago this week the flash of a hundred suns seared the New Mexican desert, the sand at Trinity Site fused into jade-green glass and the nuclear age was born. Within 24 days after the Trinity test on July 16, 1945, two nuclear bombs, small and primitive by today’s standards, had destroyed two large Japanese cities, killed 106,000 people and injured at least 100,000. The innocuously named Manhattan Engineer District, an ultrasecret scientific and industrial community, had unleashed the atomic bomb, forever changing the nature of war and politics. For the first time, man commanded the means of his own extinction. But 40 years have elapsed without nuclear war, and neither the Soviet Union nor the United States has set off an above-ground nuclear test explosion since 1963. To be sure, the menace of nuclear holocaust still induces nightmares. But at Los Alamos, New Mexico, where nuclear weapons were invented and are still being perfected, people have learned to live with the bomb and to prosper from it.
“Live Aid” concerts are held at both Wembley Stadium (London, England) and JFK Stadium (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) raises over $70 million for African famine relief. More than 162,000 spectators jammed the stands at London’s Wembley Stadium and Philadelphia’s John F. Kennedy Stadium to hear some of the greatest rock musicians perform in a telethon to raise funds for food, medical supplies and farming equipment for starving people in countries like Ethiopia, Chad, Mozambique, Angola and the Sudan.
Prince Charles and Princess Diana introduced the Wembley portion of the concert at noon, Greenwich mean time (GMT). Various British deejays served as masters of ceremonies. Seventy-two thousand people attended. Status Quo opened, followed by Style Council, the Boomtown Rats (Geldof’s own band), Adam Ant, Ultravox, and Spandau Ballet. That much of the card took two hours, with some sets as short as four minutes. Thereafter, London and Philadelphia alternated, so fans experienced a continuous stream of music. Subsequent acts on the British stage included Elvis Costello, Nik Kershaw, Sade, Sting, Phil Collins, Howard Jones, Bryan Ferry, Paul Young, Alison Moyet, U2, Dire Straits, Queen, David Bowie, the Who, Elton John, Kiki Dee, George Michael, Andrew Ridgeley, and Paul McCartney. The London show ended at 10:00 p.m., GMT.
Comedians Chevy Chase and Joe Piscopo, actorJack Nicholson, and impresario Bill Graham introduced the acts for ninety thousand fans in Philadelphia. The show began at 8:00 a.m., Eastern Daylight Time (EDT; 2:00 p.m. GMT), with Bernard Watson, Joan Baez, and the Hooters. Additional performers included the Four Tops, Billy Ocean, Black Sabbath, Run-D.M.C., Rick Springfield, REO Speedwagon, Judas Priest, Bryan Adams, the Beach Boys, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, Bo Diddley, Albert Collins, Simple Minds, the Pretenders, Santana, Pat Metheny, Ashford and Simpson, Teddy Pendergrass, Kool and the Gang, Madonna, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Kenny Loggins, the Cars, Power Station, Thompson Twins, Eric Clapton, Phil Collins (the only star to perform live in both stadiums), Duran Duran, Patti LaBelle, Hall and Oates, Eddie Kendricks, David Ruffin, Mick Jagger, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan, Ron Wood, and Keith Richards. Highlights included sets by Crosby, Stills, and Nash; Neil Young; and all four together. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and John Paul Jones reunited as Led Zeppelin, with Phil Collins and Tony Thompson substituting on drums for the late John Bonham. The Philadelphia show ended at 10:00 p.m., EDT. The combined length of both shows was sixteen hours.
Chicago’s chief judge was convicted in a Federal Court there of taking thousands of dollars in bribes and other illegal payments. The judge, Richard F. LeFevour of Cook County Circuit Court, was found guilty of charges arising from a Federal undercover investigation of the city’s courts.
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Tom Herr and Jack Clark each drove in two runs tonight and Danny Cox coasted to his 11th victory as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Diego Padres, 7-3. The loss dropped the Padres out of first place in the National League West for the first time since May 7 and boosted the Los Angeles Dodgers to a half-game lead. Cox (11-4) scattered eight hits, struck out six and walked two in seven and two-thirds innings. Jeff Lahti retired all four batters he faced for his eighth save. Ed Wojna (1-2) was the loser.
The Mets turned in one of their finest offensive performances of the season tonight, pounding four Houston pitchers for 14 hits en route to a 10–1 victory before 23,234 at the Astrodome. The 14 hits matched a season high for nine innings by the Mets, who won for the 11th time in their last 12 games. They have now raised their team batting average to .239, the highest it has been since April 27. Ed Lynch (7–5), who held the Astros to six hits, pitched the distance for his third straight victory and his first ever against the Astros.
Bob Bailor drove in three runs with a suicide-squeeze bunt and a bases-loaded single to back the five-hit pitching of Fernando Valenzuela as Los Angeles won its sixth straight game, crushing the Cubs, 9–1. The Dodgers wasted no time in jumping on the Chicago starter, Larry Gura (0-2), who only joined the Cubs Friday, as Dave Anderson led off the game with his fourth home run of the season. The Dodgers scored three more runs in the third and four more in the fourth to chase Gura. Valenzuela, meanwhile, held the Cubs hitless through three and one-third innings. Davey Lopes broke the shutout decisively by hammering a 1-2 pitch into the left-field seats, and Keith Moreland followed with a single, before Valenzuela (10-8) settled down and retired Jody Davis and Leon Durham to end the inning.
The Giants downed the Pirates, 4–1. Bob Brenly slammed a two-run homer in the fifth inning to help San Francisco end a six-game losing streak. The Giants led, 2-1, when Brenly hit his 12th home run of the year, scoring Brad Wellman, who was hit by a pitch to lead off the inning. Jose DeLeon (2-13) gave up all four Giants’ runs in losing for the fifth straight time. DeLeon has lost 22 of his last 25 decisions over the past two seasons. San Francisco took a 2-0 lead in the second inning when Dave LaPoint (4-8), the winning pitcher, grounded into a forceout with the bases loaded and Dan Gladden followed with a single. Pittsburgh’s only run came on Jason Thompson’s leadoff home run in the second, his 10th of the year and his first since June 15.
Bob Horner pounded out four hits to lead an 19-hit attack and Dale Murphy ripped a three-run homer to highlight a five-run second inning as Atlanta routed Philadelphia, 13–5. Rick Mahler (13-7) gave up 13 hits in pitching his third complete game. He walked none and struck out two. Atlanta took a 4-0 lead in the first off Charles Hudson (4-8) as Milt Thompson led off with single but was forced by Rafael Ramirez. One out later, Horner doubled to score Ramirez and went to third when Claudell Washington reached on an error by the shortstop Steve Jeltz. Ken Oberkfell followed with a two-run triple to right and Glenn Hubbard added an RBI single. The Braves increased the advantage to 9-0 in the second. Mahler and Ramirez singled and Murphy followed with his National League-leading 23d home run of the season. Horner tripled and scored on Washington’s single. Oberkfell singled to move Washington to third, knocking out Hudson. Hubbard then greeted reliever Rocky Childress with a sacrifice fly to score Washington.
Hubie Brooks slammed a three-run homer to lead Montreal over Cincinnati, 6–3 as Mario Soto suffered his seventh straight loss. Bill Gullickson (8-6) picked up his first victory since June 16, when he was placed on the disabled list with a pulled right groin. Gullickson gave up six hits over seven innings. Jeff Reardon, Gary Lucas and Tim Burke finished. Reardon was ejected for throwing close to Wayne Krenchicki after an umpire’s warning had been issued. The ejection came after Dave Parker led off the eighth with his 16th home run. Reardon’s first pitch to the next batter, Krenchicki, was inside. The home plate umpire, Joe West, had warned both teams of possible ejections in the seventh inning, after Soto hit Mike Fitzgerald in the head with a pitch.
The Chicago White Sox take a 9–0 lead over the Baltimore Orioles and hang on for a 10–8 win. Gary Roenicke drives in 6 runs for the O’s on a 2-run home run and a grand slam off Britt Burns, who goes all the way. Dennis Martinez (7-6) was the loser. Roenicke’s grand slam keyed a five-run Baltimore fifth inning that brought the Orioles within 9-8. Rick Dempsey and Rich Dauer led off with walks and advanced on a groundout. Cal Ripken’s single scored Dempsey and sent Dauer to third. A walk to Eddie Murray loaded the bases for Roenicke’s eighth homer.
Roy Smalley, Mike Stenhouse and Randy Bush hit bases-empty home runs tonight to help give Minnesota a 6–4 victory over the Tigers, The Twins now have a 7–0 record against Detroit this season. Ken Schrom (8-8) gave up eight hits and four runs in five and a third innings. Frank Eufemia pitched three and a third perfect innings to get his second save. Stenhouse, leading off the sixth against Dan Petry (10-8), hit his fourth home run of the season to give Minnesota a 5-2 lead, and after Detroit scored two on Lou Whitaker’s bases-loaded single in the sixth, Bush increased the margin to 6-4 with his seventh home run, off the reliever Juan Berenguer.
Tim Birtsas and Steve Ontiveros, both rookies, combined on a five-hitter for Oakland as the A’s shut out the Brewers, 2–0. Birtsas (5-2) yielded four hits in six and a third innings to record his first victory since June 20. The left-hander walked three and struck out two. Ontiveros pitched the final 2 ⅔ innings for his first save and has allowed only two earned runs in 24 ⅔ innings. Mike Davis led off the Oakland second with a double off Danny Darwin (6-9), the Milwaukee starter. After Dwayne Murphy popped out, Mickey Tettleton drove in Davis with a single to center. Donnie Hill followed with a single to left, and both runners advanced on a passed ball. Alfredo Griffin’s sacrifice fly drove in Tettleton. It was Griffin’s 44th run batted in of the year, 14 more than he had last year.
Bret Saberhagen scattered nine hits to raise his record to 10–4 and Frank White cracked a solo home run and a run-scoring single as Kansas City defeated Cleveland, 5–1. Saberhagen struck out nine, his career high, and walked none while completing his fifth game. The 21-year-old right-hander is 8-1 with a 2.01 earned run average in his last 12 starts and has a 2.78 ERA overall. Andre Thornton lined a sixth-inning home run over the left-center field fence, his sixth, for the only run off Saberhagen. Bert Blyleven (8-9) took the loss. The right-hander gave up 11 hits, struck out 10 and walked none as he pitched his major league-leading 13th complete game and eighth in a row.
The California Angels get three pinch hits in the bottom of the 9th to beat the Toronto Blue Jays, 4–3. Darrell Miller, Mike Brown and Bob Boone all deliver singles to give Mike Witt the complete game win, beating Dave Stieb. Boone’s bloop single barely clears the glove of leaping shortstop Tony Fernandez to bring in the winning run.
The Seattle Mariners edged the Boston Red Sox, 6–5. After scoring three times in the top of the ninth at Seattle to tie the game, the Red Sox threw it away in the bottom of the inning. Jim Rice singled in one run, and Glenn Hoffman singled in the other two. Ivan Calderon opened the Mariner ninth with a double. After an intentional walk, Bob Kearney sacrificed. First baseman Bill Buckner fielded it but bounced a throw past third baseman Wade Boggs, and Calderon raced home.
Phil Niekro pitched a strong seven innings as the Yankees once again downed the Texas Rangers, 3–1. The victory, their fifth straight and ninth in their last 10 games, moved the Yankees into sole possession of second place. For Niekro, the victory was his first since June 3 and evened his record at 8–8. In his intervening six starts, the 46-year-old knuckleballer lost five times
The New York Yankees retire the uniform numbers of Roger Maris (9) and Elston Howard (32).
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Atlanta Braves 13
Chicago White Sox 10, Baltimore Orioles 8
Toronto Blue Jays 3, California Angels 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Chicago Cubs 1
Montreal Expos 6, Cincinnati Reds 3
Kansas City Royals 5, Cleveland Indians 1
Minnesota Twins 6, Detroit Tigers 4
New York Mets 10, Houston Astros 1
Texas Rangers 1, New York Yankees 3
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Boston Red Sox 5, Seattle Mariners 6
San Diego Padres 3, St. Louis Cardinals 7
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Charlotte Dujardin, English equestrian and dressage rider (3x Olympic Gold medals, 2012, 2016), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Dan Fritsche, NHL centre and right wing (Columbus Blue Jackets, New York Rangers, Minnesota Wild), in Parma, Ohio.
Curtis Taylor, NFL safety (San Francisco 49ers, Arizona Cardinals), in Bogalusa, Louisiana.
Rebecca Night [as Rebecca Hardwick], English actress (“Fanny Hill”), in Poole, Dorset, England, United Kingdom.
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