The assessment of Soviet missiles has been revised in Washington, according to Reagan Administration sources. They said that intelligence officials had shifted their thinking about the Soviet SS-19 missile and that many officials, differing with the Pentagon, now believe that the six-warhead missile is too inaccurate to pose a threat to American missile silos. The new appraisal is contained in a secret report, the National Intelligence Estimate, which is prepared once a year by the Central Intelligence Agency and represents the consensus of intelligence experts. Administration sources said that the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency dissented in a footnote to the document and stood by earlier estimates of the missile’s accuracy. The purported capacity of the SS-19, an intercontinental ballistic missile, to destroy United States missile silos has been an important political factor in American arms control considerations and in the campaign to build an American counterpart, the MX.
In a significant military shake-up, the Soviet Union has rehabilitated Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov, who was dismissed as Chief of the General Staff nine months ago, according to reliable information reaching here. His new appointment has not been officially announced. But the information indicates that he has been made commander of the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces, a post that carries the title of First Deputy Minister of Defense. His fortunes have been closely followed by analysts of Soviet policy because he has opposed a nuclear buildup and called for more spending on high technology and conventional forces.
There were indications today that a high-level shuffle was under way in the Soviet military, with the apparent retirement of the chief political commissar of the armed forces and unconfirmed reports of other shifts. After the replacement last weekend of the commander of Soviet forces in East Germany, Western and Eastern European diplomats today reported the retirement of Gen. Aleksei A. Yepishev, who has been the head of the Main Political Administration of the Soviet Army and Navy since 1962.
Poland’s underground Solidarity union has called for a boycott of parliamentary elections this fall to show that “freedom is not an empty idea,” a bulletin said. “Participation in the voting right now, after four years of repression, unlawfulness and arrogance. . . would be an act of renouncing social and national aspirations and assuming co-responsibility for martial-law crimes,” the union bulletin added. The elections to the 460-seat Parliament are scheduled for October 13 and are expected to be the focus of a fierce propaganda battle between the Communist authorities and the opposition. The official press agency today issued an article signed by Jan Rem, a pseudonym used by the Government spokesman Jerzy Urban, that said the voters would ignore the boycott appeal. Solidarity’s underground called for a boycott of local government elections last year and contended that only 57 percent of those eligible had voted. The Government asserted that the turnout was 75 percent.
The judge hearing the Papal assassination plot case angrily suspended today’s session after a defense attorney became involved in a shouting match with the prosecution’s leading witness, Mehmet Ali Ağca. “Scoundrel!” the defense attorney, Valerio Vianello, yelled at Mr. Ağca as the Turk was in the middle of a rancorous confrontation with a defendant, Musar Cerdar Celebi. “Keep quiet, foul-mouth!” retorted Mr. Ağca, who is already serving a life sentence for shooting the Pope. Judge Severino Santiapichi lectured the young defense attorney and stopped the exchanges by calling a temporary halt to the proceedings.
The Air Force and Army joined the U.S. Navy in prohibiting active-duty personnel and their dependents from flying in or out of Greece on commercial aircraft. All such travel must be done on military planes. In addition, all military employees moving from the United States to Greece must fly through West Germany first, authorities said. The move goes beyond the “travel advisory” issued by the Reagan Administration after the hijacking of TWA Flight 847, in which a U.S. Navy petty officer was killed.
The remains of Soviet space rockets may have caused the crash of an Air-India Boeing 747 airliner off the coast of Ireland, killing 329 people, the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, reported. It said that British and U.S. investigators believe the plane could have been hit by debris from three Soviet booster rockets that were jettisoned on the same day as the Air-India crash June 23. [Ed: No. The downing was later conclusively shown to be a bombning by Sikh extremists.]
President Reagan meets with Assistant for National Security Affairs Robert McFarlane to discuss relations with Iran and the Soviet Union.
The U.S. will weigh Israel’s views, but it will not give it a veto over whether American officials should meet with a joint Jordanian-Palestinian group to set the stage for eventual peace talks with Israel, Washington said. A State Department spokesman asserted that if such a meeting would advance the prospects for direct negotiations between Israel and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation, “we will do it.” “If it will hinder the goal of direct negotiations,” the spokesman, Robert M. Smalley, said, “that obviously is something we will try to avoid.” Evidently annoyed by reports that Israeli leaders had rejected a list of seven candidates suggested by Yasser Arafat, leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the State Department also sought to reassure Jordan that the United States remained interested in such a meeting.
Israel will free 100 Lebanese next week as part of its phased release of prisoners rounded up in southern Lebanon, a defense official said today. The official said the prisoners were part of a group of Lebanese held at the Atlit military prison south of the port city of Haifa.
Clashes claimed 10 more lives today in Gujarat state, and student leaders there said they would call off the agitation against government policies that started the violence four months ago. The students also said after a nine-hour meeting with state officials that they would cancel a “fill the jails” campaign of inviting arrest that had been scheduled for Friday. Students from the upper and middle classes began demonstrating early this year against plans by the government of Gujarat, in western India, to increase the number of jobs and university places reserved for people of India’s lower social castes. More than 200 people have been killed and many more hurt, including 100 since Wednesday night, in the clashes. Most have occured in Ahmedabad, the capital of Gujarat.
A Thai official said today that Vietnamese boat people might lose their right to asylum in Thailand because resettlement in third countries was proceeding too slowly. The official, Prasong Soonsiri, who is secretary general of the National Security Council, said in a speech to a conference of international refugee agencies marking 10 years of Indochinese refugee arrivals that Thailand “may be unable to cooperate in allowing their illegal entry any further.” Mr. Prasong was particularly critical of Western European nations that, he said, tended to leave the refugee burden to poorer countries of first asylum. He said the Europeans wanted to settle refugees in developing countries “as a durable way to keep them from entering Europe.”
The South Korean Government has arrested 56 students and is seeking more than 20 others for what it termed anti-Government activities that aid North Korea, according to reports reaching here. Foreign diplomats in Seoul said the arrests represented a crackdown on student activism and a retreat from a recent policy of allowing more open student dissent. South Korean Government officials said the arrests were aimed only at radicals who were trying to topple the government. All of the students arrested were members of a student organization that planned the occupation May 23 of a United States Government building in Seoul, according to Yu Tae Wan, a spokesman for the South Korean Government. Mr. Yu said that some of the students in jail today were released after the occupation ended and then rearrested.
The State Department said the Soviet Union is supplying advanced MIG-23 jets to North Korea and charged that the move could affect the balance of power with South Korea. A spokesman, Robert Smalley, said the shipments “have apparently not yet ended.” He called the jet fighter “a more capable aircraft than the MIG-21,” until recently North Korea’s most advanced plane. However, the MIG-23 is not as highly rated as newer MIGS used by the Soviet Union or as the F-16 the United States has agreed to sell to South Korea.
For most Timorese now under Indonesian rule, life has begun to improve materially, the countryside of this island in the eastern Indonesian archipelago has been largely peaceful and the number of political detainees has dropped sharply. It is 10 years since Portugal abandoned its impoverished territory to civil conflict. The subsequent sudden and, by most accounts, brutal invasion by Indonesia brought world attention to this remote corner of the western Pacific and prompted international condemnation of Jakarta. Today people are still meeting violent death in East Timor’s barren hills. They are victims of a conflict that even the guerrillas’ supporters say they cannot win, but one that the Indonesian Army has not been able to end.
President Ferdinand E. Marcos — angered by U.S. and Philippine press reports that he, his wife and friends have amassed real estate wealth and stashed it abroad — called for a commission to study whether to renegotiate U.S. military base agreements. He charged that his government has been the target of a “big lie campaign” that has influenced the U.S. Congress, which recently voted to switch some requested military aid to economic assistance next year.
Washington warned Nicaragua that it had intelligence reports indicating that people supported by the Sandinista Government were planning terrorist attacks against United States personnel in Honduras. It warned that if such attacks took place, “the United States should be expected to react accordingly.” In a message delivered to the leftist Government in Managua, the United States also asserted that Nicaragua had given unspecified support to Salvadoran insurgents who killed four United States marines and two United States civilians in El Salvador last month. The message said any repetition of such events anywhere in Central America would have “serious consequences for the perpetrators and for those who assist them.”
Poachers have badly depleted elephant and rhinoceros stocks in the Central African Republic, one of the last remaining strongholds of the animals, a report by the World Wildlife Fund said. “The country’s elephant population… is estimated to have been reduced from 80,000 to 15,000 in the last decade,” it warned. When Central African President Andre Kolingba visited national parks in May, the agency added, “he and his party came under fire as they descended in two helicopters to investigate some elephant carcasses. A counterattack led to the arrest of 24 poachers and the confiscation of 220 tusks.”
Nicaraguan, Syrian and dissident South African delegates denounced United States foreign policies today at the United Nations women’s conference in Nairobi, Kenya. The attacks drew loud applause and reiteration of warnings from the leader of the American delegation, Maureen Reagan, President Reagan’s daughter, that the United States would not stand for a major politicization of the conference. Nicaragua’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Nora Astorga, joined Syria and South Africa’s outlawed African National Congress in attacking Washington’s policies as Soviet and other Communist delegates had on Wednesday.
Tanzania’s President Julius K. Nyerere ended his term as chairman of the Organization of African Unity with an appeal for genuine solidarity among the nations of the debt-ridden continent. Citing regional conflicts, Nyerere said that economic well-being and development of the continent “need a foundation of political peace within nations and between nations.” Shortly after Nyerere’s speech at an OAU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the organization elected Senegal’s President Abdou Diouf to a one-year term as chairman.
For a fourth successive day, thousands of South African blacks boycotted white-run shops in the restive Eastern Cape today, in a rare spillage of black protest into white areas. In black townships near the Indian Ocean port of Port Elizabeth today, streets were blocked and littered with garbage and debris, put there as roadblocks by young vigilantes enforcing the boycott by searching home-bound cars and destroying any clothes or groceries bought in white shops. White civic officials called the impact of the boycott, which is set to last for two months, “desperately urgent” while its black organizers – one of whom was reportedly detained briefly by the police today – said the action had resulted in a total suspension of black trade in shops owned or operated by whites. Elsewhere, the police used tear gas in Soweto, southwest of Johannesburg, to disperse 1,000 high school students demonstrating in sympathy with victims of recent unrest east of the city, while thousands of workers in Pietermaritzburg, in Natal, were reported staying away from work to protest dismissals.
The USSR performs an underground nuclear test.
The nation’s economy is sluggish, the Commerce Department reported. It said the April-June rate of gain for the gross national product was only 1.7 percent, much slower than the Government estimated a month ago. The new figure meant that, for the first half of 1985, the economy grew at a rate of only 1 percent. As more figures for such areas as consumer spending, housing, investment and trade have been reported, analysts suspected that the overall G.N.P. growth rate would prove slower than the initial estimate.
Neil Reagan’s cancer was identical to the type of cancerous colon polyp removed from his brother, President Reagan. Neil Reagan had exactly the same type of polyp removed 10 days before the President’s malignancy was discovered, and the cancers were located in the same area of the colon, Neil Reagan’s doctors said.
President Reagan has the last of his medical tubes removed while recovering from colon cancer surgery at Bethesda Naval Hospital. resident Reagan is back to normal five days after his cancer surgery and has eaten his first solid food, the White House announced. The President’s doctors have urged him to change his diet to one lower in fat and higher in fiber to reduce his risk of developing a second colon cancer.
Another 84 cases of AIDS were reported in Los Angeles in June, a sharp increase that may mean that the deadly disease is now surfacing after years of incubation in scores of victims, a health official warned. The new cases bring to 993 the total number of confirmed victims of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Los Angeles County, Health Services Director Robert C. Gates said. He also said county authorities are investigating 102 more suspected cases of the disease, which largely strikes male homosexuals. The county has averaged about 45 new cases monthly since receiving its first reports of AIDS victims in 1981. Dr. Betty Agce of the county’s Communicable Disease Division said the abrupt increase may mean that the disease — which has an incubation period of two to five years — is just now showing up in many victims.
The Senate rebuffed the President and failed to end a filibuster that is blocking an Administration-sponsored measure that would give Mr. Reagan vastly increased power to veto spending bills. A bipartisan group of primarily liberal legislators has prevented the Senate from considering the measure. The vote to halt the filibuster was 57 to 42, 3 short of the number needed. The proposal would permit a President to reject individual items in an appropriation bill. Governors of many states have this line-item veto power, but the President must either sign or veto the entire bill. Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, said after the vote that he would try to end the filibuster again next week and said that Mr. Reagan remained “deeply interested” in the bill.
Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said today that he would introduce a comprehensive immigration bill next week. He said he planned to make the issue one of his top legislative priorities this year. Supporters of the measure said the personal involvement of Mr. Rodino could significantly strengthen the bill’s chances. For several months House proponents of the immigration bill have had difficulty finding a suitable sponsor.
Vice President George Bush’s task force to combat drug smugglers has done little to slow the flow of illegal narcotics across U.S. borders, General Accounting Office auditors told a House panel. While the National Narcotics Border Interdiction System, or NNBIS, claimed to be involved in 136 of 2,289 drug seizures along the Southern border in the first year of operation, the task force contributed to only 39 interdictions, said William J. Anderson of the GAO, an investigative arm of Congress. “At least for that period of time, it appears as though NNBIS did not make much difference” in the effort to stem drug smuggling, he said.
Keeping the total a secret, the House approved legislation authorizing spending by the nation’s intelligence agencies. Most of the money is hidden in Defense Department appropriations. Included in the measure, approved by voice vote and sent to the Senate, was permission for the CIA to resume giving “intelligence information and advice” to the Contra guerrillas fighting the Sandinista government of Nicaragua.
Margaret M. Heckler, the Secretary of Health and and Human Services, today ordered a halt to a University of Pennsylvania research project on head injuries. Activists for animal rights have occupied offices at the National Institutes of Health since Monday to protest the project, which they call torture. Mrs. Heckler said she had acted on the basis of a preliminary report by her department’s investigators. The head of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, said the report “indicates material failure to comply with the Public Health Service policy for the care and use of laboratory animals.” He said experts had viewed more than 60 hours of videotapes of the experiments. The protesters say the tapes show cruelty to baboons. Mrs. Heckler said: “Until all questions about the use of primates in these head injury experiments have been satisfactorily resolved, I have instructed N.I.H. to suspend the use of Federal funds for primate research on head injury at the University of Pennsylvania.”
The Department of Transportation, which has been highly critical of government-mandated fuel economy standards for automobiles, formally announced today that it proposed to reduce the standard for the 1986 model year to an average of 26 miles to the gallon from 27.5 miles a gallon. The decision, based on requests from the General Motors Company and the Ford Motor Company, means all auto makers can make and sell a larger volume of passenger cars that are larger, less fuel-efficient and higher-priced in the next model year. It also eliminates the prospect that G.M. and Ford will have to pay tens of millions of dollars in fines.
Interior Secretary Donald P. Hodel said today that the Reagan Administration strongly supported the creation of new wilderness areas and would give a high priority to protecting areas now being considered for inclusion in the wilderness system. On Wednesday the Interior Department’s Minerals Management Service issued a draft report pronouncing as a “success” the broad-scale offshore oil-leasing program instituted by James G. Watt when he was Interior Secretary. Today, in testimony before a subcommittee of the House Interior and Insular Affairs Committee, Mr. Hodel said nearly 25 million acres managed by the department’s Bureau of Land Management was in a study program for possible consideration as wilderness areas.
The CIA clerk charged with espionage for allegedly divulging details of U.S. operations in Ghana was released to the custody of her parents in a suburban Washington courtroom. Sharon Marie Scranage, crying, “I love you, Daddy,” went home to King George, Virginia, after pledging to remain in the area. Scranage, 29, is charged with providing information on CIA operations in Ghana to her lover, Michael Agbotui Soussoudis, 39, who faces a hearing today.
Immigration officials violated the rights of the parents of a Russian teen-ager by refusing to let them take their son back to the Soviet Union three years ago, a Federal judge ruled today. Senior Federal District Judge Thomas R. McMillen ruled that the United States Immigration and Naturalization Service denied due process of law to Anna and Michael Polovchak by forbidding them to take their son, Walter, home without giving the parents a hearing. Walter Polovchak’s lawyer said, however, that his client would not return to the Soviet Union. “Walter isn’t going anywhere,” said Julian E. Kulas, the lawyer. Walter will be 18 years old on October 3, when he can apply for U.S. citizenship. Any order returning him to his parents’ custody will be appealed, Mr. Kulas said.
The U.S. Postal Service, which says it is facing a potential loss of $500 million this year, is cutting the salaries of its 30 top officials — from Postmaster General Paul N. Carlin on down — by 3.5% as part of a major belt-tightening, Carlin said in a letter to top managers. Also, a 3.2% pay raise effective Saturday has been put on hold for 700 other officials, including the postmasters of Washington, New York, Los Angeles and other cities.
The authorities have broken up a ring they say stole about 30,000 Treasury checks worth tens of millions of dollars from the mail and sent them overseas for cashing. “This is the largest such check-stealing scheme the Secret Service has ever uncovered and may be the biggest involving the postal system,” Richard McDrew, chief of the Secret Service in San Francisco, said today.
A possible taint in the Smithsonian has prompted plans for an emergency inspection of 57 high-voltage transformers in seven of the institution’s museums by environmental officials. They said the transformers may be leaking PCBs. Manufacture of the hazardous chemical was banned in this country in 1977.
The nominee for budget director is likely to be James C. Miller 3d, according to White House officials. They said President Reagan planned to nominate Mr. Miller, who is chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, to succeed David A. Stockman, who will leave the Administration post August 1 to take a position at Salomon Brothers, the New York investment banking house.
Three defendants pleaded innocent and one pleaded guilty in Philadelphia to charges of joining in an alleged $800,000 defense contract fraud scheme at General Electric Co. The fraudulent billing involved a $47-million contract to refurbish the Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile.
Cook County Circuit Judge Wayne Olson and Chicago lawyer James Costello pleaded guilty to bribery and racketeering charges resulting from the Operation Greylord investigation of judicial corruption. The pleas bring to 21 the number of persons convicted or pleading guilty to charges stemming from the three-year FBI investigation into corruption in the Cook County Circuit Court system.
General Electric Co., the last defendant in a civil suit in the fatal Beverly Hills Supper Club fire in Southgate, Kentucky, reached a $10-million settlement shortly before jury deliberations were to begin, announced Stanley Chesley, an attorney for the families of the 165 persons killed by the 1977 fire and also 81 persons who were injured. The judge said settlements by all 14 defendants totaled $14,150,000, and Chesley said that brought to $50 million the amount available in a fund for distribution by a court-appointed trustee to the nightclub fire victims.
Two prominent feminists are vying for the presidency of the National Organization for Women, which will open an annual three-day convention today in New Orleans. The election tomorrow evening pits Judy Goldsmith, the incumbent leader, against Eleanor Smeal, her predecessor as president and now a political consultant in Washington.
Vince Ferragamo, who lost his starting job as the Los Angeles Rams’ quarterback last season, was traded yesterday to the Buffalo Bills for Tony Hunter, a tight end from Notre Dame and the Bills’ first-round draft choice in 1983. The Bills will also receive a future draft pick in the deal.
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Cal Ripken, Mike Young and Wayne Gross hit bases-empty home runs and Eddie Murray rapped a two-run double for Baltimore as the Orioles whipped the Royals, 8–3. Ripken, 12-for-28 in his last seven games, singled prior to Murray’s double in the first inning and hit his 16th homer to give Baltimore a 4-1 lead in the fifth. Ripken has 21 RBIs in his last 24 games.
Kent Hrbek breaks a tie with a 7th inning grand slam to give the Twins an 8–4 win over the visiting Yankees. Frank Eufemia (3–0) wins with 3 shutout innings of relief. Although it was Hrbek’s grand slam in the seventh that decided things, Yankee’s manager Billy Martin seemed more upset with the true, sharp bounces that aided fielders’ throws and might have negated his team’s aggressive base running.
The A’s edged the Blue Jays, 6–4, as Alfredo Griffin’s tie-breaking triple highlighted a three-run ninth for Oakland. It was the fourth straight loss for Toronto. With the A’s trailing, 4–3, Mike Davis led off the ninth with a single off the reliever Gary Lavelle (4–4), the losing pitcher in Toronto’s last three games. Mike Heath then laid down a sacrifice bunt, and the throw to second from the catcher, Ernie Whitt ricocheted into right field, sending Davis to third. Davis scored the tying run on Steve Henderson’s infield out and Griffin followed with his triple to send home Heath. Griffin scored on Dwayne Murphy’s safety squeeze bunt.
Jim Rice and Bill Buckner sparked an eight-run third inning with two hits and two runs batted in apiece as Boston rolled over California, 10–1. Boston’s Wade Boggs extended his hitting streak to 21 games, longest in the major leagues this year, with a fifth-inning single.
The Rangers topped the Tigers, 3–2. Run-scoring singles by the pinch-hitter Buddy Bell and George Wright keyed a Texas rally with two out in the seventh inning. The Rangers ended their four-game losing streak. Bell, who has been the subject of trade rumors involving the Cincinnati Reds, didn’t arrive at the ballpark until 4:30 PM. He said he had been in Cincinnati, where, he said, he agreed in principle to contract terms with the Reds. Both clubs have refused to confirm the transaction. Cincinnati has scheduled a Friday news conference.
Britt Burns beat Cleveland for the fourth time this season and extended his scoreless string against the Indians to 32 innings with a five-hitter, as the White Sox crushed the Indians, 10–0.
Jim Presley hit two home runs, and Mike Moore scattered seven hits as the Mariners handed the Brewers their 10th loss in their last 12 games, winning, 5–2. Presley opened the scoring at Milwaukee with a solo home run in the first, then completed it with his 20th homer of the season, again with the bases empty, in the ninth. Bob Kearney’s sixth homer of the season, broke a 2–2 tie in the seventh inning. His solo shot bounced off of the left-field foul pole and made a winner of Moore. Moore’s fastball was clocked at 93 m.p.h. in the ninth inning. He walked one and struck out three in improving his record to 8–5. Brewers starter Danny Darwin lost his fifth straight game.
Bill Russell scored on Len Matuszek’s sacrifice fly in the seventh inning tonight to break a 1–1 tie as the Los Angeles Dodgers edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–1. The victory kept the Dodgers one-half game in front on second-place San Diego in the National League West while the Cardinals’ lead over the Mets in the East was trimmed to 1 ½ games. Mike Scioscia led off the seventh with a double off Bill Campbell (2–2). Russell ran for Scioscia and Steve Sax sacrificed him to third. Matuszek, batting for the pitcher, Orel Hershiser, lifted a fly to left to score Russell.
The New York Mets opened Act II of the season last night by outlasting the Atlanta Braves, 7–6, in a comedy of eight errors, three by Howard Johnson. But their attention was firmly fixed on the second game of the series tonight, which may decide whether Gary Carter undergoes immediate surgery on his right knee. Carter, the 31-year-old catcher and cleanup hitter for the Mets, watched from the dugout in Shea Stadium while his future was dangling and his teammates were winning their fourth straight game and the 13th in their last 14. Each side made four errors, the most in any game in the National League this season. But the Braves gave the worst performance of the evening in the fifth inning, when they blew two plays and treated the Mets to five unearned runs and the lead.
The Expos blanked the Astros, 3–0. Joe Hesketh (6–4) got his first victory in nearly two months for Montreal. Three fielding miscues by Alan Ashby, the Houston catcher, helped the Expos score all their runs. Hesketh took a five-hit shutout into the ninth but gave up two singles in the inning and was relieved by Jeff Reardon, who got the last out for his 23rd save.
Juan Samuel had three hits and knocked in two runs as Philadelphia snapped a five-game losing streak with a victory over the slumping Mario Soto and the Reds, 6–3. Soto (8–11) has lost his last eight decisions, the longest losing streak of his career. The right-hander hasn’t won since June 4.
Carmelo Martinez belted a two-out home run in the bottom of the eighth inning to give San Diego a 3–2 victory over the visiting Pirates. Martinez’s 12th homer of the year came off John Candelaria (2–4) who relieved the starter, Rick Reuschel, after seven innings.
Jeff Leonard doubled with one out in the bottom of the ninth to score Chili Davis and give the Giants a 1–0 victory over the Cubs. With one out, Davis singled to right off the reliever, George Frazier (5–3). After Lee Smith relieved, Leonard hit a 1–2 pitch down the right-field line as Davis scored easily, handing the Giants their third straight triumph.
Baseball’s labor negotiators met yesterday for the first time since the players set an August 6 strike deadline, then recessed the talks for a new collective-bargaining agreement until Monday. The three-hour meeting produced no substantive discussion on the primary issue — the owners’ contribution to the players’ pension and benefit plan.
Kansas City Royals 3, Baltimore Orioles 8
California Angels 1, Boston Red Sox 10
Cleveland Indians 0, Chicago White Sox 10
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Cincinnati Reds 3
Texas Rangers 3, Detroit Tigers 2
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Seattle Mariners 5, Milwaukee Brewers 2
New York Yankees 4, Minnesota Twins 8
Houston Astros 0, Montreal Expos 3
Atlanta Braves 6, New York Mets 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, San Diego Padres 3
Chicago Cubs 0, San Francisco Giants 1
Oakland Athletics 6, Toronto Blue Jays 4
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Born:
Chace Crawford, American actor (“Gossip Girl”), in Lubbock, Texas.
James Norton, English actor (“Happy Valley”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Theo Croker, American jazz trumpeter, composer, producer, and vocalist, in Leesburg, Florida.
Ramiro Peña, Mexican MLB third baseman, shortstop, and second baseman (New York Yankees, Atlanta Braves, San Francisco Giants), in Monterrey, Mexico.
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