Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain delivered a rousing defense of democracy to an international group of mostly conservative leaders tonight and warned against a “massive propaganda campaign” by the Soviet Union when President Reagan meets with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in the fall. Mrs. Thatcher, in an address to the International Democrat Union, a gathering of political parties, most of them conservative, from 30 nations that she helped to found in 1983, said that democracy meant liberty and responsibility and that “you can’t have one without the other.” Mrs. Thatcher took note of the meeting scheduled to take place in Geneva in November between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev, and asserted that this fall “our peoples will be presented with alluring prospects” — if the United States will give up President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative seeking a space-based antimissile shield and if only the French and British will give up their nuclear deterrents. The Prime Minister drew her loudest applause when she asserted: “This we will not do.” Mrs. Thatcher has cautiously supported the Strategic Defense Initiative. In a meeting with President Reagan here last December, she said there were “no differences” between Britain and the United States on research for the project.
A Soviet arms negotiator appeared to draw a distinction today between pure scientific research into space-based defense weapons and more purposeful work leading to development of weapon components. The official, Yuli A. Kvitsinsky, who heads the Soviet delegation in the space-weapons segment of the Geneva arms talks, said at a news conference that the more goal-oriented research phase would indicate the start of development of weapon components and produce “distinguishing signs” that could be verified under a treaty ban. He referred to the appearance of test models for space-based weapons such as particle beams and lasers.
The Soviet statements today on research into space-based defense systems appear to parallel some points that the United States has been making in the Geneva talks, according to American accounts. Although officials said that Mr. Kvitsinsky’s statement would be carefully studied, a White House spokesman was skeptical that there had been a basic shift in the Soviet position.
Four more bodies were found today in the mud and debris left by the collapse of an Italian dam that destroyed the village of Stava. The number of confirmed dead rose to 208. The weather bureau predicted rain for Friday, setting off fears of a new mudslide here and in Stava. Civil Defense officials said they were taking urgent measures to protect the population and their property, but no specific steps were announced. The dam collapsed Friday. Rescue officials said at least 53 others were still unaccounted for. A report based on claims by families and friends put the number at 161.
In a government shake-up, Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou fired Economy Minister Gerasimos Arsenis and moved Foreign Minister Ioannis Haralambopoulos to a new post-Cabinet vice president. Actress Melina Mercouri kept the job of culture minister, while Papandreou himself remains defense minister in the new Cabinet, to be sworn in today. Farm Minister Constantine Simitis, a moderate and respected university lecturer, will take the economics portfolio in the wake of speculation that the government is about to embark on a more conservative economic course.
A Lebanese military investigator said today that he had referred four suspects in the bombing in 1983 of the United States Embassy here to a military court for trial and had recommended that they be executed if convicted. He said two of the men were also charged with bombing the Iraqi Embassy in 1981. Sixty-three people were killed at the American Embassy and 48 at the Iraqi Embassy. The military investigator identified the four as Hussein Saleh Harb, 40, and Mahmoud Moussa Dairaki, 42, both Lebanese; Mohammed Nayef Jadaa, 54, a Palestinian, and Sami Mahmoud al-Hujji, 47, an Egyptian.
The red and white Trans World Airlines jet that was hijacked last month is still parked at a far corner of the runway in Beirut, and a Shiite Muslim leader says that until the United States drops its retaliatory efforts to “isolate” the Beirut airport, the $15 million aircraft will stay where it is. The decision by Amal, the mainstream Shiite group, to hold the airliner is a reflection of the extent to which the Lebanese remain angered by the American efforts to restrict the operation of the airport. The report that the plane was deliberately being held was disclosed at a news conference last weekend by Hassan Hashem, head of the executive committee of Amal. Asked whether the plane, a Boeing 727, will be allowed to leave Beirut, he replied: “The United States has backed down on its promises and removed the mask from its real face. It claims it stands with the unity of Lebanon, but we have seen the measures it has taken against the airport. Closing the facility will harm all Lebanese.
Iran and Iraq reported an increase today in fighting in key sectors of the war front. In Baghdad, a military spokesman asserted that Iraqi troops had seized Iranian positions on a strategic mountain on the northern front. In Tehran, Iran’s national press agency contended that Iranian forces had killed or wounded 250 Iraqi soldiers in the Sumar region of the central front. Baghdad did not refer to the Sumar fighting and Teheran made no mention of a battle in the north.
Guerrillas said today that Soviet air strikes in Afghanistan this month killed 23 civilians. They said the raids were in retaliation for a guerrilla rocket attack on a pro-government village. A senior guerrilla official said insurgents fired 30 ground-to-ground rockets at the village of Ghazgi on the night of July 9. The village, in the eastern border province of Nangarhar, supports the Government, the rebel official said. He said the attack had killed six government militiamen and wounded others. The next day, he said, Soviet jets bombed the pro-guerrilla village of Shah Kott in retaliation.
Two militant Sikh groups rejected an agreement between Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and other Sikh leaders, and two moderate Sikh leaders were reported to have called the pact a betrayal of Sikh interests. But many other Sikh leaders joined with government officials, newspapers and many other Indians in praising the accord as paving the way for an end to the confrontation between Sikhs in Punjab, the northern state in which most of them live, and the central Government. Sikhs of varying persuasions scheduled a meeting Friday in Anandpur Sahib, a village in Punjab, to debate the accord, which was negotiated this week between Mr. Gandhi and Harchand Singh Longowal. Mr. Longowal is leader of the largest faction of the Akali Dal, the Sikh political party. As part of the agreement, the Government agreed to greater compensation for those hurt in anti-Sikh rioting last year and a shift in the boundaries of Punjab to increase the state’s population of Sikhs, giving them a greater chance to exercise power. The government also yielded to Sikh demands for more lenient treatment of Sikhs arrested and punished in the riots and agitation of the last three years. It agreed to provide “gainful employment” for Sikh soldiers discharged for having deserted the Indian Army last year.
The official Burmese press agency said today that 61 passengers had been killed and 112 wounded when rebels set off a land mine under a passing train 146 miles north of the capital of rangoon. There was no immediate assertion of responsibility. The press agency did not say which rebel group officials thought had been responsible, but informed sources said the Karen National Union had previously sabotaged transport and communication lines between Rangoon and Mandalay. The press agency said the attack, which occurred Wednesday evening at Kywebwe, between Toungoo and Pyu on the Rangoon-Mandalay main line, had been caused by a land mine planted under the tracks and had derailed the engine and six coaches.
Four Australian women have been infected with AIDS virus through artificial insemination at a fertility clinic, and a specialist expressed fear that similar cases may lie undetected in other countries. Health officials said three of the women developed antibodies to the disease and one had swollen lymph glands, a symptom of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Australia now screens sperm donors for AIDS, and officials said this should prevent new transmissions of the disease.
An 80-year-old Belgian Catholic priest who supported church-inspired protests against Haiti’s President Jean-Claude Duvalier was reportedly beaten to death by the regime’s secret police. Sources said the priest, who had lived in Haiti for 31 years, was killed a few hours after the government declared victory in a referendum on political reforms, which the opposition denounced as bogus. Three other Belgian priests, who have played a key role in the protests, were ordered out of the country.
Senate and House negotiators early this morning approved a $25.4 billion compromise foreign aid bill that would provide nonmilitary aid for the insurgents fighting the Nicaraguan Government but would bar the Central Intelligence Agency or the Defense Department from distributing it. Approval of the package marked the first time in four years that a foreign aid package has cleared a conference committee. The compromise, which provides funding for a variety of foreign aid programs for the fiscal years 1986 and 1987 must now return to each chamber for final approval. In votes earlier this year, both the House and the Senate passed bills that provide aid for the Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras, but that bar its use for military purposes. A major sticking point, however, has been the insistence by the House that the CIA be excluded from distributing the aid.
Nicaraguan rebel leader Eden Pastora is “exhausted” and has bruised ribs and legs but is safe at a camp in the jungle of southern Nicaragua, a leader of his Revolutionary Democratic Alliance said. Pastora had been reported missing after his pilot radioed that their helicopter was having engine trouble. Pastora, 48, was a hero of the Sandinista revolution but broke with the government over its Marxist leadership.
Pilots of the Colombian airline, Avianca, ended their strike a day after an air force plane carrying civilian passengers crashed in a jungle, killing all 74 aboard. The 350 striking pilots agreed to a 20% salary increase now and 22% next year, the carrier said. The Colombian air force had been flying Avianca domestic routes during the strike, and Wednesday one of its 40-year-old DC-6s crashed in the jungle after taking off from the Amazon port of Leticia.
A Colombian judge, who ordered charges brought against 16 people in the apparently drug-related assassination of the nation’s justice minister last year, was shot and killed in a taxi stuck in rush-hour traffic, police said. Five gunmen walked up to the taxi and shot. Judge Manuel Castro 13 times. The 16 people charged included a Colombian congressman. President Belisario Betancur has said that the killing of Justice Minister Rodrigo Lara Bonilla was the work of drug traffickers.
Zimbabwe’s newly elected Parliament, dominated by Prime Minister Robert Mugabe’s party, voted 63-24 to renew a state of emergency over the objections of white legislators and supporters of opposition leader Joshua Nkomo. Justice Minister Eddison Zvobgo said the government is seeking “new and decisive measures” to suppress guerrillas, who operate primarily in Matabeleland, home of Nkomo’s minority Ndebele tribe. Opposition members charge that the government is attempting to suppress Nkomo’s supporters.
The United States today urged talks between the white Government and the black leadership in South Africa as American officials voiced concern about the deteriorating situation there. The officials said the United States was reviewing the situation in the aftermath of the declaration of a state of emergency in South Africa. But they said the Administration’s policy of “constructive engagement” remained unchanged. “We are reviewing the situation to see what further steps might be necessary,” an official said.
792 South Africans are being held with no legal rights under the new emergency regulations, Pretoria announced. It said the tally of deaths since the emergency began last weekend stood at 15. The figures seemed to cloak the sadness experienced by many black families.
The Security Council met Thursday at the request of France to consider a resolution calling on South Africa to repeal its five-day-old emergency decree. The proposal would also urge governments to suspend new investments in South Africa, as France announced Wednesday that it was doing. The council halted debate on the French-sponsored resolution early this morning. Closed-door negotiations had gone on for hours over a substitute resolution drafted by African nations that “condemns the policy of ‘constructive engagement’ and other forms of collaboration” with the Government in Pretoria.
The USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
The Reagan Administration, acknowledging the sharp slowing of the economy in the first half of the year, has lowered its forecast for economic growth for 1985 from 3.9% to 3%, officials said. Even the new forecast assumes the economy will snap back in the second half and grow at a 5% rate, after managing a scant 1% rate in the first six months. Most private forecasters, while expecting the economy to improve, predict the gains will be smaller than those the Administration expects. And if the economy does rebound in coming months, the slower-than-expected growth that has already occurred still will mean about a $15-billion increase in the fiscal 1986 budget deficit compared to what it otherwise would be, the officials said.
Legislators upheld 22 arms systems that either the House or the Senate had voted to kill, in approving a compromise military budget. The $302.5 billion bill approved by a House-Senate conference insures that none of the weapons programs the Pentagon sought will be eliminated next year. The large number of growing weapon programs is expected to make military spending and budget deficits more difficult to control in later years. Instead of dropping programs, the conferees cut about $20 billion from the Pentagon’s budget request by slowing the pace of the production of some weapons, estimating lower costs for others, forecasting lower inflation and higher dividends from foreign currency exchanges and trimming personnel and operating costs.
President Reagan attends a Cabinet Council meeting to discuss domestic and international issues.
Senate budget negotiators proposed a $5-a-barrel fee on imported oil as part of a deficit-reduction package aimed at breaking a budget impasse with the House. The proposal includes a new plan to adjust Social Security benefits, pensions and tax brackets to account for inflation every other year rather than every year. Unlike the Senate’s original proposal for a one-year elimination of cost-of-living adjustments, this proposal would not take effect until after 1986, an election year. In an effort to meet some House objections, the Senate leaders modified their previously proposed cuts in programs for the poor and made smaller reductions than they originally proposed in other domestic programs. $65 Billion Saving in 1986 The proposal would reduce the deficit by $65 billion in 1986 and by $338 billion over three years, almost $45 billion more than the original Senate budget plan and almost $70 billion more than the latest House offer of $273 billion over three years.
The tax revision plan would generate about $25 billion less revenue than the current tax system over the next five years, according to an authoritative Congressional report. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d agreed that the Reagan Administration would revise its proposals so they would be absolutely “revenue neutral.”
A House panel unanimously adopted a report that accused Louis O. Giuffrida of misconduct in running the nation’s disaster relief agency, and recommended further investigation by the Justice Department. The Science and Technology Committee, on a voice vote, approved the findings of its investigations subcommittee, which spent 18 months looking at Giuffrida’s direction of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Giuffrida has announced that he’s resigning effective September 1.
The House voted today to freeze the construction of public housing units next year at current levels, rejecting a committee recommendation to double the construction and pay for the increase with other reductions. With Congress still split over a budget resolution for the fiscal year 1986, the House approved an approprition bill for the Department of Housing and Urban Development and other agencies. The chamber is attempting to keep all appropriations under the levels it set for the fiscal year 1986 and often under the spending levels for the current fiscal year.
The Pentagon’s inspector general’s office and a House subcommittee are investigating whether the Defense Department’s top procurement regulator violated conflict of interest laws during a recent job search, an aide to Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Michigan) said. The official, Mary Ann Gilleece, did not advise her superior and an agency ethics officer for three weeks that she had offered her private consulting services and the services of an aide this spring to 14 defense contractors, the Dingell staffer said. In a proposed consulting contract, Gilleece and an aide, Navy Captain Carl Mayer, offered to represent some of the nation’s largest defense contractors before the government, including serving as their “coordinator” on procurement matters and helping affect changes in federal policies and regulations.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved a $10-billion Superfund toxic waste cleanup bill that the panel’s staunchest environmentalists branded “toothless” special-interest legislation. The 31-10 vote ended six days of wrangling and squabbling over how much flexibility to give an Environmental Protection Agency stung by Superfund scandals during the early years of the Reagan Administration. Among those casting protest votes against the measure were five of the committee’s six subcommittee chairmen, including Rep. James J. Florio (D-New Jersey), the author of the original Superfund law.
Welfare payments would increase under a measure approved by the House Ways and Means Committee. The panel has voted to expand the nation’s main welfare program by requiring the states to pay benefits to needy two-parent families. Under current law, benefits for two-parent families are optional. Twenty-three states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, pay benefits to two-parent families in which the principal wage-earner is unemployed.
A spokeswoman for Rock Hudson confirms he has AIDS. After two days of confusion about the actor’s medical condition, spokesman Yanou Collart said late Thursday afternoon: “Mr. Hudson has AIDS.” She said the disease, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, was diagnosed a year ago. Miss Collart said her statement earlier in the day about Mr. Hudson, 59 years old, being “cured” of the disease was “a misinterpretation.” A hospital assistant said by telephone that Mr. Hudson still had AIDS, and Miss Collart later confirmed the statement. Mr. Hudson’s illness was diagnosed a year ago in the United States as AIDS, Miss Collart said in an earlier press statement. She said Mr. Hudson had come to Paris to consult with an AIDS specialist, but suddenly fell ill. Upon examining him, doctors at the American Hospital discovered “abnormalities” in his liver and planned to do further tests as soon as he was stronger, she said.
The General Motors Corporation has selected Spring Hill, Tennessee, as the site for its Saturn project, which is to employ 6,000 people, according to published reports. The Detroit Free Press reported in Friday’s issue that General Motors planned to announce the selection in the next several days.
Federal health officials today called for prompt action to combat measles epidemics on college campuses in light of 334 cases and three deaths at 25 universities this year. The Federal Centers for Disease Control said most colleges lacked immunization requirements, even though the 334 cases represented 18.5 percent of the nation’s 1,802 cases.
Competition in launching spacecraft is spreading worldwide, beyond the United States and the Soviet Union, as other nations and several private companies seek to stake a claim in what is being viewed as possibly the next economic frontier. The United States, as a result, is under pressure to protect its economic and technological leadership in space by reassessing the space shuttle’s pricing policy, promoting greater private investment in space-related goods and services and forging a long-term space policy to assure a competitive edge, according to Government and aerospace industry officials and a new Congressional study. The European Space Agency, a consortium of 11 Western European governments, broke the American monopoly in launching services for the West with its successful Ariane rocket program. Arianespace, a corporation owned by the French Government and European banks and aerospace companies, is aggressively pursuing customers for Ariane’s services and has won several contracts that would otherwise have gone to American conventional rockets or the space shuttle.
Clergy cannot cite religious beliefs to justify the transporttion and sheltering of Central American refugees in defiance of immigration law, a Federal District judge ruled in Phoenix. The judge, Earl H. Carroll, rejected a motion to dismiss the charges against 12 church workers, including a nun, two priests and two ministers, on religious grounds, and granted a Government motion to bar all testimony or evidence regarding their religious beliefs.
Alaska Governor Bill Sheffield’s executive assistant told a Senate impeachment hearing in Juneau that she sent inside information about a lucrative state lease proposal to a friend of Sheffield at the governor’s request. However, Laurie Herman told the Senate Rules Committee that she believed the governor did not view the action as questionable. Sheffield is accused of steering a $9.1-million contract to a friend and campaign fund-raiser and then lying about it to a grand jury.
Alabama Governor George C. Wallace’s spinal cord surgery in Englewood, Colorado, relieved some pain in his paralyzed legs, but he is also experiencing post-operative discomfort, a Wallace aide said. The success of the surgery probably cannot be determined until next week, said Dr. Daniel P. Lammertse, medical director at Craig Hospital.
A Federal jury found today that the owners of a Virginia restaurant had turned away three black women because of their race. The jury awarded the women $1,503 in damages. The jurors, two women and four men, all of them white, ruled in Federal District Court here that the owners, Roy and Patricia McKoy, deprived the women of service at the Belvoir Restaurant in Marshall, Va. on Dec. 7, 1984, “because of a policy of not serving blacks the same as whites.” The jury rejected charges of assault and battery and inflicting emotional distress on the women, Lori Jackson and her two daughters, Denise Johnson and Debrah Williams. The jurors ruled that each of the women must be paid $1 in nominal damages and $500 in punitive damages. The defense said the McKoys had been harassed by the news media. The restaurant, about 50 miles southwest of Washington, has been the subject of court actions since 1967, when a Federal district judge ordered the McKoys to stop discriminating against blacks.
A small colony of “killer bees” has been found in an oilfield about 30 miles northwest of Bakersfield, California, the Federal Government reported. It said the colony consisting of about 50 of the aggressive Africanized honey bees was eradicated. Large colonies of them are now native to parts of South and Central America and have been expected to migrate north to the lower United States within a few years.
English middle distance runner Steve Cram runs a world record 1 mile (3:46.32) at the Bislett Stadium in Oslo, Norway.
Dan Marino of the Miami Dolphins said yesterday he would not return to training camp until he has signed a new contract, which he said Joe Robbie, the Dolphins’ owner, promised him last January. Robbie and Marvin Demoff, Marino’s attorney, had discussed several contract proposals this week.
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Chances of averting a baseball strike August 6, already remote, seemed to diminish even further yesterday when the owners’ negotiators resubmitted a salary arbitration proposal that the union chief said was designed to anger the players and further frustrate efforts to reach an agreement. Another bargaining session was scheduled for today, but there was no indication that either side expected any progress to be made. At yesterday’s meeting, management representatives presented contract language dealing with salary arbitration. The proposal, the same as the one made June 12, contained two elements in particular that aroused the union’s wrath – that eligibility be increased from two years of major league service to three and that an arbitrator not be permitted to award a salary that was more than double the player’s pay the previous season.
Jim Rice broke a tie with a two-out single in the fifth inning, then singled home two more runs in the seventh for Boston, as the Red Sox downed the Mariners, 5–3. The victory was Boston’s fifth in a row and 11th in 15 games. Seattle suffered its fifth consecutive defeat. With one out in the Boston first, Wade Boggs extended his hitting streak to 28 games – the longest in the major leagues since 1980 — with a ground single through the middle on an 0–2 pitch from Billy Swift.
Dave Stieb scattered seven hits and Damaso Garcia, Lloyd Moseby and Willie Upshaw each had two hits and two runs batted in tonight as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the California Angels, 7–0. Ernie Whitt added a bases-empty homer, his 12th, in the eighth as the Blue Jays won their fifth straight. Stieb (10–6), who was shelled for 11 hits in his previous outing, has won four of his last five starts. He struck out three and walked one in his second shutout of the season and fifth complete game. Stieb also lowered his American League-leading earned run average to 1.98. He was supported by four double plays.
Eddie Murray hits his second grand slam of the month in the 8th inning to break a 1–1 tie and give the Orioles the 5–1 win over the host White Sox. Murray’s 16th homer of the season and 11th career grand slam came on the first pitch after Floyd Bannister (5–8) had walked two batters to fill the bases. The blast hit the facade of the upper deck. Mike Flanagan (1–1) makes his second start of the season after suffering a torn Achilles tendon.
Jack Morris threw a four-hitter and Barbaro Garbey homered and drove in two runs for Detroit as the Tigers beat the host Twins, 7–2. Morris (11–6) struck out five and walked three while pitching his 10th complete game of the season. A St. Paul native, Morris boosted his career record against Minnesota to 14–4.
The Oakland A’s crushed the Milwaukee Brewers, 11–2. Bruce Bochte cracked a three-run homer, and Tim Birtsas scattered eight hits as Oakland broke a four-game losing streak. Birtsas (7–2) was nicked for two runs in the first inning, but allowed the Brewers only five hits the rest of the way. He struck out the side after loading the bases in the third and finished with his first major-league complete game.
Dwight Gooden, who hasn’t lost in two months, pitched the Mets to a 6–3 victory over the Houston Astros tonight, ending the Mets’ losing streak at three and extending his own winning streak to nine. And, except for Darryl Strawberry’s right thumb, which is hurting again, the Doctor cured most of the distress around Shea Stadium once more. He gave a basic performance, a seven-hitter with six strikeouts, his 15th victory against 3 losses this year and his 32nd against 12 losses in a big league career of almost unmatched promise. It was good that he did all that, too, because the Mets had just spiraled into a little slump by scoring three runs in three games against the Cincinnati Reds. They also had to win to stay 3 ½ games behind the St. Louis Cardinals and to stay fractions in front of the Montreal Expos, who both won. Gooden needed help to rescue the Mets, and he got it from Keith Hernandez, who knocked in two runs and scored another, and from Gary Carter, who hit his first home run in a month. Mike Scott (9–5) went six innings and took the loss for the Astros.
The Expos shut out the Reds, 1–0. Bill Gullickson and Jeff Reardon combined on a four-hit shutout, and Razor Shines, recalled this week from Indianapolis, where he was leading the American Association in hitting, had a pinch-hit, run-scoring single in the seventh. Reardon picked up his major league-leading 25th save. Shines’ hit scored Herman Winningham, who had drawn a walk against loser Tom Hume (1–3) and stolen second.
The Cardinals came from behind to top the Padres, 9–6. Terry Pendleton lined a tiebreaking single and eventually scored on the play on errors by the San Diego center fielder Al Bumbry and the catcher Terry Kennedy as St. Louis rallied for five runs in the ninth off Rich Gossage. The victory extended the Cardinals’ winning streak to five games. San Diego lost its fifth straight. The Cardinals trailed 6–0 after five innings, and were behind 6–4 going into the ninth. But Steve Braun led off with a double and scored on Vince Coleman’s single, his fourth hit. Coleman stole second, moved to third on a groundout and scored the tying run when Carmelo Martinez, the left fielder, dropped Tom Herr’s sacrifice fly for a two-base error. Jack Clark walked and, after the pinch-hitter Mike Jorgensen struck out, Pendleton singled to center, driving home Herr. Bumbry fielded the ball cleanly but threw wildly back to the infield, allowing Clark to score, and Pendleton also raced home when Gossage retrieved the ball and threw to Kennedy, who let the ball get through him for an error.
The Braves edged the Phillies, 3–2, as Rafael Ramirez scored the winning run in the ninth inning on a wild throw by the Philadelphia second baseman Derrel Thomas. Ramirez opened the ninth with a single to right off Kent Tekulve (4–6). After Dale Murphy struck out, Bob Horner walked. Terry Harper then hit a grounder to the shortstop Mike Schmidt, whose flip to Thomas forced Horner. Thomas, however, threw wildly to first on the double-play attempt, allowing Ramirez to score.
In the last few games, slugger Pedro Guerrero has been walked more than a poodle in Manhattan. The Chicago Cubs decided to pitch him honestly last night at Dodger Stadium, and Guerrero bit them. Guerrero launched his 22nd home run and scored three times, leading Los Angeles to a 7–3 victory over the Chicago Cubs to boost the Dodgers’ NL West lead to 3 ½ games. Fernando Valenzuela, 12–8, won his fifth straight decision, despite a streak of wildness. He walked eight and was lifted in the eighth inning with the bases loaded. Ken Howell relieved and recorded his 10th save. Chicago starter Ray Fontenot, 3–5, held the Dodgers hitless until Guerrero’s fourth-inning homer.
The Giants edged the Pirates, 4–3. Catcher Bob Brenly, who had not expected to get into the game, hit a run-scoring double with two out in the eighth inning to give the Giants the victory at San Francisco. Brenly’s wife, Joan, had suffered a miscarriage that required surgery just the day before. But Brenly, realizing the club has only two catchers, went to Candlestick Park, anyway. When Alex Trevino was lifted for a pinch-runner in the seventh, Brenly took over, and his passed ball gave the Pirates an unearned run in the top of the eighth for a 3–1 lead. Manny Trillo and Chili Davis opened the bottom half with singles, advanced on Cecilio Guante’s wild pitch and scored on Chris Brown’s two-run-single for a tie. One out later, Brenly delivered his game-winning hit. “I didn’t want to play.” Brenly said, “but with only two catchers, you have to assume you might get into the game. The passed ball was totally my fault. I wasn’t mentally prepared to enter the game.”
Seattle Mariners 3, Boston Red Sox 5
Baltimore Orioles 5, Chicago White Sox 1
Chicago Cubs 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Oakland Athletics 11, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Detroit Tigers 7, Minnesota Twins 2
Cincinnati Reds 0, Montreal Expos 1
Houston Astros 3, New York Mets 6
Atlanta Braves 3, Philadelphia Phillies 2
St. Louis Cardinals 9, San Diego Padres 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Francisco Giants 4
California Angels 0, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Technology stocks teamed up with the oils to break a three-day slide on Wall Street, but the market only managed a mixed performance as secondary issues remained weak.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1353.61 (+4.71)
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Corey Graham, NFL cornerback and safety (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Super Bowl 52-Eagles, 2017; Pro Bowl, 2011; Chicago Bears, Baltimore Ravens, Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles), in Buffalo, New New York.
Jameel McClain, NFL linebacker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Baltimore Ravens, New York Giants), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Alex Presley, MLB outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates, Minnesota Twins, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Detroit Tigers), in Monroe, Louisiana.
Michael Wall, Canadian NHL goaltender (Anaheim Ducks), in Telkwa, British Columbia, Canada.
Nelson Piquet Jr., Brazilian auto racer (Formula E champion 2014-2015), in Heidelberg, West Germany.
Shantel VanSanten, American model and actress (“For All Mankind”), in Luverne, Minnesota.
James Lafferty, American actor (“One Tree Hill”), in Hemet, California.
Jasmine Lennard, British model and reality TV star (“Big Brother”), in Belgravia, Westminster, England, United Kingdom.
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