The Soviet human rights situation is worse today than when dissidents began a human-rights campaign in the mid-1970’s, encouraged by the signing of the Helsinki accords, one of the two original members of the Moscow Helsinki watch group said. The hopes the Helsinki accords fired have died out, said Naum Meiman, one of the survivors of the original Moscow Helsinki watch group of 20. Eighteen of the 20 have been imprisoned or sent into internal exile or have gone abroad.
About 400 emigres from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia marched on the Soviet Embassy here today in the largest anti-Soviet demonstration in Finland since protests over the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Hundreds of police officers cordoned off the embassy during the march. The emigres said they were protesting Soviet human rights abuses and Soviet rule in the three Baltic states.
Six West German youth groups announced today that they were pulling out of the Moscow Youth Festival. The six groups — including the youth wing of the opposition Social Democrats, the Evangelical Church and a sports organization — said they were protesting treatment of West Berlin as a separate national group. Representatives of West Berlin’s pro-Moscow Communist Party marched under a city flag in the opening pageant Saturday, emphasizing the Soviet view that the western half of the divided city is a separate entity. In a communiqué issued today, the West German groups said this violated the four-power agreement on the status of Berlin and of agreements made in organizing the festival. The groups said they had come to the weeklong festival to express their support for policies of détente.
Derby, once the prosperous home of British Rail and Rolls-Royce, has slipped onto the debit side of Britain’s divided society. One of the declining industrial centers of the East Midlands, Derby is a new recruit to The Other Britain — the one that shares little of the hustle and sheen of the southeast. Unlike Port Talbot in Wales, Derby has escaped the grip of pervasive fatalism; people here still think things can get better. While Port Talbot represents places where once-thriving industries have crumbled, Derby is one of those places where once-labor-intensive industries have successfully automated, costing thousands of jobs. And even the optimists here do not expect enormous improvement soon.
Weak environmental laws in Italy are among the factors being blamed for the dam break that killed more than 200 people in northern Italy last week. The flood, caused by the breaking of a dam owned by a mining concern, has stirred a national debate. Criticism has been especially sharp from environmentalists and the Communist opposition. But supporters of business and of the govering five-party coalition also expressed rage at the country’s apparent failure to enforce measures insuring public safety. “What is lacking is prevention,” said Loris Fortuna, a Member of Parliament for the Socialist Party, of which Prime Minister Bettino Craxi is also a member. “There is no provision in the law for it.”
The Danish government reinforced police patrols at all refugee centers in the country after the second straight night of battles outside a hotel housing 60 Iranian refugees in the town of Kalundborg, 50 miles west of Copenhagen. Officials said the clashes involved about 200 Danes who had gathered at the hotel shouting “Go home!” at the Iranians. Seven people were arrested and a dozen were injured in the clashes.
Cracks have been found in some Boeing 747 jumbo jets, and airlines using the aircraft have been warned by Boeing to check them, the London newspaper Mail on Sunday reported. The report said some cracks were found in the skin of one plane and others in an engine mounting, prompting Boeing to alert all the “70 airlines who fly the world’s 600-strong 747 fleet.” At Boeing headquarters in Seattle, spokesman John Wheeler said the company has issued a routine “service bulletin” after a four-inch crack was found in one of the floor beams of a 747. Wheeler called it “an isolated thing.”
Israeli jets raided a Palestinian guerrilla base in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, setting a command headquarters for a Libyan-backed faction on fire, Beirut radio and the Israeli command reported. Bekaa radio correspondents reported that six Israeli jets attacked a two-story command center for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command about 30 miles east of Beirut. There was no immediate word on casualties. The strike was Israel’s eighth in Lebanon this year.
The Israeli security forces announced today that they had arrested suspects in the killing of two Israeli teachers who disappeared a week ago and whose bodies were found Friday in a cave on Mount Gilboa. The police said that the prisoners were in their hands Thursday, when the two teachers had been missing for four days, and that they confessed after the bodies were found on Friday and some clues linked them to the slayings.
The Shia Muslims’ Amal movement said its guerrillas killed two pro-Israeli militiamen and captured five in a gunfight in Israel’s “security zone” in southern Lebanon. Amal officials in Sidon said their guerrillas stormed and captured a position of the Israelibacked “home guard” in the village of Braachit. The U.N. peacekeeping force in the region confirmed that at least one militiaman was killed.
Lebanese Shia Muslim leader Nabih Berri and Druze leader Walid Jumblatt announced that they will set up a “national unity front” next month to draft terms for national reconciliation. At a joint press conference in Beirut, Jumblatt denounced “this fascist party in power,” a reference to the presidency of Amin Gemayel, a Christian. He also pledged to support Berri if new fighting erupts between the Shias and Palestinian guerrillas. The new front is expected to consist of left-wing Muslim and Druze parties and independent, pro-Syrian Christian leaders like former President Suleiman Franjieh.
Syria announced today that it would boycott an emergency Arab summit meeting called by King Hassan II of Morocco. The official Syrian press agency quoted an authoritative source, who was not further identified, as saying it was “contradictory to all rules and principles agreed upon between nations of the world to hold such extraordinary conferences.”
Iraq said its soldiers stormed Iranian positions on a mountain in the Kurdistan region of northern Iraq and recaptured the site, which the Iraqis referred to only as Mt. 1666. In the fighting, 478 Iranians were killed, the Baghdad government said, mentioning no Iraqi casualties. The daily military communique also said helicopter gunships had flown 162 missions against Iranians in unspecified areas, inflicting heavy losses. The northern front has been the scene of Iraqi counterattacks since Iranian troops occupied some areas there two weeks ago. An Iranian military spokesman denied the report, saying Iranian forces never occupied the mountain.
Strains in the guerrilla alliance opposing the Vietnamese occupation of Cambodia sharpened today with a charge by Prince Norodom Sihanouk that the Communist Khmer Rouge had been turning its guns on his group of fighters. In a telegram circulated to Western reporters here, Prince Sihanouk said the Khmer Rouge, his nominal partners, killed 38 of his soldiers, captured 32 others and seized arms and equipment in attacks from February to June. He demanded immediate release of the prisoners and compensation for the families of the dead. He also gave notice to the Khmer Rouge and its main backer, China, that he would resign as titular head of the coalition if attacks recurred. “If the Khmer Rouge kill so much as one more of the Sihanoukists,” he said, “my decision to leave the coalition will be irrevocable.” The Prince, a former Cambodian Chief of State, has threatened several times before to resign as chairman of the Coalition Government of Democratic Kampuchea, the loose guerrilla alliance that holds the Cambodian seat in the United Nations. He has withdrawn the threat each time, but tensions between him and the Khmer Rouge, and to some extent between him and China, have increased this year.
President Reagan speaks by telephone with Prime Minister of Japan Yasuhiro Nakasone to discuss the Iranian hostage situation. Nakasone is sending an emissary to Tehran in an attempt to intercede on behalf of the Americans held in Beirut, Lebanon.
Japan’s relaxed foreign-trade rules approved by the Government Friday may do little to shrink the large and growing trade imbalance between the United States and Japan, details of the measures published in Japan indicate. The new foreign trade program will be formally announced Tuesday.
A leader of Nicaragua’s Miskito Indians said Saturday that the recent return of several thousand Miskitos to their traditional lands along the Coco River would not halt the Indian rebellion against the Sandinista Government. Brooklyn Rivera, leader of the Indian coalition Misurasata, said the issues that led some Miskitos to take up arms against the Government and others to flee into exile had not been resolved. He mentioned demands for communal control of land and natural resources, regional autonomy, and the maintenance of Miskito political organizations and culture. Mr. Rivera also said that the return of the Miskitos to the lands along the Coco, which forms the frontier with Honduras, was a result not so much of generosity by the Sandinistas as of the determination of the Miskitos. He said the Miskitos set out on foot three weeks ago from Tasba Pri, the resettlement camp to which the Nicaraguan Government has moved thousands of Miskito families in recent years.
Peru’s foreign debt payments will be cut back over the next 12 months to 10 percent of its export earnings while it seeks renegotiation of its $14 billion foreign debt, President Alan Garcia Perez announced in his inaugural address. It was the boldest move to date by any Latin American debtor nation. Mr. Garcia said Peru planned to deal directly with its creditors without the involvement of the International Monetary Fund, which he said was “an accomplice” in the country’s acute economic crisis. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker 3d was among the foreign dignitaries attending the inauguration.
Uganda’s constitution was suspended and the country’s borders closed, the military leaders of the coup that toppled the civilian Government of President Milton Obote on Saturday announced. They also said they would hold free elections, but did not give a timetable. Gunfire and extensive looting by soldiers that followed the coup continued. The Uganda radio urged people to remain calm and stay at home until further notice from the new regime, whose troops toppled the civilian Government of President Milton Obote. He fled into exile in neighboring Kenya with several of his ministers.
Namibian guerrillas staged a mortar attack on a northern town, and South African security forces pursued them north toward Angola, a military spokesman said. A soldier was slightly wounded, and his wife more seriously, when about 15 rounds landed in Oshakati, a combined business center and military base close to the Angolan border, he said. The spokesman said the attack was mounted by guerrillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, which has been fighting for the past 20 years to end South Africa’s rule of Namibia.
Pretoria is not threatened nor is South Africa’s white-dominated society by the recent unrest there, a State Department study says. It says, however, that the situation in South Africa has entered “a new stage” and that the unrest is much more widespread than in the past. But it says the unrest does not represent a fundamental threat to the South African Government or the white-dominated society. A high White House official familiar with intelligence reports said, “It is not a revolutionary or a prerevolutionary situation, but we are looking to Pretoria to show restraint and lift the state of emergency.” Officials said a number of intelligence studies were under way as part of a continuing review of the situation in South Africa. This review includes a study of whether President Reagan should go along with Congressionally mandated economic sanctions against South Africa.
Computer manipulation and fraud might have affected the computer tallies of some votes cast in the Presidential election last year, according to expert witnesses in court actions challenging local and Congressional elections in three states. The allegations that the tallies may have been secretly altered have raised concern among election officials and computer experts. A computer program that was used to count more than one-third of the votes cast in the Presidential election last year is very vulnerable to manipulation and fraud, according to expert witnesses in court actions challenging local and Congressional elections in three states. The allegations that vote tallies calculated with the widely used computer system may have been secretly altered have raised concern among election officials and computer experts. That is because of the rapidly increasing use of such systems, the lack of Federal or state standards that mandate specific safeguards and the widespread lack of computer skills among most local voting authorities. “There is a massive potential for problems,” said Gary L. Greenhalgh, director of the International Center on Election Law and Administration, a consulting group in Washington. He added that the problem with computer-assisted voting systems was that they “centralized the opportunity for fraud.’
President Reagan returns to the White House from the weekend at Camp David. President Reagan returned to the White House today from a relaxing weekend at Camp David as his wife, Nancy, expressed concern that pressures to get back to work could interfere with his recuperation from major surgery 15 days ago. At Camp David, Mr. Reagan took walks, sat outside in the sun and dunked in a pool after a week of working half-days in the Oval Office. The lighter-than-usual schedule included daily briefings with Donald T. Regan, his chief of staff; Vice President Bush; and Robert C. McFarlane, the national security adviser. Mr. Reagan also presided over Cabinet and National Security Council meetings, the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said in an interview. In addition, Mr. Reagan delivered a dinner toast to President Li Xiannian of China, who was here on a state visit.
Space shuttle countdown procedures might be changed to avoid the type of last-second problems that forced the postponement of the space shuttle Challenger’s mission two weeks ago, space agency officials at Cape Canaveral said. The countdown for the Challenger’s rescheduled launching at 3:23 PM Monday continued smoothly. Its weeklong mission is to be devoted to observation of the earth, sun and starswith an array of advanced instruments. An engine problem that caused the countdown to be aborted three seconds before liftoff July 12 has prompted a review of launching procedures, according to Jesse W. Moore, head of the shuttle program at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. “We want to minimize the chances of a needless shutdown,” Mr. Moore said in an interview. “There may be a way to soften up some of our criteria.”
[Ed: This is not really a good thing. Space travel is way too risky to ignore even minor problems. This is the kind of politically- and economically-inspired “Go Fever” and normalization of deviance that will lead to traagedy in just six months.]
The Reagan Administration is seeking a 48 percent increase in funds for research on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, the mysterious disease that has killed more than 5,900 Americans. The money would be taken from other programs in the Federal health budget, including the Indian Health Service and grants for the construction of laboratories for the study of cancer and heart disease. The Administration is asking Congress to appropriate $126.3 million for AIDS research in the fiscal year 1986, which begins October 1. President Reagan had originally sought $85.6 million.
At least two of the nine Gulf cities that will become hosts for a fleet of Navy ships are having trouble coming up with the money they pledged in a bidding war to win the job-producing “home port” status. The two ports are Galveston, Texas, which has sent an urgent plea to the state for help in coming up with the $8 million the Navy wants spent, and Pascagoula, Mississippi, where officials say they don’t yet know if they will have the $25 million they pledged. Over the last week, a Navy team has visited six of the nine cities that won in the 19-city competition to host the reactivated battleship Wisconsin and its companion ships, reminding them that commitments on the millions of dollars they pledged to spend are due Thursday. The money will go for construction of such public facilities as roads and docks, sewers and utility connections. In return, the 29 ships mean millions of dollars in jobs and economic development for the host cities.
A Defense Department document showed that, of about 400 incidents of potential contract fraud uncovered by Pentagon auditors in the last five years, only 11 cases have led to prosecutions. Auditors have complained that “the detecting and reporting of fraud is a waste of time” because of the lack of prosecution, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Monitoring of military medical care by civilian doctors will be permitted by the Defense Department in what it calls an “unprecedented decision.” The monitoring system is to go into effect no later than January 1. It is the latest effort by Pentagon health officials to assure military personnel that the frequently criticized care in military hospitals is as good or better as that in civilian hospitals.
In Philadelphia, four young brothers died in upstairs bedrooms when fire swept through their two-story rowhouse this morning, but their parents and two other boys escaped, the authorities said. The fire was reported at 8:53 AM and was under control by 9:16 AM, according to Lieutenant John Quinn of the Philadelphia Fire Department. Lieutenant Quinn said the cause of the fire was undetermined. Neighbors said the parents, an infant and a 6-year-old son escaped out a second-story window by jumping onto an awning, which broke their fall into shrubs. The survivors were taken to area hospitals, and all were in guarded condition suffering from smoke inhalation and burns, hospital spokesmen said. The dead boys were of ages 9, 5, 3 and 2. Autopsies were being performed.
After a 26-hour bus ride from Georgia, Jimmy Carter, carpenter, arrived in New York City yesterday afternoon. Two hours later, the former President was introduced to Richard Ernst, who will be his foreman for the next week. For the second straight summer, Mr. Carter is spending a week with a crew that is helping renovate an abandoned tenement on the Lower East Side. The building, at 742 East Sixth Street, was bought from the city by the organization Habitat for Humanity and is being converted into apartments. The apartments will be sold to low-income residents of the area at prices well below market value.
A New England cruise ship ran aground off an island near Cape Cod after taking on water, and Coast Guard and private vessels had to rescue 94 passengers and 13 crew members, the Coast Guard said. There were no reports of injuries, Petty Officer 1st Class Jim Chenard said. The 192-foot Pilgrim Belle had set out Saturday on a weeklong cruise of the southern New England coast, but soon ran into trouble.
More than a year before the June 9 failure of feedwater pumps at an Ohio nuclear plant, government regulators identified the system as the biggest potential source of a “core damage” accident, according to documents just released. In a letter to the House Energy conservation and power subcommittee, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it “is not aware of any other” plant safety system that is as vulnerable to failure as the feedwater system at the Davis-Besse plant near Toledo.
An electrical switching apparatus exploded and burned in the Washington Hilton Hotel, injuring at least nine persons, one seriously. Most of the injured were electricians trying to repair damage caused Saturday by a similar incident that had forced the sold-out hotel to close. Officials of the 1,154-room hotel at Connecticut Avenue and T Street NW said they had planned to reopen today, but after the 12:17 PM explosion they said they did not know when guests could return. The blast occurred in an electrical switchboard located in an underground room.
Blazes feeding on tinder-dry trees and brush continued their advance across rugged sections of the Northwest and the northern Plains as weary firefighters struggled to cut firebreaks across their paths. “Our main concern is the physical exhaustion of the fire crews. There’s been very little opportunity for any days off,” said Pam Gardner, spokeswoman for the Payette National Forest in Idaho, where the French Creek fire grew to 14,500 acres Sunday, up 500 acres from the day before. A crew of 460 firefighters and four helicopters was battling the blaze, which was only 55% contained. Elsewhere, smoke and flames rose over parts of Oregon, Montana, Washington, Wyoming, South Dakota and British Columbia.
Two rock climbers were killed by lightning over the weekend, and three others were injured, Yosemite National Park officials said today. The five climbers were atop Half Dome overlooking the Yosemite Valley when lightning flashes started small fires and struck them Saturday night. The names of the victims were withheld pending notification of relatives. A park spokesman said one of the climbers fell 4,000 feet to his death after lightning struck his head. The three injured were taken to a clinic. Two of them were later airlifted to University Medical Center in Davis, where they were listed in critical condition today. The third was treated and released, said Tom Locke, a spokesman for the Cal-Star Helicopter Service.
The plains states are parched by a drought. Millions of acres of range land feed for cattle have dried up and several municipal water supplies are threatened. In Montana’s eastern half, which is hit worst rivers have all but stopped flowing.
Canadian Open Women’s Golf (du Maurier Classic), Beaconsfield GC: Pat Bradley wins by 1 from Jane Geddes.
Major League Baseball:
Lou Brock, Enos Slaughter, Arky Vaughan, and Hoyt Wilhelm are inducted into the Hall of Fame in a ceremony in Cooperstown, New York.
Gorman Thomas hit his 20th home run, a two-run drive in the seventh inning, and Jim Presley went 4 for 5 to lead Seattle to a 7–2 win over the Red Sox in Boston. Domingo Ramos broke a fourth-inning tie with a two-out, two-run single that put the Mariners ahead by 4–2. Mike Moore (9–6) allowed nine hits, including a bases-empty homer by Dwight Evans, his 12th, that made it 2–2 in the third. Moore finished with seven strikeouts.
Darrell Evans hits his 300th career home run, off Ken Schrom, to lead Detroit to a 3–2 win over the Twins. Evans, who has hit homers in each of the last three games, got his 22nd of the season with one out in the sixth off a 3–0 pitch from Ken Schrom, who fell to 8–11. Frank Tanana (5–10) scattered five hits, struck out seven and walked one over seven innings, snapping a personal three-game losing streak. Willie Hernandez got his 20th save. The Tigers took a 2–0 lead in the first. Lou Whitaker singled to lead off and moved to third on Alan Trammell’s double. One out later, Whitaker scored on Lance Parrish’s groundout. After Evans walked, Barbaro Garbey doubled to left to drive in Trammell. The Twins tied the score in their half of the first. Kirby Puckett walked, stole second and scored on Tom Brunansky’s two-out double to right. Dave Engle’s single scored Brunansky.
The Rangers use 3 hits and 3 errors to score 5 runs in the 1st inning en route to an 8–2 victory over the Yankees. Oddibe McDowell hits a leadoff homer for Texas — his second in two games. Rickey Henderson accounts for both Yankee runs with a two-run homer after a Dale Berra double.
Doyle Alexander pitched an eight-hitter as the Blue Jays defeated the California Angels, 5–1, today to sweep their four-game series. Toronto tied a club record with its eighth straight victory. The Angels were outscored in the series by 28–7 and outhit by 52–28. Alexander (10–6) struck out nine and walked three in pitching his second complete game. The Angels’ run came in the eighth inning on Reggie Jackson 520th career homer and 17th of the season. “I’m fortunate that they were always looking for something different than I was throwing them,” said Alexander, who has struck out 20 batters in his last two games. “Basically, I just did the same thing as last time. I changed speeds and changed angles.”
The Orioles topped the White Sox, 6–1, as Rich Dauer, Eddie Murray and Gary Roenicke hit home runs in the sixth inning, and Scott McGregor pitched a four-hitter. McGregor (9–8) had a two-hit shutout until the White Sox scored in the sixth on a double by Joel Skinner and a single by Scott Fletcher. Britt Burns (11–7) had allowed only one hit until the sixth when Dauer belted the first pitch for his second homer of the season. Alan Wiggins followed with a bunt single, stole second, continued to third on Skinner’s throwing error and scored on Cal Ripken’s sacrifice fly before Murray hit his 18th homer and Roenicke his 10th, three of which have been off Burns. Murray’s homer extended his hitting streak to 11 games.
The Royals downed the Indians, 7–4. Hal McRae and Steve Balboni knocked in three runs apiece as the Royals stretched their winning streak to six games. With three-game sweeps at home of the Indians and the Yankees this week, the Royals trimmed California’s lead from seven and a half to three games in the American League West. McRae hit his ninth homer of the season off Vern Ruhle (2–7) in the first inning. George Brett, who was given three intentional walks by the Indians on Saturday night, was on base with a single. Balboni doubled and scored in the fifth inning and slugged a three-run home run in the fourth. Mark Gubicza (7–5) gave up one run on six hits over seven innings.
The A’s beat the Brewers, 5–2. Bill Krueger (8–9) and Jay Howell combined on a six-hitter, and Dwayne Murphy scored the tiebreaking run on Danny Darwin’s wild pitch in the eighth inning. Murphy opened the eighth with a walk and took third on a single by Bruce Bochte. After Darwin (6–12) struck out Dave Kingman, he threw a wild pitch while Dusty Baker was batting, and Murphy scored to make it 3–2.
Darrell Porter drives in 3 runs with a double and homer to lead the Cardinals to a 4–2 win over the Padres. LaMarr Hoyt had a personal 11-game winning streak snapped. The first-place Cardinals increased their lead over the Mets to 3 ½ games in the National League East. John Tudor (12–8) went 8 ⅓ innings, with Jeff Lahti getting the final two outs for his 12th save. Tudor scattered nine hits, struck out four and issued no walks as the Cardinals won for the seventh time in eight games.
Craig Reynolds bangs out four hits as Houston bombs the Mets, 12–4. Mark Bailey and Jose Cruz contribute three hits each in the 19-hit effort. The New Yorkers are gracious hosts, giving the Astros four errors to work with. They ought to be since the Astros gift-wrapped 16 unearned runs in a doubleheader fiasco the day before. On the day after they scored 23 runs in a doubleheader, the Mets sort of rested. And except for Darryl Strawberry, who knocked in all their runs with two home runs, they were tamed by 40-year-old Joe Niekro and his knuckleball and overpowered by the Astros.
The Expos blanked the Reds, 6–0, as Andre Dawson’s first home run in six weeks and Herman Winningham’s triple highlighted consecutive three-run innings. Joe Hesketh (8–4) walked four batters in the first two innings but overcame his early control problems to hurl his first shutout of the season with a four-hitter. The rookie left-hander struck out four. Dawson, whose last home run came on June 16, hit a pitch from Ron Robinson (5–2) into the left-field seats with U. L. Washington aboard in the third inning. The Expos had taken a 1–0 lead earlier in the inning on doubles by Tim Raines and Washington.
Davey Lopes drove in four runs with a homer and double as the Dodgers had a five-game winning streak snapped, losing to the Cubs, 9–2. Rick Sutcliffe was forced to leave the game in the first inning with a pulled leg muscle after yielding two runs. Larry Sorensen (3–2) worked 5 ⅓ innings for the victory. Dennis Powell (0–1), making his first major-league start, took the loss. Bob Dernier led off the game with a double, and one out later Lopes drilled his ninth home run. Gary Matthews opened the fourth with his sixth homer and Jody Davis followed with his ninth. The Cubs added five runs, four unearned, in the seventh.
Von Hayes hit a two-run triple to highlight a three-run third inning, and Jerry Koosman pitched a five-hitter, as the Phillies whipped the Braves, 7–3. Koosman struck out eight and walked four in raising his record to 6–2. Steve Bedrosian (5–10) was the loser.
The Giants edged the Pirates, 3–2. David Green’s two-out 10th-inning single scored Chris Brown from second base, enabling the Giants complete a four-game sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Brown had three hits including a homer. Scott Garrelts (5–3) pitched to one batter in the top of the tenth and got the win.
Seattle Mariners 7, Boston Red Sox 2
Baltimore Orioles 6, Chicago White Sox 1
Cleveland Indians 4, Kansas City Royals 7
Chicago Cubs 9, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Oakland Athletics 5, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Detroit Tigers 3, Minnesota Twins 2
Cincinnati Reds 0, Montreal Expos 6
Houston Astros 12, New York Mets 4
Atlanta Braves 3, Philadelphia Phillies 7
St. Louis Cardinals 4, San Diego Padres 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, San Francisco Giants 3
New York Yankees 2, Texas Rangers 8
California Angels 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Born:
Casey Borer, NHL defenseman (Carolina Hurricanes), in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Henry Sosa, Dominican MLB pitcher (Houston Astros), in El Seibo, Dominican Republic.
Dustin Milligan, Canadian actor, in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Tynisha Keli, American singer, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Died:
Grant Williams, 54, American actor (“Hawaiian Eye”, “Incredible Shrinking Man”), dies of toxic poisoning.
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