A car bomb exploded outside the United States military headquarters at Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany, killing two Americans and wounding about 20 Americans and Germans. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but the West Geman authorities said the attack bore “the handwriting of the Red Army faction,” the leftwing terrorist group that appears to have succeeded the Baader-Meinhof Gang of the 1970’s. The incident at the air base, which is near Frankfurt, was the worst attack on an American installation in West Germany since the bombing of Ramstein Air Base in 1981, when 18 people were wounded. It was the latest of a series of assaults on military targets in Western Europe, apparently in response to the deployment of United States medium-range missiles.
President Reagan is awakened at 6 AM with news of a terrorist car bombing at a U.S. Air Force base in West Germany killing an American soldier and his wife.
President Reagan signs the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985.
About 65,000 British military personnel will take part in an exercise September 2-13 designed to thwart any attack by Soviet assassination and sabotage teams. Lieutenant General John Akehurst, commander of the British force, said about 1,000 U.S. troops will also take part in what he called the biggest home war games since the end of World War II. He said the Soviet Union is training special forces, known as Spetsnaz, to knock out key installations and assassinate leaders.
The French Government began an official inquiry today into the sinking in New Zealand last month of an ecologists’ protest ship. The decision became known after reports here that French agents may have been involved in the incident, in which one man died. Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, in a letter made public here this morning, said that the investigation would establish whether “French agents, services, or authorities may have been informed of the preparation of a criminal attack or even have participated in it.”
The chief secretary to West German Economics Minister Martin Bangemann is being sought on suspicion that she is a spy, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe said. Sonja Lueneburg, 60, Bangemann’s secretary for 12 years, has been missing since Tuesday. An office spokesman said prosecutors opened an investigation on suspicion that Lueneburg was involved in espionage after a search of her Bonn apartment turned up copying equipment.
Soviet authorities in Leningrad detained a Moscow-based American journalist for three hours and confiscated his cassette tapes, 125 pages of notes and U.S. magazines, a State Department spokesman and the Christian Science Monitor said. The Monitor reporter, Gary Thatcher, had returned by ferry to Leningrad en route to Moscow from Helsinki, where he had covered last week’s 10th anniversary of the signing of the Helsinki accords. The State Department protested the incident as contrary to Helsinki provisions and urged the return of the confiscated material.
Israeli F-4 Phantom jets destroyed a Palestinian guerrilla base in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley leaving two people wounded, Lebanese police reported. The target of the attack was the headquarters of the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command in the town of Bar Elias, seven miles from the Syrian border. Guerrilla spokesman said the base had been evacuated.
The Israeli Army announced today that it had ordered the deportation of a West Bank Palestinian who it asserted had been involved in “subversive activities.” The Palestinian, Halil Abu Ziad, is appealing the expulsion order in an Israeli court. The order, the first since 1980 for the deportation of a Palestinian Arab, was the latest step in the Government’s new get-tough policy toward residents of the West Bank. That policy is in response to an increase in Palestinian resistance to the Israelis in occupied territories.
A summit conference called by the Arab League limped toward an inconclusive end in Casablanca, Morocco, with moderate Arab leaders unable to agree on the date for another meeting and unwilling to make decisions that might anger radicals. Diplomats said the 16 league members attending the conference have decided to send a fence-mending committee to the five members boycotting it-Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria and South Yemen-in an effort to get their consent for another meeting later in the year. The Casablanca sessions are to end today.
Libya warned Italy that it will take action against any country that provides bases for U.S. planes flying long-range reconnaissance missions over its territory. The official Libyan news agency said that Italy’s ambassador had been told that any “aggression on Libya setting out from Italy would be considered an Italian attack.” Libya, meanwhile, filed a written protest with the U.N. Security Council over joint military maneuvers by the United States and Egypt, calling them “a threat to the peace and security of the region.” No U.N. action is planned.
A ranking Iranian cleric, the Ayatollah Ahmed Musbah, said at a Baghdad news conference that he has defected to Iraq and will tour the world to denounce the leadership of the Tehran government. Musbah, 52, said he once held leading clerical posts in the Iranian cities of Qom and Rasht. He called the regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini “non-Islamic” and said he was forced to flee Iran after learning of a plot on his life.
Kokura, Japan, escaped the atomic bomb 40 years ago today because the B-29 assigned to bomb it could not get a clear view of its target, a huge arsenal. Instead, the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. Residents of Kokura look back to that day with a mixture of relief and guilt common among many survivors. On August 9, 1945, a B-29 bomber called Bock’s Car set out from Tinian Island in the Marianas with the intention of attacking Kokura, a city of 130,000 people. The American military’s “short list” of candidates for nuclear strikes named four cities — Hiroshima, Kokura, Nagasaki and Niigata. Three days earlier, Hiroshima was destroyed. Now it was Kokura’s turn — but the weather meant that Nagasaki was bombed instead.
Floods caused by torrential rains have killed 283 people and left 14,000 homeless in southern China, raising the death toll in a series of storms nationwide to more than 500, the official People’s Daily said today. The newspaper reported that heavy rains, driving hailstorms and strong winds sent floodwaters crashing through many mountain gorges in Yunnan Province, killing 283 people and leaving 14,000 homeless in the last two months. The latest casualties brought to 527 the number of deaths attributed to savage storms and typhoons that have lashed China in recent weeks.
A new Nicaraguan rebel offensive is under way inside the country, according to Western diplomats and Hondurans familiar with the rebels’ operations. They said that substantial shipments of weapons and ammunition in recent months have permitted as many as 10,000 Nicaraguan guerrillas to open the campaign. The new offensive, officials here say, appears to have caught the Nicaraguan Government by surprise. Rebel units said to number up to 10,000 guerrillas seem to have sidestepped Sandinista troops along the Honduran border to launch attacks in the last week in the departments of Esteli and Chontales, where they are reported to have killed as many as 95 Nicaraguan soldiers and militiamen in a series of ambushes. Esteli is near the Honduran border, but Chontales is deep inside Nicaragua.
The Reagan Administration acknowledged today that officials on the National Security Council were involved in the operations of the insurgents who are seeking to topple the Nicaraguan Government. In providing the confirmation, officials and President Reagan said the Administration had not violated United States laws regulating covert operations or prohibiting direct American assistance to the rebels. “We’re not violating any laws,” Mr. Reagan said in signing legislation that provides $27 million in nonmilitary assistance to the rebels over the next two years. The measure was part of a $25.4 billion foreign aid bill.
A group of 29 U.S. peace activists reported captured by Nicaraguan rebel forces Wednesday were released 29 hours after they were seized, according to the group that sponsored their trip to Nicaragua.”They are free and on their way,” said Howard Hiner, an American minister who works with Witness for Peace. A statement issued by the Costa Rican Government said Costa Rican civil guardsmen flying over the area in a helicopter shortly after noon spotted the Americans “peacefully navigating their boat on the Nicaraguan territorial waters of the San Juan River.”
Peru’s new Government extended a state of emergency in six states today in reaction to rebel attacks, including a car-bombing Wednesday outside police headquarters that seriously wounded five people. Earlier, the police discovered and defused a bomb made of 40 sticks of dynamite in a briefcase on the third floor of the Lima city hall, next to the presidential palace. The new Government extended for 60 days a state of emergency in six of Peru’s 24 states. Civil rights remained suspended in those six states. The states are Ayacucho, Huancavalica, Apurimac, Pasco, Huanuco and San Martin.
Pope John Paul II, arriving in Lome, Togo today to a festival of singing and dancing, declared that the Roman Catholic Church was open to traditional African customs and sought to preach a faith that was “authentically Christian and authentically African.” Beginning his 12-day tour of the continent in this tiny West African country, the Pope was greeted by dancers in bright batik dress singing, “Enyo, enyo,” the Mina-language word for “it’s good.” Crowds lined his six-mile motorcade route from the airport to the city’s main square, and all along the way were drums and more dancers, moving to traditional or disco beats. Earlier, in conversations with reporters on his plane from Rome, the Pope condemned both racism and anti-Semitism, said he would like to visit the famine-stricken parts of Africa and reported he was being urged by blacks to visit South Africa.
Thirty-four supporters of Zimbabwe’s opposition political party have been arrested in the last two weeks and are being held for questioning, according to the police. They said the arrests of members of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union, led by Joshua Nkomo, had mainly taken place during four searches of Mr. Nkomo’s houses in Harare and Bulawayo. Among those arrested are the party’s chief parliamentary whip, Sydney Malunga, a Bulawayo city councilman and a former Bulawayo councilman. Mr. Nkomo’s 11 bodyguards, his house servants and visitors are also among those seized.
16 more South Africans were killed, bringing to 20 the number killed since a new wave of rioting, looting and clashes with the police erupted in black townships around Durban. The death toll made the outbreak in Durban among the worst in 11 months of unrest in South Africa. The number of wounded was not known, but officials at one hospital here reported that wounded people were “pouring in.” In one Durban township, hundreds of people of Indian descent fled their homes as young Zulus stormed shops and homes, putting them to the torch. The flight evoked memories among Indians of 1949, when 142 Asians died in fights with South African Zulus.
U.S. and South African officials met at the United States Embassy in Vienna at South Africa’s request to discuss the violence there, the Reagan Administration said. The meeting, the first high-level contact between the two Governments since March, included Robert C. McFarlane, the White House national security adviser; Roelof F. Botha, the South African Foreign Minister; Chester A. Crocker, the Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, and Herman W. Nickel, the United States Ambassador to South Africa. Officials said the South African Government had indicated that it wished to discuss possible reform measures Pretoria might announce within the next week or so. South Africa is governed by whites who exclude the black majority from any political power.
President Reagan today sent Congress the Federal Government’s first comprehensive annual listing of planned health, safety and economic regulations. The 616-page volume, the Regulatory Program of the United States Government, lists actions the Administration plans to take in the year ending March 31, 1986. It is a companion to the budget prepared each year by the Office of Management and Budget, which lists the specific amounts the President recommends that Congress appropriate for each federal agency.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said it plans to radically revise civil rights procedures by changing the way it defines employment discrimination and abolishing the use of quotas to remedy it. EEOC Chairman Clarence Thomas said he will seek major changes in the Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures, which apply to all private and public employers. He called the rules “conceptually unsound” and said they amount to enforcing reverse discrimination. The Reagan Administration supports voluntary affirmative action programs. The EEOC said the proposal may be ready for a commission vote by next February.
The government, which banned claims of nutrition benefits from food products, said it is considering ways to alert consumers to the health benefits of some foods. The Department of Health and Human Services has generally prohibited the use of explicit health-related claims on foods because they may suggest a food is safe or prevents disease. But Dr. F. Edward Scarbrough of the Food and Drug Administration said the government has acknowledged “a growing body of scientific information” showing there “is some relationship between what you eat and your health status.”
A rise in farmers’ loan defaults and a consequent spread of bank failures have prompted Reagan Administration officials to search for a new approach to the problems of the farmers and bankers while putting aside the White House’s earlier plans to make fundamental changes in Government agriculture programs.
Prosecutors today offered a set of carefully hand-lettered instructions that they said had been used by John A. Walker Jr. to arrange contacts with Soviet agents in Washington and Austria. The documents were introduced at the trial of Arthur J. Walker, the older brother of John, who is a retired Navy officer accused of passing two secret documents to the Soviet Union through his brother. Arthur Walker’s lawyers completed their defense today without calling any witness. Final arguments are scheduled for Friday.
Jerry A. Whitworth, a retired Navy radioman, pleaded not guilty today to a new, 12-count indictment charging him with selling secret military information to the Soviet Union. “How do you plead to counts 1 through 12?” asked a court clerk. “Not guilty,” Mr. Whitworth said in a calm voice. He is accused of being part of a spy ring organized by John A. Walker Jr., a retired Navy communications specialist. Mr. Walker has also pleaded not guilty. After Mr. Whitworth’s arraignment in Federal District Court here, one of his lawyers charged that Government officials had “systematically exaggerated” the importance of information supposedly transmitted to the Soviet Union by Mr. Whitworth.
Neither players nor club owners won a clear-cut victory in the two-day baseball strike, they agreed. Representatives of both sides said the negotiators moved quickly to end the work stoppage because they feared a long strike like the 50-day walkout in 1981 if they did not reach an agreement in two or three days.
A microscopic inspection today indicated that the engine that shut down prematurely after the space shuttle Challenger’s launching July 29 is in good condition. A top engineer for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the engine looked “as clean as a surgical gown,” adding more weight to theories that attribute the shutdown to two temperature sensors. The engine shutdown left the Challenger, with two main engines still operating, in a lower-than-planned altitude. Data sent from the shuttle indicated that the temperature sensors had failed, sending erroneous temperature values to the shuttle’s flight computers, which shut the engine down. The Challenger landed Tuesday at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and a close inspection of the engine today using fiber optic microscopes called boroscopes found no problems. The temperature sensors were shipped back to the manufacturer for detailed analysis. If they are found faulty, as engineers suspect, new sensors will be installed on the shuttle Discovery.
Armed air marshals have begun flying on a limited number of United States commercial airline flights as part of the Government’s increased effort to prevent hijackings, an airline industry source said today. “There are some limited numbers that have been flying,” said the source, who spoke on the condition that he not be identified. “There are no great numbers out there yet.” The armed marshals, assigned by the Federal Aviation Administration, have been sent on selected flights since Trans World Airlines Flight 847 was hijacked June 14 by Shiite Moslems, the source said.
The Republican Party is paying Florida voter-drive workers a $4 bonus for every Democrat they can persuade to switch parties, a practice one Democratic leader likened to bounty hunting. “It’s politics in the 20th Century,” said Bill Greener, deputy chief of staff for the Republican National Committee in Washington. “As a lawyer friend of mine said, “We’re not doing anything illegal, immoral or fattening.’” In addition to the $4 incentive, the workers also earn $4 an hour, according to Jo Smith, head of Broward County’s Republican Executive Committee. The GOP is conducting “Operation Open Door” in several states to woo Democrats into the fold.
The two-pound bomb the Philadelphia Police dropped May 13 on the headquarters of the radical group Move contained C-4, a powerful military explosive that police commanders had earlier denied was part of the device, according to a top city official. The official, City Managing Director James S. White, said Wednesday that the information about the makeup of the bomb “was discovered as part of the ongoing police investigation” into the incident and was reported to him by Police Commissioner Gregore Sambor.
The former chief legal counsel at the Navy’s largest ship parts purchasing center was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of accepting a bribe and gifts from a defense contractor, officials said. Benjamin Share, 57, a lawyer who worked at the Navy Ships Parts Control Center near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for 14 years, denied he took a bribe worth about $7,000 and gifts from Michael Calabrese Sr. and his firm, Calabrese & Sons Inc.
The Federal Centers for Disease Control say that patients who received blood-derived drugs dispensed by a cancer clinic in the Bahamas were exposed to a virus associated with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. The patients at the clinic, the Immunology Researching Center Ltd. in Freeport, Grand Bahama Island, were also exposed to hepatitis, the United States agency said in a statement Tuesday. The clinic was ordered closed July 17 by the Bahamian Health Ministry.
The Federal Aviation Administration said today that it had dismissed three Miami air traffic controllers for purportedly peddling cocaine and marijuana at work and had ordered six others to enter rehabilitation programs. The action ended a seven-week agency investigation of employees at the Miami air traffic control center. The 220 controllers direct the routes of up to 5,300 flights a day. The agency said there was no evidence that the controllers had used drugs at work. Complaints from co-workers prompted the investigation.
Governor Bob Graham and the State Cabinet were asked today to grant clemency to a 76-year-old man serving a life sentence for killing his wife, who was suffering from Alzheimer’s disease. An attorney for the man, Roswell Gilbert, a retired electrical engineer from Broward County, said Mr. Gilbert killed his 73-year-old wife, Emily, this year as “an act of love.” In addition to Alzheimer’s disease, he said, she suffered from osteoporosis, a painful bone disease.
An explosion ripped through the main cargo bay of a burning freighter loaded with Japanese cars today, forcing the commander of a Coast Guard cutter nearby to reconsider his plans for the ship, including possibly restarting the ship’s engines and escorting her to an Alaskan port. The mid-afternoon explosion apparently was caused by a buildup of toxic gases from burning plastic and metal in the main hull of the ship, the Coral Ace, where 2,503 Nissan automobiles are stored.
Richard M. Nixon curtailed his public schedule after a complication arose from surgery he underwent last week to remove a large cancerous tumor from behind his left ear, according to an aide. The aide, John Taylor, said Mr. Nixon’s doctor had told the former President to remain at home, to cut back his schedule and to return to the doctor’s office each morning for observation.
If teenagers are moody or apathetic, practice vandalism and do poorly in school, have them undergo urine tests — by subterfuge, if necessary because they may be heavy marijuana users, an article in the Journal of the American Medical Association recommended. The $20 tests are the best way of determining drug use and monitoring withdrawal, the authors said. They estimated that 130,000 high school seniors “get stoned” before or during school every day and that many of them introduce younger siblings — and even family pets — to marijuana. Heavy marijuana use is “a malignant disease, and it spreads,” the authors said.
Many drunken driving victims are suing and collecting damages from the restaurant, bar or host who served liquor to the driver. Thirty-seven states, including New York, New Jersey and Connecticut, have laws that make those who serve alcohol responsible for injuries caused by intoxicated people.
Black-footed ferrets face extinction, according to wildlife researchers. They say that fewer than 70 of the animals remain on the plains of Wyoming, the only area they are known to exist. The ferret’s decline has been caused by plague transmitted by infected fleas that have decimated the species’ main food source, the white-tailed prairie dog.
Houston’s mayor is trying to prove to the voters that there is more of a human being behind the staid urban manager she has been as she faces a powerful challenge for re-election from Louie Welch, a former five-term Mayor of Houston. The new Kathy Whitmire has a shorter hairdo and has allowed herself to be photographed in shorts and jeans rather than her familiar bow tie and dressed-for-success suit.
Japan launches Planet A, a probe to Halley’s comet.
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Baseball’s new agreement permits 2 new National League teams in 1993.
Wade Boggs drove in three runs with a homer and a pair of singles, and Rich Gedman knocked in two runs with a homer and a double, leading Boston to a 6–1 victory and a split with Chicago, who won the opener, 7–6. Ron Kittle had four hits, including two home runs, and Harold Baines had a triple and a double to lead the White Sox in the opener. Boggs singled in a run in the first inning of the nightcap and Gedman snapped a 1–1 tie in the fourth with his ninth homer. Boggs hit his fifth homer to open the fifth and, two outs later, Mike Easler singled and scored on Gedman’s double to make a winner of Tim Lollar (5–6). Gene Nelson (7–6) took the loss. Baines’s tie-breaking double in the seventh inning of the opener was the winning blow, scoring Ozzie Guillen, who had opened the inning with a single. Baines’s double came off Bruce Kison (3–3) and made a winner of Dave Wehrmeister (1–0) who picked up his first major league triumph since 1978.
In game 1 against the Indians, Dave Winfield hits a pair of homers off starter Curt Wardle and drives in 6 runs as the Yankees win, 8–1.Marty Bystrom pitched five innings and won his first game of the season and his first since July 13, 1984. Brian Fisher, Bob Shirley and Neil Allen threw four hitless innings in relief. Singles hitter Brett Butler hits a pair of homers in game 2, both off Phil Niekro, and adds a double but the Tribe comes up short, 7–6. Don Mattingly has a pair of homers for New York, and Don Baylor adds another.
Treating their strike-induced layoff as little more than a second All-Star Game break, the Toronto Blue Jays let their American League opponents know tonight that the short-lived work stoppage left no ill effects, as they swept the Orioles. “I guess we were fired up after something that could have been disastrous,” said the right fielder Jesse Barfield, who went 6-for-6 with four runs scored, one run batted in and two stolen bases in Toronto’s 7–2 and 7–4 victories over the Baltimore Orioles. “We just wanted to pick up where we left off.” With the sweep, the Blue Jays have won 15 of their last 17 games and 16 of their last 20.
The Twins downed the Angels, 4–2. Bert Blyleven (10–12) recorded his 100th career victory as a Twin in his first start in Minnesota since he rejoined the Twins in a trade August 1. The Twins chased Ron Romanick (13–5) in the third inning by scoring three runs to snap a 1–1 tie. Kirby Puckett led off with a bunt single and Roy Smalley walked. With two out, Mike Stenhouse singled, scoring Puckett. Reggie Jackson bobbled the ball, allowing Smalley to score as Stenhouse went to second. Randy Bush then doubled to score Stenhouse. Steve Howe, the former Dodger reliever, will work out with the Twins today, leading to his eventual signing with the club.
Hal McRae drove in three runs to power Kansas City to a 6–4 victory and a doubleheader sweep of the Tigers. The Tigers routed the Royals in the opener, 10–3. A crowd of 35,585, more than 7,000 above the season average, greeted the resumption of the season and not one sign or banner was seen protesting the two-day player strike. In the first game, Willie Wilson drove in three runs and Bret Saberhagen (13–5) struck out nine in a Kansas City triumph that snapped the Tigers’ 12-game Royals Stadium winning streak. Darrell Evans, who hit his 25th home run in the opener, belted his 26th to forge a 3–3 tie in the sixth inning of the second game. In the bottom of the sixth, George Brett doubled, took third on McRae’s fly ball and put the Royals ahead when he scored on Iorg’s single to right.
After going 3-for-5 and driving in three runs in the first game of a doubleheader, Ben Oglivie hit a pair of sacrifice flies to lead the Milwaukee to a 3–1 decision in the nightcap and a sweep of Texas. The Brewers won the first game, 7–4. Pete Vuckovich (6–8) picked up the victory in the second game, hurling six and one-third innings. He allowed just five hits before yielding to Rollie Fingers, who pitched two and two-thirds innings of scoreless relief to pick up his 12th save. Paul Molitor was one of four Brewers with two hits in Milwaukee’s 10-hit attack in the second game.
The Oakland A’s crushed the Mariners, 11–2. Dusty Baker scored two runs and drove in two in an eight-run fourth inning for Oakland. Baker led off the fourth by drawing a walk off Mark Langston (5–9), who has lost six straight decisions. He capped the inning with a two-run homer off a reliever, Frank Wills. After Baker’s walk in the fourth, Dave Kingman singled and Mike Heath walked to load the bases. Mike Davis singled for one run and Steve Henderson chased Langston with a two-run single. Donnie Hill greeted Wills with a 400-foot, two-run double. Steve Kiefer drove in Hill with a single and Baker’s homer gave the A’s an 8–0 lead. Chris Codiroli (10–8) held the Mariners to just five hits.
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher John Tudor one-hits the Cubs 8–0 for his 6th shutout of the season, allowing only Leon Durham’s 5th-inning single. Tudor started the season 1–7 but will win 20 of his last 21 decisions to finish 21–8. Andy Van Slyke and Terry Pendleton hit consecutive home runs to cap a five-run first inning for the Cardinals. The Cubs executed a triple play in the eighth inning.
Keith Hernandez has 5 hits in 6 at bats in the Mets 20-hit attack as they beat the Expos, 14–7. Gary Carter, George Foster, and Darryl Strawberry each homered. Rick Aguilera (5–3) is the winner.
The Phillies topped the Pirates, 7–3. A crowd of 18,142 was on hand as the Phillies’ Mike Schmidt hit a three-run homer in the first inning to highlight a four-run rally. Schmidt, who suffered one of the worst slumps of his 13-year career early this season, continued his resurgence. He has 6 home runs, 15 runs batted in, 12 walks and 14 runs scored in his last 14 games. He has raised his average from .214 to .253. The Phillies have won three straight and eight of their last 10. John Denny pitched seven innings to earn his seventh victory against eight losses. He allowed six hits, walked four and struck out three before being relieved by Don Carman, who worked the final two innings.
Rick Mahler pitched a four-hitter for his 16th victory and batted in a run with an infield hit for Atlanta as Atlanta blanked the Giants, 2–0. A crowd of only 3,557 turned out at Candlestick on the day after the strike settlement. The Braves’ defense turned double plays behind Mahler (16–9) after the first two of San Francisco’s four singles. Mahler, who registered his first shutout of the season, walked two and struck out one. Atlanta, which managed only six hits, scored in the sixth off the San Francisco reliever Greg Minton (2–3), who walked Dale Murphy to open the inning. Murphy went to second on Bob Horner’s bloop single and scored on a single by Terry Harper. A walk, a single by Glenn Hubbard, a sacrifice by Milt Thompson and Mahler’s slow roller down the third base line gave the Braves their second run. Jim Gott, the Giants’ starting pitcher, shut out the Braves on two hits for five innings before leaving because of a split nail and a blister on the middle finger of his throwing hand. It was the 12th time this season the Giants have been shut out.
The Padres bested the Astros, 6–5, as pinch-hitter Jerry Royster singled in the winning run in the bottom of the ninth inning, capping a four-run San Diego rally. The Padres used four hits and three Houston errors in rallying to snap a five-game losing streak. The loss ended Houston’s five-game winning streak. Craig Lefferts (7–5) earned the victory, pitching one inning in relief of LaMarr Hoyt and Mark Thurmond. The game attracted a paid crowd of only 19,977, the third lowest San Diego attendence this season and almost 14,000 under the Padres’ average. Team officials blamed it on the Padres’ poor play as well as the baseball strike.
The Reds edged the Dodgers, 6–5. Pete Rose laid down a suicide squeeze bunt in the 13th inning to score Cesar Cedeno with the tie-breaking run and win it for Cincinnati. Rose collected his second hit of the game and now needs 22 to break Ty Cobb’s record of 4,191 career hits. Ted Power, 42, worked three innings for the victory. Ron Robinson pitched the 13th for his first save.
In a nice swap for Cincinnati, the Reds trade Tom Foley, Alan Knicely, and Fred Toliver to the Phillies for Bo Diaz, Greg Simpson and cash.
Boston Red Sox 6, Chicago White Sox 7
Boston Red Sox 6, Chicago White Sox 1
Detroit Tigers 3, Kansas City Royals 10
Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 6
Cincinnati Reds 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
California Angels 2, Minnesota Twins 4
New York Mets 14, Montreal Expos 7
Cleveland Indians 1, New York Yankees 8
Cleveland Indians 6, New York Yankees 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Houston Astros 5, San Diego Padres 6
Oakland Athletics 11, Seattle Mariners 2
Atlanta Braves 2, San Francisco Giants 0
Chicago Cubs 0, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Texas Rangers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Texas Rangers 1
Baltimore Orioles 2, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Baltimore Orioles 4, Toronto Blue Jays 7
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Born:
John Sullivan, NFL center (Minnesota Vikings, Washingotn Redskins, Los Angeles Raiders), in Mt. Kisko, New York.
Blake Wood, MLB pitcher (Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians, Cincinnati Reds, Los Angeles Angels), in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Louise Brooks, 78, American silent screen actress (“Pandora’s Box”), of a heart attack.
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