Foreign military sales by the United States in the fiscal year ending June 30 reached a record $9‐billion, with nearly half going to three Persian Gulf states. Defense Department figure show sales to 72 countries, the bulk In Europe and the Persian Gulf. The total was not expected the Defense Department says. After a new high of $7‐billion was reached in fiscal 1974 largely because of substantial (orders from Iran and Israel, the Pentagon had foreseen sales leveling off or even decreasing. The situation changed with a decision last spring by Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Norway to purchase the F‐16 fighter developed for the Air Force by General Dynamics. The cost will exceed $2‐billion. While no firm orders for the F‐16’s have been placed the Defense Department decided to include agreements on them in its sales total for the 1975 fiscal year.
The mass transfer of Turkish Cypriots living in the Greek area of Cyprus began today when United Nations troops escorted about 250 villagers to the Turkish‐occupied northern part of the island. It was agreed last week at talks between Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot negotiators in Vienna to allow the 9,000 Turkish Cypriots in the south to move north if they wanted to. In return, there is to be a limited return of a few hundred Greek Cypriot refugees to their villages in the north, occupied by the Turks since last year’s invasion. Most of the Turks who went north today left from the village of Mari, southwest of Nicosia, Many of them had been living there as refugees for the last 10 years as a result of the intermittent intercommunal fighting. Austrian troops of the United Nations peace force loaded the Turkish Cypriots’ belongings onto army trucks to transport them to Nicosia, where they were being taken to the Turkish area.
A Military tribunal today convicted 14 former army officers of having conspired to overthrow Greece’s reborn democracy and sentence them to prison terms ranging from 4 to 12 years. Seven former officers were acquitted. The tribunal deliberated for three and one half hours before announcing its verdicts. It sentenced former Brigadier General George Lambouzis to 12 years in prison, Major Paraskevas Bolaris to 11, Colonel loantris Antonopoulos and Captain Anthanasios Thanopoulos to 10 years each and Lieutenant Colonel Nickolaos Retzepis to 8 years. Six conspirators were sentenced to five year in prison and three received four‐year sentences. Prosecution witnesses during the 18‐day trial said the majority of the defendants at tempted to organize a coup and planned “to kidnap Premier Konstantine Karamanlis and other personalities and to impose their will on the people.”
The chairman of Spain’s joint chiefs of staff has been quoted by Madrid newspapers as saying that elements in the Spanish armed forces have thought of a Portuguese‐style revolution. But he dismissed recent arrests of officers as a minor matter. “Speaking frankly, since the Portuguese revolution there have been elements who dreamed of doing an April 25 here,” Lieutenant General Carlos Fernandez Vallespin told newsmen during a tour of the Spanish Sahara. He was referring to the date of the Lisbon coup in 1974. Nine Spanish officers were arrested last week for illegal political activity. Some were charged with sedition, but informed observers said the blanket charge of illegal political activity could mean minor breaches of military discipline.
Arabs have been pouring into London this summer, restoring much of the business lost from recession-pinched Americans and Japanese. They have come for the night clubs, the casinos, for business and for medical care not available in the Middle East, and for clothes and jewels. They are buying houses and apartments that many use for vacation. A London real estate agent said that his sales to Arabs recently exceeded $6.5 million, mostly for homes costing more than $200,000. “They’re not the emotional housewife,” the agent said; “they just buy the house on the basis of its exterior.”
A Soviet artist who for several years has been trying to marry an American woman has been sentenced to five years in a labor camp and a further two years of internal exile, his friends said yesterday. They said that a Moscow court had found Boris Mukhametshin, 32 years old, guilty of illegal currency exchange and anti‐Soviet activities. Mr. Mukhametshin is the fiancé of Charlotte Daigle, also 32, of Palo Alto, California. He met her six years ago in Leningrad when Miss Daigle was visiting the Soviet Union after having served in the Peace Corps.
Two high-ranking Israeli officials will fly to Washington in the next few days to begin drafting with American officials the terms of a new Egyptian-Israel agreement on Sinai. The officials — Mordechai Gazit, director-general of Premier Yitzhak Rabin’s office, and Meir Rosenne, the Foreign Ministry’s chief legal adviser — had a major part in drafting the texts of Israel’s accords last year with Egypt and Syria, also reached through American mediation. The State Department said they would begin talks on Tuesday with Under Secretary of State Joseph Sisco “on certain points related to the interim agreement.”
Hundreds of Muslim worshipers stormed out of the tomb of the Biblical patriarch Abraham in Hebron after Sabbath prayers yesterday demanding an end to an Israel Government move to divide the shrine between Muslims and Jews. The state television reported that security forces detained 20 demonstrators after the Arabs marched out of the underground sanctuary chanting anti‐Israeli slogans and hurling rocks at vehicles. One person was reported injured. The 4,000‐year‐old tomb, in the occupied West Bank sector of Jordan, is holy to both Muslims and Jews. A centuries‐old struggle for dominance of the site has flared anew in recent weeks.
The Indian Government today presented its third piece of legislation in the last week that was designed to protect Prime Minister Indira Gandhi from entanglement with the courts. This measure was an amendment to the Constitution that prohibits any lawsuit, civil or criminal, against a person serving as Prime Minister. The upper house of Parliament approved it unanimously two and a‐half hours after it was introduced. The measure would have prevented the 1971 suit in which Mrs. Gandhi was convicted of two minor electoral offenses last June 12, precipitating the political crisis that has beset India since. “In the case of persons holding high position, in many cases, frivolous suits are instituted,” the Law Minister, H. R. Gokhale, said as he explained the amendment in Parliament today. “They hamper the efficient discharge of duties and cause unnecessary and unwarranted harassment.”
Two months ago, when an obscure provincial judge in Allahabad, found Prime Minister Indira Gandhi guilty of two electoral offenses, the ruling was widely hailed as proof that all citizens were equal before the law in India. “The verdict has brought out the vibrant character of our democratic system,” declared The Economic Times of New Delhi, striking a characteristic note of national pride. But in the tumultuous weeks since then, India has veered in a new direction. With a series of bold strokes, Prime Minister Gandhi has fundamentally altered what used to be called the world’s most populous democracy. India’s equivalent of the bill of rights is suspended indefinitely. The press is rigidly censored. Thousands of political opponents are held in jail incommunicado, denied even the right to be told the charges against them.
North Vietnam today rejected categorically a recent suggestion by the Thai Foreign Minister that the question of South Vietnamese ships and planes held by Thailand should be taken to the World Court. The statement concluded by saying that Thai restitution of the equipment was an indispensable condition for normalization of relations between Thailand and Vietnam.
Ten policemen were killed and 19 wounded today when about 200 Communist guerrillas attacked a border patrol police outpost in southern Thailand, police officials said. There were no reports of casualties among the guerrillas in the pre‐dawn clash in the Chaang district of Nkhon Si Thammaret Province, 740 miles south of Bangkok. Police officials described it as one of the biggest battles between Thai Government forces and Communist guerrillas in Thailand this year. Today’s action brought to about 100 the number of people on the government side killed by guerrillas in clashes in Thailand this year.
President Kim II Sung of North Korea has informed President Ford, through Premier Takeo Miki of Japan, that he wants to open negotiations with the United States to settle outstanding issues on the troubled Korean peninsula. According to members of Japan’s Parliament who met recently with President Kim in Pyongyang, the Communist leader would like Washington to send an envoy to North Korea to prepare an agenda. Then Marshal Kim would like Secretary of State Kissinger or another senior representative of the United States to meet with him personally for direct talks. President Kim was reported to be unwilling to delegate that responsibility to anyone else. Two major items President Kim was reported to have insisted be negotiated are the withdrawal of the 40,000 American troops in South Korea, with their nuclear arms, and the replacement of the current armistice, signed at the end of the Korean war in 1953, with a peace treaty.
With little notice by the outside world, China has quietly built up what is now regarded as the world’s third largest navy. So far this new Chinese navy, which has tripled in size since the early nineteen‐sixties, has confined itself to a defensive role of turning “China’s coastline into a great wall of steel.” Chinese ships have not ventured outside their own coastal waters in the Yellow and East and South China Seas. But despite this lack of overt activity, military specialists acknowledge that the Chinese navy has now become a formidable fighting force. With 230,000 officers and men, according to the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the Chinese navy is larger than the French and British navies combined. The Chinese are also reported to have over 1,000 vessels in their fleet, 60 submarines — possibly including one nuclear submarine — and 600 aircraft in their land‐based naval air arm.
As many as 500 persons are believed to have drowned when two Chinese river boats collided and sank during a heavy rain storm near Canton early this week, unofficial Chinese sources indicated today. More than a hundred residents of Hong Kong on holiday trips were thought to he among the dead.
Hours after their birth, two baby girls, born as Siamese twins, were separated by a team of 25 surgeons, anesthetists and nurses, led by Dr. Peter Jones at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne.
When El Salvador bid successfully to host this year’s “Miss Universe” contest, the Government saw the press and television coverage as an opportunity to promote this tiny Central American republic as a Pacific Coast tourist attraction. But while a worldwide television audience saw El Salvador’s, sunny beaches before the “Miss Universe” finals July 19, off-camera heavily armed troops were called out to halt demonstrations by students protesting the government’s expenditure of $1‐million on the contest. A week later in the western city of Santa Ana, students took to the streets to protest the banning of the “Miss Universe” demonstration, and several youths were injured and arrested during clashes with the National Guard. Then on July 30 about 3,000 students demonstrating in San Salvador against repression of the two earlier marches were stopped by machine‐gun and automatic‐rifle fire from soldiers.
Planning began to move the capital of Nigeria from Lagos to a new location. A committee, headed by Akinola Aguda, would select a site for the Federal Capital Territory to be made up of part of the states of Nasarawa, Niger and Kogi, for the building of the new city of Abuja.
A fierce bazooka battle erupted in central Luanda today, and for the first time the fighting embroiled all three rival black independence movements. “This is all‐out war now,” said a Portuguese military source. The United States Consulate advised 120 Americans still in the Angolan capital to leave as soon as possible. At least three independence movement soldiers were killed and scores of others wounded in two hours of fighting that began when the Soviet‐backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola opened a bazooka attack on one of the three city strongpoints of the opposing National Front for the Liberation of Angola. For the first time, the third movement, which has remained neutral in the war thus far — the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola — joined the fighting in the city on the side of the National Front, whose main forces were routed from most of Luanda three weeks ago.
President Valery Giscard d’Estaing of France announced that France would no longer sell arms “having a continental use” to South Africa. The suspension of arms sales, he said, would apply to weapons for the army and the air force but not to submarines or ships for use “on the open sea.” The sale of other kinds of vessels would be examined on an individual basis. He made the announcement in a joint news conference at Kinshasa with President Mobuto Sese Seko of Zaire.
The Prime Ministers of South Africa and Rhodesia said in a communique issued in Pretoria that they had agreed to proposals that could end the long racial and constitutional deadlock in Rhodesia. The statement seemed to indicate that South Africa had once again applied heavy pressure to force Rhodesia’s white minority government to seek a peaceful solution of its political and racial problems. The Prime Ministers’ talks, it was believed, may have forestalled a publicly expressed plan by the right wing of the Rhodesian Cabinet to give up negotiations with leading black nationalists in Rhodesia and to put into effect a plan to “win” the long guerrilla conflict in the one‐time British colony by harsher military methods.
President Ford paid homage today to the last Apollo astronauts, and consulted with his advisers on economic, energy and national security matters. But there were no cheers, no backward glances on the first anniversary of his Presidency. One year after Richard M. Nixon bade a tearful farewell, and Gerald R. Ford took office as the 38th President, it was, said Ron Nessen, the White House press secretary, “just another working day.” Only the release of the President’s 36th interview in office, which he granted yesterday to representatives of three national news services, and a small private dinner tonight with the family of Vice President Rockefeller marked the anniversary of the most tumultuous change of government in the nation’s history.
President Ford ended his first year in office in a stronger political position than he began it. On that much — but on very little else — there is agreement among professional politicians, according to the last of three articles assessing Mr. Ford’s first year in office, and reporting on public and private presidential polls. Peter Hart, a highly regarded private pollster, recently completed a national survey and two state surveys that suggested the dimensions of Mr. Ford’s standing among the public. He found that “the country is essentially neutral about Ford.”
Vance D. Brand, the Apollo astronaut, took the blame, but Major General Thomas P. Stafford said that all three crewmen must share responsibility for the mishap that let poison gas fumes into their spaceship as they returned to earth July 24. “I’ll take the responsibility,” Mr. Brand told a news conference today. “The switches should have been turned on and they weren’t.” But General Stafford said that he and Donald K. Slayton should also have known that the switches had not been flipped at the proper time. He said that very bad noise and radio communications in the cabin might have contributed to the error. The three astronauts met with newsmen for the first time since the flight during which they linked up in space for two days with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft carrying two astronauts.
A warning against “reverse discrimination” has been issued by a federal appeals court in New York, in a decision expressing strong support for Civil Service laws. The 20‐page decision, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, rejected a racial quota that a lower court had imposed on promotions in the state’s Correctional Services Department. The Court of Appeals declared that racial quotas could be imposed only with great reluctance and restraint, even when they were designed to correct past discrimination and create job opportunities for minority groups.
Congress will investigate the Western Union Telegraph Company to determine whether the message service has abused its role as a public utility and should be challenged competitively, it was announced today. Representative Matthew J. Rinaldo, Republican of New Jersey, who sought the investigation, said a date for the hearings by the House Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee would be set when Congress returned from its recess September 3. He said that the inquiry would try to determine whether the public would be better served by opening Western Union to free competition.
The Municipal Assistance Corporation has appealed formally to the federal government to take over New York City’s welfare costs as an essential step in restoring the city’s solvency. Hoping to capitalize on their prestige and authority as a nonpartisan panel drawn heavily from the business community, the corporation’s directors have approved the idea of submitting a plan for a federal takeover of welfare, long advocated by Mayor Beame and Governor Carey but opposed by Republicans in Washington.
Facing the prospect of being taken to court by the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ashland Oil Inc. disclosed the names of the recipients of its foreign payments and illegal domestic political contributions. According to the company’s list, Ashland gave money to a dozen present and former Senators and several present and former Representatives. One of the contributions went to Representative Wilbur Mills. Arkansas Democrat and former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Ashland said it had paid $50,000 to Mr. Mills through an intermediary, Carl Arnold, and that Mr. Mills “was to use these funds to help re-elect a Democratic Congress.” Mr. Mills could not be reached for comment.
The Health Research Group a Nader-related organization, has accused the Federal Government of subsidizing cancer deaths by price supports for tobacco, and it has called for the end of such subsidies. “The U.S. Government spends roughly $60‐million annually to support tobacco growing. This is equivalent to about $1,000 for each U.S. death from lung cancer caused by smoking,” the report says. “On the other hand,” it continues, “the Federal Government spends only $14.30 per (smoking‐related) lung cancer death annually on educating the public about the dangers of smoking. At the same time, the tobacco industry spends over $2,857 per lung cancer death on promoting the tobacco habit. The group that prepared the report is one of several public interest groups sponsored by Ralph Nader, the consumer activist.
Samuel Bronfman II, son of the president of Seagram’s, was reported kidnapped and held for ransom after disappearing from his home in Purchase, New York. After the ransom was paid, Bronfman was located August 17 by the FBI and by the New York Police Department. Defendants Mel Patrick Lynch and Dominic Byrne would later persuade a jury that Bronfman was their accomplice, and would be acquitted of kidnapping charges, and convicted only of extortion of the Bronfman family. Byrne’s attorney wrote a memoir before his death in 2020, confessing that the defense was a lie, and Bronfman had been an innocent victim.
Fifteen large stained-glass windows, stolen from the famed Wainwright Building in St. Louis, are being held for a $3,200 ransom. The police here say that the man who made the ransom demand this week says he purchased the windows in innocence and merely wants his money back. The demand was made to the police through an attorney who refused to divulge where his client lives or where he bought the windows, but made it clear that without the $3,200 ransom, the windows would not be returned.
Longshoremen in Beaumont, Texas who staged a wildcat strike completed loading today of 24,000 tons of wheat aboard the Banija, a Yugoslavia freighter that sailed for the Soviet Union. The members of the International Longshoremen’s Association walked away from the vessel and the Continental Grain Company elevator Thursday in protest against the Soviet transaction.
More than 1,000 men battled yesterday to control a 13,000‐acre brush fire in Arizona’s Tonto National Forest, The Associated Press reported. Lightning started the fire Wednesday night near Sunflower, about 50 miles northeast of Phoenix. By yesterday, it had destroyed $12‐million in grassland and watershed, said Art Clinchy, forest information officer.
Scientific vehicles are about to leave the earth for Mars to carry out the first search for life on the surface of another planet. The first of two American craft called Viking is to be launched toward Mars on Monday. Weather predictions for the launching, scheduled for 4:59 PM in a season when late‐afternoon thundershowers are typical, were favorable. The second launching in the $1‐billion Viking program, the most costly in the history of unmanned planetary exploration, is scheduled for August 21. The two four‐ton Vikings are scheduled to go into orbit around Mars next June and August, and detach three‐legged craft in July and September to land at two sites., The first site will be at Lat. 21 degrees N., and the second at Lat. 44 degrees N.
The COS-B satellite, a project of the European Space Research Organisation (ESRO), was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. “It is difficult to overestimate the importance of COS-B in the historical evolution” of ESRO, it would be written later. Operating five years longer than expected, up until April 25, 1982, the European mission provided the first detailed view of gamma ray sources in the Milky Way.
Mark Donohue set the world record for speed on a closed race course, averaging 221.120 miles per hour while driving a Porsche 917.30 at the Talladega Motor Speedway in Talladega, Alabama. The record would stand for 11 years, but Donohue would be killed in a racing accident ten days later.
First NFL exhibition game in Louisiana Superdome, Houston defeats the Saints 13–7.
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Don Kessinger and Rick Monday drove in three runs each as the Cubs ripped 15 hits in defeating the Braves, 8–2, after the Braves had won 6–2 to complete a suspended game of June 12. Phil Niekro pitched one scoreless inning to complete the suspended game but was laced for 11 hits and seven runs in six innings of the regular game. Winning pitcher Steve Stone singled to start the Cubs’ three-run seventh. After Biff Pocoroba misplayed a sacrifice by Kessinger, Monday homered. Darrell Evans had three of the five Braves’ hits, including a first-inning homer. Andre Thornton hit a two-run shot for the Cubs in the sixth.
Aided by 10 bases on balls, including three by reliever Don DeMola in a four-run fifth, the Reds coasted to a 9–1 victory over the Expos. Winner Gary Nolan and reliever Clay Carroll teamed for a 10-hitter. The Reds’ fifth included a walk to Darrel Chaney forcing in the first run of the inning. Pinch-hitter Dan Driessen singled in two more off Chuck Taylor and the final tally came on Ken Griffey’s sacrifice fly off Fred Scherman. Pete Rose led the Reds with three hits but also made two errors, including a boot of Gary Carter’s grounder, enabling Pepe Mangual to score the Expos’ run in the third.
Davey Lopes set a major league record for consecutive steals in a season when he swiped his 32nd straight (No. 51 this season) without being caught in the eighth inning of the Dodgers’ 2–0 victory over the Mets. Lopes led off the game against loser Jerry Koosman with a walk and stole second. He doubled in the sixth and scored on Lee Lacy’s single. In the eighth he singled, was sacrificed to second and stole third to break Max Carey’s consecutive theft record set with the Pirates in 1922. Koosman’s wild pitch scored Lopes with the final run. Burt Hooton pitched a three-hitter for his fourth career shutout over the Mets.
Lou Brock rapped three hits, including a sixth-inning single, to become the 51st player in major league history to get 2,500 hits as the Cardinals took sole possession of third with a 6–1 victory over the Padres. Brock’s key single to center was followed by Willie Davis’ double for a 3–1 lead. Ken Reitz, who had four hits, drove in the first two Cardinals runs and opened a three-run seventh with a single. After a sacrifice and winning pitcher Lynn McGlothen’s single, Brock, pinch-hitter Buddy Bradford and Davis each drove in runs. McGlothen had two singles, matching his previous season output, and tossed his first complete game since June 22.
The Phillies scored six runs in the fifth and blasted the Giants, 11–4, to move to two games from the Pirates’ lead. Greg Luzinski doubled home two in the first and Mike Schmidt hit a three-run homer in the fifth. Dick Allen’s two-run single and pinch-hitter Ollie Brown’s RBI single accounted for the first three runs of the big frame before Schmidt connected off reliever Gary Lavelle for his sixth homer in eight games. Winner Steve Carlton rapped a two-run single in the seventh. Marc Hill hit a pinch-hit homer for the Giants in the ninth.
Making just his second start of the season, Joe Niekro pitched a five-hitter and singled and scored a run as the Astros topped the Pirates, 5–0. Loser Jerry Reuss held the Astros to four hits, including an RBI single by Cesar Cedeno, scoring Niekro in the third. The Astros broke loose with four in the eighth against Dave Giusti when Greg Gross hit an RBI triple, Cedeno singled and Cliff Johnson homered. The Pirates loaded the bases in the first on Richie Hebner’s double and two walks but Richie Zisk grounded out to end the threat.
The Angels scored six runs in the eighth inning to defeat the Yankees, 8–1. Ed Figueroa’s victory was his 10th of the season. The Angels took the lead in the fourth when Jerry Remy beat out a slow roller, took third on Adrian Garrett’s single and scored on Catfish Hunter’s wild pitch. Graig Nettles’ throwing error on Dave Chalk’s grounder scored Garrett with the go-ahead run. Dave Collins drove in two runs in the eighth and Garrett added an RBI with his third hit. The Yankees collected three singles in the first, including an RBI single by Sandy Alomar, who had three hits.
Jim Palmer permitted 13 hits in 8 ⅔ innings, but had ample support to defeat the White Sox, 12–6, and become the major leagues’ first 17-game winner this season. The Orioles rolled to their seventh straight success as Dave Duncan homered twice and drove in three runs. Bobby Grich walked five times to set a club record and scored three runs. Jorge Orta singled twice and homered for the White Sox.
Back-to-back homers by Denny Doyle and Cecil Cooper in the third inning led the Red Sox to a 7–2 victory over the A’s. Rick Burleson led off a four-run third with a single and scored on Bernie Carbo’s double before the consecutive blasts off loser Sonny Siebert. Carlton Fisk added a two-run shot in the fifth for Boston, which coasted for six innings on the three-hit pitching of Bill Lee. Joe Rudi singled and Sal Bando homered in the A’s seventh, bringing in Dick Drago to preserve Lee’s sixth consecutive triumph. Lee is 11–2 since May 16.
The Royals took advantage of two errors by Buddy Bell to score three unearned runs in the seventh in a 6–4 victory over the Indians. After one out in the seventh, Al Cowens was safe on Bell’s high throw to first. Bob Stinson forced Cowens and Fred Patek walked, bringing in Jim Bibby to pitch for Dennis Eckersley. Stinson then scored when Bell booted Cookie Rojas’ grounder. Amos Otis followed with a two-run single. The Indians had taken a 4–2 lead in the sixth on Boog Powell’s three-run homer and a solo shot by Rico Carty. The triumph was their 16th in the last 20 games for the Royals and 13th against four losses since Whitey Herzog took over as manager of the club.
Dave Goltz pitched a five-hitter and Glenn Borgmann singled in the game’s only run, leading the Twins past the Tigers, 1–0, for a Detroit club record 14th consecutive defeat. The only balls the Tigers hit out of the infield were singles as no Twins’ outfielder had a putout. In the fourth, Eric Soderholm doubled and Johnny Briggs walked before Borgmann’s RBI hit.
Fergie Jenkins scattered 10 hits as the Rangers dealt the Brewers their ninth straight home defeat, 4–2. The Rangers scored three runs on homers. Roy Howell hit his sixth in the last 10 games in the third inning. In the eighth Jeff Burroughs followed Mike Hargrove’s double with a blast to right. Sixto Lezcano connected for the Brewers in the fifth.
Chicago Cubs 8, Atlanta Braves 2
New York Yankees 1, California Angels 8
Baltimore Orioles 12, Chicago White Sox 6
Montreal Expos 1, Cincinnati Reds 9
Kansas City Royals 6, Cleveland Indians 4
Minnesota Twins 1, Detroit Tigers 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Houston Astros 5
Texas Rangers 4, Milwaukee Brewers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, New York Mets 0
Boston Red Sox 7, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 4, Philadelphia Phillies 11
San Diego Padres 1, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Born:
Brian Fuentes, MLB pitcher (All-Star, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009; Seattle Mariners, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Angels, Minnesota Twins, Oakland A’s, St. Louis Cardinals), in Merced, California.
Mike Lamb, MLB third baseman, pinch hitter, and first baseman (Texas Rangers, Houston Astros, Minnesota Twins, Milwaukee Brewers, Florida Marlins), in West Covina, California.
Elaine Powell, WNBA guard (WNBA Champions-Shock, 2003, 2006, 2008; Orlando Miracle, Detroit Shock, Chicago Sky), in Monroe, Louisiana.
Mahesh Babu, Indian actor, in Madras, India.
Died:
Dmitri Shostakovich, 69, Russian composer, of lung cancer.
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