The United States has proposed that President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, discuss arms control, regional issues, human rights and relations between the two countries when the two leaders hold their summit meeting in Geneva in November, a senior Reagan Administration official said today. The official said that under the American proposal, these four key issues would be the topics of discussion on the second day of the meeting, which is scheduled for November 19-20. He added that under the proposal, which has not been accepted by the Russians, the first day of the summit meeting could be devoted to the “foundation” issue of “how each country’s leader views the world and its role in it.”
Early last month, military commanders from around the Soviet Union gathered in Minsk for what was called a “training assembly.” There are signs that far-reaching business was transacted. On July 10, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, accompanied by Defense Minister Sergei L. Sokolov, flew to Minsk to address the commanders in an unpublished speech. A few days later, the first signs of a military shuffle began to appear. Although military analysts have few details to go on, they say they see indications of the hand of Mr. Gorbachev at work. Since then, confirmation of one sort or another has emerged about the replacement of the chief political commissar of the armed forces and the head of the strategic missile forces, the transfer of the commander of Soviet forces in East Germany and a series of shifts in regional commands. In the latest appointment, revealed this week, General Vladimir M. Arkhipov was promoted from first deputy commander of the Central Asian military district to the prestigious post of commander of the Moscow military district. The post had become vacant in the last month in a sequence of moves. And Soviet officials have studiously avoided denying reports of the political re-emergence of one of the most colorful men in the Soviet military, Marshal Nikolai V. Ogarkov.
Soviet authorities permitted 174 Jews to emigrate in July, the highest total in 2 ½ years, according to the agency that helps them resettle. A spokesman for the Intergovernmental Committee for Migration said 68 of the emigres went to Israel and the rest to Italy, where the committee will arrange their resettlement in other countries. The monthly total was the largest since December, 1982, when 176 Jews were allowed to leave.
About 200 Roman Catholic youths, angered by a Protestant parade through their neighborhood, hurled gasoline bombs at British troops today, who fired a hail of rubber bullets to repel them. The authorities had put up huge black screens around the Catholic district of Bogside in an effort to prevent clashes between Catholics and about 15,000 Protestant marchers in the annual Apprentice Boys parade. The march commemorates a Protestant victory over the Roman Catholic forces of King James II in 1689.
It is not his debts, which are many, or his clothes, which are few, that most trouble Jeffrey Johnson, a West Yorkshire miner, in the aftermath of his union’s year-long strike, which collapsed in March. The worst part, he said as he got ready for the night shift at the pit where he works as an electrician, was the knot he gets in his stomach before the shift begins, “like you felt in school before taking exams; you don’t know what’s coming.” He and thousands of other members of the National Union of Mineworkers stayed out until the end, then went back to work without an agreement on the National Coal Board’s plan to close unprofitable pits and eliminate 20,000 jobs. During the strike, 9,700 miners quit or retired, and since then 7,500 others have departed.
In what appeared to be the latest in a series of individual attacks involving Jews and Arabs, an Israeli settler was stabbed today as he walked past the Arab marketplace in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. An army spokesman said the settler, Yaacov Reitter, 46 years old, from the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba outside Hebron, was taken to a Jerusalem hospital in satisfactory condition after two attackers stabbed him. Military sources said they suspected that the attackers, who stabbed Mr. Reitter in the neck and back, were Arabs. The army immediately imposed a curfew on the Hebron marketplace, which is in the heart of the ancient town where the Prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. The army spokesman said security forces were searching for the assailants through streets and homes in Hebron and had arrested several suspects.
At least six people were reported killed as new fighting, the most intense in several weeks, flared overnight between Christian and Muslim militia forces in Beirut and its suburbs. Three cease-fire accords reportedly collapsed before the round of fighting ended after midnight.
Lebanese Shia Muslim leader Nabih Berri made his strongest demand yet for the ouster of Christian President Amin Gemayel, saying “either the regime will die or all of Lebanon will.” Meanwhile, rockets hit Gemayel’s palace in suburban Baabda, east of Beirut, but the president was not there at the time. No injuries were reported. Berri, Lebanon’s justice minister in the fragile “national unity” Cabinet, told reporters that Gemayel has failed to initiate promised reforms giving Muslims equal power with the minority Christians.
King Hassan II of Morocco said today that he would try to convince the Reagan Administration that dealing with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation offered the “best means of achieving a just and comprehensive solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.” The Moroccan King said he would try to persuade the United States to deal with such a delegation as part of his mandate from a three-day Arab League meeting that ended Friday. A communique issued after the meeting, which was convened by King Hassan, directed him to meet with the United States and the Soviet Union to explain “the Arab point of view” before the American and Soviet leaders meet in Geneva in November. The Arab League meeting was attended by 16 delegations but was boycotted by Syria, Lebanon, Southern Yemen, Algeria and Libya. The final statement “noted” the peace proposal on which Jordan and the Palestine Liberation Organization agreed in February, but it failed to endorse the accord.
Amid new warnings to Pakistan about developing a nuclear bomb, India announced this week that it had successfully commissioned a large new atomic reactor described as capable of producing fuel for a nuclear weapon. Indian officials said the reactor was a research plant that would help produce radioactive isotopes for use in industry, agriculture and medicine. The Indian Government continues to maintain that it has not begun a program to build nuclear weapons.
The Philippine guerrilla war against the Government of Ferdinand E. Marcos has rapidly grown in the last few years. The Government now places the Communist rebel force at 10,000 to 12,000, about twice its estimate a year ago. The Communists say they have more than 20,000 armed fighters. A boyish-looking guerrilla in Legaspi, smoking a cigarette and cleaning his .45-caliber pistol, had just finished what was for him a day’s work. That afternoon, he said, he had killed a colonel in the Philippine Constabulary. “That colonel was responsible for the death of two comrades, so he had to die,” said the rebel, a member of the Communist insurgency, the New People’s Army, which is waging a growing guerrilla war against the Government of Ferdinand E. Marcos. “This kind of killing doesn’t bother me because it is justice,” said the rebel, known as Ka Totoy.
A French couple charged by New Zealand police with the bombing of the environmental ship Rainbow Warrior in which a crewman-photographer was killed are French army officers, state-controlled Radio France-Inter reported. The station identified Jacques Alain Turenge, 34, as a battalion commander and Sophie Claire Turenge, 36, as an army captain. It said they were sent to Auckland by the French Defense Ministry only to keep watch over operations by Greenpeace, the environmental activist group, and protect French nuclear testing, the radio reported. A spokesman for the French Defense Ministry refused to comment on the radio report.
Armed men who detained a group of Americans for a day this week were probably commanded by the anti-Sandinista guerrilla Eden Pastora Gomez, journalists who accompanied the group said today. But spokesmen for Mr. Pastora and the Revolutionary Democratic Alliance, with which he has been associated, denied their forces were involved. Most of the 29 American peace activists, who are members of a group called Witness for Peace and oppose United States policy in Central America, were reported today to be at the town of San Carlos. The town is on Lake Nicaragua where it is joined by the San Juan River. The activists’ launch was traveling on the river, reportedly at a point on the Costa Rican border about 40 miles southeast of San Carlos, when it was stopped Wednesday. The Americans were expected to return to Managua Monday.
Clashes between Chilean police and anti-government demonstrators in Santiago left two dead, 27 injured and 275 arrested, police reported. They said a man and a woman were shot to death in southern Santiago, but they provided no details. Police battled protesters who erected barricades of burning tires during a power failure that affected a 1,000-milelong region of central Chile. A leftist rebel group, the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, said it caused the blackout, which lasted several hours, by blowing up several electrical pylons.
Africa’s population is growing at a rate of 3 percent a year, faster than other region in the world. Governments have begun to deal with the problem as Pope John Paul II insists that Roman Catholics shun birth control, placing the Pope and the governments in open conflict. Vatican sources have said that opposition to artificial contraception may be one of the themes stressed by the Pope during his 12-day tour of seven African countries. They include Kenya, which has the world’s highest population growth rate, at 4.1 percent, as well as Togo, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Zaire and Morocco.
Pope John Paul II today offered three African Presidents what a Vatican official called “an implicit pact,” promising Roman Catholic support in return for a respect for freedom, social justice and human life. The Pope delivered his message as he hopscotched across West and Central Africa, traveling some 1,500 miles from Togo to the Ivory Coast and then to Yaounde, Cameroon, the capital city of 350,000 people surrounded by rich green jungle and tropical forests. In an address to priests and nuns here this evening, the Pope warned the people of developing nations to be wary of the values of more technologically advanced societies, “where the religious sense weakens.” He also urged the priests and nuns to guard against a “return to paganism.”
A convoy of 30 trucks left N’Djamena, the capital of Chad, carrying the first of about 200,000 famine victims to be resettled in their home regions in north and central Chad. A government spokesman said about 4,250 families that fled from drought and famine areas to N’Djamena during the past year would be returned to their home regions with food to last until the next crop harvest. He said sufficient rain fell in recent months to ensure a harvest this year.
The Liberian Government says it has foiled a plot to kill government officials and Americans living in the West African country. Defense Minister Gray Allison said Friday night that the plot involved militants of two political parties that tried unsucessfully to register for elections this fall to return the country to civilian rule. The militants had support from Liberian exiles, he said in a televised address. Mr. Allison did not identify the targets. There have been reports of at least half a dozen plots since Samuel K. Doe seized power in Liberia in April 1980.
Nigerian authorities have ordered an investigation of alleged irregularities and vote-rigging in the country’s 1983 elections, cited by the armed forces as one of the main reasons for a military coup that year. A government statement said a judicial commission will investigate the charges and make its report within three months.
Uganda’s new military rulers freed more than 1,200 political prisoners today and announced that the country’s main rebel movement had agreed to peace talks next week. The country’s head of state, Lieut. Gen. Tito Okello, said his Government would hold talks with the rebels of the National Resistance Army in Tanzania on Tuesday. He spoke at a ceremony in the main square of Kampala at which the prisoners, jailed by the previous Government, were released.
Zimbabwe police have seized the passport of opposition leader Joshua Nkomo and detained two top officials of his Zimbabwe African National Union, Nkomo’s wife said. In a television interview from Bulawayo, Nkomo’s power base, Johanna Nkomo said two officers came to their home and confiscated her husband’s passport and her own. She also said her brother-in-law, Steven Nkomo, the party’s foreign affairs secretary, and its general secretary, Welshman Mabhena, were arrested last week and have not been heard from.
One of South Africa’s most outspoken critics of apartheid, the Rev. Allan Boesak, was arrested today along with 18 other people, many of them clergymen, after defying a police order against attending a funeral in a black township near Cape Town. In the same township, Guguletu, five policemen and a sound technician working for CBS News, Anton van der Merwe, were injured when a protester lobbed a hand grenade from the back of a crowd that the police had charged after firing rubber bullets and telling demonstrators to disperse. Mr. Boesak, President of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, is a key patron of the United Democratic Front and is regarded within South Africa as one of the nation’s most prominent anti-apartheid activists. He has called for economic boycotts of white businesses to add to pressures for change, and he is generally included in a list of what pro-Government forces call “troublesome priests,” after Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and the Rev. Beyers Naude, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on the 40th Anniversary of the End of the Second World War in the Pacific.
President Reagan spends the day at the White House packing for the trip to California.
Vice President George Bush and Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) would win the same share of the popular vote if the 1988 presidential election were held now, according to a recently conducted test election, the results of which were released by the Gallup Poll. In the mid-July survey, Bush and Kennedy, the early favorites for their parties’ 1988 presidential nominations, are each the choice of 46% of registered voters, with 8% naming other candidates or undecided. In other simulated races, Bush defeated Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado), 50% to 39%; New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, 55% to 31%, and Jesse Jackson, 68% to 22%.
The Justice Department approved a grant of almost $300,000 to the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence to improve shelters for battered women after delaying the award nearly two months because of complaints by conservatives that some of the money would help lesbian rights activists. Two dozen members of Congress, describing themselves as “pro-family Republicans,” had written Attorney General Edwin Meese III complaining about plans to award the grant. Later, 23 other senators wrote Meese to say they were disturbed that he had delayed the grant. An official said the coalition will receive $293,904 by mid-August.
The Army’s new chemical factory at Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, is called “the nerve gas plant” by local residents. Production is waiting the passage of a House bill in a final vote in September that would authorize the government to again manufacture chemical weapons. Such weapons were banned 16 years ago. With the start of production, an incinerating plant now under construction on the other side of the thickly timbered Army reservation here is to begin destroying part of the old stockpile of chemical weapons, 721 tons of deteriorating cluster bombs and drums containing the incapacitating agent BZ. The move toward resumption of production of chemical weapons is the Pentagon’s most impressive and unexpected political victory of the year.
Governor Bob Graham of Florida ordered 85 additional police officers backed by two helicopters to protect a five-mile stretch of Florida’s busiest highway against highwaymen who mug and terrorize motorists. Armed robbers have ambushed nearly 100 motorists since January 1 on a five-mile stretch of Interstate 95 between Miami and Fort Lauderdale. No one has been killed but several victims have been injured. Graham’s plan also includes repairs to street lights along the highway that have been sabotaged by the robbers, cutting away undergrowth where they hide and the assignment of more decoy units of undercover police posing as stranded motorists.
William J. Schroeder is returning to the specially equipped apartment that he occupied last April near the Humana Heart Institute in Louisville, Kentucky, but a hospital spokesman said there is no plan for the world’s longest-living mechanical heart patient to return to his Indiana hometown. “There are no plans for him to move back to Jasper as yet,” said Dr. Allan Lansing, director of Humana. Schroeder spent a month in the apartment in April but was forced to return to the hospital May 6 after suffering the second stroke he has experienced since receiving the artificial heart last November.
An abortion clinic was bombed in Toledo, Ohio today, and another was the site of a demonstration that led to the arrest of four people, the police said. The bomb exploded at 5 AM at Toledo Medical Services. No one was reported injured in the blast, but there was slight structural damage, according to the police, who are investigating the incident. A demonstration by about 25 people outside another clinic, the Center for Choice, led to the arrest of four members of Christians United Against Abortion. They were charged with criminal trespass and resisting arrest. The authorities said the four protestors had blocked employees and patients from entering the facility and had shown them pictures of fetuses. One of those arrested, William Ulmer of Toledo, suffered a heart attack as he was being taken into custody. He was listed in serious to critical condition at a local hospital.
A caller who said a bomb had been placed on an Eastern Airlines jet forced an emergency landing in Charlotte, North Carolina, officials said today. No bomb was found after 285 passengers and 13 crew members on an L-1011 jetliner were evacuated Friday night. The plane, flying from Newark to Miami, landed at Douglas International Airport about 8:15 PM. Richard McGraw, an Eastern spokesman in Miami, said an unidentified caller told an Eastern reservations clerk at 7:40 PM that there was a bomb on the plane. “It was the pilot’s decision to land in Charlotte,” said Glenn Parsons, another Eastern spokesman.
A $21,000 bond was set for a bus driver charged in a crash that claimed the lives of seven youths who were on their way to a Bruce Springsteen concert in Chicago. David Johnson, a driver for the Chicago Transit Authority, faces seven counts of reckless homicide as a result of Friday’s crash. Fifty-one persons were also slightly injured in the traffic accident. Although several bus passengers came to Johnson’s defense, saying that the car swerved in front of the bus, police received “many” telephone calls from regular passengers of the bus line, who complained that drivers regularly speed on their routes.
A ship carrying 2,500 new Japanese cars anchored in a remote Aleutian Island port, four days after catching fire while en route to Los Angeles, the U.S. Coast Guard said. Fire erupted aboard the Coral Ace on Tuesday, and the ship carrying Nissan autos was prevented from entering Dutch Harbor on Unalaska Island until firefighters could establish that there was little danger of spills or debris marring the coast. The vessel will abandon its original travel plans and return to Yokohama, Japan.
Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation captured Gerald Ross Pizzuto at his sister’s home in Great Falls, Montana yesterday, ending a manhunt for the suspect in the beating deaths of two Idaho gold miners and the slaying of two Seattle residents. The 29-year-old fugitive was arrested at the home of his sister Angela. William Fallin, special agent in charge of the Montana-Idaho division of the FBI, said Mr. Pizzuto offered no resistance. The authorities began the manhunt July 26 after Alberta Herndon of Marsing, Idaho, and her nephew Delbert, were found beaten to death near their gold claim 100 miles north of Boise.
After Arthur James Walker learned that his brother was a spy for the Soviet Union he became “curious” about the tricks of the espionage trade, according to statements he has made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. “I need to know how this stuff is done,” Arthur Walker said he asked his brother John A. Walker Jr. “Photographs? Xerox copies?” John Walker responded: “Primary method – photographs. Film. Find something of value and photograph it.”
Eradication of poverty in Appalachia is an unfulfilled promise of President Johnson’s vision of a Great Society. The Appalachian Regional Development Act signed by Johnson on March 9, 1965, brought more than $15 billion to the region which includes 20 million people in 13 states. Though some striking improvements have been made, the 1980 per capita income was only about three-quarters the national average, little changed in 20 years, and many people still do not have safe drinking water.
Inmates with acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, are being watched with growing concern by prison medical directors around the country who are uncertain how to care for them. The Federal Centers for Disease Control took note of the explosive potential of AIDS in a prison setting two years ago, but the agency has not established any federal program to combat that risk. Dr. Harold Jaffe, chief of epidemiology in the centers’ section on AIDS, said state prison systems could cope with the illnesses reported to date. “For the moment, the biggest problem in the prisons is not the numbers of AIDS cases but how to manage the ones that are diagnosed,” he said in a telephone interview. The disorder is seen as a special problem in a prison setting because of how the deadly virus is transmitted, by sexual activity or through contaminated blood products, scientists believe. The two groups at greatest risk from the disease outside prison are homosexual men and users of intravenous drugs, who could transmit the virus by sharing hypodermic needles with infected blood.
An accidental explosion at the Naval Ship Research and Development Center injured at least two people today, including a man who suffered burns over 90 percent of his body, officials said. R. C. MacNamara, security officer at the center, said electrical equipment exploded about 9:15 AM and two civilian electricians who were performing routine maintenance were injured. Corporal James Etheridge, a spokesman for the Maryland state police, said three people were hospitalized. He said two were taken to Suburban Hospital in nearby Bethesda and a third was taken to the burn center at the Washington Hospital Center in Washington. Two Montgomery County firefighters, who declined to be identified, said one injured man had burns over 90 percent of his body. Mr. MacNamara said reporters were not being allowed into the center to see the damage. The center, near the Potomac River, performs naval engineering research.
When Chrysler starts contract talks tomorrow with the United Automobile Workers for the fifth time in seven years, the scene will be vastly different from that of only a few years ago, when Chrysler was on the brink of insolvency and the union cut back its demands. Last year was the most profitable in Chrysler’s history, and so far this year it has reported profits of more than $1 billion.
A contract covering more than 1,500 meatpackers at a Hormel plant expired today, and the company braced for a strike by a union local early next week, a Hormel spokesman said. Talks between Geo. A. Hormel & Company and Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union resumed this afternoon, but broke off after an hour.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has approved a full-power operating license for the Unit 1 reactor at the Philadelphia Electric Company’s Limerick nuclear plant. The commission voted 4 to 0 Thursday to grant the license to Limerick, 20 miles northwest of Philadelphia near Pottstown.
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The Yankees kept winning today for the fifth consecutive game, 7–3 from the Boston Red Sox, when they staked Joe Cowley to a 4–0 lead after two innings and had another bountiful offensive display — 13 hits. Dave Winfield drove home two runs in a three-run first inning with a double down the left-field line. In the second, Rickey Henderson’s ground ball brought in a run for a 4–0 lead after Butch Wynegar walked and Mike Pagliarulo doubled. In their past two games, including Friday’s 10–6 victory here at Fenway Park, the Yankees have had 32 hits. And they again looked like the team that surged to one and a half games behind the Blue Jays at the All-Star Game break.
Oakland’s Dave Kingman becomes the 21st player to hit 400 career home runs, belting a 2-run shot off Matt Young in the first inning of the A’s 11–5 win at Seattle. Kingman, a 14-year veteran, passed Al Kaline on the career home run list and now stands seven behind of Duke Snider. Kingman homered in the first inning off Matt Young (7–13) after a two-out single by Dusty Baker. Kingman’s 23rd home run of the season came on a 1–2 pitch and landed in the left-field seats. Kingman had not homered since July 24.
Jim Sundberg homered deep into the left-field seats with one out in the bottom of the 10th inning to give Kansas City a 4–3 victory over the visiting Blue Jays. Sundberg hit his ninth homer of the season off Bill Caudill (4–5) who had relieved the starter Jimmy Key at the start of the 10th. Dan Quisenberry (6–6) got the victory. He pitched 3 ⅓ scoreless innings in helping the Royals to their fourth straight victory. The Kansas City starter, Charlie Leibrandt, allowed Toronto to score a run in the seventh that tied the game, 3–3. With two out, Tony Fernandez walked and took third on a single by Damaso Garcia, who extended his hitting streak to 16 games. Leibrandt hit Lloyd Moseby with a pitch, loading the bases, and then forced home the tying run by walking Jeff Burroughs.
The Angels rolled over the Twins, 9–1. Doug DeCinces hit a three-run double to cap a five-run sixth inning, Ruppert Jones drove in four runs and Kirk McCaskill pitched a three-hitter. McCaskill (8–7) pitched his fourth complete game. The Twins’ Mike Smithson (11–9) was driven out of the game in California’s sixth-inning rally. With the Angels trailing by 1–0, Brian Downing began the rally when he was walked and moved to third on Rob Wilfong’s single. Jones followed with a single to center, scoring Downing and tying the score. Wilfong and Jones moved up a base on Reggie Jackson’s groundout. After Rod Carew was intentionally walked to load the bases, DeCinces hit a two-base hit down the left-field line to put California ahead, 4–1. When Bob Boone singled to score DeCinces, Smithson was relieved by Pete Filson. A three-run triple by Jones highlighted a four-run ninth.
Lance Parrish, who had hit a home run earlier in the game, singled home Lou Whitaker with two out in the 11th to give the Detroit Tigers a 5–4 victory in Cleveland. Whitaker doubled with one out off Vern Ruhle (2–8) and Alan Trammell struck out. After Kirk Gibson was intentionally walked, Parrish singled past the shortstop Julio Franco. The victory broke Detroit’s three-game losing streak. The reliever Willie Hernandez, who was tagged for a loss by the Indians on Friday night, gave up a game-tying, two-run triple to Carmen Castillo in the ninth inning. But Hernandez retired the last seven batters to raise his record to 7–5. The Detroit starter, Walt Terrell, took a 4–2 lead into the ninth. Terrell got two outs but was lifted after George Vukovich singled. Benny Ayala greeted Hernandez with a pinch-double and Castillo followed with his pinch-triple. Parrish hit a home run far over the fence in left-center in the seventh.
Randy Ready, recalled from the minors on Friday, hit a two-run homer in the 11th inning to lead Milwaukee to a 5–2 triumph over the White Sox. With one out in the 11th, Juan Agosto hit Earnie Riles with a pitch and Ready followed with his home run into the left-field seats that broke a 2–2 tie. It was the first homer of the season for Ready, who was promoted from Triple-A Vancouver. Ed Romero added an RBI single later in the 11th as the Brewers won their fifth straight game. Teddy Higuera (9–6) got the victory and Bob Gibson pitched the 11th. Agosto (3–3) took the loss.
Eddie Murray, Lee Lacy and Floyd Rayford hit home runs during a seven-run outburst in the third inning for Baltimore as the Orioles clipped the Rangers, 9–8. Rayford opened the third with a home run that made it 1–1. Rick Dempsey followed with a single and continued to second on an error by the left fielder Gary Ward. One out later, Lacy hit a home run. Cal Ripken then singled and Murray connected, marking the ninth straight that he has reached 20 home runs. Fred Lynn’s double chased Chris Welsh (2–4) and Gary Roenicke delivered an run-scoring double off Dickie Noles. Dempsey’s second hit of the inning, a single, drove in Roenicke.
Willie McGee goes 7-for-10 in the Cardinals’ doubleheader sweep of the Phillies, 5–4 and 13–4, to raise his batting average to .351. McGee will lead the National League with a .353 mark this season. The victories gave the Cardinals a tie with the Mets for first place in the National League East, each with 65-42 records. The Cardinals have won four straight games. St. Louis rapped out 19 hits in the nightcap to help the reliever Rick Horton (1–2) get the victory. Horton gave up five hits after taking over for the starter Kurt Kepshire in the second inning. Kevin Gross (11–9) lost. In the first game, Danny Cox (13–7) gave up four hits before leaving in the eighth. Jerry Koosman (6–3) was the loser.
Dwight Gooden kept blazing along yesterday, pitching the Mets to an 8–3 victory over the Chicago Cubs before 48,310 fans in Shea Stadium, winning for the 12th straight time and running his record to 18–3 in his second summer in the big leagues. When it was over, the Mets had a six-game winning streak and 27 victories in their last 34 games, the Cubs had a six-game losing streak, and Keith Hernandez likened the pennant race to a horse race. Gooden, who has not lost since May 25, showed again that he can win even when he does not annihilate. He gave up two runs in the first inning, he was nicked for nine hits, he struck out nine batters. But the Mets wrested the lead from Ray Fontenot in the third inning, blasted out five runs in the seventh and ended the day 23 games over the .500 level for their best showing since 1969.
Fernando Valenzuela pitched a four-hitter for his sixth straight win for Los Angeles, as the Dodgers edged the Reds, 2–1. Valenzuela (13–8) struck out eight and walked three. He raised his National League-leading complete game total to 13 and lowered his earned run average to 2.15. Valenzuela allowed three infield singles by Nick Esasky and a single to Buddy Bell. The Dodgers scored their two runs in the first inning off Jay Tibbs (5–12). Mariano Duncan led off with a double to right, took third on a grounder and scored on a sacrifice fly by Ken Landreaux. One out later, Pedro Guerrero walked and scored on singles by Greg Brock and Mike Marshall. The Reds got their only run in the fifth when Esasky got an infield single and Bo Diaz walked. Ron Oester reached on an error, which loaded the bases with none out, and Esasky scored on a wild pitch.
Brad Wellman’s run-scoring single with one out in the ninth inning broke a tie and lifted San Francisco to a 6–5 victory over the visiting Braves. The Giants overcame two home runs and four runs batted in by Dale Murphy, who now has 29 home runs and 82 RBIs. The winning rally began when Jeff Dedmon (5–2) walked the leadoff batter Bob Brenly on four pitches. After Dan Gladden sacrificed, Wellman lined his game-winning hit to left. Scott Garrelts (6–3) was the winner. The Giants knocked the starter Len Barker out with a five-run first after Murphy’s first homer of the game gave Atlanta a 1-0 lead.
Andre Dawson cracked two home runs leading Montreal to victory, as the Expos downed the Pirates, 7–5. Reliever Randy St. Claire worked four innings to improve to 4–2. Bert Roberge, the last of four Montreal pitchers, threw three innings for his second save. Rick Rhoden (6–13) took the loss. Trailing 4–2 in the fifth inning, the Expos scored three runs. Dawson hit his 12th home run over the center-field wall. Terry Francona singled and scored the tying run when Herm Winningham tripled to right. Winningham scored when Rhoden uncorked a wild pitch, making the count, 5–4. In the sixth inning, Scot Thompson hit a pinch-hit single and, two outs later, Dawson followed with a two-run blast to make the score, 7–4. The Pirates narrowed Montreal’s lead to 7–5 in the seventh on a double by Lee Mazzilli and a single by Joe Orsulak.
New York Yankees 7, Boston Red Sox 3
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Chicago White Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 5, Cleveland Indians 4
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Kansas City Royals 4
Cincinnati Reds 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
California Angels 9, Minnesota Twins 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 7
Chicago Cubs 3, New York Mets 8
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Philadelphia Phillies 4
St. Louis Cardinals 13, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Oakland Athletics 11, Seattle Mariners 5
Atlanta Braves 5, San Francisco Giants 6
Baltimore Orioles 9, Texas Rangers 8
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Stephanie Nesbitt, Canadian-born American synchronized swimmer (Olympics, bronze medal, 2004), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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