Britain’s intelligence agency, MI5, which deals with domestic affairs, has helped conduct background investigations on many British Broadcasting Corp. journalists and production employees and some have been put on a blacklist, a London newspaper reported. The Observer said M15 helps the BBC conduct background checks on all candidates for appointments to the BBC current affairs staff. The paper named eight people, including a reporter and a documentary film director, who it said were blacklisted under the system.
A West German Cabinet minister’s aide who disappeared early this month was a spy planted in the mid-1950’s by the East German secret service, the D.P.A. news agency reported today. The news agency, which reported last Friday that suspicion of espionage had hardened against the aide, quoted sources today as saying the aide had access to state secrets and that Bonn faces “a serious espionage scandal.” The missing aide, Sonja Luneburg, 60 years old, was the confidential secretary to Economics Minister Martin Bangemann for 12 years. She disappeared after telling neighbors she was going to Brussels for the weekend. Federal investigators have said they discovered equipment for photographing documents when they searched her Bonn apartment. The news agency report said she had probably gone to East Berlin.
A senior United States official left Jordan today without meeting with a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. Palestinians and Jordanians disagreed today about whether the failure to hold such a meeting meant that the latest efforts to make progress toward Arab-Israeli peace talks were deadlocked. The official, Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, was heading back to the United States after a six-day visit to the Middle East in which he also met with the leaders of Egypt and Israel. The Jordanian Prime Minister, Zaid al-Rifai, told reporters on Saturday that although the proposed meeting would probably not take place during Mr. Murphy’s trip, progress had been made during two rounds of talks between King Hussein and the Americans.
An Israeli general was cleared of any wrongdoing by an Army hearing in the beating deaths of two Palestinian bus hijackers by Israeli Army and security personnel near Tel Aviv in April 1984. Brigadier General Yitzhak Mordechai commanded the team of soldiers that stormed the bus and ended the hijacking. The hearing left several questions unanswered.
Iran’s President Ali Khamenei easily won reelection by overwhelming his two main rivals with more than 11 million of the 12.6 million votes cast in Friday’s election. The official Iranian news agency IRNA said Khamenei received 11,007,255 out of 12,644,383 votes cast. Attorney Mahmoud Kashani was a distant second with 1,110,307 votes, while Habibollah Asghar-Owladi, a former minister of trade, received just 277,780 votes. Khamenei, a 46-year-old clergyman, won 95% of the vote when he was first elected in 1981.
Iranian jets rocketed and set afire a Belgian oil tanker in the Persian Gulf, apparently in retaliation for an Iraqi air raid last week on Iran’s huge Kharg Island oil terminal. Lloyd’s of London, the maritime insurer, reported that the 50,000-ton Belgian tanker Naess Leopard was attacked about 25 miles east of Qatar. In retaliating against Iraqi attacks, Iran has struck at shipping benefiting gulf nations friendly to Iraq. The Belgian tanker was reported heading for the gulf port of Bahrain under its own power.
A main Afghan guerrilla group said today that two guerrilla commanders were killed in recent fighting and that an official of the country’s Communist Government was assassinated. The rebel group, Hezbi-i-Islami, said in a statement that Mohammad Yar was killed August 9 in Paktia Province near the Pakistani border during an attack on a government convoy. It said the commander and four other guerrillas perished when they were overrun by a Government force. On August 3, Mohammad Khan was killed in Helmand Province in southern Afghanistan when Soviet and Afghan Government forces tried to encircle a guerrilla unit, the statement said. The statement said that guerrillas in the southern Kandahar Province killed a Government official named Hayat Khan as he came out of his house. Mr. Khan was identified as a leading Communist Party official.
After a year and a half of self-imposed exile, a popular leader of the opposition to President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq is scheduled to return to Pakistan this week for a family funeral and an emotional but uncertain welcome. Political leaders said today that the returning exile, Benazir Bhutto, 31-year-old daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, is certain to use her stay here to try to revitalize the opposition to General Zia, who has ruled for eight years under martial law. Miss Bhutto is widely considered the heir to the once-powerful political organization of her father, who was overthrown as President by General Zia in 1977 and later executed amid a storm of international criticism. In anticipation of possible trouble, the Zia Government has placed several political allies of Miss Bhutto under house arrest and barred others from joining her when she returns with the body of her 26-year-old brother to bury him at the Bhutto estate in southeastern Pakistan.
The Indian government dissolved the Assam state legislature to prepare for new elections as part of Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s settlement with the majority of the state’s citizens, who are opposed to harboring recent waves of immigrants. Assam’s chief minister, Hiteswar Saikia, will lead a caretaker government in the oil-rich state pending elections, which will use new voter lists that exclude illegal Bangladeshi immigrants.
Vietnam Foreign Minister Nguyễn Cơ Thạch said in Bangkok, Thailand, that his talks with Indonesian officials on August 21 could be a prelude to negotiations on the withdrawal of Vietnamese troops from Cambodia. Thach, in an interview with the state-run Vietnamese News Agency, also welcomed a proposal for “proximity” talksthrough an intermediary-between the Vietnamese-installed Cambodian government and rebel groups. Foreign ministers of Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, meeting in Phnom Penh, said Friday that Vietnam would withdraw all its forces from Cambodia by 1990.
Philippine opposition moderates led by Agapito Aquino, younger brother of assassinated Benigno S. Aquino Jr., founded a new alliance that they described as a democratic alternative to President Ferdinand E. Marcos’ government and the Communist Party’s campaign of armed revolution. The group is called Bandila, meaning “flag” in a local dialect, and is composed of leading business people and professionals as well as youth and peasant representatives. It marks the latest attempt by Marcos’ foes to set up an umbrella group to unify the fragmented opposition. Aquino, brother of the slain opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr., told the alliance’s founding congress, “Our people are waiting for an alternative that is neither fascist nor pro-dictator that does not encourage a totalitarian system.” Bandila favors a socialist democracy and hopes to give Filipinos an alternative to the armed revolution sought by the resurgent Philippine Communist Party, Mr. Aquino told reporters.
France forbade interference with its nuclear test site in the South Pacific. President Francois Mitterrand ordered the French armed forces to stop “by force if necessary” any attempt to enter French territorial waters where tests are scheduled to be held. The announcement was made a month after a ship that was to have taken part in a protest in the French zone was blown up in New Zealand. A replacement vessel owned by the environmental group Greenpeace has left the Netherlands for the South Pacific.
Pope John Paul II concluded his visit to black Africa today with “a solemn appeal” on behalf of the victims of famine, renewed criticism of apartheid in South Africa and a firm call on theologians not to stray from Roman Catholic orthodoxy. The Pope’s five addresses today summed up the message he took with him through six countries across black Africa over the last 11 days. Several hundred thousand people gathered in Uhuru Park here for a mass this morning closing the 43d Eucharistic Congress. The Pope again defended the Catholic concept of marriage, “the exclusive and unbreakable union of husband and wife.”
Deposed Uganda President Milton Obote is in Zambia seeking asylum, Zambia’s acting foreign minister said. Frederick Chomba hinted that asylum will be granted but said Obote was allowed into the country “purely on humanitarian grounds” and added that Zambia does not intend to interfere in Uganda’s internal affairs.
South Africa’s black leaders were urged by Robert C. McFarlane, President Reagan’s national security adviser, to challenge the government to produce specific changes to match its vague promises before those black leaders resorted to further violence. He made his comments as questions arose in the United States and South Africa as to why expectations were so high that President P. W. Botha’s speech on Thursday would include major concessions to the country’s black majority.
Isolated incidents of unrest continued in black townships around South Africa today, and a black woman was killed when she was run over by a truck driven by a man trying to flee looting and stone-throwing youths outside Port Elizabeth. There were also reports of arson, looting and stone-throwing in six townships in the Orange Free State, Port Elizabeth, Durban and Johannesburg, resulting in a total of eight arrests. In Soweto, the vast black township outside Johannesburg, youths hijacked a bus and drove it through a liquor store window. In other unrest there, the police used tear gas to disperse an illegal gathering, arresting 30 people and slightly injuring two, and a passenger was stopped and stoned by a mob. The driver of the vehicle was robbed.
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu said tonight that he would not join an Anglican delegation that is to meet on Monday with President P. W. Botha to discuss ways to defuse black protests. “I am not going,” said Bishop Tutu, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and the first black Bishop of Johannesburg. Bishop Tutu asked last month for an urgent meeting with Mr. Botha to discuss the clashes in which at least 635 people, almost all of them blacks, have been killed in the last 10 months.
White Johannesburg and Soweto are 10 miles apart, a gulf made unbridgeable by economics and South Africa’s Group Areas Act, which determine where the races may live. The cities are separated by the law, but their economies are interlinked in the manner of master and slave, their manners and expectations divided sharply by the laws called apartheid. But there are distinctions of class and wealth in Soweto that do not detract from black hostility to apartheid, and which offer insights into the gradations of opposition.
The Union Carbide gas leak in West Virginia on August 11 has focused new attention on safety design problems present in thousands of chemical plant processing units where hazardous materials are handled, according to industry consultants. These deficiencies could allow runaway reactions which could endanger public health. While the likelihood of such effects is considered small, experts say the industry needs to improve its emergency equipment.
President Reagan spends the day at the Ranch. President Reagan began the second week of a three-week vacation at his ranch near Santa Barbara by tending to routine paperwork and sticking to the schedule of light activity prescribed for his recovery from colon surgery. Since arriving at the ranch last week, the President has shunned the horseback riding and strenuous chores that often are part of his activity there. The President has been taking twice-a-day walks around the ranch and surveyed his 688 acres by jeep.
The chairman of the House Budget Committee said the budget approved by Congress this month, which was supposed to trim the deficit by $55 billion, contained about $17 billion in phony cuts. As a result, William H. Gray III (D-Pennsylvania) predicted the House will cut an additional $15 billion in defense spending. He cited a report by the Congressional Budget Office that said spending would be reduced by about $37 billion in the next fiscal year, instead of $55 billion. He said the difference was due to about $17 billion in phony cuts, resulting from incorrect figures supplied by the Administration.
Oil and gas interests contributed heavily to the $800,000 raised by Vice President Bush’s political action committee in its first two months, according to the committee’s first report. Mr. Bush has had a long association, both personal and political, with the oil industry. The chairman of his committee, the Fund for America’s Future, is Robert Mosbacher Sr., an independent oil producer and a fund raiser for Mr. Bush.
Radar records suggest that the thunderstorm in which a Delta Air Lines L-1011 jumbo jet crashed at Dallas on August 2 could have been spotted in time to save the flight, the Dallas Times Herald reported. The National Transportation Safety Board’s chief investigator, Rudolf Kapustin, said the storm was visible on radar 14 minutes before the crash. The board is still analyzing the crash, which killed 134 persons. Wind shear — sudden change in wind direction — is believed to have been a factor.
Angry residents of Institute, West Virginia, characterizing West Virginia’s petrochemical corridor as “Cancer Valley,” denounced Union Carbide Corp. for two chemical leaks that sickened 142 persons. About 400 persons jammed the West Virginia State College auditorium to protest the leaks earlier this month from Carbide plants in Institute and South Charleston. The protesters demanded tougher community right-to-know laws and cited the catastrophic gas leak at a Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, that killed an estimated 2,000 persons.
A tanker truck began leaking toxic sulfuric trioxide near Cross Lanes, West Virginia, forcing the evacuation of more than 50 persons from 30 homes and the closing of a six-mile stretch of Interstate 64, authorities said. Sulfur trioxide is an irritant and “is pretty dangerous stuff,” said Kanawha County Sheriff’s Lt. D.E. Drennan. He said there was no threat of explosion. Workers at Du Pont’s plant at Belle, about 10 miles away, where the truck was bound, were summoned to contain and mop up the spill, which occurred two miles from Institute, West Virginia, site of a toxic chemical leak at a Union Carbide plant last week.
A handful of pickets stood at entrances to the Hormel meatpacking plant here today, and no contract talks were scheduled in the dispute, in which workers have refused to accept the wages paid at other Hormel plants. Geo. A. Hormel & Company has offered to return to the bargaining table after Tuesday, but only if Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union is prepared to change its proposals. The local’s business agent, Pete Winkels, said the company was “willing to talk only about what concerns them.” Some 1,500 members of the local struck Saturday after overwhelmingly rejecting Hormel’s final contract offer. No problems were reported at the plant as trucks cleared out the perishable inventory. Hormel plans to shut down the plant temporarily, then reopen it in several weeks using supervisors and temporary workers or permanent replacements.
A leaking railroad tank car that had forced the evacuation of 1,000 people overnight in Pendleton, Indiana, prompted a second evacuation today after it leaked more of a toxic chemical, officials said. About 400 employees of a factory in Muncie were evacuated for two hours today after a sweet smell that stung nostrils and eyes pervaded the plant, the officials said. No one was injured. The chemical, vinyl acetate, apparently expanded in the warm, humid weather and seeped out a ventilation cap, the Fire Department said. The highly flammable chemical, used in the manufacture of adhesives, paints and plastics was in a Conrail tank car on a railroad siding. A Conrail spokesman in Indianapolis, who refused to give his name, confirmed that the Muncie tank car was the same one that leaked a small amount of vinyl acetate Saturday night in Pendleton, 30 miles away. Those evacuated in Pendleton returned to their homes early today.
At least a million Central Americans are in the United States illegally and most are Salvadorans, according to the former director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. United States Government figures are slightly lower, but everyone agrees the numbers are growing rapidly. The question of why immigrants leave home, particularly Salvadorans, is one of the issues in an intensifying debate over whether they should be given political asylum in this country.
At least 49 doctors employed by the Veterans Administration have had their licenses suspended, revoked or restricted, the American Medical Association said in a preliminary report on its review of VA medical credentials. The AMA said the 49 were among 17,000 doctors whose licenses have been screened so far, but that the standings of about 77,000 others have yet to be checked. The 49 physicians will be fired if the license irregularities are confirmed, a spokesman for the VA physicians’ association said.
About 40 convicts at the New Mexico State Penitentiary took a corrections officer, Robert Greeny, hostage shortly before midnight tonight, according to a spokesman for the Corrections Department. Details were sketchy but the spokesman, Helen Gaussoin, said Acting Corrections Secretary Alan Shuman was on his way to the prison. The spokesman said that all the inmates in Dormitory A-1 were involved. “No inmate has been asked to be let out or removed from the situation in any way,” she said. In 1980, more than 30 inmates died in riots at the prison.
The arrest of a father who led in a search for his daughter and was picked to head a group on missing children, leaves a small Minnesota bewildered. According to the authorities, the man, John Albert Rairdon, said he killed his 13-year-old daughter when she resisted his sexual advances. But his wife says he is not sure now whether he did it.
The remnants of Hurricane Danny doused Virginia and North Carolina with heavy rain, causing local flooding that made some roads and bridges impassable. Eight inches of rain fell in Stuart, Virginia, near the North Carolina border, the National Weather Service said. Floods damaged a Stuart hardware store and a construction company. Up to five inches of rain fell across North Carolina. Flooding in both states washed out many roads and bridges, but no injuries were reported.
Violent storms tore through a Kansas mobile home park over the weekend, killing one man and injuring four others in central Kansas, officials said today. In Lyon County, forecasters were trying to determine whether damage at a mobile home park five miles west of Emporia was the result of a tornado or winds that gusted to 70 miles an hour. One resident, Leonard Scotto Sr., 55 years old, died in a hospital early today after winds knocked over his trailer Saturday, the authorities said. Four other residents were injured. In Morris County a tornado struck two farms Saturday night damaging buildings but causing no injuries. Tornadoes in South Carolina Saturday damaged three mobile home parks and injured 39 people, and one in Milwaukee caused damage but no injuries.
Suisei (すいせい; “Comet”), originally known as Planet-A, was launched by a M-3SII launch vehicle from Kagoshima Space Center on the M-3SII-2 mission. It was sent on an intercept course with Comet Halley, after which it would remain in a heliocentric orbit for later use as long as it was viable. It constituted a part of the Halley Armada together with Sakigake, the Soviet Vega probes, the ESA Giotto and the NASA International Cometary Explorer, to explore Halley’s Comet during its 1986 sojourn through the inner Solar System.
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Cocaine use in major league baseball has become so widespread that scores of players have been implicated in criminal investigations as purchasers and, sometimes, sellers, as well as users. Players generally have not been prosecuted, and in some cases law enforcement officials have taken unusual steps to protect the players’ identities. Players representing nearly all the 26 major league teams have been named in connection with cocaine use in criminal cases across the country, and some teams have had several players named, according to court documents and interviews with more than 100 players, baseball executives and law enforcement authorities.
Dave Collins’s suicide squeeze bunt in the eighth inning scored Mike Davis from third base and gave Oakland a 4–3 victory over the Angels in Anaheim. Davis led off the eighth with an infield hit off California’s relief ace, Donnie Moore (7–6), and went all the way to third on a sacrifice bunt by Donnie Hill. Davis broke down the line from third on a 1–2 pitch and scored as Collins bunted the ball back to Moore, whose only play was to first. Jose Rijo (2–1) held the Angels hitless in the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth innings. The victory enabled third-place Oakland to pull within five games of front-running California in the American League West. Kansas City is two and a half games behind the Angels. The A’s tied the score at 3–3 on Bruce Bochte’s two-run homer in the seventh off Al Holland, who came on after Dwayne Murphy’s single knocked out the Angels’ starter, Ron Romanick.
Billy Sample dived headlong and made one of the most memorable catches of the Yankee season yesterday. It was an elegant play, a floating one-handed grab of a line drive to left field, stopping the hitter, Marty Barrett, and three runners in their tracks. Moreover, it spared the Yankees a disastrous seventh inning, preserved for the moment a one-run lead, and enabled them to defeat the Boston Red Sox, 4–2. In the grander scheme, it helped the Yankees to their 11th victory in 12 games and kept them five games from the front-runners in the American League East, the Toronto Blue Jays. In the seventh, Don Mattingly hit a double down the right-field line, extending his hitting streak to 16 games and sending in the decisive runs. Wynegar, who had walked, scored from second, and Bobby Meacham, who had bunted safely, scored from first.
Jesse Barfield hit a bases-loaded triple and George Bell drove in four runs with a two-run homer and a pair of sacrifice flies today, powering the Toronto Blue Jays to a 10–6 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Bell hit his 22nd homer to give the Blue Jays a 2–0 lead in the first inning and added sacrifice flies in the fourth and sixth, the latter coming after Kansas City had scored three times in the top of the inning to trim Toronto’s lead to 7–6. Barfield’s triple gave the Blue Jays a 5–0 lead in the third inning and chased the Royals starter, Mark Gubicza (9–7).
Pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston delivered a tie-breaking two-run single in the seventh inning to give Britt Burns and Chicago an 8–4 win at Milwaukee. With the score 3–3, Ozzie Guillen started the Chicago seventh with a one-out single off the Brewers’ starter, Pete Vuckovich (6–9), and Scott Fletcher singled him to third. Guillen was trapped off third on Rudy Law’s grounder to first but evaded the rundown, loading the bases. Hairston batted for Bryan Little and singled to put Chicago ahead, 5–3. The Brewers made it 5–4 in the seventh when Carlos Ponce hit his first major league homer. But the White Sox scored three times in the eighth on Guillen’s suicide squeeze bunt and Law’s two-run triple.
Nelson Simmons, Chet Lemon and Marty Castillo hit bases-empty home runs and Dan Petry allowed three hits in seven and two-thirds innings for Detroit as the Tigers blanked the Indians, 4–0. Petry (13–11) walked five and struck out five before Willie Hernandez came on for his 25th save. The home runs were the only hits off the Cleveland starter, Ramon Romero (1–2), who went three and one-third innings. Simmons and Lemon hit consecutive homers in the second inning to give the Tigers a 2–0 lead. Simmons, appearing in his sixth game since being recalled from the minors, hit his seventh homer of the season and fourth in six games. Lemon followed with his seventh, a 400-foot drive to left-center. Castillo led off the third inning by slamming his second homer of the season into the upper left-field seats. The Tigers scored their fourth run in the seventh off Jamie Easterly on a walk to Tom Brookens, who stole second and came home on Lou Whitaker’s single.
The Mariners topped the Twins, 7–2. Mark Langston allowed four hits in seven innings and Spike Owen started Seattle off with a two-run single. Three of Minnesota’s hits off Langston (7–9) were singles by Kirby Puckett. The other was Tim Laudner’s seventh homer of the year in the seventh inning. Ed Nunez pitched the last two innings for Seattle, allowing an unearned run in the ninth. Seattle touched the Minnesota starter, Frank Viola (12–10), for two unearned runs in the second inning. Alvin Davis singled for the first of his three hits and moved to second as Jim Presley was safe on the shortstop Ron Washington’s error. After Dave Henderson flied out, the runners advanced on Bob Kearney’s grounder. Owen slapped a single up the middle to score both runners.
The Rangers-Orioles game in Baltimore was rained out.
Terry Francona’s two-run single off the third baseman Terry Pendleton’s glove in the 10th inning gave the Montreal Expos a 6–5 victory today over the St. Louis Cardinals and Joaquin Andujar. Francona’s hit kept Andujar (19–7) from becoming the major leagues’ first 20-game winner, and gave the victory to the reliever Gary Lucas (4–2). Despite the loss, St. Louis remained tied for first place in the National League East with the Mets, who lost, 5–0, to the Pittsburgh Pirates. The Expos are now four games out of first place in the National League East.
The Pirates, feasting on Met pitching for the second time in three games, collected nine hits today and beat the Mets, 5–0, before 14,508 fans at Three Rivers Stadium. Despite the loss, the Mets stayed even in the National League East with St. Louis, which lost for the second straight day to Montreal. “You don’t want to take anything away, but we were just flat for three games,” said Keith Hernandez, the Mets’ first baseman. Don Robinson became the latest Pirate pitcher to look like a 20-game winner against the Mets. The 28-year old right-hander had lost eight games in a row and had not won as a starter since July 1983. But he held New York to three hits in six innings before leaving with a strained right knee. Pat Clements pitched the remaining three innings, allowed two hits and earned his first save. The shutout was only the third of the season for the Pirates.
Tom Foley, Mike Schmidt and Juan Samuel homered for Philadelphia as the Phillies topped the Cubs, 9–5. Charles Hudson (6–11) had a three-hitter through eight innings, but he allowed three hits and was charged with four runs in the ninth before Kent Tekulve finally picked up his 13th save. Foley tied the game in the third with his second homer and Schmidt put the Phillies ahead by 2–1 in the fourth with his 22nd. Samuel hit his 13th homer in the fifth and the Phillies added two more runs in the sixth on singles by Foley, Greg Gross and Samuel. Philadelphia got its final four runs in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Schmidt and a throwing error by the Cubs’ shortstop, Shawon Dunston, that allowed two runs to score after Von Hayes hit a run-scoring double.
The Reds rolled over the Astros, 8–3. Pete Rose sparked a four-run sixth inning with a run-scoring single and scored the go-ahead run for Cincinnati. Rose singled home Eddie Milner to tie the score at 2–2 and scored moments later on Buddy Bell’s single off the loser, Nolan Ryan (8–11). Jay Tibbs (6–13) was the winner. Rose went 2 for 4, scoring two runs, and needs 15 hits to break Ty Cobb’s career record of 4,191. Tibbs pitched five innings, allowing five hits and two unearned runs. With Cincinnati trailing by 2–0 and Ryan working on a no-hitter in the sixth, the pinch-hitter Max Venable lined a single to left. After Venable stole second, Milner singled him home and moved to second as the first baseman Glenn Davis dropped Ryan’s attempted pickoff. Rose then singled to center and moved to second on an error by the catcher Mark Bailey, who dropped a relay throw. Dave Parker was intentionally walked and Bell singled to right, scoring Rose for a 3–2 lead. Nick Esasky drove home Parker with a single to left.
Dale Murphy took over the major-league home run lead when he cracked his 33rd to trigger a four-run sixth inning that carried Atlanta to victory at San Diego in the second game of a doubleheader, 6–3. Graig Nettles’s two-run homer in the first inning gave the Padres a 2–1 victory in the opener. Murphy’s solo homer in the fourth inning accounted for the only Braves run. The Braves pounded the Padres starter, LaMarr Hoyt (13–8), for 11 hits and six runs in the nightcap as they snapped a six-game losing streak. The game was tied 2–2 in the sixth when Murphy hit his leadoff homer. Gerald Perry’s single and Ken Oberkfell’s third home run of the season made it 5–2.
The Giants edged the Dodgers in ten, 2–1. Dan Gladden’s two-out single in the bottom fo the 10th inning gave San Francisco the victory. With two outs and nobody on in the 10th inning, the pinch-hitter Ron Roenicke walked against the reliever Tom Neidenfuer (5–4) and stole second. Gladden then lined a 2–0 pitch to left to score Roenicke. The Dodger starter, Orel Hershiser, had a three-hit shutout after the first seven innings, but Bob Brenly led off the eighth inning with his 16th home run of the season to tie the score at 1–1. The Dodgers scored an unearned run off the Giants’ starter, Mike Krukow, in the sixth inning. With one out, Mike Marshall singled. After Mike Scioscia walked, Bob Bailor hit a grounder to the second baseman Brad Wellman. Wellman threw to the shortstop Jose Uribe for the force at second base but Uribe’s throw to first for the attempted double play sailed high over Dan Driessen’s head for an error, allowing Marshall to score.
Oakland Athletics 4, California Angels 3
Philadelphia Phillies 9, Chicago Cubs 5
Cleveland Indians 0, Detroit Tigers 4
Cincinnati Reds 8, Houston Astros 3
Chicago White Sox 8, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Seattle Mariners 7, Minnesota Twins 2
Boston Red Sox 2, New York Yankees 4
New York Mets 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Atlanta Braves 1, San Diego Padres 2
Atlanta Braves 6, San Diego Padres 3
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Montreal Expos 6, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Kansas City Royals 6, Toronto Blue Jays 10
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Brooke Harman-Walker, American-born Australian actress (“Till Human Voices Wake Us”), in Orange County, California.
Kamesha Hairston, WNBA forward (Connecticut Sun), in Toledo, Ohio.
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