President Reagan discussed the planned meeting with the Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, with a Washington radio news director and said he hoped to eliminate “hostilities” and “suspicions” between the two nations. In presenting that goal for the meeting, Mr. Reagan also played down the likelihood of signing major agreements. Similar expectations have been advanced by top White House officials who have discussed the Administration’s preparations for the meeting, which will be held in Geneva on November 19-20. Mr. Reagan’s remarks came in a telephone interview with Dick Doty, executive vice president and news director of Washington Broadcast News. The interview will be broadcast beginning on Monday, and the White House is to make a transcript available then.
West German intelligence operations appear to be near a major shake-up after the announced defection to East Germany of a senior counterintelligence officer, well-placed Government officials said. The defection of Hans Joachim Tiedge, who had been in charge of West Germany’s operations against East German agents, is being appraised by intelligence experts as a serious blow to West German anti-espionage capacities. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann rushed back from a Mediterranean holiday after East Germany announced the defection. He held urgent meetings in Bonn to coordinate efforts to rescue possibly endangered West German agents in Eastern Europe and to assess the overall damage.
Two bombs exploded in separate streets in downtown Milan, Italy, slightly injuring five people, including a policeman. A police spokesman said investigators were working on the assumption that the bombs had been planted by anti-Semitic vandals. One exploded at the entrance to a building housing Israel’s El Al airlines. The second was placed near a Jewish social club that was recently defaced by anti-Semitic slogans. No one claimed responsibility for the blasts.
Men hiding in an Ulster churchyard shot at a passing car and killed a passenger in what may have been the second mistaken-identity slaying in 24 hours. Kieran Murray, 28, died when his car came under fire outside Pomeroy, in County Tyrone where he lived, a Belfast police spokesman said. The driver was not hit. Murray was not a member of the security forces, but his car was reported to be similar to vehicles used by local police. Earlier, the outlawed Irish Republican Army admitted that it killed a retired storekeeper, Daniel Mallon, having mistaken him for Harry Hamilton, a Protestant building contractor, who it said did construction jobs for police.
Greece’s Socialist government has decided to end the state of war with neighboring Albania in effect since World War II, government sources said. Sources said the means for ending the state of war are under discussion, but government spokesman Kostas Laliotis said the decision to end it had been “irrevocably taken.” Albania was under Italian hegemony during the war and had fought on the side of Nazi Germany. Greece and Albania have had diplomatic relations since 1971.
The head of the major opposition party, Constantine Mitsotakis, resigned today after party squabbling over the date of a party congress. Mr. Mitsotakis, leader of the New Democracy Party, said in a statement, “It was obvious that the disagreement over the date for holding the party’s congress conceals doubts over the party’s leadership.” Mr. Mitsotakis, who had been head of the party since last year, said he would be a candidate when the party’s parliamentary group meets Thursday to select a new leader. He had demanded that the convention be held in October, but other leaders favored a spring date. Mr. Mitsotakis’s leadership had been in doubt since his party failed to oust the Panhellenic Socialist Movement, led by Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, in general elections in June. New Democracy won 125 seats, against 161 for the Socialists.
Palestinian gunmen killed one Israeli and wounded another in separate attacks in marketplaces in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Andre Aloush, 40, of Netanya, was shot to death inside a jewelry store in the town of Tulkarm as he shopped with his family. Uri Oved, of Tiberias, was shot three times in the chest near the bus terminal in the town of Janin and was later reported in serious condition. Assailants in both attacks escaped, and the Israeli military imposed curfews on both towns.
Officials in Jordan and Egypt say they believe that efforts to revive Arab-Israeli peace talks are at a critical juncture, headed for either a significant breakthrough or a deadlock. Jordanian officials, speaking in interviews, sought to put the best possible face on the recent trip to the Middle East by Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. His tour, which included Jordan, Israel and Egypt, ended Sunday in Amman. Jordan’s Prime Minister, Zaid al-Rifai, said the day before that “progress” had been made in talks here.
India deported two Sri Lankan guerrilla leaders, sparking protests from their Tamil supporters in the south Indian city of Madras, where they had offices. Indian news reports and Madras sources said Anton Balasingham was put on a flight to Britain, and Chandrahasan Chelvanayagam to New York. The expulsions came amid efforts by Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi to revive peace talks between Sri Lanka’s government and Tamil separatists. Reports differed on why they were expelled. Some said they declined to cooperate in the peace talks, others said they violated immigration laws.
Pressed by the Vietnamese to take a more active role in defending their country against attacks from three guerrilla armies, Cambodians are building “strategic fences,” planting mines and training “suicide commandos” for service on the Thai border, according to officials here. Civilians, apparently in substantial numbers, are being drafted into border labor groups to supplement the country’s 30,000-man army, officials acknowledge. The three guerrilla forces are thought to total more than double that number — the war against them has been waged mostly by about 160,000 Vietnamese troops. A Cambodian Communist Party official told reporters this week that it was now the “duty” of citizens of Phnom Penh, a city of 500,000, to go to the border to aid in the clearing of land and the construction of trenches, bamboo fences and other defensive barriers.
A Cambodian official said today that if a drought now scorching the paddy fields of several provinces did not end within the next month, the country could face a million-ton rice shortage. The official, Nhim Vanda, Deputy Minister of State Planning, spoke at a news conference outlining the country’s first five-year plan, which will be introduced at the Cambodian Communist Party’s fifth congress at a still secret date in the near future. Agricultural improvement will be at the heart of the plan, he said. In the increasingly integrated economies of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, this country appears to have been designated the producer of food and raw materials like rubber and timber.
South Korean jets intercepted an intruding Chinese military plane and were escorting it to an airport when it ran out of fuel and crashed near the city of Iri, about 110 miles south of Seoul, South Korean officials said. The navigator and a farmer in a rice paddy where the plane crashed were killed. The pilot was seriously injured. The third crewman, a radioman, was not hurt. It was not immediately known if the crew of the plane, a Soviet-designed Ilyushin IL-28, were attempting to defect.
China has issued unusually sharp criticism of Japan, saying through its official press agency that Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s official visit last week to a shrine for Japanese war dead “pandered” to those who wanted to expunge Japan’s war guilt. The statement, published Thursday by the New China News Agency, came a week after Mr. Nakasone and most members of his Cabinet made the first official visit by Japanese Government leaders to the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo. The visit coincided with the 40th anniversary of Japan’s surrender in World War II, a war in which China has put its dead at more than 20 million. The visit had been criticized in much milder terms by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman on the day before it occurred. There was speculation here that the Peking authorities had held off for a week with the stronger criticism so as not to obtrude on the grief in Japan last week over the crash of a Japan Air Lines airliner. But the delay appeared to have done little to blunt Chinese feelings.
A typhoon struck China’s southeast coast, collapsing houses, ruining crops and disrupting communications. Officials said Typhoon Nelson with winds up to 100 mph brought nearly 10 inches of rain to some parts of Fujian province opposite Taiwan, where the storm earlier caused at least four deaths.
A two-front war against the Sandinista Government is the objective of a major effort to organize and arm a new Nicaraguan anti-Government rebel unit on the Costa Rican border that will be allied with the Niaraguan Democratic Force operating out of Honduras, members of the new unit and senior rebel officials say. A major effort is under way to organize and arm a new Nicaraguan anti-Government rebel unit on the Costa Rican border that will be directly allied with the powerful Nicaraguan Democratic Force operating out of Honduras, according to members of the new unit and senior rebel officials. The new guerrilla force, which is estimated to have from 300 to 400 fighters, is part of the recently formed United Nicaraguan Opposition, known as UNO. The rebel unit is being organized in a renewed effort to open a two-front war against the Sandinista Government, according to a senior United Nicaraguan Opposition official.
In the dense jungle only a few hundred yards from the Panama Canal, American paratroopers in full battle gear pulled themselves through green slime hand-over-hand on a rope, with only their helmets and rifles sticking out of the water. Close by, more paratroopers rigged waterproof rafts of ponchos and pup tents, then eased them into the murky backwater. One soldier towed a raft with a string in his teeth, while another pushed from behind. Still other paratroopers in the humid jungle lashed field packs onto an 11-man rubber boat and, after chasing off a couple of nosy alligators, launched the boat into a brackish pond and paddled away in a stealthy crossing.
A rapid rise in the number of cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in Brazil has produced what health authorities here are calling “a collective neurosis” over the danger of a major epidemic of the disease. To date, 415 cases of AIDS, including 201 fatalities, have been reported in Brazil. It is the highest national total in South America. More ominously, half of the cases have been identified this year, and medical experts say they expect the total to double by year’s end.
Uganda’s military Government and the main rebel group, the National Resistance Army, said today that they would begin peace talks Monday in Nairobi. Both sides also said they agreed to a formal cease-fire. An informal cease-fire had existed since Uganda’s coup on July 27, but the uneasy peace was broken Friday when the rebels drove toward Kampala, Uganda’s capital. It was the second time the two sides have agreed to meet since a military coup toppled the civilian government of Milton Obote. Talks had been scheduled for August 13 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but Yoweri Museveni, leader of the guerrillas, did not show up while Lieutenant General Tito Okello, Uganda’s new leader, did.
The South African authorities said today that 27 leading opposition figures had been seized in the last 24 hours in the newest crackdown on dissent. They also said that “stern action” would be taken against protesters planning a march on Wednesday to demand the release of the jailed nationalist Nelson Mandela. Armed policemen and troops clashed with crowds throwing rocks and gasoline bombs as violence continued in 20 black townships, five weeks after an emergency decree was issued for 36 magisterial districts around Johannesburg and the Eastern Cape. According to a report by The Associated Press, Zulus with clubs and spears attacked dozens of blacks near Durban, wounding an undetermined number, after illegal funerals for blacks killed in riots. The new fighting came as the leader of the Zulus, Chief Gatsha Buthelezi, repeated his contention that violence by blacks against blacks was a major obstacle to the ending of apartheid.
The specter of black township unrest and political uncertainty hangs over Johannesburg’s white suburbs as spring stirs. The talk is of change, of “co-responsibility” with blacks, but no visible change is evident.In Johannesburg’s wealthy white suburbs, the omens say that spring is stirring — an intimation of the coming hot days and rain and a time, this year, of nervous talk for whites haunted by violence in black townships and political uncertainty. The old ways of the whites in South Africa, Government ministers keep saying, are going. Yet they are far from gone, and wealth and poverty in a racially divided land will provide their own separations for decades. There is talk, among some who have the passports and the money, of emigration, of seeking new lives in Australia or Canada or the United States. Those without that option ponder in moods that range from harsh racial defiance to puzzlement where their Government will lead them.
Prices farmers get for beef cattle have fallen sharply this year, but little of the saving has been passed on to shoppers, according to Government statistics. The gap between the farm price and the retail price has reached a record amount, bringing protests from some cattlemen and prompting Gov. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska to order an investigation by his Attorney General.
President Reagan goes horseback riding at the Ranch in California.
Many police reports are invalid or inaccurate, Federal Bureau of Investigaion audits have found. The bureau estimates that at least 12,000 faulty reports are transmitted daily to Federal, state and local law-enforcement agencies on suspects wanted for arrest. In addition, reports sent daily about stolen vehicles and license plates are often faulty.
Space shuttle Discovery’s launching from Cape Canaveral was postponed until Sunday morning after storm clouds charged with lightning swept across the Kennedy Space Center at launching time (T minus 5 minutes) today. Storm clouds charged with lightning forced a one-day postponement of the launching of the space shuttle Discovery today. The five astronauts were set to try again Sunday morning to get their mission under way. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration rescheduled the liftoff for 7:57 AM, but Air Force meteorologists cautioned that showers could pose a problem then. With good weather, the Discovery crew hopes to embark on an eight-day orbital journey to deploy three communications satellites and, in a space walk late in the mission, try to repair a dormant satellite. The flight will be the 20th in the shuttle project since 1981.
The Justice Department sued Darlington County, South Carolina, charging racism in its system of electing county council members at large. The suit asked the U.S. District Court to order the county to devise a new election plan that would be subject to federal approval. It alleges that the at-large system, begun in 1978, is maintained to make it difficult for blacks to win office. State Rep. Warren Arthur, a Democrat, in 1984 requested a federal investigation. He said no black can be elected although the county population is 40% black.
The Tennessee Valley Authority completed its shutdown of Sequoyah Nuclear Plant and will be getting all its power from coal-fired and hydroelectric plants for $400,000 a day for an indefinite period, the federal power agency said. The twin-reactor plant outside Chattanooga, Tennessee, was closed because a consulting firm hired by TVA found that the utility lacked records to prove that all 1,800 safety systems at the plant would function properly during an accident.
Workers quickly doused a fire started by oil leaking onto hot pipes at the St. Lucie nuclear plant at Fort Pierce, Florida, and there was no damage to the plant or risk to the public, Florida Power & Light Co. spokesmen said. Two workers were slightly injured. The incident occurred as a reactor was being returned to service after shutdown for repairs. The source of the oil leak has not been determined. The company recently was fined $100,000 after two valves at another nuclear plant were left open, allowing reactor coolant to drain to a dangerously low level.
A 13-year-old boy barred from school because he has acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS, will start classes Monday through a telephone hookup to his home, a school spokesman says. The boy, Ryan White, a hemophiliac who contracted the disease through a blood transfusion, has been out of Western Middle School in Russiaville since December. Ryan would have started the seventh grade Monday, but officials refused to let him enroll because they fear other pupils would catch AIDS from him. The disease can apparently be spread by sexual contact, contaminated needles and blood transfusions, but there is no evidence it is spread by casual contact. Julia Donahue, the school spokesman, said the school suggested the telephone hookup and would cover its costs, which she would not disclose.
The prosecution and defense have had little disagreement over the evidence presented in the first 12 days of the espionage trial here of Richard W. Miller, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Much of the evidence presented so far by the prosecutors was introduced in the trial of Mr. Miller’s co-defendants, Svetlana Ogorodnikov, 35, and Nikolay Ogorodnikov, 52. Included was a secretly recorded telephone conversation between Mrs. Ogorodnikov and a Soviet vice consul regarding a trip for her and an “acquaintaince” to Eastern Europe. The government contends that the acquaintance was Mr. Miller.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson today called on the Democratic Party to break down barriers against minority groups rather than continuing “its present course of resisting and being dragged along kicking and screaming into the future.” Mr. Jackson, an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination last year, urged Democrats to eliminate at-large and runoff elections and other rules that he said “enhance the power of the front-runner,” and favor “big shots over the long shots and the slingshots.” He made his criticisms at a public hearing in New Orleans, one of a series of four regional hearings being held this month to seek the views of Democrats around the country on rules for picking the 1988 Presidential candidate.
Negotiators for 300 unionized mine workers at Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, and Bethlehem Mines have agreed to a tentative contract in a five-week strike that has idled two other companies mining anthracite, or hard coal, officials said. The agreement will be presented to members of the United Mine Workers today with a vote planned for Tuesday, said Local 4004 President John Chinchar. The development does not affect 350 workers striking at Blaschak Coal Co. of Mahanoy City or the Reading Anthracite Co. of Pottsville. Neither side would divulge contents of the agreement.
A nun who signed an October 7 advertisement in the New York Times that asserted that Catholics may hold diverse views on abortion says her superiors in Rome have lifted the threat to remove her from a religious order. Sister Mary Byles, who teaches at Maryville College in Creve Coeur, Missouri, said in today’s editions of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that she received a letter in April from the Vatican. She refused to provide a copy of the letter. Byles said she believed that she had been cleared largely because of successful negotiations by her superiors in her order, the Religious of the Sacred Heart.
Twenty-four nuns who contend that Roman Catholics can have differing views on abortion are coming under increasing pressure from the Vatican to retract a public statement they made on the issue and pledge adherence to traditional church teachings. The church’s teaching on “the radical immorality of direct abortion is clear, constant and unequivocal,” Jean Jerome Cardinal Hamer, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious and Secular Institutes, said Friday at the end of a three-week visit to the United States. Cardinal Hamer said the nuns had caused a scandal that could only be remedied by “indicating adherence to the teaching of the church.” Failure to do so, he said, would result in disciplinary hearings. The ultimate penalty would be dismissal from their religious orders.
Residents of two Wyoming cities have overwhelmingly approved letting their city governments go shopping for natural gas supplies to circumvent the prices of local gas pipeline companies. In this city of 53,000 people, 81 percent of 6,789 voters Tuesday approved a proposal to let the city look for new gas supplies. In Laramie, whose population is 25,000, 93 percent of 2,572 voters favored the proposal the same day. The elections were held after several years of dissatisfaction with the local pipeline companies, both of them subsidiaries of KN Energy Inc. Their prices, largely tied to long-term contracts, have seemed high to residents of this gas-producing state. The Wyoming Legislature in February enacted a law allowing cities to shop for new gas supplies and force existing pipelines to carry these new supplies, if voters approved. The local pipeline companies say the courts may have the final say on the new state law. Casper officials have before them three bids from other companies. Laramie officials have not yet sought bids.
Doctors at the University of California at San Francisco say a 51-year-old man has become the first person in the world to live with organs transplanted from two separate donors. The man, Louis Bonesio of Gilroy, California, who underwent a heart transplant operation 11 years ago at the Stanford University Medical Center, received a new kidney at U.C.S.F. three weeks ago, doctors said Friday. Mr. Bonesio, the father of two teen-agers, has made “a dramatic recovery” from the kidney operation, said the surgeon, Dr. Nicholas Feduska. He said the case “demonstrates that patients with life-threatening diseases affecting multiple organ systems can benefit from multiple organ transplants.”
Strong thunderstorms packing hail, damaging wind and torrential rain developed from the Great Lakes to the southern Plains and into the Ohio and Tennessee valleys. Wind damaged house roofs near Waxahachie, Texas, and toppled trees and power lines in Ellis County, Texas. The National Weather Service said a tornado touched down near Manchester, Iowa, but no damage was reported. Hail the size of marbles pelted parts of northern Alabama and Iowa.
The president of the University of the District of Columbia resigned from his $74,900-a-year position amid allegations that he spent thousands of dollars of the school’s money for his personal use. Among the allegations against Robert Green is that he used almost $25,000 for catering, furniture and consulting jobs for friends from Michigan State University. He also allegedly spent nearly $2,500 for personal items in luxury department stores.
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Terry Pendleton and Ozzie Smith each drove in two runs and Vince Coleman had three hits, a run batted in and two stolen bases as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Atlanta Braves, 7–0, tonight in a game called because of rain in the sixth inning. The Cardinals had to wait out a pair of delays — one for 14 minutes and another for 2 hours 4 minutes — before gaining their fourth victory in a row and retaining a one-game lead over the New York Mets in the National League East. Bob Forsch (6–5), who gave up three hits in four innings, got the victory. He was lifted after the lengthy rain delay and Bill Campbell retired the Braves in order in the fifth before rain halted play for good with one out and one runner aboard in the St. Louis sixth.
The Mets beat the San Diego Padres at Shea Stadium, 5–1, a payback for the evening before when the Padres had swept two games from the Mets, pushing them out of first place. Ray Knight, after going without a hit in 19 previous times at bat, had four hits and drove in three runs. George Foster had three hits. Ron Darling pitched into the eighth inning, gaining his 12th victory to go with 5 defeats. When he faltered, loading the bases with none out in the eighth, in came Jesse Orosco. The relief pitcher got a pop out and a double play to get the Mets out of the inning with a 3–1 lead intact.
Tim Wallach cracked a three-run homer and Bryn Smith cruised to his 15th victory of the year, helping the Montreal Expos snap a five-game losing streak with a 5–2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Smith (15–4) worked eight innings, allowing four hits, walking two and striking out seven. Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth for his 32nd save of the season, a club record. Mike Marshall had 31 in 1973. The Expos were leading 2–1 in the bottom of the fifth when Andre Dawson hit a one-out double off Rick Honeycutt (7–11). Hubie Brooks walked and Wallach banged the ball over the left-field wall for his 12th homer of the season. Wallach had not had a run batted in since August 12. The Dodgers narrowed the lead to 5–2 in the sixth on singles by Mariano Duncan and Enos Cabell and a double play groundout by Ken Landreaux.
Steve Trout looked strong in his return from the disabled list, combining with George Frazier and Lee Smith on a seven-hitter, and Steve Lake singled in two runs to lead Chicago over Cincinnati, 4–0. Trout, on the disabled list for the last month with elbow problems, pitched the first four innings and gave up three hits, striking out one batter and walking one. Frazier (7–5) yielded three hits over the next three innings and Smith worked two innings for his 28th save. Pete Rose, the Reds’ player-manager who needs 12 hits to break Ty Cobb’s career hit record of 4,191, did not play. Mario Soto (10–15), who has yet to win a game in August, was the loser despite giving up no earned runs and just four hits over seven innings, striking out six and walking none in defeat.
Glenn Wilson banged out three hits, scored twice and drove in three runs to lead Philadelphia over San Francisco by a score of 9–2. Charles Hudson raised his record to 7–11, scattering 11 hits, striking out two and walking three. Juan Samuel doubled in the first and Von Hayes walked. Both moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Wilson’s two-out single. The Phillies made it 3–0 in the fourth when Wilson singled, moved up on a balk and scored when the right-fielder David Green dropped Rick Schu’s line drive for an error. Philadelphia scored three more runs in the sixth. Hayes singled, advanced on an infield out and scored on Wilson’s single. After a walk to Schu, Tom Foley doubled in both runners for a 6–0 lead.
The game between the Houston Astros and the Pittsburgh Pirates at Three Rivers was postponed due to rain. It will be made up in a doubleheader tomorrow.
Three outs away from a no-hitter against the White Sox, Toronto’s Dave Stieb surrenders consecutive home runs to Rudy Law and Bryan Little and is driven from the game. Stieb, a 28-year-old right-hander who has the lowest earned run average in the American League, didn’t allow anything close to a hit until Rudy Law hit the first pitch in the ninth over the right-field fence. His replacement, Gary Lavelle, gives up a 3rd-straight home run, to Harold Baines, before Tom Henke comes in to save the 6–3 win.
Suddenly, the Yankees’ bats have turned uncharacteristically quiet. Tonight, they mustered just two hits but still came away with a 4–3 victory over the Seattle Mariners, primarily because they were able to make the most of seven walks. Six of the free passes were handed out by Mark Langston, the Seattle starter, who didn’t get past the fourth inning. His relief help came from Roy Thomas, who retired 15 of the 16 batters he faced. The Yankees did not get a hit over the final five innings. Don Baylor ties an American League record when he is hit by a pitch thrown by Mariner southpaw Langston in the first inning. The New York DH gets plunked for the 189th time in his career, tying him with Minnie Minoso, who established the mark in 1963 while with the White Sox.
Detroit hit four home runs, including two by Lance Parrish, as the Tigers crushed the Angels, 13–2. After Lou Whitaker of Detroit opened the game with the first of four home runs off Kirk McCaskill, Parrish hit a two-run homer later in the inning and a bases-empty shot in the third to give him four home runs in his last three games and a season total of 22. Rod Carew hit a two-run homer in the Angels’ first but Parrish’s second homer made it 4–2 and Chet Lemon hit a three-run shot in the sixth to make it, 7–2. The four homers off McCaskill tied the Angels’ club record for most home runs yielded by a pitcher in one game.
John Shelby’s tiebreaking two-out, two-run single in the top of the 11th inning enabled Baltimore to defeat Oakland, 4–3, for its ninth victory in 11 games. Larry Sheets started the inning with a single off the reliever Keith Atherton (4–6). Walks to Jim Dwyer and Lee Lacy between fly outs loaded the bases before Shelby hit a ground single into right field, just past the outstretched glove of the first baseman Dusty Baker. Don Aase (8–5) pitched two innings of shutout relief and Sammy Stewart pitched the 11th for his eighth save. He allowed a run on Dwayne Murphy’s triple and Steve Henderson’s single. Cal Ripken doubled to lead off the Baltimore fourth and scored on the first of Mike Young’s two run-scoring singles to give the Orioles a 1–0 lead. Baltimore made it, 2–0, in the fifth when Eddie Murray walked, went to third on Ripken’s single and scored on Young’s second single.
The Twins blanked the Red Sox, 1–0. Dave Engle scored on Bruce Hurst’s wild pitch in the fifth inning and Mike Smithson pitched a six-hitter for Minnesota. Smithson (12–11) walked only two batters in going the distance for the fourth time this season, sending the Red Sox to their eighth loss in their last nine games and 14th in their last 17. The right-hander struck out five in pitching his third shutout of the year. Hurst (8–10) allowed five hits. In the fifth, Engle led off with a single to center, reached second on Tim Laudner’s sacrifice and advanced to third on Gary Gaetti’s infield out. The count was 2–1 on Tim Teufel when Hurst threw a wild pitch to send Engle home without a play at the plate.
The Royals downed the Rangers, 8–2. George Brett drove in four runs with a single, double and home run and Bret Saberhagen won his sixth straight for Kansas City. Saberhagen, who gave up eight hits and struck out seven before departing after six innings, raised his season mark to 16–5, tying New York’s Ron Guidry for the most victories in the American League. The triumph moved Kansas City to within one and a half games of first-place California, which lost to Detroit.
The doubleheader between the Milwaukee Brewers and the host Cleveland Indians was rained out. The game will be made up in a doubleheader on Monday, August 26.
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Atlanta Braves 0
Minnesota Twins 1, Boston Red Sox 0
Detroit Tigers 13, California Angels 2
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 4, Cincinnati Reds 0
Texas Rangers 2, Kansas City Royals 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Montreal Expos 5
San Diego Padres 1, New York Mets 5
Baltimore Orioles 4, Oakland Athletics 3
San Francisco Giants 2, Philadelphia Phillies 9
New York Yankees 4, Seattle Mariners 3
Born:
Joe Reitz, NFL tackle and guard (Indianapolis Colts), in Fishers, Indiana.
Christian Garcia, MLB pitcher (Washington Nationals), in Miami, Florida.
Anthony Ortega, Venezuelan MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Angels), in Ocumare del Tuy, Venezuela.
Died:
Paul Creston [Giuseppe Guttoveggio], 78, Italian-American composer (Zanoni), educator, and music theorist (Creative Harmony).
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