The head of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency said here today that the United States would continue its underground nuclear testing program regardless of objections from most of the other countries that signed the 1968 treaty to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Some 90 of the 130 nations that have signed the treaty or agreed to abide by it are meeting here to review compliance. The American arms control chief, Kenneth L. Adelman, in affirming that the United States would go on testing, said in a news conference: “A comprehensive test ban will not reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world by one. Nor will it, in the near term, make the world any safer.”
A major spy scandal in Bonn widened with disclosures that a West German internal security officer had been questioned about a long friendship with an East German agent and that an East German diplomat had defected to West Germany. The West German prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said that the internal security officer, Reinhard Liebetanz, 48 years old, was detained today and questioned about a 10-year friendship with an East German agent. Mr. Liebetanz, who was later released, is a specialist on far-right groups for the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, as the West German internal security agency is known. The agency, whose functions are similar to those of Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States, has its headquarters in Cologne.
Otto Lambsdorff, who until last year was Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Economics Minister, went on trial here today with two other defendants in a political payoff scandal. Mr. Lambsdorff, a senior figure in the small Free Democratic Party and still a member of Parliament, is accused of accepting $50,000 between 1977 and 1980 from the giant Flick corporation in return for granting lucrative tax waivers. He was the first West German Cabinet minister to be indicted while in office.
A Soviet nuclear waste dump is leaking radiation that has killed at least one worker, Swedish radio reported. A Soviet engineer who recently defected to Sweden was quoted as saying that spent fuel from nuclear submarines is handled and stored carelessly at a site near the Estonian capital, Tallinn. He said waste is brought to the site in an ordinary minibus and that at least one driver has died of radiation exposure during the last decade. “Nobody in the West can imagine the carelessness with which they handle radioactive waste,” the engineer said.
[Ed: Very soon, the whole world will see how careless the Soviets are with nuclear material.]
A bomb rigged to a bicycle exploded on a Dublin-Belfast train shortly after the train reached Belfast’s central station, wounding seven police officers and two other people, police said. The outlawed Irish National Liberation Army, an extremist offshoot of the Irish Republican Army, telephoned newsmen to say it had planted “bombs on a train heading towards Newry from the south.” The train was stopped at that border town, and a search turned up a hoax device. A second call said the real bomb was concealed on a bicycle. The train was evacuated on arrival in Belfast, but the bomb went off as officers boarded to search for the device.
A former White House counsel, Lloyd N. Cutler, will represent the antinuclear and environmental group Greenpeace in its legal battle with the French Government over the sinking of the ship Rainbow Warrior, Greenpeace announced today. The group said Mr. Cutler, counsel to President Carter from 1979 to 1981, would help Greenpeace seek compensation for the bombing last month in New Zealand that sank the ship and killed one crew member, Fernando Pereira, a photographer. “We are a peaceful, nonviolent organization,” David McTaggart, the Greenpeace chairman, said at a news conference, “but that does not mean we will stand by and let ourselves be hit.” Greenpeace said Mr. Cutler, a partner in the Washington law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, had offered his services without charge.
Israel said today that it was holding an American and an Australian who it said were captured last Saturday on a yacht with six Palestinian guerrillas. Officials said the Palestinians had been planning an attack on Israel. Israeli officials said the American and the Australian, whose names have not been made public, were co-owners of the yacht, which the Israeli Navy intercepted late Saturday night while it was sailing between Cyprus and the Lebanese port of Sidon. The Israeli Navy towed the boat into Haifa after apprehending its crew. Israeli officials said the yacht, the “Kasilradi,” was carrying six Palestinian guerrillas who were members of Al Fatah, the guerrilla organization heaaded by Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Iran says it has signed an agreement with an unnamed foreign contractor that will allow it to resume construction of a nuclear power station at Bushehr. Iran’s official news agency said the pact is for the construction of a desalination plant to provide fresh water for cooling the two reactors at Bushehr. Work on the plant, a target of Iraq in its war with Iran, has been halted since Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution.
A key Pakistani opposition leader is under house arrest. The military government barred the leader, Benazir Bhutto, from political activities for 90 days. She said she had returned from more than 18 months of self-imposed exile to lead her father’s once-powerful political party. Miss Bhutto, 31 years old, is the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was ousted as Prime Minister in a 1977 military coup led by Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, the current President. Mr. Bhutto was convicted of conspiring to kill a political opponent and was executed two years later. Miss Bhutto has been proclaimed by her supporters as her father’s heir as leader of the Pakistan People’s Party.
The police in Madras, India said today that they had arrested 2,500 people who were organizing a mass demonstration against the deportation of three campaigners for a separate Tamil homeland in Sri Lanka. The deportation order was lifted against Chandrahasan Chelvanayagam, a Tamil lawyer who had been considered an obstruction to the Bhutan peace talks.
Vietnamese and U.S. delegates concluded two days of talks in Hanoi on ways to determine the fate of more than 2,400 Americans still listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia. Richard Childress, head of the U.S. delegation, called the talks “very productive and substantive.” He said additional meetings will be held later this year. Possible measures are believed to include joint investigation of sites where U.S. planes crashed.
Chinese officials reported that paint chips, rust and grime have been found in tanks containing jet fuel supplied to aircraft at Peking Airport. The disclosure comes in the wake of an incident last month in which a Pan American World Airways Airbus was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan after taking on the contaminated fuel. Chinese officials said that underground storage tanks, pipelines and tankers have since been cleaned and filters replaced.
Danish Foreign Minister Uffe Elleman-Jensen said New Zealand is planning to modify its policy of banning warships carrying nuclear weapons from its ports, which has caused a rift in the ANZUS alliance — Australia, New Zealand and the United States. After meeting in Wellington with Prime Minister David Lange, Elleman-Jensen said the policy will be changed “so that normal visiting activities of allied ships should be possible again.” However, a spokesman for Lange’s government said that Elleman-Jensen was briefed only on steps being taken to solve the impasse.
Deep in the lush Aguan valley, United States Army combat engineers have been carving a dirt road 16 miles long through the green brush and across the shallow streams of this remote region in north-central Honduras. Under a hot sun burning through the clouds one day recently, an engineer on a bulldozer scooped gravel from a creek bottom while another graded the side of the dusty road. An Indian peasant watched impassively from his saddle on a lean pony, as did several cows lying in the middle of the road. A tanker truck siphoned water from a creek to sprinkle on the road so the sand and gravel would settle. Nearby, a squad of soldiers smoothed the concrete on a spill shield that would protect a culvert from being washed away.
No one here is quite sure what autonomy for Nicaragua’s Atlantic coast region would mean, but everyone is for it. “Autonomy Is Religion and Culture,” says a sign posted at the local Sandinista office. “Autonomy Is Choosing Our Own Leaders,” says another. A few years ago, advocating autonomy for the coast region was enough to land several Indian activists in jail on suspicion of being separatists. But in a turnaround, the governing Sandinista Front has now come to embrace the idea fervently.
The State Department said today that Nicaragua appeared to have released an American couple arrested this month on suspicion of anti-Government activities. A department spokesman, Charles Redman, told reporters that a Nicaraguan seaman, who had helped repair the couple’s boat in the port of Bluefields, told the United States Embassy in Managua that the couple sailed for Panama on Saturday.
The new Bolivian Government floated the peso today, effectively devaluing it by 95 percent, and raised gasoline prices by 1,000 percent. A decree also froze salaries until December and decentralized state companies in an effort to control an annual inflation rate of 14,000 percent and reactivate production. The decree is expected to be opposed by the Bolivian Worker’s Central Union.
Argentine President Raul Alfonsin apparently won a political victory today as a nationwide strike, called by labor unions to protest his economic austerity program, failed to win wide support. The strike won only partial backing in the industrial sector, which has been hardest hit by recent layoffs. Reports from around the country characterized the strike’s support as “limited” in most of the country’s 22 provinces.
The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development said today that the majority of the famine victims in Ethiopia are now receiving at least some food, and he characterized the situation in that country as “greatly improved” since a Western relief effort was started 10 months ago. “The skeleton-like people, the kids with bloated bellies, you hardly see that now,” said the A.I.D. official, M. Peter McPherson. “There are still people dying, of course, but the contrast is dramatic.”
Nigeria’s new military leaders lifted a dusk-to-dawn curfew, reopened airports and restored telecommunications links, freed 25 political prisoners and set up a committee to screen others for release. The capital, Lagos, remained peaceful in the wake of Tuesday’s coup that ousted Major General Mohammed Buhari. The new leader, Major General Ibrahim Babangida, named a 28-member Armed Forces Ruling Council.
South African police battled children as violence around Cape Town, in its second day, spread farther in black townships and mixed-race suburbs. The police fired shotguns, rubber pellets and tear gas from armored trucks while the schoolchildren hurled stones. The tally of slayings across the land rose from 5 to 19, all of them black.
The Reagan Administration said today that “a sharp deterioration” in the situation in South Africa had caused an erosion of confidence in that country’s financial stability, and that moves toward easing some apartheid restrictions had “stalled.” In a briefing for reporters called to deal with some seeming contradictions in the Administration’s policy toward South Africa, a senior State Department official said the efforts by the South African President, P. W. Botha, to defuse the tensions and violence had only worsened the situation. The official cited the failure of a Botha speech on August 15 to win the support of the country’s black leadership. Urging Mr. Botha to make a clear-cut commitment to end apartheid, the official said, “What is clearly needed is talking and negotiating and constructive signals to build a better climate, not jailing and beating and bombing and burning.”
The outlook for Pretoria’s economy is bleak, economists say, because of the mounting violence and an increasing flight of capital. Four organizations representing the great majority of commerce and industry in this nation said today that confidence and credibility in the economy could be restored only if major steps were taken to end political instability. They said those steps include accommodating blacks in the political system. Warning the Government against entering “a state of siege” in response to political pressures, the organizations, both black and white, said political stability coupled with reasonable after-tax returns was of major concern to both foreign and domestic investors. “The critical problems facing South Africa in these areas cannot be resolved by retreating into economic isolationism and a controlled economy,” the organizations said in their response to the suspension of trading on foreign exchange and stock markets in South Africa.
President Reagan urged no raises for the more than two million Federal civilian employees next year. He said an increase to bring the salaries of civilian workers to a level comparable with those of non-Government employees would have an “adverse effect” on the “continuing national economic recovery.” Given Congress’s decision to freeze overall spending next year for federal pay at this year’s level, officials said it appeared all but certain that there would no annual pay increase for federal civilian employees for the first time since World War II.
President Reagan goes horseback riding and does chores around the Ranch.
A federal judge was indicted on charges of accepting oil-well royalties as a bribe and lying about his influence in a drug case to a Federal grand jury. The defendant, District Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr., chief judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, is the third sitting Federal judge in the nation’s history to be indicted for activities related to judicial duties. The grand jury accused Judge Walter L. Nixon Jr., chief judge for the Southern District of Mississippi, of accepting the royalties in exchange for “official acts” on behalf of a businessman whose son was later arrested on drug smuggling charges. He pleaded not guilty and was released without bail. He immediately took a paid leave of absence.
The NASA space shuttle Atlantis moves to the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center for the upcoming STS-51-J mission.
Efforts to reopen immediately the Three Mile Island nuclear plant were thwarted when a federal court in Philadelphia said that its earlier order blocking a restart is still in effect. The continuation of the order temporarily halting the reopening was issued by Judge Collins Seitz of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. The court gave Governor Dick Thornburgh, a scientists’ organization and a citizens’ group until September 11 to file petitions for a rehearing of a three-judge panel’s decision Tuesday, which affirmed a Nuclear Regulatory Commission order allowing restart. The Middletown, Pennsylvania, plant’s Unit 1 reactor would have been operating by today had the stay not been extended, a TMI spokesman said.
Preliminary government statistics show relatively high acid levels in an unexpectedly large number of Florida lakes, the Environmental Protection Agency said. Statistics for the Northeast showed that fewer lakes were affected by high acid levels than had been indicated in earlier, non-government reports, the agency said. EPA officials stressed that the limited findings do not show what caused the high acid levels, whether those levels — recorded in one-time measurements — are consistent and how likely other lakes are to develop similar problems.
The National Rifle Association contributed $1.6 million to the campaigns of current members of Congress, the bulk of it going to lawmakers who support relaxed gun control laws, Common Cause said. Common Cause, a liberal citizens’ lobby group, said that the $1.6 million included direct contributions to candidates and expenditures on their behalf in the 1984 House elections and in the most recent campaigns of current senators. Common Cause said that, of the $854,600 that went to senators, 97%, or $831,024, was contributed or spent on behalf of the 69 senators who voted against an amendment that would have maintained a prohibition on interstate sales of handguns. The amendment was defeated, 69 to 26.
The federal government said it would not close a substandard 800-bed shelter for the homeless in Washington as scheduled Saturday because new space has not been found for its residents. A federal judge last week gave the government permission to close the filthy, crumbling facility if other housing were found. Health officials say that enough beds exist in the city but that they have not had time to identify and prepare the sites.
Michael Walker, a Navy yeoman charged with spying for the Soviet Union, has been moved to a Federal prison where he is working as an orderly in the dispensary while awaiting trial, prison officials said today. The 22-year-old yeoman was moved to the prison in Petersburg, Virginia, from a county jail in Maryland.
A woman who runs a halfway house for unwed mothers has been charged, along with her daughter, with being part of a baby-smuggling ring that preyed on the unmarried women, selling their infants for at least $5,000, the authorities have announced. The suspects, Juanita Leyva-Vargas, 52 years old, and her daughter, Melinda Leyva-Vargas, 25, were arrested Wednesday after they delivered a 5-day-old Mexican infant to a couple from Kalama, Washington, at Lindbergh Field airport, said Clifton Rogers, deputy district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Phil and Linda Phillips, of Kalama, earlier adopted a girl through the ring and offered to help immigration agents after officials told them their daughter was an illegal alien, the authorities said. “You can’t imagine the feeling when you have a baby 3 or 4 months old and know that they can take that baby and you have no recourse,” Mr. Phillips said.
A multistate agreement to coordinate efforts to find missing children was announced by governors and law enforcement officials from six Midwest states. “This agreement… will create a coordinated line of communication that will help us find children who should be at home,” Illinois Governor James R. Thompson said.
Surgeons placed an artificial heart in a 25-year-old man to sustain his life until they can find and transplant a human heart. The surgery, at the University of Arizona Hospital, was the first Government-authorized use of an artificial heart as a bridge to a human heart transplant. The recipient, Michael Drummond, an assistant grocery store manager, was reported doing “fine.”
Heterosexuals’ anxiety about AIDS is sweeping New York City. In the city, which has 33 percent of the reported AIDS cases in the country, institutions from hospitals to public schools are struggling to come to terms with a disease that no one had even heard of five years ago. Nearly every day now, her patients, many of them single professional women, barrage Nargess Ahgharian, a Manhattan gynecologist, with fearful questions about AIDS. “The only concern now is AIDS,” Dr. Ahgharian said the other day. “They want to know: ‘How can I get it? How do I protect myself against it?’ It’s the new scare.” The questions reflect a wave of anxiety among heterosexuals that is changing some people’s social lives and causing problems for a variety of institutions. Fear of AIDS, or acquired immune deficiency syndrome, has become a kind of disease in itself. In some cases the fear is interfering with the care that is needed by those who are suffering from the syndrome, which is fatal, and in many cases it is causing serious repercussions for their friends and relatives.
AIDS is still confined largely to homosexuals and intravenous drug users, and there are no signs of any spreading to people outside those two main risk groups, according to New York City health officials.
A judge in Maine Superior Court yesterday dismissed most of a consumer-protection case filed by the state against Sears, Roebuck & Company, rejecting arguments that the retailer engaged in misleading sales tactics and sold service contracts on items that were already covered by warranties. In Augusta, in a 77-page ruling after a two-month trial without a jury, Justice Donald G. Alexander agreed with the plaintiffs only that some salesmen might be misleading customers, telling them that some major appliances and other products were not as dependable as they actually were and that a service contract might be advisable. The decision did not order a halt to telephone soliciting on service contracts but gave Sears 45 days to submit a plan to change its sales tactics. The Chicago-based chain has 800 stores in the United States but the ruling applies only to its eight in Maine.
The son of a grocer in the Watts area of Los Angeles who received national attention for resisting a wave of gang terrorism was convicted today of voluntary manslaughter in the shooting that touched off the attacks. The grocer’s son, James Hawkins Jr., had been charged with second-degree murder in the death of Attwon Thomas, 19 years old. Mr. Hawkins, 40, had testified that the youth was accidentally killed in a struggle in front of the family’s grocery store. The youth’s death on September 11, 1983, started two nights of gang retaliation against the Hawkins home and store.
The Defense Department and the Air Force retreated today in their dispute with a Congressman over his use of a military plane for a fact-finding trip to Brazil. Officials still insisted, however, that they had originally reserved a plane for Representative Bill Alexander, Democrat of Arkansas, on the basis that he would be leading four other Congressmen on the trip, which began August 14. The Pentagon backpedaling involved when the Air Force learned that Mr. Alexander would be the only Congressman going to Brazil for a study of alcohol fuel production.
The home port of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Nimitz, with a battle support group of up to 15 warships, will be moved from Norfolk, Virginia, to Everett, Washington, by 1991, Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. announced today. Instruction of the port site in the city of 55,000 people 25 miles north of Seattle is expected to begin next year, contingent on Congressional approval and appropriations, Mr. Lehman said.
Researchers reported in the British journal Nature that they have taken a major stride toward identifying the genetic defect that causes the most common form of deadly muscular dystrophy. The work by a team at Children’s Hospital in Boston may help lead to development of a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, other experts said.
A hurricane swept toward the Gulf Coast as more than 125,000 people from Florida to Louisiana fled coastal homes. Forecasters warned that the hurricane would strike land today with winds of up to 100 miles an hour.
Robbie Bosco opened the college football season and his campaign for the Heisman Trophy tonight in a fashion that should convince anyone that he is a worthy candidate. The Brigham Young quarterback, who led his undefeated team to the final No. 1 ranking in the nation last season, had the best performance of his career as he threw for 508 yards and three touchdowns in a 28–14 victory over Boston College in the third annual Kickoff Classic. This was Brigham Young’s 25th consecutive victory spanning three seasons since the Cougars lost the 1983 opener to Baylor. The streak is currently the longest in major college football.
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Larry Sheets drove in four runs, and Mike Young had two runs batted in for the Orioles, who crushed the visiting Mariners, 7–0. Mike Boddicker (12–13) pitched the distance, limiting the Mariners to six hits. Sheets, 1 for 13 in his three previous games, had a two-run single in the fifth and a two-run double in the seventh, each with the bases loaded. Young’s 22d homer, his 12th in 23 games, snapped a scoreless tie in the fourth inning, and the Orioles scored three times in the fifth to chase Billy Swift (4–8). Boddicker struck out a season-high nine.
Phil Niekro, the 46-year-old marvel, reassumed a role last night that he had taken up a year ago: the Yankee stopper. He did it in a 4–0 victory over the California Angels at the Stadium that stopped a minislide of two straight losses by the Yankees and moved them four games back of first-place Toronto in the American League East. Over seven innings, Niekro permitted just four hits, and until the eighth, when he threw the first two pitches out of the strike zone, he was promising to become the oldest pitcher to toss a shutout. But he needed help. So in came Dave Righetti, getting the last six outs to preserve Niekro’s 297th victory in his 21st season. In the first inning, Don Baylor was hit by a pitch (from Kirk McCaskill) for the 190th time, breaking the American League record of 189 set by Minnie Minoso.
At Cleveland, the Red Sox pound the Indians, 17–2, scoring 11 runs off reliever Rich Thompson. Tony Armas has a triple and 5 RBIs and Rich Gedman chips in with a home run and 4 RBIs. Bruce Hurst (9–10) held Cleveland hitless from the second inning until Andre Thornton’s leadoff single in the ninth. He gave up only six hits and struck out 11.
Reid Nichols hit a single to drive home Ozzie Guillen with one out in the 10th inning and give the White Sox a 6–5 victory over Texas. Guillen opened the inning with a double and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt by Luis Salazar. Nichols’s hit made a winner of the reliever Dan Spilner (4–3). Dave Schmidt (5–4) was the loser.
Lance Parrish singled with the bases loaded to drive in Lou Whitaker with the winning run in the 12th inning as the Tigers edged the A’s, 3–2. Steve Mura (1–1), the third Oakland pitcher, walked Whitaker on a full count to lead off the 12th. Alan Trammell failed to get down two bunt attempts, then poked a 3–2 pitch into short right for a single, sending Whitaker to third. Kirk Gibson was given an intentional walk to load the bases for Parrish, who lined a shot to left over the A’s drawn-in infield. Bill Scherrer (3–1), the fifth Detroit pitcher, worked the final inning to earn the victory. The starter, Dan Petry, scattered four hits over the seven innings he worked. He struck out seven and walked three. The Tigers tied the score, 2–2, in the bottom of the sixth when Parrish hit a bases-empty homer.
The Braves downed the Cubs, 9–6. Bruce Benedict drove in four runs, three on a tiebreaking single in the sixth, as Atlanta presented its new manager, Bobby Wine, with his fourth straight victory since taking over the club. Steve Trout, making his second start since coming off the disabled list, worked the first five innings for the Cubs and was reached for a run in the first on a single by Bob Horner. Chicago tied the score in the fifth on the first of two homers by Leon Durham, who drove in five runs. But Dale Murphy opened the sixth with a single off Lary Sorensen (3–6), who relieved Trout. One out later Terry Harper walked. Both runners advanced on an infield out before a pinch-hitter, Claudell Washington, was walked intentionally. Benedict then singled, scoring all three runners. The Braves broke open the game with a five-run eighth. Durham’s three-run homer, his second of the game, made the score 9–5. Rick Mahler (17–12) was the winner, going five and two-thirds innings.
The Reds blanked the Pirates, 6–0. Buddy Bell singled, doubled and homered in three times at bat, driving in five runs to help Cincinnati beat Pittsburgh, which lost its 18th straight on the road. Pete Rose scored twice and had a single, leaving him eight hits shy of breaking Ty Cobb’s all-time hit record of 4,191. Tom Browning scattered seven hits, struck out four and walked just one to improve to 14–9, the most victories by a rookie this season.
Andre Dawson’s three-run double capped a seven-run seventh inning as Montreal rallied from a 5–0 deficit to defeat the Padres, 8–5. Dawson led off the inning with a single which ticked off the glove of the shortstop Mario Ramirez and he moved to second on a groundout. Tim Wallach singled, Andres Galarraga walked to load the bases and Mitch Webster singled in the first run. Mike Fitzgerald drove Dravecky from the mound with a two-run single, bringing on the reliever Gene Walter (0–2). Walter struck out U. L. Washington, but Tim Raines knocked Walter out of the game with a run-scoring double and the pinch-hitter, Terry Francona, walked to load the bases off Lance McCullers. Dawson then rifled an 0–2 fastball over the head of center fielder Kevin McReynolds to give Montreal a 7–5 lead.
Enos Cabell came to Los Angeles this season with a reputation as a clutch hitter and a winner. But he also came with another label attached Caution: Glove made of stone. Last night, Philadelphia found a piece of the rock. Garry Maddox scored from third base on a two-out error by the Dodger third baseman to break a 2–2 tie in the 10th inning and lift the Phillies past Los Angeles, 3–2. “We were lucky on Cabell’s error,” said Philadelphia manager John Felske. “If it wasn’t for the error, we might still be out there playing.” Despite the loss, Los Angeles remained seven games ahead of San Diego, which lost to Montreal, in the National League West.
Mark the name: Chili Davis, 25-year-old switch-hitting outfielder for the San Francisco Giants. He brutalizes Met pitching, and he absolutely owns Jesse Orosco. He even hits Dwight Gooden. And he struck again today. In the sixth inning, Davis hit a two-out single for the Giants’ first run and cut the Mets’ lead to 2–1. In the eighth, with the score tied, he singled for another run and put the Giants in front. And, in the 10th, after the Mets had rallied to tie the game, he threw the haymaker: a three-run home run that buried the Mets, 6–3. It also dropped them three games behind the St. Louis Cardinals in the National League’s East.
The Reds trade veteran of Cesar Cedeno to the Cardinals for minor leaguer Mark Jackson. Cedeno will help St. Louis to the National League East title by batting .434 in 28 games.
The Rangers trade veteran slugger Cliff Johnson to Toronto for 3 minor leaguers. Johnson had left the Blue Jays after last season to sign with Texas as a free agent.
Seattle Mariners 0, Baltimore Orioles 7
Texas Rangers 5, Chicago White Sox 6
Atlanta Braves 9, Chicago Cubs 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Cincinnati Reds 6
Boston Red Sox 17, Cleveland Indians 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Detroit Tigers 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
California Angels 0, New York Yankees 4
Montreal Expos 8, San Diego Padres 5
New York Mets 3, San Francisco Giants 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1335.13 (+4.04)
Born:
Marc Rzepczynski, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Cardinals, 2011; Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, Okaland A’s, Washington Nationals, Seattle Mariners), in Oak Lawn, Illinois.
Colin Brown, NFL tackle and guard (Buffalo Bills), in Braymer, Missouri.
T.J. Conley, NFL punter (New York Jets), in Tacoma, Washington.
Achilles Liarmakopoulos, Greek classical trombonist (Canadian Brass, 2011-present), and educator, in Athens, Greece.
Jeffrey Licon, American actor (“The Brothers García”), in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Evelyn Ankers, 67, American actress (“Black Beauty”, “Jungle Woman”).
Patrick Barr, 77, English actor (“Black Orchid”, “On the Run”).
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