Mikhail S. Gorbachev, in his first interview with an American publication since becoming Soviet leader, has accused the Reagan Administration of intensifying its anti-Soviet statements despite the approach of the Geneva summit meeting. In both prepared and extemporaneous statements to journalists from Time magazine, made last Monday and made public today by the magazine and by the Soviet press agency Tass, Mr. Gorbachev expressed “disappointment and concern” over what he said were American rejections of all Soviet initiatives and over a renewed “campaign of hatred” against the Soviet Union. Mr. Gorbachev stopped well short of threatening to cancel the summit meeting, which is scheduled for November 19-20. But he said that while the Soviet side was preparing “some very serious proposals,” Washington was treating the meeting as a propaganda contest or as a “get acquainted” session.
The stepson of Andrei D. Sakharov, the Soviet physicist and human rights advocate, has begun a hunger strike to protest what he says has been Reagan Administration inaction in winning freedom for his father. Alexsey Semyonov, the son from a previous marriage of Yelena G. Bonner, Dr. Sakharov’s wife, began the hunger strike on Friday near the Soviet Embassy here. He asserted today that the “Reagan Administration is only paying lip service to human rights abuses in the Soviet Union” and that it had not tried hard enough to win Dr. Sakharov’s release.
East Germany and West Germany appeared intent on avoiding a rupture in relations over Bonn’s spy scandal. East German leader Erich Honecker, in an apparent reference to the defection of a top West German counterspy to his country, said he hopes that both states can avoid “disturbances” and keep “turbulences in check.” Honecker made the comments at the opening of the Leipzig trade fair, attended by a West German delegation headed by Hans Otto Braeutigam, Bonn’s representative in the East. Braeutigam said he viewed German relations “with great optimism.” The East German leader, Honecker, met for an hour here today with Franz Josef Strauss, the conservative Bavarian Premier. The meeting was another indication that neither East nor West Germany intended to allow a spreading espionage scandal to disrupt relations. Mr. Strauss, who flew to East Germany today by private plane, also visited the annual Leipzig trade fair. The fair is regarded as an opportunity for East and West German political and economic leaders to meet, and the tone of the meetings from year to year is considered an indication of relations between the Germanys.
Underground Solidarity members called on Poles today to boycott October parliamentary elections to protest the outlawing of the union under martial law and the violation of the 1980 accord that led to union’s formation. Pope John Paul II, from his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, also urged the Communist authorities to respect the accords that granted Poles the right to strike and form independent trade unions.
Members of a New York City police band ignored appeals by the government and Irish police and marched Saturday in a parade with I.R.A. supporters. The 22 members of New York’s Emerald Society Pipe Band joined a 1,000-strong procession at Bundoran in County Donegal, less than 10 miles from where I.R.A. guerrillas assassinated Earl Mountbatten six years ago.
The Reagan Administration will undertake a policy review in the coming weeks on whether to offer an American initiative to keep alive a Jordanian plan for Middle East peace talks, senior Administration officials say. “The ball is definitely in our court,” a high-ranking State Department official said on Friday. “We have some hard decisions to make once the President and the Secretary get back to Washington.” Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz are to return from vacation Tuesday. Several officials said there is a tentative deadline of the end of this month for deciding whether the Administration should offer ideas for breaking the current impasse. That is because King Hussein of Jordan is due to visit the United Nations General Assembly about September 27, and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir and Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel will be making separate visits to this country in the same period.
The Israeli navy has intercepted a second boat off the Lebanese coast carrying Palestinian guerrillas planning an attack on Israel, a military spokesman said. The spokesman said the guerrillas belong to a Palestine Liberation Organization faction based in Amman, Jordan. They were apprehended a week after the capture of a similar rebel vessel. Israel expressed concern to King Hussein over guerrilla command posts being set up by the PLO in Jordan.
About 1,000 Jews and Arabs marched through the narrow streets of this Arab city over the weekend to protest Rabbi Meir Kahane’s extreme anti-Arab views and discrimination against Israeli Arabs. There were hundreds of Jews in the procession, which occurred Saturday, and some chanted in Hebrew, “Kahane, Kahane, go back to America!” Others carried signs reading: “Jews and Arabs, Fight Racism,” and “We Want Peace in the Middle East.” Flanked by two leftist members of Parliament, Mayor Mahmid Hashem led the marchers past one of the city’s four mosques.
A state-controlled Egyptian newspaper reported today that units of the Libyan Army and Air Force mutinied Saturday after receiving orders to invade Tunisia, and that they tried unsuccessfully to overthrow the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. The newspaper, the semiofficial Al Ahram, said in its Monday issue that the rebellion had been crushed and that 43 senior officers had been arrested. There was no independent confirmation of the report. Experts on the Middle East said it appeared to be based on information supplied by some branch of the Egyptian Government, perhaps the intelligence service.
Iranian Oil Minister Mohammed Gharazi said his country and the Soviet Union have held recent discussions on jointly exploring huge gas reserves in the Caspian Sea, the Iranian news agency reported. After the revolution that toppled the monarchy in 1979, Iran canceled plans for a pipeline to carry Iranian natural gas to the Soviet Union because of a dispute on prices. Iranian-Soviet relations have been cool in recent years.
At least 250,000 people gathered to pay homage to Harchand Singh Longowal, the moderate Sikh leader who was assassinated August 20, presumably by Sikh militants. India’s Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in a message read at a prayer ceremony at Longowal’s namesake village, “appealed to the people to carry forward the message and work of Longowal for the progress and prosperity of Punjab.”
China officially celebrated the 20th anniversary of the incorporation of Tibet as an autonomous region under Chinese rule with a series of carefully controlled mass rallies and speeches in the Himalayan area. Foreigners were barred. In an anniversary message, the Peking authorities urged the building of “a new and socialist Tibet.” Chinese festivities have touched off protests by Tibetan refugees in India, who retain allegiance to the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
About 5,000 demonstrators marched through downtown Manila to protest against U.S. military bases and a nuclear power plant in the Philippines. The march and a rally later in front of the central post office, both peaceful, marked the U.N.-declared International Day of Trade Union Action for Peace. The marchers objected to Clark Air Base and the Subic Bay Naval Base. Bonifacio Tupaz, head of a leftist union group, denounced the nuclear plant, due to go into operation later this year, as unneeded and dangerous.
Senator Lazarus Salii defeated acting President Alfonso Oiterong in a special presidential election in the tiny Pacific republic of Palau, according to uncertified results announced today. Senator Salii will succeed Haruo I. Remeliik, who was assassinated outside his Koror home on June 30. With all but absentee ballots counted, Senator Salii had 4,040 votes, compared with Mr. Oiterong’s 3,432 votes in the election Wednesday, according to Daiziro Nakamura, special elections commissioner. The winner will be certified after absentee ballots are counted Wednesday, he said. Senator Salii negotiated on Palau’s behalf for a Compact of Free Association with the United States, which would replace Palau’s current status as part of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands.
A new rebel battleground appears to have been opened in central Nicaragua, where recently the war was something local residents only read about in newspapers. Residents in the region, Boaco and Chontales Provinces, said that Sandinista Government helicopters periodically bombard rebel positions in the hills around their villages and that squads of the United States-supported insurgents, known as contras, had killed or kidnapped local Sandinista leaders and military recruiters.
Leftist guerrillas holding Ecuador’s leading banker for a $5-million ransom released two hostages, an infant and a 6-year-old girl, as police kept the rebels trapped for a second day in a house in the slums of Guayaquil. Authorities said the guerrillas, thought to number six, are members of Ecuador’s Alfaro Vive organization and Colombia’s M-19 movement. They have held Nahim Isaias, 54, who owns Filanbanco in Ecuador and has interests in several Miami banks, since his abduction August 7. The guerrillas allowed the Red Cross to remove the body of one of the rebels, killed earlier by police gunfire.
Burkina Faso’s President, Thomas Sankara, today reappointed most members of the Cabinet he dissolved on Aug. 12. An official statement said three new members had been named to the Cabinet, which, like the one it replaced, is made up of 18 civilians and 4 military appointees.
South Africa froze repayments of principal on its foreign debt for four months. The government announcement also said it was reintroducing exchange controls to slow the flow of foreign currency out of the country. The announcement, from a nation long used to depicting itself as economically robust and among the most creditworthy in the world, deepened a sense of crisis after a year of violence in the nation’s black townships. The violence has claimed more than 650 lives and has forced the imposition of a state of emergency in some areas. The financial measures, Finance Minister Barend du Plessis said in a statement, would also discourage disinvestment from the racially divided land because investors would not be able to export the proceeds from selling their holdings there.
Black mine workers walked out over a pay dispute in South Africa. More than 60,000 miners — out of a nationwide total of 550,000 — struck seven mines. The leaders of their union, the National Union of Mine Workers, have said they fear employers will try to break the strike. The union has warned of a wider stoppage if that happens. In another development, the police said two white men had been killed and two wounded when blacks returning from a funeral on Saturday night in a black township near East London attacked the men with knives and set their car ablaze.
Hurricane Elena intensified dangerously today, unpredictably doubling back and once again bearing down on the Gulf Coast east of New Orleans with winds up to 125 miles an hour. The storm rolled up the coast of northwest Florida tonight, battering towns from Apalachicola to Fort Walton Beach with winds exceeding 74 miles an hour. As the eye passed off the coast of Panama City, high winds were reported to be causing power failures as far west as Pensacola. By changing course the hurricane, which has been weaving across the Gulf of Mexico since Thursday, menaced many of the same people who had been given an all-clear late Friday. Hundreds of thousands of people were again forced to flee inland. Late tonight, New Orleans officials warned residents of low-lying areas to move to higher ground. Officials in Louisiana also ordered evacuations in Plaquemines Parish and Grand Isle along the coast. This afternoon Governor Bob Graham of Florida ordered 300,000 people to evacuate low-lying areas and beachfront communities from Pensacola east to Apalachicola. Additional evacuations totaling more than 175,000 people were also ordered along the gulf coasts of Alabama and Mississippi as hurricane warnings were extended west from Yankeetown, Florida, past New Orleans.
President Reagan goes horseback riding and does chores around the Ranch.
House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts), in a statement for the Labor Day weekend, blamed Administration economic policies for creating a “belt of depression” through America’s heartland. “Our unemployed workers pay the cost of an Administration borrowing spree that runs government on the cuff, that pays for its deficits with chits paid abroad,” O’Neill said. He added that the Administration had “bragged” last week about reducing poverty. “What is there to brag about?” O’Neill asked. “In 1980, 13% of Americans lived in poverty. Today, the figure is 14.4%.”
Labor Secretary William E. Brock III said the Administration will press Congress to help industries reduce the trade deficit “not through protectionism, but through improving our ability to compete” by providing “a quality product at a better price.” President Reagan, who has threatened to veto any protectionist legislation, “has been trying for a long time now to get the Congress to face up to the fact that our trade problems didn’t start in Japan or Brazil or France. They started right here at home,” Brock said in an NBC interview.
A satellite repaired in space was sent spinning away from the space shuttle Discovery with a new chance at a useful life in higher orbit. The successful redeployment of the Leasat 3 communications satellite was achieved at the end of the second space walk in two days by Dr. James D. van Hoften and Dr. William F. Fisher of the shuttle crew spent several hours completing repairs on the satellite that were begun Saturday. Dr. van Hoften today gave the rewired Leasat 3 satellite a vigorous shove and sent it spinning away with a new chance at a useful life in higher orbit. “There that bad boy goes,” the astronaut said as he watched the departing 15,000-pound satellite, sunlight glinting off the solar cells that cover its exterior.
A weakening of voting rights is feared by critics of new rules developed by the Reagan Administration for the enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The proposed rules would make a challenge of local and state elections laws more difficult for black and Hispanic people and other minority groups. The League of Women Voters and civil rights groups are among the critics.
Deep cutbacks in affirmative action made by the Labor Department have quietly accomplished many of the goals the Reagan Administration plans to seek in its moves to officially relax affirmative action requirements for Federal contractors, according civil rights groups, economists and some Labor Department officials.
Action against medical malpractice and incompetence is being taken by the government, industry and medical professional organizations after decades of little progress. Many new programs are under way to help steer patients away from incompetent physicians and to rehabilitate or remove from practice doctors who ought not to be treating patients.
More than 100 federal officers provided security as a U.S. magistrate in San Juan, Puerto Rico, ordered the extradition to Connecticut of 11 Puerto Ricans charged in a $7-million Wells Fargo robbery in 1983. Another suspect reportedly was in custody in Mexico. The 11, all suspected of being members of the Machateros (machete wielders) terrorist organization, were indicted last week by a Connecticut grand jury for the armed robbery in West Hartford. As Navy helicopters picked them up in San Juan, about 1,000 persons protested, claiming that the suspects were being persecuted because of their campaign for independence for Puerto Rico, a U.S. commonwealth.
Michael Drummond, the world’s youngest artificial heart recipient, sat up in bed and watched sports programs on television at a Tucson hospital. Doctors were confident that he has not developed pneumonia, as they had feared, a hospital spokeswoman said. “He’s alert and responsive, and everybody seems quite pleased with the progress he’s making,” she added.
After complaints from Mayor George Jones, state and General Motors Corp. officials agreed to a public meeting with townspeople of Spring Hill about the $3.5-billion Saturn car plant planned for the tiny central Tennessee community. Jones, who last week expressed concern about funds to expand town services for the massive plant, has said he would oppose a zoning law change that would permit construction of the plant until a public hearing was held about the project.
Officials reopened some parts of Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park as firefighters nearly contained a 1,028-acre fire in the scenic region while workers battled to keep a blaze from a town in Washington state. Firefighters in Oregon took a needed rest as cooler weather and some rain helped extinguish what was left of several fires that had burned thousands of acres. About 500 firefighters completed a fire line around the Grand Teton fire, which had destroyed four cabins and some outbuildings.
Negotiators for the Chicago School Board and the Chicago Teachers Union broke off contract talks, and a union spokesman said a strike was certain in the nation’s third-largest school district. Elsewhere, strikes continued in seven smaller school districts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Illinois, and contract talks resumed for Philadelphia’s 19,000 teachers, whose contract expired Sunday.
Sandra Grilliette has spent the last five years of her life testing and fixing the circuit boards that go into telephones, the little Trimlines, the avocado-green Touchtones, the big black business sets. A week ago last Friday the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, citing foreign competition in the phone market, laid her off, bringing to 1,877 the number of workers at its huge consumer products plant on the southwest side of town who have lost their jobs since July 12. The company has opened a new plant in Singapore to make residential phones, and those products will no longer be made here. The Shreveport layoffs, part of 24,000 nationwide by the company, offer a grim symbol of the problems facing American labor as it celebrates this Labor Day. They also highlight the growing demands for protection against foreign imports here in northern Lousiana and in manufacturing regions throughout the country. The Shreveport layoffs are among 24,000 planned by the company nationwide.
About 2,000 gallons of sulfuric acid escaped Saturday from a collapsed tank at a West Virginia chemical plant, just a few hours after its owner announced that it was closing the operation. No injuries were reported from the leak at the FMC Corporation’s chlorine-caustic soda plant. Larry Cox, the fire chief of South Charleston, said the leak posed no threat to the public. The leak occurred about 10:40 P.M. when a fist-sized hole appeared in an 11,000-gallon tank, said Victor Carroll, the plant materials manager. The corporation, which has two other plants nearby, said earlier Saturday that it was closing the chlorine and caustic soda plant immediately, resulting in the loss of about 400 jobs. Another chemical manufacturer here, the Union Carbide Corporation, announced plans last week to eliminate 4,000 jobs and close some subsidiaries worldwide. It had been plagued by chemical leaks and was threatened with a hostile takeover.
A pastor said he was “saddened” by his congregation’s opposition to the establishment of an AIDS shelter in a former convent adjoining their church and church school on the Upper West Side. The Roman Catholic Archidiocese dropped plans for the shelter last week because of the opposition. In homilies to worshipers, the pastor, the Rev. Kenneth J. Smith of the Holy Name of Jesus Church, said he understood the concerns of opponents, but reminded them of the obligation “to look within ourselves to change our hearts.”
Dutch cyclist Joop Zoetemelk becomes the oldest road race elite world champion at 38 years, 8 months, 29 days; beats Greg Lamonde & Marino Argentin in Giavera del Montello.
Bill Elliott claims a $1 million bonus for winning 3 of the 4 crown jewel races on the NASCAR schedule: the Daytona 500, Winston 500 and Southern 500.
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Jack Perconte had five hits as Seattle crushed Baltimore, 10–2. Alvin Davis also contributed a three-run homer to Seattle’s 16-hit attack, and Domingo Ramos added a three-run triple. Matt Young went eight innings and gave up seven hits, including a bases-empty home run by Mike Young, as he raised his record to 10–14, notching only his second victory in 11 road decisions this season. Dennis Martinez (11–8) gave up eight hits during his three and one-third innings, but trailed 2–0 in the fourth after one of Perconte’s hits. After Cal Ripken Jr. made an error on a grounder by Phil Bradley, Davis hit his 13th homer off Nate Snell that made it 5–0.
Don Mattingly hit a two-run home run against Witt in the sixth inning, then combined with Don Baylor for consecutive home runs against Holland in the seventh, powering the Yankees past the California Angels, 5–3. The victory, coupled with Toronto’s loss to Chicago, left the Yankees four games behind the Blue Jays. Mattingly’s two-inning flurry gave him 25 home runs for the season, 13 in the last month, in which he has had four two-homer games. Baylor’s pinch-hit home run, which broke a 3–3 tie, was his 20th but the first since August 8.
Harold Baines hit a two-run home run and Ron Kittle added a bases-empty homer today to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4–1 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Baines’s homer was his 15th this year and sixth in 11 days. Both Baines and Kittle hit their homers off Steve Davis (1–1), who was making his first major-league start. Toronto now leads the Yankees by four games in the American League East. Carlton Fisk doubled home a run for the White Sox. Britt Burns (15–8), who has two of the Chicago victories over Toronto this season, allowed five hits in seven scoreless innings. Bob James took over at the start of the eighth.
Chet Lemon hit two home runs plus a run-scoring single, and Barbaro Garbey delivered a three-run double during a nine-run eighth inning for Detroit, as the Tigers routed the A’s, 14–3. Juan Berenguer (4–3) struck out a season-high nine batters before giving up a single to Tony Phillips and a triple to Alfredo Griffin in the eighth. Bill Scherrer relieved and gave up a pinch single before setting down the A’s. The Tigers sent 13 batters to the plate in the eighth.
Jim Rice and Tony Armas homered, highlighting a 16-hit attack to lead Boston to a 10–3 trouncing of the Twins. Mike Trujillo (4–3) scattered nine hits for his second major-league victory as a starter. Frank Viola (13–12) took the loss. Tim Teufel’s homer in the third inning to make it, 6–1. But Wayne Boggs, who went 11 for 19 in the four-game series, made it 7–1 with a run-scoring triple in the fourth. Bill Buckner, 9 for 18 in the series, singled home Boggs. After Rice grounded into a double play, Armas, 8 for 16 in the series, hit his 19th homer for a 9–1 lead.
The Indians rolled over the Brewers, 11–4. Joe Carter had three hits, including a home run, stole three bases and scored three times for Cleveland. Julio Franco, Brook Jacoby and Brett Butler also contributed three hits apiece to make a winner of the reliever Dave Von Ohlen (3–1), who gave up one hit in four and one-third innings. The Indians scored in the first inning on a two-out single by Franco and a double by Jacoby, and added five runs in the second. Mike Hargrove and Carter led off with singles and Hargrove scored from third on a squeeze bunt by Otis Nixon. Butler walked and stole second and Carter scored on the delayed double steal. Tony Bernazard walked and Franco hit a two-run double, and Jacoby’s run-scoring single capped the rally, chasing Ray Burris (9–10). Two unearned runs increased Cleveland’s lead to 8–0 in the third. Carter homered in the fifth. Hargrove delivered a two-run single in the sixth that made it, 11–4. Milwaukee had closed the gap to 8–4 with a four-run third.
Oddibe McDowell tripled and singled and scored twice as Texas completed a three-game sweep of Kansas City, dropping the Royals, 5–3. The Royals remain two and one-half games behind first-place California in the American League West. Mike Mason (6–12) pitched seven innings, giving up two runs on eight hits. Duane Henry pitched the last two innings for his first save. Danny Jackson (12–9) gave up all five Texas runs and took the loss.
The visiting New York Mets edge San Francisco, 4–3 with Keith Hernandez’s 2-run homer off Mark Davis, a left-handed strikeout pitcher, climaxing a 3-run 9th inning. “I took a big roll of the dice,” Hernandez said later, reliving the scenario line by dramatic line. “I took the big chance. Safety first was gone. “I’m looking curveball all the way. He’s already thrown me two fastballs, and I’ll never get three in a row. So, I’m thinking curveball. If he throws me the heater, I’m in deep trouble. I’m hiding in the high weeds, waiting for the curveball. And I get it.” In the 5th, Mets’ starter Ed Lynch lines to right field and is thrown out 9–3 by right fielder Joel Youngblood. It’s the National League’s 2nd 9–3 putout in 2 months.
Willie McGee had three hits, including a bases-empty home run, and John Tudor pitched his seventh shutout today to pace the St. Louis Cardinals to a 5–0 victory over the Houston Astros. The Cardinals snapped a three-game losing streak and halted a four-game winning streak of the Astros. Tudor lowered his earned run average to 2.03, second-best in the league. The victory for Tudor broke a string of three consecutive no-decision starts. His last victory was on August 12. Tudor gave up seven hits, did not walk a batter and struck out five.
The Reds edged the Pirates, 3–2. Pete Rose had two hits, including a run-scoring single in the eighth that highlighted a three-run inning. Rose now needs six hits to break Ty Cobb’s career record, Rose, who now has 4,186 hits, grounded a single up the middle in the sixth inning off Rick Rhoden and bounced a single over the head of the third baseman Jim Morrison in the eighth. Trailing by 2–1, the Reds began their winning rally when Bo Diaz hit a home run off Rhoden to open the eighth. Max Venable, pinch-hitting for Tom Runnells, then singled to left and Mario Soto sacrificed. Rod Scurry (0–1) relieved Rhoden and gave up a single to Tony Perez, batting for Eddie Milner, that sent Venable to third. Rose then hit a one-hopper over Morrison’s head to score Venable, making it 2–2, and to send Gary Redus, pinch-running for Perez, to third. Dave Parker then singled to right to score Redus for a 3–2 lead.
Davey Lopes hit a home run and two singles, and Keith Moreland had three hits and drove in four runs for Chicago., as the Cubs demolished the Braves, 15–2. The Cubs, enjoying their biggest scoring total since the 1980 season, were aided by three Atlanta errors and 11 walks as the Braves suffered their second loss after winning five consecutive games. The Cubs also had 15 hits. Derek Botelho (1–2) pitched a six-hit complete game for his first National League victory, and Len Barker (2–7) took the loss.
The Padres topped the Expos, 5–1. Andy Hawkins and Lance McCullers combined on a three-hitter, and Garry Templeton singled in two runs for San Diego. Hawkins (17–4) gave up three hits in 5 ⅓ innings, walking two batters. McCullers replaced him with two runners on, got Andre Dawson to ground into a double play and pitched hitless relief for his fifth save. The Padres scored in the fifth on a singles by Steve Garvey and Greg Nettles and Terry Kennedy’s walk, loading the bases. Carmelo Martinez’s sacrifice fly scored Garvey.
Juan Samuel had three hits, scored twice and drove in a run and John Russell homered as the Phillies swept the series, beating the Dodgers, 4–1. Samuel hit a triple, double and single, and Russell hit his sixth homer.
Seattle Mariners 10, Baltimore Orioles 2
Atlanta Braves 2, Chicago Cubs 15
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Cincinnati Reds 3
Oakland Athletics 3, Detroit Tigers 14
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Cleveland Indians 11, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Boston Red Sox 10, Minnesota Twins 3
California Angels 3, New York Yankees 5
Montreal Expos 1, San Diego Padres 5
New York Mets 4, San Francisco Giants 3
Houston Astros 0, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Kansas City Royals 3, Texas Rangers 5
Chicago White Sox 4, Toronto Blue Jays 1
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Eli-Mac [Camile Velasco], Filipino-American pop singer (“American Idol”), in Makati, Philippines.
Leodis McKelvin, NFL cornerback and kick and punt returner (Buffalo Bills, Philadelphia Eagles), in Waycross, Georgia.
Vince Redd, NFL linebacker (New England Patriots), in Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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James Pitman, 84, British educator and spelling reformer (“Alphabets and Reading: The Initial Teaching Alphabet”).
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