The “Sinai II” agreement was initialed by Egypt’s President Sadat, the day after it had been initialed by Israel’s Prime Minister Rabin. Israel and Egypt formally initialed a new agreement providing for Israel’s withdrawal from some occupied territory in Sinai in return for modest Egyptian political concessions and major pledges of support from the United States. The accord represented a foreign policy achievement for the Ford Administration, which had put intense efforts into seeking this interim agreement. However, as the language of the agreement itself says, it is not a peace accord but one step along the way to a possible diplomatic settlement in the Middle East. In separate ceremonies in Jerusalem and a few hours later in this Egyptian port city, both Israeli and Egyptian leaders hailed the latest measures as a hopeful sign for the future. Secretary of State Kissinger, whose diplomacy helped bring about the accord, took part in both ceremonies, flying here from Jerusalem.
After the 19‐member Israeli Cabinet approved the agreement with one abstention after seven hours of debate, it was initialed first in Jerusalem by Avraham Kidron, director general of the Foreign Ministry, and General Mordechai Gur, the Chief of Staff. In Alexandria, the Egyptian Chief of Staff, General Mohammed Aly Fahmy, and Ahmed Osman, Egyptian representative at the European headquarters of the United Nations in Geneva, initialed the same part of the agreement. Virtually all the major details of the package had been made known in recent weeks through information divulged by the Israelis. Among the critical elements were the following:
— The Israelis, yielding to the main Egyptian demands of last March, have agreed to withdraw their forces from the lengths of the mountain passes of Mitla and Gidi and to return the Abu Rudeis oilfields to Egyptian administration. Israel will share a road to the area of the oilfields with the Egyptians.
— The Egyptians also agreed publicly to permit nonmilitary cargoes to or from Israel to pass through the Suez Canal, something agreed to privately, in 1974 but never carried out.
— The Egyptians and Israelis pledge that the conflict in the Middle East should be resolved not by military force but by peaceful means and that they will not resort to the threat or use of force or miltary blockade against each other. The Egyptians had not previously agreed to admit publicly that they were giving up the right to naval blockade against Israel in the Red Sea although they had already done so without publicity.
— A joint commission will be established to coordinate the carrying out of the accord and to work with the United Nations in dealing with problems arising in connection with its provisions.
— Whereas in 1974 details of the military aspects of the first disengagement accord were not published — although made known by the Israelis — this time the particulars were published. They include limits on military strength in the zones adjacent to the United Nations buffer zone that is to be set up; each side is limited to 8,000 men, 75 tanks, eight infantry battalions, and 72 artillery pieces, including heavy mortars of caliber larger than 120 millimeters. Weapons that can reach the other side’s lines are banned and there are restrictions on antiaircraft missiles.
Clearly pleased at the completion of the new interim agreement between Israel and Egypt, President Ford hailed it as “one of the most historic” peace ventures of the century. In telephone calls from Camp David to Premier Yitzhak Rabin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt, Mr. Ford pledged to do all that he could to assure the success of the latest accord and to continue building momentum toward a permanent peace in the Middle East. The administration immediately began a campaign to persuade senior members of Congress that the agreement could not have been arranged without an early warning system in Sinai as a central element and without a symbolic United States role to demonstrate a commitment to both Egypt and Israel that the warning system would be operated impartially. Mr. Ford, at Camp David, the Maryland retreat from which he placed the telephone calls, said that the 200 Americans scheduled to operate “tactical early warning” stations in a buffer zone were “a vital ingredient in assuring both Egypt and Israel the agreement will be upheld.” He acknowledged that “some criticism” of the direct United States role was likely from Congress, but he discounted the risk that any Americans would become involved in hostilities and warned that refusal to endorse the use of the civilian monitors would “have a very serious impact” on the search for a broader Middle East peace.
Secretary of State Kissinger, in a long message to the United Nations, responded to demands from developing countries for radically new ways to bridge the chasm between rich and poor nations, and outlined the broadest set of specific proposals on cooperation with developing nations that the United States has made so far. The address was delivered by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the chief United States representative at the United Nations, who was one of the first speakers at the opening session of the Seventh Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
West Germany and Japan joined the United States in resisting pressure from the international community to stimulate their economies faster in order to lead the world out of recession. In another development on the opening day of the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank in Washington, Robert McNamara, the bank’s president, disclosed that it would direct more of its lending in the future toward solving the problem of urban poverty in the less developed countries. It began an attack on rural poverty two years ago. Results so far have been uncertain.
General Jose Amtonio Morais da Silva, head of Portugal’s air force, announced his opposition to the designation of the former pro-Communist Premier, Vasco Gonçalves, as Chief of Staff of the armed forces. General Silva said that he would not accept a dictatorship by a minority party. Portugal’s air force chief, General Morais da Silva, joined the army commander in denouncing the appointment of Communist-backed former Premier Vasco Gonçalves as the country’s new armed forces commander in chief. “A revolution made by 80% of the Portuguese people cannot be transformed into a dictatorship of 20% over the remaining 80%,” he said. Meanwhile, thousands of Portuguese troops demonstrated outside the presidential palace in Lisbon to protest orders sending them to the war-torn territory of Angola.
Italian police said they found the body of Cristina Mazzotti, 18, a kidnaping victim for whose release her parents had paid $1.6 million in ransom. They said the girl had died from an excessive dose of tranquilizers the day she was to be freed. Her body was found in a dumping plot in the countryside near Como. She was one of 40 kidnaping victims so far this year and the third to be found dead.
The Franco government of Spain has lifted a ban preventing long-time pretender to the throne, Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, from setting foot in Spain, according to a Madrid newspaper. Franco had officially named Don Juan’s son, Juan Carlos, to succeed him as chief of state and Spain’s next king. Don Juan has now apparently accepted his son’s succession and is to be allowed back in Spain.
A death threat against French President Valery Giscard d’Estaing climaxed a general strike by the people of Corsica that paralyzed the island in protest against the police and the French government. A letter, sent to a Paris radio station supposedly by the outlawed autonomist movement, Action for the Rebirth of Corsica, threatened the president’s life if arrested ARC leader Edmond Simeoni was sentenced to death. Autonomist leaders, however, called the letter a fake.
Five Protestant civilians are killed and 7 were wounded in a Provisional Irish Republican Army gun attack on Tullyvallen Orange Hall near Newtownhamilton, County Armagh. In Belfast’s southwest suburb of Dunmurry, a man who answered a call at the door of his home was shot to death as he opened it. The killings followed the discovery of four bodies with gunshot wounds in and around Belfast, bringing to 13 the number killed in Northern Ireland violence in the past 72 hours.
The crash of an East German Interflug Airlines TU-134 jetliner killed 26 of 34 people on board, most of them West German businessmen who were on their way to Leipzig for a trade show.
The Concorde became the first airplane to cross the Atlantic Ocean four times in a single day. The supersonic aircraft flew the 2,375 miles from London to Gander, Newfoundland in 2 hours, 19 minutes, refueled and received maintenance, and flew back. The double crossing was completed 13 hours and 59 minutes after it began.
To most Israeli officials tonight, Egypt’s agreement to sign a conciliatory document with Israel appeared at least as important as the terms of the agreement. “It was the best we could get under the circumstances,” a ranking official said, and in similar words this assessment recurred. “You have to take it in its proper proportions,” Golda Meir told a radio reporter, “not with fanfare, but also not with a feeling of mourning.” As she has often done in her long career, the former Premier appeared to be giving voice to the consensus of Israel in her assessment of the interim agreement between Israel and Egypt that was initialed tonight.
President Muammar el-Qaddafi, marking the sixth anniversary of his Islamic-Socialist revolution, condemned the Israeli-Egyptian peace pact tonight and vowed “unlimited support” to the Palestinians. In a fiery two‐hour oration, he declared: “The Palestinian revolution will continue despite any agreement that might come. The Libyan Arab Republic will give its unlimited support to restore usurped land to Palestinians. The conflict is historical. It never was settled by an agreement, and it never will be.” Libya and Egypt have been at odds since the last Middle East war in 1973, and Colonel Qaddafi has been a severe critic of the current negotiations. He also said today that he would “wipe out” dissenters at home. “Enemies of the revolution must be destroyed,” he said. Two weeks ago, Libya announced that persons convicted of opposing “popular unity” would be executed.
Australia is believed to have moved closer to an understanding with Portugal on steps to restore order in Portuguese Timor, following talks here today between Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and Dr. Antonio de Almeida Santos, Portugal’s special envoy. Fierce fighting erupted in Portuguese Timor in mid-August after the Timor Democratic Union, one of the two major political groups, attempted to seize power. The Revolutionary Front for an Independent East Timor, the second major party, has since taken control of large pockets of territory. Dr. Almeida Santos arrived here after visiting Jakarta for talks with the Indonesian Government. The Indonesians proposed that they send in a military force to halt the fightbig pending organization of a multinational supervisory body. Pressure appeared to be growing in Jakarta for unilateral action by Indonesia with publication of a report that 10,000 refugees had gathered at the border separating Portuguese Timor from the Indonesian part of the island, which lies 400 miles off the northwest coast of Australia.
The Republic of the North Solomons was declared on Bougainville Island, two weeks before Papua New Guinea was to become independent from Australia. District Commissioner Alexis Sarei was named as President. After failing to get recognition from any other nation, the North Solomons would agree to return to Papuan control on August 7, 1976, with some autonomy for Bougainville.
Mexico, which announced a huge oil discovery last year, has found new deposits in southern states, President Luis Echeverria told the Mexican Congress. An intensified exploration program “has led to the discovery of important deposits in totally new or little known zones, such as those of Toaxtla, in the state of Veracruz, and Chac, in the state of Campeche,” he said. Campeche is to the east of the big finds in Tabasco and Chiapas announced last year.
Ellsworth Bunker will leave here next Sunday to open another round of negotiations with the Panamanian Government on a new treaty on the future of the Panama Canal. In a telephone interview, Mr. Bunker said that he was taking with him to Panama proposals aimed at reaching compromise agreement on such controversial issues as the future disposition of lands and waters in the 533‐square‐mile Panama Canal Zone, duration of a new treaty and eventual expansion of the waterway. American officials said that the Ford Administration, after a delay of many months, has achieved agreement on an American negotiating position, particularly with regard to the prickly question of eventual transfer of the Canal Zone to Panamanian sovereignty. Mr. Bunker, the chief United States negotiator, returned from his last round of talks in Panama last March, having achieved basic agreement with the Government of Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera on some of the less troublesome issues.
During an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the government of Ecuador, 30 people were killed and at least 80 wounded. The Armed Forces Chief of Staff, General Raul Gonzalez Alvear, and his brother-in-law General Alejandros Solis, led the early morning uprising against President Guillermo Rodríguez Lara, attacking the Presidential Palace in Quito with 10 tanks. Rodríguez Lara had been able to escape his residence before the attackers arrived, fled to Riobamba and rallied the Air Force and Navy to make a counterattack at midday. Rodríguez Lara would be forced out of office four months later, on January 11, 1976.
The Turnhalle Constitutional Conference began in Windhoek between white, black and coloured residents to discuss the future of South West Africa (now Namibia).
The U.S. assistant secretary of state for African affairs, Nathaniel Davis, under pressure from black Africa, has resigned, informed sources said. The 50-year-old career diplomat had been in the post five months. Davis had been selected for the African assignment in spite of opposition by black African nations and members of the congressional black caucus because of his alleged links to the Central Intelligence Agency’s efforts to overthrow the government in Chile. Davis was reported to have resigned because he believed the opposition would not permit him to work effectively.
President Ford is expected to decide soon whether to ask Congress to authorize a quasi-public corporation that would provide up to $100 billion to finance projects aimed at making the United States independent of foreign sources of energy. Several government officials said the decision would be made by Mr. Ford tomorrow or Wednesday on the basis of a new draft of the necessary legislation.
The FBI said it had no solid clues to the cause of a baffling series of fatal respiratory failures at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At least nine patients have died at the facility of such causes since July 1. FBI agent Jay Bailey said extensive tests and questioning have given the FBI little solid evidence. But he refused to go as far as some hospital officials in blaming the more than 50 cases of respiratory failure on a psychopathic killer who has deliberately injected the patients with a paralyzing drug.
George Meany said today that he did not expect an upturn in the economy during the next year. “Well, I’m not normally a pessimist, but I’m afraid that the answer is that I don’t expect it to improve in that time,” the president of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations said. In an interview taped last week and broadcast today on NBC’s “Today” program, Mr. Meany was asked what he thought economic conditions would be like on Labor Day next year. Although he said there were some indications of economic recovery, he cited high unemployment and increasing inflation as two reasons for being pessimistic.
Ignoring a massive and increasing court-imposed fine against their union, defiant West Virginia coal miners today kept up a crippling wildcat strike. The walkout, in its fourth week, idled 60,000 workers, sharply cut the nation’s coal production and had an increasingly negative effect on other industries. Wildcatters demanded the right to strike on local issues without threat of court interference. A $500,000 fine against the United Mine Workers by United States District Judge K. K. Hall in Charleston took effect with the end of the Labor Day weekend. The fine is to grow by $100,000 each day the strike continues.
A bill mandating the states to spend millions of dollars of federal tax money each year for the construction of what critics fear will become a nationwide network of target ranges is quietly approaching the House floor. The legislation, approved unanimously by a House sub committee at a time when proposals to control the use of handguns are under intense debate in Congress, could greatly increase the number of persons throughout the country trained to use guns. According to the best estimates, the bill would require the states to spend $9.25‐million in tax money each year to build target ranges or to create “hunter education” programs in conjunction with the ranges. Since 1971 the states have spent an average of $200,000 a year in Federal funds to build or improve 40 target ranges and to operate firearm training programs at 1,000 gun clubs. That is about 2 percent of what would be required to be spent each year under the bill.
Governor Hugh L. Carey of New York said legislation was being drafted to meet the “dire contingency” of a default by New York City if a newly drafted emergency fiscal plan did not work. “We are not resigned to default, but we are realistic,” he said. Investment banker Felix Rohatyn has warned that the city faces default as early as Friday when, without new cash, it will be $100 million in the red.
The NYC transit fare rises from 35 cents to 50 cents. Subway token agents and transit patrolmen relaxed after dealing with the long lines of Sunday, the last day of the 35‐cent fare, and braced for today, the first working day with a 50‐cent fare. Most riders seemed resigned to the new fare. “There’s no way to fight it, you just have to pay,” said Sol Rothman of the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn. “When I came here 40 years ago, it cost only a nickel. Believe me, by January it will be 60 cents.”
The Atlantic Richfield Co. temporarily will withdraw all posted prices paid for domestic crude oil now that the Federal Energy Administration’s price control regulations have expired, a spokesman said. New prices will be posted in the near future that will be competitive with others in various production areas, he said. If crude oil prices remain at the same level, posted prices will also remain unchanged. In any case, he said, gasoline prices at the pump would not be immediately affected. The FEA regulations, which expired at midnight Sunday, held oil produced before 1973 at $5.25 a barrel. Top market price was expected to rise to $13 a barrel.
About 1,200 flight attendants grounded National Airlines with its second major strike in less than 10 months today, but the union announced that contract talks between the two sides resumed a few hours later in Washington. Mike Garko, a spokesman for the Association of Flight Attendants in Miami, said the talks would last a minimum of two days at the National Mediation Board’s Washington offices. Members of the association, a subsidiary of the Air Line Pilots Association, went on strike a minute after midnight today and the airline canceled all its flights about 20 minutes later.
Viking 2 spacecraft was removed from the launching pad today, and engineers began searching to correct a radio problem that forced a 10-day delay in the nation’s second probe for life on Mars. The Viking project manager, James S. Martin, ordered a postponement yesterday. The launching was originally scheduled for Labor Day, when engineers found that radio signals from the spacecraft’s high‐gain antenna were so weak that they could not have relayed a substantial portion of the data obtained by the Mars lander. “I feel terrible,” Mr. Martin said after delaying the launching until September 10. “But these things happen, and we’ve got to find out about them before we launch.” Technicians drained the propellants from the Titan Centaur launching rocket early today and removed the spacecraft shroud to see if this would solve the antenna problem. It did not, and engineers had to take the Viking 2 to a building for disassembly.
A Rock Island Lines freight train hauling propane gas derailed beneath a busy highway overpass on the northeast edge of Des Moines, triggering a spectacular series of explosions. At least three persons were injured, including a motorcyclist whose machine was blown from an overpass. Buildings within a mile radius were ordered evacuated because of the danger of more explosions. Nine tank cars filled with propane left the tracks and four of them exploded, sending flames 1,000 feet in the air. Dense black smoke coiled up from the scene in an industrial area hours after the derailment. Police reported extensive property damage from the blast and said more than 100 firemen from nine communities were called to the scene.
Two bus bandits struck for a second time in eight days in the Detroit area, hijacking a Greyhound bus en route from Chicago to Toronto and robbing 38 adults of up to $35,000 in cash and valuables. Driver William Gorshe said two men wearing flowered shirts coolly and systematically went from passenger to passenger demanding money, rings, watches and other articles. One man said he lost an $8,000 coin collection. An off-duty Detroit policeman said he lost $600 in cash, his gun and badge. The driver said the men, masquerading as passengers, started the robbery after a rest stop in Ypsilanti and left the bus on foot in Detroit.
It cost nearly $10,000 to keep a juvenile delinquent in jail in 1973, about 40% more than the cost two years earlier, said a report issued by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The report said there were 47,363 juveniles confined in jails and other detention facilities in 1973. The figure was a 17% decrease from the 58,539 juveniles imprisoned in 1971. The number of employees in juvenile facilities held steady at about 39,000. Total operating expenses for the nation’s juvenile jails rose from $409.1 million in 1971 to $453.8 million two years later, the report said.
Maine officals are about to announce the recovery of 10,000 more acres of a 396,000acre wilderness reserve the state let fall into the hands of large private landowners a century ago. The 10,000‐acre parcel will revert to public control through an agreement similar to the one last spring by which the Great Northern Paper Company returned 60,000 acres to the state, including sections of the Deboullie Mountain range and 60 miles of lake frontage in northern and western Maine. The wilderness lands are part of the Maine public lots, which were dedicated for public use in the early days of statehood but were later frittered away to private interests. Created as 1,000‐acre tracts in about 400 unorganized townships, the public lots were set aside for support of public education when settlers moved in and created local governments.
The conservationist Fund for Animals, Inc., obtained a writ in Columbus, Ohio, seeking to block the opening of the hunting season for the state’s mourning dove. The group obtained an injunction from Ohio Associate Supreme Court Justice Frank Celebrezze barring the Ohio division of wildlife from allowing the first hunting of doves permitted in the state in the last 60 years. However, it remained unclear as the hunting season opened Labor Day what would happen next after natural resources Director Robert Teater said he did not have the authority to stop the hunting.
USAF Lieutenant General Daniel “Chappie” James was promoted, becoming the first African-American four-star general. General James, who was named the commander of NORAD, and would retire on February 2, 1978. Sadly, he died 24 days after his retirement.
Ursus arctos horribilis, the North American brown bear, more commonly known at the grizzly bear, was placed on the U.S. Endangered Species List as a “threatened species”.
Frank Zeidler who had served as Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, from 1949 to 1961, was nominated as the presidential candidate for the Socialist Party USA.
Broadcasting pioneer Roone Arledge (44) weds Ann Fowler; divorce in 1985.
Jerry Lewis’ 10th Muscular Dystrophy telethon is aired.
Gunsmoke goes off the air.
“Space: 1999,” a syndicated science fiction program, produced in the United Kingdom by ITC Entertainment and the Italian company RAI, made its first appearance worldwide. Authorized for release worldwide in the month of September, the show was broadcast on some television stations on the first day of the month, including WGAN, channel 13 in Portland, Maine, which premiered it at 8:00 PM Eastern time. According to ITC, the show was distributed to 101 nations and was syndicated to 148 U.S. television markets alone. In most of the United Kingdom, Space: 1999 debuted on September 4 at 7:00 PM on some of the regions in the ITV network.
Major League Baseball:
Rick Dempsey, Rick Bladt and Fred Stanley, batting in the lower third of the Yankees’ order, each drove in a run to help beat the Red Sox, 4–2. In the second inning, after Dick McAuliffe misjudged a pop fly by Walt Williams for an error, Dempsey, Bladt and Stanley followed with singles to produce two runs. The Yankees added another run in the third on a single by Thurman Munson and double by Dempsey. Stanley, who finished the game with three hits, singled and scored the Yankees’ last run in the sixth. Doubles by Fred Lynn and Jim Rice and a single by McAuliffe accounted for the Red Sox pair in the seventh.
The hitting of Bill Melton and Jorge Orta helped the White Sox win the first game of a doubleheader, 10–8, before a pinch-homer by Harmon Killebrew gave the Royals a 3–1 victory in the second game. Melton drove in four runs with a homer and sacrifice fly, while Orta accounted for three RBIs with a double and two singles. Rich Gossage relieved Wilbur Wood with one out in the fifth inning and pitched the rest of the way, holding the Royals to three hits and one unearned run. In the nightcap, Hal McRae hurt himself batting in the eighth inning. Killebrew stepped in and smashed his homer with John Mayberry on base to break a 1–1 tie.
The Tigers rallied for four runs in the seventh inning on a walk and five singles to defeat the Brewers, 5–4. The Brewers also had a four-run inning, scoring in the fifth with the aid of a triple by George Scott and doubles by Robin Yount and Hank Aaron to take a 4–1 lead. Ben Oglivie walked to open the Tigers’ rally with one out in the seventh and Tom Veryzer singled. After Billy Baldwin was retired for the second out, consecutive singles by Gary Sutherland, Dan Meyer, Willie Horton and Bill Freehan produced the Tigers’ four runs.
Pulling a groin muscle, Bert Blyleven was forced to quit the mound after two innings, but the Twins availed themselves of three relievers and beat the Rangers, 5–4. Bill Butler gained credit for the victory. Blyleven gave up one run before departing. Phil Roof tied the score with a homer in the third. The Twins picked up an unearned run in the fifth and then batted around to score three times in the sixth. Roof drove in two runs with a bases-loaded single, giving him three RBIs for the game.
Surviving a shaky start, Vida Blue pitched the Athletics to a 6–3 victory over the Angels. Blue gave up the Angels’ runs in the first inning, two scoring on a homer by Leroy Stanton. The A’s came back to win with the aid of homers by Billy Williams and Reggie Jackson, each with a man on base.
The doubleheader between the Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore is postponed due to rain. It will be made up on September 2.
In addition to becoming the first 20-game winner in the National League this year, Tom Seaver established a major league record by going over the 200 total in strikeouts for the eighth consecutive season while pitching the Mets to a 3–0 victory over the Pirates. Seaver fanned 10 to raise his total to 204. The Mets’ ace had previously shared the record of seven straight years of 200 or more strikeouts with Rube Waddell and Walter Johnson. Mike Vail, who joined the Mets while the club was on the road, homered on his first time at bat in his first appearance in Shea Stadium. The Mets then wrapped up the decision with two runs in the sixth on a single by Felix Millan, forceout by Vail, double by Rusty Staub and single by Joe Torre.
It is “Bob Gibson Day” in St. Louis. A crowd of 48,435, including dignitaries, including August Busch and Bowie Kuhn, setting a Busch Stadium record for a single day game, saw the Cardinals defeat the Cubs, 6–3. The Cardinals retired 39–year-old pitcher Gibson’s No. 45 in ceremonies honoring their veteran pitching star, who has announced he will retire after this season. Lou Brock proceeded to star in the Cardinals’ victory, rapping three singles and stealing three bases to bring his season’s total to 52, marking the 11th consecutive year that the speedster had gone over the 50 mark in thefts. Andre Thornton hit two homers for the Cubs, one of them inside the park and the other a smash over the fence.
Batting with two out in the ninth inning, Expos’ reliever Dale Murray singled to climax a two-run rally that beat the Phillies, 6–5. After the Expos took a 4–0 lead, the Phillies scored three runs in the seventh and added the tying tally in the eighth on a triple by Garry Maddox and single by Dave Cash. With two away in the Expos’ ninth, Pete Mackanin beat out an infield hit, stole second and scored the tie-breaking run on a double by Tim Foli. Murray then singled to plate Foli with what proved to be the winning marker. Dick Allen drove in a run with a double in the Phillies’ half of the ninth, but Murray retired Mike Schmidt on a fly to end the game.
Randy Jones, the Padres’ candidate for the Cy Young Award, gained his 18th victory of the season, defeating the Reds, 2–1. The Padres picked up their first run in the second inning when Dave Winfield singled, stole second and crossed the plate on a single by Dave Roberts. The Reds matched that run in their half with a double by Merv Rettenmund and single by Bill Plummer. Pat Darcy, who started for the Reds, was forced to leave the mound because of a blister on the forefinger of his pitching hand and the Padres counted their winning run off Pedro Borbon in the sixth.
An outstanding performance by Cedar Cedeno paced the Astros to a 5–3 victory over the Braves. The Astros’ outfielder hit a single and double, driving in three runs, and also walked twice, stole his 43rd base of the season and set up the first run by racing from first to third on a wild pitch. Ralph Garr reached the 1,000 hit total for his career with a single and triple for the Braves.
Unbeaten since July 10, Burt Hooton extended his personal winning streak to eight games by pitching the Dodgers to a 3–1 victory over the Giants. With Steve Garvey out because of the flu, Ken McMullen played first base for the first time in 11 years and batted in the Dodgers’ first run with a single in the fifth inning. The Giants bunched three of their six hits off Hooton for the tying run in their half, but Lee Lacy then batted the Dodgers to victory, driving in one run with an infield roller in the sixth and another with a double in the eighth.
New York Yankees 4, Boston Red Sox 2
Oakland Athletics 6, California Angels 3
Kansas City Royals 8, Chicago White Sox 10
Kansas City Royals 3, Chicago White Sox 1
San Diego Padres 2, Cincinnati Reds 1
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Detroit Tigers 5
Atlanta Braves 3, Houston Astros 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, New York Mets 3
Montreal Expos 6, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, San Francisco Giants 1
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Minnesota Twins 5, Texas Rangers 4
Born:
Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Australian actress (“Neighbours”), and rock singer (Rough Traders — “Voodoo Child”), in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia.
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, Puerto Rican guitarist and songwriter (Mars Volta; At the Drive-In), in Bayamón, Puerto Rico.
Scott Speedman, Canadian actor (“Felicity”, “Underworld”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Cuttino Mobley, NBA shooting guard and point guard (Houston Rockets, Orlando Magic, Sacramento Kings, Los Angeles Clippers), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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