The President will meet the Kremlin “halfway in an effort to solve problems,” the White House said in response to critical remarks by Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Mr. Reagan is “taking a serious approach to the relationship,” the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said. Mr. Speakes urged the Soviet Union to allow President Reagan “direct access” to the Russian people through a television speech as a way to improve relations between the two nations. Mr. Speakes said the meeting in Geneva between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev, planned for Nov. 19-20, offered a framework in which both leaders would conduct “serious discussions” on arms control, the Middle East, human rights and other issues.
A delegation of United States Senators met for three and a half hours today with Mikhail S. Gorbachev and said afterward that the Soviet leader had indicated the possibility of flexibility by his side at the Geneva arms talks. According to the leader of the eight-member delegation, Senator Robert C. Byrd, Democrat of West Virginia, the Soviet leader said Moscow was prepared to make some “radical proposals” on strategic and medium-range weapons if the United States agreed to prohibit the “militarization of outer space,” a Soviet phrase that covers both the “Star Wars” space-based missile defense system and anti-satellite weapons. Senator Sam Nunn, Democrat of Georgia, said Mr. Gorbachev had also suggested some flexibility in the Soviet demand for a ban on research into “Star Wars,” indicating that he was prepared to accept “fundamental research.” Mr. Nunn said, however, that Mr. Gorbachev appeared to define fundamental research “very narrowly.” The statements by the Soviet leader echoed several suggestions made by him and other Soviet officials over the summer, and seemed to follow a pattern of informal soundings outside the formal negotiations in Geneva, which are to resume September 19.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting with author Suzanne Massie to discuss Russia.
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, General Bernard W. Rogers, renewed his call today for the United States to produce modern chemical weapons and said he wanted better political guidance on their use. At a news conference to open the alliance’s annual Autumn Forge military exercises, General Rogers said a vote by Congress within the next 10 days to produce new chemical munitions for the first time since 1969 would be “a step in the right direction.”
Moscow denied visas to 3 Americans who had planned to take part in the Fifth Moscow International Book Fair, which opens next Tuesday. The three Americans — Bernard Levinson, Robert Bernstein and Jeri Laber — have attended previous Moscow book fairs.
The Polish Government accused the State Department today of “bad manners” for having announced that the Reagan Administration would refuse to hold any meetings with Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski when he arrives in New York later this month. A spokesman said the Polish leader had never sought any meetings with United States officials. General Jaruzelski is to fly to New York from Havana on September 24 and remain until September 28. He is to address the United Nations General Assembly on September 27.
About 14,000 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) were reported worldwide by the end of August, and there are several million virus carriers capable of infecting others, the World Health Organization reported from Geneva. In Mexico, Secretary of Health Guillermo Soberon Acevedo denied published reports that authorities will check incoming foreigners for possible contagion of the usually fatal disease, which primarily strikes homosexual men and intravenous drug users. He said there have been only 17 confirmed cases of AIDS in Mexico.
Eighteen British tourists were injured, six of them seriously, when a man threw two hand grenades into the swimming pool and poolside area of a Greek hotel. Among those injured in the attack at the Glyfada Hotel near Athens were a dozen deaf people. Police said they think the attack was linked to the arrest last week of a Palestinian carrying a suitcase full of weapons near the Jordanian Embassy in Athens. A woman telephoned a Greek newspaper to say that unless the Palestinian was released, the Black September guerrilla group “would fill Athens with bombs.”
The best-selling novelist Jeffrey Archer was named deputy chairman of the Conservative Party by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher today. It will be up to the 45-year-old Mr. Archer, the author of “Kane and Abel,” “The Prodigal Daughter” and “First Among Equals,” to travel the country to drum up support for the Tories in the next general election. His appointment makes him second in command to the new chairman, Norman Tebbit, whose appointment was announced on Monday, “He will bring a touch of dash and style to the party,” Mr. Tebbit said.
Belgium’s King Baudouin I dissolved Parliament after the coalition government failed to agree on constitutional changes to allow greater regional autonomy in the school system. But he left the splintered coalition headed by Premier Wilfried Martens in power until elections can be held. Elections already had been moved up from December 8 to October 13 because of an earlier argument within the government over responsibility for the May 29 soccer riot in Brussels in which 38 were killed.
An Israeli soldier was stabbed to death and another seriously wounded today as they stood guard at an apartment in the West Bank, the Israeli Army spokesman announced. Israeli military sources said the stabbings had been carried out by one or two “local residents,” which they said “obviously means Arabs.” The apartment, in the old marketplace of Hebron, was recently occupied by three Israeli members of Parliament who sought to demonstrate that Jews were free to live anywhere in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. A third Israeli soldier guarding the building opened fire on the crowded street after the attack, wounding a young Arab woman and an Arab man who were apparently not involved in the incident, military sources said.
A car packed with explosives blew up in southern Lebanon today. The driver was killed, but there were conflicting reports about other casualties. The Israeli radio, monitored in Beirut, said that apart from the driver of the car no one was hurt. But a pro-Syrian group that said it was responsible for the action said 30 Christian militiamen of the South Lebanon Army and seven Israeli soldiers were killed or wounded.
President Reagan attends a National Security Planning Group meeting to discuss relations with Egypt.
Soviet and Afghan troops battling to break a rebel siege of a strategic town in eastern Afghanistan have suffered more than 1,000 casualties since the offensive began in mid-August, Western diplomats said in New Delhi. “The assault is being carried out to a great extent by Soviet troops, whose number may be as high as 15,000,” said one diplomat, quoting sources in Afghanistan. There was no casualty figure for the rebels in the battle for the town of Khost in Paktia province, 22 miles from the Pakistan border.
The recent arrest of Benazir Bhutto, a prominent leader of the opposition to President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, has raised new doubts among politicians about General Zia’s promise to restore a civilian government to Pakistan. In interviews this week, political leaders, diplomats and others said Miss Bhutto’s arrest on Thursday had surprised many people because the Government had earlier said it would not interfere with her movements. Miss Bhutto, 31-year-old daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, returned to Pakistan two weeks ago, after a year and a half of self-imposed exile, to assist in the funeral rites for her brother, Shahnawaz. Upon arriving, she proclaimed herself the leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, the once powerful political organization of her father, and made several statements demanding that martial law be lifted. The Government then placed her under house arrest, charging she had violated the martial law prohibition against taking part in rallies and other political activity.
Sikh gunmen fired on Hindus in two places in the Punjab tonight, killing three people and wounding nine, the police said. The attacks occurred a day after the deadline for filing names of candidates for the Punjab State elections scheduled for September 25, the first to be held since Punjab was placed under direct federal rule in October 1983. Sikh militants have announced they will boycott the elections and press on with their autonomy struggle. The police said two Sikhs armed with Sten guns fired into a crowded shop belonging to a Hindu in the village of Munda, 30 miles southeast of Amritsar, killing the shopkeeper and one of his customers and wounding six people. In the other incident, Sikhs opened fire in a crowded street outside the city of Hoshiarpur, 70 miles east of Amritsar, killing one Hindu and wounding three, a police spokesman reported.
Four leaders of a moderate Tamil party were kidnapped in Sri Lanka Monday and the bodies of three were found today, government and party spokesmen said. In the eastern town of Batticaloa, Tamil separatists ambushed a police station and killed seven officers, officials said. A government spokesman blamed insurgents for killing Vishwanathar Dharmalingam, 67 years old, a member of the Sri Lanka Parliament from 1960 to 1983, and Murugesh Alalasundaram, 50, also a former legislator. Both belonged to the Tamil United Liberation Front, a moderate group. In Madras, India, officials of the group said two other former legislators who belonged to the party were kidnapped Monday and the body of one was found today.
Less cool U.S.-Hanoi relations may be in prospect, the Reagan Administration indicated. It said talks last week with Vietnamese officials in Hanoi were “the most positive” to date in the 12-year effort to resolve the issue of Americans unaccounted for in the Vietnam War. A State Department spokesman, Charles E. Redman, said that “I am pleased to state that the talks were very productive” and that the meeting “took place in a constructive atmosphere.” Last Wednesday and Thursday, a four-member United States team led by Richard Childress, the political and military affairs director of the National Security Council staff, met with the acting Vietnamese Foreign Minister, Võ Đông Giang, and with Deputy Foreign Minister Hoàng Bích Sơn. Originally, a higher-level American delegation, led by Richard L. Armitage, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and Paul D. Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, had been scheduled to meet with Foreign Minister Nguyễn Cơ Thạch. But when Mr. Thạch informed Washington on August 23 that he had to travel to Moscow, Mr. Armitage and Mr. Wolfowitz canceled plans at the last minute to fly to Hanoi.
A freak hailstorm battered Mexico City, killing one person and injuring more than 150, authorities said. A National Weather Service report, describing the storm as one of the worst in half a century, said the downtown area and nearby districts were pelted for over an hour. The storm left more than a foot of ice on streets, knocked out power and collapsed roofs and walls of a number of buildings.
At a time when other rebel groups are receiving renewed financing from the United States, the best-known Nicaraguan exile rebel commander, Eden Pastora Gomez, appears to have stumbled to the lowest point yet in his three-year fight against the Nicaraguan Government he once served. Mr. Pastora’s forces have been battered by a three-month Sandinista offensive that has overrun all of the rebels’ bases on the San Juan River, which forms the border between Costa Rica and Nicaragua. Without money, bullets or supplies, some of the estimated 1,000 rebels nominally under Mr. Pastora’s command are reported to be collaborating with the better-financed Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the rebel army that operates out of Honduras. According to two of Mr. Pastora’s closest aides, his remaining men are living off the land and refilling used cartridges to use as bullets.
At least 12 people were injured and more than 500 arrested in street battles between Guatemala City police and students protesting recent increases in bus fares and food prices. The clashes erupted when police tried to halt a march toward the National Palace by 3,000 students, authorities said. Police denied radio reports that some people were killed in the clashes. The government says the austerity measures are necessary to bring inflation under control and prop up Guatemala’s currency.
Initial reports indicated that dozens of Honduran troops swept into a camp housing Salvadoran refugees, killing two people including a baby and wounding at least 28 in a machine-gun attack, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said in Geneva. The troops were searching for guerrillas when they apparently launched an unprovoked assault in the Colomoncagua camp near the border, an agency spokesman reported. He said U.N. officials are investigating.
Black mine workers halted a strike against selected gold and coal mines in South Africa after less than three days. The mine workers’ union said its decision to end the walkout, called over pay demands, was taken to protect strikers from threatened dismissal from their jobs and eviction from their homes. It had been called at five gold mines and two coal mines. The suspension of the strike reduced a threat to two of South Africa’s principal exports, gold and coal, and lessened the possibility of violence spreading to the mining industry. The announcement came on the first anniversary of the violence that began in the black township of Sharpeville over rent increases and has since spread throughout the country, resulting in the deaths of more 630 people, the overwhelming majority of them black.
The NASA space shuttle orbiter Discovery (STS-51-I) glided safety to earth at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing what a space agency official called “a near-perfect mission.” Riding the first thin rays of dawn, the space shuttle Discovery glided safely to earth today to complete what one space agency official called “a near-perfect mission.” The Discovery’s seven-day mission with five astronauts aboard was highlighted by two daring spacewalks by two crew members, Dr. James D. van Hoften and Dr. William F. Fisher, to perform a delicate repair on a satellite that had failed to achieve its orbit last April. The winged spacecraft, commanded by Colonel Joe H. Engle of the Air Force, looped across the California desert to a dusty but apparently faultless touchdown at 6:15 AM. Space officials congratulated the crew for achieving the mission’s original objective, the deployment of three new satellites, in addition to the corrective manuever. Jesse W. Moore, an associate administrator of the office of space flight of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said here that the ailing satellite’s prognosis for achieving full performance looked positive but it was too early to tell. Its rockets will be fired in about two months, after signals from earth to reposition the satellite to allow sunlight to warm its frozen fuel supplies.
Congress, returning from a recess, faces a series of major issues that will pit the House against the Senate and both houses against President Reagan. This is expected to make September one of the most fractious months of the year. “I think it is going to be one of the most contentious times since I’ve been in the Senate,” said Senator Lloyd Bentsen, a Texas Democrat who may be at the center of a widely expected dispute over trade policy and is likely to play a key role in the effort to redesign the income tax system. Bob Dole, the Senate majority leader, said Congress was returning in a testy mood. “It’s always a little testy when you come back from a recess,” Senator Dole, a Kansas Republican, said last week. “Members have been home or they’ve been somewhere and they’ve heard a lot of things. And they’ve taken a lot of heat and a lot of questions were asked.” The House returns Wednesday but has a light official calendar this week. The Senate will convene next Monday. The expected points of confrontation with the President range from economic sanctions against South Africa to the Federal budget. Trade policy and farm price support legislation are also expected to cause problems.
Before the month is over, Congress has to approve the spending bills for running the Government in the fiscal year 1986, which begins Oct. 1. Mr. Reagan has said he will veto any appropriation bill he thinks is too high. The effort to approve the spending bills could be further complicted by the need to raise the federal debt ceiling, also possibly before the end of September. A deadlock on either the spending bills or the debt ceiling could threaten to bring the government to a halt. While this is going on, the House Ways and Means Committee is scheduled to begin writing its version of legislation for an income tax overhaul, which the President has made the centerpiece of his fall agenda. The confrontation between Congress and the White House is expected to begin with approval in the Senate of a series of economic sanctions against the white minority South African Government over its policy of strict racial separation. The House, after reaching a compromise with the Senate, has already approved sanctions. The Senate is expected to vote on the compromise version next week.
Federal law-enforcement officials said today that the case against Jerry A. Whitworth, one of four Navy men accused of participating in a Soviet spy ring, was based largely on circumstantial evidence and will be the most complicated to explain to a jury. The officials agreed with defense lawyers that the Government had so far provided no conclusive evidence to the public of Mr. Whitworth’s guilt. Prosecutors have disclosed exceptionally strong evidence against the other defendants. “From what I’ve seen, or what’s been disclosed in other places, their case against Whitworth is purely circumstantial and greatly overblown,” said James Larson, one of the defense lawyers.
Charges of one count of murder and seven counts of burglary, robbery and sexual assault were filed today against Richard Ramirez, whom the police are investigating for possible connection to a series of murders that terrorized many Californians for weeks. In announcing the action, Ira Reiner, the Los Angeles County District Attorney, said that, assuming the evidence warranted it, additional charges would be filed against Mr. Ramirez later. But he cautioned that evidence might be lacking to tie him to all of the 16 murders that have on occasion been linked to one suspect, widely referred to here as the “Night Stalker.”
Rita M. Lavelle, former director of the Environmental Protection Agency’s toxic waste Superfund, will be released from federal prison in Pleasanton, California, this morning. Lavelle, 37, is being freed after serving five months of a six-month sentence for lying to Congress in 1983 about conflicts of interest in her management of the EPA’s program to clean up hazardous chemical waste dumps. Lavelle was the only official prosecuted in a scandal two years ago in which 22 EPA officials quit or were fired.
Lynette (Squeaky) Fromme, who is serving a life sentence for attempting to assassinate former President Gerald R. Ford in 1975, declined an opportunity to seek parole, officials said. In Alderson, West Virginia, David Helman of the Federal Correctional Institution for Women said Fromme is eligible under federal law to appear today before the Parole Commission. “She has not given us any reason for not having this hearing,” HelIman said. Fromme, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson, was convicted of trying to kill Ford while he was visiting Sacramento.
A federal judge relinquished control over Boston’s public schools, more than a decade after the start of court-ordered busing to integrate the nation’s oldest school system. U.S. District Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.’s final order to guide the future of black, white, Latino and Asian children came on the same day that Boston schools got their first black superintendent. In a series of official papers, Garrity permanently enjoined city officials from “discriminating on the basis of race in the operation of the public schools of the city of Boston.”
FBI agents allowed Jackie Presser, the teamster union leader, to have “no show” employees on the union payroll and later rejected several requests from him to dismiss them, according to law enforcement officials. They said the FBI agents, who were using Mr. Presser as an informer, wanted the employees retained to acquire information and because they feared that he might be harmed if if he dismissed them.
Chicago and Seattle teachers struck on the eve of classes. It is the third walkout by the Chicago Teachers Union in three years. In Philadelphia, teachers overwhelmingly approved a new three-year contract.
Hurricane Elena fizzled out as it moved inland over Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. The storm, which had struck Mississippi’s Gulf Coast with 125 mile-an-hour winds on Monday, had winds of only 15 miles an hour and was downgraded to a tropical depression.
Teacher strikes extended summer vacations for 62,000 students in Illinois and Michigan while unresolved contract talks in Seattle, San Francisco and Akron, Ohio, left in question the start of classes. In Philadelphia, teachers voted unanimously to approve a pact that includes a 16% pay hike. Illinois Governor James R. Thompson directed his chief of staff to meet with representatives of the Board of Education and the Chicago Teachers Union to work out a contract. The 28,000-member CTU went on strike after federally mediated contract talks broke off early Tuesday.
Michael Drummond breathed on his own, walked briefly with help and ate French toast, his first solid food since becoming the world’s youngest artificial heart recipient. But his surgeon, Dr. Jack G. Copeland, said that it would be several days before doctors in Tucson began searching for a human heart to replace the Jarvik-7 implanted in Drummond, 25, on Thursday. Drummond’s condition improved to serious but stable, up from critical but stable.
The Navy, in a test of readiness that also served as a warning to the Soviet Union, successfully “surged” almost half of its fleet of attack submarines out of port in 24 hours earlier this year, according to congressional testimony. The exercise, involving 44 attack submarines based in the Atlantic, pushed the subs to high-alert status and sent them scrambling to sea fully armed. The exercise demonstrated that “we can do the same thing” as the Soviets, Admiral James D. Watkins, the chief of naval operations, told a House panel this spring.
Convicted murderer Willie Jasper Darden won a stay of execution from the U.S. Supreme Court seven hours before he was to die this morning in Florida’s electric chair. Darden was condemned to die for shooting a businessman and watching him bleed to death while he molested the victim’s wife. The court, which earlier had turned down a bid to halt the execution on a 5–4 vote, issued its stay at one minute to midnight.
The Titanic is intact with a hull “like a museum piece,” according to Dr. Robert D. Ballard, the first person to view the 73-year-old wreck by television. Dr. Ballard, the chief scientist of the American-French expedition that found the luxury liner off Newfoundland, said that any salvage attempt would desecrate the gravesite of the more than 1,500 people who died with the liner.
The longest prison term ever imposed on a woman in California was handed down by Kern County Superior Court Judge Gary Friedman today, who sentenced Grace Dill, 50, to 405 years after her conviction with six other Bakersfield residents in a child molestation ring. Friedman broke the record he set last Friday when he sentenced Dill’s daughter, Marcella Pitts, 29, to 373 years in the same case. Friedman also imposed the second-longest term ever given a man in California – 405 years – on Dill’s son, Wayne, 29. Another woman, Gina Miller, 24, faced a probable 405-year sentence.
But:
From 1984 through 1986 at least 30 defendants were convicted of child sex abuse and related charges and sentenced to long prison terms in a series of inter-related cases in Kern County, California, and an additional 8 defendants accepted plea bargains that kept them out of prison. Over time, 20 of the defendants who were sentenced to prison were exonerated, the earliest in 1991 and the latest in 2008. In most of these exonerations the children who had testified that they had been abused recanted their testimony. In all of the exonerations there was evidence that the complaining witnesses —some as young as four years old — had been coerced or persuaded by the authorities make false accusations.
All seven defendants appealed their convictions, alleging that prosecutorial misconduct had prevented them from receiving a fair trial. In 1989, two of the children recanted their testimony. In 1990, all of the convictions were reversed by California Fifth District Court of Appeal, based on findings of egregious prosecutorial misconduct. The judge found that prosecutors had made numerous inappropriate comments which were likely to have prejudiced the jury against the defendants, and during the investigation, had knowingly coerced child witnesses into making false accusations; for example, one child was told that if she testified as instructed, she would be able to go home, but if not, she would never see her mother again.
The misconduct was so egregious that the Court of Appeal directed the trial court to enter an order dismissing specified counts. The remaining counts were dismissed in 1991; by 1994, all the child witnesses had recanted and claimed their testimony was coerced. Ultimately, Ricky Lynn and Marcella Pitts, Colleen Dill Forsythe, Grace Dill, and Gina Miller filed a lawsuit in Kern County Superior Court seeking damages, but the lawsuit was dismissed.
Major League Baseball:
The A’s edged the Orioles, 3–2, as Steve Henderson, a pinch-hitter, singled home the tie-breaking run in the eighth inning, and Jose Rijo teamed with two relievers on a three-hitter for Oakland. Dave Kingman opened the eighth by drawing a walk from Mike Boddicker (12–14). One out later, the pinch-runner Rob Picciolo stole second. Picciolo took third on a groundout and, after Dave Collins walked, Henderson batted for Mickey Tettleton and singled up the middle.
Phil Niekro and his brother, Joe, gained the 500th victory of their major league careers last night. Joe, of course, had his brother to thank. They could both thank Mike Pagliarulo, Dan Pasqua, Bobby Meacham and Dave Winfield. Phil, the Niekro at Yankee Stadium, shut out the Seattle Mariners on four hits through seven innings, then faltered in the eighth inning and needed Dave Righetti to secure the 6–3 victory that was the 298th of Niekro’s major league career.
Future Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson, with his 525th career round-tripper, becomes the first major leaguer to collect one hundred home runs for three different teams. The California outfielder, who hit 269 during his ten seasons with Oakland, and 144 in five years with the Yankees, hits two homers to go over the century mark playing for the Angels in the team’s 14–8 loss to Detroit. Kirk Gibson hit two home runs, two doubles and drove in five runs in four times at the plate to lead Detroit. Chet Lemon added a three-run homer for the Tigers, while Reggie Jackson had two homers for the Angels. The Angels’ lead over the Kansas City Royals in the American League West dropped to 1 ½ games. The Tigers got to Kirk McCaskill (9–10) for five runs in the second and four in the fourth.
Bret Saberhagen outpitched Tom Seaver, and Hal McRae hit a two-run homer for Kansas City as the Royals beat the White Sox, 3–2. The 21-year-old Saberhagen gave up seven hits, including Harold Baines’s 16th home run, a bases-empty drive with one out in the ninth. Saberhagen raised his record to 17–5. Seaver, without a victory since getting his 300th on Aug. 4, surrendered six hits as his season record dipped to 12–10. McRae hit his 13th home run of the season in the first after George Brett had drawn a two-out walk.
Kirby Puckett hit a sacrifice fly to tie the score, and the pinch-hitter Dave Engle delivered a run-scoring single as Minnesota scored twice in the seventh inning to beat Milwaukee, 4–3. Engle singled home Tim Teufel, who had reached second base on a sacrifice bunt that Danny Darwin (7–16) threw away for an error. Mark Salas had led off the inning with a single and eventually scored on Puckett’s sacrifice fly.
Jim Rice went 4 for 5, hit a homer and drove in three runs to lead the Red Sox to a 6–4 victory over the Texas Rangers. Rice hit his 24th home run to lead off the second inning and added run-scoring singles in third and the fifth.
Gary Carter hits 3 homers and drives in 6 runs as the visiting Mets down the Padres, 8–3. Carter hit his three home runs in his first three times at bat, and it was the second time in his career that he had done it. He had a shot at tying the major league record of four in a game, but he grounded into a double play in the seventh inning and was waiting on deck in the ninth when Hernandez struck out to end the inning. Darryl Strawberry adds a homer as the Pads answer with three solo shots. As a result, the Mets made a winner of Rick Aguilera and stayed one game on the heels of the St. Louis Cardinals, who beat the Cincinnati Reds and maintained the pressure in the race in the National League’s East.
Brian Harper pinch-hit a two-run, two-out double to snap a seventh-inning tie tonight and lead the Cardinals past the Cincinnati Reds, 6–4. The victory, only the second in six games for the Cardinals, kept them in first place in the National League East, a game ahead of the Mets. With the score at 4–4, Cesar Cedeno led off the bottom of the seventh with a single against Tom Hume (2–4). Vince Coleman sacrificed Cedeno to second and Willie McGee struck out. Tom Herr was intentionally walked and John Franco, the fifth Cincinnati pitcher, relieved to face Darrell Porter. Harper batted for Porter and lined his two-run double to left.
Orel Hershiser threw a four-hitter for his ninth victory without a loss at home this season and Pedro Guerrero had three hits, including his 32d home run, as Los Angeles defeated Montreal, 4–0. Hershiser (14–3) struck out six, walked one and did not allow a runner past first base in his fifth shutout of the season. The Dodgers took a 1–0 lead in the first when Guerrero singled home Ken Landreaux. Guerrero led off the fourth with a single against Bryn Smith (15–5), who had won eight of his previous nine decisions. Guerrero stole second, took third on a single by Bill Madlock and scored on Mike Scioscia’s groundout. Madlock stole second and scored on a single by Len Matuszek. Bill Laskey relieved Smith to start the sixth inning, and Guerrero drove Laskey’s second pitch over the center-field wall.
A suicide-squeeze bunt by Bill Doran, a pinch-hitter, scored Denny Walling from third base in the 10th inning to give Houston an 8–7 victory at Wrigley Field. Mark Bailey opened the 10th with a single off the Cubs’ George Frazier (7–6), but was forced at second by Walling. Burt Pena singled to left to send Walling to third.
The Phillies topped the Giants, 4–3, in extra innings. Ozzie Virgil opened the 13th inning with his 18th home run of the season to give surging Philadelphia its sixth straight victory. Virgil’s game-winning blast, on a 2–1 pitch from Greg Minton (3–4), bounced high off the foul screen in left field.
Joe Johnson, a rookie, combined with Zane Smith and Bruce Sutter on a five-hitter for Atlanta as the Braves blanked the Pirates, 2–0. Johnson (3–0) allowed leadoff singles to Joe Orsulak in the fourth inning and R. J. Reynolds in the seventh. He left the game after Johnny Ray followed Reynolds’s hit with a fly to the wall in the seventh. Smith relieved and induced Jason Thompson to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Sutter pitched the final two innings, allowing three hits, for his 21st save. The Pirates were shut out for the 18th time this season, tops in the National League.
Oakland Athletics 3, Baltimore Orioles 2
Houston Astros 8, Chicago Cubs 7
California Angels 8, Detroit Tigers 14
Chicago White Sox 2, Kansas City Royals 3
Montreal Expos 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Minnesota Twins 4
Seattle Mariners 3, New York Yankees 6
Atlanta Braves 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
New York Mets 8, San Diego Padres 3
Philadelphia Phillies 4, San Francisco Giants 3
Cincinnati Reds 4, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Boston Red Sox 6, Texas Rangers 4
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1329.19 (-4.82)
Born:
Troy Patton, MLB pitcher (Houston Astros, Baltimore Orioles, San Diego Padres), in Spring, Texas.
Chris Nelson, MLB third baseman and second baseman (Colorado Rockies, New York Yankees, Los Angeles Angels, San Diego Padres), in Econdido, California.
Died:
(Jonathon) “Jo” Jones, 73, American jazz drummer, and percussionist (Count Basie), of pneumonia.
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