If the U.S. proceeds with a test of an anti-satellite weapon, the Kremlin gave notice, Moscow will no longer consider itself bound by its two-year-old commitment not to deploy such weapons. The announcement was couched in a “Tass statement,” a format that signifies an official Government position. Tass, the Soviet press agency, had made a similar threat last month, though in a less authoritative form. The White House last month announced a decision to proceed with the first American test of an anti-satelllite weapon against an object in space. Officials argued that the test was needed to maintain a military balance with the Soviet Union. Tass said Washington’s decision to stage the test “is nothing but an action directly leading to the commencement of the deployment of a new class of dangerous armaments — strike space weapons.”
The Air Force plans to go ahead with a test of a new anti-satellite weapon later this month despite Moscow’s threat to follow suit, the service announced. One source said that the classified test date was “after this week,” and that members of Congress might make a last-ditch attempt to block the test. Both the White House and the Pentagon issued statements saying the Soviet threat to deploy its own anti-satellite weapon had little practical meaning because the Soviet Union already has such a system.
Guerrillas in Northern Ireland fired 18 mortar rounds across a river into a police station and training center, wounding 30 people, and the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility. The attack, in the town of Enniskillen, 85 miles west of Belfast, was launched from a parked truck carrying homemade mortar tubes that were set to fire automatically. The wounded, none of them seriously hurt, included 19 police officers and cadets and 11 civilians.
French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius warned tonight that France would not allow the environmental group Greenpeace to “dictate a defense policy to France.” Asked in a televised interview whether France would combat a Greenpeace-led campaign of protest against French nuclear weapons testing in the Pacific, Mr. Fabius said: “The question is to know whether Greenpeace is an organization known, as was the case four or five years ago, for its honorable struggle to protect baby seals, or is it an organization that claims to dictate a defense policy to France.” Mr. Fabius said the sinking of the flagship of the Greenpeace fleet, the Rainbow Warrior, in Auckland Harbor in July was a “crime.” Two French Secret Service agents have been charged in New Zealand with murder and arson in the attack against the ship, and the New Zealand Government has accused France of responsibility in the affair.
Israel will free within 10 days the last 119 Lebanese detainees whose release was demanded in June by the hijackers of TWA Flight 847, a spokesman for Prime Minister Shimon Peres said. They are the last of almost 1,200 prisoners, most of them Shia Muslims, to be repatriated since their transfer to Israel in April as part of a gradual Israeli military pullout from southern Lebanon. Israeli officials have said they would free the prisoners in accordance with the level of guerrilla activity in the south.
Heavy fighting broke out today for a second consecutive day between Shiite Muslim militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas in and around the largest Palestinian quarter here. The police said 10 people had been killed and 20 wounded. The fighting, which involved heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, was the worst such violence in Beirut since June, when a Syrian-sponsored truce ended large-scale clashes that engulfed all three Palestinian quarters in Beirut’s southern suburbs and left 650 dead. Elsewhere in the country today, a car bomb exploded in the Christian town of Zahle in eastern Lebanon. A Christian radio station said at least 10 people had been killed and 50 wounded in the explosion, which ignited a major fire in a fuel depot.
The Saudis will allow U.S. forces to use Saudi Arabian bases in case of Soviet aggression or if they are unable to handle a Persian Gulf crisis on their own, according to a confidential Administration report. The disclosure came in a 17-page summary of a longer policy study on American Middle East arms sales. The summary, classified as secret, had been conveyed to members of Congress in recent weeks by Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs. The policy study, put together largely by the State Department, was ordered by the White House last winter to provide a justification for the expected sale of advanced military equipment to Saudi Arabia and Jordan this fall, according to Administration officials. President Reagan approved it in early July, the officials said.
Tunisia has halted all cooperation with Libya, including trade relations, as the result of Libya’s expulsion of about 30,000 Tunisian workers during the past month, Premier Mohammed Mzali announced in Tunis. Stopping short of a complete break in diplomatic ties, Mzali said he has decided to recall the remaining 60,000 workers and demanded that Libya reimburse those ousted earlier for any confiscated possessions. He also said that a number of Libyans have been arrested and have admitted planning sabotage operations. Tunisia expelled 283 Libyans last month, accusing them of spying.
A prominent local politician and member of the governing Congress Party was shot and killed along with his bodyguard here this morning by three gunmen who escaped on a motor scooter. The police described the incident, in which six others were badly wounded, as a terrorist killing, the second such attack directed at a Congress Party activist in New Delhi in five weeks. The victim today was Arjun Das, a 46-year-old member of the Metropolitan Council, first elected to the post in 1972. The incident appeared to be part of a wave of renewed killings and assassinations that has developed with the approach of elections in the state of Punjab on September 25. On Tuesday, the police said that suspected terrorists killed three people and wounded eight others in separate shooting attacks in that state. Two weeks ago, gunmen assassinated Harchand Singh Longowal, a centrist Sikh political leader.
China today officially welcomed the announced resignation of Pol Pot, the head of the Communist Cambodian rebel group known as the Khmer Rouge. A Foreign Ministry spokesman, Ma Yuzhen, referred to the move as a “personnel change” and added, “It appears such a move will be conducive to unity among the Kampuchean people and will enhance their struggle to resist Vietnamese aggression and save the country.”
When Richard M. Nixon visited a Chinese college campus today it was reminiscent of his best moments on the presidential campaign trail, with people mobbing him with requests for autographs or a touch of the hand. The former President, beaming, had to wait while accompanying Chinese officials cleared a path for him out of an auditorium where he had addressed several hundred students and faculty members. “Thank you, thank you, thank you very much,” he said as he disappeared inside a Red Flag limousine of the kind commonly used by China’s top leaders. Mr. Nixon, 72 years old, is on his fourth visit here as a private citizen, but it is for his first visit, as President in 1972, that he is appreciated by Chinese. The visit ended more than two decades of estrangement between China and the United States and launched a relationship that has been carefully fostered by both sides.
Mexico has expelled 13 American evangelical preachers and six of their children, reportedly accusing them of violating the country’s laws governing the exercise of religion. A U.S. Embassy spokesman confirmed the expulsion order but gave no details. The national. newspaper Excelsior said the ouster was at the request of authorities in Veracruz. By law, only nativeborn citizens can preach a religion in Mexico, and exceptions are rarely granted to foreigners.
At least 5,000 students at Mexico’s National University of Chihuahua, demanding that the president step down because of alleged misuse of funds, hijacked 80 city buses and taxis and threatened to burn them, police said. The students in Chihuahua City, 900 miles northwest of Mexico City, are demanding a complete accounting of the university’s $14-million annual budget and the resignation of President Humberto de las Casas for alleged “abuses of authority,” news reports said.
A major fire broke out in a munitions storage dump near Havana and killed nine workers, civil defense officials said. They said the victims are all believed to be military personnel. The Cuban government news agency Prensa Latina reported that the fire, “of considerable proportions,” broke out in the dump in the Jaruco-San Jose area of Havana province, a few miles from the capital.
The House intelligence panel’s chief said the involvement of a ranking member of the National Security Council with Nicaraguan rebels may have violated United States law. The chairman, Representative Lee H. Hamilton, said the committee would begin hearings September 17 to investigate the relationship between the rebels and the council. He said the hearings would also examine how the Reagan Administration plans to spend the $27 million in nonmilitary aid to the rebels approved by Congress just before its August recess. Administration officials have acknowledged that the National Security Council official, Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North, has been involved in some rebel activities and assisted in some private fund raising, including using a Government plane in Central America and elsewhere. In addition, a senior Administration official has said Colonel North gave military advice to the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel group.
Eighty Honduran Army soldiers entered a United Nations camp for Salvadoran refugees here last week and killed two refugees, wounded 13 and beat 25 others with rifle butts and kicks, according to international relief officials from four relief organizations that work in the camp. The attack was thought to be the first in which the army of a host country had killed and wounded refugees in a United Nations camp in Latin America. Both Honduras and the United States Embassy have charged that the camp, only six miles from the border, is used as a rest area by Salvadoran guerrillas. The army said in a statement that it had entered the camp seeking guerrillas.
Bolivian Government and commercial activity was paralyzed today as workers began a 48-hour general strike to protest government economic measures aimed at controlling the highest inflation rate in the world. The Bolivian Workers’ Central, which represents most of the Bolivian labor force, voted at a meeting Tuesday evening to call the strike. The union threatened to strike indefinitely unless the month-old conservative Government of President Victor Paz Estenssoro revises its economic program.
Thousands of Chileans joined the biggest day of anti-government protests here in nearly a year today. One death was reported, a 16-year-old youth who was slain at a community center guarded by government troops. The circumstances of his death are unclear. At least 15 people, including an 11-year-old boy, were injured slightly in skirmishes with the police or when demonstrators tried to stop buses. The police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse scattered demonstrators in the downtown area, and most shops did not reopen in the afternoon. By the end of the day more than 200 people had been arrested. Demonstrations and the early closing of shops were reported in several other major cities.
Peace talks between Uganda’s military regime and the country’s main guerrilla group resumed, with both sides expressing eagerness to end bloodshed in the East African country. Two days of inconclusive talks, overseen by Kenya’s President Daniel Arap Moi, were held last week under a news blackout. The Ugandan army ousted the government of President Milton Obote on July 27, and the National Resistance Army is the only major guerrilla group that has not come to terms with the new regime.
Cape Town policemen clashed with demonstrators in the city center. It was the first such violence in a city center since widespread unrest began in South Africa’s black townships a year ago. Five people were reported arrested in the clashes. According to witnesses, policemen whipped young mixed-race demonstrators when as many as 250 of them walked along one street and threatened to disrupt shopping in a business area.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting to discuss South Africa.
President Reagan meets with Secretary of State George Shultz to discuss sanctions against South Africa.
President Reagan declared the Mississippi coast ravaged by Hurricane Elena a disaster area, making the thousands of persons who lost homes and businesses in the 125 mph storm eligible for federal aid. The Federal Emergency Management Agency reported that the Labor Day storm damaged or destroyed 3,790 dwellings and 1,400 businesses in the three counties along Mississippi’s 80-mile Gulf Coast. The agency said 3,000 homes were damaged so severely they are uninhabitable and temporary housing must be found for the occupants. Homeowners may borrow up to $100,000 for repairs for businesses and up to $20,000 for personal property.
Health and Human Services Secretary Margaret M. Heckler, predicting that generic substitutes for prescription drugs will save all Americans money, said she would encourage doctors and patients to consider switching from name-brand medications. Heckler made her statement as she announced that Valium, the nation’s fourth best-selling drug, had been approved for generic marketing as diazepam.
Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum (D-Ohio) said he has grave doubts that acting Assistant Attorney General Richard Willard is qualified to head the Justice Department’s Civil Division and has asked for renewed Senate confirmation hearings. Metzenbaum said the Senate Judiciary Committee should look further into what role Willard played in a decision to accept a plea bargain with Ely Lilly & Co. offiIcers who failed to report deaths associated with Oraflex, a purported anti-arthritic drug for which they were seeking government approval.
A group of House Democrats has started a bid to force revision of the $302.5-billion defense authorization bill already accepted by the Senate. About 25 members, most of them liberal Democrats, have signed a letter complaining that House negotiators gave away the best of the original House bill in talks with the Senate on a compromise bill. Their letter asks that the bill be returned to the conference committee for revision.
Negligence by air traffic controllers helped cause last month’s crash of a Delta Air Lines jumbo jet at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport that killed 135 persons, the airline said in court papers. Delta named the Federal Aviation Administration a party to a suit against the airline filed by the wife of a passenger killed in the August 2 crash of Flight 191. Cynthia Zoe Dahl, 35, of Sandy, Utah, filed the suit against Delta, alleging negligence on the part of the airline. Dahl’s husband, Steven Bradley Dahl, 36, died in the crash. Delta filed a petition on August 29 charging the crash was “caused by the negligence of the one or more air traffic control personnel.”
Public alarm over the loss of jobs to heavy imports could prompt Congress to defy President Reagan and adopt restrictive trade legislation this fall, according to Congressional leaders of both parties. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. told a news conference that “there’s going to be some kind of trade bill.” The Senate will reconvene on Monday. Representative Dick Cheney of Wyoming, a member of the Republican leadership, agreed with the Speaker and said: “I think members are coming back with strong feelings that the people out there are demanding action on the trade deficit. It’s more widespread as an issue than I’ve ever seen it.”
The farm credit agency, overseer of the nation’s vast farmer-owned banking system, is considering asking the Reagan Administration for a multibillion-dollar rescue from a pile-up of bad loans and the system’s first losses, according to agency officials. Loan defaults among farm borrowers have become so widespread that Administration officials may decide to recommend some sort of intervention to President Reagan. “The feeling is we’re going to have to do something,” said the official, who asked not to be named.
A rule requiring comparable pay for performing jobs of comparable worth was overturned by a Federal appeals court. The appellate court said the State of Washington did not have to offer women equal pay for such jobs. “Neither law nor logic deems the free market a suspect enterprise,” the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said in reversing a decision that could have provided as much as $1 billion to 15,500 workers. A three-member panel of the court said Federal laws banning sex discrimination in employment did not require an employer to provide equal pay for different jobs, even if the employer’s own studies say the jobs have the same value.
Drug-enforcement officers here and in Hong Kong have arrested eight men described as major Japanese crime figures and seized a large amount of heroin and other drugs, Federal officials announced Tuesday. United States Attorney Daniel Bent said the operation “appears to be the most significant prosecution of Japanese crime” in the United States. Masashi Takenaka, one of three suspects arrested Monday in Honolulu, was identified by the authorities here as the head of Japan’s largest organized crime syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, based in Osaka. The two other men arrested here, Toyohiko Itoh and Kiyoshi Kajita, also hold high rank in the Osaka criminal organization, officials said.
A Chicago teachers’ strike ended on its second day with the mediation efforts of Gov. James R. Thompson. A new two-year contract between the Board of Education and the 28,000-member Chicago Teachers Union provides a pay increase of 6 percent this year, plus 3 percent next fall that would have to be financed by the Illinois legislature.
The suspect in a series of killings that terrorized Los Angeles for months has been linked by fingerprints to the slaying of a 79-year-old woman in 1984, Police Chief Daryl Gates said today. Chief Gates said fingerprints of the suspect, Richard Ramirez, matched those at the victim’s home. Investigators, meanwhile, hunted for a pistol that Mr. Ramirez is believed to have dropped. The authorities say the weapon is crucial evidence in the 14 slayings in what has come to be known here as the “Night Stalker” case.
A judge in Decatur, Georgia, ordered the controversial “Presidential Parkway” to the Jimmy Carter Library abandoned, saying Atlanta had no right to give parts of parks designed by a renowned architect to the state for the road. The ruling by DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger voided a deed conveying the park land to the state for the 22-mile road linking downtown Atlanta to Carter’s presidential library.
Thousands of gallons of hydrochloric acid leaked from a ruptured storage tank at a factory at Canton, Ohio, forcing about 1,000 persons to flee and canceling classes at four nearby schools, authorities said. About 2,000 to 4,000 gallons of the toxic acid spilled from the tank at Gregory Galvanizing Co., a metalplating firm, Canton Police Chief Thomas Wyatt said. The residents began returning shortly after 11 AM after work crews contained the leak and neutralized the acid.
The condition of a 13-year-old boy barred from school because he has AIDS improved today, two days after he was admitted to a hospital, according to officials, who did not disclose his symptoms. The boy, Ryan White of Kokomo, a seventh-grader, was admitted Monday to Riley Hospital for Children, Rena I. Brown of the hospital said. Ryan, a hemophiliac, contracted the disease, acquired immune deficiency syndrome, through a blood transfusion, his mother says.
The chief scientist of the team that found the steamship Titanic says he plans to return to the site, possibly next summer, to inspect the wreckage close up in a small submarine, according to a telephone conversation made public today. The scientist, Dr. Robert Ballard of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, speaking in a separate interview today on the “CBS Morning News” program, also said a remotely controlled camera had yielded vivid color pictures of wine bottles, undamaged plates and a small flagpole “still standing there totally pristine” on the bow of the ship, which Dr. Ballard has said is resting upright more than 12,000 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Ballard told associates at Woods Hole on Tuesday that he planned to examine the ship from the Alvin, a three-man, deep-water research submarine, according to a transcript of a telephone call from the Navy vessel Knorr that was made available today. The wreckage of the ocean liner was discovered Sunday by a team of French and American explorers using cameras aboard an unmanned underwater craft, the Argo, to perform an preliminary exploration of the hulk.
The Supreme Court, in a rare reversal, has indefinitely postponed the execution of Willie Jasper Darden and granted a full review of his conviction for killing a businessman in a holdup that netted him $15. The Court’s decision came at 11:59 PM Tuesday, seven hours before Mr. Darden was to die in the electric chair at Florida State Prison here. The High Court, by a vote of 5 to 4, first denied Mr. Darden’s motion for an emergency stay of execution. Justices William J. Brennan Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun and John Paul Stevens dissented.
Sulfite-preserved food has been linked to two more deaths. Federal agencies are investigating the deaths of a California woman who ate commercially prepared potatoes and a Texas man who drank white wine. The two deaths were caused by extreme asthmatic reaction.
A strike against Hormel is the latest turn in a yearlong struggle over the meat-processing company’s wage levels and concession demands in Austin, Minn. The company’s headquarters and flagship meatpacking plant have been the foundation of the town’s economy for decades, and the strike is having a devastating impact on the town’s economy.
Russian Igor Paklin sets new high jump world record at 2.41 meters in Kobe, Japan.
Fourth-seeded Miss Shriver was stunned in the quarterfinals of the U.S. Open by 16-year-old Steffi Graf of West Germany, who is seeded 11th, in a match that was undoubtedly the most exciting and best-played of the tournament. Each set was decided by a tiebreaker, and the final point — a backhand volley by Miss Shriver that landed just wide — was not played until 2 hours 46 minutes after the match began.
Christa McAuliffe, the Concord, New Hampshire, high school teacher who will fly on the space shuttle Challenger, told colleagues she has a T-shirt — a gift from a fellow teacher — bearing the message “I touch the future. I teach.” She really appreciates that sentiment. “That T-shirt’s going to go with me,” she said. In a farewell appearance before 300 Concord School District teachers, McAuliffe said she hopes the mission inspires children to prepare for a future in space. The future astronaut, 37, a mother of two, begins training Monday at the Johnson Space Center in Houston in preparation for her shuttle flight and blastoff aboard the Challenger next January. Educators gave McAuliffe a standing ovation and school officials showered her with gifts during the light-hearted program. Superintendent Mark Beauvais gave McAuliffe a globe and said it was “something to ensure that Christa finds her way back.” She will keep a journal during the six-day mission to help her students and the public understand space travel. She also plans to teach three 15-minute lessons from the shuttle. With regular shuttle flights and plans to establish a permanent space station in the 1990s, McAuliffe said, she hopes her mission will help students prepare for that future. “That’s where these kids are going to be going,” McAuliffe said. “It’s going to be a space age and kids really need to get ready for that.”
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Storm Davis pitched a five-hitter for his fourth consecutive victory, and Cal Ripken, Floyd Rayford and Mike Young hit bases-empty home runs to lead Baltimore to a 6–1 victory over Oakland. Davis (9–7), came within two outs of his second straight shutout, but Oakland’s Bruce Bochte hit his 11th home run with one out in the ninth. Don Sutton (13–8), who was trying for his 294th career triumph, took the loss.
The Yankees moved closer last night to the Toronto Blue Jays than they have been all season as they completed a three-game sweep of the Seattle Mariners at Yankee Stadium. The 4–3 triumph, the Yankees’ fifth straight, moved them only two and a half games behind the Blue Jays, who lost last night to the Cleveland Indians. Though the victory was not a thing of beauty, it did allow Manager Billy Martin to win a gamble on his pitching staff. Martin pulled Rich Bordi out of his bullpen doghouse and gave him his first start of this season. Tonight, with one starter hurt and the ace reliever in need of rest, Martin threw Bordi into the fray and the 26-year old right-hander responded with an excellent performance — allowing only one run and six hits in six and two-thirds innings.
Light-hitting Otis Nixon slammed a tie-breaking two-run homer in the ninth inning tonight to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 5–4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Toronto’s lead in the American League East was reduced to two and a half games over the Yankees. Two Cleveland relievers pitched out of a bases-loaded, none-out jam in the bottom of the ninth after the Blue Jays had pulled to 5–4. With the score 3–3, Brook Jacoby opened the ninth against the Toronto relief ace, Tom Henke (3–2), with a single. Nixon, a switch hitter who was batting .231 entering the game, then lined a shot over the right-field fence for his third homer of the season.
The Angels downed the Tigers, 5–2, as Brian Downing belted a two-run homer to back the combined seven-hit pitching of John Candelaria and Donnie Moore. Candelaria, who has a 4–1 mark since the Angels acquired him in a trade with the Pittsburgh Pirates on August 2, allowed one run and five hits in six innings. The loser, Jack Morris (14–9), gave up only three hits but four runs in seven innings. Nelson Simmons gave the Tigers a 1–0 lead in the fifth inning when he reached on an infield hit, went to third on a two-out double by Doug Flynn and scored on Alan Trammell’s infield hit. Rod Carew worked Morris for a two-out walk in the California sixth and came home on Downing’s 18th home run, a shot into the lower deck in left field on the first pitch.
Luis Salazar, Chicago’s left fielder, misjudged a fly ball down the line by Pat Sheridan for an error with two outs in the 10th inning, allowing Darryl Motley to score from third base and give Kansas City a 6–5 victory over the White Sox. Kansas City completed a three-game sweep of the White Sox to stay a game and a half back of first-place California in the American League West. Motley, who made a brilliant inning-ending diving catch of a fly ball to left by Bryan Little with a runner on third in Chicago’s 10th, opened Kansas City’s half of the inning with a double off Bob James (6–6). One out later, Buddy Biancalana walked. Motley advanced to third on a John Wathan fly ball to deep center, and Salazar then misplayed Sheridan’s fly.
Rick Manning drove in four runs, three with his second homer of the season, and Cecil Cooper collected his 1,000th career run batted in with a two-run shot as Milwaukee outslugged Minnesota, winning 11–10.
One night after he hit three home runs in a game, Gary Carter hit two more tonight and muscled his way into several lines in the baseball records as the Mets completed a three-game sweep over the San Diego Padres, crushing the Pads, 9–2. The 31-year-old, $2-million-a-year catcher continued his remarkable roll with a home run in the second inning, a single that scored a run in the fifth and another home run in the seventh. In two nights of ceaseless bombardment here, he hit five home runs and a single and knocked in nine runs. In six games in California in the last week, he had 14 hits in 25 times at bat for a .560 average, he whacked eight home runs and drove in 13 runs. And he now has 25 home runs in his first season since the Mets traded four young players to the Montreal Expos to get him. Carter tied the Major League record of 5 home runs in 2 games. He is the 13th player to accomplish the feat.
The St. Louis Cardinals rallied for two runs in the ninth inning tonight on a double by Andy Van Slyke, a two-base error by the shortstop Dave Concepcion and a game-winning single by Mike Jorgensen to beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4–3. The Cardinals maintained their one-game lead over the Mets in the National League East. Meanwhile, the Reds fell 8 ½ games behind the first-place Dodgers in the National League West after a rally of their own had given them a 3–2 lead in the eighth.
Greg Brock hit a bases-empty homer and added a run-scoring single as Los Angeles beat fading Montreal, 4–2. Bob Welch (10–3) pitched seven and two-thirds innings then needed relief from Tom Niedenfuer, who earned his 15th save. John Dopson (0–1), making his first major league start, was the loser.
The Pirates blanked the Braves, 2–0, as Rick Reuschel pitched a three-hitter. Reuschel (11–7), pitched his fifth straight complete game and first shutout of the season. R.J. Reynolds, in his second game with the Pirates, tripled in the winning run in the fifth inning. He also had a double and stole a base. In two games with the Pirates, Reynolds, who was part of the deal that sent Bill Madlock to the Dodgers, is 4 for 7.
The Astros walloped the Cubs, 11–6. Injuries and players not playing like they did last season have dropped the defending Eastern Division champion Chicago Cubs into fifth place. Pinch-hitters did the job for the Astros. Jerry Mumphrey doubled in two runs in the sixth and another pinch-hitter, Tim Tolman, later in the same inning, hit a three-run home run to put Houston in front. Mumphrey stayed in the game and hit a three-run homer in the seventh to turn the game into a rout.
The Giants put a dramatic end to the Phillies’ six-game winning streak in this game at San Francisco, as the Giants won it 4–3 on a walk-off home run. With one out in the bottom of the ninth and the Giants trailing, 3–1, right fielder Rob Deer hit a three-run shot. Kevin Gross had a four-hitter going into the ninth, but Deer made him a loser.
Oakland Athletics 1, Baltimore Orioles 6
Houston Astros 11, Chicago Cubs 6
California Angels 5, Detroit Tigers 2
Chicago White Sox 5, Kansas City Royals 6
Montreal Expos 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Milwaukee Brewers 11, Minnesota Twins 10
Seattle Mariners 3, New York Yankees 4
Atlanta Braves 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
New York Mets 9, San Diego Padres 2
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Francisco Giants 4
Cincinnati Reds 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Cleveland Indians 5, Toronto Blue Jays 4
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Born:
Kaillie Humphries, Canadian-American bobsledder (Olympic gold 2-woman [Canada], 2010, 14; monobob [USA], 2022), in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Brandon Myers, NFL tight end (Oakland Raiders, New York Giants, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Prarie City, Iowa.
David Herndon, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), in Panama City, Florida.
Died:
George O’Brien, 85, American actor (“Sunrise: A Song of Two Human”), of a stroke.
Isabel Jeans, 93, English actress (“Suspicion”, “Easy Virtue”, “Tovarich”).
Robert McCormick, 74, American NBC newscaster (“Current Opinion”).
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