In Sacramento, California, Lynette Fromme, a follower of jailed cult leader Charles Manson, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but was thwarted by United States Secret Service agent Larry M. Buendorf. Fromme was three feet away from the President as he walked through a crowd near the California State Capitol building at 10:00 am local time, pointed a .45 caliber automatic pistol at his chest and pulled the trigger, but had failed to operate the slide mechanism to put a cartridge into the firing chamber. Buendorf would report later that Fromme, realizing her mistake, said, “Oh, shit, it didn’t go off; it didn’t go off.” The woman was identified as Lynette Alice Fromme, a 26-year-old former associate of Charles Manson, the leader of a group convicted of murdering Sharon Tate, an actress, and six others in 1969. Mr. Ford delivered his speech, in which he urged a nationwide effort to curb rising violent crime. Fromme would serve 34 years in prison, and would be released, at age 60, on August 14, 2009.
The White House said that Lynette Alice Fromme, who was charged with the attempted assassination of President Ford, was not on the Secret Service computer list of persons regarded as a potential danger to the President’s security. The chief spokesman for the Secret Service, John W. Warner Jr., would not comment on how Miss Fromme was able to get so close to Mr. Ford with a gun despite all its security precautions, which have been increased many times since the assassination of President Kennedy. Fromme, the 26‐year‐old woman charged with the attempted murder of President Ford, was one of the earliest and most devoted followers of Charles M. Manson, who became a national symbol or senseless violence after a series of ritualistic murders in 1969 by members of his cult.
Miss Fromme was not one of those convicted with Mr. Manson in 1971 for the murders of Sharon Tate, the actress, and six other persons. But she was one of his most vociferous defenders throughout the seven-month‐long trial in Los Angeles, and she has since become the leader of the remnants of the Manson hippie “family.” Law enforcement authorities said yesterday that Miss Fromme had been arrested more than a dozen times on various charges ranging from drug possession and petty theft to robbery and murder. But, they said, she had been convicted only of some minor charges and had spent only a few months in jail. The murder charge was filed in Stockton, California, in 1972 in the death of a 19‐year‐old woman whose body was found buried under a house where Miss Fromme had been living.; This charge was subsequently reduced, then dismissed for insufficient evidence, the authorities said. Since February, she and another member of the former communal band, Sandra Good, have been living in Sacramento — where yesterday she confronted the President with a pistol — and have reportedly been seeking help from California State officials to get permission to visit Mr. Manson in prison.
General Vasco Gonçalves, forced out as Premier of Portugal a week ago because of his pro-Communist leanings, was stripped of all authority. Facing the open defiance of the army and the air force as well as the opposition of the major political parties, General Gonçalves on his own gave up his appointment as Chief of Staff of the armed forces. In addition, a communique signed by President Francisco da Costa Gomes announced that General Gonçalves had, been dropped from the High Council of the Revolution, the policy‐making body of the Armed Forces Movement.
The sudden break in the long and frequently violent crisis over the presence of General Gonçalves in the nation’s leadership came tonight at the military base of Tancos, 80 miles north of Lisbon. The decisions made there appeared to open the way for the formation of a broadly based Cabinet, which the Premier‐designate, Vice Admiral Jose Pinheiro de Azevedo, has been trying to negotiate over the last week. A general assembly of the armed forces was to have decided the fate of General Gonçalves at Tancos, but when President Costa Gomes arrived there this afternoon, he found only the navy willing to cooperate with him.
Socialist leaders from five European democracies met here today and, in tones of both frustration and hope, pledged financial and moral support to the cause of “democracy and Socialism” in Portugal. The five leaders, who were joined by Mârio Soares, the Socialist party leader in Portugal, met for two hours at 10 Downing Street. At a news conference later, the new chairman of the group, Willy Brandt of West Germany, read a statement committing the group to a program of “friendship and solidarity” with Portuguese Socialists but ruling out interference in Portugal’s internal affairs. “The great amount of goodwill which the rapid decolonization and the elimination of the fascist regime have created must not be erased by indifference for the wishes of a majority of the Portuguese people,” the statement said in part. This was a clear reference to the effective exclusion of Mr. Soares from the Government despite the Socialists’ strong showing in April’s elections for a constituent assembly with 38 percent of the vote. The participants, along with Mr. Soares and Mr. Brandt, were Prime Minister Harold Wilson, Premier Olof Palme of Sweden, Premier Joop M. den Uyl of the Netherlands and François Mitterrand, leader of the French Socialist party.
The London Hilton hotel was bombed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army, killing 2 people and injuring 63. The Hilton was filled to capacity with 750 guests, many of them American tourists. The bombing was one of a number in London in the last two weeks, and some officials believe a fringe group of the Irish Republican Army was responsible.
Premier Yitzhak Rabin declared today that there was “virtually no chance” for an interim agreement with Syria and indicated that there was a difference of opinion on that issue with the United States. In a wide‐ranging interview recorded for broadcast tomorrow, Mr. Rabin offered a sober sometimes somber, assessment of the year to come. Rosh hashanah, the Jewish New Year, began this evening. Mr. Rabin based his skepticism about an agreement with Syria on three factors. The first, he said, was the existence of Israeli settlements in the Golan Heights area conquered from Syria in 1967. Mr. Rabin said the settlements “were not established in order to be evacuated” by the government. “In an interim settlement none of us even imagines adversely affecting any existing settlement on the Golan Heights,” the Premier declared. Secondly, Mr. Rabin said that Israel would not agree “under any circumstances” to change in the demilitarized status of the region of Mount Hermon, at the northern end of the United Nations‐supervised buffer zone. Thirdly, the Premier said, the room for maneuver in certain parts of the occupied territory was between 100 and 200 yards. “I find it difficult,” he said, “to assume that anyone can conceive that it is possible on such a basis to conclude an interim settlement.”
The Ford Administration has drafted and sent to Congress the resolution sanctioning the stationing of Americans in Sinai, Capitol Hill sources said today. The President and Secretary of State Kissinger asked Congressional leaders yesterday for formal approval within two and a half weeks for placing the technicians at the Sinai surveillance posts. Mr. Kissinger said the withdrawal of Israeli troops from their advanced positions, and indeed the whole Egyptian-Israeli agreement that was signed in Geneva yesterday, hinged on Congressional approval within the time period. But the Congressional sources, who are knowledgeable on foreign affairs, said that some members of the committees that must approve the resolution consider its language far too vague. They said that the issue threatens to delay the carrying out of the accord.
With President Anwar el‐Sadat openly inviting an American role in Egypt and attacking the Russians for “splitting the Arab ranks,” the Soviet Union’s position In the Middle East appears to have fallen to a new low point. The ebbing of Soviet influence began well before Secretary of State Kissinger’s latest shuttle diplomacy. Some date it to July, 1972, when Mr. Sadat expelled Russian military advisers. But the Sinai disengagement accord arranged by Mr. Kissinger in a watershed in the Soviet‐American struggle for influence in the Middle East, according to foreign and Arab informants in a number of capitals. “They don’t like the Russians,” commented one Western diplomat, generalizing about Arab attitudes. “They don’t like their trucks or their jeeps. I think it’s only a matter of time before they throw them all out.” This may overstate the case. The Russians remain entrenched in Iraq and Syria and they have struck closer ties with Libya and the Palestine Liberation Organizations. But their decline in influence is undeniable.
Syria today termed the new Israeli‐Egyptian agreement “strange and shameful” and announced its third military maneuvers in less than a week. Al Beath, the newspaper of the ruling Baath Socialist party, accused President Anwar el-Sadat of “sacrificing the blood of thousands of martyrs” who died in the October, 1973, Arab-Israeli war. It was the strongest Syrian condemnation of Egypt so far. “It is amazing that the great crossing of the Suez Canal and the destruction of the Israeli Bar‐Lev line — the greatest achievement of the Arabs in modern history — should become the subject of condemnation in Sadat’s mouth when he agreed to the latest Sinai accord,” the newspaper said.
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said here today that she did not want India’s state of emergency to remain in force for very long but stressed that discipline had to become a permanent feature of Indian life. Speaking to a group of teachers, Mrs. Gandhi said the state of emergency, declared on June 26, had resulted in considerable discipline. It had to be either self‐imposed or forced on people as in China, she said, but here people should learn discipline themselves.
Prince Souvanna Phouma, the neutralist Premier of Laos, says he plans to retire from politics after general elections for a new national assembly are held next April. “I have worked hard enough for my country, and the coming elections will mean that the political problems of Laos have been resolved and that my task is completed,” the Prince said in an interview today. The prince, who will be 74 next month, had a heart attack a year ago. He has been Premier, off and on, since 1951.
Forces of the leftwing Timorese Liberation Front seeking independence for Portuguese Timor were reported today to be fanning out from the capital, Dili, and threatening to cut off troops of a rival organization. Informed sources here said that the Front’s fighters, now said to be in control of Dili, had advanced to within 37 miles of the city of Vila Salazar. A local commander of the rival Timorese Democratic Union issued an SOS from Vila Salazar calling for outside help to evacuate personnel from the city. The sources said the commander, in a message monitored by Indonesian warships, specifically asked for help from the ships that he said steamed along the nearby coast every day.
Major Roberto Augustin Varas, one of the leaders of an unsuccessful military rebellion against the Government of Ecuadorian President Guillermo Rodriguez Lara on Monday, left Quito today for exile in Chile, the Foreign Ministry announced. Major Varas had sought refuge in the Chilean Embassy here with the leader of the rebellion, General Raul González Alvear. There was no word on when General González would be allowed to leave the country. President Rodriguez said Wednesday that the govenment would grant him a safe conduct to leave Ecuador.
Eight persons were killed in three separate incidents in political violence in Argentina today. Five bullet‐riddled bodies were found near the city of La Plata, 40 miles southeast of Buenos Aires, an army officer and a soldier were killed by leftist guerrillas in northern Tucumán province, and a passer‐by was killed when guerrillas attacked a sports complex near Buenos Aires. The police said that the nude bodies of three women and two men — all municipal workers in La Plata — had been found by a fisherman on a lonely beach near the city where there have been similar killings in recent months. In Tucumán a lieutenant and a soldier were killed in a guerrilla ambush. In the Buenos Aires suburb of San Martin, shots were fired and bombs thrown from three passing cars, killing the passerby and wounding two police guards, the police said.
Rebel army officers seized the state radio station in Khartoum, Sudan early today and announced that the government had been overthrown, but the uprising was crushed within hours by loyalist troops. It was the second attempt to overthrow the Government of President Gaafar al‐Nimeiry since he himself seized power in May, 1969. The previous coup attempt against him was staged in July, 1971, by leftist officers and was beaten down in three days. The fighting today swirled around the radio station, which is in Omdurman, across the Nile from Khartoum, and around army headquarters and the presidential palace here. It ended with a tank‐led assault that recaptured the station.
Employment in the nation continued to improve somewhat in August, mainly for experienced workers, but inflationary pressures that pushed wholesale prices up 0.8 percent got worse during the month, according to the Labor Department. The overall unemployment rate was unchanged from July at 8.4 percent of the total work force, but the number of employed persons, especially those on regular business payrolls, increased significantly. In addition, the unemployment rate for adult men and for persons of both sexes who are heads of households, declined.
Officials of three municipal organizations said that mayors across the nation have expressed fear of the impact that a New York City default would have on their own cities, including an expected curtailment of programs. Meanwhile, Representative Henry Reuss, Democrat of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee, proposed a seven-point program to help New York and other cities in financial trouble. His proposals include an emergency federal loan to New York City and immediate action by the Federal Reserve Board to accept any city notes and bonds now held by banks.
Local United Mine Workers union officials today pledged a back-to-work movement in the coalfields and urged the union to act against those who have continued the 26-day unauthorized strike. Some 250 elected officials from the union’s Charleston-based District 17, meeting in a stormy two‐hour session in the heart of the strike‐bound Appalachian coalfields, agreed to return to work and called for punishment of union members who have spread the strike. The union’s president, Arnold Miller, and its secretary treasurer, Harry Patrick, flew into Charleston to meet with local union officials in south West Virginia, the heart of the strike area. The meeting came as the strike spread across the state’s border into Pennsylvania. In all, 37,000 of West Virginia’s 50,000 miners, 900 miners in Pennsylvania and several hundred in eastern Kentucky refused to work. Yesterday, there were reports of violence as armed pickets interrupted scattered local antistrike movements. And several officials at the meeting spoke of fearing violence by pickets.
A House subcommittee gave approval today to a bill that would extend amnesty to draft resisters and soldiers who defied orders or deserted because of their opposition to the war in Indochina. The amnesty would be conditioned strictly on opposition to the war. Those seeking amnesty would have to sign a certificate stating that was the reason for their actions. The bill would also allow the release of people now serving alternative service under President Ford’s amnesty program. The measure was approved by a 4‐to‐1 voice vote in the House Civil Liberties Subcommittee. The chairman, Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier, Democrat of Wisconsin, said. he was “not sanguine” about the bill’s prospects for approval by Congress. But he said he believed it had a chance.
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has warned that Vice President Rockefeller’s plan to create a $100-billion energy loan corporation “creates a large potential for real or perceived corrupt practices.” The unusually outspoken attack on the proposed Energy Resources Finance Corporation was made by Mr. Greenspan in a three‐page memorandum, dated last Friday, a copy of which has been obtained by The New York Times. Mr. Greenspan said his primary objection to the quasipublic corporation — which has come to be known as ERFCO — is that it “would be virtually unconstrained in its operations.” “There are realistically no limits to the types of projects it can assist, and virtually no limits as to the kind and amount of assistance it can offer,” he added.
The Senate, in a display of fiscal restraint toward a politically popular social program, rejected today a $2.8‐billion school lunch bill because it exceeded the budget guidelines set by Congress. By a vote of 76 to 0, the Senate sent the measure back to a Senate‐House conference to be trimmed. Last month the Senate also rejected, 48 to 42, a $31‐billion m litary procurement bill because it would have pushed defense spending over the limits set in the new Congressional budgetary process. In a brief debate today, Senators stressed that they were being consistent in seeking to apply the same fiscal restraints toward social programs as to defense spending.
The staff of the Federal Trade Commission told Congress today that it doubted that the major oil companies would try, in the continued absence of price controls, to kill off independent refiners in a cost-price squeeze. This estimate, in a staff report submitted to the Senate Interior Committee, ran counter to warnings the committee heard today and yesterday from refiners and their gasoline customers, the nonbranded service stations. The report by the commission’s Bureau of Competition and Bureau of Economics said that more than half of 50 refiners surveyed believed decontrol would shrink their profits. “Several expressed some doubt as to whether they could remain in business following decontrol,” the report said.
Robert S. Strauss, the Democratic National chairman, asserted today that the Republican party was risking “another national political scandal” in its heavy spending on President Ford’s political travels. The Republicans’ $309,000 outlay on Presidential trips so far this year, which the party reported yesterday, is a direct violation. Mr. Strauss declared, of the new $5,000 limit that any committee can spend on a candidate’s nomination. “The Republican National Committee is such a committee, and President Ford is such a candidate,” Mr. Strauss told a news confirence at Democratic headquarters. “He is campaigning for his party’s nomination almost every day. And if you don’t want to take a Democratic chairman’s word for it, ask Ronald Reagan.
A Federal judge signed a 90-day injunction today ordering longshoremen in New Orleans to load ships with grain purchased by the Soviet Union and forbidding the longshoremen’s union to try any evasive tactics. United states District Judge Alvin Rubin’s injunction came after Thomas Gleason, president of the International Longshoremen’s Association, told newsmen in Washington that the injunction may be met by “sickouts.” Judge Rubin’s order barred the union “from participating in or causing, aiding, fostering, directing or permitting their officers, members, agents, representatives or any other person acting in concert with them or under their inducement or persuasion or on their behalf from engaging in any work stoppage or strike in violation of contracts insofar as their actions might in any way interfere with the loading of grain or related products bound for the Soviet Union for the duration of the ‘1975 grain deal’ but no longer than 90 days.”
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will begin on September 16 its first public hearings in an eight-month-long investigaton of the intelligence community, but the content is so secret that the committee would not announce either the subject matter or a full list of witnesses. Several members of the committee privately told their staffs, however, that the subject matter would be “startling” and that it was “urgent” that it be dealt with quickly. Speculation on the subject was heightened today because the committee met privately with Carl Duckett, director of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Science and Technology Division.
One of the principal government agencies charged with enforcing laws against employment discrimination has been accused of discrimination against its own minority workers. Black employees in the Atlanta regional office of the United States Labor Department have charged in a complaint to the regional director that the agency has discriminated against blacks, and especially black women.
The American Civil Liberties Union said Thursday it had filed suit to require the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration to cut off funding to police departments that discriminate against blacks or women. Details of the suit, filed in United States District Court in Washington, were announced at a news conference in Manhattan by an A.C.L.U. staff counsel, Richard Larson. The suit seeks injunctive relief as well as $10,000 in damages for each of 12 plaintiffs.
More than a half dozen advertisers withdrew their commercials from last night’s CBS telecast of a news documentary on hunting after receiving calls from the National Rifle Association and hunting groups around the country. The 90-minute documentary, “The Guns of Autumn,” depicted hunting as a recreational activity and had graphic scenes of the killing of animals. CBS said the calls were “clearly a campaign to intimidate the advertiser.”
Friday, September 5, 1975
Major League Baseball:
Burt Hooton posted his ninth straight victory with batting support from Lee Lacy and Steve Yeager, who hit two-run homers as the Dodgers defeated the Braves, 5–2. Lacy’s smash, breaking a 1–1 tie, came in the sixth inning after a triple by Davey Lopes. Steve Garvey singled and was forced by John Hale before Yeager hit his homer in the ninth.
Mike Vail and Dave Kingman each homered with a man on base to power the Mets to a 5–2 victory over the Cardinals. Vail also drove in the Mets’ other run with a single. Tom Seaver, who pitched six innings, posted his 21st victory. Bob Apodaca faced only nine batters in the last three innings. Keith Hernandez, who walked as the only man to reach base against Apodaca, was erased when Bake McBride grounded into a double play. Mets catcher Jerry Grote ties the modern Major League record by reaching base on errors 3 times.
Montreal and Pittsburgh use a Major League record 15 pinch hitters in their doubleheader split. Four walks in the 10th inning handed the Expos a 4–3 victory in the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, but the Pirates came back to win the second game, 5–2, to retain their lead of five lengths over the Phillies in the Eastern Division race. The Cards and Mets were 5½ games off the pace. Kent Tekulve, pitching in relief for the Pirates in the opener, walked Pete Mackanin to start the 10th. After a wild pitch and infield out moved Mackanin to third, Tekulve issued an intentional pass to Jim Lyttle. With Jerry White at the plate, a passed ball enabled Lyttle to take second. Tekulve then walked White intentionally to load the bases before passing Pepe Mangual to force in the Expos’ winning run. In the nightcap, Willie Stargell homered for the Pirates and Richie Hebner batted in two runs with a bases-loaded single. Ellis Valentine hit his first major league homer for the Expos, in the fifth inning. Pittsburgh wins behind Jim Rooker.
Andre Thornton hit a three-run homer and Bill Bonham helped himself to victory with a double as the Cubs won the first game of a twi-night doubleheader, 4–3, before the Phillies erupted for four runs in the eighth inning to take the second game. 6–3. Thornton hit his homer off Steve Carlton after singles by Jose Cardenal and Jerry Morales in the fourth inning. Bonham doubled in the fifth, took third on a bunt by Dave Rosello and scored what proved to be the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Jim Tyrone. Paul Reuschel replaced Bonham in the ninth and put down a Phils’ rally to save the game, but the Cubs’ reliever then was a loser on his reappearance in the nightcap. With the score tied, 2–2, the Phillies began their eighth with a double by Dave Cash, who scored on singles by Larry Bowa and Garry Maddox. Greg Luzinski followed with a single, driving in Bowa, before Mike Schmidt climaxed the outburst with a two-run homer.
Mike Cosgrove started a game for the first time in three years and J.R. Richard relieved for the first time in his pro career to form the pitching combination that enabled the Astros to defeat the Padres, 2–1. The Astros, who beat Randy Jones, scored their initial run on singles by Cliff Johnson, Bob Watson and Larry Milbourne in the fourth inning. After the Padres picked up the tying tally on a wild pitch by Cosgrove in the seventh, the Astros loaded the bases in the eighth and counted their winning run on an infield grounder by Enos Cabell.
A single by Cesar Geronimo with two out in the ninth inning scored Ed Armbrister and brought the Reds a 4–3 victory over the Giants. Pete Rose, appearing in the 2,000th game of his major league career, hit a two-run homer for the Reds in the seventh. Pinch-hitter Terry Crowley drew a walk to open the ninth and gave way on the paths to Armbrister, who stole second. Ken Griffey also walked as a pinch-hitter, but Rose grounded into a double play as Armbrister took third before Geronimo ended the game with his winning single.
Scoring their winning runs on a homer by Ken Singleton in the first game and on a double by Don Baylor and single by Doug DeCinces in the second game, the Orioles defeated the Yankees in a twi-night doubleheader, 5–4 and 2–1. In the opener, Al Bumbry tripled and scored in the first inning and batted in two of the Orioles’ three runs with a single in the second before Singleton smashed his homer in the third. Chris Chambliss had three hits and knocked in two runs for the Yankees. Bobby Bonds homered for the Yankees in the nightcap to tie the score at 1–1 before Baylor paved the way for the Orioles’ winning run with his double in the eighth inning. The Yankees walked Bobby Grich intentionally, hoping to set up a double play, but DeCinces foiled the move with his single.
Homers by Sixto Lezcano and Pedro Garcia enabled Pete Broberg to pitch the Brewers to a 4–2 victory over the Red Sox, who were held to six hits. The Brewers beat Bill Lee for the third time this season, jumping on the lefthander for three runs in the first inning. After singles by Don Money and Hank Aaron around a wild pitch produced the first tally, Lezcano hit his homer. Garcia added his circuit clout for insurance in the sixth inning.
Willie Horton hit a pair of two-run homers, his first blow capping a seven-run outburst in the fifth inning, as the Tigers defeated the Indians, 11–2. After the Indians took the lead with a round-tripper by George Hendrick in the fourth, the Tigers erupted in the fifth. Tom Veryzer drove in two runs with a single and Dan Meyer batted in three runs with a double before Horton hit his first circuit clout of the game. Horton and Bill Freehan climaxed the Tigers’ scoring with back-to-back homers in the ninth, Horton’s drive coming with Meyer on base.
With a triple by Bucky Dent as the key blow, the White Sox scored three runs in the fifth inning and defeated the Twins, 3–2. Dent hit his triple after singles by Bill Melton and Nyls Nyman. Dent then scored what proved to be the winning blow on an infield out by Jerry Hairston. The Twins, who had scored their initial run in the fourth, forced the exit of Wilbur Wood when Dan Ford doubled and Craig Kusick singled in the eighth, but Rich Gossage relieved and racked up his 23rd save of the season.
George Brett had a perfect night at bat with five hits and drove in four runs to lead the Royals to a 5–2 victory over the Angels. Brett knocked in his first run with a double in the third inning. After the Angels took a 2–1 lead, Amos Otis beat out an infield hit in the eighth, stole second and scored on a single by Brett. Brett moved to second on the throw and, after an intentional pass to John Mayberry, scored on a single by Al Cowens. Brett then capped his night with a two-run single in the ninth.
Although Gaylord Perry allowed only two hits, the veteran righthander was not assured of victory until the Rangers scored three runs in the ninth inning to defeat the Athletics, 4–2. Phil Garner was hit by a pitch, took third on a single by Ted Martinez and scored a run for the A’s on a sacrifice fly by Bill North in the third. The Rangers pulled even with singles by Joe Lovitto, Jim Fregosi and Jeff Burroughs in the sixth. Tom Grieve singled in the ninth and, after a safe bunt by Roy Howell, Grieve scored on two wild pitches by Vida Blue. Rollie Fingers relieved but failed to stop the Rangers until they had added two runs on a double by Jim Spencer and single by Roy Smalley. The A’s scored once in their half of the ninth on a double by Tommy Harper for their second hit off Perry, an infield out and error by Howell.
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Atlanta Braves 2
New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 5
New York Yankees 1, Baltimore Orioles 2
Kansas City Royals 5, California Angels 2
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 3
San Francisco Giants 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Detroit Tigers 11, Cleveland Indians 2
San Diego Padres 1, Houston Astros 2
Boston Red Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, Montreal Expos 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Montreal Expos 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, New York Mets 5
Texas Rangers 4, Oakland Athletics 2
Chicago Cubs 4, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Chicago Cubs 3, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 835.97 (-2.34, -0.28%)
Born:
Randy Choate, MLB pitcher (World Series Champions-Yankees, 2000; New York Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, Tampa Bay Rays, Florida-Miami Marlins, Los Angeles Dodgers, St. Louis Cardinals), in San Antonio, Texas.
Rod Barajas, MLB catcher (World Series Champions-Diamondbacks, 2001; Arizona Diamondbacks, Texas Rangers, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, New York Mets, Los Angeles Dodgers, Pittsburgh Pirates), in Ontario, California.
Justin Dentmon, NBA point guard (San Antonio Spurs, Toronto Raptors, Dallas Mavericks), in Carbondale, Illinois.
Moses Moreno, NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers), in Chula Vista, California.
Charles Greywolf [David Vogt], German heavy metal guitarist and record producer (Powerwolf), in Berus, West Germany.
Died:
Georg Ots, 55, Soviet-Estonian opera singer.
Alice C. Evans, 94, American microbiologist.
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