President Reagan, responding to what aides called a “media blitz” by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said “the preservation of our freedom and independence will not be secured by wishful thinking and public relations campaigns.” Mr. Reagan, looking fit in a blue suit on the stifling South Lawn of the White House, made the statement in welcoming ceremonies for the Danish Prime Minister, Poul Schlueter. That statement and comments he made to a group of college students made it plain that Mr. Reagan was not only concerned about the unusual number of stories about the Soviet leader in magazines and on television as their November summit meeting approaches, but that he wanted to respond to it. Administration officials indictated that they were especially concerned about Mr. Gorbachev’s highly publicized recent interview with TIME magazine.
The Justice Department denied today that American air-traffic controllers knew that Korean Air Lines Flight 007 was off course and that they discussed warning the pilot before the plane was shot down by a Soviet fighter. Lawyers representing families of passengers aboard the plane asserted last month that a Government tape showed that the words “we should warn him,” presumably referring to the pilot, were heard in the air-traffic control station in Alaska that oversaw the flight, which carried 269 people. In a sharply worded brief, Justice Department lawyers rejected claims that those words could be heard on the tape and accused the lawyers of manipulating evidence. The brief was filed in Federal District Court here in response to lawsuits filed against the Government by the families.
Rioting British youths threw bottles and bricks at Britain’s Home Secretary, Douglas Hurd, as violence erupted in Birmingham for a second successive day. On Monay, the authorities said that black youths, mostly of West Indian descent, as well as whites rampaged through the Handsworth section of Birmingham, Britain’s second largest city, looting Asian-owned stores and setting fires. The Home Secretary had stepped out of his automobile in the Handsworth area of Birmingham, where the rioting first erupted late Monday, and had told a crowd gathered there that he had come to listen. At that moment, bottles, stones and bricks came flying at him. As he was hurried away, gangs of youths overturned cars and set fire to several buildings with gasoline bombs.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev gave a pointedly warm reception today to Johannes Rau, the fast-rising star in West Germany’s opposition Social Democratic Party. At a Kremlin reception that the Government press agency Tass said was “marked by an atmosphere of mutual understanding and constructive spirit,” Mr. Gorbachev endorsed a proposal the Social Democrats had worked out with East Germany for a zone free of chemical weapons. The endorsement reflected the Soviet Union’s close ties with the Social Democrats, whose leader, Willy Brandt, worked out West Germany’s reconciliation with the Soviet Union when he was Chancellor in the 1970’s. Last May, Mr. Gorbachev received Mr. Brandt at a luncheon and in a four-hour meeting.
Belgium’s Defense Minister said today that his country might seek a further reduction in its defense tasks within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. At a news conference to present the first white paper on defense policy since 1977, the minister, Alfred Vreven, said he intended in the long term to repatriate as many as possible of the 30,000 Belgian troops stationed in West Germany and to reduce the number of warplanes committed to NATO, now 144. Belgium has already reduced its contribution to NATO’s air defense network in Germany by scrapping two of its six Nike ground-to-air missile units and refusing to buy the United States Patriot missile system to replace the remaining batteries.
The 35-nation Stockholm disarmament conference opened a new session in what Western delegates called a positive atmosphere, although no new initiatives seem likely before the U.S.-Soviet summit meeting in November. U.S. Ambassador James Goodby said the political will now exists for progress on the central task of agreeing on confidence-building measures to reduce the risk of war.
The president of France’s railroads resigned today, taking full responsibility for a recent series of accidents in which 83 people have been killed. Andre Chadeau, 58 years old, head of the Societe National des Chemins de Fer Francais, or S.N.C.F., handed his resignation to Transport Minister Paul Quiles, who accepted it. “As chairman of the S.N.C.F. board,” Mr. Chadeau wrote, “I must objectively bear the responsibility for these accidents.” Mr. Chadeau’s resignation came as the state-owned railway system was beginning a major inquiry into its operational and safety procedures. Initial investigations indicated that human error was a factor in at least three crashes. On Aug. 31, at Argenton in western France, a night mail train ploughed into a derailed passenger train, killing 43 people. On Aug. 3, 33 people were killed in a head-on collision near Falujac in central France. On July 8, eight people died when a boat train from Le Havre to Paris hit a truck at a grade crossing in Normandy.
The court that will try Klaus Barbie, the former Nazi chief in Lyons, for crimes against humanity indicated today that it had obtained new evidence allowing for more detailed charges in the case. The court ordered that the new information be passed on to Mr. Barbie’s defense lawyer, a procedure that prosecutors said would delay the start of the trial until at least the beginning of next year. The trial earlier was expected to begin in November. The new evidence is said to include details of the identities of Jews that Mr. Barbie is alleged to have deported from Lyons en route to their deaths in Nazi-run extermination camps.
President Reagan greets the Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Denmark Poul Schluter.
Israel freed the last group of 119 Lebanese and Palestinian detainees. The men were among more than 700 Arabs whose release was demanded by Shiite Muslim gunmen who hijacked a Trans World Airlines jet on June 14 and held 39 Americans hostage for 17 days.
A high-ranking State Department official told a closed-door meeting of a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee today that the Reagan Administration would go ahead with planned sales of advanced aircraft and other equipment to Jordan even if it meant provoking a major clash with Congress, participants in the session said. For three hours, Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, sparred with members of the committee, which is already on record as opposing any new arms sales to Jordan until King Hussein formally agrees to peace talks with Israel. According to accounts of the meeting, which was closed to the press, Mr. Murphy said he could not report any significant progress on gaining King Hussein’s agreement to direct talks.
New fighting broke out at Beirut’s Borj el Brajne refugee camp despite Syrian efforts to enforce a cease-fire between Palestinians in the camp and Shia Muslims who are trying to keep the Palestine Liberation Organization from regaining a power base. Syria sent officers to monitor the cease-fire, but it has been wary of involving its own troops. It was not clear what caused the latest outbreak of shooting, but Shias told reporters they were impatient with the truce and wanted to end the battle by driving out the Palestinians.
Western diplomats said today that Afghan guerrillas had repulsed a Soviet-led offensive in eastern Afghanistan. The reports from the diplomats, who hold regular briefings on the condition that they not be identified, could not be independently verified. The Soviet-backed Government in Afghanistan also has claimed victories in the recent battles, which have been described as some of the bitterest fighting in the six-year Afghan conflict. The Soviet offensive, mounted in August with thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks, armored vehicles and helicopters, was aimed at relieving an Afghan military garrison at Khost, 100 miles southeast of Kabul, the capital, and cutting rebel supply routes, the diplomats said.
One of the ringleaders of the unsuccessful coup in Thailand has applied for a U.S. visa, Washington officials said. The officials, requesting anonymity, said Colonel Manoon Roopkachorn applied in Singapore, where he flew Monday night after the coup collapsed. Another ringleader, Manoon’s brother Manas, an air force wing commander, was believed to have flown on to Burma from Singapore. There were reports in Bangkok that the brothers had been allowed to leave the country in exchange for freeing the Thai air force commander, abducted during the coup attempt, in which four people were killed.
More than 200 people were hurt when Philippine troops used clubs and water cannon to disperse about 1,000 student protesters near Clark Air Base, police said. The demonstrators wanted to meet with education officials in San Fernando, about 50 miles north of Manila, to protest a new law requiring students to undergo compulsory military and civic-welfare training.
General Fabian C. Ver, chief of the Philippine armed forces, issued orders to secure Manila airport with 1,199 troops and arrest opposition leader Benigno S. Aquino Jr. on the day Aquino was assassinated, a general testified. Brigadier General Luther Custodio is on trial with Ver and more than 20 others on charges of being linked to the 1983 airport slaying of Aquino. Custodio denied involvement in the killing and said he “prepared the most sophisticated plan that I could” to safeguard Aquino.
President Francois Mitterrand will visit France’s nuclear testing site at the Pacific atoll of Mururoa on Friday for a meeting of the newly created Coordination Committee for the South Pacific, a spokesman said. French interests in the South Pacific are under challenge because of regional opposition to France’s nuclear testing, its colonial grip on violence-torn New Caledonia and the recent bombing of the anti-nuclear Greenpeace ship in New Zealand. French agents have been accused of involvement in the ship’s sinking. The new committee includes French diplomats and civil and military authorities.
The Canadian Government, stung by domestic criticism of a United States icebreaker’s voyage through the Northwest Passage last month, announced new measures today to strengthen its claim to sovereignty over the Arctic waters. In a statement to the House of Commons, the Foreign Affairs Minister, Joe Clark, said the Government would enclose the entire Arctic archipelago, including the Northwest Passage, within formal boundaries as of next January 1.
Gunmen kidnapped the eldest daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte today after a shoot-out that killed one of her bodyguards and wounded another. A statement by the presidential palace said the woman, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35 years old, was seized during the gunfight by “a heavily armed group” of a half dozen men as she arrived for afternoon classes at the New San Salvador University. The statement, read by Communications Secretary Julio Adolfo Rey Prendes, said President Duarte, who has been ill and was working at home, was “very shaken but very firm” and was refusing to speculate on any negotiations that might take place..
Chilean President Augusto Pinochet renewed his emergency powers on the eve of the 12th anniversary of the military coup against the Marxist government of the late Salvador Allende. His decree extends for six months the “state of threat to internal peace,” which has been in force since a new constitution took effect in 1981. The decree empowers Pinochet to arrest people without charge, send them into exile without trial and ban new publications. A separate state of emergency is also in force.
South Africa faces new sanctions from 11 Western European countries that agreed to impose a variety of trade, cultural and military penalties. Britain declined to go along, saying it needed time to study the likely effect. The measures, adopted by the Foreign Ministers of nine Common Market nations a day after President Reagan announced economic sanctions, are largely symbolic, according to diplomats. They said the measures were intended to emphasize unhappiness with South Africa’s failure to move more rapidly toward ending apartheid.
In the Senate’s first test this year of sentiment over allowing prayer in school, the Republican-controlled chamber overwhelmingly defeated a bill that would have stripped the Supreme Court and other federal courts of jurisdiction in school prayer cases. The bill, sponsored by Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina), was shelved on a 62-36 vote, with relatively little debate. Critics contended it would have been unconstitutional, while Helms insisted it merely implemented Article III of the Constitution, which gives federal courts jurisdiction. over cases on appeal “with such exceptions and under such regulations as Congress shall make.”
Four House members and an group of scientists asked a Federal court today to block the United States’ anti-satellite weapon test, on the ground that President Reagan had falsely certified to Congress that he was trying in good faith to negotiate curbs on such arms. The suit filed today in the United States District Court here asks for a temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction forbidding the Defense Department to conduct the test. Judge Norma Johnson called for oral arguments on Thursday.
U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can’t be forcibly returned to parents’ country if it’s deemed “not in the best interests” of underage defectors.
President Reagan today appointed a seven-member commission that will make sweeping changes in the way Federal justices set criminal sentences. The commission, established under a 1984 law, will set uniform guidelines to be followed by all Federal judges in setting sentences. The rules are intended to reduce the disparities in the punishments meted out by different judges for similar crimes. “This sentencing commission, and the law which established it, will make more significant changes in the justice system than anything else that has happened in this century,” said Federal District Judge William W. Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, nominated to be the panel’s chairman.
President Reagan meets with members of the Americans for Tax Reform Steering Committee.
The House Agriculture Committee, after months of sparring over new farm legislation, today approved a bill after adding a program to let some farmers vote on what kind of system they want to support their income. Despite last-minute moves to pare down costs of the bill, the Reagan Administration said the committee version was too expensive and risked a veto unless key provisions are rewritten when the measure goes to the full House, possibly next week. The legislation, approved in the committee by voice vote, embraces a wide range of programs, including farm price supports and subsidies, food stamps, foreign food aid and agricultural research. The heart of the committee bill, programs to support farm income and commodity prices and to provide farmers with credit, carries a price tag of $42.8 billion over the next three years, according to the Congressional Budget Office.
Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. told Congress that a 600-ship Navy is affordable and needed to offset a Soviet naval threat. “We have the right-size fleet under construction, we can maintain it … and we can afford it,” Lehman told the House Armed Services seapower subcommittee. His defense of the naval buildup came in the wake of a report by the Congressional Budget Office saying the Navy cannot hold to the pace of that program without continued budget increases.
Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, charged today that the Central Intelligence Agency and the State Department had persuaded Congress to kill a measure he had introduced aimed at protecting American citizens from having their telephone conversations intercepted by foreign agents in this country. The telephones of Government agencies are being protected with expensive electronic devices against interception, Senator Moynihan said, but he asserted that widening eavesdropping efforts, particularly by the Russians, were putting the conversations on non- Government telephones at risk. “There is an extraordinary, very unseemly, nervous-making attitude in Washington,” Senator Moynihan said, “that if the Government is protected, it doesn’t matter if the Soviets are listening to The New York Times, to a senator talking to a contributor, to a lawyer talking to his client, to a person talking to a stock broker, to liaisons that might not be entirely proper.”
Vice President Bush said today that he was right to support a freeze on Social Security benefits as part of an effort to reduce the Federal deficit. The provision was approved by the Senate in May, with the Vice President’s rare Senate vote breaking a tie, but it ran into trouble in the Democratic-controlled House. President Reagan later dropped his support of the idea, provoking sharp criticism from Senate Republicans who had backed the politcally risky measure knowing they had Mr. Reagan behind them. Mr. Bush, at a forum here designed to promote Mr. Reagan’s tax plan, described himself as having been under “enormous” pressure to oppose the benefits freeze, but he said his support of it was it was “good vote.”
A liberal bishop will lead the Episcopal Church. Bishop Edmond L. Browning of Hawaii, who has major experience in international affairs, was elected over three other nominees to be the church’s Presiding Bishop.
A manufacturer will plead guilty to conspiring illegally to obtain internal Pentagon planning documents. The company, GTE Government Systems Corporation, a leading maker of electronic weapons devices, also said it would pay the Pentagon $580,000 for the costs of the Government’s investigation.
A German ex-officer is to surrender today to the Immigration and Naturalization Service, according to the agency. The escaped prisoner of war is Georg Gaertner, 64, who has been in hiding in the United States for 40 years.
A former Yale University philosophy student who refused to register for the draft was sentenced today to six months of house arrest. The former student, David A. Wayte, 24 years old, was also barred from doing community service under the sentence ordered by Federal District Judge Terry J. Hatter Jr. The judge said the ban would be a grave punishment for the socially conscious activist, who was deeply involved in service to the homeless and disabled. Judge Hatter said he lost sleep Monday night trying to devise the proper sentence for Mr. Wayte, who fought his case up to the United States Supreme Court. “Society loses, in a sense,” the judge said. Mr. Wayte, who pleaded guilty last June to failing to register for the draft, could have received up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Southern governors of both parties said they would join an effort by state legislators to hold all 1986 Presidential primaries and caucuses in the region on the same day. The strategy is designed to give the South a larger role in the nominating process of both national parties.
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, declared unconstitutional a Virginia law that bans the display of sexually explicit printed matter that, even if not obscene, could be “harmful to juveniles.” U.S. District Judge Richard L. Williams said that under the law, so many materials could be considered harmful to juveniles that it could have a damaging effect on access to materials and would hurt businesses. Williams permanently enjoined the city and county police departments from enforcing the law.
Some 17,000 Texas inmates were locked in their cells for a second day today in an effort to quell a rash of inmate killings linked to warfare between two prison gangs. The restrictions at 13 of the state’s 26 prison units were ordered Monday, after the eighth inmate killing in as many days. Inmates are not being allowed out of their cells and are being fed sack lunches. If they are taken from their cells for showers, they are closely supervised, said a spokesman for the Corrections Department, Phil Guthrie.
Attendance rose in two New York public school districts where picketing parents are keeping thousands of children home to protest a decision allowing a child with AIDS to attend school. About 9,700 children still stayed away from classes. That was about 2,000 fewer than missed school Monday, the first day of the boycott and first day of classes for the 63 schools in Districts 27 and 29 in the borough of Queens. A judge declined to rule on a suit in which the board in District 27 sought to bar the city from letting the AIDS child into school, and to force officials to reveal the child’s identity.
Saying women must be allowed to escape a “wage ghetto,” lawmakers and labor leaders urged Congress to order a study of whether women in the federal work force are victims of pay discrimination. “We won’t be satisfied until every single American is paid fairly in this country,” Rep. Mary Rose Oakar (D-Ohio), who has introduced legislation to that effect, said at a Washington news conference.
A reputed leader of Japan’s largest organized crime group and two associates were indicted by a federal grand jury in Honolulu on drug, firearms and contract murder charges. Masashi Takenaka, reputedly one of the top leaders of the Yamaguchi-gumi, the largest organized crime group in Japan, and Kiyoshi Kajita were charged with conspiracy to import heroin and methamphetamines and importation and distribution of the drug. Takenaka, Kajita and Kiyoshi Ito were charged with conspiracy to smuggle weapons to Japan and to commit murder by hire.
Convicted killer Charles Rumbaugh was executed by lethal injection in Huntsville, Tex., despite the protests of Amnesty International, which contended he should not be put to death because he was only 17 when he murdered a jeweler. Rumbaugh spent 10 years on Death Row, receiving stays of execution in 1982 and 1983. But the 28-year-old prisoner, who had twice tried to kill himself, refused to authorize lawyers to seek another stay. “I don’t care anymore,” he said. “I’m bored.”
A campus architecture dispute has stirred the Illinois Institute of Technology. The institute, which is to rededicate its renovated library on Friday, plans to tear down part of the renovations before the ceremony. The faculty, students and administrators agreed that a new, bright colored steel canopy was inappropriate for an institution so closely identified with the austere style of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
Mayor Koch, showing great strength in every section of New York City, won renomination in the Democratic mayoral primary. The landslide victory made Mr. Koch a virtual certainty to win a third term in the Nov. 15 general election, in a city where Democrats outnumber Republicans by 5 to 1.
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Dale Berra of the Yankees testified that Willie Stargell and Bill Madlock regularly dispensed amphetamine pills to their teammates when all three played for the Pittsburgh Pirates from 1980 through 1984. Mr. Berra testified at the drug trafficking trial of a caterer, Curtis Strong. Berra, testifying for the second day in the cocaine trafficking trial of a Philadelphia caterer, said he had obtained the pills from Stargell and Madlock when Berra, who was traded to the Yankees last winter, played for the Pirates from 1980 through 1984. Madlock and Stargell both issued denials.
The Dodgers sweep a pair from the Braves, winning 10–1 and 10–4, to take a 9 ½ game lead in the National League West. Greg Brock hits a grand slam for the Dodgers in game 2, his second of the year. In the first game, Rick Honeycutt pitched a five-hitter for his first complete game of the year, and Mariano Duncan batted in five runs. The Dodgers are 11–3 against the Braves this year. The score was tied, 4–4, in the seventh inning of the second game when the Dodgers loaded the bases on walks to Duncan and Enos Cabell and a single by Ken Landreaux against the reliever Zane Smith (6–9) of Atlanta. Steve Shields replaced Smith and walked Mike Marshall, forcing in the lead run. Brock followed with his 19th homer of the year.
Mike Schmidt hits a no-out 3-run homer in the 11th to power the Phils to a 5–2 victory over the Expos. Juan Samuel led off the inning by getting hit by a pitch from Tim Burke (8–3), the Montreal reliever. Von Hayes grounded to second baseman Vance Law, who made a difficult stop but threw high to second in attempting a force play. Schmidt then hit his 27th homer of the season. Don Carman (8–4) pitched one inning in gaining the victory for the Phillies.
Both teams charge onto the Shea Stadium field when George Foster is hit with a first-inning pitch thrown by Cardinal starter Danny Cox, who appeared annoyed by the Mets’ hitter stepping out of the box several times during the at-bat. Moments after the bench-clearing incident, Howard Johnson hits a grand slam to give the Mets a 5–4 win over the Cardinals in the tense National League East race. But the Mets made only two more hits for the rest of the game, the Cardinals revived, twice they came within one hit of snatching the lead and finally they were stopped by the shutout relief pitching of Roger McDowell. New York takes over first place.
The Pirates edged the Cubs, 2–1. Denny Gonzalez hit a two-run homer, and Rick Reuschel pitched his sixth straight complete game, striking out 12 batters, one short of his career high. Reuschel walked only one batter, and the run he allowed was unearned. Gonzalez’s homer was his fourth of the season and came in the second inning against Steve Engel (1–4). It followed a two-out double by Tony Pena.
Pete Rose went hitless in four times at bat against the San Diego Padres and delayed, for at least another day, the hit that would leave Ty Cobb as the the second most prolific hitter in baseball history. A standing-room-only crowd of 51,045, including Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, was lured to Riverfront Stadium tonight to watch Pete Rose attempt to do something no major-league baseball player in history has ever done — stroke the 4,192d hit of his career. In Washington, a resident of Pennsylvania Avenue waited to place a call to the Reds’ dugout when the ball that broke the record landed safely somewhere on the Riverfront carpet. Instead, the wait continued, and the Reds bowed to the Padres, 3–2.
The Astros beat the Giants, 4–1. Ex-Giant Bob Knepper (13–10) got the victory with a three-hit complete game gem. Kevin Bass singled in two runs in the three-run fourth at Houston that gave the Astros their 11th win in the last 13 games. Chris Brown hit his 15th home run to open the fourth inning, but that was the only problem Knepper had. It was the Astros’ ninth win in a row over the Giants at the Astrodome.
Charlie Leibrandt pitched a three-hitter tonight as the Kansas City Royals defeated California, 6–0, to extend their lead over the Angels in the American League West to 1 ½ games. The teams have split the first two games of a three-game series. Frank White and Lonnie Smith hit two-run homers to lead Kansas City to its ninth victory in 10 games. The Royals are 32–15 since July 21, when they trailed the Angels by 7 ½ games. Leibrandt (15–7) walked two and struck out four in pitching his eighth complete game and third shutout of the season. The 28-year-old left-hander allowed only singles by Bobby Grich leading off the fifth inning, Juan Beniquez starting the seventh and Dick Schoefield in the ninth inning.
In the opener of 2, the Orioles score 6 in the 8th on 3 homers, and the Red Sox answer with 2 homers and score 4 as the O’s win, 7–5. The 5 homers in the 8th ties a Major League mark. Wade Boggs is 4-for-4 in the nightcap to pass 200 hits again as he leads the Sox to a 5–3 win. In the second game, Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (13–11), had a shutout going into the ninth when Murray and Young hit consecutive doubles and Larry Sheets hit his 16th homer. Steve Crawford got the last out for his ninth save. Boggs, who had a single and double with his 199th and 200th hits in the opener, raised his American League-leading average to .368 with four singles in the second game.
Henderson, Griffey, Mattingly and Hassey each have 3 RBIs as the Yankees outlast the Brewers, 13–10, at County Stadium. Randy Ready has 5 hits as Milwaukee outhits the Yankees, 17–11. No one in the major leagues has won so many games in a row this season. No Yankee team has won so many in a row since the 1964 Yankees won 11 straight. Yet, the Yankees remained 1 ½ games behind first-place Toronto because the Blue Jays edged Detroit, 2–1.
Bruce Bochte hits a go-ahead home run in the 5th for the A’s and Dave Kingman hits his 15th career grand slam as the A’s beat the Rangers, 10–3 to end their six-game losing streak. It was Kingman’s 27th home run of the season.
Damaso Garcia singled in the winning run in the seventh inning tonight to snap a 1-1 tie and Doyle Alexander outpitched Jack Morris as the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Detroit Tigers, 2–1. The Blue Jays still lead the second-place Yankees by 1 ½ games in the American League East. With one out in the seventh inning, Jesse Barfield singled and stole second. One out later, Garcia singled to left to score Barfield. Alexander (15–8), stopped the Tigers on seven hits and twice pitched his way out of trouble with the bases loaded. Alexander struck out eight and walked four. Morris (14–10), who had 11 strikeouts, a season high, was overpowering early in the game. He struck out the side in both the first and third innings. The Blue Jays tied the game in the sixth inning when Garcia and Lloyd Moseby singled and George Bell drove in Garcia with a single.
The White Sox downed the Twins, 7–2. Ron Kittle broke a 2–2 tie by hitting his 16th home run as Joel Davis (3–2), a 20-year old rookie, outpitched Bert Blyleven (13–15). Bob James pitched the final two innings for his 25th save. Davis, who did not allow a Twin past second base until the sixth, struck out four and walked two in his seven innings.
Joe Carter drove in two runs with an inside-the-park home run, and Mike Hargrove added two RBIs in a five-run fifth inning to lead the Indians over the Mariners, 8–5, at Seattle.
To bolster their pitching staff for the pennant race, the Angels acquire veteran Don Sutton (13–8) from the A’s for 2 minor league players to be named later (Robert Sharpnack and Jerome Nelson).
Los Angeles Dodgers 10, Atlanta Braves 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 10, Atlanta Braves 4
Baltimore Orioles 7, Boston Red Sox 5
Baltimore Orioles 3, Boston Red Sox 5
Kansas City Royals 6, California Angels 0
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 7
San Diego Padres 3, Cincinnati Reds 2
San Francisco Giants 1, Houston Astros 4
New York Yankees 13, Milwaukee Brewers 10
St. Louis Cardinals 4, New York Mets 5
Texas Rangers 3, Oakland Athletics 10
Montreal Expos 2, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Chicago Cubs 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Cleveland Indians 8, Seattle Mariners 5
Detroit Tigers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 2
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Born:
Elyse Levesque, Canadian actress (“Stargate Universe”, “Earth Abides”), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Neil Walker, MLB second baseman first baseman, and third baseman (Pittsburgh Pirates, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Yankees, Miami Marlins, Philadelphia Phillies), in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Anthony Swarzak, MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox, Milwaukee Brewers, New York Mets, Seattle Mariners, Atlanta Braves, Arizona Diamondbacks, Kansas City Royals), in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Matt Angle, MLB outfielder (Baltimore Orioles), in Columbus, Ohio.
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Alexa Kenin, 23, American actress (Mousie-“Coed Fever”).
Ernest Julius Öpik, 91, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos.
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