A key Soviet agent has defected and exposed a major espionage network in Britain, prompting an order for the ouster of 25 Soviet officials, London announced. The Foreign Office has granted political asylum to the defector, Oleg A. Gordiyevsky, 46, whom it identified as the chief of the British branch of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency. Gordievsky was a double agent, providing information to the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) from 1974 to 1985. After being recalled to Moscow under suspicion, he was exfiltrated from the Soviet Union in July 1985 under a plan code-named Operation Pimlico. The Soviet Union subsequently sentenced him to death in absentia.
Gordievsky joined the KGB in 1963 and was posted to the Soviet embassy in Copenhagen in 1966. He was outraged by the USSR’s cruel crushing of the Prague Spring reform movement in Czechoslovakia in August 1968, and began sending covert signals to Danish and British intelligence agents and agencies that he might be willing to cooperate with them. In 1974 he agreed to pass secrets to MI6, a step he viewed as “nothing less than undermining the Soviet system”. MI6 gave him the codename SUNBEAM. His second posting to Denmark ended in 1978 and he was recalled to Moscow, this time for a lengthy period, because he had divorced his wife and married a woman with whom he had been having an affair. The KGB frowned upon affairs and divorces as immoral. During this Moscow period it was too risky for him to send any information to MI6.
After Gordievsky had learned to speak English he lobbied heavily for a position that became vacant in London, and the KGB posted him to London in June 1982. He steadily advanced in rank with the help of secret aid and manipulation by MI6, from which he received abundant non-damaging information and contacts. MI6 also steadily banished his direct superiors back to Moscow on trumped-up charges so that Gordievsky could take their place, and he continued to provide secret documents and information to MI6. While in London, his MI6 code name was NOCTON. The CIA, having been told of MI6’s high-level informant, but not his name or position, gave him the codename TICKLE.
In late April 1985, Gordievsky was promoted to KGB station chief (resident-designate or rezident) in London at the Soviet embassy. He was abruptly summoned back to Moscow by telegram on 16 May 1985. MI6 allowed him to make his own decision about whether to defect immediately to the UK and live thenceforth in secrecy under their protection, or whether to return to Moscow on the understanding that he could be interrogated, tortured, or killed if the KGB suspected his betrayal. Gordievsky felt, given the huge benefits MI6 would reap if he remained rezident of the embassy, that he was being encouraged by MI6 to return to Moscow as ordered, and he decided to go. MI6 revived a plan to extricate him if necessary.
Unbeknownst to him, Gordievsky had been betrayed in early May 1985, or early June at the latest, by a turncoat CIA officer, Aldrich Ames. After returning to Moscow on 19 May 1985, Gordievsky was drugged and interrogated, but not yet charged with any crimes; instead he was placed in a non-existent desk job in a nonoperational department of the KGB. Under increasing surveillance and pressure in Moscow, and seriously suspected of being a double agent, he managed in July 1985 to send a pre-arranged signal to MI6 that he needed to be rescued. On 19 July 1985, Gordievsky went for his usual jog. He managed to evade his KGB tails and boarded a train to Leningrad, and then travelled to a rendezvous south of Vyborg, near the Finnish border. There he was met by British embassy cars, after they had managed to lose the three KGB surveillance cars that had been following them, and was smuggled across the border into Finland in the boot (trunk) of a Ford Sierra saloon. His couriers were two British diplomats and their wives, and to deter sniffer dogs at the Finnish border one of the wives dropped her baby’s dirty nappy on the ground, causing the dogs to flee.
Gordievsky was flown to the UK via Norway. In the UK his MI6 codename was changed to OVATION. Following his exfiltration from the USSR to the UK in 1985, he became of even greater use to the West. Information he would disclose or had previously disclosed could be immediately acted upon and shared without endangering his life, identity, or position.
American arms negotiators in Geneva have expressed concern about what they perceive to be a Soviet public relations advantage gained in recent months at American expense, Reagan Administration officials said today. According to the officials, the issue was raised by Max M. Kampelman, the chief American negotiator, in a meeting today with Secretary of State P. Shultz to discuss the next round of the Geneva talks, resuming next week. Mr. Kampelman was said to be frustrated at the Russians’ ability to create the impression that by offering new ideas that were then rejected by the United States, they were more flexible than the Americans. Administration officials, in separate interviews, contended that the opposite was the case — that the American negotiators had considerable flexibility to negotiate, but that the Russians had been uncooperative. The American negotiators have not been given new instructions, American officials said, because they already have sufficient ability to negotiate if the Russians put concrete offers on the table.
The 15th Ariane mission failed as engineers destroyed the spacecraft, and its two-satellite payload, soon after its launching because it was losing altitude and posing a threat to inhabited areas. Officials at France’s Space Center in French Guiana said they blew up the European Space Agency’s Ariane rocket less than 10 minutes after liftoff when it veered off course and began falling. The order to destroy was given immediately after the rocket, carrying two communications satellites, left its prescribed trajectory. French President Francois Mitterrand, en route to French Polynesia, watched the failed launch of the rocket, built to compete with the American space shuttle in the satellite launching business.
Portuguese firefighters used power saws and bulldozers to free injured passengers from twisted wreckage and retrieve the bodies of at least 49 people killed in the head-on crash of two trains in central Portugal. More than 100 people were injured when an express bound for France collided with a local train and burst into flames. In the confusion of the first few hours after the crash, it was feared that as many as 150 people might have been killed.
Railway officials blamed human error today for a train crash in northern Portugal in which at least 49 people died. Early reports said 150 people were feared dead. The crash occurred Wednesday night when an express bound for France hit a local train near the town of Nelas, about 150 miles north of Lisbon. A preliminary report by investigators said the trains had been allowed to leave separate stations and continue toward each other on the single track. The sight of the blazing wreckage led the first rescuers to report hundreds had died. The figure was lowered this morning as firemen investigated deeper in daylight. Rescue officials said 49 bodies had been recovered. More than 100 people were injured.
Pope John Paul II will no longer be given a byline on the column of his past writings distributed to 200 newspapers by publisher Rupert Murdoch’s news syndicates, the syndicates said. The Vatican has criticized the presentation of the column. The News America and Times of London syndicates said in a note to editors that the title of future columns is being changed from “Observations by Pope John Paul II” to “Selected Observations of Pope John Paul II.” This and other format changes were worked out with Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Commission for Social Communications at the Vatican.
Alexei Semyonov, the stepson of Soviet dissident Andrei D. Sakharov, ended a 14-day hunger strike near the Soviet Embassy in Washington, telling reporters he will work with the State Department to determine the whereabouts of Sakharov and his mother. At the same news conference, Semyonov’s grandmother, Ruth Bonner, appealed to the Soviets to allow her to contact her daughter, Yelena, and son-in-law before she dies. Sakharov has been in exile in the closed city of Gorky, and reports from there say neither he nor Bonner have been seen for weeks.
A Greek ship captain was found guilty of forcing 11 African stowaways wearing life vests to jump into shark-filled waters off the coast of Somalia last year and sentenced to 10 years and 10 months in prison. Captain Antonis Plytsanopoulos received the stiffest jail term among 10 persons convicted in a trial in Piraeus, near Athens. The fate of the 11 stowaways, who boarded the freighter Garoufalia in Mombasa, Kenya, and hid themselves in a machinery room, was not known.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz has told a group of Jews in Congress that the Administration is determined to go ahead with a sale of advanced arms to Jordan despite legal roadblocks raised in the latest foreign aid bill, participants in the meeting said today. At a dinner arranged by 22 House members who are Jewish, Mr. Shultz had what one participant called “a cordial debate” on the projected sale of arms to Jordan and Saudi Arabia. But most of the two hours were taken up with the sale to Jordan of advanced F-20 or F-16 planes, antiaircraft missiles and other equipment. There are many special interest caucuses on Capitol Hill, representing ethnic, economic and other interests. According to Representative James H. Scheuer, Democrat of Queens and Brooklyn, there is no formal Jewish caucus, similar, for example, to the Black Caucus. “Rather, there is an informal loose group of Jewish members that meets from time to time.”
Iranian troops 25 miles inside northern Iraq came under fire from Iraqi artillery and missile-launching jets as they consolidated positions reportedly won in an offensive last weekend. The Iranians say they captured 180 square miles of Iraqi territory in the attack, killing 2,000 Iraqis.
An Afghan guerrilla group, Hezbi-i-Islami, claimed responsibility for shooting down an airliner in Afghanistan last week, killing 52 people. The Afghan government has charged that guerrillas downed the plane with a U.S.-made missile. But a rebel spokesman in Pakistan quoted a letter from a guerrilla commander in southern Afghanistan as saying his men used a Soviet-made SAM-7 missile after they learned that the plane was carrying Soviet and Afghan officials.
Washington, worried about a spread of nuclear weapons, is sending two high-level officials to India and Pakistan early next week to express concern about the possible development of a nuclear weapon by Pakistan and overall tensions in the region. The two officials are Undersecretary of State Michael H. Armacost and Donald R. Fortier, the third-ranking aide in the National Security Council. Aides said Mr. Armacost and Mr. Fortier would discuss the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and other “matters of mutual concern” with Indian and Pakistani leaders. But other Administration officials said a key reason for the visit to both countries was to express anxiety about the possible development of a nuclear weapon by Pakistan and concern that India would seek to retaliate, in a way similar to the Israeli strike against an Iraqi nuclear reactor in 1981.
An official of the National Broadcasting Company demanded today that Thailand identify and put on trial the crew of a rebel tank that killed two NBC News journalists as they filmed fighting during an attempted coup here Monday. “What we have is a pretty clear case that murder was done here,” said Bruce McDonell, general manager in Asia for NBC News, of the deaths of Neil Davis, a cameraman, and William Latch, a sound technician. They were killed while they filmed rebel tanks firing at an army building in Bangkok.
The Governments of Australia and New Zealand today condemned as untimely and “provocative” a planned visit by President Francois Mitterrand to the French nuclear test site at Mururoa Atoll. Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand said Mr. Mitterrand’s trip “could be aimed at promoting an even more vigorous and reckless campaign to counter the growing opposition to nuclear testing in the Pacific.” The French President is scheduled to preside over a meeting Friday of French civil and military officers.
With the row of seats reserved for the United States conspicuously empty, the World Court began today to hear a Nicaraguan complaint that United States support for anti-Government rebels in Nicaragua represents “state terrorism” and violates international law. The Nicaraguan legal team, consisting largely of American and British lawyers, began to present witnesses who charged that the contras, as the rebels fighting the Sandinista Government of Nicaragua are called, were an “artificial” creation of the Central Intelligence Agency who would be unable to carry out military activities without United States help. “If United States were to terminate its support for the contras, without any doubt the war would be over in a matter of a few months, not more than two or three months,” the first Nicaraguan witness, Deputy Interior Minister Luis Carrion, told the court. He said this was “because the contras are an artificial force, artificially created by the United States, that exists only because it counts on U.S. direction, on U.S. training, on U.S. assistance, on U.S. weapons, on U.S. everything.”
The military commander of the largest Nicaraguan rebel group said today that he knew of “no evidence” to support accusations that the rebels frightened young Nicaraguan men into joining them by killing Government officials and their sympathizers in towns and villages. Edgar Chamorro, a former member of the political directorate of the group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, made the accusation in an affidavit made public this week.
A private human rights group today condemned both the United States-backed Salvadoran Government and the leftist guerrillas fighting it for violating the “laws of war” in attacks on civilians this year. The human rights group Americas Watch, in its eighth report on rights violations in El Salvador, also accused the Reagan Administration of trying to play down the Government’s abuses to persuade Congress to send more military aid. The 152-page report, titled “The Continuing Terror,” accuses the Salvadoran Government of “gross violations” of human rights through indiscriminate air attacks on civilians, increased death squad activity and torture. An estimated 60,000 Salvadorans have died in the six years of civil war.
Salvadoran police and army units raided 12 houses in the capital Wednesday night and this morning in a continuing search for the kidnapped daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte, according to a senior army official. The official described the homes as “safe houses” used as hiding places by leftist guerrillas. Soldiers arrested several people described as suspected rebels in the raids and seized a number of machine-guns, pistols, grenades and explosives, according to an army spokesman, Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Armando Aviles. The 12 houses, two of them situated in one of the most affluent neighborhoods of San Salvador, had been under surveillance for some time, according to Colonel Aviles.
South African pass laws and their curbs on the residence of blacks in their own townships should be abolished, a South African Government-sponsored commission recommended. The pass laws, long a source of black resentment, enforce apartheid by insuring that there are no blacks in the white-dominated urban areas except as temporary workers authorized to live in separate townships outside the white cities. They enforce apartheid by seeking to limit the number of blacks able to live in the segregated townships set aside for them near white-dominated cities. The panel, which had been appointed by President P.W. Botha, recommended a “strategy for orderly urbanization,” making it easier for blacks from rural areas to take up residence in the segregated townships. The panel offered no proposal for residential desegregation.
At least seven blacks were killed in violence in South Africa, and a white teacher and 10 black students were wounded by police gunfire at a high school in the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. About 600 schoolchildren at another Soweto school were rounded up and detained for being outside of class. The number of deaths reported today is considered above average even for what has become a normal day in South Africa since unrest began to intensify in South Africa a year ago. At least 680 people, the overwhelming majority of them black, have been killed in that time. About 500 had been killed by the time a state of emergency was declared seven weeks ago in 36 magisterial districts, and the rest since.
A federal judge today denied a request by four members of Congress and an organization of scientists to forbid a test of the United States anti-satellite weapon, which is expected to take place on Friday. District Court Judge Norma Johnson denied the motion, partly on the grounds that she viewed the issue as a “political question” between the legislative and executive branches of Government in which the court should not intervene. Judge Johnson also said that she did not believe the plaintiffs had legal standing to bring the suit and that she had found no evidence that the test would do “irreparable harm.”
President Reagan travels to Tampa, Florida to address a group of senior citizens on tax reform.
The Republican leadership in the Senate barred the Democrats today from pressing ahead with legislation that would impose economic sanctions against the Government of South Africa. The move was carried out by means of an unusual parliamentary maneuver, a tactic that evoked cries of outrage from the Democrats. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the tactic “was beneath the dignity of the Senate.” The Republicans retorted that the issue was no longer the sanctions bill, but a struggle for control of the Senate.
The Senate today narrowly rejected a proposal to admit thousands of aliens to the United States as temporary farm laborers. The vote was 50 to 48, with 33 Republicans and 15 Democrats supporting the program. It was proposed by Senator Pete Wilson as the Senate began a second day of debate on a comprehensive bill aimed at curbing illegal immigration. The California Republican had argued that without his amendment, the bill would “savage an important American industry,” the producers of perishable fruit and vegetables, many of whom rely on illegal aliens to pick crops.
Charges of corporate crime leniency prompted the Senate Judiciary Committee to announce it would investigate the Justice Department’s handling of a string of prosecutions of white collar offenses. The inquiry will also review the department’s investigation of Jackie Presser, the teamster union leader, which was abandoned after it became known that Mr. Presser had F.B.I. authorization for his offenses.
Education Secretary William J. Bennett cautioned state school superintendents against scaling back all forms of aid to parochial schools based on the recent Supreme Court decision banning public school teachers from holding remedial classes in such schools. Bennett, in a letter to all 50 state school chiefs, said the ruling did not necessarily affect other federal aid, such as programs to help the disabled and bilingual education. He said he believes that state officials can continue to use block grant funds “for equipment and materials placed on private school premises.”
The government ordered U.S. airlines to replace part of the mechanism that deploys the escape slide in Boeing 737s, the plane involved in a fatal accident in England last month. The directive was issued by the Federal Aviation Administration after an investigation into the August 23 accident of a British Airtours 737 in Manchester, England. FAA spokesman Fred Farrar, calling the order a “precautionary measure,” said the domestic airlines must make the necessary modification by October 15. The agency directed the carriers to replace the slide release cables in the 737s with longer cables.
A private correctional firm made an unprecedented offer to buy. Tennessee’s problem-plagued prison system for $250 million in return for an annual operating fee. Corrections Corp. of America said the fee would not exceed the state’s present operating cost and would be adjusted annually for inflation. The estimated operating cost for 1985 was $175 million. Officials said the firm would take control of the entire prison system, renovate old units and build new ones and supervise more than 7,600 inmates.
The condition of heart transplant patient Michael Drummond was upgraded from critical to fair, and Tucson hospital officials said. he was showing no sign of rejecting his new heart. Drummond’s second heart was implanted Saturday as doctors removed the artificial heart that had kept him alive for 10 days. If he continues to improve, Drummond, 25, could be released from the hospital within three weeks, hospital spokeswoman Nina Trasoff said.
A Rhode Island judge ordered 600 striking teachers to go back to work today, but a union attorney predicted that teachers would ignore the order. Meanwhile, the Flint, Michigan, school board filed suit seeking to force teachers back to the classroom. Walkouts elsewhere by 7,400 teachers continued in Seattle, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New York, keeping 107,000 students out of school.
A draft-aid rule has been dropped, Education Department officials said. The controversial rule, requiring colleges to verify that male students receiving Federal aid have registered for the draft, had been set to take effect this fall. But officials said that Education Secretary William J. Bennett had decided the rule was not needed because a spot check found 98 percent of young men were registering.
The United Automobile Workers will seek job security provisions from the Chrysler Corporation similar to those the union obtained from the General Motors Corporation and the Ford Motor Company, union leaders say.
A neo-Nazi group held prayer meetings before taking up machine guns for robberies that were to finance a racial war resulting in the overthrow of the United States Government, prosecutors said today at the trial of 11 of the group’s members. In a detailed opening argument, prosecutors said that members would stand in a circle around a small child, who was to symbolize racial purity, and vow to hold no fear of death in a racial Armageddon that would “deliver our people from the Jew and achieve total victory for the Aryan race.” The group maintained that the Government had been taken over by Jews, prosecutors said, and sought the ultimate establishment of a “racially pure” white supremacist state in the Pacific Northwest called the White American Bastion. The 11 members of the heavily armed organization that called itself the Bruder Schweigen, or Silent Brotherhood, are the remaining defendants in an indictment that originally charged 23 people under a 1970 statute originally drawn as a weapon against organized crime. The group is also referred to as the Order, after a fictional group in a racist novel that the defendants purportedly used as a guide, and occasionally called itself the Silent Brotherhood of the White American Bastion.
A recently formed group of scientists and engineers is trying to get colleagues across the country to sign an unusual pledge of refusal to participate in research for the Reagan Administration’s plan to create a space-based shield against nuclear attack. The campaign, formally announced here today, began simultaneously at Cornell and the University of Illinois several months ago, just as most college campuses were letting out for the summer. It has spread to 39 campuses, according to the organizers, and so far has gathered signatures from about a thousand of the tens of thousands of professors and graduate students in physics, chemistry, engineering and the computer sciences. Lieutenant Colonel Lee DeLorme, a spokesman for the Pentagon’s Strategic Defense Initiative Office, which is directing the antimissile program, said today that the military did not expect the pledge to have any effect on the program.
Atlantis, the newest NASA space shuttle orbiter, roared and blasted flame for 22 seconds on the launching pad at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, in a successful test of its rocket engines that cleared the way for its maiden flight with a secret military cargo October 3. The engines were fired to check all systems of the nation’s fourth shuttle before its debut with a crew of five military officers.
In an unusual demonstration of international cooperation, leaders of Soviet, European, Japanese and U.S. efforts to explore Halley’s comet in March agreed to an immediate exchange of their findings. “There never has been a meeting like this,” said Burton Edelson, an associate administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Five spacecraft from the Soviet Union, the European Space Agency and Japan are now en route to the world’s most famous comet. The United States will use its space shuttle and a satellite around Venus to observe the comet and will use powerful ground stations to track the space probes.
The Missouri Supreme Court, acting quickly in response to an urgent request from the Attorney General, agreed to hear an appeal Friday aimed at keeping in force the state’s law against rape. The court on Thursday set the hearing after Attorney General William Webster filed a petition seeking to keep in force the statute making rape a crime.
Federal agents seized $3.6 million in suspected cocaine profits from a car and a residence, United States Customs officials announced today. The cash recovery, an all-time high for the Customs Service’s Los Angeles office, was not enough evidence to hold either the driver of the car or the occupant of the apartment, both Colombians, on drug trafficking charges, Special Agent Alan Walls said.
Billions of people would starve to death slowly after a nuclear war, according to a new study by an international scientific group. One of the authors said that explosions and radiation would kill several hundred million people and a crop-destroying nuclear winter would bring famine to up to 4 billion people.
A temporary alien farm worker plan is shelved. By a vote of 50 to 48, the Senate rejected a proposal to admit thousands of aliens to the United States as temporary agricultural workers.
Many farm children are abandoning plans to maintain their families’ longtime farms. Largely because of the rising financial problems among farmers, an increasing number of rural youths are preparing for other careers.
Many older breast cancer patients should receive hormone therapy to prevent a recurrence, according to a panel of the National Institutes of Health. It said such treatments could reduce death rates among the women by 20 percent.
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John Milner, a former member of the Pittsburgh Pirates, said in United States District Court today that he had purchased cocaine in the Pirates’ clubhouse at Three Rivers Stadium during a game in 1980. Milner identified the supplier of the cocaine as Curtis Strong, a Philadelphia man being tried on 16 counts of cocaine distribution to major league players.
Brad Komminsk capped a six-run third inning with a three-run homer and Atlanta went on to a 11–6 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers, salvaging the final game of a five-game series. The loss cut the Dodgers’ lead to eight and one-half games in the National League West over the Cincinnati Reds, who defeated San Diego. The Braves trailed, 5–0, and were in danger of being swept in a series for the eighth time this season when Albert Hall and Paul Zuvella opened the third with walks.
Pennant fever is sweeping New York at a pitch it has not reached in decades. The Mets came from behind in the bottom half of the ninth inning to get a 7-6 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals, putting them back in sole possession of first place with a one-game lead over St. Louis in the National League East. It never looked like it would come to this: There were the Mets, a six-run lead vanished, clinging in one half of the ninth and then scratching their way to victory in the bottom half. First came an infield hit, then a bunt, and then Keith Hernandez’s ground-ball single to left field that gave the Mets a 7-6 triumph over the St Louis Cardinals yesterday, putting them back in sole possession of first place with a one-game lead in the National League East. “We had to win this one,” said the manager, Dave Johnson. “We had to show the Cardinals that we’re to going to win.”
A grand slam by Hubie Brooks, who broke an 0-for-13 slump, is the difference as Montreal wins at Philadelphia, 6–3. Winner Floyd Youmans (3-2) gave up two runs and four hits in five innings, striking out three and walking seven. Jeff Reardon notched his 34th save, pitching the final two innings.
Behind a 3-run homer by R.J. Reynolds, off starter Dennis Eckersley, and a grand slam by pitcher Don Robinson, off Warren Brusstar, the Pirates whip the Cubs, 10–2. Reynolds’ homer, his first since June 22, 1984, came against Dennis Eckersley (8–6) in the third inning.
Buddy Bell and Tony Perez knocked in first-inning runs and Jay Tibbs scattered seven hits in eight innings to give Cincinnati a 2–1 victory over the visiting Padres. Pete Rose of the Reds, who broke Ty Cobb’s career hit record Wednesday night, sat out out of the game.
Kevin Bass doubled and tripled, scored a run and drove in another to lead Houston over San Francisco, 5–2. The victory was Houston’s eighth in their last nine games and their 13th in 16 games with the Giants this season.
Two seventh-inning errors by Blue Jays’ shortstop Tony Fernandez allow the Yankees to score six runs and come from behind to beat Toronto, 7–5. Ron Hassey punctuates the inning with a three-run home run for the win. Ron Guidry gets his 19th victory. Guidry wasn’t spectacular, giving up 10 hits in eight innings, but he lasted long enough for the Yankees to catch up to Stieb and overcome a 4–1 deficit.
Ken Dixon threw a six-hitter over seven and two-thirds innings and Floyd Rayford hit a two-run homer in the third as Baltimore beat Boston, 3–1. The homer, Rayford’s 12th of the year, followed John Shelby’s infield single off Al Nipper (8-11) and helped the Orioles salvage a split of their four-game series in Boston.
The Angels downed the Rangers, 5–3, Bobby Grich’s 142nd homer for California and Donnie Moore’s 26th save of the season playing prominent roles. Moore came on the scene after the Angels rallied for two runs in the bottom of the seventh to present Mike Witt, 13-7, with his fifth consecutive victory. Witt, who also has won 11 of his last 13 decisions, had allowed a two-run homer by Steve Buechele to give the Rangers a 32 lead in the top of the inning.The score changed in the bottom of the inning, after Bob Boone’s leadoff double knocked out Texas starter Dave Stewart. Rookie Dwayne Henry, 1-2, entered to allow a sacrifice bunt to Gary Pettis, who also reached base on catcher Don Slaught’s late throw to first. Rod Carew bounced into a force play as pinch-runner Devon White scored the tying run, then Ruppert Jones’ triple broke the 3-3 tie.
The White Sox topped the Twins, 4–2. Greg Walker hit a two-run triple to cap a three-run third inning, and Gene Nelson pitched a seven-hitter for 8 ⅓ innings to lead the White Sox at Chicago. Walker lined his triple to left-center off Gene Smithson (14-12) to score Harold Baines and Bryan Little.
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Atlanta Braves 11
Baltimore Orioles 3, Boston Red Sox 1
Texas Rangers 3, California Angels 5
Minnesota Twins 2, Chicago White Sox 4
San Diego Padres 1, Cincinnati Reds 2
San Francisco Giants 2, Houston Astros 5
Toronto Blue Jays 5, New York Yankees 7
St. Louis Cardinals 6, New York Mets 7
Montreal Expos 6, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Chicago Cubs 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 10
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Nick Lowery tied a club record with five field goals and Bill Kenney threw two touchdown passes tonight, leading the Kansas City Chiefs to a 36–20 victory over the Los Angeles Raiders. Lowery tied the record of five field goals by Jan Stenerud, who twice that many, first in 1969 and then again in 1971. The victory improved the Chiefs’ record to 2–0, and the Raiders, who had beaten Kansas City five in a row, dropped to 1–1. Lowery’s field goals measured 36, 22, 42, 58 and 21 yards. His 58-yard effort with 43 seconds remaining in the first half matched the longest of his career and cut the Kansas City deficit to 14–12 at halftime. His 21-yarder 4 minutes 39 seconds into the second half gave the Chiefs into the lead for good at 15–14. Kenney, who passed for 397 yards against the New Orleans Saints last Sunday, completed 18 of 38 passes for 259 yards He threw for two touchdowns in the third period as Kansas City pulled out to a 29–14 lead. Kansas City cornerback Albert Lewis recovered a fumble by the Raider quarterback Jim Plunkett in the end zone for the Chiefs’ third touchdown and a 36–14 lead with 9:48 remaining.
Los Angeles Raiders 20, Kansas City Chiefs 36
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Kroy Biermann, NFL defensive end and linebacker (Atlanta Falcons), in Hardin, Montana.
Champian Fulton, American jazz pianist and singer (Birdsong), in Norman, Oklahoma.
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