Moscow ordered the expulsions of 25 British diplomats, embassy staff members, correspondents and businessmen in retaliation for Britain’s expulsion of 25 Soviet officials last week after the defection of the K.G.B. chief in London. The expelled Britons were matched against Russians whom London told to leave. It was the largest diplomatic expulsion from the Soviet Union since World War II, and the scope surprised Western diplomats. Most had expected the Kremlin to follow past practice and expel only a token contingent of Britons. Moscow further demonstrated its anger by acting with unusual dispatch, only two days after the British Foreign Office had announced the defection of the K.G.B. chief in London and the resulting expulsion of Russians.
The British Foreign Secretary responded angrily tonight to the ordered Soviet expulsion of 25 Britons. “We utterly condemn this totally unjustified Soviet action directed against British businessmen and journalists, as well as embassy staff,” said the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe. Sir Geoffrey added: “We have consistently made clear our wish to have improved political and commercial relations with the Soviet Union and have worked hard for that. But this Soviet action, for which there is no objective justification whatsoever, is bound to set back the process.”
The Soviet Government press agency Tass today condemned the American testing of an anti-satellite weapon as a stepping up of war preparations. A Tass commentary described the test on Friday as proof that “another round of the arms race in space, hinging on the notorious ‘Star Wars’ program, has begun.”
In a letter being circulated clandestinely, 100 Solidarity supporters have called for a boycott of parliamentary elections next month. The letter, which was signed by prominent advocates of the outlawed labor movement, describes Poland as burdened by economic difficulties and social and political problems. It also says it is a country that “has political prisoners, permits police license and suppresses culture and science.” “In such a state,” the text says, “citizens are offered parliamentary elections in which the authorities select the candidates and we are supposed to vote. The aim of this farce is to convince society and international public opinion that the situation in Poland is stable, that the country’s problems have been solved and that citizens have reached an agreement with the authorities. It is just another attempt to pull us in to a game of appearances.
World leaders will come to New York in record numbers to attend the General Assembly of the United Nations, an occasion that will also mark the organization’s 40th birthday. Kings, presidents and prime ministers will be among the 95 leaders at the session’s opening Tuesday.
Five people were killed and about 60 were injured today when a passenger train collided head-on with a pair of locomotives, railway officials said. The two drivers and three passengers were killed, the police said. The accident occurred between Lausanne and the small town of Morges on the shores of Lake Geneva when the train collided with a locomotive pulling another engine to a depot.
The OPEC cartel, in a 25th anniversary statement, said that it will eventually regain control of the world oil market. The Vienna-based secretariat of the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries said that non-OPEC nations, whose rising oil sales at cut-rate prices have displaced OPEC oil in a saturated market, will soon have to cut back or else spend huge sums to squeeze more oil from reserves now being depleted, and that OPEC’s policy of stretching reserves will “eventually bring it back to the fore as the future main supplier of oil in the world.”
Jordan’s King Hussein, trying to salvage his stalemated Mideast peace initiative, conferred in Cairo. with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on strategy for talks that both will have later this month with President Reagan and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Egyptian government officials said the talks focused on unsuccessful efforts to arrange a meeting between Richard W. Murphy, the State Department’s top Mideast troubleshooter, and a proposed Jordanian-Palestinian delegation.
The bullet-riddled bodies of four men, believed to be Christians kidnaped by Lebanese Muslim gunmen, were found in West Beirut, raising fears that Christians will start killing Muslims whom they have seized in retaliatory abductions. Italian Embassy officials searched Beirut for Alberto Molinari, an Italian businessman abducted in the Lebanese capital by unknown gunmen Wednesday.
Shiite Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon release the Rev. Benjamin Weir after holding him captive for 16 months. The kidnapping was done by an Islamic fundamentalist group, Islamic Jihad, that later evolved into Hezbollah. He was freed after 16 months in exchange for U.S. anti-tank weapons, as part of the Iran-Contra Affair. Shortly thereafter he was elected moderator of the 1986 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, the highest elected office in that denomination.
The official Saudi press agency said today that the Government has made an agreement with Britain for a major purchase of jet fighters. The Sunday Times of London placed the value of the deal at $4.8 billion. A brief Saudi statement said the agreement was in line with the kingdom’s plan to “diversify the source of its arms,” and involved jet fighters and other equipment for the air force.No details were given. The announcement followed reports that the Reagan Administration was expected to drop plans to include 40 F-15 jets in a United States-Saudi arms package because of Congressional opposition. In London, the British Defense Ministry said Britain and Saudi Arabia have agreed in principle on the sale of military aircraft. A spokesman for the Defense Ministry declined to elaborate, but The Sunday Times of London said the deal was worth the equivalent of $4.8 billion and involved 48 Tornado fighters and 30 Hawk jet trainers. It said the package also includes a complete range of weapons, radar and spare parts for the aircraft and a training program for Saudi pilots.
Iraq accused Iran tonight of renewing air attacks on civilian areas and said 20 civilians were wounded today in the northern city of Sulaimaniya. A war communique said two Iranian jets had attacked the city. In mid-June, Iraq said it would stop attacks on civilian areas if Iran did the same. It reported a “positive response” from Iran at first. Iran last reported air raids on Iraq on September 6, when it said its planes hit oil installations and a radar station. The Iranian press agency reported an air attack today on “military and economic installations” west of Sulaimaniya. It quoted a communique as saying all the planes returned safely.
Indian officials say they want the United States to help ease tensions with Pakistan on a number of subjects, including Karachi’s purported effort to build nuclear weapons. A Foreign Ministry official said this week that the United States had initiated the coming visit to India and Pakistan of two senior American officials to discuss the nuclear question and other matters. But he said India welcomed the chance for American help. He said Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and other Indian officials would probably ask the Americans to step up pressure on Pakistan to abandon its reported plans to build a nuclear weapon.
Vietnam introduced a new, devalued currency, a move that sparked panic buying in Ho Chi Minh City. All airline flights in and out of the country were canceled, and shops and restaurants closed as inhabitants flocked to exchange the old currency for new notes. The Vietnamese currency, the dong, was devalued under a Council of State decree with one new dong worth 10 old dong. The new dollar rate was not disclosed. The dollar had been worth 100 old dong under a devaluation in April but soared to 1,000 old dong during the buying spree Friday when rumors of the new currency swept the country.
Japanese investigators confirmed that a rear pressure bulkhead suspected of causing the Japan Air Lines crash last month was incorrectly repaired by Boeing Co. in 1978 and showed signs of metal fatigue. But the Transport Ministry committee, in its second report on the crash of the Boeing 747-SR, contradicted the account of the faulty repair issued a week earlier by Boeing. The report did not specify the cause of the crash, which killed 520, but said the faulty repair allowed abnormal stress on a single row of rivets rather than the required three rows.
Repair of the Pacific alliance rupture over nuclear policy will be taken up in talks in Washington between the United States and New Zealand, Reagan Administration officials said. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger will hold meetings with Geoffrey Palmer, New Zealand’s Deputy Prime Minister on Thursday and Friday.
Leftist guerrillas ambushed a Salvadoran army vehicle, killing seven soldiers and two civilians in a rare attack in western El Salvador, a military officer said. He said that the attack occurred near El Congo, 30 miles west of San Salvador, in Santa Ana province and that the rebels are being hunted. The ambush followed statements by Joaquin Villalobos, a top rebel leader, that the insurgents would expand attacks across the country.
Part of a battalion of Honduran troops moved to that nation’s border with Nicaragua today, but no further clashes were reported between the two countries after a major border incident Friday. The Honduran Army remained on alert today, and the national congress was meeting this morning to discuss the confrontation Friday with Nicaragua, in which Honduran jets reportedly shot down a Nicaraguan helicopter after Nicaraguan forces fired mortar rounds into Honduras. In addition, Honduras has recalled its Ambassador from Nicaragua.
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3rd said today that Nicaragua had become a “country club” for terrorists from around the world. Mr. Meese’s remarks, prepared for delivery to a meeting of Western European and American jurists here, expanded on a July speech by President Reagan, in which Nicaragua was said to be part of a “confederation of terrorist states” that Mr. Reagan described as “a new, international version of Murder Inc.” The Attorney General said Nicaragua had offered refuge to members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, the Basque separatist group E.T.A., the Irish Republican Army, the Baader-Meinhof Gang of West Germany and the Red Brigades of Italy. The Nicaraguan Embassy described Mr. Meese’s remarks in a statement as “outright falsehoods, distortions and misrepresentations.”
Nicaraguan rebel leaders say they have begun to emphasize human rights and respect for civilians in an effort to improve the public image of the guerrillas and their conduct in the field. As part of the effort, the Nicaraguan Democatic Force, the rebel organization, has formed a Red Cross unit and appointed a human rights commission and an attorney general who will prosecute rights violations. The program comes after reports that the insurgents in Nicaragua have been executing Government soldiers, officials and village militiamen. The abuses appear to have limited the guerrillas’ popular appeal inside Nicaragua and their standing abroad. American officials have reportedly urged the rebels to stop mistreating prisoners and civilians.
Since its founding 61 years ago, Peru’s governing party has always viewed greater Latin American cooperation as a needed counterweight to the United States’ huge influence over the region. Taking power for the first time in late July, the party, the American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, has begun testing its ideas by starting an activist foreign policy that has already sent waves throughout the hemisphere. The new Government’s leaders say regional problems require regional solutions, but the reaction in many Latin American capitals — as well as in Washington — suggests that Peru’s bid for leadership is at best controversial. In his inaugural address, the 36-year-old President of Peru, Alan Garcia Perez, challenged other Latin American leaders to follow his example in confronting two of the region’s most critical problems: foreign debts that no one can repay and arms spending that no one can afford.
A Liberian military court convicted former Finance Minister Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of sedition and sentenced her to 10 years in prison. Johnson-Sirleaf, 46, a prominent banker and economist, had called members of Liberia’s military government “idiots” during a U.S. speech in July. She said she was frustrated because her political party was having trouble getting legal recognition for the October 15 elections.
Attacks on the meeting in Zambia Friday between South African businessmen and leaders of the outlawed African National Congress came from South African Government leaders and some black political groups. “I do not know what the businessmen achieved, except to show signs of weakness toward the enemies of South Africa,” President P.W. Botha was quoted as saying.
The national debt, by the middle of next year, is expected to reach $2 trillion, a two plus 12 zeros. To count the pennies, one a second for 24 hours a day, would take 63,419 years. It is 12 times all the cash in the land and equal to all the wages Americans will be paid this year. Like some other milestones in the country’s history, it arouses scrutiny and wonder. But unlike some, it is more than a rite of passage, reflecting serious problems for Government taxation and spending as well as new strains on the economy. Outside Congress, the Administration and economic circles, the debt and the accumulated Federal budget deficits that make it up stir little concern, certainly less than that people express over such topical issues as trade and taxes. Yet many economists say the debt is behind the four-year recession in agriculture, the strength of the dollar, the job losses of export-sensitive industries, interest rates higher than historical precedent says they should be, the sluggishness of European economies and the strains on the debtor nations of Latin America.
In his weekly radio address from the Presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, Mr. Reagan also said passage of protectionist legislation proposed in Congress “would be to invite certain retaliation against our farm exports, heightening the risk of a farm catastrophe which would send shock waves throughout our economy… Protectionism is farmers’ enemy No. 1, and that enemy is stalking our gate,” the President said. “Let us work aggressively for freer and fairer markets.” Mr. Reagan said he was “asking Congress to unite with me for intelligent policies that provide farmers needed help without doing harm to the budget limitations adopted by Congress, and greater freedom for them to grow and sell their crops in the marketplaces of the world.”
Eighty-one percent of the public expects the economic recovery to continue at least until the end of this year, according to the latest Gallup Poll. Fifty-four percent expect the strong economy to extend into 1987 or beyond. People are more optimistic about the economy now than they were in surveys conducted in 1983 and 1984, George Gallup Jr., the pollster, said. He said the reason might be the duration of the economic recovery, which began almost three years ago after the 1981-82 recession.
President Reagan told a group of state legislators that the Constitution should be changed to permit presidents to serve more than two terms, White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. Speakes said the question was raised by a longtime Reagan supporter at a private meeting with legislators last week in Tampa, Florida, where the President had just given a speech. Repealing the 22nd Amendment to the Constitution, which limits presidents to two elected terms, would require another amendment that would have to be approved by a two-thirds’ vote of both houses of Congress and by legislatures in three-fourths of the states.
Seepage of naturally occurring radon will be studied nationally by the Federal Environmental Protection Agency to determine locations and the potential hazard of the radioactive gas, an E.P.A. official said. The official made the announcement at a meeting of homeowners in Morristown, New Jersey. Radon levels 100 times greater than the federally set safety standard in mines have been found in homes. The colorless and odorless gas, which can cause lung cancer after long exposure, is seeping up from uranimum deposits in a geological formation, the Reading Prong, that extends through parts of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. An estimated 250,000 homes lie over the formation, according to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection.
One in four public elementary and secondary-school teachers believes that he or she is likely to leave the teaching profession in the next five years, including many of the best and brightest teachers, a Louis Harris survey found. The poll of 1,846 teachers, sponsored by the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., found that half of them have seriously considered quitting teaching at some time and a quarter are “likely” to leave. The findings. come at a time when demographic shifts and teacher attrition point to a severe teacher shortage in the future, with researchers projecting a need for a million new teachers by 1990.
General Dynamics Corp. and the United Auto Workers negotiated in Warren, Michigan, past a midnight contract deadline for nearly 5,000 workers at plants in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The defense contractor had proposed a 3% general wage increase and lump sum payments of 2% the first year, 4% the second year and 3.5% the third year. The UAW objected to the lump sum payment, in which workers would get a one-time payment based on their annual salary.
A small amount of a raw petrochemical ingredient leaked from equipment in a Union Carbide Corp. plant in South Charleston, West Virginia, but the spill was quickly brought under control and “there was no impact on workers or anyone else,” a company spokesman said. Police said the plant reported that about 100 pounds of mono methyl amine had escaped from a faulty safety valve, but the substance was contained within about 10 minutes. It was the seventh industrial leak reported in West Virginia’s “chemical valley” within the last five weeks.
Military cargo planes carried about 600 “victims” of a simulated earthquake in Missouri to area hospitals today in a test of the new National Disaster Medical System, officials said. The five-hour drill was said to be the largest test of the system, a voluntary network of civilian hospitals across the country, to provide medical assistance and evacuation aid in large disasters. The pretended victims of a devastating earthquake in St. Louis, arrived aboard C-130 cargo planes at this base near Washington, and at Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The volunteer victims were from the Washington area, and the planes only flew around the airports, officials said. The victims were given preliminary treatment at the airports, where the seriousness of their injuries was determined, and then were taken to 19 area hospitals in 35 ambulances and 15 military helicopters. A special Amtrak train was also to transport victims from an airport railroad station.
Researchers have begun to design improvements in the Jarvik-7 artificial heart to correct a design flaw that preliminary tests point to as a partial explanation of the strokes that have seriously complicated its use. The tests performed over the last few days were the first on a Jarvik-7 heart removed from a patient who suffered strokes while living with the device. The tests were done at Symbion, the Salt Lake City concern that makes the Jarvik-7 hearts, on the device that was removed from Michael Drummond, a 25-year-old Arizona man. He suffered mild strokes seven days after receiving the implant and two days before he received a human heart transplant.
A North Carolina state trooper was shot to death on a highway as a posse of 100 men searched mountainous terrain for two escaped prisoners from Arkansas. The trooper’s identity was not released. The fugitives were identified as William Richard Bray and Jimmy Rios, both 23. Bray and Rios were among five prisoners who escaped August 26 from Arkansas’ Franklin County jail. The manhunt was centered in the mountains where a vehicle the men were believed driving was found abandoned.
Tuesday morning, in a Federal District Court in New Orleans, the suave, silver-haired Governor of Louisiana, Edwin Edwards, will stand before the bench to face trial on charges of racketeering, mail and wire fraud. He will not be alone. His brother Marion Edwards, their nephew David Isbell, and five other men, friends and business associates of the Governor, will stand with him, along with their 15 lawyers, and four prosecutors from the office of United States Attorney John Volz. It was Mr. Volz who won indictments of the eight from a Federal grand jury in connection with what prosecutors said was the fraudulent issuance of certificates authorizing hospital construction.
Governor Ed Herschler, a popular Democrat who is serving his third term, has filed for bankruptcy here, listing liabilities that exceed his assets by nearly $2 million. The petition, filed in Federal Bankruptcy Court in Cheyenne, seeks to protect Mr. Herschler from his creditors under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. With the filing, Mr. Herschler became the state’s first Governor to declare bankruptcy, state historians said. The petition was filed by the Governor’s attorney, Alvin Wiederspahn of Cheyenne, who is also a State Senator. It was submitted late Friday afternoon, just before the Bankruptcy Court’s office closed for the weekend.
A former county judge was found guilty by a Milwaukee jury of fatally stabbing the law partner of a man who defeated the judge for reelection last April. Daniel McDonald, 43, who served as Lafayette County circuit judge for 12 years, had been charged with bludgeoning James Klein, 31, with a metal bar and then stabbing him on June 22 in his law offices in Darlington, Wisconsin. McDonald contended that he stabbed Klein in self-defense, but witnesses who watched the incident through a glass door testified that McDonald was the aggressor. The jury now must rule on whether McDonald was sane at the time of the attack. The trial was moved from Lafayette County to Milwaukee because of pretrial publicity.
California motorists would be required to use seat belts next year or face a $20 fine under a measure the Senate sent to Gov. George Deukmejian today. The Republican Governor has indicated he will sign the bill, which proponents said could save 1,000 lives yearly. The measure would also require automobile manufacturers to install such safety devices as air bags in new cars in California by 1989. The California law would be voided if the Reagan Administration used its adoption to help repeal a Federal requirement that air bags or other automatic restraint systems be put in new cars beginning in 1987. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole has ruled that manufacturers would be exempted from the requirement if two-thirds of the nation’s population is covered by mandatory seat belt laws.
Seeking to imitate the success of the Live Aid concert that benefited famine victims abroad, 50 leading country and Western and rock musicians are planning to appear at a 14-hour concert September 22 in Champaign, Illinois, to help the nation’s distressed farmers. Since last month, when Willie Nelson, the country and Western singer, announced that he was organizing the Farm Aid concert, it has captured the imagination of America’s Farm Belt, even though the planners are uncertain about the best way to spend the $50 million they hope to raise. In Champaign, thousands of young people lined up, many overnight, to buy the $17.50 tickets. Hundreds of Illinois farmers have volunteered to help set up the 78,000-seat Memorial Stadium at the University of Illinois for the sold-out concert. In Nebraska volunteers have agreed to answer phones during the Farm Aid telethon, which will reach most American homes by cable and broadcast television.
“The Golden Girls”, starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan, and Estelle Getty, debuts on NBC.
Susan Akin (Mississippi), 21, crowned 59th Miss America for 1986.
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Jeff Leonard doubled home Dan Driessen in the top of the ninth at Atlanta to break a 1–1 tie, and Greg Adams doubled Leonard home, and the Giants downed the Braves, 3–1. The bright spot for the Braves was the pitching of Pascual Perez, who entered the game with a 1–10 record and an earned-run average of 6.49. Perez blanked the Giants on three hits through seven innings, then gave up two hits and a run in the eighth. Gene Garber pitched the ninth for the Braves.
Ozzie Smith’s run-scoring double highlighted a two-run sixth inning today that carried the St. Louis Cardinals into first place in the National League East with a 5–4 victory over the Chicago Cubs. Coupled with the Mets’ 5–1 loss in Montreal, St. Louis moved one-half game ahead of New York. Trailing by 4–3, Cesar Cedeno led off the sixth with a walk off the starter, Ray Fontenot. Lary Sorensen (3–7) relieved and balked Cedeno to second. One out later, Terry Pendleton singled to center to tie the score. Smith then followed with his double down the left-field line for his fourth game-winning run batted in. Bill Campbell (5–3) hurled three innings of one-hit relief for the triumph. Jeff Lahti pitched two innings for his 17th save.
The Mets took another tumble in the homestretch today when they made four errors, lost to the Montreal Expos, 5–1, and fell into second place in the National League East. New York’s Sid Fernandez pitched into the fifth inning, and left with his team losing by 3–1. He was outpitched by David Palmer, who had just come off the disabled list and hadn’t started a game in seven weeks because of stiffness in the right shoulder. Then, when they got to the final two innings, the Expos turned their lead over to Jeff Reardon, nicknamed the Terminator, who retired six of the seven batters he faced and saved his 35th game of the season.
The Dodgers blanked the Cincinnati Reds, 7–0. Bob Welch scattered six hits, Mariano Duncan went 4 for 5 and scored three runs and Mike Marshall hit a two-run home run in the Los Angeles victory. The Dodgers stretched their National League West lead to nine and one-half games over second-place Cincinnati.
The Astros edged the Padres, 4–3. Dickie Thon hit a two-run home run at Houston to give the Astros their 15th win in the last 18 games, putting them above .500 for the first time in two months and moving them into a tie with the Padres for third place in the West. Bob Knepper (14–10) gave up seven hits in seven innings to win his fourth in a row.
Steve Carlton (1–8) faltered again in his comeback attempt, as the Pirates topped the Phillies, 6–3. In this game at Pittsburgh, Carlton gave up five hits, five runs and four walks before leaving with nobody out in the sixth inning. The Pirates’ Tony Pena went 3 for 4, drove in two runs and scored two.
This was the night the Yankees’ bullpen collapsed — and right smack in the middle of a pennant race. Dave Righetti and Brian Fisher, the dynamic duo of the Yankees’ relief corps, broke open a close game in the sixth inning last night, sending the first-place Toronto Blue Jays winging to a 7–4 victory that dropped the Yankees three and a half games behind. This marked the first time since August 26-27 that the Yankees had lost two consecutive games and had dropped two games in the standing in two days. This also was the first time the Yankees had lost consecutive games at Yankee Stadium since June 29-30. The three-and-a-half-game deficit is their bulkiest since September 3. Jimmy Key, the best left-hander starter Toronto has ever had, played an important role, checking the Yankees on six hits and gained his 13th victory against six defeats.
Bret Saberhagen pitched a three-hitter and Hal McRae hit a two-run home run to help give Kansas City a 2–1 victory over the Oakland A’s. The victory was the Royals’ fourth straight and 12th in 13 games as Kansas City increased its lead in the American League West. Saberhagen (18–6) and a winner in 16 of his last 19 decisions, struck out a career-high 12, walked two and retired the final 11 batters he faced in outdueling Tommy John, who gave up five hits, no walks and struck out one in eight innings.
The Red Sox’ Dwight Evans hit his 23rd home run with a man on in the 11th at Milwaukee to give the Red Sox a 10–8 victory over the Brewers. Evans’ home run scored Marty Barrett, who had singled off losing reliever Danny Darwin, 7–17. The hit made a winner of Bruce Kison, 5–3, who pitched three innings of one-hit relief.
The Texas Rangers, mired in the depths of the American League West, defeated the Angels, 8–5, Saturday night, plunging them one game deeper into second place. Ganging up on the Angels’ second line of relief — Jim Slaton, Doug Corbett, D. W. Smith and Al Holland — the Rangers rallied from a two-run deficit to win before an Anaheim Stadium crowd of 29,988. The Rangers saw the Angels’ second line of relief because the first — Donnie Moore and Stewart Cliburn — was given the night off. Texas scored three times in the eighth inning and twice in the ninth.
Cleveland split with Minnesota, winning 11–9, then losing 5–3. After the Indians pounded out 13 hits and the Twins contributed five errors in the opener at Cleveland, the Twins broke a 3–3 tie with two in the ninth to earn a split.
The Tigers won the opener of a doubleheader with the Orioles, 10–4, but Baltimore bounced back to take the nightcap, 5–4. These two teams, the last two World Series winners, took turns giving away a game at Detroit. Three errors set up five unearned runs for the Tigers in the opener, and in the second game, three errors gave Baltimore three unearned runs.
Alvin Davis hit a three-run homer, capping a four-run seventh inning in the Mariners’ 6–5 win over the visiting White Sox. Davis chased starter Floyd Bannister, 6–14, with his 17th homer of the season in the seventh inning to make a winner out of Bill Swift, 5–9.
San Francisco Giants 3, Atlanta Braves 1
Texas Rangers 8, California Angels 5
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Cincinnati Reds 0
Minnesota Twins 9, Cleveland Indians 11
Minnesota Twins 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 3, Detroit Tigers 10
Baltimore Orioles 5, Detroit Tigers 4
San Diego Padres 3, Houston Astros 4
Boston Red Sox 10, Milwaukee Brewers 8
New York Mets 1, Montreal Expos 5
Toronto Blue Jays 7, New York Yankees 4
Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 1
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Chicago White Sox 5, Seattle Mariners 6
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Delmon Young, MLB outfielder (Tampa Bay Devil Rays, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers, Philadelphia Phillies, Blatimore Orioles), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Brandon Hicks, MLB second baseman, shortstop, and third baseman (Atlanta Braves, Oakland A’s, San Francisco Giants), in Houston, Texas.
Aya Ueto, Japanese actress (Azumi), and pop singer (“Pureness”), in Nerima, Tokyo.
Paolo Gregoletto, American heavy metal bassist (Trivium), in Miami, Florida.
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