President Reagan tonight ruled out negotiations with the Soviet Union on the development and testing of his proposed missile defense in space in exchange for deep cuts in the Soviet nuclear arsenal. At the same time Mr. Reagan, in a nationally televised news conference, expressed hope that his meeting in November with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, would “lead to a change in the relationship” between the United States and the Soviet Union. Responding to several questions about the meeting in Geneva, Mr. Reagan made it plain that although his strategic defense initiative would not be a “bargaining chip” in the immediate future, he did not exclude a trade-off once research into the space program was completed. “There’s a great deal of room for negotiation,” Mr. Reagan said.
A West German parliamentary delegation told Congressional committees today that Bonn would sign an agreement setting terms for West German companies to take part in research on President Reagan’s spaced-based missile defense program, American and West German officials said. For the Reagan Administration, such an agreement would be an important symbol of European political endorsement of the program even if European commercial participation in the $26 billion, five-year research effort is only modest. Since last spring, the Administration has been courting Western European governments with the prospect of attractive high-technology contracts for the strategic defense initiative, or “Star Wars,” as the program is known, as a counter to Soviet efforts at exploiting European anxieties about the program. After months of technical talks with eight friendly industrial nations, Administration officials said today that both Britain and West Germany were moving toward agreements or memorandums of understanding that would set the terms for companies from those countries to compete for research contracts.
A secretary in Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s office was reported today to have defected to East Germany with her husband, a senior official in a foundation close to one of West Germany’s governing parties. Both are suspected of spying. The defection by the couple, Herbert Adolf Willner and Herta-Astrid Willner, was the latest in a chain of disappearances that has disclosed widespread penetration of Bonn’s power centers by Communist agents. Since the beginning of August, a senior counterespionage officer, two secretaries and an army messenger have vanished. All are believed to be in East Berlin. In addition, a secretary in the office of President Richard von Weizsacker has been arrested on suspicion of having been a spy for 18 years.
A leading French newspaper reported today that the sinking of the anti-nuclear protest vessel Rainbow Warrior was the work of French military divers, and that the Defense Minister apparently had approved the operation. The newspaper, Le Monde, quoting what it said were sources in the French secret service as well as Government officials and others, said this information was subsequently concealed from an inquiry ordered by President Francois Mitterrand. The Defense Minister, Charles Hernu, rejected the report in Le Monde tonight as part of “the campaign of rumors and insinuations being waged against French military officials over the attack on the Rainbow Warrior.” One man was killed when the vessel, the flagship of the environmentalist group Greenpeace, was sunk July 10 by explosives while berthed in Auckland, New Zealand. The ship was going to lead a protest flotilla to the French nuclear testing site at Mururoa Atoll. New Zealand police investigators concluded that mines had been attached to the Rainbow Warrior’s hull.
The Roman Catholic Bishops of the United States said today that Pope John Paul II might visit America in the fall of 1987. It was the first official indication that the Pope would make the long-rumored trip. A high Vatican official confirmed that it had been discussed, but the Vatican did not issue a statement. The National Conference of Catholic Bishops in Washington said the visit would last just over a week and would include several cities in the West and the South. The Pope visited the United States in October 1979 and traveled to Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Des Moines, Chicago and Washington.
The Italian police today charged a Lebanese-born Palestinian with having thrown two grenades into a Rome cafe on Monday, wounding 38 people. The motives for the attack, on the Cafe de Paris, on Via Veneto, remained a mystery. No group has taken responsibility. The police identified the arrested man as Ahmad Al Hossen Abu Sareja, 27 years old. He was said to have been born in the Burj al Brajneh refugee district on the outskirts of Beirut. The police said he was carrying a false passport that identified him as Moroccan. They said he had a round-trip ticket from Damascus, Syria, showing that he arrived here August 25. “For us, he’s the man,” said Marcello Monarca, Rome’s police chief. The police said they saw Mr. Sareja running from the bombing scene and caught him after a half-mile chase.
A suicide bomber crashed an explosives-laden car into a base of the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army militia, killing or wounding 30 militiamen, Lebanese state television reported. An Israeli military source acknowledged a car bombing attempt but said there were no injuries. The attack took place five miles northwest of the border. Heavy shelling between rival militias continued in Lebanon’s three largest cities, with 18 killed. President Amin Gemayel’s palace was damaged, but he was unhurt. New fighting raged between Muslim factions in Tripoli. The police said 18 people were killed and 88 wounded in fighting in Beirut and Tripoli. The latest suicide car-bombing, according to reports on television, occurred at Almun, in the buffer zone established by Israel and patrolled by the South Lebanon Army, a Christian-led militia force. Almun is on the south bank of the Litani River and five miles west of the northern tip of Israel.
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt said today that progress had been made toward resolving Egypt’s dispute with Israel over the territory known as Taba. The dispute has been a source of tension between Israel and Egypt. “I am optimistic,” he said. “I hope that we could proceed forward on the problem of Taba to put it to an end.” There was no response from Israel, where Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, is being observed. Taba, a disputed 700-yard strip of beachfront kept by Israel after it left Sinai in 1982, has become a stumbling block in efforts to restore normal relations between Egypt and Israel under the 1979 peace treaty.
Jordan and Syria ended two days of talks in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, on a “highly positive” note and will meet again next month, a Saudi intermediary said. The talks between Jordanian Prime Minister Zaid Rifai and Syrian Premier Abdel-Raouf Kasm “brought out points of agreement on major issues,” said Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who helped arrange the talks in an effort to ease tension.
One of the major Afghan guerrilla groups claimed to have shot down a helicopter gunship carrying an Afghan major general and a brigadier plus a Soviet officer believed to have been a general. According to the Hezbi-i-Islami rebels, all eight men aboard the MI-24 copter were killed when it crashed in Paktia province. Meanwhile, Western diplomats reported intensified fighting between the guerrillas and Soviet-backed troops in the city of Kandahar.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz accused Vietnam of “backing off” from a promise to release political prisoners for resettlement in the United States and said Washington is ready to offer haven to all the prisoners and their families — about 10,000 people. Appearing before the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on refugee policy, Shultz said that in line with a year-old agreement, Hanoi has released thousands of Amerasian children fathered by U.S. servicemen, but he said there has been no progress on the prisoners.
Four of Thailand’s former top military officers were arrested and charged with treason by authorities investigating last week’s unsuccessful coup. The four include Kriangsak Chomanan, a former prime minister and former supreme military commander who now leads one of four parties in the coalition government, and Serm Na Nakhon, another former supreme military commander. Arrest warrants have been issued for at least 25 people, among them suspected coup ringleader Manoon Roopkachorn, a cashiered army colonel, who has fled the country.
Mexican Foreign Minister Bernardo Sepulveda said there is no basis to reports that Soviet warships will dock next month in the Gulf of Mexico port of Veracruz. Press reports last week quoted U.S. officials as saying that two Soviet warships were expected to stop in Veracruz next month and that such a visit would be significant because Soviet naval deployments in the Caribbean so far have extended only as far as Cuba.
Demonstrators protesting what they said were fraudulent elections in Mexico set fire Monday to the town hall in Agua Prieta opposite Douglas, Arizona, and overturned and burned several cars, officials said. “The protest erupted as officials prepared to swear in Bernardo Meza Ortiz, a member of the dominant Institutional Revolutionary Party, who was proclaimed winner of the July 7 Mayoral elections. Mr. Meza Ortiz was sworn in at an alternate location. Government officials said members of the opposition National Action Party were responsible for inciting the incident, which began shortly before noon and continued through the evening. The city was reported to be calm today. A federal official said the incident was “relatively minor.” He said fewer than 100 people were involved.
A little known Salvadoran group has taken responsibility for kidnapping the eldest daughter of Presidnt Jose Napoleon Duarte, according to two government officials. A man who said he represented the Pedro Pablo Castillo Front telephoned Government officials on Friday and Saturday to say the group was holding Mr. Duarte’s eldest daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, the officials said. The group also sent President Duarte a tape recording of Miss Duarte to prove that she was alive, one of the officials added. The caller, the official said, made two demands: a halt to all Government military operations to facilitate negotiations over the kidnapping and the release of as many as 12 imprisoned rebels from various factions.
A representative of El Salvador’s leftist rebels said a top government official has privately expressed the government’s willingness to negotiate the release of President Jose Napoleon Duarte’s daughter. Hector Oqueli, an official of the Revolutionary Democratic Front, said he met with Communications Minister Julio Rey Prendes for an hour in Mexico City on Sunday, but Rey Prendes, upon returning to San Salvador, would neither confirm nor deny that the meeting took place. A group identified as the Pedro Pablo Castillo Front has claimed responsibility for the abduction last week of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran.
Argentine Government prosecutors charged nine former military leaders today with having been “desk authors” of the disappearance of more than 9,000 Argentines in the late 1970’s and early 80’s. Although there is little evidence linking the defendants on trial directly to the kidnapping, torture and murder of innocent Argentines, the prosecutors cited legal precedents in which commanders have been held responsible for the actions of their troops. The nine defendants, who on previous days have appeared uninterested in the proceedings, listened attentively today as the prosecution began to wrap up its five-day summation. The prosecution is expected to finish its closing arguments late tonight and request specific penalites for each of the defendants.
President Samora M. Machel of Mozambique, in a meeting with South Africa’s Foreign Minister, has accused South Africa of “seriously and repeatedly” violating a nonaggression pact, the South African Press Association said today. The news service quoted the Mozambican Government press agency as having said that troops fighting Mozambican insurgents had found “vital proof of the continued involvement of South Africa in the destabilization of Mozambique.” The South African news service said that President Machel made his comments Monday in Maputo during a meeting with Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha, who had been invited to come to the Mozambican capital. The South African was said to have replied that the allegations were being investigated by his government and he was said to have suggested a follow-up meeting.
The police arrested scores of high school teachers, students and their parents today after they sought to reopen one of over 400 schools closed down by the South African authorities earlier this month. But after the police made the arrests inside the Alexander Sinton High School in the mixed-race suburb of Athlone, other students outside hijacked trucks, buses and delivery vans, and used them to block intersections around the school grounds, effectively barricading the police into the school with those they had detained. The action prompted the police to lay down a barrage of tear gas and rubber bullets from within the school on protesters outside while the yellow vans carrying the detainees swerved and weaved through the blockade of vehicles. The effort by mixed-race teachers and students contrasted sharply with black school boycotts elsewhere in the country and seemed to underscore the profundity and diversity of protest among high school students confronting the white authorities.
The U.N. General Assembly opened its 40th year of deliberations facing a host of divisive issues, ranging from the militarization of space to economic sanctions against South Africa.
Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station. Three Soviet astronauts were launched into space today to join two others who had brought the Salyut 7 space station back to life over the summer after its batteries had failed. Tass, the Soviet press agency, reported that the Soyuz T-14 transport ship was launched at 4:39 PM under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir V. Vasyutin, 33 years old. Also aboard were Lieutenant Colonel Aleksandr A. Volkov, a 37-year-old researcher, and Georgi M. Grechko, at 54 one of the oldest and most experienced of Soviet astronauts.
President Reagan participates in his 32nd Press Conference. Calling on Congress “to work with me,” President Reagan warned tonight that “a mindless stampede toward protectionism will be a one-way trip to economic distaster.” In a nationally televised news conference, the President held firm against rising Congressional pressures to pass protectionist legislation. He said such restrictions could impair economic progress and result in retaliation that could “deliver an economic death blow” to thousands of American farms. Although Mr. Reagan sounded the tough antiprotectionist line, he and aides met today with Congressional leaders involved in drafting a trade bill that would incorporate elements of numerous pending bills and would strengthen the Administration’s hand in combatting unfair trade practices. White House officials said that the Administration was willing to work with the Congress on such trade legislation.
President Reagan receives a preliminary report from the Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management.
The Senate voted today to establish a new Government program under which farmers could bring up to 350,000 aliens into the United States to harvest perishable fruit and vegetables. The proposal was adopted by a vote of 51 to 44 as an amendment to a comprehensive bill designed to curtail illegal immigration. The Senate last week rejected a similar amendment by a vote of 50 to 48. The two proposals differed in one significant way: The amendment adopted today set an explicit limit on the number of temporary foreign workers who could be admitted under the program at any one time.
Backers of racial hiring quotas are like Americans who once argued “that slavery was good not only for the slaves but for society,” according to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. His statement was assailed by civil rights leaders.’ In one of the Reagan Administration’s harshest attacks on job quotas, Mr. Meese said in a speech, “For all intents and purposes, a new version of the separate-but-equal doctrine is being pushed upon us.” Those who advocate quotas in hiring and promotion as a means of remedying past injustice “will tell you that whatever discriminatory features such policies employ, that discrimination is benign; that it is benevolent,” the Attorney General said. “But you should not forget,” he continued, “that an earlier generation of Americans heard from some that slavery was good not only for the slaves but for society. It was natural, they argued; it was a kind of benevolence.”
Senate debate on a new Superfund law began with a White House warning that Congress risks a veto if it enacts a broad-based tax to pay for an expanded toxic waste cleanup effort. The warning came in a letter to Senator Jesse Helms (R-North Carolina) from the Office of Management and Budget. Senior Administration officials “will recommend that the President disapprove any legislation containing a value-added or other broadbase tax,” the letter said.
The trial of Richard W. Miller, the first agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be accused of espionage, heard testimony today tending to support his position that he was seeking to infiltrate the Soviet intelligence agency, the K.G.B. Seven weeks before his arrest, Mr. Miller asked an informer for the bureau to take photographs of him meeting with a Russian, the informer testified in Federal District Court. The informer, Lawrence Grayson, was the first witness called by defense attorneys. Mr. Miller contends that his involvement with two Soviet emigres, who have been convicted of espionage, was part of his plan to infiltrate the K.G.B. and rescue his rather dismal 20-year F.B.I. career.
An inspection of more than 300 Boeing 747s, started after the crash of one of the jumbo jets in Japan, has disclosed no safety concerns, government and industry spokesmen said. “We found nothing that gives us any concern,” Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Fred Farrar said, referring to inspections conducted by airlines since the 747 crashed during a domestic flight on August 12. The accident killed all but four of the 524 persons aboard.
The President, who has been accused of evading the AIDS issue by groups representing victims of the deadly disease, said his Administration was making a “vital contribution” to research on the disease within the limits imposed by Federal “budgetary restraints.”
The government has approved a controversial anti-AIDS drug — which actor Rock Hudson flew to Paris to obtain — for experimental use in the United States, a spokeswoman confirmed. The Food and Drug Administration approved the drug, HPA-23, for testing in humans last month, but has held off announcing it, according to spokeswoman Susan Cruzan. The manufacturer, Rhone-Poulenc Inc., is still working with the FDA on testing guidelines. HPA-23, which bears the chemical name of antimonium tungstate, was previously available only in France. Hospitals used it experimentally on acquired immune deficiency syndrome patients, some of whom came from the United States.
[Ed: This drug trial, like all the early AIDS anti-virals, would prove to be a disappointment.]
A judge jailed and fined 23 members of a striking teachers’ union in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, for contempt and threatened to cite more, as walkouts by 8,000 teachers in seven states kept 115,000 students out of classes. Rhode Island teachers’ union President Mary Ann Kaveny and 22 of the city’s 600 striking teachers were ordered to jail by Superior Judge Corinne P. Grande. She said they would be freed when they agree to work. Other teachers were on strike in Washington, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York and Illinois.
Two tired and hungry Arkansas jail escapees charged with killing a North Carolina state trooper were captured without a shot by authorities who used bloodhounds and helicopters to search the wooded Blue Ridge Mountains for three days. Jimmy Rios, 23, of Branch, Arkansas, and William Bray, 21, a drifter, offered no resistance and put down their weapons when they were apprehended on a road near Spring Creek, North Carolina, officials said. Rios and Bray broke out of a Franklin County, Arkansas, jail late last month.
Jury selection began today in the racketeering trial of Governor Edwin W. Edwards of Louisiana. The trial in Federal District Court is expected to last two months, and prospective jurors who said that the trial would be a hardship for them were excused. Mr. Edwards a Democrat now in his third term, and seven co-defendants, including his brother, are accused of illegally making millions of dollars by acquiring and selling state hospital approval certificates entitling the holder to receive federal aid. Mr. Edwards has admitted receiving almost $2 million from four hospital transactions but has steadfastly held he has done nothing illegal.
The first of 12 Wells Fargo robbery suspects was granted $1 million bail, despite FBI claims that he is linked to the terrorist slaying of a labor lawyer and a bank robbery in Puerto Rico. U.S. Magistrate F. Owen Eagan ruled in Hartford, Connecticut, that federal prosecutors failed to prove that Jorge Aurelio Farinacci-Garcia, 35, would pose a danger and flee the country. The defendant was the first of the 12 accused members of a clandestine group to argue for bail in connection with the $7 million robbery two years ago at a Wells Fargo depot in West Hartford.
John P. East will not seek re-election next year for a second term as Senator from North Carolina. Mr. East, who is suffering from a thyroid disorder, endorsed the candidacy of David B. Funderburk, a former Ambassador to Rumania, for the Senate Republican nomination. Mr. East, who is suffering from a thyroid disorder, said he planned to complete his term in the Senate. Both Mr. East and Mr. Funderburk are allies of Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina. Mr. Helms’s political organization, the National Congressional Club, appears prepared to back Mr. Funderburk.
Allegations against a charitable agency, Catholic Relief Services, will be examined by a special committee of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, church officials said in Washington. The conference’s president, Bishop James Malone of Youngstown, Ohio, had expressed full confidence in the agency’s officers last month in the face of complaints about the way it was spending money donated to feed starving Ethiopians.
Major League Baseball:
Glenn Davis drove in three runs, and the Astros scored three times to beat the Braves at Atlanta, 10–6. It was the seventh straight victory for the Astros, who have won 18 of their last 21. Davis doubled home a run in a three-run third inning, hit a solo homer in the fifth and was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in Houston’s three-run sixth. Frank DiPino (3–6), who relieved Charlie Kerfeld in the fourth, got the victory. Zane Smith (7–10) took the loss. Claudell Washington and Gerald Perry hit two-run homers for the Braves.
Ozzie Smith hit a three-run homer, and Cesar Cedeno and Willie McGee added two-run drives as the St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Pirates, 10–4, tonight. Joaquin Andujar (21–9) scattered 10 hits to win for the first time in five starts as the Cardinals captured their sixth straight game. Smith hit his fifth homer of the season, off the left-field foul screen, in the second inning after Bob Kipper (0–1) gave up singles to Tito Landrum and Terry Pendleton. It was Smith’s 12th career homer in 4,167 times at bat. Cedeno connected for his eighth homer of the season in the fifth, scoring Tommy Herr, who had singled. It was Cedeno’s fifth home run since he joined the Cardinals from the Cincinnati Reds on August 29. McGee’s 10th homer of the season capped a four-run sixth inning against Larry McWilliams.
Shane Rawley pitched a five-hitter, and Glenn Wilson went 3 for 4 and scored twice at New York as the Phillies dropped the Mets another notch behind the Cardinals. It always seems to happen on the night after Dwight Gooden does his thing. The Mets took another stumble in the stretch last night when they lost to Rawley and the Philadelphia Phillies, 5–1, and fell two games behind the St. Louis Cardinals with only 18 to play. Rawley, who was exiled by the Yankees last summer, tamed the Mets on five hits and outlasted and outpitched Ed Lynch, who hasn’t won in five weeks. He also helped to perpetuate the suspicion that tough lefthanders trouble the Mets more than anybody else, especially if they are named Fernando Valenzuela, John Tudor or Shane Rawley. It was no time for a slump or even a spiral, but the Mets were slipping into one, just when the big prize seemed in sight. Last Friday, after winning two of three games from the Cardinals, they were one game in front in the National League East. Since then, they have won three games and lost three; the Cardinals, with flawless timing, have won six straight and gained three games in the standings.
Andy McGaffigan pitched a seven-hitter and struck out 10 as the Reds won their third straight, beating the Giants at Cincinnati, 6–1. McGaffigan (2–3) walked none in his second complete game. Dave LaPoint (7–14) took the loss. The Reds jumped on LaPoint for four first-inning runs on RBI singles by Tony Perez, Buddy Bell and Dave Concepcion and a sacrifice fly by Bo Diaz. The Reds extended their lead to 6–0 in the fifth. Esasky hit his 17th homer to make it 5–0 before Perez doubled and scored on Diaz’s two-out single.
Jody Davis hit a three-run homer, and Dennis Eckersley and Lee Smith combined on a four-hitter as the Cubs turned back the Expos, 3–0 at Montreal. The game was scoreless until the sixth inning when Keith Moreland hit a one-out single off Floyd Youmans (3–3). Leon Durham walked and, one out later, Davis followed with his 14th homer. Eckersley (9–6) had a no-hitter until Razor Shines singled with one out in the sixth. Eckersley, who missed nine starts with a shoulder problem, worked seven innings before Smith came on to record his 29th save.
Helped by the Dodgers’ four double plays, a season high for a club that leads the league in errors with 147, Orel Hershiser won his eighth straight decision to run his record to 16–3 as the Dodgers topped the Padres, 7–1. Hershiser gave up three hits, including Graig Nettles’ RBI double, in the first, then faced the minimum 21 batters in the next seven innings. He recorded 20 outs on ground balls and struck out five as the Padres didn’t have a fly-ball out the entire game.
The Red Sox edged the Blue Jays, 6–5, after Tony Armas hit a three-run homer in the fifth-inning to break a 3–3 tie. Trailing by 3–2, Boston put runners on first and second in the fifth on a walk to Dwight Evans and a single by Wade Boggs. After two outs, Rich Gedman ripped a single to right field, scoring Evans with the tying run and sending Boggs to third. Jesse Barfield’s throw was cut off by the shortstop Tony Fernandez, who fired the ball to Cliff Johnson at first as Gedman tried to scramble back to the base. But Johnson, playing his first game at first base since last September 19 and only his 29th in five seasons, dropped the ball as he applied the tag. Armas then hit his 22nd homer of the year, over the left-field fence.
Ron Guidry (19–6) serves up five home runs — 2 to Darrel Evans — in 7 innings as the Tigers claw the Yankees, 9–1. New York has lost five in a row and is now 5 games behind Toronto in the American League East. Guidry had never given up so many home runs in a game in his 10 years for the Yankees. His previous high was four, which he allowed during the 1982 season to Minnesota. The only difference was that the Yankees won that game, 10–5. Guidry gave up moon shots in each of the first four innings: a bases-empty homer to Kirk Gibson in the first, a two-run blast to Nelson Simmons in the second, then home runs to Lou Whitaker leading off the third and Darrell Evans leading off the fourth. The Tigers added a run when Tom Brookens singled with one out in the fourth, advanced on a ground out and scored on Alan Trammell’s bloop single to right-center. Guidry retired the side in the fifth before Evans opened the sixth with his second homer of the evening and 33rd of the season.
Phil Bradley knocked in four runs with a homer and a single to support the seven-hit pitching of Matt Young (12–15) as the Mariners blanked the Royals, 7–0. It was Young’s fifth complete game and second shutout of the season. The Mariners jumped on Kansas City’s Steve Farr (2–1) in the first inning when Jack Perconte opened the game by walking on a 3-and-2 pitch and Bradley followed with a two-run homer.
The White Sox downed the Angels, 5–2. Harold Baines’ 19th homer of the year and an RBI single helped Britt Burns (18–8) win his fourth straight game with relief halp from Bob James. The Angels remained two games behind Kansas City in the American League West.
Ken Dixon pitched his first major league shutout, and Gary Roenicke’s two-run homer capped a five-run eighth inning that carried the Orioles past the Brewers, 6–0, at Baltimore. Dixon (8–3) scattered four hits and retired 19 consecutive batters in one stretch to out-pitch rookie Ted Higuera (13–7), who had his six-game winning streak snapped.
Andre Thornton drove in five runs and Joe Carter hit two homers as the Indians trounced the A’s at Cleveland, 15–8. Curt Wardle (8–7) got the victory despite allowing five runs on seven hits in five innings. Bryan Clark pitched four innings for his second save. Tim Birtsas (10–6) was the loser.
Frank Viola threw a four-hitter, and Tom Brunansky and Roy Smalley drove in two runs each as the Twins defeated the Rangers by a score of 7–2 at Minneapolis. Viola (15–14) struck out six and walked one in his sixth complete game. He retired the last 11 batters he faced.
Houston Astros 10, Atlanta Braves 6
Milwaukee Brewers 0, Baltimore Orioles 6
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Boston Red Sox 6
California Angels 2, Chicago White Sox 5
San Francisco Giants 1, Cincinnati Reds 6
Oakland Athletics 8, Cleveland Indians 15
New York Yankees 1, Detroit Tigers 9
Seattle Mariners 7, Kansas City Royals 0
Texas Rangers 2, Minnesota Twins 7
Chicago Cubs 3, Montreal Expos 0
Philadelphia Phillies 5, New York Mets 1
St. Louis Cardinals 10, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, San Diego Padres 1
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Born:
Alex Ovechkin, Russian National Team and NHL left wing (Olympics, 2006, 2010, 2014; NHL career goal leader; NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Capitols, 2018; Hart Memorial Trophy, 2008, 2009, 2013; NHL All-Star, 2007-2009, 2011, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2022, 2023Washington Capitals), in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Mason Raymond, Canadian NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Anaheim Ducks), in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada.
Antone Smith, NFL running back (Atlanta Falcons, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Pahokee, Florida.
B.J. Rosenberg, MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), in Newport News, Virginia.
Greg Golson, MLB outfielder (Philadelphia Phillies, Texas Rangers, New York Yankees), in Austin, Texas.
Eric Hurley, MLB pitcher (Texas Rangers), in Sikeston, Missouri.
Tomáš Berdych, Czech tennis player (13 ATP Tour titles), in Valašské Meziříčí, Czech Republic.
Died:
Laura Ashley, 60, Welsh fashion designer, businesswoman and co-founder of Laura Ashley, dies by falling down the stairs of her daughter’s home.
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