Critics of the Reagan Administration said today that President Reagan’s refusal to use his space-based defense program as a “bargaining chip” for cutbacks in Soviet offensive weapons had seriously hurt prospects for progress on arms control at his meeting in November with Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Administration officials said Mr. Reagan had been prompted to take a tough stand at least partly to protect his negotiating leverage and because of apprehensions about being outmaneuvered by Mr. Gorbachev. The officials disclosed that, over the last two weeks, Mr. Reagan held several meetings with his advisers to discuss the possibility of a tradeoff. By these accounts, the President has resisted any tradeoff that would limit the space-based defense program. One official added that with all the publicity being given the propsect of a possible tradeoff, a strong statement by the President was necessary to reduce the political pressures on this issue.
French Defense Minister Charles Hernu maintained his innocence today in the face of press reports here suggesting that he had ordered the sabotage July 10 of a ship owned by the anti-nuclear and environmentalist group Greenpeace. He did, however, acknowledge that he had authorized a team of five agents to go to New Zealand to monitor Greenpeace’s plans for protests against French nuclear testing in the Pacific. Mr. Hernu, appearing before reporters at the Defense Ministry today, said he would be “intransigent” in his search for the truth about the affair and “pitiless” if it turned out that any member of the French Government had taken part in a cover-up. He added that reports that the vessel had been sunk by French military frogmen constituted a slur on French military officers, who he said were being victimized by a campaign of “rumor, insinuation and calumny.”
Moscow expelled six more Britons, matching the number of Russians who were ordered out of Britain two days ago. Today’s Soviet action brought to 31 each the number of Soviet and British nationals affected by expulsion orders in the last six days. In Egypt, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said there would be no further expulsions of Russians. The Soviet move today was the latest in a series of retaliations that began last Thursday, when Britain announced the defection of Oleg A. Gordiyevsky, the London station chief of the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency, and ordered the ouster of 25 Soviet officials he had purportedly identified as spies. The Soviet Union retaliated on Saturday by ordering 25 Britons expelled. Britain responded Monday by ordering six more Russians out.
The trial of eight men accused of conspiring to murder Pope John Paul II resumed today with erratic testimony from a witness who the prosecution had hoped would bolster its case and new, sweeping declarations by the leading witness, Mehmet Ali Ağca. Following a summer recess, Chief Judge Severino Santiapichi announced that he hoped to conclude the case by Christmas. But the session today underscored the obstacles facing the prosecution as Yalcin Ozbey, a Turk jailed in West Germany for forgery, contradicted accounts he gave earlier to Italian investigators. Mr. Ozbey asserted that Oral Celik, a defendant here who remains at large, informed him by phone late last year that Turkish accomplices of Mr. Ağca were holding Emanuela Orlandi, the daughter of a Vatican employee, who was abducted in 1983. The kidnappers said she would be freed in exchange for the release of Mr. Ağca, who shot and wounded the Pope in 1981.
The Interior Ministry said today that Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann recently declined to order surveillance of a secretary and her husband who have now reportedly defected to East Germany. At a news conference here, Hans Neusel, a state secretary in the Interior Ministry, said evidence had accumulated since 1973 against the husband, Herbert Adolf Willner, but that no action had been taken against him. Until his defection, announced Tuesday, Mr. Willner was a senior foreign policy expert in a foundation linked to the small Free Democratic Party, which has been in government coalitions since 1969. His wife is said to have had access to the minutes of Cabinet meetings and other top-secret papers in the Chancellor’s office, where she had worked for 12 years. The couple has been accused of spying.
French air traffic controllers began a two-day strike today to press demands for increased pension benefits, halting most air traffic. It was the second strike in two weeks by the 2,500 controllers, who walked off the job at 7 AM and are to return at 8:30 PM Thursday. The controllers’ union has demanded that pay bonuses be included in the calculation of members’ pensions. Most international airlines canceled arrivals and departures or rerouted flights to Brussels and Geneva in anticipation of the strike, according to officials at Orly Airport, outside Paris. The officials said traffic was reduced to less than 50 percent on medium-range international flights from Charles de Gaulle Airport north of the capital. Domestic flights, except for traffic between the Mediterranean island of Corsica and the mainland, were almost completely halted, they said.
Three Soviet cosmonauts docked their Soyuz T-14 spacecraft with the orbiting manned Salyut 7 space station, the official news agency Tass reported. The T-14 was launched Tuesday with cosmonauts Vladimir Vasyutin, Georgy Grechko and Alexander Volkov aboard. They joined Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh, who have been on Salyut 7 since June. After eight days, Dzhanibekov will return to Earth with Grechko, leaving the other three aboard the station. The cosmonauts are expected to conduct experiments in geophysics, astrophysics, medicine and biology.
Eight cases of AIDS have been identified among United Nations staff members in the last four years and four deaths from it occurred, the organization said today. “There is no one having AIDS working in the building at present,” a spokesman said, quoting the chief medical officer, Dr. Michael Irwin. “As is the case in other large organizations in the city, there is no policy to bar such persons from working if they are physically able to perform their normal duties,” Francois Giuliani, the spokesman, added.
An American in Lebanon was freed on Saturday and is back in the United States with his family, President Reagan announced. Mr. Reagan said the release of the Reverend Benjamin Weir had been kept secret for fear of endangering the chances for release of the six other hostages still being held there. They include a diplomat, three members of the staff of the American University in Beirut, a Roman Catholic priest, and an Associated Press correspondent, all abducted or reported missing between March 1984 and June 1985. Mr. Reagan, in New Hampshire campaigning for changes in the tax system, told an outdoor crowd in Concord that he had talked with Mr. Weir from “Air Force One this morning, and I’m happy for him and his family.” “But I will not be satisfied and will not cease our efforts until all the hostages, the other six, are released,” he added.
Lebanon’s northern port of Tripoli was engulfed in fierce fighting for a fourth day today, and the police said casualties had been mounting. Moslem fundamentalists of the Unification movement and rival militiamen from a Syrian-backed faction, the Arab Democratic Party, battled with field artillery and rocket launchers and engaged in running street battles.
South and North Korea held a fourth round of talks on economic cooperation but failed to agree on the details of establishing a joint committee to promote trade and economic exchanges. The two sides disagreed, among other things, on the number of subcommittees and delegates to be set up. They will meet again November 20 at the truce village at Panmunjom.
Chinese students staged one of the biggest protest demonstrations here in years when they marched through Tiananmen Square today waving banners and shouting slogans against Japan. It was the first such demonstration in the square since thousands of people converged there on April 5, 1976, to protest the policies of a group of Mao Zedong’s associates who were later purged as the “Gang of Four.” About 1,000 students from Peking and Qinghua Universities converged on the square in the center of the city from their suburban campuses and marched twice around the perimeter. Uniformed policemen closed off the square but appeared to take no action to halt the protest.
Facts on Benigno S. Aquino’s death two years ago remain as elusive as ever, and the way seems clear for the acquittal of some or all of the 26 men charged with involvement in the slaying of the Philippines opposition leader. The testimony of the soldiers who hustled Mr. Aquino to his death has been remarkably uniform. The defense announced today that it would call no more witnesses in the seven-month trial, and it is expected to present a closing statement next week. The prosecution is scheduled to follow with any rebuttal witnesses, and a verdict could come as early as next month. In a courtroom that has fallen nearly empty, a series of quiet-spoken, neatly groomed soldiers took the stand this week — the escort party that, gripping Mr. Aquino by the arms, hustled him off a China Airlines jetliner and down a narrow boarding ramp to his death.
The attorney general of Mexico’s Sonora state said he will charge five opposition party leaders with helping to incite a riot aimed at preventing the new mayor of Agua Prieta, a member of the ruling party, from taking office. The city hall of Agua Prieta, a border city of 40,000, was burned down Monday, forcing Mayor Bernardino Meza Ortiz to begin his term of office in a motel room. The opposition has charged that the ruling party rigged the election.
A Nicaraguan defector charged that Sandinista authorities secretly eliminated thousands of suspected opponents through “individual and mass executions.” Alvaro J. Baldizon Aviles, 26, who defected in July, said at a press conference at the State Department that he knew of the killings as a member of an investigations commission of the Ministry of Interior, the agency controlling security forces. A Nicaraguan Embassy spokesman said Baldizon’s comments were “one more desperate maneuver by the (Reagan) Administration to distract attention” from Nicaragua’s case against the United States in the World Court.
Nicaragua alleged at the World Court that the Reagan Administration has “conceived, created and organized” the contra rebel movement seeking to overthrow the Sandinista government. Harvard law professor Abram Chayes, representing Nicaragua, made the accusation in the fifth day of hearings in The Hague. The Reagan Administration is boycotting the proceedings, in which Nicaragua charges the United States with waging “armed attacks” to topple the Sandinista regime.
The kidnappers of the daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte of El Salvador have established new conditions for opening negotiations on her release, according to a senior Salvadoran official who is closely involved in the case. The conditions were set amid growing indications that the kidnappers of Ines Guadelupe Duarte Duran are leftist rebels belonging to one of the five recognized groups making up the official Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front. It appears that the rebel front may not be taking responsibility for the kidnapping because it wants to minimize criticism of the action. United Press International said the kidnappers had released a tape recording on which a woman could be heard saying that she was “fine.”
Peru disclosed that soldiers massacred about 40 peasants in an Andean village last month. The military command removed two generals because of the incident but did not accuse them of direct involvement. The disclosure by President Alan Garcia’s new administration was the first time in the five-year war against Maoist guerrillas that Peru has admitted that soldiers have killed civilians.
British pressure has blocked an effort by Israel to sell Argentina 12 of its aging fleet of U.S. Skyhawk jets, Western diplomatic sources in London said. According to this account, the United States stepped in at the last moment and forbade the sale last month in response to a request from London. The British fought a 74-day war with the Argentines in 1982 over the Falkland Islands. Britain’s reported action, coming just before the disclosure that it was about to conclude a $4-billion contract to supply 48 Tornado jets to Saudi Arabia, has angered Israel.
The government prosecutor asked a court today to sentence five former Argentine military rulers to life in prison on charges of murder, torture and kidnapping during an anti-insurgency campaign in the late 1970’s and early 80’s. The prosecutor recommended sentences for the remaining four officials on trial of 10 to 15 years. As Julio Strassera, the prosecutor, concluded his six-day summation with the warning “Never again!” the packed courtroom erupted into applause. The prosecution’s recommendations will be taken under consideration by the court in October after the defense presents its closing arguments. A verdict is expected by the end of the year, but could be appealed to the Supreme Court. The nine commanders, who led three military juntas, ruled Argentina from the time the armed forces ousted President Isabel Martinez de Perón in 1976 until 1982.
South African military officials said today that a raid into southern Angola that began two days ago was continuing, and that nearly 500 soldiers had been deployed to track down a battalion of Namibian insurgents. The raid, backed by the air force, was characterized by the authorities as a pre-emptive strike against guerrillas of the South-West Africa People’s Organization, which South Africa said was planning attacks in the South African-administered territory, also known as Namibia. Spokesmen for the South African Defense Force said here that its soldiers were trying to eliminate a battalion of anywhere from 400 to 800 insurgents, and had destroyed an arms cache near the South African border on Tuesday.
Two people, including a 10-year-old boy, were shot dead by the police in mixed-race areas here today, while near Pretoria policemen fought with demonstrators after the funeral of a 3-year-old victim of earlier police attacks. In the city center here, meanwhile, policemen wielding whiplike, yardlong riot sticks known as sjamboks charged a group of peaceful demonstrators petitioning for information about relatives detained under the country’s state of emergency. Police officials said that in three separate locations in the segregated, mixed-race areas fringing Cape Town, people stoned police patrols and officers replied with shotgun fire. Violence in mixed-race and black areas around Cape Town, which is not covered by South Africa’s eight-week-old state of emergency in 36 other districts, have been sputtering and flaring for weeks.
The Senate Finance Committee voted to raise about $11 billion in taxes but postponed efforts to pick up another $4.9 billion by keeping the cigarette tax at current levels. The committee would raise $5 billion by putting all state and local government employees under Medicare, $1.2 billion by eliminating income averaging for students coming out of school, $3.2 billion by improving tax collections and $1.7 billion would come from changes in the Superfund toxic waste program. The $11 billion increase would be realized in 1986-88 and is part of overall deficit reduction efforts. But even Chairman Bob Packwood (R-Oregon) conceded the figures for increased tax collections were highly speculative.
President Reagan should use the proposed space-based defense system against incoming missiles as “a bargaining chip, not a monkey wrench” in his Geneva summit meeting with the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, former Vice President Walter F. Mondale said today. Mr. Mondale, whom Mr. Reagan defeated to win re-election in 1984, was part of a panel at a meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association. He was joined on the panel by Robert C. McFarlane, Mr. Reagan’s national security adviser; Flora Lewis, a foreign affairs writer for The New York Times, and William Hyland, editor of Foreign Affairs magazine.
The Supreme Court refused today to allow the Justice Department to make oral arguments as a friend of the court in two of the major cases of the coming term. One case involves abortion, the other affirmative action on jobs. The Court’s action, recorded in brief, unsigned orders, was neither unusual nor surprising, department officials said, because the parties in both cases refused to yield any of their own argument time. The Court often authorizes the Justice Department to make arguments as a friend of the court when a party in a case agrees to share its time. But it rarely deviates from its practice of confining arguments to one hour per case, divided evenly between the opposing sides, experts on the Court said.
Senator Steven D. Symms (R-Idaho) urged the Senate to slash the $7.5 billion proposed for a five-year extension of the Superfund program, charging it was more than needed for an effective toxic waste cleanup. Symms said Congress should listen to Environmental Protection Agency officials who said the agency could effectively spend no more than $5.3 billion over the next five years. “It makes no sense to make more money available than can be prudently used,” Symms said. He called for a reduction to $5.7 billion as the Senate moved toward amendments to the Superfund bill. The current program will expire September 30.
To fight Philadelphia police graft, Mayor W. Wilson Goode announced a sweeping package of measures. The program, designed to combat corruption uncovered by a Federal inquiry, includes the appointment of a special prosecutor and the institution of polygraph tests for all officers at or above the rank of captain before they are promoted.
A corporate crime prompted discord between the Justice Department and the Food and Drug Administration. The F.D.A. urged felony prosecution of a large drug company charged with failing to report lethal side effects of the blood-pressure drug Selacryn, but Justice officials decided to charge the corporation, SmithKline Beckman, and three of its managers with misdemeanors.
Steven P. Jobs became the epitome of the American entrepreneur in his years of guiding Apple Computer Inc. The tale of the visionary leadership of the 30-year-old multimillionaire ended Tuesday when he resigned as the company’s chairman after disclosure of his plan to start a new company. His resignation exemplifies a situation common to the entrepreneur: an inability to adjust as a company grows larger and the nature of the business changes.
The Pope will visit the United States in the fall of 1987, officials of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops confirmed. A spokesman said John Paul II’s second visit to this country would include several cities in the South and the West.
Blasting new “designer drugs” as deadly, high-tech cousins of heroin and cocaine, senators expressed strong support for legislation outlawing their production and sale. Even the “designer” label, which refers to the ability of chemists to manipulate illegal drugs into legal derivatives giving similar narcotic effects, was roundly criticized as a lure to young Americans. “I would hope that this highly erroneous and misleading term will be dropped, as it gives a false impression of something desirable and trendy…” said Senator Paula Hawkins (R-Florida)
Thirteen more striking Pawtucket, Rhode Island, teachers were jailed and fined and their union penalized $10,000 for each day its 600 members continue an illegal walkout. Meanwhile, strikes ended in Michigan and Illinois. In Manchester, New Hampshire, more than 100 students were suspended following a protest against stalled teacher contract talks. Elsewhere, teacher strikes idled more than 7,700 teachers and about 108,000 students in six states, including Pennsylvania, Ohio, Washington, and New York.
Five thousand hourly workers walked off their jobs at General Dynamics Corp. plants in three states, virtually halting construction of the M1 and M1A1 tanks for the Army, officials said. The strike over wages began at the company’s largest tank assembly plant, at Lima, Ohio, and at operations in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and in the Detroit suburbs of Warren, Sterling Heights, and Center Line.
A Maryland minister accused of sexually harassing five women was suspended from preaching when a panel of 13 other ministers on Tuesday convicted him of disobeying church laws. The panel of United Methodist ministers suspended the Rev. John Carter, 36 years old, from preaching for three years, but said he would not be forced to surrender his ministry credentials.
Computerized information would gain legal protection from unauthorized access or interception under legislation that Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier and Senator Patrick J. Leahy plan to introduce Thursday. The two lawmakers said today that a change in existing law was essential to protect the privacy of individual citizens, business organizations and other institutions that are increasingly transmitting and storing information in computerized form. “The technological changes of the last decade have severely affected the privacy protection afforded to individual Americans and American businesses,” said Mr. Leahy, a Vermont Democrat who is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A series of drug abuse studies released by the government indicate more than one of every four young adults has at least tried cocaine, which has emerged as a major public health threat, said Dr. Donald Ian MacDonald, head of the federal Alcohol, Drug Abuse and Mental Health Administration. The doctor said cocaine “is one of the most powerfully addictive drugs known.” MacDonald said that “emergency room admissions associated with cocaine use tripled between 1981 and 1984. The number of deaths associated with cocaine also tripled.”
Mayor Dianne Feinstein signed San Francisco’s new downtown plan Tuesday, imposing the toughest planning restrictions of any city in the nation. The plan followed long dispute. While the downtown area filled up with high-rises that blocked in the skyline, public pressure increased. The last of four failed referendums to halt growth lost in 1983 by only 1,919 votes. The downtown plan, a compromise, cuts potential growth in half by limiting new construction to 950,000 square feet a year for three years and imposing a 550-foot height limit. The boxy rectangular building is virtually outlawed in favor of slimmer buildings with setbacks. The plan also shifts big new buildings away from the financial district. The plan was approved, 6 to 5, July 2 by the Board of Supervisors.
Schoolchildren read at least as well in the United States in 1984 as they did in 1971, but progress in two of the three age groups studied has leveled off since 1980, according to a report released under the auspices of the government. The study also reported that minority students made the greatest gains over the 14 years.
The biggest science project gained as federal scientists took the first major step toward the construction of an atom smasher so big it would encircle an area as large as New York City. The scientists announced the selection of a key element of the huge machine, a type of superconducting magnet designed to keep speeding subatomic particles locked in a magnetic prison 60 miles in circumference. The decision marks a firm commitment to a particular design for the huge machine, which would be the world’s most powerful device for probing the heart of the atom and solving some of the enigmas that have long baffled physicists. Until now, the machine, designated the Superconducting Super Collider, has been a vague goal pursued by hundreds of Federal scientists who for the last two years have been investigating its feasiblity and building prototype parts. Although the project still must get Congressional approval, it is moving forward with the strong backing of the Reagan Administration and the country’s leading physicists.
Dr. Michael Baden, New York City’s former chief medical examiner, testified today that if John Belushi had not consumed heroin on March 5, 1982, he would not have died. During his two hours of testimony, Dr. Baden, who said he has performed more than 15,000 autopsies, testified that he agreed with findings by Dr. Ronald Kornblum, the Los Angeles medical examiner, that Mr. Belushi died of acute heroin and cocaine poisoning at the age of 33. But Dr. Baden, who was called as an expert because of his work in drug-related deaths in New York City, went a step further. He told Judge James F. Nelson “Absent the heroin, he would not have died when he died.”
Comedian Jeff Foxworthy (27) weds Pamela Gregg at New York City’s Central Park.
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical “Song and Dance”, starring Bernadette Peters, opens at Royale Theater, NYC; runs for 474 performances and a Tony Award for Peters.
TV spy/crime drama “The Equalizer” starring Edward Woodward debuts in the U.S. on CBS.
The highest paid basketball rookie to date is Patrick Ewing. The heralded 7-foot former Georgetown center signed a complex contract with the Knicks that guarantees Ewing about $17 million for the next six years and possibly more than $30 million if he remains with the New York team for 10 years.
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Nick Esasky drove in four runs, two in a four-run first inning and another on a home run in the eighth, to lead the Reds over the Braves, 7–3. Ron Robinson (6–6) threw a five-hitter, giving up two home runs. One of those was Dale Murphy’s 37th on the season, a career-high. But Robinson spaced the hits one to an inning as the Reds won their fourth consecutive game. He struck out seven and walked one before being relieved by Ted Power in the ninth. Walks to Eddie Milner and Pete Rose and a single by Dave Parker loaded the bases with nobody out in the first. When Esasky then doubled to score Milner and Rose, the starter Len Barker (2–9) was replaced by Steve Shields. Dave Concepcion’s grounder an out later scored Parker, then a double by Bo Diaz drove in Esasky.
Bob Forsch pitched a three-hitter, and Willie McGee, the league-leading hitter, hit a double and two singles tonight as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 7–0, for their seventh consecutive victory. It was the 17th shutout of Forsch’s 11-year career and his first since September 26, 1983, when he defeated the Montreal Expos with his second no-hitter. Forsch (8–6) struck out four and walked three in his third complete game of the season. The loss ended a three-game winning streak for John Denny (11–12).
The Mets beat the Cubs at Shea Stadium, 4–2, to stay two games behind the Cardinals. Rookie Rick Aguilera, who had won only one game in a month, won this one with six innings of four-hit pitching. The rookie Roger McDowell, now the main man in an unpredictable bullpen, saved it by pitching three innings of shutout ball. Darryl Strawberry hit a double and an out-of-sight home run. George Foster, who bats after him in the No. 6 slot, often to boos, whacked a single, double and triple. And Ray Knight, who bats in the No. 7 slot, often to boos, doubled home two runs during the three-run rally against Steve Trout that put the Mets in front. But time is short: there are only 17 games remaining.
Mike Scott gave up four hits over six innings for his fifth straight victory as Houston defeated Los Angeles, 7–2,extending its winning streak to eight games. The Dodgers lead over second-place Cincinnati in the West was trimmed to 6 ½ games. Scott, whose previous best season was 10–6 in 1983, improved to 18–7. With the score tied 2–2 in the seventh inning, Burt Pena, batting for Scott, delivered a sacrifice fly to right to ignite a four-run rally for Houston, which has won 19 of its last 22 games.
Tony Pena’s second home run of the night, a three-run shot in the 11th inning, helped the Pirates upend the Expos at Montreal, 10–6. Pena, who drove in four runs, lined his 10th homer on the first pitch from Bert Roberge (3–2). The Pirates had gone ahead in their half of the 11th on Sid Bream’s double, then Pena broke it open. Hubie Brooks paced the Montreal attack with five RBIs on three doubles.
The Giants downed the Pirates, 9–6. Home runs by Bob Brenly and Rob Deer helped the Giants beat the Padres at San Francisco and give Roger Craig a victory in his debut as Giant manager. The Giants scored five runs in the first two innings off Mark Thurmond (6–10), the first of six San Diego pitchers. The winner was Vida Blue (7–6), who allowed four runs in five innings. Blue walked seven batters, and San Francisco pitchers issued 11 walks. The loss was San Diego’s 13th in the last 17 games and dropped the Padres under 500, with a 72–73 record.
Catcher Rich Gedman hits for the cycle and drives in 7 runs, leading an 18-hit attack, and Al Nipper (9–11) scattered six hits tonight as the Boston Red Sox routed the Toronto Blue Jays 13–1. Despite the loss, the Blue Jays remained five games ahead of the second-place Yankees, who lost to Detroit, 5–2. The Red Sox swept the two-game series from Toronto and won all six games against the Blue Jays played in Boston this season.
The Yankees seemed to be torrid during an 11-game winning streak that preceded the crucial Toronto series last week. But they dropped three in a row to the Blue Jays after taking the first game, then lost one to the Cleveland Indians and now two straight to the Tigers, losing tonight, 5–2. Phil Niekro failed again to notch his 300th career win. Niekro, who had not given up a home run in his previous six starts, allowed one each to Kirk Gibson, Darrell Evans and Larry Herndon. He pitched his second consecutive complete game but lost again, his record dropping to 15–11. His next start comes Tuesday against the Tigers at the Stadium.
Bill Swift, Roy Thomas and Ed Nunez combined on a three-hitter as the Seattle Mariners continued their mastery over the Kansas City Royals and extended the Royals’ scoreless-inning streak to 26 games, beating Kansas City, 6–0. Kansas City now has a one-game lead over the California Angels in the American League West. Swift gave up one hit and struck out three before being replaced by Thomas at the start of the fourth. The Mariners said Swift left because of a groin strain suffered in the third. Thomas (7–0) gave up one hit in 4 ⅔ innings and Nunez also allowed one hit in relief.
The Angels pummeled the White Sox, 9–3. Gary Pettis had three hits, and Reggie Jackson and Dick Schofield each drove in two runs with two hits, as California moved to within one game of Kansas City in the American League West. Don Sutton (15–8), obtained in a trade with Oakland on September 10, earned his second victory in two decisions with the Angels. Gene Nelson (9–11), who started for Chicago, took the loss.
Fred Lynn hit his 21st home run of the season, and Scott McGregor pitched a six-hitter as the Orioles beat the Brewers, 4–2, at Baltimore. McGregor (13–12) struck out four and walked none for his seventh complete game of the season.
Tim Teufel doubled in two runs and Greg Gagne drove home Gary Gaetti with a sacrifice fly in the sixth to lift the Twins to a 4–3 victory over the Texas Rangers at Minneapolis.
The A’s edged the Indians, 1–0. Pinch-hitter Dave Collins singled home the game’s only run in the eighth inning, and Jose Rijo and Jay Howell combined on a seven-hitter at Cleveland. With one out in the eighth, rookie Jose Canseco singled off Indian starter Don Schulze (3–9). Canseco took second on a groundout, and then Collins, batting for Mike Gallego, lined a 3-and-0 pitch to right for his RBI single.
Cincinnati Reds 7, Atlanta Braves 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Baltimore Orioles 4
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Boston Red Sox 13
California Angels 9, Chicago White Sox 3
Oakland Athletics 1, Cleveland Indians 0
New York Yankees 2, Detroit Tigers 5
Seattle Mariners 6, Kansas City Royals 0
Houston Astros 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Texas Rangers 3, Minnesota Twins 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Montreal Expos 6
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 4
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Philadelphia Phillies 0
San Diego Padres 6, San Francisco Giants 9
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Pete Cashmore, Scottish blogger nd IT entrepeneur (founder and former CEO of the media and entertainment company Mashable), in Banchory, Scotland, United Kingdom.
Mirza Teletović, Bosnian NBA power forward and small forward (Brooklyn Nets, Phoenix Suns, Milwaukee Bucks), in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia.
Megan Compain, New Zealander WNBA guard (Utah Starzz), in Wanganui, New Zealand.
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Gerald Holtom, 71, British artist and graphic designer (Nuclear Disarmament (ND) logo, which later became an international peace symbol).
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