Washington and Moscow have a “historic opportunity” to reduce the risk of war, according to Secretary of State George P. Shultz. However, in a speech to the 40th session of the United Nations General Assembly, Mr. Shultz accused the Kremlin of making “blatantly one-sided” statements that were holding up progress in arms control talks. “So let’s get down to real business, with the seriousness the subject deserves,” he said. Setting the stage for this week’s high-level discussions here and in Washington with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union, Mr. Shultz said at the start of the 40th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly session that signs of Soviet good faith “will be more than matched on the American side.”
Mr. Shevardnadze is to address the Assembly on Tuesday and meet with Mr. Shultz at the Soviet Mission on Wednesday before going to Washington on Friday for a meeting with President Reagan and further talks with Mr. Shultz. Both sides regard the discussions this week as preliminary to the meeting scheduled for Nov. 19-20 in Geneva between Mr. Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader and General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. “The United States and the Soviet Union now have an historic opportunity to reduce the risk of war,” Mr. Shultz said. “President Reagan looks forward to his meeting with General Secretary Gorbachev in November. We have a long agenda. The United States is working hard to make it a productive meeting. And we want the meeting itself to give further impetus to the wide-ranging dialogue on which we both are already embarked.” In his broad review of American foreign and economic policy, Mr. Shultz paid particular attention to the arms talks in Geneva, where, he said, the progress “has been slow.” He said this was true because the Soviet Union has “not negotiated with the responsiveness that the talks require.”
The United States warned the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency that it will suspend activities in the organization if Israel is barred from the agency’s annual conference, which is under way in Vienna. Israel has refused to pledge to refrain from attacking nuclear facilities in neighboring countries as demanded by the 120-nation body. The demand grew out of Israel’s 1981 air attack on an Iraqi reactor that the Israelis charged was being prepared for production of nuclear weapons.
Almost throughout what has come to be called the Greenpeace affair, one figure in France has remained conspicuously detached, reserved, even aloof. He has rarely made public statements, has submitted to no press conferences, and has generally appeared to stay above the fray. President Francois Mitterrand in this sense has exemplified the distant and dignified style expected of a French President, particularly in a crisis. This one, the worst of his presidency, was brought about by the sinking the antinuclear protest ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand in July. But despite Mr. Mitterrand’s cool and distant personal response to the crisis, there is virtually no question here that his standing and credibility as a leader have been dramatically affected by it, so much so that political figures say off the record that even the President’s eventual resignation cannot be ruled out. Commentators are talking of several factors in the crisis, all of them bad for Mr. Mitterrand and his Prime Minister, Laurent Fabius. One is the appearance of a Government fumbling embarrassingly for a response as official accounts have crumbled before an onslaught of press revelations.
Suspected leftists bombed a NATO fuel pipeline in West Germany, causing loss of diesel fuel but no injuries. Officials said that the pipeline, which supplies military vehicles of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was damaged near Weilburg, about 24 miles northwest of Frankfurt. An estimated 2,600 gallons of diesel motor fuel leaked before it was repaired. The NATO pipeline has frequently been the target of terrorist attacks, many of them blamed on the leftist Red Army Faction.
A Turkish witness admitted that he obtained a pistol for Mehmet Ali Agca, who later tried to kill Pope John Paul II, but he said he had doubted that Agca would carry out his assassination threat. Abdullah Catli, who said he once headed a section of the right-wing Turkish Gray Wolves guerrilla group, told a Rome court that the group was not involved and that Agca acted alone. Catli is not charged in the 1981 attack on the Pope.
An aide to the Archbishop of Canterbury said he acted as a secret negotiator to free the Rev. Benjamin Weir, the American released last weekend in Beirut after 16 months in captivity. Before flying to New York to meet Weir, Terry Waite, a lay member of the Anglican archbishop’s staff, said the yearlong negotiation with the radical Islamic Jihad group was “my toughest assignment.” Waite said he is working to free other hostages held in Lebanon.
John Paul Getty Jr., the American millionaire, is reported to have given about $210,000 to help finance a group that is trying to break away from the National Union of Mineworkers. There was no immediate response to the reports by Mr. Getty. According to the reports, in The Boston Globe and in British newspapers, Mr. Getty made the donation after Ian MacGregor, the head of the National Coal Board, which runs the coal industry, told him that the Soviet Union had sent $11 million to the miners’ union during its year-long strike. Miners in Nottinghamshire and South Derbyshire who worked during the strike are expected to vote next month on whether to form a separate union. The gift from Mr. Getty, according to The Globe, was designed to underwrite their legal expenses. A spokesman for the coal board said today that Mr. MacGregor was traveling abroad and not available for comment. Roy Lynk, general secretary of the Nottinghamshire National Union of Mineworkers, said Sunday night that the union had received no such gift.
The daughter of Bernard Tricot, the ex-French official who investigated the bombing of the Greenpeace protest ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand, killed herself because of the affair, Paris newspapers said. According to the reports, Marie-Claude Tricot, 40, who had a history of mental problems, threw herself out of her fourth-floor Paris apartment September 6, leaving a note to her family saying she was “badly affected” by the bombing scandal. Her father’s August 26 report absolved the French secret service of blame, but the government has since admitted that French agents carried out the bombing.
An opening of foreign markets to American goods is the main objective of a new program announced by President Reagan. The program would provide subsidies for some exports and put pressure on other governments to drop what the Reagan Administration criticizes as unfair trade barriers.
The dollar plunged to its lowest level in 16 months — for its largest one-day drop in the 12-year history of floating currency rates — as traders predicted that major governments would take sterner action to depress the American currency. The dollar’s plunge was a clear sign that bankers were taking seriously the announcement on Sunday that the United States, Japan, Britain, West Germany and France would intervene in foreign-exchange markets and adjust their economic policies to try to push the dollar down.
Rival Muslim militias resumed fighting here today after nine days of bloodshed that has left at least 95 dead and 330 wounded. One of the Muslim groups, the Sunni Islamic Unification Movement, accused the Syrians of supporting its foe, the Arab Democratic Party. The pro-Syrian group, in turn, said the Sunni movement was being backed by Palestinians. Shooting continued throughout the day. The police said areas far from the main battle zones had come under artillery fire after a 12-hour lull. Witnesses saw the city hit by rockets fired six miles from Mount Turbol, and firemen battled to douse a blaze at a large wooden depot in the port.
The Sunni leader, Sheik Said Shaaban, referring to the rocket fire from Mount Turbol, said: “The Syrians say they are not shelling. I say shells are hitting Tripoli from areas held by the Syrians.” Najah Kazoun, vice president of the Arab Democratic Party, said the batteries firing from Mount Turbol were operated by his forces, not the Syrians. The Arab Democratic Party said Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, was supplying the Sunni group with North Korean rocket launchers with a range of 11 miles.
President Reagan meets with the President of the Arab Republic of Egypt Mohammed Hosni Mubarak. President Reagan reiterated today that the United States was willing to meet with the Palestine Liberation Organization if it accepted two United Nations resolutions and the right of Israel to exist. A senior official said Mr. Reagan had made the statement at a meeting with President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt in which the two leaders had differing assessments about the willingness of P.L.O. to accept Israel’s recognized borders and its right to exist. The meeting was intended to breathe new life into the Middle East peace effort. Next week Mr. Reagan is to meet with King Hussein of Jordan.
A plunge in Egypt’s currency has sparked a financial crisis here that is shaping up as the first major political test of Prime Minister Ali Lutfi’s new Government. Bankers and Egyptian and Western officials, who spoke today on condition that they not be identified, warned that Egypt must act promptly to stop the slide of its pound, which has lost 25 percent of its value in the last three weeks. The situation deteriorated markedly this week when the pound, whose official “incentive” exchange rate is 1.35 to the dollar, slid on the unofficial open market from 1.60 to 1.80 pounds to the dollar.
Sikh terrorists set off seven bombs today, killing three girls on the last day of the Punjab state election campaign. United News of India said all the bombs were planted in vehicles used by campaign workers or candidates in Wednesday’s election for the 115-member state legislature and 13 seats in Parliament. Campaigning is prohibited on the day before the election. More than 115,000 policemen and paramilitary troops were stationed throughout the troubled northern state. The police said three teen-age girls were killed in Batala, in the northern part of the state, by a bomb that blew up a car used by two members of Parliament. The legislators were not hurt. In the southern district of Faridkot, one boy was slightly wounded in a bomb explosion, United News of India said. No deaths nor injuries were reported in the five other blasts.
Groups of North and South Korean visitors recrossed the border today and returned home after historic reunions with separated families they had not seen since before the Korean War. Red Cross officials on both sides called the highly unusual exchange of families a success, and said they hoped that more would follow. But it was evident, too, that the two Koreas had not forgotten their mutual distrust, and they issued complaints and protests even as their citizens were boarding buses for home.
New Zealand seeks compensation from France for material damage and for the affront to its sovereignty in the sinking in July of an antinuclear protest ship by French intelligence agents, Prime Minister David Lange told reporters.
Canadian Fisheries Minister John Fraser resigned amid growing controversy over his decision to overrule his own inspectors and release for public sale canned tuna found to be rancid. Critics have demanded action since it was disclosed last week that about 1 million cans of tuna were released to supermarkets on Fraser’s orders, despite inspectors’ findings that the tuna was rancid and decomposing. Although Fraser insisted that no health danger was involved, the tuna was later ordered removed from store shelves “in the interest of public confidence.” Prime Minister Brian Mulroney publicly rebuked Fraser on Friday.
Rescue teams pressed searches for survivors of last week’s earthquakes in Mexico City, more people were buried, and traffic and telephones were snarled as other people began returning to work. Nancy Reagan delivered a $1 million down payment on a broadened United States offer of disaster aid. The Government said 2,832 people were confirmed dead and 4,180 people were missing. Mexico’s earthquake-battered capital began returning to normal today, but that effort created new problems. While rescue teams continued their search for survivors of the earthquakes that struck the city Thursday and Friday, and while burials continued, other people began to return to work. The additional cars on the streets — combined with the many blockades in damaged areas around the city — snarled traffic into impenetrable knots. The additional volume of telephone calls resulting from renewed business activity brought the city’s crippled telephone system to near collapse, with waits of 15 minutes for a dial tone not uncommon.
Last Saturday night, three days after the earthquake struck, someone heard a muffled cry in the mound of rubble that had been the Juarez Hospital. A French disaster team started probing the wreckage and 35 hours later, in the chill moments before dawn this morning, they dragged a dazed medical student to safety through a serpentine tunnel that was caving in as they made their way out. As some members of the team had tunnelled toward the medical student, others, working with specially trained dogs and electronic sensors, rescued a 27-year-old resident physician and a female patient, whose legs had to be amputated in order to free her from the wreckage. The rescue of the medical sudent, Juan Jose Hernandez Cruz, who had been trapped standing up in an air pocket beneath tons of broken concrete and twisted iron rods, was one of the most dramatic in the earthquake disaster that has killed and maimed thousands and left the city dotted with destroyed buildings.
A human-rights monitoring group has asserted that the Reagan Administration has refused to acknowledge major human-rights abuses in Guatemala under three successive governments there. The group, Americas Watch, said in a report that was made public last week that by failing to criticize the present military government, headed by General Oscar Mejia Victores, Washington had wasted a chance to improve the human-rights situation there. In the report, Americas Watch said that the Reagan Administration had said there were “dramatic human-rights improvements” under the present Government in order to justify military aid to Guatemala. Gregory Lagana, acting press director of the State Department’s Bureau of Inter-American Affairs, took issue with the report. Referring to Americas Watch as “less a human-rights organization than it is a political one,” saying Washington had done much to promote human rights in Guatemala.
Peru threatened to withdraw from the International Monetary Fund if policy changes are not made to ease the repayment of Lima’s foreign debt. “We are faced with a dramatic choice: It is either debt or democracy,” said Mr. Garcia, who since his inauguration in July has sought a leadership role in the continent on the issue of repaying the region’s $370 billion debt. The International Monetary Fund had no comment. In sharply worded speeches delivered on the opening day of the General Assembly, Mr. Garcia and three other Latin American leaders also warned that growth in protectionism in the United States would cripple efforts to repay Latin America’s $370 billion regional debt.
Guerrillas blew up more than 30 power pylons across El Salvador, blacking out three provinces, military and power officials said. Military sources said guerrillas also fired on a freight train that violated a rebel-imposed travel ban over the weekend, killing two railway employees. A bus dispatcher estimated that public transportation in the east was cut by 95% because of the ban on travel.
Uganda’s second-largest city, Jinja, was paralyzed today after Government troops looted shops and homes, according to reports reaching Nairobi. Residents reached by telephone said hundreds of soldiers, sent to fight rebels who were in the area Sunday, started looting businesses and houses early this morning. They said officers later restored order among their men but banks, shops and other businesses remained shut throughout the day, paralyzing all activity in the city of 200,000. No casualties were reported.
A South African Government commission proposed a plan today for the resettlement of 42,000 people, the overwhelming majority of them blacks, in order to consolidate the so-called homeland of KwaZulu. The South African authorities, who last February announced that they were temporarily halting the relocation of black people living in areas deemed to be for whites only, quickly said, however, that the government had not taken a stand on the proposal and it should be viewed as coming from the commission. The proposal, by the Commission for Cooperation and Development, was based on a plan accepted by Parliament in 1975. It would consolidate the approximately 40 separate tracts of land in the KwaZulu homeland into 15 areas. The process involves taking land from one black community and giving it to another or exchanging land with a white community.
President Reagan receives a letter of apology from news anchor Sam Donaldson. Reagan writes in his White House diary: “Day opened with Nancy leaving for California by way of Mexico City. Then a letter was hand delivered. It was from Sam Donaldson apologizing for his misstatement on Sunday T.V. show & promising to clear the record on next Sundays Brinkley show. That’s enough to make this a red letter day.”
The government has been removing about 5,000 persons a year from nuclear-weapons jobs because of drug, alcohol, psychological and other problems, according to Defense Department records cited by a scientist. Assuming the figures mean thousands of people with similar problems are still on duty at any given time, Dr. Herbert Abrams said the situation raises questions in an age when nuclear war could break out through “miscalculation, misunderstanding or misperception.” A Defense Department spokesman said the military is satisfied with its program.
The Pentagon has overstated the ammunition needs of the armed services by one-fifth, and its appropriations request should be cut by at least $1.2 billion, the General Accounting Office told Congress. The GAO told the Appropriations committees of the Senate and House that the Army’s ammunition request is overstated by $580.2 million, the Navy’s by $139.4 million, the Air Force’s by $297 million and that of the Marine Corps by $75.5 million. In addition, it said, the Army’s $368.4-million request to improve its ammunition production program is overstated by $129.2 million.
A branch of the National Security Agency is investigating whether a computer program that counted more than one-third of all the votes cast in the United States in 1984 is vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation. The National Security Agency is the nation’s largest and most secretive intelligence agency. Its principal job is to collect intelligence by eavesdropping on the electronic communications of the world and to protect the sensitive communications of the United States. Mike Levin, a public information official for the agency’s National Computer Security Center, said the investigation was initiated under the authority of a recent Presidential directive ordering the center to improve the security of major computer systems used by nonmilitary agencies such as the Federal Reserve Board and the Federal Aviation Administration and for such private purposes as banking.
A commuter airplane crashed into a cloud-shrouded mountain in Shenandoa National Park in Virginia, and the state police said the first search party saw no signs of survivors. The twin-engine propeller-driven Beech 99 was carrying 14 people from the Baltimore-Washington International Airport. The crew of a Marine helicopter sighted the downed Henson Airlines Beech 99 airplane about 7 PM, said Trooper Douglas Townsend. The crash site is about five miles east of the Shenandoah Valley Airport, the plane’s destination, he said. The twin-engine, propeller-driven plane, which had left Baltimore-Washington International Airport as Flight 1517, was last viewed on radar at 10:20 AM as it made an approach relying on instruments, said Dick Stafford, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration.
The Food and Drug Administration strongly recommended criminal prosecution of a company that manufactured defective infant formula, but the Justice Department decided not to file charges last year on the ground that evidence was lacking, according to internal Government documents. The case has been cited by Democrats critical of the Reagan Administration’s handling of corporate crime, who have asked that it be examined by the Senate Judiciary Committee. That panel is currently investigating government action under President Reagan on other allegations of corporate misconduct. The company, Syntex Laboratories of Palo Alto, Calif., has acknowledged that two of its baby formulas, which were withdrawn from the market in 1979, did not contain enough of the essential nutrient chloride. It has settled nearly 200 lawsuits brought by parents who fed their children the forumlas, but it says there is no evidence of long-term health problems resulting from use of the products.
About 600 teachers returned to work in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, with a new three-year contract after a 13-day strike that saw some teachers jailed and their union fined. In all, 6,125 teachers remained on strike in Washington, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois and New Jersey, affecting nearly 81,000 students. In Pennsylvania, where eight school districts are on strike, the 600 teachers in the 9,500-student Central Bucks County district called a strike after contract talks broke down over salaries and benefits.
The Massachusetts House of Representatives rejected a homosexual rights bill today after three and a half hours of debate over civil rights, concern about AIDS and the endorsement of a homosexual style of life. The vote was 88 to 65, on largely the same legislation that passed the House by four votes two years ago.
A 14-year-old boy in Beloit, Wisconsin, went on trial on juvenile delinquency charges in the July 26 slaying of a 9-year-old who refused to share his bicycle, and jurors were asked whether they doubted that a person so young could commit murder. None responded when District Attorney James Daley asked the question during jury selection for the trial of the oldest of the three youngsters accused of beating and stabbing Anthony Darnell Wilson. The other two defendants are a 12-year-old boy and an 11-year-old girl. All three children have pleaded innocent and will not be tried under adult laws.
Petitions bearing the signatures of 750,000 people urging tougher taxes on U.S. corporations were presented to Rep. Dan Rostenkowski (D-Illinois), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee. Rostenkowski, accepting the petitions at a labor convention in Washington, said the documents counter “press reports… that the public doesn’t give a damn about tax reform. The petitions… prove that the American people do listen… do care,” Rostenkowski said.
Two major defense contractors, General Dynamics Corp. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., denied that they had conspired to bilk the Air Force on a high-priced tool contract, and two Air Force generals agreed the firms had followed proper procedures. Moreover, the Air Force officers defended their contracting procedures before a House subcommittee, noting they had cut the proposed contract price for the tools in half-from roughly $1.7 million to $835,000.
An inmate was stabbed 22 times by his cellmate today and became the 27th prisoner killed this year and the seventh this month in the Texas prison system, a prison spokesman said. Joel Figueroa, 35 years old, died at 6:05 AM of stab wounds in the chest suffered in an attack in the Darrington Unit near here, said Charles Brown a spokesman for the Department of Corrections.
The government has opened a preliminary investigation into reports that 1.4 million 1984-85 Ford Motor Co. cars may be prone to sudden acceleration and engine surges, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration confirmed. It said it had begun a “preliminary evaluation” of the alleged problem in 1984-85 full- and mid-sized Ford and Mercury cars with 3.8 and 5.0 liter fuel-injected engines.
Human gene therapy advanced as a government advisory panel approved national guidelines for conducting the revolutionay form of medical treatment. The action, after more than seven months of discussion and public comment, gave what amounts to federal approval of the basic concept of gene therapy, but each proposal to attempt the therapy must still be approved by the government and local review committees on a case-by-case basis.
Each of the brain’s two hemispheres has, in a sense, its own personality, researchers are discovering. Left-handed people display quite a different pattern of brain organization than right-handers. In right-handers the brain center that controls speech is located in the left hemisphere; in left-handers the speech center may be on either the right or the left half of the brain — or spread over both.
The scores of high school graduates on the standardized tests used by college admissions offices showed modest gains last spring over the previous year, according to the two major testing agencies.
The organizers of Farm Aid, the benefit concert initiated by Willie Nelson, said today that the 14-hour concert succeeded in arousing the public’s interest in farm issues even though it fell short of reaching the fund-raising goals. “Our phone pledges exceeded $7 million,” said David Anderson, who is Mr. Nelson’s road manager.
Major League Baseball:
Jesse Barfield hit his 25th home run of the season, and Jim Clancy and Tom Henke combined on a five-hitter tonight to help lead the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5–1 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. The victory gave the Blue Jays a six-game lead in the American League East over the Yankees, who were idle. Clancy (8–5), who has spent almost two months of the season on the disabled list, gave up a double to Cecil Cooper in the second inning and a single to Paul Molitor in the sixth. Clancy left after Earnest Riles and Cooper started the seventh with singles. Henke took over and got Ted Simmons to ground into a double play as Riles to score. Henke finished up for his 13th save. Barfield homered with one out in the second inning against Tim Leary (1–2).
Luis Salazar hit a three-run homer, and Harold Baines homered and drove in two runs as Chicago defeated California, 6–5. The loss cut the Angels’ lead over idle Kansas City to a half-game in the American League West. Gene Nelson (10–10) pitched 5 ⅓ innings for the victory. Bob James, the fifth Chicago pitcher, worked the final inning for his 29th save. California left 11 runners on base.
The Tigers edged the Red Sox, 2–1. Juan Berenguer, restored to the starting rotation from the bullpen in mid-August, struck out six and walked two to win at Boston. He needed help from reliever Willie Hernandez in the eighth inning, however, as Hernandez picked up his 30th save. The only run off Berenguer was unearned as he allowed only four hits in 7 ⅓ innings. The Tigers scored both of their runs in the third inning off Bob Ojeda (7–11), who has won only three of 16 starts since mid-June.. Bob Melvin began the rally with a triple on a line drive that rightfielder Dwight Evans missed with a diving attempt. Doug Flynn drove in Melvin with a sacrifice fly for only his second RBI of the season. Tom Brookens followed with a double, stole third and scored on Lance Parrish’s two-out single. Boston’s Wade Boggs went 1 for 3 and his American League-leading batting average remained at .374. Boggs has 226 hits this season.
The Rangers routed the Mariners, 11–4. Gary Ward homered and drove in four runs to give the Rangers a sweep of the four-game series at home. The four straight wins tied a season-high. Ward hit a three-run homer, his 15th, in the first inning, and picked up his other RBI with a sacrifice fly.
Tony Phillips and Bruce Bochte both hit two-run homers, leading the A’s over Cleveland, 8–7, at Oakland. Jose Rijo (5-3) gave up nine hits in 6 ⅔ innings, and reliever Steve Ontiveros pitched the final 2 ⅓ innings for his ninth save.
The Mets began 10 fateful days on the road tonight with a team meeting called by George Foster, who stood in the locker room and delivered the word: Don’t give up, don’t think the St. Louis Cardinals “can walk on water.” “It wasn’t as much motivating as it was informative,” Foster said later. “The way the Cardinals have been winning lately, rallying late in games, some of the guys might get the idea they can do anything.” When Foster called his meeting, the Mets were three games behind the Cardinals with 13 to go. They had just lost twice over the weekend to the last-place Pittsburgh Pirates, and they seemed in danger of hoisting the white flag. But they revived tonight and whacked the Philadelphia Phillies, 4–1. Two rookies, Rick Aguilera and Roger McDowell, did the pitching, and Gary Carter hit his 30th home run of the season.
Terry Pendleton of St. Louis tripled home two runs with two outs in the eighth inning, giving the Cardinals a 5–4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates tonight. The victory maintained the Cardinals’ three-game lead in the National League East over the Mets, who defeated the Phillies. Pendleton’s hit came off Cecilio Guante (4–6), the third Pirates’ pitcher, giving St. Louis its fourth straight come-from-behind victory and its 11th triumph in its last 12 games.
Pinch-hitter Enos Cabell lined a two-run single in the eighth inning to lead the Dodgers over the Houston Astros, 5–3. Steve Sax had three hits and two runs batted in to power Los Angeles. The victory moved the Dodgers six games ahead of idle Cincinnati in the National League West. With the score tied at 3–3, Cabell hit a pitch by Jeff Calhoun (2–4) into center field to drive in Pedro Guerrero and Reggie Williams. Guerrero had led with a single and had taken second on Bob Bailor’s single. Williams came in to run for Bailor, and the runners were sacrificed into scoring position for Cabell. Carlos Diaz (5–3) was the winner, with late relief from Tom Niedenfuer, who gained his 17th save. Guerrero, who returned to the Los Angeles lineup after a 17-game absence because of a sprained left wrist, drove in the Dodgers’ first run. Bill Madlock led off the Dodger’s fourth with a double. Then Guerrero singled to score Madlock. The Dodgers increased their lead to 3–0 in the sixth on a double by Jose Gonzalez, a walk to Greg Brock and a two-run triple by Sax. Gonzalez’s hit was the first in the majors. Houston tied the score in the sixth. John Mizerock started the rally with a double, and after a walk to Tim Tolman, Bill Doran slugged a two-run triple off the left-field wall. Doran scored on Jose Cruz’s grounder.
Andres Galarraga hit a leadoff home run and Doug Frobel added a two-run homer in a tie-breaking eighth inning as Montreal broke a six-game losing streak, downing the Cubs, 10–7. Galarraga’s second homer of the season snapped a 6–6 tie. Frobel hit his first after a walk to Razor Shines. Both home runs came against George Frazier (7–8). Frazier also gave up a two-run homer to Vance Law in the seventh inning. Earlier in the game, Andre Dawson hit his 200th career home run and Tim Wallach hit his 19th of the season, both against Steve Trout.
The Giants drubbed the Padres, 7–2. All of the Giants’ runs were unearned as the Padres played themselves out of mathematical contention in the West. The defending National League champion Padres are 13 games behind the Dodgers with 12 to play. The Padres committed four errors and left 16 runners on the bases. Mark Thurmond (6–11) took the loss. Atlee Hammaker (5–12) got the victory for San Francisco.
Detroit Tigers 2, Boston Red Sox 1
Chicago White Sox 6, California Angels 5
Montreal Expos 10, Chicago Cubs 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Houston Astros 3
Cleveland Indians 7, Oakland Athletics 8
New York Mets 4, Philadelphia Phillies 1
San Francisco Giants 7, San Diego Padres 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Seattle Mariners 4, Texas Rangers 11
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
NFL Monday Night Football:
Eric Dickerson rushed for 150 yards and three touchdowns as the Rams beat the Seattle Seahawks, 35–24. Dickerson, who won the league rushing title in each of his first two seasons — he gained a league record 2,105 yards last year — was delayed this season by a contract dispute that resulted in a 47-day holdout. He scored on runs of 1, 2 and 15 yards while gaining 150 yards on 31 carries to help the Rams improve their record to 3–0. The Seahawks dropped to 2–1. The Rams exploded for two touchdowns — on a 19-yard pass from Dieter Brock to Bobby Duckworth and Dickerson’s 2-yard run — in the 2 minutes 3 seconds of the second half after a 7–7 halftime tie. The Rams took the second-half kickoff and moved 80 yards in five plays, with Brock finding Duckworth in the left corner of the end zone with just 1:46 gone in the second half. Seattle’s Randall Morris fumbled the kickoff and Mark Jerue recovered the ball on the Seattle 2-yard line. Dickerson scored on the next play. Seahawks Come Back The Seahawks came back within 21–17 on a 26-yard field goal by Norm Johnson and a 3-yard scoring pass from Dave Krieg to the rookie Danny Greene. But the Rams then went 80 yards in six plays to put the game out of reach. Dickerson opened the drive with a 43-yard run and finished it with a 15-yard run with 3:33 left. The Rams’ final touchdown came on the fifth Seattle turnover of the game on Johnnie Johnson’s 27-yard return of an intercepted Krieg pass with 1:45 to go.
Los Angeles Rams 35, Seattle Seahawks 24
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1316.31 (+18.37)
Born:
Joba Chamberlain, MLB (World Series Champions-Yankees, 2009; New York Yankees, Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals, Cleveland Indians), in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Chris Johnson, NFL running back (Pro Bowl, 2008-2010; Tennessee Titans, New York Jets, Arizona Cardinals), in Orlando, Florida.
Kraig Urbik, NFL guard and center (Buffalo Bills, Miami Dolphins), in Hudson, Wisconsin.
Marcus Thomas, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos), in Yokosuka, Japan.
Brian Brohm, NFL quarterback (Buffalo Bills), in Louisville, Kentucky.
Lukáš Kašpar, Czech NHL left wing (San Jose Sharks), in Most, Czechoslovakia.
Hasan Minhaj, American stand-up comedian (“Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj”), in Davis, California.
Died:
Charles Phillips, 84, British archaeologist who lead the Sutton Hoo excavation.
Mickey Simpson, 72, American actor (“Wagonmaster”), dies of a heart attack.
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