The Eighties: Tuesday, September 24, 1985

Photograph: Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze makes his maiden speech to the United Nations General Assembly’s General Debate on Tuesday, September 24, 1985 in United Nations, New York. (AP Photo/David Pickoff)

Moscow strongly seeks a ban on space defense weapons and wants to achieve “truly radical reductions” in the Soviet and American nuclear arms arsenals, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze said in his first address to the United Nations General Assembly. Mr. Shevardnadze did not specify how much of a “radical” cut in strategic and medium-range weapons the Kremlin was ready to make to persuade President Reagan to stop refusing to negotiate an end to his “Star Wars” program. He said without amplification that the Soviet delegation had brought to the arms negotiations in Geneva “substantial, large-scale and far-reaching proposals.” Later a Soviet spokesman, Vladimir B. Lomeiko, said Mr. Shevardnadze had been talking of Soviet ideas presented at Geneva earlier in the year. But because of reports from Soviet officials suggesting that Moscow would soon offer a plan specifying the degree of nuclear cuts to be proposed, Secretary of State George P. Shultz had his spokesman, Charles Redman, respond in a conciliatory way.

President Reagan expressed hope that Moscow would offer a bigger reduction in nuclear weapons than the proposed 40 percent cutback that the Soviet Foreign Minister is said to be bringing this week. Mr. Reagan arrived at the Tennessee Air National Guard Base in Knoxville for a visit to press his tax overhaul proposals. He was asked about reports that such a Soviet offer might be made this week. “It will be a better idea if it was more,” said Mr. Reagan, moments after stepping off Air Force One.

Asked if he viewed such a proposal as a basis for negotiation, Mr. Reagan replied, “I’d like to see it on the table in Geneva with the arms control people.” Mr. Reagan, responding to a reporter’s question, said that if the Soviet Union does propose something along the lines of a 40 percent reduction plan this week, “I’ll forward it to Geneva then.” Mr. Reagan said he was “quite sure” that he would talk with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze about arms control during their meeting Friday at the Oval Office. The Soviet Foreign Minister is also scheduled to meet Secretary of State George P. Shultz in New York on Wednesday.

Missile defenses might make war with nuclear arms between Washington and Moscow more likely, according to a report by analysts for Congress’s Office of Technology Assessment. This might not be true, the analysts said, if the United States could devise an “extremely capable” shield that would protect many cities and much of America’s arsenal of nuclear weapons. But the report expressed doubt that a nearly leakproof shield was technologically feasible and argued that a highly effective defense would require that the Soviet Union agree to significant limits on its offensive nuclear force.

The nonpartisan agency’s 324-page report, commissioned by the House Armed Services Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said the current “urgent” effort to develop a high-technology missile defense would probably encourage the Soviet Union to increase its nuclear attack forces and could threaten both “the entire arms control process” and the 1972 treaty that limits defenses against intercontinental missiles. A companion report on anti-satellite weapons said that the best course for the United States would be to seek a treaty limiting the testing of such space weapons and, at the same time, to devise ways to defend American satellites from attack.

Seeking to spur disarmament, leaders from Scandinavia, the Balkans and the South Pacific, addressing the United Nations General Assembly, advocated banning nuclear weapons from their regions.

Missiles fired from Lebanon struck northern Israel Monday night, causing slight property damage but no casualties, military sources said today. They said the missiles were 122-millimeter Soviet-made Katyushas that hit four miles south of the Israeli border in the Galilee panhandle. It was the first attack to cause damage since Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982. At least 12 other rocket attacks have been reported since Israel formally withdrew from Lebanon June 10.

Cease-fire talks between warring Muslim militiamen in Tripoli foundered, triggering new fighting in a 10-day battle that has claimed 183 lives in Lebanon’s second-largest city. Security sources blamed the stalemate primarily on a failure to agree on how to collect and store the heavy weapons of both sides. A day earlier, mediators from the Syrian military forces that control the roads around Tripoli appeared to have been close to imposing a cease-fire. Syrian troops took up positions today in the northern Lebanese port of Tripoli to try to end nine days of fighting between local Muslim militias. The Syrians were posted alongside Lebanese soldiers in several areas of dispute between Muslim fundamentalists and their rivals in the pro-Syrian Arab Democratic Party.

Iraqi warplanes again bombarded Iran’s main oil terminal at Kharg Island, virtually closing the key facility and raising the threat of a major escalation in the Iran-Iraq war, business and diplomatic sources said in Tehran. Iraq launched the raid, its 11th on Kharg Island in six weeks, in defiance of Iranian President Ali Khamenei’s threat two days earlier to close the vital Strait of Hormuz if its oil exports were halted. Oil tankers must pass through the narrow strait on their way to and from Persian Gulf ports.

Two Hindu politicians died after eating apparently poisoned Sikh holy bread offered by two young men during a campaign stop in Amritsar in the Indian state of Punjab, where elections are to be held today. The victims were campaign organizers for Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress-I Party. In another incident, two bombs hidden in lunch boxes exploded in Ludhiana, injuring three people. The incidents were apparently linked to a campaign by Sikh militants for a boycott of the elections.

Two NBC journalists who died covering an attempted coup in Bangkok, Thailand, on September 9 were killed by accident and not deliberately shot by rebel soldiers as some have charged, a Thai official said. Col. Pravesna Koompai, deputy commander of the police forensics division who performed autopsies, said Australian Neil Davis, 52, NBC’s Bangkok bureau chief, was killed by flying shrapnel and American William Latch, 35, was fatally wounded by a ricocheting bullet. Witnesses have said a rebel tank crew deliberately aimed at the two shortly after rebels shouted at journalists to stop filming.

Five new Chinese leaders have joined the ruling Politburo. Among the newcomers are two men in their mid-50’s who are widely regarded as possible national leaders after the current hierarchy steps down. They are Hu Qili, a member of the Communist Party’s Secretariat, and Li Peng, a Deputy Prime Minister.

A leading French newspaper said today that the order for French agents to take action against an antinuclear protest ship in New Zealand was given by Charles Hernu, who was then Defense Minister. The newspaper, Le Monde, reconstructing the operation in which the vessel was sunk, said Mr. Hernu had probably given a spoken order to the French intelligence agency to “neutralize” the ship. Le Monde said that funds for the operation were approved by senior officials in the offices of President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Laurent Fabius, but that neither leader had been informed of the operation in advance. The protest ship, the Rainbow Warrior, was operated by the environmentalist group Greenpeace. It was sunk in Auckland Harbor on July 10 by a bomb that also killed a Greenpeace photographer on board.

The sabotage of a Greenpeace ship by French agents was intended to halt the antinuclear group from disrupting the testing of a new generation of French armaments, according to French sources and others. But it is not known why the French intelligence service took the drastic step of sinking the Greenpeace boat, the Rainbow Warrior, instead of incapacitating it in some other way. A Greenpeace photographer was killed in the attack in New Zealand on July 10. A former officer in the Special Air Service, an elite British undercover paramilitary body trained in sabotage, expressed amazement at the decision to sink the vessel, asserting that it could have been put out of action in many other ways.

Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney acknowledged that his senior advisers knew in July that the government had released tuna fish for sale even though federal inspectors found it unfit for human consumption. But Mulroney said his aides were assured that the 1 million cans of tuna posed no health threat. He said he did not learn of the matter until he saw a television news report September 17, and that he acted immediately to have the tuna recalled. The issue forced the resignation Monday of Fisheries Minister John Fraser.

Some buildings that were destroyed and heavily damaged in two earthquakes that struck Mexico City last week had been constructed in violation of the city’s building codes, according to many architects. Homero Aridjis, a writer, attributed some of the destruction to corruption and carelessness. A government spokesman denied the assertions, which came as residents began to look at the damage as somewhat less catastrophic than many had feared in the immediate aftermath. There was heavy destruction and the death toll, now at 4,200, continues to rise as rescue teams reach the lower levels of crushed buildings. But in an urban area of 18 million people, the loss of life, residents agree, could have been worse. Reports From Architects Juan Gurrola of the College of Architects, a professional organization, said that based on reports from 200 to 300 members, there appears to be “a very high possibility” that many of the buildings “were poorly built with not the right materials.”

Six days after the first of two major earthquakes rocked Mexico City the extent of damage to the capital is beginning to be seen in less catastrophic terms than many had feared in the immediate aftermath of the disaster. Like survivors of any tragedy, the residents of the capital now appear to be looking differently at their lives and their city. Politicians, intellectuals and newspaper editorials have called for decentralizing the government and for greater dedication to the welfare of the community over that of the individual. They have also demanded stricter building codes and a crackdown on corruption in public housing construction that may have allowed building regulations to be ignored.

Police broke up an international smuggling ring that used the Dominican Republic as a base to ship high-grade cocaine to the United States, President Salvador Jorge Blanco said. He said that 1,320 pounds of cocaine were confiscated and that several people, including police and retired army officials and U.S. citizens, were arrested.

South African police closed three black townships around Cape Town to non-residents and reported that black mobs killed two black men they viewed as government collaborators. A 20-year-old bus conductor was burned alive when his vehicle was attacked by a mob in Cape Town’s Guguletu township, a police spokesman said. In Zwide, a township near Port Elizabeth, a 62-year-old municipal worker “was axed to death” by a large crowd of blacks. More than 30 blacks were arrested after the killing in Zwide. Heavily armed South African security officers sealed off three black townships around Cape Town today in what they said was an investigation into incidents of rioting. In sealing off the townships of Guguletu, Nyanga and Langa, the police barred journalists and nonresidents and said that they were seeking to round up people involved in rioting.


President Reagan’s nominee to head the Office of Management and Budget, James C. Miller 3d, indicated today that he would pursue Federal spending cuts with as much intensity as David A. Stockman, his predecessor, and would not rule out trying to curb retirement and health insurance programs. “Some restraint” on programs with automatic benefits “might well be looked at by the President and Congress,” Mr. Miller told the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee at a hearing on his confirmation. “I would not put anything out of bounds.”

President Reagan travels to Knoxville, Tennessee to address students at the University of Tennessee.

President Reagan travels to Athens, Tennessee to address a rally on tax reform.

At least 10% of America’s 2 million school teachers are teaching subjects, ranging from algebra to zoology, in which they are not certified — a situation that “constitutes a scandal in the making,” a report concluded. The study by the American Federation of Teachers and the Council for Basic Education decided that the practice is encouraged, in part, by loose state laws and has resulted in students being taught by untrained educators. “The misassignment of teachers constitutes a scandal in the making for the entire profession,” the study charged.

The slain leader of a neo-Nazi gang took part in the 1984 murder of Denver radio personality Alan Berg and left behind a key piece of evidence during a $3.6-million armored car robbery, a former member of the group testified in federal court in Seattle. William Soderquist, 22, said also that he learned that his own life had been threatened by members of the group, known as The Order, when they found out that Soderquist had a drinking and drug problem and had talked to his girlfriend about the robbery. Ten members of The Order are on trial, accused in a 21-count federal racketeering indictment of committing 67 crimes — including two murders, three armored car robberies and counterfeiting — while plotting the overthrow of the U.S. government.

The name of a 16-year-old girl, whose skeletal remains were found this month in a Seattle park, was added to the list of victims of the “Green River Killer,” now believed responsible for 32 deaths since 1982. Fae Brooks, spokeswoman for the Green River Task Force, said Mary Exzetta West’s name was added to the list.

The bodies of 14 people killed when a commuter plane crashed into a mountain were carried down rugged trails today as investigators looked for clues to the cause of the crash. “It’s amazing how a plane that size can be reduced to nothing,” said Sgt. R. L. Bass, one of about 30 state police officers helping investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board to gather pieces of the Henson Airlines Beech 99 craft. The plane was carrying 12 passengers and two crew members on a flight from Baltimore to the Shenandoah Valley Airport in this western Virginia community south of Harrisonburg, Virginia. There were no survivors. Among the dead was a New York City actor and playwright, Larry Shue, who wrote “The Foreigner,” a comedy at the Astor Place Theater.

An Eastern Airlines shuttle plane bound for New York’s La Guardia Airport from the Washington National Airport was forced to abort its takeoff this afternoon when a helicopter crossed the path of the plane, Federal aviation officials said. None of the 175 passengers aboard the 5 PM flight were seriously injured, according to passengers on the plane, who were taken by bus to the terminal for a later departure. Robert Buckhorn, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that both aircraft had been cleared for takeoff. He said the helicopter, which had just lifted off, had been given a departure clearance that would take it northwest, and that the Eastern plane, a Boeing 727-200, was to have taken off in a northeasterly direction.

The United States Government concealed evidence showing that 120,000 Japanese-Americans interned in World War II detention camps posed no threat to national security, a Federal court was told today. Benjamin Zelenko, a lawyer for the National Council for Japanese-American Redress, told the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia that documents kept secret until after the war showed there was no military necessity for internment.

A judge ordered a freelance writer today to produce a tape recording of Cathy Evelyn Smith discussing the death of the comedian John Belushi from a drug overdose in 1982. The judge, James F. Nelson of Municipal Court, ordered the writer, Christopher Van Ness, to produce the 20-minute tape by Thursday or face a contempt-of-court citation that could lead to a jail sentence. The prosecution contends that the tape is Miss Smith’s first discussion of her role in his death and as such is key evidence. Miss Smith, a 38-year-old former singer, is accused of causing the comedian’s death by injecting him with heroin and cocaine at least 20 times in the 24 hours preceding his death on March 5, 1982.

The Food and Drug Administration did not have to hold public hearings on complaints that the artificial sweetener aspartame causes health problems, a federal appeals court ruled in Washington. The court said that the FDA did not violate the law when it twice denied petitions by consumer groups for public hearings before giving its approval in July, 1984, for use of aspartame in soft drinks and carbonated beverage syrups. “Our review of the agency’s action is limited to an evaluation of whether it has given consideration to all relevant evidence on the record,” the three-judge panel said.

Tests of genetic therapy that may offer the first treatment for certain hereditary diseases could begin within months, now that a federal advisory group has approved guidelines for the experimental work, specialists say. A National Institutes of Health advisory committee has completed work on guidelines for human tests of gene therapy, a new approach to getting at the causes of hereditary diseases and modifying them. The Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee unanimously adopted a set of points that should be considered by researchers coming to the panel with proposals.

The smuggling abroad of U.S. arms is increasing, according to law enforcement officials. There have been a number of recent instances in which illegally exported American weapons have been used abroad in terrorist plots against Americans and officials of governments friendly to the United States.

One killer apparently slew at least 10 prostitutes in two years, torturing them first and mutilating them afterward, the authorities said today. The police, who on Monday released a composite drawing of a black man with a thin mustache and muscular build, said the killer had stabbed and strangled 10 streetwalkers and assaulted two others in South Los Angeles and two suburbs, Inglewood and Gardena. The 12 victims ranged from 22 years old to 41, the police said, and all but two were black. Information made public by the Inglewood police indicated that the killer first struck on New Year’s Day 1984. The latest known slaying occurred Aug. 15, according to the police. One woman who survived an attack August 6 gave a description of the suspect. A second survivor is in a coma.

Governor Booth Gardner of Washington slammed his fist on the table for emphasis yesterday in urging negotiators to end the 22-day Seattle teachers’ strike, the largest of the school walkouts in five states. “That’s pretty dramatic for me, isn’t it,” Governor Gardner, a Democrat, said in telling a news conference about his behavior at a closed meeting with both sides.

Commander Donal M. Billig was “blind in one eye,” incompetent to perform cardiac surgery and dishonest in evading proper supervision, according to Colonel Russ Zajtchuk, the top cardiothoracic surgeon at the nation’s military medical school. Dr. Billig is accused of negligence in the deaths of five heart patients at Bethesda Naval Medical Center.

The defense in the case of Mayor Roger Hedgecock rested today without calling a witness, stunning the court in the retrial of the Mayor on charges that he accepted illegal contributions for his 1983 campaign and then lied about it. Mr. Hedgecock’s lawyer, Oscar Goodman, announced he had no witnesses to call after 17 days of testimony by prosecution witnesses in San Diego County Superior Court.

Cotton is an ailing industry. The planters are losing large parts of their domestic market to foreign growers and are backing proposals for import curbs more strongly than ever before.

Hurricane Gloria, a major storm with winds nearing 150 miles an hour, gathered strength tonight and forecasters warned that it could strike anywhere from the Carolinas to New England. “It needs our full respect,” said Gil Clark, a forecaster with the National Hurricane Center. “It’s a very small storm but a very severe storm. Everybody in the East Coast better be watching out for this one.” The storm swirled in the Atlantic today on a course that first threatened the Bahamas and the southeastern United States. But Mr. Clark said it moved toward the northwest tonight. “The smaller they are, the harder it is to predict,” he said, adding that the storm could change course again. The storm is now classified as a Category 4 storm, one with winds of 131-155 miles an hour, on the scale of 1 to 5 that is used to assess hurricanes. At midnight the hurricane was centered about 620 miles east of Miami, and 800 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.

Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees.

Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m).


Major League Baseball:

After a man was convicted of selling cocaine to major league players, Peter Ueberroth says in The New York Times, “a cloud hangs over baseball.” All major league baseball players should submit voluntarily to drug tests, the commissioner Ueberroth said. He also said he might eventually impose penalties against the seven active and former players who recently testified in a Federal trial to having bought cocaine from a man later convicted of drug trafficking.

Within hours after Peter Ueberroth, the commissioner of baseball, bypassed the Major League Players Association yesterday and issued a direct appeal for players to volunteer for drug tests, many players indicated that they would submit to such tests — but only if they were approved by the union. “I think everyone feels something’s got to be done, but it’s a matter that should be hammered out between the commissioner and the Players Association,” a Met pitcher, Ron Darling, said in Philadelphia, where the team was briefed on the commissioner’s request by Manager Dave Johnson before playing the Phillies. Although the commissioner asked the players to indicate whether they would individually volunteer to be tested, as team meetings were held to discuss the request during the day it became apparent that the players were treating the proposal as a referendum, and that the vote would be to insist on a role for their union, which has repeatedly opposed mandatory drug tests.

Dennis Lamp (11–0) pitched 4 ⅔ innings of shutout relief and the Toronto Blue Jays scored two runs on wild throws to beat the Red Sox tonight, 6–2. They lead the Yankees by seven games. Lamp, who relieved rookie left-hander Steve Davis with one out and the bases loaded in the fourth inning, got Jackie Gutierrez to ground into a double play to end the threat and keep the game tied, 2–2. In the Toronto’s fourth, Lou Thornton singled, went to third on a single by Damaso Garcia and scored when first baseman Bill Buckner fielded a grounder by Tony Fernandez but threw wildly to home. Garcia scored on Cliff Johnson’s groundout. The Jays took a 2–0 lead in the second inning. With runners on second and third, the third baseman Wade Boggs fielded Jesse Barfield’s grounder but threw high to home, and Al Oliver slid under the tag. Nipper then walked Garcia and Tony Fernandez for another run.

This cannot be Phil Niekro’s idea of history. Instead of becoming the 18th pitcher in major league history to win 300 games, Niekro last night became the seventh to lose 250. He is finding each defeat more difficult to accept. The 46-year-old Yankee knuckleballer, whose quest seems like a dull subplot to the Yankees’ strange weekend in Baltimore, was thrashed for eight runs in less than five innings by the Detroit Tigers. By the time he stalked off the mound, the Tigers were cruising to a 9–1 rout that pushed the Yankees seven games behind Toronto in a division race that is now all but concluded. It was his third straight failure to reach 300.

Carlton Fisk drove in three runs, two on his record-tying 32nd homer as a catcher this season, to lead the White Sox to an 8–1 win in Anaheim. Despite the loss, the Angels stayed in first place in the American League West by a half game because Kansas City lost. Fisk’s homer in the fifth, his 36th of the season over all, equaled the Detroit catcher Lance Parrish’s mark for American League catchers set in 1982. Fisk later doubled home a run to give him 100 RBIs for the season. Tom Seaver (14–11) went seven innings for his 302nd career victory.

The Mariners bested the Royals, 5–2. Phil Bradley cracked a three-run homer off the reliever Dan Quisenberry, his second of the game and 23rd of the season, with one out in the bottom of the eighth inning. The Mariners’ Mike Moore (16–8) pitched a complete game, scattering seven hits, walking two and striking out seven.

Jim Gantner collected three hits, including a two-run triple that keyed a five-run Milwaukee fourth inning, as the Brewers downed the Orioles, 10–6. The Brewers, down 3–1 going into their half of the fourth, batted around to take a 6–3 lead. Baltimore starter Scott McGregor, 13–13, was replaced in the fourth after giving up three runs and failing to get an out in the inning.

Texas beat the Twins, 5–0, extending its modest winning streak to five games, and Pete O’Brien made Ranger history. O’Brien knocked in three runs with a two-run homer and a sacrifice fly and starter Matt Williams combined with Rich Surhoff on a three-hitter. The homer was O’Brien’s 20th, a team record for a left-handed hitter.

The A’s edged the Indians, 10–8. Mike Heath’s squeeze bunt scored Jose Canseco from third base to break an 8–8 tie in the seventh inning for Oakland. Canseco lined a one-out single, his fourth hit of the game, and took third on Mickey Tettleton’s single off Vern Ruhle, 2–10.

Terry Pendleton singled home two runs in the first inning, and the St. Louis Cardinals scored twice more on a third-inning Pittsburgh error tonight to gain their fifth straight triumph, a 5–4 decision over the Pirates. The Cardinals’ victory, their 12th in 13 games, kept them three games ahead of the Mets in the National League East. Both have 11 games remaining, including three with each other next week in St. Louis. Pendleton’s single, his third game-winning hit in five games, was one of seven hits off the Pittsburgh starter Lee Tunnell (4–10). It scored Willie McGee and Tommy Herr, who had singled and doubled with one out. Mike Brown singled home a Pittsburgh run in the third to make it 2–1 before St. Louis capitalized on a fielding lapse by R. J. Reynolds, the Pittsburgh center fielder. Reynolds, drifting back to the warning track to take Mike Jorgensen’s long drive, had the ball bounce out of his glove, allowing Herr and Pendleton to score in the Cardinal third.

The Mets kept racing down the homestretch in pursuit of the St. Louis Cardinals tonight, and they did it in style: Sid Fernandez pitched a sizzling two-hitter with nine strikeouts that stopped the Philadelphia Phillies, 7–1. The 22-year-old left-hander from Honolulu has been a sort of question-mark in the middle of the Mets’ pitching staff after exclamation points like Dwight Gooden and Ron Darling. But tonight he answered all questions. He walked four batters, but the only hits he gave were a single to Rick Schu in the second inning and a home run to Luis Aguayo in the eighth. And he kept the Mets alive in the National League’s East, with only 11 games to go.

The Expos’ Andre Dawson slugs 3 home runs, including a pair of 3-run shots in a 12-run 5th inning, to lead Montreal to a wild 17–15 win over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. Dawson joins Willie McCovey as the only players to hit 2 home runs in one inning on 2 different occasions, and his 6 RBIs in one inning ties the current Major League record last accomplished by Jim Ray Hart in 1970. He totals 8 RBIs for the game. Tim Wallach and Sal Butera also hit homers for the Expos. Jody Davis, Mickey Hatcher and Gary Matthews connected for Chicago. The Cubs had a season-high 20 hits in the game, the Expos had 17. Bryn Smith (17–5) gave up two unearned runs on Davis’s homer in the fourth inning. He allowed five hits in six innings. Jeff Reardon got the final out of the game, stemming a five-run Chicago ninth inning, for his 36th save. The Cubs had also scored four runs in the eighth.

Dodger right fielder Mike Marshall had a double and three singles, his fourth four-hit game of the season, drove in a run and scored two more in the Dodgers’ 7–2 win over the Astros before a crowd of 10,043. With every player in the starting lineup, including winning pitcher Bob Welch, collecting at least one hit and 15 in all, the Dodgers won their third game in a row, their seventh straight in the Astrodome, and maintained their six-game lead over the Reds in the National League West. Three of those hits belonged to Bill Madlock, who has a 17-game hitting streak, matching the longest of his career and the longest by a Dodger since Pedro Guerrero hit in 19 in a row in 1982. And after Welch threw a six-hitter for his 12th win and eighth complete game of the season, the Dodgers’ magic number for clinching the division title was reduced to 7 with 11 games to go.

Eddie Milner’s two-run homer helped rookie left-hander Tom Browning pitch his 10th victory in a row and 19th of the season for Cincinnati, as the Reds beat the Braves, 7–5. Milner’s third homer of the season highlighted a four-run second inning off Braves starter Pascual Perez, 1–12, who lasted just 1 ⅔ innings. It also helped keep the Reds within six games of the Dodgers in the National League West. Browning struggled through 6 ⅓ innings, allowing eight hits as he improved to 19–9, the most victories by a rookie in the majors this year. Harry Gaspar is the only other Reds rookie to win 19 games this century, posting a 19–11 mark in 1909.

In San Francisco’s 4–3 loss to the Padres, rookie Mike Woodard has a pinch single to extend his hitting streak to 13 games to start a career. The record is Chuck Aleno’s 17-game streak with the Reds in 1941. Kurt Bevacqua hit a two-run homer to cap a four-run rally by the Padres. Rob Deer homered for the Giants. Dave Dravecky (13–10) got the win for the Padres.

Chicago White Sox 8, California Angels 1

Montreal Expos 17, Chicago Cubs 15

Atlanta Braves 5, Cincinnati Reds 7

Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Houston Astros 2

Baltimore Orioles 6, Milwaukee Brewers 10

Detroit Tigers 9, New York Yankees 1

Cleveland Indians 8, Oakland Athletics 10

New York Mets 7, Philadelphia Phillies 1

San Francisco Giants 3, San Diego Padres 4

Kansas City Royals 2, Seattle Mariners 5

Pittsburgh Pirates 4, St. Louis Cardinals 5

Minnesota Twins 0, Texas Rangers 5

Boston Red Sox 2, Toronto Blue Jays 6


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Born:

Trumaine McBride, NFL cornerback (Chicago Bears, Arizona Cardinals, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Giants), in Houston, Texas.

Keith Null, NFL quarterback (St. Louis Rams), in Travis County, Texas.