Soviet arms proposals that reportedly call for 50 percent cuts in the offensive nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers were welcomed by President Reagan. Mr. Reagan said the United States was “ready for tough but fair” arms negotiations with the Soviet Union. At the same time, Mr. Reagan expressed the hope that the arms talks “will be free of preconditions and other obstacles to progress.” In a generally optimistic assessment of his three hours of talks on Friday with the Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. Reagan said that despite fundamental differences between the United States and the Soviet Union, “progress can be made” in negotiations in Geneva on nuclear and space weapons. “There is no reason why real reductions cannot begin promptly,” he said in his weekly radio speech. The Soviet Union is expected to detail its new arms proposals in Geneva this week. At the White House meeting on Friday, the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, gave Mr. Reagan a letter from the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and outlined the arms proposals.
Administration officials said the proposals called for 50 percent reductions in the strategic nuclear arsenals of the United States and the Soviet Union and a halt in American work to develop a space-based defense shield against incoming nuclear missiles. Mr. Reagan has rejected use of the space defense plan, popularly called “Star Wars,” as a bargaining chip. In his address today, Mr. Reagan said: “Mr. Shevardnadze indicated that Soviet negotiators will present a counterproposal in Geneva to the initiative that we have taken there. We welcome this. “It is important,” the President said, “that the counterproposal address our concerns about reductions and stability, just as we have sought to address Soviet concerns.”
Several hours of rioting erupted in London’s predominantly black suburb of Brixton as youths attacked a police station with rocks and bottles after police shot a black woman earlier in the day. At least 36 people, including 10 police officers, were hospitalized and about 25 people were arrested as youths embarked on a rampage of looting and arson in the area. The violence began hours after police shot a 38-year-old mother of six as officers entered her home in search of one of her sons, wanted in connection with a shooting incident. The woman was listed in stable condition at a south London hospital.
The Liverpool City Council, beset by budget deficits and a refusal of aid from the government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has voted 46 to 35 to lay off the city’s entire work force of 31,000 people for at least three months. The council said the layoffs would be effective Dec. 31 and would remain in effect until a new budget is adopted next April. The mass layoff is seen by some observers as a tactical move to bring the crisis to a head and force Thatcher’s conservative government to allocate funds.
Two West Germans, one the brother of a suspected East German spy, have been arrested on suspicion of spying for East Berlin, the federal prosecutor’s office in Karlsruhe said. A spokesman identified the suspects as Harm Alken, 28, and his woman friend, Michaela Van Houten, 27. He said Alken is the brother of Rudolf Alken, a researcher at Mainz University hospital, who fled to East Germany earlier this month. The couple, according to a news report, had come under suspicion after they had been instructed to deliver papers from Rudolf Alken’s house to East Germany following his flight there.
The State Department has proposed a $5.5 billion program to overhaul security at its embassies and to counter Soviet-bloc espionage overseas, officials said. The new proposal includes funding for the costs of replacing more than half of the 200 Soviet citizens now working for the United States Embassy in Moscow and consulate in Leningrad. Other steps to phase out local employees will be taken at that embassy and other American embassies in Warsaw Pact countries.
General Wojciech Jaruzelski, the Polish leader, said yesterday that the Solidarity union, which was crushed by his hovernment after martial law was imposed nearly four years ago, no longer existed as “a real and organized force.” At the same time, he insisted in an interview with The New York Times that his government was gaining in acceptance, had learned lessons from mistakes that brought down previous governments and had not totally eliminated Solidarity “as a notion, as a certain idea that was born as a result of workers’ protest.” He appeared hard put, however, when asked to specify which of the workers’ original demands during the strike that gave birth to Solidarity in 1980 were now being honored by the government. He mentioned economic change, self-management in factories, longer maternity leaves and the radio broadcasts of Roman Catholic mass on Sundays. Some of the union’s more substantive demands — for a lessening of censorship, the right to strike and form independent trade unions, an end to special privileges for the Communist elite and more pluralism in political life — have clearly fallen by the wayside.
Heavy fighting raged in Lebanon, from Tripoli in the north to Nabatiyeh in the south. In Beirut, 16 people were reported killed in another day of fighting between Christian and Muslim factions. In Tripoli, the fighting, between pro- and anti-Syrian militias, was so heavy that it was not possible to count all the dead. By day’s end, a pro-Syrian militia coalition — supported, according to some accounts, by Syrian artillery — had advanced toward the city center, defended by the anti-Syrian Tawhid militia. In the south, the Shia Muslim market town of Nabatiyeh was shelled by Israeli-backed Christian gunners, reportedly wounding at least 12 people.
Saudi Arabia still wants to buy F-15 fighters from the United States despite its decision to buy 132 advanced military aircraft from Britain but will not accept any limits on the use of the American planes, the Saudi defense minister said. Prince Sultan ibn Abdulaziz made the comment in London where he had signed an agreement to buy 72 Tornado fighters produced jointly by Britain, West Germany and Italy and 60 other aircraft in a deal valued at $4.3 billion. Jewish groups and members of Congress oppose the sale of F-15s to Saudi Arabia.
Iraqi warplanes attacked Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal today for the fifth time in as many days. It was Iraq’s 15th reported attack on the terminal since Aug. 15. The terminal handles the bulk of Iran’s oil exports. Earlier raids caused serious damage, and shipping executives in the region said the latest attacks evidently were meant to impede repairs. Meanwhile, Iran’s official Islamic Republic News Agency said the Iranian Navy had seized three foreign ships in the last two days, then released them after determining that they were not carrying war cargo to Iraq.
The 90,000 registered voters of France’s territory of New Caledonia cast ballots today for regional representatives in a crucial election that could determine whether the South Pacific islands remain tied to France or head toward independence. The election is expected to be determined along bitterly divided racial lines. The islands’ original Melanesians want independence, while the main party of the whites and Polynesians insist the territory remain a part of France. The French government hopes the election will lead the territory to a special status of independence with legal links to France.
Though neither side wants it to, a 33-year-old defense treaty that links the United States and New Zealand appears to be unraveling over this country’s insistence on barring nuclear-armed or nuclear-powered ships from its ports. The dispute is forcing New Zealanders to choose between two of their main foreign-policy priorities: their alliance with the United States and Australia under the pact, known as Anzus, and their opposition to nuclear arms. Opinion polls show that at least two-thirds of New Zealanders support both policies, but realities indicate that the two are becoming mutually exclusive. By the conclusion last weekend of a visit to Washington by Deputy Prime Minister Geoffrey Palmer, commentators here said it had become clear that both nations had reached the point where, for the moment at least, their positions were irreconcilable.
For years, Mexican officials have talked about decentralizing the Government, moving entire agencies out of the capital as a way of stemming its virtually uncontrolled growth. In the week after the earthquakes that devastated the center of Mexico City, including the destruction of 112 Government buildings and serious damage to dozens more, calls are being made for the reconstruction of the city in a way that will avoid the problems of the past. Leading the calls is the President, Miguel de la Madrid. Speaking to a group of businessmen Wednesday night, he promised that the reconstruction program for Mexico City would not only seek to avoid the sort of damage that resulted from last week’s quakes, but would also put special emphasis on “new orientations toward development” of the capital.
The abduction of the daughter of President Jose Napoleon Duarte has reawakened fears among El Salvador’s prominent families, who say it may force them to make drastic changes in their lives. Although none of the families appear to have fled the country in recent days, some of their members talked nervously of the wave of kidnappings that set off a vast exodus of well-to-do Salvadorans in 1978 and 1979. It was the terror of being abducted for profit or politics, rather than the explosions, blackouts and gunfights, that led businessmen, politicians and landowners to move their families and money to neighboring countries and often to the United States. At the heart of their fear, as expressed repeatedly in interviews, is that this time the kidnapping victim is a woman, and, at that, a woman who was not involved in the government.
The violent death of an influential former Honduran Army officer has raised concern and suspicion in Honduran political circles and among key military officers. The battered and decomposing body of Ricardo Zuniga Morazan, a onetime army major who was a prominent critic of United States policy in Honduras and the son of one of the country’s most powerful politicians, was found in an unmarked grave near the border town of Danli early this month. A steel file had been driven into his heart. The police say a business associate who owed Mr. Zuniga more than $50,000 had hired three Nicaraguan exiles to kill him. If that is proved to be the case, it will be seen in Honduras as a particularly banal and unexpected end for a man who was deeply involved in the country’s most sensitive political matters, gaining several sworn allies, but perhaps more sworn enemies.
Vice President Eric Arturo Delvalle was sworn in as the new Panamanian leader today after the resignation of President Nicolas Ardito Barletta. Mr. Ardito Barletta, who took office just under a year ago as Panama’s first elected President in 16 years, stepped down in the early hours of this morning, saying he did not have the necessary military and political support to lead the country out of its economic crisis. During his acceptance speech, Mr. Delvalle called on Panamanians to unite to “preserve the democratic institutions” in Panama, which has a $3.7 billion foreign debt.
Maoist guerrillas attacked an Andean village in Peru with guns and explosives, killing 14 people and wounding 8, the police said today. They said 60 members of the Shining Path geurrilla group, including women and children, attacked the town of Huayao before dawn Friday. After forcing villagers into the street the guerrillas ransacked the houses, taking everything of value including several dozen head of cattle and sheep, the police said. Officials said the village, 72 miles north of Ayacucho, was attacked because residents had formed a patrol with government support to defend themselves against Shining Path attacks. The police also said that guerrillas dynamited four towers Wednesday that were part of an electrification project to serve 150,000 residents of Ayacucho State, 345 miles southeast of Lima.
Officials at the World Health Organization say they have won the medical and financial support needed to draft a worldwide strategy for combating acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS. Dr. Fakhry A. Assaad, chief of W.H.O.’s division of communicable diseases, said the Geneva-based organization was about to prepare a program to coordinate research and information-gathering. He said officials hoped to have the outlines of the program set by the end of this year. The entry of the World Health Organization into the battle against AIDS could provide a crucial element that has been lacking until now: a centralized program for coordinating research now being carried out in Europe and the United States, as well as a central repository for analyzing diverse data and information on the incurable disease.
Ugandan troops and rebels fought for control of the town of Masaka today while progress was reported at cease-fire talks in Nairobi. “We have made a lot of progress,” Defense Minister Wilson Toko said after the fourth day of peace talks were adjourned until Sunday afternoon. The head of the rebel National Resistance Army delegation, S. B. Kisseka, agreed that “progress has been made.” Neither side gave any details. The two sides were still reported to be dug in to fight for Masaka, Uganda’s third-biggest town, some 80 miles southwest of Kampala, the Ugandan capital. Ugandan state radio said Friday night that government troops were in control of the town.
Margaret M. Heckler is being urged to leave her Cabinet position by White House officials. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has asked to meet Monday with President Reagan to discuss her future. Federal officials said that the White House chief of staff, Donald T. Regan, wants to have Mrs. Heckler removed from her post and was trying to arrange for her to be named Ambassador to Ireland. An administration official said that Mr. Regan wanted Mrs. Heckler to meet with him instead of the President to avoid a scene. The struggle over Mrs. Heckler is shaping up as a major test of the President’s ability to resolve strife among his Cabinet appointees.
President Reagan spends the day at the White House catching up on paperwork.
A judge in Washington, D.C., ordered Attorney General Edwin Meese III to explain why he should not be held in contempt of court for ignoring work-release sentences for jail inmates. Government attorneys argued that work-release sentences — under which persons convicted of misdemeanors keep their jobs during the day and spend nights in jail — were superseded by a Justice Department edict that all newly sentenced District of Columbia prisoners be sent to federal prisons. Superior Court Judge Steffan Graae sentenced James Neal to 30 days’ work-release, but Neal was transferred to federal prison and lost his job. Graae ordered Neal’s release and ordered Meese to appear in court Friday.
Representatives of Philadelphia Newspapers Inc. walked out of contract talks, saying they would return when nine striking unions “are ready to bargain realistically.” A federal mediator said he would meet separately with both sides. The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News, both published by the newspaper group, have been idled since September 7, when 4,774 employees walked out in a dispute over wages and other issues. The company offered the unions a $90-weekly raise over three years but the unions want $170. Company negotiators had been meeting with representatives of the Council of Newspaper Unions.
A mountain man who shunned society was sentenced to 85 years in prison in Virginia City, Montana, for kidnapping a young woman and killing one of her would-be rescuers. Don Nichols, 54, was sentenced to 10 years for kidnaping Olympic athlete Kari Swenson, 24, as she jogged in the Montana mountains on July 15, 1984, and 75 years for the murder of Alan Goldstein, who I was slain the next day when he tried to rescue Swenson. Nichols’ 20-year-old son, Dan, was tried separately last spring and convicted of kidnapping Swenson. He is serving a 20-year sentence.
The crime wave that included arson, robberies and murder for which members of the neo-Nazi group the Order are now standing trial in Seattle occurred after one of its leaders was released on bond on a counterfeiting charge in December 1983. The arrested man, Bruce Carroll Pierce, had been held for a little over two weeks, and the Federal authorities did not discover that the $50 counterfeit bill he later admitted passing was part of more than $500,000 purportedly printed by the neo-Nazi group to help finance a racial war for the violent overthrow of the United States Government. In Mr. Pierce’s possession at the time of his arrest Dec. 6, 1983, was a neo-Nazi newsletter with photographs of him as a security guard in a Nazi-style uniform with a pistol prominently displayed, said Robert Linnell, assistant United States attorney at Yakima, who prosecuted the 1983 case.
A former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency in Ghana has pleaded guilty to a charge of disclosing classified information in a plea-bargaining arrangement in which the Government dropped 15 other espionage-related charges against her. The defendant, Sharon M. Scranage, 29 years old, had already pleaded guilty to two violations of a law banning disclosure of the identities of people working for the agency. At that time, she admitted that she had told her former Ghanaian companion, Michael A. Soussoudis, the names of two C.I.A. covert agents working in that country. He will be tried October 15 on espionage charges. Miss Scranage, a native of Virginia, entered her plea in Federal District Court here on Friday. She worked as a clerk for the agency in Ghana from May 1983 to May 1985.
Danny Escobedo was held on charges of attempted murder, 21 years after the Supreme Court reversed an earlier murder conviction in a landmark ruling that established suspects’ rights to consult an attorney. Police in Chicago said that no bond or hearing had been set for Escobedo, 47, who turned himself in to police after learning that he was a suspect in a shooting outside a South Side bar last week. Escobedo had been free on $50,000 bond pending appeal of a 1984 conviction. The unemployed ex-convict was sentenced last October to 12 years for taking indecent liberties with a 13-year-old girl.
The first $100,000 in proceeds from last week’s Farm Aid benefit concert will go to hungry farm families in 17 states, spokesmen for the group in Washington announced. A spokeswoman for the New York-based National Council of Churches, chosen to distribute the proceeds, named 12 charity organizations across the nation that will disburse the funds to beneficiaries in their regions. The Farm Aid organizers stipulated that all of the $100,000 be used to supply food to the families chosen by the local charities.
A new warning system will be installed on new Boeing jets to alert pilots about catastrophic wind shifts called wind shears, company officials say. The warning systems, which are to be standard equipment on the company’s advanced jets starting next summer, will also indicate the safest way for a pilot to maneuver. Piedmont Airlines says it plans to install a similar system to warn of wind shifts in its planes later this year.
Despite a 10-day strike by 5,000 assembly-line workers, the General Dynamics Corporation says it will meet its current delivery schedules on tanks for the Army. No negotiations have been scheduled to end the walkout against the company’s five Land Systems Division’s factories in Ohio, Michigan and Pennsylvania. The strikers are members of the United Automobile Workers, and the main issue is pay, union officials say. Until 1982 the tank workers were employees of Chrysler Defense Inc., a subsidiary of the Chrysler Corporation. Then, as part of a Federal loan guarantee that saved Chrysler from bankruptcy, the nation’s No. 3 auto maker sold the subsidiary to General Dynamics.
Tens of millions of dollars worth of advanced, American-made weapons intended for military use are showing up on the black market, according to officials from the Defense Department, other Federal agencies and members of Congress. The weapons often become available for sale to hostile governments or terrorists, the officials say, potentially contributing to the very problem of terrorism that the Government is trying to fight. Numerous officials said the principal source for the black market weapons was theft from United States military bases, ships and warehouses. Among the stolen weapons officials say have been found on the black market are land mines, plastic explosives, missiles, bazookas, grenade launchers and artillery. The military sorts and stores so much weaponry that the Pentagon says it loses or misplaces more than $1 billion of it each year. Its stockpile of weapons, equipment and spare parts is valued at more than $80 billion.
Geraldine A. Ferraro, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate in 1984, has asserted that Archbishop John J. O’Connor of New York appeared to be “a single-issue Bishop” in the campaign. The remark appears in her coming memoirs. She added that Archbishop O’Connor’s “increasingly strident voice” on the abortion issue had led many people to conclude that he had overstepped the line separating church and state.
The three-year search for the person who killed seven people by poisoning Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules with cyanide has slowed considerably in recent months. James Zagel, director of the Illinois state police, said officers assigned to the case continued to pursue “four or five” areas, but there have been no new leads in six months. Mr. Zagel says the case, “an antiseptic horror,” has haunted him for three years. The mystery began September 29, 1982, with the poisoning of Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old. Within 15 hours six other people had been poisoned: Adam Janus, a postal worker; Stanley Janus, his brother; Theresa Janus, Stanley Janus’s wife; Mary Reiner, a telephone company employee; Mary McFarland, a homemaker, and Paula Prince, a flight attendant. All were found to have taken tainted Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules. Within 24 hours of the first death the authorities had directed the public to stop using the product and more than 100 agents were pursuing leads.
Officials surveyed storm damage in New York and Connecticut in the aftermath of Hurricane Gloria and utility crews labored to restore power to a million homes across the metropolitan area. The financial loss was estimated in the millions of dollars, Despite the estimates, however, officials and residents agreed that the area had come through the storm unscathed.
An unmanned Atlas Centaur rocket streaked into space after being launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and delivered a $30-million satellite into its preliminary orbit. NASA spokeswoman Lisa Malone said that “all indications are the Atlas Centaur rocket properly put its Intelsat 5A” communications satellite into preliminary orbit. If all goes well, an on-board solid rocket booster will fire early Tuesday to send the Intelsat satellite to its operational orbit 22,300 miles over the Indian Ocean, joining 16 other Intelsat relay stations. The Intelsat 5A is owned by the 109-nation International Telecommunications Satellite Organization.
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Cincinnati’s Tom Browning becomes the first rookie since Bob Grim in 1954 to win 20 games, raising his record to 20–9 with a 5–2 win over Houston. He is the first Reds pitcher to win 20 since Jim Merritt in 1970. Buddy Bell hit a three-run homer to pace Cincinnati. The Reds batted around in a four-run third inning. Max Venable singled off Mike Scott (18-8) took third on Pete Rose’s single and scored on Dave Parker’s ground rule double that bounced over the left field wall. Bell then slammed a three-run homer to left, his sixth of the year.
The first-place Cardinals split a pair with Montreal, losing 2–0, to Bill Gullickson, then winning 4–2, as Darrell Porter’s single snapped a 2–2 tie in the 11th inning. In the first game of the doubleheader, Bill Gullickson and Jeff Reardon combined on a four-hitter, and Andre Dawson homered for the seventh time in as many games. Ozzie Smith has 2 stolen bases and Andy Van Slyke 1 steal in the opener, while Vince Coleman swipes 4 bases in the nightcap. The Cardinals will have 5 players with 31 or more steals this year as the they total 314.
After the Mets lost to Pittsburgh Friday night, Wally Backman remarked that “they haven’t buried us yet, but we are in the coffin.” The Mets, their pitching arms pushing mightily against the lid, defeated the Pirates, 3–1, today and prompted Backman to say, “We just opened the coffin right up. They can’t put us in yet. This gave us life. A loss today would have put us in the ground.” Rick Aguilera, who pitched eight strong innings, and Jesse Orosco, who struck out two Pirates with the bases loaded in the ninth, were primarily instrumental for the life-giving outcome that enabled the Mets to cut into the St. Louis Cardinals’ National League East lead for the first time in nine days. St. Louis split a doubleheader with Montreal today, enabling the Mets to shave the Cardinals’ lead to four games. Between September 19, when the Mets reduced the St. Louis lead from two games to one, and today, the Mets had won four games and lost four and the Cardinals had won all seven they played. Well before Orosco appeared in the ninth inning of this game, the Mets had built a 3–0 lead behind Aguilera. George Foster hit his 20th home run against Bob Kipper in the second inning, Rafael Santana led off the third with a double and scored on Mookie Wilson’s sacrifice fly and Wilson started the sixth with a triple, then scored as Keith Hernandez doubled.
The Cubs score 5 in the 1st against the visiting Phillies and hang on or an 11–10 victory with the win going to starter Dennis Eckersley. Shawon Dunston has 4 hits for the Cubs and Mike Schmidt, Ron Cey and Keith Moreland each hit two homers. Moreland drives home 4 runs and will finish with 32 RBIs for the month to set a Cubs September record.
The Dodgers downed the Giants, 5–2. Jerry Reuss allowed just four hits over six innings and Enos Cabell and Bill Madlock drove in third-inning runs in the Los Angeles victory. The victory enabled Los Angeles to reduce its number for clinching the division to four. Earlier, second-place Cincinnati defeated Houston, to remain five and one-half games behind. The Dodgers added an insurance run in the eighth when Pedro Guerrero pounded his 34th homer of the season. That tied the Los Angeles club record set in 1977 by Steve Garvey. Reuss (14–10) walked three and struck out five before departing with tightness in both calves. Tom Niedenfuer pitched one and two-thirds innings for his 18th save. The Giants missed a chance to tie it 2–2 in the top of the eighth. Ken Howell walked Manny Trillo and Bob Brenly. Mike Woodard ran for Trillo and David Green slapped a single in the hole, but the second baseman Steve Sax knocked the ball down and threw to Mike Scioscia to nip Woodard at the plate.
The Padres edged the Braves, 6–5. Rookie shortstop Andres Thomas made a wild throw with two out in the 13th inning at Atlanta, allowing two runs to score for San Diego.
Dennis Burtt, making only his second major league start, combined with Pete Filson and Ron Davis on a four-hitter as the Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals today, 5–3. The Royals remained tied with the California Angels for the lead in the American League West Division. Burtt (2–1) gave up three hits, struck out four and walked four in six and one-third innings in only his fourth major league appearance. Filson and Davis finished up, with Davis gaining his 24th save by holding the Royals hitless and striking out three over the final one and two-thirds innings.
Jerry Willard hit one-out, two-run homer in the ninth inning to give the Indians the victory. Cleveland came back from a 5–0 deficit. The Angels and the Royals now have identical 86–68 records. Brook Jacoby led off the Cleveland ninth by reaching base on the shortstop Dick Schofield’s error. George Vukovich was then safe on a force play. Willard then hit the first pitch from Stu Cliburn (9–3) into the right-field stands for his sixth homer. Jerry Reed, the fifth Cleveland pitcher, improved to 2–5. Trailing by 5–0, Cleveland rallied in the eighth to tie the score off Donnie Moore, who relieved Don Sutton. Vukovich led off the inning with his sixth home run, and singles by Carmen Castillo, Tony Bernazard and Julio Franco made it 5–2. With runners on first and third, Andre Thornton then lined Moore’s first pitch over the left-field wall for his 20th homer to tie the game.
George Bell had four hits, stole two bases and scored twice to give Toronto its second straight victory over Milwaukee, 6–1, and keep them six games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East. Toronto batters shelled three Milwaukee pitchers for 16 hits, 15 of them singles. The Brewer starter, Tim Leary (1–3), left after the fifth inning. Jim Clancy (9–5) pitched six innings for Toronto, giving up five hits and one run. In the second, Bell singled to right, stole second and scored on a single by Ernie Whitt to give the Blue Jays a 1–0 lead. He got a leadoff single in the sixth, moved to second on a passed ball, stole third for his 19th stolen base of the season and came home on a double by Jesse Barfield to make the score 5–1. Bell also drove in Willie Upshaw for Toronto’s sixth run with a single to center in the seventh inning.
The pennant race may be all but done, but Dave Winfield still is one of the game’s most aggressive hitters, Don Mattingly’s swing is still line-drive sweet, Rickey Henderson is still menacingly fast, and Ron Guidry, even less than perfect, can still throw the right pitch in the crucial situation. In a season that seems headed ultimately for disappointment, yesterday was a day for appreciating what is right about the Yankees. They beat the Baltimore Orioles, 6–5, with two runs in the ninth. Winfield stroked a line-drive single to left field, bringing home Henderson with the winning run, just after Mattingly was intentionally walked, and two batters after Ken Griffey had grounded out to bring in the tying run.
The Red Sox blanked the Tigers, 2–0. Glenn Hoffman and Dwight Evans hit home runs off Willie Hernandez in the 10th inning at Detroit to break open a pitching battle. Dan Petry of the Tigers and Bob Ojeda each pitched nine scoreless innings.
The A’s topped the White Sox, 7–4. Except for a couple of tape-measure smashes, Jose Canesco, baseball’s newest slugging sensation, spent the first three weeks of his major league career rather quietly. Canesco, 21, hit 25 homers in the Southern League, then jumped up to the Pacific Coast League and hit 11 more. Now, he’s finding American League pitching easy, too. The A’s new left fielder hit his fifth home run and third in three days in this game at Oakland, then walked and scored the winning run in the eighth. In his last five games, Canesco is 12 for 19, has scored 8 runs and driven in 7 runs.
The Mariners edged the Rangers, 3–2. Mike Moore scattered seven hits — three by Larry Parrish — to win his 17th game of the season. Moore, 17–8, tied Mark Langston in 1984 for most victories by a Seattle pitcher in a single season. He walked two and struck out four as he won his sixth consecutive decision. Alvin Davis and Phil Bradley each had solo home runs for the victors.
San Diego Padres 6, Atlanta Braves 5
Philadelphia Phillies 10, Chicago Cubs 11
Houston Astros 2, Cincinnati Reds 5
California Angels 5, Cleveland Indians 7
Boston Red Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 0
San Francisco Giants 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Minnesota Twins 5
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Montreal Expos 2
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Montreal Expos 2
Baltimore Orioles 5, New York Yankees 6
Chicago White Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 7
New York Mets 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Texas Rangers 2, Seattle Mariners 3
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