Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in France today on his first visit to the West since becoming Soviet leader, and warned tonight of “a tough time” ahead if the United States kept to its plans to develop a space-based missile defense system. Earlier, as he arrived here at the start of a four-day visit, the Soviet leader urged renewal of “the politics of detente” and an end to American space-based antimissile research. Mr. Gorbachev, speaking at a banquet given in his honor tonight by President Francois Mitterrand, asserted that President Reagan’s strategic defense initiative, popularly called “Star Wars,” had transformed the arms race.
Belgium and the Netherlands are angry that they were not among the nations invited by by President Reagan to a meeting for consultations before his summit talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, and they called today for a special North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers’ meeting. It was the latest sign of dissatisfaction with Mr. Reagan’s planned meeting of the seven major industrial democracies, which Administration officials intended as a display of unity. The nations invited by Mr. Reagan to the meeting, scheduled in New York on October 23-24, were Britain, France, West Germany, Canada, Italy and Japan. Mr. Reagan will be in New York at that time to attend observances marking the 40th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations. On Tuesday, a spokesman for President Francois Mitterrand said Mr. Mitterrand was turning down Mr. Reagan’s invitation. Mr. Mitterrand was widely believed to have been angered by Mr. Reagan’s decision to announce the meeting and its date before the French leader had agreed to atttend.
Czechoslovakia admitted that one of its planes fired rockets near a U.S. Army helicopter in West German airspace Saturday but said they were only warning shots. The official news agency Ceteka said the plane fired the shots because the copter was on a “provocative” flight and “in danger of entering Czechoslovak airspace.” It said the copter flew about 60 miles along the border. A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that the AH-1S Cobra copter with a crew of two was on a routine reconnaissance mission when it was fired upon.
The police in Poland have arrested a fugitive leader of the Solidarity underground, Andrzej Michalowski, for organizing “illegal actions” in the seaport of Gdansk, the official press agency announced today. “The prisoner organized illegal actions aimed at sparking public unrest in the province of Gdansk,” the agency, P.A.P., reported. Solidarity sources in Gdansk said Mr. Michalowski, 37 years old, had been on the strike committee in the Lenin Shipyard when martial law was imposed in December 1981. He was arrested in 1982 and sentenced to five years in jail for his underground activities. He received a pass from prison authorities to visit his family at the end of 1982, but did not return to jail and rejoined the underground union, the sources said.
Youths in Liverpool attacked policemen with stones today as violence flared for a second straight day after a night of violence in that city and in Peckham, an area of south London. The officers came under attack by a crowd of about 20 youths as they watched the demolition of a shop burned during violence Tuesday night in the Toxteth area of Liverpool. Eighteen people were injured and 13 arrested in violence that was touched off Tuesday after a crowd gathered to disrupt proceedings in Liverpool Magistrates’ Court, where four men were appearing on charges of being involved in a brawl. Crowds stoned the police station and set cars afire.
Bulgarian defendant Sergei Antonov insisted that he had nothing to do with the 1981 attempt to kill Pope John Paul II and told a Rome court he had not known the Pope’s convicted assailant, Mehmet Ali Ağca. The arrest of Antonov in Rome in 1982 provided the first link in the alleged “Bulgarian connection” to the plot to kill the pontiff. Ağca, now the state’s star witness, has claimed that Antonov and two Bulgarian diplomats helped him and other Turks plan the attack in St. Peter’s Square. Bulgaria has refused to return the two diplomats for trial.
The White House backed down from its firm support of the Israeli air strike on the headquarters of the Palestine Liberation Organization Tuesday in Tunis. A new statement termed the raid “understandable as an expression of self-defense” but said the bombing “cannot be condoned.” The White House statement followed what Administration aides termed displeasure at the Israeli attack by key State Department officials, especially Secretary of State George P. Shultz. The P.L.O. said 67 people were killed in the bombing. Israel said it attacked the P.L.O. headquarters in retaliation for the slaying of three Israeli civilians in Larnaca, Cyprus, last week. P.L.O. officials in Cyprus denied at the time that they or any group affiliated with the P.L.O. were responsible, although an anonymous caller took responsibility on behalf of a Palestinian commando unit.
Arab students in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip defied the Israeli authorities today by unfurling Palestinian flags and pictures of Yasir Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization leader. The scattered demonstrations and protests were intended to show solidarity with the P.L.O. after the Israeli air strike on Tuesday against the organization’s headquarters command in Tunisia. Newspaper editorials and leading figures in the occupied territories also condemned the Israeli action.
The Tunisian leader expressed “regret and astonishment” at President Reagan’s endorsement of Israel’s air strike against the P.L.O. The Tunisian President, Habib Bourguiba, criticized the American position on what he termed the “cowardly Israeli attack.” As many as 67 people may have died in the attack. Mr. Bourguiba spoke before the White House issued a new statement today in which it backed away from its original comment on the raid, which it said appeared to be “a legitimate response” against “terrorist attacks.” The White House said today that the Israeli raid was “understandable as an expression of self-defense,” but said that the bombing “cannot be condoned.”
Israel’s Foreign Minister strongly defended the Israeli bombing in a speech before the General Assembly. All delegates from the 21-member Arab group, with the exception of Egypt, walked out as the Foreign Minister, Yitzak Shamir, stepped to the podium to deliver his defense of the air raid of the P.L.O. headquarters. They were joined by Iran, Vietnam, Nicaragua, Afghanistan and some African nations, including Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso. With the exception of East Germany, whose entire delegation left the hall, members of the Soviet bloc, including the Soviet Union, each left one junior delegate in the six-seat section allotted to member nations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir appealed to Jordan’s King Hussein to enter into direct negotiations with Israel aimed at achieving a peace treaty. In an address to the U.N. General Assembly, Shamir said that Hussein “should not drown the quest for peace in a sea of conditions… such as an international conference and the participation of terrorist organizations in the peace process.” He urged Hussein “to free himself from the clutches of the PLO terrorists.”
Arab-Israeli conflict has changed from a struggle between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries to a battle almost exclusively between Israel and the Palestinians, with the Arab states as spectators. Although the scene of the latest clash was Tunisia, Israeli statements and actions suggest that the real motivation stems from events that have been taking place inside Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip. There, during the last 12 months, the level and ferocity of Palestinian attacks against Israelis have intensified, going from stone-throwing and tire-burning incidents to abductions and stabbings committed by individual Arabs against individual Jews. In the last year, 16 Israeli men and women have been killed — most with kitchen knives or pistols — in such attacks in Israel and the occupied territories, as well as in nearby Cyprus. At least 12 others have been wounded.
A man found slain in West Beirut has been identified as one of the four Russians abducted in the Lebanese capital Tuesday, the Soviet Union said. Moscow called the killing “an atrocity which cannot be pardoned.” The Kremlin also said it held Israel indirectly responsible for the abductions by Muslim fundamentalists. But the Kremlin stopped short of threatening any retaliation. In Lebanon, officials said the body of the slain man, whom they identified as Arkady Katakov, a secretary at the Soviet Embassy in West Beirut, had been recovered from an open lot near Beirut’s shell-ravaged stadium. Western diplomats, closely monitoring Moscow’s reaction to the first terrorist attack against the Soviet Union in the Middle East, said that some kind of retaliatory strike could not be ruled out but that one seemed unlikely.
Efforts to salvage vital wreckage from an Air India jumbo jet that crashed in the ocean off Ireland will start Tuesday, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency quoted New Delhi officials as saying that investigators will be trying to learn why the plane crashed on a flight from Montreal to New Delhi last June, killing all 329 on board. The Boeing 747’s four engines have been recovered, but films of the ocean floor have shown 300 separate pieces of wreckage scattered over a four-mile area, 6,700 feet down.
A South Korean court sentenced 20 college students today to as much as seven years in prison for occupying the United States Information Service building in downtown Seoul last May. The sentences were considerably harsher than those generally imposed on student demonstrators in recent years. They seemed to reflect a tougher Government attitude toward all forms of dissent. Many foreign diplomats in South Korea trace the attitude to the four-day takeover of the American building by 73 students.The students, bound and handcuffed and chanting “Down with dictatorship, down with (President) Chun Doo Hwan,” received penalties ranging from a suspended two-year term to seven years in prison.
The Chinese and Soviet foreign ministers have agreed to swap visits, the first such exchange since the split between the two Communist nations in the early 1960s, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Leonid F. Ilyichev said as he arrived in Peking for the latest in a series of talks on normalizing relations. A date for the foreign ministers’ talks is to be set later. Talks aimed at reducing tensions were held at irregular intervals until Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, then were suspended for three years. Trade and non-political ties between Moscow and Peking have grown in the last two years.
Rescue workers today found a survivor trapped but alive in the rubble of a building that collapsed 14 days ago when the first of two major earthquakes struck Mexico. The survivor, thought to be a 9-year-old boy, was buried in what had been an eight-story apartment building just north of the National Palace.
Apartheid “is doomed” and efforts must be made to reach political compromise before a violent revolution topples the white Government, Secretary of State George P. Shultz said in remarks prepared for a speech last night. Otherwise, he warned, “the black majority might likely wind up exchanging one set of oppressors for another and, yes, could be worse off.” In a speech to the National Committee on American Foreign Policy at the New York Hilton, Mr. Shultz said that the present system of racial separation “must go” and that “the only alternative to a radical, violent outcome is a political accommodation now, before it is too late.”
The F.B.I. was investigating the former Central Intelligence Agency officer who has been identified as a double agent working for the Soviet Union at the time of his escape, a high-ranking intelligence source said. The source said the former C.I.A. officer, Edward L. Howard, used the cover of a moonless night to elude F.B.I. agents watching his home near Santa Fe, N.M. Officials said Vitaly Yurchenko, a Soviet intelligence officer who defected to the West in July, identified Mr. Howard as a double agent. The Federal Bureau of Investigation said tonight that a warrant had been issued for Mr. Howard’s arrest charging him with espionage in that he conspired to deliver “national defense information” to a foreign government. The bureau said Mr. Howard worked for the C.I.A. from January 1981 to June 1983.
The strong upward trend in President Reagan’s popularity that saw his performance rating climb from 52% approval in April to 65% in August appears to have halted. Still, Reagan’s current approval rating ranks favorably with those received by Presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and Dwight D. Eisenhower at comparable points in their tenure. In the latest (mid-September) Gallup Poll, 60% approve of Reagan’s performance in office, while 30% disapprove and 10% are undecided.
President Reagan addresses the 54th Annual General Assembly of the International Criminal Police Organization.
President Reagan attends a National Security Council meeting with U.S. Representative to the United Nations Vernon Walters.
The House rejected former Rep. George Hansen’s challenge of his election loss last November to Rep. Richard H. Stallings (D-Idaho). Hansen lost to Stallings by 170 votes out of more than 200,000 cast and claimed he was the victim of improper voter registration procedures and improper handling of the election by state officials. Republicans said the House should order a recount such as the one conducted earlier this year in the controversial election in the 8th District of Indiana. House Democrats, over strenuous GOP objections, forced a recount in Indiana that resulted in overturning an apparent Republican victory and the seating of Democratic incumbent Frank McCloskey.
Federal safety officials, prompted by the Bhopal disaster in India that killed at least 2,000 people, and by potentially dangerous toxic gas leaks in the United States, are instituting more comprehensive inspections of U.S. chemical plants, Patrick R. Tyson, acting head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, told a House subcommittee.
At least 6,928 chemical accidents involving toxic chemicals have occurred in the last five years in the United States, killing more than 135 people and injuring nearly 1,500, according to a federal study not yet released.
The House postponed a vote for the second consecutive day on a key farm bill provision that would give farmers a chance to vote for higher wheat and feed grain prices in a national referendum. Lawmakers agreed to hold one more hour of debate today before voting on the measure, which has gained momentum because of the farm crisis. The referendum proposal would let wheat and corn farmers vote early next year.
The countdown proceeded today for five military officers set to ride the space shuttle Atlantis into space Thursday on a secret Defense Department mission, officials said. Pentagon and space agency officials said the countdown was going smoothly but they would not disclose the exact launching time, saying instead that the liftoff was scheduled for sometime from 10:20 AM to 1:20 PM. The secrecy is part of the Defense Department’s efforts to make it difficult for the Soviet military to monitor the shuttle takeoff and to find out the identity and mission of the payload, Pentagon officials say. Despite all the precautions, however, it has been widely reported that a primary goal of the flight is to launch a pair of $100 million military communication satellites. Designated DSCS III, for Defense Satellite Communications System, the satellites are reportedly to be stationed 22,300 miles above the earth, where they would relay messages to American military forces around the globe.
The United Transportation Union and a bargaining group representing most of the nation’s major railroads reached a tentative agreement that, if ratified, would avert a nationwide rail strike. The settlement was announced after three days of negotiations and follows a recommendation by an emergency board to phase out 8,000 union jobs. Both sides refused to say whether the pact includes such a provision. A ratification vote by the UTU rank and file is expected to take three or four weeks, according to a joint announcement by the union, the industry and the National Mediation Board. About 68,000 UTU members are affected by the current dispute, which focuses on the industry’s proposal to phase out the jobs of 5,000 firemen and 3,000 hostlers. Firemen are assistants to train engineers and hostlers move locomotives around in train yards.
Heart transplant patient Michael Drummond has shown signs of rejecting his new heart for the second time since surgery last month, but doctors are not alarmed, University Medical Center officials said in Tucson. Drummond, 25, suffered the second mild rejection episode last weekend while recovering from a lung infection, hospital spokeswoman Nina Trasoff said.
The former head of the Ku Klux Klan in California said today that he headed a “white nationalist” delegation that attended a speech in Los Angeles last month by Louis Farrakhan, leader of a Black Muslim group, and that talks between the black and white groups have been going on for a year. The former Klan leader, Thomas Metzger of San Diego, said that he and nine members of his organization attended the Farrakhan rally September 14 as guests of Mr. Farrakhan and that they contributed $100 to support the Muslim’s cause. Mr. Farrakhan, who heads the Nation of Islam, has been widely attacked in the past two years for statements that many consider anti-Semitic, among them assertions that Judaism is “a gutter religion” and that Hitler was a “great man.” The Muslim leader, who preaches on political and economic self-determination for blacks, has attracted 15,000 people to the Los Angeles speech and about 10,000 to an appearance in Washington last July, drawing heavy criticism from Jewish leaders in both cities. Prominent civil rights and political leaders in both cities were criticized by Jewish leaders as not denouncing Mr. Farrakhan’s visits in advance.
The Russian boy who refused to return to the Soviet Union with his family five years ago turns 18 today, becoming, in the words of his attorney, a “free man.” Walter Polovchak, who is living as a resident alien and attending high school in Chicago now, says he regrets that his family chose to return to its home in the Ukraine but said: “If I had to do it again, I’d do it again.”
Federal investigators said they found traces of sugar in a fuel filter of the single-engine plane that crashed Sunday in Georgia, killing 16 sky divers and the pilot. The FBI was summoned to investigate for sabotage. Earlier, the Federal Aviation Administration said the pilot killed in the Jenkinsburg, Georgia, crash ignored warnings that his aircraft’s fuel was contaminated before he took off on the doomed flight.
A popular drug for severe acne is comparable to Thalidomide in the risk it carries of causing birth defects when taken by women early in pregnancy, a major study revealed. Although it was known previously that the drug, Accutane, was dangerous to the fetus in the first three months of pregnancy, the study found that risk of major malformation is 25 times above normal.
The Supreme Court refused today to block the restarting of the undamaged nuclear reactor at Three Mile Island, which was shut down six years ago in the nation’s worst commercial nuclear accident. Within hours of the Court’s ruling, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission gave the plant’s operator, GPU Nuclear Corporation, written permission to begin taking steps to restart the Unit 1 reactor. The company planned to begin the process at 3 AM Thursday, with the restarting scheduled to take place nine to 16 hours later, a spokesman said.
The next Secretary of Health and Human Services faces difficult problems and policy decisions involving personnel vacancies and the prospect of sharp budget cuts.
The Coast Guard has taken control of efforts to clean up a 400,000-gallon oil spill threatening wetlands in New Jersey and Delaware because of fears the spill could reach Chesapeake Bay, the authorities say.
California, a state that has always been a gamble for those seeking fortune and fame, will officially broaden the chances Thursday with the introduction of a lottery. A day-long celebration will kick off what state officials say will become the nation’s biggest lottery operation. Festivities will be held in Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco and Sacramento and will include activities from hot-air balloon rides to free concerts to a gala show with celebrities at the Hollywood Bowl, followed by fireworks. The California lottery, officially called the California Jackpot, is arriving not by way of the State Legislature but by popular vote. A voter-initiated referendum proposing the lottery was passed in November 1984. There was some opposition from the police and prosecutors, who feared fraud and the infiltration of the game by organized crime.
Rock Hudson, the actor whose year-long battle with AIDS focused worldwide attention on the incurable disease, died in his sleep at his Los Angeles home at the age of 59.
Major League Baseball:
The Mets lurched one giant stride closer to first place tonight when Dwight Gooden pitched them to a 5–2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. Suddenly, after two straight nights of bristling pitching and defense, there they stood -only one game back with four to play in a pennant race whirling toward some grand and melodramatic finish. The 20-year-old master was not at his overpowering best, but he was plenty good enough. He stopped the Cardinals on nine hits, struck out 10 batters, pitched his 16th complete game and won his 24th of the season against four defeats. And he did it against Joaquin Andujar, a 21-game winner who had not lost to the Mets in more than a year but who left this time in the seventh inning, four runs down. St. Louis Cardinals Joaquin Andujar facing New York Met Dwight Gooden marked the first time two 20-game winners met during the regular season since September, 1970. Gooden will become the seventh pitcher in baseball history to finish the season leading both leagues in wins (24), ERA (1.53), and strikeouts (268). Doc joins Walter Johnson (Senators – 1913), Grover Cleveland Alexander (Phillies – 1915, 1917), Dazzy Vance (Dodgers – 1924), Lefty Grove (A’s -1930, 1931), Hal Newhouser (Tigers – 1945), and Sandy Koufax (Dodgers – 1963, 1965, 1966) in winning the major league pitching triple crown, but he will not follow the six legends into the Hall of Fame.
Even before Orel Hershiser won his 11th consecutive game tonight, a 9–3 victory over the Atlanta Braves, the Los Angeles Dodgers became the first major league team to capture a division title this season. The Dodgers were assured the National League West title, their third in the last five years, during the course of their game when the Padres beat the second-place Cincinnati Reds, 5–4, in San Diego. Hershiser (19–3), unbeaten since July 7, limited the Braves to four hits and one run, striking out seven in six innings. He and most of the other Dodger regulars were taken out of the contest after the Padres-Reds result was announced.
The San Diego Padres, with Carmelo Martinez hitting a tie-breaking home run in the eighth inning, defeated Cincinnati 5–4 Wednesday night, eliminating the Reds from the National League West race and clinching the division title for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Martinez’s solo homer, his 20th of the year, came on a 3–2 delivery by Tom Hume, 3–5, working in relief of starter Tom Browning, who was seeking his 12th consecutive victory. Rich Gossage, 5–3, worked the final two innings to gain the victory. The Padres scored a run in the first inning on Tony Gwynn’s walk and Steve Garvey’s double. San Diego added two more runs in the fourth on Bruce Bochy’s two run homer to make it 3–0.
The Astros thumped the Giants, 7–2. Jim Pankovits’ leadoff homer touched off a four-run eighth-inning rally for Houston. The Astros, trailing 2–1 entering the inning, knotted the score when Pankovits ripped a 1–2 pitch over the left-center field fence off reliever Mark Davis.
The Expos and Phillies split a twinbill. Charles Hudson pitched a six-hitter and drove in a run as Philadelphia ended an 11-game losing streak with a 3–2 victory over Montreal in the second game of a double-header. Tim Raines had two hits, stole three bases and scored two runs, while Bryn Smith and Jeff Reardon combined on a five-hitter to lead the Expos to a 3–1 victory in the first game.
The Pirates topped the Cubs, 9–4. Johnny Ray crushed a three-run homer with two outs in the top of the sixth inning to cap a four-run rally and lead Pittsburgh. Ray’s homer, his first since July 11, helped starter Rick Rhoden win his 10th game against 14 losses. Cecilio Guante pitched the last four innings to earn his fifth save.
After Ted Higuera stopped the Yankees’ 11-game winning streak by pitching a six-hitter against them in Milwaukee, Billy Martin gave the rookie credit for pitching well but proclaimed the Yankees would beat on him “like a drum” in New York. Higuera pitched against the Yankees in New York last night and the Yankees failed to make good on Martin’s promise, prediction or predilection. Instead, Higuera virtually pitched the Yankees out of the division race with Toronto. The 26-year-old left-hander pitched a six-hit shutout as the Brewers won, 1–0, scoring the run against Bob Shirley on Randy Ready’s fly-ball triple that just eluded the outstretched glove of Dave Winfield, who hurtled through the air trying to snare the ball. The Blue Jays lost to Detroit, 4–2, but they moved further out of reach nevertheless. They retained their four-game lead, and now the teams have only five games to play. The Yankees would have to win every one of those five and the Blue Jays lose their five for the Yankees to win the American League East championship outright. If nothing else, the Blue Jays need only to win one of the three games they play against the Yankees in Toronto this weekend to end the race that the Yankees had made exciting once again by winning six consecutive games.
Darrell Evans and Kirk Gibson hit home runs to back the five-hit pitching of Jack Morris and Chuck Cary as Detroit beat Toronto, 4–2. Evans became the first player ever to hit 40 home runs in both the American and the National Leagues when he belted No. 40 off Dave Stieb leading off the Detroit sixth. Evans, 38 years old, hit 41 homers for the Atlanta Braves in 1973. Evans also became the oldest player to hit 40 home runs in the American League. Hank Aaron was the oldest player to hit 40 home runs in the National League: He hit 40 for the Braves in 1973 when he was 39 years old.
One more day went by, and there are still no takers for the American League West title. So California and Kansas City, tied for the eighth time in 14 days and staggering toward the finish, will take their series to its final game. The Royals received help from an unexpected source tonight. Bud Black, whose season has been marked by a series of unsatisfying performances, pitched a three-hit shutout and beat the Angels, 4–0. His offensive support came from George Brett, who hit an inside-the-park home run in the first inning that accounted for three runs. Black needed nothing more.
The Indians routed the Mariners, 12–2. Mike Hargrove went 4 for 4, with three singles and a double, and Andre Thornton hit a two-run homer as Cleveland rode a six-run fourth inning to victory.
The Twins downed the White Sox, 3–1. Minnesota’s Frank Viola pitched a three-hitter to win his fifth consecutive game by beating Chicago rookie Joel Davis. Viola, 18–14, struck out five and walked none for his fourth straight complete game and ninth of the season. Viola faced 28 batters, only one over the minimum.
The Oakland A’s crushed the Texas Rangers, 14–3. Mike Davis, Steve Henderson, Mike Heath and Steve Kiefer hit home runs as Oakland backed up Bill Kreuger’s five-hit pitching with a 20-hit attack. Heath also had three singles, batted in two runs and scored three times. Davis and Tony Phillips each had three hits, and Davis also scored three runs and drove in two.
The game between the Boston Red Sox and the Baltimore Orioles at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore is postponed due to rain. It will be made up tomorrow.
Commissioner Peter Ueberroth makes it clear that Seattle is in self-imposed jeopardy of losing the Mariners, citing there is no requirement for the team to stay in their present location if they are not wanted for the long term. The Commissioner is referring to the King County Council’s attempt to modify an agreement based on attendance made with owner George Argyros concerning the team’s ability to exercise an ‘escape clause’ after the 1987 season.
The Galbreath family and Warner Communications sell the Pirates to the Pittsburgh Associates, a consortium of Pittsburgh officials and local businesses committed to keeping the team in the City of Bridges. At the time, New Orleans and Portland were making attractive offers to bring the franchise, which was doing poorly on-and-off the field, to their respective cities.
Pittsburgh Pirates 9, Chicago Cubs 4
Seattle Mariners 2, Cleveland Indians 12
Toronto Blue Jays 2, Detroit Tigers 4
California Angels 0, Kansas City Royals 4
Atlanta Braves 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 9
Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 3
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Montreal Expos 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Montreal Expos 2
Milwaukee Brewers 1, New York Yankees 0
Cincinnati Reds 4, San Diego Padres 5
Houston Astros 7, San Francisco Giants 2
New York Mets 5, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Oakland Athletics 14, Texas Rangers 3
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1333.67 (-7.28)
Born:
Brandon Jackson, NFL running back (NFL Champions, Suer Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Green Bay Packers, Cleveland Browns), in Detroit, Michigan.
Craig Davis, NFL wide receiver (San Diego Chargers), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Died:
Rock Hudson, 59, American actor (“Pillow Talk”, “A Farewell to Arms”, “Ice Station Zebra”), of AIDS-related complications.
(Georgios) “George” Savalas, 58, Greek-American actor (“Kojak”; “Kelly’s Heroes”), of leukemia.
Sidney Clute, 69, American actor (“Lou Grant”; “Cagney & Lacey”).
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