Mikhail S. Gorbachev returned today from a four-day visit to Paris that seemed as striking to the Russians as it did to the West Europeans. Evening television showed Mr. Gorbachev at the airport here smiling broadly, with obvious satisfaction, as he was met by President Andrei A. Gromyko and other Soviet leaders. The airport welcome, usually a cold and formal ritual, was unusually animated as fellow Politburo members crowded around Mr. Gorbachev and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze, all talking and laughing. The scene seemed to reflect a sense in the Kremlin that the Soviet leader’s first foray into the West had been a grand success. For four days, the Soviet press and television had been dominated by images of the Soviet leader forcefully setting out his ideas to French legislators and to the world press, racing about Paris in glittering motorcades, saluted by guards outside sumptuous chateaus, honored by French leaders.
After a long stretch of aging and often ill leaders whose trips abroad were viewed by many average Russians as something of an embarrassment, Mr. Gorbachev’s closely covered debut in Paris seemed to bring Russians pride and satisfaction. Western diplomats agreed that Mr. Gorbachev had been successful on a personal level with his style. But they said it would take some time to judge his diplomatic and political initiatives. Mr. Gorbachev’s voyage to Paris, six weeks in advance of his scheduled summit meeting with President Reagan in Geneva, was widely thought to be an effort to open a “second front” of Western European public opinion against Washington’s space-weapons programs. Mr. Gorbachev detailed an arms offer made earlier in the week in Geneva; offered to negotiate arms pacts separately with France and Britain, and asserted that the Soviet Union had cut its medium-range missiles targeted on Europe. President Francois Mitterrand declined to put his public opposition to Washington’s “Star Wars” program into a joint communique with Mr. Gorbachev, and both he and the British declined separate talks.
Portuguese will vote today in an election for 250 parliamentary seats and an opportunity to replace Prime Minister Mario Soares. The election will be for the 16th government in the 11 years since democracy was re-established in the country. Three weeks of campaigning ended Friday night for the 11 parties battling for 250 parliamentary seats and a chance to replace Prime Minister Mario Soares, a Socialist. The publication of opinion polls during the campaign is banned, but private polls and political analysts indicate that no one party or likely coalition will win a parliamentary majority.
An Athens court judge has ruled that Greek President Christos Sartzetakis is holding office illegally, but the government is expected to appeal the verdict. Ruling on a routine assault case, Presiding Judge Sotirios Katsaros said he could not enforce a law bearing the signature of a president who is “in office unconstitutionally.” The ruling is expected to rekindle the controversy over the Socialist president’s election by the Greek Parliament last month, when the opposition conservative New Democracy Party charged that voters were denied ballot secrecy.
Negotiations between the British and Irish Governments to try to find a political solution to the problems of Northern Ireland have reached a critical stage, according to British Government sources. Still under discussion are Dublin’s demands for changes in the criminal justice system in the North, changes that would be politically difficult for the British to grant. Under the Northern Ireland system, a single judge may hear cases involving charges of terrorism without a jury. The Irish Republic allows nonjury trials in such circumstances but has three judges on the bench. Dublin wants judges from the Republic to hear cases in the North, possibly as members of a panel.
Club-wielding police in Frankfurt, West Germany, fought leftist demonstrators who threw bottles and attacked patrol vehicles in the downtown shopping district. Several injuries were reported. Rioting was touched off in 16 West German cities during the past week after the death of a leftist during a violent Frankfurt protest over a neo-Nazi meeting.
A migration of Arab workers is under way throughout the Middle East. The migration is sparked by the end of the decade-long oil boom. More than a million workers are leaving countries where they have been employed in the Middle East to return to their homes. Officials say the development holds potentially grave consequences for economic and political stability and for United States interests in the region. These sources said that the projected return home of 1 million to 1.5 million migrant workers by the end of 1986 and a sharp decline in the money the workers send home would be of particular concern in the region’s poorer countries, including Egypt and Jordan. Officials said they were also concerned that large numbers of frustrated, unemployed workers who once enjoyed high incomes and even higher expectations may be increasingly drawn to Islamic fundamentalism or other forms of political extremism.
Yasser Arafat, the head of the Palestine Liberation Organization, accused President Reagan today of complicity in what he said was a plot to assassinate him, and he warned that United States policy in the Middle East, with “its arrogance of power,” would lead not to peace but to “more oppression, more terrorism and more assassinations.” At the same time, he said that the “peace process would go on.” Mr. Arafat said the United States, because of what he called its involvement in the attack — an air strike that virtually destroyed the P.L.O. offices here last Tuesday — had lost whatever credibility it had had in the region and bore part of the responsibility for the deaths of “innocent Palestinians and Tunisians.” The latest reports said 50 Palestinians and 22 Tunisians were killed in the attack, which was carried out by Israeli F-15’s carrying bombs and air-to-ground missiles.
A delegation from a Syrian-based Palestinian guerrilla group has reportedly told the Soviet Union that Muslim extremists who kidnapped four Soviet Embassy men here and killed one of them are allies of Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The assertion was made by a delegation representing the Palestine National Salvation Front when it called on the Soviet charge d’affaires here, Yuri Suslikov, on Friday, the daily An Nida reported today. The newspaper is the organ of the Lebanese Communist Party and is known to be close to the Soviet Embassy.
The State Department said today that it still has “no independent confirmation” of reports from Beirut that William Buckley, an American diplomat, had been executed. The department, a spokesman said, knows of “absolutely no change” relating to the captivity of Mr. Buckley, the 57-year-old official who was abducted in March 1984.
Iraq said today that its warplanes had hit Kharg Island for the third time in three days, the 21st raid since Iraq began a drive August 15 to close the vital Iranian oil terminal. A military spokesman said the attack, less than 12 hours after the previous reported strike, was aimed at keeping Kharg Island out of service. Iraq has repeatedly said that the terminal in the northern Persian Gulf has been “reduced to ashes.” Oil and shipping industry sources say the raids have clearly hampered Iran’s ability to export its oil. Iranian officials say Iran is still able to meet all its commitments for oil exports.
The Thai Army issued a report Friday intended to quash rumors that high-ranking officers on active duty were involved in an abortive coup September 9. The report purports to give an account of the activities at the time of General Arthit Kamlang-ek, the supreme commander, who was in Europe when the coup was attempted. The rebellion was put down in a day by loyal officers. The army’s internal report has no judicial standing. A police commission is still conducting a criminal investigation into the incident. Several dozen people have already been arrested by the police. The army published the paper, it said, “to counter rumors and leaflets which attacked the army and some general, and to correct the facts.” Unsigned leaflets have been circulating in Bangkok suggesting that General Arthit, a critic in the past of the government of Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda, was behind the coup plot. The army report says that, on the contrary, General Arthit took command of the situation from abroad, and issued orders while returning to Thailand.
James A. Baker 3rd urged the creation of a $5 billion lending fund to help third world countries at a meeting in Seoul, Korea with representatives of five major industrialized nations. The fund wanted by the Treasury Secretary would be created from existing resources of the International Monetary fund and World Bank to help the poorest countries, officials said. Finance ministers from five major industrial nations meeting in Seoul, South Korea, discussed progress in reducing the value of the U.S. dollar and proposals to help Third World countries deal with debt crises. The delegates from the United States, Britain, France, West Germany and Japan will join their counterparts from other countries in Seoul this week for the annual session of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank on strengthening international lending programs.
Japan Air Lines and the Seattle-based Boeing Co. will split compensation payments to relatives of the 520 people killed in the worst single plane crash in history August 12, the airline announced. JAL spokesman Geoffrey Tudor said in Tokyo that the precise amount had not been agreed on but that it will be shared “50-50.” A Boeing statement said talks on compensation will proceed without waiting for the official investigation to determine the cause of the crash of the Boeing 747.
Military officials said today that special anti-insurgency forces had killed 30 rebels and seized several weapons in an ambush on the southern island of Mindanao. Col. Ernesto Calupig, head of the army’s special airborne forces based in Zamboanga, said two regional commanders of the rebel New People’s Army were among the casualties of the attack Thursday. Colonel Calupig said the army squad, backed by militia fighters, opened fire from the roadside as a truck packed with rebels passed through the hamlet of Dichon in Davao Oriental Province, 650 miles south of Manila. Thirty guerrillas were reported killed in the 45-minute exchange of gunfire and several firearms were taken. On the same day, rebels of the New People’s Army ambushed a military convoy in Zamboanga del Norte Province, also on Mindanao, killing 21 soldiers and wounding 10.
Prime Minister David Lange has suggested in a major speech that New Zealand’s antinuclear policy will take precedence over its military alliance with the United States. The speech, in which he took his strongest position yet in a long-running dispute with Washington involving the Anzus alliance, whose third member is Australia, has also stirred a sharp debate in this country’s newspapers. “If the Anzus treaty requires us to accept nuclear weapons,” Mr. Lange said in the speech last week, “then it is the treaty which is the obstacle to the maintenance of good relations between New Zealand and the United States.” He said that if the Anzus pact, signed in 1952, required the presence of American nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed ships in New Zealand’s ports, “then the price is too high.”
The environmentalist vessel Greenpeace arrived off the French nuclear test site of Mururoa Atoll in French Polynesia amid tight surveillance by the French military. It linked up with four yachts from New Zealand that sailed to Mururoa to join the protest against French nuclear testing. The Greenpeace, flagship of the environmental-activist group of the same name, replaces the Rainbow Warrior, blown up July 10 by French agents in New Zealand. Disclosure of the attack has rocked the French government.
Rescuers working in the earthquake rubble of a small apartment building here abandoned today their attempt to rescue a 9-year-old boy believed trapped in the bedroom where he was sleeping when the earthquake struck 17 days ago. “There exists no possibility of life,” said an engineer, Julian Aved, after rescuers using sensitive sound equipment spent two hours crawling through tunnels in the rubble, listening for sounds from the boy. Earlier, for the first time, the rescuers had used heavy construction equipment to remove some of the rubble covering the site. But after several hours, they stopped and, calling for absolute silence in the streets surrounding the apartment building, listened for sounds with special equipment.
Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte told his daughter’s kidnappers that he is ready to release 22 guerrillas in return for the release of his daughter, Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, her friend, and 23 Salvadoran mayors being held by leftist guerrillas. Duarte told the kidnapers of his proposal in a shortwave radio conversation with them that was intercepted by reporters. The president’s daughter and her friend, Anna Cecilia Villeda, 23, were kidnaped September 10, and Duarte has been personally negotiating with her abductors by radio.
Thirty-four inmates were killed during an uprising in Peru’s biggest prison, and hundreds of police cordoned off the facility as thousands of prisoners rioted over the deaths. About 300 jailed members of the Sendero Luminoso (“Shining Path”) guerrilla movement touched off the violence by taking over their wing of the San Pedro prison, 15 miles northeast of Lima. Police stormed the section, and in a three-hour struggle, four inmates were shot to death and 30 suffocated from burning mattresses.
Almost two years before his body was found on a beach near Rio de Janeiro in late 1982, a magazine publisher noted in his personal papers that “my physical extinction has been decided by the National Information Service,” Brazil’s main intelligence agency. But even when newspapers, in February 1983, published excerpts of these documets suggesting a vast network of intrigue involving top army officers, Brazil’s military Government succeeded in smothering any investigation. Once the Government left power this March, however, the cover-up fell apart. An experienced detective was put on the case, a key witness appeared and now a retired general, Newton Cruz, has been charged with killing the publisher, Alexandre von Baumgarten, along with his wife and a boatman who accompanied them on a fishing trip.
Dr. Wendy Orr, a South African district surgeon who revealed widespread police brutality against political detainees, has been given “other duties” so that she may no longer enter prisons to see people held under South Africa’s state of emergency, according to her father. Dr. Orr’s father, the Rev. Robert Orr, said she had been assigned to new duties in the Port Elizabeth district surgeon’s office and no longer saw detainees. A spokesman for the National Health Service denied that Dr. Orr had been formally banned from entering prisons, but her father said, “She has been removed from her normal duties — attending to detainees and prisoners — although she has not officially been told that she has been banned from entering prisons.”
Two more deaths were reported overnight as disturbances continued in black townships across South Africa, where more than 730 people have died in 20 months of unrest. In Soweto, near Johannesburg, a black policeman was burned to death when his home was gasoline-bombed by a crowd, and in the same township a soldier shot and killed a man in a car who failed to stop at a roadblock.
The Supreme Court begins its new term Monday facing several major issues and an aggressive push by the Reagan administration for far-reaching changes in the law. Affirmative action, abortion, gerrymandering and the Voting Rights Act are among the politically charged issues the Court has agreed to consider. The Administration has filed briefs urging the Court to abandon its precedents legalizing abortion, to outlaw court-ordered and governmental plans that give racial minorities preference in employment, and to reverse lower court findings that the rights of blacks had been violated in major cases involving voting and jury selection.
Thousands of abortion opponents picketed hospitals in 300 cities in the Pastors’ Protest Against Abortion, organized by the Christian Action Council of Falls Church, Virginia, to precede the opening of the U.S. Supreme Court session Monday. Two cases the justices have accepted involve restrictions on women’s right to abortions in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Also, the Justice Department is asking the court to reverse its Roe vs. Wade decision of 1973, which struck down abortion prohibitions. About 100 protesters in Santa Monica exhibited the remains from three abortions.
President Reagan makes a Radio Address to the Nation on the federal budget and the Middle East.
President Reagan goes horseback riding at Camp David.
The crew of Atlantis conducted classified experiments and tested the brand new space shuttle as their military mission continued under a tight curtain of secrecy. For the second day, reporters heard no official word from or about the spaceship or the crew. Although most of the experiments have military applications, NASA reported there is one aboard that is not secret. It is a device to study damage that might be done to biological materials by cosmic rays.
As five military officers on the space shuttle Atlantis orbit the earth on a secret mission, a debate is growing in the United States over how much secrecy is necessary in the civilian-run space program and what the military’s role in it should be. Proponents of an expanded role for the Defense Department say the United States needs to counter a growing Soviet threat in space. They say the Soviet Union conducts four to five times as many space launching a year as the United States, with the vast majority of missions devoted to military objectives. Soviet military officers have, all together, logged years in space, they say, while the American military has logged days. Secrecy is essential, they add, to the success of the Defense Department’s space activities.
Senator Barry Goldwater attacked the way the American military is run in a series of speeches designed to prepare the way for a massive staff report from his Senate Armed Forces Committee. Mr. Goldwater, the chairman of the committee and the panel’s senior Democrat, Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, portrayed the military as a confusion of competing factions, quarreling over money in peacetime and tripping over one another other in battle. “If we have to fight tomorrow, these problems will cause Americans to die unnecessarily,” Mr. Goldwater said. “Even more, they may cause us to lose the fight.”
There were some odd things about Edward L. Howard, a 34-year-old financial forecaster for the State of New Mexico, but to the people he worked with he was the quintessential bureaucrat, a bit laconic, perhaps, but smart, wise in government affairs and hard-working. “Basically, as far as the guy is concerned, he was real nice, got along with the staff, did a good job, sang happy birthday at occasional office parties along with everybody else,” said his former chief, Phil Baca, director of the Legislative Finance Committee for the New Mexico Legislature. The odd things were that he made occasional telephone calls from a coin phone halfway around the rotunda from his office and he was involved in a shooting scrape a year and a half ago, for which he was put on probation. He was treated for alcohol abuse, and in Washington, a Congressional source said Mr. Howard was asked to leave the Central Intelligence Agency in 1983 after a polygraph, or lie-detector, test suggested he had taken drugs and had engaged in petty theft. Mr. Howard had been an employee of the agency for two years before moving here to work in July 1983.
Nearly half of Cornell University’s science, engineering and computer science professors have decided not to take part in research on the Reagan Administration’s “Star Wars” program. Valerie Thomas, spokesman for the activist November 11th Committee, said that among the 128 of 258 faculty members who pledged not to do the research are Hans Bethe, a Nobel Prize winner, and Carl Sagan, the astronomer.
A former space scientist accused of war crimes has told the Justice Department he was aware that slave laborers he had forced to build Nazi rockets in World War II were dying of poor treatment, transcripts of an interrogation show. The transcripts of the interrogation of the German scientist, Arthur Rudolph, obtained by the World Jewish Congress, also disclosed that he said he had asked for slave laborers at the factory where he directed the production of rockets for Hitler in World War II. Mr. Rudolph, a key figure at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in the United States Saturn 5 spacecraft program, negotiated a deal with the Justice Department in 1983 and voluntarily left the United States in March 1984 for Hamburg, West Germany. The transcript of his interrogation was sealed as part of the deal, a spokesman for the Jewish organization said.
The University of Illinois at Urbana said it will build a $50-million research institute where scientists from many fields will focus on the processes of the human brain and how they might apply to computers. Their work may lead to a better understanding of how learning occurs and how machines can be made to learn. They will focus also on developments in medicine and factory automation, more powerful computers and improved air traffic control. The institute was made possible by a $40-million gift by industrialist Arnold Beckman, believed to be the largest gift by an individual to a public university.
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, wounded Friday night in a shootout with a robbery suspect, died today in Phoenix. The agent, Robin Ahrens, became the first woman in the bureau to be killed in the line of duty. The police said she had been shot in the face by a fellow agent. Herb Hawkins, the agent in charge in the bureau’s Phoenix office, said Miss Ahrens,33 years old, a former teacher, was shot as agents closed in to arrest Kenneth Don Barrett, 27, at an apartment complex. Mr. Barrett had been sought in the robbery of an armored car driver and the wounding of a police officer.
A Florida medical examiner’s decision to give the brains of executed prisoners to University of Florida researchers sparked an investigation by state authorities. Lori Naslund of the medical examiner’s office said the prisoners’ families had not given permission, as state law requires in all organ donations. She said Christiana Leonard, a university researcher, several years ago began obtaining the brains from the medical examiner, William Hamilton.
Former President Richard M. Nixon does not have to reimburse the government for the security system it installed at his estate in Saddle River, New Jersey, because it has not increased the value of the property, the government decided. Nixon opted last month to drop the Secret Service protection he is allowed as a former President. Former Presidents are required to reimburse the government for any improvements the Secret Service might have made on their residence after protection of the house is terminated.
Teachers returned to work at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus in New York, ending a four-day walkout after reaching agreement with administrators on tenure policies. Union spokeswoman Esther Hyneman said the teachers wanted contract terms “equivalent” to those granted at the university’s C. W. Post campus, which guarantees 61% of its faculty will be tenured. Hyneman said about 56% of the Brooklyn campus’s faculty is tenured. Elsewhere, more than 44,000 college and public school students were affected by strikes in Illinois and Pennsylvania.
Financial problems have overtaken the ailing steel towns of the Monongahela Valley. The city of Clairton, Pennsylvania has laid off its entire 14-man police force and its five-person clerical staff and has turned off many street lights in an attempt to balance its books and persuade banks to renew its credit. Like other municipalities in the so-called rust belt, it has fallen victim to the severe depression in the country’s steel industry.
A Mormon official warned church members today not to criticize the faith’s leaders or its doctrines, and said there would always be attacks by outside critics. The leader, Elder George P. Lee of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, made the comments at the church’s 155th Semiannual General Conference. The comments referred to increased outside criticism of the church and writings discovered by Mormon scholars indicating that the church’s founder, Joseph Smith, was obsessed with folk magic and buried treasure. Mr. Lee is a member of a high-ranking body of full-time clergy who help administer the church. The church president, Spencer W. Kimball, attended the conference, making his first public appearance in months. Mr. Kimball, 90 years old, who has been in poor health since having surgery in 1981 to remove fluid from his brain, did not give a speech. Nearly 6,000 people attended the conference session in the Tabernacle on Temple Square.
On the streets of a Chicago uptown neighborhood, he was known as Donald Crenshaw, a grizzled, unemployed worker who haunted storefront clinics and pharmacies in search of powerful narcotic cough syrups. But at the end of the day he traded his ragged clothes for pinstripes and button-down collars and emerged as State Senator Prescott Bloom, who played a role in a state undercover investigation of Medicaid fraud. In an interview Monday, Mr. Bloom gave the first detailed account of his part in the investigation, in which he posed as a welfare recipient to enter clinics and pharmacies suspected of billing the state for shoddy or nonexistent care.
A 77-year-old man strangled his wife out of love for her and is innocent of murder because he is insane, a California county judge has ruled. Judge Lawrence Antolini of the Sonoma County Superior Court made the ruling at a hearing Friday and ordered the man, Ralph Bergner, to be examined by county mental health officials before an October 25 hearing to determine his future. Mr. Bergner had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Jan. 11 death of his wife, Clorette, 79, after she came home from a hospital after breaking her hip.
Grambling’s Eddie Robinson wins record 324th football game.
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The Toronto Blue Jays won the American League East championship with a 5–1 win over the New York Yankees at Exhibition Stadium. Doyle Alexander pitched a complete game, allowing only five hits. Shrugging off their stunning loss 17 hours earlier and holding off the Yankees’ third charge in the last three months, the Toronto Blue Jays sent an entire nation soaring into ecstasy today by winning the American League East championship for the first time in their nine-year history. The Yankees, picked by some to finish as low as fifth in the highly competitive division, tried at the last minute to snatch the crown that the Blue Jays had all but placed on their Royal Canadian heads. But the Blue Jays thwarted the effort by breezing behind Doyle Alexander to a victory that made Sunday’s season-ending game meaningless. The Blue Jays, who finished last the first five years of their existence, thus became the fifth different team in five seasons to win the American League East championship, following the Yankees, Milwaukee, Baltimore and Detroit. They will open the four-of-seven-game American League championship series here Tuesday night against the Royals, the Western Division winner.
The Kansas City Royals defeated the Oakland Athletics, 5–4, in 10 innings, to clinch the American League West title. The Royals, saving their biggest comeback of the season for their biggest night, clinched their sixth Western Division championship in the last 10 years tonight with the victory over the Oakland A’s. It was the second straight year Kansas City has clinched the West with a victory over Oakland, and the triumph sent the Royals into the American League championship series against the Blue Jays beginning Tuesday night in Toronto. The Royals rallied to win from a four-run deficit for the first time this season. They scored five runs from the sixth inning on to win their fourth consecutive game, leaving the California Angels two games out with only one to play. With one out in the 10th, Pat Sheridan doubled off Jay Howell (9–8). Greg Pryor, a .211 hitter who entered the game in the ninth as a defensive replacement, singled off the glove of Howell to put runners on first and third. One out later, Willie Wilson lined Howell’s second pitch off the pitcher’s glove and into center field to score Sheridan and give the Royals the division title. Dan Quisenberry (8–9) held Oakland to two singles over the final three innings.
The Angels beat the Rangers, 3–1. Reggie Jackson slammed a two-run homer and Doug DeCinces added a base-empty homer to give California the victory over Texas. California starter John Candelaria, 7-3, who scattered five hits through five innings and walked three, got the victory. The triumph temporarily kept alive the Angels’ pennant hopes, but California was eliminated when the Royals beat the A’s.
The Orioles edged the Tigers, 7–6. A two-run homer by Gary Roenicke in the bottom of the ninth inning lifted Baltimore. Detroit had gone ahead in the top of the ninth on Lance Parrish’s second homer of the game.
The Brewers beat the Red Sox, 3–2. Ed Romero drove in two runs with a bases-loaded double with one out in the ninth inning.
The White Sox thumped the Mariners, 10–4. Pinch-hitter Scott Fletcher’s two-run single capped a five-run fifth inning as Chicago rolled over Seattle. Floyd Bannister, 10–14, was the winner and Bob James pitched the final three innings to earn his 31st save
The Twins topped the Indians, 8–2. Bert Blyleven pitched a six-hitter for his 24th complete game of the season, tops in the American League, and surpassed 200 strikeouts for the seventh time in his career.
The St. Louis Cardinals clinch the National League East title with a 7–1 win over the Chicago Cubs. The Cardinals turned to their most reliable pitcher, the left-hander John Tudor, to clinch the title. He was more than reliable, giving up four hits, inducing 15 ground outs and retiring 16 of the Cubs’ last 17 batters. The Cardinals’ 101st victory — the most since they won 101 in 1967 — was not decided until the latter stages of the game. The Cards scored two runs in the sixth, seventh and eighth, although it might have been a magnificent defensive grab by Smith that provided the impetus. The play came on a one-hopper hit by Ron Cey with one out in the fifth. Smith stopped the ball with a horizontal dive, rose to his feet and threw out Cey by a step. The Cardinals scored three of their runs on sacrifice flies by Smith, Cesar Cedeno and Herr. Cedeno added a home run to left that made it 5-1 in the seventh, and run-scoring singles by Vince Coleman and McGee in the eighth merely gave Tudor a cushion he didn’t need.
The great chase finally came to an end for the Mets this afternoon in two cities nearly 900 miles apart, and it came to an end with 45,404 people rising in Shea Stadium and roaring a standing ovation to the team that finished second. On the next-to-last day of the baseball season, the chase ended when the Mets were beaten by the Montreal Expos, 8–3, while in St. Louis the Cardinals were overpowering the Chicago Cubs, 7-1. The Cardinals thereby clinched the Eastern Division championship of the National League and will meet the Los Angeles Dodgers in the playoff for the pennant next Wednesday night. And the Mets finished second for the second year in a row. The Mets were still playing the eighth inning when the scoreboard flashed the final score from St. Louis. It evoked an extraordinary response: The crowd rose and cheered and chanted for the men of the Mets, and kept cheering as though to say: Thanks for the memory. On the field, the pursuit ended early. The Expos took the lead in the first inning when Andre Dawson hit a two-run home run off Ron Darling, and they protected it through six innings of powerful pitching by the rookie Floyd Youmans. But to the fans, once the Mets’ fate was fixed, it was time to celebrate a summer of adventure rather than to mourn a day of defeat.
The Dodgers beat the Reds, 3–1. Greg Brock singled home one run and scored another in the fourth inning for Los Angeles. Winner Bob Welch, 14–4, gave up nine hits, struck out eight and walked one in eight innings as he continued his domination of the Reds, whom he’s beaten eight times in a row.
The Pirates swept two from the Phillies, winning, 4–2 and 5–0. Rookie Mike Bielecki pitched a three-hitter for seven-plus innings and Johnny Ray knocked in four runs as the Pittsburgh Pirates swept a doubleheader. Left-hander Larry McWilliams, making his first start in over two months, pitched seven strong innings in the opener.
The Astros pummeled the Padres, 9–3. Alan Ashby hit a grand slam home run and Jose Cruz hit a solo homer and RBI double to help Nolan Ryan gain his first victory since August 28.
The Giants topped the Braves, 7–1. Left-hander Vida Blue fired a five-hitter for his 199th major-league victory. Blue, 8–8, held the Braves hitless until pinch-hitter Al Hall singled with one out in the sixth.
Detroit Tigers 6, Baltimore Orioles 7
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Boston Red Sox 2
Seattle Mariners 4, Chicago White Sox 10
Oakland Athletics 4, Kansas City Royals 5
Cincinnati Reds 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Cleveland Indians 2, Minnesota Twins 8
Montreal Expos 8, New York Mets 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Houston Astros 9, San Diego Padres 3
Atlanta Braves 1, San Francisco Giants 7
Chicago Cubs 1, St. Louis Cardinals 7
California Angels 3, Texas Rangers 1
New York Yankees 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Born:
Nicola Roberts, English pop singer (Girls Aloud — “Sound of the Inderground”, “Jump”), in Stamford, England, United Kingdom.
Shawn Nelson, NFL tight end (Buffalo Bills), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Died:
Brian Keenan, 42, American rock drummer (The Chamber Brothers), of a heart attack.
Karl Menger, 83, Austrian-American mathematician (dimension theory).
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