The United States said today that a body found on the Syrian coast had been “positively identified” as that of Leon Klinghoffer of New York, a passenger on a hijacked Italian cruise ship. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said Mr. Klinghoffer’s body showed “indications of two gunshot wounds, one in the head and the other in the back.” This seemed to confirm earlier reports by passengers and crew of the ship, the Achille Lauro, that Mr. Klinghoffer, who had been in a wheelchair, had been shot twice by one of the gunmen and was then thrown overboard when the ship was off the Syrian port of Tartus on October 8. In Jerusalem, Israeli military sources said that Mr. Klinghoffer had been shot by the youngest of the four gunmen, and that the hijackers then ordered a Portuguese waiter and the ship’s barber to lift the body over the side along with the wheelchair.
Italy’s Government collapsed and Prime Minister Bettino Craxi was expected to announce his resignation today. The critical situation developed after Defense Minister Giovanni Spadolini and two other members of his small Republican Party withdrew from the five-party Cabinet to protest the government’s handling of the hijacking of the cruise liner Achille Lauro and Italy’s decision to release a Palestinian leader sought by the United States. Mr. Spadolini’s announcement set off a storm of reaction and late-night meetings among the coalition partners. Besides the Republicans and the Socialists, the Cabinet consists of the Christian Democrats, Italy’s largest party, and the small Liberal and Social Democratic Parties. In theory, the Government would command a small majority in Parliament without the Republicans, but it seemed unlikely that the coalition could carry on.
Soviet President Andrei A. Gromyko warned a group of American lawmakers and aerospace officials that the Kremlin will reject all U.S.-Soviet cooperation in space while Washington pursues its “Star Wars” space-based missile defense program. Responding to several proposals from the American visitors, Gromyko said “that the United States would have to back off of militarization of space,” according to Rep. Bill Nelson (D-Florida). Nelson, head of the 39-member delegation, chairs the House subcommittee on space science and applications. Gromyko made the remarks at a 22-hour Kremlin session with the group.
The Soviet Union violated international law 40 years ago when it seized Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat credited with saving thousands of Jews from extermination by the Nazis, U.S. District Judge Barrington D. Parker ruled in Washington. The judge entered a default judgment against the Soviet Union in a suit filed by Wallenberg’s relatives, who sought either Wallenberg’s release from the Soviet Union or, if he is dead, the return of his remains and $39 million in damages. When the suit was filed last year, the Soviets returned all documents to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow with a note asserting immunity.
The Soviet Government newspaper Izvestia said today that at least 8,000 people were left homeless by an earthquake that struck the Soviet Central Asian republic of Tadzhikistan on Sunday. Izvestia gave no death toll, but its description of the quake’s impact on a carpet-making factory in the town of Kairakkum, east of Leninabad, suggested that the figure was high.
Spain launched its first land reform in more than 50 years when a Socialist regional government expropriated 12 unproductive estates in the poorest part of the country. “This is the first real attempt to redistribute the land,” said Miguel Manaute, agricultural counselor in southern Andalusia’s autonomous regional government. The expropriations affected 15,000 acres of farmland in Malaga province, one of four areas in which the Andalusian government will act to break up neglected holdings.
King Baudouin asked Prime Minister Wilfried Martens today to form a new government after the victory of his center-right coalition in Sunday’s general elections. The palace issued a brief statement saying Mr. Martens accepted the King’s request in a late afternoon meeting at the Laeken Palace, the royal residence. The appointment of Mr. Martens was universally expected after he led his four-party coalition of Social Christians and Liberals to an increased parliamentary majority in the general elections. Mr. Martens has pledged a continuation of his austerity policies.
The Socialist International, after a two-day meeting in Vienna of members from more than 40 countries, called for a Europe free of chemical weapons and a nuclear-free zone in the South Pacific. All of the delegations except the French Socialists approved of a nuclear-free zone in the Pacific. Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, who chaired the meeting of Socialist, Social Democratic and Labor party leaders, said they distanced themselves. themselves from any plans to militarize space.
Israel released a tape recording tonight of what it said was a conversation between a senior Palestinian guerrilla leader and the hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. Israeli officials asserted that the tone and language of a man on the tape they identified as the guerrilla leader, Mohammed Abbas, indicated that he helped plan and direct the operation. Mr. Abbas and Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman, have maintained that Mr. Abbas’s role in the episode was solely that of a mediator in arranging the hijackers’ surrender. In Washington, Administration officials said they were prepared to prove in court that Mr. Abbas planned the operation that led to the hijacking, and that the evidence included the conversation cited in the Israeli tape recording. But the officials said they could not prove that Mr. Abbas directly controlled the actions of the four gunmen. A voice on the tape, played tonight on Israeli television, at one point refers to “our operation.” Officials here said Mr. Abbas used the term and they called the reference evidence that he aided in planning the terrorist action, that the hijackers were following his orders and that they had probably arranged a code for emergency communications.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel arrived in Washington today for talks on the Middle East peace process and other issues. A State Department official said that although the peace effort had been complicated by the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro, the search would continue for a way to bring about direct negotiations among Israel, Jordan and Palestinian representatives on the future of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.
President Reagan meets with Secretary of State George Shultz to discuss the Secretary’s recent trip to a NATO meeting and the upcoming summit.
The U.N. General Assembly rejected an attempt by 18 Arab delegations to challenge Israel’s seat in the 159-member body.
The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto asked to be freed from house detention today in order to travel to France and attend an inquest into the death of her younger brother, officials said. Police officials said Miss Bhutto sent the request after receiving a summons from a French court. A government spokesman said he was unable to comment on the matter. Miss Bhutto was placed under house arrest at her Karachi residence in late August, shortly after returning from self-imposed exile in Britain. She came back to Pakistan to bury her brother, Shahnawaz Bhutto, who was found dead in his Cannes apartment in July. The military government ordered Miss Bhutto confined to her home eight days later after charging she had violated bans on political activity. Miss Bhutto is the daughter and political heir of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, who was ousted as Prime Minister by a military coup in 1977 and executed in 1979. She is a top leader of opposition to the military government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, who toppled her father.
The first major piece of wreckage from the Air-India jumbo jet that crashed off Ireland in June was raised from the seabed early today by an international salvage team. A Canadian salvage expert said the team was elated over its success in lifting the piece from 6,700 feet down, the deepest crash salvage operation ever undertaken. Metallurgists on the Canadian pipe-laying vessel Kreuzturm immediately began examining the piece from the forward section of the plane for clues to what caused the crash, in which 329 people died. They will try to establish whether the crash was caused by a bomb or structural failure. Sikh extremists were reported to have said they put a bomb on the plane, flying from Montreal to Bombay via London. The wreckage was hauled to the surface after a robot mini-submarine attached cables to it.
Four Sikhs have been accused of plotting to assassinate Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India during his visit to Britain, the authorities in Leicester announced today. Neither the suspects’ names nor details of the charges were revealed by the police in the Midlands city. The four were arrested Friday in a nationwide roundup of people suspected of links to terrorist activity.
Hundreds of volunteers donated blood at Bangladesh hospitals and clinics today for students who were injured when the roof of an auditorium collapsed in heavy rain and killed at least 71 people. At least 300 were injured by tons of concrete and metal that crashed into a Dhaka University assembly hall Tuesday night while the students were watching a television soap opera.
Senator Paul Laxalt, President Reagan’s emissary, met with President Ferdinand E. Marcos in Manila and was told that the Philippines government cannot be overthrown by Communist rebels. “We were not overrun by two previous insurgencies, and we will not be overrun by this one,” a Marcos spokesman said. He cited the defeat of Huk rebels in the 1950s and of a Muslim separatist uprising in the 1970s. The Nevada senator is discussing the outlook for U.S. bases in the Philippines in the face of a growing Communist insurgency.
The Reagan Administration condemned Nicaragua today for its suspension of civil liberties, saying the government was tightening its control over the Roman Catholic Church, newspapers and labor unions. Officials said Nicaraguan decrees in recent days went beyond previous edicts that limited personal rights. “These individuals have trampled on civil liberties as very few countries have done in the past,” Larry Speakes, the White House spokeman, said of the Nicaraguan leaders. He said a decree issued Tuesday by the government in Managua not only blunted political dissent, but also affected “the area of personal freedoms, personal privacy.”
Seventeen Ugandan Government soldiers have been killed and 82 captured in clashes at Katonga Bridge, 60 miles southwest of Kampala, rebels said today. A spokesman for the National Resistance Army said there had been no casualties on the rebel side in fighting at the bridge over the last few days. The guerrillas, who are fighting Uganda’s new military government, will hold onto Katonga Bridge, the rebels’ eastern front, at all cost, the spokesman said by telephone from Masaka, the country’s third largest town. The bridge is on the road that links Kampala to Masaka, which has been cut off by the rebels for three weeks.
The council that oversees South Africa’s medical and dental practices ruled today that a white physician who examined the black activist Steve Biko before his death in detention in 1977 could no longer practice medicine in the country. Mr. Biko was the leader of the black consciousness movement in South Africa and the most prominent black activist to die in police custody in recent years. South Africa’s Medical and Dental Council made the decision to strip Dr. Benjamin Tucker of his medical qualifications as it considered an action taken in July by a council disciplinary committee. The committee had ruled that Dr. Tucker was guilty of improper and “disgraceful” conduct in Mr. Biko’s death and decreed a three-month suspension from practice, with the punishment itself suspended for two years.
The heads of government of the Commonwealth nations opened a weeklong meeting here today with an apparent majority seeking to increase pressure on South Africa to end apartheid. But Britain, which once dictated policy to the Commonwealth members when they were colonies or dominions of the British Empire, has indicated that it is opposed to taking further measures against South Afica. Thus, in the meetings over the next few days, which are to take place behind closed doors, as is customary at these conferences, many of the heads of government will try to persuade Britain to shift its position. In initial remarks, Lynden O. Pindling, the Prime Minister of the Bahamas, said the heads of government would also take up the issues of terrorism, drug trafficking and economic problems.
The Senate confirmed thousands of nominations blocked by Democratic leader Robert C. Byrd (D-West Virginia) after getting White House assurances that President Reagan will give advance notice of recess appointments. The Senate, by voice vote, approved 76 civilian nominations and more than 5,000 military promotions, some held up since September 9. The nominees included federal judges, sub-Cabinet officials, members of advisory panels, U.S. attorneys and marshals. “We’re pleased that Senator Byrd has seen fit to release his hold on our nominees,” White House spokesman Larry Speakes said. “I felt there had been too many recess appointments and too often when they were not of an urgent nature,” Byrd explained. He said the White House now would inform him sufficiently in advance.
The Senate Armed Services Committee today made public a report that called for disbanding the Joint Chiefs of Staff, streamlining the Defense Department and elevating the senior combat commanders in the field to the pre-eminent position within the military. Senator Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who heads the committee, said the proposals could be the starting point for the first comprehensive changes in how the military operates since the Eisenhower Administration revised the Defense Department system set up in the Truman Administration. The recommendations were a result of more than two years of study by a staff team. Mr. Goldwater and Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the senior Democrat on the panel, stressed that they had not endorsed the proposals. But they agreed that the current military system was plagued by severe defects that caused wasteful spending in peacetime and clumsy performance in war.
President Reagan will nominate former Senator James L. Buckley of New York as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, the White House announced. The nomination of Buckley, president of Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, strengthens the conservative wing of the court, long considered one of the most liberal in the nation. Buckley, 62, was defeated in his bid for a second term in the Senate by Democrat Daniel Patrick Moynihan.
The House gave overwhelming approval to a bill authorizing an $800-million increase for military construction for the current fiscal year. The measure, approved 354 to 38, will allow the Defense Department to spend $9.2 billion for hundreds of construction projects this year, compared to $8.4 billion for fiscal 1985. The Reagan Administration had asked for $10.3 billion. One major project in the bill is $86.2 million for construction of a Navy base on Staten Island, New York, to house the renovated battleship USS Iowa. The Iowa is one of four World War II battleships to be brought out of mothballs and overhauled.
Democratic negotiators from the House today began picking apart the bill approved in the Senate to balance the Federal budget by 1991, contending it has major flaws. “There are a lot of very difficult questions that have to be resolved in the conference, and they are not simply resolved,” said Representative Richard A. Gephardt, Democrat of Missouri, as 57 conferees from the Senate and House met to try to reach a compromise on the Senate-passed bill. But Representative Robert H. Michel of Illinois, the Republican minority leader in the House, a supporter of the budget-balancing bill, warned the Democratic conferees not to delay just because there are many unanswered questions. “I don’t think the American people want endless questions asked,” he said.
More than 80,000 Chrysler workers in the United States and Canada went on strike today, seeking wages and benefits parallel to those at General Motors and Ford. Union talks with the Chrysler Corporation, the nation’s third-largest automaker failed to produce agreement before the contract expired at midnight. Negotiations continued today despite the strike and leaders on both sides of the bargaining table expressed hope for an early settlement. But when negotiations broke off for the night about 8:30, union officials said there was no agreement in sight. The dispute idled more than 70,000 workers in this country and 10,000 in Canada. The union leaders said that committees dealing with some issues would continue discussions tonight and that talks by the entire union and management bargaining teams would resume in the morning.
The city’s former Managing Director today contradicted several key details of Mayor W. Wilson Goode’s testimony about the May 13 confrontation with the radical group Move. Appearing before a panel that the Mayor appointed to investigate the confrontation, the former Managing Director, Leo A. Brooks, said the Mayor was mistaken when he said he did not know the details of the police plan to assault the Move house. Eleven people were killed and 61 houses destroyed. Mr. Brooks, who resigned shortly after the confrontation, saying he wanted to spend more time with his family, said he had told the Mayor that the police planned to use explosives and that they would drop a bomb from a helicopter. On both these points, Mr. Brooks contradicted Mr. Goode.
The defense for Richard W. Miller battled today to convince a jury that the former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation could not have been a spy because he had voluntarily disclosed his clandestine dealings with a Soviet emigre. In the second day of his closing arguments in Federal District Court here, Joel Levine, a lawyer for Mr. Miller, insisted that there were too many holes in the government’s argument that Mr. Miller told the bureau about his contact last year only because he knew he was being investigated. Mr. Miller is charged with conspiring with the Soviet emigre, Svetlana Ogorodnikov, who became his lover, to pass secret F.B.I. documents to the Soviet Union. The woman and her husband, Nikolay, pleaded guilty to espionage charges earlier and are serving prison terms. The government asserts that Mrs. Ogorodnikov was controlled by the K.G.B., the Soviet intelligence agency.
A federal jury in Baltimore recessed several hours after it began deliberating espionage charges against Samuel Morison, who is accused of giving secret satellite photos of a Soviet ship to a British defense publication in 1984. The case went to the jury after defense and prosecuting attorneys argued the legality of leaking classified government information to the press-an activity the defense said is a common practice among government employees. Morison, a 40-year-old employee of the U.S. Naval Intelligence Support Center, is accused of four counts of espionage for giving classified Navy material to Jane’s Defence Weekly in June and July of 1984.
An all-white federal jury in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, convicted a black voting rights activist on four counts of abusing the absentee voting process. It was the Justice Department’s first conviction in its voter fraud crackdown in mostly black Alabama counties. The jury convicted Eutaw City Councilman Spiver Gordon, 46, a national board member of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, after first recommending that Gordon be granted clemency. But U.S. District Judge E.B. Haltom Jr. refused to accept a verdict with that stipulation, saying: “I am the one who will determine the appropriate punishment….”
Prosecutors filed nine murder counts today against Charles Ng, the companion of Leonard Lake, a man linked to the disappearance of 22 people over two years. Calaveras County District Attorney John Martin said the action was the first step in extraditing Mr. Ng from Canada, where he has been held since his arrest there this summer. Some of the charges Mr. Ng faces could carry the death penalty. Mr. Ng, 24 years old, is accused of taking part in grisly murders at a cabin where Mr. Lake lived in the mountains near here. Mr. Lake, 39, killed himself by swallowing poison after his arrest on a shoplifting charge in South San Francisco last June 2.
An oil rig under tow capsized in the Gulf of Mexico today, killing two crew members and injuring nine others, Coast Guard officials said. Divers found two bodies in the rig’s water-filled galley, Ensign Drew Pearson of the Coast Guard said, adding that the bodies were being transported to the Coast Guard base here. The victims were not immediately identified. The accident occurred shortly before 9:30 AM about 12 miles southeast of Galveston as the rig, operated by Drynorth USA Inc. of Houston, was being towed, the Coast Guard said. Pat Plant, a Drynorth spokesman, said the rig was proceeding to an offshore construction job at High Island, about 40 miles northeast of Galveston, when it capsized. Coast Guard officials described the rig as being towed, but she said the rig was self-propelled.
Firefighters appeared to gain the upper hand today on a series of canyon fires that have destroyed two dozen homes and charred 80,000 acres over three days. All but 7 of southern California’s 19 fires were extinguished by afternooon, but winds kicked up new hot spots in three fires, and several others continued to burn out of control.
The Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to two Americans, Dr. Herbert A. Hauptman, the director of a small research center in Buffalo, and Dr. Jerome Karle of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington for developing revolutionary techniques used in determining the structures of molecules vital to life.
The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Dr. Klaus von Klitzing for developing an exact way of measuring electrical conductivity that has become important to the electronics industry. Dr. Klitzing is on the staff of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, West Germany.
The reason for Baby Fae’s death 20 days after receiving a baboon heart a year ago was disclosed in reports of a speech by Dr. Leonard L. Bailey, the surgeon who performed the operation. He said that Baby Fae had type O blood while the baboon donor had type AB.
A drug used to treat severe acne appears to change blood cholesterol ratios, thus increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke if used for long periods, New York doctors said. A study of 60 patients who took the drug Accutane orally for 20 weeks found the ratios of their good cholesterol to bad cholesterol changed for the worse. But Dr. Susan Bershad of Mount Sinai Medical Center said the increase would not be a “dramatic difference.” The report was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Student volunteerism is increasing, according to officials of several colleges. As a result, a group of 75 university presidents announced the creation of a major program to support student participation in community activities. The project, co-sponsored by the presidents of Brown, Georgetown and Stanford universities, will match students seeking volunteer work with agencies that need them.
St. Lawrence Seaway workers will begin moving gigantic braces into place today to shore up a buckled wall in a lock so that engineers can survey the damage and estimate how many weeks the seaway will be blocked, officials announced.
The space shuttle Challenger launch vehicle moves to launch pad for the upcoming STS-61-A mission.
Intel introduces the 32-bit 80386 microcomputer chip.
Nobel prize for chemistry awarded to Herbert Hauptman & Jerome Karle.
National League Championship Series, Game Six:
The St. Louis Cardinals won their second National League title in four years by beating the Dodgers 7–5, in what many consider to be one of the most exciting playoff games ever played. The Dodgers returned to Los Angeles trailing three games to two, but comfortable knowing the last two games would be played in Chavez Ravine. For Game 6, it was Hershiser for the Dodgers against Andujar for St. Louis.
Unlike the previous three games, it was the Dodgers and not the Cardinals who got the scoring started quickly when Mariano Duncan’s double and Madlock’s single put the Dodgers ahead, 1–0. An inning later, a walk to Greg Brock and singles by Hershiser and Duncan scored Brock to give the Dodgers a 2–0 lead.
Both pitchers helped themselves with hits. After Hershiser’s single in the second, Andújar led off the third with a double off the wall and scored on Herr’s single to cut the lead to 2–1. Andújar hurt himself in the fifth when Duncan hit a high chopper that Andújar lost in the sun allowing Duncan to reach first. Duncan promptly stole second and went to third on a ground out by Landreaux. He then scored on Pedro Guerrero’s deep fly to center field. Madlock homered for the third time in the series, and the Dodgers led, 4–1.
In the top of the seventh, Darrell Porter singled, as did Tito Landrum. Steve Braun pinch-hit for Andújar and grounded out, but moved the runners to second and third. McGee’s single then plated both runners, leading Tommy Lasorda to call on reliever Tom Niedenfuer. Niedenfuer’s last pitch had landed in the seats to end Game 5, and the first batter he faced was the same — Ozzie Smith. Ozzie drilled a triple that just barely missed being a second left-handed homer, but Niedenfuer struck out Jack Clark on three fastballs to end the threat. But the Cardinals had now tied the game at four.
In the bottom of the eighth, Mike Marshall lifted a towering fly ball to right off of Todd Worrell. It looked like a routine out, but the wind carried the ball just out of Andy Van Slyke’s reach and over the wall for a home run. The Dodgers were now just three outs from forcing Game 7.
In the ninth, Niedenfuer struck out César Cedeño, but McGee singled and stole second. With Ozzie Smith’s prior success against Niedenfuer — a homer and triple in his last two at-bats — the Dodgers walked him and induced a ground out from Tommy Herr. With runners at second and third and two out, the obvious question faced Lasorda: “do you walk Clark to the open first base or do you pitch to him?” Niedenfuer had struck out Clark in the seventh. By contrast, the next two hitters in the Cardinal line-up, Van Slyke and Pendleton, were having miserable series. But Lasorda opted to pitch to Clark. Clark promptly drilled Niedenfuer’s first fastball 450 feet (140 m) into the left field stands for a pennant-winning home run. Demoralized, the Dodgers went 1-2-3 in the bottom of the ninth, with Pedro Guerrero popping up for the final out.
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
American League Championship Series, Game Seven:
Earlier in the day, Jack Clark put the St. Louis Cardinals into the World Series with a three-run home run off the Dodgers’ reliever Tom Niedenfuer. The American League opponent would be the winner of this ALCS Game 7, promising an intriguing match-up for the World Championship: either an I-70 Series between Missouri’s two major league teams, or the first appearance of a franchise from outside the United States. The Blue Jays sent Dave Stieb to the mound for the third time in the series, as the Jays had won both of his previous starts. The Royals countered with Bret Saberhagen, who was pitching for the first time since his injury in Game 3.
Up to this point, the Royals had scored the first run in every game except Game 1. This trend continued when Pat Sheridan reached on a bunt, advanced to second base on a fielder’s choice by Balboni, and scored on a single by Jim Sundberg. In the bottom of the third inning, the Blue Jays hit Saberhagen with a batted ball (off of his pitching hand) for the second time in the series, with Mulliniks winding up at second base. Saberhagen continued in the inning and retired the side, but as he started to warm up for the following inning, his pitching hand seemed to be bothering him, and in an abundance of caution with the Royals not wanting to risk losing him for a potential World Series, he was removed from the game, and Leibrandt came on to pitch for the Royals.
In the fourth inning, Sheridan homered, giving the Royals a 2–0 lead. In the bottom of the fifth, the Blue Jays reduced the lead to one when Garcia singled and scored on Upshaw’s double. With the score 2–1, the Royals came to bat in the sixth inning against a tiring Stieb. Wilson hit a fly ball out, Brett walked and McRae was hit by a pitch. Sheridan subsequently hit into a fielder’s choice that forced Brett out at third base, putting runners at first and second with two outs. Stieb then walked Balboni to face the presumably lesser hitting threat, Jim Sundberg. Sundberg drilled a high drive toward right field that hit the top of the fence and bounced high in the air, landing in play next to Jesse Barfield. All three runners, running on contact with two outs, scored easily and Sundberg stood at third base with a three-run triple, giving the Royals a 5–1 lead. Blue Jays relief pitcher Jim Acker entered for Stieb and gave up a base hit single to Frank White that allowed Sundberg to score, increasing the lead to 6–1.
Leibrandt was still on the mound to start the ninth inning. With one out, he gave up a single to Barfield and a double to Fernandez. Quisenberry made his third appearance of the series, and a chance to send the Royals to the World Series. He allowed one of the inherited runners to score on a ground out and closed out the game, giving the Royals a 6–2 win in Game 7. They became the first team to overcome a 3–1 deficit in the LCS. Kansas City Royals’ George Brett was 8 for 23 with two doubles, three home runs, five RBIs, seven walks, and a .348 batting average. Brett was named the series MVP, having played a role in 11 of Kansas City’s 26 runs, scoring six and driving in five.
This would be the last postseason game played at Exhibition Stadium; the next postseason appearance for the Blue Jays would come in 1989, their first season in the then-new SkyDome.
Kansas City Royals 6, Toronto Blue Jays 2
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Born:
Jay Beagle, Canadian NHL right win and centre (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Capitals, 2018; Washington Capitals, Vancouver Canucks, Arizona Coyotes), in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Sean Bentivoglio, Canadian NHL left wing (New York Islanders), in Thorold, Ontario, Canada.
Frank Okam, NFL defensive tackle (Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Pine Bluff, Arkansas.
Enerio Del Rosario, Dominican MLB pitcher (Cincinnati Reds, Houston Astros), in Santa Lucia, Dominican Republic.
Alexis Hornbuckle, WNBA guard (WNBA Champions, 2008-Shock, 2011-Lynx; Detroit-Tulsa Shock, Minnesota Lynx, Phoenix Mercury), in Charleston, West Virginia.
Casey Stoner, Australian motorcycle racer (MotoGP World Champion, 2007, 2011), in Southport, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.
Died:
Claude Stroud, 78, American actor (“Breakfast at Tiffany’s”).
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