A decision by President Reagan on whether to order an attack against Libya was near, senior Administration officials said. Tension continued to build as Vernon A. Walters, the chief American representative at the United Nations, held confidential briefings in key allied capitals about American plans, and two United States Navy carrier battle groups exercised in the central Mediterranean not far from Libya. Senator Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who complained to Secretary of State George P. Shultz about not being briefed on possible war plans, said he was reached by Mr. Shultz and told to come to the White House today for a meeting with Mr. Reagan that is expected to discuss the possible response. “Prospective military action is something that only the President will decide on,” Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead said. “He has not yet made that decision.” But Mr. Whitehead added that while there was no deadline for a decision, “time is winding down; the time is getting short.”
Vernon A. Walters, Washington’s delegate to the United Nations, held high-level consultations on Libya today with the West German and French Governments amid indications of heightened allied concern about a possible American military strike against the North African nation. Mr. Walters met in Bonn this morning with Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and then flew to Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s home town of Oggersheim for a long meeting. Mr. Walters was reliably reported to have pressed the case for sterner sanctions against Libya, explaining the Reagan Administration’s belief that the Libyan leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, had fomented recent terrorist attacks. From West Germany, Mr. Walters flew to Paris for an evening meeting with France’s new Prime Minister, Jacques Chirac, and he was expected to meet on Monday with President Francois Mitterrand before traveling to Rome.
The prospect of an American military strike against Libya has touched off deep apprehension in Western Europe and highlighted the differing European and American perspectives on terrorism and how best to combat it, European officials and defense experts said in interviews this weekend. The current tour of European capitals by the American special envoy Vernon A. Walters has heightened anxiety that the United States has already decided to stage air strikes against Libya in retaliation for what Washington sees as Libya’s involvement in the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque frequented by American soldiers. Reagan Administration officials portray European allies as “soft” on terrorism, unwilling to take bold political and economic measures, much less military moves, to isolate countries that sponsor terrorist attacks. The officials blame what some term “Europe’s greed” for its reluctance to act.
As tensions continued to rise here tonight over possible United States military action against Libyan targets, a number of embassies issued advisories to their nationals to reconsider their positions in the country. None of the embassies recommended evacuation, however. British citizens who called their consul today were given the following message: “It follows that in a period of rising tension, the British Government would expect British citizens to review very carefully the advisability of their remaining in Libya.” The Japanese, Spanish and other embassies have been organizing emergency evacuation procedures should they be needed. Some embassies have made tentative plans with their national airlines and their national-flag cargo ships and tankers coming into Libyan ports, according to diplomats.
The Libyan Government is disturbed at what it considers a lack of support from the Soviet Union as Libya’s confrontation with the United States grows more critical, according to Western and Soviet-bloc diplomats. Libya’s leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, is one of the Soviet Union’s largest arms clients, and 5,000 to 6,000 Soviet-bloc military advisers are reported to be stationed here. But the diplomats said the Russians did not pass on satellite data or other intelligence from Soviet ships in the Mediterranean as clashes unfolded between the United States Sixth Fleet and Libyan forces in and around the Gulf of Sidra three weeks ago. At an antiaircraft missile site along the gulf, nearly 300 Soviet advisers refused to leave their underground bunkers despite Libyan appeals for help in putting up new launching pads during the incidents, the sources said. The only Russian to die during the clashes was a soldier who had a heart attack while playing soccer near Tripoli, an informed East-bloc source said.
A ragged wooden fence in the vast American shopping mall in Frankfurt, West Germany encloses a group of low-slung buildings that were blown apart by a powerful car bomb last November — a mute memorial to the 35 Americans and others wounded then. There are 248,000 G.I.’s stationed in West Germany, and when soldiers find themselves in the Frankfurt area they often aim for this shopping sprawl, which retails everything from Burger King milk shakes to cut-rate ski holidays in the Alps. It is the American military crossroads in Germany. If a sampling of opinion taken on the sun-dappled mall was at all representative, American military people and their families are concerned — but hardly panicked — by outbursts of anti-American terrorism like the bombing of a West Berlin disco on April 5 that took two lives.
Pope John Paul II, embracing the world’s Jews as “our elder brothers,” today paid the first recorded papal visit to a synagogue and condemned persecution and displays of anti-Semitism “at any time and by anyone.” “I repeat, ‘By anyone,’ ” John Paul declared to ringing applause at Rome’s central synagogue, situated in what was once the Rome ghetto, established by the decree of one of his predecessors. John Paul, seeking to heal nearly 2,000 years of strife between Catholics and Jews, also expressed his “abhorrence for the genocide decreed against the Jewish people during the last war, which led to the holocaust of millions of innocent victims.” The Pope’s journey to the spiritual center of what is believed to be the oldest Jewish group in the Diaspora was greeted by the Chief Rabbi, Elio Toaff, as a “gesture destined to go down in history” and a “true turning point in the policy of the church.” “The heart opens itself,” Rabbi Toaff declared, “to the hope that the misfortunes of the past will be replaced by fruitful dialogue.”
Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in a speech to be delivered Monday, says it is the duty of the United States to support popular democratic movements challenging the Soviet Union and its allies. “Political support and modest U.S. military assistance to those resisting Soviet-supported or Soviet-imposed regimes are certainly a prudent exercise of U.S. power,” he said in the text of the speech to be delivered at Kansas State University, in Manhattan, Kansas. Mr. Shultz also said intervention by the United States would, in the end, help improve Washington-Moscow relations.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, said today that she had received permission from the Government to leave the Soviet Union once again and planned to do so before the end of the month. “I requested permission to leave and I got it,” she said. She added that her daughter, Olga Peters, had also received approval to leave and expected to return to school in England in the near future. In a brief telephone interview from her Moscow hotel, Miss Alliluyeva, who returned to the Soviet Union in 1984 after 17 years in the West, said in Moscow she did not know whether she would ever return to the Soviet Union again.
Andrija Artukovic, 86, extradited from the United States in February, goes on trial today in Yugoslavia on charges that he ordered the killing of thousands of Jews, Serbs and Gypsies in World War II. If convicted, he could face a firing squad; the minimum is five years in jail. Labeled by Yugoslav news media as “the butcher of the Balkans,” Artukovic, who had been living in Seal Beach, Calif., is accused of atrocities from 1941 to 1945 when he was police minister in the Nazi puppet state of Croatia.
The eight-day crisis in Israel’s coalition Government was resolved late tonight when the Likud bloc agreed that two of its ministers should switch jobs to satisfy the demands of Prime Minister Shimon Peres of the Labor Party. Although the agreement seems to have saved the 19-month-old coalition, the naked political maneuverings and name-calling between Labor Party and Likud ministers appear to have diminished all of them in the eyes of the Israeli public, judging from commentaries and editorials in the press. Many Israelis tonight seemed to be questioning how their leaders could have become totally preoccupied for more than a week with the switching of two Cabinet portfolios. After another day of negotiations, threats, proposals and counterproposals between the coalition partners, the Likud suggested that Minister of Justice Moshe Nissim and Minister of Finance Yitzhak Modai exchange jobs, satisfying Mr. Peres’s demand that Mr. Modai be removed from the Treasury.
An Israeli border patrol killed an Arab infiltrator and captured another near the Jordan frontier, the Israeli military announced. An army spokesman said the guerrillas, carrying three Kalashnikov assault rifles and a pistol, encountered the patrol after crossing the border about 25 miles north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank. Although Israel and Jordan have technically been in a state of war for almost 20 years, Israel has praised Jordan in the past for preventing guerrilla infiltrations across the frontier.
Iran confiscated a cargo ship as war booty from Iraq and said the mainly Kuwaiti owners of its cargo N have two months to collect their goods. The official Iranian news agency claimed the ship was owned by Iraq but that it sailed under a different flag to avoid confiscation. It said the 23,618-ton Ibn Bitar was seized in November by Iranian warships 250 miles east of the Strait of Hormuz. Forty-three crew members reportedly were allowed to return home.
Afghanistan said today that its troops had killed 700 Muslim rebels in an offensive along the Pakistan border. But Peshawar-based guerrillas said about 100 rebels were killed in the fighting. Declaring a recent Communist attack on a major rebel base at Zhawar a success, the statement by the state-run Kabul radio said Afghan troops had seized large numbers of missiles, mortars, machine guns, ammunition and medicine from the guerrillas. Guerrillas based in Peshawar reported about 100 rebel deaths in the fighting.
About 50 police officers were assigned to guard opposition leader Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan, one day after a former army officer stormed a house in Lahore demanding to see her. Bhutto, touring the countryside to drum up support for new elections after her return from exile Thursday, told supporters that the break-in was a “murderous attack.” However, a spokesman for the provincial government denied it was a murder attempt, saying the man appeared deranged and was unarmed. Bhutto was not in the house at the time.
More than 5,000 Sikh militants chanted slogans for an independent nation in Punjab at an anti-government rally in the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The militants, some carrying swords and spears, called on India’s 14 million Sikhs to “arm themselves to snap the shackles of slavery.” They accused the Hindu-majority government of depriving the Sikhs of their rights and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of allowing the massacre of Sikhs in 1984 after his mother was killed by Sikh bodyguards.
Relatives of 14 people held without charges have accused South Korean police of using torture to try to elicit confessions of pro-Communist activities. In a statement made through a church group, the relatives said the detainees showed signs of having been beaten and that one reported that he had been tortured. A government official denied the allegations. Authorities confirmed that the March 25 arrests were made during a police raid on an “unregistered publishing house” specializing in left-wing literature. News of the arrests has been withheld from the South Korean media.
President Reagan welcomed Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, of Japan, to Camp David. President Reagan received assurances from Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone today that Japan was determined to effect a “historic change” that could help ease the United States-Japan trade imbalance, Administration officials said. The officials said Mr. Nakasone had expressed in a meeting with Mr. Reagan a determination to move the Japanese economy beyond its current reliance on exports for growth to greater dependence on imports and domestic consumption. A senior Administration official said the change pledged by Mr. Nakasone amounted to a “different story” on the part of the Japanese Government in terms of previous pledges to take steps to reduce the ratio of Japanese products coming to the United States versus American products going into Japan. “The Prime Minister expressed what he called a ‘historic turn’ that they’re going to move their policies from export-oriented to import-oriented,” said the official, who attended the 60-minute meeting, which was followed by a private lunch for the two leaders and Nancy Reagan.
On the eve of a legislative challenge to Corazon C. Aquino, the supporters of Ferdinand E. Marcos held their biggest rally today since the deposed President fled the Philippines nearly seven weeks ago. Between 15,000 and 20,000 demonstrators, waving small paper flags and wearing badges and stickers that hailed Mr. Marcos, congregated in a park in downtown Manila. A smaller crowd of Marcos loyalists held a rally in the suburb of Quezon City. The rallies, which called for Mr. Marcos to return and Mrs. Aquino to step down, appeared to draw upon the organizational and financial resources of the ousted President’s political party, the New Society Movement, also known as the K.B.L. The party’s legislators plan to convene a rump session of the National Assembly on Monday. Mrs. Aquino abolished the assembly by proclamation last month on the ground that its pro-Marcos majority had debased Philippine politics by endorsing fraudulent election returns in February to insure a Marcos victory.
Investigators seeking the cause of the March 31 crash of a Mexican jetliner have found strong evidence that it could have been caused by an explosion in a wheel well for the landing gear, according to sources close to the inquiry. Indications are that the explosion would more likely have been caused by a mechanical problem with the gear, possibly an exploding tire, than by a bomb or other terrorist’s device, they said. None of the indicators that normally point to sabotage, such as residue of explosives or telltale patterns of structural rupture, have been detected so far, the informants added. The Mexicana Airlines jet was on a flight to Los Angeles, with two domestic intermediate stops, when the crew declared an emergency and asked permission to return to Mexico City, the takeoff point. Minutes later the plane, on fire and shedding debris, smashed into a 9,000-foot mountain 100 miles northwest of the capital. All 166 people on board were killed.
Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega told a rally of 500 farmers that his Sandinista government will supply weapons to ordinary Nicaraguans to help defeat any invasion by the United States. Speaking in Santo Domingo de Chontales, 120 miles east of Managua, Ortega said, “We are going to get guns to those who do not yet have any, so that every Nicaraguan can defend his land, his life and the lives of his children…”
The Central Intelligence Agency, barred from providing military aid to Nicaraguan rebels, secretly sent several million dollars to the contras for political projects over the past year, United States Government officials say. The officials said the money went to the rebels’ political umbrella group, the United Nicaraguan Opposition, to pay rebel officials and supporters, open offices in Europe and Latin America, and take trips to seek foreign support for their cause. The money came out of the C.I.A.’s overall budget, over which President Reagan and the C.I.A. Director, William J. Casey, have wide discretion. The C.I.A. must inform the two Congressional intelligence committees of such covert spending, and officials said notification did take place.
The centrist Umma Party of former Prime Minister Sadiq el-Mahdi took two of the first three seats declared today as ballots were counted after the Sudan’s first multiparty elections in 18 years. Voters cast their ballots over a 12-day period for a 301-seat assembly that will decide the shape of a new civilian government. The Umma, a moderate Moslem party, won two constituencies north and south of Khartoum. The third seat went to an independent. About 30 parties took part in the election. The government will replace a Transitional Military Council of senior officers who overthrew President Gaafar al-Nimeiry in April last year and promised to restore full democracy as soon as possible.
Salvage crews recovered part of a bulkhead from Challenger’s shattered payload bay and continued. the search for wreckage from a $100-million satellite that was blown free of the cargo hold when the shuttle exploded. Search operations at the crash site of Challenger’s crew cabin apparently were on hold for the third day in a row, with salvage experts at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida debating whether to continue recovery work at “site 67,” the code name for the crew compartment search zone 16 miles offshore.
The Democratic chairman and the ranking Republican member of the House Armed Services Committee have questioned the Pentagon’s decision to keep secret the costs of the radar-eluding Stealth bomber and the Air Force’s program for an advanced cruise missile. In a letter to Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, the Congressmen said that in recent years the number of programs that have become highly classified has grown, and they asked Mr. Weinberger to review the Pentagon’s policy on classifying information about military projects. The letter also asks Mr. Weinberger to provide a “detailed explanation” of why he is keeping elements of the two programs secret.
A bomb exploded when a car door was opened outside a restaurant in Brooklyn, killing an alleged lieutenant to the reputed godfather of the nation’s most powerful organized crime family, police said. Another man was severely burned and two others were slightly injured in the explosion, which reduced the car to a twisted mass of steel and broke a gas main in the quiet neighborhood. Frank Decicco, 58, of Staten Island, an alleged lieutenant to John Gotti, the reputed godfather of the Gambino organized crime family, was killed in the blast, police sources said. Frank Bellino, 69, of Staten Island, was hospitalized in critical condition with third-degree burns, an injured left leg and internal injuries.
In the wake of a report by the President’s Commission on Organized Crime, support appears to be growing in Congress for legislation to make it a Federal crime to commit violence on a picket line or in other labor disputes. Organized labor is unhappy, saying the proposed legislation, which has come up in Congress periodically in the last decade, is “antistrike” and “antilabor.” The issue was placed on the Congressional agenda last month at the urging of Bob Dole of Kansas, the Senate Republican leader, who has pledged a vote on the bill this spring. The issue also appears to have gained momentum from a report by the President’s Commission on Organized Crime that urged Congress to change a provision in the law on extortion that effectively keeps the Federal authorities out of most cases involving violent acts in a labor dispute.
Hospitals throughout the United States overcharged the federal government, often deliberately, by more than $170 million for care for elderly Medicare patients in 1984 and 1985, investigations have found. But officials of the Health and Human Services Department said the agency will not try to recoup its excess payments to hospitals because of difficulties involved. Those charges were not abuse or fraud, the officials said, and ultimately will be borne by taxpayers.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson met in Austin, Minnesota, with protesters who were arrested in a violent demonstration during the nearly 8-month-old strike against Geo. A. Hormel & Co. and said his meeting with a company vice president earlier in the day was fruitful. “The issue is not about jobs, confrontation and tear gas,” the civil rights leader told reporters after his jail visit with the protesters arrested Friday. “It’s about getting to work.” Jackson said he did not get any promise from the company for renewed negotiations.
Feminist and civil rights activist Shirley Chisholm urged women to stop being “complacent, passive armchair recipients” and start planning for their senior years. Chisholm told an audience in Manchester, New Hampshire, at the first New England Women’s Conference on Aging, that elderly women are becoming “a new minority group with very special needs.” “Many are widowed. They are living alone,” said the former New York congresswoman.
Both of the slain robbery suspects who killed two agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and wounded five others had remarried after their first wives died violently, according to the authorities. The men, William Matix, 34 years old, and Michael L. Platt, 32, were killed Friday in a gun battle with agents behind a shopping center in the suburban community of Kendall, Florida. Mr. Matix’s first wife, Patricia, was killed on Dec. 30, 1983, in Columbus, Ohio. She and another women were slain inside a medical research laboratory where Mrs. Matix worked. The case has never been solved. Mr. Platt’s first wife, Regina, died from a shotgun blast to the head in December 1984. Her death was ruled a suicide, but investigators said Saturday that the case might be reopened, The Miami Herald reported today. Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d visited the wounded agents today and praised their work.
Adlai E. Stevenson 3d, the Democratic candidate for Governor of Illinois, injured his back today when he was thrown from a horse he was trying to break at his farm here, a campaign aide said. It was not clear how the accident would change Mr. Stevenson’s campaign for the Governorship. Mr. Stevenson, 55 years old, was in satisfactory condition at Mercy Hospital in Dubuque, Iowa with a possible fractured lumbar vertabra, said David Alexrod, one of his aides. He said no decision on curtailing campaign activities would be made until Mr. Stevenson meets with his staff Monday. Mr. Stevenson is challenging Gov. James R. Thompson, the Republican incumbent. Mr. Stevenson is considering running as an independent or a third-party candidate because supporters of Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr., a political extremist, won the nominations for Lieutenant Governor and Secretary of State on the Democratic ticket.
Colleges are providing tuition funds under a number of new plans as costs soar and Federal student assistant drops. College officials are finding that to assure a continued flow of students they must aggressively play the role of banker, loan insurer, portfolio manager and family financial adviser. Dozens of institutions, for example, offer families the opportunity to pay all four years’ fees at the beginning, gaining protection against tuition increases. Many of the colleges will lend parents the requisite $20,000 to $40,000. New plans range from revolving loan funds financed by college endowments to the academic equivalent of pork belly futures — paying today’s price for a child’s education years later. School officials liken their situation to that of the automobile industry after World War I, when manufacturers began setting up such instruments as the General Motors Acceptance Corporation to make car loans. “Most people can’t pay for education out of current income any more than they can purchase a car that way,” said James J. Scannell, a vice president of the University of Rochester. “We have to find ways for people to afford our product.”
Collecting unpaid parking fines through private companies is a growing trend among financially distressed cities, and investigations into political corruption in New York and Chicago have focused attention on the practice. Municipal finance specialists say at least 125 cities have hired private companies, most of them in the last three years, in an attempt to increase their income from parking and traffic citations by hundreds of millions of dollars.
Finger strokes, anxiety levels, bathroom breaks and other actions of workers at video display terminals are increasingly being monitored by computers, according to a group representing office workers. “Computers can prompt workers to work faster, automatically present their next piece of work, and warn them when they’re falling behind predetermined production standards,” said a report released yesterday by 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. “The computer can record when an operator turns on or off her V.D.T., count keystrokes by the second, time customer service transactions and track the number of operator errors per day.”
When the Kennecott Company sits down with its copper workers’ unions to negotiate a new contract, the arguments will not be about how much more the workers should earn but how much less. After several years of declining copper prices, increased foreign imports, the layoffs of two-thirds of the country’s copper workers and the violent, union-breaking Phelps-Dodge strike, the industry is undergoing a profound change. The only certainty is that copper workers lucky enough to have jobs will be working for less. “We never went into negotiations thinking we were going to win the sky, but we’ve never gone in knowing we’d be giving things up either,” said Ralph Christensen, president of a United Steelworkers of America local at Kennecott’s big smelter here.
A trucker who lost $1,500 in wages when the H J. Heinz Company refused to accept delivery of 48,000 pounds of sweet potatoes was in good spirits after hundreds of needy people gathered at his rig to cart them away. “There’s people carrying potatoes in every direction,” said the trucker, Elvis G. Thornton of Hamburg, Arkansas. “I told them to take all they want. They all look too skinny.” Mr. Thornton, an independent trucker, was hired by the Ligon-Nationwide Trucking Company of Madisonville, Kentucky, to haul the load to Heinz but he arrived a day late because his tractor-trailer rig broke down, he said. A Heinz spokesman, Beth Adams, said the company refused delivery Thursday because potatoes in the center of the load were starting to go bad. But she said thousands of pounds of potatoes could be unloaded for immediate use.
Estrogen, taken daily after the onset of menopause, slows or prevents a bone disorder that often cripples older women, although it increases the risk of uterine cancer, according to the Food and Drug Administration. The agency reversed a 1976 finding that there was no strong evidence of estrogen’s effectiveness against the bone disorder, osteoporosis. The decision was announced Friday in the Federal Register. The agency cautioned that estrogen should be accompanied by conventional measures to prevent osteoporosis, including a high-calcium diet and exercise. The National Institutes of Health has estimated that between 15 million and 20 million people are affected by osteoporosis, a gradual deterioration of the bone structure. Women are particularly vulnerable, especially after menopause. In extreme cases, bones can become so fragile that they break under almost no stress.
A spring snowstorm plunged temperatures into the teens, brought drifting snow up to six feet deep and created blizzard conditions in Wyoming and Montana as the Dakotas braced for the oncoming storm. The storm brought a foot of new snow to the Alta and Snowbird ski resorts in Utah, and winds gusting to 75 mph knocked down trees and some power lines. The gusting winds and cold temperatures made for dangerous conditions in Montana and Wyoming, meteorologist Bill Barlow said. Travel advisories were posted in both states and in the Dakotas. No serious accidents were reported, officials said.
50th Masters Golf Tournament: Jack Nicklaus wins his record 18th major with a 1-stroke victory over Greg Norman and Tom Kite; he shoots final round 65 (-7); at 46 he is the oldest Masters winner. Jack Nicklaus, who was four shots off the lead with four holes left, got an eagle and two birdies in those closing holes to win the Masters Tournament for a record sixth time today with a stunning 7-under-par 65. He beat Greg Norman and Tom Kite by a single shot in what may become the most memorable of the 50 Masters played so far. The 46-year-old Nicklaus, who was in his prime in the 1960’s and 1970’s, became the oldest man ever to win a Masters. He increased his record to 20 major tournament victories, including 18 in professional golf. No other golfer has come close to that number of major victories. He added a $144,000 prize to rush his record career earnings past $4.7 million.
Boston Celtics end season with a 40–1 home win record.
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Wade Boggs drove in four runs with three singles and Jim Rice hit a two-run homer to spark Boston in a 12–2 rout of the Chicago White Sox. The Red Sox, who had 16 hits, scored five runs in the third inning, two more in the fourth and four in the fifth to give the starting pitcher Tim Lollar an 11–1 lead to work with in his first start of the season.
The Cleveland Indians thumped the Detroit Tigers, 8–2. Scott Bailes picked up his first major-league victory with five and one-third scoreless innings of two-hit relief and Andre Thornton’s homer highlighted a five-run first inning as Cleveland battered Detroit pitching for 19 hits. Bailes yielded singles by Kirk Gibson in the seventh inning and Larry Herndon in the eighth in relief of the starter Don Schulze. The 24-year-old left-hander struck out four and walked three.
The Braves edges the Astros, 8–7. Billy Sample had three hits, including a controversial three-run homer in the fourth inning, Ken Oberkfell drove in four runs and Gene Garber pitched out of a ninth-inning jam to lead Atlanta. Despite a heated protest by Manager Hal Lanier of Houston, the third-base umpire John McSherry ruled that Sample’s home run was just inside the left-field foul pole.
Bases-empty home runs by Willie Wilson, George Brett and Steve Balboni today powered the Kansas City Royals to a 7–4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. Wilson also drove in the tie-breaking run in a three-run fifth inning that gave the Royals their second consecutive triumph. Steve Farr pitched four innings of one-hit relief to gain his first save of the season. The victory went to Bud Black (1–1) who gave up four runs and eight hits in five innings.
The Dodgers squeaked past the Giants, 3–2. Franklin Stubbs hit a tie-breaking two-run homer in the seventh inning, his third home run in three games, and Orel Hershiser scattered seven hits, to lead Los Angeles. It was the third homer of the year for Stubbs, who hit a 1–2 pitch from Scott Garrelts (1–1) over the centerfield fence.
Danny Tartabull snapped an eighth-inning tie with a two-run homer, his third extra-base hit of the game, to lift Seattle to a 4–2 victory over the Minnesota Twins. Mike Moore (1–0) limited the Twins to four hits over the final eight innings, finishing with a six-hitter, five strikeouts and one walk. Mike Smithson (1–1) went the distance for the Twins and took the loss despite tying his career high with nine strikeouts.
Ron Guidry pitched seven innings against the Milwaukee Brewers yesterday and won his second game as the Yankees defeated the Brewers, 3–2, thus sweeping the weekend series. It was their fifth victory in six games over all, and after one week in the new season, the Yankees are in first place in the East Division. What makes the fast start more impressive is that the Yankees haven’t been as overpowering offensively as they are expected to be. Rickey Henderson and Dave Winfield have combined for only 3 hits in 40 times at bat. Don Mattingly, who drove in two runs against the Brewers with a single to the base of the right-field wall, is hitting .320 but has not yet hit a home run.
Jose Canseco drove in five runs with a single and his second home run — the only two Oakland has this season — as the A’s beat California, 11–7. Canseco hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and had a two-run single in the sixth.
This time, it didn’t take five hours and 14 innings, and the Mets didn’t blow two late leads to the Philadelphia Phillies. This time, it took only half as much time and the basic nine innings. This time, the Phillies simply took the lead, held it, beat the Mets, 4–2, and sent them home with a two-game losing streak. It was antiseptic and precise, just as Saturday’s game was punishing and complex. The Phillies got superior pitching today from Shane Rawley, who went nine solid innings for the second time in five days. And they got superior production from their hitters, who scored four runs on their first four hits off Rick Aguilera, three of them crossing on two-out home runs by Gary Redus and Darren Daulton.
The Pirates shut out the Cubs, 8–0. The Pittsburgh Pirates say they feel unbeatable when Rick Reuschel is on the mound and they looked it, backing up his combined four-hitter with an 11-hit outburst to defeat Chicago. Reuschel (1–1) gave up three hits and a walk and struck out three over seven innings.
Marvell Wynne hits two homers — one pinch hit, one walkoff — to lead the Padres to a 7–6 win against the Reds. Wynne pinch hits his first homer in the 7th, then stays in the game in centerfield. Kal Daniels homers in the 9th off Goose Gossage to tie the game, and Wynne homers in the bottom of the 9th, on a 2–1 pitch from Joe Price to win it.
The Expos edged the Cardinals, 3–2. Mitch Webster and Herm Winningham each hit bases-empty home runs, helping Montreal to a victory over St. Louis that handed the Cardinals their first loss of the season in five games. Bryn Smith (1–1) pitched six innings to pick up the victory. He struck out four, walked three, allowed three hits and had a balk.
Cal Ripken hit a two-run single in the eighth inning to catapult Baltimore to a 3–2 victory over the Texas Rangers. Scott McGregor scattered eight hits, struck out two and did not allow a walk in seven and two-thirds innings and Don Aase picked up the save. Alan Wiggins drew a one-out walk from the rookie Jose Guzman (1–1) in the eighth, Lee Lacy singled him to third, Lacy stole second, then Ripken blooped a single down the right-field line to score Wiggins and Lacy. The throw from right field beat Lacy to the plate, but he kicked the ball out of the catcher Don Slaught’s glove.
Boston Red Sox 12, Chicago White Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 2, Cleveland Indians 8
Atlanta Braves 8, Houston Astros 7
Toronto Blue Jays 4, Kansas City Royals 7
San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Seattle Mariners 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Milwaukee Brewers 2, New York Yankees 3
California Angels 7, Oakland Athletics 11
New York Mets 2, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Chicago Cubs 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Cincinnati Reds 6, San Diego Padres 7
Montreal Expos 3, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Baltimore Orioles 3, Texas Rangers 2
Born:
Lorenzo Cain, MLB centerfielder (World Series Champions, 2015; All-Star, 2015, 2018; Milwaukee Brewers, Kansas City Royals), in Valdosta, Georgia.
Died:
Stephen Stucker, 38, American actor (“Trading Places”, “Airplane”), from AIDS-related complications.
Johnny Dollar, 53, American country and rockabilly singer, by suicide.
Dorothy Ashby (née Thompson), 53, American jazz harpist, singer, and composer, of cancer.
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