An American was identified as one of the three men found dead of gunshot wounds near Beirut on Thursday. He was Peter Kilburn, 61 years old, a librarian at the American University in Beirut. He had been last seen on December 3, 1984. Officials had said all three victims were British. Mr. Kilburn’s body was found with those of Leigh Douglas, a political science professor, and Philip Padfield, the director of a language school. There was no definite word on the man authorities initially announced was dead, Alec Collett, a British freelance journalist who was seized near Beirut on March 25, 1985. On Thursday, he was mistakenly said to be one of the men who had been shot. The identification of the body as Mr. Kilburn’s was made by a physician at the American University Hospital in Beirut, Farid Fleihan, who was a longtime friend, according to the hospital. Mr. Kilburn, of San Francisco, was a librarian at the American University in Beirut.
Britain said today that it had “firm evidence of direct Libyan involvement” in the kidnapping of two British teachers who were killed in Lebanon in reprisal for the bombing raid by American F-111’s flying from British bases. A statement by Sir Geoffrey Howe, the Foreign Secretary, stopped short of charging the Government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with having ordered the execution of the hostages, whose bodies were discovered Thursday outside Beirut. But it said the British Government “had good reason to believe” the hostages, Philip Padfield and Leigh Douglas, “were in Libyan hands.” The term “Libyan hands” might be taken as meaning either the hands of terrorists directed by Libya or Libyan nationals, an official said, interpreting the Foreign Secretary’s statement. Asked whether the statement meant Libya had control of the hostages this week at the time of the bombing raid or, subsequently, their murder, the official replied that he could not be that specific. But he said what the authorities here knew was more than enough for them to hold Libya responsible for their fate. On Thursday, the leader of the Labor Party opposition, Neil Kinnock, said Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had “blood on her hands” because her agreement to the request made by President Reagan for the use of the bases here had led directly to the executions in Beirut.
President Reagan denied today that the United States was trying to kill Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi in its attack on the Libyan leader’s command post at El Azziziya barracks in Tripoli. “We weren’t out to kill anybody,” Mr. Reagan said today, in response to a question shouted to him by reporters as he made his way to a helicopter. Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger and a State Department spokesman also rejected suggestions that the Administration sought to use the reprisal raid on Libya to assassinate the colonel or encourage his ouster. Questions about American intent arose earlier this week when a senior White House official said that while the aim of the barracks raid was not to kill Colonel Qaddafi, it could nevertheless have killed him and the Reagan Administration would have considered such an outcome “serendipity.”
Tripoli today buried some of its dead from the raid early Tuesday by American planes as the country’s No. 2 leader dismissed reports of internal dissension. Twenty people said by officials and mourners to be victims of the raid were buried at the Martyr of Al-Hani cemetery in an atmosphere that mixed religious blessings with calls for revenge. “The martyr is beloved Allah,” was among the chants as some 5,000 mourners joined in the Friday call to prayers. They later accompanied the coffins to a graveyard littered with broken headstones.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev today characterized the American air strike on Libya as part of a “militaristic and aggressive” policy that he warned could damage relations between the Soviet Union and the United States. “The invocation of terrorism in no way gives the American Administration the right impudently to set itself up as an international judge, to high-handedly punish other countries and to replace the principles of international coexistence with the law of the jungle,” the Soviet leader said in an address to the East German Communist Party congress here. “All the more so,” Mr. Gorbachev said to heavy applause, “since it it is not at all a matter of terrorist attacks that have been decisively condemned by the world community.” Making his first appearance at an East European party congress since coming to power a year ago, Mr. Gorbachev unveiled what he called “a new initiative” to unblock the 13-year-old East-West negotiations in Vienna on conventional arms reductions. The Soviet party chief also called for deepened ties among the Warsaw Pact nations but conceded that they might individually pursue varying economic policies. He skirted the question of a possible visit to West Germany by Erich Honecker, the East German leader, but said nothing to suggest he opposed such a trip.
The police said today that they had arrested a man wanted for questioning about a bomb found Thursday in a woman’s luggage at Heathrow Airport. The police said the woman, who is pregnant, told them the man took her to Heathrow to board an El Al flight for Israel and gave her the bag with the bomb in it before he kissed her goodbye. The man, Nezar Hindawi, who a former employer said is Jordanian by birth, was arrested at a London hotel and did not resist. The woman, Anne-Marie Murphy, who was arrested at Heathrow, has told the police that she did not know she was carrying a bomb. She had cleared airport security without difficulty. But El Al’s security guards said Miss Murphy, who is Irish, looked different from the others checking in for Flight 016 to Tel Aviv, and they took extra care with her luggage. In previous news reports she had been described as looking Middle Eastern.
France said today that it was expelling four Libyans from the country because their activities were likely to “trouble public order.” The French Interior Ministry announced the expulsions in a terse communique that provided no details on the Libyans’ identities or the activities they planned to carry out. Agence France Presse reported tonight that the four men, all between the ages of 20 and 25, boarded a regular Libyan commercial flight to Tripoli. The agency said the four were carrying regular, not diplomatic, passports.
Many anxious American parents have been calling the State Department, student organizations, high schools, colleges and travel agencies. All were seeking reassurance about the advisability of sending their children to Europe. Since Monday, many high schools and parents have reluctantly canceled spring vacation tours. The American Council for International Studies, based in Boston, reported a 30 percent cancellation rate on flights this weekend. Mildred Diack began worrying the night Libya was bombed. Her 16-year-old son was scheduled to fly with schoolmates to London today. “I don’t know whether to let him go or not,” Mrs. Diack was still saying Thursday morning, torn between disappointing her son and insuring his safety. At 6:15 that evening, after a call from her husband saying a large retail company was calling back its buyers from Europe, she made her decision: “He’s not going.”
Airlines, cruise operators and travel agents, responding to cancellations from travelers nervous about visiting Europe and the Middle East, say they are beginning to offer incentives or divert travelers to other destinations rather than lose business altogether. Trans World Airlines has waived cancellation penalties on tickets for international flights and on ground excursions organized by the airline, through May 5. Pan American World Airways said it might move planes from Europe to the United States and discount fares for flights into southern Europe by 20 to 35 percent if the situation worsens. Sun Line Cruises restationed its 620-passenger flagship to New York from Athens this week, but the line said it would offer passengers on its two remaining Greek-based vessels free shore tours, which normally cost as much as $350 a person.
Bomb threats disrupted office work and delayed airline flights in cities in Europe and North and South America today. In Ankara Turkish security forces arrested two foreigners carrying a bomb outside the United States Officers’ Club and safely detonated the device. The security forces, alerted by a tip, spotted the men carrying a bag near the club tonight and challenged them, the official Turkish press agency said.
The United States said today it would welcome clarification of proposals made by Mr. Gorbachev in East Berlin on cutting conventional weapons. The State Department, saying the United States would study Mr. Gorbachev’s statement and “would welcome any clarification,” added that it was not clear whether he envisioned a new set of negotiations or an expansion of those already under way in Vienna. The State Department said that Western proposals at Vienna provided an excellent basis for progress and that Moscow had responded with “rehashed, old, unacceptable positions.”
Edgar M. Bronfman, president of the World Jewish Congress, called former Secretary General Kurt Waldheim “a man who is a proven liar” in a letter to Secretary of State George P. Shultz made public by the Jewish organization today. Mr. Waldheim, who is a candidate in Austria’s presidential election, is embroiled in a controversy that evolved after it was disclosed that he had been enrolled in Nazi-affiliated organizations and later was a German Army lieutenant in Greece and Yugoslavia at a time of brutal campaigns against Yugoslav partisans and the large-scale deportation of Jews to death camps. Mr. Waldheim has said he was not personally involved in any war crimes. Reached by telephone in Washington, Mr. Waldheim’s son, Gerhard, said: “We don’t want to have a confrontation with the World Jewish Congress. My father has never lied once in this affair, and he will be vindicated.”
Andrija Artukovic, the 86-year-old former minister in Croatia’s Nazi puppet Government, lapsed into disorientation at his war crimes trial today, saying he did not know where he was or what year it was. He also said he had been tortured for seven years in an English prison by Milovan Djilas, the Yugoslav dissident writer. “Where are you now?” the defendant was asked today. “I am near Zagreb,” he answered. “In what country?” “America,” he replied. ” What year is it now?” “I do not know, 1983 or 1984,” he said. The shift in Mr. Artukovc’s mood was sudden. Since Monday, when his trial opened, he has proudly showed his legal skills. Mr. Artukovic was extradited here from California two months ago to stand trial on charges of mass murder. Mr. Artukovic has denied the charges.
Two weeks after a prominent Greek industrialist was killed on a busy Athens street by a man who wore no mask and threatened witnesses with his gun, the Greek security police say they have no information on the assailant despite the widespread distribution of his description and the offering of a $350,000 reward. The industrialist, Dimitris Angelopoulos, the 79-year-old president of Halivourgiki, Greece’s largest iron and steel mills, was killed in daylight on April 7 as he walked to work, according to the police. They said that after shooting Mr. Angelopoulos, the gunman, who made no attempt to conceal his face, sped off on a motor bike driven by an accomplice.
Svetlana Alliluyeva, Stalin’s daughter, who has abandoned the Soviet Union for a second time, has again found refuge in this community and says life in her homeland was “hard and uncomfortable.” Miss Alliluyeva, who vowed in an interview in The Washington Post published today never to return to her native country, is in Spring Green, according to a friend, Robert Graves. “I think she looked fine, very comfortable and glad to be here,” he said. “She’s tired and resting. She’s simply staying in a guesthouse.”
Marcel Dassault, a major figure in aviation history, died in Paris. He was 94 years old. Mr. Dassault was the designer and builder of both civil and military aircraft in France. Among his planes were the Mystere and the delta-winged Mirage, which is used by air forces around the world.
Vietnam notified the United States today that it was suspending talks on resolving the question of Americans still listed as unaccounted for from the Vietnam War, the State Department said. In the official message to the United States Embassy in Bangkok, Hanoi said “the current situation is not favorable” for holding the next meeting on the missing-in-action Americans that had been set for next Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi, Bernard Kalb, the department’s spokesman, said. But Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach, at a meeting in New Delhi of the countries that describe themselves as nonaligned, said the discussions were being suspended because of the American air attacks on Libya.
Lawyers for the Philippine Government said in United States Federal Court in Manhattan yesterday that they would seek to place four New York City buildings that they contend belong to Ferdinand E. Marcos, the former President, in receivership. Morton Stavis, a lawyer for the new Government of President Corazon C. Aquino told Judge Pierre N. Laval that even the Marcoses were dissatisfied with the way Joseph and Ralph Bernstein, two New York City real estate businessmen, were managing three of the buildings. The four buildings, which the Bernsteins say are owned by the Marcoses, are reported to be worth more than $300 million.
President P. W. Botha announced today that the pass laws controlling where black people can live and work would no longer be enforced. For blacks, the pass laws are among the most hated aspects of apartheid. Blacks who have been convicted of violating pass laws, and those who are in jail awaiting trial, will be freed immediately, the President said in a speech to Parliament. Mr. Botha said that the passes carried by black people would be abolished and that a standard identity card would be issued for all races beginning in July. Government officials have not said whether the new ones would contain racial information or restrictions. Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, who was elected Archbishop of Cape Town this week, gave conditional praise to Mr. Botha’s announcement. “The moratorium and release of pass offenders can only be welcomed,” Bishop Tutu said. “However, I hope there is not a sting in the tail. One has to be very careful that they are not going to find another way of harassing blacks.”
The Federal Reserve discount rate was reduced a half-point, to 6 ½ percent, the lowest level in nearly eight years. The cut, effective Monday, was widely expected and followed a similar action earlier this week by another central bank, the Bank of France, which said it was the first step in a new round of coordinated rate reductions by the major industrial countries. The Bank of Japan reportedly is ready to cut its rate. In an announcement Saturday, Tokyo time, the Bank of Japan said it would cut its lending rate on Monday to 3 ½ percent from 4 percent. The Federal Reserve’s cut will also take effect Monday. The cut announced today in the Federal Reserve’s discount rate, which is its lending rate to financial institutions, was the second this year and the fifth half-point cut since mid-November 1984.
A Titan rocket carrying a secret military KH-9 Hexagon spy satellite payload exploded today in a large orange fireball seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, Air Force officials said. The explosion released a cloud of poisonous fumes and damaged the launching pad and 200 acres surrounding it. Sgt. Fred Bolinger, a Vandenberg spokesman, said tonight that at least 58 people were treated at the base hospital for skin and eye irritations. Of those injured, 47 were military and 11 were civilian employees of Vandenberg. Three of the military personnel were admitted for further observation, he said. Earlier, Air Force officials said there had been no injuries.
The spectacular explosion of a Titan rocket in California yesterday was the second major setback in less than a year at Vandenberg Air Force Base, the main West Coast launching site for military rockets and satellites. Last August, an upper stage of an Air Force Titan 34-D rocket was exploded high in the atmosphere after its flight began to go awry. Today, another Titan 34-D exploded seconds after liftoff. Vandenberg, which covers 154 square miles, including 35 miles of prime California coastline, is the third largest United States Air Force installation. The first American missile was launched here in 1958 and more than 1,500 have been launched since. The launching sites are on a bluff above the Pacific Ocean, the missiles usually heading out to sea.
The remains of all seven of the Challenger astronauts have apparently been identified and the space agency is nearing the completion of recovery operations at the site of the shattered crew compartment. Divers scouring the ocean floor where the shuttle’s crew compartment containing the remains of the crew was discovered six weeks ago reported today that they were making a “final cleanup” of the area, according to radio transmissions from search ships involved in the salvage operation. The reports on the identification of the remains came as an aerospace magazine said there were indications that the astronauts might have been alive in the craft’s 8.9-mile plunge into the ocean. However, some officials took issue with that conclusion. Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine reported today that enhanced photography of the launching showed the crew cabin was “severed” cleanly from the rest of the shuttle and apparently remained intact until hitting the sea. “There is a consensus developing among NASA engineers and officials who have seen this imagery that the seven-member Challenger crew may not have been subjected to fatal or debilitating G (gravity) loads and that it is likely some or all of them were conscious and aware of the crisis as the crew module fell for three to four minutes until impact.” the magazine said. “Some managers disagree with this assessment, however,” the magazine noted.
Saying he did not want “to run the risk of killing this bill,” Senator Bob Packwood, the chairman of the Finance Committee, today indefinitely postponed further voting on tax-revision legislation. The Senator, an Oregon Republican, said he had given up hope that a tax bill could be written in public, but added he believed a measure could be salvaged “in private consultations among the members” in the days ahead. Some opponents of changes in the tax law saw Senator Packwood’s decision as the beginning of the end of President Reagan’s drive to overhaul the Federal income tax system. But the consensus seemed to be that it was an inevitable turn in a difficult and still inconclusive legislative course.
President Reagan came to New York yesterday to urge the re-election of Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato and to help him raise $1 million. It was the President’s first trip outside Washington since the United States bombed Libya, but he did not mention the attack or the terrorism that touched it off. The subject, however, was plainly on the minds of 1,500 supporters of Mr. D’Amato who had paid at least $1,000 each for lunch at the Waldorf-Astoria. They greeted the President with several waves of applause when he entered the ballroom and again when Mr. D’Amato praised Mr. Reagan’s actions against Libya.
The New York Police Department took special precautions for President Reagan’s visit to New York yesterday, stepping up its usual security measures to guard against possible violence in the wake of the United States air attacks on Libya. Police officials said they used more officers, vehicles and equipment than in past Presidential visits to protect the Reagan motorcade from the Battery Park City Heliport to the Waldorf-Astoria for a fund-raising luncheon for Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato. However, in keeping with policy, the officials would not provide details.
President Reagan receives a group of aviators who fly the U.S. Park Police Eagle Rescue helicopters in the Diplomatic Reception Room.
Robert M. Gates becomes deputy director of CIA.
A former employee of the National Security Agency testified today that he had admitted spying for the Soviet Union because he thought cooperation with the authorities would win him immunity from prosecution. Ronald Pelton, the former agency employee, testified at a pretrial hearing that the two agents to whom he made incriminating statements last year persuaded him that he had a chance to be a “double agent” for American intelligence. Shortly after he finished the interviews, the Federal Bureau of Investigation agents arrested him on espionage charges. Most of the evidence used to indict Mr. Pelton came from his statements to the agents, and his lawyer, Fred Warren Bennett, has moved to exclude them from the trial, which is scheduled to begin next month.
Federal officials have agreed to allow distribution of some Italian wines that have been held in American ports because of concern over possible contamination by methyl alcohol, an Italian official said today. The agreement is to be announced on Monday, according to Gerardo Carante, the commercial counselor of the Italian Embassy. It was reached, he said, at a meeting between officials of the embassy, of the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and of American importers of Italian wine. A spokesman for the Federal agency, however, said some elements of the plan to release the wine were still under discussion. According to Mr. Carante, the agreement calls for unhindered admission of wines shown to have been bottled before December 12, the date that makers of cheap Italian wines are reported to have begun adding toxic wood alcohol to increase the alcoholic content of their wine. The adulteration has led to at least 20 deaths in Italy, officials there say.
A series of fire-bombings and vandalism that the authorities believe was aimed at law-enforcement and judicial officials in the small town of Holliday, Texas has led Texas Rangers and state troopers to join the two-man police force in patrolling the streets. Municipal Judge Bettye O. Tanner said she and police officers have had their lives threatened several times since some drug arrests were made last year in Holliday, a town of 1,500 people 140 miles northwest of Dallas. On Thursday, two businesses owned by city officials were firebombed and tires were slashed on vehicles belonging to officials.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is notifying the leaders of Indian tribes that it wants to review any contracts granted to outside companies to run bingo games, officials report. Some tribes have tried to run other gambling operations, and the Justice Department has expressed fear that organized crime might try to move in. Vince Lovett, a spokesman for the bureau, said today that 105 to 110 tribes were running bingo games, which some court rulings have exempted from state gambling regulations.
Two key defendants pleaded guilty today to charges that they conspired to illegally finance Roger Hedgecock’s successful 1983 mayoral campaign. The case resulted in Mr. Hedgecock’s felony conviction and forced him out of office. As a result of a plea agreement with the San Diego County District Attorney’s office, Nancy Hoover pleaded guilty to a felony conspiracy charge and Tom Shepard to a misdemeanor conspiracy charge in exchange for dismissal of 14 perjury charges each. The pleas and agreement were presented to Municipal Judge Robert Stahl, who scheduled sentencing for May 16. The agreement calls for fines and community service but no time in jail.
Los Angeles County attorneys said today that they would appeal to the State Supreme Court a decision permitting Elizabeth Bouvia to reject medical treatment. Mrs. Bouvia, a 28-year-old quadriplegic, became a symbol of the right-to-die movement two years ago when she was rebuffed in her request to starve to death in a hospital. In her latest case, a state appeals court affirmed her right to have a feeding tube removed, and medical personnel did so on Thursday. Steve Carneval, deputy counsel for the county, said today, “It’s a far-reaching decision, and we think the Supreme Court should be given a chance to review the case.” Mrs. Bouvia, who has cerebral palsy and progressive arthritis, is at a county hospital.
Dairy farmers will not be required to use hot irons to brand cows’ faces in order to participate in the Federal program for buying out herds, the Agriculture Department said today. On Wednesday, a Federal court in Rochester ruled that the department could not require such branding but did not forbid the voluntary use of hot irons by farmers to mark their animals. In a preliminary injunction sought by the Humane Society of Rochester and Monroe County, the judge said the method was unnecessarily cruel.
The Federal Aviation Administration today barred 59 of the 90 co-pilots of the commuter carrier Britt Airways from flying after some of them failed in-flight performance checks. An agency spokesman, Steve Hayes, said the decision to issue a “cease and desist” order against the co-pilots was made today as part of an broad inspection of the carrier. Based in Terre Haute, Indiana, it is the third largest regional airline in the nation.
The nation’s primary blood-collection agencies say they hope to track down more than 1,000 potential AIDS victims by widening the scope of a joint search effort begun in 1984. They have already attempted to identify patients who got blood from donors who were later diagnosed as AIDS patients. They are expanding that effort to blood from people who later tested positive for antibodies to the AIDS virus, who are considered possible carriers of the fatal disorder. Nearly all blood donated since March 1985 has been tested for AIDS antibodies and is considered safe. Today’s issue of The American Medical News, a newspaper published by the American Medical Association here, reported on the program.
IBM produces the first megabit-chip with the latest 3090 computer. The IBM 3090 family is a family of mainframe computers that was a high-end successor to the IBM System/370 series, and thus indirectly the successor to the IBM System/360 launched 25 years earlier. The 3090 family was the first commercial computer to use 1-megabit (1Mb) memory chips. These chips quadrupled storage density compared to 256-kilobit chips, enhancing performance and reducing physical space. It solidified IBM’s technological leadership and was heavily marketed for engineering/scientific applications with an optional vector facility.
Herman Graebe, a non-Jewish engineer who repeatedly risked his life to save Jews from the Nazis in World War II, died of a heart attack Thursday at St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco. He was 85 years old. Mr. Graebe, who joined the Nazi party in 1931, later renounced his membership and subsequently became the only German citizen to volunteer to testify for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials. As a civilian contractor for the Railroad Administration of the Third Reich, Mr. Graebe hired and protected hundreds of Jewish workers. He provided transit visas, false identities and medical care for Jews, German dissidents and Polish peasants. In a confrontation with an SS officer, he once rescued 100 Jewish workers from a Nazi pogrom. He later provided vital testimony in the Einsatzgruppen Trial, one of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials, invoking bitter persecution from many of his countrymen. To escape the hostility, Graebe moved his family to San Francisco in 1948, where he lived until his death. Hermann Graebe was honoured as a ‘Righteous Among the Nations’ by Yad Vashem.
Marcel Dassault, the French aircraft manufacturer and a major figure in aviation history, died today in Paris. He was 94 years old. Creator of such fighter planes as the Mystere and the distinctive, delta-winged Mirage, which is used by air forces around the world, Mr. Dassault had a remarkable career as a designer and builder of both civil and military aircraft that spanned most of this century and both World Wars. He survived imprisonment in the Buchenwald concentration camp in World War II and twice saw his aircraft manufacturing company nationalized by left-wing French Governments. But he was one of the richest men in France when he died. He was also the oldest member of the French Parliament.
Major League Baseball:
Dale Murphy and Bob Horner each hit two-run homers for Atlanta as the Braves defeated the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6–3. It was the fourth loss in a row for the Dodgers, and ended their string of 10 consecutive one-run decisions since the season opened. Murphy drilled his third homer of the year to right-center in the first off Fernando Valenzuela after Rafael Ramirez had beaten out a single to shortstop. The Braves added another run in the first on singles by Horner and Terry Harper and a sacrifice foul fly by Ken Oberkfell. Valenzuela (1–1) got the loss.
Pete O’Brien, Steve Buechele and Pete Incaviglia hit home runs as Texas broke open a close game in the middle innings, and went on to rout the Orioles, 12–3. O’Brien hit a three-run shot in the Rangers’ six-run fifth to chase the Orioles’ starter, Scott McGregor (1–1). Buechele opened the sixth with his third homer in as many games, and later that inning, Incaviglia hit his second of the season with two men on base.
Bruce Hurst pitched a three-hitter, and Tony Armas threw out the tying run at the plate in the eighth, giving the Boston Red Sox a 2–1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. Hurst (1–1) walked three and struck out 11 in posting his second complete game in two starts.
The California Angels bested the Minnesota Twins, 6–5. Reggie Jackson hit his 534th career homer, tying Jimmie Foxx for seventh place on the all-time list, and drove in three runs to spark California. Wally Joyner homered off Mike Smithson, 1–2, with one out in the first and Jackson followed with his fourth homer of the season to give California a 2–0 lead. For Jackson, now two homers shy of Mickey Mantle’s sixth place total, it was also career RBI No. 1,609. He later had a pair of RBI singles for 1,611 runs batted in, passing Goose Goslin for 17th on the all-time list. The Angels made it 3–0 in the third.
Jim Morrison went 4 for 4, including a bases-empty homer in the eighth inning and a run-scoring single in a three-run third, helping Pittsburgh spoil Chicago’s home opener, shutting out the Cubs, 4–0. Rick Rhoden (2–0) combined with three relievers on a nine-hitter. It marked the fourth straight victory for the Pirates, their longest winning streak since they won six in a row in September 1984. Rick Sutcliffe (0–3) was the losing pitcher.
The Houston Astros beat the Cincinnati Reds, 6–4. Phil Garner and Alan Ashby hit home runs as Houston took advantage of Mario Soto’s inconsistency. The right-hander Mike Scott (1–2) threw a six-hitter for his first victory in three starts. He struck out a career-high nine batters, but needed last-out relief help from Dave Smith, who picked up his fourth save. Soto (1–1) failed to hold a 2–1 lead after the third inning.
The Tigers’ Lance Parrish drove in four runs, three with a first-inning homer, and Frank Tanana pitched a six-hitter to spark Detroit to a 6–1 win over the visiting Cleveland Indians. Tanana (1–1) gave up two of his hits to the first two batters in the second but got three straight outs and cruised the rest of the way. Larry Herndon singled to open the game against the losing pitcher, Ken Schrom (2–1), and the shortstop Julio Franco dropped Harry Spilman’s high pop fly near the foul line in left field for an error. Schrom got two pop-ups but Parrish drilled a 3–0 pitch into the upper deck in left for a 3–0 lead.
The Brewers edged the Yankees, 6–5. Ernie Riles’ one-out single in the eighth inning off New York reliever Bob Shirley drove in the winning run as the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a five-game losing streak. Rookie Dan Plesac pitched the final four innings for Milwaukee to earn his first major league victory. He struck out four and allowed no hits.
Mike Heath drove in three runs with a two-run homer and a double, and John Tudor became the major leagues’ first three-game winner as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Montreal Expos, 4–2, today. Tudor allowed seven hits, struck out four and walked two before leaving with two out in the ninth after Tim Wallach’s double drove home Andre Dawson with Montreal’s second run. Todd Worrell got the final out for his third save. The Cards made the score 4–1 in the ninth on four straight walks by the Montreal reliever George Riley.
Ron Darling and Jesse Orosco combined on a five-hitter and Ray Knight and George Foster both had two-run singles to give the New York Mets a 5–2 victory over Philadelphia. Darling, who gave up four hits in seven innings, beat Steve Carlton, 0–2, who allowed five hits and struck out 10 over 6s innings. But Carlton, trying to win his first game since last May 20, could not overcome his eight walks, four that came in a three-run first inning. Darling, 1–0, also got off to a shaky start, allowing a one-out home run to Milt Thompson in the first inning.
Alfredo Griffin stole home from second base, and Dave Kingman singled home two runs in a four-run third inning to lead the Oakland A’s to a 4–1 win over the Mariners in Seattle. Chris Codiroli (2–1) gave up four hits in seven and two-thirds innings, striking out four and walking two. In the third, Griffin was racing full speed from second as Mike Moore walked Dwayne Murphy. He never stopped, and by the time the Seattle pitcher made a hurried throw to the plate, Griffin was almost there. The home plate umpire, Jim McKean, was in the way as well, and Moore’s desperate throw eluded his catcher, Steve Yeager.
It hasn’t taken San Francisco right-hander Scott Garrelts long to master the intricacies of the split-fingered fastball. Only three starts, as a matter of fact. The converted reliever tossed a three-hitter Friday night in leading the Giants to a 6–1 victory over the San Diego Padres. “Going into the ninth inning, Scott had thrown 90 pitches and (catcher Bob) Brenly said 50 of them were split-fingered,” said Giants manager Roger Craig. “He’s gonna have a great one. Heck, he already has a great one.” Garrelts, 2–1, lost his bid for a second career shutout by giving up a one-out homer to Terry Kennedy in the ninth. Jeffrey Leonard gave Garrelts all the offensive support he needed by hitting a three-run homer in the first inning.
Dennis Leonard scattered seven hits over seven innings, and Rudy Law doubled home two runs to lead the Kansas City Royals over the Toronto Blue Jays, 6–4. Leonard, who in his previous outing blanked the Blue Jays on a three-hitter, struck out five and walked one while bringing his record to 2–0. Dan Quisenberry worked the final two innings for his second save.
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Atlanta Braves 6
Texas Rangers 12, Baltimore Orioles 3
Chicago White Sox 1, Boston Red Sox 2
Minnesota Twins 5, California Angels 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Chicago Cubs 0
Houston Astros 6, Cincinnati Reds 4
Cleveland Indians 1, Detroit Tigers 6
New York Yankees 5, Milwaukee Brewers 6
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Montreal Expos 2
Philadelphia Phillies 2, New York Mets 5
Oakland Athletics 4, Seattle Mariners 1
San Diego Padres 1, San Francisco Giants 6
Kansas City Royals 6, Toronto Blue Jays 4
The stock market was mixed yesterday, with blue-chip stocks getting the bulk of the selling pressure, as investors began doubting that the Federal Reserve Board intended to reduce the discount rate. After the market closed for the day, however, those fears proved unfounded as the rate the Fed charges on loans to financial institutions was cut a half-point, to 6 ½ percent. After setting records in the earlier part of the week, the Dow Jones industrial average was ripe for profit taking and responded by declining 14.63 points, to 1,840.40. Even with that drop the Dow gained 50.22 points for the week.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1840.4 (-14.63)
Born:
Billy Butler, MLB designated hitter and first baseman (All-Star, 2012; Kansas City Royals, Oakland A’s, New York Yankees), in Orange Park, Florida.
Sundiata Gaines, NBA point guard and shooting guard (Utah Jazz, Minnesota Timberwolves, Toronto Raptors, New Jersey Nets), in Jamaica, New York.
Taylor Griffin, NBA small forward (Phoenix Suns), in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Vaughn Martin, Jamaican-Canadian NFL defensive tackle (San Diego Chargers, Miami Dolphins), in Lucea, Hanover, Jamaica.
Haruki Nakamura, NFL safety (Baltimore Ravens, Carolina Panthers), in Elyria, Ohio.
Died:
Marcel Dassault [Bloch], 94, French airplane engineer and manufacturer.
Herman Graebe, 85, German manager and engineer, turned against the Nazis and testified against them at the Nuremberg trials.
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