More than half the members of the House of Representatives asked President Reagan to continue observing the arms ceiling set by the unratified second strategic arms limitation treaty. In a letter, 221 of the 435 representatives — 22 Republicans and 199 Democrats — said that U.S. security “is best served by requiring both the United States and the Soviet Union to oversee limits on offensive forces.” A majority of the Senate previously wrote Reagan urging continued compliance with the pact.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators marched and burned American flags yesterday in Britain, West Germany, Italy and Sweden to protest the American air strike against Libya. In London, the police said they arrested 67 protesters after clashes in which three officers were hurt and the city’s busiest shopping street blocked. In Dublin, Danny Morrison, national director of Sinn Fein, the legal political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, extended sympathy to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, and pledged Irish nationalism’s solidarity with Libya. Colonel Qaddafi has reportedly contributed funds to the I.R.A. in its fight to oust Britain from Northern Ireland.
Washington will go ahead in May with curbs on agricultural imports from the European Communities in retaliation for the introduction of Common Market levies on imports by Spain and Portugal, Agriculture Secretary Richard E. Lyng said. Washington maintains that the levies will cost U.S. farmers an estimated $1 billion a year in lost sales and has demanded compensation. Restrictions on European exports will be put into place next month by the Reagan Administration in retaliation for lost American food sales to Portugal and Spain, senior European and American trade officials said. They made the announcement after admitting failure in their latest attempt to resolve trans-Atlantic trade disputes caused by the Spanish and Portuguese entry into the European Common Market at the start of the year.
The Reagan Administration has no intention of destabilizing right-wing, pro-American dictatorships in Asia or Latin America, Administration officials say, despite the American role in the departures of Ferdinand E. Marcos from the Philippines and Jean-Claude Duvalier from Haiti. In recent interviews, the officials say Washington will continue to press quietly for gradual democratic changes in such countries as South Korea, Chile and Taiwan. But they said no dramatic action was contemplated that might allow Communist or other leftist factions to gain ground. “It’s not our job to beat up on these friendly regimes,” a senior official said. “A bigger problem for the United States is Soviet clients and their passion for destabilizing their neighbors.” Key Question: What Follows? Some officials have sought to dampen speculation about the emergence of a tougher line on pro-Western dictatorships, saying the key question for American security is what may come after such a ruler is dislodged.
Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s Government has been embarrassed by the disclosure to the press of a secret accord governing West Germany’s industrial role in the Reagan Administration’s research program on antimissile defenses. On Friday, the Cologne tabloid Express published the text of the accord, which was signed in Washington on March 27 by West Germany’s Economics Minister, Martin Bangemann, and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. The newspaper and an energy newsletter also plan to publish copies of accompanying letters to the agreements on research on the program commonly known as “Star Wars.” As with a similar memorandum of understanding reached with Britain in December, the Pentagon had requested that the text be kept secret. Well-placed American officials said this was because the Pentagon will be negotiating such understandings with several countries and did not want to weaken its bargaining leverage by disclosures of what had been conceded to other countries.
Protestant crowds in Ulster attacked a police station and Roman Catholic homes in Portadown and set a Catholic church ablaze in Lisburn, badly damaging the structure. Seven rioters were arrested, and one officer was injured while defending the police station. It was the third night of violence after the death of a Protestant man hit by a police plastic bullet fired at demonstrators. The Protestants oppose an accord giving the Irish Republic a voice in Northern Ireland.
On Palm Sunday, the Zurich police took a 29-year-old Polish citizen who had been refused asylum in Switzerland to Kloten International Airport and put him aboard a flight for Warsaw. The man, who had been hoping to receive a Canadian visa, had been living in Zurich since Dec. 11, 1981, two days before the imposition of martial law in his homeland. He had asked for political asylum after hearing that he was being sought by the Polish police in connection with his links to the independent labor union Solidarity. “He came to me quite late, and because I thought he was in danger I tried to help him,” said the man’s Swiss attorney, Eduard Barcikowski, who, like the Swiss authorities, refused to name him. “He tried to marry a Swiss woman to stay here. And it would have been a few days before he would have married her. But it was too late.”
Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said today that Italy would respond with “severity” to any new Libyan attacks on Italian territory, and a senior aide said this meant Italy would take military action. The Italian leader also said the number of Italians in Libya had been cut in half in recent months to 4,000. Mr. Craxi’s statements and those of a senior aide were the toughest by a European ally since the American raid on Libya early Tuesday morning. They followed criticism by United States officials Wednesday that the allies had not done enough to counter terrorism or, with the exception of Britain, support the American action.
Four Libyans were arrested in Turkey in connection with what was apparently a plot to attack a United States officers’ club in Ankara, State Department officials said today. According to officials here, two Libyans were stopped by Turkish policemen Friday night outside the club because they looked suspicious. One of them tried to throw away a bag containing grenades and other explosives as they sought to escape. After their capture, the Turkish authorities picked up two more Libyans, a student and teacher, officials said.
Having completed the forced adoption of Bulgarian names by the minority ethnic Turks last year, the Bulgarian Government is now pressing a campaign to deny that the Turkish minority ever existed. As late as October 1984, Bulgaria said in a note to the United Nations that “Bulgarian citizens of Turkish, Gypsy, Jewish, Greek and other origins” lived in this country. Earlier this year, however, the national daily Otechestven Front — the name means Fatherland Front — published the findings of what it called a 30-year-long anthropological and morphological study of exhumed skulls from an area of ethnic Turks. It said the study proved that since the Middle Ages, only pure Bulgarians had existed there.
Most of OPEC’s 13 member nations favor a proposal to reimpose oil production limits for the summer quarter, officials said today after a fifth day of talks. No official decision was made, and James Audu, the chief OPEC spokesman, said the ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would meet again Sunday, but it was uncertain whether full agreement would be reached before the group’s next meeting. June 25 in Yugoslavia. A senior Venezuelan delegate said 10 countries accepted a proposal to limit OPEC production to between 16 million and 16.5 million barrels a day for the June-September quarter. The output ceiling would rise to slightly more than 17 million in the fall quarter, he said. Conference sources said Libya, Iran and Algeria opposed the plan. OPEC production is now estimated at 17 million barrels a day. In December, OPEC abandoned all production and price controls.
The Israeli government is taking steps to expel 49 members of the Black Hebrews sect arrested last week in a suburb of Tel Aviv, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. The daily newspaper Yediot Aharonot, which first reported the arrests, said the Interior Ministry charged that the sect members do not have the proper work permits to legally stay in Israel. The Black Hebrews came to Israel from the United States and claimed to be descendants of biblical Israelites, but the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that they are not Jews and not eligible for automatic citizenship.
Christian and Muslim militiamen observed a brief truce to allow the body of slain American hostage Peter Kilburn to be borne across the battle line between West and East Beirut and turned over to the U.S. Embassy, an embassy spokesman said. The body was reportedly flown out of Beirut later in the day, but its destination was not disclosed. The body of Kilburn, 62, a librarian at the American University of Beirut, was found outside of Beirut on Thursday, along with those of two Britons kidnaped in March. A note with the bodies said the three were killed to avenge the U.S. attack on Libya. Kilburn was the first U.S. hostage in Lebanon whose murder has been confirmed.
More than a dozen bombs and missiles from the American air raids early Tuesday appear to have missed an air base and hit two farms about two miles away, according to evidence seen by reporters on visits to the farms today. Adding to scores of civilian casualties in other civilian areas reportedly hit, the evidence raises questions about the accuracy of the American pilots and the political benefit resulting from the raid, Western diplomats here said. In another development, Libyan officials said that a bomb that failed to explode when it was dropped by American warplanes blew up tonight in a residential district, wounding a man and two boys. The officials said the man lost his right hand and was badly wounded in the chest and arms. They said the boys were only slightly hurt.
Afghanistan and Pakistan have accepted a new document as a basis for a new round of talks focused on reaching an agreement on the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, a high-ranking United Nations official said today. The official, Diego Cordovez, Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs, said he had spent the last few weeks drafting the document and had submitted it to the Foreign Ministers of Afghanistan and Pakistan this week. The two Foreign Ministers, Shah Mohammad Dost of Afghanistan and Sahabzada Yaqub Khan of Pakistan, have been in New Delhi for a meeting of foreign ministers of the nations espousing nonalignment.
The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto said today that General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq must give up power this year and that elections must be held by fall. “There will be elections this year and Zia will go,” she said. “The question is, ‘Does Zia go gracefully or does Zia not go gracefully?’ ” Miss Bhutto, the 32-year-old leader of the Pakistan People’s Party, who has been greeted at huge rallies since returning to Pakistan April 10, made her demand for elections by fall at a news conference. General Zia has said no elections will take place until 1990. She said she had inside information that the administration was “in full panic” because of the big opposition rallies, but declined to give details.
No dramatic action against dictators is planned by the Reagan Administration, despite the American role in the departures of Ferdinand E. Marcos from the Philippines and Jean-Claude Duvalier from Haiti, Administration officials say. The officials said in interviews that Washington will continue to press quietly for gradual democratic change in such countries as South Korea, Chile and Taiwan. They ruled out dramatic action that might allow Communist or other leftist factions to gain ground.
Sandinista leaders have expressed surprise and concern at what they view as insufficient worldwide condemnation of the United States air raid on Libya last week. In the past, the Sandinistas have expressed fear of an American military strike against Nicaragua. They say they believe world opinion can help prevent it and have repeatedly warned Washington that international condemnation would follow any American attack here.
A high United States official ended a two-day visit to Liberia yesterday during which he sought to resolve a political standoff between President Samuel K. Doe and opposition leaders demanding his resignation, a Reagan Administration aide said. But an opposition coalition spokesman, who is in the United States, said yesterday that the opposition would not accept any proposals to end Liberia’s economic and political problems that included General Doe’s remaining in power. The coalition has accused him of rigging an Oct. 15 election that gave him the title President, of creating political instability and ignoring economic problems. “A group of Liberian churchmen is trying to foster a dialogue,” the Reagan aide said. “The situation has not reached an impasse. Our intention is the same as the churchmen — to get a diologue going between the opposition and Doe.”
Seven people, including two children, died as a result of violence in South Africa, authorities said. A black council member’s baby was burned to death when arsonists set fire to his house in Middelburg, and the father killed two of the attackers. Another black man, also believed to be a local council member, was found dead nearby, and at Randfontein, near Johannesburg, a black man burned to death when rioters set fire to his car. In Transkei, a black boy, 12, and a white man died of injuries suffered in the bombing of a resort hotel.
The public is even more bullish on the economy than when the current recovery began in 1983, with 83% expecting the upswing to last until the end of 1986 and 58% predicting that it will continue into 1988 and beyond, the Gallup Poll reported. In September, 1983, only 43% thought recovery would last beyond the end of 1984. The optimism is prevalent among all major sex, age, educational, economic and political segments, the poll found. It attributed the rosy outlook in part to low inflation, oil prices and interest rates. The findings were based on telephone interviews with 1,004 adults March 7 to 10.
The White House has sent the General Accounting Office a report on Michael K. Deaver’s role in Administration discussions on acid rain before he quit as deputy chief of staff to become a lobbyist for Canada on acid rain and other issues, the Washington Post reported. The GAO is investigating a possible conflict of interest by Deaver, but the White House report draws no conclusions. The newspaper said that some who participated in the talks last spring believed Deaver tried to change President Reagan’s policy on acid rain but others said he merely was concerned with the public relations aspects of a meeting with Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada, which had been pressing for a U.S. acid rain cleanup.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on oil prices. President Reagan, attributing falling oil and gasoline prices to his Administration’s lifting of controls on all domestic oil, today called for the complete decontrol of natural gas prices and production to further reduce energy prices. Mr. Reagan rejected the idea of a tax on imported oil as “a step backward” into more government regulation of markets. Calling the decontrol of oil prices “a success,” he said the government should free up “all remaining energy prices,” adding, “That means doing to domestic gas what we did to domestic oil — decontrolling it.” In his regular Saturday radio address, Mr. Reagan said members of Congress and others objected that the 1981 decontrol of production limits and prices of crude oil would push prices higher and urged greater governmental intervention such as gasoline rationing.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Lucas.”
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today that it had recovered remains of each of the seven Challenger astronauts and had finished its operations to retrieve the wreckage of the space shuttle’s crew compartment from the ocean floor. In a statement released at the Kennedy Space Center, Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, who heads the NASA team studying the Challenger explosion, said recovery operations of the crew compartment were completed Friday, after divers and a remote-controlled submersible craft wrapped up a final weeklong video sweep of the site, located in about 87 feet of water 17 miles northeast of here. Referring to the remains of the seven astronauts, the statement added that “final forensic work and future planning in accordance with family desires will be completed within the next several days, and will be announced when appropriate.”
The loss of a Titan rocket and its secret military payload here Friday appears to be a serious blow to the national security interests of the United States, according to aerospace experts outside the Government. At worst, the experts said today, the loss of an advanced spy satellite, which is believed to have been carried by the Titan, will make the negotiating of arms control treaties with the Soviet Union more difficult. Photographs from such satellites are used to count missiles, to observe the Soviet military and to monitor compliance with arms control treaties. Although Air Force officials will say only that the destroyed payload was secret, aerospace experts outside the Government believe it was a KH-11 photographic reconnaissance satellite that was meant to have been launched into polar orbit around the earth.
The Supreme Court has rejected a request to allow radio broadcasting of next Wednesday’s oral arguments on the constitutionality of the new Federal budget-balancing law. But some advocates of broadcasting the Court’s public proceedings saw the 6-to-3 vote, taken at the Court’s conference on Friday, as a sign of movement in their direction. The votes of Justices William J. Brennan Jr., Thurgood Marshall and John Paul Stevens in favor of the request, together with a strong statement in favor of unrestricted broadcasting by Justice Brennan earlier this week, appeared to mark the first clear public endorsement of any broadcasting of the Court by any sitting Justice.
Federal judges and court officials around the country are racing the clock to achieve mandatory budget cuts. If they fail, administrators say, the courts could be closed temporarily in September. Spending reductions have been ordered across the board by the Administrative Office of the United States Courts in Washington in response to the budget-balancing law. The law requires a cut of 4.3 percent in nearly all Federal activities in the current fiscal year, which began October 1. For the Federal judiciary, from the Supreme Court to district probation offices, that means a trim of $42 million.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a three-day assault this week on the Democratic Party’s drift to the right in an event designed to consolidate his political authority as he considers a Presidential bid in 1988. “The party right now does not have a clear identity,” he said today at a news conference ending the convention of his National Rainbow Coalition. “We will put forward live alternatives to a paralyzed Democratic Party.” The Reagan Administration was not spared criticism, either, as hundreds of people gathering in Washington endorsed Mr. Jackson’s agenda.
Global demand for United States farm products is dropping sharply, while Americans’ taste for imported food is rising. Farm products now make up less than 14 percent of the total value of all American exports, the lowest level since 1940, according to the Department of Commerce. The value of farm exports from October through February dropped to $12.8 billion, 20 percent below the comparable period the year before, the Agriculture Department said. Department economists, who have already reduced their forecast of agricultural export sales for the year to $28 billion, say that they may have to lower it again next month. In the same five months, American food imports totaled $8.6 billion, 6 percent ahead of the comparable period the year before. At the current pace, imports are likely to top $21 billion this year, a record, according to the Department of Agriculture.
The Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, which represents strikers at Trans World Airlines, plans to present a new proposal to the company when the two sides meet Thursday for the first time in nearly a month, its president said. Victoria Frankovich said the union has been preparing a proposal based on a new study by airline industry analysts. About 5,700 attendants struck the airline March 7 after the company imposed new work rules.
The Indianola, Mississippi, school board planned to reopen schools Monday for the first time in a week after Willie Spurlock, a black leader of the group coordinating a boycott protesting the appointment of a white superintendent, said he would help bring students back. School officials said the support of Spurlock, chairman of the Indianola Concerned Citizens Group, was essential because 80% of the system’s students were honoring the boycott. The school boycott and picketing began March 26, after a 3-2 board vote — split along racial lines — to hire a white educator as superintendent of the overwhelmingly black district.
The parents of at least 15 students plan to enroll their children at a makeshift school in nearby Russiaville rather than expose them to a classmate who has AIDS, a parents’ spokesman says. The school could open as early as next Tuesday in an old American Legion building, the spokesman, Mitzie Johnson, chairman of Concerned Citizens and Parents, said Friday. She said the decision to open the school was made because “AIDS is there,” referring to Western Middle School, where 11 students withdrew after Ryan White, a 14-year-old student who contracted acquired immune deficiency syndrome while being treated for hemophilia, was allowed to return when a judge threw out an injunction barring him from the classroom.
A woman accused of throwing six of her young children into a bayou, drowning a daughter and critically injuring a son, was charged with murder and attempted murder today. A city employee pulled the children from Buffalo Bayou near downtown Houston on Friday after he saw the woman, Juana Leija, 29 years old, struggling with the children, the police said. A 5-year-old girl, also named Juana Leija, died Friday night at St. Joseph’s Hospital, said Sgt. Brian Foster of the police homicide squad, and her 6-year-old brother was in critical condition. The police said the children had been under water for at least 30 minutes. Three other girls were taken to a hospital for observation, and an 11-year-old was released to the custody of child welfare officials. The police said she told them she was having marital problems and “she didn’t want her babies to live in this bad world anymore.”
About 100 anti-abortion activists were arrested in Clayton, Missouri, after trying to stop women from entering an abortion clinic, authorities said. Those arrested were to be charged with trespassing and resisting arrest, St. Louis County police said. Many of the demonstrators were from out of state, police said, adding that there was no violence.
Elizabeth Bouvia, who won a court decision to stop doctors from force-feeding her, says she still wants to die, but not in High Desert Hospital here. “I don’t know when it will happen or where,” Mrs. Bouvia, 28 years old, a quadriplegic, said in an interview here. “I would like to be out of this hospital.” After the court decision this week, doctors at High Desert, a county hospital, removed the nasogastric tube they inserted January 16 to force-feed her with nutrients. She said she is now taking a liquid protein and gelatin diet, and does not plan to starve herself as she tried to do at Riverside General Hospital in 1983.
Mazda Motor Corp. recalled more than 100,000 new Japanese-made model 626 cars in its third and fourth major recalls of 1986. The company said that in 36,671 of the vehicles a throttle rotor could stick to a bushing in cold weather, resulting in uncontrolled acceleration, usually just after the car has been started. On an additional 64,688 cars, pollution hoses were installed backward at the factory.
The Kellogg Company has ordered a 16-state recall of Just Right cereal after metal shavings were found in two batches, but it says the tainted cereal would not be harmful if eaten. The recall of more than 43,800 boxes of the cereal was ordered Friday after the shavings were found in three boxes in Nashville and Knoxville, Tennessee, a Kellogg spokesman said.
Automated cars rolling smoothly on an elevated track began service this weekend on a 1.9-mile loop through downtown, carrying passengers and the hopes of Miami’s beleaguered mass transit system. The $148 million dual track system, the Metromover, is the first urban use of the automated people-mover technology that has become a familiar conveyance at airports like those in Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa and Dallas-Fort Worth that shuttle passengers between terminals and departure gates. Miami’s system also is the first designed to connect with an existing heavy rail system of mass transit, Metrorail. Low Ridership on Metrorail Miami area transit officials are optimistic that the connection will entice suburban commuters to abandon their automobiles and congested highways to use Metrorail, the $1 billion system that began operating in 1984 and has been plagued by low ridership.
Hunger in America comes into focus in the Ozarks, where the philosophy of self-help as espoused by President Reagan is as strong as anywhere in the country. Inadequate nutrition, which for two decades was found largely among blacks in the South, has become a problem for the “new poor” — the newly unemployed, the underemployed, the homeless, many farmers and people like Lotus Franks, a 41-year-old disabled construction worker, who lives in the Ozarks in Arkansas. Lotus Franks, a 41-year-old former construction worker, has a heart ailment and is almost blind from eye disease. He has a wife and six children, and mounting medical bills that wreck his budget. So he does something many mountain men refuse to do, no matter how destitute: He applies for food stamps. Every month, to reduce his grocery bill by $231, Mr. Franks says, he swallows his pride and fills in the hated government form. It not only demands a recitation of the applicant’s “life history,” as Mr. Franks put it, but it also asks such questions as who is living in his house and whether any family member has received a gift. The value of some gifts must be deducted from the next allotment of stamps.
Bias against women in the New York State court system is so pervasive that “they are often denied equal justice,” according to a report by a special state task force that studied the courts for almost two years. The 23-member panel — set up in May 1984 by Lawrence H. Cooke, then the state’s Chief Judge — concluded that female lawyers were “routinely” demeaned and treated patronizingly by male judges and attorneys. And it found that the credibility of female witnesses was sometimes questioned because women were viewed by some judges as emotional and untrustworthy. Calling the situation grave, the panel said some judges did not understand the nature of family violence and blamed the victims for it.
Two tornadoes spawned by thunderstorms struck the west Texas city of Sweetwater today, killing at least one person, injuring 90 and causing millions of dollars in damage, the authorities said. The tornadoes dipped from the clouds in succession at about 7:30 AM, came together and cut a path of destruction a half-mile wide and two miles long, knocking out power and some phone lines, said Mayor Rick Rhodes, who imposed a 7:30 PM curfew. The National Guard was called out to keep order in the town. About 600 homes were destroyed and 200 others were damaged, Mr. Rhodes said.
The Louis Vieux, reigning king of American elms, has been dethroned. The emphatic defeat of the 99-foot tree in Kansas by a 125-foot elm in Virginia is the most surprising news from this year’s reckoning of the country’s largest trees. Word of the Kansas tree’s loss of status came in the American Forestry Association’s 1986 register of the largest living specimen of each of the 650-odd species of trees in the nation. For nearly half a century the association has kept score on the giants, a search for arboreal greatness intended to build appreciation for trees of all sizes. The Louis Vieux, named for a 19th-century pioneer who once owned it, is so admired in its prairie homeland that it was officially designated a one-tree state forest.
The Atlanta Hawks came up with a one-two punch that shot the lights out Saturday and shoved the Detroit Pistons to the brink of elimination in the first round of the NBA playoffs. Dominique Wilkins scored a club record-tying 50 points and Randy Wittman added a career-high 35 as the Hawks downed the Pistons 137–125 to take a 2–0 lead in the best-of-5 series that resumes in Detroit Tuesday night. In other games, Magic Johnson turned it on in the clutch to lead the defending champion Los Angeles Lakers past the San Antonio Spurs 122–94 and the Houston Rockets defeated the Sacramento Kings 111–103.
Michael Spinks beats Larry Holmes in 15 for heavyweight boxing title. Michael Spinks proved he is no fluke as a heavyweight champion. Spinks retained his International Boxing Federation heavyweight title tonight, winning a 15-round split decision from Larry Holmes. It was Holmes whom he beat last September on what many boxing experts thought was an off night for the then-champion. But the 29-year-old Spinks confounded the experts and the oddsmakers, who had made Holmes an 8-5 favorite. Spinks did it with a gallant and savvy fight, letting a very determined Holmes commit his energies to the early rounds and then, from Round Eight, coming on strong. Spinks’s left hook landed repeatedly during the bout, and he outpunched Holmes at close quarters and long range. Judge Jerry Roth scored the bout 144–142 for Spinks, and Judge Frank Brunette had it 144–141 for the champion. Judge Joe Cortez gave it to Holmes, 144–141.
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Zane Smith pitched a two-hitter and Terry Harper singled in two first-inning runs as the Atlanta Braves defeated Los Angeles, shutting out the Dodgers, 3–0. It was the Dodgers’ fifth consecutive loss and left them with a 3–9 record, equaling their worst start since 1976. The only hits off Smith were singles by Bill Russell in the fifth inning and Enos Cabell in the ninth. Smith, 1-0, walked four and struck out five. The Braves got to Orel Hershiser, 1-2, when he experienced early control problems. With two away, he walked Dale Murphy, Bob Horner singled and Ted Simmons walked to load the bases. Harper then followed with a ground single to left. Atlanta added a run in the seventh on Horner’s sacrifice fly off reliever Ken Howell. The fly ball to center field scored Rafael Ramirez who had singled and gone to third on Murphy’s single that chased Hershiser.
Eddie Murray has a double and grand slam to drive in 5 runs, keying a 14-hit attack for Baltimore, as the Orioles outgun the Texas Rangers, 10–4. Murray’s 13th career grand slam broke a 1-1 tie with two outs in the fifth inning. The Orioles loaded the bases in the fifth with successive singles by Rick Dempsey, Juan Bonilla and Alan Wiggins, which finished Mickey Mahler (0-1). Dave Rozema struck out Lee Lacy and retired Cal Ripken on a line drive before Murray hit a long drive into the right-field bleachers for his second home run of the season. Mike Boddicker (1-0) earned the victory for Baltimore, pitching the first five and one-third innings. He surrendered four runs on seven hits and four walks before getting relief help from Rich Bordi and Don Aase, who picked up his third save. The Rangers rallied for three runs in the sixth. After Texas loaded the bases, Don Slaught’s two-run single finished Boddicker. Bordi got Steve Buechele to ground into a force-out, and Curtis Wilkerson followed with a double that scored one run, but Buechele was thrown out at the plate on the play trying to score the tying run.
The Boston Red Sox edged the Chicago White Sox, 3–2. Don Baylor’s force-out drove in the tying run, and the go-ahead run scored on the play when the Chicago shortstop Ozzie Guillen threw wildly, allowing the Red Sox to rally in the eighth inning. Held to one run and five hits for seven innings by Rich Dotson, the Red Sox spoiled the veteran right-hander’s bid for his first victory since last June 2. With the Red Sox trailing by 2-1, Wade Boggs opened the Boston eighth with a double off the left-field wall, breaking an 0-for-15 slump and finishing Dotson. The reliever Juan Agosto walked Bill Buckner on a full-count pitch. Bob James replaced Agosto, and Jim Rice, attempting to sacrifice, popped a bunt to the right of the mound and beat it out for a single, filling the bases. Baylor hit a grounder past the mound that Guillen fielded and stepped on second, forcing the pinch-runner Steve Lyons as Boggs scored the tying run. Guillen, hit by Lyons’s slide, threw wildly to first trying for a double play and Buckner scored all the way from second on the error.
The California Angels squeaked by the Minnesota Twins, 5–4. Dick Schofield’s three-run home run in the fourth inning broke a 2-2 tie, and Jim Slaton won his first game at Anaheim Stadium since last May. Slaton (2-0) allowed five hits in seven and a third innings, walking one and striking out four. Donnie Moore went the final one and two-thirds innings for his second save. Minnesota took a 1-0 lead in the first when Kirby Puckett doubled and scored on Roy Smalley’s single. Kent Hrbek’s third-inning homer, his first, made it 2-0.
Rick Reuschel subdues his old team, the Cubs, as the Pirates roll to a 14-8 win in Chicago. The Bucs hit four home runs including a birthday grand slam by R.J. Reynolds in the 4th off Chicago’s Scott Sanderson. Joe Orsulak, Bill Almon and Sid Bream all hit homers to help offset a 5-for-5 performance by Chicago’s Shawon Dunston. Orsulak’s was his first career homer. The Pirates got seven runs in the fourth with two out and nobody on against the Chicago starter, Scott Sanderson, who was making his first start of the season.
The Houston Astros edged the Cincinnati Reds, 4–3. Phil Garner had a two-run double in the four-run first inning for the Astros. Garner had a single and a double in four times at bat. He has driven in 11 runs with 11 hits in 18 times at bat over the last five games. Bob Knepper (3-0) earned his 100th career victory, allowing four hits in five and a third innings. Charlie Kerfeld relieved him in the sixth and Dave Smith took over in the ninth for his fifth save. The Reds starter, Browning (0-1) left the game in the first inning.
The Cleveland Indians downed the Detroit Tigers, 8–6. Brook Jacoby’s two-run double keyed a three-run Cleveland fifth inning, and Tony Bernazard and Julio Franco hit sixth-inning homers. Scott Bailes (2-1) took over from the Cleveland starter, Neal Heaton, with one out in the fifth and picked up the victory. Ernie Camacho pitched one and a third hitless innings for his third save.
Charlie Moore tripled off reliever Rod Scurry, bringing home Jim Gantner as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the New York Yankees, 4–3. Scurry, former Hug High School pitcher in Reno, replaced Yankee relief ace Dave Righetti at the start of the 11th inning, retired Ernest Riles on a fly ball to left, then walked Gantner before Moore tripled over the head of center fielder Rickey Henderson.
Tim Conroy, batting for his first time in the major leagues, drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the 17th inning and Willie McGee followed with a two-run single today, lifting the Cardinals over the Montreal Expos, 9–6. The game took 5 hours 22 minutes, the longest in the majors this season. The Cardinals took the lead for good in the 17th against Floyd Youmans, the fifth Montreal pitcher. With one out, Terry Pendleton singled and stole second. After Mike Heath flied out, Ozzie Smith was walked intentionally. Youmans then walked Jose Oquendo, loading the bases. Conroy, acquired in the offseason from Oakland, then walked on a full-count pitch, forcing home the go-ahead run. McGee followed with his two-run single.
Gary Carter hit a tie-breaking single in the eighth inning and Dwight Gooden outdueled Shane Rawley to give the New York Mets a 3–2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies. Gooden, 2-0, allowed six hits, walked two and struck out 10 in his second complete game. Rawley, 1-1, did not give up a hit until the fifth inning but left after 7 ½, having yielded six hits with two strikeouts and a walk. Rookie Kevin Mitchell started the eighth with a single. One out later, Keith Hernandez singled up the middle, chasing Rawley, and Carter greeted reliever Steve Bedrosian with a line single to center, scoring Mitchell.
The Oakland A’s and the Mariners combined for 30 strikeouts tonight to set a modern major-league record for a nine-inning game. Oakland’s Jose Rijo struck out 16 over eight innings, Tony Phillips collected four hits, and Dave Kingman hit two homers, powering the A’s to a 7–2 victory. Bill Mooneyham relieved Rijo in the ninth and got two more strikeouts. Seattle pitchers combined to strike out 12 A’s. Rijo (1-0), who brought a 6.94 earned-run average into the game, struck out Gorman Thomas four times. Every starter on both teams, except Alvin Davis of the Mariners, struck out at least once. Mark Langston (0-2) took the loss.
Chris Brown’s two-run homer in the seventh inning rallied San Francisco past San Diego by a score of 6–5. The Giants, who trailed by 5-0 after two innings, took the lead when Brown connected on the first pitch from the reliever Lance McCullers (1-1). The starter Eric Show took a 5-4 lead into the seventh for San Diego, but Will Clark reached base with one out on the shortstop Garry Templeton’s error. Brown then followed with his first home run of the season. Mark Davis (1-0) was the winner in relief. The Padres staked Show to a 5-0 lead after two innings before the Giants began their comeback with the help of a three-run double by the rookie Rob Thompson in the fourth.
Doyle Alexander scattered three hits over seven and one-third innings, and Lloyd Moseby drove in four runs with a two-run homer and a bases-loaded single today to lead the Blue Jays to a 6–5 victory over the Kansas City Royals. Alexander (2-1) struck out eight, walked two and twice struck George Brett with a pitch. It was the first time in Brett’s 13-year career that he was hit by two pitches in the same game. Tom Henke worked the ninth for his second save. Toronto opened a 2-0 lead in the second inning. With two out, Jeff Hearron singled off Bud Black (1-2) and Moseby followed with his second homer, a shot into the left-field bleachers. Kansas City cut the margin to 2-1 in the third on Frank White’s run-scoring single. The Blue Jays added two runs in the sixth. Singles by Garth Iorg and Rick Leach and a walk by Hearron off the reliever Mark Huismann loaded the bases with none out. Moseby lined a single up the middle, scoring Iorg and Leach, and giving Toronto a 4-1 lead. Kansas City closed to 4-2 on Darryl Motley’s seventh-inning homer. The Blue Jays made it 6-2 in their half of the seventh on Kelly Gruber’s two-run homer. The Royals scored once in the eighth when Jesse Barfield’s throwing error in right field allowed Brett to score from first on White’s single. Kansas City scored twice in the ninth on Willie Wilson’s run-scoring infield single and Brett’s run-producing fielder’s choice.
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Atlanta Braves 3
Texas Rangers 4, Baltimore Orioles 10
Chicago White Sox 2, Boston Red Sox 3
Minnesota Twins 4, California Angels 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 14, Chicago Cubs 8
Houston Astros 4, Cincinnati Reds 3
Cleveland Indians 8, Detroit Tigers 6
New York Yankees 3, Milwaukee Brewers 4
St. Louis Cardinals 9, Montreal Expos 6
Philadelphia Phillies 2, New York Mets 3
Oakland Athletics 7, Seattle Mariners 2
San Diego Padres 5, San Francisco Giants 6
Kansas City Royals 5, Toronto Blue Jays 6
Born:
Candace Parker, WNBA (WNBA Champions, 2016-Sparks, 2021-Sky; WNBA All-Star, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022; Los Angeles Sparks, Chicago Sky, Las Vegas Aces), in St. Louis, Missouri.
Gabe Pruitt, NBA shooting guard and point guard (Boston Celtics), in Los Angeles, California.
Antoine Caldwell, NFL guard and center (Houston Texans), in Montgomery, Alabama.
John Matthews, NFL wide receiver (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Aurora, Colorado.
Died:
Alvin Childress, 78, actor (Amos-“Amos ‘n’ Andy”).
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