Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, held out the possibility today that a Soviet-American summit meeting might still be held this year if the Reagan Administration altered a foreign policy course that he said was poisoning the international atmosphere. During a visit to the East German city of Potsdam, Mr. Gorbachev was asked by journalists if the American raids on Libya last week might prevent a second meeting with President Reagan that is supposed to take place in Washington this year. “For the meeting to take place, there must be an appropriate atmosphere in international relations,” Mr. Gorbachev responded. “I need real hopes that such a meeting could take a new step. If the American Administration realizes that this is the path to take, then we are ready for it,” he said, referring to a summit meeting. “But if it continues what it is doing today, attempting to poison the international atmosphere and worsen it, this will overshadow any plans for a future meeting.” Last week, responding to the American bombardments of Tripoli and Benghazi, the Soviet Union canceled meetings in Washington between Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze and Secretary of State George P. Shultz on May 14–16 that were meant to lay the groundwork for a summer summit meeting.
Mr. Gorbachev, who is attending the East German Communist Party Congress in East Berlin, declined to be drawn out when asked whether the meeting would in fact go ahead. “Let them take thought in Washington,” he said, with his wife, Raisa, standing at his side. “We are ready for serious steps toward peace.” At their first meeting, in Geneva last November, the American and Soviet leaders agreed in principle to hold two subsequent summit sessions — one in Washington in 1986 and another in Moscow the next year. This accord was widely hailed as one of the most important results of the Geneva gathering, since it appeared to set in motion a diplomatic process that might lead to arms control and other agreements. But meager progress in different arms control negotiations, the ambiguous outcome of the Soviet party congress in February and the sharpening tensions over Libya began to cast doubt on when or whether the Washington meeting would be held. The Administration has said it does not want to hold a summit meeting close to the November Congressional elections, when Mr. Reagan plans to campaign intensively, and officials in Washington say they need six to eight weeks to prepare security and logistics for a Gorbachev visit.
Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) said that if the Administration dry-docks two older Poseidon submarines instead of scrapping them to comply with the unratified strategic arms limitation treaty, it would be “doing Moscow’s work in Washington.” The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee characterized the proposal as “another half-baked idea that hasn’t been thought through.” Moscow could follow suit, Aspin warned, by keeping “old forces in fuzzy reserve status, available for activation if world tensions mount or if they want to get a quick upper hand on the West militarily.”
Vladimir Horowitz returned to the Soviet musical stage today, giving a recital that dazzled the audience and left many in tears. It was the 81-year-old pianist’s first recital in the Soviet Union since he left his homeland 61 years ago to make a career in the West. Mr. Horowitz, playing with a clarity and dynamic range that friends said he had not matched in many years, seemed to create an emotional bond with his former countrymen. Many in the audience cried unabashedly during portions of the recital when he played works by Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, both Russians, and during an encore by Schumann.
About 1,000 Protestant youths rampaged through a provincial Ulster town, attacked the police and stoned property early today, the authorities said. Ten police officers were wounded and at least eight people arrested in a widespread night of violence against security forces in the province, a Belfast police spokesman said. The police casualties all were in Portadown, 25 miles southwest of Belfast, where 1,000 youths roamed the streets in five hours of rioting that began Saturday night and lasted until 3 AM today, the police said.
Missiles fired by Libya last week at American installations on the Italian island of Lampedusa may have missed their intended target, but they have made a strong impact on the minds of many people in Crete. The American bases on Crete are bigger and more important than those on Lampedusa, and, like the Italian island, they are only about 100 miles across the Mediterranean north of Libya. “The tension has reached us,” said Deputy Mayor Kyriakos Skepertzis of Heraklion. And the Mayor of Canea, George Katzanevakis, added, “It makes us realize that Crete is in the middle of all the areas of tension in the Mediterranean.”
A judicial panel demanded the resignation of Israel’s central bank chief and the heads of the nation’s four top banks in connection with a 1983 stock market crash that cost Israelis millions of dollars. The panel, recommending consideration of criminal prosecutions, accused the bankers of illegally manipulating prices of bank shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange.
Egypt’s Parliament voted to extend the nation’s state of emergency, in force since President Anwar Sadat was assassinated by Muslim radicals in 1981, for another two years. The emergency rule outlaws demonstrations and allows the government broad powers to search, arrest and detain people considered to be security risks. Prime Minister Ali Lufti told the lawmakers that his government will use the special powers only to combat terrorism.
Thirty-two Britons, an American and an Irishman were evacuated from Muslim West Beirut to the relative safety of Christian East Beirut today amid fears of further retaliation against foreigners over last week’s American raid on Libya. The group was taken in a convoy of vehicles with a heavily armed escort made up of Druse and Shiite militiamen. The evacuation had been expected since the discovery last Thursday of the bodies of two kidnapped British teachers and an American librarian in the mountains 10 miles southeast of here. The few Americans left in the Muslim part of the capital, who are mostly members of the faculty of the American University of Beirut, are due to be evacuated on Tuesday.
American warplanes hit a Libyan Navy commando training center near Tripoli during their raid early Tuesday and badly damaged an adjacent high school for cadet seamen, according to evidence collected in a visit to the school. Western diplomats said the commando training center at Sidi Bilal, about 15 miles west of Tripoli, was presumed to have been involved in the mining of the Red Sea, where, according to a State Department report issued last January, a Libyan ship commanded by “a senior Libyan naval commando” laid mines that damaged 18 merchant ships in July and August 1984. The Reagan Administration has charged that the small marina at the center was also used to supply and transport terrorists abroad. The extent of any damage to the center was unclear. Three West German teachers who live at the cadet school said they heard the explosions of at least two bombs or rockets inside the commando center. One teacher said he saw what were apparently rockets being fired by the planes.
The United States bombing raids on Libya will significantly damage American interests in the Arab world, several well-known experts on the region contend, but the Reagan Administration says that the raids will have little such effect. No one expects the raids to lead to any sort of military confrontation between the United States and Arab nations, nor is there a serious threat that any Arab country that has diplomatic relations with Washington will break them. Specialists in the region consider limited political or economic sanctions by some countries — a reduction in the size of American embassies, for example, or a partial embargo on the importation of American products — only slightly more likely. The damage to the United States, if any, is more subtle.
A sailor was killed and three were injured when a Turkish tanker loaded with crude oil was set afire by a rocket attack in the Persian Gulf. The official United Arab Emirates news agency said the ship, Atlas 1, was abandoned after it was attacked by unidentified aircraft. Shipping sources identified the attack zone as one in which Iranian forces have been active in the so-called tanker war between Iran and Iraq. The ship was carrying Saudi Arabian oil.
He escaped dramatically from a maximum-security prison last month after drugging his guards with a spiked birthday cake. Three weeks later, he was captured in a bar in Goa by policemen posing as waiters. Now Charles G. Sobhraj — accused of murder, known as a seductive con artist and one of the most wanted criminals in Asia — is back in jail in New Delhi, and Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has sent congratulations to the policemen who tracked him down. But the episode still sends shudders through the Indian Government, even though some sophisticated police work led to his capture. It exposed once again the level of incompetence and corruption in India’s security apparatus.
A huge reservoir in Sri Lanka burst its earthen embankment, and police said they feared that as many as 100 people were killed. The rupture sent a wall of water rushing through the town of Kantalai, 130 miles northeast of the capital of Colombo. Up to 20,000 families were homeless. K.D.P. Perera, head of Sri Lanka’s Irrigation Department, was quoted as saying a crack in the embankment was reported two months ago.
Deng Xiaoping has announced that he would slow the pace of his market-oriented changes and scale back China’s goal of catching up with advanced industrial nations by 2050, the Communist Party newspaper reported today. The newspaper Peoples Daily said Mr. Deng, the Chinese leader who has been the chief proponent of free-market experiments, mentioned price instability and economic fluctuations as among the inevitable “hazards” emerging from the reforms. “Reforms can have definite risks, and can incite some fluctuations,” the paper paraphrased Mr. Deng as telling a group of visiting Hong Kong dignitaries at Peking’s Great Hall of the People Saturday.
President Corazon C. Aquino announced today that she would soon call for a formal cease-fire with Communist rebels. She said the cease-fire would last for a “definite and inextendable period” during which “a just resolution” of the insurgency problem might be found. But she warned that if this initiative failed, the rebels would have to face better trained and better equipped armed forces, “not the old dispirited army of Marcos.” “I am offering the insurgents an honorable peace,” Mrs. Aquino said, “one that will not ignore their just demands, but one also that will not detract in any way from the security of the people, the stability of the Government and the honor of the new armed forces.”
As President Corazon C. Aquino approaches the end of her second month in power, the euphoria of her victory has faded, and many Filipinos have begun to question her ability to exercise power and to make her Government work. Mrs. Aquino, who still appears in public dressed in yellow, as she did throughout her campaign, remains a popular and respected President who commands unmatched public support. But an odd mixture of aggressiveness and hesitancy in her early policy decisions has drawn comments from many here that she may not be moving to deal with the complex problems she faces in a coherent or decisive manner. Mrs. Aquino’s personal style echoes her manner during the campaign, when she took an aggressive tone toward her opponent, but kept a demure demeanor that sometimes left her chanting supporters vaguely unsatisfied.
Deposed Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos charged that a team dispatched by the State Department helped plan a coup against him. He said he discovered and foiled the plot before the February 7 elections. In an interview with Time magazine, Marcos said: “We cannot confirm it, but it included plans to assassinate both the First Lady and me. We planted several of our officers inside [the operation], so we got all the details.” Marcos charged that the planners imported arms and equipment with the help of Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile. A State Department official dismissed the charges by Marcos as “balderdash.”
Fidel Castro marked the 25th anniversary of Cuba’s Bay of Pigs victory with an attack this weekend on President Reagan and a pledge to fight laziness and corruption in Cuban society. Mr. Castro told a gathering at a local theater Saturday night that the United States bombing of Libya last week was “brutal, shameful, criminal and terrorist,” and said Mr. Reagan “is as unscrupulous, opportunistic and irresponsible as Hitler.” The statement drew sustained applause from the invitation-only audience, which included families of victims of the United States-backed invasion by Cuban exiles at the Bay of Pigs on April 17, 1961.
Six African nations, including Ethiopia and the Sudan, continue to face food emergencies because of drought or civil strife and despite a general improvement in harvests on the continent, the Food and Agriculture Organization said in a report made public here today. The report said a general recovery in food production throughout much of sub-Saharan Africa in 1985 would eliminate the need for emergency aid in 39 of 45 countries surveyed. But it also said some level of food aid would still be required because of a continued drop in per capita food production. “We expect a dramatic drop in emergency food requirements for 1986,” the F.A.O. director general, Eduard Saouma, said in a statement accompanying the report.
The two centrist parties that were the apparent victors in Sudan’s national elections met in Khartoum to work out plans for a unified government. Returns from 217 districts, where polls were open for 12 days, showed the Umma Party gaining 99 seats in the 301member Constituent Assembly and the Democratic Unionists capturing 63 places. Umma Party leader Sadek Mahdi, expected to emerge as prime minister, has said that the nation’s constitution will not be rewritten until elections can be held in 37 districts torn by guerrilla war.
South Africa’s two major sports agencies called today for an end to the country’s apartheid policies as the Dutch Reformed Church made a new attempt to gain peace between blacks and whites. The two organizations, the South African Sports Federation and the South African National Olympic Committee, in a policy statement, also called for stepped-up talks to find a constitutional solution giving everyone the right to vote in a system acceptable to all races.
The Interior Department failed to exert strong control over the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, but charges of fiscal wrongdoing in the project have proved to be unfounded, an official said. Preliminary findings of a government audit, to be released Tuesday, show the project’s private fund-raisers failed to comply with various regulations that would have given the department more control over the project run by Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A. Iacocca. But Rep. Bruce F. Vento (D-Minnesota), chairman of the House subcommittee on national parks and recreation, said the findings by the General Accounting Office do not bear out allegations that the project was “in a total state of chaos.”
Rocket engineers at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida worked to disassemble a shuttle solid-fuel booster to look for anything unusual that might shed insights into whether assembly problems played a role in the Challenger disaster. Two boosters that had been scheduled for use in May with the shuttle Atlantis are the target of the investigation. National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman James Ball said engineers expected the examination to last about two weeks.
Christa McAuliffe climbed aboard the space shuttle Challenger well informed of the risk she was taking as the first private citizen to participate in a space mission, according to Barbara R. Morgan, her backup for the flight. From the moment the two schoolteachers began the five-month training, Mrs. Morgan said, they were reminded many times, in many ways, of the hazards of space flight, particularly launching and landing. They trained with the six other crew members in making emergency escapes from the launching pad or from the shuttle after a hazardous landing. They learned how to put out fires in the crew compartment and to protect themselves against noxious fumes. They rehearsed procedures to be followed if the shuttle had to make an emergency landing at sea, but were told that their chances of surviving a ditching were “very slim.” They were also told, Mrs. Morgan said, of the time “when there’s not much you can do to save yourself — those first two minutes of booster ascent.”
Congressional critics of lobbying by some former White House officials are considering new rules to limit lobbyists’ activities. The Congressional scrutiny follows the swift success of former Reagan Administration officials as lobbyists who sometimes work for foreign governments. About 20 former governmental or campaign aides with close ties to President Reagan have earned large fees representing dozens of blue-chip domestic and foreign clients, including the Governments of Japan, South Korea, Saudi Arabia, Canada, the Dominican Republic, Singapore, Mexico, Grenada, the Netherlands Antilles and, until recently, the Marcos Government in the Philippines. Lobbying is a well-established practice in Washington, and what the former Administration aides are doing is legal so long as they follow certain rules. For example, they may neither lobby their former agencies for a year nor lobby on issues on which they worked “personally and substantially” as Federal employees.
The President and First Lady return to the White House from their stay at Camp David.
The President and First Lady enjoy dinner with their daughter Maureen Reagan Revell.
The Energy Department said a bill that would deregulate the natural gas industry will cause gas prices to drop through 1995, increase domestic production and reduce consumption of imported oil. Energy Secretary John S. Herrington said results of a department study, to be released today, on the Natural Gas Policy Act amendments of 1986 will “reinforce our position that Congress should move quickly to remove the impediments to natural gas transportation.”
The number of nuclear explosions needed to perfect new types of nuclear arms is rising dramatically, according to Government scientists in Los Alamos, N.M. Senior officials of the Los Alamos National Laboratory said in interviews there that about six underground nuclear tests have usually been required in developing a new weapon. But the amount is rising, they said, as scientists try to create more complex nuclear arms. Perfecting one of these new designs could require 100 or 200 explosions, the officials estimated. “It will take at least that many,” said Dr. Robert W. Selden, head of theoretical and computational physics at Los Alamos. “This is a very new thing. The physics processes we’re looking at are far more complicated than anything we’ve looked at before.”
An important labor struggle, one of the most publicized in the nation, grinds on as another season begins in this stark prairie city, the cold grudgingly letting go, trees showing tips of green, ducks bobbing on the Cedar River. It may not be the last change of seasons before this struggle ends. For nine months, several hundred meatpackers have been fighting their employer, Geo. A. Hormel & Company, as well as the town establishment, many of its citizens, and the Austin workers’ parent union, the United Food and Commercial Workers. The fight has involved abusive language and fierce hatreds that have shattered this once placid community. It also involves contrasting views of unionism, some observers say: energetic, locally based, rank-and-file unionism against listless, highly bureaucratized unionism. It also involves, this argument holds, violations of sacred labor tenants: solidarity, keeping things “inside the family,” not “bucking the leadership.”
The prosecutor in Stephen M. Bingham’s murder trial has so far presented seven prison guards as witnesses as he attempts to link the radical lawyer to an outbreak at San Quentin Prison in 1971 that left six people dead. Terry Boren, an assistant district attorney in Marin County, is attempting to convince a jury that Mr. Bingham was the only person who could have smuggled a gun to George Jackson, the inmate whose attempt to escape set off the bloodshed. “I searched Jackson,” one former guard, Edward Fleming, said last week. “When he went in, he didn’t have anything.”
The American propensity to sue, fueling a litigation explosion in the 1980s, is just another “in a long line” of myths about the court system, a research study showed. In fact, the number of court cases has decreased from 1981 to 1984, said Robert Roper, director of court statistics at the National Center for State Courts in Williamsburg, Virginia. The study was to be published in the National Law Journal today. “We found the best explanation for the increase in new civil filings in state courts was the population increase,” Roper said in a telephone interview.
John Artis, whose conviction with boxer Rubin (Hurricane) Carter for a 1966 triple murder was overturned last year, was arrested and charged with conspiracy to distribute cocaine as part of a drug ring, officials in Paterson, New Jersey, said. Artis also was charged with receiving stolen property after police reportedly found a stolen, loaded .45-caliber gun at his Paterson home. Eleven other suspects in the alleged ring, as well as Artis’ wife, were arrested in separate raids, officials said. If convicted, Artis could be sentenced to 17 years on the two charges.
A second child has died out of six children who allegedly were thrown into a muddy bayou by their mother, and three of the children remained hospitalized in Houston in stable condition. The children’s mother, Juana Leija, 29, was in Harris County Jail after being charged with one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder, a jail spokeswoman said. Judas Dimas Leija, 7, died at Ben Taub Hospital on Saturday after being transferred from St. Joseph Hospital, a hospital spokesman said. Juana Maria Leija, 5, died Friday at St. Joseph Hospital, three hours after being pushed into the water, the authorities said.
The Great Peace March for Nuclear Disarmament entered Arizona today to begin a 14.5-mile walk through the state as part of a 13-state, 3,200-mile journey to the nation’s capital. About 300 members of the group, which left Los Angeles March 1 with a contingent of more than 1,200, headed for a campsite on Bureau of Land Management land near Littlefield in the northwest corner of Arizona.
Federal charges of harboring a fugitive that were pending against six followers of the guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh have been dismissed at the request of prosecutors. Three of the followers have left the United States. They forfeited $75,000 each in bail last week when their lawyer told a judge they would not return to Oregon for court appearances. The six were arrested Oct. 28 when two chartered jets carrying the guru and his party from their central Oregon commune of Rajneeshpuram landed at an airport in Charlotte, North Carolina. Prosecutors said the guru and his followers were trying to flee a Federal indictment charging him and seven other followers with immigration fraud involving sham marriages. Assistant United States Attorney William W. Youngman, in asking Federal District Judge Edward Leavy to dismiss the complaint, said Friday that the case would have been a waste of taxpayer money.
A man troubled by the federal debt left his $200,000 estate to the government, but his brother may contest the will. In his will, Ben Kamin of Chicago, who died in December at the age of 71, asked that all his money go to the Treasury Department to help reduce the national debt, which is about $2 trillion. The document was duly witnessed, said the Cook County Public Administrator, Thomas Chuhak. Mr. Kamin’s brother, Alfred, 75, of Las Vegas, Nevada, said he has consulted a lawyer to determine whether he should contest the will. “It’s not that I’m resentful,” he said. “If I didn’t have so many kids and grandkids, I’d leave money to the government, too.”
Thirteen percent of the adults living in the United States are illiterate in English, a study by the Census Bureau has found. According to the study’s supervisor, the illiteracy rate for adult Americans whose native language is English was 9 percent. For adults whose native language is not English, the illiteracy rate climbed to 48 percent. A large portion of those people are, by their own account, probably literate in their native language, according to the study. The literacy test, given by the Census Bureau to 3,400 adults in the United States in 1982, was the first of its kind conducted by the Government, according to Robert E. Barnes, acting director of the Education Department’s planning and technical analysis division, who supervised the project. Mr. Barnes said the survey, which was conducted in the homes of those tested, had a margin of sampling error of one to two percentage points.
Mount St. Helens emitted a small amount of gas and ash today in the latest episode of what geologists consider to be normal activity for the volcano. There was no measurement of the size of the early-morning plume, but it was described as being somewhat smaller than a plume that went to 16,000 feet Saturday night. “It’s a small one,” said Bobbie Myers, a geologist with the United States Geological Survey. “There’s some ash fallout to the southeast. It’s a real fine ash, so there’s a fair amount of movement when it gets carried by the wind.”
Rachel Carson’s warnings about the effect of pesticides on the environment are still valid 24 years after her book “Silent Spring” helped touch off an environmental revolution, according to environmentalists and many scientists. Officials of the Environmental Protection Agency say most pesticides on the market today remain inadequately tested for properties that cause cancer or mutations or for other effects on health.
[Ed: And what about the effects of malaria in the Third World?]
Damage was estimated at up to $20 million after a pair of tornadoes destroyed hundreds of homes, killing one person and injuring 100 in Sweetwater, Texas. Governor Mark White toured the city to see what state aid was needed and said he would announce later whether Sweetwater should be declared a disaster area. As many as 1,500 of Sweetwater’s 12,000 residents were left homeless, Mayor Rick Rhodes said. An overnight curfew was posted to prevent looting.
The launching of a weather satellite May 1 by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will be closely watched by the agency and along the central Florida beaches. The launching of the satellite into earth orbit from a Delta rocket will be the first from Cape Canaveral of an American spacecraft since the Challenger shuttlecraft explosion January 28.
The U.S. performs a nuclear test at the Nevada Test Site.
“Jerry’s Girls” closes at St James Theater NYC after 139 performances.
The Chicago Bulls’ Michael Jordan sets an NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game. Jordan scored a playoff-record 63 points today, 2 more than the mark set by Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers on April 14, 1962, against the Celtics in the championship series. But the heroics of Jordan, who played 53 of the 58 minutes of today’s double-overtime game, hitting 22 of 41 shots from the field, weren’t enough. The Celtics survived with a 135–131 victory at the Boston Garden that gave them a 2–0 advantage in their opening round three-of-five-game series. The third game will be played Tuesday night at what Coach Stan Albeck called “our madhouse.” His reference was to the Chicago Stadium, which he said could generate a noise level equal to that of the Boston Garden, which had its 262nd consecutive Celtic sellout today with a crowd of 14,890.
Charles Barkley scored 14 of his 27 points in the fourth quarter as the Philadelphia 76ers rallied today for a 102–97 victory over the Washington Bullets that evened their first-round National Basketball Association playoff series at one game apiece. The 76ers, stung by an 18–0 closing rally that wiped out a 17-point lead and gave the Bullets a 95–94 victory in Game 1, appeared to be on the verge of a 2–0 deficit, trailing by 7 midway in the fourth quarter. Barkley, who also had 20 rebounds, hit a 3-point goal, scored on an offensive rebound and got a 3-point play after another offensive rebound in a space of less than three minutes to tie the score at 92–92 with 4 minutes 50 seconds left. The 6-foot-6-inch Barkley tied the game again at 94–94 on a turnaround jumper with 3:48 left, then gave the 76ers the lead for good at 98–97 with yet another offensive-rebound basket with 2:30 to go.
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Ken Landreaux went four for four with two runs batted in and Bob Welch gave up nine hits to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 7–3 victory over the Braves in Atlanta. Welch (2–0) struck out eight and walked one for his second complete game of the season. The victory ended a five-game Dodger losing steak. Los Angeles scored four runs in the first inning. Enos Cabell drew a one-out walk off Rick Mahler (1–3). Cabell stole second and scored on Landreaux’s double into the right-field corner. Greg Brock followed with a home run to right field, his first of the season. One out later, Mike Scioscia lined his first homer of the season over the right-field fence to give the Dodgers a 4–0 lead.
The Baltimore Orioles spanked the Texas Rangers, 6–1, as Eddie Murray hit his third home run in the last four games and Jim Dwyer added a bases-empty shot for Baltimore. Storm Davis (1–0) struck out five and walked none. The Orioles collected nine hits and five runs off Jose Guzman (1–2) in four and two-thirds innings. Dwyer’s leadoff home run in the third inning gave the Orioles a 1–0 lead. Darrell Porter ruined Davis’s shutout bid with a leadoff home run in the fifth inning, his second of the year.
Mike Brown, making his first start since April 29, 1985, tossed a five-hitter over seven innings to earn a 6–2 Red Sox victory and help Boston complete a three-game sweep of Chicago. Brown (1–0) was recalled April 16 from Pawtucket of the International League. He walked one and struck out three to earn his first major-league victory since May 2, 1984. Bob Stanley pitched the final two innings.
Brian Downing’s three-run home run capped a four-run ninth inning and powered California to its third consecutive victory, as the Angels beat the Twins, 8–5. Terry Forster (1–0) worked one inning in relief of the starter Don Sutton to earn the victory. Ron Davis (1–1) took the loss. Rick Burleson led off the ninth with a single and Ruppert Jones walked. Wally Joyner, who had three hits, grounded a single to right, scoring Burleson to tie the score, 5–5. Downing then hit a 2–1 pitch from Davis for his fourth home run of the season, over the left-field wall.
At Wrigley Field, the Pirates and Cubs go 13 innings and end 8–8 as darkness calls the game. It will be finished August 11, with the Pirates winning, 10–8.
Phil Garner and Alan Ashby hit fourth-inning homers to lead Houston to its fifth consecutive victory, downing the Reds, 6–4, in Cincinnati. Bill Gullickson (0–1) gave up Garner’s bases-empty homer and Ashby’s two-run homer to let a 3–1 lead slip away in the fourth. Mike Madden (1–0) pitched three innings in relief of the starter Jim Deshaies for the victory, with Charlie Kerfeld earning his second save. Deshaies fell behind in the first inning as Eric Davis drew a leadoff walk, stole second and scored on Dave Parker’s single. Singles by Craig Reynolds and Bill Doran and Terry Puhl’s sacrifice fly tied it in the third. Davis hit a two-run homer in the third, his third of the season, as the Reds knocked out Deshaies, but Garner got the Astros rolling again in the fourth. Garner led off with his fourth homer of the season, all in the last six games. Garner has 12 hits and 12 RBIs over that span. Kevin Bass singled with two out, and Ashby slammed a homer into the second deck in right field, his second of the season, to regain the lead.
Dave Winfield’s double and a pair of throwing errors on Mike Easler’s ground ball in the 10th inning lifted the New York Yankees to a 5–4 victory in Milwaukee. Winfield opened the 10th with a double off the left-field wall against Mark Clear, 0–1. Easler followed with a grounder that first baseman Robin Yount fielded, but threw past Clear covering the bag for an error. Clear picked up the ball in foul territory but Winfield crossed the plate as Clear threw wildly to the plate. Dave Righetti, 2–0, who gave up Ernest Riles’ tying RBI single with two outs in the ninth, worked the final two innings for the victory.
The Montreal Expos shut out the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–0. Tim Wallach broke a scoreless tie in the eighth inning with a two-out, run-scoring double off the third-base bag, and Vance Law added a run-scoring single. Jay Tibbs (2–0) gave up eight hits to help Montreal avert a St. Louis sweep of the three-game series. Tibbs struck out five and walked none. With one out in the Montreal eighth, Jim Wohlford doubled. The pinch-runner Herm Winningham took third on Mitch Webster’s ground out and then scored on Wallach’s hard grounder that skimmed off third base and rolled into the left-field corner. Law got his single off the reliever Jeff Lahti. St. Louis came close to scoring with two outs in the first inning after Tom Herr was safe on an error by the third baseman Wallach. Jack Clark followed with a double off the center-field fence, but Herr was thrown out at the plate on a relay from Webster to the second baseman Law.
The Mets’ Sid Fernandez is a man of few words, but his work spoke loudly on a day on which the Mets completed a three-game sweep of the Philadelphia Phillies with an 8–0 shutout before 41,848 at Shea Stadium. Fernandez gave up just two hits in eight innings, although both of them could have easily been outs. Gary Redus led off the game with a single through the middle and then was caught stealing. Mike Schmidt started the fifth with a hit that skidded past Howard Johnson’s glove at third base. Until he opened the eighth with consecutive walks, Fernandez had retired 20 of 23 batters.
Moose Haas allowed two hits in seven innings and Dwayne Murphy, Jose Canseco and Tony Phillips had three hits apiece to lead Oakland to a 9–3 win over the Mariners. Haas, acquired by Oakland shortly before the season started, raised his record to 3–0. He gave up one run, struck out five and walked two. The reliever Keith Atherton gave up two Seattle runs on three hits in the final two innings. Oakland jumped on the starter Matt Young (2–1) and three relievers for 15 hits. Murphy drove in three runs, Canseco knocked in two and Phillips scored three times. Seattle scored in the eighth on Phil Bradley’s run-scoring double and a sacrifice fly by Ivan Calderon.
San Francisco’s Vida Blue wins his 200th career game, combining with Jeff Robinson to shut out the Padres 4–0. Blue today became the 85th major league pitcher to win 200 games as the San Francisco Giants beat the San Diego Padres, for a sweep of their four-game series. Blue (1–2) went the first five innings and gave up five hits. He left the game with a slight hamstring pull, and the reliever Jeff Robinson held San Diego hitless the rest of the way for his first save. Blue raised his career record to 200–153, including an 11–1 record against San Diego.
Frank White’s three-run home run highlighted a four-run seventh inning today that carried the Kansas City Royals to a 6–4 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. With the score tied, 2–2, Jamie Quirk started the Kansas City seventh against the reliever Dennis Lamp (0–1) with an infield single. Quirk took second on a sacrifice by Buddy Biancalana and scored on Willie Wilson’s one-out single. Wilson took second on the throw to the plate, and George Brett was intentionally walked. White then hit his first home run of the season.
The scheduled game between the Cleveland Indians and the Tigers in Detroit was postponed due to rain. It will be made on as part of a doubleheader on August 5.
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Atlanta Braves 3
Texas Rangers 1, Baltimore Orioles 6
Chicago White Sox 2, Boston Red Sox 6
Minnesota Twins 5, California Angels 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Chicago Cubs 8
Houston Astros 6, Cincinnati Reds 4
New York Yankees 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Montreal Expos 2
Philadelphia Phillies 0, New York Mets 8
Oakland Athletics 9, Seattle Mariners 3
San Diego Padres 0, San Francisco Giants 4
Kansas City Royals 6, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Born:
Aundrae Allison, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings), in Kannapolis, North Carolina.
Donovan Hand, MLB Milwaukee Brewers, Cincinnati Reds), in Tecumseh, Alabama.
Jess Todd, MLB pitcher (St. Louis Cardinals, Cleveland Indians), in Longview, Texas.
Died:
Sibte Hassan, 73, Pakistani activist, journalist and writer.
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