President Reagan said today that he would not rule out military retaliation against Syria and Iran if they were linked to terrorist acts. At the same time, Mr. Reagan reaffirmed his readiness to “act again” against Libya if evidence linked it to new terrorist attacks on Americans. Meanwhile, military experts who have reviewed Pentagon reports said the Air Force planes that attacked the Bab el-Azziziya military barracks in Tripoli, Libya, on April 15 failed to hit two buildings that serve as the quarters for Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi’s elite guard. In an interview with columnists to preview the economic meeting of key industrial democracies in Tokyo next month, Mr. Reagan said the decision to bomb Libya last week resulted from “irrefutable evidence.’ Asked if a situation arose in which the United States had evidence of the same certitude about the involvement of Syria and Iran, Mr. Reagan said he would also order military action. Earlier, in a speech before the United States Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Reagan warned Libya that although terrorism “must be dealt with forcefully and collectively,” the United States “will never watch passively as our innocent citizens are murdered by those would do our country harm.” “By nature, we prefer to solve problems peacefully,” he said. “But as we proved last week, no one can kill Americans and brag about it. No one. We bear the people of Libya no ill will, but if their Government continues its campaign of terror against Americans, we will act again.’
In the speech today, Mr. Reagan portrayed the Libyan leader as isolated from the Arab world at large by suggesting that Colonel Qaddafi was engaging in hypocrisy by calling for a united Arab, and by extension Muslim, condemnation of the United States while failing to condemn the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan. “I might add that Colonel Qaddafi’s expectation of unquestioned support from the Islamic world strikes me as hypocritical,” Mr. Reagan said. “Nowhere is the slaughter of Muslim people greater than in Afghanistan. Yet, Colonel Qaddafi allies himself with those perpetrating this crime on Islam and all mankind.” Before the speech, a senior Administration official played down the likelihood that the leaders at the Tokyo meeting would issue a joint statement on terrorism. But he indicated that such cooperative steps as intelligence sharing would likely be discussed. “There has been I think right now a very widespread, firm conviction that Libya is a responsible party for terrorism,” the official said. “Nobody argues that point at all.”
Hours before the American bombing of Libya, Italy suggested that the United States ask the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to consider joint military action “against terrorism,” a senior Italian official said today. The official, who reflects the views of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, said Italy had not necessarily endorsed NATO action, but had proposed that the United States consult members. The Italian official made his comments in response to statements by American officials on Monday that Italy had privately supported stronger action against Libya despite its public opposition to the American raid.
Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece said today that it was “absurd” for the United States to enter a state of war with Libya to eliminate terrorism. Mr. Papandreou, speaking in Parliament, said Greece was opposed to any kind of terrorism and was cooperating in combating it. He said the root cause of terrorism in the Mediterranean stemmed from failure to solve the Palestinian problem. He reiterated that Greece would not carry out a decision by the European Community to impose diplomatic and economic restrictions on Libya, unless there was “tangible proof” of Libyan involvement. “No such proof of Libyan involvement in terrorism exists at present,” he said.
An off-duty police inspector was shot to death in an ambush outside his home in Newcastle, Northern Ireland. The Irish Republican Army, waging a guerrilla war to drive the British out of Ulster, called the shooting a “blow against terrorism” under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter, which the Reagan Administration cited to justify last week’s attack on Libya. The article says that a country has a right to defend itself and its people against attack. The Protestant inspector, Jim Hazlett, 54, was wounded in a similar attack in the 1970s.
King Juan Carlos I took Spain’s campaign to recover Gibraltar to the British Parliament, where he appealed for a fast solution to what he described as “the only problem that separates us.” Spain insists on negotiating an end to British rule in Gibraltar. However, Britain says there can be no change in Gibraltar’s status, in effect since 1704, without the consent of its 20,000 inhabitants. In the last referendum, 96% of the voters favored continuing under British rule. Juan Carlos was the first foreign monarch to address both houses of Parliament.
President Reagan said today that it would have been “counterproductive” to meet with Yelena Bonner, the wife of the exiled physicist Andrei D. Sakharov, and that “quiet diplomacy” held the best hope for gaining his freedom. Mr. Reagan said in an interview with columnists and commentators that he was in “complete sympathy” with Miss Bonner’s efforts to end her husband’s forced residence in Gorky.
The United Nations has refused to give Israel free access to files on 40,000 war criminals, suspects and witnesses in the United Nations archives, an Israeli official said today. In light of the refusal, Israel is compiling a list of suspected war criminals it believes are still alive in the hope of finding files on these people in the archives, said Yochanan Bein, the Israeli deputy delegate. He said that the list, which will be “in the hundreds,” would be presented as soon as possible. “We think something is very wrong here,” he said of the denial to open access, which he said was passed on two weeks ago. “The credibility of the U.N. stands in the balance.”
A pro-Libyan group asserted here today that it had killed another British hostage in retaliation for the American air strike against Libya last week. The hostage was identified as Alec Collett, a 64-year-old freelance journalist based in New York. Last week, he was mistakenly reported to have been among three Western hostages who were found slain in Lebanon. Mr. Collett was seized by gunmen in the southern suburbs of Beirut on March 25, 1985, while on a writing assignment for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which works with Palestinian refugees.
Senior Administration officials said today that the United States saw no real early prospect of joint allied military action against Libya last week and therefore decided to carry out the bombings by itself. The officials confirmed that France had suggested stronger action leading to the ouster of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, but they said the French had proposed only that the two countries discuss such an operation, without saying how soon it could occur and without committing themselves to it. According to the Administration’s account, President Francois Mitterrand told Vernon A. Walters, President Reagan’s special envoy, on April 14 that United States bombers would not be allowed to use French airspace on their way from Britain to Libya.
US Air Force planes failed to strike two buildings that serve as the quarters for Colonel Muammar el Qaddafi’s elite guard, according to military experts who have reviewed Pentagon reports. The buildings were among five that were targeted in the compound, the experts said. The F-111 planes that carried out the attack bombed two buildings and possibly a third, they said, including one that is used as a command and control center. The Navy A-6’s that attacked Benghazi at the same time may have had more success, the experts said. They said the planes appear to have struck the quarters for the elite guard at the alternative command post there.
A Jordanian arrested on suspicion of involvement in the explosion in a West Berlin discotheque made at least one visit to Libya after moving to the city in 1975, according to a well-placed official source close to the investigation. The discovery that the suspect, Ahmed Nawaf Mansour Hazi, had visited the North African country was one of “several indications” that he might have had ties to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s Government, according to the source. The Reagan Administration has linked Libya’s mission in East Berlin to the organizing of the explosion April 5 in the discotheque. The blast killed an American soldier and a Turkish woman and left 230 others burned and wounded. The terrorist attack was cited in justifying the American air raids against Tripoli and Benghazi on April 15.
Two key Congressional committees voted today to prevent President Reagan from selling $354 million worth of advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia. The actions set the stage for a major showdown over the Administration’s Middle East policy in the next two weeks. Reflecting what are regarded as significant majorities in both the Senate and House, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 11 to 6 against the proposed sale, and the House Foreign Affairs Committee took the same action by an overwhelming voice vote. Only two of the House group’s 40 members spoke in favor of the sale.
An Iranian opposition group in Paris claimed that Iranian forces are tunneling into northern Iraq in preparation for a major summer offensive. The group, the Mujahedeen, said that Iranian volunteer forces have dug a large tunnel extending from the vicinity of Marivan in northern Iran and crossing the border in a mountainous region, bypassing Iraqi defenses. The group said that work on the tunnel began 2 ½ years ago and that several Iranian army and volunteer divisions have been sent to the area recently in preparation for the offensive.
Iran today denied allegations by United States prosecutors that it had tried to buy $2 billion worth of American-made weapons through illegal channels. The official Islamic Republic News Agency, monitored in Nicosia, said the charges were a “hasty scenario by ruling groups in America” intended to cover up Washington’s failure to bring down the Libyan Government of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Soviet and Afghan soldiers were reported today to have destroyed a key Muslim rebel base near the Pakistan border, but the United States State Department said the rebels were still holding their own. At least three rebel groups said the underground base at Zhawar was in ruins after three weeks of bombing and shelling. The Soviet press agency Tass said Tuesday that Soviet and Afghan journalists had visited the destroyed base, but gave no dates. A State Department spokesman, Charles Redman, told reporters in Washington that the Soviet effort “has not been a success.” “On the contrary, the resistance appears to be more than holding its own,” he said.
Japan took a step today toward joining the United States’ space-based defense research as a study group said participation would have “a great impact” on improving Japanese technology. There will be “significant technological spinoffs,” the 55-member Government and industry panel said. The conclusion, contained in a report submitted to the Government, increased the probability that Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone would agree to take part.
The Reagan Administration announced today a sweeping program of additional economic and military aid for the Philippines “as an important manifestation of support by the American people to the Philippine people as they face a very difficult challenge ahead.” In the first tangible aid to the Philippines since the abrupt change in Government at the end of February, the White House said the United States planned to ask Congress for an additional $100 million in economic aid for this fiscal year, to accelerate the disbursement of $200 million already in an assistance pipeline, and to convert $100 million in economic loans to outright cash grants. A step-up in food and other humanitarian aid, with a special effort made to provide food for children, was also announced.
Philippine President Corazon Aquino’s military chief of staff authorized the arrest of leaders of a renewed Muslim insurgency on the southern island of Mindanao if they are caught committing or inciting rebellion. However, General Fidel V. Ramos told his field commanders to first have discussions with the rebels “to persuade them to desist.” One insurgent force — the Mindanao People’s Democratic Movement, led by a former member of the Philippine National Assembly, Ruben Canoy — said it wants to establish a separate state, one that would swallow up about one-third of Philippine territory and be called the Federal Republic of Mindanao.
President Reagan meets with a group of Senators to discuss implementing authority for a Canada Free Trade Agreement.
The Roman Catholic Church will set up a human rights office in Guatemala “to protect the people, above all the poor people, the Indians and those who are illiterate-those who have no defense,” Archbishop Prospero Penados del Barrio said. During Guatemala’s years of military rule, thousands of people were killed or disappeared, and the nation has one of the worst human rights records in the Western Hemisphere, rights groups have charged. The archbishop said that rights abuses have diminished since the return to civilian rule under President Vinicio Cerezo in January, although “it is clear that not all is working well.”
United States officials said today that Nicaraguan rebels had been recently resupplied with enough guns and equipment to be able fight for at least several more months. The reported resupply effort comes amid Congressional setbacks to President Reagan’s efforts to win approval for $100 million in new aid to the insurgents, known as contras. The American officials, who insisted on anonymity, said that over the last month, the rebels had received fresh shipments of guns and ammunition as well as a flood of nonlethal supplies purchased by the United States but delayed by the Honduran Government. One Reagan Administration official said the Honduran Government’s release of the backlogged equipment -blocked for delivery since last fall -has been a boost to the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the largest rebel army, and allied rebel forces.
Bombs exploded at five Mormon churches in Santiago, Chile, causing only minor damage, a church spokesman said. No one was injured in the blasts, which occurred in suburban working-class districts. The attacks brought to 31 the number of chapels of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints bombed in the last 12 months. No one claimed responsibility for the latest explosions, but in previous attacks police found at the scene pamphlets from a leftist guerrilla group called the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front. In the pamphlets, the group said it bombed the churches because the Mormons are “a Yankee church.”
The South African Government announced today that it would abolish virtually all laws prohibiting blacks from moving freely within the country and from migrating into black sections of cities. Among the laws to be abolished are the “pass laws,” a cornerstone of apartheid for more than 70 years. Other laws, including labor laws, that have closely controlled the movements of the black majority will also be abolished, the Government said. But despite the elimination of the laws, blacks will still be prohibited from living in white areas, except in the case of approved domestic servants. All residential areas in South Africa will remain segregated on the basis of race, said Jan Christiaan Heunis, the Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning.
The Federal Government today proposed to bar aliens with AIDS from immigrating to the United States. In a proposed regulation published in the Federal Register, the Government would also give American consular officers the authority to require aliens who seek temporary visas to undergo tests for the ailment, acquired immune deficiency syndrome. The Public Health Service proposed to add AIDS to the official list of “dangerous contagious diseases.” Under Federal law, an alien with one of the diseases “shall be excluded from admission into the United States.” The proposal, which is now subject to public comment, would affect primarily refugees, foreigners seeking permanent immigration and others who already must undergo a medical examination.
The space agency cut or delayed half a billion dollars in spending on safety testing, design and development from the time the shuttle program began to when the Challenger exploded in January, Federal audits show. The range of work included testing the shuttle and its main engines for vibration, developing the booster rocket that probably caused the explosion and conducting communications and thermal tests. For years government auditors and aerospace experts implored the National Aeronautics and Space Administration not to cut testing and other development work. They said eliminating the spending or significantly delaying it — some of the money has still not been spent — would mean equipment would be assembled before components were fully tested. It would then be very difficult and costly to make changes. Ultimately, this would compromise reliability and make the machine less cost effective and less safe, they said.
Key Senators said today that they were disturbed at reports of waste and mismanagement in the space agency when it was headed by James C. Fletcher, but they indicated they would still vote to confirm him as the next head of the agency. Dr. Fletcher faced some penetrating questions when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation for a confirmation hearing this afternoon, but most Republicans and Democrats generally supported his nomination. Dr. Fletcher, who headed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1971 to 1977, was asked by President Reagan in March to return to the agency to fill a leadership vacuum. The agency has been without a permanent head since James M. Beggs, the Administrator, took a leave of absence in December to fight an indictment on Federal fraud charges unconnected with his work at NASA. He later resigned.
President Reagan addresses guests attending the International Forum of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
The Republican-controlled Senate, by a vote of 83 to 14, today rejected an amendment that would have ended 43 domestic programs. President Reagan had proposed eliminating the programs to save money. Then, on a vote of 60 to 38, the Senate approved a $300 million increase in financing for education in the fiscal year 1987 and an equal increase in revenue to pay for it. The votes indicate how difficult it will be for the Senate, which is divided over fiscal priorities, to agree on a budget plan, especially given the constraints of the new deficit-reducing law. Those who want more money for the military and no tax increases, including the Administration, are faced with proposing deep cuts in domestic programs to get down to the $144 billion deficit ceiling in the fiscal year 1987, set in the new deficit-reducing law.
Five weeks and a day after he won the Illinois Democratic Party’s nomination for Governor, Adlai E. Stevenson 3d today renounced the nomination and filed a Federal lawsuit to enable him to run instead as an independent. Mr. Stevenson’s moves were part of his effort to disassociate himself from two candidates backed by Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. and his strongly rightist National Democratic Policy Committee. In the March 18 primary one of the LaRouche-backed candidates, Mark J. Fairchild, won the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor while the other, Janice Hart, won the party’s nomination for Secretary of State. Under Illinois law, candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor run separately in primaries but run on the same ticket in the general election.
A House subcommittee will investigate ex-White House aide Michael K. Deaver’s role as a lobbyist for Canada, said Michael Barrett, the chief counsel for a House energy and commerce subcommittee. Barrett said the subcommittee will investigate whether Deaver violated conflict-of-interest laws regardless of whether the Justice Department acts. A close aide and friend to President and Mrs. Reagan for 20 years, Deaver left his job as deputy White House chief of staff last May to open his own public relations firm.
What the House of Representatives gave itself yesterday it took away today, moving with near-record speed to overturn the vote by which it raised the limit on members’ outside earnings. The scene was almost a mirror image of what happened the day before, when the limit was raised on a voice vote without debate. Today, again without debate and also on a voice vote, the House vacated the previous action. The vote today put the limit on outside earnings back to $22,530, or 30 percent of a member’s annual salary of $75,100. The earlier vote brought the House in line with the Senate’s limit of $30,040, or 40 percent of a member’s salary.
The Justice Department today turned down a consumer organization’s request to investigate allegations that insurance vestigate allegations that insurance companies have colluded to deny liability coverage in certain businesses. In rejecting the request, the department disclosed that another Government agency, the Federal Trade Commission, had already conducted such an investigation and had concluded The F.T.C. has a policy of not announcing its investigations unless they lead to actions against someone. Other inquiries are not disclosed in order to protect the accused, according to Judith Pond, the commission’s spokesman.
A key separation-of-powers dispute came before the Supreme Court as six lawyers contested for two hours the constitutionality of the 1985 law that is designed to balance the Federal budget.
Svetlana Ogorodnikov, a Russian emigre who pleaded guilty last year to espionage charges linked to Richard W. Miller, a former agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, testified today at his espionage trial that another bureau agent had taken her to a doctor for an abortion. Both Mrs. Ogorodnikov and Mr. Miller have admitted they had a sexual relationship, and in her first day of testimony Tuesday in Federal District Court she said she had also had a sexual relationship with a second agent, John E. Hunt. Mrs. Ogorodnikov said today that it was Mr. Hunt who took her to the doctor for an abortion, but she did not identify the father of the child she was carrying. Mrs. Ogorodnikov also testified that Mr. Hunt had lived in fear of being killed by agents of the Central Intelligence Agency. She said that their social and sexual relationship continued over a period of weeks in 1982.
A federal judge found World Airways, the Federal Aviation Administration and the operators of Boston’s Logan International Airport all partly to blame for a 1982 airline crash that injured dozens of passengers and presumably killed two. U.S. District Judge Robert E. Keeton found World Airways 50% to blame in the crash of World Airways Flight 30, which skidded off a runway into frigid Boston Harbor. Thirty-nine passengers were injured and two, Walter Metcalf and his son, Leo, were presumed drowned in the harbor waters. A trial to determine damages will be held this fall.
The Atlanta police said today that they had arrested a suspect in the slaying of four elderly women whose deaths kindled fear in inner-city black neighborhoods. The Public Safety Commissioner, George Napper, said that the suspect, Richard Louis Hunter, 31 years old, had been charged with murder, rape and burglary in the death of Annie Rochelle Copeland, 85 years old. The first victim in the series of killings, she was found dead March 1 in her apartment. She had been sexually assaulted and smothered with a pillow.
A Federal district judge today issued a temporary injunction barring striking meatpackers from holding mass demonstrations outside Hormel’s plant in Austin, Minnesota. The judge, Edward Devitt, ordered members of Local P-9 of the United Food and Commercial Workers union not to keep plant employees from reporting to work and not to threaten or harass any employee. A lawyer for the National Labor Relations Board sought the injunction, pending a decision by the board on whether Local P-9 was engaging in unfair labor practices. Kathy Buck, financial secretary for the union, said she was not sure what action the strikers would take.
In a surprise move in the fraud and racketeering retrial of Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards, the chief prosecutor said today that he would not present testimony from a man the Governor is accused of bribing. The prosecutor, United States Attorney John Volz, said he had determined that the man, John Landry, was not a credible witness. Mr. Landry offered damaging testimony at the Governor’s first trial, which ended in a hung jury. Defense attorneys immediately called for dismissal of the indictment. “The whole underlying basis of this indictment is called to question,” said Michael Fawer, an attorney for Governor Edwards. In the first trial, Mr. Landry, who worked for the State Department of Health and Human Resources, testified that he had been promoted 10 civil service grades in exchange for helping obtain state hospital permits for Mr. Edwards and his associates while Mr. Edwards was between two terms as Governor. The permits, entitling medical facilities to Federal aid, have been sought by national hospital chains.
Ninety-one people died in last October’s rock and mud slide in a Ponce slum, the Puerto Rico Justice Department said today as preparation moved ahead on a new attempt to recover bodies still buried under tons of rock. The death toll figure is far short of the hundreds of fatalities that officials originally reported.
About 50 farmers, led by State Treasurer Joan Finney, marched into Kansas Governor John Carlin’s offices today seeking to persuade him and legislative leaders to endorse farm legislation that is stalled. The package includes Mrs. Finney’s plan to protect bankrupt farmers from losing their homes. The group started with an impromptu rally on the first floor, then moved to the offices of Mr. Carlin, Senate President Robert V. Talkington and House Speaker Mike Hayden. Mrs. Finney said the farmers came from all over the state to show their support for her proposal and other bills. The group was unable to meet with Governor Carlin today, aides said. Mrs. Finney’s proposal, resting in the House Agriculture and Small Business Committee, would create a credit review board and a home-quarter purchase fund. The board would help farmers who have attempted to restructure their loans without success and who face foreclosure.
An insurance executive pleaded not guilty today to a dozen felony counts in the operation of a prostitution ring the police say involved Brown University students and two juveniles. The executive, Stanley Henshaw 3d, who is accused of running the ring from his condominium near Brown University, was released on $5,000 bail. A trial was set for July 28. The arraignment of a Brown University senior, Dana E. Smith, who was indicted on prostitution charges, was postponed until May 21. Miss Smith, 21 years old, of Avon, Conn., is one of two Brown students whose arrest March 6 led to the seizure of photographs of 46 women from Mr. Henshaw’s condominium.
An Agriculture Department agency that licensed a genetically engineered swine vaccine after bypassing a special review has concluded the vaccine is no environmental threat and was adequately tested. The department told Biologics Corp. of Omaha, Nebraska, to resume sales of the vaccine. Jeremy Rifkin of the Foundation for Economic Trends, who has won previous lawsuits to establish a regulatory process for genetic engineering, said he will seek continued suspension of Biologics’ license.
America will get a second weather eye in the sky next week when the launch of the GOES-G satellite restores observation ability lost in a satellite failure nearly two years ago. Once the new instrument goes into service, the seasonal satellite shifts that have been needed to concentrate on one danger area at the potential expense of other localities, will no longer be necessary.
Disney World breaks ground for Victorian themed Grand Floridian Beach Resort (now known as Disney’s Grand Floridian Resort & Spa).
Harold Arlen died at his Manhattan home at the age of 81. Mr. Arlen, a leading Broadway composer, wrote such long-popular tunes as “Stormy Weather,” “It’s Only a Paper Moon” and “That Old Black Magic” and won an Academy Award in 1939 for “Over the Rainbow.”
Otto Preminger died of cancer at his Manhattan home at the age of 80. The versatile director and producer was known for such films as “Laura,” “The Moon Is Blue,” “Stalag 17,” “Anatomy of a Murder” and “Exodus.”
Major League Baseball:
Craig Reynold’s two-run pinch-hit single capped a three-run Houston rally with two outs in the ninth inning and gave the Astros a 3–2 victory over Atlanta. Atlanta starter Zane Smith, 1-1, was within one out of recording his second consecutive shutout when the Astros rallied to claim their seventh victory in eight games.
Dave Collins and Darnell Coles keyed a decisive two-run fifth with RBI singles and Frank Tanana overcame wildness with a three-hitter over eight innings as Detroit defeated Boston, 3–1. Tañana, 2-1, walked six and struck out one in the numbing 40-degree weather, but was tough in the clutch. Willie Hernandez pitched the ninth for his fifth save.
California right-hander Mike Witt pitched a five-hitter and a fielding error by Oakland left fielder Jose Canseco led to three unearned runs as the Angels beat the A’s, 5–0. Witt, 2–1, hurled his first complete game since August 22 and his first shutout since last April 25. He struck out eight and walked one.
Scott Sanderson pitched a five-hitter and Ryne Sandberg paced a 12-hit Chicago attack with a pair of doubles and a run-scoring single as the Cubs shut out St. Loui, 6–0. Sanderson, 1–1, struck out seven and walked one. He was perfect through four innings before yielding a leadoff single to Jack Clark in the fifth. The Cubs nicked loser Rick Ownbey, 1–1, for single runs in the first and the fourth. They chased Ownbey after scoring twice in the fifth inning, then added single runs in the sixth and eighth. Sandberg started his day with a two-out double in the first, then scored when Keith Moreland followed with an RBI-single to extend his consecutive-game hitting streak to seven. Chicago’s second run came after a leadoff double by Sandberg in the fourth. Moreland grounded out to the right side of the infield, sending Sandberg to third, and Durham singled back up the middle to score the run. The Cubs’ fifth-inning runs came after two were out. Shawon Dunston powered his third homer of the season to stake Sanderson to a 3–0 lead.
At Riverfront, the Padres collect three triples as they beat the Reds, 7–4. Andy Hawkins pitched 6 ⅓ strong innings and singled twice as the San Diego Padres overcame a grand-slam homer by Cincinnati’s Dave Parker to win. Hawkins, 1–2, allowed just four hits, one of them Parker’s third-inning grand slam, as San Diego broke a four-game losing streak and handed the Reds their fourth straight loss. He struck out six and walked two. The Padres took a 2–0 lead in the first when Steve Garvey doubled home a Tim Flannery and scored on Terry Kennedy’s single. But Parker’s sixth career grand slam, following singles by Ron Oester and John Denny and third baseman Graig Nettles’ error, gave the Reds a 4–2 lead
Brook Jacoby, Julio Franco and Carmen Castillo homered and Ken Schrom combined with Scott Bailes on a sixhitter to boost Cleveland to a 5–1 victory over the Orioles. Schrom, 3-1, allowed three hits, struck out one and walked two in six innings.
When the ball finally settled into Rickey Henderson’s mitt, the man standing on the pitcher’s mound allowed himself to breathe a sigh of relief. Brian Fisher had thrown the ball that Frank White hit in the ninth inning tonight. It sailed high and far, taking Henderson deep into center field, his back to the wall and his arms stretched high above his head. The catch ended the game. White had nearly won it, but a crosswind kept the ball inside the park and the Yankees left here with a 2–1 victory and a two-game hold on first place in the American League East. Ken Griffey collected three hits in support of Dennis Rasmussen’s three-hit pitching over seven innings, sparking New York to its first three-game sweep in Royals Stadium since 1974.
To Chicago manager Tony LaRussa, Tom Seaver’s pitching American League career continues to be an amazing story. The Chicago White Sox used the pitching of Seaver, a controversial interference call at second base and a pinch-hit bloop double by Reid Nichols in the ninth inning to edge the Brewers 2–1 on Wednesday night in Milwaukee. Seaver, 41, evened his record at 2–2 with a six-hit, seven-strikeout performance over 8 ⅔ innings. Bob James struck out pinch-hitter Ben Oglivie for the last out of the game for his second consecutive save against the Brewers. Seaver “continues to be the most amazing pitcher I’ve ever seen,” said White Sox manager Tony La Russa. Seaver, who started against the Brewers on Opening Day and lost, said, “It’s the best I’ve thrown since the start of the season. I just mixed them up,” he said of his pitches. “In and out, high and low.” The Brewers could attest to that. “He’s crafty,” said Milwaukee rookie Billy Jo Robidoux. “I can see how he has won more than 300 games. He keeps you off balance.” It was Seaver’s 306th career victory. The game was tied 1–1 after eight innings. Chicago pinch-hitter Reid Nichols drove in Bobby Bonilla with the winning run on a bloop double down the right-field line off Milwaukee reliever Dan Plesac, 1–1.
41-year-old Steve Carlton, who was just 1–8 last year and spent most of the year on the disabled list with a strained rotator cuff, worked 5 ⅓ innings, allowing three runs on five hits to earn to his first victory since last May 20 as Philadelphia defeated Montreal 5–4 on Wednesday. It was the 315th victory of his career, 11th on the all-time victories list. The veteran left-hander struck out six batters and walked six. Carlton, 1–2, now has 3,940 career strikeouts. “His stuff has been getting better each time out, and this win will mean a lot for him,” Philadelphia pitching coach Claude Osteen said. “It will make him believe in himself again. Steve Bedrosian worked the final inning for his first save, while Steve Jeltz had two hits, including a three-run triple to pace the Phillies’ offense.
The Mariners edged the Twins, 4–3. Dave Henderson’s two-run homer in the bottom of the 10th inning helped Seattle snap its six-game losing streak. The Twins had taken a 3–2 lead on Kent Hrbek’s RBI single in the top of the 10th. Reliever Mark Portugal, 0–1, walked Danny Tartabull to lead off the Mariners’ 10th. After Jim Presley bunted to move Tartabull to second, Henderson fell behind 0–2, but then lined his second homer of the year over the right field wall.
Fernando Valenzuela stopped San Francisco’s six-game winning streak, 6–4, with an effort that appeared torturous before the 26,069 fans and his teammates at Candlestick Park. Dodgers right fielder Mike Marshall, who hit a first-inning, three-run homer, said, “I don’t think any other pitcher would have had a complete game today. In the seventh and eighth innings, I thought he was done. Then he struck out three hitters in the heart of their lineup. I’ve seen some miraculous performances by him, but this was one of his best.” Today’s 163 pitches were the most Valenzuela has ever thrown. The Giants put a dozen runners on base on eight hits, three walks and a fielding error. Yet, they were able to scrape together just four runs, “That’s why we pay him so much money — because he’s such an outstanding pitcher,” Dodgers manager Tom Lasorda said.
Larry Parrish and George Wright both homered and had four hits apiece to lead Texas to a 9–8 win over the Blue Jays. Parrish drove in five runs and scored twice, while Wright had two RBIs and scored three times. The Rangers broke open a 5–5 tie with four runs in the seventh against reliever Dennis Lamp, 0-2. Parrish’s two-run double and Don Slaught’s two-run homer were the key hits.
Houston Astros 3, Atlanta Braves 2
Detroit Tigers 3, Boston Red Sox 1
Oakland Athletics 0, California Angels 5
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Chicago Cubs 6
San Diego Padres 7, Cincinnati Reds 4
Baltimore Orioles 1, Cleveland Indians 5
New York Yankees 2, Kansas City Royals 1
Chicago White Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Montreal Expos 4
Minnesota Twins 3, Seattle Mariners 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, San Francisco Giants 4
Texas Rangers 9, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1829.61 (-1.37)
Born:
Sven Kramer, Dutch speed skater (Olympics, 2006, 2010, 2014, 2018; 4 gold medals, 2 silver medals, 3 bronze medals), in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Jason Williams, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Carolina Panthers, Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Chicago, Illinoois.
Britt Davis, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos), in Broadview, Illinois.
Luis Durango, Panamanian pinch hitter and centerfielder (San Diego Padres, Houston Astros), in Panama City, Panama.
Jessica Stam, Canadian supermodel (Marc Jacobs, Gucci), in Kincardine, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Otto Preminger, 80, Austro-Hungarian-American theatre and film director, producer (“Laura”; “Advise & Consent”; “Anatomy of a Murder”), and actor (“Stalag 17”), of lung cancer.
Harold Arlen, 81, American popular song composer (“Over the Rainbow”; “It’s Only A Paper Moon”; “Stormy Weather”), of cancer.
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