Senior officials traveling with President Reagan said today that they thought Moscow’s handling of the nuclear accident had handed the United States an opportunity to affect the policies of the Soviet Government in other areas. Moscow’s reluctance to provide other countries with a full report on the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Ukraine, the officials argued, has offended many countries and amounts to a public-relations disaster that the Russians will have to compensate for elsewhere. The time is therefore ripe, one policy maker said, reflecting an Administration view that has evolved since Mr. Reagan left Washington, “to see if we can’t get them to come out of the closet on a range of issues.” “The Japanese, the Western Europeans and a lot of others now see not only how callously the Kremlin has handled this episode,” a White House aide said, “but also, by extension, how dangerous it is to trust their good will on other questions like arms control. We have a degree of unanimity that we haven’t seen very often in recent years within the alliance.”
The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Ukraine may put further strains on a Soviet economy already weakened by the collapse in world oil prices and a sharp deterioration in its trading accounts with the West, according to Government and private analysts. Among the possible repercussions the experts cited were more food imports by the Russians, a decrease in oil exports, fewer tourists in the Soviet Union, local power brownouts that might slow industrial production, a possible emergency national energy conservation program and a halt in exports of nuclear power stations. The Russians have sold one nuclear power plant to Finland and were trying to market another to Finland and one to Yugoslavia when the disaster struck, American power industry sources and Administration trade officials reported. Should these contracts go forward, which is far from certain, one American power industry representative speculated that the business would probably go to France or West Germany.
With Western leaders prepared in Tokyo to make a major issue of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, diplomats say the incident could become a serious setback for Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s foreign and domestic policies. The diplomats said the accident and Moscow’s handling of it could undo much of Mr. Gorbachev’s work over the last year to enhance the international image of the Soviet Union and to instill a sense of confidence and drive in the Soviet people. President Reagan and six other leaders in Tokyo for the economic summit meeting of industralized democracies planned to make the accident a focus of the meeting, according to their aides. The meeting began today. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain said in South Korea on Saturday that Soviet secrecy about the accident underscored the need for adequate verification procedures in arms control agreements.
The Soviet Union announced today that it had invited the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit Moscow to discuss the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. The announcement, published by the official press agency Tass, said the agency’s director general, Hans Blix, and two other senior officials were due to arrive in Moscow on Monday. Western diplomats said the invitation was a sign that Moscow hoped to reduce the international outrage over its handling of the accident. Talks to Focus on Assistance The atomic energy agency, a Vienna-based United Nations unit established to promote peaceful uses of atomic energy, confirmed that Mr. Blix would head a delegation to Moscow on Monday to hold “policy-level discussions” on “what kind of help the agency may be able to coordinate.”
Polish scientists acknowledged today that they withheld specific readings on radioactivity levels so as not to stir panic. The panel of scientists who managed the fallout emergency said in a special television program that the partial news blackout last Monday and Tuesday was warranted. “We were cautious about releasing our findings,” said Mieczyslaw Sowinski, the head of the state atomic energy agency. “We tried to conform to General Jaruzelski’s instructions of providing a maximum of safety with a minimum of panic.”
Kurt Waldheim fell just short of a majority in Austria’s presidential election, but emerged as the strong favorite to win a runoff vote next month. In a campaign dominated by controversy over his war record, Mr. Waldheim, a former Secretary of General of the United Nations and candidate of the conservative People’s Party, won 49.6 percent of the 4.8 million votes cast, only a fraction under the majority needed for a victory. His Socialist opponent, Kurt Steyrer, won 43.7 percent.
Belgian coal miners halted a two-week-old strike against mine closures today until details of a restructuring plan for the industry are made public, a spokesman for the miners’ unions announced. But new strikes are planned by teachers and other public-sector workers to protest the Government’s new austerity package, which is being worked out in talks near Brussels.
Pope John Paul II, noting the celebration today of Easter by Eastern Orthodox Christians, urged more dialogue between that church and Roman Catholics. “The resurrection of the Lord constitutes the fundamental event” of Christianity, said the Pope, addressing about 80,000 people who had gathered at St. Peter’s Square to hear his Sunday noon prayers. “In this, our faith, it is in common, as a common commitment to render the testimony of our times,” he said. “Open dialogue with the Eastern churches will help follow in closer commitment. We would have wanted to celebrate together on the same date the only Easter of the Lord. Until now, it has not been possible. Let’s hope it can be in the future.”
The White House announced today that the Holocaust survivor and author Elie Wiesel would be appointed to a second term as head of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. The announcement, issued during President Reagan’s visit to Tokyo for the economic summit meeting, came almost a year after the President made a visit to a German military cemetery that put him at odds with Mr. Wiesel.
United States officials stepped up the pressure today for American companies with oil interests in Libya to leave the country, saying that a deadline was approaching. President Reagan called on these companies to leave when he imposed additional economic sanctions on Libya last January, but he gave them time to disengage in order to prevent a windfall to Libya. On the NBC News program “Meet the Press,” Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, said remaining American businesses would be out soon. Neither he nor other officials would provide a date. “I think you’ll find that we ordered Americans out of there, and that we have set a deadline for American oil companies to get out.” he said. “And I think they will have to observe that deadline.”
Afghanistan has a new leader. Babrak Karmal, who had been Afghan leader since Soviet troops moved into the country in 1979, was replaced by the former secret police chief, according to Tass, the official Soviet press agency. The new leader, Najibullah, is 39 years old. He was promoted from secret police chief to party secretary charged with overall security late last year. Tass said Mr. Karmal, 57, resigned as General Secretary of the ruling People’s Democratic Pary of Afghanistan, the name for the Communist Party — effectively the top position in the Afghan leadership — for health reasons. Mr. Karmal had not been seen in public since he left on a trip to the Soviet Union on March 30. He returned last Thursday.
The opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today threatened to mobilize her supporters against the Government if the President, Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, did not set a date for elections soon. Miss Bhutto, who drew about a quarter of a million people to a rally Saturday night, said her campaign swing through the country so far was just to test popular support for her demand that President Zia step down and that elections be held. The campaign, which began with her return to Lahore from self-exile in Europe on April 10, will soon shift to a second phase of mass mobilization to press for elections this fall, she said at a news conference. “We will soon be completing the first phase,” said Miss Bhutto, who is due to end her speaking tour on May 9 just before Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, begins. Miss Bhutto, who declined to sketch out her plans any further, appealed to General Zia to heed what she said was the message of her rallies so far. “See the writing on the wall,” she said. “I have the masses with me.”
A bomb that blew apart an Air Lanka jet at the international airport here Saturday went off in a cargo hold and may have been planted in a consignment of vegetables, the head of the airline said today. The official, Rakitha Wikremanayake, added that baskets of vegetables were not subject to normal security checks because vegetables “were perishable and couldn’t be examined.” The death toll from the blast is expected to be about 20 to 22, with several dozen people seriously wounded. Fifteen bodies have been identified, officials said. Most of the victims were European or Japanese vacationers on their way to the Maldive Islands, southwest of here. A flight attendant was also killed. The bomb went off near the tail of the plane, a Lockheed Tristar jet of Sri Lanka’s national airline, and severed it. Authorities said it was believed to have been planted by separatist Tamil guerrillas. A government official said today that authorities had intercepted a rebel message after the blast linking it to one of two separatist groups that have been fighting each other in the last six days.
It looked more like an Asian armada than a riverboat cruise, what with all the frogmen on rafts and sailors on gunboats and policemen in motorboats and sharpshooters in helicopters. “Don’t worry,” joked a Secret Service agent on board the Orchid Queen. “We’ve got submarines under us.” Nancy Reagan took a slow boat down the Chao Phraya River today, past the golden Temple of the Dawn and the metal huts of the poor, past luxury hotels and textile factories. The outing had seemed a picturesque thing to do at the time the trip was planned. But after the United States bombed Libya, the First Lady’s side trip to Malaysia and Thailand was viewed in a frightening new light and the 20-minute ride along the banks of downtown Bangkok suddenly became the most vulnerable part of the schedule. But if the President has decided that the show must go on in order to send a message to terrorists that the United States will not cower, his wife carried that message with cool style.
The police in South Korea held and questioned 146 people in Inchon today after violent anti-government riots. About 4,000 youths, most of them students, rampaged Saturday through downtown Inchon, 25 miles west of Seoul. Some of them burned two vehicles, an American flag and the office of a lawmaker from the governing party. A police spokesman said 105 people, including 103 officers and two civilians, were injured during six hours of the violent street demonstrations. The police said they had taken 310 people into custody but freed 164 with warnings. Police sources said the 146 others who were detained face prosecution for rioting and illegal demonstrations.
Advisers to the heads of the leading industrial democracies produced draft statements on nuclear safety and international terrorism in an all-night session, and President Reagan was described today as “extremely pleased” with the efforts to address the two issues in Tokyo. Reagan Administration officials said that, barring last-minute snags, Mr. Reagan and the six other leaders were expected to approve the drafts at the first plenary session of the Tokyo summit conference later this morning. The declarations were to be issued this afternoon. The officials said some parts of the terrorism statement were still being ironed out this afternoon. The Japanese Foreign Minister, Shintaro Abe, said at a news conference that there seemed to be “a convergence of views” but that some work remained on the wording.
President Reagan makes tours the Akasaka Palace. President Reagan learns later that terrorists had launched homemade missiles at the palace during the President’s tour. The palace in Tokyo was fired on with five homemade rockets during welcoming ceremonies for leaders arriving for the economic summit conference, but the rockets, which traveled more than two miles, overshot their target and landed on the street and on buildings near the Canadian Embassy. No one was hurt.
Two military helicopters collided in midair during a drill in Taiwan and crashed into a rice paddy, killing 22 soldiers and injuring two others, a newspaper reported today. Military officials confirmed the crash but refused to comment on the casualties reported by the newspaper, The Independence Evening Post. The helicopters crashed Saturday in Tai Hsi, 21 miles southwest of Taipei. Five helicopters carrying troops were flying in formation when fire erupted from one helicopter, the newspaper quoted unidentified sources as saying. It said the burning aircraft tilted and smashed into another helicopter.
Philippine Vice President Salvador H. Laurel said today that he had explained to President Reagan his government’s reasons for denying a passport to Ferdinand E. Marcos and that Mr. Reagan “understood our position.” Speaking on his return from the Indonesian island of Bali, where he and other representatives of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations met with Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Mr. Laurel played down reports of differences between the two governments, saying: “There was no raising of voices. There was not even a sarcasm. There was no disagreement.” In Bali, Mr. Shultz suggested that the Philippine Government issue Mr. Marcos a passport and allow him to travel. But Mr. Laurel said today that he had explained to Mr. Reagan that the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino wishes Mr. Marcos to remain where he is so that American court cases can be pursued against him in an attempt to retrieve his properties and wealth in the United States, and because if he moves to a third country, “he might get hold of his money and use it to destabilize our government.”
The Umma and Democratic Unionist parties today agreed to share power in a broad-based Government and leave the militant National Islamic Front in opposition, the official Sudan press agency reported. The leader of Umma, Sadeq al-Mahdi, would be Prime Minister and the two parties would also bring into the Government southern parties and the small Sudan National Party, the press agency said. The agency said the agreement between the two parties, which began talks on forming a government more than two weeks ago, stipulated that the Democratic Unionist Party would nominate a member to the chairmanship of a five-member Supreme Council to act as head of state. Mr. Mahdi said Umma, which won 99 seats in elections last month for a 301-seat Constituent Assembly, would take 8 of the Government’s 18 portfolios and the Democratic Unionists would take six. The remaining four would go to small parties, he said.
The nation’s ability to lift commercial, scientific and military satellites into space is crippled, at least for the near future, space agency officials said today after the third consecutive failure of a major space mission in 14 weeks. That assessment from mystified and demoralized officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration came after a Delta rocket carrying a weather satellite lost power and spun out of control Saturday evening over Cape Canaveral, Florida, forcing controllers on the ground to destroy the craft and its $57.5 million payload. Today the agency announced it was suspending all Delta launchings until the causes of the latest failure were determined. In a terse statement issued from NASA headquarters, Rear Adm. Richard H. Truly, who took over two months ago as the agency’s Associate Administrator for space flight, appointed an eight-member investigating board and told it to report by July 2. Analysts thus began to question today whether something more than bad luck was at work. “From a broader perspective,” said Marc E. Vaucher, a program manager at the Center for Space Policy Inc., a consulting group, “you have to question whether something is fundamentally wrong with NASA’s quality control and maintenance procedures. Obviously you can’t have three widely different hardware systems go bad and blame it only on the hardware. It’s got to be an issue of quality control and support.”
Gun-control advocates and some members of Congress are trying to ban weapons that do not yet exist: all-plastic guns that could pass unnoticed through airport security devices. “It is much more difficult to solve a problem after it becomes a reality than before,” said Michael Beard, president of the National Coalition to Ban Handguns, “and for once in the history of this country we have the chance to stop a deadly weapon from being sold and not have to mop up afterwards.” Two bills, that were introduced in the House Judiciary Committee in February and are scheduled for a hearing before the panel’s Subcommittee on Crime on May 15, would ban manufacturing, importing or selling any firearm that cannot be detected by standard security equipment such as X-ray devices or metal detectors. One bill was sponsored by Representative Robert J. Mrazek, Democrat of Long Island, the second by Representative Mario Biaggi, Democrat of the Bronx. Both bills are opposed by the National Rifle Association.
Some 20,000 union members employed by the Santa Fe Railway today picketed a second straight day in a protest strike over the company’s decision to use management personnel while testing a new type of train. Rich Hall, a spokesman for the Santa Fe, said the railroad was operating its service at somewhere between two-thirds and three-fourths full capacity today using supervisory personnel. Some 8,000 members of the United Transportation Union, 4,000 members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and 8,000 members of about a dozen smaller craft unions representing clerks, mechanics and others walked off their jobs Saturday morning, shutting down two Amtrak passenger lines. The railroad continued to operate its freight service, with supervisors staffing some 20 trains from Chicago to Kansas City, Missouri. But the two Amtrak passenger lines on Santa Fe tracks that also handle freight were forced to shut down, including that of the Southwest Chief, which runs once a day in each direction between Chicago and Los Angeles. In another railroad dispute, 2,000 union members and supporters from across the Northeast marched Saturday at Greenfield, Mass., backing striking Maine rail workers entering their ninth week off the job.
A replay of the Texas race for Governor four years ago has been set with primary victories by both the Democratic Governor, Mark White, and Bill Clements, a Republican who was defeated by Mr. White in 1982. Each won his party’s nomination with more than half the vote, avoiding a costly runoff. A victory in November by Mr. Clements, who in 1978 was elected the first Republican Governor of Texas since the Reconstruction era, would be widely taken as validation of the growing Republican character of historically Democratic Texas.
Wayne Cryts drove past the fields swelling green with winter wheat, past the church where he married his wife, past the graveyard where some of the six generations of his family in Missouri, farmers all, now rest. This settled world of rich soil and long memories, the world of the family farmer, is collapsing, he said. “But you’ve got a chance to get it back,” Mr. Cryts tells farmers here. Mr. Cryts, himself a farmer who has long protested Federal agricultural policies, is a Democratic candidate for Congress in this southeast corner of Missouri. His campaign is one example of the political discontent in the nation’s beleaguered Farm Belt, a mood that analysts say is one of the most unpredictable variables in this election year. It is reflected in populist campaigns like Mr. Cryts’s, in chronic protest and demonstrations, in a ferment that both parties are trying to understand and control.
Across the United States, as many as 28,000 people may be practicing medicine and treating tens of thousands of patients each year, even though they do not hold physician’s licenses and in many cases have little or no medical training, state licensing officials report. While these bogus practitioners make up only about 6 percent of the nation’s total doctors, said Dr. William E. Jacott, president of the Federation of State Medical Boards, they pose “a tremendous problem for hospitals and the public.” “This rapidly growing pool of unlicensed and unlicensable people demands our attention,” said Dr. Jacott, whose group is the national organization representing the state agencies that license and discipline doctors. There are no hard data on how many people are working without medical licenses, Dr. Jacott said, “but we hear many anecdotes about what these people are doing.” In August 1984 a committee appointed by Governor Cuomo estimated that 6,500 unlicensed doctors were treating patients in hospitals in New York state.
Not since 1880 when the Kansas Idea, a harbinger of Prohibition, became enshrined in the state’s Constitution have “sin” issues cast a longer shadow on this state’s ballot than they will this year. As a result of actions by the Legislature, which ended its 1986 session last week, Kansas voters will be able to take a stand on both drinking and gambling. In the final month of the session, the legislators added to the ballot a proposed constitutional amendment that would permit parimutuel betting on horse and dog racing as well as one to permit a lottery. In addition, Kansans will vote this year on another proposed amendment to legalize the general sale of liquor by the drink.
A Lutheran church in Clairton, Pennsylvania locked up 16 months ago because of dissension over the dismissal of its activist pastor reopened today but a sheriff’s deputy barred the pastor, D. Douglas Roth, and 50 supporters from entering. Mr. Roth, 34 years old, was expelled from the ministry last June for refusing to obey an order to step down from his pulpit. About half of the church’s congregation had complained of Mr. Roth’s outspoken support of groups that attributed unemployment in the region to the investment policies of Pittsburgh corporations. The church’s doors were locked during today’s service. After the service, worshippers emerged, locked the doors again and hung a “No Trespassing” sign.
A man who lost $4 in a card game was arrested Saturday and held without bail on suspicion of setting a fire that killed two players and seriously injured two others in the game, the police said. Richard M. Currier, 37 years old, of Haverhill, Massachusetts was arrested at 4:40 AM, according to Detective Charles Malone of the Haverhill Police Department.
Amid increasing concern that girls in elementary and secondary schools are avoiding computer training, educators in the New York metropolitan area have undertaken studies to find out why and to come up with solutions. The school officials, who said the trend was particularly noticeable in junior high schools, said they were concerned that the girls who were not trained to use computers and were not comfortable with them might find it more difficult to find jobs. A number of educators across the country are conducting similar studies. What the experts have found is that given a choice, boys will flock to the computer and girls will find other things to do. Boys outnumber girls by as many as two or three to one in elective computer classes, in computer camps and in home-computer use, the experts said.
Four members of the six-person team that reached the North Pole Friday after a 56-day, 500-mile trek received a heroes’ welcome here today. “What a fantastic, miserable and wonderful trip,” one of the team members, Geoff Carroll, told a crowd of 600 people who waved American flags and cheered as the team’s jet landed. “We all love you,” Gov. Rudy Perpich told the team. “Congratulations on a wonderful journey.”
The annual Gordon Bennett Balloon Race ended without a clear winner early today, and race officials said they were trying to determine who traveled farthest, a Japanese team or a United States and Swiss entry. Both the “Benihana” and the “L.A. Times,” whose co-pilot was Paul Conrad, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, landed safely near Price, Utah, about 20 miles apart, according to a race spokesman, Frances Byrne. They landed less than 24 hours after beginning the competition in Palm Springs. “The race is too close to call,” the spokesman said. The winner will not be announced until race officials can calculate exactly which helium balloon traveled the farthest, she said.
Ivory-billed woodpeckers sighted in Cuba by American and Cuban scientists were the first to be seen in years of a North American species believed to be extinct. Word that the continent’s largest woodpecker clings to existence in Cuba has raised hope that the bird might be reintroduced to the southern United States, where it once flourished.
Major League Baseball:
Veteran manager and executive Paul Richards dies. The innovative Richards is probably best known for designing the oversized catcher’s glove used to catch knuckleballer Hoyt Wilhelm.
Roger Clemens scattered three hits over eight innings and Jim Rice drove in the game-winning run with a first-inning single to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 4–1 win over the Oakland A’s. Clemens (5–0) walked two and struck out 10 in his first start since Tuesday, when he struck out 20 batters, a major league record for strikeouts in a nine inning game. He finished two strikeouts short of a major league record for strikeouts in two consecutive games held by Luis Tiant, Nolan Ryan and Dwight Gooden, but tied the Red Sox team record of 30 set by Ray Culp in September 1968. Rick Langford (1–3) was the loser. Boston scored its four runs in the first inning.
Brook Jacoby doubled home a run in the top of the 10th inning to help the Cleveland Indians beat the Chicago White Sox, 6–4, today and move into first place in the American League East. By winning its three-game weekend series, the Indians moved into first place, 11 percentage points ahead of the Yankees, at this stage of the season for the first time since May 17, 1981. Cleveland has won seven in a row and 10 of its last 13 games. The reliever Scott Bailes (4–1) was the winner. Bob James (1–2) was the loser. Andre Thornton opened the 10th inning with a double off the glove of the center fielder John Cangelosi. Thornton moved to third when Cangelosi failed to pick up the ball cleanly. Jacoby followed with a double off the right-field wall and Joe Carter added a sacrifice fly to make it 6–4. With Chicago leading by 4–3 in the top of the eighth inning, Jacoby tied the score with his third home run into the center-field bullpen.
At Riverfront, Ron Darling wins his second and Darryl Strawberry hits a pair of homers as the red-hot Mets beat the Reds, 7–2. Darryl Strawberry stroked a pair of home runs. But Ron Darling, the starter, often was wild in his six and two-thirds innings of work. “It was a very trying ball game for me,” said Manager Davey Johnson. “Darling was behind every hitter. It wasn’t pretty.” But it also elevated the Mets to a 16–4 start, an .800 record, a third straight victory with a sweep of the series as they ended a road trip with a 9–1 mark. They have captured 14 of their last 15 games and sent the Reds to their eighth straight defeat. Negatives? Wally Backman pulled up after getting his fourth hit of the game and has what was described as a slightly pulled left hamstring. More should be known on Monday. And the slumping George Foster was benched for a second straight game in favor of the younger Danny Heep. Strawberry found his home-run swing on this road trip, hitting five homers and driving in 13 runs as he went 15 for 39.
Darnell Coles, Lou Whitaker and Lance Parrish hit home runs to help Frank Tanana get a 4–1 victory for Detroit against the visiting Twins. Bert Blyleven (2–2) gave up only six hits in seven and one-third innings, but three of those were home runs. irby Puckett of Minnesota, who hit the first pitch in the two previous games for home runs, flied to center in his first time at bat. He did not swing at the first pitch. Tanana (4–1) pitched eight and two-thirds innings and allowed six hits. Willie Hernandez got his sixth save. Coles hit his home run in the first inning. Whitaker added his, a two-run homer to right field, in the third. Parrish hit his home run in the sixth.
The Royals crushed the Orioles, 1–1. Angel Salazar drove in five runs and Dennis Leonard, continuing his comeback, allowed three hits in seven innings to lead Kansas City. Leonard (3–2) lowered his earned-run average to 0.73 by beating Baltimore, the team he faced in May 1983 when a knee injury almost ended his career. Since he ended a three-year rehabilitation and returned to Kansas City this season, the 34-year-old right-hander has given up only three earned runs and has pitched a complete-game shutout in his five starts. Kansas City got a season-high 17 hits. Scott McGregor (2–3) was the loser.
Bob Forsch and three relief pitchers combined on a three-hitter, and Mike LaValliere and Ozzie Smith singled in runs in the third inning today to lead the St. Louis Cardinals to a 3–1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. The loss broke the Dodgers’ seven-game winning streak, and ended the Cardinals’ five-game losing streak. Forsch (2–1) struck out three and did not allow a hit after Mike Scioscia’s two-out single in the fourth inning. But the veteran right-hander left the game with one out in the seventh inning after issuing three consecutive walks. Greg Bargar immediately gave up a sacrifice fly to the pinch-hitter Enos Cabell that scored Scioscia, but he struck out Mariano Duncan for the final out of the inning. Ricky Horton and Todd Worrell combined to pitch the ninth inning, with Worrell getting his sixth save. Orel Hershiser (3–3) was the loser.
The Brewers downed the California Angels, 5–3. Billy Jo Robidoux singled in the sixth inning to drive in the tie-breaking run and Rob Deer followed with a two-run double to pace Milwaukee. After Cecil Cooper doubled off Kirk McCaskill (2–2) and Robin Yount sent him to third with a bunt single, Robidoux hit a ground ball to left to score Cooper and put Milwaukee ahead by 3–2. McCaskill struck out Ben Oglivie, but Deer doubled home Yount and Robidoux. In the eighth inning, Wally Joyner, of California, hit his eighth home run of the year off Ted Higuera (4–1). Mark Clear relieved him to earn his second save. George Hendrick, of California, hit his 250th career home run, and 100th in the American League, in the fourth inning.
In Montreal, the Astros take a 6–1 lead when Terry Puhl belts a 4th inning grand slam, but Montreal comes back to win, 7–6, as Andres Galarraga, a rookie, scored from third base on a fielding error by Glenn Davis with nobody out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Montreal the victory. Galarraga led off the ninth inning with a double off Dave Smith (0–1). Tim Wallach followed with an infield single, putting runners on first and third. Al Newman hit a ground ball to the first baseman Davis, who failed to pick up the ball as Galarraga scored the winning run..
The Yankees appear to have a need for some right-handed hitter who can provide punch when they face a left-handed starting pitcher. Mike Mason, a left-hander, started against the Yankees yesterday, forcing Lou Piniella to use his right-handed platoon, and the result was a 4–3 victory for the Texas Rangers. The loss, coupled with Cleveland’s victory over the Chicago White Sox, dropped the Yankees out of first place in the American League East, a position they had occupied since the fourth day of the season. In all, the Yankees left 12 runners on base, and that was what aroused the wrath of Piniella, who angrily paced back and forth in his office after the game. Don Mattingly’s run-scoring single in the first inning and his two-run home run in the seventh, both against Mason, were wasted. Larry Parrish’s second successive run-producing single decided the game in the eighth inning and gave Ron Guidry his first loss after three victories.
Kevin Gross pitched his first complete game of the season to help Philadelphia snap a three-game losing streak, spanking the Braves by a score of 5–1. Gross’s four-hitter was his first career victory over Atlanta and halted the Braves’ three-game winning streak. Gross (3–2) was never really in serious trouble. He allowed two base runners in an inning only once, with two out in the sixth inning. He ended that threat by striking out Dale Murphy. Gross lost his shutout when Terry Harper hit his second home run of the season in the seventh inning. He struck out three and walked three. Juan Samuel gave Philadelphia a 1–0 lead with a first-inning home run off Joe Johnson (3–2), the loser.
Jim Morrison hit a home run with two out in the top of the ninth inning to help Pittsburgh complete a three-game sweep, beating the Padres, 5–2. With the score tied, 2–2, Morrison hit an 0–1 pitch from Craig Lefferts (3–1) over the right-field wall for his fourth home run of the season. Jim Winn (1–0) got the win. Joe Orsulak later added a two-run single. San Diego tied the score, 2–2, with a run in the bottom of the eighth. With one out, Tony Gwynn singled and Kevin McReynolds walked. One out later, Pat Clements relieved Rick Rhoden. Terry Kennedy scored Gwynn with a single.
The Giants win two from the Cubs by identical 2–1 scores. Will Clark’s single in the eighth inning scored Mike Woodard from third base to lift San Francisco to victory in the second game of a double-header and give them the Giants sweep of Chicago. In the first game, Chris Brown hit a sacrifice fly off Rick Sutcliffe (1–4) with one out in the 10th inning for the victory. Sutcliffe allowed only four hits, none in the 10th, and struck out nine batters in his first complete game since last June. Mike LaCoss (2–0) won the first game with a five-hitter and lowered his earned run average to 1.71. Roger Mason (2–1) pitched a four-hitter for eight innings to win the second game, and Jeff Robinson pitched the ninth inning to earn his second save. San Francisco, however, needed a play at the plate to end the second game. With runners at first and second and two out, Chicago’s Ryne Sandberg hit an apparent force-out grounder to Jose Uribe, but the shortstop threw wildly to second. The ball hit the runner Terry Francona and bounced to the second baseman Robbie Thompson, who threw out Shawon Dunston attempting to score. The pinch-hitter Woodard got a leadoff double in the eighth off George Frazier (1–2). A sacrifice by Dan Gladden moved Woodard to third, and the left-hander Ray Fontenot relieved Frazier to face Clark, who got the game-winning hit on a 1–0 pitch. In the opening game, Uribe walked on five pitches to open the 10th inning for San Francisco and moved to second on a sacrifice by Woodard. The third baseman Ron Cey fielded Woodard’s bunt but hesitated before throwing, and Woodard was safe at first. Uribe tagged and went to third on Dan Gladden’s fly to deep center. Clark was walked intentionally to load the bases and Brown flied to center to score Uribe.
Willie Upshaw’s infield single with two out and the bases loaded scored Damaso Garcia in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Toronto a 3–2 win over the Mariners. Tom Henke (3–1) retired one batter for the victory. Mike Moore (1–3) was the loser. With the score tied, 2–2, Ernie Whitt walked and Garcia ran for him. After Kelly Gruber sacrificed, Lloyd Moseby was intentionally walked. Tony Fernandez forced Moseby and Rance Mulliniks received an intentional walk to load the bases. Upshaw hit a ground ball between first and second. Danny Tartabull grabbed it but could not make a play to first in time.
Oakland Athletics 1, Boston Red Sox 4
Cleveland Indians 6, Chicago White Sox 4
New York Mets 7, Cincinnati Reds 2
Minnesota Twins 1, Detroit Tigers 4
Baltimore Orioles 1, Kansas City Royals 11
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
California Angels 3, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Houston Astros 6, Montreal Expos 7
Texas Rangers 4, New York Yankees 3
Atlanta Braves 1, Philadelphia Phillies 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, San Diego Padres 2
Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Chicago Cubs 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Seattle Mariners 2, Toronto Blue Jays 3
Born:
Devan Dubnyk, Canadian NHL goaltender (NHL All-Star, 2016, 2017, 2019; Edmonon Oilers, Nashville Predators, Arizona Coyotes, Minnesota Wild, San Jose Sharks, Colorado Avalanche), in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada.
George Hill, NBA point guard and shooting guard (San Antonio Spurs, Indiana Pacers, Utah Jazz, Sacramento Kings, Cleveland Cavaliers, Milwaukee Bucks, Oklahoma City Thunder, Philadelphia 76ers), in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Zach Potter, NFL tight end (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Omaha, Nebraska.
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