The Chernobyl nuclear accident continues to pose a health threat in Kiev, the Soviet Union’s third largest city, and residents there have been told to keep their windows closed, wash frequently and take other precautions in hopes of fending off radiation contamination. Residents by the hundreds have been voluntarily leaving the city of 2.5 million, 70 miles south of the damaged reactor. Trains arriving in Moscow from Kiev were packed. Aleksandr P. Lyashko, the Ukrainian Premier, told reporters who were allowed to visit Kiev today that 84,000 people had been evacuated from settlements near the Chernobyl reactor over eight days. The highest official Soviet figure for evacuees previously reported was 49,000, but Soviet and Western sources have reported continuing evacuations since the first major move of people on April 27 from Pripyat, the town closest to the reactor. In articles today, Tass and a number of Soviet newspapers continued to discuss work “under the reactor block,” suggesting an effort to prevent the graphite core from burning through the foundation into the ground. Western experts said Soviet authorities were apparently concerned that the highly radioactive core could contaminate Kiev’s drinking water.
The report on instructions to deal with contamination and the description of Mr. Lyashko’s statement came from a Reuters correspondent who was allowed to visit the Ukrainian capital today as one of a small group of journalists. It was the first time a Western reporter had been permitted inside Kiev since just after the accident was announced April 28. The correspondent, Charles J. Bremner, the agency’s Moscow bureau chief, said there was a heavy police presence in the city this evening but that the mood in general seemed calm, with people strolling along the streets or fishing in the Dnieper River. He reported that residents have been advised to keep their windows closed, to avoid eating leafy vegetables, to mop their floors every day and to wash their hair and hands frequently. Hans Blix, the Swede who is director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said after a helicopter tour of the power-plant area that smoke continued to rise from the plant. That suggested to Western experts that the graphite core of the damaged reactor, Unit 4, was still smoldering.
Tucked into a long Izvestia report today on the Chernobyl reactor accident was a statement that “unfortunately” the service responsible for monitoring radiation inside the plant had had no contact with the service that monitored radiation outside the plant. Izvestia, the Soviet Government daily, did not further elaborate or explain. But the admission prompted the thought that as radiation levels from the exposed reactor grew inside the stricken plant, monitors inside had given no warning to authorities outside. The information could not be checked, but it contributed to a swelling body of evidence that authorities had been slow to learn and grasp the full scope of the disaster, especially the radiation danger to the population.
As the overnight trains from Kiev edged the final yards into the Kiev Station, the windows sliding past the platform merged into an unbroken mural of children’s faces, their curious eyes large, their noses flattened against the glass. “We just want to bring the children out,” said an elderly woman as she got off the train with a young boy and girl. “There was no organized effort. Every family made its own decision. There was too much in the air. We wanted to bring the children out.”
The Soviet nuclear reactor accident is now being described by American experts as the “worst case” disaster that has been envisioned in nuclear studies for at least 30 years. And, these experts say, it appears to be not over yet. “This is the hypothetical accident, the ancient accident of all the American studies,” said Joseph M. Hendrie, a nuclear engineer who was chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission during the Three Mile Island accident in 1979, until now the worst commercial nuclear accident. “They have dumped the full inventory of volatile fission products from a large power reactor directly into the environment,” Dr. Hendrie said. “You can’t do any worse than that.”
The United States intends to discuss in greater detail ways to verify limits on medium-range mobile missiles in the new round of Geneva arms talks that began today, Reagan Administration officials say. “We want to get down to business in the verification realm,” a senior Administration official said here on the eve of the resumption of the talks. The increased emphasis on verification appears to be the only new element in the American position, according to officials. The Geneva arms talks cover Soviet and American medium- and long-range strategic weapons and space-based defensive systems. The Reagan Administration says that the Soviet Union did not respond in detail to previous American proposals in the last round and that it is now up the Soviet Union to do so. The officials said the prospects for progress in this round were highly uncertain. One negative factor is that this round of talks is not taking place just before a summit meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Thus, there is not much political pressure on either side to make noticeable headway in the talks. “Nothing concentrates the mind like a summit,” one senior official said.
Medium-range weapons continue to be the most promising area for a possible agreement, officials said. One reason is that the Soviet Union has said an agreement on medium-range weapons could be worked out without resolving differences over antimissile defenses. United States negotiators introduced some general concepts for verifying limits on mobile missiles on the last day of the previous round of Geneva talks, which ended in March. Now, the intention is to make a more specific presentation. Administration experts have developed a plan for verifying a limit on medium-range mobile missiles. An initial census of the number of mobile missiles on both sides would be taken by inspectors, and there would be provisions to update this count. Special zones would be established in which the missiles could be deployed. The zones would be large enough to insure that the missiles could move to survive an attack but small enough to ease verification. In addition, procedures would be set for monitoring missiles leaving factories. It has not been determined if this would be done by devices or inspectors, or both.
By the year 2000, almost half the world’s population will be living in overcrowded cities, a report by the U.N. Fund for Population Activities said. Noting that the urban population of developing countries is growing several times faster than the rural population, it said this will transform the world “into a predominantly urban planet.” The report also predicted that by the end of the century, the world’s population will grow to about 6.1 billion from its present 4.8 billion. Mexico City, the world’s largest city with 18.1 million people, is expected to have 26.3 million inhabitants, closely followed by Sao Paulo, Brazil, with 24 million people. The report said people move to urban areas because of higher wages, better employment opportunities and prospects for social mobility.
An appeals court in Genoa, Italy, overturned the conviction of Bassam Ashker, the youngest gunman in the Achille Lauro hijacking in which a paralyzed American passenger was slain, on the grounds that Ashker was a minor at the time. He was ordered retried in a juvenile court. The three-judge panel also reduced the sentences of three of the four adult defendants by up to two years, but gave no reason for the change. They were convicted on charges of illegal possession of arms and explosives. The four adults and 10 other Palestinians face trial in Genoa on June 18 on kidnapping and murder charges in connection with the hijacking.
A lawyer for alleged Nazi war criminal Andrija Artukovic asked a court in Zagreb, Yugoslavia, to stop his trial, saying the 86-year-old defendant is not mentally or physically able to participate. In his closing arguments, Silvije Degan said that Artukovic, extradited from the United States in February, “doesn’t know where he is or who is trying him.” Degan argued that allegations that Artukovic ordered the mass murders of civilians and prisoners in World War II “were not proven” in the trial.
Anatoly B. Shcharansky arrived in the United States yesterday for a 12-day visit during which he said he would thank the American people and their leaders for their aid in freeing him from imprisonment in the Soviet Union. The human rights activist, who settled in Israel after his release in February, also said when he arrived at Kennedy International Airport that he would call attention to the “fate of prisoners of conscience” in the Soviet Union. And, he added, he will speak out about the “thousands of Soviet Jews who have expressed their wish to emigrate but cannot because of the policies of the Soviet leadership.”
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party suffered severe reverses in local government election results throughout Britain early today, but appeared to be winning one of two closely contested parliamentary seats. The narrow victory apparently won in West Derbyshire by Patrick McLoughlin, a 28-year-old former coal miner who crossed union picket lines during last year’s strike, saved the governing party from the humiliation of having no signficant successes to point to after a midterm election in which two of three British voters went to the polls. The seat Mr. McLoughlin held, formerly a feudal sinecure of the aristocratic Cavendish family the senior member of which is the Duke of Devonshire, was regarded as one of the safest Tory seats in Britain. It had been held by the Conservatives through 11 consecutive general elections.
The key foreign influence on English is the United States, according to Robert Burchfield, editor of the fourth and final volume of a supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, which was published in London. The new entries in the volume include security blanket, self-service, Sputnik and yuppie.
Israel is planning to attack Syrian forces in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley within a week, Al Ittihad, a semiofficial newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, reported. The newspaper, quoting sources in Lebanon, said the Syrian army is on alert, expecting the Israelis to strike with Washington’s blessing. Syria has had troops in Lebanon since it intervened in 1976 in the Lebanese civil war. Meanwhile, CBS News reported that U.S. intelligence sources also believe that Israel is preparing for a major attack on Syria, to retaliate for a reported Syrian role in an attempt to put a bomb on an El Al airliner in London last month.
Syria said today that it had protested to West Germany over allegations that a terrorist bombing in West Berlin in March was linked to the Syrian Embassy. Meanwhile, the Syrian Embassy in London issued a statement denying that it had any involvement in terrorist activities in Britain, including an attempt to place a bomb aboard an Israeli airliner leaving Heathrow Airport. Simultaneously, the Syrian Embassy in East Berlin said it “denied decisively” that it had “anything to do with an explosion in West Berlin.” The embassy spokesman said the charges were “lies” designed to damage Syria.
The overwhelming Congressional votes this week against President Reagan’s proposed arms deal with Saudi Arabia reflect rising doubts among legislators about the Administration’s plans to use American-supplied weapons as a primary instrument of foreign policy. To Congressional supporters of the Administration, this is a deeply disturbing trend that could undermine President Reagan’s ability to conduct foreign affairs from the Middle East to Central America. “Micromanagement of foreign policy has reached a nadir in this Congress,” said Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, a senior Republican on the Foreign Affairs Committee. “And it makes it very difficult in a dangerous world where there is increasingly less margin for error.”
The government in India’s troubled Punjab state suffered a setback when 27 legislators broke from the ruling Sikh party, the Akali Dal, to protest a police raid on the Golden Temple at Amritsar. The 27 rebel legislators were immediately recognized as a separate political party by the Speaker of the Punjab assembly. The split did not immediately threaten Chief Minister Surjit Singh Barnala’s government, which has the support of several of the state’s opposition parties, including Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress-I Party.
Opponents of the martial law Bangladesh Government of President H. M. Ershad charged today that there was “massive rigging” in the parliamentary election Wednesday but said they would accept the seats they had been given credit as winning and sit in the new Parliament. But the opponents demanded that the election be held again in at least 50 districts, out of the total of 300, where they lost on Wednesday. Despite widespread evidence of fraud, voter intimidation and violence throughout the country, most of it favoring General Ershad’s political party, the opponents stopped well short of repudiating the election outright. According to official returns for 184 of the 300 seats at stake, General Ershad’s National Party was awarded 81 seats, the Awami League was awarded 53 seats and independent candidates or small parties won the remainder. If accepted, the results would put General Ershad’s party in a position to form Bangladesh’s first civilian government since he took power in an army coup in 1982. A separate coalition of opposition parties boycotted the election.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that it was impossible for the United States to meet President Corazon C. Aquino’s public appeal for a huge aid program to rescue her nation’s economy. But Mr. Shultz sought to balance the rejection of the Philippine request for major new aid with assurances that the United States would do what it could to help Manila in ways short of a “Marshall Plan” sought by the Aquino Government. Washington has already promised $500 million in aid. The Secretary’s arrival here today, on his first visit since the dramatic change in government in February, came at a time of growing stresses in relations, caused in part by suspicions among Filipinos that the Reagan Administration was not doing all it could to help Mrs. Aquino and that Washington was too concerned about the welfare of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos, who is in exile in Hawaii. President Reagan has reportedly asked Manila to reissue Mr. Marcos his passport to allow him to travel elsewhere.
Haiti’s leaders have put on trial an army colonel accused of killing four people and wounding five. The authorities in Port-au-Prince have promised to hold a series of public trials of officials of the deposed Duvalier Government who are accused of abuses of power.
A U.S. House panel, trying to discover what happened to $13 million in nonlethal aid to Nicaraguan rebels, voted unanimously today to subpoena the records of bank accounts in which the money was deposited. The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 24 to 0 to allow Representative Michael D. Barnes, Democrat of Maryland, chairman of the subcommittee on Latin America, to sign the subpoenas, which were requested earlier in the day by the subcommittee in 9-to-0 vote. Mr. Barnes signed the first of 13 subpoenas late today and said the information obtained would be analyzed by General Accounting Office investigators.
Oscar Arias Sanchez was sworn in today as Costa Rica’s 47th President and declared his commitment to a peaceful resolution of the conflicts in Central America. “We will keep Costa Rica out of the armed conflicts of Central America and we will endeavor through diplomatic and political means to prevent Central American brothers from killing each other,” Mr. Arias said. The audience in the national stadium here applauded loudly. Repeating the themes that helped him win the presidency, Mr. Arias devoted his inaugural address to the virtue of democracy as a system of government, the need for economic recovery in Latin America and the urgency of preserving the neutrality of Costa Rica by negotiating an end to the wars that have torn its Central American neighbors.
Peruvian union leaders called the nation’s 180,000 teachers out on strike for higher pay. The state news agency reported “light absenteeism” in Lima schools, but the Education Ministry said a sampling of secondary schools indicated that 70% of the teachers had walked out. Teachers want their salaries doubled, to $300 a month. President Alan Garcia, faced with growing labor unrest after taking stern measures to combat inflation, has promised teachers and other government employees a raise in June.
The House Budget Committee tonight approved a 1987 budget plan that cuts the President’s military budget below this year’s level and raises revenue by $13.2 billion, the amount voted by the Senate. The budget plan, which sets spending at just under $1 trillion, was approved by a vote of 21 to 11 along party lines, contrasting sharply with the bipartisan approval given the Senate plan, both in committee and on the floor. The House committee’s proposal would cut the Federal budget deficit to $137 billion, exceeding the $144 billion goal set in the new balanced-budget law. If the budget plan for 1987 is approved in the Democratic-controlled House, it would set up a major confrontation with the Republican-controlled Senate and the White House. Although the House includes the same $13.2 billion figure for revenue increases as that approved in the Senate, the two are far apart on the military budget. President Reagan opposes both the deep cuts in the military budget and the $13.2 billion increase in revenue. Mr. Reagan had proposed an increase of $6 billion in revenue.
The White House said today that President Reagan would be actively involved in gathering Congressional support for the tax-revision plan approved by the Senate Finance Committee. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said Mr. Reagan planned to talk with Senate leaders over the next few days to press for the measure, to focus on tax revision in his weekly radio speech on Saturday and to “be actively involved in encouraging prompt action on the floor.” Mr. Reagan, in a phone call to Senator Bob Packwood, chairman of the committee and a key architect of the new tax plan, said the measure “moved us one giant step further down the road toward meaningful, historic tax reform,” then added, “We stand ready to work with you closely as your bill goes to the floor.” Emphasizing Commitment In their four-minute conversation, intended to underscore the President’s commitment to the committee’s bill, Mr. Reagan said, “The American people deserve the type of reform that you have put together.”
President Reagan places a call to Senator Dole (R-Kansas).
Management of the nation’s space program was sharply criticized and questioned today at a hearing before a Senate committee. Senators accused the Reagan Administration of an “inexcusable” failure to produce a timely plan for reviving the space program, asserted that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration had allowed its quality control programs to disintegrate and repeatedly challenged what they considered overoptimistic estimates on how quickly the space shuttle could be returned to flight and what that would cost. Centaur Rocket Problems The senators also warned that there were cost and technical difficulties as well as safety concerns with the Centaur upper-stage rocket. The rocket, which boosts spacecraft into outer space, had been scheduled to be carried aloft by two shuttles this month, but the Challenger disaster forced a postponement of all shuttle flights. Concerns about the Centaur were seconded by John C. Brizendine, chairman of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, who conceded, “I heaved a sigh of relief when it was not going to be launched in May of this year.”
Mr. Brizendine said the management system at NASA “is not flawed” and has generally “functioned well.” But he acknowledged that the agency’s management techniques might have become “somewhat stale and routine” and that “complacency may have set in a little.” The most sharply worded criticism of NASA today came from Democratic Senators on the Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space, but powerful Republicans joined in. Senator Slade Gorton, Republican of Washington, who heads the subcommittee, said he considered it “inexcusable” that the Administration, more than three months after the Challenger disaster, has not come up with a recommendation on whether to build a replacement and how to pay for it. He warned that his committee would simply propose its own shuttle program if the Administration “doesn’t get off its duff and go to work.” Mr. Gorton also voiced “serious reservations,” as had Senator Donald W. Riegle Jr., Democrat of Michigan, that the three remaining shuttles could sustain a schedule of a total of 12 to 18 launchings a year, as NASA has been projecting.
The White House said today that it favored prosecution of individuals or publications that may have violated laws barring unauthorized disclosure of classified information. Larry Speakes, the chief White House spokesman, said the Justice Department would decide whether to prosecute five publications that William J. Casey, Director of Central Intelligence, contends violated the law with recent reports related to intelligence-gathering on Libya. “Anyone who violates the law should be prosecuted, whether it be a publication or whether it would be a member of the Administration that is leaking information,” said Mr. Speakes. He noted that the Defense Department recently dismissed an employee on the ground that he had disclosed classified information to reporters.
Two prominent Democrats warned Congress that the 1988 presidential election could erupt in chaos because of the rush by some states to hold primaries as early as possible. Former Democratic National Chairman Charles T. Manatt said 25 states want primaries or caucuses in the last three weeks of March, and pollster Patrick Caddell said that number means that between 60% and 70% of delegates to the party’s national convention would be elected by March 31. The result, they said, could be a party hopelessly deadlocked or with an extremist becoming the front-runner.
A Philadelphia grand jury will investigate whether Mayor W. Wilson Goode and other top city officials committed crimes in the police siege that killed 11 members of the radical group MOVE and destroyed 61 homes, District Attorney Ron Castillo said. Police bombed MOVE’s row house last May 13, starting a fire that destroyed 61 homes. Five children and six adults in the MOVE house died. The fire left about 250 people homeless and caused up to $20 million in damage.
A Senate panel balked at the nomination of a Reagan Administration candidate for a seat on the Federal appellate court in Chicago. A vote by the Judiciary Committee on the nomination of Daniel Manion, a conservative Indiana lawyer, was 9 to 9, with seven Democrats and two Republicans opposed. However, his chances of confirmation were revived by a parliamentary maneuver to report the nomination to the full Senate with no recommendation. The motion succeeded, 11 to 6.
Eastern Airlines refused to pay a proposed $9.5 million civil penalty for asserted violations of aircraft maintenance and safety regulations. Federal aviation officials demanded that Eastern Airlines pay the full $9.5-million fine for maintenance violations and said that, unless payment is received by next Friday, they will ask the Justice Department to prosecute. “They’re not going to get it,” said Jerry Cosley, Eastern vice president for communications. Eastern Chairman Frank Borman earlier advised the agency that the carrier would exercise its legal rights to challenge the allegations resulting from a recent Federal Aviation Administration inspection of Eastern’s maintenance operations. The maintenance problems have been rectified since, the FAA said.
John A. Walker Jr. told the jury in the espionage trial of Jerry A. Whitworth today that “common sense” told him that Mr. Whitworth knew that the classified Navy data he is accused of stealing was being passed to the Soviet Union. “It made no sense that a friendly government or criminal element would buy cryptographic information,” said Mr. Walker, who has confessed to heading a Soviet spy ring to which Mr. Whitworth is accused of belonging. In a heated exchange with a defense attorney, James Larson, Mr. Walker admitted that whenever Mr. Whitworth asked him who was buying the material, he always answered that it was an ally of the United States or a private intelligence-gathering group. He acknowledged that he had never once directly told Mr. Whitworth that the buyers were agents of the Soviet Union.
In his cell last October, Richard Ramirez told a prison guard that he killed “about 20 people in California” and “I love to watch people die,” the guard has testified. The graphic statement, in which Mr. Ramirez describes himself as a “super criminal,” came to light two days after he was ordered to stand trial for killing 14 people in the Los Angeles area and for committing 36 other felonies, including rape, sodomy and robbery. Mr. Ramirez, 26 years old, is also accused in two other murders in California in what is called the “night stalker” case. The killings, random and brutal, terrified area residents for months. Throughout Mr. Ramirez’s nine-week preliminary hearing in Municipal Court, a number of sessions were closed to the public. The last closed session involved the final witness called by the prosecution, Sheriff’s Deputy Jim Ellis, who was guarding Mr. Ramirez at the county jail October 10.
Tens of thousands of people hurried to high ground in Hawaii, Alaska, Oregon, Washington and California after the Pacific Tsunami Center issued warnings Wednesday night of giant sea waves caused by a series of earthquakes near the Aleutian Islands. But tens of thousands of others clogged highways leading to the beaches and rocky bluffs to see the towering waves that were expected. As it turned out, the huge sea waves that officials had feared were less than 4 feet high when they reached the beaches and headlands, and the tsunami warning was lifted about five hours after it was issued. The largest of the series of six earthquakes measured 7.7 on the Richter scale, a magnitude at which serious property damage and physical danger can occur. But it was centered about 100 miles off Adak, a remote island where about 5,000 people live at an American naval air base, and only minor damage and no injuries were reported.
The two principal national organizations of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States were held in contempt of court yesterday by a Federal judge in Manhattan. The judge, Robert L. Carter of District Court, ordered the two groups, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops and the United States Catholic Conference, each to begin paying daily fines of $50,000 next Monday for refusing to turn over documents subpoenaed in a lawsuit over the tax-exempt status of the church. A lawyer for the Catholic conferences, Charles H. Wilson, said he would be in Judge Carter’s court at 10 A.M. today to ask him to stay the fines pending an appeal. Penalties are held in abeyance during an appeal.
Only 3.3 percent of the more than 200,000 public school teachers in Texas failed a statewide competency test, the State Board of Education was told today. Governor Mark White said: “The results are official — 96.7 percent of Texas teachers passed the test. And that’s an A in anyone’s book.” State education officials had predicted that about 5 percent of the teachers would fail the test, which they are given two chances to keep their jobs. Legislators decided to require the examination of administrators and teachers after a committee said it found some teachers were inadequately prepared to teach. Those who failed the test, which was given in March, will be allowed to take another examination June 28. Those who fail again will have their present teaching certificates canceled, officials said.
The Coca Cola Company is hailing the centennial of the day that an Atlanta pharmacist, John Styth Pemberton, mixed the first batch of the soda in a backyard cooler. The company has all but taken over Atlanta, its headquarters, by filling every downtown hotel with almost 23,000 guests, including bottlers from all 50 states and 122 foreign countries.
The Food and Drug Administration approved an antidote designed to prevent overdose deaths among the 4 million people still taking an old heart medication called Digoxin, a hard-to-regulate drug that accounts for half of all accidental poisonings among the elderly. The antidote — Digibind — can be administered intravenously in hospital emergency rooms to heart patients who take an overdose of Digoxin or a related drug, digitoxin. Digibind can also treat severe toxic reactions from non-fatal overdoses among children, the FDA said.
More than nine-tenths of elderly people who live alone have visits or telephone chats with family and friends, social support that may help them live longer, says a study released by the National Center for Health Statistics. There is evidence that “people who have a lot of friends and relatives and who see a lot of them are likely to live longer than those who seldom visit with friends or relatives…,” the report said.
Toyota Motors is recalling 218,000 Town Ace and Master Ace light commercial vehicles produced between October, 1982, and July, 1985, because of problems with the power steering, a company spokesman said in Tokyo. He said 130,000 of the vans had been sold in 44 countries, including the United States. The center arms of the power steering might break if the steering wheel was turned frequently when the vehicle was stationary, he said.
About 200 firefighters dug trenches yesterday in an effort to stop a raging fire in North Carolina as air tankers poured chemicals on the blaze that has charred more than 16,000 acres in four days. “It is not spreading at this point,” said a state forestry spokesman, Feldman Corn. Firefighters also battled blazes in Wisconsin and Virginia, but only the North Carolina fire remained out of control. The blaze began Monday in Pender County in eastern North Carolina and quickly spread to neighboring Onslow County, where it did most of its damage in a wildlife refuge. Crews contained the diamond-shaped blaze on three sides and worked to keep it from spreading to the northwest. Firefighters said they had the fire controlled Wednesday night but a strong sea breeze pushed it beyond the fire breaks. They said a shift in the wind was helping control the blaze.
Major League Baseball:
Chuck Cottier is fired as manager of the Seattle Mariners. He will be replaced tomorrow by Dick Williams, who resigned as manager of the Padres in February.
The Toronto Blue Jays overcome a 3rd-inning grand slam by Wally Joyner and edge the California Angels, 7–6. Buck Martinez hit a two-run double, breaking a seventh-inning tie and giving reliever
Mark Eichhorn pitched 3 ⅓ shutout innings to improve his record to 4–2. Tom Henke worked the final 2 ⅔ innings for his fourth save. The Angels scored in the eighth on an RBI single by Ruppert Jones.
A leadoff home run by Shawon Dunston started a four-run rally in the fifth inning, and the Chicago Cubs hung on for a 6–5 victory over the Dodgers. Scott Sanderson (2–1) was the winner although he yielded four runs in the first inning. Jerry Reuss (2–1) was the loser. Lee Smith, the third Chicago pitcher, came on to halt a rally after the Dodgers cut the lead to a run in the eighth. With the Cubs trailing by 4–2, Dunston opened the fifth with his fifth homer, into a 22-mile-per-hour wind against Reuss. Gary Matthews doubled and scored on a single by Keith Moreland. Moreland went to second on an infield out and to third on a wild pitch by Ed Vande Berg as Jody Davis drew a walk. Tom Niedenfuer came in and threw a wild pitch, allowing Moreland to score before Ron Cey doubled to score Davis.
Dale Murphy hit two home runs to account for five runs as the Atlanta Braves routed Cincinnati, 10–5, today, handing the Reds their 10th loss in their last 11 games. Murphy’s three-run first-inning homer, followed by Bob Horner’s fifth home run of the season, gave the Braves a four-run lead. Both homers came off John Denny (1–4), who gave up six runs in three innings. Murphy’s second home run and seventh of the season, a two-run shot in the eighth off Ron Robinson, extended a 6–5 Atlanta lead. The Braves’ starter, Rick Mahler, did not pitch long enough to get credit for the victory, working only four and one-third innings in which he surrendered five runs, but managed eight strikeouts. Craig McMurtry (1–1) shut down the Reds until he walked two batters in the eighth.
The Oakland A’s edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 2–1. Dave Kingman and Tony Phillips each singled to drive in a run in the eighth to break up a scoreless game. Ted Higuera (4–2) had shut out Oakland on four hits and struck out eight through seven innings, but ran into trouble after Alfredo Griffin led off the eighth with a single. Griffin took second on a sacrifice by Mickey Tettleton and scored on Phillip’s single to left. Phillips, who took second on the throw home, advanced to third on a fielder’s choice and scored on Kingman’s single to center.
Respect. In Pittsburgh’s 8–2 win over the Giants, San Francisco pitchers hand out three intentional base on balls to light-hitting Sam Khalifa. Khalifa is 2-for-2, while Jim Morrison and Sid Bream each garner 3 RBIs for the Pirates. Morrison backed Mike Bielecki, a rookie, with a bases-loaded triple to help Pittsburgh end San Francisco’s four-game winning streak. Bielecki (3–0) pitched seven and one-third innings. Scott Garrelts (3–3) was the loser. Bielecki lost his bid for a shutout when Joel Youngblood, a pinch-hitter, led off the eighth inning with a home run. Will Clark also hit a home run one out later. The Pirates, who had 11 hits in a 7–5 loss Wednesday night, collected 11 hits off three Giants pitchers. Garrelts gave up four runs on six hits and six walks in five innings. Jim Gott, who relieved Garrelts, threw two pitches before leaving with a sore right shoulder. He was later placed on the 21-day disabled list.
The Boston Red Sox beat the Seattle Mariners, 4–2. Marty Barrett’s two-run triple capped a four-run rally in the seventh inning to lead Boston. Seattle, playing under coach Marty Martinez, lost its fifth straight game and has dropped 17 of its last 21. Jose Tartabull homered for Seattle. Mike Brown (2–0) got the win for Boston.
Tim Conroy pitched a five-hitter and drove in four runs as the Cardinals emerged from a slump with 20 hits, pummeling the San Diego Padres, 13–3. Conroy (2–1) hit a two-run double in a five-run seventh and added a two-run single in a three-run eighth as St. Louis won consecutive games for the first time since April 19. The Cardinals, while handing San Diego its fifth loss in six games, won for only the fourth time in 17 games. The game also marked the first time in 17 games that St. Louis scored more than three runs. The Cardinals took the lead for good in the sixth inning when Ozzie Smith squeezed home Jose Oquendo from third base, and Willie McGee followed with a triple. McGee had four hits. Dave Dravecky (2–3) gave up 11 of the St. Louis hits.
Toronto Blue Jays 7, California Angels 6
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Chicago Cubs 6
Atlanta Braves 10, Cincinnati Reds 5
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Oakland Athletics 2
San Francisco Giants 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 8
Boston Red Sox 4, Seattle Mariners 2
San Diego Padres 3, St. Louis Cardinals 13
Stock prices rose moderately yesterday on Wall Street, but trading remained sluggish as investors grappled with a host of potentially bothersome factors like tax revision, government refinancings and the economy. Hugh Johnson, stock analyst and economist with the First Albany Corporation, said many investors are now worried that “all the good news is behind us.” “People are searching, struggling to make the case that the stock market is going to move higher,” Mr. Johnson added. The Dow Jones industrial average, after losing nearly 13 points on Wednesday, did move higher yesterday, but the 10.91-point gain, to 1,786.21, left many analysts unimpressed.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1786.21 (+10.91)
Born:
Garrett Temple, NBA shooting guard, small forward, and point guard (Houston Rockets, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs, Milwaukee Bucks, Charlotte Bobcats, Washington Wizards, Memphis Grizzlies, Los Angeles Clippers, Brooklyn Nets, Chicago Bulls, New Orleans Pelicans, Toronto Raptors), in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Ryan Purvis, NFL tight end (Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
Ray Feinga, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins), in West Valley City, Utah.
Died:
Ernle Bradford, 64, English historian and writer.
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