The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said today that Soviet officials had told him they were working to encase the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor in a jacket of concrete. The process, known technically as entombment, is intended to seal off any release of radioactive material and avoid the possibility that molten radioactive fuel in the reactor might melt through the plant basement and into the groundwater, causing an explosion. The official, Hans Blix, said the operation involved tunneling under the reactor to lay concrete under the graphite core, which would “eventually be a foundation to entomb the structure.” The plan, he said, was “probably a reasonable approach” and considerably safer than trying to extract the nuclear fuel. It would be the first case of a commercial reactor’s being entombed. American experts widely believe that the graphite core of the crippled Soviet reactor is still burning but say the chance that molten fuel will burn through the reactor’s foundation and explode violently is remote. Their consensus is that the disaster is not yet over.
Blix, a Swede who is the director general of the Vienna-based atomic agency, and Morris Rosen, an American who heads the agency’s nuclear safety division, were the first Western officials to question Soviet experts and to visit the plant area in the Ukraine since explosions touched off a fire and radiation leak almost two weeks ago. While the two officials seemed to support Soviet contentions that the situation at the Chernobyl reactor had stabilized, Dr. Blix pointedly contradicted Soviet assertions that the Western reaction to the accident had been exaggerated, and he called the Chernobyl accident the most serious in the history of nuclear power. Dr. Blix also made these points at a news conference here and later tonight in Vienna:
- There was “some fire” in the reactor’s graphite core, but this had been extinguished, although temperatures “remain high.” He did not specify when the fire had been put out. Other experts stressed that the reactor fire, some form of combustion or smoldering, has probably never gone out. What has apparently happened, they said, is that flames from the reactor are no longer visible.
- Release of radioactivity from the damaged unit had been “significantly reduced” by thousands of tons of sand, boron, clay, dolomite and lead dropped on it from helicopters.
- There is little chance that nuclear chain reactions in the damaged fuel might suddenly resume, raising temperatures enormously. This phenomenon is known as “re-criticality.”
- The Soviet Union has not, contrary to reports in the West, “shut down other reactors of the Chernobyl type” as a precautionary measure.
Drenched in the sun and covered with apple blossoms, the Kopelovo state farm seems a Ukrainian idyll — except for the Soviet Army medical tent under the chestnut tree. Here, workers in white coats and high boots run Geiger counters over a group of peasants, most of whom were at their homes at Opachichi, 17 miles from the stricken Chernobyl nuclear reactor, for a week after the accident occurred. They were brought south to this state farm west of Kiev and about 90 miles from the crippled reactor last weekend. The Opachichi residents were part of an exodus of 84,000 people from the area of the Chernobyl reactor, at the town of Pripyat, after the accident April 26.
The countries of Western Europe, deeply divided by conflicting political and economic concerns, are squabbling among themselves over their home-grown produce and whether it is sufficiently free of radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster to be sold for export. The countries have adopted diverse strategies in coping with the radioactive fallout and its effect on their own agriculture. Some of the differences are explained by geography: countries further away from the accident have been only mildly affected by radioactivity and so have taken fewer measures. But the more significant factors appear to be political and economic. Italy, for example, is furious over the guidelines set by the European Community on what are acceptable levels of radioactivity in fruits and vegetables.
A team of Federal inspectors stationed at the United States’ ports and airports was placed on alert today to monitor food imported from 11 countries that may have been affected by radioactive material from the crippled nuclear reactor in the Ukraine. More than 1,000 inspectors from the Food and Drug Administration and 190 inspectors from the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service were directed to pay special attention to the possibility of radioactive contamination of food from Austria, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, East Germany, Finland, Hungary, Norway, Poland, Sweden and the Soviet Union as well as Japan. Japan was listed because prevailing winds push radioactive material eastward and rains have been drawing it to earth.
The carrier USS Coral Sea and seven escorts sailed for home today, completing service in the Mediterranean that lasted more than seven months and included combat action against Libya. The Navy said the carrier would sail for its home port of Norfolk, Virginia. Accompanying it are the cruiser USS Biddle and the oiler USS Monongahela; the frigates USS De Wert, USS Jesse L. Brown, USS Jack Williams and USS Capodanno, and the ammunition ship USS Mount Baker.
Spain expelled a Libyan diplomat — the consul general in Madrid — and arrested a Spanish Army colonel who it said had asked Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi for money to finance extreme-right wing activities. Spanish authorities said the consul general, Saad Ismail, arranged a meeting between Colonel Qaddafi and Colonel Carlos Meer de Rivera, the Spanish Army officer in custody. Spain has expelled four Libyan diplomats since December. Mr. Solana said earlier today that Spain was considering severing relations with Tripoli over the incident, which was discovered by the Spanish secret service during an investigation of activities of Colonel Meer de Rivera. The Libyan Embassy issued a statement this afternoon saying the Spanish Government statement on Mr. Ismail’s activities was false. “To accuse a diplomat accredited in this country since 1979 in such a manner is not in keeping with the exemplary conduct of the official,” the statement said.
Mehmet Ali Ağca, the man convicted of the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, has been admitted to a hospital where he was diagnosed as having tuberculosis, his lawyer said today. The lawyer, Pietro D’Ovidio, said Mr. Ağca recently showed signs of the disease and would spend a few days being treated. He said he had not seen Mr. Ağca for several months and did not know in which hospital the Turk was being treated. He gave no other details, and prison authorities refused to comment on Mr. Ağca’s condition or whereabouts. Mr. Ağca has been detained in several Italian prisons since receiving a life sentence for shooting the Pope in St Peter’s Square in May 1981.
Anatoly B. Shcharansky, the former Soviet political prisoner, urged yesterday that the United States maintain public pressure on Moscow to relax restrictions on the emigration of Jews from the Soviet Union. Speaking in New York, Mr. Shcharansky, 38 years old, argued that quiet diplomacy would work only amid public campaigns, and he said he planned to discuss this strategy when he meets with President Reagan in Washington next week. Appearing relaxed and displaying his customary wit, Mr. Shcharansky discussed a wide range of topics in a luncheon interview with editors and reporters at The New York Times. He was freed by the Soviet Union in February as part of an East-West prisoner exchange and arrived Thursday from Israel, where he has been living, on his first visit to the United States.
Israel’s Prime Minister and its army Chief of Staff issued separate statements today indicating that Israel has no intention of beginning a war against Syria and that they see no immediate evidence that the Syrians are planning a war with Israel. The statements by Prime Minister Shimon Peres and the Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Moshe Levy, appeared designed both to refute recent American news reports suggesting that Syria and Israel were on the brink of war and to insure that the Syrian leadership has a clear understanding of Israel’s thinking so that there will be no miscalculation on the part of Damascus. On Thursday night, a CBS News report quoted American and Western European intelligence sources as saying Israel was preparing a major military strike against Syria. Israeli officials dismissed the report as totally without foundation. But because of the wide circulation it received, they said they felt compelled to take the unusual step of publicly reassuring Damascus.
Syria, strengthened by substantial rearmament from the Soviet Union, is trying to attain “strategic parity” with Israel, according to Israeli and some American officials. But few officials in either country see the Syrian buildup as an outright military threat to Israel. “Syria should know that it has not reached military parity with Israel,” the Israeli Minister of Defense, Yitzhak Rabin, said in Washington this week. “In the long run Syria alone is not a match for Israel. I have no doubt we will win such a war.” At least some United States officials say they believe Israel is emphasizing a buildup of Soviet weapons in Syria and an expansion of the Syrian armed forces in an effort, in the words of one official, “to build their own case” for a possible punitive action, probably an air strike, against Syria. Such retaliation would be for purported complicity in terrorist acts against Israel, including the recent effort to smuggle a bomb aboard an El Al airliner in London. In a New York speech today, however, Mr. Rabin denied that Israel was contemplating any large-scale attack on Syria. He said Israel wished to deter terrorism, but added that “we are not interested in any escalation” of military actions between the two nations.
Syria has broadcast a report indicating that the Muslim Brotherhood, an organization of militant fundamentalists suppressed by Syrian troops four years ago, has resumed its efforts to destabilize the Government of President Hafez al-Assad. The report, broadcast Thursday night on the government-run television in Damascus and monitored in Beirut, featured five accused men who confessed to carrying out a series of bombings of public transportation vehicles last month. A Syrian spokesman said the attacks had killed 140 people and wounded 149 others. The men were identified as three Syrians and two Turkish nationals. All three Syrians said they were from the city of Hama in central Syria. It was there, in February 1982, that thousands of Syrian soldiers backed by tanks crushed the Muslim Brotherhood’s stronghold in a weeklong operation. In ensuing clashes between soldiers and Muslim Brothers, a large number of civilians, estimated in the thousands, were killed.
Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who stood atop Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary on May 29, 1953, the first climbers to reach the 29,028-foot peak, died in Darjeeling, India. He was 72 years old. He and Sir Edmund, the New Zealander who was knighted for his feat, became the first to climb the world’s highest mountain when they reached the summit of Everest on May 29, 1953. The Sherpa who began as a climber’s porter became an inspiration to a generation of mountaineers.
A newlywed, pregnant passenger wounded by a terrorist bomb that ripped apart an Air Lanka jetliner at Colombo International Airport last Saturday died today in a hospital, raising the death toll to 16. A spokesman for the Ministry of National Security identified the victim as Hanna Mahmoud, wife of an official in the Palestine Liberation Organization office in Male, capital of the Maldives. Mrs. Mahmoud was blown off the Air Lanka plane by the explosion, according to Attalla Quibia of the P.L.O. office in Colombo. Lalith Athulathmudali, the National Security Minister, said in Parliament on Thursday that the police had made some arrests in connection with the bombing. No one has been formally charged.
The Election Commission has suspended vote tallies in the disputed parliamentary election, raising the possibility new elections could be required for as many as 116 of the 300 seats being contested. The move came after Sheik Hasina Wazed of the opposition Awami League, said she would not reject the overall results of the election but would demand a new vote for at least 50 seats. There have been accusations of widespread fraud by the National Party of the President, Lieutenant General H. M. Ershad, in the election Wednesday. General Ershad had predicted the election would bring an end to military rule in Bangladesh.
Ruling and opposition party leaders today accepted in principle a reapportionment plan that would make it difficult to call a lower house election at the same time as an upper house one scheduled for this summer. The plan is expected to hurt Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s prospects for a third term. A double election is seen here as crucial for Mr. Nakasone’s chances to change party rules and gain a third term. In such national elections, the voter turnout is usually higher, which in turn usually favors the governing Liberal Democratic Party. Mr. Nakasone has denied that he wants to serve a third term.
The Prince and Princess of Wales toured Buddhist temples and ancient castles, attended a tea ceremony and ate their first Japanese meal today, the first day of their six-day tour of Japan. “I like the Prince very much,” Tenzan Yasuda, chief priest of Tofukuji Zen Buddhist temple, said after a visit. Asked whether Charles would make a good monk, the priest answered: “Of course, because I think he has a very honest character. He had much interest in our Zen training.” The Princess, meanwhile, rested at the 19th-century Imperial Palace in central Kyoto where the couple are staying until they leave for Tokyo Saturday. The couple later attended a reception by the local branch of the Japan-British Society and a formal dinner given by Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe.
President Corazon C. Aquino told Secretary of State George P. Shultz today that although a new American aid package “fell far short of what was needed” to help the Philippines, she was reconciled to not getting more at this time, her spokesman said. The Philippine spokesman said Mrs. Aquino understood “the statutory limitations” put on the Reagan Administration by budget laws in Washington and would put the burden of the effort on improving the economy on the Philippine people. Mr. Shultz renewed President Reagan’s invitation for her to visit Washington, and she is now planning a lengthy visit to Washington and other American cities sometime in November, he said. Comments by Mrs. Aquino and by Mr. Shultz seemed to diminish the tension that had recently developed in Philippine-American relations. But although Mrs. Aquino appeared to accept that the aid would be no higher than the projected American aid package of about $500 million, of which $150 million is in new aid, her chief economic advisers expressed some bitterness about the failure of Washington to do more for the new Government, which replaced that of Ferdinand E. Marcos.
An indictment of Jackie Presser on charges that he placed no-show workers on the staff of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters is expected as early as next week, according to Justice Department officials. The officials said at least one agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation might also be indicted along with Mr. Presser, head of the Teamsters. They said the agent used Mr. Presser as an informer. The name of the F.B.I. agent could not be learned. Officials said the indictment of the agent might be on perjury charges. Indictments would represent a remarkable reversal for the department, which decided last year to end a politically sensitive, 32-month investigation of the union chief without filing charges. It was dropped after bureau agents asserted that the allegations under investigation related to actions by Mr. Presser that the bureau had approved, Federal officials said. The inquiry was reopened, they said, after prosecutors determined that the bureau agents might have committed perjury to protect Mr. Presser from indictment. Law-enforcement officials have described him as a valuable informer.
Congressional Republicans and the Reagan Administration today criticized the 1987 budget approved Thursday by the House Budget Committee. But the committee chairman, William H. Gray 3d, predicted it would pass the House. Mr. Gray also said that although the plan called for revenue increases beyond what President Reagan proposed, they were not likely to be carried out if the President’s opposition continued. The committee’s plan, approved 21 to 11, with one Republican supporter, would cut the President’s military request by $35 billion, to $285 billion, and would raise $13.2 billion in new revenue, $7.3 billion more than the Mr. Reagan proposed. The plan would reduce the projected Federal deficit for the fiscal year 1987 to $137 billion, $7 billion below the $144 billion ceiling set by the new budget-balancing law. Criticism today from the Senate, which has also approved a $13.2 billion revenue increase, focused on the deep military cut. The ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee, Delbert L. Latta of Ohio, complained about the revenue increase as well as the military cut.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Sweet Liberty.”
President Reagan enjoys a morning horseback ride.
Executives are leaning to the support of the tax-revision plan approved this week by the Senate Finance Committee despite specific provisions that would be costly to their companies. Many members of the Business Council, which is made up of top executives of the country’s largest corporations, qualified their endorsements at their semiannual meeting in Hot Springs, Virginia, however, by asserting that they would not be able to support alterations to bring the bill closer in line with the one passed by the House and that the transition must be smoothly phased in. They also said their support assumed that a detailed analysis would not uncover adverse consequences not yet apparent.
A Federal jury began deliberations today in the second trial of Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards on charges of racketeering and fraud. It later recessed until Saturday. The Governor and four co-defendants, including his brother, Marion, are accused of conspiring for their financial gain to manipulate the state program that approves new medical construction. Governor Edwards is a Democrat in his third term. Prosecutors say he used his office as Governor to benefit his co-defendants in return for $1.9 million he received when he was out of office, between his second and third terms. The Governor’s first trial ended in a mistrial December 18, 1985, with the jury deadlock after six days of deliberations. The jury leaned toward acquittal.
Striking employees of the Geo. A. Hormel & Company lost two legal battles today when one Federal judge refused to bar the international union from placing their local in trusteeship and another ordered them not to harass the trustee or remove records from union offices. Federal District Judge Edward J. Devitt issued a temporary restraining order here prohibiting Local P-9 from transferring any of the union’s money from its headquarters in Austin or removing records. Judge Devitt’s order came about two hours after Federal District Judge Gerhard Gesell in Washington refused to temporarily block the takeover of Local P-9 by the United Food and Commercial Workers International union. Officials of the international union said Thursday that they were taking control of the local and removing its leaders because they had refused to settle an eight-month-old strike at the Hormel plant in Austin. In Minneapolis, the trustee appointed to supervise P-9’s daily operations vowed to go to Austin and renew negotiations with Hormel in the strike that began over wage cuts.
The union representing Amtrak engineers threatened today to stage a nationwide strike against the national rail passenger line as early as Monday over work and safety rules. The railroad said it did not know of the dispute. William Hausleider, the general chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, announced plans for the walkout in a statement issued in Philadelphia. He said Amtrak was avoiding the issue and a union committee voted to authorize a job action over changes in work and safety rules, job assignments and salaries. An Amtrak spokesman, Bruce Heard, said he knew nothing of a possible strike, but only “a minor issue” of union jurisdiction over the operation of a crane at Amtrak’s maintenance facility in Bear, Delaware.
A twin-engine plane plummeted to the ground shortly after takeoff Thursday in Louisiana and burst into flames, killing six county tax officials. Also on Thursday, crews in Utah worked to recover the bodies of six people killed when their plane crashed on a snowy mountain. The office of the tax assessor in Lousiana’s Caddo Parish, or county, Charles Henington, said Mr. Henington was flying his Cessna 411 to Baton Rouge for a meeting of assessors when it crashed after taking off from Shreveport’s Downtown Airport. The five passengers were his assistants. In Utah, searchers found the wreckage of the Turbo Commander 690, owned by the Kaiser Coal Company, at the 8,000-foot level near Goose Neck Ridge between the town of Price and East Carbon City. The authorities said three bodies had been recovered and efforts were under way yesterday to reach the other three.
A liver transplant delayed in Boston because an organ was not available for a critically ill infant raises new questions about how much is being done, and how aggressively, toward an effective national organ transplant system at a time when medical technology has made liver transplants possible. “The doctor can do the operation, but the medical bureaucracy isn’t aggressive about seeking donors,” said the child’s father. “They just wait for someone to offer an organ. The child’s family is seeking an organ donor on its own. Until two weeks ago, Alex Girard was a normal, healthy 9-month-old. Then he developed a rare, acute form of hepatitis. Today doctors said that he would not live unless he had a liver transplant within five days. Tonight a donor was found in Houston and a team of doctors from Boston flew to Texas for the liver.
The death sentence given John Harvey Adamson for killing the reporter Don Bolles in 1976 was overturned today by a Federal appeals court because he was tried for first-degree murder after being sentenced for second-degree murder. By a vote of 7 to 4, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that even though Mr. Adamson violated a plea bargain by refusing to testify against two other men implicated in the killing, increasing the charges against him violated the constitutional ban against double jeopardy. After his refusal to testify, he was tried and convicted. The ruling, if it stands, means Mr. Adamson would have a term of 20 years and two months, which he had been given for second degree murder, to which he was allowed to plead guilty. Prosecutors said Mr. Adamson was to be paid $10,000 to plant the bomb that exploded in Phoenix under the car of Mr. Bolles, a reporter for The Arizona Republic who had been investigating reports of organized crime in the state.
A Navy enlisted man was charged with espionage today for trying to sell weapon secrets, the Navy said. The sailor, Petty Officer 3d Class Robert Dean Haguewood, 24 years old, had worked with bombs and other munitions since November 1984 at the Pacific Missile Test Center at this coastal base, where cruise missiles are tested. He is accused of selling part of a classified weapon manual with the intent that a foreign government use it, said Lieutenant Commander Don Lewis, a spokesman for the test center. The sailor was also charged with four counts related to espionage. He faces a hearing Monday. His court-martial has been set tentatively for a week after the hearing.
At times it seemed to be democracy in action, and at other times it seemed to be the Chicago City Council’s best impersonation of the Second City acting troupe lampooning the Chicago City Council. In fact, as the chaplain noted in a prayer to open this raucous session today, it was the first meeting of the City Council since Mayor Harold Washington gained a working majority in elections completed 10 days ago. On paper, the Mayor controls 25 votes, and his rival, Alderman Edward R. Vrdolyak, also controls 25. In cases of ties, the Mayor would cast the deciding vote. Most members of the Mayor’s bloc sported buttons today that read: “25 + 1.”
A research rocket misfired over the New Mexico desert late last month without any public announcement, NASA said. It was the fifth known failure of American space launching vehicle in the last year and added to doubts about the nation’s rocket technology. The rocket failure on April 25 at the White Sands Proving Grounds was the first time in 55 consecutive missions that the rocket, a Nike-Orion, failed, according to James F. Kukowski, a spokesman for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
The space agency, in an apparent effort to blunt expected criticism from the Presidential panel investigating the loss of the space shuttle Challenger, announced today that it would form an “independent group of senior experts” to oversee the redesign of the space shuttle’s solid-fuel booster rockets. In a statement today, Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly, the agency’s associate administrator of space flight, said that the group “will be involved in all phases of the program” and are to report directly to the administrator of NASA. The administrator, confirmed by the Senate earlier this week, is James C. Fletcher. The statement did not name any members of the new group.
In Dolores Prida’s bilingual one-act play, “Coser y Cantar,” the Cuban-born New York playwright puts two actresses on stage to represent one Hispanic woman torn between her cultural roots and her growing Americanization. It is a comedy, and when the play was read by two actresses in a lecture hall last night at Miami-Dade Community College, the audience of 150, mostly young Hispanic people, laughed at the warring elements searching for accommodation in the same person. Some in the hall found no humor in the production, however. They were undercover police officers whose interest was not in the play but in making sure no disruptions occurred. And campus security guards at the door were frozen-faced when they searched everyone entering the building for weapons or bombs. Some Cuban exiles in Miami have denounced Miss Prida for her efforts a decade ago to improve relations with Fidel Castro’s Cuba, and bomb threats were directed against the Museum of Science, where “Coser y Cantar” (“To Sew and Sing”) was to be performed this weekend along with two other plays by Cuban exiles in Miami’s first Festival of Hispanic Theater. There were also telephoned threats against individuals involved in the production.
NHL Prince of Wales Conference Final: Montreal Canadians beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1.
Major League Baseball:
Tony LaRussa was retained Friday as manager of the Chicago White Sox and Dick Williams was hired to manage the Seattle Mariners. LaRussa, who was expected to be replaced by Billy Martin, will have more freedom to call the shots without interference from Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, chief of the team’s baseball operations.
Williams, who took three teams into four World Series, was named on to succeed Chuck Cottier at the helm of the slumping Mariners.
Steve Bedrosian, a relief pitcher who was traded to Philadelphia from Atlanta in the offseason, stopped a comeback attempt by his former teammates to lead Philadelphia to a 7–6 victory over the Braves. Bedrosian got the last two outs to get his fourth save and Juan Samuel and Von Hayes led a 14-hit Philadelphia attack. Bedrosian struck out Ted Simmons, walked Dale Murphy and struck out Bob Horner to end the game. Rick Schu homered and Mike Schmidt and Von Hayes each drove in two runs. The Phillies built a 5–1 lead in the second inning when they batted around, scoring four runs on five hits and one hit batsman.
Darryl Motley hit two home runs and George Brett, Willie Wilson and Jim Sundberg also homered, rallying the Kansas City Royals past the Baltimore Orioles 7–4 Winner Bud Black, 2–3, and Steve Farr allowed two hits in 8 ⅔ innings of relief after starter Mark Gubicza was chased in the first on a pair of two-run singles by Cal Ripken Jr. and Larry Sheets.
Cecil Cooper drove in five runs with a single and a pair of homers, including a three-run shot during a seven-run explosion in the third inning as the Milwaukee Brewers pounded out a 16–5 victory over the California Angels
The Padres downed the Cubs, 6–2. Kevin McReynolds hit a three-run home run in the seventh inning to support Andy Hawkins’s five-hit pitching. McReynolds’s home run came off Rick Sutcliffe (1–5), who also gave up home runs to Terry Kennedy and Tim Flannery. Hawkins (2–2) struck out two and walked one in pitching his first complete game of the season.
Tim Hulett’s two-run single with two outs in the ninth inning capped a three-run rally tonight that allowed the Chicago White Sox to end their six-game losing streak with a 4–3 victory over the Cleveland Indians. The loss, which ended Cleveland’s 10-game winning streak, knocked the Indians out of first place in the American League East, one-half game behind the Yankees. The White Sox trailed by 3–1 entering the ninth, but Wayne Tolleson walked and Harold Baines singled him to third, chasing Ernie Camacho, a relief pitcher. Scott Bailes (4–2), a reliever, then gave up a one-out single to Carlton Fisk that scored a run. After Bobby Bonilla flied out, Reid Nichols singled to load the bases for Hulett, who lined a single to center field off Rich Yett.
The Twins top the Tigers, 8–7. Gary Gaetti drove in four runs with a homer and a single and scored the go-ahead tally in the sixth inning on Chuck Cary’s wild pitch, lifting the Minnesota Twins. Bert Blyleven, 3–2, won the game despite surrendering Harry Spilman’s grand-slam home run, which capped a six-run uprising in the third inning and gave Detroit a 6–3 lead.
Hubie Brooks third extra-base hit of the game, a two-run double in the eighth inning, broke up a tie game and helped the Montreal Expos to their sixth straight victory, beating the Dodgers, 8–4. Brooks, who also homered and tripled, hit a one-out pitch from Dodger left-hander Fernando Valenzuela, 4–2, over third base to score Tim Raines and Andre Dawson. Andres Galarraga followed with his fourth home run of the year into the right-field seats. Jeff Reardon, 5–2, pitched the final two innings for Montreal.
Undefeated left-hander Bob Ojeda outdueled Mario Soto, and Howard Johnson’s run-scoring double ignited a two-run sixth inning that carried the New York Mets to their sixth straight victory, edging the Mets, 2–1. Ojeda, 5–0, pitched eight innings, allowed six hits, walked one and tied his career high with 10 strike-outs. He gave up the only Cincinnati run in the fifth when Buddy Bell led off with a double and later scored on Ron Oester’s sacrifice fly. Roger McDowell pitched the ninth for his third save.
Wade Boggs hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly with none out in the 10th inning, triggering a four-run rally that led Boston past Oakland, 9–6. The Red Sox won the game after Oakland’s Carney Lansford tied it with a three-run homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Lansford’s home run came against Bob Stanley, 1–1, who had relieved Roger Clemens. Clemens took a 5–2 lead and a six-hitter into the ninth, but left after giving up a pair of singles. Clemens struck out 11 and set a team record by striking out 10 or more batters in his fourth straight game. Clemens did not walk a batter. After Boggs’ sacrifice fly in the Boston 10th, Bill Buckner was issued an intentional walk that reloaded the bases. Jim Rice drove in another run with a force-out and then Don Baylor hit a two-run double.
Tony Walker, a pinch-runner, scored in the ninth inning on a wild pitch by Jim Winn to end Houston’s four-game losing streak as the Astros edged the Pirates, 3–2. Charles Kerfeld (3–0) pitched one and one-third innings in relief of Mike Scott, the starter, to earn the victory. Dave Smith got the last two outs for his ninth save, which leads the major leagues.
Alvin Davis drove in eight runs with a single and two homers, including a grand slam, powering the Seattle Mariners and new manager Dick Williams to a 13–3 rout of Toronto. Davis, who set a team record for runs batted in during a game, hit a three-run homer in the first inning, had an RBI single in the second and capped the night with his slam off the right-field foul pole in the seventh. Phil Bradley and Gorman Thomas also hit home runs for the Mariners, who pinned the loss on Dave Stieb, 0–4. Stieb gave up five runs in five innings.
Pinch-hitter Joel Youngblood singled through a drawn-in infield with one out in the tenth inning, scoring Rob Thompson to give the San Francisco Giants a 2–1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals Friday night. Youngblood, pinch-hitting for Giants’ starter Mike LaCoss, 3–0, singled off reliever Todd Worrell, 2–2. Mark Davis set down the Cards in the bottom of the tenth for his second save. Thompson drilled a single to left with one out in the tenth, raced to third on Jose Uribe’s single to center and scored on Youngblood’s hit. Ozzie Smith doubled home Vince Coleman to stake the Cards to a 1–0 lead in the first inning, and the Giants tied it in the sixth on Chris Brown’s RBI single off St. Louis starter Bob Forsch. Forsch pitched the first eight innings for St. Louis, allowing five hits, before Worrell came on in the ninth. LaCoss surrendered seven hits in his nine-inning stint, striking out three and walking one.
The scheduled game between the New York Yankees and the Rangers at Arlington, Texas was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on May 11.
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Atlanta Braves 6
Kansas City Royals 7, Baltimore Orioles 4
Milwaukee Brewers 16, California Angels 5
San Diego Padres 6, Chicago Cubs 2
Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland Indians 3
Detroit Tigers 7, Minnesota Twins 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Montreal Expos 8
Cincinnati Reds 1, New York Mets 2
Boston Red Sox 9, Oakland Athletics 6
Houston Astros 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Seattle Mariners 13
San Francisco Giants 2, St. Louis Cardinals 1
The Dow Jones industrial average was down about a dozen points yesterday when rates were up, but a rally in bond prices enabled the blue-chip index to climb to 1,789.43 at the close, for a 3.22-point gain. For the week, the Dow rose 14.75 points. Volume improved a bit yesterday, climbing to 137.4 million shares from Thursday’s 136 million. For the week, however, only about 626 million shares changed hands, the lowest total since the last full week in March.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1789.43 (+3.22)
Born:
Grace Gummer, American film and stage actress (“Arcadia”; “The Newsroom”; “American Horror Story”: “Freak Show”), and daughter of Meryl Streep, in New York.
Daniel Schlereth, MLB pitcher (Arizona Diamondbacks, Detroit Tigers), in Anchorage, Alaska.
Died:
Tenzing Norgay, 71, Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary, of a cerebral hemorrhage
Herschel Bernardi, 62, American actor (“Arnie”, Voice of ‘Charlie the Tuna’ in commercials, “Front”), of a heart attack.
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