A senior designer of the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor said today that it would have to be sealed in concrete for centuries until radiation emissions were no longer a threat. The designer, Ivan Y. Yemelyanov, who is a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences, told reporters that the reactor would be encased in concrete with a water cooling system until the radioactivity decayed to tolerable levels. Asked how long this would take, he replied, “Hundreds of years, in any event.” Despite the problems with the No. 4 reactor, Mr. Yemelyanov expressed confidence in the design of the graphite reactor used at Chernobyl and several other Soviet power stations, and said two more 1,000-megawatt units would be installed at the Chernobyl station, as planned. Including the three units that have been shut down temporarily since the accident, this would raise the generating capacity of the plant to 5,000 megawatts. Before the accident, the ultimate capacity was to have been 6,000 megawatts, including the now damaged Unit 4.
In other developments today, the main television news program announced that the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, would make a televised speech Wednesday night. Diplomats said the speech by Mr. Gorbachev, who has not publicly commented on Chernobyl, was likely to deal with the nuclear accident. The Soviet press and television also reported that efforts to decontaminate a large zone around the reactor included the sealing of sewers to avoid the runoff of water contaminated by radioactive dust into rivers and lakes. Izvestia, the Government daily, reported that a special glass compound was being poured on the roofs of houses and other buildings to prevent radioactive particles from washing off in rain. The paper also said that the area immediately adjacent to the reactor was being decontaminated with a chemical powder and that tunneling crews brought from Siberia were working to shore up foundations and harden the ground underneath the damaged No. 4 unit so the reactor core could be encased in concrete. Television made the point today that Pripyat, the new power station town from which 25,000 people were evacuated, would definitely be resettled. The camera panned a window with a doll inside, and the announcer said: “Houses, stores, schools all await their residents. It is hard to say when this will be, but there is a basis for saying that it will definitely happen.” Soviet officials told foreign diplomats that the accident at the power plant on April 26 started with a hydrogen explosion, according to several diplomats.
Anatoly B. Sharansky, the Soviet dissident whose imprisonment marred Soviet-American relations for nine years, met for 30 minutes with President Reagan today to discuss ways of pressing Moscow on human rights issues. The meeting came during a day of praise for Mr. Sharansky strength and integrity, and of thanks from him for the aid that Congress and the President had given to his cause. Before his arrest in Moscow, he was active in the Jewish emigration movement and in the Helsinki Watch Committee, which monitored rights violations. His arrest, on charges of treason, was part of an effort to crush the dissident movement by linking it with United States intelligence services. Today, Mr. Sharansky, who has taken the Hebrew first name Natan since his arrival in Israel, was welcomed to Capitol Hill, where he conferred with lawmakers and addressed a ceremony in his honor. Mr. Sharansky entered the Capitol rotunda to a standing ovation from legislators and representatives of Jewish groups. He was flanked by Senator Robert J. Dole, the majority leader, and Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., the Speaker of the House. Later, on emerging from the White House, Mr. Sharansky said: “We were speaking about the best ways of dealing with the Soviet Union, and I was surprised how deeply President Reagan understands that system.”
The master lists of more than 36,000 files of war criminals, suspects and witnesses kept secret in the United Nations archives for nearly 40 years have been discovered on an open shelf in a military archive in Maryland. The 80 mimeographed lists, organized chronologically by the United Nations War Crimes Commission from 1943 to 1948, read like a Who’s Who of the Axis. They include the names of major wartime figures — from Hitler to Mussolini — as well as some of the most wanted Nazi war criminals sought by the Israeli Government and Nazi-hunters such as the Simon Wiesenthal Center for Holocaust Studies, based in Los Angeles. Among the most prominent names on the lists are Alois Brunner, a former deputy to Adolf Eichmann accused of brutality, who is reportedly living in Syria; Walter Kutschmann, a former Gestapo leader accused of murder, who was arrested last November in Buenos Aires, and Dr. Hans Wilhelm Konig, a former deputy of Josef Mengele at Auschwitz wanted for “complicity in murder and ill treatment,” who is believed to be living in Switzerland or Sweden.
The British Secretary of State for Northern Ireland told key United States senators today that it would be “incomprehensible” if they were to reject tighter extradition measures against suspected Irish terrorists in the face of President Reagan’s repeated vows to fight world terrorism. The Secretary, Tom King, was in Washington to lobby for a new British-American extradition treaty that has aroused extended controversy before the Foreign Relations Committee. He visited lawmakers and reminded them that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had permitted United States warplanes to fly from their British bases for the bombing strike against Libya last month. Senate refusal to consent to the extradition treaty, he said, “would simply not be understood in the U.K., particularly given the forward British role, shoulder to shoulder with the United States, in the fight to outlaw the international men of violence.”
Western European nations have significantly increased their share of arms sales to developing countries and sold more arms to these countries in 1985 than the United States or the Soviet Union, according to a Congressional report. The increase in the sale of arms by Western European nations has taken place even though the third world arms market has shrunk, the Congressional analysis made public last week shows. According to the report, Western European nations accounted for 31.3 percent of all weapons sold under arms agreements concluded in 1985. In 1984, the Western European share of the international arms trade was 25.6 percent.
The French police have arrested and charged two more suspects in the terrorist bombings of Marks & Spencer department stores in Paris and London, the prosecutor’s office in Nancy said today. A spokesman for Jean Charretier, the prosecutor, said the police had charged 28-year-old Philippe Frigerio with failing to report a crime, and a minor, whose name the police refused to divulge, with failing to report a crime and possession of explosives. The police said Mr. Frigerio was the brother of Isabelle Frigerio, a Frenchwoman who had been living with Habib Maammar, a 25-year-old Tunisian who reportedly has admitted carrying out at least three terrorist acts in Paris and London. Miss Frigerio was charged on Monday with possessing explosives and harboring a criminal. The other suspect was identified as the younger brother of Souad Aissaoui, 21, an Algerian woman who also was charged on Monday with possession of explosives and harboring a criminal.
Georges Marchais, Secretary General of the French Communist Party, has announced that he will not run for President in 1988. Mr. Marchais, leader of the Communist Party since 1972, was a candidate in the 1981 presidential elections, but said in a statement Monday it is “totally excluded that I be a candidate again.” Mr. Marchais said it was a personal decision that “I took long ago and that I ask the Central Committee to respect.” President Francois Mitterrand’s seven-year term ends in 1988.
Two Libyans went on trial in Ankara today on charges they conspired to bomb the American Officers’ Club there last month. The attempt was foiled at the last moment. Three other Libyans, two employees of the Libyan Embassy and a representative of Libya’s national airline, are being tried in absentia. At the opening session today in state security court, the case was adjourned for one week. The indictment for the first time discloses specifics of a case that, if proved, would support American contentions that the Libyan Government is directly involved in terrorism. The two men on trial in Ankara are Ali el-Ecefli Ramadan and Recep Muhtar Rohoma Tarhuni. They were captured on April 18 by Turkish police officers who said they saw the two men prowling around the club. The prosecutor charges that they intended to hurl grenades into the club, which was filled with more than 100 Americans and Turks attending a wedding reception.
President Reagan said today that Saudi Arabia had helped repel efforts by Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, to isolate the United States in the Arab world. The portrayal of the Saudi role was a part of an Administration lobbying campaign to overturn the Congressional actions last week that block the sale of $354 million worth of missiles to the Saudis. Mr. Reagan’s comment came in answer to a question after a speech to high school seniors in the Rose Garden at the White House. Although the President declined to elaborate, a senior White House official said later that he was referring to several steps taken by Saudi Arabia after the American bombing of Libya on April 15.
Revolutionary Guards in Iran have closed scores of boutiques and garment shops in Tehran in a renewed campaign against “immoral Western dress,” residents of the capital said. The campaign started after the Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, Hashemi Rafsanjani, issued a warning to women against defying dress regulations. Owners of shops displaying women’s underwear were told they would be liable to public floggings and fines, the Tehran residents, reached by phone from Athens, reported. Rafsanjani also announced that special camps will be set up “to reform ladies and gentlemen at various levels of moral turpitude.”
A 15-year-old Bahai boy was recently beaten and stoned to death in eastern Iran by a group of Shia Muslims encouraged by religious authorities, Robert Henderson, secretary of the National Bahai Assembly of the U.S., said in Wilmette, Illinois. He identified the boy as Payman Sobhani. Iranian authorities recently hanged two other Bahais. Iran’s Shia leaders consider members of the Bahai religion, which originated in Iran in the 19th Century, to be heretics. Bahais say that nearly 200 of their members have been killed in the last seven years for refusing to convert to Islam.
Afghan artillery fired dozens of shells at the Pakistani border town of Terri Mangal, a crossing point for refugees and guerrillas, and at an Afghan refugee camp on the outskirts of the town, killing at least 14 people, officials said in Peshawar. A Pakistani Foreign Ministry statement said 13 refugees and one Pakistani were killed and more than 20 people were wounded. The Foreign Ministry said it summoned the Afghan charge d’affaires to demand a halt to such cross-border attacks.
Taiwan’s national airline said today that it was willing to meet aviation officials from China to negotiate the return of a Boeing 747 cargo jet flown to China by a defector. The talks would be the first such face-to-face negotiations sanctioned by Taiwan. China Airlines, which rejected an offer to send officials to Peking for the negotiations, said in a statement that the talks could take place in British-ruled Hong Kong. China suggested Hong Kong as a location for the talks after Taiwan rejected the idea of sending a team to Peking. The plane was flown to China by Wang Hsi-chuen on May 3, who announced in China he defected because he was homesick and wanted to be reunited with his 82-year-old father. But Taiwanese officials said he was forced to land in China, possibly by a Chinese agent who sneaked aboard the plane.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz publicly rebuked former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines today for using his safe haven in Hawaii to foment trouble for the new Government of President Corazon C. Aquino. “He is causing trouble,” Mr. Shultz said, adding that what Mr. Marcos was doing “goes beyond just argument” with the Aquino Government. This was believed to be the most direct criticism of Mr. Marcos’s behavior from a senior Reagan Administration official since his arrival in Hawaii in late February. Mr. Shultz’s remarks were echoed by Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Archbishop of Manila, here to receive an award, who accused Mr. Marcos of trying to cause disunity in the Philippines. Cardinal Sin, a long-time critic of Mr. Marcos’s rule, said Mr. Marcos and his “loyalists” were paying people to demonstrate against Mrs. Aquino, and dressing some of them as priests and nuns to attract favorable press attention abroad. Cardinal Sin told a news conference that recent pro-Marcos and anti-Aquino demonstrations in Manila were financed by Mr. Marcos’s followers and “maybe by him because he still has money in the Philippines.”
President Corazon C. Aquino said today that she had already sent emissaries to talk with Communist insurgents and that progress was being made in some areas in trying to reach a cease-fire. Holding her first news conference in more than two months, Mrs. Aquino showed a quiet confidence in the performance of her Government, despite divisions within its ranks. In a wide-ranging session with foreign reporters, she displayed a detailed command of the issues and a sense of assurance about the priorities and timetable she had set for herself. “My Government is a popular government. it has credibility,” she said.
Federal officials testifying today before a Senate subcommittee offered what they characterized as the sharpest public criticism of Mexico that has come out of the United States Government in many years. The officials, at a hearing by the Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs, criticized the Mexican Government’s handling of illegal immigration, drug trafficking, government corruption and the nation’s troubled economy. The head of the United States Customs Service, William von Raab, accused the governor of a Mexican state of growing marijuana and opium poppies on his farms, which, Mr. von Raab said, were guarded by the Mexican Army. Senator Frank H. Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, asked the witnesses whether relatives of the Mexican President, Miguel de la Madrid, were drug traffickers. The question, Senate aides said, came out of intelligence information given yesterday during a closed subcommittee hearing on Mexico. Mr. von Raab answered, “We have no comment on that in a public hearing.”
Amnesty International accused Mexican authorities of collaborating in widespread murder and torture of peasants in rural Mexico. The London-based human rights group charged that scores of peasants in the southeastern states of Oaxaca and Chiapas have been killed in recent years during boundary conflicts and other disputes with landowners. Usually, the killers were armed civilians in the pay of rural landlords, often acting in close collaboration with local authorities, the report said.
“Comrade Betty,” a key leader of Peru’s Maoist group Sendero Luminoso, has been arrested, the Lima newspaper La Republica reported. It said that “Comrade Betty,” identified as Beatriz Sarimento Ramos, 23, was seized by police and soldiers in a working-class district of nearby San Martin. The paper said she was in charge of the group’s indoctrination schools in the Peruvian capital. Police spokesmen declined to confirm the report of Sarimento’s capture.
Chilean police used tear gas grenades to disperse reporters who marched through downtown Santiago to protest the military government’s restrictions on the press, witnesses said. About 40 reporters carried placards calling for less government control on television news, an end to harassment by police and a favorable response to a request to publish a new, independent newspaper.
A group of mediators from the British Commonwealth met in Cape Town with South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. (Pik) Botha to press their plan to arrange peace talks between Pretoria and the outlawed African National Congress. The Commonwealth plan apparently calls for South Africa to recognize the congress and free its jailed leader, Nelson Mandela, in return for a promise from the guerrillas to renounce violence.
Michael K. Deaver relinquished his White House perquisites today in what an aide to the lobbyist called an effort to remove a possible embarrassment to President Reagan. Mr. Deaver, who was deputy chief of staff before leaving the White House a year ago to set up a lobbying firm, returned his pass with a personal note to the President, according to the aide, who asked not to be identified. Mr. Deaver also asked that he no longer receive a daily copy of the President’s confidential schedule and no longer have access to the White House tennis court. The White House pass and note were delivered by messenger. “People have misunderstood it,” the aide said. “They assumed he was using it for his personal purposes.”
Michael K. Deaver, former White House deputy chief of staff, said he had never used his special 20-year relationship with President Reagan to help clients of his consulting business since he left the White House in 1985. Deaver said he also has sent back his White House pass, no longer receives a copy of Reagan’s daily schedule and no longer plays on the White House tennis courts. In an interview with the Washington Post, he also defended his role as a lobbyist for the Canadian government on acid rain after participating in discussions on the issue as a White House official.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the arms sale to Saudi Arabia with the Republican Congressional leadership.
President Reagan addresses graduating seniors from John A. Holmes High School of Edenton, North Carolina.
In a move that rebuffs President Reagan and could undermine the stand of the Republican-controlled Senate, House Republican leaders drafted a 1987 budget alternative today that cuts the President’s military request by $27 billion -$8 billion more than the Senate cut. Aides to the Republican leaders said tonight that they were still undecided whether the proposal would actually be offered when the House starts debate Wednesday. There is some fear that later negotiations between the Senate and Democrats in the House, who want a significantly lower military budget, could be complicated if House Republicans suggest a middle ground now. While they worked on the proposal, Mr. Reagan was telling Republican Congressional leaders that the plan passed by the Democratic-controlled House Budget Committee was “totally unacceptable” because of its deep cuts in his military budget and its call for $13.2 billion in new revenue, which is likely to mean a tax increase.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is investigating whether its officials had a role in the reassignment of two industry engineers who opposed the decision to launch the space shuttle Challenger January 28, a NASA official said today. The official, Deputy Administrator William R. Graham, said that while he had no evidence that space agency officials influenced a decision by Morton Thiokol Inc. to arrange new job duties for the engineers, he had directed NASA’s Inspector General, Bill Colvin, to make sure there was no direct or indirect agency involvement. Morton Thiokol manufactured the solid-fuel booster rocket suspected of causing the destruction of the shuttle and the loss of its seven crew members.
The House passed and sent to the Senate legislation to strengthen the Safe Drinking Water Act and initiate a federally supervised program to protect ground water from hazardous substances. The bill also would require stepped-up monitoring for chemicals in water supplies. It is a compromise agreed to by House and Senate negotiators. Federal aid would be available to help states find ways of preventing ground water contamination.
After six months of scientific review, the Environmental Protection Agency today approved a permit allowing researchers from the University of California to spray a living, genetically engineered bacterial agent in small-scale field tests in northern California. The permit was granted to Dr. Steven E. Lindow and Dr. Nickolas A. Panopoulos, plant pathologists at the University of California at Berkeley, who developed an altered strain of the bacterium Pseudomonas syringae to protect plants from frost damage. But Dr. Panopoulos acknowledged that the tests could be delayed by public anxiety at the test site and by legal challenges in Washington. The permit is the second to be be granted by the E.P.A. for a field test of a living microorganism whose genetic structure has been artificially altered. A field test of a genetically engineered virus was approved last year by the Department of Agriculture.
The Environmental Protection Agency ruled today against construction of a shopping mall on a swamp in Massachusetts. Despite the Army Corps of Engineers’ grant of a permit to build a 32-acre shopping center on Sweeden’s Swamp in Attleboro, Massachusetts, the agency found that the project would have “unacceptable adverse effects on wildlife and wildlife habitat.” The ruling by the agency’s Assistant Administrator for External Affairs, Jennifer Joy Wilson, specifically found that plans by the builder, Pyramid Companies, to “mitigate” its destruction of the swamp by creating an artificial wetland nearby were unacceptable under the Clean Water Act. Mrs. Wilson wrote that the agency did “not want to set a precedent across this nation of substituting artificial wetlands for the natural, functioning wetlands without consideration of the need for destroying those natural wetlands.”
New York Mayor Edward I. Koch called for federal legislation that would make illegal drug dealers subject to the death penalty. He discounted past efforts to curb the use of narcotics by increasing arrests of dealers and improving education. “What good does it do? You’ve got to take very drastic actions,” he told a news conference. “Unless we do what I suggested, I do not believe we will ever have any major impact on the elimination of cocaine and heroin.”
Amtrak and a union representing more than 300 locomotive engineers today agreed to binding arbitration to settle a dispute that had threatened earlier to paralyze passenger and freight traffic in the Northeast. John Jacobsen, an Amtrak spokesman, announced the agreement after daylong talks today focusing on jurisdiction over the operation of a mobile crane in a freight yard in Bear, Delaware. “Amtrak and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers agreed to submit the grievance to binding arbitration,” Mr. Jacobsen said. “The strike threat is over.” He said the arbitrator would be Jacob Seidenberg, a nationally recognized labor figure. John McCown, the union’s director of public relations, said earlier in Cleveland that the threat by Amtrak engineers to walk out was not approved by the union’s international leaders, and that the union’s Amtrak division in Trenton had acted without authority last weekend when it announced plans for a strike Monday. The strike was postponed about eight hours before it was to begin.
A Justice Department commission on pornography has concluded that most pornography sold in the United States is potentially harmful and can lead to violence. In a 211-page introduction to its final report, the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography urged action against the pornography industry, including more severe penalties for violation of obscenity laws. The report and a 26-page list of recommendations, scheduled to be made public in July, found that exposure to most pornography “bears some causal relationship to the level of sexual violence, sexual coercion or unwanted sexual aggression.” The commission’s conclusions conflict with those of a 1970 Presidential commission that found no link between pornography and violence or other types of antisocial behavior. Critics learning of the new report said its conclusions were not based on firm scientific evidence. Some of the commission’s supporters agree that social scientists are divided on whether most pornography is harmful. “For this commission, intuition has taken the place of science,” said Barry Lynn, legislative counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union. “The commission has never gotten off the track I said they were on a year ago: the track of censorship.” The 11-member commission, formed by Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d a year ago, said most pornography in the United States would be classified as “degrading,” particularly to women.
Doctors have struck back at lawyers in the widening crisis over soaring medical liability insurance. Faced with mounting insurance costs, and with several malpractice suits brought by local lawyers, suits that will almost certainly drive their premiums even higher, the obstetrician-gynecologists in Brunswick, Georgia have refused to care for any more pregnant lawyers or law clerks, or the pregnant wives of lawyers whose firms sue doctors for malpractice. The policy has already driven one lawyer 80 miles north to Savannah to deliver her baby. Her pregnant law clerk now faces the same choice, and as many as three wives of lawyers may be affected.
A bill that would permit companies to export drugs awaiting approval for sale in the United States appears likely to pass the Senate by a wide margin Wednesday. Debate on the measure, long a top priority of the pharmaceutical industry, began Thursday. Its sponsors, including Senators Orrin G. Hatch, Republican of Utah, Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, and Bill Bradley, Democrat of New Jersey, characterize the bill as a way to help the United States improve its trade balance, create jobs and nurture the fledgling biotechnology industry. The bill’s leading opponent, Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, Democrat of Ohio, has asserted repeatedly in debate that the bill “would codify an immoral double standard in our food and drug laws.”
Philadelphians observed May 13 somberly, variously with tears and anger. For a year, this city has been trying to put the disaster behind it. But today was a day of remembrance for all the victims of the deadly confrontation between the police and the radical group Move. One would hardly call the first anniversary of the police bombing of the group’s headquarters a commemoration. Not when six adults and five children burned to death in the fire touched off by the bomb, and 61 homes were destroyed, and 250 people made homeless. Not when so many Philadelphians still feel shame over what they see as a serious blot on their city’s name. Not when a grand jury will soon investigate the city’s top officials to see if they acted criminally in the Move affair.
Three white men accused of setting fire to a Philadelphia house formerly occupied by a black family were sentenced to prison by a federal judge. Vincent Callahan, 20, and Thomas O’Donnell, 22, who had pleaded guilty, each got a three-year term. George Stewart, 25, who had pleaded innocent, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. They were accused of setting fire last December 12 to a house vacated by the black family after whites gathered in the neighborhood to protest their presence.
Chanting “someone must pay,” protesters held a march and rally in Philadelphia to commemorate the first anniversary of the devastating MOVE battle and fire that left 11 people dead, 61 homes destroyed and 250 people homeless. Mayor W. Wilson Goode, whose popularity was tarnished by the incident, called for “a time of healing and renewal.” Six adult members of the radical cult MOVE and five children were killed after police dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto the roof of the group’s west Philadelphia row house.
The nearly all-white Chicago suburb of Cicero has agreed to adopt an open housing policy and hire blacks to settle a three-year-old discrimination suit, the Justice Department said today. The agreement, signed by town officials without admitting liability or violation of the law, was filed today in Federal court in Chicago.
Utah’s Legislature opened a special session to consider ways of lowering the Great Salt Lake, which has reached its highest recorded level and raised fears it could inundate an interstate highway and two rail lines. Gov. Norman H. Bangerter urged quick action on a $55-million proposal to pump some of the water into the desert. Heavy spring storms have pushed the lake to 4,211.65 feet above sea level, capping a four-year climb of 11 feet that has doubled the lake’s volume to 30 million acre-feet. The water has caused $175 million in damage since 1983.
A federal grand jury in Harrisburg indicted the Pennsylvania treasurer and the former state Republican chairman in a bribery scheme involving state contracts in which five others have been convicted. State Treasurer R. Budd Dwyer and former GOP Chairman Robert Asher were accused of using their offices to assure that Computer Technology Associates obtained a 1984 no-bid contract worth up to $6 million to recover Social Security payments, U.S. Atty. James West said.
A judge has dismissed two key charges in a $25 million fraud suit brought by Larry Wollersheim, a former Scientologist who asserted the church wrecked him emotionally and financially with lies and harassment. The judge, Ronald Swearinger of Superior Court, threw out Mr. Wollersheim’s claims of fraud and misrepresentation, two of the four causes of action in a 1980 civil suit that is now in its 12th week of trial. Mr. Wollersheim’s attorney, Charles O’Reilly, said Judge Swearinger ruled Monday that there was insufficient evidence to link the eight Scientologists named in the complaint to misrepresentations they allegedly made to Mr. Wollersheim. Mr. Wollersheim contends that Scientologists lied to him when they told him that church auditing, intense counseling and confession sessions would bring him greater health, stability and business success and give him supernatural powers. He said he relied on those representations and spent 11 years and about $100,000 on church courses, but later found the Scientology promises to be bogus.
A long-awaited major study has concluded that two important forms of psychotherapy are as effective as a standard drug treatment in curing depression, a mental disorder that afflicts millions of Americans. The study found that two relatively new forms of psychotherapy, cognitive behavior therapy and interpersonal psychotherapy, achieved results comparable to a standard antidepressant drug, imipramine, in reducing the symptoms of depression and improving the functioning of patients. All three therapies completely eliminated serious symptoms in 50 to 60 percent of the patients treated for 16 weeks. The study was hailed as a “landmark” by the scientists who presented it today at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting here. Shervert H. Frazier, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, which sponsored the study, called it “an important contribution to the understanding of these disorders.”
North Carolina firefighters said today that they were gaining the upper hand against a week-old brush fire that has scorched 73,000 acres, although gusting ocean winds rekindled fears that the blaze might jump fire lines. “I won’t say it’s contained, but the fire’s not running any more,” said Bill Miller, a fire weather observer for the State Forest Service. “But there’s an extremely high number of hot spots, and if they get the right weather conditions they could be out and running.” Winds today gusted to 25 miles an hour, but rising humidity and a light rain this afternoon enabled some firefighters to turn from protecting property to “basic forest fire tactics,” said Jim Sain, regional forester for the State Forest Service. “At least we’ve got an even chance now,” he said. “Before, we didn’t even have that.”
Guard Lewis Lloyd scored 10 of his 24 points in the fourth quarter tonight, leading the Houston Rockets to a 112–102 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers that evened their Western Conference final series at one game apiece. Lloyd scored only 4 points during the Lakers’ 119–107 victory over the Rockets last Saturday. The four-of-seven-game series shifts to the Summit in Houston for the third game Friday night and the fourth game Sunday. The Rockets are 41–5 at home this season, including 5–0 during the playoffs.
The capacity crowd of 14,890 Celtics fans began leaving Boston Garden in the third period tonight. By that time Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish, Dennis Johnson, Danny Ainge and Bill Walton, their heroes, were on the bench watching their substitutes put the finishing touches on a 128–96 victory over the Milwaukee Bucks. There was really no reason for the fans to have stayed even that long. The Celtics led, 29–12, at the quarter, and opened a 29-point margin several times in the second period. The Celtics took a 1–0 lead in the Eastern Conference final series.
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The Baltimore Orioles beat the Chicago White Sox, 3–1. Bobby Bonilla bobbled a dribbler down the first-base line by a pinch-hitter, Larry Sheets, and then made a wild underhand toss, allowing John Shelby to score the winning run in the eighth inning for Baltimore. The victory was the fourth in a row for the Orioles, while the White Sox lost for the eighth time in 11 games.
Wally Joyner, the Angels’ outstanding rookie, hit his 13th home run of the season tonight to help California beat the Red Sox, 5–4. Boston fell a game behind the Yankees in the American League East. Joyner continued his phenomenal start by drilling a two-run homer to erase a 1–0 Boston lead with one out in the third inning. The 23-year-old first baseman leads the majors in home runs and runs batted in (35). Joyner never previously hit more than 12 homers in any professional season — he hit 12 in each of the last two seasons in the minors. Ron Romanick (3–1) scattered five hits over the first seven innings, but needed the help of Doug Corbett to win his first decision since April 16 — a span of five starts. Corbett worked out of a bases-loaded, no-out situation in the eighth inning to earn his fourth save.
Pinch-hitter Candy Maldonado’s two-run homer off Lee Smith with two out in the ninth inning capped a San Francisco rally, as the Giants came back to beat the Chicago Cubs, 6–5. Maldonado, batting for the winning pitcher, Greg Minton (2–2), hit a 1–0 fastball over the left-field wall for his sixth home run of the season. It was the third time this season Maldonado has hit a home run as a pinch-hitter. It was the fifth pinch homer this season for the Giants. The Giants went into the bottom of the eighth leading, 4-0, behind the three-hit pitching of Scott Garrelts. Garrelts faltered and so did the bullpen. The Cubs scored five times to take the lead. Another ex-Dodger, Ron Cey, singled in the last two runs. In the ninth, it appeared Lee Smith would earn another save. Bob Brenly opened with a single and was on second with two out. But Maldonado hit the 1–0 pitch into the left-field seats.
Pat Tabler’s bases-empty home run off the reliever Greg Harris with two out in the 10th inning ended a four-game Cleveland losing streak as the Indians edged the Texas Rangers, 3–2. Tabler’s homer to left field was only the second hit off Harris (2–5) in two and two-thirds innings of relief.
Houston’s Denny Walling singled home Phil Garner from second base with the winning run in the 11th inning as the Astros won over the Philadelphia Phillies, 3–2. With one out, Garner doubled against Dave Rucker (0–1). Glenn Davis was intentionally walked before Walling drilled Rucker’s first pitch into the gap in right-center field.
The Royals nipped the Tigers, 4–2. Hal McRae’s two-run home run off Willie Hernandez with one out in the 11th inning gave Kansas City the victory. Hernandez (1–2) had surrendered a bases-empty home run to Steve Balboni that tied it at 2–2 in the ninth.
When the Yankees pulled Tommy John out of mothballs 11 days ago, they were hoping — perhaps hoping against hope — that he could provide some kind of help for a pitching staff that has endured its fair share of hard times. John did not make the team in spring training, but he waited patiently for the call that finally came May 2 when the club signed him to a free-agent contract. Now, there is no question: He was worth the wait. Today at the Metrodome, John pitched seven innings, wavered just once, and helped the Yankees score a 6–4 victory over the Minnesota Twins. John needed help from the bullpen after giving up a three-run homer in the seventh to Steve Lombardozzi that tied the game, 4–4. But Dave Righetti came in and pitched the final two innings for his 10th save, surviving a ninth-inning error by Bobby Meacham at shortstop and a single by Gary Gaetti. Dave Winfield hit a homer in the sixth off Bert Blyleven, the Minnesota starter, but he also chipped in significantly in the eighth after reaching base on a grounder to third that Gaetti threw into the dirt at first. With Ken Griffey at bat, Winfield stole second and kept running when the throw from the catcher, Tim Laudner, bounced into center field. Griffey’s double to left-center scored Winfield easily. The Yankees added a run in the ninth on Mike Easler’s single.
Andre Dawson drove home two runs with a single in the fifth inning to lead Montreal over Cincinnati, by a score of 4–2. It was the Expos’ 11th victory in 13 games. Floyd Youmans (2–3) worked five and one-third innings, allowing seven hits for the victory. Jeff Reardon, the fourth Montreal pitcher, went two innings for his fifth save. Dawson put the Expos ahead against Mario Soto (2–5) when he stroked a 2–1 pitch to left field to score Youmans and Mitch Webster. The Expos’ Tim Raines extended his hitting streak to 17 games.
The pitch that Rick Aguilera didn’t throw cost him one base. The three pitches he threw immediately afterward cost him three runs. The Mets paid the ultimate price, losing to the Atlanta Braves, 6–3, primarily as a result of Aguilera’s costly sequence. The loss last night diluted the encouragement the Mets derived from Bruce Berenyi’s return to the starting rotation. Berenyi, starting for the first time since having shoulder surgery a year ago, pitched in place of the struggling Aguilera and gave up two runs and three hits in five innings. Howard Johnson’s two-run double and Lenny Dykstra’s bad-hop double followed by an opposite-field single by Keith Hernandez put Berenyi in position to win the game. But Aguilera’s untimely loss of effectiveness yanked him out of that position. It happened in the seventh inning with the Mets leading, 3–2, two out and Chris Chambliss at second following a pinch-hit walk and a sacrifice bunt. With the count 3–2 on Claudell Washington, Bob Davidson, the second-base umpire, called a balk on Aguilera, saying that he made a double motion toward the plate. Chambliss trotted to third and Dave Johnson, the Mets’ manager, walked out to talk with Davidson. As soon as Johnson returned to the dugout, Aguilera threw the 3–2 pitch and Washington drove it over the right-center field fence, putting the Braves ahead, 4–3.
The Oakland A’s downed the Toronto Blue Jays, 6–3. Dave Kingman, who was in an 0-for-12 slump, hit Dennis Lamp’s first pitch for a three-run home run with one out in the 10th inning at Oakland to give the A’s the victory. It was Kingman’s seventh homer of the season.
The Padres downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–2. Dane Iorg, batting only .190, hit a three-run homer in the second inning to lead San Diego. Eric Show (2–2) walked seven but allowed only three hits and struck out eight in six innings for the victory.
Helped by an unusual 3–6–1–2–4 triple play in the first inning, Seattle goes on to defeat Milwaukee 8–5. After Randy Ready and Ernest Riles walk to open the game, Cecil Cooper hits a bouncer to first baseman Alvin Davis, who throws to second base to force Riles. Cooper beats the return throw to first, but Ready is thrown out trying to score, and Cooper is thrown out at second trying to advance during the play at the plate. Danny Tartabull had four hits, including two triples, and drove in two runs, and Pete Ladd pitched three and a third innings of scoreless relief, leading Seattle over Milwaukee. Tartabull tripled and scored in the first inning. He also tripled in the eighth to drive in two runs but was thrown out trying for an inside-the-park home run. Ladd, who was once Milwaukee’s stopper, came on in the sixth inning after Seattle’s starter, Mike Morgan (3–3) had given up five runs, all with two outs.
The Dodgers squeaked past the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–5. Mike Marshall hit a two-run homer off Ken Dayley with one out in the 13th inning, ending a four-game losing streak for Los Angeles. Marshall’s homer, his eighth of the season, following Ken Landreaux’s single also gave the Los Angeles slugger 25 runs batted in: both figures lead the National League. Rick Honeycutt relieved Tom Niedenfuer in the 12th after Jerry White’s pinch-hit homer tied the score, 4–4. Rain delays of 26 and 42 minutes stalled the game in the third inning.
Chicago White Sox 1, Baltimore Orioles 3
Boston Red Sox 4, California Angels 5
San Francisco Giants 6, Chicago Cubs 5
Texas Rangers 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Houston Astros 3
Detroit Tigers 2, Kansas City Royals 4
New York Yankees 6, Minnesota Twins 4
Cincinnati Reds 2, Montreal Expos 4
Atlanta Braves 6, New York Mets 3
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Oakland Athletics 6
San Diego Padres 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Seattle Mariners 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Still wrestling with the outlook for interest rates and oil prices, the stock market continued its downturn yesterday as prices sagged a bit for the second consecutive day of light trading. The Dow Jones industrial average slipped 1.99, to 1,785.34. This drop came despite an improvement in the bond market, which was responding to a disappointing rise in April retail sales of five-tenths of 1 percent.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1785.34 (-1.99)
Born:
Robert Pattinson, English actor (Cedric Diggory in “Harry Potter”; Edward Cullen in “The Twilight Saga”; Batman in “The Batman”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Lena Dunham, American actress, writer and producer (“Girls”), and admitted incestuous abuser of her sister, in New York, New York.
Kris Versteeg, Canadian NHL right wing and left wing (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Blackhawks, 2010, 2015; Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Philadelphia Flyers, Florida Panthers, Carolina Hurricanes, Los Angeles Kings, Calgary Flames), in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Jared Boll, NHL right wing (Columbus Blue Jackets, Anaheim Ducks), in Charlotte, North Carolina.
John Ely, MLB pitcher (Los Angeles Dodgers), in Harvey, Illinois.
Ji Eun-hee, South Korean golfer (US Open 2009), in Gapyeong, South Korea.
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