Soviet arms negotiators in Geneva today presented a draft treaty on eliminating medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe, the White House said. The White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said the United States hoped the presentation of the draft was a sign that the Soviet Union was “becoming serious” about negotiations. The text was offered one day after Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, accused the West in a television speech of trying to exploit the Chernobyl nuclear accident for propaganda purposes. Mr. Speakes said the text “appears at first glance to be a more formal codification of previous Soviet statements.” The chief American arms negotiator, Max M. Kampelman, also said the Russians’ proposal “was merely a formal treaty carrying out statements previously made to us.”
Other officials here were more cautious and said the text was still being studied. They said it repeated some of the elements of Mr. Gorbachev’s proposal of Jan. 15 looking to the elimination of nuclear weapons by the year 2000. Specifically, the officials said, the draft calls first for setting equal limits on American and Soviet medium-range missiles in Europe and then for eventually eliminating them. They said the draft did not deal with the issue of medium-range missiles based in the Asian part of the Soviet Union. The United States wants a treaty to cover medium-range missiles both in Europe and in Asia. American officials also said the Soviet offer would freeze British and French arsenals at their current levels, and would stipulate that the United States would agree not to transfer missiles to other countries. This would prevent the United States from selling Trident II missiles to Britain.
Radiation from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster could cause tens of thousands of cancer cases and thousands of deaths in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe in the next several decades, according to the best estimates available now, two physicists said yesterday. The physicists, Dr. Thomas B. Cochran of the Natural Resources Defense Council and Dr. Frank von Hippel of Princeton University, cautioned that their estimates, which are based on studies by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California, are tentative and highly inexact. Indeed, some physicists who examined the report said the estimates were too conservative, others said they were “reasonable” if the Soviet authorities take no further precautions against contamination, and still others said they were too pessimistic. Nonetheless, the calculations are based on the most complete data assembled so far on the possible long-term health effects of the Soviet reactor accident last month. “It’s clear there’s going to be serious long-term problems in the Soviet Union,” said Dr. Joseph B. Knox, a physicist who headed the Livermore team.
A 74-year-old former Nazi concentration camp guard was sentenced to four years in prison for complicity in the 1944 killing of German Communist Party leader Ernst Thaelmann. Thaelmann’s daughter, Irma Gabel-Thaelmann, conducted a 25-year crusade that led to the trial in Krefeld, West Germany, of Ernst Otto, a retired teacher who served a seven-year sentence after World War II for offenses at the Buchenwald prison camp. As the camp commandant’s clerk, Otto carried out orders to assemble a firing squad to shoot Thaelmann, prepare the crematorium for his body and notify authorities in Berlin of the execution.
The State Department is conducting its own investigation into the wartime activities of former Secretary General Kurt Waldheim to determine whether he should be barred from the United States, according to a letter from Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead to the president of the World Jewish Congress, Edgar M. Bronfman. “The charges made against Mr. Waldheim are serious,” Mr. Whitehead said in the letter. “It is our obligation to treat our investigation of the charges seriously and reach a conclusion with due deliberation. I am sure you understand that we will not be in a position to comment on Mr. Waldheim’s activities until that investigation was complete.” In addition to its own investigation of Mr. Waldheim, the State Department is assisting the Justice Department in a parallel investigation, according to the letter, dated May 5 and made public by the World Jewish Congress today.
Yelena G. Bonner said today that she would leave the United States on May 24 to return to the Soviet Union to rejoin her husband, Andrei D. Sakharov, in their place of exile in the city of Gorky. Miss Bonner said she would leave for Europe, and go from there to Moscow on June 2, ending her six-month journey to the West for medical treatment.
A strong earthquake in Soviet Georgia two days ago killed at least two people and caused extensive damage, the Tass press agency said today. Tass said a 3-year-old girl in one village and a mother of four in another were killed by the quake. Initial reports on the quake, whose epicenter was near Akhalkalaki, not far from the Turkish border, had spoken of “insignificant” damage. But the Tass account today said 20 schools and eight farmhouses had been seriously damaged in Akhalkalaki County, and in some villages houses were destroyed. In another county, Tass said, 1,500 houses were damaged. The report said that the Georgian party chief, Dzhumber I. Patiashvili, had toured the area. Tass said the original tremor at noon on Tuesday had measured 7 on the Soviet Union’s 10-point scale, a level rated as “very strong.”
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger blocked the award of a $7.9-million contract to a firm with a Libyan connection. Fiat-Allis of North America was the low bidder on 178 bulldozers for the Marine Corps. The firm is a subsidiary of Fiat of Italy-about 15% of which is owned by the Libyan-Arab Foreign Investment Co., a branch of the Libyan Bank of Trade. Weinberger said he acted under a national security clause that allows the Pentagon to cancel a contract if it is contrary to U.S. interests.
George P. Shultz hailed the air strike against Libya. The U.S. bombing of Libya has produced new worries in Syria and may cause the Damascus government to abandon its support for international terrorism, Secretary of State Shultz said. In a speech to the American Jewish Committee, he said the attack was a success because it dramatized Western resolve to combat nations promoting terrorism. Asserting that “secret operations” had a “decisive influence” on the outcome of World War I and World War II, Mr. Shultz said: “Today, in our shadow war against terrorism, the use of these instruments is just as imperative.” He said that although the United States would always seek to act with restraint, “we must recognize that passivity is sometimes the most dangerous course.” Defending the attacks on Libya, Mr. Shultz, who has been the Administration’s main proponent of using force against terrorists and their supporters, said there was less than an enthusiastic “public consensus” abroad for the raids, but “the results are convincing the skeptics.” Shultz added that Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi “is in retreat and Syria is uneasy — a reaction which may induce that country to think hard about involvement in murderous adventures.”
Iran has barred a British diplomat from taking up his post in Teheran in retaliation for Britain’s action in blocking the appointment of a leader of the American hostage siege of 1979-81 as Iran’s top diplomat in London, the Foreign Office said today. The Iranian diplomat, Hossein Malaek, was one of the leaders of the 100 or so Iranians who seized the American Embassy in Teheran in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days.
The Afghan Communist Party leader, Najibullah, announced a collective leadership today that includes him, President Babrak Karmal and Prime Minister Sultan Ali Kishtmand. Mr. Najibullah, who replaced Mr. Karmal as party leader last week, made the announcement in a speech broadcast by the Kabul radio. He said Mr. Karmal, as head of the Revolutionary Council and its Presidium, would be concerned with strengthening “state power organs” with the support of “national patriotic forces.” Mr. Kishtmand is to deal with the ministries, administration and economic policies. Mr. Najibullah said he would devote his attention to the party.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss U.S. and Chinese relations with the Vice Premier of the People’s Republic of China, Yao Yilin.
South Korean students demonstrated against the government on at least 30 campuses nationwide. In Seoul, they battled police with gasoline bombs and stones on at least four campuses, witnesses reported. At Yonsei University near downtown Seoul, witnesses said the students hurled more than 150 gasoline bombs. There were no immediate reports of arrests or injuries. Many of the protests were held to commemorate the anniversary of a four-day uprising in 1980, in the southern city of Kwangju.
A South Korean film director and his wife who disappeared eight years ago said that Kim Jong Il, the son of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung, ordered them kidnaped from Hong Kong in 1968. Shin San Ok and his wife, Choi Un Hui, told a news conference in Washington that Kim Jong Il forced them to make seven films to publicize North Korea. Two months ago, the couple turned up at the U.S. Embassy in Vienna while traveling for a film and said they wanted to defect. North Korea has accused them of trying to embezzle funds.
Reagan Administration officials outlined before Congress a proposed $605-million aid package for the Philippines, conceding that the government of President Corazon Aquino could use more but it is a “good start.” The officials told the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on East Asia that the request is $150 million beyond what has been allocated for the current fiscal year — $100 million in economic aid and $50 million in military aid. The additional funding is subject to congressional approval.
All three main presidential contenders in this Caribbean nation are predicting victory in voting Friday. Although all the predictions are backed by polling data and public demonstrations of support, most independent Dominican and foreign analysts are leaning toward the view that the most likely winner will be either Jacobo Majluta Azar, the 51-year-old President of the Senate, or Joaquin Balaguer, a 78-year-old former President who is blind. But they say they cannot rule out a victory by Juan Bosch, a 76-year-old Marxist and former President who appears to have been gaining on his opponents in recent weeks. Mr. Majluta, whose Dominican Revolutionary Party has been in power for the last eight years, has been struggling to distance himself from a severe economic crisis that has gripped the Dominican Republic in the last few years although the recent drop in oil prices and an increase in the world price of sugar have improved the economic picture. Mr. Majluta’s opponents, on the other hand, have been capitalizing on the long crisis.
After three days of talks, Nicaraguan rebel leaders remain so deeply divided on how to restructure their guerrilla movement that one key leader is ready to resign, according to several rebel officials here. The State Department is sufficiently alarmed by the internal dispute that it has threatened hard-liners within the rebel movement that if they do not make concessions, aid to the guerrillas will be cut off within a few weeks, according to four rebel and Congressional sources. When asked to comment, a State Department official would confirm only that Assistant Secretary of State Elliott Abrams told rebel leaders that “it is necessary to resolve internal differences or else aid will be threatened.” Several rebel officials here say that a solution can be forced only by more pressure from the Administration.
In a country where most people are too law-abiding to display their graffiti skills, one scrawled phrase has stood out recently on a number of buildings: “Halley, carry Pinochet away with you.” Downtown, in the offices of one of Chile’s many political parties, all theoretically illegal, hangs a photocopy of a newspaper front page for Feb. 26 on which the headline announcing the departure of President Ferdinand E. Marcos from the Philippines has been altered to read, “Pinochet Resigned and Went Into Exile.” But those who write or post such things and those who spend most of their waking hours analyzing Chilean politics consider it unlikely that General Augusto Pinochet could be so easily removed after 12 years as Chile’s ruler. The explanation for that belief may lie in the other Halley-Pinochet line making the rounds in Santiago: As the comet began its movement away from Earth in its 75-year cycle, the 70-year-old President bade it farewell with the words, “Until next time.” While there is continuous public debate in Chile, with encouragement from the United States, about the possibility of freely electing a new president in 1989 or sooner and reinstituting all the trappings of democratic pluralism, General Pinochet himself has given no sign that he finds such ideas appealing.
Javier Perez de Cuellar, the United Nations Secretary General, ended a visit here today without having received any sign that Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s approach to talks with Argentina about the Falkland Islands had become more flexible. Britain maintains that the only block to normalization of relations between the two countries has been Argentina’s insistence that the issue of sovereignty over the islands be mentioned on any agenda for discussions. Ever since the war in the South Atlantic in 1982 that cost about 250 British lives and around 600 Argentine ones, Mrs. Thatcher has insisted that there could be no negotiations on sovereignty so long as the 1,800 islanders wanted to remain British. In a radio interview this morning, the Secretary General said he had told the Prime Minister that the moment was ripe to end the impasse in relations between the two countries. United Nations officials said that Mr. Perez de Cuellar, who visited Buenos Aires in April, had mentioned some ideas in his meeting with Mrs. Thatcher about steps that might be taken to bring about direct talks without compromising Britain’s stand on the sovereignty issue.
Former President of Argentina Leopoldo Galtieri is sentenced to 12 years in prison for mishandling the Falkland Islands War.
The rains that ended the African drought have spawned the continent’s worst plague of locusts in half a century, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization reported. Four species of locusts are threatening croplands. The agency’s director general, Edouard Saoma, has called for financial assistance.
The House of Representatives today approved a 1987 budget plan that sets up a confrontation with President Reagan and the Senate over military spending. The House plan, like the one approved by the Senate, also collides with the President’s opposition to sizable revenue increases. The House plan was approved on a party-line vote of 245 to 179, despite a last-minute plea by Mr. Reagan against the military cut it proposed, which he called “a breach of faith with our common duty to protect this nation.” Only 17 Republicans voted yes, and 19 Democrats voted no. The Republican-controlled Senate gave overwhelming bipartisan approval to its plan two weeks ago. The House plan sets spending at $994.3 billion and reduces the deficit to $137.1 billion in the fiscal year 1987, which starts October 1. That figure is $7 billion below the Senate’s $144 billion deficit, the ceiling set by the new budget-balancing law. The plan reduces the military budget below this year’s level, cutting the President’s proposal by $35 billion, $16 billion more than the Senate cut. But both chambers’ plans include $13.2 billion in new revenues, $7.3 billion more than the President proposed. Neither plan specifies how the revenue would be raised, but some form of tax increase is considered likely. Mr. Reagan would raise revenue through measures that he does not consider tax increases.
The Reagan Administration was unable to agree today on a plan to revive the nation’s troubled space program, amid disagreements over cost and the best method of fostering a commercial space capability. Administration officials said that President Reagan had requested additional information from experts and other top advisers. He made the request at a meeting of the National Security Council in which disagreements emerged between officials representing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and those from other agencies. The inability to reach a consensus came in the wake of sharp criticism from Senators of both parties who said last week that it was “inexcusable” that the Administration had not produced a timely plan for reviving the space program after the Challenger space shuttle disaster January 28.
President Reagan greets former presidential press secretaries attending a White House luncheon.
Components of the Executive Office of the President, including the National Security Council and the Federal budget office, are not part of the White House for the purpose of conflict-of-interest laws, according to the Reagan Administration. A House committee has begun an inquiry into the legality of the Administration’s contention.
The proposal to curtail the tax deduction for Individual Retirement Accounts is emerging as the most disputed part of the Senate Finance Committee’s tax-revision plan. As the full Senate gears up for debate on the bill, which the committee unanimously approved last week, and as the public learns more about the I.R.A. provision, politicians are coming under increasing pressure to preserve the deduction. “I have heard from my constituents on this more than on any other part of the tax bill,” Senator Larry Pressler, a Republican from South Dakota, said in Washington yesterday. “It has struck a raw nerve across the country.” Mr. Pressler and three other senators from both parties spoke at a news conference called by Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato, Republican of New York, who said the group would sponsor a floor amendment to retain fully deductible I.R.A.’s. The others were Frank H. Murkowski, Republican of Alaska; Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut, and Alan Cranston, Democrat of California.
Six teen-agers and two of their teachers, who had been buried more than three days under deep snow, were found today after a survivor, on a hunch, led search teams to an ice cave where they had taken refuge. The eight were airlifted off Mount Hood to hospitals in Portland, 60 miles west of here. Two students were “alive and conscious,” one of the searchers said. Two other members of the climbing party were later pronounced dead at hospitals. Of the remaining four, rescue officials said at least two showed signs of breathing when they were brought down from the 8,200-foot level. The searchers said it was too soon to know if any of the climbers would survive but said they were amazed that any had endured more than three days beneath the frigid, snow-packed covering of Mount Hood. Three teenage members of the climbing party, from the Oregon Episcopal School in Portland, were found Wednesday near a glacier on the mountain. They later died. Two other members of the party, Ralph Summers and Molly Schula, climbed down the mountain Tuesday to seek help and survived.
Freight service across Conrail’s 15-state rail system was substantially disrupted today by union railroad maintenance workers picketing the Government-owned freight carrier in sympathy with striking workers in Maine. Bob Libkind, a Conrail spokesman, said late tonight, he could not estimate how many lines had been stopped.
A new system for certifying teachers nationally will begin in 13 months, the Carnegie Corporation of New York has announced. The system would be the first such mechanism to give practicing elementary and high school teachers — rather than state boards of education — the main responsibility for setting the standards of their profession and determining who meets them.
A bill to reduce the pensions of future military personnel was passed, 92 to 1, by the Senate in an effort to cut the federal deficit by $2.9 billion this fiscal year. Under current law, service personnel receive pensions equal to half of their base pay after 20 years, with payments rising 2.5% for each additional year of service to a maximum of 75% at 30 years. The Senate bill provides for a pension of 44% after 20 years, rising 3.1% for each additional year to a maximum of 75%. The House has passed a similar bill. Current personnel and retirees would not be affected.
The Senate voted, 79 to 14, to kill a $3.5-billion Air Force project to build 650 new jet trainers, an action that the service said it had decided to take anyway. Dropping the new T-46 trainer would be a major blow to Fairchild Republic, which had intended to build the new plane at its New York state plant. The matter now goes to the House.
An epidemic of addiction to crack, a new and highly potent form of cocaine, has filled drug treatment programs in the metropolitan region to capacity. Officials are struggling to avoid turning people away. The epidemic has prompted a debate among government officials and drug abuse experts over whether New York State has done enough to cope with the highly addictive drug.
A judge granted the Philadelphia district attorney’s request for a grand jury investigation into whether city officials and others committed crimes in the MOVE battle that left 11 dead and 61 homes destroyed. Police during the May 13, 1985, siege dropped a bomb on MOVE’s fortified west Philadelphia row house, touching off a fire that destroyed 1 1⁄2 blocks. Six adults and five children died in the MOVE house, and 276 people were left homeless when their houses burned down. The police officer who assembled the bomb and the one who dropped it refused to testify before the city’s MOVE investigating commission, citing their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
An apprentice butcher who spent his last hours fighting for a court order that would spare his life calmly recited a prayer and was executed Thursday in the Huntsville, Texas, prison for the murder, rape and mutilation of an Amarillo housewife. Jay Kelly Pinkerton, who was under two death sentences, was pronounced dead at 12:25 AM after being given a combination of lethal drugs. His father, Gene, witnessed the execution. Pinkerton was 17 when he broke into Sarah Donn Lawrence’s home in 1979, raped her and stabbed her more than 30 times with a bowie knife.
Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne, the first sitting Federal judge convicted of a felony, today lost his last bid to avoid starting a two-year prison term for income tax evasion. Judge Claiborne, 68 years old, left for Alabama today. He must report Friday to the Federal prison at Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama. Justice John Paul Stevens of the Supreme Court and the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit refused today to delay the start of the prison term. Judge Claiborne contended that a sitting Federal judge could not be sentenced to prison before impeachment by Congress. He has maintained his innocence and charged that prosecutors manufactured the indictment to drive him from the bench.
Three high-voltage power lines to the Palo Verde nuclear plant short-circuited after saboteurs threw metal-weighted ropes onto the wires, utility officials said in Phoenix. The short-circuit came just before the planned resumption of tests of the plant’s Unit 2 reactor. The tests were delayed 24 to 48 hours, said spokesman Dan Canady. The Unit 1 reactor, already in commercial operation, was shut down for scheduled maintenance at the time of the incident.
More arsonists are setting forest fires, the Forest Service reported. Officials said there had been more than 63,000 forest and grassland fires around the country so far this year, and 38,000 of them were deliberately set. They said the fires had charred one million acres, an area larger than Rhode Island, and caused $100 million in damage.
Tunnels at the site of a nuclear test that malfunctioned last month are contaminated with dangerous levels of radiation, and it may be weeks or months before tests can resume there, officials say. The April 10 test, code-named Mighty Oak, damaged $20 million in testing equipment and left high levels of radiation in the labyrinth of tunnels where the test was conducted, the authorities said. Officials of the Department of Energy say they will not know what went wrong with the test until they can reach the damaged equipment, and that could be months. Tom Clark, manager of the department’s Nevada Operations Office, said Wednesday that the mishap might cause delays later in the nation’s weapons effects testing. The test involved detonating a nuclear device in a huge pipe within a tunnel to determine how well space and military hardware can withstand a nuclear blast.
The rate at which military recruits are testing positive for exposure to a virus associated with AIDS remained almost constant in the first three months of the year, a new Defense Department report shows. The Pentagon has now identified 458 recruits who tested positive for exposure to the virus.
Theodore H. White died at Lenox Hill Hospital. He was admitted to the hospital after suffering a stroke last Friday. The ex-newsboy who became a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist was 71 years old. Mr. White was skilled at humanizing events in his “Making of the President” books and myriad other writings and liked to call himself “a storyteller of elections.”
A birth-control spray for cockroaches has been developed by a scientist who was instrumental in creating oral contraceptives for women, it was announced in New York. The spray contains an insect hormone that does not kill roaches but prevents them from reaching maturity and reproducing, said Carl Djerassi, who in 1951 invented Norethindrone, a synthesized hormone in the human birth control pill.
Tornadoes accompanied by thunderstorms and high winds swept through five Midwestern states, killing at least two persons in Missouri, hammering homes and barns and leaving dozens homeless, authorities said. The twisters, which downed power and phone lines, were reported in Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan and Ohio. Extensive damage was reported in the Missouri towns of Vanduser and Sikeston, about 150 miles south of St. Louis. In lower Michigan, two tornadoes touched down in Quincy and Coldwater, knocking down power lines and destroying several homes.
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The Baltimore Orioles defeated the Minnesota Twins, 5–3. Mike Young and Juan Beniquez each hit his first home run of the season to help Baltimore extend its winning streak to six games. Mike Boddicker (4–0) held Minnesota, which has lost five straight games, to six hits and two earned runs. Boddicker pitched seven and one-third innings before being relieved by Don Aase, who earned his ninth save. Young’s home run in the second inning gave Baltimore a 2–1 lead that it never relinquished. The hit to center field came off Frank Viola (4–3). Beniquez’s two-run homer over the left-field fence in the third inning was his first in 40 times at bat. It gave Baltimore a 4–1 lead. Alan Wiggins doubled to open the fourth inning, went to third on Viola’s throwing error, and scored one out later on Cal Ripken Jr.’s sacrifice fly.
The Texas Rangers routed the Detroit Tigers, 8–1. Don Slaught drove in five runs with a home run and a triple. Mike Mason (3–0), who gave up six hits in eight innings, lost his shutout on an unearned run in the sixth inning when Detroit’s Lance Parrish reached second on Pete Incaviglia’s two-base error in right field, moved up on Chet Lemon’s infield hit and scored on Larry Herndon’s sacrifice fly. Texas broke the game open with four runs in the first inning off Frank Tanana (4–3).
The Mets beat Nolan Ryan for the second time in a week tonight when they snapped out of a mild slump and overpowered the Houston Astros, 6–2. The Mets had lost three of their last four games and seemed ripe for second-guessing, but they chased both Ryan and the blues while Ron Darling pitched eight innings of eight-hit ball for his fourth straight victory of the season. The Mets now have won 22 of their first 29 games and lead the Montreal Expos by four games in the National League East. Ryan, still throwing heat at the age of 39, struck out seven batters and raised his career total to 4,130, the most in baseball history. But he was losing by 5–0 when he left after six innings. One week ago in Shea Stadium, he stayed five innings and lost to the Mets, 3–2. Ryan was striking them out tonight, but he also was walking them, and the Mets were piecing together this and that and scoring runs. In the second inning, Ryan walked Darryl Strawberry, who then stole second base. Gary Carter took a curve for strike three and Danny Heep grounded out. But Ray Knight delivered a two-out single through the middle, and the Mets had the lead. In the third, Lenny Dykstra singled with one down, and Howard Johnson walked. Again, the Mets wasted little. Keith Hernandez lined a single just inside the right-field chalk, making it 2–0, and Strawberry lifted a sacrifice fly to left, making it 3–0. Then, in the sixth, they unloaded. Strawberry led off by hitting a ball high off the fence in center field for a triple. With the infield drawn tight, he was held at third while Ryan got Carter on a grounder to shortstop. But Heep confounded all strategies and alignments by hitting a home run over the fence in right field, and the Mets led by five.
The Royals score 5 in the 8th to beat the Indians, 6–3. Frank White’s grand slam is the big blow in the frame. The blast came off the reliever Rich Yett, who had replaced Scott Bailes (4–4). Bailes came in for the starter Ken Schrom after Jim Sundberg and Jamie Quirk had singled leading off the eighth. Bailes threw Willie Wilson’s attempted sacrifice bunt past first base, allowing Sundberg to score to make it 3–2. After Rudy Law struck out, Hal McRae was walked intentionally and Yett came in. White’s home run was his third of the season and his fifth career grand slam. The winner was Dennis Leonard (4–3).
Ken Oberkfell hit a three-run homer in the 10th inning today to give the Atlanta Braves a 7–4 victory over the Montreal Expos. Oberkfell hit a 3–2 pitch from the Montreal starter, Dan Schatzeder (2–1), over the right-field wall for his first home run of the season. It scored Dale Murphy, who had singled, and Bob Horner, who had walked. Montreal, trailing by 4–2, tied the game in its half of the ninth inning when Mitch Webster’s short fly bounced high on the artificial turf. The ball fell in front of Murphy and bounced over his head, scoring Al Newman and Andre Dawson, who had singled off Bruce Sutter (2–0). The Braves were limited to four hits through nine innings by Jay Tibbs and Tim Burke. But they took advantage of three Montreal errors, two of them by Hubie Brooks, the shortstop, to score four unearned runs. Brooks, whose error in the first inning on a ground ball by Oberkfell allowed two runs to score, threw away a relay on a double-play attempt in the ninth inning after Al Newman had erred on a baseline collision with Oberkfell. Two runs scored when Brooks’s throw eluded Andres Galarraga, the first baseman, as the Braves took a 4–2 lead.
The Yankees’ 8–1 loss to the Chicago White Sox last night was the kind of game that in the past has prompted George Steinbrenner to offer fans free tickets to a future game. Steinbrenner watched the game, or at least part of it, but no such offer was forthcoming. Perhaps the Yankee owner thought that the less made of the game, the better, for the Yankees were making life rosy for the struggling White Sox. They collected only four hits in seven innings against Neil Allen, who was a Yankee briefly last season, and they committed five errors, representing the nadir of their defensive play this season. Not even the venerable Ron Guidry was immune from the fiasco that the Yankees staged under the guise of a baseball game. In fact, the veteran pitcher played a huge role in it, giving up a three-run home run to Greg Walker in the second inning, throwing a two-base wild pitch in the fifth and following that immediately with another errant toss, this one to first base on an infield single.
The Reds edged the Phillies, 6–5. Ron Oester hit a three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to give Cincinnati the victory. With Dave Concepcion and Tom Runnells on base, Oester hit a 1–1 pitch from Steve Bedrosian (2–2) over the right-field fence. Concepcion and Buddy Bell led off the ninth inning with singles off Don Carman, who had taken over for the starter Charles Hudson in the seventh inning. Runnells ran for Bell and Bedrosian replaced Carman. Max Venable hit a long fly ball to right field for the first out, but Oester followed with his second home run of the year.
Minnesota Twins 3, Baltimore Orioles 5
Texas Rangers 8, Detroit Tigers 1
New York Mets 6, Houston Astros 2
Cleveland Indians 3, Kansas City Royals 6
Atlanta Braves 7, Montreal Expos 4
Chicago White Sox 8, New York Yankees 1
Cincinnati Reds 6, Philadelphia Phillies 5
A big jump in interest rates proved the undoing of Wall Street yesterday, where stock prices fell sharply on moderately heavy volume. The Dow Jones industrial average declined 33.60 points yesterday, to 1,774.68. This followed a surprising 22.94-point gain on Wednesday that some traders attributed to buying programs based on stock index futures and options, which expire today. “It was a bloody day,” said Martin Krouner, a managing director of L. F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin Inc. “Yesterday, the Dow stocks were up on air. Some popped the balloon today.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1774.68 (-33.6)
Born:
Andy Levitre, NFL guard (Buffalo Bills, Tennessee Titans, Atlanta Falcons), in Los Gatos, California.
Barry Richardson, NFL tackle (Kansas City Chiefs, St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions), in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina.
Josh Johnson, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, Cincinnati Bengals, Washington Redskins, New York Jets, Baltimore Ravens, San Francisco 49ers), in Oakland, California.
Marcus Thigpen, NFL wide receiver (Miami Dolphins, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Oakland Raiders, Buffalo Bills), in Detroit, Michigan.
Brandon Barnes, MLB outfielder (Houston Astros, Colorado Rockies, Cleveland Indians), in Orange, California.
Johan Harju, Swedish NHL left wing (Tampa Bay Lightning), in Overtornea, Sweden.
Kyle Loza, Freestyle Motocross Rider, in Orange County, California.
Died:
Theodore H. White, 71, American journalist (“The Making of the President 1960” — Pulitzer Prize, 1962).
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