Talking about Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s speech about Chernobyl the other night, one Muscovite said the Soviet leader seemed to have forgotten an old Russian proverb: “The Russian doesn’t cross himself until he hears the thunder.” What he meant was that in trying to approach the disaster in terms of Soviet heroism, American malice and nuclear disarmament, Mr. Gorbachev had appeared not to recognize the level of anxiety that Chernobyl had let loose in his land. In the absence of information about Chernobyl or about nuclear power plants in general, Russians were slow to react to the danger. But once alerted to the scope of the disaster, they were quick to begin crossing themselves. By the time Mr. Gorbachev addressed the nation over television on Wednesday night, 18 days after the accident, Chernobyl had become the main subject of discussion and concern in Moscow kitchens. Physicists and chemists were sought out by friends for explanations, people talked of canceling vacations in the south, facts gleaned from the press or foreign broadcasts were quickly shared, and in the farmers’ markets shoppers were reported to be seeking peddlers with central Asian features in hopes of getting produce from as far away from Chernobyl as possible.
Two American doctors in Moscow said today that four more victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster had died in the last 24 hours, bringing the total of dead from the accident to 13. The physicians, Robert P. Gale and Richard Champlin, who have been helping treat the most seriously afflicted victims at a Moscow hospital, said the additional deaths were caused by radiation exposure. The Government did not issue a bulletin about Chernobyl today and did not report the new deaths. Soviet newspapers, however, reported the names of 10 men who had died: two power plant workers killed in the initial explosion and five firefighters and three workers who died later of radiation. Soviet newspapers said today that precautions were still being taken in Kiev to reduce the risk of radiation contamination, including a ban on the sale of milk products and green vegetables. Kiev, the Ukrainian capital, is 70 miles from the damaged reactor. The American doctors reported that of 35 patients hospitalized in serious condition after the accident, 11 had died and 24 remained alive. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, reported Wednesday that 299 people were hospitalized with varying degrees of radiation sickness after the April 26 accident. Dr. Gale and Dr. Champlin, both from the U.C.L.A. Medical Center in Los Angeles, have helped Soviet physicians perform bone marrow transplants and deliver other care to patients who received the severest doses of radiation the night of the accident. The destruction of bone marrow, the ultimate source of the body’s blood and immune defense cells, is one of the most life-threatening consequences of exposure to radiation.
Terrorists attacked the headquarters of Interpol, the international police agency, with guns and explosives Friday night, wounding a policeman in the arm and shattering windows, the authorities said. Leaflets found at the scene were signed by the far-leftist group Direct Action. The police said the terrorists arrived in an automobile about 10:10 PM, sprayed the building with gunfire and then hurled an explosive device. They said investigators could not immediately determine whether the explosion was caused by a grenade or a bomb. A policeman guarding the building was hit in the arm by a bullet and was hospitalized. Earlier reports said two people were wounded, but the police said only the guard was hurt. The police acknowledged that there were conflicting reports and said they were awaiting further information from the scene. They also said a search was under way for a bomb that might have been placed inside the Interpol building in the western suburb of St.-Cloud.
Simon Wiesenthal, the Austrian hunter of Nazi war criminals, accused the World Jewish Congress today of stirring anti-Semitic sentiment in his country through its campaign against Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary General and candidate for the Austrian presidency. Mr. Wiesenthal singled out Israel Singer, the secretary general of the World Jewish Congress, accusing him of having made “threats” against Austrians if they voted for Mr. Waldheim, who won 49.6 percent of the vote on May 4. The former United Nations chief is favored to win a runoff election on June 8. In a long telephone interview from Vienna, Mr. Wiesenthal said that on the basis of documents that have been unearthed by the World Jewish Congress and others, he believed that Mr. Waldheim was “an opportunist” but not a war criminal. He said Mr. Waldheim had certainly dissembled about what he knew during his wartime service in the Balkans.
The Seville Statement on Violence is adopted by an international meeting of scientists, convened by the Spanish National Commission for UNESCO, in Seville, Spain.
South Korean policemen and anti-government demonstrators battled in Kwangju tonight on the eve of the sixth anniversary of a bloody uprising in that provincial capital. Reports from Kwangju, 200 miles south of Seoul, said the police fired tear gas to disperse a crowd of an estimated 5,000 people that had assembled shortly before midnight. Newspapers said the police detained 29 demonstrators, but there were no reports of injuries. They said the protest began after a mass at a Roman Catholic church for victims of the May 1980 rebellion.
The chief American delegate to the United Nations announced today in the Trusteeship Council that the United States wanted to end the 40-year American trusteeship over Micronesia and asked that the Council recognize the successful self-government of the Micronesian people. The official, Vernon A. Walters, referring to statements made this week by representatives of the Governments of Micronesia, which comprises 2,000 Pacific islands south of Japan, said, “One message came through loud and clear: Terminate the Trusteeship and do it without delay.” Micronesia is the only territory of 11 that came under the authority of the Trusteeship Council after World War II to have been designated a “strategic trust.” The other trusts, most formerly German and Japanese-controlled territories in Africa and the Pacific, became self-governing in 1975.
Amid harsh criticism in Washington of what is described as corruption in Mexico’s efforts to curb drug trafficking, both Mexican and United States officials here say there are built-in factors that make the problem particularly difficult to solve. The most troublesome of these, the officials say, are the vast amounts of money at the disposal of drug traffickers and the ease with which they can buy protection. For example, in the program to erradicate marijuana and poppy fields, the most experienced and highly paid Mexican pilots who fly spray helicopters furnished by the United States make about $400 a month. They must fly their helicopters, heavily laden with herbicides, in narrow and sinuous canyons at high altitudes and are often in danger of crashing. Sometimes they are shot at.
The U.S. State Department has declined to comment on an official note of protest that the Mexican Government presented to Secretary of State George P. Shultz on Wednedsay. In that note, Ambassador Jorge Espinosa de los Reyes called a recent Senate hearing at which Federal officials criticized Mexico “a deliberate attempt by U.S. officials and legislators to accentuate the existing misinformation regarding the Mexican reality” and “a clear and unacceptable violation of Mexico’s sovereignty.”
Under a blazing tropical sun, Dominican voters turned out in large numbers today in one of the most closely contested presidential elections in the history of this Caribbean nation. Most of the country was calm, but the police said that two men were killed in an incident at a rural polling place 135 miles southwest of here and that another man was killed in a fight between supporters of rival candidates at a voting place in the capital. Independent Dominican and foreign analysts as well as many of those voting said they could not predict the outcome. Each of the three main contenders continued to insist that he would win.
Eden Pastora Gomez, the leader of an anti-Sandinista guerrilla force, announced today that he was laying down his weapons and permanently abandoning his war against the Nicaraguan Government. Mr. Pastora, who won fame as a leader of the Sandinista revolution known as Commander Zero, described himself as “shot down by the C.I.A., but not defeated.” “They denied us aid,” he said of the Central Intelligence Agency. According to his aides, Mr. Pastora’s force, which has operated mainly in southeastern Nicaragua, was cut off from C.I.A. support because he has refused to unite with other rebel groups belonging to an American-backed coalition called the United Nicaraguan Opposition.
The three military officers who started and lost the Falkland Islands war with Britain in 1982 were convicted of negligence today and given prison terms of up to 14 years, the Defense Ministry said. A ministry communique said the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, a panel of nine retired generals that is the country’s highest military tribunal, sentenced General Leopoldo Galtieri, the army commander who was President, to 12 years in prison, Admiral Jorge Anaya, the navy commander, to 14 years, and General Basilio Lami Dozo, chief of the air force, to 8 years. They were also stripped of their rank and privileges as retired officers. The three officers were convicted of violating Article 740 of the Code of Military Justice, which covers “the military crime of negligence.”
The South African President P. W. Botha sends Coetsee to visit Nelson Mandela in prison.
A leading black South African cleric was reported to have been detained today on charges of illegal arms possession.
itnesses said the cleric, the Rev. Smangaliso Mkhatshwa, Secretary General of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference, was seized before dawn and was seen handcuffed while the police searched his church in Soshanguve township near Pretoria. A spokesman for the Roman Catholic bishops’ group said Father Mkhatshwa, a prominent anti-apartheid campaigner, had been charged with illegal possession of arms. Witnesses did not know what kind or how many weapons Father Smangaliso was accused of possessing and the police had no comment on the reported arrest.
President Reagan, seeking to reverse the Congressional action blocking a $354 million sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia, has invited about a dozen leaders of American Jewish organizations to come to the White House on Monday, a White House spokesman said today. Secretary of State George P. Shultz, in a speech on Thursday night to an American Jewish organization, called on American Jews to support Mr. Reagan “in the clutch” on this issue. The Saudi package is for air-to-air Sidewinder missiles, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles and air-to-ship Harpoon missiles. The Senate voted 73 to 22 on a resolution of disapproval of the sale last week, and the House followed with a vote of 356 to 62. Mr. Reagan has promised to veto the resolution, but if opponents of the sale suffer no serious erosion of their voting strength, the Senate and the House will override the veto.
President Reagan participates in a farewell photo opportunity with departing U.S. Ambassadors and their families.
The chairman of the House Armed Services Committee said today that both the House and Senate budget plans for the fiscal year 1987 would force cuts in personnel and readiness to achieve the savings proposed in military spending. Representative Les Aspin, the Wisconsin Democrat who heads the panel, said problems with spending estimates, which would lead to the cuts in personnel, could also make it more difficult to reach a compromise when the House and the Senate go to conference on their budget plans, possibly next week. Even without the technical problem on spending estimates, the military budget is expected to be the most difficult issue in the conference. Military budget experts in the House and the Senate have always been opposed to cutting readiness, personnel and operations and maintenance. But Mr. Aspin said both budget plans now underestimated spending for the military in order to meet the deficit ceiling in the new budget-balancing law, a tactic they have already accused President Reagan of using.
President Reagan, apparently responding to the growing prospects of a nationwide railroad strike, today ordered the creation of a three-member emergency mediation panel to help resolve a bitter strike against three small railroads in the Northeast. The President’s action came after workers on Conrail, the freight system in the Northeast and Middle West, began honoring picket lines set up by the striking union, disrupting freight service. The order effectively bars a strike for 60 days while the panel examines the issues and recommends possible solutions to Mr. Reagan. But efforts to carry out the order hit an immediate snag.
Michael Deaver seized the offensive and told Congress that charges that he had exploited his friendship with President Reagan on behalf of his lobbying clients were “an implicit attack on the integrity of the President” and were politically motivated. The former deputy White House chief of staff who operates a lobbying firm in Washington had previously refused to respond to conflict- of-interest charges other than to deny any wrongdoing. He testified at a closed session of the investigations subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee. He then scheduled a round of network television interviews to present his side.
The State Department announced today that George P. Shultz had ordered the dismissal of an official for “an unauthorized disclosure of classified information to the news media.” It said it would “deal strictly” in the future on other such cases. The department declined to identify the individual, but within hours he was named by two high-ranking officials as Spencer C. Warren, a member of the department’s policy planning staff. He was reported to have leaked a highly classified cablegram that had been sent last month to Mr. Shultz by Frank V. Ortiz Jr., the United States Ambassador to Argentina, criticizing the behavior of the House Speaker, Thomas P. O’Neill, and other members of a delegation during a visit to Argentina.
Federal officials said today that they are investigating an anonymous allegation that engineering documents at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Alabama were destroyed after the shuttle Challenger’s disaster, even though all such data were supposed to be preserved for the accident investigations. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said that its own inspector general’s office and the Presidential commission that is investigating the disaster were both conducting investigations and that “appropriate action will be taken as soon as the facts are ascertained.” Francis P. LaRocca Jr., attorney for the NASA inspector general’s office, said that an anonymous letter to the commission had raised questions for investigators to pursue and alleged that documents relating to the solid-fuel booster rockets, which have been cited as the cause of the accident, were destroyed. All seven astronauts died when the shuttle exploded on January 28.
The Producer Price Index, a major inflation gauge, fell six-tenths of 1 percent in April, to its lowest level in nearly two and a half years, the Labor Department reported today. The drop, which was the fourth in a row, was much larger than generally expected even though the main factor continued to be the highly publicized drops in the price of oil. But with oil prices now on the rise again — the price of a futures contract for a major American crude oil closed above $16 a barrel today for the first time in three months — there is also widespread agreement that the best news is past and that future inflation reports, perhaps beginning with next Wednesday’s report on consumer prices, would show advances, however modest. ‘Last of Its Breed’ “This is the last of its breed,” Irwin L. Kellner, chief economist at the Manufacturers Trust Company, said of the drop in the Producer Price Index for Finished Goods. The April decline was less than half the 1.35 percent average decline for February and March.
Jackie Presser, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, was indicted today by a Cleveland grand jury on embezzlement and racketeering charges. In Washington, the Justice Department also announced that a grand jury here had indicted an agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Robert S. Friedrick, who is said to have used Mr. Presser as an informer. The grand jury charged the 59-year-old president of the nation’s largest union with a payroll-padding scheme involving the theft of $700,000 from the union to pay employees who did no work. The indictment charged Mr. Presser with conducting a racketeering activity “consisting of multiple acts of embezzlement.” If convicted, Mr. Presser, who has served as a labor adviser to President Reagan, would be forced to resign the presidency of the union, which has 1.7 million members, and could be sentenced to up to 51 years in prison.
Two 15-year-old survivors of an 11-member climbing party on Oregon’s Mount Hood were in critical condition but were expected to live. The climbers were stranded by a sudden snow storm on 11,235-foot Mount Hood on Monday. The survivors were found with the bodies of six other climbers in a snow cave the climbers had built. The bodies of three other members were found Wednesday. The teenage mountain climbers who lived through the three-day ordeal beneath a deep mantle of snow on Mount Hood apparently survived because they were the closest to the top of a snow cave that eight climbers had dug for shelter, a doctor said today. The six others died. The survivors “were at the top of the pile of bodies,” Dr. William B. Long, of Emanuel Medical Center, said. “Perhaps their bodies were better insulated from the cold,” he added, suggesting that the six below them had absorbed the worst of the cold from the snow. Heat would also rise to the top of cave, which was covered by a tarpaulin and four feet of snow.
Pornography researchers dispute conclusions of the Attorney General’s forthcoming report on the social effects of pornography. According to a draft, the report, which has not been made public, will assert that exposure to pornography plays a role in causing “sexual violence, sexual coercion or unwanted sexual aggression.” A copy of the draft was made available to The New York Times earlier this week. In the 211-page introduction, the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography calls for Government action against the pornography industry, including stricter penalties for violation of laws on obscenity. But the researchers who provided key data for the report denied Friday that the panel had established a direct causal link between most sexually explicit material and any act of sexual violence. “These conclusions seem bizarre to me,” said one of the research contributors.
Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne today became the first sitting federal judge to go to prison, reporting to a minimum-security camp to serve a two-year sentence for tax evasion while still drawing his $78,200 salary. Judge Claiborne, 68 years old, of Las Vegas, Nevada, arrived in a taxi at the Federal Prison Camp at Maxwell Air Force Base, declining to comment to reporters at the prison gate. Judge Claiborne was sentenced to two years in prison for a 1984 conviction of failing to report $106,000 income from his law practice on Federal tax returns in 1979 and 1980. He would be eligible for parole in eight months. He has refused to resign from the bench, a lifetime appointment, and will continue to draw a $78,200 annual salary in prison unless he is impeached.
A couple armed with a gasoline bomb and other weapons held 150 students and adults hostage at an elementary school today but the woman was killed when the bomb exploded and the man then shot himself to death, the school principal said. At least 74 people, most of them children, suffered second-degree burns when the bomb went off at about 4 PM at the Cokeville Elementary School. One teacher was shot when he tried to flee, the officials said. The authorities said the couple demanded $300 million in ransom. The man gave the device to his wife to hold while he went to the bathroom, and she accidentally set off its hair-trigger mechanism, detonating it, said Sheriff Deb Wolfley of Lincoln County. “I thought we were all dead,” said Christine Cook, a secretary who was in the classroom when the bomb went off. “I heard this awful noise. It was smoke and flames. Just pandemonium.” Two other explosive devices were found and removed, Mr. Wolfley said. The couple was identified as David Young and his wife, Doris. Residents said Mr. Young was the town’s marshal for about six months six or seven years ago. They said he had been dismissed by the Mayor.
The Bagel Capital of the World is being claimed by Mattoon, Illinois, a prairie town of 19,800 180 miles south of Chicago. Lender’s Bagel Bakery, the nation’s largest bagel baker, is to begin production at a huge plant in Mattoon this month that will turn out one million bagels daily for the Middle West. “What we’re seeing is the Americanization of the bagel,” a baking industry spokesman said.
Two young boys were freed Thursday evening in Mexico two days after they were taken from their El Paso home by gunmen and held for ransom, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said. The kidnappers, who had demanded $500,000, called the family Thursday and told them, “We give up, you can have your kids,” said an FBI agent, Gary Webb. The children, Ben Bohannon, 4 years old, and his brother, Matt, 2, were recovered just over the border in Ciudad Juarez, where the kidnappers said they could be found, Mr. Webb said. They were taken from their home Tuesday morning by two armed men. The boys are the sons of Tom and Susan F. Bohannon, owners of the Bohannon Development Corporation.
More than 1,100 passengers have become ill aboard two cruise ships based in South Florida in the month since budget cuts forced federal health teams to drop surprise inspections. Federal medical specialists boarded the Miami-based Holiday, operated by Carnival Cruise Lines, May 3 after receiving a report that 38 passengers became ill on a one-week cruise, and learned that nearly 400 passengers had diarrhea, said Tom DeMarcus of the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Specialists who boarded the Rotterdam, based in Fort Lauderdale and operated by Holland America Cruises, May 9 in the Bahamas, reported 400 passengers had become ill, Mr. DeMarcus said.
A series of tornadoes and flash floods ravaged southeastern Missouri Thursday night, killing four people and injuring 35 others, officials said. “The whole town is virtually gone,” Mayor Harold Graviett of Vanduser said today. The tornado killed a 76-year-old man in Vanduser when it demolished his mobile home, and damaged virtually every building in the town of 350 people. Two people drowned in flash flooding in Cape Girardeau that turned the streets into a torrent, and a fourth man drowned in rural Fredericktown.
“King Crimson” founder and guitarist Robert Fripp (40) weds British actress and rock singer Toyah Wilcox (27) at Church of St. Mary, St. Cuthurga and All Saints in Witchampton, England.
Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) comes back from the dead on TV show “Dallas”.
Action film “Top Gun” starring Tom Cruise and Val Kilmer, directed by Tony Scott, is released across the United States.
The crown that the Los Angeles Lakers have worn so confidently for nearly a year is suddenly slipping, for the upstart Houston Rockets, a team Coach Pat Riley of the Lakers recently called a “team of the future,” have quickly become a team of the present. Led by Akeem Olajuwon, who scored 23 of his playoff-high 40 points in the second half, the Rockets stunned the defending champions, 117–109, tonight to lead the Western Conference final series by two games to one. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the Lakers’ 39-year-old center, did his part with 35 points, but received little support. James Worthy was the only other Laker who was effective, adding 26 points, but none in the final period. Earvin (Magic) Johnson scored 16 points and added 20 assists.
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Bob Horner and Ozzie Virgil each drove in two runs and Rick Mahler pitched a four-hitter as the Atlanta Braves downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 6–2. Horner’s sacrifice fly in the sixth broke a 2–2 tie. Virgil came into the game hittng only .146. Mahler walked seven and struck out 3 in improving his record to 3–4.
A’s infielder Tony Phillips (5-for-5) hits for the cycle and drives in 4 runs as Oakland beats Baltimore 8–4, and ends Baltimore’s six-game winning streak. Phillips became the first Oakland player to hit for the cycle and his five hits and four runs batted in were also career highs.
Oddibe McDowell, Pete Incaviglia and Steve Buechele backed Jose Guzman’s seven-hit pitching with home runs tonight to lead the Texas Rangers to a 4–1 victory over Boston, despite a career-high 14 strikeouts by Bruce Hurst of the Red Sox. Guzman (3-5), who ended a personal five-game losing streak last Sunday, walked four and struck out one. He lost his shutout bid on Steve Lyons’s pinch-hit home run with one out in the ninth inning. McDowell led off the game by lifting a 2-0 pitch into the right-field stands for his fifth home run of the season. It was the first home run off Hurst (3-3) since the season opener, April 7. Incaviglia led off the sixth with his seventh home run and Buechele followed that with his in the seventh.
Reid Nichols drove in three runs with a bases-loaded double in the fifth inning for Chicago as the White Sox beat the Royals, 4–2. The victory ended a six-game home losing streak for the White Sox, who have won six of their last eight games. Richard Dotson (2–3) was the winner. Charlie Leibrandt (4–2) was the loser
John Denny and John Franco combined on a six-hitter and Buddy Bell had three runs batted in to lead Cincinnati as the Reds downed the Pirates, 7–2. Denny (2–4) struck out seven and walked three in six innings to earn the victory. Franco pitched three innings for his fifth save. Rick Rhoden (2–3) was the loser.
The Angels crushed the Tigers, 11–1. Wally Joyner, a rookie, hit a pair of home runs to back the seven-hit pitching of Mike Witt (3–3) and power California. Joyner, who has hit homers in six of his last eight games, belted his 14th home run of the year off Dan Petry (3–3), the loser. Joyner, who has five game-winning runs batted in, hit a 1–0 pitch high off the facing of Tiger Stadium’s third deck. Joyner hit his 15th home run, a line drive into the upper deck off the reliever Bill Campbell, in the seventh inning. At his current pace, Joyner would finish the year with 67 home runs.
Dickie Thon’s pinch hit two-run double highlighted a six-run sixth inning rally that enabled Houston to beat Chicago, 9–6. Houston had seven hits off the starter Dennis Eckersely, Jay Baller (1–2), the loser, and Guy Hoffman in the inning. Julio Solano (3–0) picked up the victory in relief of the starter Jim Deshaies.
It was either a duel of renowed pitchers or a comedy of infield errors, and neither Dwight Gooden nor Orel Hershiser was around when it ended. And it ended in a strangely dramatic way, too, when Bill Russell’s suicide-squeeze bunt in the 11th inning gave the Los Angeles Dodgers a 4–3 victory over the Mets. Jesse Orosco was pitching his third inning in relief when the Dodgers pieced together their winning run: Dave Anderson outran a slow roller to second base and, one out later, Mike Scioscia hit a perfect hit-and-run single through the infield, giving the Dodgers runners on first and third with one down. Then, with the infield and outfield drawn close, the 37-year-old Russell, pinch-hitting, pushed the second pitch toward third base, where it died on the chalk while the Mets hovered and waited for it to roll foul.
The Brewers squeaked by the Twins, 7–6. A single by Bill Schroeder to the warning track over drawn-in right fielder Tom Brunansky scored pinch-runner Juan Castillo from third base for Milwaukee’s victory. Cecil Cooper led off the ninth against Ron Davis (1–3) with a bloop triple near the line that got by the left fielder Randy Bush when he tried to make a shoestring catch. Ben Oglivie was walked intentionally and Castillo came in to run for Cooper. Schroeder came up and worked the count to 3–2 before lifting his long fly to score Castillo. Mark Clear (2–1) was the winner.
For five weeks, they enjoyed good times. Now, the Yankees are in the depths of a slump — if a three-game losing streak can be considered a slump — and there seems no immediate way out. Last night at the Stadium, they faltered badly again. Two errors, one passed ball and one wild pitch helped the Seattle Mariners to a 7–3 victory, and the offense was equally poor: It left 10 men on base, 5 of them at either second or third. The loss was the Yankees’ fifth in the last seven games after a 19–9 start and it was their seventh defeat at home this season to an American League West opponent. Consider that a year ago, they lost only six times all season at the Stadium to West teams.
Mike Fitzgerald, Mitch Webster and Hubie Brooks all homered in Montreal’s 3–2 victory over San Diego. Brooks hit his eighth homer with one out in the ninth off reliever Lance McCullers, tying him for the National League lead. Steve Garvey and Graig Nettles hit solo homers for the Padres. All five runs in the game came on solo home runs.
Steve Carlton and Kent Tekulve combined for a five-hitter, with Carlton earning his 316th career victory, as the Philadelphia Phillies blanked the Giants 3–0 Friday night in San Francisco. The 41-year-old Carlton, 2–5, struck out four and walked none before leaving after one-out singles by Bob Brenly and Rob Thompson in the eighth. But Tekulve struck out Joel Youngblood and got Luis Quinones to ground out, then worked a scoreless ninth for his first save. The loss dropped the Giants a game behind the first-place Houston Astros in the National League West race. Carlton, who was 1–8 last season and missed more than two months because of a shoulder injury, brought a 5.88 earned run average into the game. The Phillies scored unearned runs in the first and fourth innings off Giants starter Roger Mason, 2–3, who allowed eight hits and all three Philadelphia runs in his six-inning stint.
The Blue Jays edged the Indians, 7–6. Jesse Barfield drove in four runs with a double and a single and George Bell and Rance Mulliniks each had three hits and drove in a run for Toronto. Jim Acker (1–2) entered the game with none out in the sixth and worked one and one-third innings for the victory. Mark Eichhorn, a rookie, pitched the final two and two-thirds innings for his third save. Tom Candiotti (2–4) was the loser.
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Atlanta Braves 6
Oakland Athletics 8, Baltimore Orioles 4
Texas Rangers 4, Boston Red Sox 1
Kansas City Royals 2, Chicago White Sox 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Cincinnati Reds 7
California Angels 11, Detroit Tigers 1
Chicago Cubs 6, Houston Astros 9
New York Mets 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Minnesota Twins 6, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Seattle Mariners 7, New York Yankees 3
Montreal Expos 3, San Diego Padres 2
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Francisco Giants 0
Cleveland Indians 6, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Stock prices fell sharply on Wall Street yesterday for the second consecutive day as concern about rising interest rates and recovering oil prices continued to raise the anxiety level of investors. Adding to the concern, traders said, was the expiration yesterday of Major Market index options, an event that often causes wild and disturbing fluctuations in stock prices. The Dow Jones industrial average, down 33.60 points on Thursday, lost another 14.88 points yesterday to finish the week at 1,759.80. The blue-chip index, which often experiences the biggest shift because of option expirations, was off 29.63 points for the week, its biggest drop in five weeks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1759.8 (-14.88)
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Megan Fox, American actress (“Jennifer’s Body”, “Transformers” movies) and model, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Garrett Hartley, NFL kicker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 44-Saints, 2009; New Orleans Saints, Cleveland Browns), in Keller, Texas.
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