Some Chernobyl workers panicked and left their posts after the nuclear accident last month, according to Soviet publications. They said these people were being disciplined. Meanwhile, a Deputy Prime Minister, Ivan S. Silayev, who sits on the inquiry board, said on television that the crippled reactor’s temperature had fallen many degrees.
Stalin’s daughter could not readjust to life in the Soviet Union when she returned in 1984 after 17 years in the West, she indicated in an interiew with an American journalist in Wisconsin, where she has been living since her return this year to the United States. Svetlana Alliluyeva said she had difficulty speaking Russian when she went back to the Soviet Union.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization has tentatively approved the Reagan Administration’s plans for production of chemical weapons, but opposition was voiced by several NATO countries concerned that the project could damage East-West relations and set back talks on a global ban on chemical arms. The allied clearance came Friday, at the end of two days of meetings of NATO delegates, who adopted American goals for 1987 that call for the production of binary chemical weapons to replace the aging stocks of nerve gas stored in the United States and West Germany. The delegates’ approval is to be submitted to a meeting of NATO defense ministers next Thursday, but the ministers have in the past cleared without debate such decisions made by the delegates. “The discussion is back in the court where it belongs — the American Congress,” a senior NATO diplomat said. The three dissenting countries — the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark — flatly disagreed with the American assertion that NATO needed to match the Soviet Union’s reported superiority in chemical weapons.
Mehmet Ali Ağca, the gunman who is serving a life sentence for trying to assassinate Pope John Paul II in 1981, has been transferred from Rome to a Pisa prison clinic that specializes in lung diseases, prison sources said Friday. The sources said the police brought Mr. Ağca to the Don Bosco prison from Rebibbia Prison in Rome in secrecy and under strict security. At the Don Bosco Prison clinic he will undergo intensive therapy for the aftereffects of an attack of bronchitis and possibly emphysema. Prison sources in Rome said this month that Mr. Ağca, a 27-year-old Turk, was suffering from tuberculosis. They said he was transferred to a prison clinic after the 10-month trial of Bulgarians and Turks accused of plotting the attack on the Pope ended in March.
Pilots for Spain’s national airline Iberia began a 24-hour strike today, forcing the airline to cancel 143 domestic and international flights, union and company spokesmen said. The strike began at midnight over the pilots’ contention that Iberia had not respected the current contract giving pilots 10 ½ hours of rest before each flight and 10 days off each month. international regulations set a minimum of eight hours rest for pilots before each flight. The Spanish Airline Pilots Association said the union decided on Thursday to hold the strike after talks between union and Iberia negotiators failed to resolve the dispute. The union and airlines said they expected talks to resume Tuesday. The union said the pilots would strike again May 29 and 30 if the issue remains unresolved.
“The diary of Mary Berg,” a young Jewish woman who survived in the Warsaw ghetto as a United States citizen, with an American flag instead of a Star of David pinned to her coat, opened in Warsaw as a play last month to mark the 43d anniversary of the ghetto uprising. Though the diary provided the first written account of daily life and death in the ghetto when it was first published in New York in the last year of the war, it is now far less known than “The Diary of a Young Girl,” by Anne Frank. Like the book composed in the secret room in Amsterdam where Miss Frank hid, Miss Berg’s notes reflect the wishes, dreams and hopes of an artistic, intelligent young woman whose adolescence was vanishing in horror, fear and weakening hope. Unlike the Frank diary, however, the Warsaw notebooks also contain firsthand reports of humiliations, sufferings and killings that shaped the experiences of millions of Eastern European Jews as they were herded into ghettoes before being sent to death camps.
British police said they had begun a major security operation at seaports to block a possible terrorist attack from a vessel traveling between Britain and continental Europe. “We are anxious not to alarm anyone,” Chief Inspector Lee Plummer said. “But as a result of intelligence we have gathered we think something may happen, although it’s only a possibility.”
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal said that the head of the World Jewish Congress, Israel Singer, unintentionally provoked a wave of Austrian anti-Semitism by suggesting that Austrians would invite trouble by electing former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim as president. “If one promises everybody holding an Austrian passport that he will face problems abroad… that has caused that wave,” Wiesenthal said.
U.S. Ambassador Reginald Bartholomew ended a two-year, seven-month assignment in Beirut and left the Lebanese capital. Bartholomew, 50, a career government officer who has worked in both the Defense and State departments, will be replaced temporarily by Francis T. McNamara, the embassy’s charge d’affaires. Bartholomew witnessed the decline of American influence in Lebanon following Beirut’s decision to abrogate a U.S.-backed troop withdrawal treaty with Israel. Bartholomew, from Maine, was slightly injured in a fundamentalist Muslim bomb attack on the U.S. Embassy in Christian East Beirut in 1984.
President Hafez al-Assad of Syria, whose Government has been linked by Western countries to terrorism and a desire to expand Syrian influence in the Middle East, finds himself facing threats from inside and outside his country. The most immediate threat, Western diplomats say, is a growing fear in Damascus that long-festering tensions with Israel, particularly along the Golan Heights, could flare into a new war, possibly set off by accusations of Syrian involvement in recent terrorist incidents. Attention has also focused on Syria recently because of reported military preparations by Damascus in Lebanon, the terrorist issue and reports that Syria is trying to gain the release of American and French hostages seized in the region. The Syrian leader is also troubled by four other factors, according to Western diplomats, Arab experts and others who follow Syrian developments. These are a continued inability to impose his domination on Lebanon; increasingly strained relations with his major regional ally, Iran; a collapsing economy, and a sudden surge in terrorist bombings at home, four years after he crushed underground domestic opposition.
Libya said it had cracked an Egyptian spy network that helped guide U.S. planes during last month’s bombing of Tripoli and Benghazi. It said the Egyptian ringleader, Muraji Hamouda abu Azizah, was arrested and four U.S.-made radio transmitters seized. According to the Libyan government news agency, Abu Azizah crossed several times into Libya and at the end of March, delivered a transmitter to another agent, who gave him the equivalent of $7,350 plus a vehicle, rifles and ammunition.
Iran and Iraq are stepping up their two-year-old “tanker war” in the Persian Gulf, having sharply increased attacks against neutral shipping there in the last few months, according to diplomats and military experts in the region. Since the start of the year, these sources say, Iran and Iraq, which have been locked in a bitter and costly land war since 1980, have raided at least 40 tankers and other vessels in the gulf. This is almost as many attacks as Iran and Iraq carried out in all of last year, when their warplanes and helicopters struck 46 neutral vessels. In 1984, 56 such assaults were recorded.
U.S.-backed Nicaraguan guerrillas kidnaped eight West Germans working on housing construction projects in northern Nicaragua, radio reports said. The Nicaraguan government radio said the rebels, called contras, are believed to have taken the captives toward Honduras, where the guerrillas maintain bases. It was the third time that West Germans working to support the leftist Sandinista government in Managua have been kidnaped by the contras.
Unidentified armed men kidnaped former Iranian Prime Minister Medhi Bazargan, beat him and threatened to kill him before letting him go, sources in Tehran said. The armed men, suspected to be Revolutionary Guards, seized Bazargan and 11 other officials of his Iran Freedom Movement, Iran’s only legal opposition party, which has been critical of Prime Minister Hussein Moussavi. Bazargan, Iran’s first prime minister after the Islamic revolution, sent a message to President Ali Khamenei protesting the incident, the sources said.
Pakistan said it shot down an Afghan military plane and hit another violating its airspace. Two American-made F-16 fighter jets of the Pakistani Air Force shot down an attacking Afghan Air Force MIG-21 in Pakistani airspace today, damaged a second and chased off two others, government officials in Islamabad said. Pakistan’s forces along the mountainous border between the two countries were placed on full alert, the officials said. The Foreign Ministry issued a brief statement on the air clash near the border town of Parachinar and warned Afghanistan’s Soviet-backed Communist Government to halt such attacks or face the consequences.
Fourteen people were killed today in battles between Sri Lankan Government troops and Tamil separatist guerrillas in the Jaffna district in northern Sri Lanka, security sources said. The national news agency Lankapuvath said 12 guerrillas, one soldier and a civilian died in separate clashes at Vasavilai, Kayts and Elephant Pass in the district, a guerrilla stronghold. Quoting security sources, Lankapuvath said guerrillas also attacked the region’s main military base at Jaffna Fort. Aircraft flying in and out of the base came under fire, it said, but no casualties or damage was reported. Jaffna residents said about six soldiers were reported killed in a clash at Tikkam, a northern village. There was no official confirmation.
The Thai Government has closed three refugee camps housing Vietnamese and Laotian exiles, among them the Songkhla reception center on the Gulf of Siam, where arriving Vietnamese “boat people” have been sheltered for more than a decade. Another camp for Vietnamese at Sikhiu in Northeastern Thailand is also being closed, along with a camp for Laotians at Ubon, also in the northeast. At the same time, however, American immigration officials have begun accepting thousands of Laotians for resettlement in the United States, after a Thai decision late last year to make the Laotians available for interviews, according to refugee officials. This year, Laotians — both “lowland” Lao from Vientiane and the Mekong River valley and tribe people from the Laotian highlands — are expected to dominate the 23,000 places set aside for immigration by ethnic Indochinese. Nearly 90,000 Laotian exiles are now in Thai camps, and more arrive each month.
Representatives of Communist China and Taiwan’s Chinese Nationalist Government met for the first time today in 37 years to discuss the return of a Taiwan cargo jet whose pilot defected to China. The two sides were said to disagree on where the transfer should occur. C. C. Hwang, sales manager for the Hong Kong office of Taiwan’s China Air Lines, said a second round of talks would be held. Another Taiwanese said the talks would resume Sunday. Mr. Hwang said that the Chinese Communist representatives wanted to release the plane and other members of the crew to Taiwan in Canton, and that the Taiwanese had rejected the proposal because of “considerations of safety problems” and other, unspecified reasons. The pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, defected to Canton on May 3. Mr. Hwang said Taiwan had offered three alternatives: First, the crew could fly the plane to Hong Kong; second, an unspecified “third party” could go to Canton to pick up the plane and crew; third, the crew members could be sent back to Taiwan before the issue of the transfer of the plane was taken up.
Officials closed the Philippine presidential palace to the public today because of a break-in by burglars who apparently searched the rooms of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and his wife, Imelda. “We don’t know yet what items were taken, but we found many items not in their usual places,” said Rosemary Prieto, the palace administrator. She added the palace would be closed until Thursday. The break-in Friday night was the second time burglars had slipped into the Spanish-style colonial mansion since Mr. Marcos was ousted February 25. In the first break-in, a tiny box said to have no value was taken. This time, there were indications that the latest thieves entered the palace through the roof of the power supply room.
At one point or another, it seems, virtually every able-bodied man and some of the women in the small village of Santiago Comaltepecdeep in the mountains of southern Mexico has journeyed north and slipped across the border to spend a season or longer as an illegal worker in California. Braving the border crossing to find work as a gardener, construction worker or maid in Los Angeles or as a field hand in California’s agricultural regions is a way of life here, an essential economic principle of survival. “Have you heard if there is any work there?” Elias Hernandez, the storekeeper here, asked an American visitor recently. “I might go if there is work.”
With more than 1.5 million votes counted in the presidential election in the Dominican Republic, Joaquin Balaguer, a 78-year-old former President, began edging away from his nearest rival early this morning with a lead of about 9,000 votes. For most of the time since the returns started coming in late Friday night, Mr. Balaguer and Jacobo Majluta Azar, the 51-year-old President of the Senate, had been within a few hundred to a few thousand votes of each other. After one tally Saturday afternoon, Mr. Balaguer was ahead by 42 votes. At another point Mr. Majluta led by a little more than 500 votes.
Guatemala will receive $16 million in foreign aid to equip and modernize its national police force, Interior Minister Juan Jose Rodil Peralta has announced. “We want to change from having a repressive police force to one that is dedicated to public safety and crime prevention,” Mr. Rodil said at a news conference last week. Mr. Rodil recently visited Spain, Venezuela and Mexico, and he said all three countries had agreed to provide police aid to Guatemala. He indicated that the fourth country he visited, West Germany, was considering his request for aid.
Despite widespread disenchantment with what is known here as “the peace process,” Colombia’s largest guerrilla movement is taking an important step toward ending 30 years of insurgency by joining in presidential elections. Its candidate is expected to run far behind the nominees of the country’s two traditional parties in the voting on May 25, but leaders of the group, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, are hoping the campaign will earn them a new democratic status. The group has still not disarmed, but its 5,000 or so activists have withdrawn to 27 camps in different regions of the country and it extended a truce with the Government for an indefinite period shortly before congressional and local elections were held March 9. In this voting, the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces, or FARC, did unexpectedly well, joining the local Moscow-line Communist Party in a so-called Patriotic Union that won or shared 14 seats in Congress and gained representation in 12 departmental assemblies and 150 municipal councils.
In a four-nation African tour, Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India has begun a campaign to urge the Commonwealth countries and the movement of nations espousing nonalignment to press South Africa to end apartheid. In Zimbabwe on Friday and in his first stop in Zambia on Wednesday, Mr. Gandhi said comprehensive economic sanctions were the only peaceful way for the world to press effectively for the end of apartheid.
Zimbabwe’s former white residents are returning, but slowly and in uncertain numbers. In the six years since independence, perhaps 100,000 whites have left Zimbabwe, some to Europe, the United States or Australia, but most to South Africa, a country that seemed to embody the political ideals of white dominance that vanished here suddenly in 1980. Now, slowly and in uncertain numbers, former white residents of Zimbabwe are coming back. Explanations do not come easily to many of them — the strangeness of another country, the growing tensions in South Africa, simple homesickness. In nearly all cases, however, they admit that their worst fears about Zimbabwe were not realized.
Jackie Presser, president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, surrendered to Federal officials today on charges of embezzlement and racketeering involving the local that has been his power base for 19 years. Mr. Presser and two top aides of the local, Harold Friedman and Anthony Hughes, were indicted Friday by a Federal grand jury here. Today, after being fingerprinted, they appeared before Federal Magistrate Joseph Bartunek and were released on $50,000 bond. Neither the 59-year-old president of the nation’s largest union nor his two co-defendants were required to enter a plea to the charges against them. They will be arraigned after they return from the the teamsters’ national convention next week in Las Vegas, where Mr. Presser plans to seek re-election.
A Federal study commission will soon recommend a comprehensive new policy to encourage the donating and transplanting of human kidneys, livers and hearts. The panel says the Government should make a commitment to pay for organ transplant operations that people might not otherwise be able to afford. In a confidential final draft of its report, the commission, the Task Force on Organ Transplantation, says the United States should expand access to organ transplants for its own citizens, regardless of their wealth or insurance coverage, but should limit access for aliens who come to this country seeking transplants. The Reagan Administration is scheduled to discuss the issue next week at a meeting of the President’s Domestic Policy Council, an advisory body made up of Cabinet officers. Officials from the White House and the Office of Management and Budget said they were resisting the proposals on the ground that federal costs could soar if the government had to pay for many transplants.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on Armed Forces Day. President Reagan today criticized the House for approving a military budget he called “wholly inadequate” The budget “would send exactly the wrong signal to the Soviets,” the President said. In honor of Armed Forces Day, Mr. Reagan came to Arlington, Virginia to deliver his weekly radio address from Fort Myer, the home of the 3d Infantry, which acts as the President’s honor guard.
The President and First Lady enjoy dinner in the President’s study.
The Administration’s current discussions with The Washington Post about publication of an article based on classified information mark the sixth time in the last 12 months that Government officials have pressed the newspaper to withhold or alter an impending article, Leonard Downie Jr., the managing editor of The Post, said Friday. In two cases, Mr. Downie said, The Post complied with the Administration and did not disclose the name of a figure in an article because Adminstration officials said identification would have endangered the person’s life. Katharine Graham, the chief executive officer of The Washington Post Company, said no decision would be made on the current article until Benjamin C. Bradlee, the executive editor, returned from a trip abroad. Mr. Bradlee was scheduled to arrive back in Washington this weekend, but Mr. Downie said no decision was imminent or would be made before this week at the earliest.
Doctors removed a malignant growth from Vice President Bush’s left cheek Thursday, his office announced today. Such cancer, a basal cell carcinoma, usually comes from overexposure to the sun and is considered by doctors to be highly curable. Mr. Bush’s spokesman, Marlin Fitzwater, said doctors found the growth several weeks ago.
Friends and relatives gathered today for the funerals of two of the nine climbers who died on a school outing on Mount Hood. The two, Alison Litzenberger and Erin O’Leary, both 15-year-old students at the Oregon Episcopal School, were found at the foot of a cliff Wednesday morning, two days afer the mountain was enveloped in a snowstorm. The body of a boy was found at the top of the cliff and six more bodies and two survivors were found Thursday in a cave the climbers had dug as a refuge from the blizzard.
In the church his parents brought him to as a child, Dr. Ronald E. McNair was eulogized today as an example to children. And afterward, in a newly cleared plot surrounded by the fields where he picked cotton as a boy, the remains of the Challenger astronaut were finally laid to rest. His journey — from birth in a small wooden house with no plumbing, through the segregated school system of his formative years here, to an engineering degree and a doctorate in physics, to research in laser physics at the Hughes Laboratory outside Los Angeles, to acceptance in the astronaut program, to his flight around the earth in the space shuttle Challenger in 1984, to his death in its explosion this January — required 35 years.
Divestment’s effect on endowments has created anxiety and sharp divisions among the leaders of the colleges and universities that have decided to divest their endowment porfolios of stocks in companies doing business in South Africa. Some financial officers predict that bypassing nearly 300 American companies, including dozens of the most widely trade blue chip companies, will inevitably decrease te value of their endowments.
Cocaine smuggling could more than double in volume this year,while marijuana shipments are expected to decline by almost a third, according to government estimates. The U.S. Customs Service predicts that 275,000 pounds of cocaine will be brought into the country in 1986, up from 130,000 pounds last year, according to Senator Lloyd Bentsen (D-Texas), who released the figures. Marijuana smuggling is expected to fall to about 22 million pounds, from 30.6 million pounds in 1985. Customs spokesman Jim Mahan cited the difference in street prices — $135,000 a pound for cocaine against $600 a pound for marijuana — as well as the large domestic marijuana crop as reasons for the projected decline in marijuana smuggling.
The General Dynamics shipyard christened its last ship, ending 102 years of shipbuilding along the Fore River at Quincy, Massachusetts. A large crowd gathered in the rain to hear company and military officials praise those who had built more than 500 battleships, cruisers, aircraft carriers, destroyers and submarines since 1884. “Perhaps in the rain there is a message,” said General Paul X. Kelley, Marine Corps commandant. “Perhaps the good Lord and all those former Fore River workers who have gone to their last reward are up there weeping… and hoping there may be a miracle.” The yard was closed because of a decline in contracts.
Two airliners accelerating for takeoff from intersecting runways at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport nearly collided and one was forced to take off early and roar over the other, federal officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration said that the near-miss, classified as an operational error, was under investigation. No one was hurt and the flights were continued. The pilot of a USAir DC-9, en route to Pittsburgh with 115 people aboard, flew over an American Airlines 727 bound for Oklahoma City with 109 aboard. Both were cleared for takeoff.
Eastern Airlines has voluntarily grounded four jets whose leased engines were rebuilt with foreign parts and lacked proper documentation, Federal officials said today. Two flights were cancelled today as a result but no further cancellations were expected, airline officials said. Inadequate paperwork for four A-300 Airbus engines and one DC-10 engine was discovered in a routine inspection and reported to Eastern on Friday, according to Jack Barker, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration in Atlanta. Eastern ignored an F.A.A. deadline Friday for payment of a record $9.5 million fine for more than 78,000 safety violations, many involving record-keeping. Jerry Cosley, Eastern’s chief spokesman, said today the airline was being made a scapegoat for national criticism of the aviation agency.
The man and woman who took an elementary school here hostage Friday, injuring 70 children when their homemade gasoline bomb exploded, had ties to the Posse Comitatus and other white supremacist groups, according to law-enforcement officials. They said the couple had embarked on their venture to foment a revolution and create a new white supremacist homeland. The woman died when the bomb exploded accidentally, and the man then shot himself to death, the authorities said. The investigation of the incident focuses on two men who said they were asked to accompany David and Doris Young to Cokeville on a “money-making venture,” said Earl Carroll, chief investigator with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department. The two men were found handcuffed in a van that was rented by Mrs. Young, having apparently been left there after they learned of the couple’s plans and refused to take part, Mr. Carroll said.
A child struck by a tractor-trailer rig died in spite of a massive blood drive on her behalf. Karrie Ann Kutyba, 11, had received transfusions at the rate of three pints an hour since she was struck Monday while riding her bicycle, hospital personnel said. Her need for blood exhausted supplies around her home town of Dixon, Illinois, and hundreds of residents responded by donating blood, Red Cross chapter manager Ann Fox said. The truck driver has not been identified, and police said he may not have realized he struck the girl.
A robber who killed five witnesses after holding up a bar and a convenience market was the object of a police manhunt around Colorado Springs, Colorado. Five people were shot to death and another was shot in the head in robberies of a convenience store and a neighboring bar early today, the police said. Debbie Green, 29 years old, the bartender of the Grand View Lounge, and two patrons, James Roepke and Joanne McNamara, 46, were found shortly after firefighters arrived to put out a fire that had been set in the bar, officials said. The police arrived at the scene soon after two sisters, clerks in a store next door, were fatally shot. They were identified as Sandra Howard, 22 and Elaine Sindlesecker, 19. The police said Robert Kuretich, another patron at the bar, escaped after being hit on the head and shot.
The worst drought in 100 years has dried up many farms in the Southeast. Farmers have delayed planting peanuts, cotton and soybeans while hoping for rain. Across most of the South, rainfall totals are 12 to 15 inches below normal. A plume of dust is billowing like wood smoke behind Jackie Busby’s tractor as it moves across a field so dry even the weeds look withered. There are clouds overhead, but no rain will fall today on Dooly County. “The last time we got a good rainfall was the same day my wife’s daddy died, and that was on March 12,” says Mr. Busby. “There’s been two-, three-week stretches before of dry weather, but I can’t ever remember anything like this.”
Goodwill for New York Governor Mario Cuomo is widespread as he prepares to announce tomorrow that he will run for re-election. Academics, pollsters and state officials say he is one of the state’s most popular governors — a perception still to be tested at voting booths, but supported by public opinion surveys in which he has consistently been rated favorably by about 70 percent of the voters.
The cocaine era’s “crack houses” are where the growing numbers of people who smoke crack, a highly addictive form of cocaine, go to purchase and use the drug. Officials estimate that in the last year, as crack has exploded in popularity in New York city and suburbs, hundreds of base houses have opened, selling hundreds or thousands of dollars worth of crack an hour, 24 hours a day.
Violent thunderstorms hammered at western Arkansas and south and central Texas, spinning off tornadoes. In Fort Smith, Arkansas, a 14-year-old girl was killed when a tree toppled by high winds crashed through the roof of her home. A 50-year-old man apparently drowned after his boat capsized in a storm on Lake Steinhagen near Beaumont, Texas. Eight people were reported missing after high winds hit Lake Livingston in eastern Texas, the site of a bass fishing tournament. A twister lifted the roof off a cement plant in downtown Killeen, Texas, and damaged the town’s firehouse. Funnel clouds also were sighted at Sparta, Ohio, near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and in the Chicago suburbs.
“Chicken Song” by Spitting Image hits #1 on the UK pop chart.
111th Preakness: Alex Solis aboard Snow Chief wins in 1:54.8. Snow Chief, who finished a distant 11th as the favorite in the Kentucky Derby two weeks ago, rebounded to score a powerful four-length victory over Ferdinand, the Derby winner, in the 111th Preakness Stakes today at Pimlico Race Course. Returning to the form that won him five straight stakes race and made him a millionaire before the Derby, the small and blackish colt stalked Groovy for six furlongs, then took command and drew away from the field. Ferdinand rallied to be second but could not gain an inch on the winner in the final furlong. It was another 6 ½ lengths back to Broad Brush, who nosed out Badger Land, the favorite, for third place in a field of seven.
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The Atlanta Braves shut out the St. Louis Cardinals, 2–0. Bob Horner hit a two-run double with two outs in the eighth inning and Joe Johnson and Bruce Sutter combined on a three-hitter for Atlanta. The game-winning hit enabled Johnson (5–3) to gain the victory after yielding only three hits before being lifted for a pinch-hitter to open the eighth. Sutter worked the ninth for his third save. Danny Cox (0–3) blanked the Braves for seven innings before Omar Moreno led off the inning with a single to center. Moreno stole second and went to third on Billy Sample’s fly ball before Dale Murphy was walked intentionally. Horner then doubled.
Scott McGregor scattered eight hits and Eddie Murray drove in four runs, three with a homer, to lead Baltimore over the Oakland A’s, 8–2. Lee Lacy’s two-run single keyed a four-run second inning as Baltimore won for the seventh time in its last eight games. The Orioles broke Oakland’s three-game winning streak. McGregor (3–3) limited Oakland to six hits and one run over the final eight innings. It was his second complete game in seven starts.
Rey Quinones hit two run-scoring doubles in his major-league debut and the Boston Red Sox rode a six-run second inning for an 8–2 victory over the Texas Rangers. Quinones, a shortstop called up from Pawtucket of the International League a few hours earlier, doubled off the left-field wall in his first time at bat, keying the big second inning. Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (4–3) gave up nine hits, including Larry Parrish’s two-run homer in the sixth. Don Slaught of the Rangers was hit in the face on a 1–2 pitch from Boyd in the fourth inning. Slaught, who was carried off the field after the pitch, suffered a broken nose and a broken bone in his left cheek.
Carlton Fisk and Greg Walker hit run-scoring singles in the ninth inning, and Chicago rallied for a second time to beat Kansas City, 7–6, extending its winning streak to four games. The White Sox scored three runs in the seventh to erase a 4–2 Kansas City lead, only to lose it in the ninth when the Royals scored twice to go ahead, 6–5. Wayne Tolleson opened the Chicago ninth with a single and, one out later, went to third on Harold Baines’s third single of the game. Fisk singled to score Tolleson with tying run, and the pinch-runner John Cangelosi went to third on Ron Kittle’s deep fly to right before Walker got the game-winning hit. Bob James (2–3) was the winner and Mark Huismann (0–1) was the loser.
The Pirates blanked the Reds, 4–0. Rick Reuschel tossed a five-hitter and Tony Pena broke up a scoreless game with a run-scoring single in the sixth inning. Reuschel (3–3) allowed only one runner past first base in his first complete game of the season. He struck out six and walked none. The Pirates were able to reach Mario Soto (2–6) for a run in the sixth. Johnny Ray walked and took third when Sid Bream singled. Mike Brown then topped a ball down the first-base line that Pete Rose grabbed and threw home in time to retire Ray. Pena followed with a single to center that drove home Bream.
Lou Whitaker, Larry Herndon and Darrell Evans each hit home runs, and Dave LaPoint won his first game for the Detroit Tigers today, beating the California Angels, 10–4. The victory was the second in the American League for LaPoint (1–2), who came to the Tigers from San Francisco last fall. LaPoint, whose other American League victory came in 1980 with Milwaukee, allowed three runs on six hits, walked four and struck out two before Willie Hernandez started the eighth inning. Hernandez gave up a run-scoring single in the eighth to Bob Boone. Jim Slaton (4–2) gave up five runs on seven hits in six innings for California.
Jose Cruz drove in three runs with three singles and Mike Scott scattered eight hits over eight innings tonight, leading the Houston Astros past the Chicago Cubs, 5–1. Scott (4–2) tied a career high with nine strikeouts and raised his league-leading total to 68. He walked one. Steve Trout (2–1) took the loss, giving up four runs on five hits in four and two-thirds innings. After Chicago scored in the fourth inning on singles by Ryne Sandberg, Leon Durham and Jerry Mumphrey, the Astros rallied for four runs with two outs in the fifth.
The Mets lost their second straight game to the Los Angeles Dodgers and their fifth in their last seven today, and fell deeper into a slump that has interrupted the best start in the team’s 25 years. They wasted a 13-hit offense that put men on base in every inning. They undermined the three-hit pitching that Sid Fernandez delivered for seven innings. Then, with the score 2–2 in the top of the eighth, they got the leadoff man on base again but failed to bunt him to second. And, in the Dodgers’ half of the inning, they failed to stop a leadoff bunt by Mariano Duncan that led to a four-run rally and a 6–2 victory for the Dodgers. It was no longer good times for the Mets, especially after Friday night’s 4–3 loss in 11 innings. The fatal instrument in that game was a bunt, too, a suicide squeeze by Bill Russell that the Mets couldn’t handle. So Dave Johnson was looking for better things in bright sunshine this afternoon before 39,429 fans in Dodger Stadium and a national television audience. He didn’t get them. He did get a single and double from Ed Hearn, the rookie catcher who made his debut in the big leagues while Gary Carter rested his knees. But he also got a slow response from Hearn on the bunt that opened the Dodgers’ winning rally. And he got another tame performance from Howard Johnson, who went 0 for 4 today after going 0 for 5 in the opening game of the series, and who popped out trying to bunt in the top of the eighth.
The Brewers defeated the Twins, 4–1. Robin Yount hit a home run and singled as Milwaukee sent Minnesota to its seventh consecutive loss in a game shortened to seven innings because of rain. The game, which was delayed for 15 minutes by rain in the first inning, was called after a delay of 1 hour 15 minutes after the seventh inning. Milwaukee won its seventh consecutive home game. Ted Higuera (5–3) scattered seven hits for his fourth complete game of the season, striking out eight and walking two.
Dave Winfield hits a single, double and grand slam to drive in 6 runs as the Yankees sink the Mariners, 11–6. Don Mattingly has a pair of doubles and a homer for New York. Bob Tewksbury (4–2) gives up an unearned run in 7 innings for the win. The Yankees stay a half-game in back of Boston. The Yankees, who had lost five of their previous seven games, came back with a strong offensive push and with good pitching from their starter, Bob Tewksbury. Only a weak relief job by Al Holland allowed the Mariners to score four times in the eighth.
The Padres beat the Expos, 5–3. Kevin McReynolds had three hits, including a home run, to help LaMarr Hoyt earn his first victory since last September 25. McReynolds’s fifth-inning homer came off Andy McGaffigan (2–1) and highlighted a three-run inning that overcame a 2–0 deficit. The Expos tied the game with a run in the sixth, but Tim Flannery hit a two-run pinch double in the bottom of the inning to put San Diego ahead for good. Kennedy drew a leadoff walk from McGaffigan, who was then relieved by Bert Roberge. McReynolds singled Kennedy to second. Two outs later, Flannery, batting for Hoyt, hit his double to center to score the winning runs.
The Giants came from behind to dump the Phillies, 12–7. Jose Uribe singled and hit a two-run double and Will Clark also doubled home two runs during San Francisco’s eight-run rally in the fifth inning. The Giants erased a 4-3 lead by sending 13 batters to the plate and getting seven hits, sending Shane Rawley (4–4) to defeat. Mike Krukow (5–3) pitched five and one-third innings for the victory, giving up seven hits and six runs. The Phillies went ahead, 4–1, in the top of the fourth on a run-scoring single by Von Hayes and Glenn Wilson’s three-run homer. San Francisco closed to within 4–3 in its half of the fourth on a run-scoring single by Chili Davis and Bob Brenly’s sacrifice fly.
Jesse Barfield has 3 hits, including a 3-run homer, to drive in 6 runs as the Blue Jays top the Indians, 11–6, in Cleveland. Jimmy Key (2–3) scattered five hits, walked five and struck out two over seven innings for Toronto. Barfield’s homer with two out in the sixth padded Toronto’s lead to 8–1. The homer was Barfield’s ninth this season. The six runs batted in was a single-game career high and gave him 10 in two consecutive games and 24 for the season. He drove in four Friday night.
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Atlanta Braves 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Baltimore Orioles 8
Texas Rangers 2, Boston Red Sox 8
Kansas City Royals 6, Chicago White Sox 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Cincinnati Reds 0
California Angels 4, Detroit Tigers 10
Chicago Cubs 1, Houston Astros 5
New York Mets 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Minnesota Twins 1, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Seattle Mariners 6, New York Yankees 11
Montreal Expos 3, San Diego Padres 5
Philadelphia Phillies 7, San Francisco Giants 12
Cleveland Indians 5, Toronto Blue Jays 11
Born:
Keenan Lewis, NFL cornerback (Pittsburgh Steelers, New Orleans Saints), in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Tahj Mowry, American actor (“Smart Guy”, “Baby Daddy”), in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Died:
Jack Waldman, 33, American jazz and rock keyboardist and avant garde composer, of HIV-related illness..
Lyudmila Pakhomova, 39, Russian ice dancer (Olympics, gold medal, USSR, 1976; with Alexandr Gorshkov), from leukemia.
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