Yuri V. Dubinin, a Soviet career diplomat who was named only two months ago as the chief delegate at the United Nations, was appointed today as the new ambassador to Washington. The 55-year-old diplomat, a former ambassador to Spain, was named to a vacancy left by the promotion of Anatoly F. Dobrynin to the top Soviet leadership after almost a quarter century in the United States. The appointment of Mr. Dubinin came as a surprise to Western diplomats. His name had not appeared in speculation about the Washington job. He only recently took up his duties at the United Nations and he has little known experience in American affairs. In early March, at the party congress, he was named to the party’s Central Auditing Commission rather than to the more prestigious Central Committee, which would be more appropriate for an important ambassadorial post. Diplomats took this as evidence that at the time he was not under consideration for the Washington job. Before his appointment to the United Nations in March, Mr. Dubinin had worked largely on Western European affairs, both in the embassy in Paris and in the Foreign Ministry’s First European Department, which is responsible for France, Italy, Switzerland, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The new ambassador’s evident lack of experience and political rank made it unlikely that he would match the influence of his predecessor. In his 24 years in Washington, Mr. Dobrynin became a unique “back channel” in Soviet-American dealings, establishing direct relations with American Presidents and Secretaries of State.
The personal affability of Mr. Dubinin, 55 years old, who was named ambassador to Washington today, contrasts with his professional demeanor in his advocacy of Soviet foreign policy. In his two months at the United Nations, Mr. Dubinin has not had the time to make much of a positive impression on his Western colleagues. In his maiden speech here, he accused the United States of “large-scale political sabotage against the United Nations” by insisting that the Soviet Union reduce the staff of his missions. And in a Security Council debate on the American bombing of Libya, he echoed his Government’s characterization of the raid as “banditry.”
President Reagan meets with his advisors to discuss recent developments in the Soviet Union.
The antinuclear and environmentalist Green Party has ended a four-day congress with agreement on a national election program that demands West Germany’s immediate withdrawal from NATO and the abolition of nuclear energy. Emboldened by a surge of popular support that followed the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the party’s radical wing, the so-called fundamentalists, controlled the congress. The congress, which was held in Hanover and ended Monday, laid down the party’s strategy for elections scheduled for January. It came against a backdrop of fierce clashes between the police and antinuclear demonstrators at an uncompleted reprocessing plant at Wackersdorf near the Czechoslovak border. On Sunday, 132 policemen were reported wounded by protesters, who hurled ball bearings and gasoline bombs.
The House urged a speedy U.S. investigation of former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, which could lead to barring his entry into this country. Acting on a voice vote without dissent, the non-binding resolution urged Attorney General Edwin Meese III to decide quickly whether Waldheim should be placed on a “watch list” of foreigners to be denied visas. Rep. Romano L. Mazzoli (D-Kentucky), chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee on immigration, said panel members agreed to forgo full hearings because “time was of the essence.” Waldheim, who is accused of covering up a Nazi past, is the frontrunner in the final round of Austria’s presidential election June 8.
Socialist and Communist members of the French Parliament walked out of the National Assembly in protest today as the conservative Government presented a plan to change the way legislative elections are held. The tumultuous parliamentary session came as the Government of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac presented one of its major political revisions — a return to the winner-take-all majority system of voting that was replaced with a proportional system of voting by the Socialist Government last year. Except for Mr. Chirac’s conservative coalition, all the parties in Parliament from the far left to the far right are against the change, which would almost certainly have the effect of consolidating the majority now held by Mr. Chirac’s coalition if new legislative elections were held.
The United States Ambassador to the Vatican, whose unauthorized dealings with Libya had caused concern within the Administration, has resigned, the State Department announced today. The department gave no explanation and few details about the resignation of the envoy, William A. Wilson, other than that the California businessman, one of Mr. Reagan’s closest and most trusted friends, wanted to return to private life. The department spokesman, Charles E. Redman, also said Mr. Reagan had expressed his “deep appreciation to Ambassador Wilson for his productive work during the course of which full diplomatic relations were established between the United States and the Holy See.” Mr. Redman did not say if a successor had been chosen. Concern by Some Aides But Administration officials who declined to be identified said that for some time senior White House and State Department officials had voiced concerns to the President and others about Mr. Wilson’s conduct and had sought his resignation.
The Central Intelligence Agency has been told by Italian authorities that the sole terrorist survivor of an attack on the Rome airport has directly implicated Syria in his mission, according to American officials. According to the Americans, the terrorist, Mohammed Sarham, told his Italian captors that Syrian agents had trained him and accompanied him on his journey from the Bekaa region of Lebanon to Damascus through Belgrade, and then on to Rome. The American officials said that until the information about the Rome terrorists being trained in Syria reached President Reagan about two weeks ago, the United States had been operating in the belief that Mr. Sarham was acting under orders from Libya. Administration officials said that intelligence agencies still believed Libya was involved in both the Rome and Vienna airport raids on Dec. 27, but were coming around to the view that Syria played at least as big a role.
The Israeli Army’s Chief of Staff said today that Syria was continuing to dig trenches for armor and artillery in southern Lebanon. Speaking to reporters while on a tour of Israel’s northern border region, Lieutenant General Moshe Levy said: “The activities of the Syrian Army in southern Lebanon are continuing.” The Israeli Chief of Staff quickly added, however, that the recent “soothing statements” by President Hafez al-Assad of Syria, in which he indicated that Damascus was not engaged in any troop buildups in preparation for a war with Israel, were “significant.” Asked then to explain what Mr. Assad was up to in having his army build fortifications in southern Lebanon, General Levy said: “All the time, and for years, he has been preparing for war with Israel. He never stops. You can ask, ‘How are these preparations manifested?’ Each time differently.”
Immigration to Israel this year is expected to be at the lowest level in the nation’s 38-year history, while emigration is rising sharply, according to reports here. Minister of Absorption Yaacov Tzur said at a news conference that since January 1, only 2,800 new immigrants had arrived in Israel and that he expected total immigration this year to reach only about 9,000. The previous low in immigration was set in 1985, when only 11,298 new immigrants arrived in Israel, while some 15,000 Israelis left the country, Mr. Tzur added.
The Jordanian Government was reported today to have arrested the leadership of Jordan’s Communist Party in a move widely seen here as an effort to fix blame for a recent student protest that was violently put down by the police. The protest erupted last week in this town 100 miles north of Amman, and official reports say three students were killed and 18 people wounded. But according to widespread rumors the death toll was much higher. These could not be confirmed by either official or unofficial sources.
United States Government sources said today that Mohammed Abbas, facing murder and kidnapping charges in the hijacking of the cruise ship Achille Lauro, was on a secret visit to Algeria when he said in an American television interview this month that President Reagan had become “enemy No. 1.” The State Department has complained to Algeria for not turning the Palestinian over to Italian or American authorities for prosecution in the hijacking of the cruise ship last October and the death of Leon Klinghoffer, an American passenger, the sources said. “We’ve made no secret of our views,” a United States official said. He said that Mr. Abbas, head of a faction of the Palestine Liberation Front, had left Algeria since and that his whereabouts were unknown.
A U.S. fighter-bomber lost in last month’s air raid on Libya was not shot down and probably crashed due to pilot disorientation or systems failure, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported. The respected London magazine, quoting intelligence sources, said the Air Force F-111 is believed to have crashed at sea about 20 miles north of Tripoli, out of range of Libyan anti-aircraft fire. The Libyans, claiming to have downed the jet, have displayed a helmet apparently belonging to the plane’s co-pilot, which may have washed ashore.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with White House senior staff to discuss the proposed arms sale to Saudi Arabia. The Reagan Administration, seeking to avert a major legislative defeat over a proposed $354 million arms sale to Saudi Arabia, said today that it would no longer ask for the sale of 800 advanced portable antiaircraft missiles. Under the revised White House plan, Saudi Arabia would still get air-to-air missiles and ship-to-ship missiles. Although White House officials maintained that the decision to drop the shoulder-fired Stinger missiles had been made by Saudi Arabia, the Saudi Ambassador, Prince Bandar bin Sultan, made it plain that his nation was unhappy about the move and might seek similar weapons elsewhere. “The basic point I’d like to get across is that the kingdom, as a matter of principle, will provide its armed forces with up-to-date and the most modern defensive weapons systems,” Prince Bandar said. Asked if that meant Saudi Arabia would seek weapons elsewhere, the envoy replied, “From there on, you can draw your own conclusions.”
China and Portugal will begin talks next month on the transfer of Macao to Chinese rule, signaling an end to nearly 430 years of Portuguese control over the territory, officials said. The talks come 11 years after Portugal recognized Chinese sovereignty over the enclave. China has pledged to preserve Macao’s basic freedoms and capitalist life style under the same “one country, two systems” formula to be applied in Hong Kong when that British colony reverts to Chinese rule in 1997.
Forty-four Philippine generals and 22 lower-ranking officers have been accused of illegally enriching themselves during the 20-year rule of deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Government television reported that the Commission on Good Government appointed by Marcos’ successor, President Corazon Aquino, has turned over complaints against the officers to a panel probing the “hidden wealth” of military men close to Marcos.
Cyclone Namu with winds up to 140 mph battered the Solomon Islands, causing widespread destruction that left an estimated 35,000 homeless and many others missing. Rescue workers were struggling to reach outlying islands in the 900-mile-long South Pacific chain. “So far, only one death has been confirmed,” a spokesman for the National Disaster Committee said. “But we expect a lot more.”
Responding to a television appeal by President Salvador Jorge Blanco, electoral officials late tonight resumed counting of the votes cast in the presidential election here last Friday. The count was suspended Sunday afternoon because of counting delays, then stopped completely because of protests a few hours later from one of the candidates, Jacobo Majluta Azar. Mr. Majluta, the president of the Senate, declared that he had won even though an official count showed his rival, the former President Joaquin Balaguer, leading by about 35,000 votes with the count 92 percent complete. Mr. Majluta demanded a recount and the resignation of two of the three members of the Central Electoral Board. The two men stepped down, but their substitutes were immediately challenged by Mr. Balaguer and Juan Bosch, who, according to the official count, was in third place. Mr. Jorge Blanco urged today that the count be resumed, but he made no mention of the dispute over the electoral board officials and offered no suggestions on how to resolve it.
The State Department assailed the Defense Department today for issuing a report expressing skepticism that the Contadora negotiations in Central America will produce a verifiable peace treaty. In an unusually direct criticism of another agency, Charles E. Redman, a State Department spokesman, said the Pentagon study, which was distributed to members of Congress and to reporters, “has no standing as a United States Government document.” He said it was “an internal Department of Defense study written under contract and released without authority.” The White House, seeking to avoid involvement, denied there were any differences between State and Defense.
The U.S.-backed Nicaraguan Democratic Force said that one of its rebel patrols is holding eight West German housing volunteers and is willing to free them, but the patrol is pinned down by troops of the leftist Sandinista government. Spokesman Frank Arana said the contras are under attack near Jacinto Baca, 150 miles southeast of Managua. “The Sandinistas are trying to hurt the prisoners and make it look like it was our fault,” he charged. The Eight West German construction workers captured Saturday in Nicaragua by anti-Government rebels are safe and will be freed, Adolfo Calero, a top leader of the guerrillas who abducted the workers, said here today. “Eight German internationalists have been captured by our forces,” said Mr. Calero, who heads the United States-supported Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the major rebel group. “They are safe. They have not been harmed and will be turned over to the Red Cross or to the German Ambassador.”
Bombs destroyed three electricity towers, blacking out much of Chile, after government troops in the capital of Santiago prevented a planned protest march, routing demonstrators with water cannon. and tear gas. The blackout affected a 1,450-mile zone of the nation’s central sector and was total in Santiago, Vina del Mar and Concepcion, where more than half the country’s people live. A Marxist guerrilla group, the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, claimed responsibility.
A defector who formerly headed Ethiopia’s food relief effort says that his Government’s policies, as much as drought, were responsible for the catastrophic Ethiopian famine of 1984 and 1985. And, the former official asserted, these policies threaten to cause continuing starvation in the future. “We called it a drought problem but it was more of a policy problem,” said the former official, Dawit Wolde Giorgis, who spoke in a recent interview, his first since leaving Africa on October 25. “Drought only complicated the situation. If there is no change in our policies, there will always be millions of hungry people in Ethiopia.” Mr. Dawit, until recently Ethiopia’s Commissioner for Relief and Rehabilitation, is the most senior Ethiopian official to defect. He said he had asked the United States for political asylum.
President P. W. Botha today congratulated the troops who carried out raids into Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe and said he took full responsibility for their actions. His statement to the white house of the nation’s segregated Parliament in Cape Town came amid mounting bloodshed in his country’s black townships and a sharp fall in the value of the rand, its currency. The rand’s drop was apparently prompted by fears of international sanctions because of the raids on the three neighboring black-governed nations. In continued violence, at least 22 black people were reported slain in recent days around the country in violence between anti-apartheid blacks and more conservative black groups.
Some South African commentators suggested today that with the raids Monday against three black-governed nations to the north, South African authorities seemed ready to forfeit any hope of international sympathy and support in pursuit of limited domestic goals drawn from the politics of the white minority. “Was this meant as a further sop to the restive right wing of Afrikanerdom?” Johannesburg’s afternoon newspaper, The Star, asked in an editorial today. “If that is so, the reasoning is shortsighted and the action irresponsible.” “If the price of these raids is to weaken the economy, to delay the long-awaited revival of business, to undermine confidence and to aggravate employment,” said Business Day, a morning paper here, “then the result will be greater insecurity within the country.”
President Reagan and most members of the Senate Finance Committee agreed today to oppose Senate amendments to the tax-revision measure the committee approved two weeks ago. After a meeting at the White House, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said the President’s approach “by and large is that he supports the package in general, and if you open the door to many amendments it could destroy the integrity of the package.” Among amendments that have been suggested are ones that would preserve deductions for Individual Retirement Accounts and tax shelters that are useful to the real estate industry. Mr. Speakes said the President believed that repeal of I.R.A. deductions was “an important part of the package.”
The economy grew at a sound annual rate of 3.7 percent in the first quarter as it began reaping the benefits of the cheaper dollar, less expensive oil and lower interest rates, the Commerce Department reported today. For the balance of this year and well into 1987, experts said they could see little to worry them beyond the possibility of some transitory sluggishness this spring. Most important, they added, the report showed that the growth of the trade deficit, a measure of millions of jobs lost in American industry, appeared to have been arrested. “We’ve broken the back of the trade deficit, at least in the sense that it’s not going to go up any more,” said Richard Peterson, chief economist at the Continental Illinois National Bank in Chicago, “For the first time in this decade,” said Robert Ortner, the Commerce Department’s chief economist, “we have an opportunity to increase our business abroad.”
The Senate today approved a three-week extension of daylight time, making it likely that the daylight time period will be lengthened next year, for the first time since the energy crisis of the mid-1970’s. The House has approved a similar bill. The Senate bill would start daylight time on the first Sunday in April and end it, as at present, the last Sunday in October. Under current law, daylight time, in which the period of sunlight comes an hour later in the day than in standard time, begins the last Sunday in April. In years when April has five Sundays, therefore, the law would provide a four-week extension. The proposal was approved in an unrecorded vote after a move to set aside the extension was defeated in a roll-call vote of 58 to 36. Opponents said that an extension to allow people to cook in the yard and play tennis in the evening was not worth the inconvenience to farmers who had early-morning chores and the risk to children going to school. But supporters of the bill invoked the arguments of Benjamin Franklin in favor of daylight time, and also said the change would save energy, help many businesses and shift the daylight to correspond more with American ways of life. They also argued that it would lessen crime, help people with night blindness and reduce traffic accidents.
The White House Domestic Policy Council approved and sent to President Reagan a document that regulates the biotechnology industry and may shape the government’s attitude toward commercial gene engineering for years. The document has been awaited for more than a year, and some companies reportedly have withheld products until they could see how the rules would affect them. Reagan may approve it this week.
Moderate Republican Senators Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Bob Packwood of Oregon defeated conservative primary foes. Packwood, who held off a strong challenge by Baptist minister Joe Lutz, will try for a fourth term in November against Rep. Jim Weaver, who won the Democratic primary. Specter, seeking a second term, bested social studies teacher Richard Stokes. Pennsylvania’s Democratic Senate battle was won by liberal Rep. Robert Edgar. Oregon Republicans gave their gubernatorial nomination to former Secretary of State Norma Paulus. The Democrats chose Neil Goldschmidt, a former Portland mayor who served as transportation secretary in the Carter Administration.
A Senate committee, heeding criticism of civil rights activists, rejected President Reagan’s nominee for chief enforcement officer at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Three Republicans joined the seven Democrats on the Labor and Human Resources Committee in the 10-5 vote against the nomination of Jeffrey Zuckerman to move from chief of staff to general counsel of the commission. Civil rights activists argued that Zuckerman’s opposition to affirmative action disqualified him from heading the enforcement division, and groups representing the elderly questioned his dedication to protecting older workers from age discrimination.
The Transportation Department issued a final regulation requiring transit systems to provide reasonable alternative transportation for the handicapped. Many transit systems, anticipating the new requirements, have been moving for several years toward providing alternatives such as van service or a taxi voucher system for handicapped passengers. Under the final rule, a transit authority must establish some alternative services if regular bus or rail service cannot be made accessible.
Eighty scientists defended President Reagan’s “Star Wars” program against charges by other researchers that it cannot meet its goal of warding off enemy missile attacks. “Star Wars,” formally known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, “is not designed to cause a war in the heavens, as some charge, but to prevent nuclear war on Earth,” said a statement issued by the Science and Engineering Committee for a Secure World.
The Secretary of Education advised Congress today to consider withholding Federal funds from schools that do not demonstrate a serious commitment to combating students’ use of illicit drugs. “There’s no point improving our schools if our kids are committing brain suicide,” the Secretary, William J. Bennett, told the House Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control.
The Air Force may delay the first West Coast launching of a space shuttle until 1991, Pentagon officials said. Until the explosion of Challenger grounded the three remaining shuttles, a launching from California had been scheduled for July. The government is considering major changes in the way military, scientific and commercial satellites are launched in the wake of the Challenger’s destruction, which killed the crew of seven and forced the grounding of the three remaining shuttles for at least 18 months. Delaying the maiden voyage of a space shuttle from Vandenberg Air Force Base would mean putting the facility, built at a cost of $2.8 billion over the past seven years, into standby status. This would temporarily crimp the nation’s ability to put military payloads into polar orbits, a job normally done from the West Coast.
[Ed: West coast shuttle launchings from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California were subsequently abandoned altogether.]
For a few years in the early 1980’s, Ronald W. Pelton would go to a kitchen for homeless men in inner-city Washington two or three times a week to help serve breakfast. Friends said he was successful as a salesman, a witty person who was pleasant to be with, always ready to give help when needed. By November 1985, he had left his family and acquired a lover and an expensive drug habit. He was changing jobs and residences frequently. Then he was arrested in Annapolis, Maryland, after admitting, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that he had sold American intelligence secrets to the Soviet Union. The F.B.I. believes that Mr. Pelton, after working as a computer analyst and manager at the National Security Agency from 1964 to 1979, sold the Russians sensitive secrets about the intelligence agency’s ability to monitor and decode foreign communications.
In the past 25 years, Government officials have discussed numerous times whether to prosecute news organizations for disclosing highly sensitive material, according to former officials. But they have always been dissuaded by various political pressures or by fears that a court case would confirm the accuracy of a report and bring to light even more damaging information, the officials say. With his remarks in recent weeks, William J. Casey, the Director of Central Intelligence, has begun publicly pushing for a new, more confrontational approach to the publication of classified Government information. Mr. Casey has cited the mounting attacks against Americans by terrorists as a justification for bringing prosecutions under a 1950 law that bars publication of classified communications intelligence. No news organization has ever been prosecuted under this statute.
The first armed MX missile to be deployed will be lowered into a silo in southeastern Wyoming within 30 days, according to the Air Force. Almost 300 civilians and 50 to 60 Air Force personnel are processing sections of the four-stage missile and completing modification work on five Minuteman silos, said Captain Dave Newbry, a spokesman at F. E. Warren Air Force Base. Major Rick Oborn, a Pentagon spokesman, said the Air Force was on track for achieving its plan to have 10 MX missiles, which are considered more accurate than the Minuteman, in silos and on alert by the end of December. In a related development, the Pentagon announced today that it had scheduled the 12th flight test of an MX missile for Wednesday at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
The crew of the nuclear submarine Will Rogers fired a Poseidon missile today in the first successful launching at Cape Canaveral since January. Both stages fired as planned, hurling an unarmed warhead to an ocean target area 2,880 miles away. The test was to certify the crew’s ability to safely carry out the job. The success follows the catastrophic failures of the space shuttle Challenger on January 28 and a Delta rocket on May 3. The only other launching here this year, that of the space shuttle Columbia on January 12, was successful. There have been 81 Poseidon launchings here, 61 from submarines, since the first was fired in August 1968.
Delegates to the convention of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters today overwhelmingly rejected dissidents’ resolutions to provide for direct election by union members of national union officers and convention delegates. Delegates also overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to limit the salary of the union’s president to $125,000 and that of other national officers to $100,000. The incumbent union president, Jackie Presser, is believed to earn $550,000 a year, plus substantial expenses and allowances, and at least 20 union officers are said to get more than $200,000 a year in pay and allowances, with many others getting more than $100,000 a year. Delegates retained existing practices of the union constitution providing for election of national officers by delegates to at conventions held every five years. The delegates also sustained the practice by which local union officers are automatically eligible to become convention delegates, and thus make up the preponderance of the 1,891 delegates at this convention, as at most teamster conventions.
Two 16-year-old survivors of the Mt. Hood climbing expedition that claimed nine lives when a surprise blizzard struck have been told about the deaths of their classmates, hospital officials said in Portland, Oregon. Giles Thompson and Brinton Clark were in serious condition as they recovered from last week’s ordeal. “Giles does not remember anything” about the climb, said a spokeswoman for Providence Medical Center. Thompson was also told that his legs had been amputated at mid-calf.
A man convicted of beating and stabbing to death a store owner who refused to give him a job was executed today in Florida’s electric chair, the second man to be put to death for the crime. The murderer, Ronald J. Straight, had originally been scheduled to die at 7 AM but had been granted a five-hour stay by Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr. of the United States Supreme Court. The order expired at 5:01 PM. Justice Powell had said the Justices needed additional time to study Mr. Straight’s appeal because of “lingering doubt about his guilt.”
Explosions and a fire destroyed a cinder block building and killed at least two people in Albuquerque, New Mexico Monday evening. The authorities said today that illegal fireworks might have been the cause. Firefighters searched the rubble for two other people believed to have been inside the Aardvark Arcade when the blasts occurred. The building had been closed for several months.
A helicopter flew eight survivors of the Pride of Baltimore shipwreck to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. The six men and two women appeared in good condition after drifting nearly five days at sea in a life raft. The Pride of Baltimore, a 90-foot reproduction of a 19th-Century clipper, sank in a sudden squall Wednesday, about 300 miles north of Puerto Rico. Its captain and three crew members are missing.
At least one-third of the nursing homes that serve the nation’s most severely ill patients fail to meet minimum Government standards, a Senate committee charged today. Some of the homes resemble “19th century asylums,” the committee chairman said. A staff report by the Senate Special Committee on Aging said that “3,036 of the nation’s 8,852 certified skilled nursing homes failed to fully comply with the most essential health, safety and quality standards of the Federal Government.” In addition, it said, “nursing home inspection reports reveal that in 1984 about 1,000 certified skilled nursing homes were cited for violating three or more critical minimum standards for health and safety.”
Dr. Seuss went home to Springfield, Massachusetts, back to the schools, libraries, parks and streets of the factory town where he was born 82 years ago. The man who grew up there as Theodor Geisel started his career to become the most successful American author of children’s books.
Christy Fichtner, 23, of Texas, is crowned the 35th Miss USA.
The Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-TV.
Unbeaten heavyweight Mike Tyson pounded out a lopsided and unanimous decision over Mitch (Blood) Green last night in a 10-round bout at Madison Square Garden to gain the 21st victory of his career. Tyson did it with a pressuring attack that overwhelmed Green, who adapted the too-frequent tactic of holding his determined foe. Green’s clinches seemed to be his only resort against the explosive bursts Tyson repeatedly got off, most often at close quarters. Twice in the early rounds, Tyson’s vicious punches sent the loser’s mouthpiece flying, and on several occasions jarring punches caused a halo of water to shoot off Green’s long stringy hair. Green fought most of the bout with a bloody mouth.
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The Atlanta Braves downed the Chicago Cubs by a score of 8–3. Dale Murphy and Ozzie Virgil hit homers to lead the Braves to their fifth straight victory. Murphy hit his eighth homer of the season in the third inning after a double by Omar Moreno to give the Braves a 4–3 lead. Virgil hit his fifth homer in the second.
Bob Boone snapped a 1-for-23 slump with a pair of run-scoring singles to lead California over the Orioles, 6–4. Kirk McCaskill (3–3) took a four-hitter and a 5–1 lead into the eighth, but Lee Lacy led off with a double and Eddie Murray singled with one out. Cal Ripken followed with his fourth home run of the season, and Baltimore trailed, 5–4. Mike Boddicker (4–1) was the loser.
Wade Boggs had the first five-hit game of his career, sparking a 20-hit Boston attack as the Boston Red Sox routed the Minnesota Twins, 17–7 tonight. Roger Clemens breezed to his seventh straight victory, going seven inning. Clemens gave up five runs on nine hits as Boston won its fourth straight game. Boggs, who led the major leagues with a .368 average last year, went 5 for 6 with four singles and a double and raised his average to .383, tops in the majors. He also reached base on an error. Frank Viola (4–4) failed to retire a batter in the first inning, allowing five hits, including three doubles, and a walk before being replaced.
The White Sox edged the Blue Jays, 2–1. Joel Davis gave up eight hits and Chicago extended its winning streak to six games, its longest since a six-game streak in 1984. Davis (2–1), bidding for his first major-league shutout, gave up a run in the ninth. A Toronto rookie, John Cerutti (0–1), gave up seven hits in seven innings in his first start since being recalled from Syracuse.
The Detroit Tigers blaster the Seattle Mariners, 12–0. Walt Terrell pitched a five-hit shutout, the first by a Tiger pitcher this season, and Lou Whitaker went 3 for 4 with a homer and three runs batted in. Terrell (5–1) threw his team-high fourth complete game of the season.
Mike Brown hit a three-run homer with with one out in the ninth inning to lead the Pirates to a 4–2 win over the Astros in Houston. Nolan Ryan (3–6) pitched a two-hitter into the ninth inning when R. J. Reynolds led off with a single and Johnny Ray followed with an infield single. Sid Bream forced Ray at second and Brown followed with his third homer of the season to left.
Fernando Valenzuela pitched his fifth career two-hitter and Franklin Stubbs hit a two-run homer as the Dodgers blanked the Expos, 4–0. Valenzuela (6–2) retired the first 18 batters before issuing a walk to Tim Raines on a 3–2 pitch. Webster then lined Valenzuela’s next pitch into left to end the left-hander’s no-hit bid. Jim Wohlford got Montreal’s second hit, a single in the ninth.
Milwaukee falls behind 8–0 in the top of the first inning, but they storm back to defeat Cleveland 12–9. Ernest Riles’ ground single up the middle with one out in the seventh broke an 8-8 tie and Paul Householder followed with a three-run home run to lead the Brewers, who surrendered a club record eight runs in the first inning.
The 22 runs and 29 hits the Yankees amassed in a pair of weekend victories over Seattle should be characteristic of the Yankees’ offense, but in reality they were uncharacteristic. The 2–1 loss they suffered to the Oakland A’s last night was more representative of the team’s perplexing state of hitting this season. Curt Young, a left-handed pitcher who was summoned from the minors less than two weeks ago, stymied the Yankees on four hits before Jay Howell secured the last two outs in the ninth inning. Young’s pitching plus Rickey Henderson’s untimely slip on the wet outfield grass in the A’s half of the ninth combined to set the Yankees back. The Yankees scored one run on Henderson’s first-pitch home run in the first inning. The A’s scored two runs on Bill Bathe’s second-inning home run and Henderson’s mishap on Dusty Baker’s pinch-hit single in the ninth. Otherwise, Young and Ron Guidry were extremely stingy. Young retired 18 Yankees in a row at one stretch and didn’t allow a hit between the first and the eighth. Guidry set down 17 consecutive batters at one stretch and permitted no hits between the second and the ninth.
The Padres edged the Phillies, 4–3. Kevin McReynolds hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning to break a scoreless tie and lead the Padres. McReynolds’s home run came on a 3–0 pitch by Kevin Gross (3–4), who allowed seven hits in eight innings. Eric Show (3–2) was the winner. Goose Gossage, who entered the game with the bases loaded, earned his eighth save despite allowing three runs.
The Mets handed Mike LaCoss his first loss of the season tonight when they rallied with single runs in the seventh and eighth innings and defeated the San Francisco Giants, 2–1. LaCoss, who had won four straight during a dramatic comeback year, outpitched Bob Ojeda for six innings and even had a no-hitter until the sixth. But the Mets got a hit in the sixth and a run for a tie in the seventh. In the eighth, they snatched the lead when Ray Knight led with a double, took third on a bunt and scored on a high and rather wild pitch that was ruled a passed ball.
The Reds beat the Cardinals, 5–3. Dave Parker broke a tie with a two-run homer in the seventh inning and the rookie Tracy Jones collected four hits, including his first major-league homer, as the Cardinals suffered their sixth consecutive loss. Bill Gullickson (3–3) allowed one run and 10 hits in eight innings. John Franco pitched the ninth inning for his sixth save.
The Rangers shut out the Royals, 4–0. Mike Mason struck out a career-high 10 batters and held the Kansas City Royals to six hits as the Rangers ended a three-game losing streak. Mason (4–0) outdueled the Royals’ Dennis Leonard (4–4) who allowed eight hits, including two home runs.
Chicago Cubs 3, Atlanta Braves 8
California Angels 6, Baltimore Orioles 4
Minnesota Twins 7, Boston Red Sox 17
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Chicago White Sox 2
Seattle Mariners 0, Detroit Tigers 12
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Houston Astros 2
Montreal Expos 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Cleveland Indians 9, Milwaukee Brewers 12
Oakland Athletics 2, New York Yankees 1
Philadelphia Phillies 3, San Diego Padres 4
New York Mets 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Cincinnati Reds 5, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Kansas City Royals 0, Texas Rangers 4
A decline in interest rates and a drop in oil prices helped Wall Street score a big gain yesterday, but trading volume remained light as investors were apparently not fully convinced that the recent market downturn was over. “Primarily this market has been correcting because of falling bond prices and rising oil prices,” Jon Groveman of Ladenburg, Thalmann & Company said, “and those trends were reversed today.” The Dow Jones industrial average, which was down nearly 100 points in the last month, rallied yesterday, gaining 25.80 points, to 1,783.98.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1783.98 (+25.8)
Born:
Chris Ogbonnaya, NFL running back (St. Louis Rams, Houston Texans, Cleveland Browns, Carolina Panthers, New York Giants), in Houston, Texas.
Yolanda “LaLa” Brown, American R&B singer (“S.E.X”), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2007).
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