Despite deep reservations from several Western allies, NATO defense ministers today formally approved a Reagan Administration plan to resume production of chemical weapons for the first time since 1969. The Administration has said the plan is necessary to counter a large arsenal of Soviet chemical weapons in Eastern Europe. The unanimous NATO action today was in response to stipulations by the United States Congress, which last year linked its approval of production of new chemical weapons to consultations with the NATO allies. The congressional condition marked an unusually detailed attempt to link Administration policy to the wishes of the allies. But in Washington tonight, the Reagan Administration and some members of Congress differed over whether the action by the NATO Defense Ministers in fact met the Congressional requirement. State Department officials said the move satisfied the “intent” of the Congressional legislation. But some members of Congress argued that the Congressional stipulation required that the American chemical weapon plans be approved by the North Atlantic Council, a NATO political body. Resumption of chemical weapons production was one of a series of American “force goals” in Europe approved today by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers. “Force goals” refer to long-term military plans for individual NATO countries.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz today praised the Soviet people for showing courage and sacrifice in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. Mr. Shultz spent an hour in his office with three bone marrow specialists -Robert Gale, Paul Terasaki and Richard Champlin — who had gone to the Soviet Union to treat victims. “I was impressed and inspired by Dr. Gale’s descriptions of the courage and sacrifice with which his Soviet colleagues and the Soviet people as a whole, have sought to cope with the effects of the accident,” Mr. Shultz said in a written statement after the meeting. “The United States stands ready to lend a hand in any way we can in helping the Soviet Union recover from the tragedy.”
High-ranking Italian officials affirmed today that their investigation of a terrorist attack on the Rome airport in December had found that the gunmen had come from Syria and had had contacts there. But they said Italy had no proof of direct Syrian Government involvement in the attack, which took 17 lives, including five Americans, and left 80 people wounded. The officials, the Interior Minister and a top aide to the Prime Minister, also expressed surprise at a decision by United States officials to make public what some American officials had characterized as new testimony pointing to links between Syria and the terrorists, who were identified as followers of the Palestinian called Abu Nidal. American officials, quoted Wednesday in The New York Times, said Italian investigators had told the Central Intelligence Agency that the sole terrorist survivor of the attack had directly implicated Syria in his mission. They said he had told his Italian captors that Syrian agents had trained him and accompanied him on a journey from Lebanon to Syria, Yugoslavia and on to Rome.
A British army major and two Ulster policemen were killed by a land mine in the bloodiest guerrilla action in Northern Ireland in a year, police said. The mine, operated by remote control, was detonated as a joint military and police patrol was passing a bridge in County Armagh about three miles from the Irish border. The three men were killed instantly, but no other patrol members were injured, police said. The dead soldier was identified as Maj. Andrew French, 35. The policemen were not named. The South Armagh Battalion of the outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility for the blast in a brief statement distributed to reporters in Belfast.
A West German Foreign Ministry spokesman said it appears that Albania is ready to establish diplomatic relations with Bonn. Foreign Ministry spokesman Klaus Hermann Ringwald said that representatives of the two countries have held unannounced talks for nearly two years to explore diplomatic relations. Bonn government sources said that Albania has apparently dropped demands for reparations for World War II losses.
French Premier Jacques Chirac announced support of President Reagan’s “Star Wars” space-based defense system, saying that France cannot be left behind in the “inevitable, irreversible and justified” program. The endorsement by the conservative premier contrasts sharply with the stance of Socialist President Francois Mitterrand, who has taken a negative view of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the formal name for the U.S. research program. Under the current arrangement, Chirac and Mitterrand share broad responsibility for foreign affairs and defense.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with Gerald P. Carmen, U.S. Representative to the European Office of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland.
Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai said today that Israel had enough evidence to put the former General Secretary of the United Nations, Kurt Waldheim, on trial for aiding in the commission of Nazi war crimes. “There is a basis for putting Kurt Waldhim on trial, if he were in Israel,” Mr. Modai said. Mr. Modai, who was interviewed in English by the Israeli radio, said Mr. Waldheim was “certainly an accessory to the crime” under Israeli law. Mr. Modai, who is overseeing Israel’s investigation of Mr. Waldheim’s wartime record, added that Israel had no proof that Mr. Waldheim was directly involved in war crimes. “But we have enough proof that he, in his capacity as an intelligence officer in the Germany Army in the Balkans, would pass on information” that would “lead to liquidation actions,” Mr. Modai added. Mr. Waldheim, who is a candidate for the presidency of Austria, has denied responsibility for war crimes. An aide today described Mr. Modai’s comments as the start of a “witchhunt.”
President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt and King Hussein of Jordan recently discussed a proposal for Egyptian-backed Palestinian self-rule in the occupied Gaza strip, Arab and Israeli officials said today. The deposed Mayor of Gaza, Rashad al-Shawa, said in an interview that he broached the idea with Mr. Mubarak at a meeting several weeks ago. Then the Egyptian leader brought it up with King Hussein when they met in the Jordanian port of Aqaba last week. Among the suggestions in the Gaza autonomy proposal are setting up Egyptian consular services in East Jerusalem, re-establishing the Palestinian legislative council that existed in the Gaza Strip under Egyptian rule and opening an Egyptian bank in the area, The Jerusalem Post reported today.
Artillery duels raged in Beirut for the second straight day. Officials said the clashes between Muslim and Christian gunners brought casualties to 40 killed and 110 wounded since the fighting, termed the worst civil warfare in the city in months, erupted Wednesday afternoon. Christian and Muslim militiamen accused each other of starting the violence. Commentators said the resort to force was inevitable in view of the political stagnation in Lebanon. Of those killed today, eight were officials of a bank in the Shiite Muslim southern suburbs of Beirut. The police said a building housing offices of the Credit Bank had taken a direct hit. Two-thirds of the civilians killed in the last 24 hours were inhabitants of the densely populated southern suburbs, which are under the control of two Shiite militias, Amal and Party of God. Amal accused Christian contingents of the Lebanese Army in the hills overlooking the capital of shelling residential areas. A communique by the army command loyal to President Gemayel said it had used its tanks to silence sources of fire directed against its positions from the Muslim side of Beirut.
A former Libyan diplomat was killed this month in an East Berlin park, officials here said today, and there was speculation that his death may have been tied to an investigation into terrorist attacks in West Berlin. The announcement by West German officials came amid unconfirmed reports that the Libyan’s killer may have thought the diplomat was an informer for those investigating the attacks, which West German, British and American sources have attributed to Arab embassies in East Berlin. The authorities identified the victim as Mohammed Ashour, 42 years old, and said he was a former member of the Libyan Embassy in Bonn. They said he had been killed “in unexplained circumstances.”
Government officials said today that American intelligence had detected evidence that some of the reported terrorist plots cited as justification for the raid against Libya were still in motion. The officials said analysts were uncertain whether the preparations represented a decision by Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, to retaliate for the April 15 raid. They said Colonel Qaddafi had been shaken by the raids and they speculated that the planning could also be seen as evidence that he had allowed previously ordered operations to go forward while he considered his response. Officials said the evidence was one of the reasons the United States had rebuffed Libya’s call for talks aimed at reducing tensions. The overtures have been transmitted by intermediaries both before and after the bombing raid.
The State Department released a statement calling on Syria to expel all terrorists-including Abu Nidal’s Revolutionary Council of Fatah-from its territory. The statement, said to have approved at the highest levels of the department, said, “As long as Syria permits terrorists to move freely within Syria and those parts of Lebanon it controls, our serious concern remains.” Abu Nidal’s group, a splinter faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization, has an office in Damascus, Syria. It has claimed. responsibility for last December’s attacks on the Rome and Vienna airports that left 20 people dead.
Six gunmen, thought to be Sikh extremists, fired automatic weapons from jeeps into a crowded shopping district in Amritsar, India, killing 11 people and seriously wounding seven. More than 70 people, mostly Hindus, have been. killed in Sikh reprisals since April 30, when officials in Punjab state ordered a raid on Amritsar’s Golden Temple-Sikhdom’s holiest shrine-to drive out Sikh extremists who had proclaimed an independent state.
Rescue workers in the Solomon Islands found 65 bodies buried in mud and debris on Guadalcanal, raising the confirmed death toll from Typhoon Namu to 71. “We think hundreds died,” said John Selwyn, National Disaster Committee spokesman. The worst storm in the island nation’s history left 90,000 people more than a third of the population homeless.
American and Canadian negotiators agreed to resume talks on a free trade agreement next month in Washington. The first two days of negotiations in Ottawa dealt with procedural matters and ended cordially, officials of both sides said. U.S. chief delegate Peter O. Murphy and his Canadian counterpart told reporters that the negotiations are an opportunity for both sides to reach a common objective of creating jobs and promoting growth.
The President of the Honduran Congress said today that he doubted that a Central American peace treaty was imminent or that Nicaragua would comply with a treaty if one were signed. “Obviously we hope for a negotiated political solution so Nicaragua can begin building a pluralistic revolution,” the official, Carlos Montoya, told a news conference here. He added: “However, we don’t expect our hopes to be realized.”
Top Nicaraguan rebel leaders are debating how to broaden their political appeal in light of a widespread perception that their movement is dominated by those loyal to the deposed dictator, Anastasio Somoza Debayle, according to several rebel and Congressional sources. The issue, on which the rebels are deeply divided, is said to be a focus of talks that began here a week ago. Also under discussion at the talks, which are sponsored by the Reagan Administration, is the question of how to insure civilian control of guerrilla military units, the sources said. They said the debate among rebel officials had been spurred in part by the perception that the main rebel army, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, represents only the most politically conservative sector of Nicaraguan society and is dominated by former soldiers of Somoza’s National Guard. Apparently in an effort to enhance the standing of the rebels, the State Department recently made public a report contending that most rebel officials are not former National Guardsmen, who are sometimes described by critics as Somocistas for their ties to the defeated dictatorship and their conservative political views.
Colombia is playing a strangely contradictory role in the war against narcotics, officials here acknowledge. While the Government has been widely praised for a two-year-old crackdown on drug smuggling, major trafficking rings are said to be shipping more cocaine to the United States than ever before. “Colombia is now the leading nation in Latin America in the area of drug enforcement,” one well-placed foreign official noted. “But these operations have not affected the flow of cocaine. There’s more around than the world needs.” Rather, the official said, the Government’s campaign has underlined the difficulty of curbing Colombia’s role as the world’s main cocaine processing center unless there are similar campaigns to reduce the supply of coca paste and base from Peru and Bolivia, and to cut the demand for pure cocaine in the United States.
African countries will need twice as much annual foreign aid as they now receive and sweeping internal policy changes that free private initiative if they are to pull themselves out of an economic crisis, according to a study issued today by the Committee on African Development Strategies. The study concluded that Africa should receive $16 to $20 billion in annual aid through the end of the century, with total annual American aid tripled to near $3 billion from the present level of $1 billion. The study was issued on the eve of a special General Assembly session on the economic situation in Africa, to begin at the United Nations Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha was forced to cancel a rally by the governing National Party tonight after the police lobbed tear-gas at hundreds of right-wing white militants who besieged the meeting hall. While the cancellation seemed a humiliation for the Government, it is also bound to be depicted by the white authorities to outside critics as an illustration of the domestic political constraints slowing their program of limited racial liberalization. The clash took place in Pietersburg, a trading center in the conservative Northern Transvaal region, where many whites have consistently opposed any shift away from the apartheid policies of total racial separation. Right-wingers, under the swastika-like banner of the Afrikaner Resistance Movement, battled Government supporters in fist-fights and hoisted their leader, a former policeman named Eugene Terre Blanche, onto the stage before the police threw tear-gas canisters inside the packed hall, witnesses said. More tear gas was thrown outside the hall after hundreds of whites fled the building and right-wingers milled around policemen, the witnesses said.
The House of Representatives brushed aside President Reagan’s stern warnings today and decisively adopted a wide-ranging revision of the nation’s trade laws. The vote was 295 to 115, as 59 Republicans supported the measure and only 4 Democrats opposed it. The core of the Democratic bill would require the President to take more vigorous action against trading partners that subsidize exports to this country while they hinder American goods from entering their markets. One key provision removes considerable discretion from the President and makes it more likely that he will be forced to retaliate against countries that employ “unjustifiable” trade practices. The President currently has a great deal of latitude in pursuing cases of unfair competition, and has seldom used his powers. Supporters say the measure is aimed at reviving the economy in regions and industries that have been ravaged by foreign competition. The issue now goes to the Senate, where hearings have already begun. An aide to Republican leaders said that the overwhelming House vote, combined with the high priority assigned to the trade issue by the Democrats, increases the likelihood of Senate passage of a trade bill this summer. “We’re going to have to do something,” the aide said.
President Reagan addresses members of the American Retail Federation on fair trade and tax reform.
More Americans now regard the Republican Party as better able than the Democratic Party to keep the nation prosperous than at any previous time during the last 35 years, according to a Gallup poll. Doubtless spurred by optimism about the economy, as well as their own financial prospects, 51% of the public currently cite the GOP, the party in power, as the “party of prosperity,” while 33% name the Democratic Party and 16% see little difference between the two or are undecided.
In a blow to the Reagan Administration’s top military priority, 46 members of the Senate urged today that the budget for the President’s advanced missile defense program be held to an increase of 3 percent this year, far below the 77 percent requested. In a letter to Senator Barry M. Goldwater, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senators, 37 Democrats and 9 Republicans, said, “Our concern is that the Strategic Defense Initative has received excessive and inappropriate emphasis” in the Department of Defense budget. Senator J. Bennett Johnston, Democrat of Louisiana, a co-sponsor of the letter, said, “We are telling the Armed Service Committee that in the coming budget crunch, don’t slash vital defense programs in order to increase Star Wars.” Mr. Johnston said more senators would have signed the letter if the Senate had not recessed Wednesday night for Memorial Day. “We didn’t run out of members who wanted to sign,” he said in a statement. “We ran out of time to talk with them.”
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce endorsed the tax overhaul plan written by the Senate Finance Committee but pledged to try to “fine-tune” the bill before it becomes law. “Although the bill is not perfect, the chamber believes that, on balance, it will have a positive effect on long-term economic growth and job creation,” chamber President Richard Lesher said. Several major corporations and trade associations endorsed the plan, which the Senate will begin to debate in early June. Most organizations have vowed to oppose amendments.
The Justice Department said today that a new Supreme Court decision requires repeal of portions of an executive order under which many Government contractors set numerical goals for hiring blacks, women and Hispanic people. In an interview, William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, said the Court held that there must be “convincing evidence” of prior racial discrimination before any racial classifications may be used in a remedial program. But, he said, under the 1965 executive order, the Government requires adoption of hiring goals by many contractors where there had been no finding nor even an allegation of illegal discrimination. Mr. Reynolds said the affirmative action program for Government contractors “is not predicated on any finding of discrimination” and therefore, under the Court decision this week, the program has “a serious constitutional flaw.”
Investigators in the United States Congress and the Canadian Parliament have joined to examine the lobbying activities of Michael K. Deaver, the former White House deputy chief of staff. The joint effort has involved exchange of information and suggestions of leads, witnesses and lines of questioning. The effort involves the investigations subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee and opposition members of the External Affairs Committee of the House of Commons in Ottawa. Mr. Deaver holds a $105,000 lobbying contract with the Canadian Government. Congressional investigators and the Justice Department are studying a range of charges of conflict of interest involving Mr. Deaver and his Canadian, South Korean, Puerto Rican, Caribbean and United States clients.
Federal officials proposed stringent new rules today that would prohibit smoking in most areas of 6,800 Federal buildings around the country. The new rules, proposed by the General Services Administration and outlined today in The Federal Register, would allow smoking only in “designated smoking areas” established by agency heads. It would otherwise ban smoking in general office space, auditoriums, conference rooms, lobbies, restrooms and most other parts of the buildings.
Members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission today listed the best and worst nuclear power plants in the United States and said the differences were mainly a result of management, not equipment or design. Their comments, at a Congressional hearing on nuclear safety, follow concern both in Congress and the agency about hundreds of continuing problems at American nuclear plants involving safety system failures spurred by errors in operation, maintenance and management. The problems have taken on added significance since the Chernobyl reactor disaster in the Soviet Union, many nuclear experts say. The five members of the commission said it was too early to make detailed comparisons between American plants and the Chernobyl reactor.
The top White House science official is resigning Friday, continuing an exodus that has depleted the top ranks of the small science office that is supposed to advise the President and his senior staff on critical technical issues. Dr. John P. McTague, who has been serving as acting science adviser to President Reagan and acting director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy since Jan. 1, said today that he would be leaving the Government at the end of the business day Friday to become executive director of research for the Ford Motor Company. It will be the second time in five months that the White House has lost its top science adviser through resignation. The previous science adviser, Dr. George A. Keyworth 2d, left at the end of last year to start a consulting business in Washington.
The head of the Federal Aviation Administration today defended his agency’s airline inspection program and its stiff fines for safety violations, suggesting that past agency policies had led to insufficient penalties. In an appearance before a House aviation subcommittee, the F.A.A. Administrator, Donald D. Engen, rejected complaints from some airline executives that the agency has been unreasonable with the carriers. He said his chief interest was that penalties reflect the severity of the infractions.
TWA said that its flight attendants’ union, whose members rejected the airline’s proposed contract, was not facing reality. The union said Wednesday night in rejecting the contract that no contract was better than the one offered by TWA. Bob Lyons, spokesman for the Independent Federation of Flight Attendants, said that 97.5% of the votes cast rejected the contract. The bulk of the 6,000-member union is now left without a contract and without jobs as TWA continues flying with newly hired replacements, soon to number 3,000, and union members who have returned to work, put at 1,200 to 1,500.
Florida Governor Bob Graham signed a new death warrant today for Theodore Bundy, who was convicted of killing two sorority sisters and is a suspect in a number of murders around that country that were depicted in a recent television movie. Prison officials scheduled Mr. Bundy’s execution for 7 AM on July 2 in Florida’s electric chair, a spokesman in the Governor’s office said. The Supreme Court rejected an appeal by Mr. Bundy on May 5, clearing the way for a new death warrant.
A U.S. Navy bomber trailing flames crashed on takeoff, skidded across a country road and plowed into a station wagon, killing the woman driver and the plane’s two crew members. Debris from the flaming wreckage at the Oceana Naval Air Station at Virginia Beach, Virginia, was scattered over a wide area and Navy officials quickly cordoned off the A6-E Intruder crash site. Witnesses said the plane’s tail section was on fire when it went down. The cause of the crash was under investigation.
Two Americans and a Briton were charged with conspiring to smuggle seven U.S. military helicopters and 4,477 helicopter spare parts to Iran for $25 million, a federal indictment unsealed in New York said. The case was cracked because the broker who bought from the conspirators was an undercover agent for the U.S. Customs Service, said Ruth Wedgewood, the assistant U.S. attorney prosecuting the case. Those arrested were Herbert Alwyn Smith, 49, a British citizen, and Joe Peeples, 56, of Houston, and Jerry Cunningham, 48, of Miami.
A Virginia company, two of its officers and a Salvadoran were indicted today on charges of selling El Salvador $4.7 million in inferior Yugoslav ammunition while depicting it as having been made in the United States. The indictment by a Federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, accused the company, which had a legitimate contract with El Salvador, of defrauding the Government by secretly importing Yugoslav ammunition, repackaging it and exporting it to El Salvador. Those indicted were John P. Straiton 4th, 42 years old, of Oklahoma City, and his former wife, Darlene R. Straiton, 39, of Fredericksburg, Virginia, as well as the Nordac Manufacturing Corporation, and John P. Fodor, 52, of San Salvador.
The Coast Guard opened an inquiry in Baltimore into the sinking of the clipper Pride of Baltimore north of Puerto Rico in which eight survived but the captain and three crew members were lost. However, the first session was cut short because of a dispute with a television station crew that refused to remove its cameras. WDVM-TV in Washington said that its First Amendment rights were violated because the Coast Guard allowed print and radio media to remain.
State game wardens in Georgia arrested more than 100 people today in raids on fish markets and meat and fur dealers. Officials said the arrests were part of a crackdown on poachers who supply sturgeon, turtles and other wildlife as gourmet foods.
Ninety-eight more cases of AIDS were reported in Los Angeles County last month, the Department of Health Services announced, bringing the total of local victims to 1,749. The number of deaths from acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the county stood at 978-about 56% of those afflicted. The number of new cases in April dropped from March, when 122 were reported, but Health Services spokeswoman Toby Milligan said the March figure was unusually high, simply because more staff had been added and “were able to clear up some of the backlog.”
More than a dozen people said they saw a UFO racing across the pre-dawn sky north of San Francisco. A California Highway Patrol officer, who declined to be named, and radio station KTOB news director Arlette Cohen were among those who reported seeing the strange craft with blinking lights between Petaluma and Sonoma. Earlier, there were reports of Ping-Pong-ball-sized, multicolored UFOs crowding radar screens in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The government scrambled jet fighters, and two pilots said they saw the objects flying nearby. Cohen said the object in Northern California “hovered almost stock-still” for a few seconds. “An unidentified object, described as a large orange ‘X’ with white lights in the front, was seen traveling at a high rate of speed eastbound from Petaluma,” CHP spokesman Bill McChristian said, relaying a report from the officer and several callers. Bay Area air traffic controllers said they could not explain the sighting, saying radar screens detected nothing.
Elizabeth Bouvia, the quadriplegic cerebral palsy victim who has spent years fighting the hospital system from her hospital bed, today won a court battle against county physicians who were seeking to wean her from morphine. After five weeks of legal wrangling, Superior Court Judge Jack M. Newman ordered doctors to continue the morphine treatment and directed that Mrs. Bouvia, who is 29 years old, be transferred to the University of Southern California Medical Center in Los Angeles. U.S.C., a teaching hospital, sent her to High Desert, a long-term care facility, last December 23 because she no longer needed acute hospital care. Mrs. Bouvia is “entitled to have some choice in her medical treatment,” Judge Newman said. He observed that while both U.S.C. and High Desert were both county hospitals, the physicians had different and opposing views of what her treatment for pain should be.
Military history is growing intellectually fashionable again on American campuses. Such a development would have been unthinkable during the Vietnam War, and it has evidently surprised many historians even in the relatively conservative atmosphere of the past few years. Professorships and endowed chairs in military history are being established or considered at some of the top universities, including Yale, Princeton and Harvard. The number of specialists in the field is growing at perhaps three times the rate of a decade ago, and there is evidence of sharp undergraduate interest in the subject. Military history languished at American universities after World War II and probably reached its nadir in the Vietnam War for a combination of intellectual and political reasons. Accounts of battles and strategies, often written by retired officers, struck many scholars as only marginally related to the main themes of history. Some military historians were politically conservative as well, and their views and work ran against the prevailing antiwar mood on campuses.
American singer and actress Cher calls David Letterman an “asshole” while a guest on his “Late Night” TV program (NBC).
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves blanked the Chicago Cubs, 2–0. Joe Johnson and Paul Assenmacher combined on a five-hitter to give Atlanta its seventh straight victory. Johnson (6–3) struck out four and walked two over eight and one-third innings. Assenmacher retired two hitters for his fourth save. Atlanta took a 1–0 lead in the fourth inning off the Chicago starter, Steve Trout (2–2), and added another run in the eighth off the reliever Jay Baller. Trout gave up two hits over seven innings.
The Baltimore Orioles beat the California Angels, 6–3. Fred Lynn hit a three-run homer in the first to pace the Orioles. California rookie first baseman Wally Joyner, the major-league leader in home runs and RBI, was struck in the knee with a Jim Dwyer line drive. He was diagnosed as having a severe bruise of the tendon below the left kneecap. His playing status will be determined on a day-to-day basis.
Jimmy Key (3–3) pitches a splendid one-hitter, striking out 8, walking none and giving up a 5th inning single to Ozzie Guillen as the visiting Blue Jays shut out the White Sox, 5–0. Ernie Whitt hit his second career grand slam to help Toronto end Chicago’s seven-game winning streak. Key walked three and struck out a career-high eight batters to earn his third straight victory and first career shutout. Richard Dotson (2–4) allowed five runs and seven hits in three and two-thirds innings.
The Mariners held on to beat the Tigers, 5–3. Matt Young and Pete Ladd each squelched Detroit rallies to help preserve Seattle’s victory. With Seattle leading, 3–1, Young (4–3) relieved the starter, Milt Wilcox, with one out in the fifth inning and runners on first and second. He got Darrell Evans to pop up and struck out Darnell Coles to end the threat. With Seattle ahead, 5–1, in the ninth inning and two Detroit runners in scoring position, Ladd relieved Young and got Coles to ground out to end the game.
Bob Knepper pitched a seven-hitter today to become the first eight-game winner in the major leagues, and the left-hander also drove in a run to lead the Houston Astros to a 4–0 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Knepper (8–2) helped the Astros end a three-game losing streak with his third shutout and fourth complete game. He walked one and struck out five. Rick Reuschel (3–4) gave up two runs on eight hits in seven innings. Houston scored the only run it needed in the fourth when Terry Puhl singled, went to third on a single by Denny Wallings and scored on a double-play grounder by Kevin Bass.
The Expos downed the Dodgers, 5–2. Andre Dawson greeted the reliever Tom Niedenfuer with a tie-breaking, two-run double in the seventh inning to lift Montreal. Mike Fitzgerald began the seventh with a double to left off Bob Welch (3–3). One out later, Tim Raines lined a single off Welch’s leg with Fitzgerald taking third. Herm Winningham walked and Niedenfuer replaced Welch. Dawson lined a shot to deep center for two runs. Winningham scored on Hubie Brooks’s sacrifice fly.
The Indians edged the Brewers, 5–4. A three-run triple by Brett Butler capped a four-run sixth inning that gave Cleveland the victory. Neal Heaton (2–3) pitched five and two-thirds innings and allowed three runs for the victory. Rich Yett went two-thirds of an inning before Scott Bailes finished for his fourth save. Ted Higuera (5–4) pitched eight innings, giving up five hits and five runs, four unearned. Mark Clear pitched the ninth.
Rickey Henderson passed Babe Ruth on the Yankees’ career base-stealing list last night, but his feet did not execute the most significant baserunning feat of the game. It was Dave Winfield, the team’s most aggressive base runner, who ran the Yankees into an 11th-inning, 4–3 victory over the Oakland A’s by turning a routine single into a double. Mike Pagliarulo’s bases-loaded single eventually decided the game that was highlighted by a two-run home run by Jose Canseco, the rookie whom the A’s refer to as “The Natural,” and two home runs by Dan Pasqua, the Yankees’ new outfieder, whose timely slugging could earn him the name, “The Predictable.” Canseco, whose first-inning sacrifice fly produced the A’s first run, hit a two-run home run, his 13th, against Bob Shirley in the sixth, giving him a major-league leading 39 runs batted in and Oakland a 3–2 lead. Pasqua, who hit a two-run homer in his first start the night before, hit a home run against Joaquin Andujar in the second inning and Winfield hit one against Andujar in the fourth. Then, when he led off the ninth against Steve Ontiveros, Pasqua hit another home run, making him the first Yankee to hit two home runs in a game this season. The second homer tied the game at 3–3 and created the opening for Winfield’s extra 90-foot dash.
The Padres dumped the Phillies, 6–2. Kevin McReynolds, Tim Flannery and Steve Garvey hit home runs off Steve Carlton to power San Diego. Carlton (2–6) has not beaten San Diego since 1982. He gave up four runs on five hits over six innings. Andy Hawkins (3–3) allowed two runs and seven hits over six innings before he was lifted in the seventh inning when Tom Foley opened with a single. Craig Lefferts pitched three innings of scoreless relief to pick up his first save.
When Dwight Gooden pitches and doesn’t win, it’s news. When he pitches twice and doesn’t win, it’s probably big news. When he pitches three times and doesn’t win — well, whatever it is, it happened today in Candlestick Park. The 21-year-old ace of the Mets’ staff was knocked out of the box in the fifth inning as the San Francisco Giants trampled the Mets, 10–2, before a wondering crowd of 27,442. Gooden was outpitched and far outlasted by 32-year-old Mike Krukow, who was tagged for two hits and two runs in the first inning but then shaped a masterpiece: He retired the next 23 batters and left after eight innings with a two-hitter. And when Greg Minton pitched a perfect ninth inning, it meant that 26 Mets in a row had bitten the dust. So, the plight of Dwight Gooden deepened. He won his fifth straight game May 6, and hasn’t won since. On May 11, he lost to the Cincinnati Reds, 3–2. Last Friday night, he pitched eight innings in Los Angeles, and the Mets lost in the 11th, 4–3. And today, he pitched four innings before being knocked out in the fifth with these numbers: nine hits, two walks, three strikeouts and six earned runs.
A bases-loaded double by Tracy Jones, a rookie, drove in three runs to cap a four-run seventh-inning rally, giving the Cincinnati Reds a 6–4 victory over the Cardinals. His hit came off Danny Cox (0–4) who pitched a one-hitter over six innings. After Cox retired Nick Esasky and Buddy Bell to start Cincinnati’s seventh, the St. Louis outfielders Willie McGee and Vince Coleman let Dave Concepcion’s shallow fly to center drop between them for a double that started Cincinnati back from a 3–2 deficit. Mario Soto (3–6) pitched the first six innings for Cincinnati.
Jorge Orta hit a home run and a two-run double and Frank White added a homer to lead Kansas City past the Rangers, 5–4. Danny Jackson allowed only two hits through six innings before tiring in the seventh. Bud Black, the third Kansas City pitcher, got one out for his second save. Charlie Hough (2–2) took the loss. White hit his fifth homer of the year in the second inning for a 1–0 lead. Orta gave Kansas City a 2–0 lead in the third with his first home run of the season.
Chicago Cubs 0, Atlanta Braves 2
California Angels 3, Baltimore Orioles 6
Toronto Blue Jays 5, Chicago White Sox 0
Seattle Mariners 5, Detroit Tigers 3
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Houston Astros 4
Montreal Expos 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Cleveland Indians 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4
Oakland Athletics 3, New York Yankees 4
Philadelphia Phillies 2, San Diego Padres 6
New York Mets 2, San Francisco Giants 10
Cincinnati Reds 6, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Kansas City Royals 5, Texas Rangers 4
A powerful combination of professional buying programs and newly found optimism about interest rates sent stock prices sharply higher yesterday, giving Wall Street its best gain in more than a month. The Dow Jones industrial average recovered from a moderate loss on Wednesday and rose 31.13, to 1,806.30. It was the first time in more than a week that the blue-chip index, in a swoon since mid-April, has finished a session above 1,800. John Connolly, an investment strategist at Dean Witter Reynolds Inc., said yesterday’s rally was in large part caused by the buying of professionals, who, seeing that stock index futures had risen sharply, reversed direction and started investing in the underlying stocks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1806.3 (+31.13)
Born:
Julian Edelman, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49, 51, 53 champion-Patriots, 2014, 2016, 2018; New England Patriots), in Redwood City, California.
A.Q. Shipley, NFL center (Indianapolis Colts, Baltimore Ravens, Arizona Cardinals, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania.
Shann Schillinger, NFL defensive back (Atlanta Falcons, Tennessee Titans), in Baker, Montana.
Devin Clark, NFL guard (Washington Redskins), in Austin, Texas.
Eric Sogard, MLB second baseman, shortstop, and third baseman (Oakland A’s, Milwaukee Brewers, Toronto Blue Jays, Tampa Bay Rays, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago Cubs), in Phoenix, Arizona.
Collin Cowgill, MLB outfielder (Arizona Diamondbacks, Oakland A’s, New York Mets, Los Angeles Angels, Cleveland Indians), in Lexington, Kentucky.
Molly Ephraim, American actress (“Last Man Standing”), in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Died:
Martin Gabel, 73, American stage, radio and screen character actor (“The Thief”; “Marnie”; “Lady In Cement”), and television panelist (“What’s My Line?”), of a heart attack.
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