Mikhail S. Gorbachev convened senior foreign-affairs officials and Soviet ambassadors from around the world today for what the official press agency indicated was a sharp critique of Soviet foreign policy. Mr. Gorbachev’s speech was not carried by Tass, nor were there any reports available from other sources about what the Soviet leader said. But Tass reported that “the experience of Soviet diplomacy in recent years was examined critically and with party-style exactingness,” a formula that usually indicates sharp criticism. Tass said that in his “major speech” to the conference, Mr. Gorbachev “described in detail the conditions of the activity of Soviet diplomacy at the present stage, analyzed its main directions and forms in organic connection with the domestic tasks now being handled by the party — economic, social, political, defensive, ideological and moral — and which are connected with major changes in socialist society and the world at large.” The implication was that Mr. Gorbachev had found the handling of foreign affairs to be out of tune with his efforts to revive and modernize Soviet society. But diplomats said it was difficult to gauge whether the conference heralded broad changes in Soviet foreign policy, or largely changes in execution and organization. Since coming to power, Mr. Gorbachev has launched several new initiatives and ideas in foreign affairs. He met with President Reagan in Geneva and has indicated greater flexibility in key disarmament areas like verification and medium-range missiles. The most dramatic changes, however, have been in personnel. In the 11 months since Andrei A. Gromyko was shunted from the Foreign Ministry to the ceremonial state presidency and replaced by Eduard A. Shevardnadze, Mr. Gorbachev has changed all party secretaries dealing with foreign affairs, most senior officials in the Foreign Ministry and more than 30 key ambassadors around the world.
A stage production of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” scheduled as part of Theater of Nations, an international festival to be held in Baltimore next month, has been canceled because Soviet officials protested its inclusion in the festival. The decision to exclude “Animal Farm” was made by Wole Soyinka, the prominent Nigerian playwright who has been imprisoned and tortured for his criticism of his own Government’s policies. Mr. Soyinka is president of the group sponsoring the festival, the International Theater Institute, a nongovernmental organization originally founded by UNESCO. “Animal Farm” — a National Theater of Great Britain production directed by Sir Peter Hall, who is director of the National — was specifically chosen by the Theater of Nations for the festival. But after meeting with Soviet representatives, who objected to the festival’s inclusion of the play, Mr. Soyinka told the National Theater that some of the 62 nations represented in the International Theater Institute might be embarrassed by the production, a stage adaptation of the famous 1945 novel satirizing a totalitarian state.
An especially powerful car bomb exploded in Christian East Beirut today, killing 11 people, wounding 84 and setting several buildings afire, the police said. As has been the case in almost all such terrorist attacks in this country in recent years, no group took responsibility. Car bombs have been a scourge of the Lebanese civil war and have killed more civilians than random bombardment of residential areas. The bombing raised to 64 the number of Lebanese who have died and to 243 the number of those wounded in the last three days of bloodshed. The others fell in two days of heavy bombardment by rival combatants in the Christian and Muslim sectors of the capital. The clashes this week have been widely regarded as the most intense in months. Political commentators say the clashes are a result of the political stagnation into which Lebanon fell this year after the Christian President, Amin Gemayel, rejected a Syrian-brokered formula for ending the 11-year-old civil war that would have shifted more governmental power to Muslims. In the fighting today, sporadic artillery and rocket exchanges continued along the Green Line, which divides Beirut into two sectors patrolled by rival factions of the Lebanese Army and private militias. The bombardment covered a large area of Lebanon. After Christian-controlled hill areas were shelled, militiamen there used artillery to bombard five Shiite Muslim villages in eastern Lebanon near the Syrian border.
France and Iran have made progress toward easing their strained relations after a two-day visit here by a high-level Iranian delegation, French officials said today. The visit reflected an intensive effort by France’s new conservative Government to secure the release of French hostages being held by Shiite Moslem extremists in Lebanon. The announcement came as a French television station said four of the nine French nationals still held captive — a camera crew from the station — had sent letters and photographs saying they were in good health. The messages were said to have been given to the station, Antenne 2, by the office of Prime Minister Jacques Chirac on Thursday. Aides to Mr. Chirac refused to say how he got the material.
The Foreign Ministers of Pakistan and Afghanistan suspended negotiations on the Afghan conflict today, sharply divided on how to schedule a withdrawal of some 120,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan, a senior United Nations official said. But the official, Diego Cordovez of Ecuador, Under Secretary General for Special Political Affairs, said the two Foreign Ministers “consider that substantial progress” was made in the last three weeks. He said they had agreed to return to Geneva on July 30 after consultations with their governments. Neither Foreign Minister, Yaqub Kahn of Pakistan nor Shah Mohammed Dost of Afghanistan, would comment on Mr. Cordovez’s statement. The talks, which began May 5, are the seventh round of negotiations in four years.
A Taiwan cargo jet and two crew members hijacked to China three weeks ago were turned over to Taiwan airline officials here today amid all the formality of a prisoner-of-war release. The ceremony on the tarmac of Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong lasted 28 minutes from the time the plane touched down until all participants had left. It was the culmination of a week in which representatives of Taipei and Peking met in face-to-face talks for the first time since the end of China’s civil war and the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. The China Airlines jet was hijacked May 3 on a Bangkok-to-Hong Kong run. The pilot, Wang Hsi-chueh, said in a news conference in Peking that he had defected to be reunited with his aging father in Sichuan Province.
President Corazon C. Aquino traveled today to this center of Communist insurgency, where she met with a group of rebel returnees and later outlined a hardline policy on a proposed cease-fire. Although praising the “obvious bravery and acute sense of justice” of the mostly young returnees with whom she met, the President insisted in a speech, on tough conditions for a truce that would protect the honor of the military. The President’s speech appeared intended to demonstrate that she was sensitive to the needs of the insurgents while reassuring the armed forces of her intention to act as Commander in Chief to maintain national security. A Tumultuous Reception She received a tumultuous reception in the streets of Davao, recalling the clamor of her election campaign. Mrs. Aquino’s advisers said her reception was also intended to reinforce the message to both sides that she still commands the enthusiastic allegiance of the people.
A Filipino Communist leader said she has had enough and that her 52 guerrilla troops want to take advantage of an offer of reconciliation from President Aquino. However, Rose, 20 years old, and one of the first of the insurgents to try to surrender to the new Government, has found the authorities totally unprepared to deal with returning guerrillas.
Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, who has spoken of his friendship with the United States, today unleashed a barrage of criticism at President Reagan, accusing him of engaging in “pure protectionism” against Canada. Mr. Mulroney’s Government sent a rare protest to Washington and threatened to retaliate against American imports because of the stiff tariffs that Mr. Reagan approved Thursday on certain Canadian lumber products. “We are looking at options of retaliation,” the Secretary of State for External Affairs, Joe Clark, said. “We don’t want to get into that, but this action leaves us no alternative.”
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d believes that United States officials’ denunciations of drug trafficking in Mexico and their public accusations of official corruption there do not reflect the Reagan Administration’s view, a Justice Department spokesman said today. Mr. Meese’s contention appeared to signal a split within the Administration over United States-Mexican relations. Officials of the State Department and the Customs Service, in testimony before a Senate subcommittee last week, offered what they described as the sharpest public criticism of Mexico from the United States Government in many years.
The Mexican Government announced this week that it was taking steps that would nearly double the price of tortillas, and labor leaders denounced the step today as a blow to a scheduled 25 percent rise in the minimum wage. The government said the price increase was part of its effort to trim subsidies in the bloated federal budget. Tortillas, the mainstay of the Mexican diet, are made of corn or wheat, and the Commerce Department said costs of those grains had sharply risen. Tortillas rose in price Thursday from 45 pesos for two pounds to 80 pesos. That translates to a jump from about 8 cents to 15 cents for 43 tortillas.
The two front-runners in the Dominican presidential election held last week have agreed to a completion of the vote count that has twice been suspended, to be followed by a recount of all two million ballots. The candidates, Jacobo Majluta Azar and Joaquin Balaguer, also promised after a meeting Thursday that whoever leads the next Government will not seek reprisals against the loser. The agreement appeared to end a stalemate in which Mr. Majluta, the Government party’s candidate, declared himself the winner even though the official tally put him in second place with 96 percent of the voting districts reporting.
Hundreds of Ecuadorian policemen and army troops surrounded a house in a Quito suburb today where leftist guerrillas were believed to be holding a kidnapped Government official and demanding the resignation of President Leon Febres Cordero. The police said the Government was negotiating with the rebels, who said they were members of the “Free Fatherland Guerrillas” group. The official, Enrique Echeverria, a lawyer who is on the Court of Constitutional Guarantees, was kidnapped Tuesday as he drove from Quito to his suburban home.
An independent organization of 59 prominent Americans called on President Reagan today to pledge new financial programs to help solve Africa’s economic crisis. The call, by the Africa Support Group, came on the eve of a special weeklong session of the General Assembly opening Tuesday to ask donor countries to pledge at least an additional $80 billion in new aid and debt relief. It will be the first time in its history that the Assembly will hold a session to discuss the economic problems of a single world region.
The Nigerian radio said law enforcement officers shot and killed four students and seriously wounded 15 during demonstrations today at Ahmadu Bello University in northern Nigeria. The radio, monitored in Ivory Coast, also said that shortly before the shooting the university’s campuses throughout the state of Kaduna had been closed indefinitely because of violent demonstrations. A Radio Nigeria newsman, reached by telephone from here Friday night, said the radio’s correspondent in Kaduna had witnessed the shooting. Education funds have been cut drastically because of Nigeria’s collapsing economy, which is based on oil, and remittances to students abroad have been eliminated. Students have been protesting a shortage of teachers and books.
The United States today ordered the expulsion of South Africa’s senior military attaché in this country in response to South African raids on Monday against targets in Zambia, Zimbabwe and Botswana. The action was the first tangible step taken by the Reagan Administration beyond verbal denunciation of the attacks. But the Administration reaffirmed today that although other steps might be taken, it had no intention at this time of recalling the United States Ambassador from South Africa or imposing more stringent economic sanctions. The United States also used its veto, together with Britain, tonight to block a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have condemned the South African raids and imposed economic sanctions against Pretoria. Administration officials said, however, that the United States would use political tools to try to press the South Africans to stop such cross-border operations and to discuss with black leaders how to do away with apartheid and open up the country’s political system to participation by the black majority.
The United States and Britain tonight vetoed a Security Council resolution that would have strongly condemned the South African raids on three neighboring nations and imposed sanctions on South Africa. Twelve members of the Council voted in favor of the resolution, with France abstaining. The resolution would have required members to suspend new investment in South Africa, prohibit sale of South African gold coins, prohibit the sale of computer equipment to South Africa, and suspend government-guaranteed loans to that country. After the vote, the American delegate, Patricia M. Byrne, said, “We do not the believe that the destruction of the South African economy serves anyone’s interests, least of all those who suffer under apartheid.”
The Soyuz TM, an unmanned version of a new model of the Soviet space capsule Soyuz, docked with the Mir space station Friday, the official press agency Tass said. The Soyuz TM was launched on Wednesday. Tass said automatic systems on the capsule and the Mir station were used to carry out a successful docking at 2:12 PM Moscow time, 50 hours and 10 minutes after launching. Mir, launched in February, and an attached cargo craft, the Progress 26, have been unmanned since May 5, when the astronauts, Col. Leonid D. Kizim and Vladimir A. Solovyev, who opened Mir in mid-March, left for the Salyut-7 spaceship. The docking means the Soviet Union now has two three-vehicle space complexes in orbit. Salyut-7, launched in 1982, is docked with a Cosmos 1686 satellite and the Soyuz T-15 craft that took Colonel Kizim and Mr. Solovyev to Mir in March, and on to Salyut this month.
The chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee said today that he would lead a fight to revoke funds for new chemical weapons, arguing that the Administration had failed to comply with a Congressional mandate requiring prior approval of NATO’s governing political body. The chairman, Representative Dante B. Fascell, Democrat of Florida, joined other members of Congress in charging that the Administration had flouted the mandate by seeking only the backing of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s defense ministers. He also said that in order to secure the approval of West Germany, the Administration had struck a secret deal by which it will remove from Europe the existing stockpile of chemical weapons and will not send the new ones to replace it unless there is a crisis and Bonn agrees. “That is a farce from a legal standpoint and folly from a foreign policy and national security standpoint,” Mr. Fascell said in a statement. “We should not build new chemical weapons under these conditions.”
President Reagan participates in a taped interview for the PBS special entitled, “A Turn to the Right.”
A sudden move in the Senate to curtail growth in the research program for a defense against nuclear missiles could force a major restructuring of the program’s main experiments, Reagan Administration officials and opponents of the research plan agreed today. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, denounced the call Thursday by 46 Senators for sharp limitations in the Strategic Defense Initiative and said previous cuts “have already slowed progress in several key areas and have narrowed the range of technologies we can explore.” “Further cuts would seriously compound these problems,” he said. The 46 Senators, in a letter to Barry Goldwater, the Arizona Republican who heads the Armed Services Committee, called for reducing President Reagan’s request of $5.4 billion for the research program in 1987 to $3.1 billion.
A race between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop space weapons poses a prospect “more serious than any new event we have confronted since the emergence of the hydrogen bomb and the ballistic missile,” McGeorge Bundy, a former White House official, said today. Mr. Bundy, who was the national security adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, added, however, “There is no iron law which requires that a Government should be as deeply divided against itself, or as incomplete in its honesty to the American people, as the American Government is today.” That remark, Mr. Bundy made clear to the annual meeting of the American Committee on East-West Accord, was a reference to disagreements within the Reagan Administration on whether to follow a strict or more permissive interpretion of the 1972 treaty limiting anti-missile defenses and on whether to abandon current policy that an anti-missile defense system should not be deployed unless it is survivable against Soviet attack and “cost effective.”
President Reagan, in a change of plans, decided today to join “Hands Across America” on Sunday. The project seeks to help raise money and demonstrate compassion for the nation’s hungry and homeless. Donald T. Regan, the White House chief of staff, said Mr. Reagan told him this morning that after a family discussion Thursday night, the President had decided to participate in the effort to raise $50 million by forming a chain of millions of Americans from New York to California. Ken Kragen, an organizer of the event, said it was “terrific” that Mr. Reagan and his wife, Nancy, were joining “Hands Across America,” in which participants contribute at least $10 each to help the hungry and homeless.
Experts on hunger in the United States asserted today that the Reagan Administration was unsympathetic to the needs of America’s poor people. They said the number of hungry people was growing and described as naive the President’s assessment this week that lack of knowledge was the principal cause of hunger. On Wednesday, at a question-and-answer session at the White House with high school students, Mr. Reagan said, “I don’t believe that there is anyone going hungry in America simply by reason of denial of lack of ability to feed them; it is by people not knowing where or how to get help.” Today, authors of recent studies on hunger in America joined social service professionals in asserting that since Mr. Reagan took office in 1981, the number of families living in poverty had increased. Yet the number of people served by the food stamp program and other Federal nutrition assistance programs has not. As a result, the number of people going hungry is rising, they asserted.
The White House has instructed the National Security Council to begin a systematic Government-wide investigation into disclosing of sensitive intelligence information to determine if additional preventive measures are needed, senior White House officials said today. The officials said the review would focus on the “whole subject,” which appeared to suggest that it would involve not only officials engaging in such disclosing, but also how to respond to news organizations that might publish such information. The review is to involve the entire Administration, including the State Department, the Defense Department and the Central Intelligence Agency, the officials said. A senior White House official explained the review in the context of what he said was the Administration’s “growing concern” with disclosures that have occurred recently amid Administration efforts to link the Government of Libya to terrorism and with newspaper and broadcast reports about a top-secret intelligence-gathering operation involving American submarines.
In the annals of the Federal judiciary, this will go down as a historic week. On Thursday, President Reagan finally achieved a majority of the votes on the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, widely regarded as the most powerful tribunal after the Supreme Court and one of the most liberal courts in the country. The shift came when Judge J. Skelly Wright, a 75-year-old Kennedy appointee and the court’s best known liberal, announced that he would step down from active duty next month because of health concerns and advancing age. The departure of Judge Wright, a revered figure who pioneered desegregation of schools in New Orleans, will give Mr. Reagan his seventh appointment to the 12-member court.
Dr. Robert O. Hunter Jr., a San Diego research executive, has emerged as a leading candidate for the job of White House science adviser, a senior official of the Reagan Administration said today. Also under consideration, the official said, is Dr. William R. Graham, deputy administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, who was recently passed over for the top position at the space agency.
The Wyoming woman who died with her husband as they held an elementary school hostage with a gasoline bomb last Friday was not killed by the bomb’s accidental blast but by a bullet to the head, the authorities said today. The authorities initially said the woman, Doris Young, died when the homemade bomb that she and her husband, David, carried into the Cokeville Elementary School was detonated accidentally. Mr. Young, who masterminded the plot to obtain a $300 million ransom for the 150 students and teachers, then committed suicide. Earl Carroll, an investigator for the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Department, said today that after two .44-caliber bullets were pried from the ceiling of the first-grade classroom where the Youngs had held the hostages, investigators began working on the premise that Mr. Young, who was armed with a .44-caliber pistol, might have shot his wife before killing himself.
The end of a bitter strike by flight attendants against Trans World Airlines has left about 5,000 of the striking union members without jobs but vowing to continue their battle with the company through court actions and legislative remedies. The strike’s end has also stirred a dispute between the union and the company over how many flight attendant vacancies still exist at the company and the process T.W.A. must use to fill them. T.W.A. officials said today they had only about 200 vacancies and had not decided how to fill them, although they said all those hired would be from the ranks of those who struck.
The Louisiana House of Representative today killed Governor Edwin W. Edwards’s proposal to legalize casino gambling in New Orleans. Opponents of legalized gambling warned their colleagues that the Governor had backed away from earlier promises to submit the gambling issue in a statewide election. The bill that was killed could have become law without an amendment to the state Constitution or vote of the electorate. The procedural attack began when the gambling proposal came up for a routine reading to be scheduled for debate. Anti-gambling forces turned back Mr. Edwards’s attempt to delay the showdown by a vote of 43 to 35, then voted 53 to 33 to table the bill. The bill called for the state to establish at least three casinos in the New Orleans area to improve the economy.
In a mail-in election among Dartmouth College alumni, two incumbent trustees defeated challengers supported by a conservative alumni group that mounted its campaign in response to a perceived lack of direction on the board after a tumultous winter term. With 52 percent of the 44,000 eligible alumni voting, Robert Field of Etna, N.H., received 13,088 votes to 9,020 for Steve Kelley of San Diego, and Ronald Schram of Hingham, Mass., received 12,727 votes to 9,403 for Daniel Provost of New Canaan, Conn. Mr. Kelley and Mr. Provost were supported by the Alumni Committee for a Strong Dartmouth and ran on a platform calling for a stronger stance by the trustees against a purportedly liberal faculty and firmer discipline of students protesting South Africa’s policy of strict racial segregation.
Three nuclear-powered submarines surfaced together this month at the North Pole on a mission that signaled a reinforced United States submarine presence under the Arctic ice pack, Navy officials said today. The operation by the attack submarines Hawkbill, Ray and Archerfish comes at a time when Soviet submarines with intercontinental-range nuclear missiles have been increasingly exploring the Arctic depths from which they could launch weapons against the United States in the event of war, the officials said.
The Navy intends to establish a national network of 100,000 bone marrow donors next month to help doctors treat such diseases as leukemia as well as to respond to a possible nuclear accident, a Navy official said today. A contract worth an estimated $450,000 for the remainder of this year and about $1.2 million next year to set up the network is expected to be awarded in June, the official, Lieutenant Stephen Pietropaoli, said in Washington.
The police are adopting semi-automatic pistols in place of .38-caliber revolvers in cities and towns across the country where officials fear they are losing the arms race with criminals. The Los Angeles Police Department has become the latest department to equip its officers with semi-automatic weapons, which can empty a clip of more than a dozen bullets in seconds. But police departments in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia, the nation’s largest, have not made the change.
The Phoenix Firebirds (PCL) get doused by Hawaii, 31–5.
Major League Baseball:
The Chicago Cubs defeated the Houston Astros, 4-1. Leon Durham lined a two-run double in a three-run fourth inning to back the five-hit pitching of Rick Sutcliffe as Chicago beat Houston. Ron Cey and Ryne Sandberg also had run-scoring singles for the Cubs, who ended a three-game losing streak. Sutcliffe (2-6), who missed a turn earlier this week after suffering food poisoning in Houston, gave up a run on a single by Denny Walling in the first inning and then settled down to shut out the Astros the rest of the way. Sutcliffe struck out seven and walked three in pitching his second complete game and only the third for the Cubs’ pitching staff this season.
Julio Franco tripled home two runs and Don Schulze pitched a two-hitter for Cleveland as the Indians bested the Toronto Blue Jays, 3-1. Schulze (3-1), who lost a 10-2 decision to Jim Clancy in Toronto last week, struck out one and walked two. The largest crowd — 61,340 — to watch a game in the major leagues this season saw the Toronto starter, Jim Clancy (4-3), set down the first 15 Cleveland hitters in order before Brook Jacoby led off the sixth inning with a single to right field. Jacoby took second on a single by Tony Bernazard.
The Oakland A’s beat the Detroit Tigers, 5-1. Jose Canseco and Dave Kingman each had run-scoring singles to back the six-hit pitching of Jose Rijo for Oakland. Rijo (2-2), making his first start since May 10, struck out seven and walked five in getting his first complete game of the season. Dave LaPoint (1-3), who gave up three runs in the first, allowed nine hits in eight and one-third innings.
Joe Cowley, just recalled from the minor leagues, allowed three hits in 7 ⅓ innings and Greg Walker went 4-for-4 to lead the Chicago White Sox to a 4-1 win over the Royals in Kansas City.
Mike Schmidt and John Russell hit home runs, and Shane Rawley continued his mastery over Los Angeles as Philadelphia broke a five-game losing streak, downing the Dodgers, 8-2. Rawley (5-4) won his fourth career decision against the Dodgers without a loss. He ran his streak of consecutive scoreless innings against Los Angeles to 29 before Mike Marshall led off the ninth with his 12th home run of the season. Rawley scattered 10 hits and left after giving up three hits to start the ninth. Ken Landreaux hit a sacrifice fly later in the inning. Schmidt, playing with cracked ribs, went 3-for-5. He hit a two-run homer in the seventh, his seventh home run of the season and 465th of his career, and added a run-scoring single in the ninth.
Greg Gagne singled home Mickey Hatcher with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 8-7 victory over the Brewers in a seven-homer slugfest.
The cheers were familiar to Ed Whitson. He heard them in the third inning last night, just as he heard them last season in the rare happy times he experienced at Yankee Stadium. In the aftermath, he called the evening one of his most satisfying moments in the Bronx. And it probably was. Given the comfort zone of a three-run lead, Whitson emerged from a 21-day stay on the disabled list and pitched brilliantly in relief, helping the Yankees to a 10–5 victory over the California Angels. “I haven’t had a lot of bright moments since I’ve been here,” Whitson said later, “but this was one. I’m actually starting to have a little fun now.” The Yankees, who won for the fifth time in six games, totaled 12 hits and chased Don Sutton, who was in search of his 298th career victory, in the second inning. Mike Pagliarulo hit two home runs, Don Mattingly one.
The Reds outlasted the Pirates, 12-9. Eddie Milner hit a bases-loaded triple with two outs in the 12th inning for Cincinnati. Jose DeLeon (1-1) walked Eric Davis with one out. DeLeon intentionally walked Dave Parker with two outs and Davis on third base, and then walked Nick Esasky before Milner lined a 3-2 pitch off the right-field wall. Ted Power (2-3) the fifth Cincinnati pitcher, earned the victory with two innings of scoreless relief.
Tony Gwynn hit a three-run homer with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, powering the San Diego Padres over the New York Mets, 7-4. The Padres started the winning uprising with two outs in the ninth as Jerry Royster doubled and Garry Templeton walked. Gwynn then hit the first pitch from reliever Jesse Orosco over the right-field wall for his fifth home run of the season.
Lee Lacy has 3 hits and 3 RBIs and Fred Lynn connects for a grand slam in the Orioles 7–5 victory over the Mariners. Winner Ken Dixon, 5-2, allowed four hits in 8 ⅓ innings.
Hubie Brooks and Tim Wallach hit two-run homers, and Floyd Youmans won his fourth straight game tonight as the Expos beat the San Francisco Giants 4–3. The victory left Montreal three games behind the Mets in the National League East. Youmans (4–3) allowed only three hits over six and one-third innings. He was charged with all the Giants’ runs, including one in the seventh that scored on a wild pitch by the reliever Tim Burke. Youmans, Burke and Jeff Reardon, who pitched the ninth inning for his ninth save, combined on a four-hitter. Andre Dawson doubled off Scott Garrelts (4–4) with two outs in the first and Brooks followed with his 11th homer. Wallach’s homer, his seventh, broke a 2–2 tie in the third.
Terry Pendleton hit a three-run double in the first inning and the St. Louis Cardinals beat Atlanta 3-2, snapping the Braves’ seven-game winning streak. John Tudor, 4-3, gave up five hits over 7 ⅓ innings for his first victory in seven starts since April 18. Reliever Ricky Horton got one out before Todd Worrell retired the final four batters for his fifth save.
Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd allowed three hits in eight innings, and Don Baylor hit a two-run homer to lead Boston to its sixth straight victory, beating the Rangers, 2-1. The Red Sox remained one and a half games ahead of the Yankees in the American League East. Boyd (5-3) retired the first 13 Texas batters and the last 10 he faced, and allowed baserunners only in the fifth inning. He struck out four and did not walk a batter. Ed Correa (2-3) allowed four hits and struck out nine in eight and one-third innings. But he walked six, including a leadoff walk to Bill Buckner in the fourth inning. One out later Baylor hit his seventh home run of the season. Correa was ejected by Umpire Ken Kaiser after hitting Rey Quinones, a Boston rookie, in the back of the head with a pitch in the ninth inning. Quinones left the field under his own power. Correa had been warned after hitting Baylor with a pitch in the eighth. Texas Manager Bobby Valentine also was ejected.
Houston Astros 1, Chicago Cubs 4
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Cleveland Indians 3
Oakland Athletics 5, Detroit Tigers 1
Chicago White Sox 4, Kansas City Royals 1
Philadelphia Phillies 8, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Minnesota Twins 8
California Angels 5, New York Yankees 10
Cincinnati Reds 12, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
New York Mets 4, San Diego Padres 7
Baltimore Orioles 7, Seattle Mariners 5
Montreal Expos 4, San Francisco Giants 3
Atlanta Braves 2, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Boston Red Sox 2, Texas Rangers 1
Wall Street yesterday made its second consecutive big gain, and its third this week, as the Dow Jones industrial average finished at its best level this month. The market seemed to overcome the fear that interest rates would stop declining. Trading volume, meanwhile, remained more active than it had been the first three days this week despite an early departure by many market participants for the Memorial Day holiday. While programmed trading by major brokerage houses was in large part responsible for yesterday’s 16.99-point rise in the Dow Jones industrial average, to 1,823.29, market analysts said there appeared to be a change in attitude in the financial community toward interest rates.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1823.29 (+16.99)
Born:
Jordan Zimmermann, MLB pitcher (All-Stars, 2013, 2014; Washington Nationals, Detroit Tigers, Milwaukee Brewers), in Auburndale, Wisconsin.
Jason Jones, NFL defensive tackle (Tennessee Tians, Seattle Seahawks, Detroit Lions, Miami Dolphins), in Detroit, Michigan.
Tim Hightower, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals, Washington Redskins, New Orleans Saints), in Alexandria, Virginia.
Chad Hall, NFL wide receiver (Philadelphia Eagles, San Francisco 49ers, Kansas City Chiefs), in Atlanta, Georgia.
Brandon Hughes, NFL defensive back (Philadelphia Eagles), in Bloomington, Illinois.
Adam Pineault, NHL right wing (Columbus Blue Jackets), in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
Ryan Coogler, American director and screenwriter (“Fruitvale Station”, “The Black Panther”), in Oakland, California.
Died:
Sterling Hayden, 70, American actor (“Dr Strangelove”; “Asphalt Jungle”, “Cobra”).
Peter von Siemens, 75, German industrialist.
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