Among the major problems facing Soviet authorities in the aftermath of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster is the future of tens of thousands of people displaced by the accident. According to Soviet accounts, 92,000 people were evacuated from towns and villages in an 18.6-mile zone around the damaged reactor in the days and weeks after the accident. Most left with nothing, apparently expecting to return after a few days. In addition to those compelled to leave their homes near the Chernobyl reactor at the town of Pripyat, untold thousands have left Kiev, 70 miles south of the reactor, and other cities and towns, either because of the advice of authorities or on their own. Many of these have settled with acquaintances or in temporary homes across the Soviet Union, waiting for reassurances that it is safe to return. Beyond that, hundreds of thousands of children, who were released early from school in Kiev and other places in a vast radius around the Chernobyl reactor, are being dispersed among summer camps in the south and elsewhere in the Soviet Union.
The sudden scattering of so many people, in a country where the Soviet Government is accustomed to carefully controlling the movements of its citizens, has created unusual problems for the authorities. One complication was that the evacuees were placed in far-flung villages and farms, often crowded into the homes of residents or in temporary barracks. Many were evacuated with only the clothes on their back, and maybe some cash and papers. “They were given only a limited time to gather their belongings,” a doctor from Kiev, Yuri Shcherbak, wrote in the cultural weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta. “They left home in what they wore, taking along only the most necessary, and in the confusion some didn’t even take that.” Four weeks after the evacuation began, the government has yet to indicate when people might start returning to their homes in the zone, beyond occasional assurances in the press that steps are being taken to decontaminate the houses.
Two vintage British jet warplanes collided in the air before more than 100,000 spectators at an air show at Mildenhall, England, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force. Two British airmen died and two others were slightly injured after parachuting from their stricken craft, the Ministry of Defense said. The two Royal Air Force jets — a Gloster Meteor and a De Havilland Vampire — were taking part in Air Fete ’86, one of the largest air shows in the world. The Meteor, a twin-jet fighter, crashed on a road just outside the base, killing the two crew members. The Vampire, a single-engine fighter, crashed in a field after its two crewmen bailed out.
Three bombs exploded in central Israel, seriously injuring one man, Israel radio said. Two of the bombs went off in the town of Kefar Sara outside Tel Aviv, one of them at a bus stop, causing the injury. The second device exploded near an apartment house, officials said. Earlier in the day, another bomb went off at a soldier’s hitchhiking station in Ashqelon, 30 miles south of Tel Aviv. Israel police detained several suspects for questioning in the blasts.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher’s visit to Israel was overshadowed today by a dispute between Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir over whether to prosecute an unidentified “senior official” of the Israeli Government. The name of the senior official and the charges that the Attorney General is considering filing against him were withheld because of legal constraints and military censorship. The secrecy has aroused the curiosity of the Israeli press and public and has intensified demands for a full disclosure of the case, which apparently has some political implications. ABC News said in a report from Washington that the official was the head of Shin Beth, the Israeli internal security organization. The report said the Attorney General wanted to charge the official, whom ABC News named as Avraham Shalom, and others with covering up the circumstances of the deaths of two Palestinians killed in April 1984 while in Israeli custody. The Palestinians had been among four hijackers of a bus seized in Israel and driven into the Gaza Strip, where it was stormed by Israeli troops, who killed the two other hijackers in the assault. An Israeli general was later censured in the incident. The scheduled Cabinet meeting today was delayed by two hours so that the so-called inner Cabinet, which is made up of the 10 leading Labor and Likud ministers, could meet and discuss the “senior official” affair.
A woman and her 6-year-old son were killed and six people were injured when a bomb exploded in an East Beirut apartment building, police said. They said the bomb, concealed in a leather bag, exploded outside a second-floor apartment. It was the third bombing in the Christian sector of Lebanon’s strife-torn capital in four days. At least nine people were reported killed and more than 80 wounded in the two previous blasts — a car bomb on Friday and the bombing of an apartment building the next day.
Syria has sent several messages to the United States in recent days denying complicity in terrorist activity and seeking a constructive discussion to resolve differences and misunderstandings, Administration officials said today. They said Washington was weighing the Syrian messages, sent through many diplomatic and public channels. But they said the often contradictory statements from European capitals on whether Syria was involved directly in past terrorist actions had complicated the American response. There have been unconfirmed reports that the Italian authorities are seeking to question up to 20 Syrians for possible involvement in the attack on the Rome airport in December.
An Iraqi missile hit a supertanker loaded with Iranian oil this weekend, ending a two-week lull in attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf. Shipping sources in the region said the missile struck the engine room of the tanker W. Enterprise late Saturday about 35 miles south of the main Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island. The 375,000-ton vessel, which flies the Cypriot flag but is under charter to Iran, was fully loaded with crude oil on a shuttle trip to a makeshift terminal at Sirri Island, in the southern Gulf out of the presumed range of Iraqi aircraft. Gulf shipping sources said the crew was believed safe, and there was apparently no fire on board. The vessel, capable of carrying some 2.5 million barrels of crude, is among the half-dozen largest hit in two years of attacks on Gulf shipping by Iran and Iraq, at war since September 1980. More than 40 ships have been hit this year.
Afghan Government forces have heavily bombarded four Pakistani border posts in an area where an Afghan jet was reported shot down recently, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry said today. It said in a statement that Afghan artillery shelled the militia posts on Wednesday in the northwestern Kurram tribal district, and then planes dropped 60 to 70 bombs on two of them. The statement said the posts were damaged but there were no casualties. It said Pakistan lodged a strong protest with the Afghan charge d’affaires in Islamabad over the attacks and the shelling on Friday of the Mohmand area northeast of Kurram. Pakistan said its F-16 jets shot down a Soviet-built Afghan ground-attack plane and hit another of four intruding planes on May 17. Afghanistan denied the report but said two planes were damaged that day in internal operations against Afghan guerrillas fighting the Soviet-backed Government in Kabul.
Witnesses and army officials said today that Tamil guerrillas had killed 20 Sinhalese settlers in this jungle hamlet, including 10 children, many by gunshots at point-blank range. The attackers forced 11 people, including some children, to kneel on the banks of a canal and shot them in the head, mostly at point-blank range, witnesses said of the two-hour attack on Saturday. “Suddenly there was noise and shouts,” said Indra Kumari, 10 years old, whose grandmother, aunt and uncle were shot and set on fire. “I heard shots, and grandma called for uncle,” she said. “I ran into the jungle and hid. I could see men surrounding the house.”
Ferry boat Shamia sinks on the Maghna River in Bangladesh, with 600 people killed. The double-decked river ferry capsized in a storm south of Dhaka tonight, and at least 80 people were initially known dead and more than 500 were missing, according to reports from the scene. Tonight, winds of more than 60 miles an hour swept the southern coast, hampering search and rescue efforts. The ferry Shamia, which was carrying about 1,000 people, went down in the Meghna River in the Barisal district 135 miles south of Dhaka, the capital.
A landslide crashed down on about 120 Taiwanese tourists in a scenic gorge in central Taiwan today, killing 14 of them, burying about 25 others and injuring 28, the police reported. Television reports said about 100 tourists were still buried or trapped by debris in Taichi gorge, 90 miles southwest of Taipei. But a rescue worker said about 25 tourists were believed buried, a police sergeant said by telephone from Chushan, nine miles from the gorge. He said 200 police officers and rescue workers were digging through debris searching for more survivors. Another police official said 18 victims were hospitalized with fractures and other serious injuries. The police sergeant said he believed the landslide resulted from recent earthquakes and rains. Taiwan was struck by two quakes on Saturday.
Tens of thousands of Filipinos gathered today to mark the day three months ago when a military revolt and “people power” propelled Corazon C. Aquino to the presidency. They converged on the army camp here where they had gathered for the final showdown with soldiers loyal to President Ferdinand E. Marcos. The televised gathering, at which eight soldiers parachuted from a helicopter with colored flares tied to their feet, provided the nation a moment of self-congratulation as it grapples with the difficulties of reconstruction. Addressing the crowd as “my beloved heroes,” Mrs. Aquino sounded the note of nationalist pride with which she has recently tried to rally her nation to heal its differences and rebuild its economy.
President Corazon C. Aquino today named 45 people from diverse political and religious groups to a body that will draft a new Philippine constitution. The appointees are more varied than the ministers who make up Mrs. Aquino’s Cabinet and the groups that support her. She did not name known Communists to the 50-member panel, but left five slots vacant for the “opposition,” meaning the forces still loyal to former President Ferdinand E. Marcos. “I prefer to leave the selection to their full discretion in keeping with the democratic spirit of the times,” Mrs. Aquino said at a rally celebrating her first three months in office.
Australia said it will stop giving priority to Vietnamese refugees because an increasing number are leaving their country for economic rather than political reasons. “We are simply determined to ensure that the very scarce resources Australia… has available to respond to the needs of genuine refugees are not abused by others with no real claim for refugee status,” Immigration Minister Chris Hurford said. About 100,000 Vietnamese refugees have settled in Australia.
About 300 Canadian families were evacuated from their homes in the town of St. Hyacinthe in Quebec province because of a defective valve that was leaking toxic ammonia gas from a railroad tanker car in nearby Sainte-Rosalie, police said. The gas was traced to a spur line belonging to Nutrite Inc., a manufacturer of chemical fertilizers for agricultural use. There were no injuries. St. Hyacinthe is about 100 miles east of Montreal.
Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d sharply criticized the head of the United States Customs Service today for charging Mexican Government involvement in drug trafficking. Mr. Meese said statements made by the Customs Commissioner, William Von Raab, and other senior Administration officials before a Congressional panel May 13 were “reckless” and did not reflect the thinking of the Administration.
Five Central American Presidents appeared today to have failed to reach agreement on a common approach to resolving the conflicts that have troubled their region. After two days of discussions that several officials described as difficult, the Presidents of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua accepted a final communique that bluntly said they had “some differences and some discrepancies” that continued to divide them. Although the communique stated the Presidents’ intention to accept a regional peace treaty, several officials said the accord would not be signed by the June 6 deadline set by the mediators. Instead, they said, the signing would be postponed to allow further negotiations, an indication of the differences dividing leaders in the region. “We agree now not to agree,” said Rogelio Ramirez, a member of the Nicaraguan Assembly who was a delegate to the talks. “But we have to keep talking.” The proposed treaty is a product of the efforts of Colombia, Panama, Mexico and Venezuela, known as the Contadora group of nations. Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica have said they would sign the treaty. Nicaraguan officials have said, and repeated here today, that they would not sign until the United States agrees to stop aiding anti-Sandinista guerrillas.
Virgilio Barco Vargas, the candidate of the opposition Liberal Party, scored a landslide victory in the Colombian presidential election today. Mr. Barco, a soft-spoken 65-year-old political centrist with long experience in government, has pledged to reduce poverty and end political violence during his four-year term, which begins in August. He is also expected to emphasize improving ties with Washington. With results announced from four-fifths of the country’s 41,104 voting booths, Mr. Barco was leading with 58.4 percent of the votes counted against 35.8 percent for Alvaro Gomez Hurtado of the governing Conservative Party.
As many as 30,000 people are said to have been made refugees in their own land and more than 30 have died in a week of violence pitting conservative black vigilantes against loyalists of radical black leaders in this squatter camp near Cape Town. The fighting, in which the radicals were defeated, has devastated large tracts of the camp, leaving the burned shells of hundreds of shacks as monuments to the conflict. The conflict has not only highlighted territorial disputes between rival groups in the Crossroads, but also raised questions about the role of South Africa’s security forces, which actively supported the vigilantes, according to several reports. In many of South Africa’s segregated black townships, conservative black groups have banded together to form vigilante units opposed to the growing influence of youthful black radicals. The radicals, like others in South Africa, support what they call progressive organizations, such as the United Democratic Front Inside South Africa and the exiled African National Congress. The vigilantes, residents say, are united by opposition to the radicals more than by any specific ideological association. However, they are regarded as supportive of the white authorities. The Government’s critics say the vigilante groups have not been restrained because they suit the authorities’ purpose in clamping down on black protest, which has claimed more than 1,600 lives since September 1984.
Joggers in 26 countries ran in a global benefit to raise $150 million for starving Africans. With 200,000 Londoners setting the pace, more than 20 million joggers reportedly participated in the international event, named Sport Aid. Only in the United States, where it clashed with the better publicized “Hands Across America,” was the reception given Sport Aid a conspicuous disappointment, its sponsors said.
Leading members of the Senate and House of Representatives agree that the Senate Finance Committee’s tax-revision bill will be changed substantially before it can become law. When Senators and Representatives sit down in conference to reconcile the Senate version of tax legislation with the one produced by the House, the lawmakers say, the conferees from the House will have at least as much say in shaping the final product as those from the Senate. This means that despite the intense interest in the details of the Finance Committee’s bill and the widespread support for it, some of the measure’s most striking aspects — such as its 27 percent top tax rate, its repeal of most deductions for Individual Retirement Accounts and its assault on real estate tax shelters — are by no means certain to become law. “There is some strength in the House bill,” said Senator Bob Dole of Kansas, the majority leader, who is sure to be a Senate conferee, “and ours is not totally meritorious.” Senator Bob Packwood, Republican of Oregon and chairman of the Finance Committee, agrees with that assessment. The day after his committee approved its bill, he said: “The House bill has lots of good reform in it. If we can marry the best parts of both bills, we will produce a better bill.”
The line twisted through 4,150 miles of America, through city streets, across bridges, through deserts and mountain passes. Its links included the rich, the poor and the homeless, movie stars and public officials, a flotilla of hot air balloons, cowboys in covered wagons, a chain of paper dolls and, at times, a bit of Hollywood hokum. And for 15 minutes, organizers of the Hands Across America event said, it connected millions of Americans from Battery Park in New York City to the Pacific Ocean in a singing, hand-holding statement of support for the nation’s hungry and homeless. “Bobby Kennedy said that ideas are pebbles you drop in the water and ripples flow from that,” said Ken Kragen, the Los Angeles promoter who conceived the campaign. “This is a boulder we dropped in the water. Tidal waves will come from this.” Mr. Kragen estimated last night that about 6 million people, each of whom was asked to give at least $10, had participated in the chain and related events. President Reagan lined up in front of the White House to participate in “Hands Across America” day.
The Reagan Administration is considering reducing the number of officials with access to classified documents as part of a broad effort to control the unauthorized disclosure of sensitive national security information, Administration sources said today. The sources said the Administration was also considering reducing the amount of information that falls within the classified category in the hope it will then be easier to monitor those documents and prevent their unauthorized disclosure. The proposals are contained in a memorandum prepared by middle-level Administration intelligence officials for review at a meeting this week of President Reagan’s top national security advisers, the sources said. It has been presented to Admiral John M. Poindexter, Mr. Reagan’s national security adviser, they said.
Anti-apartheid protesters scuffled with Yale University police in New Haven, Connecticut, as about 200 demonstrators chanted divestiture slogans at members of the school’s board of trustees. Among the members of the Yale Corp. who left a university building behind police lines was former Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance. A. Bartlett Giamatti, Yale president, led the trustees out of the building. Earlier, Giamatti encountered more than 30 signs protesting apartheid as he was about to deliver his annual graduation speech. The students put their signs down after less than a minute, as Giamatti remained silent and audience members clapped or hissed. There were no arrests. Yale owns about $400 million in stocks in companies that do business in South Africa. This spring, about 322 arrests were made during campus protests.
Dedication ceremonies were held for the University of Kansas Vietnam Memorial, which honors 55 alumni of the university in Lawrence who were killed or are missing in action in Vietnam. About 200 people attended the ceremony held a day before President Reagan was to lay the traditional Memorial Day wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery outside Washington. The Kansas monument is the first free-standing Vietnam memorial on a major college campus, said Tom Berger, chairman of the KU Vietnam Memorial Committee. In other holiday weekend activities, Vietnam veterans in Georgia descended on the fairgrounds at Comer for the annual “L. Z. Friendly” camp-out and reunion.
A gunman held about 40 worshipers hostage in their rural church for nearly two hours until the parishioners got their freedom by buying their captor’s rifle for $500, officials said. Gregory Rolland Danford, 30, stormed the Harrietta, Michigan, Methodist Church about 9 AM, waving the rifle, but did not open fire, State Police Sgt. John Erdody said. One of the parishioners escaped and alerted police, who surrounded the building but did not enter until Danford had turned over his rifle, Erdody said. Danford was taken to a state hospital for psychiatric evaluation, Erdody said.
Mt. Hood continues to attract climbers despite the deaths of nine people when a spring blizzard hit Oregon’s tallest peak two weeks ago. Mountain guides and forestry officials say they have seen no cancellations by climbing parties and that the May-June climbing season on the 11,235-foot mountain east of Portland remains in full swing. Meanwhile, the two 16-year-old students from Oregon Episcopal School who survived three days and nights in a snow cave continue to recover.
Offers from movie producers and tabloid newspapers that want to recreate the story of a disastrous school expedition on Mount Hood are being rejected by the Oregon Episcopal School. The school said in a statement that it would not participate in what it termed “commercial exploitation” of the disaster, which left seven students and two faculty members dead. The private school has received five offers ranging from $100,000 to $600,000 from film producers and tabloid publishers, a school spokesman, Mariann Koop, said Friday. She declined to discuss details of the offers, including one from The National Enquirer.
Fourteen years and nine months after his alleged crime, Stephen M. Bingham has begun his defense in a trial that could send him to prison for life. Mr. Bingham, a 44-year-old member of a prominent Connecticut family, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder and one of conspiracy. The police say he gave a gun to a prisoner in a meeting at San Quentin who used it in an escape attempt in which he, two trusties and three guards were killed. The prosecution has completed its case, 17 days of testimony over seven weeks. The defense began its case Thursday. Mr. Bingham, who was representing Mr. Jackson in a suit over prison conditions, is expected to testify when the trial resumes Tuesday.
A well-organized group of police officers stole Civil Service examinations and were able to raise the scores of their friends and block the promotion of their rivals in at least nine Massachusetts police agencies, according to sources familiar with a growing state and Federal investigation of the case. The scandal is one of the largest and most unusual incidents of police corruption in recent Massachusetts history, the sources said. So far, they added, investigators had received evidence that four present or former police chiefs may have obtained their positions fraudulently in a scheme that began in the 1960’s. These sources said the ring was run by Gerald W. Clemente, a former captain in the Metropolitan District Commission, which has jurisdiction over certain highways and public facilities in the Boston area.
At the request of the Federal Aviation Administration, Pan American World Airways is double-checking maintenance work done overseas on six jumbo jet engines, an airline official, James A. Arey, said Saturday. “It’s a paperwork situation that has to be corrected,” he said. “There is nothing mechanically wrong with the engines.” An F.A.A. spokesman, Fred Farrar, said the request for the double-check was “simply a precaution.” None of the jets had been grounded, he added. United States airlines are allowed to do maintenance at foreign points only in limited circumstances. Mr. Farrar said the F.A.A. was “still a little bit vague” about what work was done overseas, and added that it was too early to tell whether Pan Am violated any regulations.
The New Hampshire state police today released 74 antinuclear demonstrators who had been arrested in protests Saturday at the Seabrook nuclear power plant. Anti-nuclear activists cheered as their colleagues left the town elementary school, where they had been in custody, and they continued to cheer as 40 state troopers followed. The protesters considered Saturday’s sit-in an overwhelming success. “It went great,” said Paul Gunter of the Clamshell Alliance, which helped organize the event. “The conduct of the state police was professional and so was that of the demonstrators.”
Federal health researchers are recommending that a new vaccine against influenza be used next winter because the widespread Type B flu appears to be evolving into a new strain. The Type B flu, also known as the Russian flu, hit the nation last winter in the most widespread influenza season in five years. Every state reported cases of it.
The body of a baby swept from his mother’s arms by floodwaters was found as Fort Worth residents tallied up damage from a storm that killed at least four others and collapsed a bowling alley roof. At least 17 people were injured Saturday when tornadoes and thunderstorms pounded parts of western and north-central Texas, overturning four mobile homes in Midland, ripping the roof off an airplane hangar west of Greenwood, and bringing hail and high winds, which caused power failures and road closings.
Andrew and Agatha will top the 1986 hit parade of hurricanes, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced. Andrew will be the name of the first tropical storm or hurricane in the East — the Atlantic, Caribbean or Gulf of Mexico — while the first storm to threaten the nation from the Pacific will be called Agatha. Currently, the lists of names are compiled by the World Meteorological Organization in Geneva.
Chester Bowles, an adviser to four Democratic Presidents in a public career that spanned three decades and included service as an ambassador, Congressman and Governor of Connecticut, died at his home in Essex, Connecticut He was 85 years old. A family spokesman, Lise Stone Heintz, said that Mr. Bowles died at 12:30 AM of complications arising from his 22-year struggle with Parkinson’s disease, which results in the deterioration of the body’s nervous system. He also suffered a stroke last week, she said. Gov. William A. O’Neill of Connecticut, who ordered that flags on public buildings be flown at half staff for 30 days, praised Mr. Bowles for inspiring others to enter public service and said: “He holds a very special place in the hearts of Connecticut citizens, whom he served so ably as Governor and a Congressman.”
A stunt plane crashed while performing maneuvers Saturday, killing an astronaut candidate and a NASA engineer, officials said. The small plane crashed near Santa Fe in Galveston County, said Laura Wooldridge, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Safety in Houston. The dead were identified as the pilot, James Ryan Simons, 39 years old, and a passenger, Stephen D. Thorne, 33, both of Houston. Steve Nesbitt of the Johnson Space Center said Mr. Thorne was an astronaut candidate and Mr. Simons was a flight control engineer for the space agency. The Pitts stunt plane was performing maneuvers near Runge Park airfield when it went into an inverted tailspin and crashed, said a safety department spokesman, Mike Cox.
A 95-year-old woman scores a hole-in-one in Florida.
It rained on the Indianapolis 500 today, sending 400,000 fans, 33 drivers, and the first live network-television audience back to their trailers, homes, motels and other programs to wait until Monday. The postponement of this American gala after a four-and-a-half-hour delay marked the first time since 1915 that the race failed to start the day it was scheduled. ABC will bring back its crews Monday for another shot at live coverage. But an 80 percent chance of rain was forecast for Monday, and if the race is postponed again, the network probably will tape the race Tuesday for showing Saturday. The race will be rescheduled on a day-to-day basis.
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Mark Bailey doubled home two runs in the top of the 11th inning to lift the Houston Astros over the Chicago Cubs, 3–1. Phil Garner drew a walk off the Chicago reliever Lee Smith (2–4) to open the inning and stole second. Kevin Bass struck out, but Craig Reynolds was given an intentional walk before Bailey doubled to right-center field, scoring both runners. The reliever Charlie Kerfeld (4–1), who pitched two innings, was the winner. Dave Smith pitched the bottom of the 11th for his 11th save.
John Cerutti, a rookie left-hander, combined with Bill Caudill on a two-hitter to win his first major league game, and Damaso Garcia, Rance Mulliniks and Tony Fernandez hit home runs to power Toronto over the Indians, 8–1. Cerutti, who was the losing pitcher in his first major league start last October 1 when Phil Niekro posted his 300th career victory for the Yankees, gave up a run-scoring single to Joe Carter in the first inning and a leadoff single to Pat Tabler in the second before being relieved by Caudill in the ninth. Cerutti (1–1) struck out four and walked three. The Cleveland starter, Ken Schrom (3–2), who had given up three home runs in two and one-third innings of his last outing, watched Garcia hit his first pitch of the game over the left-field fence. Pat Tabler is at bat for Toronto when pitcher John Cerutti picks Joe Carter off first base unassisted. Cerutti beats Carter back to the bag. This same play occurred last month in an A’s-Twins game.
Walt Terrell pitched a four-hitter and Darnell Coles hit a sacrifice fly that broke an eighth-inning tie to lead Detroit past Oakland, 2–1. Terrell (6–1) walked two and struck out four as he turned in his fifth complete game of the year. With the score tied, 1–1, Tom Brookens led off the Detroit eighth inning with a single that the left fielder Jose Canseco let get under his glove for an error, allowing Brookens to go to third. Steve Ontiveros relieved the Oakland starter, Curt Young (2–1), and was greeted by Coles’s sacrifice fly. Young struck out four and did not walk a batter in seven innings. Oakland got its lone run when Bruce Bochte doubled in the first inning and scored on a single by Canseco.
George Brett collects his 2,000th hit, off Bryan Clark in the 4th inning of Kansas City’s 2–1, 17-inning victory over the White Sox. Brett finishes the day 1-for-7. A sacrifice fly by Jim Sundberg scored Jamie Quirk in the bottom of the 17th inning to win it. With one out in the 17th, Quirk doubled off Bill Dawley (0–3). Greg Pryor singled off Dawley’s foot, with Quirk taking third. After Darryl Motley was intentionally walked to load the bases, Sundberg lifted Dawley’s first pitch to the warning track in left field, scoring Quirk. Scott Bankhead, making his major-league debut, was credited with the victory. He pitched the final four innings and retired the last 10 White Sox batters he faced.
Bill Madlock drilled a two-run single in the seventh inning to pace Los Angeles as the Dodgers beat the Phillies, 5–2. Madlock’s hit caromed off the third baseman Mike Schmidt into left field, scoring Orel Hershiser from third and Steve Sax from second. With one out, Hershiser had singled and moved to second when Kevin Gross walked Sax. The runners moved up on a groundout by Ken Landreaux before Madlock’s single.
Mike Smithson allowed 11 hits and Kent Hrbek hit a two-run home run in the first inning to lead Minnesota past the Brewers, 4–3. Smithson (5–3), who leads the American League with six complete games, walked one and struck out five in going the distance. Bill Wegman (0–5) went all the way for Milwaukee. Minnesota scored three runs off Wegman in the first inning and added another in the fifth.
The Yankees wrapped up an 8–5 victory over the California Angels yesterday, a game that precisely followed the pattern of their 7–6 victory the day before: Yankees have lead, Yankees make error that enables opponent to tie game, Yankees score immediately and win the game. Mike Pagliarulo made the error that enabled the Angels to tie Saturday’s game in the top half of the ninth and then he singled home the run that won the game in the Yankees’ half of the ninth. Bobby Meacham made the error that let the Angels back into yesterday’s game in the top half of the eighth inning, and then Randolph doubled home two runs and scored on Don Mattingly’s single in the Yankees’ half of the inning. Mike Pagliarulo sparked New York to its early 5–0 lead, hitting a two-run homer in the second inning and a two-run double in the third off California starter Kirk McCaskill.
Eddie Milner’s two-run single highlighted a five-run seventh inning that carried Cincinnati past Pittsburgh, 7–4. It was the Reds’ fourth consecutive victory and the Pirates’ fourth straight loss. Milner, who entered the game as a replacement for Wade Rowdon in the sixth inning, scored Buddy Bell and Kurt Stillwell with his hit and made a winner of John Denny (3–5). Bob Kipper (0–4) suffered the loss.
The Mets ended an 11-game four-city trip to the West Coast today by beating the San Diego Padres, 4–2, in 11 innings. And they did it with a strange mix of tricks that symbolized their ability to scrounge, and that included three walks, three stolen bases, two squeeze bunts that went foul and one wild pitch that won the game. They also ended the trip with a rave performance from Darryl Strawberry, one of the season’s mysteries. He was hitting only .235, with no hits in his last 10 times up, when the game began. Against left-handed pitchers, he was 6 for 61 for the season, including 0 for 32 in the last month.
Rick Dempsey and Fred Lynn hit two-run homers off Mike Moore, leading the Baltimore Orioles to their fifth straight victory, defeating the Seattle Mariners, 6–3. Mike Boddicker, 5–1, allowed 10 hits, struck out seven and walked one in pitching his second complete game of the season. The loss dropped Seattle into last place in the AL West, seven games behind division leading Texas. It was the Mariners seventh in their last eight games, while Baltimore has won 13 of its last 15.
Mike LaCoss went 4 for 4, including a two-run double, and allowed four hits over eight innings today to lead the San Francisco Giants to an 11–3 rout of the Montreal Expos. LaCoss (5–1) also had three singles in addition to his double and held the Expos in check after giving up a three-run home run to Tim Wallach in the first inning. After giving up three hits in the first inning, LaCoss did not allow a hit until the eighth when Wayne Krenchicki got a pinch-hit double. Mark Davis pitched the ninth for the Giants. Trailing by 3–0 in the second, the Giants took advantage of two Montreal errors and picked up four hits to take a 5–3 lead. Jeff Leonard led off with a single to right off the loser Bryn Smith (3–4) and Bob Brenly followed with a grounder that Wallach booted. Luis Quinones singled up the middle to score Leonard, and Smith uncorked a wild pitch that moved the runners up a base. Mike Woodard followed with a walk to load the bases and Jose Uribe ripped a single to right center to score two runs and knot the score at 3–3. San Francisco extended its lead to 6–3 in the fourth. LaCoss hit a one-out single, moved to second on a single by Dan Gladden and to third on a fielder’s choice. He came home on a double to the left-field corner by Candy Maldonado. The Giants made it 8–3 in the sixth on a two-run double by Maldonado. They increased their lead to 11–3 in the seventh on a run-scoring single by Uribe and two-run double by LaCoss.
The Braves downed the Cardinals, 6–2. Billy Sample hit a home run on the first pitch of the game, and Atlanta went on to defeat St. Louis in game that was called off after a delay of 1 hour 27 minutes in the bottom of the sixth inning. Rick Mahler (4–4) went five innings for the victory. He allowed two hits, walked two and struck out two. The Cardinals’ Tim Conroy (2–3) gave up four runs and five hits before being knocked out in the second inning. Sample hit Conroy’s first pitch over the left-field wall. With one out, Dale Murphy singled and scored on Ted Simmons’s two-out double.
Roger Clemens no-hits the Rangers for 7 ⅔ innings before Oddibe McDowell singles and Clemens settles for a 2-hit 7–1 victory that improves his record to 8–0. Darrell Porter hits a 2-out homer in the 9th for the second hit against the Rocket. Wade Boggs hits a 2nd-inning grand slam for Boston. Wade Boggs had a grand slam in the second inning. Clemens, who struck out 20 in a game against the Seattle Mariners on April 29, had retired 15 straight batters today before McDowell singled with two outs in the eighth inning. McDowell hit a sinking liner to center field that Steve Lyons, inserted into the game as a defensive replacement, charged and dived for, but trapped. Clemens, who struck out eight to take over the major league lead with 81, lost his bid for his first shutout of the season when Darrell Porter hit a two-out home run in the ninth. Clemens overcame a bout of wildness in the third inning when he issued three of his four walks. He struck out Pete Incaviglia, a rookie, with the bases loaded to end the inning. Clemens was bidding to become the first pitcher to throw a no-hitter in the major leagues since California’s Mike Witt pitched a perfect game against the Rangers in Texas on September 30, 1984. No Boston pitcher has thrown a no-hitter since Dave Morehead had one against Cleveland on September 16, 1965. Boggs hit his first career grand slam in the second inning. With two out, Marc Sullivan, Rey Quinones and Marty Barrett singled off Mike Mason (4–1). Boggs then connected for a drive over the right-field fence, his fifth home run of the season.
Houston Astros 3, Chicago Cubs 1
Toronto Blue Jays 8, Cleveland Indians 1
Oakland Athletics 1, Detroit Tigers 2
Chicago White Sox 1, Kansas City Royals 2
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Minnesota Twins 4
California Angels 5, New York Yankees 8
Cincinnati Reds 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
New York Mets 4, San Diego Padres 2
Baltimore Orioles 6, Seattle Mariners 3
Montreal Expos 3, San Francisco Giants 11
Atlanta Braves 6, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Boston Red Sox 7, Texas Rangers 1
Born:
Mario Manningham, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 46-Giants, 2011; New York Giants, San Francisco 49ers), in Warren, Ohio.
Juri Ueno, Japanese actress (“Last Friends”), in Kakogawa, Hyōgo, Japan.
Died:
Chester Bowles, 85, American politician (Governor of Connecticut, 1949-1951), Ambassador to India, and writer (“Conscience of a Liberal”), of complications from Parkinson’s disease.
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