The Soviet Union said today that it was prepared to allow American nongovernmental scientists to staff stations in the Soviet Union to monitor underground nuclear tests. The arrangement is contingent on Washington’s approval for Russians to monitor tests in the United States. Western diplomats it was the first time the Soviet Union had expressed readiness to carry out a specific plan for on-site inspection. They said the plan, though not a government-to-government agreement, might serve as a model for resolving differences over the verification of arms control treaties, particularly those limiting nuclear explosions. The proposal was made in an agreement signed here today by Yevgeny P. Velikhov, a vice president of the Academy of Sciences, and Adrian W. DeWind, chairman of the Natural Resource Defense Council, a private environmental group based in New York. The plan calls for the installation, beginning next month, of three seismic stations in the Soviet Union to monitor explosions in the nuclear proving grounds, 90 miles west of Semipalatinsk, in Kazakhstan. The stations would be staffed by Americans. Under the plan, Soviet scientists, all of whom work for the Government, would establish similar stations in the United States to monitor explosions at the Nevada proving ground.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that the NATO allies “cannot tolerate” East Germany’s apparent effort to impose passport controls on diplomats seeking to travel from East to West Berlin. The Secretary spoke on the third day of a confrontation over the status of Berlin. East German border allowed diplomats from the United States, Britain and France to cross to West Berlin today without demanding that they show their passports, but they turned back diplomats of other NATO nations who refused to do so. Mr. Shultz, speaking to reporters aboard his Air Force plane as he flew here for the spring meeting of the foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, said he would discuss the Berlin situation with his counterparts from Britain, France and West Germany. He said the allies had raised their concerns with the Soviet Union, which the Western allies regard as responsible for East Berlin. He said East-West relations, and in particular the status of the arms control talks with the Russians, would dominate the two-day session here.
Mr. Shultz’s comments seemed to reflect the somewhat ambiguous state of relations between Moscow and Washington, which has only been underscored by developments in recent days. One such development was the two-edged announcement by President Reagan that the United States for the moment would continue to adhere to force levels under the unratified strategic arms treaty of 1979, but would go beyond its limits later this year unless the Soviet Union significantly changed its arms control policies.
French President Francois Mitterrand said the Reagan Administration, during the U.S. raid on Libya, forgot “we are a sovereign state,” but he emphasized the two countries still enjoy “excellent relations.” Strains developed after France refused permission for U.S. jets to fly through French airspace on the way to bomb Libya on April 15. Mitterrand, a Socialist, also made clear his opposition to reforms proposed by rightist Premier Jacques Chirac and said he might call early parliamentary elections. He commented in an interview, the first since the March 16 elections that put into power a conservative coalition led by Chirac.
Pope John Paul II is considering new efforts to improve ties between the Vatican and the Soviet Union, Vatican officials said today. The chief Vatican spokesman, Joaquin Navarro Valls, said today that the Pope had met with senior aides to discuss relations between the church and Eastern Europe. He denied a report here that the officials had also discussed the possibility of a papal visit to the Soviet Union. Although Mr. Navarro declined further comment, a senior Vatican official said the Pope had decided that with new leadership in power in the Soviet Union, “it is possible to begin a new approach” and that John Paul was seeking ways to open a major new phase in the Vatican’s foreign policy. Referring to the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, a Western diplomat who closely follows the Pope’s foreign policy stance said, “There are clear indications that he’s trying to feel Gorbachev out.”
About half of the 117 Soviet citizens told they could join families in the United States are Jews, the State Department said today. The State Department and private American groups espousing the emigration cause were unable to say why Moscow had suddenly relaxed some travel bans at a time when total emigration figures of Soviet Jews have dropped to historic lows. The total number of Jews allowed to leave the Soviet Union in April was 72. In 1979 the monthly average was 4,320. A State Department spokesman, Charles E. Redman, said about half the people among the 117 announced Tuesday are Jews, which is about the same proportion of the total cases being pushed by the United States in all categories. Sources said the other half of the people on the list are Ukrainians. In New York, Glenn Richter of the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry said he had received word that a former Soviet chess champion, Boris Gulko, and his wife, Anna, had been told they will be permitted to leave the Soviet Union in the next few days for Israel.
Swedish investigators announced that it was unlikely that Prime Minister Olof Palme was killed by the agent of a terrorist group. Claes Zeime, the judicial head of the investigation into the shooting February 28, said police have studied 16 organizations without finding a link. Police Commissioner Hans Holmer said police are still following 40 “interesting” leads.
Despite strong suspicions that Syria was involved in the terrorist attack on the airport here in December, Italian magistrates investigating this and other terrorist activities have decided for now not to take steps against any Syrian officials. Instead, arrest warrants were issued today for 15 Palestinians and Lebanese who were described as low-level operatives, Italian Government and diplomatic sources said. Investigations into charges of Syrian support of terrorism, including the airport attack, are continuing here, however. And the new warrants might play a role in diplomatic efforts by the United States, Italy and other nations to modify Syrian attitudes toward terrorism, a senior Italian official said.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev told a visiting Syrian leader today that the Soviet Union would continue to supply military aid, according to the Government press agency Tass. The agency said that the Soviet leader had stressed the aid issue in a meeting with Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam of Syria because of “escalating threats from U.S. imperialism and Israel against Syria.” Tass quoted Mr. Gorbachev as having said that all Middle East issues should be resolved by political means.
Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, toasting President Assad of Syria at a dinner in Athens Tuesday night, indirectly criticized the United States position on international terrorism. Addressing a leader whose country has often been charged with supporting terrorism, Mr. Papandreou said: “We cannot accept the principle that terrorism is directly related to states characterized as terrorist, because if we had sufficient time, I could read a list of countries either in the West or the East, North or South that should be included in that category.” At a news conference in Tokyo this month, President Reagan said he would strike at Syria if he obtained “irrefutable evidence” that it had supported a terrorist attack.
Two Palestinians were convicted in a court in Nazareth of murdering two Israeli teachers last year and were sentenced to life in prison. Osman Bani Hassan, 19, and Azza Saadi, 18, were found guilty of the premeditated murder of Yosef Eliahu, 35, and Lea Almakais, 19. The bodies of the two teachers, who disappeared last July, were found in a cave outside Afula, northeast of Tel Aviv.
Two Armenians, a dentist and a photographer, were shot to death in West Beirut, and political leaders called for a three-day protest strike beginning today by the 400,000 Armenians in Lebanon. Two other Armenians were slain in the Muslim sector of the capital on Tuesday. A joint statement by the Armenians denounced “this ugly criminal wave against Armenian citizens.” Authorities said they have no leads in the killings.
More than 3,000 tourists are stranded in Darjeeling, India, by a protest strike by Gurkha inhabitants campaigning for autonomy in eastern India. “There is growing panic. Many tourists are running out of money,” one official said. The tourists include 200 foreigners stranded since Sunday after police in the nearby town of Kurseong opened fire at 2,500 supporters of the Gurkha National Liberation Front, killing five people and sparking the strike. Bus service was halted, and hotels were running short of water. Authorities in India have faced growing agitation from the Gurkhas, who are demanding official status for their language and equal job opportunities with Bengalis.
Ferdinand E. Marcos and the nearly 90 people who fled from Manila with him ran up a bill of more than $206,000 for personal expenses, including $2,552 for shoes, during the month they stayed at United States Air Force bases, a Congressional report said today. The figure was part of a total cost of $858,417 for moving the deposed Philippine leader and his relatives and friends out of the Philippines after his 20-year rule collapsed Feb. 25, according to figures provided by the House Armed Services Committee. The panel called on the Reagan Administration to try to get reimbursement from Mr. Marcos.
Early returns from elections in Barbados showed the opposition Democratic Labor Party, led by a former prime minister, Errol Barrow, heading for a landslide victory. Returns from 21 of the 27 electoral districts showed his party leading all but 2 races, while Prime Minister Bernard St. John of the ruling Labor Party seemed likely to lose his National Assembly seat. While St. John favors strengthening Barbados’ ties with the United States, Barrow has been critical of U.S. policy in the Caribbean.
The Government of Haiti sued former President Jean-Claude Duvalier and several of his relatives and associates yesterday in an attempt to recover hundreds of millions of dollars they reportedly stole from the Haitian people before fleeing into exile. In papers filed in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, the Haitian Government said the Duvaliers and others might have absconded with up to $400 million. The suit names Duvalier; his wife, Michele Bennett Duvalier; her brother Ernest Bennett Jr.; his wife, Mary Bennett; two Duvalier associates who live in New York City, Jean Sambour and Georges Derenoncourt, and Citibank.
After almost three weeks of hard bargaining here, the leaders of the main Nicaraguan rebel organization were reported today to have reached an accord under which civilian officials will be given greater control. Rebel sources in Miami and Washington say the agreement appears likely to resolve a long power struggle that threatened to split the rebel front, which is named the United Nicaraguan Opposition. The rebels, known as contras, are seeking the overthrow of the Nicaraguan Government, which took power in the 1979 revolution that toppled the dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle. The rebel sources cautioned that the the effect of the accord would depend on the willingness of rebel officials to put aside their differences and carry out its terms.
The President of Honduras said today that his country would face “an extremely serious problem” if Congress did not renew United States aid to the Nicaraguan rebels fighting from Honduran bases. In an appearance at the National Press Club during a four-day visit to Washington, President Jose Azcona Hoyo said, “We believe that the contras should be fighting inside Nicaragua, and that they can do so only if they receive assistance.” Speaking of the rebels’ 15,000-member force in Honduras, Mr. Azcona said, “We are not to blame for the existence of the contras, nor are we to blame for the large number of Nicaraguans who leave Nicaragua every day because they do not like the way of life being imposed upon them.”
Brazilian resident Jose Sarney accepted the resignation today of the Minister for Agrarian Reform and Development, Nelson Ribeiro, in what political sources described as a dispute over redistribution of land. The sources said the resignation, announced by a Government spokesman, resulted from friction between Mr. Ribeiro and Mr. Sarney over Mr. Ribeiro’s outspoken remarks on the politically sensitive question of distributing underutilized land to rural workers.
An Argentine naval ship fired on two Taiwanese fishing vessels today, setting one ablaze, and chased a third just outside the 150-mile exclusion zone set by Britain, a Taiwan official said. The 22-man crew on the Taiwan squid trawler Chain Der 3 took to lifeboats, and the Argentine vessel was trying to rescue them, according to Lei Tsu-kang, who represents Taiwan squid fishermen in the British-owned islands in the South Atlantic. It was not immediately known whether there were casualties, but the Argentine ship said later that it could see only one lifeboat with several crew members clinging to it near the stricken vessel, Mr. Lei said.
Many African delegates expressed disappointment today at the failure of the industrialized donor countries to commit themselves to specific financial targets requested by African nations at the General Assembly special session on the African economic crisis. “I am still waiting for a commitment, and I am not yet satisfied,” said Foreign Minister William Eteki Mboumoua of the Cameroons. Another African official called positions outlined by the United States and Japan “totally reactionary.” In the first two days of speeches before the five-day session, officials from donor countries, including the United States, Japan, Britain, France and West Germany, praised Africa’s willingness to develop free markets and encourage individual initiative.
Nigerian authorities ordered Lagos University and three other colleges closed and imposed a ban on demonstrations as students rampaged in the streets of Lagos to protest police killings of students. A total of 12 universities have been closed, and a wave of often violent demonstrations has swept campuses across the country since police killed a number of students in clashes at the Ahmadu Bello University in the northern town of Zaria last Friday. The official death toll at Zaria has been put at four.
The Administration said today that it had indefinitely postponed studies on a possible site for a nuclear waste dump in any of 17 states in the East and Middle West. The Administration also announced that President Reagan had decided that the first repository should be built at one of three Western sites, in Texas, Nevada or Washington. The first repository is to begin receiving waste in 1998. In January the Energy Department identified seven states as potential sites for the second disposal area: Maine, New Hampshire, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Wisconsin and Minnesota. Since then strenuous opposition has been voiced in many communities to permanent sites for the disposal of highly radioactive spent fuel and waste products from nuclear utilities and weapons plants. The second dump was to be have been completed about 20 years from now. In addition to the seven states that had been leaders under consideration for the second repository, there were 10 under tentative consideration. They were New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Maryland, South Carolina and Michigan.
President Reagan hosts a luncheon with a group of prominent political cartoonists.
President Reagan participates in a taping session for the ABC Affiliates Conference in Los Angeles, June 3-5, 1986.
President Reagan has selected Admiral Carlisle Trost to be the next Chief of Naval Operations, officials in the Reagan Administration said today. The 56-year-old admiral is to succeed Admiral James D. Watkins, who is retiring after serving as the Navy’s Chief of Naval Operations for four years. The decision is expected to be announced Thursday.
The Rev. Pat Robertson claimed outright victory in Michigan in the first test for potential 1988 Republican presidential contenders, but backers of Vice President George Bush disputed the claim. State GOP officials estimated 9,800 delegates met Tuesday’s filing deadline, thousands fewer than the organizations backing Robertson, Bush and Rep. Jack Kemp (R-New York) have individually claimed.
The Administration will soon propose an increase of one-half of 1 percent in Medicare payments to hospitals for the treatment of elderly or disabled patients, federal health officials said today. The proposed increase, for the fiscal year that starts October 1, is substantially less than the increase needed to keep pace with inflation, according to hospital administrators and advocates for the elderly. But officials at the Office of Management and Budget, who spoke on condition that they not be identified, contend that data on hospital costs would actually justify a freeze or a slight reduction in the payments to hospitals. The new rates are to be announced later this week and published Monday in The Federal Register for public comment. The final rules must be issued by September 1 and would apply to all Medicare patients discharged from hospitals after October 1.
An agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified today that Ronald W. Pelton had admitted selling secrets to the Russians that were “enormously costly” and “harmful” to the United States. The agent, David E. Faulkner, said Mr. Pelton, a former staff officer of the National Security Agency, told him that his Soviet contact was interested in “what the U.S. was getting from Soviet embassies and what the U.S. was getting from its overhead network,” apparently a reference to spy satellites. He said Mr. Pelton said Soviet agents were “not particularly interested” in information Mr. Pelton provided on the ability of the United States to monitor high-level “command and control” communications, and two other intelligence-gathering projects identified only as Projects C and D. According to Mr. Faulkner, Mr. Pelton acknowledged that his disclosures about two other activities, Project A and Project B, were harmful, “insofar as the budget was concerned.” Mr. Faulkner said that he asked Mr. Pelton if the disclosures might endanger the lives of those who maintained the equipment in Project A and that Mr. Pelton had no response. Later, Mr. Faulker said, Mr. Pelton said, “The bottom line was that, yes, it had been harmful.”
For the first time since the Federal speed limit of 55 miles an hour was adopted more than a decade ago, the Department of Transportation has decided to withhold Federal highway funds from states found to have inadequately enforced the speed limit. Two states were affected by today’s decision. The findings of failure to enforce the speed limit adequately are based on a measurement of how many cars exceed 55 miles an hour on roads posted with that speed limit. In letters released today, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole notified the Governors of Arizona and Vermont that the two states had failed to enforce the speed limit adequately in the fiscal year 1984 and that she was proposing to withhold up to 10 percent of their Federal funds for highways outside the Interstate System. A top Vermont official said the state would appeal and Arizona Transportation Director Charles Miller said the federal move seemed illogical.
Federal safety officials recommended assigning special air traffic controllers at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport — the world’s busiest — to prevent runway collisions in a test that may be implemented nationwide. The National Transportation Safety Board, in its report on the near collision of two planes at O’Hare last May 17, said the brush with disaster was the second such incident there in less than three months. In the latest incident, the two planes, on intersecting runways and carrying a total of 224 people, missed each other by only 10 to 20 feet.
Former Governor Orval Faubus of Arkansas, calling himself a “has-been,” grudgingly pledged support yesterday for Governor Bill Clinton, who defeated him in the Democratic primary Tuesday, while Kentucky’s Republican nominee for a United States Senate seat insisted that he was not foolhardy in challenging the incumbent, Wendell H. Ford. Representative Bill Alexander, the deputy Democratic whip in the House, survived a primary scare in Arkansas. In other results from primaries Tuesday, Connie Hansen of Idaho fell short in her bid for the Republican nomination for the House seat held by her husband, George, until he was convicted of falsifying financial disclosure statements. Mr. Faubus, a six-term Governor who rose to national prominence as a symbol of segregation in 1957, said he would obey the rules of party loyalty and vote for Governor Clinton, who will face former Governor Frank D. White, the Republican nominee, for the third time. But Mr. Faubus called Mr. Clinton, a 39-year-old former Rhodes scholar, a representative of the “superrich” instead of the common man.
About 150 Cuban refugees pelted guards with rocks and set fire to mattresses and furniture, causing extensive damage when officials tried to break up a shoe-theft extortion ring operating inside Krome Detention Center west of Miami. Some of the inmates tried to escape and one guard was slightly injured, but guards “fired shots in the air and they got the message,” said refugee official Perry Rivkind. The incident began when guards attempted to search about 150 Cuban felons believed involved in an extortion ring in which they would steal shoes from detainees and rent them back, Rivkind said.
Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger told 973 graduating cadets of the United States Military Academy today to dedicate themselves to leadership for a war he hoped they would never have to fight. There are “many styles of leadership,” he said in the Michie Stadium ceremony that is rich with tradition. But “at the heart of true authority -that special alchemy between the leader and the led — is surely trust.”
A Chicago judge charged with accepting bribes to fix traffic cases is the 10th jurist indicted as a result of the undercover Operation Greylord investigation of the nation’s largest court system that began in 1980. Cook County Judge John McCollom, 63, was indicted by a federal grand jury on single counts of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy and 18 counts of mail fraud. A total of 54 people — judges, lawyers, police officers — have been indicted.
Cathy Evelyn Smith’s trial on charges of murdering the comedian John Belushi was postponed today for two weeks. “We want to determine which way we’re going to go,” the defense lawyer, Howard L. Weitzman, told Judge David Horowitz of Superior Court, in requesting the delay. Mr. Weitzman declined to comment on reports that a plea bargain was possible. A deputy district attorney, Eldon Fox, did not oppose the delay. Sources who spoke only on condition they not be identified said Miss Smith might plead guilty to lesser charges if prosecutors could guarantee she would not spend any time in jail. At the conclusion of her preliminary hearing last November, Miss Smith, 38 years old, a former rock singer, was ordered to stand trial on a charge of second-degree murder and 13 counts of furnishing and administering cocaine and heroin. Mr. Belushi was found dead of a heroin and cocaine overdose March 5, 1982, in a bungalow at the Chateau Marmont Hotel.
The owners of The Sun and The Evening Sun, the celebrated Baltimore newspapers that were home to H. L. Mencken and the winners of 12 Pulitzer Prizes, said yesterday that they would sell the papers to the Times Mirror Company, the Los Angeles-based communications conglomerate. Times Mirror has agreed to pay $600 million to acquire the A. S. Abell Company, a private corporation based in Baltimore that owns the Baltimore newspapers, television stations in Baltimore and Richmond, and some small magazines. John Morton, a newspaper analyst for Lynch Jones & Ryan in Washington, estimated that $450 million of the purchase price was for the newspapers, which would be the highest price yet paid for a newspaper acquisition. Only last week, the Gannett Company agreed to pay about $300 million for The Courier-Journal and The Louisville Times in Kentucky, which was a record then.
Rhode Island’s chief justice is quitting amid public hearings in an inquiry into whether he should be impeached over his associations with people tied to organized crime, acceptance of free electric work by contractors working for the court and adulterous liaisons in a motel owned by criminals. Chief Justice Joseph A. Bevilacqua of Rhode Island’s Supreme Court said he was resigning effective June 30.
Judge William H. Barbour of Federal District Court in Jackson, Mississippi has indefinitely postponed the Chancery and Circuit Court elections set for June 3 after State Senator Henry Kirksey and others argued that Mississippi’s at-large voting system makes it inordinately difficult for blacks to be elected. Judge Barbour, acting Tuesday, also ordered the postponement of County Court races in Harrison, Hinds and Jackson Counties. The judge asked lawyers on both sides to propose remedial plans. State Attorney General Ed Pittman, who argued that some judicial elections should have been allowed, said that he would appeal the decision. Carroll Rhodes, one of the attorneys for black plaintiffs in the case, told Judge Barbour that the at-large election process, coupled with current boundary lines, made it hard for a minority candidate to to win. Senator Kirksey said, “The state now has the opportunity to show that it wants equal opportunity.”
The average time lag between infection with the AIDS virus and the onset of acquired immune deficiency syndrome has been at least five years among people who developed the deadly affliction after receiving contaminated transfusions, according to a Federal study. Because of this often lengthy incubation, the researchers warned, a sharp rise in new cases resulting from contaminated transfusions is inevitable, even though the nation’s blood supplies were purged of donations containing the AIDS virus last spring. The current load of transfusion-associated cases does not reflect the full impact of infections acquired after 1981, in years when the AIDS virus spread rapidly among some potential blood donors, the officials said. A total of 384 transfusion-related cases had been reported to the Federal authorities as of Monday, but several hundred such cases annually are likely in some future years, according to one of the six authors of the report, Dale N. Lawrence of the Federal Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.
Now that the baby boom generation is maturing, the increase in the number of American households is expected to slow in the next decade and a half, the Census Bureau said. There have been sharp increases in the number of new households in recent years, as members of that giant generation born following World War II reached adulthood and began setting up housekeeping on their own. But that generation, born roughly between 1946 and the early 1960s, has for the most part completed college now and finished establishing new households.
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The Detroit Tigers defeated the California Angles in Anaheim, 4–1. Dan Petry and Eric King combined on a six-hitter Detroit won its fourth consecutive victory. Petry (4–4) blanked the Angels on three hits after allowing a first-inning run.
The Chicago Cubs blanked the Cincinnati Reds, 5–0. Rick Sutcliffe’s four-hit pitching, Davey Lopes’ two runs batted in and Jody Davis’s home run helped the Chicago Cubs beat Cincinnati. Sutcliffe is now 3–6.
Jim Rice drove in five runs and Don Baylor knocked in four, including three with his 10th homer, to spark the Boston Red Sox to a 13–7 triumph over the Cleveland Indians tonight. Oil Can Boyd (6–3) gave up seven hits over seven innings, and Steve Crawford finished up as Boston won for the 10th time in 11 games. Cleveland got four homers, two by Mel Hall, in losing its fifth straight. The Indians, 22–23, are below .500 for the first time since April 25.
The Royals squeaked by the Brewers, 4–3. Hal McRae, employing the cool savvy of a 17-year veteran, bounced a bases-loaded single into left field with one out in the ninth inning to lead Kansas City. The 39-year-old McRae drove in Frank White, who had reached on an infield single to the third baseman Dale Sveum and taken third when Sveum threw wildly to first on an attempted sacrifice bunt. The winner in relief was Steve Farr, 3–1.
George Bell hit a home run to break a 6–6 tie in the eighth inning to ignite Toronto’s biggest inning of the season, as the Blue Jays bludgeoned the Twins, 14–8. Lloyd Moseby also had a three-run double in the inning as the Blue Jays posted season highs with both the 14 runs and with 15 hits. Toronto sent 13 batters to the plate against five Minnesota pitchers in the inning.
The Padres routed the Expos, 10–1. Terry Kennedy hit a three-run homer and Jerry Royster added a two-run shot for the Padres. LaMarr Hoyt (2–1) scattered 10 hits over eight and two-thirds innings for the victory.
Dwight Gooden was back in form at Shea Stadium last night — not that he had ever roamed too far. He flirted with a perfect game for four innings, was as cunning and as masterful as ever, and the Mets beat the Dodgers, 4–2. Gooden struck out 10, gave up just five hits and Dave Johnson, his manager, said with some degree of sarcasm and just the slightest suggestion of relief, “Now that he’s healthy, we can stop worrying about him.” Gary Carter had a home run, Kevin Mitchell also had one, and the path was nothing but rosy for the Mets again now that the annoyance of Gooden’s mini-slump is out of the way. He won for the first time in four outings and the Mets won their fourth straight, their seventh in nine. Any anxiety about a swoon after their torrid start now seems greatly premature.
The Orioles downed the Oakland A’s, 9–5. Eddie Murray’s sacrifice fly in the eighth inning snapped a tie and Jim Dwyer added a three-run, pinch-hit homer in the ninth for Baltimore. Murray hit a deep fly that Jose Canseco, the left fielder, caught in foul territory. Two walks and Fred Lynn’s one-out single had loaded the bases for Murray.
Glenn Wilson knocked in two runs and Shane Rawley tossed a four-hitter, as the Philadelphia Phillies shut out the San Giants, 4–0. Wilson drove in two runs in a four-run first inning as Philadelphia chased Scott Garrelts (4–5).
The Pirates edged the Braves, 4–3. Tony Pena hit a home run and Johnny Ray went 2 for 4, drove in a run and scored the game-winner on Craig McMurtry’s sixth-inning wild pitch, enabling the Pirates to snap a six-game losing streak. Larry McWilliams gave up three runs on five hits over seven innings to earn his first triumph of the season against three losses.
Their pitching troubles continued tonight, but at least the New York Yankees can take comfort in an offense that produces runs as if they were coming off an assembly line. Bob Tewksbury failed to survive the third inning, and Ed Whitson struggled in relief, but the Yankees unleashed a formidable hitting attack that beat the Seattle Mariners, 6–5, at the Kingdome. Don Mattingly hit two home runs, and Rickey Henderson and Mike Easler also hit homers, although the Yankees endured some anxious times after scoring four runs in the first inning. Tewksbury was unable to pitch effectively with the comfort of a big lead, and Whitson earned the victory, improving his record to 4–1, despite giving up two runs and walking five batters in three and one-third innings.
The Astros nipped the Cardinals, 4–3. Craig Reynolds tripled with two out in the 11th inning to score Glenn Davis. Phil Garner led off the 11th with a single but was thrown out attempting to steal. Davis followed with a double down the right-field line off Todd Worrell (3–3), then moved to third as Kevin Bass grounded out. Reynolds then tripled to right-center.
In his 2nd start for the White Sox since being recalled from Triple A Buffalo, Joe Cowley ties a Major League record by striking out the first 7 Rangers he faces, but still surrenders 6 runs in 4 ⅓ innings and loses 6–3. He finishes with 8 strikeouts. Cowley’s K record will be broken by Jim Deshaies before the season’s end.
Detroit Tigers 4, California Angels 1
Cincinnati Reds 0, Chicago Cubs 5
Boston Red Sox 13, Cleveland Indians 7
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Kansas City Royals 4
Toronto Blue Jays 14, Minnesota Twins 8
San Diego Padres 10, Montreal Expos 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, New York Mets 4
Baltimore Orioles 9, Oakland Athletics 5
San Francisco Giants 0, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Atlanta Braves 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
New York Yankees 6, Seattle Mariners 5
Houston Astros 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Chicago White Sox 3, Texas Rangers 6
Stock prices catapulted into record territory yesterday on a wave of institutional buying and another blue-chip rally. The Dow Jones industrial average, the premium measure of blue-chip issues, finished 25.25 higher at 1,878.28. This was well above its previous record close of 1,855.90, set on April 21. One of the Dow’s key components, the International Business Machines Corporation, was a major factor in the stock market’s advance. Leading the most-active list, the world’s biggest computer company rose 4 3/8, to 151 3/8, on a volume of 3.7 million shares.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1878.28 (+25.25)
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Michael Oher, NFL tackle (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Baltimore Ravens, Tennessee Titans, Carolina Panthers), subject of movie “The Blind Side”, in Memphis, Tennessee.
Othello Hunter, NBA small forward and power forward (Atlanta Hawks), in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
Petteri Wirtanen, Finnish NHL centre (Anaheim Ducks), in Hyvinkaa, Finland.
Joseph Cross, American actor (“Lincoln”, “Running with Scissors”), in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
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