Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that the United States, in a policy “shift of gears,” would decide what nuclear weapons were needed for its security on military grounds and no longer on “the technicalities” of the 1979 arms treaty with the Soviet Union. In a news conference at the end of a turbulent two-day meeting here of the NATO foreign ministers, Mr. Shultz said he did not want to “underestimate” the value that might accrue from achieving “radical reductions” in nuclear arms through a future arms accord with the Russians. But with the chances of such an accord admittedly slim, Mr. Shultz seemed in his comments to be seeking to justify to the American and allied publics President Reagan’s announced shift away from dependence on the 1979 treaty to help maintain strategic parity with the Russians. That accord, which was never ratified by the Senate, set limits on the numbers of offensive long-range missiles and bombers in the Soviet and American arsenals.
Mr. Reagan’s statement Tuesday that he planned to scuttle the 1979 treaty by the end of the year, and the implications this will hold for arms control, touched off widespread criticism by many of Washington’s closest allies. The criticism was voiced at the NATO meeting here and in European capitals. Mr. Shultz, speaking at one of his most contentious news conferences, denied today that there was a rift in the alliance. He said much of the criticism was “over imagery and not over content.” In previous public statements, Mr. Shultz had been strongly in favor of keeping within the limits of the 1979 treaty and had been known to be engaged in a sharp debate within the Administration with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger over the question. It appeared today that Mr. Shultz had either changed his position or that Mr. Reagan had ruled against his view. Under persistent questioning, Mr. Shultz repeatedly defended Mr. Reagan’s announcement that while the United States would continue to adhere to the limits of the 1979 strategic arms accord for several months, by the end of the year it would no longer be bound by its restrictions because of past Soviet actions. “We want to get away from the technicalities, so to speak, of what this unratified and increasingly obsolete treaty may or may not have called for,” Mr. Shultz said, “and into the realities of what is the Soviet posture and what does it take for the United States to have a strong and secure deterrent.”
A senior Soviet official cast doubts today on the likelihood of a Soviet-American summit meeting later this year if the Reagan Administration does not alter its attitude toward arms control. In a conversation with journalists at the Soviet Embassy, Valentin Falin, the head of the Novosti press agency and a former Ambassador to Bonn, singled out President Reagan’s approach to the 1979 strategic arms agreement, which the United States did not ratify, as symptomatic of what he said was Washington’s search for superiority over the Soviet Union. “The Americans are not looking for ways of bringing our positions closer together; they are looking for things that will drive us apart,” Mr. Falin said. “If the Americans continue this position, I am not sure that it will come to a summit meeting this year.”
Yelena G. Bonner said today that recent films purporting to portray the views of her husband, Andrei D. Sakharov, were part of a disinformation campaign by the K.G.B. Miss Bonner said at a news conference here this afternoon, “In recent years the world has only received false information about him.” She said many of the untruths could be found in the dispatches of official Soviet press agencies. Miss Bonner singled out the Soviet journalist Victor Louis as the “acme” of disinformation. Mr. Louis, who often appears to reflect official thinking in Moscow, said Thursday that Miss Bonner’s behavior in her six-month stay in the West posed an “obstacle” to Dr. Sakharov’s return to Moscow from internal exile in Gorky.
Several leading American Jewish organizations issued a strongly worded statement today opposing any dilution of the Jackson-Vanik amendment, the 1974 law linking trade benefits for the Soviet Union to a relaxation in restrictions on the emigration of Soviet Jews. The statement noted that “the amendment provides that its restrictions may be waived, year by year, if the President and Congress find that there is a significant change in these restrictive policies.” But, it continued: “There has been no sign of any change in the repressive policies of the Soviet Union. In fact, emigration of Soviet Jews diminishes while persecution of Jewish cultural activists and would-be emigrants increases.”
For three hours tonight, the public image the Soviet Union presents to the world was replaced by a rock-and-roll vision. It was the country’s first charity concert, a benefit by the Soviet Union’s leading pop and rock performers to aid the victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. “Kiev and Chernobyl, we’re with you,” said Alla Pugacheva, one of the Soviet Union’s most popular pop singers, as the concert got under way amid pulsating lights and clouds of artificial smoke that enveloped the stage in Moscow’s huge indoor Olympic stadium. Miss Pugacheva told the audience, “Money is money, but today we want to give our hearts to the people who were at Chernobyl.”
More than a month after the Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl atomic power station erupted with a plume of radioactive dust, Kiev and its 2.5 million people are learning to live with the invisible threat that stirs with strong south winds — the “dust,” as people call it. The shadow of Chernobyl is not immediately evident in the bright sunshine of a spring that people say is the best in many a year. But reminders of the dust are never far away. The hand-printed sign at the back of the ornate Bessarabsky farmers’ market directs sellers to the dairy section around the side.
Pope John Paul II issued the fifth encyclical of his papacy today, denouncing Marxism and other forms of philosophical materialism as ideologies that portray “God as an enemy of his own creature.” In the 141-page document brimming with references to Satan and to the coming of the third millennium, John Paul sought to focus the attention of Roman Catholics on the Holy Spirit, the mysterious third person of the Trinity whom Christians revere, along with the Father and the Son, as the one God. The encyclical, “Dominum et Vivificantem” (“The Lord and Giver of Life”), is a highly personal revery by John Paul on one of the richest but most elusive concepts of the Christian faith — in the Pope’s words, the “hidden God” who is the Holy Spirit. But John Paul, as is his habit, used these reflections to undergird a harsh critique of the modern world, with “its signs and symptoms of death,” and of ideologies he sees as destroying a spiritual vision of humanity. He underscored the importance he ascribed to his message by issuing it as an encyclical, which is the most formal teaching instrument of the papacy.
The Bonn prosecutor’s office announced today that after a two-month investigation, it had decided that it would not bring political corruption charges against Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The announcement came nine days after a prosecutor in Coblenz had halted a similar inquiry for lack of evidence. Investigators here had been looking into the possibility that the Chancellor had lied to a parliamentary inquiry into party financing. The statement by the Bonn prosecutor lifted an important political burden from the Chancellor at a time when his leadership of the Christian Democratic Party and of the country has been questioned.
The Libyan Ambassador to Spain, who was accused by suspected terrorists of having personally overseen their operations, has left Spain at the request of the Spanish Government, according to Libyan and Spanish officials. The officials said the diplomat, Ahmed Mohamed Nakaa, left for Tripoli, the Libyan capital, on Thursday night.
The World Jewish Congress yesterday produced a copy of the United Nations War Crimes Commission document that accused Kurt Waldheim of being a war criminal who should stand trial for murder and putting hostages to death. The secret file, made public at a news conference, said the independent United Nations body considered that there was “sufficient evidence to justify” Mr. Waldheim’s prosecution at the end of World War II on those charges.
Twenty-six people were killed in Sri Lanka today in bomb explosions at a soft-drink bottling plant and in a military convoy, the authorities said. A Tamil guerrilla group took responsibility for the explosion in the convoy, which killed 18 soldiers in northeastern Sri Lanka. The police said rebels also were suspected of rigging a bomb in a truck that blew up and killed eight people in the bottling plant, in Colombo.
Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila, said today that he thought the scope of the Communist insurgency in the Philippines had been exaggerated. “We have some Communists, but they are not very many” and their forces are weak, he said in a news conference here. Many people, he said, “went to the hills” out of discontent with the Government of Ferdinand E. Marcos, not out of any affection for Communism. They remained rebels, he said, only because they feared imprisonment. “But they are now surrendering, coming down from the hills and surrendering by groups,” he said. In February, shortly after the uprising that overthrew Mr. Marcos and installed Corazon C. Aquino as President, American officials put the number of Communist guerrillas at 20,000 and said the rebels 20 percent of the Philippine archipelago’s 40,000 villages.
The United States wanted Australia to resettle Klaus Barbie, who is accused of war crimes in France, according to a Liberal Party senator who says he obtained documents in the case. The senator, Peter Baume, called today for a Government inquiry into Australian involvement in resettling Nazis. Mr. Baume said in a Senate speech: “Obviously the Barbie attempt was unsuccessful. But the documents suggest that some Nazis may have slipped into our system.” Mr. Baume said his information was based on a 1952 memorandum from the United States authorities in Cologne to the Australian Consulate there. He indicated that the request was made in vague terms.
France performs a nuclear test at Mururoa in the South Pacific.
Canada is not expected to renew its $105,000 annnual contract with Michael K. Deaver, the former White House aide whose subsequent activities as a lobbyist have come under investigation in Washington. Joe Clark, the Secretary of State for External Affairs, said recently that the renewal of Mr. Deaver’s contract was still being considered. And the spokesman for Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, Bill Fox, said that he did not know what the outcome would be. But other sources in the Canadian Government and Parliament said that Mr. Deaver had become a liability by generating too much controversy and that he had not proven particularly useful since he left the White House a year ago.
The United States Customs Commissioner has agreed to give Mexican authorities intelligence information about the purported involvement of Mexican police officers and public officials in narcotics trafficking, delegates to a conference of legislators from the two countries were told today. Senator Phil Gramm, Republican of Texas, said the commissioner, William von Rabb, had agreed to turn over the information. Mr. von Raab testified before a Senate subcommittee earlier this month about corruption among Mexican police and Government officials and their purported involvement in drug trafficking. Mexican officials demanded that information on the accusations be shared for investigation.
Britain has condemned Argentina for attacking Taiwan fishing trawlers near the Falkland Islands and said it called earlier this week for an end to harassment of the vessels. The Foreign Office said Thursday that the action “amounts to an attempt to pursue a sovereignty claim by force.” The Argentine Government said a coast guard cutter fired on the trawlers, one of which was set afire and abandoned Wednesday, after the trawlers were found operating within the 200-mile fishing limit Argentina claims. A Taiwan fisheries official in the Falklands said that a crewman from the Chiann-Der 3, the trawler set afire, was killed and that three were wounded.
The police, using whips and tear gas, arrested more than 50 people today as college students, both white and black, staged anti-Government protests in South Africa’s two biggest cities. At the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, confrontations between students and riot policemen flared throughout the day in some of worst political violence ever seen at any of the country’s predominantly white colleges. Meanwhile, police headquarters reported that the burned bodies of seven black men were found in five black townships across the country. No details were provided. In an earlier announcement, the police said security forces shot four blacks dead overnight, including a woman and girl in a car that ran a roadblock in Soweto.
The material that Ronald W. Pelton is charged with providing to the Soviet Union offers a detailed account of this country’s successes, and failures, in intercepting many of the communications networks in the Soviet Union, a senior official of the National Security Agency testified today. The official, William Perry Crowell Jr., said the data would be of great value to Soviet agents because it would allow them to “render ineffective” some of the costly devices used by American intelligence to eavesdrop on Soviet communications. He said the data could also be used by the Soviet Union to “capitalize on our weaknesses” since it describes which signals the N.S.A. has failed to decode or intercept. Mr. Crowell, identified as the chief of the N.S.A. group that collects and analyzes Soviet communications, provided the most detailed account to date of the damage that may have been caused by Mr. Pelton’s activities. Among these were disclosures about Project A, an interception program that had provided American intelligence with a “considerable amount” of information on training, capabilities and planned maneuvers of unspecified Soviet military forces.
President Reagan today brought his proposal to limit liability damage awards to an audience that supports it, the American Tort Reform Association, an organization of business and professional groups seeking such limits. Mr. Reagan and two members of his Cabinet, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige, said trial lawyers were responsible for awards they said were too high. Much of the money in such awards goes to lawyers instead of their clients, Mr. Reagan said. He repeated his endorsement of proposals including “fixed-dollar limitations for certain kinds of awards and the establishment of assurances that liability judgments go to those actually wronged or injured and not to lining their attorneys’ pockets.” Many in the audience of about 300 people applauded.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to present the family of the late Captain Joseph J. Rochefort the Distinguished Service Medal.
President Reagan participates in a ceremony to greet winners and participants of the 59th Annual Schripps Howard National Spelling Bee.
An Israeli military officer is expected to be charged in the next several days with participating in an espionage operation in the United States, a Reagan Administration official said today. According to the official, the Israeli had ties to Jonathan Jay Pollard, a civilian analyst for the United States Navy who has been accused of selling classified military information to Israel. The Administration official, who spoke on the condition that he not be named, said prosecutors were close to a plea bargain with Mr. Pollard that would require him to cooperate in an investigation that has strained ties between the United States and Israel.
With his back to a crowded courtroom, Jackie Presser, the president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, pleaded not guilty today to Federal embezzlement and racketeering charges. His lawyer’s first move reopened a three-year-old controversy about the connections between Cleveland’s legal establishment, the judge assigned to his case and the chief Federal judge in Cleveland. Mr. Presser and two top union aides, Harold Friedman and Anthony Hughes, were indicted May 16 by a Federal grand jury here. Their arraignment was delayed until today so they could attend the teamsters’ national convention last week in Las Vegas, where Mr. Presser was easily returned to office as the head of the nation’s largest union.
The vice chairman of the United States Postal Service’s Board of Governors pleaded guilty today to taking illegal payoffs in exchange for trying to steer a $250 million postal contract to a Dallas company. The executive, Peter Voss, also pleaded guilty in Federal District Court to embezzling money from the Postal Service. Prosecutors said he was reimbursed for first-class airline tickets when he actually traveled in coach class. He Resigns From Board Mr. Voss immediately resigned from the eight-member board, which is expected to award the $250 million postal contract later this year.
Federal agents in California arrested a former stock brokerage clerk who was charged with putting rat poison in capsules of Contac cold medicine and two other drugs in an attempt to profit through stock trading. He was identified as Edward Arlen Marks, 24-year-old unemployed resident of Temple City, a Los Angeles suburb, and a former convict. His was the first arrest in a series of cases involving tampering with drugs, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said.
Forty-one people were accused by the Federal Government today of operating a drug ring that smuggled and distributed cocaine throughout the United States. The indictments, unsealed in Federal District Court in Atlanta, climaxed a nine-month investigation by a Government group organized to fight illegal drugs. United States Attorney Stephen S. Cowen said 30 of the defendants either were arrested or surrendered to the authorities Thursday night, most of them in the Miami area. The indictments said the drug ring imported more than 7,480 pounds of cocaine from 1982 until 1986.
Johns Hopkins University has suspended three students following their indictment on charges of arson, conspiracy and assault with intent to murder in the firebombing of an inhabited shanty built as a protest against South Africa’s racial segregation, officials say. Estelle Fishbein, general counsel for Johns Hopkins, said the undergraduates were being suspended “pending completion of disciplinary proceedings.” Kevin Archer, a 28-year-old graduate student, suffered first-and second-degree burns when the shanty was burned early last Saturday. State’s Attorney Kurt L. Schmoke announced the indictments Thursday against Russell Howard Abrams, 20, of Riverdale, the Bronx, who had been arrested earlier; Michael Moffa, 19, of Bellmore, New York, and Richard Hoheb, 22, of Holmdel, New Jersey. The three, all members of the Delta Upsilon fraternity, are to be arraigned June 25.
The Nebraska Supreme Court today reversed the perjury conviction of former Attorney General Paul L. Douglas and ordered his case dismissed, ruling that he had been wrongly indicted and prosecuted. “It’s nice to get that burden off my back, which I felt should never have been put there in the first place,” said Mr. Douglas, who has long denied that he lied to a special legislative committee investigating the failure of a Lincoln savings institution, the Commonwealth Savings Company. The court said Mr. Douglas could not be indicted and prosecuted for allegedly lying under oath to the committee because state law does not require an oath in such circumstances.
A California tour bus carrying residents of a retirement home careened at high speed off a twisting mountain road and plunged into a swift, icy river today, killing 19 people and injuring 22, the authorities said. The death toll made it the nation’s worst bus crash in nearly six years. The bus, bringing passengers back to Santa Monica, California, after a four-day outing to Reno, Nevada, was 90 miles southeast of Reno on U.S. 395 when it bounced off a fence and plunged down a 15-foot embankment into the West Fork of the Walker River.
A popular bumper sticker reads, “Welcome to San Diego — but please don’t stay,” echoing a growing sentiment that the nation’s eighth largest city need advance no further in closing its population gap with Los Angeles. Contention over that sentiment has proved to be the dominant theme in the contest in Tuesday’s runoff election to succeed former Mayor Roger Hedgecock, who resigned last December after he was convicted of charges related to election financing. Local news media polling suggests that a former City Council member, Maureen F. O’Connor, an early advocate of firm controls on growth, is well ahead of her opponent, William Cleator, a council member who has a record of voting for development interests. Miss O’Connor would be the first woman elected as San Diego’s mayor.
In a scramble for passengers, the airline shuttles that link New York with Washington and Boston are making changes this summer that are some of the most extensive since Eastern Airlines began the service in 1961. The changes — and the competition — will intensify on October 1 when Pan Am World Airways adds its own shuttle, making it a four-way race with Eastern, New York Air and People Express Airlines. The changes are expected to result in greater passenger comfort and larger planes on many more of the flights out of La Guardia Airport. They will also mean more frequent flights out of Newark International Airport, which will begin to rival La Guardia as a shuttle hub. Airline industry observers speculate that the increased capacity on all routes from both airports could lead to some fares being cut, but not so deeply that the carriers will be jeopardizing the profitability of the routes.
The Department of Agriculture said today that tests of blood serum taken from 87 swine in Belle Glade, Florida, did not contain any evidence that the animals were infected by African swine fever, an incurable viral disease in pigs. The department said samples of blood serum from another 42 swine in Belle Glade were to arrive at a diagnostic laboratory off the coast of Long Island late today, with results to be available Saturday. “Based on this number of samples, and some 30 others that we collected earlier and analyzed last week, and the lack of clinical evidence of disease, we’re satisfied that African swine fever does not exist in Belle Glade,” said Dr. E. C. Sharman, assistant deputy administrator of veterinary services at the Department of Agriculture.
The Schepps Dairy has voluntarily recalled milk from schools and stores and announced a $500,000 remodeling project at the Dallas, Texas plant where health officials found a deadly bacteria on the floor near a filling machine, its officials said today. The type of bacteria identified by state and Federal health inspectors, Listeria monocytogenes, is blamed for the deaths in 1985 of as many as 80 people in Texas and California who ate tainted cheese manufactured by a California firm. Stu Gibson, the plant’s personnel director, said, “There is no indication any fluid milk products were contaminated.”
In a significant step for the biotechnology industry and agriculture, scientists and technicians planted genetically engineered tobacco on a Wisconsin farm today to begin the first outdoor test of plants modified by artificial manipulation of their genetic structures. The field test was conducted by Agracetus, a small biotechnology company in Middleton, Wis., that is jointly owned by the Cetus Corporation, a biotechnology concern in Emeryville, Calif., and W. R. Grace & Company, the diversified New York producer of chemicals and consumer products. The modified tobacco plants are the second living genetically engineered organisms to be deliberately released into the environment. Last year, the Department of Agriculture approved field tests in the Middle West of a gene-altered virus in a swine vaccine, and in January it granted an Omaha-based animal health-care company the first license to market a living genetically engineered product.
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The Yankees and White Sox complete a six-player swap with Ron Kittle, along with Wayne Tolleson and catcher Joel Skinner coming to New York. The White Sox receive — again — Ron Hassey, along with Carlos Martinez and a player to be named later (Bill Lindsey). Hassey was traded from the Cubs to the Yanks in December 1984, back to Chicago (Sox) in December 1985, back to the Bronx in February, and now to Chicago.
Nate Snell took over in the third inning for ailing starter Mike Flanagan and pitched six innings of three-hit ball as Baltimore beat California, 3–0. Snell, 2–0, came on at the start of the third after Flanagan left with tightness in his left elbow. Snell walked one and struck out three before getting relief help in the ninth. Tippy Martinez and Don Aase pitched the ninth, with Aase finishing up the combined four-hitter for his 13th save.
The Cubs spanked the Braves, 6–1. Ryne Sandberg walloped a three-run homer in the first inning and added a bases-empty shot in the third inning for Chicago. Scott Sanderson (3–2) pitched five shutout innings for the Cubs, who have won five of their last seven games. Ray Fontenot pitched the final three innings for his first save. Sandberg, who entered the game 0 for 14 against Atlanta pitching this season, drove a 1–2 pitch into the left-field bleachers off Rick Mahler (4–5) in the first. He hit his fifth homer of the season on a 3–2 pitch into the left-field stands.
The Reds beat the Cardinals, 6–4. Ron Oester drove in three runs with two home runs as Cincinnati came from behind to win, handing the Cardinals their fifth consecutive loss. Joe Price (1–1) pitched three and two-thirds hitless innings in relief of John Denny for his first victory since last June. John Franco pitched the last three innings for his seventh save. Ray Burris (2–1) allowed just three hits in the first five innings for the Cardinals, but two of them were home runs — Bo Diaz’s third of the season with the bases empty in the second, and Oester’s liner over the right-center field wall in the fifth with Diaz on by a walk to tie it at 3–3.
The Brewers downed the Indians, 11–7. Cecil Cooper drove in five runs with a double and two singles and Paul Molitor homered, singled twice and scored three times in his first appearance in three weeks as Milwaukee beat Cleveland. Juan Nieves (5–1), the Milwaukee rookie left-hander, won his fifth decision without a loss this month, giving up five runs, four of them earned, on 10 hits. He struck three and walked three in six innings. Mark Clear worked out of a bases-loaded jam in the Indians’ six-run seventh and went on to gain his third save.
Mike Fitzgerald’s homer and single are the Expos only hits in their 1–0 victory over Houston. Bryn Smith (4–4) allowed only one Houston runner to reach second base in seven and one-third innings. Jeff Reardon came on in the eighth inning to record his National League-leading 12th save.
Rudy Law hit three doubles and scored four runs and Steve Balboni and Willie Wilson each homered to power Kansas City to a 12–2 rout of the Texas Rangers. Dennis Leonard (5–4) gave up six hits through seven innings, struck out four and walked one before giving way to Scott Bankhead. The loss went to Bobby Witt (2–4).
Roy Smalley knocked in four runs with two home runs, including one in a five-run third inning, to lift the Minnesota Twins to a 13–5 victory over the Boston Red Sox tonight. Smalley’s home runs, one hit while he was batting right-handed and the other hit while he was batting left-handed, came in support of Keith Atherton (2–2), who pitched five and one-third innings of four-hit relief to get his first victory since joining Minnesota May 20. Minnesota won for the fourth time in five games while ending Boston’s four-game winning streak. The Red Sox lost for only the second time in 12 games.
This is how hot the Mets are in these heady days of spring: In the top of the 10th inning in Shea Stadium last night, the San Francisco Giants broke a 6–6 tie when the rookie Robby Thompson hit a home run off Jesse Orosco. Thompson, who jumped from the Texas League to the National League this year, had no history of power hitting. But wait. In the home half of the 10th, the Giants used three pitchers trying to protect their lead. The Mets used three pinch-hitters trying to wipe it out, including the rookie Kevin Mitchell, who pinch-hit for Darryl Strawberry, no less, and delivered a single. Then, with the bases loaded and one out, the resurrected Ray Knight hit a sacrifice fly to thrust the Mets back into a tie. And, for the piece de resistance, Rafael Santana lifted a little pop fly near second base where Thompson camped under it for the “third out” — except that the shortstop, Jose Uribe, drifted across and collided with him. And when the ball dropped for an error, Mitchell scored with the run that won it for the Mets, 8–7.
The loss was one thing. But certainly the Yankees were more concerned tonight with the condition of Mike Pagliarulo, who was struck on the bridge of his nose in the seventh inning, than by their 6–3 loss to the Oakland A’s. Pagliarulo was removed from the game on a stretcher after an 0–1 pitch by Curt Young struck him on the right wrist, then hit him on the nose. The Yankee third baseman was taken to a local hospital.
The Phillies shut out the Padres, 2–0. Kevin Gross pitched his fourth complete game and first shutout of the season as Philadelphia got its fourth consecutive victory. Gross (4–5) allowed eight hits, striking out four and walking two. The starter Eric Show (3–3) worked six innings for the Padres.
The Dodgers defeated the Pirates, 6–4. Reggie Williams scored from third base on an infield single by Steve Sax, and Ken Landreaux added a bases-loaded walk in the 11th inning for Los Angeles. Tom Niedenfuer (3–2) earned the victory as he helped snap the Dodgers’ three-game losing streak. Niedenfuer went two innings and Jerry Reuss recorded the final out for his first save. The loss went to Jose DeLeon (1–2). Barry Bonds makes his MLB debut for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
Bob Kearney’s one-out double in the bottom of the 12th inning scored Jim Presley from second base to give the Seattle Mariners an 8–7 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Seattle’s victory ended the Tigers’ five-game winning streak and was its second triumph in the first seven games of a nine-game homestand. Presley led off the 12th with a double off Chuck Cary, 0–1. After Domingo Ramos popped up trying to sacrifice, Kearney doubled over left fielder Dave Collins’ head. Mark Huisman, 1–2, picked up the victory.
The Blue Jays blanked the White Sox, 6–0. Dave Stieb, backed by home runs from Rick Leach and Rance Mulliniks, won for the first time in 11 starts this year with a four-hitter as Toronto beat Chicago. It was the 21st shutout of Stieb’s career. Stieb, the American League earned run average leader last year, had not won a regular-season game since September 27. He was 0–6 going into tonight’s game with a 6.83 earned-run average.
Baltimore Orioles 3, California Angels 0
Atlanta Braves 1, Chicago Cubs 6
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Milwaukee Brewers 11, Cleveland Indians 7
Montreal Expos 1, Houston Astros 0
Texas Rangers 2, Kansas City Royals 12
Boston Red Sox 5, Minnesota Twins 13
San Francisco Giants 7, New York Mets 8
New York Yankees 3, Oakland Athletics 6
San Diego Padres 0, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Detroit Tigers 7, Seattle Mariners 8
Chicago White Sox 0, Toronto Blue Jays 6
The Dow Jones industrial average came tantalizingly close to the 1,900 level today before profit taking, and perhaps concern about recently rising interest rates, pulled stock prices lower for the first time in the last six sessions. “After the kind of move we’ve had, it’s only common sense to have some profit taking,” said Hugh Johnson, an economist and market analyst for the First Albany Corporation. Prior to the Dow’s 5.64-point loss yesterday, to 1,876.71, the blue-chip indicator had put together a string of gains of 31.13 points, 16.99 points, 29.74 points, 25.25 points and 4.07 points.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1876.71 (-5.64)
Born:
Tony Campana, MLB outfielder and pinch hitter (Chicago Cubs, Arizona Diamondbacks, Los Angeles Angels), in Kettering, Ohio.
Died:
Perry Ellis, 46, American fashion designer who founded his eponymous sportswear house in the mid-1970s, after a lengthy AIDS-related illness.
Hank Mobley, 55, American hard bop and soul jazz saxophonist, of pneumonia.
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