The Soviet Union, in private talks, has offered a new negotiating approach to reducing strategic nuclear forces. But in a statement issued today, it warned that it would increase its forces if the United States exceeded the limits set in previously negotiated treaties. The new Soviet positions became known after President Reagan announced on Tuesday that the United States would no longer be bound by the limits of the 1979 arms limitation treaty in making decisions on strategic weapons. Mr. Reagan said the United States would exceed the treaty limits by the end of this year as bombers are equipped with new cruise missiles. In response, the Soviet Union said today that it would build up its nuclear forces beyond the limits in the treaty if the United States did so. But Administration officials disclosed today that the Soviet Union had also privately proposed a way of reducing strategic nuclear forces. This proposal was made at the Geneva arms talks on Thursday, two days after Mr. Reagan’s announcement on the treaty.
Under the proposal, the Soviet Union offered to begin arms reductions if the United States agreed not to withdraw from the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty for an extended period and to take steps to strengthen the treaty, the Administration officials said. Administration officials said the Soviet move was apparently planned before the American announcement on the 1979 treaty and should not be seen as a reaction to it. The new Soviet arms proposal was presented to the Geneva negotiating group on space and defensive systems by Viktor P. Karpov, the chief Soviet delegate to the talks, officials said. The proposal is under review in Washington and is being variously interpreted by Administration officials. An Administration official characterized the Soviet proposal as a “tantalizing” move that suggested that the Soviet Union may be shifting from its position that research on antimissile systems must be banned. This is because some research and testing on an antimissile system may be carried out under the ABM treaty. But another official, who is skeptical of Soviet intentions, said the proposal was an “elaboration” on the Soviet position blocking such research. The research is the basis of the Strategic Defense Initiative, the American program popularly called “Star Wars.”
The Soviet Union said today that President Reagan’s decision to go beyond negotiated limits in nuclear arms was an “exceptionally dangerous measure,” and it warned that if he went ahead, Moscow would no longer consider itself bound by the treaties on strategic weapons. The Government statement, made public by the Tass press agency, was in response to Mr. Reagan’s announcement Tuesday that he would base future nuclear weapon decisions on the United States’ military needs and not on the terms of a strategic arms treaty signed in 1979. Specifically, he said he intended to continue deploying cruise missiles on B-52 bombers without dismantling older weapons. By year’s end, this would take the United States beyond limits on offensive weapons set by the 1979 pact, which followed a second series of strategic arms limitation talks commonly known as SALT II.
President Reagan, seeking to prod the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to act on a new extradition treaty with Britain, warned today against allowing “terrorists” a “safe haven” in the United States. Mr. Reagan, in his weekly radio address, linked the treaty with Britain to larger efforts at combating international terrorism. He said the refusal of the Senate to ratify the agreement would “undermine our ability to pressure other countries to extradite terrorists who have murdered our citizens.” The revised 1972 treaty, which was signed a year ago by the United States and Britain, includes new provisions that end exemptions from extradition for crimes justified as politically motivated. At least four fugitives of the Irish Republican Army have avoided extradition by invoking the political exemption, including one convicted 18 months ago of killing a British soldier in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
The most sought-after fugitive leader of the Solidarity underground, Zbigniew Bujak, has been captured, the Polish Interior Ministry announced today. Mr. Bujak, a 31-year old electrician, went into hiding on December 13, 1981, when General Wojciech Jaruzelski declared martial law and ordered the detention of thousands of Solidarity figures. Since then Mr. Bujak had evaded arrest by the thousands of policemen who were seeking him. While on the run, moving from apartment to apartment, he directed the clandestine wing of the Solidarity opposition in central Poland, coordinating underground publishing efforts and issuing policy directives. On the national level, he was the best known and most authoritative member of the provisional coordinating committee of the Solidarity underground. The news of his arrest was made public in a brief television report that gave no details of when or where he had been apprehended. Lech Walesa, the founder of the Solidarity movement, said the capture was “one success in a record of failure.” “History will again confirm that Bujak and thousands of his colleagues are right,” he said.
The Polish Government, saddled with a $31 billion debt, was admitted to the International Monetary Fund on Thursday, and Warsaw has welcomed the development with low-key composure. Even though the majority vote by 149 I.M.F. members ended a six-year campaign for admission, the Polish authorities appeared eager not to portray acceptance by the fund as a palliative that could quickly alter this country’s severe economic problems. The lack of hoopla was being projected toward both foreign and domestic audiences.
More than 100,000 people demonstrated in the center of Brussels to protest Belgian government austerity plans in what union officials said was the biggest anti-government demonstration in recent years. The protests come after widespread public sector stoppages over government plans to slash spending by $4.2 billion.
Public money and private interests are melded in an unusual worldwide campaign, billed as a promotion of democracy and free enterprise, called the National Endowment for Democracy. The private group has channeled a total of $53.7 million in Government money to foreign organizations as diverse as the Solidarity underground in Poland, an opposition newspaper in Nicaragua, the opposition in South Korea and a Socialist party in Northern Ireland.
Europe halted space launchings after an Ariane rocket was destroyed in midflight Friday night, throwing the West’s launching capability into disarray. An independent panel is to investigate the fourth failure of an Ariane in 18 launchings. Europe’s commercial Ariane rocket program was halted pending an investigation into the failure of an unmanned rocket that tumbled out of control and was destroyed along with a $55-million satellite it was scheduled to put into orbit. Arianespace, a French-led international consortium, had planned four more launches this year, the next August 12. The decision ends the Europeans’ brief monopoly of the lucrative market for satellite contracts following the January 28 Challenger space shuttle disaster and the failure of subsequent launches of America’s Titan and Delta unmanned rockets.
Israeli Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai plans to submit a new candidate for attorney general, Israel radio reported a move that could result in the replacement of incumbent Yitzhak Zamir, who has offered to resign. Modai had demanded a probe into allegations that Israel’s internal security service, Shin Bet, was involved in the beating death of two Palestinians in 1984. The investigation initiated by Zamir has led to an intense debate over the government’s right to intervene in the judicial process in the name of national security.
The Israeli Government today strongly denied reports of a widespread and well-financed Israeli intelligence operation that gathered classified material in the United States. “These allegations are baseless,” the Israeli Embassy said in a written statement. The statement was issued one day after a Reagan Administration official said Federal prosecutors were expected to charge an Israeli military officer in connection with intelligence activities in the United States.
Heavy fighting involving artillery, tanks and rocket-propelled grenades resumed today in Lebanon between Shiite Muslim militiamen and Palestinians around three refugee districts on the southern outskirts of Beirut, and many casualties were reported by both sides. A communique by Amal, the mainstream Shiite militia, said it retaliated strongly at daybreak today after Palestinian guerrillas tried to advance out of the districts, Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh. The city shook from explosions as the combatants engaged in artillery duels and Amal brought up Soviet T-54 tanks that Syria provided to it last year. Militiamen fired their guns into the air to clear traffic for ambulances rushing the wounded to hospitals. The Amal communique said that as many as 100 civilians had been wounded and that an undetermined number of others had died as a result of Palestinian sniper fire. The police said artillery shells slammed into residential quarters in the refugee quarters and in the mostly Shiite neighborhoods close by. The situation was reminiscent of clashes between Shiites and Palestinians around the same districts a year ago. In that fighting, 30 days of relentless battles left 600 people dead and more than 2,000 wounded.
A prominent Lebanese militia commander recently had his car seized by gunmen in West Beirut. When he protested, the gunmen told him: “You are a militia leader; we are thieves. You have to do your job, and we have to do ours.” A bank manager who had two of his cars stolen from the same spot within three months drew incredulous looks when he told friends that he had reported the thefts “to relieve myself of responsibility.””If my car is used as a car bomb,” he said, “the police have it on record as stolen.” For 11 years, the Lebanese capital has been run by what its own leaders call the law of the jungle. The city, divided into Christian and Muslim halves, barely functions in the normal sense. Even the Prime Minister, Rashid Karami, has admitted that the latest measures to maintain law and order have been ineffectual. There is no hope, Mr. Karami has repeatedly said, unless the private armies that dominate East and West Beirut step aside and allow the legitimate authorities to resume their proper functions.
For several years after Soviet troops entered Afghanistan in 1979, a former editor and Information Minister in Kabul tried to get money to restore the village school system destroyed in rebel-held areas of his country. The Afghan, Sabahuddin Kushkaki, applied unsuccessfully to the United States Agency for International Development and to major American private foundations. Every one turned him down, thinking the war would be short. Then, as the fighting continued, he and some friends happened upon an organization with the right combination of Government money, bureaucratic flexibility and anti-Communist commitment — the National Endowment for Democracy. Using Federal money, it provided $180,845 to train teachers, conduct literacy courses for rebel fighters, reopen some schools and publish new textbooks with unflattering accounts of the Soviet role in Afghan history. “They have been giving us help without any strings attached,” Mr. Kushkaki said on a recent visit to Washington.
At least 12 people were killed and 40 were injured by a bomb that exploded in a passenger train in a suburb of Colombo, capital of Sri Lanka. The blast in Veyangoda followed two bombings in Sri Lanka on Friday that killed 36 people. The government suspects Tamil separatist guerrillas of all three explosions. The guerrillas want to set up an independent state for Tamils in the island nation’s northern and eastern provinces.
Human-rights abuses in South Korea have sharply risen since Secretary of State George P. Shultz visited Seoul three weeks ago and praised President Chun Doo Hwan, two human-rights organizations said last week. The two groups, the Korean Institute for Human Rights and the North American Coalition for Human Rights in Korea, both based near Washington, said they had received reports that more than 50 people had been arrested without charge since Mr. Shultz’s visit May 7 and that more than two dozen people had been tortured. “Secretary Shultz praised the Chun Government in its fine job on democratization in Korea and did not mention at all the human-rights violations,” said Sim Kisop, a spokesman for the Korean Institute for Human Rights. As a result, Mr. Sim said, “the Chun regime thinks the United States Government doesn’t care about the human rights situation, and Chun thinks he can do anything.”
Philippine President Corazon Aquino said she is suspending public tours of the ornate presidential palace beginning today and replacing the “negative” displays of deposed ruler Ferdinand E. Marcos’ extravagant lifestyle. She said the mansion will be closed for two months, and will reopen with “more positive” displays, depicting the lives of other Philippine presidents to show the young other and better leaders.
Five Sikhs were charged with conspiracy in Montreal for reportedly plotting to blow up an Air-India jetliner on a flight from New York to New Delhi. Canadian officials said the five were seized Friday in a series of raids in the Montreal area. They said warrants had been issued for three additional suspects. The Toronto Globe and Mail quoted sources as saying that the arrests involved a plan to plant a bomb aboard an Air-India Boeing 747 jumbo jet “in the next several days.” The prosecutor in the case, Pierre Garon, would only say the investigation centered on suspicions of trouble aboard an aircraft. The five are all from Montreal.
A leftist guerrilla captured by Salvadoran police said that four human rights groups supported by the Roman Catholic Church serve as political fronts for the rebels in El Salvador and divert foreign donations to them. Luz Janet Alfaro Pena, speaking at Treasury Police headquarters where she has been held since her arrest May 20, listed the four as the Human Rights Commission, for which she worked; the Committee of Displaced People; the Committee of Political Prisoners, and the Committee of Mothers of Missing Persons. A church spokesman denied the allegation.
Delegates from major industrialized countries and African nations debated in a closed basement conference room here today over the contents of a key document that will come out of the special session on the African continent’s economic situation. The document, which details economic needs and plots strategies for African development over the next five years, must be passed unanimously by the General Assembly if the session is to be considered a success, according to many delegates. Although the document will not have binding power over member governments, it will serve as a starting point for all future aid and debt relief commitments to a continent ravaged by drought and famine.
Under the shadow of their principal shrine, at least 8,000 Afrikaners gathered today in Pretoria, South Africa to celebrate their past and hear calls for a future based on total racial separation. The assembly was the biggest display ever of right-wing white opposition to President P. W. Botha’s program of tentative racial change, under which South Africa’s white rulers say they are seeking to break with the canons of traditional apartheid. The rally came a day after policemen using tear gas and whips broke up anti-Government demonstrations by whites and blacks in Johannesburg and Cape Town. At the assembly today, Andries P. Treurnicht, leader of the Conservative Party, said: “We demand that the sound notion of partition be applied in South Africa in such a way that the white man will have his own land and his own state. The fight that our fathers began will go on until we win or die for a white South Africa.”
Tax lawyers, accountants and individuals may find a few surprises in the completed version of the Senate Finance Committee’s tax revision plan, including the extension of tax shelter restrictions to many people who put money into small businesses. The 1,124-page committee report indicates that a co-owner of, say, a flower shop or restaurant would not be able to deduct business losses on their tax return unless they had actively participated in the day-to-day operations of the business. They would be treated just like tax-shelter investors who would no longer be allowed to use losses generated by the investment to offset taxes owed on their other income. The document also indicates that children who earn more than $100 from a savings account or other investment would be required to file a tax return and pay tax on all the income, as against a $1,080 threshold under current law. This is because dependents would no longer be allowed to claim a personal exemption on their own returns.
Intelligence experts say grave damage occurred when the Soviet Union learned details of the National Security Agency’s methods of intercepting military communications, but they believe the agency is now well on its way to recovering its lost abilities. Assessing this week’s testimony in the espionage trial of Ronald W. Pelton, a former N.S.A. employee who is accused of selling intelligence-gathering secrets to the Soviet Union, several former senior Government intelligence officials said privately that the agency’s methods were flexible enough to permit it to recover within a fairly short time, although at great cost. The recovery may have begun even before the agency discovered that somebody was handing over secrets to the Soviet Union, the former officials said. The agency constantly seeks to improve its collection of signals, and may well have responded to the greater success of Soviet counterefforts without suspecting a spy was at work.
Jerry A. Whitworth, on trial here on charges of espionage and tax fraud, lived extravagantly and spent thousands of dollars on gold coins, works of art, jewelry, lingerie and other items, according to records of banks and merchants introduced as evidence here. Mr. Whitworth, who retired from the Navy in 1983 with the rank of chief petty officer, is accused of stealing sensitive Navy cryptographic data and selling it to a Soviet spy ring over a 10-year period in exchange for $332,000. For the past two weeks prosecutors have presented nearly four dozen witnesses from coin dealers to commodities traders to appliance salesmen to testify about his purchases and investments. What has emerged is a portrait of a couple who spent large amounts of cash on paintings, luxurious silk lingerie or dinners for friends at fine restaurants.
The Justice Department is conducting an investigation to determine whether the A. H. Robins Co. criminally obstructed justice during lawsuits brought by women who charged that they had been harmed by the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device, sources told the Washington Post. No one in the Justice Department would comment on whether an inquiry was under way. A Robins spokesman said the firm was not aware of any such probe. There have been several allegations during the litigation that Robins had provided false testimony or withheld information from plaintiffs. In 1985, a federal appeals court ruled that a Robins expert witness had given false testimony in a Tampa, Florida, trial.
Organized labor is a beleaguered movement that must turn inward for strength to fight hostility and misunderstanding, AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland told presidents of 250 American Federation of Teachers union locals at a meeting in Washington. He said the labor movement had survived the economic straits of the mining and manufacturing industries, the bedrocks of employment for union members, and added that, with improved participation and solidarity, unions “can withstand a great deal of hostility from our employers… and even a lack of understanding from the public at large.”
When the delegates gather Sunday for the triennial convention of the United Automobile Workers in Anaheim, California, they will be without their Canadian branch for the first time in 50 years and facing fundamental questions about the union’s future in a rapidly changing industry. The departure of the 135,000 Canadian auto workers, whose leaders objected to domination by American officials, reduces the union’s membership to slightly over a million members, well down from its high of 1.5 million in the late 1970’s. It will still be able to bill itself as an international union, however, since one Canadian local with about 2,000 members decided to remain affiliated with the Americans. Many union members fear that the outlook is for a continued decline in membership as automation displaces human workers in new plants, the big auto manufacturers buy more components abroad and Japanese companies build plants in this country and resist union organization. Some are also concerned that, in trying to adapt to change, the union is abandoning long-cherished principles.
Telephone workers early today began the nation’s largest strike in three years, walking out against the American Telephone & Telegraph Company. Rozanne Weissman, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, said some workers begain walking off their jobs before the 12:01 A.M. strike deadline. After rejecting an offer of a 7 percent pay increase over three years, the union had called the walkout 90 minutes earlier, saying there was no hope for a negotiated settlement. The strike is the largest since the union’s strike against A.T.&T. in 1983. The union represents 155,000 of the phone company’s 200,000 unionized workers.
Two unions representing 15,000 Alcoa workers in 10 states went on strike, but 10,000 Reynolds employees would continue to work despite the expiration of their contract, labor officials said. Alcoa was selected because of “their belligerent attitude during negotiations, and the fact that they are the major company in the industry.” United Steelworkers of America spokesman Bob Moffett said shortly after the contracts expired at midnight. Ernie La Baff, president of the Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers International, said unionized employees at Re
Scores of students were injured in a predawn dormitory fire at Michigan State University. Officials at the East Lansing campus said that 26 residents of East Holmes Hall were treated for burns and smoke inhalation, and five of them were hospitalized. They said there was no panic in evacuating the building, but some students were trapped in their rooms and had to escape on ladders extended to their windows. Fire officials were investigating the blaze, which started in a hallway of the six-story building and caused an estimated $30,000 damage.
Mazda Motor Corp. announced a voluntary recall to replace the charcoal canister of the evaporative emissions systems on more than 52,000 1982 model RX-7 cars. Tests performed by the Environmental Protection Agency have shown that the cars may fail to conform to federal evaporative-emission standards. Owners are being asked to take their vehicles to an authorized Mazda dealership for repairs.
A nine-year pattern of bombings, murder and bank robberies, charged to eight people in a Federal indictment in Boston this week, had its origins in a movement to seek better conditions for prison inmates, according to Federal law-enforcement officials. In the early 1970’s, the officials said, a few members split away from the prison movement and evolved into what the indictment described as a radical terrorist group that sought to overthrow the Government. Some members of the group, using as many as 32 false identities and 13 different residences, according to law-enforcement officials, eluded a nationwide search until investigators got what they described as a lucky breakthrough. On a hunch, they said, an alias used by one of the group members was checked against automobile registrations in other states, which eventually led investigators to Ohio in 1984 and the arrest of five members of the group. “We thought we had them at least once before we eventually did apprehend them, but they got away,” said one official familiar with the investigation.
Unit two of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant off the coast of San Luis Obispo, California, began operation.
Clergy and lay delegates representing 27,000 members of the capital’s Episocopal diocese, today chose the Rev. Ronald Haines as an assistant bishop, rejecting another priest who would have been the first woman elevated to the church hierarchy since its founding. Mr. Haines, the 52-year-old deputy to the Bishop of the diocese of Western North Carolina, was elected on the sixth ballot. He defeated the Rev. May Chotard Doll, 47, rector of Calvary Church in Cincinatti. Nancy Montgomery, a church spokesman, said she led the balloting in the early rounds but Mr. Haines received enough support from the clergy in the sixth ballot to win the election.
A Roman Catholic archbishop has set aside church policies and ordered high school officials to allow a pregnant senior to graduate with her class. School officials had previously barred the 17-year-old senior, Lisa Martinez, from participating in school activities, including the graduation ceremonies Friday at Mary Star of the Sea High School in San Pedro. But Archbishop Roger Mahony said she should be allowed to graduate. “I am grateful to Lisa Martinez for her strength in resisting the pressure to conform to the unacceptable ‘abortion option,’ ” he said. Miss Martinez, who earned straight A’s, is vice president of the student body and a member of the National Honor Society.
Human organ donations rose sharply since the first of the year when 15 states, including New York and Connecticut, enacted legislation requiring hospitals to solicit organ donations from families of dead or dying patients. “The number of donors is growing all the time,” said an official of New York City’s Eye Bank for Sight Restoration.
Watching television is the nation’s favorite evening pastime, but its popularity is dwindling, according to the Gallup Poll. In Gallup’s latest survey, 33% said TV was their favorite way to spend an evening, down sharply from 46% in similar polls in 1974 and 1966. Tied for second place were reading and relaxing, each named by 14%. Other favorites: staying home with the family, 13%; dining out, 10%; visiting with friends, 8%; movies and theater, 6%; cards and other nonathletic games, 4%; dancing, listening to music, doing chores and sewing, 3% each. At the bottom were drinking, athletics, church activities and fishing, 2%.
Health officials say they are stumped over the source of a chemical leak that forced thousands of people to flee the center of the city of Springfield, Massachusetts and hospitalized at least 60. Officials said an unidentified gas apparently swept through a two-block downtown area about 10 A.M. Thursday, causing dizziness, shortness of breath and nausea. Investigators said they had ruled out several suspected causes, including an ammonia leak from a store refrigeration system or substances in sewers.
Excessive speed might have caused a California tour bus’s plunge from a mountain highway into a river Friday, the California Highway Patrol said. The crash near Walker, California, killed at least 18 residents of a retirement home in Santa Monica, California. There was no complete list of the dead or missing. Struggling to maintain their composure, scores of anxious friends and family members waited today in a retirement home for the identities of 18 people who were killed and 22 who were injured when a tour bus plunged into a central California river Friday morning. The plunge, which came as the bus returned from a tourist trip to Reno, was the worst bus accident in the United States since 1980, when a tour bus in Arkansas crashed into a ravine, killing 20 people and injuring 13. At least 40 people were on the bus; most were residents of the Santa Monica Christian Towers retirement home, in the Los Angeles suburb of Santa Monica. Residents there consoled each other and traded bits of news about their friends or spouses who were on the bus.
Rescuers searching muddy riverbanks found four bodies today, bringing to eight the number killed in Pittsburgh’s suburbs after thunderstorms brought flash floods and mud slides Friday. At least 10 others were missing and “we’re presuming the worst,” said Joseph Moses, director of the Allegheny County Maintenance Department. Firefighters have been trying to drain pools of water that formed behind piles of debris in case other bodies are submerged in them. Governor Dick Thornburgh declared 10 communities in western Pennsylvania disaster areas. The authorities estimated that flooding from Pine Creek and Little Pine Creek had caused $20 million in damage.
Indianapolis 500: Bobby Rahal becomes first driver in race history to complete the 500 miles (800 km) in less than 3 hours; average speed 170.722 mph (274.750 km/h). The Indianapolis 500 came down to a three-man, five-mile sprint today. With two laps to go on the two-and-a-half-mile track, Bobby Rahal made one lightning move and won the 70th, fastest and richest running of America’s premier auto race. With six laps remaining in the 200-lap race, 30-year-old Kevin Cogan of Redondo Beach, California, was leading. Rahal, 33, of Dublin, Ohio, was second and Rick Mears, 34, of Bakersfield, California, the qualifying leader, was third. All three were closely bunched when the yellow flag came out for a minor accident.
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The California Angels blanked the Baltimore Orioles, 2–0. Kirk McCaskill pitched a two-hitter and Gary Pettis singled home two runs in the fifth inning for California. McCaskill (4–3) gave up an infield single to Alan Wiggins leading off the game and a pinch-double by Jim Dwyer starting the ninth. He struck out five and walked three. Storm Davis (4–4) held California hitless until a one-out single in the fourth inning by Wally Joyner. The Angels then broke through in the fifth. Reggie Jackson led off with a single and took third on Dick Schofield’s one-out double. One out later, Pettis lined his two-run single.
The Atlanta Braves defeated the Chicago Cubs, 8–4. Dale Murphy and Bob Horner hit two-run homers, and Ozzie Virgil and Rafael Ramirez hit bases-empty homers for the Braves. Horner hit his eighth homer in the sixth inning to break a 3–3 tie and Murphy hit his ninth in the seventh to give the Braves an 8–3 lead. The Atlanta defense was a factor in the game as Murphy and Omar Moreno cut down base-runners with a couple of excellent throws. The Cubs had 16 hits but left 14 men on base. Horner’s homer followed a double by Murphy against Dennis Eckersley (3–3). One out later, Ramirez hit his third homer. Murphy’s homer in the seventh followed a single by Ken Oberkfell. Gary Matthews hit his fourth homer in the Cubs’ third and Eckersley singled a run home in the fourth.
The Cardinals routed the Reds, 11–2. Mike Heath and Andy Van Slyke each had a home run and drove in four runs to help the Cardinals snap a five-game losing streak. Bob Forsch (4–3) pitched a four-hitter and the Cardinals backed him with a 15-hit attack. Forsch faced the minimum 18 batters over the first six innings.
The Indians edged the Brewers, 3–2. Andre Thornton belted a two-run homer with one out in the eighth inning to help Cleveland snap a six-game losing streak. After Milwaukee took a 2–1 lead in the top of the eighth, Julio Franco led off the bottom of the inning with a single off Dan Plesac (3–3). After Joe Carter popped out to second, Thornton belted Plesac’s first pitch for his seventh homer.
Glenn Davis hit a home run that broke an eighth-inning tie tonight and lifted the Houston Astros over the Montreal Expos, 4–3. Davis’s eighth homer of the season came with two outs off the reliever Tim Burke (2–1). Frank DiPino (1–1) pitched one scoreless inning for the victory. DiPino departed after Herman Winningham led off the ninth with a single. Jim Wohlford greeted the reliever Dave Smith with a pinch-single that sent Winningham to third. Mike Fitzgerald then grounded back to Smith, who tagged out Winningham. Smith got Al Newman to ground into a game-ending double play for his 12th save. The Astros trailed 3–0 after five innings, but tied it in the seventh on a run-scoring double by the pinch-hitter Mark Bailey. Houston had pulled within 3-2 in the sixth on RBIs by Denny Walling and Davis. Nolan Ryan, the Houston starter, was removed from the game after the first inning with an arm injury. The 39-year-old right-hander suffered what was tentatively diagnosed as a ligament problem.
Lonnie Smith collected three hits and Frank White knocked in two runs to lift Kansas City to an 8–1 win over the Rangers. It was the fifth triumph in seven games for the Royals, who moved to within one game of the Rangers, who lead the American League West. Mark Gubicza (3–4) gave up five hits over six innings, including Toby Harrah’s second home run of the season. Steve Farr and Bud Black combined to pitch the final three shutout innings. The Texas starter, Mike Mason (4–2), suffered his second straight loss. The Royals reached Mason for four runs over the first three innings and then put the game away with a four-run outburst in the sixth. Smith singled with one out in the first, went to third on a single by George Brett and scored one out later on a single by Hal McRae.
Wade Boggs’s 5-for-5 game tonight raised his major league-leading average to .402 as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Minnesota Twins, 7–2. The Red Sox won for the fifth time in their last six games. The five-hit game was the second in Boggs’s career, with the other coming May 20 against Minnesota. Boggs, whose .514 on-base percentage leads the majors, had a double and scored twice. He drove in a run during Boston’s six-run second inning against Mike Smithson (5–4). During a five-inning stint, the Boston pitcher Bruce Hurst (5–3) allowed only Kirby Puckett’s single leading off the game and Tom Brunansky’s bloop fourth-inning triple that the right fielder Dwight Evans misjudged. But he crumbled to the ground with a groin injury after his last pitch of the fifth inning, on which Greg Gagne flied out. Hurst said he felt the pain as soon as he pushed off the mound for his final pitch. He was relieved by Sammy Stewart. Boggs will hit .357 this year to win his 3rd American League batting title. Through June 6, Boggs will have hit .400 over his past 162 games beginning with June 9, 1985. Tony Gwynn will match this feat.
It’s not exactly man bites dog. But the San Francisco Giants scored four runs in the first inning and went on to beat the Mets, 7–3, last night before a sellout crowd of 50,498 at Shea Stadium, ending the Mets’ winning streak at six games and the Giants’ losing streak at four. When it was over, Dave Johnson considered the significance of losing for the 12th time in 43 games this season and decided there was no great significance to it after all. He detected no cracks in the facade of the team with baseball’s best record. “There’s nothing sinister to it,” the manager of the Mets said. “You can over-analyze these things. They got four runs in the first inning and beat us. You can’t be up all the time.” Bobby Ojeda, a precisionist who had won six games and lost only one with a 1.70 ERA, simply didn’t have his precision last night. He was hit hard by Jeffrey Leonard and Chili Davis, the leading baiters of the Mets, and he was outpitched by Scott Garrelts, who was a relief pitcher until the Giants made him a starter this season.
Ron Guidry sat quietly at his locker this afternoon and lamented the poor luck and untimely pitching that had led to a 4–3 Yankee loss to the Oakland A’s. He made few mistakes, he concluded, but they all were decisive. The final one came in the bottom of the ninth when Dave Kingman broke a 3–3 tie with a home run into the left-field bleachers. Guidry threw nothing but sliders and had an 0–2 count, then took it to 3-and-2. He got the A’s designated-hitter to foul off several more sliders before Kingman hit his 11th homer of the season and the 418th of his career.
The Phillies stopped the Padres, 1–0. John Russell broke a scoreless tie with a seventh-inning home run to lead Philadelphia to its fifth straight victory. Russell’s homer, his third of the season, made a winner of Charles Hudson, who shut out the Padres on five hits over seven innings to even his record at 3–3. Steve Bedrosian pitched two innings of hitless relief for his sixth save. Dave Dravecky (5–4) allowed three hits before yielding Russell’s homer with one out in the seventh. He left after a pinch-hit double by Rick Schu an out later. Gene Walter finished the inning. San Diego’s main threat came in the sixth. With two out, Graig Nettles walked and took third on a single by Carmelo Martinez. Jeff Stone then went to the left-field wall to deprive Terry Kennedy of an extra-base hit. Philadelphia had a runner cut down at the plate in the first inning. Ron Roenicke singled and attempted to score on a two-out double by Mike Schmidt but Tim Flannery, the second baseman, relayed Martinez’s throw to Kennedy in time to get the out at home.
Bob Kipper combined with two relievers to scatter nine hits, and Tony Pena’s two-out single in the sixth inning broke a scoreless tie, as the Pirates shut out the Dodgers, 4–0. Kipper (1–4), who brought a 5.27 earned run average into the game, took a six-hitter and 1–0 lead into the eighth. But leadoff singles by Steve Sax and Enos Cabell finished Kipper, and the runners advanced on Bill Madlock’s sacrifice off Bob Walk. After Mike Marshall was intentionally walked to load the bases, Pat Clements retired the pinch-hitter Ken Landreaux on a forceout at the plate and ended the inning by retiring Alex Trevino on a grounder back to the mound. Clements worked the ninth for his second save.
Harold Reynolds has 4 of Seattle’s 15 hits as the Mariners down the Tigers, 7–4. Darnell Coles’ grand slam accounts for the Tigers’ scores. Danny Tartabull, Dave Henderson and Spike Owen each tripled and drove in two runs, keying a 15-hit attack for Seattle. The game marked only the second time in 10 years that Seattle hit three triples in one game. Mark Langston (3–4) pitched seven and one-third innings and gave up nine hits. He left after giving up a grand slam to Coles, a former Mariner. Matt Young got the final two outs for his second save. Walt Terrell (6–2) lost, ending his five-game winning streak.
The Blue Jays beat the White Sox, 4–3. Lloyd Moseby doubled home Garth Iorg with two out in the 11th inning for Toronto and sent Chicago to its seventh straight defeat. Moseby’s ground-rule double scored Iorg, who led off with a single. Moseby also had a two-run homer.
Baltimore Orioles 0, California Angels 2
Atlanta Braves 8, Chicago Cubs 4
St. Louis Cardinals 11, Cincinnati Reds 2
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Cleveland Indians 3
Montreal Expos 3, Houston Astros 4
Texas Rangers 1, Kansas City Royals 8
Boston Red Sox 7, Minnesota Twins 2
San Francisco Giants 7, New York Mets 3
New York Yankees 3, Oakland Athletics 4
San Diego Padres 0, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Detroit Tigers 4, Seattle Mariners 7
Chicago White Sox 3, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Born:
Leger Douzable, NFL defensive end (St. Louis Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars, New York Jets, Buffalo Bills, San Francisco 49ers), in Tampa, Florida.
Robert Gesink, Dutch professional cyclist, in Varsseveld, Netherlands.
Sopho Khalvashi, Georgian pop-electronic singer, in Batumi, Adjara, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union.
Waka Flocka Flame [Juaquin Malphurs], American rapper (“No Hands”; “O Let’s Do It”), in New York, New York.
Died:
James Rainwater, 68, American physicist (Nobel Prize, 1975, determining the asymmetrical shapes of certain atomic nuclei).
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