Some knowledgeable United States officials say they see an important opportunity in the Soviet offer to begin reductions in strategic nuclear weapons if the United States pledges to observe the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972 for 15 to 20 more years. Until last week, the Soviet Union insisted on a ban on all research under the American space-based missile defense program as a condition for reductions in offensive weapons. The Soviet Union’s new offer, the officials say, may indicate that the Russians are more interested in preserving the ABM treaty then in preventing all antimissile research. This could open the door to some research under an arms accord. But other officials say they see a snare in the offer, which was conveyed at the Geneva arms talks and reported on Saturday. It remains to be seen how Moscow will explain the details and how Washington will respond. The Geneva talks cover three areas — medium-range weapons based in Europe, intercontinental weapons and space and defense systems. Medium-range weapons hold the most promise for an accord, officials say. But strategic weapons and defense systems are of greater military importance. The talks have been deadlocked over the American space-based missile defense program, known as “Star Wars.” After the presentation of the latest Soviet offer, the chief Soviet negotiator in Geneva, Viktor P. Karpov, flew to Moscow for consultations. An Administration official said President Reagan’s decision to abandon the provisions of the unratified 1979 arms treaty had so far not noticeably affected the Russians in Geneva.
Chief Soviet arms negotiator Viktor P. Karpov was called back to Moscow “for consultations,” Soviet officials said. One Soviet source said the consultations will include U.S. plans to abandon the unratified 1979 SALT II treaty on strategic arms limitation. Soviet delegates to the 15-month-old Geneva arms talks have said privately that such U.S. action would block any progress at the stalled negotiations and also jeopardize any new U.S.-Soviet summit this year.
The Soviet Union said today that President Reagan’s decision to go beyond negotiated limits in nuclear weapons undermined the entire arms-control process and diminished the chances for a summit meeting in 1986. A Deputy Foreign Minister, Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh, said at a news conference that the “defiant” action of the United States in saying it would not adhere to provisions of the strategic arms treaty of 1979, which was never ratified, demonstrated that Washington was “doing everything possible to undermine the possibility” of a 1986 meeting between Mr. Reagan and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. He said the American position on the 1979 treaty also made it more difficult to conduct negotiations in Geneva about future nuclear arms reductions. “The impact on the Geneva talks will be negative,” Mr. Bessmertnykh said.
Soviet officials attended for the first time a Geneva Disarmament Conference workshop to discuss means of verifying any future world ban on chemical weapons. The Netherlands is hosting the three-day workshop, which includes representatives of 39 other conference nations. Dutch officials said the Soviets’ participation signals renewed hope that a world ban can be achieved by the year 2000.
The last thing the children saw as buses took them from their homes in Pripyat was the fire-blackened side of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant and, as 12-year-old Olya Ryazanova said, “a sort of mist, a misty cloud around it.” The day was Sunday, April 27, 36 hours after a hydrogen explosion blew the No. 4 reactor open and swept a cloud of radioactive debris across Pripyat, Byelorussia and half of Europe, leaving the children’s future as hazy as those mist-enshrouded walls. Now, after sojourns at two places elsewhere in the Ukraine, 110 of the children of Pripyat have found their way to Artek, a camp for model Pioneers — the Soviet equivalent of Boy and Girl Scouts — nestled along pebbly beaches near Yalta where the Crimean Mountains tumble down to the Black Sea. They are part of the extensive dislocation of nearly 100,000 people from the area around the Chernobyl plant. Thousands of children — including those from Pripyat, a mile and a half from the reactor, and those from Kiev, 80 miles to the south — are scattered at Pioneer camps from the Moscow suburbs to the Crimea.
Senior American officials learned in advance from a defecting Polish colonel how and when the Polish authorities planned to impose martial law in 1981, the Polish Government’s spokesman said today. The spokesman asserted that American officials chose not to thwart the operation by warning Solidarity or Roman Catholic Church leaders. Responding to a report in The Washington Post today confirming the defection of the agent in 1981, the Government spokesman identified the Polish officer as Colonel Wlodzimierz Kuklinski. He was on the army’s General Staff until he disappeared from Poland with his two grown sons and their families 36 days before General Wojciech Jaruzelski ordered tanks into the streets to crush the Solidarity movement.
The Reagan Administration accused Poland today of making “trumped-up charges” that the United States had kept from Solidarity leaders secret information about the impending imposition by Polish authorities of martial law in December 1981. A high-ranking Administration official, who was involved in Polish affairs in 1981, said today, “I knew of the defector, but never heard of the December 15 deadline.”
Attorney General Edwin Meese III won’t decide whether to bar former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim from the United States until after Sunday’s Austrian presidential runoff, Justice Department spokesman Patrick Korten said. However, he denied that the election was a factor in the decision. Waldheim is alleged to have committed war crimes while stationed in the Balkans as a German officer during World War II. Meanwhile, Israeli Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai said his country does not have enough hard evidence to indict Waldheim. Modai added that more information will be sought from the U.S. government.
A project to link England and France by a tunnel under the English Channel cleared a major legislative hurdle in the House of Commons today. Lawmakers in the 650-seat House voted 283 to 87 to allow the Government’s Channel Tunnel Bill to go forward for its second reading Thursday. Critics, including lawmakers from the county of Kent, where trains would enter and emerge from the tunnel, tried to stall the bill. They said they feared the project would spoil the environment of southeast England. Britain and France signed a treaty Feb. 12 to bore a 31-mile railroad tunnel. Construction is to be privately financed. The work is scheduled to start by mid-1987 and the tunnel expected to open in 1993 at a cost of about $5 billion.
The upper house of the Swiss Parliament gave final approval today to a series of Government measures widely seen as aimed at restricting the number of refugees who can be granted asylum in Switzerland. The measures, which have already been adopted by the lower house, include granting the Government “emergency” powers to halt the arrival of some refugees if their numbers increase dramatically and provide for forcible repatriation of asylum-seekers whose cases have been rejected. Although the Government has maintained that the measures are primarily aimed at halting “false,” or economic and nonpolitical refugees, critics, including members of a church-backed sanctuary movement, say the real issue is xenophobia stemming from the rise in nonwhite refugees.
The Israeli Justice Minister said today that the Government had been unable to turn up any firm evidence that Kurt Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary General, personally took part in atrocities while he was an officer in the German Army in World War II. The remarks by the Justice Minister, Yitzhak Modai, were the first official confirmation that Israel, in its own research, had not been able to produce any evidence linking Mr. Waldheim personally to specific Nazi war crimes. Mr. Modai’s declaration was made in an interview with the Israeli radio this morning and appeared not to have been coordinated with the rest of the Israeli Cabinet.
Shia Muslim militiamen in Beirut battled Palestinian guerrillas for the 17th straight day. Police said three people were killed and 11 wounded in the fight for control of three besieged Palestinian refugee camps. Since the battle started, at least 55 people have been killed and at least 250 wounded, security sources said. The camps are shantytowns on the Lebanese capital’s southern edge. Two of them were the site of a 1982 massacre by Lebanese Christian militias. Heavy fighting here eased today, allowing residents of the Muslim sector of the capital to emerge from shelters to bury the dead and buy food. The relative calm, the first in nearly two weeks, came after Shiite militiamen succeeded in routing gunmen of a Sunni group called the February 6 Movement, which is aligned with Sunni Palestinians. Sporadic artillery exchanges continued around the Palestinian neighborhoods of Sabra, Shatila and Burj al Brajneh. Shells slammed into nearby Shiite suburbs, and one man was killed and several others were wounded.
About 200 Sikh militants rampaged through the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India today after a “Martyrs’ Day” rally, killing one volunteer guard with a sword and wounding seven. Authorities said 79 people were arrested for questioning. The Sikhs, armed with swords, knives, iron bars and bamboo staves, charged into the area immediately around the temple, the sect’s holiest shrine. They were led by the widow of a man who assassinated former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. The slain guard collapsed in front of about a dozen journalists, a sword wound in his back, and his blood spilled onto a white marble walkway. The police said he was Avtar Singh, a 45-year-old former soldier. Violence followed a rally two years after Mrs. Gandhi sent the army into the complex to root out Sikh militants who were using it as a refuge. She was killed by Sikh members of her personal bodyguard on October 31, 1984.
The chief of the Philippines armed forces said today that Communist rebels had taken advantage of the “liberal atmosphere” of the new Government of President Corazon C. Aquino to resume their armed activities and extend their local influence. But the officer, General Fidel V. Ramos, said the average number of daily incidents involving insurgents, and the average number of deaths each day, had dropped slightly from last year’s level. At the same time, he said, the military is struggling to dig itself out of a “big black hole” of inefficiency and corruption as it begins to effect long-awaited changes that would help it combat the insurgents. Speaking at a news conference marking 100 days since a civilian-backed military revolt ousted President Ferdinand E. Marcos, General Ramos said he supported Mrs. Aquino’s call for a cease-fire with the Communist rebels. He also said he would cooperate with a Government investigation of human rights abuses by the military.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz yesterday strongly endorsed President Corazon C. Aquino’s Government in the Philippines and urged American businessmen and financial circles to support its “comprehensive reforms.” Noting that the new Manila Government faces “a formidable agenda of challenges,” Mr. Shultz declared that the new Government had “done remarkably well” and “is headed in the right direction.” The Secretary chose the occasion of the Aquino Government’s first 100 days to deliver a major policy speech on the Philippines. He said he selected the Foreign Policy Association as a forum because “I wanted to give a message to the business and financial community and New York is the center of it.”
President Corazon C. Aquino said today that the theme of her presidency had been freedom, and she challenged her countrymen, saying, “What are you going to do for your country in the second 100 days?” In a televised address marking her first 100 days in office, Mrs. Aquino said that she had come to power through a “snap election” and a “snap revolution,” but that “I never promised you snap solutions.” She said Filipinos had won their freedom on their own and would have to work to solve their own problems. “Others are not going to save us,” she said. “Let us look not to the Government but to ourselves for the next step.”
Five Sikhs charged with conspiring to possess explosives with intent to injure appeared today at an open hearing in provincial court in Montreal, Canada, and the presiding judge agreed to a defense request that no information about the proceedings be published or broadcast. Several press reports in Canada and India have suggested that the suspects planned to bomb an Air-India jumbo jet leaving from Kennedy International Airport in New York last Saturday night. The hearing today, to discuss whether bail will be granted for the five men, is to continue on Thursday. Although the hearing was open to the public, Judge Jean-Pierre Bonin ordered that journalists report nothing of what happened in the courtroom. Under the judge’s order, it would be a criminal offense to publish the prosecution’s account of its case.
A new wave of anti-Government protests broke out in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti today with demonstrators calling for the removal of one of the three members of the governing military-civilian council and several Cabinet officials. In the first disorders here in more than a month, protesters blocked the a main street leading into the capital with piles of burning tires and debris and most merchants downtown closed their shops early. On the western edge of the city, a crowd of several hundred people damaged a bus and threw stones at soldiers who fired their rifles into the air to restore order.
U.S. and Honduran troops are scheduled to launch a new phase of joint military maneuvers in eastern Honduras along the Nicaraguan border in an area where U.S.backed Nicaraguan rebels known as contras operate. A U.S. Embassy spokesman said that soldiers from Ft. Lewis, Wash., will parachute into remote areas of Gracias a Dios province. Honduran infantry troops will then join the paratroopers, and they will spend the rest of the month sweeping the jungle in simulated searches for guerrillas, the spokesman said. The United States has staged joint military maneuvers in Honduras since 1983.
Nicaraguan officials said at least 2,500 U.S.-backed rebels have been killed so far this year in a counterinsurgency campaign that has prevented the contras from mounting major offensives. The rebel radio station has claimed several recent victories in the battle to topple the Sandinistas, but the official newspaper Barricada said the contras “no longer have the military capacity to mount a major offensive.”
The extradition of Argentina’s most wanted fugitive was upheld by U.S. District Judge Kenneth Ryskamp in Miami. Jose Lopez Rega, 79, known as “the Sorcerer” because of his fascination with the occult and as the “Argentine Rasputin” because of his influence on former President Maria Estela Peron, is accused of organizing right-wing death squads, ordering the murders of political enemies and stealing from a charity. More appeals are likely, and the case must be reviewed by the State Department before he is turned over to Argentine authorities.
The South African authorities today outlawed any commemorations from now until June 30 of the 1976 uprisings in Soweto, Johannesburg’s sprawling black satellite city. The announcement followed a call Tuesday by some of the nation’s most powerful labor and anti-apartheid organizations for a general strike on June 16, the 10th anniversary of the Soweto riots, which took more than 550 lives. For years, outdoor meetings — other than those for sporting or religious purposes — have been banned in South Africa. In some areas, indoor meetings are also prohibited.
The President’s main political goal this year is to maintain Republican control of the Senate. President Reagan, campaigning today in a state critical to maintaining Republican control of the Senate, moved away from tying his support of Republican candidates to their backing of his Congressional agenda. In a shift that White House aides said reflected the President’s overriding goal of keeping a Republican majority in the Senate, Mr. Reagan urged voters at a fund-raising event here to send Representative James T. Broyhill to the Senate, although he has differed with the President on several key issues. Mr. Broyhill is in a tight race with his Democratic opponent, former Gov. Terry Sanford to replace the retiring Republican, John P. East. He has most recently veered from Mr. Reagan’s policies by supporting a bill with sweeping trade restrictions and a resolution opposing the sale of missiles to Saudi Arabia.
President Reagan tours the Army’s basic training center at Parris Island, South Carolina.
President Reagan attends the largest political fund raiser in North Carolina state history for Congressman Jim Broyhill (R-North Carolina).
William P. Rogers, chairman of the Presidential commission investigating the space shuttle disaster, met at an undisclosed place here this morning with members of the families of the seven astronauts who died in the destruction of the Challenger. Mr. Rogers and the commission’s executive director, Alton G. Keel, briefed the families on the main findings and recommendations in the commission’s report, which is to be presented to President Reagan Friday and made public on Monday.
The head of the Marshall Space Flight Center, which supervises rocket construction for the space agency, said yesterday that he was resigning to make room for a successor who will help redesign the American space program. The official, William R. Lucas, is the highest-ranking member of the space agency to leave his job as a result of the space shuttle disaster. His resignation was the latest in a string of high-level personnel shakeups in recent weeks at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and its booster rocket contractor. Nearly all of the engineers and managers who had key roles in the decision to launch the Challenger have now been shifted to other jobs or have retired. The Challenger was destroyed and its crew of seven were killed when a booster rocket failed shortly after the launching January 28. Responding to widespread criticism of the agency’s decision-making process by investigators, senior officials at NASA said that the structure of the entire organization was being reviewed and would probably be overhauled to make it more responsive to dealing with serious engineering problems. They said they hoped to restore the type of management that prevailed in the successful Apollo Moon-landing program in the 1960’s, including improved communications between the field centers and top project leaders. Some Congressional leaders said that Dr. Lucas’s departure should be “just the beginning” of a “thorough housecleaning” in the space agency. An aerospace industry observer said that more management changes were expected in the shuttle program, including the other two major centers, the Johnson Space Center at Houston and the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral.
The Reagan Administration tentatively endorsed a bill aimed at opening an American beachhead in the booming, $5-billion cruise ship business, which is dominated by foreign carriers that receive 90% of the money spent by American passengers. The bill, sponsored by Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), would allow five foreign-built passenger ships to be bought by U.S. operators and rechartered as American flag vessels for the domestic cruise ship trade. Existing law says domestic cruise ships must be built in the United States.
Amid widespread recent reports of unethical and illegal activities in many areas of public life, almost two-thirds of Americans expressed dissatisfaction with the honesty and standards of behavior of their compatriots. In the latest Gallup poll assessment, 63% said that, on the whole, they are dissatisfied with the honesty of people in this country, while about 33% are satisfied.
The California Supreme Court approves the “deep pockets law”, limiting the liability of manufacturers and other wealthy defendants.
A former United States Navy intelligence analyst pleaded guilty today to spying for Israel, and the Justice Department named four Israelis as unindicted conspirators in his espionage activities. In a plea bargain, Jonathan Jay Pollard confessed selling classified documents. His wife, Anne Henderson Pollard, pleaded guilty to two lesser offenses. Federal prosecutors said in court papers that Israeli officials had asked Mr. Pollard to gather classified satellite photographs and other intelligence material related to Israel’s defense after he made the initial contact with the Israelis. Beginning in 1984, Mr. Pollard provided Israel with stacks of material gathered from the United States Navy, where he worked as a counterterrorism analyst, according to the court documents. The plea by Jonathan Jay Pollard will probably avert a life sentence. Prosecutors would not rule out later charges against the Israelis, including Rafael Eitan, who has been closely associated with many leading Israeli politicians.
In another espionage case, a jury in Baltimore recessed for the night after it began considering charges against Ronald W. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, who is charged with selling secrets to the Soviet Union. The jurors appeared to be deliberating whether the core of the prosecution’s case, admissions Mr. Pelton made to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, could be considered as evidence. The defense has argued that two bureau agents who interviewed Mr. Pelton used deception and trickery to elicit his statements. The length of the deliberations appeared to concern Government officials involved in prosecuting Mr. Pelton, who said they had hoped for a quick verdict.
The results of primary voting suggest pitched battles this fall in Senate races in California, Alabama and South Dakota, according to experts. They said the most significant outcome Tuesday was the emergence of a major California Republican challenger to Senator Alan Cranston. He is Representative Ed Zschau, a moderate, high-technology millionaire who defeated 12 opponents.
The White House issued a statement today saying that it would release emergency Federal funds to repair a shelter for the homeless, prompting an activist, Mitch Snyder, to end a four-day hunger strike. Senator Mark Hatfield, Republican of Oregon, went to the shelter to give the news to Mr. Snyder, who was weak and pale after refusing food and water since Sunday.
Hundreds of Federal officers will be sent to the Mexican border to take part in a major new effort to combat what the Treasury Department is calling a “crisis” in drug and arms trafficking, illegal immigration and related criminal activity, Reagan Administration officials said today. “We are anticipating a permanent placement of significant new resources at the border,” Francis A. Keating 2d, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for enforcement, said in an interview. Mr. Keating, who is the head of an interdepartmental committee planning the new effort, said steps to it carry out were “imminent.” Federal officials would not offer many details of the new program, saying they do not want to alert drug and arms traffickers and others to their plans. But Mr. Keating said at least five Federal agencies would send additional agents and investigators to Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California, and a Customs Service official said that the Federal Government would also equip local law-enforcement personnel with a variety of new equipment, including sophisticated radios, weapons and vehicles.
Drunk drivers are far more likely to kill children riding in their own cars than children in other cars or on the street, researchers reported. The finding, based on four years of traffic crash data from North Carolina, should dispel the popular conception of the “big, bad anonymous drunk driver,” said Dr. Jonathon Kotch of the Highway Safety Research Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “Parents need to be made aware that it’s not just themselves or some anonymous third party they’re putting at risk with their drinking and driving, it’s their own children,” Kotch said.
Two consumer groups asked a federal judge in Washington to order the Food and Drug Administration to ban a possibly cancer-causing chemical that is used to take the caffeine out of coffee. Public Citizen and the Consumer Federation of America, in a suit filed in U.S. District Court, accused the FDA and the Health and Human Services Department of violating a law that requires a ban on chemicals that cause cancer in animals. The suit said several scientific studies found that the chemical methylene chloride causes cancer in the livers and lungs of mice.
Top negotiators for American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and striking telephone workers met for an hour, but they made little or no progress toward ending the nation’s largest strike in three years. Four days into the walkout, by 155,000 members of the Communications Workers of America at the telecommunications giant, the two sides were still far apart on several issues, officials from both sides said.
The Federal Government will approve a type of interferon for commercial use against a rare form of cancer, the first time the genetically produced antiviral drug will be available by prescription, a drug company said today. The Food and Drug Administration will grant licenses to Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. of Nutley, New Jersey, and the Schering-Plough Corporation of Madison, New Jersey, to market alfa-interferon for use against hairy-cell leukemia, Hoffmann-LaRoche said in a statement. The rare form of blood cancer afflicts an estimated 1,000 to 3,000 Americans, most of them adult men, the drug agency said.
The state was “betrayed,” Washington Attorney General Ken Eikenberry said in Olympia in filing three federal lawsuits challenging the selection of Hanford Reservation as a nuclear waste dump finalist Hanford and sites in Nevada and Texas have been designated as the top potential sites for America’s first high-level nuclear waste depository. President Reagan was a defendant in one of the three actions filed by Eikenberry in federal appeals court.
New York job gains moved ahead of Florida advances last year to put the Empire State second only to California, still by far the national leader in employment growth. Ohio ranked fourth in job gains and Texas was fifth because of its increasingly diversified economy. A new study of employment in the 1980’s shows that although the West and South are still leading the rest of the nation in job gains, some older industrial states are moving far ahead of others in their regions. The study also showed that New York surpassed Florida last year in the net number of jobs gained, to rank second only to California, still by far the national leader in employment growth. New Jersey and Connecticut also had substantial job gains. New York, according to the study, added 177,000 jobs, an increase of 2.2 percent, to 7,721,000. New Jersey added 87,000, an increase of 2.6 percent, to 3,405,000. Connecticut gained 39,000, an increase of 2.4 percent, to 1,571,000. California, as in previous years, outdistanced every other state by a wide margin in job growth. Last year it added 333,000 jobs, double the New York gain and an increase of 3 percent, to 11,051,000.
Carmel, California Mayor Clint Eastwood, whose bitter feud with city planners led to his new political career, has struck back by ousting a majority of them. Mayor Eastwood removed four members of the seven-member Planning Commission Tuesday night, less than two months after taking office, and replaced them with his own appointees. Mayor Eastwood chastised the old Planning Commission as “unfriendly” after it refused to allow him to build a retail-office complex next to his restaurant, the Hog’s Breath Inn, last year. He sued the city but settled out of court. But the battle helped prompt the actor, best known for his “Dirty Harry” movies, to run for Mayor. He won a landslide victory in April.
In a sharply worded ruling, a judge today ordered a Massachusetts state agency not to bar a school for autistic children from using a program of physical punishments as treatment. The judge, Ernest I. Rotenberg of Bristol County Probate and Family Court, charged that the director of the state agency, the Office for Children, had played “Russian roulette with the lives and safety of the students” in trying to close the school and ban its use of its disputed therapy. The complex dispute began last September when the director, Mary Kay Leonard, barred the school, the Behavior Research Institute of Providence, Rhode Island, from using a series of physical treatments, including pinches, spanks and cold water showers, to modify the behavior of its students. Miss Leonard, backed by some civil liberties groups, contended that the school’s program was cruel. But many of the parents of the students said it was the only effective treatment their children had ever received. They said their children were regressing without the therapy.
Charges were dismissed today against a 71-year-old Minneapolis City Council candidate who had been accused of handing out $31 worth of Twinkies, Ho Ho’s and coffee to elderly voters. George Belair was indicted by a grand jury May 21 for violating an 1893 law prohibiting candidates from providing “any meat, drink or other entertainment or provisions” in order to gain votes.
A record-breaking deluge coming after almost a week of intermittent rain caused widespread flooding in San Antonio, Texas today and forced the evacuation of about 250 families people throughout this city and surrounding areas. No deaths were reported, but there have been two weather-related fatalities here and 10 throughout the state since the advent of heavy storms a week ago. Officials at the National Weather Service at San Antonio International Airport said the violent thunderstorm, beginning just before midnight, dumped 6.3 inches of rain on the city, which normally gets 3.03 inches of rain a month. It was the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in a 24-hour period in June. The most rain ever recorded in one day here was 7.28 inches reported in September 1973.
The powerful magnetism of a large, newly developed medical diagnostic scanner dragged part of a fork lift into the device and seriously injured a technician working inside, a medical journal reported.
Proprietary hospitals charge more than nonprofit hospitals and provide less charity care, according to a study issued by the National Academy of Sciences. The 556-page report said both types of hospitals offered comparable health care.
Legendary singer Bob Dylan (45) weds his backup singer Carolyn Dennis (32) ; they divorce in 1992.
Major League Baseball:
Pirates outfielder Barry Bonds, the son of former Major League star Bobby Bonds, goes 4-for-5 with his first Major League home run (off Craig McMurtry) as Pittsburgh whips Atlanta 12–3. Mike Bielecki gave up seven hits over five and two-thirds innings to improve to 4-3. Jim Winn pitched three and one-third innings of hitless ball for his third save. The Braves’ Joe Johnson (6–4) took the loss. Bonds, whose contract was purchased from Hawaii of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League Friday, was playing in his sixth major-league game.
The Mariners downed the Orioles, 5–1. Spike Owen went 4-for-4 and drove in two runs, and Alvin Davis and John Moses hit home runs to lead Seattle. Mike Moore pitched a seven-hitter and ended his personal three-game losing streak. Moore (3–6) struck out one and walked one in his fifth complete game. Davis’s 10th homer in the third was the 16th home run allowed by Ken Dixon in 5 ⅓ innings, including 11 in his last 17 ⅓ innings at home.
Don Baylor, Bill Buckner and Rey Quinones hit home runs tonight, leading the Boston Red Sox to their fifth straight victory, a 6–4 decision over the Cleveland Indians. The Red Sox won for the ninth time in 10 games. Boston raised its record to 36–15, its best start since opening at 41–9 in 1946. Wade Boggs extended his hitting streak to 11 games with a single and double, raising his major-league-leading average to .393. Rob Woodward, recalled from the minors May 22 to replace the injured Al Nipper, evened his record at 1–1. Woodward gave up three runs on 10 hits in six and one-third innings. Bob Stanley gave up a run-scoring double to Julio Franco in the ninth but got the final two outs for his ninth save. Quinones, a rookie, hit his first major league homer in the fourth inning, a two-run shot that gave Boston a 4–2 lead. Buckner sealed the victory over Phil Niekro (3–5) with a two-out homer in the seventh, and Baylor led off the eighth with his 13th homer.
Joe Niekro no-hits the Angels for 7 ⅔ innings before Gary Pettis doubles, and Niekro combines with Al Holland for an easy 11–0 one-hitter. The Yankees, who finished their trip with a 4–4 record, rapped a season-high 18 hits and got two home runs from Dave Winfield and one from Mike Easler in salvaging the last game of the three-game series. Niekro, who pitched a one-hit game in 1970 against the Yankees when he was with the Detroit Tigers, would have joined his brother Phil in pitching a no-hitter. Phil tossed his August 5, 1973 with Atlanta.
Pete Incaviglia, Ruben Sierra and Oddibe McDowell hit home runs and Bobby Witt and Mickey Mahler combined on a five-hitter to lead the Rangers over the White Sox, 5–2. Incaviglia’s two-run homer in the third inning, the rookie’s 10th of the season, was hit against Tom Seaver, who had come off the disabled list earlier in the day. Seaver (2–3), who had been sidelined since May 17 with a stiff right shoulder, gave up three runs on seven hits in 4 ⅓ innings. Witt (3–4) gave up four hits and walked six in five innings. Mahler allowed one hit in earning his third save.
Tom Browning pitched a one-hitter — a second-inning single by Jody Davis — and struck out a career-high nine tonight in leading the Cincinnati Reds past the Chicago Cubs, 2–0. Browning (3–5) gave up Davis’s clean single to left field with two outs in the second and then retired 14 straight batters. The left-hander, a rookie 20-game winner last season, completed his first game of the year in his 13th start. Browning walked two and permitted only one runner to reach second base, Leon Durham, who walked ahead of Davis’s single. Browning also had two hits, including an run-producing single, in ending Scott Sanderson’s mastery of the Reds. Sanderson (3–3) lost for the first time in eight career decisions against Cincinnati. Pete Rose led off the fourth with a ground-rule double that bounced over the center-field wall. Dave Parker followed with a sharp single to right that sent Rose to third and Nick Esasky hit a sacrifice fly to deep center. Buddy Bell walked in the seventh and later scored on a single by Browning.
Mike Scott raised his major league-leading strikeout total to 106 with eight and had ninth-inning relief help from Dave Smith to lead Houston to a 4–2 win over the Cardinals. Scott, 5–4, allowed six hits and walked two as the Astros snapped the Cardinals’ four-game winning streak. Scott held the Cardinals hitless until Ozzie Smith singled with two out in the fifth, and Dave Smith earned his National League-leading 13th save.
The Royals defeated the Brewers, 8–6. Hal McRae hit a two-run homer and a double, and George Brett had three hits to lead Kansas City. Dennis Leonard (6–4) pitched five innings for the victory, giving up four runs and eight hits. Steve Farr relieved in the sixth and pitched until the ninth, when Bud Black took over. Black, however, pitched to only one batter, who reached base on an error by Steve Balboni, the first baseman, and Dan Quisenberry relieved and got the last two outs for his fourth save.
The Giants won, as Chili Davis hit a two-run triple and scored on a suicide-squeeze bunt by Luis Quinones in the eighth inning as San Francisco rallied to defeat Montreal, 4–2. Candy Maldonado doubled with one out in the eighth and took third on a single by Jeffrey Leonard against Jeff Reardon (5–3). Davis followed with his triple to the base of the wall in left-center, giving the Giants a 3–2 lead. Quinones, who hit two triples earlier in the game, then squeezed home Davis.
The Mets have not kept it a secret, but apparently no one has told the San Diego Padres that Dave Johnson disdains the sacrifice bunt. Johnson, who learned much of his baseball at the Earl Weaver School of Strategy when Johnson was with Baltimore, caught the Padres in a bunt defense when they should not have been in a bunt defense last wight at Shea Stadium. Kevin Mitchell, the batter the Padres expected to bunt, executed the manager’s play perfectly, rapping a double that produced a 4–2 victory for the Mets. The outcome gave the Mets a 7 ½-game division lead, their heftiest since they finished the 1969 season eight games in first place. The Mets now embark on a segment of their schedule that will have them playing Eastern Division opponents, including second-place Montreal, who lost to the Giants, for the next four weeks.
The Tigers topped the A’s, 8–5. Darnell Coles had three extra-base hits and drove in three runs in helping the Tigers end a five-game losing streak. The Tigers trailed by 2–0 after one inning when Jose Canseco hit a two-run homer. Canseco raised his runs-batted-in total to 50 with the home run, his 16th, and a bases-loaded walk in the seventh.
The Phillies edged the Dodgers, 8–7. Glenn Wilson and Von Hayes each drove in two runs, and Philadelphia took advantage of five Los Angeles errors to score four unearned runs en route to the victory. Kevin Gross (5–5) allowed 10 hits and five runs in six innings, but gained the victory. Steve Bedrosian earned his seventh save of the year. Orel Hershiser (5–4) struck out nine in six innings, but was the loser. The Dodgers outhit Philadelphia, 15–7, but the Phillies still won for the eighth time in nine games.
The Twins pummeled the Blue Jays, 10–4. Tom Brunansky and Roy Smalley hit two home runs apiece and Jeff Reid also had a homer for Minnesota. Frank Viola (5–5) gave up four runs in seven innings and won his first game against Toronto in nine career decisions. Dave Stieb (1–7) was reached for eight runs on 10 hits in six and two-third innings. He also gave up four home runs.
Pittsburgh Pirates 12, Atlanta Braves 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Baltimore Orioles 1
Cleveland Indians 4, Boston Red Sox 6
New York Yankees 11, California Angels 0
Texas Rangers 5, Chicago White Sox 2
Chicago Cubs 0, Cincinnati Reds 2
St. Louis Cardinals 2, Houston Astros 4
Kansas City Royals 8, Milwaukee Brewers 6
San Francisco Giants 4, Montreal Expos 2
San Diego Padres 2, New York Mets 4
Detroit Tigers 8, Oakland Athletics 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, Philadelphia Phillies 8
Minnesota Twins 10, Toronto Blue Jays 4
Stock prices dropped moderately on Wall Street yesterday and trading volume remained weak as investors, worried about a statement on inflation made by the Federal Reserve Board chairman, Paul A. Volcker, decided that it was time to take profits. Also damaging the market’s chance of extending its one-day advance was severe weakness in the price of I.B.M., whose shares have been climbing steadily since it announced a plan last week to repurchase some of its own stock. I.B.M. fell 2 3/4, to 150, and was the fourth-most-active issue, as 1.4 million of its shares traded. With I.B.M. in the lead, the Dow Jones industrial average fell 7.14 points, to 1,863.29.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1863.29 (-7.14)
Born:
Oona Chaplin, Spanish-Swiss-British actress (Talisa Maegyr – “Game of Thrones”; “Avatar: Fire and Ash”; “Taboo”), in Madrid, Spain.
Albert McClellan, NFL linebacker (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 47-Ravens, 2012; Super Bowl 53-Patriots, 2018; Baltimore Ravens, New England Patriots, New York Jets), in Lakeland, Florida.
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