The Soviet Union has not breached key provisions of the 1979 arms pact, according to data cited by critics of President Reagan’s announced policy of ending adherence to the treaty terms. According to Government figures cited by the critics, the Soviet Union dismantled or replaced more than 1,200 launchers of nuclear weapons to remain within the limits of a 1972 interim agreement and the 1979 treaty. There is general agreement that the even more significant detailed limits on missiles carrying multiple warheads and on aircraft with the flying bombs called cruise missiles have not been breached by the Soviet Union. The critics, who include members of Congress and former officials, contend that if the President carries out his intention to end adherence to the terms of the unratified 1979 treaty, the nuclear balance may shift in Moscow’s favor. The treaty was signed at the end of a second series of strategic arms limitation talks, known as SALT II. Although neither side has ratified the treaty, they said they would keep within its provisions as long as the other side did.
Members of Congress from both parties applied new pressure on President Reagan today to persuade him to continue to adhere to the provisions of the unratified 1979 arms pact with the Soviet Union. The Democratic leadership of the House of Representatives threatened, if necessary, to support legislation that would deny Mr. Reagan funds to mount air-launched cruise missiles on bombers in numbers that would breach the treaty limits later this year.
A Soviet health official said today that 13 of the 19 people who received bone marrow transplants after getting massive doses of radiation in the Chernobyl disaster had died. First Deputy Health Minister Oleg P. Shchepin said the death toll from the disaster, including the two deaths on the night of the explosion, was now 26, an increase of one. The announcement came at a news conference at which officials also said 20,000 more people had been evacuated from the area after the discovery of concentrations of radioactive contamination outside the 18-mile danger zone around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor, at the town of Pripyat near the Ukrainian-Byelorussian border. Mr. Shchepin said the number of people still hospitalized with radiation sickness had been reduced to 187 from the 299 previously reported, with about 10 in serious condition.
Poland’s assertion this week that the United States learned about plans to impose martial law in 1981, but withheld it from Solidarity is the latest Polish attempt to embarrass the Reagan Administration. There is agreement among diplomats and others that it is the most serious. When the United States offered powdered milk for Polish children after the Chernobyl nuclear accident, the Polish Government, in accepting the offer, offered to send 5,000 sleeping bags to the homeless in New York. Then, three days after Zbigniew Bujak, an underground leader, was captured last Saturday, Jerzy Urban, the Government spokesman, suggested that United States diplomats had known the whereabouts of the fugitive. But it was Mr. Urban’s remarks about the defection of Colonel Wlodzimierz Kuklinski that stunned diplomats and Polish analysts. Mr. Urban said the United States had decided not to thwart the imposition of martial law in December 1981 by withholding details he said had been conveyed by the defector. On Wednesday, the United States characterized as “trumped up” the assertion that it had been forewarned about the imposition of martial law. An American official who was involved in Polish affairs in 1981 said he had been aware of the defector, but not of any specific information supposedly conveyed by him about martial law.
The Government of France said today that a junior French official in West Berlin inspected the World War II military records of Kurt Waldheim and three other former members of the German Army in 1979, while Mr. Waldheim was still United Nations Secretary General. Denis Baudouin, the spokesman for Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, said the Government was still trying to find out why the inspection was made and whether it was ordered by the government then in office in Paris. But the spokesman added that he did not think that the official wrote a report on Mr. Waldheim’s military career based on the Berlin records for any branch of the French Government in Paris. Austrian and West German officials also inspected Mr. Waldheim’s military records while he was still Secretary General, according to sources with access to this information. If substantiated, these reports mean that the Austrian and West German Governments, as well as the French Government, were at least in a position to know that Mr. Waldheim had given a falsified account of his war record while he was still Secretary General.
Italy’s lower house of Parliament has passed a controversial opposition motion recognizing the Palestine Liberation Organization as “the only legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.” The motion, proposed by the extreme leftist Proletarian Democracy Party, passed with a majority of 13 votes in the Chamber of Deputies while many deputies of the five government parties were attending a presidential reception. The motion is expected to be overturned by the Italian Senate.
Three of five Libyans charged in connection with a plot to bomb a U.S. officers club in Ankara, Turkey, are protected by diplomatic immunity and cannot be prosecuted, a Turkish state security court ruled. The decision came in the trial of two other Libyans, who were arrested April 18 near the officers club after they threw away a bag containing Soviet-made hand grenades. A verdict in their trial is expected today. Two of the Libyans covered by diplomatic immunity have reportedly left Turkey. The third diplomat, Ali Mansour Zayyani, who serves as the Libyan consul in Istanbul, is still in Turkey.
Heavy artillery and rocket fire engulfed Beirut’s refugee districts today as Syrian-backed Shiite militiamen carried their offensive against Palestinians into a third week. The death toll exceeded 100. Security sources had no immediate word on today’s casualties but said at least 7 were killed Wednesday, taking the death toll to about 80 in the refugee areas, in addition to 25 in nearby streets. Most communications between Lebanon and the outside world were blacked out after gunmen slashed power cables at Beirut’s main post office, telephone and telegraph center Wednesday night. Only a few telephone links survived the attack.
President Reagan won a narrow victory in the Senate today as his supporters mustered enough votes to allow the sale of advanced missiles to Saudi Arabia. The margin was a single vote. Last month both houses of Congress approved a resolution blocking a stripped-down version of the arms package, and President Reagan vetoed that resolution. The vote today to override that veto was 66 to 34, but because a two-thirds vote is required, the President’s opponents fell one vote short. Leaders in both parties agreed that critical to the outcome was President Reagan’s argument that a defeat on such a highly visible foreign policy issue would undermine his international credibility and destroy his role as a mediator in the Middle East. Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican who led the fight for the President, said after the vote: “Do you want to let this President, this Secretary of State, have a shot at the peace process or not? That was the question.”
Eight Senators who switched their votes on the Saudi arms sale today cited as reasons the Reagan Administration’s removal of Stinger portable missiles from the weapons package and the need to support the President on foreign policy. The eight Senators voted against the sale on May 6, when it was rejected by a vote of 73 to 22. But today they supported President Reagan’s veto of the resolution prohibiting the sale as the veto was upheld by the barest of margins, 34 votes, one third of the Senate plus one. Many said they had been lobbied by Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Some also said they felt the Senate had made its statement about what they considered Saudi Arabia’s failure to take an active role in the quest for peace in the Middle East.
Afghan rebel sources said that at least 460 civilians and rebels were killed and hundreds more were injured last month during two weeks of fierce fighting in northern Afghanistan near the Soviet border. The sources said in neighboring Pakistan that messages from Faryab province reported a major battle between guerrilla forces and Soviet and Afghan troops in which at least 160 guerrillas and 300 civilians were killed. Kabul radio reported May 11 that there had been clashes in Faryab province, 250 miles northwest of Kabul.
Indian police launched a hunt for three Sikh militant leaders accused in the mob murder of a guard at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The guard was killed and seven people were injured when armed militants rampaged through the temple complex after a rally marking the anniversary of the 1984 Indian army assault on the temple to dislodge Sikh extremists. Police arrested 307 people in connection with the latest violence and were searching throughout Punjab state for Bimal Kaur Khalsa, the widow of one of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s assassins; Jagjit Singh, a former Indian army major, and Talib Singh Sandhu, a dissident Sikh politician.
President Corazon C. Aquino said today that she had received information that the leadership of the Communist rebels had named an envoy to discuss the possibility of a cease-fire. The word on the envoy, which a presidential aide said he believed was “very reliable,” was apparently the first solid response the Government has had from the top leaders of the Communist insurgency to her call for discussions about a truce. Mrs. Aquino said at a news conference that she would announce her own representatives within 48 hours and that “hopefully we will soon have these talks going between the two camps.” Mrs. Aquino has offered the Communists a cease-fire during which the two sides could negotiate what she has called a “just settlement” of their grievances.
Cuban authorities have released more than 30 political prisoners in recent weeks, including some long-term inmates who had not completed their sentences, according to State Department officials. Most were freed after an appeal by French undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau, who raised the issue during a meeting earlier this year with President Fidel Castro, the officials said. There are no reliable reports on the total number of political prisoners in Cuba, but a recent report by Americas Watch, a New York-based human rights organization, said there are “more long-term political prisoners in Cuba than anywhere else in the world.”
General Henri Namphy, the President of Haiti, said today that a wave of anti-Government protests this week had brought the country to “the edge of anarchy.” General Namphy, who took power as head of a three-man civilian-military council last Feb. 7 after the fall of Jeane-Claude Duvalier, appeared on national television at 12:45 A.M. and said several days of demonstrations here and in outlying towns looked like “the prelude to a civil war.” The protests, which first erupted last Friday in a dispute over the national television station, guickly grew into more general expressions of dissatisfaction with the government, which is widely seen as having done little to improve life in Haiti, the most impoverished nation in the Western Hemisphere. There have also been continuing complaints that one member of the governing council had a close relationship with the Duvaliers and continues to protect Duvalier loyalists.
Nicaraguan rebels holding eight West German citizens say they are prepared to release the hostages, but only to what a rebel spokesman calls a “responsible and neutral” party. The West German hostages, captured in a rebel raid in Nicaragua last month, were described as being in good physical condition. The eight Germans were reported to have been captured by rebel forces while working on a Nicaraguan Government construction team in the isolated Nueva Guinea department of southern Nicaragua, a area of growing rebel activity in the last year.
At least 50,000 Africans may have contracted AIDS since 1980 and an estimated one million to two million people on the continent may be symptomless carriers of the virus that causes the disease, according to new estimates by the World Health Organization. These estimates, contained in a confidential 27-page report to be formally made public at a meeting here June 28, contrast sharply with an official figures provided by nine African nations, which have reported only 378 cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Dr. Fakhry Assad of Egypt, head of the health organization’s division for communicable diseases, said the estimates had been based on “serious” scientific studies throughout mainly sub-Saharan Africa. Nations Reject Reports of AIDS The AIDS estimates are the highest and most definite on Africa yet by the health organization. A host of scientists have suggested AIDS may be rampant there, but most African nations have fiercely rejected the assertion.
[Ed: Today, the HIV epidemic in Africa remains the most severe globally, with 26.5 million people now living with the virus.]
Zimbabwean policemen today arrested the leaders of the country’s top human rights group, the Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace, a move that is expected to further strain relations between Zimbabwe and its Western aid donors, the United States and Britain. The commission’s chairman, Michael Auret, and its acting director, Nicholas Ndebele, were arrested for possession of prohibited documents and the police seized some papers from the commission office, according to commission personnel. The documents are believed to be reports about the use of torture and other human rights abuses in the country. The two are understood to be held under Zimbabwe’s sweeping emergency powers, which permit indefinite detention without trial.
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu urged the nation’s churches today to defy a newly announced Government ban on commemorations of the 1976 Soweto uprising. Political commentators here said the Bishop’s call seemed to set the stage for a confrontation between the church and the Government. “I will instruct my clergy to organize church services on June 16th and I will certainly participate in such services,” the Bishop, a leading anti-apartheid figure, said in a statement. “I hope that other denominations throughout the country will likewise arrange services of commemoration.” The 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, who is the Archbishop-elect of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in southern Africa, returned to South Africa on Wednesday from visits to Europe and North America. Since the start of the nation’s most recent protests, Bishop Tutu has steadily intensified his criticism of the authorities. Earlier this year, he courted prosecution by calling for economic sanctions against South Africa. His comments today seemed to underline his readiness to defy the authorities and to throw the weight of the church behind his protest.
The former Navy analyst who admitted spying for Israel has begun providing the Justice Department with information about a number of Israeli espionage operations in the United States, senior Reagan Administration officials said today. They said the spy, Jonathan Jay Pollard, agreed to give evidence about other spying operations as part of a plea bargain in which he acknowledged selling stacks of secret American military documents to Israel. One highly placed Administration official said the amount of Israeli spying in the United States would “surprise many people as more evidence turns up.” Speaking on condition that he not be identified, the official said the Justice Department’s inquiry had not implicated other Americans. He said the inquiry had focused on Israelis and other foreigners, but he provided no other details. At a court hearing Wednesday, Mr. Pollard, a 31-year-old former counterterrorism analyst for the Navy, acknowledged his participation in a spy ring organized by a branch of the Israeli Ministry of Defense. Four Israelis were named as co-conspirators in the case but were not indicted.
In an interview Wednesday, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, William H. Webster, said critically that Israel had given “selective cooperation” in the investigation of Mr. Pollard and his wife, Anne Henderson Pollard, who pleaded guilty to two lesser counts. Mr. Webster would not comment when asked if he believed Israeli Government assertions that the spying unit that oversaw Mr. Pollard was a renegade operation. Despite promises of full cooperation from Israeli officials, Mr. Webster said, Israeli assistance has been limited. “It appears that we’ve probably received selective cooperation,” he said in the interview. “I don’t want to get into that because of more ahead.” He described the lack of cooperation as “disappointing but, considering the nature of intelligence gathering, it’s really not surprising.” A spokesman for the Israeli Embassy here, Yossi Gal, said he would not respond to Mr. Webster’s comments. Instead, he repeated an embassy statement last week insisting that “full cooperation regarding the Pollard affair has been and is continuing.”
After deliberating for more than 12 hours, a Federal jury today found Ronald W. Pelton guilty of selling highly sensitive intelligence secrets to the Soviet Union. The jury found Mr. Pelton, a former employee of the National Security Agency, guilty of four counts arising from his meeting with Soviet agents in Vienna in 1983. He told two Federal agents that the Russians had spent three to four days giving him written questions which he answered in writing. The jury acquitted him on one count that was based on what prosecutors had charged was a 1980 trip to Vienna for the same purpose. Today Mr. Pelton showed no emotion as the verdict by the jury of seven men and five women was delivered in Federal District Court here. His lawyer said he planned to appeal. Two jurors appeared visibly upset, and they wiped tears from their eyes as Mr. Pelton stared straight ahead. One of them, Gloria Ross, 20 years old, of Baltimore, turned her back to the hushed courtroom as she buried her face in her hands. Mr. Pelton, who is 44 years old, could be sentenced to life on three counts, of conspiracy, espionage and attempted espionage, and 10 years and a fine of $10,000 for the fourth count, revealing classified material relating to communications intelligence. Federal District Judge Herbert F. Murray scheduled sentencing for July 28.
A Senate committee narrowly endorsed the Navy’s $799-million program to build new ports for its expanding fleet, releasing initial funds for the first of two new bases. The 10-9 vote of the Senate Armed Services Committee eliminated a major obstacle to the program, which the Navy says is strategically necessary but critics charge is essentially a pork barrel project. The $79 million in start-up construction money is earmarked for bases in Staten Island, New York, and Everett, Washington.
President Reagan attends a breakfast meeting to discuss tax reform legislation with a group of Senators.
President Reagan enjoys lunch with Vice President Bush.
The Senate Finance Committee’s tax-revision bill, intended to create a more uniform tax system for businesses and individuals, contains dozens of special exceptions granted to individuals and corporations, ranging from Phillips Petroleum, Unocal and Walt Disney to a private estate that has been fighting the Internal Revenue Service in court for nine years. Embedded in the 1,489-page bill now before the Senate are more than $5 billion of special favors that senators have been able to insert for their constituents. Many would protect existing tax benefits for public or semipublic projects now being planned or under construction. In New York alone, these include the renovation of Carnegie Hall, a sports stadium in Buffalo and the purchase of subway cars for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. They also affect the Astrodome in Houston and dozens of solid waste disposal projects across the country. But, as in past tax bills, private companies and individuals will also benefit from the special provisions. Among them are General Mills, General Motors, Pan Am, Chrysler, Northwest Airlines, Control Data and major steel companies.
Signaling a sharp break with the Federal housing policy of the last 50 years, the House of Representatives voted today, 223 to 180, to channel nearly all new funds for public housing into rehabilitation of existing units rather than new construction. The vote came on a Republican-sponsored amendment to a bill to extend most major Federal housing and community development programs for several years. The House completed a third day of debate on the overall measure before adjourning for the weekend and will take up the bill again next week. A similar bill cleared the Senate Banking Committee last month and has a good chance of passing the Senate, which is also likely to approve the amendment the House adopted today. The vote reflected a growing belief in Congress that the billions of dollars spent on public housing have failed to provide the poor with decent places to live.
A House Judiciary subcommittee will begin impeachment proceedings next week against Federal District Judge Harry Claiborne of Nevada, according to the panel’s chairman. Judge Claiborne has been convicted of tax evasion and is serving a two-year prison term at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. He has refused to resign. Representative Robert W. Kastenmeier, Democrat of Wisconsin, the subcommittee chairman, said the full Judiciary Committee might present its recommendation to the House by July 4.
The Senate Judiciary Committee today rejected the nomination of Jefferson B. Sessions 3d to be a Federal district judge in Alabama. It was the first time one of President Reagan’s judicial nominees was rejected. The 10-to-8 vote to disapprove Mr. Sessions was followed by a 9-to-9 vote in which the committee refused to send the nomination to the Senate floor with either no recommendation or an unfavorable one, in effect killing the nomination. A majority vote is necessary for an affirmative motion. The nomination was opposed because of a number of racially insensitive statements Mr. Sessions was accused of making while serving as United States Attorney in Mobile, Alabama. The nominee denied making racial statements, but both Democratic and Republican senators had expressed concern over his attitude toward members of minority groups and his prosecution last year of three blacks who were eventually acquitted on charges of voting fraud.
The Senate voted to allow the nation’s rural electric cooperatives to refinance as much as $9 billion in high-interest government loans. Over the objections of senators who said it would invite presidential veto, the provision was adopted on a 62-36 vote, underscoring the political clout of the rural cooperatives as lawmakers began work on a $3.9-billion “urgent” supplemental spending bill for 1986. The measure included money for purposes as diverse as the space shuttle, the Internal Revenue Service, the Commodity Credit Corp. and aid to the Philippines.
A fashion model’s face was slashed with a razor blade and her former landlord and two other men were charged in the assault. The police said the attack on the model, Marla Hanson, 25, apparently involved a dispute over an $850 security deposit the landlord owed her on an apartment she had vacated. Miss Hanson underwent surgery and received about 100 stitches.
The former security chief for The Order was sentenced in Seattle to 60 years in prison for his role in the white supremacist group’s plot to overthrow the U.S. government. Richard Joseph Scutari, 39, of Port Salerno, Florida, was among 23 members of The Order indicted in April, 1985, on federal racketeering and other charges. He pleaded guilty to racketeering, conspiracy to racketeer and to a $3.8-million robbery of an armored car near Ukiah, California, in July, 1984. “I had no choice but to strike out against a satanic government,” he said at his sentencing. “Christianity will survive as it has in the past… by non-pacifistic means.”
A new judge has been assigned to the racketeering and embezzlement trial of Jackie Presser, president of the teamsters’ union, after defense attorneys argued that the first judge was biased. Federal District Judge George White removed Federal District Judge Ann Aldrich from the case Wednesday and it was assigned to Judge John Manos. Judge Aldrich had referred the matter to Judge White, who handles such court matters. Mr. Presser, secretary-treasurer of Local 507 in Cleveland, is accused of a scheme to issue union paychecks to people who did no work for the local. Harold Friedman, president of Local 507, and Anthony Hughes, its recording secretary, are co-defendants.
Federal research funds for experiments on animals at Columbia University, which were suspended in January following a surprise inspection, were restored this week after a National Institutes of Health review team found that Columbia had corrected all the deficiencies allegedly found at its health science division. Dr. James B. Wyngaarden, the NIH director, has given Columbia a two-year “unrestricted approval,” the New York university confirmed.
Dennis B. Levine, a 33-year-old former Wall Street investment banker, yesterday settled Federal charges that he earned $12.6 million through illegal insider stock trading. He pleaded guilty in Federal District Court to four felony counts and agreed to cooperate in a continuing investigation of insider trading on Wall Street. Mr. Levine also agreed to settle civil charges filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission last month. To do so, he will turn over almost all his estimated wealth of $11.5 million, will be barred from working in the securities business and is permanently enjoined from further violations of securities laws. “He’s going to lose pretty much everything he has,” said Charles M. Carberry, the Assistant United States Attorney in charge of the case.
A second dissenting Lutheran pastor was defrocked for defying his superiors in staging controversial protests on behalf of the unemployed that were aimed at many of the major corporations in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Rev. Daniel Solberg, a leader of the Denominational Ministry Strategy and former pastor of Nativity Lutheran Church, was defrocked in Greenville, Pennsylvania, at the Thiel College convention of the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia Synod of the Lutheran Church in America.
The American Heart Association and American Red Cross recommended improved lifesaving instructions that, for the first time, give precautions for resuscitating people who may have infectious diseases such as AIDS. Both organizations stressed, however, that there are no cases of AIDS being spread in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation or in resuscitation training, and encouraged continued use of the technique. The revised CPR standards were published in today’s Journal of the American Medical Association.
As the summer job season approaches, many employers in cities and suburbs around the nation are encountering a conundrum: Despite statistics showing high unemployment among teen-agers, especially blacks, there are more openings than there are young applicants to fill them. With Atlanta schools about to close for summer, for example, only 380 applicants have signed up for the 1,000 full-time jobs listed by the city’s Summer Youth Employment Program. “We’re perplexed and, quite frankly, we’re scared,” said Rosa Long, who has run the program for low-income youth since 1978. “If we can’t fill those jobs this year, how are we going to get commitments from employers next year?” Many of the jobs that are going unfilled around the nation are in the suburbs; most are minimum-wage, entry-level positions at fast-food restaurants and retail stores, which historically have relied on young, unskilled workers to meet their labor needs. The problem is most visible in summer, but it is not just a seasonal phenomenon; minimum-wage jobs have been hard to fill in some suburban areas around Atlanta and New York, for instance, for two years, officials say.
NBA Finals: After four hard-fought games, emotions spilled over and fists flew tonight. As a result, the Houston Rockets lost one of their most important players, Ralph Sampson, when he was ejected 2 minutes 20 seconds into the second period tonight against the Celtics. But Boston could not take advantage. Instead, the Rockets used the incident it as a catalyst. From that point, they never trailed and went on to rout the Celtics, 111-96, before an excited sellout crowd of 16,016 fans here at the Summit in Houston. The victory kept the Rockets alive in the National Basketball Association Finals. They now trail three games to two in the four-of-seven series. The teams return to Boston for Game 6 Sunday. Led by Akeem Olajuwon, the Rockets outshot Boston (49 percent to 41), dominated them on the boards (56-37), forced them into committing 18 turnovers and led by as many as 25 points on their way to the victory.
Major League Baseball:
A. Bartlett Giamatti, the retiring president of Yale University who once said the only thing he ever wanted to be president of was the American League, has been designated as the next president of the National League, a league source said last night. A three-member search committee made its decision earlier this week and will recommend Giamatti to the National League owners at a meeting Monday in New York, according to the source, an owner who did not want to be identified. The 48-year-old Giamatti would succeed Charles (Chub) Feeney, who is retiring at the end of this season after 17 years heading the National League. The league owners are expected to ratify the selection of Giamatti with no disagreement.
The Baltimore Orioles whipped the Seattle Mariners, 7–1. Lee Lacy drove in two runs with a double and a single, and Tom O’Malley ignited a five-run fifth inning with a run-scoring double to spark Baltimore. Storm Davis (5-4) was tagged for a home run by Ken Phelps, the designated hitter. He gave up six other hits over eight innings. He struck out five before giving way to Nate Snell in the ninth. Mark Langston (4-5) took the loss. John Shelby gave Baltimore a 1-0 lead in the fourth when he led off with a single and scored on Lacy’s double over Danny Tartabull’s head in left field. After Rick Dempsey led off the fifth with a walk, Juan Bonilla reached on an infield single and O’Malley followed with the double that drove in the deciding run.
The White Sox turned back the A’s, 9–5. Harold Baines drove in four runs and Greg Walker hit a homer in a 13-hit attack to help slumping Chicago break a three-game losing streak. Neil Allen (2-0) went eight and one-third innings, taking a shutout into the ninth. Moose Haas (7-2) was chased after three innings, having allowed four Chicago runs.
The Royals downed the Twins, 8–2. George Brett hit a home run and drove in four runs for the Royals. Scott Bankhead, in relief of Mark Gubicza, pitched five and one-third innings without allowing a run to improve to 2-0. The Minnesota starter, Mike Smithson (5-5) left in the third after giving up Brett’s eighth home run of the season.
The Dodgers blanked the Astros, 1–0. Rick Honeycutt pitched two-hit ball for eight innings, and Ken Landreaux hit a sixth-inning sacrifice fly for the Dodgers’ run. Honeycutt (3-3) walked one and struck out seven before being replaced by Ken Howell to start the ninth. Howell completed the combined two-hitter for his third save. Honeycutt, who retired the first 13 Houston batter, is without a complete game in eight starts this season — he had only one in 25 starts last season. Steve Sax tripled to center leading off the Dodger sixth against Manny Hernandez (0-1), who was making his major league debut. Landreaux followed with the sacrifice fly.
Dale Sveum, a Milwaukee rookie, hit a bases-loaded double in a four-run third inning, extending his hitting streak to 14 games, and Bill Wegman scattered six hits over seven and one-third innings tonight as the Brewers stopped a five-game winning streak by the Boston Red Sox with a 7-5 victory. After Boston had closed to 5-3, Rob Deer hit a two-run homer, his 10th, in the Milwaukee eighth. Rich Gedman and Dwight Evans hit consecutive homers off a former teammate, Mark Clear, in Boston’s half of the ninth. Wegman (1-5), a rookie right-hander, got his first victory in his 12th start.
The Phillies rocked the Expos, 7–3. Darren Daultons’ three-run homer capped a five-run first inning, and Glenn Wilson added a two-run shot as Philadelphia sent Montreal to its fifth consecutive loss. The Phillies had five hits in the first inning against Jay Tibbs (3-2).
Dawn Johnson was graduated from Lake Howell High School in Winter Park, Fla., tonight. And if her father was squirming in his seat in the auditorium, fretting about the team he left behind, he needn’t have worried. While Dave Johnson was playing the proud father back home, his Mets were swatting the Pittsburgh Pirates around Three Rivers Stadium 1,000 miles away. George Foster hit his 10th home run in a remarkable revival, Bob Ojeda pitched five-hit ball for his seventh victory and first National League shutout, the Pirates helped by kicking the ball to and fro, and the Mets had little trouble overpowering them, 7–0.
The Atlanta Braves topped the San Diego Padres, 4–2. Zane Smith (5–5) got the victory; Dave Dravecky (5–5) took the loss. The Padres’ Steve Garvey was ejected for the first time in his 16-year MLB career for arguing about Atlanta’s triple play. Leon Roberts led off the Padres’ third with a single and took third on a single by Tony Gwynn. Kevin McReynolds followed with a grounder back to Smith, who threw to second baseman Glenn Hubbard for a force-out. Hubbard relayed back to first baseman Bob Horner to retire McReynolds while Roberts broke for the plate. Horner threw to catcher Ozzie Virgil, and Roberts slid under the tag but missed home plate. Virgil then tagged out Roberts. Roberts jumped to his feet and began arguing with home plate umpire Charlie Williams, and Garvey, the on-deck batter, and Padres manager Steve Boros joined the argument. Garvey was ejected by Williams.
Andy Van Slyke hit a two-run triple, and Ozzie Smith hit a two-run double, leading Bob Forsch and St. Louis past Chicago, 4–3. Forsch (5-3) tied Dizzy Dean for fifth place on the Cardinals’ career list with his 134th victory. Forsch raised his career record against Chicago to 18-8. Forsch took a five-hit shutout into the eighth before the Cubs broke a scoreless streak of 22Z innings. Keith Moreland hit a run-scoring single with two out, and another run scored on the play when Van Slyke committed his first error in 131 games. Leon Durham delivered a run-scoring single before Todd Worrell took over and earned his ninth save.
Seattle Mariners 1, Baltimore Orioles 7
Oakland Athletics 5, Chicago White Sox 9
Minnesota Twins 2, Kansas City Royals 8
Houston Astros 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Boston Red Sox 5, Milwaukee Brewers 7
Philadelphia Phillies 7, Montreal Expos 3
New York Mets 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Atlanta Braves 4, San Diego Padres 2
Chicago Cubs 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
A surge of buying by institutions in the last hour of trading yesterday changed a losing day on Wall Street into a winner, but volume remained in a slump as investors were still attempting to determine the Federal Reserve Board’s feelings about interest rates. Attention focused again on the Fed chairman, Paul A. Volcker, who told Congress that while he believes a rise in oil prices might spark a new round of inflation, he did not intend to signal that a tighter monetary policy was ahead. With Mr. Volcker’s comments easing fears a bit, the Dow Jones industrial average ended with a 16.15-point gain, at 1,879.44. The blue-chip index, which was down 3 points at 3 PM, was pushed higher late in the day by arbitrage programs between stocks and stock index futures.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1879.44 (+16.15)
Born:
Dave Bolland, Canadian NHL centre (NHL Champions, Stanley Cup-Blackhawks, 2010, 2013; Chicago Blackhawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers), in Mimico, Ontario, Canada.
Vernon Gholston, NFL linebacker and defensive end (New York Jets), from Detroit Michigan.
Amanda Crew, Canadian actress (“15/Love”; “Silicon Valley”), in Langley, British Columbia, Canada.
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