The Communist Party newspaper Pravda today charged that the Ford Administration was not doing enough to help conclude a long-delayed Soviet‐American agreement limiting strategic nuclear weapons. “The proponents of a rational course naturally expect from the Republican Administration, not simply general words on the importance of the new agreements based on the Vostok accord, but concrete actions in this direction,” Pravda said. “They cannot help but be alerted by the fact that in practice the Administration is now doing many things that damage the agreement’s prospects.” the paper added, citing in particular an increase in the American military budget. The concern was attributed to “sober‐minded” American politicians, but the context made clear that Moscow agreed. The article, which was written by Genrikh A. Trofimenko, a specialist on American affairs, seemed to be not so much a warning to Washington as an attempt to explain to Soviet readers why the arms agreement had still not been reached 18 months after the Vladivostok conference. At their summit meeting near Vladivostok in November 1974, President Ford and the Soviet party chief, Leonid I. Brezhnev, announced a tentative pact that would set a ceiling of 2,400 weapons delivery systems for each side. Of these 1,320 could be armed with multiple independently targeted nuclear warheads, or MIRV’s. The talks that followed have since bogged down over technical disagreements including whether the new American pilotless cruise missile and the new Soviet supersonic bomber, named Backfire by the North Atlantic alliance, should be included under the ceiling. Neither system was sufficiently developed when the accord was announced.
Seven people in Northern Ireland were killed in terrorist attacks on two different Belfast pubs. An Irish Republican Army bomb exploded in front of the door of the Times Bar, killing two Protestant patrons; in retaliation, the Ulster Volunteer Force sent four gunmen into the Chlorane Bar, who shot and killed five people—three Catholic and two Protestant. In July, the IRA retaliated for the Chlorane Bar shooting by killing three civilians at Walker’s Bar, and the UVF responded by killing six people at the Ramble Inn outside of Antrim. In all, at least 16 persons were killed in the retaliation shootings.
Silence of the East German leadership on expected social reforms at the Communist Party congress here last month stirred widespread discontent, but the Communists quickly caught up with the sensitive issue and moved to make amends. In prompt response to the negative reaction, the East Germans, one week after the conclusion of the party event, announced a detailed program of financial and social benefits for most of the country’s 17 million people.
Members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization sat as observers in a world employment conference in Geneva today after procedural wrangle between Arab countries and the United States but did not speak. The dispute came to an end last night when the governing body of the International Labor Organization which called the conference, decided to give the P.L.O. an observer seat. The United States had opposed the admission of the P.L.O. saying that it was politically motivated and Would distract the conference from its essentially technical aims of finding ways to eradicate unemployment.
An Italian parliamentary delegation of two Christian Democrats and a Communist flew to the United States seeking the identities of Italian politicians involved in the Lockheed Aircraft Corp. payoff scandal. Angelo Castelli, president of a special parliamentary investigation commission, said that the group hopes to obtain documents and question witnesses who can shed further light on the scandal.
Joao Tomaz Rosa, the Portuguese Minister of Labor, said here that the Communist Party of Portugal came very close to seizing power on several occasions last year by splitting the Leadership of the ruling Armed Forces Movement. In an address to a group of Americans in Washington this week Captain Rosa, who is an air force officer, said that the Communist tactics “succeeded the first time around” but led to the Communists’ defeat and ouster from the governing bodies the second time. He said that leading officers of the Armed Forces Movement, which overthrew the authoritarian government of Prime Minister Marcello Caetano in April 1974, had made “a tacit alliance” with the Portuguese Communist Party “from the very first.” These officers were attracted to the Communists in part, he said, because “they were like the military-disciplined, very skilled, accustomed to linear thinking, and with a messianic sense similar to that of military men who regard themselves as ‘saviors’”
What is hoped will be the definitive search for the Loch Ness monster has begun in Scotland by a scientific expedition sponsored by the Academy of Applied Science of Boston and the New York Times. One underwater camera has already obtained 8,000 color photographs. The film will be processed this week.
Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger said today that the United States was not engaged in any specific new initiative to bring about a Middle East peace settlement. After a 90‐minute meeting here with Secretary General Kurt Waldheim, he also reaffirmed American opposition to outside intervention in Lebanon. Asked if he was alarmed about the Syrian military move in Lebanon, the Secretary of State said the United States had not been consulted about it and that the basic American position was to oppose outside intervention. “At the same time.” he said, “it is an extremely delicate situation in which we are still trying to bring all of the factions and in which we are encouraging restraint by all of the parties.”
Israeli troops clashed with teenage Arabs in Nablus demonstrating on the anniversary of the beginning of the 1967 Middle East war, which ended in the Israeli occupation. It was the only trouble reported on the West Bank of Jordan, where nine Arabs have died and dozens more have been injured in recent waves of anti-Israeli violence. Witnesses said troops broke up a procession of Arabs who marched up and down the main street of Nablus, carrying the Palestine Liberation Organization flag and chanting anti-Israeli slogans.
Syria’s military intervention in Lebanon was endorsed by Lebanon’s right-wing Christian leadership. Syrian armored forces meanwhile reportedly remained in an uneasy standoff with Palestinian guerrillas and their leftist allies in eastern Lebanon. President Suleiman Franjieh, who has moved his headquarters to the small village of Zouk Mikhael, issued a statement that said in part that “it is only natural that we should support any measure that would lead to the stability of Lebanon.” He had the support of the other right-wing leaders: Interior Minister Camille Chamoun, the Phalangist party chief, Pierre Gemayel, and the Rev. Charbel Kassis, head of the Order of Maronite Monks.
Egypt has accumulated a substantial supply of nerve gas weapons, partly to deter Israel from using nuclear weapons first in case of a major war, the Boston Globe reported. Quoting unidentified but “well-placed” sources in Cairo, Washington and Tel Aviv, the paper said Israel learned of Egypt’s nerve gas store during the 1973 war, and consequently has been hastily producing more than 3 million gas masks for Israeli citizens.
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi will leave on Tuesday for a five‐day visit to the Soviet Union aimed at solidifying India’s relationship with its principal ally among the world’s major powers. The journey will be Mrs. Gandhi’s first trip outside of India since the declaration of a national emergency last June, when she set a new course for India by suspending civil liberties and arresting principal political opponents. In the opinion of informed Indian and diplomatic observers, one of her main purposes is to reassure her Soviet allies that India’s recent decision to upgrade its relationship with China does not represent a threat to the long‐standing relationship between Moscow and New Delhi. Following a hiatus of 15 years, India and China are planning to exchange ambassadors in the coming months.
ln the historic Grand Courtroom of the Seoul District Criminal Court, the prosecution is nearing the end of its questioning in the trial of 18 opponents of President Park Chung Hee. The defendants, who include a former president, an ex‐foreign minister, a one‐time presidential candidate, priests, ministers and civil rights leaders, are charged with agitating to overthrow the Government of Mr. Park, who seized power in a 1961 coup. The charges which have had wide impact on the lives of spouses and children as well, stem from a prayer meeting last March at which a statement titled “Declaration of Democracy and National Salvation” was read. In the five‐page, single-spaced document, a dozen signers called for the restoration of free expression, parliamentary democracy and an independent judiciary in South Korea. And they called for the resignation of President Park. The government, in one of its most severe reactions to political opposition in recent years, interpreted the resignation request as “calling for the government’s overthrow,” and said it was gross violation of the 1972 constitution, which gives President Park virtually unlimited powers. The minimum sentence in this case is a year in jail; the maximum sentence is unlimited imprisonment.
A month after his arrival in Peking as the new chief of the U.S. Liaison Office, Thomas Gates has not been received by any important Chinese officials. The Chinese have given Gates the cold shoulder apparently to show their displeasure with some U.S. policies and possibly with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger, Peking-based diplomatic analysts said. “That’s about the only way you can read it when you consider Peking’s concern about Washington’s detente policy with the Soviet Union and the absence of any serious movement on the Taiwan issue,” one analyst said.
“Sometime in the future all the nationalities in the world all their customs and their habits will be universalized. As Communists, that is our ideal. If our ideal is realized, we will hold a grand celebration.” Wang Yi‐chung isn’t quite sure when the world will betome one big commune. It might take hundreds of years, perhaps a thousand. This minor variation on a 19th‐century dream of Karl Marx would not be noteworthy except for the setting in which it is enunciated. For while Mr. Wang is proclaiming his version of a utopia where everyone is the same, he is surrounded by young people wearing no less than 22 distinctive varieties of colored costumes symbolically proclaiming the commitment of China to the flourishing of the different customs and habits of its minority peoples.
Foreign Minister Dudley Thompson of Jamaica told President Augusto Pinochet of Chile today that all American republics, including military dictatorships, should respect “a common international norm of human rights.” Mr. Thompson, who had a private luncheon meeting with Chile’s military ruler, is one of the leaders of the movement among the foreign ministers of the Organization of American, States, now assembled here, to improve human rights conditions in the hemisphere. “Every country has the primary responsibility to maintain law and order, and in a state of emergency or war this can limit human rights,” Mr. Thompson said at a news conference. “But we make a distinction between an emergency and a permanent condition of a police state.” In a restricted study on violations of human rights in Chile circulated to delegations here by the human rights commission of the organization, detailed accounts of torture, prison deaths, and widespread arrests without judicial order by the security agencies, were presented.
Brazilian officials have charged five policemen with five of 23 slayings in Rio de Janeiro during the last few weeks, police said. Newspapers have speculated that the killings were the work of Brazil’s “death squads,” reported to be groups of off-duty policemen waging an underground war against the city’s petty criminals.
Former President Isabel Peron has been formally charged, with administrative irregularities that could bring a prison sentence of up to 10 years. In a legal report prepared by the federal attorney in charge of administrative investigations, Mrs. Person was charged, with mishandling special public funds. The report, released yesterday, said Mrs. Peron, if convicted, could be jailed for up to 10 years and barred permanently from holding public office. On May 7, Federal Judge Nino Garcia Moritan said Mrs. Peron and some of her closest advisers would be tried for their part in the handling of a check worth the equivalent of $740,000. Mrs. Peron reportedly drew the check on funds administered by the Social Welfare Ministry and deposited it in private account. She later withdrew it saying the whole incident had been a mistake. The report said the funds were illegally used for private interests and investments.
The Ethiopian Government, seeking to crush a breakaway movement in the northern province of Eritrea, is also facing a set of foreign problems that center on deepening tension with neighboring Somalia. Government officials make it clear that the threat in Eritrea coupled with breakaway movements and insurgencies in a half‐dozen provinces elsewhere in the nation, has been matched by a potentially explosive feud with heavily armed Somalia. Western diplomats here, especially the Americans, are worried about a war between Somalia and Ethiopia — a war that would pit the 40,000‐man Ethiopian Army, American-equipped and supported, against Somalia which reportedly has 1.500 Russian military advisers at the missile base in Berbera. At issue is the small port of Djibouti, part of the French Territory of Afars and Issas, which is on its way to political independence. About half of Ethiopia’s 5770 million annual trade comes through the port, at the southern end of the Red Sea. The line to the sea is now even more vital because Ethiopia’s two other ports. Massawa and Assab, are in Eritrea and could be lost to the rebels there.
Prime Minister Ian D. Smith of Rhodesia raised the possibility today that he might meet with Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa before Mr. Vorster meets with Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in Europe later this month. The South African Broadcasting Corporation reported that Mr. Smith had told an interviewer in Salisbury that there were no definite plans for a meeting. However, Mr. Smith, was said to have added that Rhodesian diplomats were in close touch with the Vorster Government and “the position could change rapidly if necessary.” The report stirred no official reaction here, but diplomats In Cape Town, where Parliament is in session, said that top‐level discussions between the two governments were a practical and political imperative for both sides in view of the importance of Rhodesia in the talks between Mr. Vorster and Mr. Kissinger.
Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith said his country would attack Mozambique if its troops actively assisted Rhodesian black guerrillas intent on overthrowing his white supremacist regime in Salisbury. In an interview published in the Johannesburg Star in South Africa, Smith said Rhodesia still had “plenty of manpower and financial capacity” and could handle the insurgency without South Africa’s assistance.
The Rhodesian Government lifted today the restriction order on former Prime Minister Garfield Todd, who has been under house arrest for the last four years. The surprise revocation of the order was signed by the Minister of Law and Order. Hilary Squires, and was handed to Mr. Todd by senior police officer at his remote farm at Simaani, 200 miles south of Salisbury. Mr. Todd said afterward. “I am a bit stunned. It is difficult to believe.” He said he had no immediate plans to return to politics. “I want to enjoy my freedom,” he said. “I have no plans. But I’m deeply concerned with the situation here.” Mr. Todd, a New Zealander, was prime minister of Rhodesia from 1953 to 1958 when it was part of the Central African Federation.
Calling a black man a “kaffir” has become illegal in South Africa. A judge in Cape Town ruled that the description is an illegal assault on the dignity of a black man and awarded Delase Ciliza $155 in damages plus costs for being thus insulted by a policeman. The judge rejected a definition of a 1933 edition of the Oxford Dictionary which did not indicate that the word was insulting. A recent Oxford Dictionary defines a kaffir as one of a South African race belonging to the Bantu family. MerriamWebster’s Third New International Dictionary defines it as a South African of negroid ancestry, usually used disparagingly.
In the United States, 11 people were killed in the collapse of the Teton Dam in southeast Idaho. At 7:30 in the morning local time, the first leak appeared and became noticeably worse by 9:30 and two crews with bulldozers were sent to plug the leak. The gap gradually got wider and at 11:55, the earthen dam collapsed and released the pent-up waters of the Teton River into the Snake River Plain. The dam burst shortly before noon, sending a 15-foot wall of water into the upper Snake River Valley and flooding the towns of Sugar City and Teton. Moving at 15 miles an hour, the flood forced the evacuation of 30,000 people from the towns of Ririe, Teton, Rexburg, Menan, St. Anthony, and Sugar City. A 10-foot wave of mud and water crested at Rexburg. The authorities ordered the evacuation of an area near the Snake River in downtown Idaho Falls. Most of the buildings in Wilford, Idaho were destroyed, and the city of Rexburg was flooded for days.
Three days before the crucial California primary, President Ford’s campaign managers switched tactics and replaced a new advertising campaign with radio and television political commercials depicting Ronald Reagan as a threat to world peace. The commercials sought to capitalize on some ambiguous remarks Mr. Reagan made last week about the possible use of American troops in Rhodesia. The Reagan camp reacted quickly and vehemently, and the clash added heat to the Presidential campaign with only Tuesday’s primaries — in Ohio and New Jersey as well as California — left before the party conventions. “Last Wednesday,” a voice in the new spots intones, “Ronald Reagan said that he would send American troops to Rhodesia. On Thursday he clarified that. He said that they could be observers, or advisers. What does he think happened in Vietnam?” The spots end with the warning: “When you vote Tuesday, remember, Governor Ronald Reagan couldn’t start a war. President Ronald Reagan could.”
Jimmy Carter has eagerly been seeking the Jewish vote in the North and seems to be getting support. Several Jewish leaders detected a small but definite pro-Carter movement in recent weeks. There is still considerable coolness among Jews toward Mr. Carter, but political, religious and organizational leaders predict that he will get a substantial majority of Jewish votes if he wins the Democratic presidential nomination. Mr. Carter’s evangelical Christianity and a general impression that he is “fuzzy” on such issues as the security of Israel are among the reasons why he has to work extra hard to win Jewish support.
Carl Albert, the Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, announced that he would retire from Congress at the end of his current term and that he would not seek re-election as a Congressman from Oklahoma. Newspaper columnist Jack Anderson would later say that Albert, whose office had been accused of accepting gifts from South Korean businessman Tongsun Park, had been pressured to retire by House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill. Mr. Albert, Democrat of Oklahoma, is 68 years old. He became Speaker five and a half years ago. Representative Tip O’Neill, a liberal Democrat of Massachusetts, who has been the House majority leader since 1971, is expected to succeed Mr. Albert, perhaps without opposition, assuming the Democrats retain control of the House. But many Democrats believe there will be a bitter three-way fight for the majority leader post. The Senate leadership also will be replaced next year.
A security alert at the nation’s 58 nuclear power plants resulted from intelligence reports that two groups might attempt to take over one or more installations, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced. The commission said the May 27 alert would continue until after Tuesday’s voting in California on a nuclear power plants initiative. It said also that 18 threats against nuclear plants had been received this year and that top secret credentials of two nuclear regulatory inspectors had been stolen.
The government said it was making progress in lifting the secrecy label from millions of classified national security documents but that the use of the “top secret” label remained on the increase. The Interagency Classification Review Committee, set up in 1972, reported to President Ford that it had been able to declassify 228,507 documents but that there had been an “undesirable increase of 10,874 top secret actions during the year.” The committee promised maximum attention in 1976 to reverse this trend.
West Point accused 36 more cadets of cheating on a take-home exam, bringing the number charged in the widening scandal to 134. The U.S. Military Academy’s superintendent forwarded the new cases from West Point’s internal review panel, made up of cadet officers, to boards composed of five Army officers for hearings. Two cadets have been convicted and one was acquitted. Four cadets have resigned. President Ford Friday defended the academy’s honor code, which forbids lying, cheating or stealing or toleration of those who do.
Stiff prison terms were given to members of an international drug ring who were convicted of smuggling an estimated $300 million in heroin into the country from Thailand aboard military aircraft in 1974 and 1975. A federal judge sentenced Leslie (Ike) Atkinson, 52, a retired Army sergeant and the alleged ringleader, to 25 years in prison and fined him $50,000 on counts of conspiracy and possession of heroin. Other gang members were sentenced to up to 15 years in prison and $25,000 in fines. Atkinson, of Goldsboro, N.C., and eight others were convicted after a 17-day trial. One man was acquitted. It was estimated that Atkinson netted $140 million.
Karen Ann Quinlan will be admitted to a Morris County, New Jersey, nursing home, according to the head of a medical team attending the 22-year-old comatose woman. Her doctor said doctors at the home would treat Miss Quinlan in line with guidelines set by the county welfare board, which preclude using extraordinary means to keep a patient alive. Miss Quinlan’s parents apparently decided to move her to the home because doctors at the Denville, New Jersey, hospital were unwilling to honor a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that authorized the parents to end Miss Quinlan’s life. She has been in a coma since April, 1975.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission has ordered a ban on all firecrackers larger than the “ladyfinger” size, making this Fourth of July the last noisy one except for commercial displays, agency officials have announced. In an order to be published next week, the commission cast aside objections from Oriental religious groups as well as the state of Hawaii, which wanited no ban at all, and from safety groups that wanted a total ban before Independence Day.
Nearly four million students will enter the work force this summer as the nation’s schools let out, all of them vying for jobs in an already tight labor market, the Labor Department said today. Experts estimated this will cause the youth labor force to rise to 25.8 million by July, or about 600,000 more than last year. The situation happens each year and the Labor Department’s unemployment statistics are adjusted to account for most of the seasonal change. Nevertheless, these youths will have to compete for jobs with nearly 6.9 million other people out of work. Unemployment now stands at 7.3 percent.
Jacque Srouji the journalist who was dismissed last month for alleged F.B.I. connections, said yesterday that she had information that there was enough missing plutonium to indicate there may be a nuclear black market in this country. “Official documents I exam fined indicate an exceedingly high MUP figure [nuclear material unaccounted for after processing] involving plutonium in excess of that which would be lost in pipes in normal processing,” Mrs. Srouji said. Mrs. Srouji was discharged May 5 as a copy editor at The Tennessean newspaper for having a “special relationship” with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Eleven percent of the male inmates in Massachusetts prisons are Vietnam war‐era veterans, and the majority make model prisoners. Such an inmate is likely to he older, better educated and a first offender convicted of armed robbery, according to State Corrections Department records. In a statistical breakdown compiled last September, the department found that 222 of the 2,018 male prisoners then in custody were Vietnam‐era veterans who served 181 days or more active duty between Aug. 5, 1964 and May 7, 1975.
The New York City Department of Affairs, seeking to protect the many visitors attracted by the Democratic National Convention and the Bicentennial celebrations next month, has begun a law enforcement campaign against dishonest souvenir gift shops that are concentrated in the Times Square area and on Fifth Avenue. The agency especially will crackdown on fictitious prices that are actually the starting point for sharp bargaining, bogus sales prices and false discounts.
New York policemen arrested Joseph Remette, 28, business secretary of slain interior decorator Michael Greer, and charged him with strangling his employer. Greer, who had helped decorate rooms in the White House, was found dead in his Park Ave. apartment last April 19.
Dwight Stones of Long Beach State University in the U.S. broke his own world record for the high jump, leaping 7 feet, 7 inches (2.31 m) at the NCAA track and field championships in Philadelphia.
108th Belmont Stakes: Puerto Rican jockey Ángel Cordero Jr., riding Bold Forbes wins his only Belmont classic.
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Allowing only five hits, Ken Holtzman pitched the Baltimore Orioles to a 5–1 victory over the Minnesota Twins. The Orioles, who had a homer by Lee May in taking a 2–1 lead, clinched the contest with three more runs in the seventh inning on a walk to Mark Belanger, triple by Bobby Grich, another pass to Reggie Jackson, single by May and sacrifice fly by Tony Muser.
Rick Burleson, who hit a homer in the fifth inning, also drove in a run with a two-out single in the ninth to bring the Red Sox a 4–3 victory over the Angels. A two-run homer by Tommy Davis in the top of the ninth tied the score before the Red Sox put over the winning marker in their half on a walk to Doug Griffin, a passed ball and Burleson’s single.
A walk to Buddy Bell, triple by John Lowenstein and a passed ball accounted for two runs in the tenth inning to provide the Cleveland Indians with a 5–3 victory over the Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park.
Wilbur Howard, who entered the game as a pinch-runner and scored in the sixth inning, remained in the Astros’ lineup and singled a run across the plate in the seventh to defeat the Cubs, 4–3. Howard ran in the sixth for Greg Gross and then went into right field. In the seventh, with the score tied, 3–3, Enos Cabell singled and was sacrificed to second by Roger Metzger. After J.R. Richard struck out, Howard came to the plate and delivered his winning single.
Although hitless in the first game, John Mayberry batted in two runs and scored one to figure prominently in a 5–4 victory before the Royals also defeated the Brewers in the second game, 7–2, to complete the sweep of a twi-night doubleheader. In the opener, Mayberry drove in two runs with infield outs and also drew a walk and scored along with Hal McRae on a throwing error by George Scott. In the nightcap, Fred Patek, who had been hitless in 16 straight times at bat, had a perfect night at the plate with a double and two singles in three official trips and also stole two bases to spark the Royals. The tiny shortstop hit his double in the second inning, driving in two runs.
Dave Kingman hit his fourth homer in two games as Jon Matlack pitched the Mets to a 3–1 victory over the Dodgers to bring the lefthander’s record to 6–1 with his seventh complete game. The Mets bunched singles by Joe Torre, Roy Staiger and Mike Phillips in the second for the first earned run off Doug Rau in 27 innings. Kingman homered in the sixth. Phillips walked in the seventh, stole second and scored on a single by Leon Brown before Ron Cey broke Matlack’s bid for a shutout with a homer in the Dodgers’ half.
Four-hit pitching by Dick Ruthven, together with homers by Rowland Office, Earl Williams and Jim Wynn, featured the Braves’ 8–0 victory over the Astros. Office’s lead-off homer turned out to be all the runs the Braves would need.
The speed of Don Baylor, who stole second and scored from there on throwing a error by Thurman Munson, enabled the Athletics to defeat the Yankees, 7–6. Baylor beat out an infield hit in the ninth inning, pilfered second and when Munson’s throw went into center field, Baylor sped for third and continued home with the winning run.
Despite three homers by Bill Robinson, the Pirates fell victim to the Padres in 15 innings, 11–9. Randy Jones, who started for the Padres, yielded a two-run homer to Robinson in the sixth and solo shot in the eighth, but still held a 7–4 lead before being kayoed in the ninth when the Pirates rallied to tie the score. Mike Ivie knocked in a run for the Padres with a double in the 11th, but the Pirates pulled even again in their half with a walk and triple by Rennie Stennett. After the Padres once again went ahead in the 14th, the Pirates tied the score with Robinson’s third homer. However, the Pirates were not able to come back after the Padres broke away in the 15th. Merv Rettenmund doubled and counted the tie-breaking run on a single by Ivie. Dave Winfield later drove Ivie home from third with a sacrifice fly for his fourth RBI of the game.
Ken Reitz drove in three runs with a homer and single to lead the Giants to a 4–2 victory over the Phillies and hand Steve Carlton his second straight loss and third of the season after the lefthander had won five times in a row. Ed Halicki won his fourth against eight defeats. Reitz stroked his homer with a man on base in the second inning to put the Giants ahead, 2–1, and then accounted for his other RBI with a single in the sixth.
Don Gullett raised his career record against the Cardinals to 14–3 by allowing only six hits and pitching the Reds to a 5–1 victory. The Reds were hanging to a 2–1 lead in Gullett’s duel with John Denny when Tony Perez singled and George Foster homered to clinch matters in the sixth inning.
The victim of an unearned run, Bert Blyleven was defeated in his debut with the Rangers, losing to the Tigers, 3–2, in 11 innings. In the frame that was fatal to the former Twins’ star, Ben Oglivie singled, stole second and moved to third when Roy Howell booted a ball by Aurelio Rodriguez. Bruce Kimm then bounced a grounder to Toby Harrah, who tried for a double play, forcing Rodriguez at second, but the throw by Harrah to first was off the mark, allowing Oglivie to score.
Minnesota Twins 1, Baltimore Orioles 5
California Angels 3, Boston Red Sox 4
Cleveland Indians 5, Chicago White Sox 3
Chicago Cubs 3, Houston Astros 4
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Kansas City Royals 5
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Kansas City Royals 7
New York Mets 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Atlanta Braves 8, Montreal Expos 0
Oakland Athletics 7, New York Yankees 6
San Diego Padres 11, Pittsburgh Pirates 9
Philadelphia Phillies 2, San Francisco Giants 4
Cincinnati Reds 5, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Detroit Tigers 3, Texas Rangers 2
Born:
Torry Holt, NFL wide receiver (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams; Pro Bowl, 2000, 2001, 2003–2007; St. Louis Rams, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Kevin Faulk, NFL running back (NFL Champions, Super Bowls 36, 38, 39-Patriots, 2001, 2003, 2004; New England Patriots), in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Joe Gatto, American improv comedian, actor, and producer, member of the comedy TV series group “Impractical Jokers”, in New York.
Ross Noble, British comedian (“Have I Got News for You”), in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom.
Sonalika Joshi, Indian TV actress known for Taarak Mehta’s long-running Hindi language situation comedy Ka Ooltah Chashmah (“Inverted Glasses”); in Mumbai.
Aesop Rock (stage name for Ian Bavitz), American hip hop recording artist; in Syosset, New York.
Died:
María Ruanova, 63, Argentine ballet dancer and choreographer.
Willy Rösingh, 75, Dutch rower and 1924 Olympic gold medalist.
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