A second American soldier has died of wounds suffered in the April 5 bombing of a West Berlin nightclub, a U.S. military spokesman said. Army Staff Sgt. James E. Goins, 26, of Ellerbee, North Carolina, had been in critical condition since the bombing of the La Belle discotheque by suspected Libyan terrorists. Goins belonged to the 4th Battalion of the 502nd Infantry Regiment of the Berlin Brigade. He is survived by his wife and 5-year-old son. Sgt. Kenneth Terrance Ford, 21, and a 28-year-old Turkish woman were also killed in the blast and more than 200 injured.
A top British police commander has been rushed in to rescue a seemingly stalled and highly sensitive inquiry into police conduct in Northern Ireland. The action comes after the sudden and mysterious suspension from duty of the officer who had been in charge of the investigation for the last two years. The inquiry involves persistent charges that members of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, the name of the police force in Northern Ireland, had taken the law into their own hands over a period of several years. They are reported to have ambushed suspected members of the Irish Republican Army on orders to “shoot to kill.” Since 1982, there have been 35 shooting incidents that have aroused such suspicions. The British authorities have always denied that any such tactics were officially condoned.
Austria’s presidential election campaign drew to a close today with opinion polls predicting that Kurt Waldheim, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, would be elected. In a final radio appeal to an electorate of 5.4 million, Mr. Waldheim, the candidate of the rightist People’s Party, praised Austria’s democratic maturity and said its people would “not tolerate any meddling from abroad.” His Socialist opponent, Kurt Steyrer, said he regretted that Austria’s image had been damaged by allegations about Mr. Waldheim’s implication in war crimes in Greece and Yugoslavia during World War II. “A good international image is not a luxury,” said Mr. Steyrer, a 66-year-old physician and former Health Minister. “In particular, neutral Austria, Austria the land of tourists and Austria as a meeting place, must foster respect and trust in the world.”
The disclosures about the World War II record of Kurt Waldheim are confronting Yugoslav Government officials with an array of problems. Yugoslav officials have until now refused to comment on the charges that Mr. Waldheim lied about his wartime service in Greece and in the Balkans, contending that to do so would be to interfere in Austrian affairs. But the charges against Mr. Waldheim focus largely on his activities as an officer on the staff of General Alexander Lohr, an Austrian general who was executed in Yugoslavia in 1947 for war crimes. Morover, Mr. Waldheim was named by a postwar Yugoslav tribunal as a possible war criminal.
Demonstrators clashed with the police today as thousands of people tried to lay siege to a nuclear power plant in the small town of Brokdorf in northern Germany. In a confrontation lasting several hours, the police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse stone-throwing demonstrators who tried to break through a steel gate leading into the plant compound. The confrontation then continued across cow pastures adjacent to the nuclear plant as police officers in helicopters and water trucks pushed the demonstrators away from the area. The demonstration, called jointly by the antinuclear Green Party and several other ecologist groups, was the biggest in this country since the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in the Soviet Union in April.
An influential Catholic Jesuit journal, in a commentary officials said reflected Vatican thought, called the acquittal of six people charged with conspiring to kill Pope John Paul II a “disconcerting sentence.” The journal, La Civilta Cattolica, added that it appeared the attack was the result of “an international plot,” but that this would probably never be proved. The Vatican has issued no official comment on the case, and the journal’s article was the closest the Roman Catholic Church has come to a statement on the results of the four-year investigation and trial on the shooting of the Pope in St. Peter’s Square on May 13, 1981. A top Vatican official said the article, published today, “represents the point of view of the Vatican.”
Swedish warships dropped depth charges and magnetic grenades in fog-bound Natfjarden Bay in an effort to find suspected foreign submarines spying on naval maneuvers, officials said. Warships, helicopters and frogmen later searched the area but by mid-afternoon had found no trace of submarines, defense staff spokesmen said. The navy operation began Friday when a patrol boat fired magnetic grenades at a suspected foreign submarine detected with sonar in Vidingefjarden Bay, 40 miles northeast of Stockholm.
An Iranian opposition leader left France under Government pressure today in a move apparently intended to improve French relations with Iran and speed the release of French hostages held in Lebanon. The opposition leader, Massoud Rajavi, head of the Iranian People’s Mujahedeen, his wife and three companions were taken under police escort from their heavily guarded headquarters near Paris and put on a private plane for an unannounced destination. Later, the People’s Mujahedeen issued a statement in London saying that Mr. Rajavi had arrived in Baghdad and was greeted by Iraqi leaders.
At a Jerusalem dinner party recently a group of Israelis were sitting around over coffee complaining that their country’s tourist industry was being wrecked because many American tourists were apparently afraid to visit. Everyone at the party took turns denouncing what they took to be the Americans’ “cowardice” and wondering aloud whether Americans would soon stop traveling to Israel at all. Finally, as the night wore on, one longtime diplomat grumbled under his breath, “I just hope that the Messiah isn’t an American.” If he is, Israelis feel, they could be in for a long wait. Israeli officials say the American “hysteria” about traveling abroad has dealt a severe blow to their country’s $1.5 billion tourist industry and handed Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya a victory the likes of which he probably never dreamed.
The Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto told a crowd of 100,000 people today to be ready to exert pressure to ease out President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and have fresh elections by next fall. She spoke at rally marking her first visit to her hometown in southern Sind Province since she ended a European exile in April. Earlier, thousands of supporters tore through a barricade and police cordon at the Larkana airport as she arrived. Witnesses said many of the police officers on duty joined the huge crowd in clapping and cheering the daughter of former Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as she drove to the town center. Also today, a car bomb killed 4 people and wounded 30 others in a busy bazaar in Peshawar.
Gunmen suspected of being Sikh militants were reported today to have killed nine people. The attacks came at the end of a weeklong protest marking the second anniversary of the Indian Army assault on the Golden Temple, the Sikhs’ holiest shrine. Two radical Sikh groups, meanwhile, threatened a new round of killings. [ Nearly 3,000 troops were being sent to the Punjab to curb violence, according to a Press Trust of India report quoted by Reuters. ] The police said the slayings, in four separate attacks, brought to 16 the number of people killed in what Sikhs called Genocide Week, the observance organized by Sikh militants to commemorate the deaths of about 1,000 Sikhs when the Indian Army attacked the Golden Temple in June 1984 to rout militants who were storing arms there.
Sri Lankan government troops backed by helicopters beat back Tamil rebels besieging a northern military base, and at least 27 guerrillas and soldiers were killed in three days of fighting, officials said. They reported that at least 25 rebels were killed in the fighting that began Wednesday when 300 Tamil guerrillas, fighting for an independent state, surrounded 800 security troops at the Kilinochchi military base, 206 miles north of Colombo, the capital.
Thailand is preparing for a national election next month, and if the campaign is already shaping up as one of the toughest in the country’s short parliamentary history, politicians say, it is because this election will be the most important one Thailand has ever faced. “Both you and I know that this election is the most crucial in our democratic history,” said Siddhi Savetsila, Thailand’s Foreign Minister and head of the Social Action Party, speaking with reporters Monday. “It will determine whether we can continue to be called a democracy, or it could herald its ending.” There are few substantive issues as the July 27 election nears. Voters are essentially being asked one question: Should Thailand be run by political leaders or generals?
A yearlong political crisis in the Malaysian state of Sabah was resolved this week when the state’s ruling party was made part of a national coalition. Sabah, a large state on the island of Borneo in what is known as East Malaysia, had been in turmoil since the surprise election victory in April 1985 of a new party dominated by the state’s ethnic Kadazan people and led by a Kadazan Christian chief, Joseph Pairin Kitingan. Malaysia’s national Government, under Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, is dominated by Muslims. On Thursday, Mr. Pairin’s organization, the United Sabah Party, was admitted to the National Front, along with the United Sabah National Organization, the state’s Islamic opposition party. A national election is planned.
Not quite two years after Britain and China fashioned a formula for the return of Hong Kong to China, Portugal and China have agreed to open negotiations on a similar deal for Macao, the oldest European enclave on the China coast. The talks will begin at the end of June in Peking and are expected to conclude more quickly than those on Hong Kong, which took three years. Compared with the frenetic British colony that lies 40 miles away across the mouth of the Pearl River, this has always been a quiet and unstressful place, and so it is proving as the China talks approach. Unlike Hong Kong, which went through a stock market plunge and associated jitters on the road to agreement with Peking, Macao’s 400,000 people, only about 12,000 of them Portuguese, are generally sanguine about the prospect of returning to Chinese sovereignty sometime in the next 10 to 15 years.
Philippine Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile, a hard-liner on the country’s Communist-led insurgency, said he is willing to give a cease-fire a try but warned that it would be “just a first step, if at all, toward something else…. We have to discuss conditions under which peace may be had.” Meanwhile, President Corazon Aquino reversed herself and said in a statement that, for security reasons, the names of the government cease-fire negotiators would be kept secret. She announced last week that the Communist Party leadership had chosen negotiators to discuss a possible truce in the 17-year-old insurgency.
A Philippine Government commissioner seeking the recovery of the wealth of Ferdinand E. Marcos said today that the panel would seek reconsideration of an American judge’s decision returning $7 million in belongings to the former President. “We will not let go,” said the official, Ramon Diaz, of the Presidential Commission on Good Government. On Friday, the Federal District Judge, Harold M. Fong, ruled in Honolulu that the seizure of the belongings by United States Customs “flies in the face” of law and practices.
What could be the sharpest electoral challenge to the 57-year dominance of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party is developing in state election campaigns in Mexico. At stake is the governorship of Chihuahua. But the outcome of the July 6 voting in Mexico’s largest state could have far-reaching repercussions throughout the country. The challenge being mounted here by the conservative National Action Party is strong, and the ruling party, known by its Spanish acronym as the PRI, faces the real prospect of losing control of the state. Should that happen, leaders of the National Action Party, known as the PAN, say a domino effect would sweep PAN candidates into office in several other Mexican states.
Lieutenant General Henri Namphy, Haiti’s provisional President, declared tonight that presidential elections will be held here in 17 months. His announcement confirmed a statement Friday by the Minister of Justice, Francois Latortue, that elections would be held within 18 months. General Namphy, who rose to power on February 7 when Jean-Claude Duvalier fled into exile, said he would not be a candidate. General Namphy went on national television to make the announcement shortly after 10 PM, toward the end of a quiet but tense day after a week of nationwide anti-Government protests that had brought the country to its gravest political crisis since the fall of Mr. Duvalier.
White House officials said today that President Reagan, in a campaign to try to win Congressional approval of new aid for Nicaraguan rebels, would charge this week that the Soviet Union has resumed direct arms shipments to Managua. The officials said United States intelligence sources had information showing that a Soviet freighter delivered a large cache of military supplies to Nicaragua in early May. Attempts to reach the spokesman at the Nicaraguan Embassy in Washington were unavailing. The spokesman was in Nicaragua, according to the person who answered the phone, and no one else could respond.
The four-nation Contadora Group gave the five Central American nations a revised negotiating text of a proposed regional peace treaty in hopes of resolving deep differences and then ended a two-day meeting in Panama City. No new sessions were scheduled to discuss the draft. The Contadora Group also issued a declaration calling for an end to outside aid to guerrilla groups in the region.
A youth armed with a revolver seized a Nicaraguan passenger jet at Managua’s international airport and held almost 40 people hostage for about three hours before surrendering when police rushed the plane, security officials said. No injuries were reported aboard the Boeing 727, operated by the stateowned Aeronica airline. The officials described the would-be hijacker as “a boy” who wanted to fly to the United States for non-political reasons.
The deputy head of Ethiopian famine relief said he is resigning and will not return to his Marxist-ruled homeland. His superior defected to the United States last fall. Berhane Deressa said in a statement at the United Nations that he could no longer serve a regime “whose primary purpose is implanting a foreign ideology and an alien socio-political system.” Dawit Wolde Giorgis, head of the famine agency, left Ethiopia in October and lives in the United States.
Fifteen more blacks were reported today to have been killed in political turmoil sweeping South Africa, amid growing signs that the Government will take tough new steps to crack down on the unrest. The pro-Government newspaper Die Burger said the Government was set to make key decisions in the next few days on how to handle June 16, the anniversary of widespread protests that broke out in 1976. The Law and Order Minister, Louis Le Grange, has already banned all meetings to commemorate the protests, which began in the township of Soweto outside Johannesburg and spread to the rest of the country, leaving 575 people dead. Ten black coal miners were killed and 115 were hurt in fighting Friday at a Government-owned mine near Vryheid during a dispute between miners as to whether they should go on strike. The police said David Lukhele, whom they described as a former Government official of Swaziland, and a woman were gunned down in a rifle attack on a house in the black township of Mamelodi near Pretoria on Friday night. A black man, thought to be a policeman, was found burned to death in a white Pretoria suburb, and two other charred bodies were found in Motherwell township.
Despite President Reagan’s contention that U.S. underground nuclear testing is vital to the nation’s security, a majority of Americans favor a ban on further U.S. tests if the Soviet Union continues its test moratorium, which began last August, the Gallup Poll said. In the latest survey, conducted from April 11 to 14, 56% said the U.S. should go along with the Soviet moratorium on nuclear testing, while 35% disagree and 9% are undecided. The poll showed that the 47% who think the possible loss of U.S. nuclear strength constitutes a greater war risk are more reluctant to endorse the test moratorium than are the 39% who said that the arms race poses the greatest risk.
Even before it is formally placed in President Reagan’s hands, the final report on the Challenger disaster is proving as notable for the criticisms it omits as for the conclusions it draws, according to members of the Presidential space shuttle commission and outside experts. Missing from the final version, for example, are recommendations about such critical issues as whether the space agency should limit the crews of future shuttle flights to a minimum number of professional astronauts, how much time the agency should take in preparing and inspecting space shuttles between launchings and where blame should lie for the creation of an atmosphere that engineers say made them afraid to delay any liftoff. Also missing is the harsh, sometimes emotional language of Richard P. Feynman, a Nobel laureate and commission member, who reviewed the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s own studies of the probability of a shuttle accident. In a draft of his report that was later toned down at the insistence of William P. Rogers, the commission chairman, Dr. Feynman wrote that agency officials wildly overstated the safety of the craft “through their stupidity or their habits of dissembling.” A revised version of Dr. Feynman’s study is to be published as an appendix to the report, though it may not be made available for another month.
The number of jobs in the United States has grown at a rapid pace since 1980 as the economy has improved under the Reagan Administration. But a sharp debate has developed over whether the new positions pay enough money, provide enough full-time work and are available in parts of the country where they will help the chronically unemployed. About 9 million jobs have been created since the beginning of the decade. The Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics said its monthly survey of business establishments showed that 99,946,000 people were working in May, as against 90,784,000 in January 1980. That is a 10.1 percent increase, representing some of the fastest job growth since the bureau began doing the survey in 1919. For instance, in the boom years of 1946 to 1950 after World War II, the number of employed grew by 8.5 percent to more than 45 million, from 41.6 million.
President Reagan give a radio address to the Nation on tax reform.
President Reagan places a call to Jams W. Patridge, a Vietnam veteran and double amputee who recently gave life-saving CPR to a neighbor’s baby.
Vice President Bush disclosed today that the Reagan Administration has issued a secret directive labelling drug smuggling a major security threat because it is intimately linked with terrorism. Mr. Bush also said at an appearance in Houston that the United States is considering expanding the use of the military to combat the problem. The Vice President made the disclosure to emphasize the seriousness with which the problem is regarded by President Reagan, a White House official said. Mr. Bush told reporters in Houston that he hoped by making public the President’s decision to sign the directive two months ago, “every American will understand a real link between drugs and terrorism.”
The nation’s airlines are forecasting record travel this summer, with an increase on domestic routes more than compensating for what terrorism and the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl have done to discourage trips abroad. Despite the anticipated surge at home, officials are optimistic that traffic control will not be overwhelmed and that the nightmarish flight delays of the summer of 1984, caused by bad weather and overscheduling, will not be repeated. Crowding may be increased at airports by stricter security procedures to protect against extremists, and there may be crushes at some older airports. But aviation experts feel confident that the air traffic control system will readily absorb what the Air Transport Association, the airlines’ trade group, estimates will be an overall 4.5 percent increase in flights over 1985. The experts also are generally satisfied that, with the higher passenger volume accommodated on more and larger planes, the average comfort level should not suffer.
Justice Department lawyers have tentatively concluded that people with AIDS are “handicapped individuals” entitled to protection under Federal civil rights law. A confidential legal opinion drafted by lawyers in the civil rights division says that people with AIDS meet the statutory definition because they have a physical impairment that substantially limits one or more “major life activities.” The law also covers people who are “regarded as” having such an impairment, whether correctly or not. For this reason, the opinion suggests that people with antibodies to the AIDS virus, but no symptoms of the disease, may be protected by the law as well.
A Coast Guard report conducted two years ago questioned the stability of the ill-fated schooner Pride of Baltimore. “It’s readily apparent to me that the Pride of Baltimore — even with only a paid crew on board — should never have sailed offshore with that rig,” said William Peterson, a naval architect whose study of the Pride’s stability characteristics agreed with the Coast Guard’s 1984 report. Four people died when the Pride capsized and sank May 14 in a freak squall north of Puerto Rico.
Efforts resumed to settle the weeklong strike of 155,000 American Telephone & Telegraph Co. workers, as a federal mediator met separately with top union and company officials, including Morton Bahr, president of the striking Communications Workers of America, and AT&T Vice President Ray Williams and Robert Livingston, director of labor relations. “We would say it’s a hope for an early resolution to the conflict,” a union spokeswoman said.
The Florida Legislature approved a bill ordering a rollback of commercial liability insurance rates of 40% or more-to levels of January, 1984, before premiums began soaring. The measure also sets a $450,000 ceiling on non-economic liability awards such as “pain and suffering.” It puts a $25,000 limit on “joint and several liability” so that a single defendant with “deep pockets” who is minimally at fault would not have to pay the entire jury award.
A mob of 200 people chanted, “Lynch them,” “Shoot them!” outside a magistrate’s office in Northampton, Pennsylvania, where two men were arraigned on charges of shooting three women to death in a bank robbery that reportedly netted $2,222. Taxi drivers Stanley Joseph Hertzog, 29, of Allentown, and Martin Daniel Appel, 28, of Northampton, face murder and robbery charges for allegedly storming the First National Bank of Bath on Friday and mowing down five people, killing three. They were captured three hours later at a police roadblock about three miles from the bank, officers said.
Millions of dollars is spent each year to ship Pennsylvania coal 3,000 miles to heat American bases in West Germany, and the Pentagon wants it stopped. Defense Department officials say the coal is unneeded and the money wasted, and they are stepping up their efforts to end the practice. But they face the weighty opposition of members of Congress from the coal-mining state of Pennsylvania. With the support of allies in the shipping and railroad industries, they have pushed through a series of laws requiring the Defense Department to use coal. This “coals to Newcastle” program, as critics have dubbed it, continues in spite of protests by municipal and environmental officials in West Germany who say it adds to the pollution that has ravaged vast areas of their country. They have passed a series of laws requiring the Pentagon to stop burning coal and to install antipollution devices, such as scrubbers, that officials say would cost $500 million.
A bomb-wielding couple who held 150 Wyoming children for ransom at a rural school do not appear to have had any direct ties to Posse Comitatus or other far-right, white supremacist groups, according to the sheriff in charge of the investigation. The couple died and two dozen children were injured in the attack May 16 at the school in Cokeville, Wyo. Sheriff T. Dab Wolfley of Lincoln County and other law-enforcement officers had suggested at the time that written matter left by the couple, David and Doris Young, indicated that they were connected to the group and allied movements in the rural Northwest.
Legislation raising Wisconsin’s minimum legal drinking age from 19 to 21 was signed by Governor Anthony Earl, who said: “If this bill will save even just one life, it was worth it.” More than 100 protesters carrying signs were among the 300 who watched Earl sign the legislation at Hudson City Hall. Earl said he picked Hudson, which borders neighboring Minnesota, because of that state’s long legislative struggle to raise the drinking age from 19. The laws become effective September 1 in Wisconsin and Minnesota.
The junior executive first heard of crack last January, from a colleague. “I don’t want to do anything crazy,” the 28-year-old systems analyst, who works for a major corporation in lower Manhattan, recalled saying. “It’s not anything crazy,” he said his friend replied. “It’s just cocaine.” By March, however, the young executive was smoking up to $300 a week worth of the potent, highly addictive form of cocaine. He had lost 20 pounds and his career was foundering. The story, told by one of a growing number of people who have entered drug treatment programs for crack addiction in recent months, illustrates an aspect of the crack epidemic in the New York area that has gone largely unnoticed, drug experts say. The first demographic data gathered on crack addicts indicate that many are people with jobs that pay well, and that the majority are adults, not teenagers. According to drug treatment specialists, users and some dealers of the drug, many of the college-educated and professional people who smoke crack have used cocaine and marijuana on occasion for years. And for years they have dismissed warnings about those drugs as exaggerated.
Morris B. Abram said yesterday that he had resigned as vice chairman of the United States Commission on Civil Rights to become chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on July 1. Mr. Abram, a 67-year-old lawyer and a former president of Brandeis University who was named to the commission by President Reagan in December 1983, was elected last week to a one-year term. He will succeed Kenneth J. Bialkin as head of the conference, which includes 40 groups that speak for most American Jews on matters affecting the lives of Jews abroad.
Boaters stayed on shore but surfers were out in force as Tropical Storm Andrew, the first of the 1986 hurricane season, brought wind, waves and rain to North Carolina’s coast. A strong surf took the life of a Maryland woman who was swept out to sea in an undertow while swimming near the Hatteras-Ocracoke ferry terminal, Hyde County Deputy Eugene M. Jackson said. The storm, which contributed to 40 flooding deaths in the Caribbean, posed little further threat to land as it moved out to sea.
Asserting that politics, not science, is driving the search for the first permanent repository for radioactive waste, Washington State and Nevada are challenging the Department of Energy in Federal court. Lawsuits filed this week in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco mean the two states no longer trust the Energy Department to administer the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, said Kenneth Eikenberry, Attorney General of Washington. On May 28, based on recommendations from the Energy Department, the White House announced that five years of detailed studies would be made of a basalt site on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeastern Washington and a volcanic rock site at Yucca Mountain in southern Nevada. A salt bed in Deaf Smith County, Tex., was also chosen for the third of the detailed studies, each of which is expected to cost up to $1 billion. The Texas Attorney General, Jim Mattox, sued May 29 in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia to block that study.
Police and Navy helicopters with video cameras will search New York Harbor and the streets of lower Manhattan for signs of danger. Dozens of Coast Guard boats, equipped with fire hoses, machine guns and M-16 rifles, will patrol the bay. Hospitals are stocking Mylar blankets to warm those whose boats may capsize, and are ordering extra bandages, food and even insulin for diabetics who may lose their own. Ambulances and teams of medics are to be stationed in the streets. Bomb-sniffing dogs and Federal customs agents will join park rangers, frogmen and all the police and city workers that $5.7 million in overtime pay can buy to help protect President Reagan and the millions of others expected in New York for the Statue of Liberty centennial celebration, which officially begins Thursday, July 3, and ends on the 6th.
Madonna’s single “Live to Tell” goes #1.
118th Belmont: Stakes Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8.
French Open Women’s Tennis: Chris Evert beats Martina Navratilova 2–6, 6–3, 6–3 for her 18th and final Grand Slam title. For the 31-year-old Mrs. Lloyd, the victory marked a record seventh singles title at the French Open, where she has competed annually since age 17. Last year, she beat Miss Navratilova in another three-setter that was more tense than today’s but in which the crucial games were not as well played.
Major League Baseball:
University of Arkansas’s Jeff King, The Sporting News college player of the year, is the first choice in the June draft. The Pirates take the third baseman. U. of Texas pitcher Gregg Swindell is the next pick by Cleveland. Neither will sign for 6 weeks but Swindell will be in the major leagues after going 2–1 in the minors. The Giants take UNLV’s Matt Williams with the 3rd pick; Texas, picking 4th, selects Kevin Brown, followed by high schooler Kent Mercker (Braves), Gary Sheffield (Brewers) and Brad Brink (Phillies). The Mets take Lee May, Jr. with the #21 pick but the youngster will not perform like his dad and hit just 8 homers in 8 years in the minors. After being skipped over because scouts are convinced the Heisman Trophy winner is headed to the NFL, Bo Jackson is taken in the 4th round by the Royals. Another draftee, #10 Greg McMurtry by the Red Sox, will skip baseball and play in the NFL. College Pitcher of the Year Mike Loynd is taken by Texas in the 7th round, while Baseball America’s College Player of the Year Casey Close is taken by the Yankees in the 6th round. The Big 10 Triple Crown winner will make it as far as Triple A, but he will find stardom as the player agent for Derek Jeter, Ryan Howard, Zack Greinke and others. A total of 331 high schoolers are drafted, the most since 1979, due mainly to the dissolution of the January draft.
Bobby Bonilla hit a three-run home run and drove in four runs, and Greg Walker hit a home run, tripled and scored three runs for the White Sox as Chicago downed the Oakland A’s, 10–3. Bonilla’s home run, his second of the season, capped a four-run fifth and came off Chris Codiroli (4–7). John Cangelosi opened the fifth with a double and scored on a double by Harold Baines. Walker was walked intentionally before Bonilla put a pitch into the upper deck. The winner, Joe Cowley (2–3), survived a shaky start in which he walked five batters in the first inning, forcing in two runs. He did not allow another run until the seventh when he departed after giving up doubles to Donnie Hill and Jose Canseco. Cowley gave up six hits, walked six and struck out five. The White Sox tied the score in the bottom of the first on walks to Cangelosi and Carlton Fisk, a run-scoring single by Baines and a force-out by Bonilla. Walker broke the tie with his seventh homer with two outs in the third inning.
Reggie Jackson’s two-run double keyed a five-run third inning, and the rookie Wally Joyner broke out of a slump with a double and his 18th home run as the California Angels routed the Cleveland Indians, 8–2, today. The right-hander Mike Witt (6–4) gave up eight hits, walked two and struck out five before he was relieved with none out in the ninth inning by Doug Corbett. Andre Thornton and Mel Hall hit fourth-inning solo homers off Witt. The Angels took a 1–0 lead in the second inning against the losing pitcher, Tom Candiotti (3–6). George Hendrick singled, stole second and scored on Dick Schofield’s double. Bob Boone opened the Angels’ third with a single, and one out later, Gary Pettis walked. Jackson lined his two-run double, and Doug DeCinces, who had three hits, followed with a run-scoring double to chase Candiotti. Against the reliever Rich Yett, Hendrick singled DeCinces to third, and DeCinces scored and Hendrick moved to second as the left fielder Otis Nixon made a throwing error on the play. Hendrick went to third when Joyner grounded out and scored on Yett’s wild pitch. Thornton’s ninth homer and Hall’s seventh cut the margin to 6–2 in the fourth. Joyner scored in the sixth when he doubled off Bryan Oelkers, breaking an 0-for-17 slump, and scored as Boone grounded into a double play. Joyner hit a homer to right field in his next time at bat in the eighth inning, giving him at least one homer against the 10 league teams he has faced this season.
The Blue Jays bowed to the Detroit Tigers 2–1. Larry Herndon hit a two-run homer and made a key defensive play in left field for Detroit. Frank Tanana (5–4) gave up one run on six hits in seven innings. Willie Hernandez pitched the final two innings, allowing two hits, for his ninth save. Tanana walked Willie Upshaw to start the Toronto seventh, then gave up a two-out walk to Buck Martinez and a run-scoring single by Tony Fernandez, his third hit of the game.
The Minnesota Twins beat the Kansas City Royals, 4–1. Kent Hrbek went 5 for 5 for the first time in his major-league career, including a home run and a run-scoring double, and Gary Gaetti also hit a homer for the Twins. Bert Blyleven (5–5) scattered seven hits in his fifth complete game of the season. He struck out five in raising his career record against the Royals to 24–16.
Phil Garner hit a two-run double with the bases loaded in the eighth inning today, lifting the Houston Astros to a 7–5 victory over the Dodgers. The Astros had led by 4–2 before Len Matuszek’s three-run pinch homer in the seventh inning off Charlie Kerfeld gave the Dodgers a 5–4 lead. The right-hander Ken Howell (2–3) entered the game for Los Angeles in the eighth inning and was greeted by Billy Hatcher’s leadoff single. Howell walked Glenn Davis and the pinch-hitter Denny Walling, loading the bases. Garner then lined a shot off the fence in left-center field, giving the Astros a 6–5 lead and making a winner of Aurelio Lopez (1–0). It was the first National League victory for Lopez, released by Detroit after last season. Bill Doran tripled and Hatcher doubled to give Houston an insurance run in the ninth. Dave Smith pitched the final two innings for his league-leading 14th save. Los Angeles left 15 men on base and 10 in scoring position.
The Milwaukee Brewers blanked the Boston Red Sox, 3–0. Ted Higuera pitched a four-hitter and Rob Deer and Jim Gantner hit home runs to lead Milwaukee. Higuera (8–4) struck out six and walked one in his league-leading seventh complete game of the season. He also pitched his first shutout of the season. Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (7–4) took the loss, ending his five-game winning streak. He gave up five hits in seven innings.
Juan Samuel and Glenn Wilson hit run-scoring singles, keying a three-run rally in the seventh inning that lifted Philadelphia over Montreal by a score of 3–1. Ron Roenicke led off the seventh with a double, only the Phillies’ third hit of the game off Andy McGaffigan (3–2). Samuel followed with a single that made the score 1–1. After Samuel was caught stealing, Mike Schmidt and Von Hayes walked. Wilson then singled home Schmidt. Hayes also scored on the play when the left fielder Tim Raines made an error. Shane Rawley (8–4) scattered six hits in his first complete game of the season. He walked two and struck out one.
Bobby Meacham spent the better part of a damp, drizzly afternoon being greeted by boos at Yankee Stadium today. He committed his 10th and 11th errors of the season, the first one prolonging the third inning and enabling Baltimore to score three unearned runs. The Orioles went on to defeat the Yankees, 7–5, handing New York its sixth loss in nine games. So the Yankees fell to third place, behind the Orioles and Boston Red Sox, as they continued an important part of the season in which they play 27 consecutive games against rivals in the East Division. They have lost the first two. Fred Lynn and John Shelby homered, and Mike Boddicker got ninth-inning help from Don Aase to pitch the Baltimore Orioles to victory. Boddicker, 7–1, lost his shutout bid with two out in the eighth when Don Mattingly hit a two-run homer, his eighth, then he lost his complete game in the ninth when Mike Pagliarulo hit a one-out, three-run homer, his 13th. Boddicker gave up nine hits — including ninth-inning singles to Mike Easler and Dan Pasqua before the Pagliarulo homer.
Dwight Gooden lost two games in a row last month, but tonight he won his third in a row when he pitched the New York Mets to a 6–4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. No classic: only four hits in seven innings, but four walks and only four strikeouts. Still, by any measure other than the Dwight Gooden storybook measure, it got the job done, and he now has won eight times and lost only twice. It also gave the Mets a record of 36 and 15, putting them 21 games over .500 for the first time in their 25 years in the National League. And it widened their lead over the Montreal Expos to nine games, their fattest lead over anybody since October 1, 1969. Jesse Orosco relieved in the eighth following a 24-minute rain delay. He held Pittsburgh hitless the rest of the way for his ninth save.
Ken Oberkfell hit a three-run homer and Atlanta took advantage of LaMarr Hoyt’s career-high six walks as the Braves beat San Diego, 4–2. Oberkfell homered in the sixth inning for a 4–0 lead. He connected for his third home run of the season after winning pitcher Rick Mahler singled and Omar Moreno drew Hoyt’s sixth walk. Hoyt, 2–3, pitched six innings and gave up eight hits. Hoyt twice walked five batters in a game while pitching for the Chicago White Sox. Mahler, 6–5, pitched 7 ⅔ innings and gave up seven hits in winning for the fifth time in his last six decisions. Paul Assenmacher finished up for his sixth save and extended his stretch of scoreless innings to 13 ⅔.
Bob Brenly’s first home run in six weeks, a tie-breaking three-run drive in the fourth inning, powered San Francisco over Cincinnati, 6–2. Mike Krukow (8–3) won his fourth straight decision with an eight-hitter, striking out eight Reds and walking none. The eight victories equals Krukow’s total of last season. Eddie Milner hit his third homer with two out in the third to give the Reds and the pitcher Bill Gullickson a 1–0 lead. Gullickson (4–6) walked the Giants’ first batter in the fourth, Mike Aldrete, then retired Chris Brown on a fly to right. Aldrete went to third on Jeff Leonard’s single and scored the tying run on a single by Chili Davis. Brenly lined the next pitch from Gullickson over the left-field fence for his fourth homer of the season. In the fifth, Brown made the score 5–1 with his fourth homer, and Davis singled home a run in the seventh off the reliever Ted Power. Buddy Bell hit his third homer with one out in the ninth for Cincinnati’s second run.
Jack Clark tripled and scored the tie-breaking run on Tommy Herr’s single, and John Tudor pitched a two-hitter as St. Louis edged Chicago, 3–2. Clark began the seventh with a drive off the center-field wall, 414 feet away. Herr, batting .174, singled up the middle to snap a 2–2 tie. Tudor (6–3) struck out five and walked three. Rick Sutcliffe (4–7) took the loss. The Cardinals took a 1–0 lead in the third. Terry Pendleton singled sharply to right and went to second on Tudor’s sacrifice bunt, and Vince Coleman slashed his league-leading sixth triple into the right-field corner. The Cubs took a 2–1 lead in the fourth as Gary Matthews walked before Ryne Sandberg hit his seventh home run into the left-field bleachers for the first Cubs hit off Tudor. The Cardinals tied the score in the sixth as Willie McGee, who had struck out twice before against Sutcliffe, hit a homer over the right-field wall, his third of the year.
The Texas Rangers swept a doubleheader from the Seattle Mariners, 7–5, and 3–2. Scott Fletcher went 4 for 4, drove in a run and scored the go-ahead run on a wild pitch for the Rangers in the first game of the doubleheader. Jose Guzman (5–6) worked seven innings, striking out three and walking five. Greg Harris pitched the final two innings for his ninth save as the Rangers won their fifth in a row. Texas scored two runs in the seventh to erase a 5–4 Mariner lead. With one out, Curtis Wilkerson singled to center and went to second when Oddibe McDowell was safe on an error by the first baseman Alvin Davis. Wilkerson was thrown out at third on a double-steal attempt, with McDowell safe at second. Fletcher then singled off the losing pitcher, Matt Young (4–4), scoring McDowell with the tying run. Fletcher took second on the throw home. Fletcher moved to third on Young’s wild pitch. Following a walk to Pete O’Brien, Mark Huismann replaced Young and tossed a wild pitch that allowed Fletcher to score the go-ahead run.
Oakland Athletics 3, Chicago White Sox 10
California Angels 8, Cleveland Indians 2
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Detroit Tigers 2
Minnesota Twins 4, Kansas City Royals 1
Houston Astros 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Boston Red Sox 0, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Montreal Expos 1
Baltimore Orioles 7, New York Yankees 5
New York Mets 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Atlanta Braves 4, San Diego Padres 2
Cincinnati Reds 2, San Francisco Giants 6
Chicago Cubs 2, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Texas Rangers 7
Seattle Mariners 2, Texas Rangers 3
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Keegan Bradley, American golfer (PGA Championship, 2011), in Woodstock, Vermont.
Todd Carter, NFL kicker (Carolina Panthers), in Flint, Michigan.
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