Mikhail S. Gorbachev, making his first visit to Hungary as Soviet leader, called today for an international accord to deal with the aftereffects of nuclear accidents such as the Chernobyl disaster. During a speech at an electrical equipment plant, Mr. Gorbachev proposed an arrangement under which nations suffering such accidents would provide medical attention and new housing for residents of neighboring countries affected by radioactive fallout. In the speech, Mr. Gorbachev also affirmed a conciliatory proposal to the West on mutual troop reductions in central Europe. The proposal is expected to be approved by a Warsaw Pact meeting here on Tuesday. Mr. Gorbachev repeated an offer under which Britain and the Soviet Union would reduce their nuclear arsenals. After the speech, Mr. Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, strolled among noon-hour shoppers. Encircled by security men, Mr. Gorbachev walked with Janos Kadar, the Hungarian leader. At times, Mr. Gorbachev stopped to talk with people on the street and once he hailed a group of Soviet tourists in his path. Hungarians looked on impassively, but at one point there was a smattering of applause.
Soviet specialists have plugged the base of the damaged reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant with lead, precluding any risk of radioactive leakage from underneath it, Soviet scientist Nikolai Kocherov told a meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency in Leningrad, the official Soviet news agency Tass reported. Kocherov said that tunnels the size of subways also are being built to provide cooling for the area.
The Chancellor of Austria, a Socialist, resigned today, a day after Kurt Waldheim won election to the largely ceremonial post of President. The resignation of Chancellor Fred Sinowatz appeared to amount to an acknowledgment by the Socialists, who have governed Austria for 16 years, that the victory of the former United Nations Secretary General represented a severe political setback. Mr. Waldheim, the candidate of the rightist People’s Party, won 53.9 percent of the votes Sunday compared with 46.1 percent for Kurt Steyrer, his Socialist opponent. Evidence unearthed over the last several months has raised questions about Mr. Waldheim’s links to Nazi war crimes in World War II.
President Reagan joined a variety of foreign leaders today in congratulating Kurt Waldheim on his election as President of Austria. Such congratulatory messages, usually in the form of telegrams, are generally regarded as routine diplomatic gestures. But Israel recalled its Ambassador from Vienna for an indefinite period of “consultations” to protest Mr. Waldheim’s victory. And in the United States, lawmakers and Jewish groups continued their criticism of the Austrian voters who chose Mr. Waldheim, the former United Nations Secretary General, by a wide margin in an election on Sunday.
Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige formally notified President Reagan that Norway is ignoring a whaling ban and harvesting the Minke whale, an act that could lead to trade sanctions against Norwegian fish products. Under U.S. law, Baldrige will now recommend to Reagan what sanctions he thinks are appropriate, and the President then has 60 days to notify Congress of his proposed actions. Meanwhile, Sweden appealed to the Soviet Union, Japan and Norway to stop violating a commercial whaling ban.
The Swedish police cast doubt today on a British newspaper report that said investigators suspected the Chilean secret police had plotted the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme. A police spokesman, Leif Hallberg, said that the leads in the investigation were “not inclined in the direction” that the killing was ordered from outside Sweden. Mr. Hallberg said the field of suspects had “narrowed gradually,” but that current leads “cannot be told to the outside.” On Sunday, The Observer quoted an unidentified Swedish government source as saying Sweden was “actively investigating a Chilean connection” in the assassination of President Palme on a Stockholm street February 28. The Observer said the Chilean secret police “are known to have plotted for more than a decade” to kill President Palme.
Pan Am’s trumpeting of efforts to protect international travelers from terrorists with full-page newspaper advertisements around the country has stirred widespread debate in the airline industry and the Government. Other American carriers have increased security measures but have not publicized them.
Abul Abbas, the Palestinian terrorist accused of masterminding the hijacking of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro last year, received no help from Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat or from the Syrian government, according to a report prepared by Italian prosecutors. The report is to form the basis of the case against four alleged hijackers and 11 other Arabs accused of involvement in the case. The trial, on charges including the hijacking and the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an American passenger, is to open June 18 in Genoa, with many defendants being tried in absentia, among them Abbas.
Officials of the State Department and the Justice Department made conflicting statements today about the extent of Israeli spying in the United States. The statements brought additional confusion to an issue that has already strained American-Israeli relations. Apparently trying to mollify the Israeli Government, the State Department said that the United States had “no evidence of any espionage ring involving Israeli officials” other than those already named as unindicted co-conspirators of Jonathan Jay Pollard, who has pleaded guilty to spying for Israel. The department said Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d had approved the statement.
White House and Reagan Administration officials have concluded that although Syria’s involvement in terrorism may be “much more professional, much more deadly” than Libya’s, the evidence remains murky about Syria’s direct links to recent acts of violence. The United States and the Western allies have failed to gather the same type of “incontrovertible evidence” against Syria as they say they have against Libya for recent terrorist incidents, according to Administration officials. As a result, they said, the White House, the State Department and the Defense Department are not seriously weighing a retaliatory move against Syria similar to the air strikes against Libya in April. One ranking Administration official said that Syria’s President, Hafez al-Assad, “has a long history of involvement in terrorism.” But, he said, the evidence against Syria “is only circumstantial” in the attacks on airports in Rome and Vienna last Dec. 27, the bomb explosion at a West Berlin discotheque on April 5 and the attempt to plant a bomb on an El Al Israel Airlines jetliner in London on April 17.
President Reagan and King Hussein of Jordan met today and expressed regret that they had been unable to revive the stalled Arab-Israeli peace talks, a senior Administration official said. During a deliberately low-key meeting at the White House that lasted an hour, both leaders affirmed the importance of doing something to end the stalemate, several officials said, but the officials added that there was no likelihood of immediate moves in that direction. “The climate for progress is just not good,” a State Department official said. The session was in sharp contrast to King Hussein’s last visits here, in May and September 1985. Then, an air of expectation was created about the possibility of holding an international conference on the Middle East at which Israel and Jordan would negotiate for a peace treaty, with Palestinians taking part in the Jordanian delegation.
Iranian telecommunications with the rest of the world were severed after the Iraqi air force attacked a satellite ground station at Assad Abad in southern Iran. Diplomats in the Persian Gulf said the complex housed Iran’s largest station for reception and transmission of satellite signals. Callers as far away as Tokyo, Hong Kong, Stockholm and London said all lines to Tehran were reported “temporarily suspended,” without official explanation.
More than 1,000 members of the largest group opposing the Iranian Government have left their headquarters in suburban Paris for an area on the Iran-Iraq border, the group said here today. The members of the left-wing group, the People’s Mujahedeen, apparently left in the weeks before their leader, Massoud Rajavi, left Paris for Iraq on Saturday. Mr. Rajavi’s unexpected departure was seen here as part of an effort to restore normal ties between France and Iran and, ultimately, to help win the release of eight or nine Frenchmen being held hostage by pro-Iranian gunmen in Lebanon. The group, in a communique issued from London today, said that Mr. Rajavi arrived in Iraq early Sunday. He was said to have been greeted by several senior Iraqi officials in the kind of ceremony normally accorded a visiting government leader.
The police detained about 600 Hindu protesters near Parliament in New Delhi today who were demanding military rule in four districts of the Punjab that are considered strongholds of militants. The protesters were supporters of the right-wing Janata Party, which has seen 1,000 of its activists held briefly by the police in similar protests since Saturday. A police spokesman said the demonstrators would be freed after they were warned not to defy orders banning gatherings of more than five people.
In a new “textbook war” with Japan, China demanded that Tokyo revise a high school history book that China claims “grossly distorts” Japanese wartime atrocities. The official New China News Agency reported that the Foreign Ministry complained to the Japanese Embassy in Peking that the textbook glosses over “the holocaust perpetrated by Japanese troops in Nanking,” a reference to the 1937 massacre in which up to 200,000 were killed. The text refers to a controversy in Japan between scholars over whether “the acts at Nanking were actually committed.”
A noisy campus party celebrating African Liberation Day provided the spark for a confrontation between the authorities and African students, who used the occasion to charge that their treatment in China was racist. The affair began on the night of May 24 when a crowd of 400 Chinese at the university in Tianjin besieged 40 Africans and their guests at a party in a campus dormitory. It has continued through two weeks of recriminations, a protest march by Africans through Peking, and news conferences at which officials have denied racism exists in China. Although confrontations between Chinese and Africans are not new — in the early 1970’s, more than a dozen Tanzanians at the Peking Railroad Engineering School were sent home after burning portraits of Mao Zedong — the Tianjin melee was one of the worst.
Police found at least 18 homemade bombs in a Manila park where Philippine President Corazon Aquino is expected to appear during Independence Day celebrations Thursday. The bombs, along with bags suspected of containing gunpowder, were found when a group of men fled from police at the park, also used for pro-Marcos rallies. Aquino, meanwhile, accused deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos of using “ill-gotten” wealth to fund anti-government protests.
The jittery peso fell further against the dollar, closing in bank-owned exchange houses at 727 pesos to the dollar, a fall of 30 percent in the last six trading days. Mexico City’s exchange market was filled with swirling rumors about Mexico’s intentions toward its foreign debt and uncertainty about the country’s economic future. In the last six trading days the peso has dropped 30 percent, closing today at 727 pesos to the dollar at the bank-owned exchange houses. A year ago a dollar cost about 250 pesos. “People are very nervous, and there is uncertainty in the market,” said Fernando Macedo, manager of a private exchange house here that was trading pesos at even weaker rates than the banks were offering. Loss of Oil Revenues Felt Conjecture about Mexico’s intentions regarding its $98 billion foreign debt is intense, dominating financial, government and political circles. With Mexico’s foreign reserves shrinking and its loss of crude oil revenues this year expected to total $6 billion, the country is expected to run out of money to pay interest in a few weeks or months. In Basel, Switzerland, central bankers held emergency talks on Mexico’s deepening economic problems. They said they were reluctant to bail out Mexico for a second time in five years.
President Reagan said today that support for Nicaraguan insurgents “towers above partisan concerns” and that a failure to provide aid would abandon the rebels. “The Communists have made their decision, the resistance has made its decision and now we must make ours,” Mr. Reagan said in a speech to foreign policy experts here. “The choice is stark, the choice is unavoidable. We can help our neighbors in their struggle for freedom or, by doing nothing, we can abandon them to a Communist dictatorship.”
A Peruvian military jet forced a Pan American World Airways airliner with 105 people aboard to land after it violated Peruvian airspace today. The plane was allowed to resume its flight to Los Angeles after paying a $5,000 fine. Peru and the United States do not have an air traffic agreement, and a United States Embassy spokesman said the Boeing 747 was forced down because it had not provided the Peruvian authorities with 48 hours’ notice that it would fly over their country.
Osvaldo Hurtado Larrea, a soft-spoken Jesuit-trained intellectual, was Ecuador’s last President. Leon Febres Cordero, an extroverted millionaire businessman, is the current leader. Two men could hardly be more different. Mr. Hurtado, whose slight frame and owlish appearance make him look younger than his 46 years, lives in the mountain capital of Quito where political moves are calculated in lawyerly whispers and points are scored through ironic asides.
The Angolan rebel movement said today that its forces killed more than 100 Angolan soldiers and shot down several aircraft in battles last week. The rebel group, called the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, said it shot down an MI-25 helicopter gunship and a MIG-23 jetfighter in fighting near the city of Cangumbe on Saturday.
At least five people died and thousands were left homeless in chill winter weather today after renewed fighting between rival black groups in a squatter camp near Cape Town, South Africa. The fighting and burning of shanties in the camp, Crossroads, sent up a huge pall of gray smoke. Witnesses, including clerics who saw the fighting, said the police seemed to have supported a group of about 3,000 avowedly conservative blacks, known as the vigilantes, against an estimated 8,000 radicals, who are known as the comrades. The official police tally of deaths stood at five, but medical workers said 14 blacks had died, some of bullet wounds, others hacked to death with scythe-like blades called pangas. More than 1,600 people have died in the nation’s bloodshed since September 1984.
The President’s shuttle commission said today that the Challenger disaster had a single physical cause, the failure of a rocket joint, but it cited a wide array of management problems in the space agency and the rocket manufacturer as fundamentally responsible for bringing about that failure. For the first time, the commission also said that managers at the headquarters of the space agency in Washington had enough information in hand last August, five months before the Challenger’s fatal flight, to require that the faulty booster rockets be fixed before the next shuttle flight. In a low-key but stern indictment, the commission’s 256-page final report chronicled a long history of engineering and managerial mistakes, of refusals to recognize the seriousness of problems with the solid-fuel booster rockets, of a breakdown in quality control programs and of repeated failures to pass vital safety information from lower levels to key decision-makers. The 13-member commission was appointed by President Reagan after the disaster Jan. 28 that took the lives of the shuttle’s seven crew members. The panel formally presented its final report to Mr. Reagan today at a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden. The President said he would support the commission’s recommendations for making the shuttle safer.
“We’ve learned in these past few months that we’re frail and fallible,” he said. “But we have also learned that we have the courage to face our faults and the strength to correct our errors. We’ve suffered a tragedy and a setback, but we’ll forge ahead, wiser this time and undaunted.” The commission issued 11 broad recommendations intended to improve both the faulty rocket joints and the management flaws underlying the disaster. In an effort to assure that NASA takes appropriate action, it urged the space agency to submit a report to the President a year from now on the progress it has made in carrying out the recommendations. There were no major surprises in the commission’s final report; its outlines had been signaled in public hearings, statements by the panel’s chairman, William P. Rogers, and unauthorized disclosures. For instance, the commission warned that the main engines, whose components degrade more rapidly than anticipated, “require unstinting maintenance and overhaul.” The report also said that Morton Thiokol Inc. had designed a faulty rocket joint, had taken no appropriate action to fix it and had opposed suggestions made by NASA engineers in the late 1970’s that the joint be redesigned. The panel also said that in recent years Thiokol was slow to plan and carry out a program to improve the rocket joint, despite pleas from its own engineers for speedy action.
The head of the space agency vowed to overcome “our errors,” overhaul the shuttle management and restore the agency’s reputation for safety and success. The agency’s new chief, James C. Fletcher, also pledged that agency officials would make more specific replies to the Presidential panel’s report “in an orderly and timely way.”
President Reagan receives the Rodger Commission’s report in the Rose Garden.
The Supreme Court today invalidated Reagan Administration regulations that were designed to require life-prolonging medical treatment for newborn infants with severe handicaps. Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, in a plurality opinion joined by three other Justices, said there was no evidence that any hospitals had discriminated against handicapped infants or had refused treatment sought by parents. Hence, he said, there was no basis for federal intervention in these sensitive treatment decisions, as required by the “Baby Doe” rules. Justice Stevens said federal law did not require hospitals to treat handicapped infants without parental consent, or require parents to give their consent.
The three suspects in the slashing of a model’s face in New York were in protective custody on Riker’s Island after reports that one of them was assaulted and another had been threatened, officials said. The three are charged in the razor assault Thursday on Marla Hanson, 24, whose facial wounds required more than 100 stitches to close. Police charged that Steven Bowman, 27, and Daren Norman, 20, inflicted the wounds on instructions from Steven Roth, 28, Hanson’s former landlord. She has said she was trying to retrieve an $850 apartment security deposit from him at the time of the attack.
The woman who gave John Belushi an injection of drugs the night he died plans to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter, attorneys said today. Mr. Belushi, the actor and comedian, died of a drug overdose four years ago, at the age of 33. Prosecutors said the woman, Cathy Evelyn Smith, administered the lethal injection of cocaine and heroin. Lawyers on both sides had been negotiating for days before they disclosed the plea agreement. The 38-year-old Miss Smith, a former rock backup singer, decided to plead guilty to involuntary manslaughter and three other charges on the eve of her second-degree murder trial, which was scheduled to begin Wednesday.
Prosecutors in the espionage trial of Jerry A. Whitworth today introduced a series of four letters they hope will convince the jury that Mr. Whitworth knowingly participated in a Soviet spy ring. The anonymous letters, received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco in 1984, were signed “RUS, somewhere U.S.A.” The writer tells of being remorseful for passing “top secret cryptographic keylists for military communications, tech manuals for same, intelligence messages, and etc.” The Government alleges that Mr. Whitworth stole just such secret cryptographic materials and messages from various stations in the Navy beginning in 1975 while he was a radioman with a top-secret security clearance. Although the Government cannot actually prove that the letters were written by the defendant, Judge John P. Vukasin Jr., ruled in March that prosecutors could try to establish them as Mr. Whitworth’s through the “parallel characteristics” between the facts of the espionage conspiracy charged in the case and the ones described in the letters.
Seven youths whose vigilante group used intimidation and violence in a bid to eliminate petty crime and drug abuse at their Fort Worth high school were sentenced, with five drawing jail terms of up to 30 days. The five sentenced to jail were described as ringleaders of the group known as the Legion of Doom, which in 1985 displayed swastikas, damaged a car with a pipe bomb and killed a cat and dumped it in a student’s car as a threat
Voters in Maine and South Carolina begin choosing successors today to Democratic Governors Joseph E. Brennan and Richard W. Riley, while four Democrats and one Republican seek to replace the late Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo in the New York City borough of Queens. South Carolina Republicans pick a nominee to oppose Democratic Sen. Ernest F. Hollings. Virginia has one contested congressional primary and North Dakota has primaries for state and local offices.
Maine will vote on obscenity today in a statewide referendum. Civil libertarians around the country describe the vote as an unusual test of public attitudes at a time of increasing arguments about a link between obscene materials and incidences of rape and child abuse.
Water gushing through a widening breach in a Great Salt Lake dike slowed as Utah officials studied ways to protect a railroad causeway and an interstate highway on the southern shore of the inland sea. Authorities did not believe the two key transportation links between northern Utah and California’s Bay area were in immediate danger from the 700-foot hole in a 13-mile-long dike, but they feared a new storm could inflict serious damage. Officials said that more high winds could push the water over the dike and onto Interstate 80.
The Rev. Joseph Lowery, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, bade an emotional farewell to the church he had pastored for 18 years and reluctantly accepted a transfer. Mr. Lowery told parishioners at Central United Methodist Church on Sunday that he “was tempted to get off the plantation,” but decided instead to accept his new assignment at Cascade United Methodist Church, also in Atlanta. Methodist ministers are usually rotated more frequently. “I thought about my brothers and sisters who considered me some kind of leadership,” he said in his farewell sermon. “They can’t get off. They’ve got to stay there. So I’m gonna stay there with them!”
San Antonio firefighters who cannot extinguish a blazing chemical leaking from a derailed train car cordoned off a 2,500-foot area surrounding the site because of the danger of an explosion. Authorities said they do not know how long the car will keep burning. The Sunday derailment had caused five tank cars to ignite, sending thick clouds of black smoke into the air. The car that continued to burn was loaded with toxic butadiene, used in making synthetic rubber.
The head of the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.’s largest union said the nationwide strike against the company could end within 24 hours because of progress in contract bargaining. Morton Bahr, president of the striking Communications Workers of America, said on CNN’s Moneyline that despite escalating rhetoric and union protests in about 30 major cities, lengthy sessions with a federal mediator had eased negotiations. The union struck AT&T on June 1.
The last major Ohio River shipyard, the Jeffersonville, Indiana, yard, will shut down after it launches a grain barge Friday. In the golden days of steamboating, the mid-19th century, nearly every important Ohio River municipality had a shipyard. But the shipping industry that uses the barges and towboats has been in increasingly deep recession.
Bearded Coast Guard personnel have six days to shave their faces clean. Admiral Paul Yost, the service’s commandant for 10 days, issued an order banning beards for all coastguardsmen by June 15. “All Coast Guard men will be clean-shaven, with the exception of neatly trimmed and military-appearing mustaches,” said the order, which applies to 39,000 members on active duty and 12,000 reservists. “I desire our military personnel to present a neat and professional appearance,” said Admiral Yost. The other military services already ban beards.
Five inches of rain fell on northwest Louisiana, flooding 100 homes and businesses and causing the death of man who was trying to direct traffic around a wreck, officials said. Rain slacked off and floodwaters fell quickly during the afternoon, but forecasters said storms moving from Texas to Arkansas could move in and dump another two inches of rain. That was on top of almost continuous rain for the last eight days, a civil defense spokesman said. He said one boy was pulled from a fastmoving stream in southwest Shreveport, north of the area where a tank truck loaded with milk hit a man who had stopped to flag traffic around a wreck.
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In a clash of future Baseball Hall of Fame starting pitchers California Angel Don Sutton (298 wins) beats Tom Seaver of the Chicago White Sox (306 wins), 3–0 at Comiskey Park. Sutton (4–5), who recorded the 58th shutout of his career, allowed both hits in the fifth. Bobby Bonilla led off with a single and reached third on a single by Scott Bradley. Sutton then fanned Tim Hulett, Ozzie Guillen and Julio Cruz. Tom Seaver (2–4), with 306 career victories, was the loser even though he allowed only three hits in seven innings. In the fourth he hit Brian Downing with a pitch and Reggie Jackson followed with a single. Bobby Grich sacrificed before DeCinces hit his homer.
The Indians down the visiting A’s, 6–5, scoring the winner in the 9th when catcher Andy Allanson singles, steals second base and scores on a single. Brook Jacoby has a 3-run homer, but Joe Carter goes hitless to end his 21-game hitting streak. He’ll collect 5 hits tomorrow. Allanson’s fellow rookie battery-mate, reliever Scott Bailes, tossed 2 ⅓ scoreless innings for the victory and raised his record to 7–4.
Dave Righetti looked toward Lou Piniella’s office in the visitors’ clubhouse at Tiger Stadium tonight and shook his head. “That poor guy in there,” the Yankees’ premier relief pitcher said. “We’re gonna kill him. That’s the worst thing about messing up. Lou’s going to snap.” Righetti messed up tonight, giving up the hits that produced Detroit’s last five runs, but the Yankees overcame his latest failure and beat the Tigers, 9–7, on Butch Wynegar’s two-out, pinch-hit, two-run single in the 11th inning. It should have been an easy victory because the Yankees blasted Jack Morris with a four-home run barrage in the first three innings. Don Mattingly hit his ninth home run in the first and 10th in the third, and Ken Griffey and Ron Hassey hit successive homers in the second. Dennis Rasmussen was making it easy, too, by retiring 18 of the 20 batters he faced after Darnell Coles singled home two unearned runs in the first. However, Righetti made it difficult by failing for the fourth time in his last six save situations.
Seattle stops the Royals, 5–3, overcoming two errors by right fielder Dave Henderson. His 4-base error in the 3rd allows Rudy Law to score and his botch in the 9th after a double by Balboni allows George Brett to score. Winner Mark Langston, 5–5, gave up only three hits before leaving in the ninth with tightness in his left elbow.
Mariano Duncan singled home the tiebreaking run in the seventh inning as Dodgers rallied past the Reds, 6–5. Tom Niedenfuer, 4–2, was the winning pitcher, pitching 23 innings of one-hit relief. Ken Howell held the Reds hitless over the final two innings to earn his fourth save. Mike Marshall homered twice for the Dodgers and took over the National League lead with 15.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Baltimore Orioles, 3–2. Robin Yount hit a sacrifice fly with one out in the ninth inning to lift Milwaukee over Baltimore, breaking the Orioles’ four-game winning streak. Dan Plesac (4–3) got the victory.
Kent Hrbek scored from first base on Tom Brunansky’s looping double in the 10th inning as the Twins ended the Rangers’ seven-game winning streak, scraping by with a 3–2 victory. For seven innings, the Twins’ Frank Viola and Ranger rookie Bobby Witt engaged in a strikeout contest, with Viola getting eight of his 10 and Witt 11 of his career-high 12 in that span.
It was a noble experiment, and Rick Anderson says he will remember it for the rest of his life: the night he pitched in the big leagues for the first time at the age of 29 and delivered seven innings of four-hit ball for the Mets against the Philadelphia Phillies while his mother and father and a crowd of 26,050 cheered him in Shea Stadium. It was a tingling debut for a man who had spent the last nine years pitching in the minor leagues and the last seven years pitching in 185 games for the Mets’ Tidewater farm club in the International League. And it was tingling even though Anderson knew he was just a one-game replacement for Bruce Berenyi, who twisted his ankle while jogging. But, after leaving last night’s game with a 2–1 lead, Anderson was watching from the dugout when his noble experiment come apart: The Phillies tied the game off Jesse Orosco in the eighth and won it against Doug Sisk in the 10th by 3–2.
Pinch-hitter Jim Morrison’s one-out double off Chicago relief ace Lee Smith scored R.J. Reynolds with the winning run in the 11th inning as the Pirates edged the Cubs, 6–5. Cubs reliever Jay Baller had retired 10 straight batters, including the first five on strikeouts, until Reynolds lined a leadoff double in the 11th.
Kevin Bass, Bill Doran, Glenn Davis and Craig Reynolds hit solo home runs to lead the Astros past the Padres, 5–3. Rookie Jim Deshaies, 2–2, pitched five innings for the victory.
A throwing error by Tommy Herr, the Cardinal second baseman, with two out in the ninth inning allowed Casey Candaele to score, capping a two-run rally by Montreal that gave the Expos a 5–4 win. Tim Burke (4–1) got the victory and Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth for his 13th save. The Cardinals had gone ahead, 4–3, with a run in the eighth off Burke.
The Blue Jays downed the Red Sox, 5–1. Lloyd Moseby and Jesse Barfield hit homers and Dave Stieb allowed six hits over eight innings, giving Toronto the victory over Boston, which dropped its third straight. The Red Sox lead the Orioles by three games and the Yankees by four.
California Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 0
Oakland Athletics 5, Cleveland Indians 6
New York Yankees 9, Detroit Tigers 7
Seattle Mariners 5, Kansas City Royals 3
Cincinnati Reds 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 6
Baltimore Orioles 2, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Texas Rangers 2, Minnesota Twins 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, New York Mets 2
Chicago Cubs 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Houston Astros 5, San Diego Padres 3
Montreal Expos 5, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Boston Red Sox 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
The Dow Jones industrial average fell nearly 46 points yesterday, the biggest one-day point loss in its history, as major investment houses, relying on computerized trading programs, sold shares heavily. They acted after discrepancies developed between the stock and the stock index futures markets. The debacle came just one session after the Dow, the market’s most closely watched indicator, rose to a record level. But even at the time of Friday’s high, Wall Street experts were leery, fearing that the blue-chip indicator had risen too much in relation to other gauges.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1840.15 (-45.75)
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Doug Legursky, NFL center and guard (Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills, San Diego Chargers), in Frankfurt, Hesse, West Germany.
Adamo Ruggiero, Canadian actor (“Degrassi: The Next Generation”), in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.
Kary Ng, Hong Kong pop singer (“Cookies”), and actress, in British Hong Kong.
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