House Democratic leaders have decided to press ahead with a bill that would enact into law the limits on strategic weapons negotiated by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1979. This approach, which was agreed to at a planning session last week, sets up a potential confrontation with the White House over the unratified arms treaty. The Administration is opposed to the Democrats’ move, and an official said today: “Anything that binds the President’s hand in foreign policy, absent a treaty, would be objectionable.” The Democrats contend that they must put pressure on the President because jettisoning adherence to the terms of the 1979 treaty would be “a foreign policy blunder of major magnitude,” as Representative Jim Wright of Texas, the majority leader, put it. “It is to our advantage,” Mr. Wright added, “to maintain the limits explicit in the treaty.” Although the treaty was not ratified after it was signed in 1979, each side said it would observe its provisions as long as the other did. But the Soviet Union and the United States have accused each other of failing to adhere to treaty terms and President Reagan announced recently that he would no longer by guided by the provisions because of the Administration’s position that Moscow has breached them. Under the Democrats’ plan, the House would first consider a nonbinding resolution directing the President to abide by the treaty limits. That resolution is due to be approved by the Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday, and is likely to come to the floor next week.
Viktor L. Israelyan, the Soviet delegate to the United Nations Disarmament Conference here, today criticized a United States plan to resume production of chemical weapons next year. He said this would violate agreements reached at the Soviet-American summit meeting in November. Mr. Israelyan said the American decision could jeopardize the chemical weapons talks at the Geneva conference, which resumed its 1986 session today and is expected to meet until late July. Western diplomats said they saw little in Mr. Israelyan’s speech to suggest that the Soviet Union had abandoned efforts to reach agreement on a chemical weapons ban, including proposals for verifying the destruction of chemical arms production plants. The United States and the Soviet Union have been at odds since the introduction of an American draft treaty that calls for on-site inspection to be mandatory. The Russians want such inspection to be voluntary.
Countries with nuclear weapons are undecided whether to allow military nuclear plants to be covered by a treaty requiring prompt notification of any nuclear accidents. This emerged today at the opening of a meeting of the governing board of the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is considering plans for such a treaty following the Chernobyl accident in the Soviet Union. Diplomats say the treaty should logically apply to all nuclear plants, including those used exclusively for the production of nuclear weapons as well as those with dual civil and military roles. But they caution that the five countries known to have nuclear weapons -the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, France and China — are not likely to allow military plants to be covered if disclosure will oblige them to reveal military secrets.
Authorities said today that a Finnish monitoring station near the Soviet Union had recorded a mysterious, 10-second peak of atmospheric radiation levels even higher than those recorded immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear accident. Esko Koskinen, an Interior Ministry safety official, told a news conference that Finland still had not determined where the Monday night radiation burst came from or what caused it. He said unusually high readings continued for six hours. “We do not yet have information on the source of the sudden peak,” he said. “The cause can be either a nuclear test, a leak in a nuclear power plant or a fault in the meter.”
The British Government has decided to dissolve the Northern Ireland Assembly because it failed to bring together the province’s Roman Catholics and Protestants, official sources said today. The decision, made at a meeting of senior ministers in the Cabinet’s Overseas and Defense Committee, signals the collapse of the seventh initiative in 14 years to establish a political bridge between the two sides in Ulster to end the sectarian violence. The sources said the assembly would be dissolved by an order in council, a procedure that allows the Government to act without recourse to Parliament.
An Irish Republican Army suspect was convicted in London in a 1984 bombing that narrowly missed killing British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and members of her Cabinet. Five others died in the blast, at a hotel in the south coast resort of Brighton. Patrick Magee, 35, denied that he planted the delayed-action time bomb. However, the outlawed IRA claimed responsibility for the blast. Sentencing was postponed.
All children’s aspirin products are being withdrawn from sale in Britain because of United States research suggesting a link between aspirin and Reye’s syndrome, a rare but often fatal childhood disease, a manufacturers’ group said today. The group, the Aspirin Foundation, representing nine British manufacturers of aspirin products, said it was acting on Government advice to halt the sale of junior aspirin and aspirin-based medicines, such as cough syrup, marketed for children.
West Germany said today that an American had been arrested on espionage charges. West German security sources said he was a former soldier who had offered to sell information to the Soviet bloc. Interior Minister Friedrich Zimmermann, presenting an annual report on terrorism and espionage, said the American was among 13 suspected spies arrested in West Germany this year. He refused to provide details. Bonn security sources did not identify the suspect, but they said he had a long career in the United States Army and Navy. The sources said the suspect had offered to provide “highly important” information on American installations. They said he was arrested this year before he could supply the information. The man has been freed and is living in West Germany while the investigation continues, the sources said. They said he had not been formally charged.
A report by Italian prosecutors has accused the Palestinian leader Mohammed Abbas of masterminding the hijacking of the Italian liner Achille Lauro last October. The report, a copy of which was made available here today, also defends the Palestinian cause and repeatedly praises Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman. And it upholds Italy’s decision to free Mr. Abbas, despite a request by the United States that he be held on suspicion of organizing the hijacking. The report, which will be the basis of the state’s case against 16 men implicated in the hijacking, describes the information provided by the United States at the time Mr. Abbas was being held here as “inadequate,” even though it acknowledges that the information eventually proved correct.
A senior member of a radical Palestinian faction was shot to death on a street in downtown Athens. Palestine Liberation Organization spokesmen identified the victim as Khaled Nazal, 38, an aide to Nayef Hawatmeh, leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine. No group claimed responsibility for the killing. The PLO accused Israel, but Arab diplomats said the murder was part of the struggle between PLO leader Yasser Arafat’s followers and foes. Police sources said gunmen shot the 38-year-old man four times at close range and escaped on a motorcycle. He was the ninth Arab to be slain in Athens in the last six years. The Greek Public Order Minister, Antonis Drosoyannis, who also described the victim as a senior member of the P.L.O., expressed the government’s “displeasure over the settlement of inter-Arab differences on Greek soil.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin rejected what he said were U.S. calls for Israel to scrap its multibillion-dollar Lavi jet fighter project. Israel has invested more than $1 billion in developing the Lavi, but U.S. officials believe Israel has seriously underestimated project costs. Israeli sources say that Washington has suggested that Israel instead buy more U.S. warplanes. In Washington, the Administration announced plans to sell Israel 20 electronic jamming devices, worth about $38 million, for its U.S.-built F-15 fighters.
Israeli security forces have detained two Palestinian guerrilla squads suspected of planting bombs in Israel and mines at Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, a military communique said tonight. It did not disclose the total number of suspects detained in two separate sweeps in the West Bank.
An Egyptian commuter plane operated by Air Sinai crashed about half a mile short of Cairo International Airport and burst into flames, killing 20 people. Five others thrown free of the twin-engine Fokker 27 survived, officials reported. All aboard were identified as Egyptians. An informed source said the dead included stewardess Ashgan Attia, who survived last November’s hijacking of an EgyptAir jetliner to Malta, in which 60 people died when Egyptian commandos stormed the plane.
A meeting between the Foreign Ministers of Iraq and Syria, which have been political foes for years, is planned on Friday along the countries’ border, an Arab diplomat said here early today. The official said the meeting between Foreign Ministers Tariq Aziz of Iraq and Farouk al-Sharaa of Syria had been arranged through Jordanian efforts.
Hundreds of students, teachers, clerics, journalists and trade union leaders are jailed each year in South Korea for criticizing the government and some are tortures to extract false confessions, Amnesty International said. The London-based human rights group said that at least 10 political prisoners have been executed in South Korea since 1975. Electric shock, beatings and food- and sleep-deprivation are cited in the report.
Agreement on a $5 billion to $6 billion package of new loans to help Mexico cope with its debts and deteriorating economy is near, Reagan Administration and international banking authorities indicated today. “I think a decision is pretty likely soon,” said a senior officer of a multilateral lending institution, who like others insisted on anonymity. “I think it will come within days.” A representative for an organization of the world’s leading commercial banks added, “It looks like it could happen this week.” Such officials said the prolonged deliberations over Mexico’s difficulties, partly brought on by the plunge in the country’s revenues from oil exports, had reached a new urgency in recent days with a 30 percent collapse in the peso’s value before it stabilized late Monday.
Eight West Germans captured by anti-Government rebels 24 days ago were freed this evening, according to a report on the Nicaraguan Government television. The report, which quoted Information Minister Manuel Espinoza, said the eight were released in the region of southern Nicaragua where they had been captured. It said 15 Nicaraguan civilians had also been freed, but gave no other details. President Daniel Ortega Saavedra had set a deadline of 6 PM today for the hostages’ release. He did not say what would be done if rebels did not free the West Germans, but he pointedly refused to rule out military action. In Tegucigalpa, Honduras, a spokesman for the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, the group that seized the hostages, confirmed the release, The Associated Press reported. The spokesman, Frank Arana, was quoted as saying the captives had been handed over to West German Government representatives without intervention by the Nicaraguan military and were “in a perfect state of health.” In recent days, pressure had been building on the rebels to free the West German prisoners. Diplomats said the fact that West German citizens were being held by American-backed guerrillas was proving an embarrassment to the West German Government.
Western diplomats and others who monitor the Sandinista Army said this week that a shipment of Soviet weapons that arrived here by freighter last month did not represent a major new development in Nicaragua’s military preparations. On Sunday, White House officials said that President Reagan planned to charge this week that Moscow had resumed direct arms shipments to Nicaragua, citing intelligence information that a Soviet freighter delivered a large cache of military supplies in early May. But specialists in Managua said the only unusual aspect of the shipment was its route. It was said to have come on a vessel that was loaded at the Black Sea port of Nikolayev, which then sailed directly to Corinto.
In South Africa, the three-year-old ‘State of Emergency’ is renewed for another twelve months, followed by an organized campaign of civil disobedience against it.
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee approved and sent to the floor today a measure that would impose a new range of economic sanctions against South Africa, setting the stage for another legislative confrontation with the White House. The measure foresees penalties in two steps. Upon enactment, all new private investment in the country from American concerns and imports of South African steel, coal and uranium would be barred and landing rights in the United States for South African Airways would be suspended. If, in a year’s time, South Africa did not take certain steps to end apartheid, among them the release of “all political prisoners” including Nelson Mandela, the head of the outlawed African National Congress, the United States computer industry would be forced to cease all operations in South Africa.
Hundreds of black vigilantes, reportedly supported by the South African police and army, overran a tangled squatter camp near here today in a second straight day of fighting against a black anti-Government group. The battles were among the most sustained in a month of tension and bloodshed near the Crossroads squatter camp, which has already left almost 50 people dead and up to 77,000 homeless. The police said tonight that the official death toll in the last two days of fighting was 14, although unofficial accounts put the number higher. Both sides used firearms, blasting away at close range. The use of guns is an unusual development in the strife that has taken more than 1,600 lives in South Africa over the last 20 months. A police spokesman said the current fighting started Monday after the vigilantes discovered the bodies of 15 of their members, hacked to death, in a mortuary.
The Reagan Administration is moving quickly to order the space agency to carry out all recommendations of the Presidential commission and not resist any onerous changes and tests even if they might further delay space shuttle flights, senior White House officials said today. President Reagan was described as being “very positive” about the work of the commission, headed by William P. Rogers, that investigated the causes of the Challenger disaster last January 28 in which the crew of seven astronauts were killed. The panel attributed the disaster to poorly designed rocket seals and “serious flaws” in the space agency’s decision-making process. In hearings on the report today, Democratic senators complained that the President’s commission did not single out individuals to blame for the Challenger disaster. And in Pasadena, Calif., a member of the Presidential commission, Dr. Richard P. Feynman, delivered his own sharp assessment of NASA’s role, saying the agency had “exaggerated the reliability of the space shuttle to the point of fantasy.” The White House was hoping to issue a directive later this week to require the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to report within a specified period of a few weeks on how it intends to comply with the commission’s recommendations issued Monday. An Administration official, who spoke on condition that he not be identified, said NASA’s top leaders were expected to accept the recommendations, but he said “there may be problems in terms of implementing them at the middle levels” of management.
While engineers were meeting today at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to plan the redesign of the shuttle booster rockets, where flaws in the rubber O ring seals led to the explosion, NASA officials studied the commission report to assess how much time and money it would take to accomplish the many other recommended modifications in preflight testing, launching procedures and crew safety features. The agency had already asked Congress for an additional $500 million this year for the shuttle redesign. Allan J. McDonald, the engineer at Morton Thiokol Inc. who protested the launching of the Challenger, was leading the industry team that met at the Marshall center to begin the redesign of the booster rocket. Some changes in the main engines and brakes had been in the works before the disaster, but NASA officials expressed concern that additional major modifications and testing would keep the shuttles grounded beyond July 1987, their target for resumption of flights. Other experts, including some former astronauts, have predicted the first flight may not come until 1988.
The White House said today that it opposed a proposal by the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee to use tax increases to pay for the higher military spending the Reagan Administration wants. The rejection of the proposal, made by Senator Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, appears to deepen the deadlock involving the House, the Senate and the Administration over the 1987 budget. Any deadlock on the budget increases the probability that automatic spending cuts under the new budget-balancing law would be set in motion this fall. In comments to President Reagan last week and several times since, Mr. Domenici has said that the Administration would have to agree to back a $13.2 billion revenue increase in the House and Senate budget plans if it wanted to prevent the very deep cuts in the military budget approved in the House. Mr. Domenici detailed his arguments in a 40-minute meeting with the President’s chief of staff, Donald T. Regan, on Friday.
President Reagan participates in a meeting for tax reform supporters.
President Reagan attends a luncheon meeting for Project ’88 major donors.
The T.V.A.’s nuclear power program is in serious trouble. All five of the agency’s working reactors have been shut down for 10 months as a result of safety questions. Four nearly completed units have been delayed indefinitely, and eight others have been canceled because agency officials concluded there was no market for their power.
The House Judiciary Committee voted 34 to 0 for a bill seeking to bring constitutional guarantees of the right to privacy into the electronic age. The legislation would extend laws that now protect the privacy of the mails and land-line telephone conversations to also cover “electronic mail” and some telephones that use radio waves The bill was cleared at the request of Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wisconsin), chairman of Judiciary’s subcommittee on courts, civil liberties and administration of justice.
A large Virginia coal company flew 14 Democratic members of congressional committees that oversee mining legislation to southwestern Virginia in a luxury 727 jet and paid them $2,000 to tour its mines, attend a discussion of energy issues and a dinner. The House members were presented the $2,000 honorariums because “members of Congress, taking the time to do something like this, expect to get some compensation for it,” said Rep. Frederick C. Boucher (D-Virginia), who helped arrange the trip. Boucher issued invitations for the one-day trip on his congressional letterhead on behalf of United Coal Co.
Maine crushed a proposed antipornography statute in a referendum experts said was the first time voters decided statewide on a law that would have outlawed the promotion and sale of obscene material. In the borough of Queens, New York, the Rev. Floyd Flake was holding a slim 41-vote lead, with one precinct not reporting, over Assemblyman Alton R. Waldon in a special election to succeed the late Democratic Rep. Joseph P. Addabbo. In primary races, Rep. John R. McKernan Jr. easily won the Republican nomination for governor in Maine. In South Carolina, Lieutenant Governor Mike Daniel won the Democratic primary for governor. Senator Ernest F. Hollings (D-South Carolina) and Senator Mark Andrews (R-North Dakota) won without opposition.
A federal judge in Phoenix rejected a bid to have the convictions of eight sanctuary movement workers accused of smuggling Central Americans into the United States reversed on grounds they were singled out for prosecution. U.S. District Judge Earl Carroll told the lawyers that they did not convince him they should be allowed to proceed with their motion regarding selective prosecution of the defendants, who were convicted in the alien-smuggling conspiracy trial.
U.S. Border Patrol officials said in El Paso they have indicted 13 smugglers believed responsible for bringing 10,000 illegal aliens from Central America into the country. Acting Border Patrol Chief Gustavo de la Vina said 10 of the 13 have been arrested, the result of an undercover investigation that has been under way for eight months and involves agents from El Paso, Dallas and Providence, Rhode Island.
Two burned bodies were found in the wreckage of a derailed freight train as about 700 people remained out of their homes in San Antonio for a third day for fear that the chemical-laden cars might explode. The unidentified bodies, discovered as crews worked to douse cars still burning from Sunday’s derailment, might be those of hobos who were hitching a ride, Union Pacific Railroad spokesman John Bromley said. All crew members have been accounted for.
A Seattle jury sentenced to death a drifter who bludgeoned and knifed to death a lawyer, his wife and their two sons and claimed he killed the family because he thought the lawyer was a communist. David L. Rice, 27, an unemployed steelworker, also admitted robbery was a prime motive. He was convicted in the Christmas Eve attacks in the home of Charles Goldmark, 41, his wife, Annie. 43, and their sons, Colin and Derek
A baby who was rejected for a heart transplant until his unwed parents gave up custody underwent transplant surgery after doctors learned that a brain-dead heart donor was available. The surgery was performed on Jesse Dean Sepulveda, who is 16 days old, at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in California.
The National Organization for Women announced today that it had filed a lawsuit seeking to put people who try to drive abortion clinics out of business under the same legal restraints that have curtailed the activities of the Ku Klux Klan. The lawsuit, filed Monday in Federal District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, was prepared by the Southern Poverty Law Center of Montgomery, Ala., which brought a similar type of suit against the Klan in 1982. In that case, the center was granted an injunction under the Sherman Antitrust Act prohibiting the Klan from harassing members of the Vietnamese Fishermen’s Association of Galveston Bay, Tex. The Wilmington suit seeks no monetary damages, but it asks for a nationwide injunction under the antitrust laws against anti-abortion leaders, contending that they have been traveling throughout the country organizing efforts to harass and intimidate people who operate legal abortion clinics and force them out of business.
The International Brotherhood of Teamsters won the right to represent 2,500 employees of Washington’s public school system today, defeating a rival labor group in a hard-fought, expensive battle. The teamsters soundly defeated the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, which had represented the school system workers. The D.C. school system has a total of about 15,000 employees, both union and nonunion.
Drug testing of government workers is increasing. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration said they had begun a major program to test thousands of new employees for drug abuse.
A fundamentalist again leads the Southern Baptist Convention. Leaders of the moderate wing that led the nation’s largest Protestant denomination until 1979 said the election of the Rev. Adrian Rogers, a popular Memphis preacher, placed fundamentalists on the threshold of seizing full control of the Southern Baptist Convention.
The rise in carbon dioxide and other gases in the earth’s atmosphere will supposedly have an earlier and more serious impact on global temperature and climate than previously expected, according to some scientists. The scientists said that average global temperatures would rise by one-half a degree to one degree from 1990 to 2000, and by another 2 to 4 degrees in the following decade. [Ed: And of course, they were wrong…]
Bostonians love the Celtics, who are once again the world champions of basketball. A million and a half citizens turned out at City Hall today to welcome their team, champions for the 16th time in 30 years. In this city, which has produced Paul Revere, John Adams and John F. Kennedy, there is only one man who has been deified by a statue erected in his lifetime — Arnold Auerbach. A bronze monument to Mr. Auerbach sits on a bench in Quincy Market, a short, round, balding figure grasping a cigar. The inscription reads simply: “He has made winning synonymous with Boston.”
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The National League announces that Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti will be its next president, after Chub Feeney’s retirement in December.
The Chicago White Sox beat the California Angels, 7–3. Harold Baines had a two-run triple in the first inning and Carlton Fisk drove in two runs with a single in the fifth to lead Chicago. The triumph was the fifth in the last six games for the White Sox and went to starter Neil Allen, 3–0. Bob James pitched 1 ⅓ innings for his eighth save.
Mel Hall’s one-out single to center scored Joe Carter from second base to cap a two-run rally as Cleveland handed Oakland its seventh straight loss, beating the A’s, 8–7. After Dave Kingman’s two-out homer in the ninth gave Oakland a 7–6 lead, the Indians came back to win in the ninth inning for the second straight night.
After the Yankees pulled out an 11-inning, 9–7 victory over Detroit Monday night, Lou Piniella was giddy, joking in his relief over the outcome. Tonight, the Yankees held on for a 6–3 victory over the Tigers, but the manager wasn’t laughing. “We’ve got to get this situation straightened out,” Piniella said. “You just can’t keep putting men on like that. You can’t do it.” With their hitters once again providing sufficient punch, the Yankees should have coasted against the struggling, last-place Tigers. Don Mattingly triggered a four-run outburst against Walt Terrell in the fourth inning with his 11th home run and started a two-run flurry in the fifth with a single. Dave Winfield capped the fifth-inning scoring with a run he stole by swiping the catcher’s glove with the ball in it.
George Brett went 5-for-5 and Jorge Orta rapped four hits and drove in three runs to spark an 18-hit attack as the Royals topped the Mariners, 9–5. Brett, who had a double and four singles, had his fifth career five-hit game. He scored three runs and drove in one. Orta hit two doubles and two singles. The loss broke Seattle’s seven-game winning streak at Royals Stadium dating back to September 9, 1984. The start of Tuesday night’s game was delayed one hour and 57 minutes because of rain.
The Dodgers edge the Reds 1–0 when Mariano Duncan scores from second base on Bill Madlock’s grounder to third. There is a force at second but Madlock beats the throw to first on the attempted double play, and Duncan beats the throw home. Duncan never broke stride, and slid in ahead of the tag by the catcher, Bo Diaz, who took the relay from Tony Perez.
Bill Wegman (2–5), a rookie, pitched a six-hitter and Ernest Riles hit a two-run homer as Milwaukee won its fourth straight, downing the Orioles, 6–3. Baltimore’s manager, Earl Weaver, was ejected for the first time this season in the fifth inning after arguing with the home-plate umpire, Rocky Roe.
Geno Petralli drove in five runs, and Pete O’Brien hit a home run that sparked a seventh-inning rally for Texas as the Rangers outslugged the Twins, 14–10. Petralli had a pair of two-run doubles and a single, and O’Brien drove in three runs with three hits during the Rangers’ 17-hit attack.
At Shea, Tim Teufel hits a pinch grand slam in the 11th and the Mets beat the Phils, 8–4. Teufel had been 0-for-3 as a pinch hitter. To Tim Teufel, pinch-hitting in the bottom of the 11th inning last night in Shea Stadium, “it looked like a lot of people were on top of me.” And he was right. With the score tied, 4–4, the Mets had the bases loaded with one down, Teufel pinch-hitting for the Mets and Tom Hume now pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies. So, the Phillies went into a last-chance formation: Glenn Wilson, the right fielder, stood on second base as the fifth infielder while the two other outfielders came in shallow and hoped for a pop fly. That’s why Teufel saw “a lot of people” staring him in the eye. But he solved the problem in the most unthinkable way, unthinkable to him and the Phillies both. With the count at two balls and no strikes, he hit the next pitch high into left-center field, far enough to score one run, for sure. And, when the ball carried into the seats for a grand slam, all four runs crossed and the Mets buried the Phillies.
Sid Bream went 3 for 4 with a three-run home run, and Rafael Belliard drove in three runs with two singles to lead Pittsburgh to a 6–4 victory over the Cubs.
Bob Knepper pitched a four-hitter to become the National League’s first 10-game winner, and Kevin Bass and Bill Doran each hit home runs as the Houston Astros routed the San Diego Padres, 12–1, tonight. Knepper (10–3) did not walk a batter and struck out five in recording his sixth complete game. The first-place Astros, who collected 15 hits, jumped on Dave Dravecky (5–6) for three runs in the first, including Bass’s two-run homer.
Vida Blue (3–3) pitched two-hit ball for seven innings, and the reliever Jeff Robinson allowed one hit as San Francisco beat Atlanta, 3–0. Jeffrey Leonard and Mike Aldrete, a rookie, had three hits each, with Leonard driving in the Giants’ first two runs and Aldrete producing a run-scoring single in the seventh.
The Expos beat the Cardinals, 4–2. Tim Wallach drove in three runs with a double and a sacrifice fly, and Jay Tibbs combined with two relievers on a five-hitter. Tibbs (4–2) won for the first time in eight starts since April 30, striking out five.
The Red Sox edged the Blue Jays, 4–3. Mike Stenhouse walked with the bases loaded and two outs in the top of the 10th, forcing home the winning run for Boston and ending a three-game losing streak. Mark Eichhorn (6–3) walked Stenhouse, a pinch-hitter. A one-out single by Dwight Evans and a two-out single by a pinch-hitter, Rich Gedman, put runners on first and third. Wade Boggs, also pinch-hitting, was intentionally walked, loading the bases. Boston tied it at 3–3 in the fifth on consecutive home runs by Jim Rice and Don Baylor, off John Cerutti. Rice’s homer was his first in 30 games.
California Angels 3, Chicago White Sox 7
Oakland Athletics 7, Cleveland Indians 8
New York Yankees 6, Detroit Tigers 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Kansas City Royals 9
Cincinnati Reds 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
Baltimore Orioles 3, Milwaukee Brewers 6
Texas Rangers 14, Minnesota Twins 10
Philadelphia Phillies 4, New York Mets 8
Chicago Cubs 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 6
Houston Astros 12, San Diego Padres 1
Atlanta Braves 0, San Francisco Giants 3
Montreal Expos 4, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Boston Red Sox 4, Toronto Blue Jays 3
Still stung by its record fall on Monday, the stock market declined sharply early in yesterday’s session before recovering to finish the day with a loss of less than three points. “After yesterday, more people are saying, ‘I don’t want to play this game until it settles down,’ ” said Charles Comer, a market analyst with Oppenheimer & Company. On Monday, the Dow Jones industrial average fell a record 45.75 points, or 2.43 percent of its value. Selling pressure carried over into yesterday’s session, sending the Dow down 16 points more at its worst level.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1837.19 (-2.96)
Born:
Al Alburquerque, Dominican MLB pitcher (Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, Chicago White Sox), in San Pedro de Macoris, Dominican Republic.
Chad Johnson, Canadian NHL goaltender (New York Rangers, Phoenix Coyotes, Boston Bruins, New York Islanders, Buffalo Sabres, Calgary Flames, St. Louis Blues, Anaheim Ducks), in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Merle Miller, 67, American author and gay rights pioneer (“That Winter”, “A Gay and Melancholy Sound”), from peritonitis following surgery.
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