President Reagan, while continuing to express hostility to the 1979 treaty with the Soviet Union limiting strategic arms, said tonight that he had not firmly decided to abandon observance of the terms of the unratified agreement. He said the decision would depend on whether Moscow changed its arms-control policies. Mr. Reagan said in a written statement last month that he intended to exceed the limits set in the treaty by deploying in November or December the 131st B-52 bomber equipped with cruise missiles, without reducing other nuclear armaments. That statement provoked strong criticism from American allies in Europe and from Congress. At the White House news conference tonight, the President again asserted that Moscow had breached the treaty while Washington had observed it. He criticized the treaty as a flawed document that did not contribute to disarmament. But he seemed to suggest that he had not made a decision on what to do at the end of this year.” We have several months to see” what steps the Russians will take on arms control, Mr. Reagan said. “If nothing is done, then we’ll make that decision on the plane.” Meanwhile, the Soviet Union has presented a new proposal for reducing strategic arms, which would be less extensive than the 50 percent cut that they previously proposed but would exclude some American weapons based in Europe, Administration officials said today.
The Soviet Union proposed today that the Warsaw Pact alliance and its NATO counterpart each demobilize up to 150,000 soldiers in Europe within a year or two. The proposal was offered as a first step in a decade-long schedule that would pare ground troops and tactical air forces by 25 percent, or half a million soldiers from each side. These numbers and the timetable, which were made public at the conclusion of a two-day Warsaw Pact meeting here, were the newest elements in the bouquet of disarmament suggestions that have come from Moscow since Mikhail S. Gorbachev has sought to seize the initiative on arms control. The basics of the proposed demobilization schedule call for phased reduction of troops and armaments continuing into the early 1990’s. The emphasis in the early stages would be on whittling down the abilities of strategic air forces, to reduce possibilities of surprise attack. The proposal also includes a suggestion that missiles with ranges of 600 miles be withdrawn along with conventional weapons. In Brussels, NATO’s secretary general, Lord Carrington, pledged careful consideration of the Soviet package by a new NATO task force on conventional weapons.
Kurt Waldheim, holding his first news conference since his election as Austria’s President, said today that his victorious election campaign had been devoid of appeals to anti-Semitism and he promised to oppose discrimination against Jews. He also said he welcomed a proposal that a commission of historians investigate his war record, and he called on Yugoslavia to release documents touching on his German Army service. “I welcome all efforts in this regard because they can only help me in clarifying the situation,” Mr. Waldheim said of the proposal for a panel of military historians to study his war years in Greece and the Balkans. The proposal was made this week by Simon Wiesenthal, the Nazi-hunter. Mr. Waldheim, who served as Secretary General of the United Nations from 1972 to 1982, held the news conference three days after winning a six-year mandate as President.
A jury in London convicted five Irish nationalists of plotting to blow up 16 British hotels during the height of last summer’s tourist season. According to a government prosecutor, the Irish Republican Army plan was “to create havoc and bloodshed throughout the country.” Anti-terrorist police foiled the plan. The five convicted included Patrick Magee, 35, of Belfast, Northern Ireland, who was found guilty earlier of a hotel blast during a Conservative Party convention in 1984. In that blast, five party members were killed and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher narrowly escaped injury.
French police arrested seven people, including a Los Angeles couple and an alleged Irish nationalist wanted for a Dublin murder, in connection with an illegal arms shipment from the United States, authorities said. Police sources said several of the arrests were made in Le Havre as members of the group took delivery of a motor home stuffed with weapons, including two submachine guns, 12 assault rifles, 23 pistols and 2,200 rounds of ammunition apparently destined for Irish nationalists in Northern Ireland. The couple from Los Angeles was identified as Mr. and Mrs. William Norton.
The new conservative Government, stepping up its legislative pace, introduced two new bills today. One would make it easier to expel illegal immigrants from France, and the other would reduce the state’s traditionally paramount role in television broadcasting. The proposed legislation, which was presented at a Cabinet meeting today, represents the Government’s proposals for dealing with two of the most disputed areas of French public life.
Faulty instruments apparently caused a mysterious high radiation reading at a coastal monitoring station near the Soviet Union, Finnish officials said. The monitoring station at the southern port of Kotka had a reading four times greater than any recorded in Finland since the April 26 accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power station in the Soviet Union.
Preliminary Soviet estimates of the amount of radioactive material released by the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident last month appear to be about half of Western estimates. This emerged during exchanges between Western European and Soviet officials at a meeting here of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s governing board that is debating nuclear safety measures. According to Soviet officials, 1 to 3 percent of the reactor’s 180-ton fuel core escaped during an explosion and fire. This means that 1.8 to 4 tons of radioactive material was released, although only a small part left the Soviet Union.
President Reagan said tonight that the Administration had no evidence that the Israeli Government had conducted widespread spying in the United States. In a nationally broadcast news conference Mr. Reagan appeared to present a public posture similar to one voiced by the State Department in an internal Administration dispute on the extent of Israeli espionage efforts in the United States. Justice Department and senior White House officials have suggested that Israeli spying efforts were broader than what emerged in the case of Jonathan Jay Pollard, a former Navy analyst who pleaded guilty last week to spying for Israel. The Israeli Government has said it had no knowledge of the spying and attributed it to a “renegade” operation.
Iranian officials escorted 10 Palestinians, including women and children, from the ravaged Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut during a brief truce in fighting between Shia Amal militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas. Other wounded Palestinians, fearing they would be attacked after they left, declined to be evacuated. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Besharati is in Beirut in an effort to mediate an end to the warfare. Iran intervened after officials from Syria, an Iranian ally and the main power broker in Syria, had been unable to arrange a lasting truce. More than 100 people have been killed in clashes between militiamen of the Shiite movement Amal and Palestinian defenders of the district.
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi failed to appear tonight at what Libyan officials had said would be his first major public appearance since the April 15 American air raids on this country. Instead, Colonel Qaddafi, puffy-faced and with bags under his eyes, delivered a rambling hour-and-50-minute speech broadcast over the Government-run television and from loudspeakers on public buildings. There was no official explanation for the change in plans. More than 30 Western journalists, including representatives of the major American newspapers, wire services, magazines and television networks were invited here to witness Colonel Qaddafi’s appearance.
Three bombings in Sri Lanka killed up to 43 people and injured 80. Government officials said the time bombs had been set by Tamil terrorists. Two time bombs, believed planted by Tamil terrorists, exploded within five minutes of each other on two buses in Sri Lanka’s troubled eastern district, killing at least 15 people and injuring 73 others, officials said. A third bomb exploded outside a movie theater in the capital city of Colombo, killing three people and seriously injuring seven others, according to police. Official reports varied on the death toll in the bus bombings in Trincomalee, 155 miles northeast of Colombo. The National Security Minister, Lalith Athulathmudali, said in a speech that 40 people were killed. He said the attacks were the work of Tamil terrorists. The government’s Joint Operations Command initially reported that 70 people were killed, but it later revised the toll to 15 dead and 73 wounded. Daya Wijesekera, a spokesman for the command, said the initial figure resulted from confusion and multiple counting of bodies.
American and Vietnamese officials resumed talks in Hanoi today on the nearly 1,800 American servicemen listed as missing in action in Vietnam, ending a two-month freeze caused by the raids on Libya by the United States. The meetings are the second of six sessions scheduled this year dealing with the identification of United States warplane crash sites, personnel data and operation plans for recovering the remains of American servicemen.
The Filipino delegate picked by the Communist Party to take part in cease-fire talks with the Aquino Government said today that negotiations would be long and difficult but that the rebels were “determined to seek the road to peace.” In a letter distributed to the press, the delegate, Satur Ocampo, noted the Government’s “sincere desire for genuine and lasting peace and national unity.” But he warned that there were those in Government who did not want the talks to succeed. The letter indicates that the rebels are taking the truce talks seriously and confirms earlier reports that they are rethinking their strategy of armed struggle. “This is no easy task for me and my comrades and for the Government panel,” Mr. Ocampo said, “not only because the process entails the resolution of many immediate and long-term problems, which may require lengthy and difficult negotiations, but also because there are elements in and out of government who would rather see the negotiations proceed and succeed.”
Haiti’s defense minister, Colonel Williams Regala, pledged tough army action against anti-government demonstrators and said he has no intention of bowing to public pressure by resigning from the ruling National Government Council. Political activists who led a one-day strike Tuesday have demanded the resignations of Regala and Finance Minister Lesly Delatour. They threatened another walkout Friday if their demands aren’t met.
The ousted President of Haiti, Jean-Claude Duvalier, has denied in an interview that he embezzled millions from the Government he headed and insists he did “the best that I could to try to improve the material conditions of my people.” In an interview with the ABC News correspondent Barbara Walters to be broadcast on “20/20” tonight, Mr. Duvalier and his wife, Michele, said they would be “delighted to go back” to Haiti, “even as simple everyday citizens.” The interview was held last Sunday at a villa the Duvaliers were renting in Grasse on the French Riviera. The couple was in the process of moving to another house they have rented in Mougins, a few miles away.
The West German Government thanked the United States today for supporting efforts to free eight West Germans held captive by American-backed Nicaraguan rebels. But at the same time there was a bitter undercurrent of criticism here that President Reagan might possibly have jeopardized negotiations for the release of the young West Germans, who had been helping in a Sandinista program to build homes for peasants. Some officials here were said to feel that this occurred at a particularly critical phase in the the talks, when Mr. Reagan renewed his campaign to win Congressional approval for a $100 million aid package for the rebels. West German legislators said they had urged American legislators to block aid to the rebels, known as contras, until the Reagan Administration used its influence to obtain the captives’ release.
The White House said today that a Soviet reconnaissance plane based in Nicaragua had been flying missions over that country to help the Government there. “This is the first time that a Soviet photo reconnaissance aircraft has been based in Nicaragua,” said Edward P. Djerejian, a White House spokesman, He said the plane carried “Soviet Aeroflot markings and presumably is being flown by Soviet pilots.” Administration officials expressed certainty that the plane’s crew was largely or entirely Russian. The announcement came hours after the Director of Central Intelligence, William J. Casey, told about two dozen legislators that the Soviet Union was now sending the aircraft over Nicaragua to help the Sandanistas in gathering information and intelligence.
The army commander of Panama, a country vital to United States interests in Latin America, is extensively involved in illicit money laundering and drug activities and has provided a Latin American guerrilla group with arms, according to evidence collected by American intelligence agencies. Senior State Department, White House, Pentagon and intelligence officials said the evidence also showed that the commander, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, who is in effect the leader of the country, had been tied to the killing of a political opponent. They also said that for the last 15 years, he had been providing intelligence information simultaneously to Cuba and the United States. In addition, they said, General Noriega is a secret investor in Panamanian export companies that sell restricted American technology to Cuba and Eastern European countries. In the mid-1970’s, according to former officials of the National Security Agency, General Noriega was implicated in a secret espionage investigation involving the transfer of highly sensitive agency materials to Havana. These officials said General Noriega purchased the N.S.A. documents from a United States Army sergeant on duty in Panama.
In recent days, there have been signs of tensions between the Government of President Raul Alfonsin and the armed forces apparently growing out of the dismissal of a key military commander and the naming of a new Defense Minister. The changes followed a series of events that stirred strong emotions in this still fragile democracy, including an apparent bomb attempt on the life of Mr. Alfonsin, the sentencing of three former military leaders for their conduct of the 1982 Falkland war with Britain, and a congressional debate over a kidnapping-extortion case in which two Government employees with alleged para-police connections have been implicated. At the same time, the armed forces are said to be nervous about how much further the Government intends to go in prosecuting military officers for human rights abuses committed under the 1976-83 military Government. Five former top officers, including former Presidents Jorge Videla and Roberto E. Viola, are serving sentences handed down in December, and proceedings are continuing against two others.
A group of Commonwealth leaders appointed to assess whether a negotiated solution is possible in South Africa advances arguments for economic sanctions in a report that is to be officially published here on Thursday. The seven leaders, known as the Eminent Persons Group, stop short of recommending specific measures. The group also does not try to make a case that sanctions might be effective. But the group offers a series of arguments that are certain to be embraced by Commonwealth nations intent on moving Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher away from her resistance to sanctions as a way of forcing the pace on fundamental change in South Africa.
The United Democratic Front, South Africa’s principal nonparliamentary opposition movement, called today for mass disobedience of official orders prohibiting commemorations of the Soweto uprising on June 16. The call coincided with a third day of fighting in Cape Town’s black squatter camps, where Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, sought without apparent success to mediate between rival groups of pro-Government vigilantes and their anti-apartheid foes. State-controlled television said the fighting seemed to have spilled beyond the Crossroads and K.T.C. squatter camps and into the nearby black townships of Nyanga and Guguletu. The fighting, in which the vigilantes have reportedly been supported by the police and army, has left at least people 22 dead over the last three days. Similar clashes last month claimed at least 30 lives, while vigilante assaults on the two squatter camps have left more than 70,000 people homeless in Africa’s wealthiest nation.
President Reagan tonight endorsed the construction of a new space shuttle orbiter. His comments, at a news conference, came as space agency and outside aerospace executives agreed that it would be virtually impossible for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to meet its goal of launching its next shuttle flight by July 1987. At the news conference, Mr. Reagan said, “I think we should go forward with another shuttle,” confirming reports that he planned to grant the space agency’s request despite some objections within the Administration. He also blamed the Jan. 28 loss of the Challenger and the seven astronauts aboard on “a carelessness that grew out of success” But he backed the Presidential commission investigating the disaster in its refusal to hold any individual officials responsible. “I don’t believe that there was any deliberate or criminal intent in any way,” Mr. Reagan said.
President Reagan addresses 600 children who are in the “Young Astronauts” program, at the Air and Space Museum.
President Reagan participates in a Press conference.
The Senate, by a narrow margin, voted tonight to reject proposals that would have maintained tax deductions for all Individual Retirement Accounts. The proposals were thought to be the most important challenges to the tax-revision bill approved by the Finance Committee last month. Their defeat appeared to guarantee Senate passage of the bill without significant change. “Clearly, we’re not going to have any major change in the outline of the bill,” said Senator Bob Packwood, the bill’s floor manager. The companion tax bill approved by the House of Representatives last December would retain full deductions for I.R.A.’s. The issue will be settled by a Senate-House conference committee.
In continued opposition to Reagan Administration wishes, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee said today that he would propose a new budget plan to formally link some increased military spending directly to revenue increases that would have to be approved by the President. If the House agreed to the proposal it would set Congress at odds with the White House, which rejected the idea today. Some House Democrats were also cool to the proposal. But the committee chairman, Pete V. Domenici, Republican of New Mexico, said that if revenue was not increased, House and Senate conferees would have to substantially cut military spending in the fiscal year beginning October 1.
Senator Gary Hart in effect staked out a foreign policy program today for use in his expected bid for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1988. In a series of speeches here, the Colorado Democrat called for “new American leadership” in the world and said the United States should sign a nuclear test ban with the Soviet Union and agree to curb development of President Reagan’s proposed space-based missile defensive system in return for Soviet cuts in its most powerful nuclear-armed missiles. Mr. Hart, who has announced that he is leaving the Senate next year, is virtually certain to seek his party’s Presidential nomination in 1988. He lost the nomination after making a strong challenge in 1984.
A deeply divided Supreme Court today reaffirmed its landmark 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion, which the Reagan Administration had urged it to abandon. The 5-to-4 ruling struck down a Pennsylvania law as unconstitutional, on the ground that some provisions were intended to deter women from having abortions and others would require doctors to risk the health of pregnant women to save late-term fetuses. And it appeared to curb state power to regulate abortion further than ever before. Also, Associate Justice Harry A. Blackmun’s majority opinion strongly rebuffed, without explicitly mentioning it, the Administration’s arguments for overruling the 1973 decision, Roe v. Wade. The vote on that decision was 7 to 2.
The Supreme Court ruled by 8 to 1 today that the Government may use Social Security numbers for citizens in its administrative procedures even if it conflicts with their religious beliefs. But it splintered on another issue in the case, failing to achieve a clear ruling on whether the Government may deny welfare benefits to the infant daughter of an American Indian because he refused on religious grounds to use a social security number for her in his application. Five members of the Court said or implied that the Government may not condition benefits on the man’s willingness to use a Social Security number in his application, but one of these Justices said the Court should not decide this question because the case might be moot.
Complaining about a $4-billion annual local phone bill, the Defense Department and the General Services Administration have petitioned public utility commissions in 31 states and the District of Columbia to determine whether local phone companies are making excessive profits. “We’re hoping the commissioners order immediate reductions,” said Mark Langsam, a GSA economist. Langsam was alluding to petitions arguing for lower rates that the government filed June 6 with the rate-setting bodies. The government argued that recent drops in interest rates make it cheaper for phone companies to borrow money, which means their profits “may exceed what would be considered reasonable today.”
The FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration said they are implementing a mandatory drug testing program for their agents who investigate illegal drug trafficking and for all applicants who want to become agents. In addition, the two agencies also plan to conduct a computer-selected random-sample drug testing program for all their employees, including agents and support personnel. The testing program at both agencies was ordered by FBI Director William H. Webster.
The percentage of people who died on the nation’s highways dropped “to the lowest level in history” last year and deaths caused by drunken driving also declined. Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Hanford Dole said. Dole said the fatality rate-the number of deaths per 100-million vehicle miles of travel-dropped to 2.48 in 1985, down from the 2.58 recorded in 1984. In the last five years, alcohol-related traffic fatalities involving drivers declined by 25%
Army opposition to smoking is reflected in a new ban on smoking in vehicles and aircraft. The Army said it sought to make nonsmoking the norm for its work areas because “smoking tobacco harms readiness by impairing physical fitness and by increasing illness, absenteeism, premature death and health care costs.”
The House of Representatives voted unanimously today to permit illegal alien families to continue to live in public housing projects if at least one member of the family was an American citizen or legal resident. The vote came on the fourth day of House debate on a major housing bill. The bipartisan amendment was aimed at blunting the impact of a new Reagan Administration policy under which a family will be subject to eviction from federally assisted public housing if any family member in residence is in the country illegally. The policy, which was announced April 1, is to take effect July 31.
A congressional study recommended that the government should consider reopening an investigation into millions of Ford vehicles that critics say have a tendency to jump from park to reverse and injure or kill motorists. The General Accounting Office said in a 139-page report to Congress that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration should “take further action” in the long-running case to protect drivers of older model Ford autos and trucks.
Three men accused in the attack on a model who was slashed in the face with a razor blade were indicted in New York on charges of first-degree assault. Steven Roth, 28, owner of an apartment that model Marla Hanson had rented, was accused of hiring the other two men to slash Hanson. Roth, 28, and Hanson, 24, had argued earlier over an $850 security deposit she tried to get back after she moved out of the apartment, authorities said. Steven Bowman and Darren Norman were accused of carrying out the June 4 attack, police said.
Maintaining that she was not morally responsible for the drug overdose death of the comedian John Belushi, Cathy Evelyn Smith admitted in Superior Court here today that she had injected him with heroin and cocaine, which medical officials say caused his death. Miss Smith, a 39-year-old former rock singer, pleaded no contest to reduced charges of administering drugs and involuntary manslaughter in the death of the actor. Her sentencing hearing will come August 18, and her lawyers say they hope to gain a sentence of probation, rather than prison.
Eleven and a half weeks after they began, prosecutors in the espionage and tax fraud trial of Jerry A. Whitworth completed the presentation of their case today. The jury heard more than 130 witnesses in the case against a man the Government contends is responsible for the loss of some of the Navy’s most important communications secrets. Mr. Whitworth, 46 years old, is accused of stealing secret Navy cryptographic data and encoded messages from various duty stations while he served as a Navy radioman and passing them to a Soviet spy ring for more than a decade beginning in 1975. If convicted, he could be sentenced to seven life terms plus 27 years and fined a total of $530,000.
After months of uneasiness on an all-white block where one home had been rented to a black family, a 24-year-old black man fired a 12-gauge shotgun toward a group of whites last night, the police said. Eight people were wounded, none of them seriously. The incident raised concern about racial problems in this old industrial city, where officials say there have been increasing complaints by blacks about harassment in predominantly white neighborhoods. But some people on the street where it happened denied that racism was a factor.
IN Loma Linda, California, Baby Jesse, showing no signs that his body was rejecting a heart transplanted from a brain-dead Michigan infant, was described today as looking extremely well by his father. “To my amazement, he looked far better than I expected,” said Jesse Sepulveda, the 26-year-old father. The 17-day-old infant, Jesse Dean Sepulveda, underwent four hours of transplant surgery Tuesday at Loma Linda University Medical Center. He was reported in critical but stable condition. Mr. Sepulveda said he visited the baby Tuesday night after surgery and again today. The baby’s mother, Deana Binkley, 17, was absent Wednesday.
The Rev. Benjamin Weir, a former missionary to Lebanon who was held hostage there for 16 months, was elected in Minneapolis by the 198th General Assembly to lead the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). “I am aware that we live in a complex world and my church is realizing that in my election,” Weir said after he was named as moderator of the denomination of 3.1 million people, formed when the Northern and Southern branches of the Presbyterians merged in 1983.
Drugs used to relieve heart patients’ shortness of breath and fatigue can also apparently extend their lives, researchers said. The drugs hydralazine and isosorbide dinitrate were found to add an average of one extra year of life and reduce by more than one-third the death rate among victims of congestive heart failure, said Dr. Jay N. Cohn of the University of Minnesota Medical School in Minneapolis, whose study was published in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Radiation from a United States nuclear weapons blast that went wrong earlier this year has contaminated three workers, two of them twice, at the Nevada test site. But the Department of Energy said today that the three were in no danger. A spokesman for the department, Jim Boyer, said the three men, who were not identified, had received whole body gamma radiation dosages of 375, 590 and 625 millirems, which he said “is very small.”
Contrary to a widely held notion, victims of genital herpes may transmit the disease to their sexual partners even when they have no visible sores or other symptoms, doctors said today. Researchers at the National Institutes of Health said they had documented a case in which a man infected a woman when he had no symptoms and the disease appeared to be dormant. “We’ve suspected that was true for some time but nobody was ever sure,” Dr. Stephen E. Straus, who headed the study, said in a telephone interview. “We’ve now proven it can occur.” Dr. Straus said that while it was possible for a person lacking symptoms to transmit the disease, it was still unlikely since the amount of virus emitted by such a person was small.
The sudden, mysterious deaths that sometimes befall healthy people after routine surgery may be caused by a drastically low level of body salt and abnormal fluid retention, according to a report in the latest New England Journal of Medicine.
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The California Angels outslugged the Chicago White Sox, 12–11. Ruppert Jones drove in three runs with a two-run homer and a triple to lead California. Gary Pettis had three hits and scored three runs, and Brian Downing belted a two-run homer during a three-run eighth in the Angels’ season-high 16-hit attack.
The A’s bowed to the Indians, 7–4. Carmen Castillo and Tony Bernazard hit two-run homers in the fifth inning as the Indians sent the A’s to their eighth straight loss and 10th straight on the road, matching a club record.
The Yankees tried something new tonight, but a couple of old problems undermined their effort to improve their performance against left-handed starting pitchers. The problems that continued to vex the Yankees were their defense and Ron Guidry’s pitching, both of which contributed to their 9–3 loss to the last-place Detroit Tigers. Bobby Meacham, committing his team-high 12th error, and Don Mattingly, making his second of the season and second in four games, opened the way for the Tigers to score four unearned runs against Guidry. Guidry, however, did not help himself, giving up a pivotal two-run single to Lou Whitaker in the fourth inning and four successive singles to Darnell Coles, the unheralded third baseman, who raised his average to .304. The left-hander, who has won only once in nine starts since April 24, suffered a career-high fifth consecutive loss as his record fell to 4–6, also the worst of his career after 10 decisions.
John Moses had three hits and drove in three runs as the Mariners collected a season-high 18 hits, rolling over the Royals, 12–2. The Mariners, beating the Royals for the eighth time in nine games in Kansas City, chased Charlie Leibrandt (6–4) with seven runs in the second inning and added five in the third.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 5–4. Franklin Stubbs singled home Mariano Duncan with the winning run with two outs in the 11th inning as Los Angeles clinched its third one-run victory in three nights over Cincinnati.
The Baltimore Orioles edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 4–3. Mike Boddicker and Don Aase combined on a eight-hitter, and Cal Ripken extended his hitting streak to seven games with two singles for Baltimore. Boddicker (8–1) worked seven innings, allowing six hits. Aase registered his major-league-leading 17th save.
At Minnesota, Oddibe McDowell’s three-run homer in the 16th inning, as Texas beats the Twins, 6–2. McDowell snapped a 2–2 deadlock and lifted Texas to victory in the longest game ever played in the Metrodome. Mitch Williams (6–1) pitched the final three innings for the victory. The Rangers’ starter, Charlie Hough, worked 13 innings, the longest stint in the major leagues this year and the longest in Ranger history. Hough gave up eight hits, only one over the final seven and two-thirds innings. Allan Anderson tosses the first 10 frames for the Twins.
The Mets beat the Phillies, 5–3, last night in a game that had its good measure of tense moments. But they also came at the Phillies from several angles: timely hitting from Gary Carter, power hitting from Ray Knight and stalwart relief pitching. And there was the usual hugging on just another basic night at Shea Stadium. Ron Darling won his seventh game against two losses, beating Steve Carlton. Jesse Orosco ended the tease in the ninth inning, getting a double play with the tying runs aboard. The Mets went up by four runs after two innings mainly because Carlton, who has won 318 games in his career, but only one last season and just four this season, kept falling behind the hitters.
The Pirates topped the Cubs, 5–3. Rick Rhoden singled home two runs and combined with three relievers to lead the Pirates to a sweep of their three-game series with Chicago. Rhoden (6–3) gave up seven hits, including a home run by Ron Cey.
The San Diego Padres downed the Houston Astros, 11–7. Garry Templeton lined a two-run double in the eighth inning, pacing a four-run San Diego rally that snapped the Astros’ four-game winning streak. The Padres, who had squandered a 7–1 lead, opened the eighth with a walk by Carmelo Martinez. Bruce Bochy, who earlier hit a two-run homer, doubled the pinch-runner John Kruk to third, and after Frank DiPino (1–2) walked Jerry Royster intentionally, Templeton lined his hit down the line in right.
The Braves squeaked past the San Francisco Giants, 2–1, in extra innings. Ozzie Virgil’s two-out home run in the top of the 10th gave the Braves the victory. Gene Garber (2–1) pitched three perfect innings of relief. “The homer was on a high sinker. It just didn’t sink,” Giants manager Roger Craig said. “I was just protecting the plate with two strikes on me,” Virgil said. “The way the wind was blowing in, I didn’t think it was going out. But I hit it on the line.” The homer, his ninth, came on a 3–2 pitch. It was the third this season off Minton, who earlier in his career went three full seasons without allowing a homer. Minton, 2–4, entered the game in the 10th, and the Braves were very glad to see Scott Garrelts leave. The Giants’ starter pitched four-hit ball for nine innings. “You can’t pitch much better than Garrelts did. You’ve got to give our relief pitchers credit, too,” Atlanta manager Chuck Tanner said after the victory that gave his team a 6–1 record in extra-inning games.
The Expos beat the Cardinals, 4–3. Jim Wohlford’s one-out sacrifice fly in the 10th inning scored Tim Wallach, giving Montreal the victory and a three-game sweep of St. Louis. Wohlford’s fly, off the reliever Greg Bargar (0–2) gave the victory to Jeff Reardon (6–3), who blew a save opportunity in the ninth.
Unbeaten Roger Clemens extended his streak tonight, with last-inning relief help from Bob Stanley, notching his 11th victory as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Toronto Blue Jays, 3–2. The start was delayed 2 hours 47 minutes by rain, but it did little to upset Clemens’s rhythm and timing. The 23-year-old right-hander surrendered a run-scoring double to Rance Mulliniks in the first inning, then retired 16 consecutive batters before Tony Fernandez doubled in the sixth. Over all, Clemens allowed four hits, struck out six before Stanley pitched the ninth for his 10th save. Boston snapped a 1–1 tie in the fourth on Don Baylor’s two-run homer, his 15th clout of the season, off Doyle Alexander (4–3) who finished with a six-hitter, striking out nine and walking one.
California Angels 12, Chicago White Sox 11
Oakland Athletics 4, Cleveland Indians 7
New York Yankees 3, Detroit Tigers 9
Seattle Mariners 12, Kansas City Royals 2
Cincinnati Reds 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 5
Baltimore Orioles 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Texas Rangers 6, Minnesota Twins 2
Philadelphia Phillies 3, New York Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Houston Astros 7, San Diego Padres 11
Atlanta Braves 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Montreal Expos 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Boston Red Sox 3, Toronto Blue Jays 2
The stock market’s two-day slump ended yesterday when a decline in interest rates allowed share prices to rise moderately. But trading was restrained as investors remained cautious. “We had a nice rebound in the bond market today,” said Robert Colby, a market analyst with Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company, who added that Wall Street’s recovery followed the same pattern. “It was a reasonable day. It wasn’t a knock-your-socks-off day.” The Dow Jones industrial average, a loser in each of the last two sessions, rose 8.88 points, to 1,846.07. Monday’s decline was a record 45.75 points, and market analysts say Wall Street was still recovering yesterday from the shock.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1846.07 (+8.88)
Born:
Shia LaBeouf, American actor (“Disturbia”, “Transformers”), in Los Angeles, California.
Brighton Hertford, American actress (BJ Jones — “General Hospital”), in Tarzana, California.
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Chesley Bonestell, 98, American-born engineer, architect, and artist, best known for his realistic-looking paintings of space exploration.
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