Amid confusion over President Reagan’s intention to abandon the 1979 strategic arms limitation treaty, the White House said today that the accord “no longer exists.” At the same time, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said future arms reduction decisions made by the United States would hinge on what he called “Soviet behavior” in key areas. Although the 1979 treaty was never ratified, each side had said it would observe the provisions as long as the other did. Over the years, there have been mutual accusations of breaches, and on May 27, Mr. Reagan announced that the United States would no longer be guided by the provisions of the pact.
A new Soviet arms proposal may have figured in President Reagan’s apparent move Wednesday to shade, but not to alter, his decision to disavow the strategic arms limitation treaty of 1979, according to Administration officials. The Soviet offer entails dropping the requirement that the United States reduce its so-called forward-based systems, meaning American fighter-bombers based in Western Europe and on aircraft carriers, but would raise the proposed limit on overall strategic nuclear forces to 8,000, from 6,000, the officials said. The new offer is also said to permit long-range sea-launched cruise missiles rather than banning them as before. These missiles would then be counted in the total of 8,000 nuclear bombs and missile warheads. This contrasts with the proposed American ceiling of 6,000 ballistic missile warheads and air-launched cruise missiles only. Officials said Mr. Reagan was mindful of this offer in his comments Wednesday and wished to avoid fouling the atmosphere created by the new proposal, presented in Geneva earlier in the day. The officials also said Mr. Reagan might have wanted to mollify Western European leaders who expressed disapproval of his decision May 27 to abandon the 1979 treaty.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee adopted a resolution today urging the Reagan Administration to stay within numerical limits on nuclear weapons set by the 1979 treaty on limiting strategic arms. The vote was 29 to 11. The Administration has said it is no longer bound by the treaty, which was never ratified. But President Reagan has not yet decided whether to stay within its weapon limits, which could be breached later this year. The committee’s vote, in which all the panel’s Democrats were joined by four Republicans in opposing the Administration’s position, overrode objections by the panel’s minority, who argued that the Soviet Union has violated several provisions of the treaty. The proposed nonbinding resolution asks the President not to exceed the numerical ceilings for various categories of nuclear weapons, known as “sublimits” in the treaty, as long as the Russians comply with those ceilings.
The British Government announced today that it was dissolving the Northern Ireland Assembly after four years of fruitless attempts to foster a debating ground for compromise between the politicians of the province’s Protestant and Roman Catholic communities. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed regret that the deeply divided political leaders had failed to use the assembly to help frame a workable solution to Ulster’s history of political violence. “I hope that one day they will take up that offer,” Mrs. Thatcher told the House of Commons.
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved a revised extradition treaty today between the United States and Britain that will make it easier to extradite Irish Republican Army fugitives sought by the British for prosecution as terrorists. The 15-to-2 vote ended a yearlong deadlock on the committee and made Senate approval of the treaty a near certainty, perhaps as early as next week. The deadlock was broken after Senator Richard G. Lugar, the Indiana Republican who heads the committee, negotiated a compromise with Democratic senators who opposed the treaty. While the document differs in some key respects from the treaty that was negotiated a year ago, both Governments said that the new language was acceptable.
West Germany will dismantle the reactor at its nuclear power plant at Niederaichbach, 50 miles northeast of Munich. The Bavarian Environment Ministry approved the move, ending six years of opposition by local residents who feared the disassembly would release radioactive contamination. The reactor was started up in 1972, but it was shut down in 1974 after only 18.3 days of full-power operation because of problems with its heat-exchange system and excessive operating costs.
The Italian Government is considering moves to reduce its imports of Libyan oil as a means of putting economic pressure on the Government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, senior Italian officials and Western diplomats said today. The Libyan Government has been told of Italy’s desire to cut imports and Italy has begun to identify alternative suppliers of crude oil, sources familiar with the effort said. The move is highly significant because a major cutback in oil imports by Italy, Libya’s largest trading partner, could amount to the severest economic measure taken against Libya by any European country. Over the last few weeks the Government of Prime Minister Bettino Craxi has been planning quietly for a reduction of Libyan oil purchases by state enterprises, and the first concrete steps to change or eliminate contracts were taken this week, the sources said.
The British government confirmed that it will dissolve the Northern Ireland Assembly next week because persistent tensions between Roman Catholics and Protestants have rendered the body ineffective. Northern Ireland Secretary Tom King told the House of Commons he regrets having to close down Ulster’s legislature but said it is not being abolished and will be kept on the statute books until elections can be held. Roman Catholic members had boycotted Assembly sessions to protest British rule in the province.
Israel may have passed on to Iran secret information gathered by former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard, the Jerusalem Post reported. If true, the allegations “would seriously broaden the scope of the spy scandal and further upset U.S.-Israeli relations,” the newspaper said. Pollard, arrested last November, pleaded guilty a week ago to one count of espionage. The Post quoted its sources as saying the “Iranian connection” has sparked interest among U.S. investigators and that there is “a hunting expedition under way against Israel.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said his country is willing to withdraw its remaining forces from southern Lebanon if the Shia Amal militia agrees to keep the border area quiet. “If Amal is ready to sit with us, even discreetly, and make any security arrangements that will keep the border quiet, we see no problem in pulling our forces back across,” Rabin said. But, he added, “Amal has so far refused whatsoever to make any deal.”
The conflict between secular and militantly Orthodox Jews in Israel intensified today, and Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir took steps to try to ease it. Religious militants set fire to two more bus shelters, while militant secularists cut the wire encircling Jerusalem that observant Jews use to define the area within which they can carry objects on the sabbath. Mr. Peres and Mr. Shamir held talks with Israel’s two Chief Rabbis, religious members of Parliament and mayors of several key cities to discuss the widening religious strife. The Government decided to set up a committee that will “examine the issues” that led to the burning or defacing of more than 100 bus shelters by religious militants and to the burning of a Tel Aviv synagogue Wednesday by secular activists.
Rival Lebanese Muslim factions battled in the Syrian-occupied Bekaa Valley, leaving at least nine people dead and 10 wounded, police said. The fighting pitted pro-Iranian radicals of Hezbollah (Party of God) and Syrian-backed militiamen. The two sides have been vying for control of the town of Mashgara since Israel withdrew its troops from the area a year ago. Meanwhile, in West Beirut, Shia Amal militia and Palestinian guerrillas again traded rocket and mortar fire around three Palestinian refugee camps, killing two and wounding 16.
Sikh militants shot dead five people in Punjab State today, and a Sikh was killed in retaliatory violence by militant Hindus, the police said. The new unrest came as a Government commission ruled that the state, which has a Sikh majority, should hand over 70,000 acres of its territory to the neighboring Hindu-dominated state of Haryana in return for sole possession of their joint capital, Chandigarh. A senior police official said all the attacks today took place in Gurdaspur District, bordering Pakistan. The killings touched off protests by supporters of the right-wing Hindu Shiv Sena group in Batala town and an angry crowd stabbed one Sikh to death and seriously wounded another.
Filipinos today celebrated their first Independence Day since President Corazon C. Aquino came to power with a big parade that was also intended to be a display of Mrs. Aquino’s popular support. Tens of thousands gathered at Manila’s Rizal Park to take part in what Mrs. Aquino said was a “celebration of freedom and unity.” Last year President Ferdinand E. Marcos celebrated Independence Day with a show of military strength. This year, Mrs. Aquino said, she wanted a “Mardi Gras” instead. Meanwhile, Mr. Marcos warned in a radio broadcast from Hawaii that Mrs. Aquino would allow the Communists to rule the country. “Before long, we’d be hearing the Communist Party taking over the power of government in the Philippines,” Mr. Marcos said. He also repeated charges that Mrs. Aquino’s Government was “an open dictatorship and tyranny.”
Canada, acting against apartheid, said it would end the Ottawa Government’s purchase of South African products and ban the promotion of South African tourism. Ottawa also said it would no longer have any official ties with four South African diplomatic attaches who live in the United States.
The Salvadoran army has launched a counterinsurgency campaign to head off a possible offensive by leftist rebels to improve their position before upcoming peace talks, General Adolfo Blandon, El Salvador’s top military commander, said. The rebels and the U.S.-backed government are preparing for a new round of talks in late July or August. Blandon said that troops are sweeping through guerrilla strongholds in “the principal areas of terrorist persistence.”
Eight West German volunteers who were abducted by rebels and held for 25 days said after their release that the Reagan Administration was to blame for their kidnapping. They said they were ashamed of West Germany’s support for United States policy toward Nicaragua. West Germany cut off aid to Nicaragua in 1984 as a result of political differences with the Sandinista Government. The eight released captives, most of whom are in their 20’s, distributed a statement and described their experience at a news conference in Managua Wednesday evening. They said two members of the group were ill for much of the time they were held, and that they were never certain they would emerge from their ordeal alive.
Law enforcement officials in the Nixon Administration once proposed the assassination of General Manuel Antonio Noriega, who was then chief of intelligence in the Panama Defense Force, as a partial solution to that nation’s heavy drug trafficking, according to a Senate Intelligence Committee report. The recommendation was one of a series of options proposed in 1972 for dealing with the officer, who was then a lieutenant colonel. The options were presented to John E. Ingersoll, then the Director of the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Mr. Ingersoll, the Senate report said, rejected the option, which proposed the “total and complete immobilization” of General Noriega. A separate Department of Justice investigation also found no evidence that any direct action against General Noriega had been put in motion.
Argentina’s labor unions have called a general strike for today to protest an austerity plan-including salary cuts-proposed by the much-criticized civilian government of President Raul Alfonsin. The one-day walkout is aimed at halting transportation, industry and commerce and closing government offices. Alfonsin called the strike “infantile” but did not declare it illegal, a move that would allow massive firings of employees.
P. W. Botha declares a South African national emergency. South Africa’s beleaguered white leaders today imposed a nationwide state of emergency and detained hundreds of activists in an effort to crush dissent before Monday, the 10th anniversary of the Soweto uprisings. In the first day of the decree, the Government-controlled television said, more than 1,000 people were detained. The first response from opponents of the Government who are in hiding was that the measure would spark violence. “Removing responsible leaders of the people has effectively paved the way for a blood bath in the country,” said Murphy Morobe, a spokesman for the United Democratic Front. Mr. Morobe issued his statement from hiding. The United Democratic Front, which says it has a following of two million, is the biggest nonparliamentary opposition group in the country. Some of those detained today, along with church and labor leaders, were its supporters.
The co-chairmen of a Commonwealth group that tried and failed to mediate between the Government in South Africa and its black opposition signaled the start today of an intensified international campaign for economic sanctions to bring about an end to apartheid. The two leaders, former Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser of Australia and Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, a former Nigerian head of state, charged that the Government of President P. W. Botha had pulled back from a clear opportunity for negotiations with black leaders who wanted to make an effort for a peaceful settlement. They contended that the failure of their mission made sanctions a necessity for Western nations, especially Britain. The two were midway in their presentation here of the 68-page final report of a Commonwealth mission known as the Eminent Persons Group when they were handed a bulletin reporting the reimposition of a state of emergency in South Africa. The bulletin seemed timed to coincide with the group’s call for “concerted action of an effective kind” by the Commonwealth to prevent worsening violence.
The total number of AIDS cases and deaths from the disease will increase more than tenfold in the next five years as the virus spreads widely outside New York and San Francisco and infects a larger segment of the heterosexual population, the Government predicted today. Federal health officials, reporting the results of a conference of experts on acquired immune deficiency syndrome, estimated that by 1991 care of patients would cost $8 billion to $16 billion a year. Dr. Donald Ian Macdonald, Acting Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, described as “staggering” and “devastating” the “huge problem” caused by “the escalating AIDS epidemic.” To date, the Government has recorded 21,517 cases of AIDS and 11,713 deaths from the disease, which destroys the body’s resistance. The Public Health Service estimated that by the end of 1991 there would be a cumulative total of 270,000 cases and 179,000 deaths.
3 U.S. officials used foreknowledge of a key economic figure for personal gain in securities markets, according to Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige. He said he would dismiss the three employees and seek legislation making unauthorized disclosure of such data a crime.
President Reagan visits with his cousin Donna Ardwin.
The top technical official in the space shuttle program today explained how he failed to stop shuttle flights last year until O ring seals on the booster rockets could be repaired. Under prodding by members of the House Science and Technology Committee, L. Michael Weeks, deputy associate administrator (technical) for space flight at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, acknowledged that “with 20-20 hindsight” he had enough information in hand last August to curtail all flights and begin a major effort to resolve the O ring problem as quickly as possible. “I wish I could relive that history and do it,” Mr. Weeks said. His testimony came after members of the committee charged repeatedly that top officials of the space agency, not just their underlings at Marshall Space Flight Center, bore a heavy responsibility for causing the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in which seven astronauts were killed. Their assertions wrung an admission from agency leaders that this was indeed the case.
The Reagan Administration told Senate budget writers today that more Federal Government assets could be sold to pay for increases in the 1987 military budget. But the officials reiterated the President’s opposition to any tax increases, and Senate leaders rejected the sale of more assets. The conversations, in the office of Bob Dole, the Senate Republican leader, accentuated the divisions between the Republican-controlled Senate and the White House over the 1987 budget, which threaten to derail the budget process this year.
The only evidence prosecutors have that Richard W. Miller gave classified documents to a Soviet spy are the former Federal agent’s tainted admissions to interrogators, Mr. Miller’s attorney said today. In his closing statements in Federal District Court in Mr. Miller’s second espionage trial, Joel Levine, the defense attorney, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation and prosecutors were trying to convict Mr. Miller with speculation disguised as proof. “The true test is whether there is independent evidence that these acts took place,” Mr. Levine said.
The House today passed a major public housing bill that requires more Federal money to be spent on the repair of existing units than on new construction. The bill, which was approved by a vote of 340 to 36 after a week of debate, would allot up to $16.3 billion in housing assistance and renews many housing programs at current cost levels for the fiscal years 1986 and 1987. A similar bill now is being considered by the Senate. President Reagan, who wants to eliminate or drastically cut many Federal housing programs, has said he will veto any bill that approves housing assistance at current levels.
Like a driver in a hurry, a rebellion against the federal speed limit of 55 miles an hour is gaining momentum in the Western and Plains states. Speeding fines have been sharply reduced and speeding arrests are not recorded in many states. The police, burdened with increased emphasis on drunken driving and truck safety programs, concede that infractions of up to 65 miles an hour are generally ignored, and state legislatures are attempting to get Washington to let them once again set their own speed limits of up to 70 miles an hour. The Western attack on the Federal law could have an important impact on Federal policy, since traffic speeds nationally have been found to be creeping up, and the Department of Transportation recently announced that it would impose on Arizona and Vermont the first penalties for failure to enforce the speed limit. Many Western legislators hope that a state-by-state revolt against the speed limit could produce the same results as the refusal of California and Utah in the 1970’s to enact federally mandated laws on motorcycle helmets. When the Department of Transportation moved to withhold highway aid from these states, as it is now moving to do against Arizona and Vermont, the reaction in Congress was so strong that it repealed the helmet law.
Five U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspectors, their former supervisor and a former packing plant manager were indicted in Newark, New Jersey, on charges of participating in a six-year bribery scheme to submit especially selected meat samples for federal analysis. U.S. Attorney Thomas Greelish said the inspectors at the Leo Keller Corp. were bribed to submit samples that contained less fat, water and additives than products the company sold to supermarkets.
Federal trial courts across the nation will not begin any new noncriminal jury trials until October if Congress does not provide more money, court officials said today. “We are postponing civil trials until Congress appropriates additional money,” Edward Garabedian of the Administrative Office of the United States Courts was quoted as saying. He said the problem arose when Congress created new Federal judgeships but also cut $3 million for jury costs. The federal budget-balancing law cut another $1.8 million from jury trial appropriations for the current fiscal year that ends September 30. Civil jury trials in progress and civil trials heard by judges rather than juries will not be affected and federal criminal trials will not be affected.
A car carrying explosives was discovered in Fort Riley, Kansas, and military officials reported they had isolated the vehicle and “secured” the Army base about 100 miles west of Kansas City, police said. “They have the car with explosives detained on Fort Riley.” Riley County Police Sgt. Robert Saber said, adding that military police at the Army post had called him. Officials at Fort Riley refused to comment except to say that no one had been evacuated.
The National Organization for Women will celebrate its 20th anniversary here this weekend at an annual convention expected to draw about a thousand delegates. But the celebration comes at a difficult time of transition for NOW. The organization is trying to reverse a decline in membership, build support among younger women and develop a new political strategy that will give it both independence and influence. At the same time, the group is faced with persistent questions about its strategy and its relevance to the average American woman.
The Ford Motor Company proposed today to install air bags on the driver’s side of a majority of its new passenger cars by the 1990 model year if the Government would drop a more stringent requirement. In a petition to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been wrestling for more than a decade with the air-bag issue, Ford said that the cars would have manual seat belts for all passengers. A rule adopted by the safety agency two years ago requires automatic restraint systems like air bags or self-fastening seat belts for drivers and passengers in the front seats of all automobiles by the 1990 model year. The rule would be dropped if, by April 1, 1989, states covering two thirds of the population require seat belts to be used. Such laws have been adopted by 27 states, although not all conform to the specific criteria set forth by the safety agency.
Two supporters of rightist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. asked a court to order the Illinois Democratic Party to let them speak before the state convention in Springfield this weekend. The suit was filed in Chicago on behalf of Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, who scored upset victories in the lieutenant governor and secretary of state races in last March’s Democratic primary. State Party Chairman Vince Demuzio has announced that the LaRouche candidates would not be allowed to address the convention.
The Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, the president of the University of Notre Dame for the last 35 years, will resign next year and university trustees have begun a search for his replacement, a school spokesman said today. Father Hesburgh had planned to retire at the end of the 1981-82 school year, but agreed to stay on for five years when a search committee said it could not find a suitable replacement.
A donor heart was found today for Baby Calvin, a dying 3-week-old infant who suffers from the same heart disease that afflicted a California baby who received a new heart Tuesday, a Kosair Children’s Hospital spokesman said tonight. Transplant surgery was planned for early Friday morning. The Kentucky infant had been on the nationwide organ-donor network since May 30, before the name of Baby Jesse in California was added. Jesse received the transplanted heart of a brain-dead Michigan infant in Loma Linda, Calif. The heart was donated after the donor’s parents heard news accounts of pleas by Jesse’s parents. Earlier Thursday, Baby Calvin’s parents issued an appeal to Congress to improve the nationwide organ-donor network. “It almost seems like publicity is the only method that’s working at present,” said Calvin’s parents, who have asked to remain anonymous. “But if you get publicity, it disrupts a family’s life. We need a system that wouldn’t make it necessary to trust publicity as part of the system.”
Hands Across America, in which people linking hands coast to coast as an expression of concern for the needy, has collected almost $28 million, more than half its goal, according to organizers of the campaign. California leads other states in the fund-raising, with $3.2 million in donations, according to figures released by Hands Across America officials Wednesday. Another $8.6 million has been pledged nationwide as of June 9. The cost of the fund-raising event so far is about $12 million, but organizers anticipate spending an additional $5 million, about $3 million over the $14 million budgeted, for bills.
The American Cancer Society began a campaign to eliminate smoking among youths by the year 2000, saying it wants to “change the health habits of an entire generation.” Spokesmen said in Philadelphia that they hope to reduce smoking among young people by 50% by 1990 and to eliminate it by 2000. The campaign will especially target vocational-technical students because they are more likely to smoke than their college-preparatory counterparts, spokesman John Seffrin said.
The Environmental Protection Agency told a Pennsylvania firm it may proceed with outdoor tests of a genetically altered microbial pesticide without a special permit. It will allow Ecogen Inc. of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, to conduct small-scale field tests of the substance, a genetically altered strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, on a variety of crops.
The Stop-N-Go chain of convenience stores will stop selling adult magazines because of the family orientation of its stores, the company said in Dayton, Ohio. President Robert Mink said the magazines will be pulled from all 305 Stop-N-Go stores in Ohio, Pennsylvania. New York. Michigan, Indiana and Kentucky. The magazines were sold only to adults and were concealed behind store counters, with their covers obscured. Mink said The magazines were being removed “because of our increasing awareness of the public’s concern.” he said
The United States Open opened at the Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, L.I., under gray skies, intermittent rain and biting winds. Many potential spectators with tickets stayed away, and of those who did show, many left early under a sea of umbrellas. Many people got soaked, but civility reigned.
Major League Baseball:
The 5th-place Chicago Cubs (23–33), losers of three straight in Pittsburgh, fire manager Jim Frey and third base coach Don Zimmer, high school teammates. John Vukovich will manage for two games before new manager Gene Michael takes over. According to Frey’s later telling of the firing, GM Dallas Green called him after a loss in St. Louis ( a 4-game split in St. Louis) and asked him to do a bed check on the players. “I told him, maybe you ought to get a night watchman.” Green insisted and Frey refused. The next day he was a goner . Ironically, Frey will be hired next year as the Cubs GM, replacing Green. His first move will be to hire Zimmer as his manager.
Juan Beniquez joins Lee Lacy as the second unlikely Oriole to hit 3 home runs in a game this month, connecting for 3 solo shots in Baltimore’s 7–5 loss to the Yankees. Between them, Beniquez and Lacy will hit 17 home runs this season. The victory, the Yankees’ first over the Orioles after three weekend losses to them in New York, was forged by three types of saves. Rickey Henderson and Don Mattingly saved the Yankees with their hitting, Dave Winfield saved them with his fielding and Dave Righetti saved them with his pitching.
The California Angels edged the Kansas City Royals, 3–2. Brian Downing tripled home two runs in the third inning and Mike Witt limited Kansas City to six hits. Downing tripled into the right-field corner off Danny Jackson (2–4). He drove home Bob Boone, who had opened the inning with a double, and Dick Schofield, who had laid down a bunt single. Witt (7–4) held the Royals hitless until Willie Wilson singled to open the sixth inning. Wilson then scored on Lonnie Smith’s double. Witt struck out nine batters for the third time this season.
Manny Hernandez won his first major league game and Mark Bailey hit a two-run homer tonight as the Houston Astros beat the San Francisco Giants, 4–1. Hernandez (1–1) pitched five and two-thirds innings and gave up one run on seven hits. Aurelio Lopez worked the next two and two-thirds innings before Dave Smith got the final two outs for his National League-leading 16th save. Bailey, who entered the game batting .184, hit his fourth home run of the season in the sixth inning, giving the Astros a 4–1 lead. Bailey connected after Denny Walling drew a walk from Mike Krukow (8–4). Krukow had won his previous four decisions. Bill Doran led off the Houston first by reaching base on the shortstop Jose Uribe’s throwing error. Doran stole second, took third on a groundout and scored on a sacrifice fly by Jose Cruz. The victory extended Houston’s lead to three games over the Giants in the National League West.
The White Sox downed the Seattle Mariners, 8–4. Carlton Fisk’s two-run double broke a ninth-inning tie, and Harold Baines followed with a two-run homer as the Chicago White Sox rallied for five runs in the ninth. The White Sox trailed 4–0 going into the eighth inning. Fisk hit a two-run double in the eighth as well, then scored on a throwing error, making it 4–3.
The Blue Jays blanked the Tigers, 9–0, in a rain-shortened game. Kelly Gruber hit a three-run inside-the-park home run that was lost in a dense fog and Cliff Johnson and Jesse Barfield also hit home runs, powering Toronto past Detroit in a game called in the bottom of the seventh inning because of rain and fog. The Blue Jays had runners on second and third with two outs in the seventh when Gruber hit a routine fly ball to center field. But the ball disappeared into a thick fog and the center fielder Pat Sheridan did not make a move until it landed behind him Kirk Gibson retrieved the ball at the fence in right-center, but Gruber had already circled the bases for his third home run of the season. Gruber went 3 for 4 and broke an 0-for-26 slump. The home-plate umpire, Dave Phillips, waved the players off the field after Gruber’s home run, and the game was called 35 minutes later. Toronto’s Jimmy Key (4–5) allowed six hits in sending Detroit to its 10th loss in the last 13 games. Key struck out six and walked two in his second shutout of the season.
The scheduled game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Red Sox at Boston was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on September 16.
New York Yankees 7, Baltimore Orioles 5
Kansas City Royals 2, California Angels 3
San Francisco Giants 1, Houston Astros 4
Chicago White Sox 8, Seattle Mariners 4
Detroit Tigers 0, Toronto Blue Jays 9
Wall Street yesterday drifted through a lifeless session of mixed prices and low volume. “We’re in the midst of the summer doldrums,” said David Lee, market analyst with the Robinson-Humphrey Company in Atlanta, who thinks the slowdown occurred prematurely because “everyone is just plain tired” after the extensive rally. Yesterday the Dow Jones industrial average, which is also a little overworked after its record-breaking decline on Monday, fell 7.94 points, to 1,838.13. The blue-chip index, which was in the hole from start to finish yesterday, has now lost ground in three of the four sessions this week.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1838.13 (-7.94)
Born:
Jessica Keenan Wynn, American actress (“Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again”), granddaughter of Keenan Wynn, in Los Angeles, California.
Died:
Antoon Breyne, 76, Belgian journalist.
History Diaries 