President Reagan sent a message two weeks ago calling on Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, to reschedule talks between the two countries’ foreign ministers on arrangements for a summit meeting this year, a high-level Administration official said tonight. The official said there had been no response to the message, which was delivered to the Kremlin by Arthur A. Hartman, the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, who returned to Moscow in June after extended consultations in Washington. Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze had been scheduled to confer in Washington on May 15 and 16, but that meeting was canceled by the Kremlin after the American raid on Libya on April 15. There had been hope in the Administration that the Shultz-Shevardnadze session would be followed by a summit meeting between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev in this country by the end of July.
The Challenger disaster and a series of other major setbacks in the American space program have damaged President Reagan’s antimissile plan in ways that are far more serious and extensive than has generally been realized, according to scientists and aerospace analysts. Officials of the program, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative and popularly known as “Star Wars,” deny that there is serious damage, saying that any problems are minor and that the program as a whole is moving ahead vigorously. But in more than two dozen interviews with a wide range of aerospace experts inside and outside the Government, analysts said the grounding of the nation’s shuttles and expendable rockets had thrown a schedule of space-based experiments into confusion and disarray, sending shock waves through research programs across the country and demoralizing some scientists in the antimissile program. Another repercussion, they say, is the effect on a controversy over whether the Government should start now to develop a giant new unmanned rocket — far larger than the shuttle — to lift thousands of antimissile weapons, sensors and aiming and tracking devices into space.
Italian officials say continued pressure on Syria from the United States, Israel and Italy appears to have led the Syrian Government to exercise greater caution in its dealings with terrorist groups. But they also said Italy had tightened internal security in recent days because of intelligence reports that as many as 35 terrorist attacks had been “in the pipeline” even before recent efforts by the United States to get both Syria and Libya to back away from their involvement with terrorism. Security at the Fiumcino airport earlier this week was stricter than it had been for some time, and those seeking to enter the main international terminal had tickets and passports checked by heavily armed policemen and military personnel. The officials also said contradictory reports in recent weeks over Syria’s exact role in recent terrorist actions stemmed in part from the wide circulation of inconclusive intelligence reports pointing to Syrian involvement.
President Spyros Kyprianou, the Greek-Cypriot leader, has rejected the latest United Nations draft agreement for the reunification of Cyprus, according to a report issued this week by Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar. The proposal was the result of negotiations between the Secretary General and representatives of the Turkish and Greek Cypriots that began last fall. It was offered to both sides in March. According to the report, which was issued Wednesday, the draft agreement proposes the establishment of a neutral and nonaligned Federal Republic of Cyprus based on a presidential system of government encompassing two autonomous states. In a letter June 10 to Mr. Perez de Cuellar that was published in the report, Mr. Kyprianou said provisions for weighted voting and veto power for a Turkish vice president were unworkable. He also faulted the lack of a timetable for the withdrawal of Turkish troops, an international guarantee of the agreement, or a guarantee of the right of nearly 180,000 Greek refugees to return to the Turkish portion of the island. Greeks make up about 70 percent of the population.
A forest fire raged out of control in the hills of central Portugal today, killing 15 people and injuring more than 50, officials said. An Agueda fire service officer, Antonio Faria Gomes, said 13 of the dead were firefighters. He said at least one civilian was missing. Soldiers reinforced more than 350 firefighters battling the blaze along a 12-mile front around Agueda, 160 miles north of Lisbon, the capital. Two air force helicopters stood by to evacuate residents from threatened villages if needed, officials said. Several of those killed are believed to have been trapped in five firefighting vehicles that were destroyed by the fire.
About 5,000 people gathered outside the Hesse state Parliament building to demand that West Germany shut down its nuclear power plants. About 70% of Hesse’s energy needs are met by nuclear power, while a third of the nation’s energy comes from nuclear plants. In another demonstration, 11 West Germans staged a sit-down protest on the Communist East German border, denouncing nuclear power facilities in both East and West Germany. East German border guards took no action.
The International Whaling Commission’s annual meeting has failed to agree on a worldwide ban on commercial whale hunting but set some rules to restrain scientific whaling. The 41-nation commission, ending a weeklong conference in Malmo, Sweden, was divided between countries favoring conservation-led by the United States-and those undertaking whaling-led by Norway. In a move to limit Iceland’s commercial whaling profits, the commission adopted a resolution calling for whale products culled for scientific purposes to be consumed “primarily” locally. Iceland uses a scientific permit to hunt the protected Minke whale.
At the height of Kurt Waldheim’s campaign for the Austrian presidency, a vandal scratched a tiny swastika into the lower left-hand corner of the official portrait that hangs in the lobby of the Secretariat Building. When an attempt to restore the painting failed, the United Nations turned off the light over the portrait. United Nations guides do not point out the swastika when they pass the portraits of the former Secretaries General on their official tours. But the swastika, like the questions about Mr. Waldheim’s record in the decade he served the United Nations as Secretary General, will not go away, despite his election as President of Austria.
Vandals invaded a yeshiva, or Jewish seminary, in Tel Aviv, ripping apart sacred Torah scrolls and prayer books in one of the worst outbreaks of anti-religious violence in years, Israel radio reported. The attack on the Hidushai Harin Yeshiva followed an attempt last week to set a Tel Aviv synagogue afire in apparent retaliation for the burning by ultra-Orthodox Jews of bus shelters displaying advertisements of women in revealing swimsuits. Those who entered the yeshiva daubed its walls with such slogans as “Down With the Orthodox” and “Khomeiniism,” the broadcast added.
Nabih Berri, leader of Amal, Lebanon’s principal Shia Muslim militia, and representatives of six Syrian-backed guerrilla factions proclaimed another cease-fire in an attempt to halt 27 days of fighting for control of three Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut. Clashes at the camps killed seven people and wounded 55, bringing the total to at least 127 dead and 613 wounded since last month. At Mashgara, 25 miles to the southeast, pro-Syrian militiamen seized most of the town in house-to-house battles with Shia zealots that left nine people dead and 37 wounded.
John Cardinal O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, who is on a three-day visit to Lebanon, said today that he was hopeful there would soon be a breakthrough in the case of the American hostages believed held by Islamic extremists. The Cardinal spoke to reporters after meeting with President Amin Gemayel. He said he would call on the country’s political and religious leaders to convey to the hostages a message of support, prayers, admiration and love. According to local radio stations, the Cardinal will visit Damascus for talks with Syrian officials. News of the trip generated speculation here that part of his mission is to gain freedom for the five American citizens believed held captive in Lebanon for a year or more.
Two months after American bombers raided Libya, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi is still badly shaken, but apparently in control, according to diplomats and other sources here. The shattering impact of the raid, however, coupled with growing shortages of food and other mounting economic problems, have put Colonel Qaddafi in the most difficult position since his band of young army officers, inspired by Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt, seized power 17 years ago, the sources said. “There is a lot of discontent and a lot of fear,” said a diplomat from a third-world country. “But he is still in charge through his revolutionary guards and his close associates within the regime.” Colonel Qaddafi has rarely been seen in public since the raid, diplomats here said, and he is believed to be spending much of his time at Sebha, a desert oasis where, in times of stress, he has often returned to his Bedouin roots. In the latest example of the colonel’s often erratic behavior, on Wednesday he failed to make what had been promised as a major speech at a rally celebrating the anniversary of the departure in 1970 of American personnel from Wheelus Air Base. The anniversary is a major holiday in Libya’s revolutionary calendar.
The United States and Saudi Arabia have quietly concluded agreements to clear the way for the Saudis to take possession later this month of the first of five Awacs radar planes, Administration officials said today. The officials said President Reagan would send to Congress next week a written certification — required by Congress as a condition for delivery of the planes — of five categories of agreements with the Saudis. These accords, reached in recent months, are intended to insure that the highly sophisticated equipment and intelligence information gathered by the Airborne Warning and Control System planes will not fall into hostile hands and will not be used against Israel. To fulfill another pledge made to Congress when the planes were sold to the Saudis in 1981, Mr. Reagan will state that the transfer of the planes “enhances the atmosphere and prospects for progress toward peace” and that the Saudis have provided “substantial assistance” to the peace effort in the Middle East.
A Greek tanker in the Persian Gulf was hit by two missiles fired from a helicopter, Athens radio said. The 38,860-ton tanker, which was not named, was off Dubai when the unidentified copter struck. According to the Greek Merchant Marine Ministry, none of the 23 crew members were hurt, nor was the ship set afire. Meanwhile, in the air war between Iran and Iraq, an Iraqi spokesman said two Iranian F-5s were shot down by an Iraqi jet in a dogfight.
Officials from seven South Asian countries ended a three-day meeting here today by agreeing to cooperate more closely to combat terrorism in the region. A spokesman for Bangladesh, Abdul Hameed Chowdhury, said participants at the conference called for concerted action to combat the threat. The closed-door meeting was attended by officials from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. An official said the delegates discussed greater cooperation among members’ security agencies, including sharing of expertise and intelligence, and the need for extradition treaties.
Vietnam turned over more information on 21 Americans listed as missing in action during the Vietnam War and promised to investigate reports that some U.S. soldiers there are still alive, an American official said. A four-man U.S. negotiating team, from the Hawaii-based U.S. Joint Casualty Resolution Center, returned to Bangkok, Thailand, from Hanoi, and the team leader, Lieutenant Colonel Joe Harvey, said Vietnam provided “additional information on the status of its investigation” into the cases of 21 American MIAs. The 21 are among 70 cases Hanoi previously said it was looking into. The Vietnamese suspended the talks after the April 15 U.S. bombing raid on Libya, but negotiations resumed Wednesday.
A new and virulent anti-Americanism, endorsed by a small but fervent minority of South Koreans, is finding expression in threats directed at Americans here. Diplomats, Government officials and opposition politicians say they believe most Koreans still regard the United States with gratitude and friendship, a view borne out by contacts with ordinary Koreans. But they say antagonism to the United States is growing, fed by a mixture of economic tensions, pride in South Korea’s accomplishments and a belief that the United States is too close to the Government of President Chun Doo Hwan. For protesting students and workers, the United States is a symbol of foreign interference in Korean history. They say they believe the American presence resulted in Korea’s division after World War II and prevents the nation from being reunited now. They view the United States as an imperialist power that has supported repressive governments around the world and in their own country.
After winning enormous popularity for his efforts to lift Peru out of a prolonged economic and social crisis, President Alan Garcia is now facing mounting public frustration over his Government’s failure to deal with terrorist and criminal violence. Alarm over rising violence has already spread a mood of insecurity throughout this city, forcing the Government to extend until August both a state of emergency and a 1-A.M.-to-5-A.M. curfew declared in Lima and the adjacent port of Callao four months ago. No less ominously, a wave of bombings, assassinations and acts of sabotage attributed to leftist extremists is feeding tensions between the 10-month-old Garcia Government and senior military commanders who want a freer hand in dealing with terrorism. In recent weeks, the heads of the armed services have urged legalization of the death penalty for certain crimes, and the War Minister, Gen. Jorge Flores Torres, has speculated that the state of emergency might be extended to the entire country, a move that would give the armed forces full responsibility for fighting extremists.
A powerful car bomb exploded outside a crowded restaurant in South Africa’s southern port of Durban tonight, killing at least two white women, wounding 15 other people and damaging hotels, apartments and 50 cars parked nearby, the police said. Some reports said four people were killed in the incident, which came three days after a nationwide state of emergency was imposed in South Africa. No group took immediate responsibility for the blast, but political commentators said the authorities would probably blame it on the African National Congress, the most prominent of the exiled and outlawed guerrilla movements seeking to overthrow white minority rule. The explosion — the first in Durban since last year — seemed certain to be seen as a response by the Government’s adversaries to the state of emergency, which bans political gatherings and gives the police wide search and arrest powers. The decree is intended to silence dissent before Monday, the 10th anniversary of uprisings in the black township of Soweto, and the most emotive day in the long history of black resistance.
Young whites in South Africa are being presented with a quandary by the country’s deep-rooted protest: to serve, or not to serve, in the nation’s armed forces in a conflict that represents a first, sustained exposure to life in the nation’s black townships. Despite general acceptance of the sense of duty, one anti-conscription campaigner says some young white men are facing a “crisis of conscience.”
President Reagan, borne by a strong wave of consumer optimism, received a 68% approval rating in the latest Gallup Poll. Only 23% disapproved of his performance and 9% were undecided, the survey found. The President’s current rating is the highest recorded during his tenure, matching the score he received five years ago during the “honeymoon” period of his first year in office. The rating also breaks historical precedent: Each of Reagan’s four postwar predecessors who won reelection or was elected to his own term after non-elective presidential service saw his popularity erode sharply as his tenure progressed.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on Flag Day and Father’s Day.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Rio Bravo.”
From all over Manhattan — Harlem and East Harlem, Chelsea and Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and the Upper West Side — thousands of New Yorkers in two columns, from north and south, streamed together yesterday onto the Great Lawn of Central Park to chant their opposition to apartheid. There were young and old, black and white, some blind, some in wheelchairs. There was a contingent from New Jersey and a sprinkling from other states. Estimates by the police placed the crowd at 35,000, but organizers said 90,000 attended. Tuz Mende, 74 years old, said she had planned her trip from San Francisco so she could be a part of the demonstration. Sounding a theme echoed by many at the rally, Mrs. Mende said her presence was a statement not just to the Government of South Africa, but to the United States Government as well. “The policy of the Reagan Administration is very deceptive,” she said. “It does not fully condemn the policies of South Africa. Any decent-thinking person knows that pressure has to be put on the American Government, on businesses and universities that do business with South Africa.”
Members of the National Organization for Women, holding an annual convention in Denver this weekend, marched through the streets today in support of legal abortion. The crowd was awash in purple and white, the colors of the women’s suffrage movement. They wore banners that read “March for Women’s Lives,” and such buttons as “Another Mother for Choice” and “I’m Pro-Choice and I Vote.” Led by the president of NOW, Eleanor Smeal, the group rallied at the State Capitol, not far from where the anti-abortion National Right to Life Committee was holding its annual convention. That group had its own Capitol rally earlier this week.
About 200 white-coated doctors from more than a dozen states held a “Code Blue” rally on the Capitol steps in Washington, urging Congress to save lives by cutting off money for nuclear weapons testing. “Code Blue means human life is at risk and immediate intervention is necessary,” said Dr. Jack Geiger, a New York internist who recently returned from the Soviet Union, where he saw victims of severe radiation burns from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. A nuclear war would be “Chernobyl magnified not a million times but a hundred million times,” Geiger said at the rally.
Congressional leaders said yesterday that they would “harden” their investigation of the space agency after new disclosures that its top officials apparently failed to act on repeated warnings of life-threatening trouble with the shuttle booster rockets. In hearings scheduled to begin Tuesday, the House Committee on Science and Technology is expected to question officials of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration on why they did not halt shuttle flights in early 1985, or even sooner, when they received warnings of the rocket erosion problems that eventually caused the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, killing seven astronauts. On Friday, NASA released a videotape that showed Lawrence B. Mulloy, chief of the booster rocket program at the Marshall Space Center, briefing agency officials on problems with the O rings that seal separate segments of the rockets. Mr. Mulloy, however, concluded that the erosion “represents an acceptable risk.” Representative James H. Scheuer, Democrat of Queens, said the videotape “is going to harden our determination to find out what NASA officials knew and when they knew it.”
An arson fire caused more than $100,000 damage to an abortion clinic in Manchester, Missouri, that has been the site of protests by abortion opponents for more than a year, authorities said. The early morning blaze at Reproductive Health Services West damaged the entrance and waiting room of the clinic. No one was injured. Judith Widdicombe, the director of the clinic, said she believed the fire was set by someone associated with anti-abortion groups, but Barbara Hackett of the Missouri Citizens for Life said her group had nothing to do with the fire.
Illinois Democratic leaders used a technicality to bar lieutenant governor nominee and Lyndon LaRouche supporter Mark Fairchild from entering the party’s convention at Springfield. State Sen. Patrick Welch turned away Fairchild and about 10 other LaRouche supporters from the convention hall door because they did not have proper credentials, although a judge had ruled that the LaRouche candidates could attend the convention because it was a public event. Welch said Fairchild could watch the convention on closed-circuit television from tents outside the hall set up for overflow crowds.
When 4,000 labor leaders gathered in union halls across the country today for a conference conducted by satellite and television, one of the issues they discussed was how to aid unionists on strike against the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The fact that the labor leaders were discussing the matter on A.T.&T facilities did not go unnoticed. Morton Bahr, president of the striking union, the Communications Workers of America, said in an interview that Lane Kirkland, president of the 13.1-million-member A.F.L.-C.I.O., had offered to cancel the organization’s first “union meeting of the air” as a gesture of solidarity.
About 200 friends and relatives attended services for James Goins, 26, an Army sergeant who died June 7 of wounds suffered in the April 5 terrorist bombing of a West Berlin discotheque. An eight-member color guard from Ft. Bragg followed Goins’ flag-draped coffin into the St. Lukes Free Will Baptist Church in Ellerbe, North Carolina, where the services were conducted. He will be buried Tuesday at Arlington National Cemetery in Washington. Another American soldier and a Turkish woman were killed during the attack that injured 230, including 64 Americans.
It is the stuff of soap operas, but it raises difficult moral questions that affect the most helpless of patients: newborns. The issues all center on what factors determine who gets the few hearts available for transplant. The young, unwed parents beg Loma Linda University Medical Center to perform a heart transplant on their desperately ill son. The hospital turns them down, apparently because they are not married. Then it reconsiders, but only after the parents agree to sign over custody of their 3-week-old infant to his paternal grandparents. They fly to New York to make a public plea for a heart on the Phil Donahue talk show. Midway in the program last Tuesday, a telephone call comes from Butterworth Hospital in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “We are donating a heart to the baby in Loma Linda, California,” says Gera Witte, a spokesman for the hospital.
In a major shift of thinking, many black leaders are openly debating whether black Americans should rely more on their own initiative and efforts in solving critical problems long attributed to racism. For years blacks and their allies supported aid programs that benefited the poor and members of minorities as an effective mechanism to reverse years of discrimination. Cautious about taking positions that would undermine those programs, they often muted discussion of the degree to which blacks had to assume responsibility for some of their own problems. But gradually, although there has been scant public notice, questions are being raised about whether to put more emphasis on self-reliance and less on governmental, administrative or legislative measures. Two years ago representatives of 100 black organizations met in Nashville to discuss the increase in teen-age pregnancy, high unemployment, widespread illiteracy and the rising rate of violent crime.
The Montgomery County Council in Maryland has voted to establish a program of insurance for catastrophes for residents. The insurance, which will cost the policyholder about $35 to $50 a year, is to protect residents and county workers from losses that accompany a major illness or accident, William Hanna, president of the Council, said Friday. Mr. Hanna, who sponsored the legislation, said doctor’s bills that follow unforeseen hospitalization are often not covered by other health insurance, and the bills often drive people into bankruptcy.
A 150-bed hospital in Houston is about to be converted into what officials say will be the nation’s first hospital devoted solely to AIDS patient care and research. Under an agreement between American Medical International Inc., a commercial hospital chain, and the University of Texas System, the 10-year-old Citizens General Hospital is expected to be converted into an AIDS facility this summer. Details of the agreement were made public Thursday. Officials at the University of Texas have hailed the new project, to be called the Institute for Immunological Disorders, as “a major medical project that is desperately needed.”
A 32-year-old man who was given a Jarvik-7 artificial heart after his doctors decided they could not wait any longer for a human heart was listed in critical but stable condition today. The heart patient, Edmund McDermott of Scranton, Pennsylvania underwent the five-hour operation Friday, a Pittsburgh hospital spokesman said. Mr. McDermott, who had been waiting for a human donor since May 30, suffered from cardiomyopathy.
The Texas National Guard couldn’t do it in 25 tries, but a husky Mississippi National Guard helicopter came to the rescue and set the 3,000-pound Goddess of Liberty statue on top of the Texas Capitol. A crowd estimated by Austin police at 6,000 cheered as a “Sky Crane” helicopter flown in from Mississippi eased the new aluminum statue onto its 300-foot-high perch on a pole atop the Capitol dome. The new statue is a copy of the weather-beaten zinc original, which had become a safety hazard. After the mission, the four Mississippi crew members were given Texas Sesquicentennial medals and a heroes’ welcome, and were made honorary Texans.
Jorge Luis Borges died in Geneva at the age of 86. The Argentine short-story writer, poet and essayist was considered one of Latin America’s greatest writers, although he was almost unknown outside his native land before 1961. Mr. Borges died of liver cancer, the executor of his estate, Osvaldo Luis Vidaurre, said in Buenos Aires. While almost unknown outside Argentina before 1961, his stories, punctilious in their language and mysterious in their opaque parodoxes, later attained a modest following in the United States, a following that grew steadily to international proportions. His writings explored the crannies of the human psyche, the fantastic within the apparently mundane, imaginary bestiaries and fables of obscure libraries and arcane scholarship.
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The Cincinnati Reds edged the Atlanta Braves, 2–1. Cincinnati’s Eric Davis led off the ninth inning with a single and eventually scored on an error by the third baseman Rafael Ramirez, giving the Reds the victory. Davis’s hit came off Paul Assenmacher (2–2), the Braves’ fourth pitcher. After going to second on Buddy Bell’s sacrifice, Davis stole his 17th base of the season and scored when the catcher Ozzie Virgil’s throw bounced off Ramirez’s glove, 15 feet behind third base.
Dennis Rasmussen, following a first-inning mound lecture from Manager Lou Piniella, today became the latest starter to perform effectively as the Yankees trimmed Baltimore, 4–2. The outcome gave the Yankees victories in each of the first three games of the four-game series. Last weekend in New York, the Orioles swept a three-game series from the Yankees. Rasmussen, allowing two runs in the first inning but none in the next six innings that he pitched, gained his sixth victory. His fine effort followed one the night before by Bob Tewksbury, who returned from a 15-day hiatus in the bullpen and permitted the Orioles one run in six innings. The Yankees scored all of their runs on home runs. Dave Winfield hit a two-run home run against Scott McGregor in the first inning, Rickey Henderson broke a 2–2 tie with a home run against McGregor in the seventh, and Mike Easler connected against Nate Snell in the eighth.
The Brewers blanked the Red Sox, 2–0. Tim Leary and Dan Plesac combined for an eight-hitter, including two bunt singles, in leading Milwaukee. The victory was the second in a week for Leary (5–5) against the first-place Red Sox. Rob Deer drove in a run with a sacrifice fly in the second inning and Jim Gantner singled home a run in the seventh, enabling Leary to beat Mike Brown (4–3). Plesac relieved Leary with one out and runners on first and second in the eighth. He walked Barrett to fill the bases, but struck out Wade Boggs, the American League’s leading hitter, and retired Bill Buckner on a grounder, ending the threat. Plesac allowed one hit in one and two-thirds innings in earning his fifth save of the season.
Don Sutton failed in his first try to win his 300th game today, but an eighth-inning home run by Doug DeCinces lifted the California Angels to a 6–5 victory over the Kansas City Royals. DeCinces drove the first pitch of the inning from the reliever Bud Black (3–4) over the left-center field fence for his eighth homer of the season. Sutton was replaced by Terry Forster with one out in the seventh inning with the Angels leading, 5–4, and the Royals threatening with runners on first and second. Sutton allowed five runs and seven hits, striking out six and walking three. In the seventh, the 21-year veteran right-hander retired the first batter. But he then walked Willie Wilson, hit Lonnie Smith with a pitch, and had fallen behind, 2–0, to Rudy Law when Forster was brought in. Law, on the third pitch thrown by Forster, singled home Wilson to tie the game, 5–5. Doug Corbett (1–1) pitched two scoreless innings in relief to earn the victory. Dennis Leonard, the Kansas City starter, struck out 10 batters, a season high for him, in six innings.
Gene Michael, who was making his debut as manager with the Chicago Cubs today, was greeted with a 1–0 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals and an ejection. The Cardinals won on Tommy Herr’s second-inning home run. Michael, for 17 years a member of the Yankee organization, was hired by the Cubs Friday to replace Jim Frey, who was dismissed. Michael was ejected along with his starting pitcher, Scott Sanderson, in the seventh inning after a brushback incident. “It’s a tough league when you get thrown out your first day,” said Michael, whose last National League experience was as a player in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 1968. In the bottom of the sixth inning today, the St. Louis starter Ray Burris sent the Chicago catcher Jody Davis onto his back with a high and inside delivery. Eric Gregg, the home-plate umpire took no action. In the top of the seventh, Sanderson had an 0–2 count on Terry Pendleton and threw a high inside fastball. Gregg immediately stepped from behind the plate and ejected both Sanderson and Michael. Gregg said after the game he thought Sanderson’s pitch was intentional and Burris’s was not.
The Twins downed the Cleveland Indians, 9–3. Greg Gagne’s two-run double snapped an eighth-inning tie for the Twins. Gary Gaetti opened the inning against Neal Heaton (3–6) with a line drive toward the warning track in left field. Mel Hall appeared to catch the ball but then dropped it, allowing Gaetti to reach second on the two-base error. Heaton then struck out Tim Laudner and intentionally walked Mickey Hatcher before Scott Bailes came on to retire Billy Beane on a ground ball. Gagne then lined his game-winning double inside the left-field line and the Twins extended their lead to 6–3 when Kirby Puckett singled home Gagne. The Twins added three insurance runs in the ninth on a three-run double by Laudner. Keith Atherton (4–3) gained the victory in relief of Mark Portugal with three scoreless innings of relief. The loss snapped Cleveland’s five-game winning streak and the Twins ended a three-game losing streak.
Phil Garner connects on a grand slam in the 7th as Houston beats the visiting Giants, 7–3. It was Garner’s 100th career home run. Billy Hatcher singled and Jose Cruz and Kevin Bass drew walks from Greg Minton before Garner greeted Jeff Robinson with his third career grand slam. The Houston starter, Jim Deshaies (3–2), pitched five innings and gave up two runs on five hits. Aurelio Lopez worked the final three innings for his second save. Terry Mulholland (0–1) took the loss, allowing three runs in four innings. Houston took a 3–0 lead in the first. Hatcher and Cruz singled with one out and scored on a two-out triple by Glenn Davis. Mulholland then walked Garner, Mark Bailey and Bert Pena, forcing home a run. Chris Brown hit a solo home run, his fifth, in the fourth inning and the Giants added a run in the sixth on singles by Candy Maldonado, Bob Brenly and Brown. Bob Melvin added an RBI single in the ninth for the Giants.
Sid Fernandez, who is quietly becoming one of the dominant pitchers in baseball, did it again yesterday: He pitched a three-hitter for a 5–1 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates that continued the Mets’ rousing start. The Mets also got the benefit of one big fat inning that turned into one big fat disaster for the Pirates’ defense. When it was over, the Mets had five runs, the Pirates had red faces and the hottest team in the big leagues was far along the road to more of the good times. Fernandez pitched to 30 batters, and only four reached base. He walked the leadoff man in the game, Barry Bonds, but nobody else. He was nicked for a single by the second batter, Rafael Belliard. He gave up a run on a sacrifice fly by the third batter, Mike Brown. But after that, he retired 16 straight before Bonds singled in the sixth, and Bonds was knocked off in a double play. Then Sammy Khalifa doubled with two down in the eighth, and that was it. Fernandez struck out eight, and completed a game for the first time in 12 starts this season. The Mets sent 10 men to the plate in the fifth while the Pirates obliged with walks, errors and late throws. Even on a broken play, a delayed double steal, the Pirates made three throws and got nobody out. The Pirates were leading by 1–0 when the game came apart for Mike Bielecki in the fifth.
The Rangers bowed to the Oakland A’s, 3–2. Eric Plunk allowed only three hits in seven and two-thirds innings for his first major league victory, helping Oakland break a nine-game losing streak. Plunk (1–2) struck out 10 and walked five. He left the game in the eighth when Texas scored twice against him and Bill Mooneyham. Steve Ontiveros got the final four outs for his fourth save. Plunk and the Oakland relievers combined on a five-hitter. The A’s managed only three hits off Ed Correa (4–4) and the relievers Mickey Mahler and Dale Mohorcic.
The Phillies edged the Expos, 7–6. Darren Daulton rapped three hits, including a tiebreaking single in a three-run sixth inning that carried Philadelphia past With the score tied, 4–4, Glenn Wilson led off the sixth with a double that extended his hitting streak to 13 games. Daulton followed with his third single of the game, scoring Wilson. One out later, the pinch-hitter Jeff Stone singled before Greg Gross and Ron Roenicke delivered run-scoring singles. Randy Lerch, who recorded the final out of the sixth inning, evened his record at 1–1 with his first major league victory since 1984.
The San Diego Padres crushed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 12–0. Graig Nettles hit a three-run homer, Kevin McReynolds hit a two-run shot and Tony Gwynn drove in three runs with a pair of doubles and a triple as San Diego snapped the Dodgers’ four-game winning streak. Eric Show, 4–4, pitched seven innings of three-hit ball for his first victory since May 20.
The Seattle Mariners defeated the Chicago White Sox, 7–3. Ken Phelps hit a three-run homer, highlighting a five-run fourth inning against Chicago’s Tom Seaver. The Mariners rapped seven hits in the fourth off Seaver, 2–5, who has lost three straight decisions and has not won since April 25. Seaver gave up nine hits in seven innings and walked four. Alvin Davis led off the fourth with a single and Danny Tartabull doubled. Phelps then connected for his 10th homer of the season in just 83 at-bats.
The Blue Jays use the long ball to down the Tigers, 6–5. Rick Leach hits a 2-run pinch homer in the 7th to bring the Jays to a 5–3 deficit. Cliff Johnson and the pinch-hitter Buck Martinez hit consecutive home runs off the reliever Willie Hernandez in the bottom of the ninth in the Toronto victory. Hernandez (2–3) relieved the Detroit starter Jack Morris after Jesse Barfield led off the ninth with an infield single. On Hernandez’s second pitch, Johnson hit his ninth homer of the year off the left-field foul pole to tie the game. It was Johnson’s second home run in two games off Hernandez. Three pitches later, Martinez, batting for the catcher Ernie Whitt, hit a home run to left, his first since June 6, 1985. Tom Henke (5–3) pitched one and one-third perfect innings to gain the victory, relieving Mark Eichhorn after Eichhorn was spiked in the eighth inning. The two pinch homers ties a Major League record.
Cincinnati Reds 2, Atlanta Braves 1
New York Yankees 4, Baltimore Orioles 2
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Boston Red Sox 0
Kansas City Royals 5, California Angels 6
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Chicago Cubs 0
Minnesota Twins 9, Cleveland Indians 3
San Francisco Giants 3, Houston Astros 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, New York Mets 5
Texas Rangers 2, Oakland Athletics 3
Montreal Expos 6, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, San Diego Padres 12
Chicago White Sox 3, Seattle Mariners 7
Detroit Tigers 5, Toronto Blue Jays 6
Born:
John Jerry, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, New York Giants, Cincinnati Bengals), in Memphis, Tennessee.
Matt Read, Canadian NHL right wing (Philadelphia Flyers, Minnesota Wild), in Ilderton, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
Marlin Perkins, 81, TV host (“Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom”).
Alan Jay Lerner, 67, American Tony and Academy Award-winning lyricist (with Frederick Loewe — “My Fair Lady”; “Gigi”; “Camelot”), and screenwriter, of lung cancer.
Jorge Luis Borges, 86, Argentine short-story writer of fiction (“Ficciones”; “El Aleph”; “The Book of Sand”), essayist, and poet, of liver cancer.
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