President Reagan sent a message to Mikhail S. Gorbachev two weeks ago calling on the Soviet leader to reschedule a meeting between the two countries’ Foreign Ministers to work out arrangements for a summit meeting this year, a high-level Administration official said Saturday night. The official said there had been no response from the Russians to the message, which was delivered to the Kremlin by Arthur H. Hartman, the American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, who returned to Moscow earlier this month after extended consultations in Washington. Mr. Reagan, returning today from a weekend at Camp David, Md., declined to give details of his proposal to Mr. Gorbachev. As he entered the White House, Mr. Reagan said of his message to the Soviet leader, “We just correspond — private correspondence.”
The director and chief engineer of the Chernobyl atomic power station have been dismissed for mishandling the disaster at the plant in April, and other top officials have been accused of failings ranging from negligence to desertion, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported today. Other top employees, including heads of shifts and senior technicians, are still absent from work after fleeing from Pripyat, the town where the plant is situated, the newspaper said. The report gave few details of the specific accusations against the top executives. But it was the strongest suggestion to date of extensive confusion and negligence after the explosion that ruptured the Unit 4 reactor at the Chernobyl plant in the early hours of April 26, releasing a cloud of radioactive materials. Twenty-six people have died as a result of the disaster at the plant, near the Ukrainian-Byelorussian border. Pravda said the dismissed director of the power station, identified as V. Bryukhanov, and the chief engineer, N. Fomin, failed “to insure correct and firm leadership in the difficult conditions of the accident and displayed irresponsibility and inability to organize.” “They were unable to give an assessment of what had happened and to take cardinal measures to organize effective work of all the departments in the liquidation of the consequences of the accident.” Pravda further reported that one plant deputy director, R. Solovyev, fled from his post “at the most difficult moment,” and that two other deputy directors, I. Tsarenko and V. Gundar, “did not fulfill their official duties with proper responsibility and did little to ease the living and working conditions of people working at the station.”
A bomb was found under the stage when Felipe Gonzalez campaigned in the Spanish Basque capital of Vitoria four years ago. A political protest of another sort was found when the Prime Minister returned to campaign Saturday night. Many polls are indicating that Mr. Gonzalez’s Socialist Party could lose its absolute parliamentary majority in elections scheduled for next Sunday; in such a case, Mr. Gonzalez has said, the Socialists would seek to govern as a minority party. Campaign aides say one reason is that discontent in the Basque country and other highly independent regions has turned into a likely political setback.
Protestant youths rampaged through a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast, Northern Ireland early today, prompting fights with the police. Four officers and one civilian were wounded, the police said, and twelve rioters were arrested. About 50 youths threw stones and bottles at policemen and smashed windows of Catholic homes and stores after a Protestant parade through Balleymena, 33 miles northwest of Belfast, the police said. Protestant parades are a feature of summer weekends in Northern Ireland, and usually pass through Catholic areas to demonstrate Protestant supremacy in the British-ruled province.
The two parties that make up Chancellor Helmut Kohl’s center-right coalition in Bonn won a slender victory today in a state election in Lower Saxony that was seen as an important barometer of national trends. While Mr. Kohl’s Christian Democratic Party did poorly in the northern state, its losses were partly compensated by the performance of its ally, the small Free Democratic Party. The Christian Democrats’ setbacks did not appear great enough to provoke a rebellion in the party to dislodge Mr. Kohl from the chancellorship before national elections in January. “We will continue our politics of the middle, of reason,” said a confident-looking Mr. Kohl tonight, predicting that he would lead his coalition to victory in seven months.
Bitter conflict among Israel’s Jews deepened, as anti-Orthodox vandals smeared swastikas on a Tel Aviv synagogue. The conflict between Orthodox militants and secular Jews lulled over the Shavuoth holiday weekend, but erupted anew when vandals scrawled on a yeshiva’s walls “Down with religious coercion,” and “This is the last warning.” The dispute in Israel between religious and secular Jews intensified, with vandals painting death threats and defacing town maps in a Tel Aviv suburb that does not follow Orthodox Sabbath practices. Slogans painted on the walls of the Petah Tikva town hall east of Tel Aviv read “Death to Dov Tavori.” He is the mayor who angered the ultra-Orthodox by allowing movies to be shown Friday nights. The death threats followed a week of violence in the dispute centered on objections by ultra-religious Jews to an advertising campaign featuring models in skimpy bathing suits.
Syrian troops moved into a town in southeastern Lebanon today in an effort to end factional fighting there, and in so doing moved closer to the border with Israel. A force of about 150 paratroopers using half-track armored cars rolled into Meshghara at dawn and took up positions between pro-Syrian and Iranian-backed militiamen who had been engaged in four days of bitter clashes. They were backed by regular soldiers of the First Brigade of the Lebanese Army, according to witnesses in the area who were quoted by local radio stations. The police said Syria’s move was of a peacekeeping nature and was not expected to provoke military friction with Israel.
Iranian opposition leader Massoud Rajavi conferred with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and received support for his movement, the official Iraq News Agency reported from Baghdad. Rajavi and the top aides of his Mujahedeen group arrived in Iraq earlier this month after leaving their Paris exile base, reportedly under French pressure. Diplomats have speculated that Rajavi will try to set up a government opposed to the Tehran regime on Iranian territory occupied by Iraq in the Persian Gulf War.
Gunmen suspected of being Tamil separatists raided a village today in northeastern Sri Lanka and killed 12 local militiamen, residents said. The militiamen, or home guards, were Moslems who had been given guns by the Sri Lankan Government to protect the village of Muttur, 12 miles south of the city of Trincomalee. The government reimposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew today on the Trincomalee district, the state-run Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation reported. For the last two weeks, the district has been the scene of attacks by Tamil separatist groups and reprisal raids by the army or the home guards. The Government also imposed a curfew on the northern Kilinochchi district where Tamils have attacked an army camp for more than a week, the state radio reported. The camp is just south of the Jaffna peninsula where Tamils are in the majority and where separatists want to create an independent state.
Vietnam said that its investigation of 21 cases of Americans missing in action 13 years after U.S. troops withdrew from Indochina indicated that the remains of 10 of the servicemen can “probably” be recovered. The official Vietnam News Agency added that no confirmation exists in the 11 other cases. It said this view was expressed to a U.S. delegation in Hanoi last week.
Chinese intellectuals who associate the “Hundred Flowers” campaign of 1956 with the Communist Party’s most notorious betrayal of the principle of intellectual freedom have been faced with a new version of the campaign in the past few weeks. The new version comes complete with the slogan that continues to chill many of those who were punished for speaking out 30 years ago. The slogan, “Let a hundred flowers blossom, let a hundred schools of thought contend,” is firmly associated with Mao Zedong, who used it in a series of speeches in early 1956 to start what was ostensibly to be a broadening of intellectual debate. When this prompted an outpouring of criticism from the intelligentsia, some of it directed against Communist rule, Mao responded with a campaign the following year that sent thousands of people to labor camps.
A Philippine Communist leader said that peace talks with the government will include demands that government troops in rebel territory stay in their barracks during a cease-fire, a condition already rejected by President Corazon Aquino. In the first comment on the substance of truce talks since Aquino announced that they would begin soon, Antonio Zumel, chairman of the National Democratic Front, the outlawed party’s political wing, told the Manila Chronicle that the Communists will also demand that paramilitary forces and private armies be disbanded.
A Canadian military plane crashed in the mountains of western Alberta, killing all eight aboard, officials reported. The twin-engine De Havilland Twin Otter, with three military fliers and five civilians aboard, crashed about 40 miles west of Calgary while searching for a light plane missing with two aboard since June 6. On the day that plane disappeared, a single-engine aircraft searching for it crashed into Mt. Lougheed, near the British Columbia border, killing the three people aboard.
Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas, the leader of El Salvador’s Roman Catholic Church, said that at least four human rights workers, detained for alleged links to the left, were tortured into signing confessions. Rivera y Damas criticized the treatment of the detainees, members of the non-governmental Human Rights Commission and the Committee of Mothers of the Disappeared and Political Prisoners. The four were accused by police of being rebels who had infiltrated the two organizations.
A protracted guerrilla war in Nicaragua would work to the advantage of the Sandinista Government, according to five combat field commanders of the anti-Government insurgent forces. The officers for the Nicaraguan rebels, known as contras, said in an interview during a visit to Washington last week that they did not believe time would work for them, as it has sometimes worked for Communist and left-wing guerrilla forces in other conflicts. The officers, who said they were regional commanders for areas within Nicaragua, said that in a long war the nine-member Sandinista ruling directorate would be able to suppress civilian opposition on which the guerrillas depend. A Four-Day Visit The guerrilla officers were making a four-day visit to Washington as the guests of Prodemca, which describes itself as a nonprofit, nonpartisan private organization that supports democracy in Central America.
Formal U.S. policy on Panama will be defined in a message to be delivered to the Government in Panama by the United States Ambassador today, according to an American Embassy spokesman, The formal policy statement is seen as a key element in the growing Panamanian political crisis set off by charges that the head of the Panamanian Army is a drug dealer, money launderer and occasional spy for Cuba.
More than 5,000 residents of Murillo, Colombia, ignored a government order to leave their homes despite warnings that the nearby Nevado de Ruiz volcano could soon erupt again. Only about 50 obeyed the order, townspeople said. The volcano has been spewing ash over the area with increasing frequency in recent days. Last November, an eruption set off a huge mud slide that roared down a canyon and buried the nearby town of Armero, killing 23,000 people.
The Falkland Islands celebrated the fourth anniversary today of the defeat of occupying Argentine forces by British troops. There was a thanksgiving service and parties throughout the South Atlantic colony. Governor Gordon Jewkes, the British Government official responsible for administering the islands, joined military officials in laying wreaths at a war cemetery in San Carlos, where British troops landed in May 1982 to counter the invasion by Argentine forces. Air Vice Marshal Kip Kemball, commander of British forces in the Falklands, said in an address that today “the task of the British forces is to protect the integrity of the islands and insure their own future is a peaceful one.” Argentina, which claims the islands, occupied the colony on April 2, 1982. Its troops were beaten by British forces two months later.
South African authorities reported unabated bloodshed today as the nation braced for the 10th anniversary on Monday of the Soweto uprising. A Government spokesman in Pretoria said seven more people had been killed overnight in the nation’s segregated black townships. This brings to 19 the number slain in township violence since a nationwide state of emergency was declared on Thursday. In addition, the toll in a car-bomb explosion in the Indian Ocean port city of Durban rose to three today with the death of a woman of Indian descent. Two white women were confirmed dead and more than 60 other people, many of them whites, were wounded in the bombing Saturday night, one of the biggest since a car-bomb explosion killed 19 people in Pretoria in May 1983. Louis Nel, Deputy Minister of Information, said the bombing “was a ghastly attack of terrorism of the worst kind.” He added: “It was an act of desperation by cowards. This indiscriminate action was directed at innocent civilians.” Many political commentators here viewed the bombing as a response to the emergency decree by the African National Congress, the most prominent of the guerrilla groups seeking to end white rule. The Police Commissioner, General Johann Coetzee, said the explosives used were of Soviet origin and that “this indicates that the A.N.C. was probably involved.”
Senior members of the African National Congress held a clandestine meeting on Long Island this month with the leader of the Afrikaner Broederbond, a secretive South African society that includes most, if not all, of the leaders of the Pretoria Government, according to some who were present. The unusual and reportedly sometimes raucous meeting, which took place under the sponsorship of the Ford Foundation, was apparently the first time the A.N.C., the principal black group fighting apartheid, had met with members of the country’s governing elite. The conference, held June 1 in Glen Cove, included three officials of the A.N.C. and Prof. J.P. DeLange, who heads the Broederbond, a shadowy group through which Afrikaners have wielded political and economic power for decades. The Broederbond is a group of Afrikaners in the highest circles of government, education, commerce and news organizations and is closely allied with the governing National Party of President P.W. Botha.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee says he is doubtful about the effectiveness of any additional economic sanctions against the Government of South Africa. He also says he is not ready to move ahead with a bill like the one expected to be approved by the House of Representatives this week that will impose economic penalties on South Africa. The chairman, Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, said he supported the Reagan Administration’s opposition to additional sanctions. As the committee chairman, he will play a crucial role in deciding how the Republican-controlled Senate will respond to developments in South Africa and the House bill imposing economic penalties.
Kaposi’s sarcoma, the cancer that was one of the original clues to the existence of AIDS, is mysteriously declining in its prominence among patients with the deadly disease. The proportion of patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma when they were diagnosed as having acquired immune deficiency syndrome had dropped to 14 percent through April from 34 percent in 1981, when AIDS was first identified, and Federal health officials and other experts say they do not know why. One possible explanation, researchers say, is that there may be an unknown factor in addition to the AIDS virus that puts homosexual men at risk for Kaposi’s sarcoma, and that exposure to this co-factor is declining, perhaps as a result of safer sexual practices among homosexual and bisexual men. Researchers are planning new studies on Kaposi’s sarcoma and AIDS. Federal health officials and other scientists say that if they can explain the striking decline of Kaposi’s sarcoma, they might not only identify a drug or some other factor that acts in concert with the AIDS virus to cause the cancer, but also learn why some AIDS patients with Kaposi’s sarcoma seem to fare better statistically than those who do not have it.
The President and First Lady participate in a photo opportunity with Dale Rowlee, former driver for the President while he was Governor of California.
President Reagan receives a call from his daughter Maureen Reagan Revell.
When the Bell telephone system was broken up two and a half years ago, some phone industry executives, government officials and consumer advocates predicted that local rates would double or even triple, forcing telephones out of many homes. Such dire predictions have not come to pass. “They’ve increased, but not nearly as much as we expected,” said Bruce Hagen, commissioner of the North Dakota Public Service Commission and chairman of the communications committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. Gene Kimmelman, legislative director for the Consumer Federation of America, said the rise in rates had not been minimal, however. “It’s been sigificantly above inflation,” he said, but conceded that people had not dropped telephone service, as his group had projected would happen. “To be honest, we painted the worst-case scenario and it hasn’t been that bad.”
Senator Paul Laxalt and other Nevadans are suggesting that Federal District Judge Harry E. Claiborne, now in Federal prison, resign rather than face an impeachment trial in the Senate. But the judge says he will not resign. Judge Claiborne, who last month began serving a two-year term for violating Federal income tax laws, is the first sitting Federal judge in the nation’s history to be convicted of a felony, sentenced to prison and actually go to prison. The impeachment process, which seeks his forcible removal from office, started two weeks ago in the House when Representative Peter W. Rodino Jr., the Newark Democrat who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, filed an impeachment resolution. A statement of charges is being drafted in the panel’s Federal courts subcommittee. If the charges are adopted by the House, they would be sent to the Senate for trial. If the Senate provides the judge with a forum, he plans to present a long list of allegations of misconduct against Federal agents and prosecutors involved in the investigation that led to his trial and conviction.
Groups for and against abortion met over the weekend in Denver, turning the city into a vast debating hall. Each of the groups, the National Right to Life Committee and the National Organization for Women, claimed that momentum was on its side in the abortion debate. Each group was here for its annual convention and each asserted that political momentum was on its side. Dr. John C. Willke, president of the National Right to Life Committee, said there was a “tidal” movement in the country against legal abortion, despite “wishful thinking down the street.” Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organization for Women, countered, “The more attention they call to this issue, the more our numbers will just multiply.” The debate was sharpened by outside events — the Supreme Court’s 5-to-4 decision last week striking down a Pennsylvania law regulating abortion, and attacks on clinics offering abortion services in Wichita, Kansas, and in a suburb of St. Louis.
The American Medical Association opened its annual policy-making meeting in Chicago to consider such diverse issues as a complete overhaul of the Medicare system and shutting down adult book stores to stem the spread of AIDS. Also on the agenda at the five-day AMA House of Delegates meeting were proposals to discourage advertising alcohol to young people and to allow acquired immune deficiency syndrome-infected children to attend school. The group is also expected to draft a report calling for fewer medical school admissions. The 388 delegates are from state and regional medical associations.
Non-striking manufacturing workers at American Telephone & Telegraph Co. voted by a 3-1 margin to accept a new contract with an 8% wage increase over three years. The contract, however, eliminates annual cost-of-living adjustments that had been a fixture of phone workers’ labor agreements with the telecommunications giant since 1972. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers said the rank-and-file vote on ratifying the contract was 11,725 for and 3,470 against. The Communications Workers of America, which represents 155,000, or three-fourths, of AT&T’s union employees, continues in its third week of a nationwide strike.
As a result of a shootout in which two agents were killed and five were wounded, Federal Bureau of Investigation officials say they will require agents to wear bulletproof vests when they are apprehending armed suspects. William H. Webster, the F.B.I. Director, said a review of the gun battle April 11 in a Miami suburb showed that the agents could not have understood the danger when they closed in on two suspects in a robbery. The suspects, who were armed with an automatic rifle and a shotgun, were also killed in the battle.
Almost half of the federal installations handling toxic wastes were found to be violating federal hazardous waste laws when inspected. congressional investigators said in a report. An investigation carried out by the General Accounting Office found that 71% of installations examined had not been inspected by state authorities or the Environmental Protection Agency. and of those that had been checked. 46% were violating requirements of the Resources Conservation and Recovery Act. GAO investigators last year looked at the activities of 247 installations of 17 civilian agencies handling hazardous wastes in 12 states. Investigators found that 10 federal agencies had provided little or no guidance on hazardous waste disposal.
The 2,000 people in San Antonio, Texas forced to flee when a freight train derailed, exploded and dumped hazardous chemicals were back home today. Mayor Henry Cisneros said before lifting the evacuation Saturday, “If this had happened two miles in, we would have had hundreds of people killed.” Two unidentified men believed to be drifters died in the explosion and fire triggered when 32 cars of an 80-car Missouri Pacific train fell off a trestle last Sunday. The cause has not been determined. It will take a week to remove the 18 rail cars still on the site, officials said, and cleanup and rebuilding the trestle over Salado Creek will take two to three weeks more.
Forty-four years later, a teacher who was barred from attending her university graduation because of World War II restrictions against Japanese-Americans received her diploma in Eugene, Oregon. Michi Yasui Ando, 65, was the only Japanese-American in the University of Oregon class of 1942 when she earned her degree. To avoid being sent to an internment camp with the rest of her family, Ando fled Eugene in the middle of the night, just days after military officials denied her request to attend graduation. University President Paul Olum presented Ando with a copy of her 1942 diploma at the 1986 spring commencement. Ando now teaches at a Denver elementary school.
Police arrested a 25-year-old man in the strangulation death of a top campaign aide to District of Columbia Mayor Marion F. Barry Jr. Kenneth Dion Hubbard was being held after investigators “collected specific physical evidence” and told Hubbard to come to police headquarters for questioning. Deputy Chief Alfonso Gibson said Gibson said that Hubbard knew the aide, Peggy Russell Gee, 55, casually, but declined to elaborate.
Adult magazines have been removed from the shelves of more than 8,000 convenience stores around the country since the start of the year, and the magazines’ sales are suffering, distributors say. Stores have responded to pressure from a Federal commission and from boycotts by church or women’s groups.
Border towns like McAllen, Texas, are prone to the ups and downs of the Mexican economy and the peso. But McAllen is now used to it, and the town’s economy now depends less on retail sales to Mexican visitors, but still benefits from Mexicans coming over the border to spend capital in the United States. Just as the good times in Mexico brought jobs and money to this small town eight miles north of the Rio Grande, so the bad times are making some McAllen residents rich. Before the peso fell for the first time in 1982, some salespeople downtown refused to wait on local residents. “They’d elbow you aside to get to the Mexicans,” said Herbert Walker, a longtime resident. From across the border, wealthy Mexicans would stream in to buy watches, television sets, video recorders and other expensive items not easily available at home. Some Mexicans would spend thousands of dollars, filling their automobile trunks with microwave ovens and high-fidelity systems for friends and relatives.
Severe thunderstorms moved across northern Texas and the northern Plains, pelting North Dakota with marble-size hail and heavy rain. In northeast Arkansas, several rivers swollen by heavy rain overflowed their banks and caused minor flooding in adjacent agricultural lowlands, the National Weather Service said. In Kansas, forecasters warned that high humidity and temperatures in the 90s could harm livestock, especially young animals.
Amnesty International “Conspiracy of Hope” tour concludes with mega-concert at Giants Stadium in Rutherford, New Jersey; participants include: U2; Sting; Bryan Adams; Peter Gabriel; Lou Reed; Neville Brothers; Joan Baez; Joan Armatrading; Joni Mitchell; The Police; Jackson Browne; Yoko Ono; Miles Davis; Peter, Paul & Mary; and The Hooters.
U.S. Open Men’s Golf, Shinnecock Hills GC: Raymond Floyd wins his 4th and final major, 2 strokes ahead of Chip Beck and Lanny Wadkins. Raymond Floyd, who felt at age 43 that time was running out on his chances, birdied three of the last eight holes today and became the oldest man to win a United States Open championship. That charge from two shots off the lead over the back nine gave Floyd a four-under-par 66 on the magnificent and windy links-type Shinnecock Hills course for a one-under-par total of 279 and a two-shot triumph over Lanny Wadkins and Chip Beck in this 86th Open. Beck and Wadkins shot a course-record 65 today as did Mark Calcavecchia, who ended with 287 for 14th place. Floyd, a native of North Carolina who now lives in Miami, won $115,000 for his 20th triumph in 24 years in professional golf.
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Eric Davis batted in three runs with a single and a home run for Cincinnati as the Reds downed the Atlanta Braves, 9–7. Davis had a two-run single in the first inning and a bases-empty homer in the fourth to support Tom Browning (4–6), who allowed five hits in five innings. The victory was Browning’s fifth without a loss in his career over the Braves. He did not allow a hit until two were out in the fourth, when the Braves scored four runs. Browning struck out three and walked three. The Reds combined seven hits off the starter Zane Smith (5–7) with two errors by the shortstop Rafael Ramirez to score four runs in the first inning and three more in the third. Dave Parker and Davis then hit home runs off the reliever Steve Shields in the fourth for a 9–0 lead.
To think that the Yankees came within a checked swing of sweeping a four-game series from the Baltimore Orioles behind the starting pitching of Alfonso Pulido, Bob Tewksbury, Dennis Rasmussen and Doug Drabek. Of the four starters, Drabek had the best start to a game, holding the Orioles hitless for the entire time he pitched today. But he pitched only into the fifth inning and was not around when Baltimore eked out a 4–3 victory. The loss left the Yankees three and a half games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox, who are scheduled to play a three-game series at Yankee Stadium beginning Monday night.
Robin Yount and Ben Oglivie each hit two-run homers and run-scoring doubles today to power the Milwaukee Brewers to a 7–3 victory over the Boston Red Sox. Boston’s Wade Boggs went 1 for 2 with a run-scoring double in the first inning before leaving the game after a rib injury suffered last Monday was aggravated. His hit raised his major league-leading average to .380. The rookie Juan Nieves allowed nine hits, walked one and struck out four over the first seven innings to improve his record to 6–2. Mark Clear pitched two innings of hitless relief to record his fifth save. Holding a 4-3 lead in the seventh, the Brewers scored three runs to chase Jeff Sellers (0–2.) Rick Cerone led off with a single and advanced to second on Jim Gantner’s sacrifice. Yount followed with a double to left, scoring Cerone and knocking out Sellers. Joe Sambito retired Cecil Cooper on a pop-up, but Oglivie smashed a double to right-center, scoring Yount to make it 6–3. Billy Joe Robidoux followed with a single to score the pinch-runner Rick Manning, who replaced Oglivie. The Red Sox had sliced the Brewers’ lead to 4–3 in the sixth when Jim Rice led off with a double and scored on Don Baylor’s single. The Brewers scored twice in the fifth to take a 4–2 lead. Cooper lined a two-out single and Oglivie belted his third home run, a shot that hooked around the right-field foul pole.
The Royals edged the Angels, 6–5. Frank White hit a two-run homer in the fourth inning and Steve Balboni added a three-run homer in the sixth to power Kansas City. The victory was only Kansas City’s third in nine games and enabled the Royals to salvage a split of the four-game series. Buddy Biancalana also hit a bases-empty homer in support of Charlie Leibrandt’s seven-hit pitching performance over seven and two-thirds innings. Leibrandt (7–4) pitching on four days’ rest for the first time this season, walked one and struck out one. Dan Quisenberry recorded the last four outs for his fifth save.
The Cubs squeaked past the Cardinals, 4–3. Steve Lake hit a two-out single to right field in the 11th inning to score Keith Moreland with the winning run. Moreland hit a one-out double to right-center off the losing pitcher, Todd Worrell (3–6), and Worrell intentionally walked Leon Durham. After Chris Speier was retired on a fly ball to left, Lake hit a 1–2 pitch to right, and Tito Landrum failed to catch it as he was sliding.
The Twins defeated the Indians, 7–3. Roy Smalley hit a two-run homer five pitches after Kent Hrbek’s bases-empty shot in the fourth inning for Minnesota. Gary Gaetti added a bases-empty homer and an run-scoring single as Minnesota boosted its major league-leading home run total to 93. Frank Viola (6–5) allowed three runs on nine hits over seven and one-third innings to get the victory. He struck out seven and walked none in posting his league-leading 15th start. Frank Pastore relieved after Andre Thornton’s run-scoring double in the eighth and pitched the final inning and two-thirds for his second save. Don Schulze (3–4) was the loser.
Robby Thompson drove in two runs with suicide-squeeze bunts, and Jeff Leonard, Chris Brown, and Chili Davis each had three hits today, enabling the San Francisco Giants to defeat the Houston Astros, 7–2. Vida Blue (4–3) pitched six innings, walked one and struck out six for the victory. Bob Knepper (10–4) suffered his first loss to the Giants since June 4, 1984, following eight consecutive victories against the team that traded him to Houston in 1981. Knepper was making the 300th start of his career and surpassed the 2,000-inning mark in the fifth. The Giants batted around and took a 3–0 lead in the fourth. Brown doubled off the glove of Jose Cruz in left field to open the inning and scored on Leonard’s single. Davis then tripled off the left-field wall to score Leonard, and one out later, Davis scored on Thompson’s suicide-squeeze. Houston cut the lead to 3–1 in the bottom of the inning when Jim Pankovits tripled and scored on Phil Garner’s single to left. The Giants loaded the bases in the fifth on a single by Leonard and infield hits by Davis and Bob Melvin. Thompson then put down his second suicide-squeeze to score Leonard and give San Francisco a 4–1 lead.
The Mets are the bullies of baseball, and 2,483 banners reflected that change of fortune yesterday afternoon while the Mets were hammering the Pittsburgh Pirates in both ends of a doubleheader. They beat the Pirates, 4–1, in the opening game behind the pitching of Bob Ojeda, then hit three home runs and beat them again in the second game, 8–5. By then, the Mets had stratospheric numbers: They have won six straight games and nine of their last 10, and 43 of the 59 played this season. They also stood 27 games over .500 and held a 10 ½-game lead over the Montreal Expos in the National League East, the biggest lead in their 25-year history.
The Texas Rangers bowed to the Oakland Athletics, 9–2. Chris Codiroli pitched six shutout innings and four batters drove in two runs each, as Oakland pounded Texas. Codiroli (5–7) allowed five hits, walked none and struck out four before leaving with the A’s ahead 9–0. Doug Bair worked the final three innings to get his first save of the season.
The Montreal Expos blanked the Philadelphia Phillies, 2–0. Herm Winningham hit a home run and Andy McGaffigan allowed only four hits over six and one-third innings for Montreal. McGaffigan (4–2) who beat the Phillies, 8–0, on May 6, struck out seven and walked two. Jeff Reardon gained his 15th save. Winningham led off the third inning with his fourth home run of the season off Charles Hudson (4–4) to provide the winning run.
The Los Angeles Dodgers shut out the San Diego Padres, 6–0. Steve Garvey’s throwing error after fielding a bunt by Alex Trevino allowed two runners to score in the seventh inning, breaking a scoreless tie. Rick Honeycutt (4–3) went the first six innings and extended his streak to 22 consecutive innings in which he has not allowed a run. Dave Dravecky (5–7) was the loser.
The Seattle Mariners set back the Chicago White Sox, 10–5. Dave Henderson and Steve Yeager hit two-run singles in the eighth inning for Seattle. Seattle won its third straight game despite a triple play by the White Sox. The rookie Steve Fireovid pitched two and two-thirds innings of two-hit relief for his first major-league victory. The triple play came in the second inning. Alvin Davis was on third base and Jim Presley on first when Ken Phelps hit a shallow fly ball to Jerry Hairston in left-field. Hairston threw out Davis at the plate and Presley, who had hesitated, was thrown out at second by the catcher Carlton Fisk.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Detroit Tigers, 9–6. Garth Iorg’s pinch-hit, three-run homer keyed a seven-run rally in the sixth inning that lifted Toronto. Jesse Barfield hit a two-run double as Toronto overcame a 5–2 deficit. The loss was the 12th in the last 16 games for Detroit. The Tiger manager Sparky Anderson was ejected in the fifth inning and the catcher Lance Parrish was ejected in the sixth, both by the home-plate umpire Dale Scott after arguing about his calls of balls and strikes. Dennis Lamp (2–3) pitched two innings to get the victory. Tom Henke pitched the ninth for his eighth save.
Cincinnati Reds 9, Atlanta Braves 7
New York Yankees 3, Baltimore Orioles 4
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Boston Red Sox 3
Kansas City Royals 6, California Angels 5
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Chicago Cubs 4
Minnesota Twins 7, Cleveland Indians 3
San Francisco Giants 7, Houston Astros 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, New York Mets 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 5, New York Mets 8
Texas Rangers 2, Oakland Athletics 9
Montreal Expos 2, Philadelphia Phillies 0
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, San Diego Padres 0
Chicago White Sox 5, Seattle Mariners 10
Detroit Tigers 6, Toronto Blue Jays 9
Born:
Trevor Plouffe, MLB third baseman, shortstop, and first baseman (Minnesota Twins, Oakland A’s, Tampa Bay Rays, Philadelphia Phillies), in West Hills, California.
Sean West, MLB pitcher (Florida Marlins), in Houston, Texas.
Salah Mejri, Tunisian NBA center (Dallas Mavericks), in Jendouba, Tunisia.
Stjepan Hauser, Croatian cellist (2Cellos), in Pula, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia.
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