The latest Soviet arms proposals, although signaling a shift on medium-range weapons in Europe and on sea-launched cruise missiles, still pose some problems for the United States, Administration officials said today. Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, described some aspects of the proposal today but omitted details. The merits and deficiencies of the Soviet proposal are expected to become the focus of a debate over arms policy in the wake of President Reagan’s decision to abandon the 1979 arms treaty. Mr. Reagan has said said that he would no longer be bound by the unratified treaty in making decisions on strategic weapons. But he also said he would take Soviet negotiating behavior into account in future decisions. The Soviet Union, in submitting its offer in the Geneva arms talks last Wednesday, dropped its insistence that so-called forward-based systems, such as American fighter-bombers in Western Europe and on aircraft carriers, be included in a treaty on strategic arms. But the Soviet Union proposed that these forward-based systems be frozen at current levels, Administration officials said. Officials said a freeze was not likely to be acceptable.
Another problem in the new Soviet proposal pertains to sea-launched cruise missiles. The Soviet Union was understood to have dropped its demand that all sea-launched cruise missiles with ranges of more than 600 kilometers (370 miles) be banned. But officials said today that the Soviet offer still sought such a ban on surface vessels, while allowing the missiles on submarines. Navy intelligence officials have told Congress that they expect long-range Soviet cruise missiles to be deployed on submarines, and other officials said it was not clear whether such missiles would be deployed on Soviet surface ships. The United States is deploying them on submarines and on surface ships. The United States’ current arms proposal does not cover sea-launched cruise missiles at all. Arms advisers disagree over whether the United States might undertake actions, ostensibly on cost grounds, that would have the effect of keeping the United States within 1979 treaty limits.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev today made public elements of the latest Soviet arms proposal, under which the Russians would reduce strategic arsenals if the United States restricted research on its space-based defense program and agreed to abide by the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972 for at least 15 more years. Many of the details of the proposals discussed by Mr. Gorbachev in a Central Committee meeting had been previously disclosed. According to the Tass press agency, the Soviet proposal would limit research on the space-based missile defense program to laboratory work. Mr. Gorbachev said this was the “threshold already reached by the United States.”
East Germany began issuing new identification cards to diplomats for Berlin border crossings. Western diplomatic sources said the cards will be accepted by East German border guards, who last month began demanding to see passports, arousing protests from Western nations involved in the post-World War II administration of Berlin. The United States, Britain and France feared an attempt to establish the Berlin border as an international frontier, in defiance of the postwar agreements.
U.N. Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said he has agreed to act as mediator in the Rainbow Warrior dispute between France and New Zealand. Relations between the two countries have been near the breaking point since last July, when French agents sank the Rainbow Warrior, flagship of the Greenpeace environmentalist organization, in Auckland harbor. The Rainbow Warrior had been preparing to lead a flotilla in a protest against French nuclear tests in the South Pacific.
Israeli Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai said his government wants to see the Pollard spy case investigation “accelerated to its maximum.” Speaking with reporters after meeting in Washington with Secretary of State George P. Shultz, Modai said: “Things must be pursued the way American law stipulates. We would like to see that the process is accelerated to its maximum.” Referring to charges by some in the U.S. Justice Department of widespread Israeli spying, Modai added: “If there is more to the case, somebody has to produce the ‘more.’ Otherwise it’s just talk.”
Amid the sound of explosions and machine-gun fire, the Archbishop of New York, John Cardinal O’Connor, went to West Beirut today for a meeting with Sheik Hassan Khaled, the Grand Mufti, who is the spiritual leader of Lebanon’s 650,000 Sunni Muslims. Earlier in the day, seven Christian Lebanese men were kidnapped by unidentified gunmen as they traveled from West Beirut to East Beirut. Four of the men are printers at the newspaper An Nahar, which is based in West Beirut. Two are officials at a West Beirut insurance company, and the other is a student at the American University, also in West Beirut. Cardinal O’Connor was accompanied by a police convoy from East Beirut to the residence of the Grand Mufti. Only four miles to the south, Palestinian guerrillas and Shiite militiamen fought with artillery, tanks and machine guns.
President Reagan, in a meeting with Afghan rebel leaders today, turned down their request that the United States extend diplomatic recognition and sever relations with the Soviet-backed Afghan Government, the White House said. Although Mr. Reagan declined to extend diplomatic recognition, he voiced an “unshakable commitment” of support in a statement issued later. It was evident from comments by the Afghan rebels and by Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, that tensions had developed. They stem from the Americans’ continued recognition of the Afghan Government, their backing for United Nations-sponsored peace talks without rebel participation, and Washington’s failure to provide advanced weapons to the rebels, including Stinger shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles.
Indian police arrested more than 12,000 supporters of the extremist opposition Bharatiya Janata Party and scuffled with right-wing Hindu youths of the Shiv Sena group during a New Delhi demonstration calling for deployment of troops in strife-ridden Punjab state. Those arrested were later released. The protest was the largest of a series of rallies held over the last two weeks to demand that the military be used to curb Sikh separatist attacks. Hundreds of people, most of them Hindu, have been killed since the beginning of the year by Sikh extremists demanding an independent nation in Punjab.
Thai Government officials said today that 35 people were killed and 16 were wounded when Laotian troops stormed a village in Thailand and opened fire on its residents. The attack, which was reported to have happened Saturday night along the border between northern Thailand and Laos, was apparently directed at Laotians who had crossed illegally into Thailand and were living near the village of Chiang Kham. The remote wilderness area — not far from the opium-growing Golden Triangle region — is known to support a contraband trade in narcotics and other goods. It is also an operations area for small, armed rebel groups opposed to the Communist Government of Laos. Some intelligence reports today suggested that some of the victims, many of them young men, may have been Laotian Army deserters who had crossed into Thailand to escape military service or join the rebels.
A provincial court in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada ordered today that seven Sikhs charged with conspiring to commit violent crimes in India be held until a bail hearing on Thursday. The Sikhs were arrested on Saturday and charged with conspiring to commit an indictable offense. The police said the offense is related to plans to bomb Indian Parliament buildings and kidnap a child of a member of the Indian Parliament in order to force him to assist the effort, as well as plans to derail trains and blow up an oil refinery in India.
Striking doctors in Ontario, Canada’s most populous province, shut down six more hospital emergency wards in a fee dispute with the provincial government. Three emergency wards were closed earlier. While hospitals will still treat life-threatening cases, the closures affect an estimated 1,000 patients a day. The striking doctors, numbering about half of the 15,000 practicing in the province, want the government to drop pending legislation that bars physicians from charging fees higher than those set under public health insurance.
Two people were shot to death, hundreds were injured and at least 150 robberies were committed in Mexico City as a night of celebration turned to violence after Mexico’s latest victory in the World Cup soccer tournament, police reported. Nationwide, 11 people were killed in car crashes after postgame celebrations. About 100 people were arrested in downtown Mexico City rioting that followed Mexico’s 2–0 victory over Bulgaria.
President Reagan addresses a group of supporters of the Nicaraguan Freedom Fighters. President Reagan, appealing for bipartisan support of aid to the Nicaraguan rebels, said today that a newly deployed Soviet reconnaissance plane used by the Nicaraguan Government had given the Sandinistas “a significant advance in its military and intelligence capabilities.” At the same time, Mr. Reagan told a group that supports his effort to win $100 million in aid for the rebels that the Nicaraguan Government carried out a major, unprovoked attack earlier this year against thousands of Miskito Indians who had fled into neighboring Honduras. The President said the attack took place shortly after a vote in the House last March against his aid package for the rebels. The House is expected to reconsider the question of aid for the rebels around June 26. Mr. Reagan told supporters of the package that “repression” against labor unions, dissidents, poltical opponents and enterepreneurs had accelerated since the last House vote.
The United States Ambassador delivered a formal clarification of American policy toward Panama today, but he refused to characterize the statement. The action followed reports implicating Panama’s army chief in criminal activities. The Ambassador, Arthur H. Davis, met for about 35 minutes with Foreign Minister Jorge Abadia Arias. Panama requested the meeting after reacting angrily to charges that the army chief, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, has been involved in drug trafficking, money laundering and supplying arms to a Colombian guerrilla group. The charges were the subject of a report in The New York Times last week. Mr. Abadia said the note of clarification delivered by the Ambassador was “positive.” Asked if relations with the United States had been damaged by accusations against General Noriega, Mr. Abadia said, “Not at all.”
Rightist Angolan rebels said they killed 51 soldiers and destroyed a warplane last week during a government offensive against their strongholds in eastern Angola. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola said 27 of the soldiers were killed and the Soviet-made jet was downed in fighting near Cangumbe, in Moxico province. The UNITA rebels said they lost six men.
Millions of blacks, defying the Government’s most severe crackdown on dissent, stayed away from work today in a subdued protest to mark the 10th anniversary of the 1976 Soweto uprising. The anniversary is the most significant date in the lengthening annals of black struggle. The authorities, meanwhile, reported that eight more blacks had been killed overnight in the nation’s segregated black townships and ordered the most sweeping restrictions on press coverage since the hard-line Nationalists came to power in 1948. Townships Off Limits The Government’s Bureau for Information, the sole source of official news about the national state of emergency declared on Thursday, ordered foreign journalists not to transmit statements that could be considered “subversive.” In addition, the Police Commissioner, Gen. Johann Coetzee, barred all journalists from the black townships and forbade any reporting of the movements or actions of the security forces.
White House officials said today that President P. W. Botha of South Africa had defiantly rejected a personal appeal from President Reagan for restraint and an end to the nationwide state of emergency decree. The officials said Mr. Botha, who was told that the Administration’s “patience was wearing thin,” had reacted in a manner they described as “obstinate” and had indicated that he would continue acting under the state of emergency decree regardless of international criticism. The Reagan Administration continued publicly today to urge restraint, with the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, warning that South Africa risked becoming a “continuing tragedy.” White House officials said President P. W. Botha had reacted in a manner they termed “obstinate.”
Western European foreign ministers postponed a decision today on whether to impose new sanctions against South Africa. The postponement was apparently the result of British and West German opposition. But the foreign ministers asked officials to prepare recommendations, to be presented to Government leaders at their next meeting in 10 days. The Dutch Foreign Minister, Hans van den Broek, who presided over the European Community meeting today, said in a news conference afterward that all 12 member countries wanted to adopt a “unanimous and meaningful” position on South Africa.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, speaking at a United Nations conference here today, said Western countries were involved in a “sleazy partnership with despotism and state terrorism” because of their refusal to support economic sanctions against South Africa. “The blood of the innocents is on the hands of the Western democratic allies,” Mr. Jackson said, singling out the United States, Britain, West Germany, France, Israel, and Japan. “We have 350 corporations doing business in South Africa and strategic military ties thus giving respectability to Hitler’s successor,” he said of the United States. “Come home, America.”
The Agriculture Department has approved lower levels of sodium nitrite in the making of bacon, Donald L. Houston, administrator of the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, announced. Sodium nitrite is used to cure or preserve meats and to help prevent botulism, a deadly food poisoning. High levels produce nitrosamines — which can cause cancer in laboratory animals — when bacon is fried at high heat.
The Environmental Protection Agency said it was reversing itself and ruling it illegal for manufacturers and sellers of microbial pesticides to make claims for their products not supported by test data. The agency said it was doing so because some unidentified manufacturers were making unsupported claims that their sterilants and disinfectants were effective in killing the AIDS virus.
Former Rep. George Hansen (R-Idaho) lost his plea for a reduced sentence on his conviction of filing false financial statements with Congress. However, U.S. District Judge Joyce Hens Green in Washington stayed her order for the former seven-term congressman to report to a federal prison farm on Thursday. Hansen wants to appeal her refusal to reduce his sentence of 5 to 15 months and a $40,000 fine to probation and a $20,000 fine.
The Supreme Court today preliminarily cleared the way for Norfolk, Virginia, to end its busing of elementary schoolchildren for desegregation purposes this fall. The Court, acting on a case that could have nationwide implications, denied a request by black parents for an interim order to block school officials, pending further review, from dismantling a court-ordered busing plan that has been in effect for 15 years. This action seemed to suggest the Court was unlikely to require later that busing be reinstituted. But the case, Riddick v. School Board, No. 85-1962, is not over yet, because the Court has not yet decided whether to hear the black parents’ appeal of a lower court’s decision upholding the city’s plan.
An invitation to a Chilean sailing ship to take part in Fourth of July ceremonies honoring the Statue of Liberty will stand, even though a Senate resolution says the vessel should be excluded, a spokesman for Operation Sail said. Per Lofving said: “We are non-governmental, and as such we are not taking a position on foreign policy issues or on the governments involved.” The resolution says the 370-foot Esmeralda “is the notorious vessel used for the torture of 112 political prisoners.”
The Federal Trade Commission charged today that the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company had illegally misrepresented and understated the health risks of smoking. The agency said that in advertisements published last year, the tobacco company misrepresented the purpose and results of a study financed by the National Institutes of Health. The study involved more than 12,000 men who were thought to have a high risk of heart disease because they were smokers and had high blood pressure and high cholesterol levels. The advertisements, which appeared in major newspapers and magazines, said there was no proof that these factors had caused heart disease. Referring to the view that these risk factors caused heart disease, the advertisements said: “It is an opinion. A judgment. But not scientific fact.”
The Navy restored a security clearance to Jonathan Jay Pollard, an analyst who later admitted spying for Israel, after he threatened to file a grievance against his superiors, a Reagan Administration official said today. The official said the clearance had been revoked in 1981 because Mr. Pollard was having emotional problems, and it was restored the same year. Mr. Pollard, a civilian counterterrorism analyst, was later granted access to an even higher classification of documents, the official said. Navy investigators are trying to learn why he was given such a high security clearance after the 1981 incident and to what extent the Navy was swayed by Mr. Pollard’s threat, said the official, who spoke on condition he not be identified.
The Justice Department said today that it had suspended a $1 million grant for a private group organized to combat drug abuse, amid allegations that most of the grant had been spent for travel and salaries. The group, the National Partnership to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Abuse, has already used more than $700,000 of its grant “and the program just isn’t where it should be,” said Anne Voigt, the Government spokesman. Nancy Reagan is the honorary chairman of the partnership, which was announced last year at a ceremony attended by Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, Mrs. Voigt said.
Telephone service is recovering gradually from the confusion that followed the breakup of the Bell System on January 1, 1984, according to consumer groups and industry and government officials. But the main problems continue to be obtaining new service and having repairs performed.
Striking timber workers in Portland, Oregon, bludgeoned the effigy of a Weyerhaeuser Co. negotiator with sledgehammers, and picket lines went up at 32 plants and logging sites in Oregon and Washington as employees refused to accept wage and benefit concessions. Two major lumber unions representing 7,500 workers struck at midnight Sunday against the Tacoma, Washington-based company. Negotiations broke off Saturday after the company refused to back down on its demands. A three-year contract expired on June 1. Picket lines were orderly and no violence was reported.
Reputed mobsters Anthony (Little Tony) Spilotro and his brother, Michael Spilotro, were reported missing, police said. Anthony, 48, and Michael, 41, were last seen Saturday in the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, Detective Ronald Ballarini said. Federal and Las Vegas police have contended for years that Anthony Spilotro has been the overseer of organized crime in Las Vegas. A trial on charges of racketeering ended in a mistrial earlier this year. Spilotro was awaiting trial on charges of skimming money from Las Vegas casinos.
A Republican candidate for Governor announced tonight that he would drop out of the race because of his false claim that he had been a captain in the Army Special Forces in Vietnam. Royall H. Switzler, a Republican State Representative from suburban Wellesley, said, directing his statement to the voters, “I cannot reasonably expect your support” in view of his “dishonesty.” Mr. Switzler’s decision throws into confusion the Republican campaign against Governor Michael S. Dukakis, a popular Democrat who is completing his second term. It also adds to the troubles facing the state Republican Party at a time when the party nationally has prospered with the Presidency of Ronald Reagan.
The National Organization for Women held a historical T-shirt contest at its annual convention in Denver last weekend, as part of the celebration of its 20th anniversary. Members showed up in faded shirts that were resonant of past battles, won and lost. Many of the shirts hearkened back to the unsuccessful effort to win passage of an Federal equal rights amendment to the Constitution, including one that read, “E.R.A. — The Dream Will Never Die.” Other women wore the shirts of 1984, including one bearing the smiling face of Geraldine A. Ferraro, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, with the simple slogan, “Finally!”
Two Federal appeals court judges today stopped a plan to halt all federal civil jury trials in southern California. The order, signed by Judges Stephen Reinhardt and Warren Ferguson, both of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, granted a motion brought by a Los Angeles lawyer, Stephen Yagman, who sued on behalf of nine clients whose civil rights cases were set to go to trial before October 1. The Federal decision to stop jury trials today across the country was the result of a $3 million Federal budget cutback, unrelated to the cutbacks mandated under the new budget-balancing law, according to Robert K. Loesche, deputy general counsel for the administrative office of the United States Courts in Washington, D.C. Last Thursday, the Judicial Conference, the policy arm of the Federal courts, informed the 650 Federal judges that jury trials in Federal civil cases would stop today through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year. Mr. Loesche said that passage of a supplemental budget bill pending before Congress would allow such trials to resume. The temporary ruling today binds courts in the Central District of California, the nation’s most populous Federal district, which includes Los Angeles. Arguments on making the order permanent are due Thursday.
The number of inmates in state and Federal prisons rose above the half-million mark last year as tougher sentencing packed already overcrowded facilities, the Government said today. As of December 31, the state and Federal prison population stood at an all-time high of 503,601, with the addition of 39,000 new prisoners in 1985, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The bureau, an arm of the Justice Department, estimated that by the end of 1985 the state prisons were operating 6 percent to 21 percent above capacity, depending on definitions used to determine overcrowding. The Federal system, which has a total of 40,200 prisoners, operated from 23 percent to 54 percent above capacity, the bureau’s report said. Nineteen states granted early releases to 18,600 inmates last year because the correction facilities were filled beyond capacity, it said.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said today that one brand of Austrian wine in the United States had been found to have an extremely high content of a toxic chemical, and warned consumers not to drink it. The wine was identified by Stephen E. Higgins, director of the bureau, as Golden Castle, 1983 Frauenkirchner Beerenauslese Burgenland-Rust-Neusiedlersee. It is shipped by Gold-Kastell Weinkellereiges, Schermbeck.
A crazy-quilt pattern of growth next to decline seems to be developing in the nation’s older industrial states. The conflicting trends were a major cause of concern at the Midwest Governors Conference.
The government has halted a grant of $1 million for a private group organized to fight drug abuse. Officials said the organization, the National Partnership to Prevent Drug and Alcohol Abuse, had spent more than $700,000 of the grant and there were allegations that most of this was spent on salaries and travel. Nancy Reagan is the honorary chairman of the partnership.
Major League Baseball:
The Baltimore Orioles trade Dennis Martinez, whose ERA had swelled to over 5.00 the last 3 seasons, to the Montreal Expos for player to be named later.
The Cincinnati Reds bowed to the Atlanta Braves, 4–3. Ken Oberkfell singled past the drawn-in second baseman Ron Oester to score Dale Murphy from third base in the bottom of the 10th inning. With one out, Murphy walked off John Franco (0–4). Bob Horner singled to center, sending Murphy to third. Horner took second on the center fielder Eddie Milner’s throw to third and Oberkfell bounced a 2–2 pitch just past Oester to make a winner of Gene Garber (3–1).
The Detroit Tigers edged the Baltimore Orioles, 5–4. Alan Trammell’s two-out double snapped a sixth-inning tie, and Tom Brookens hit a three-run homer in the eighth as Detroit defeated Baltimore. Frank Tanana (7–4) was the winner and John Pacella earned his first save. The Tigers scored in the eighth when Trammell and Pat Sheridan walked and Brookens hit his first homer of the season.
Rangers knuckleballer Charlie Hough allows just one hit against the Angels but loses 2–1. With 2 outs to go for a no-hitter, George Wright drops Jack Howell’s fly ball for an error. A single by Wally Joyner ties the score, and passed ball by Orlando Mercado sends him to second base. An intentional walk follows and then, with the runners moving on a 3–2 pitch, the batter strikes out, but the ball eludes Mercado. Hough fails to cover the plate as Joyner scores. Kirk McCaskill (6-4) allowed only four singles, one after the second inning, and struck out 10.
Leon Durham hit a two-run homer and Shawon Dunston had a two-run double for the Cubs as Chicago beat the Philllies, 7–5. Dunston’s double capped a four-run fourth and knocked out Steve Carlton, whose record fell to 4–8. Durham hit his eighth homer off Tom Hume in the fifth.
The Blue Jays bombed the Brewers, 9–2. Garth Iorg drove in three runs, and Ernie Whitt, George Bell and Tony Fernandez hit home runs for Toronto. The Blue Jays, who have hit 12 home runs in their last five games, won their third consecutive game as Doyle Alexander (5–3) and Don Gordon combined to scatter 10 hits. The Brewers’ Robin Yount went 4 for 5 and raised his average to .371.
The humid afternoon dissolved into a cold, wind-swept evening, but the Mets stayed hot. They survived a sudden drop in the temperature, two rain delays totaling more than two hours and extra innings. Then, in the 10th, Darryl Strawberry’s single brought home Wally Backman from second base and the Mets went on to a 4–1 victory over the Montreal Expos. The final out came at 1:17 in the morning and pushed the Mets’ lead over the Expos to 11 ½ games in the National League East. It was their seventh consecutive victory and 10th in 11 games.
As Roger Clemens added another impressive line to his remarkable 1986 record last night, Ron Guidry added another major question mark to his perplexing 1986 record. Guidry offered Clemens no real opposition in his briefest outing of the season, extending the worst losing streak of his career to six games. Clemens, Boston’s blazing right-hander, gained his 12th victory against no defeats as the Red Sox stomped the Yankees, 10–1, at the Stadium in their first meeting of the season and raised their lead to four and a half games over the Yankees. Clemens, the American League leader in victories, earned-run average and strikeouts, allowed only four hits as he held a team to two earned runs or fewer for the ninth time in 13 starts. Consecutive doubles by Mike Pagliarulo and Ron Hassey in the second produced the Yankees’ run. Jim Rice drove in four runs with three singles, while Tony Armas and Rey Quinones each drove in two runs with three hits.
Rudy Law doubled home the go-ahead run in the 11th inning to give the Kansas City Royals a 3–2 victory over the Oakland A’s behind the combined six-hit pitching of rookie Scott Bankhead and two relievers. Willie Wilson walked to lead off the 11th against Jose Rijo, 2–5, who came in to start the inning. After Argenis Salazar struck out, Wilson stole second and Law followed with his double. George Brett was intentionally walked and George Orta drove in Law with an RBI single to give the Royals a 3–1 lead and their eventual winning run. That run became a big one when the A’s scored a run in the bottom of the 11th on a sacrifice fly by Jose Canseco.
The St. Louis Cardinals turned back the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–2. Jack Clark hit a home run to back Danny Cox’s four-hit pitching in a game called by rain in the top of the sixth inning. The loss was Pittsburgh’s fifth in a row. Cox (2–5) maintained his mastery over the Pirates, who have beaten him only once in nine career decisions. Cox, an 18-game winner in 1985, blanked the Pirates after allowing a homer by Barry Bonds in the third inning.
Andy Hawkins pitched a seven-hitter and Garry Templeton highlighted a three-run seventh inning with a two-run single as the San Diego Padres defeated the San Francisco Giants 4–0 Monday night. The game was scoreless until the sixth when Marvell Wynne hit a one-out solo homer off reliever Bill Laskey. Laskey, 1–1, had replaced starter Scott Garrelts, who left the game after five innings after hyperventilating on the mound.
Cincinnati Reds 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Detroit Tigers 5, Baltimore Orioles 4
Texas Rangers 1, California Angels 2
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Chicago Cubs 7
Toronto Blue Jays 9, Milwaukee Brewers 2
New York Mets 4, Montreal Expos 1
Boston Red Sox 10, New York Yankees 1
Kansas City Royals 3, Oakland Athletics 2
St. Louis Cardinals 4, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
San Francisco Giants 0, San Diego Padres 4
The Dow Jones industrial average, after being higher most of the day, finished with a 2.42-point loss, at 1,871.77. The blue-chip average rose 36.06 points on Friday in conjunction with a bond market rally. Share prices were mixed on Wall Street yesterday and trading volume declined sharply from the level reached Friday, when the stock market was rallying on hopes of lower interest rates. Despite glum economic news that produced an early upturn in the bond market, equities investors were taking profits and protecting themselves from this Friday’s “triple witching hour.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1871.77 (-2.42)
Born:
Josh Sitton, NFL guard (NFL Champiions, Super Bowl 45-Packers, 2010; Pro Bowl, 2012, 2014–2016; Green Bay Packers, Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins), in Jacksonville, Florida.
Gerald McRath, NFL linebacker (Tennessee Titans), in Austell, Georgia.
Nikita Nikitin, Russian National Team and NHL defenseman (Olympics, 2014; St. Louis Blues, Columbus Blue Jackets, Edmonton Oilers), in Omsk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.
Jessica McNamee, Australian actress (“Sirens”) and model, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Died:
Lady Diana Cooper [as Lady Diana Olivia Winifred Maud Manners], 93, English silent film actress and aristocrat, wife of Duff Cooper, in London, England, United Kingdom.
Maurice Duruflé, 84, French organist (St. Etienne-du-Mond, 1929-75), composer (Requiem, Op. 9), and teacher (Paris Conservatory, 1943-70).
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