The Rehnquist Court
President Reagan today announced the retirement of Warren Earl Burger as Chief Justice of the United States after 17 years and the intention to nominate Associate Justice William Hubbs Rehnquist to replace him. Mr. Reagan also announced that, upon Justice Rehnquist’s confirmation as Chief Justice by the Senate, he would nominate Judge Antonin Scalia, of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, to the Supreme Court. Republican leaders of the Senate praised the selection of Justice Rehnquist, but some Democrats expressed doubts about his record. Lawmakers from both parties said Judge Scalia’s reputation as a legal scholar was likely to dissolve opposition to his nomination, and many said the selections would shift the balance of the Court perceptibly to the right. With the announcement today, Mr. Reagan moved decisively to insure that on the central issues of his social agenda — civil rights, abortion and the constitutionality of independent Federal agencies — the Supreme Court would include a forceful number of Justices supporting the President.
Chief Justice Burger informed President Reagan that he wanted to retire at a White House meeting three weeks ago, Administration officials said. They said Mr. Reagan was swayed as much by personal chemistry as by facts in promoting Justice Rehnquist and nominating Judge Scalia to the High Court.
Senate Republican leaders praised President Reagan’s selection of Associate Justice Rehnquist to become Chief Justice and predicted he would be confirmed easily. But some Democrats expressed grave doubts about what they termed his “extreme right-wing views.” The ideological balance of the Supreme Court is likely to shift perceptibly to the right if the Senate confirms President Reagan’s selections of Justice William H. Rehnquist to become Chief Justice and Judge Antonin Scalia to become an Associate Justice. But legal experts do not expect these changes alone to produce dramatic reversals of the Court’s precedents on major issues. Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who is retiring, is also a conservative, although less so than Justice Rehnquist and Judge Scalia. The two selected today are said by most students of their records to be more consistent, more energetic and more intellectually formidable advocates of conservative views, and of judicial restraint, than Chief Justice Burger has been. Both are regarded by ideological friends and foes alike as first-rate legal minds who have a clear view of where they want the Court to go and the persuasive powers to influence wavering colleagues in close cases.
Chief Justice Burger leaves a Court that in terms of judicial doctrine is not nobably different from the one he inherited 17 years ago when President Nixon named him the 15th Chief Justice. He has, however, transformed the role of the office of Chief Justice.
The High Court will probably face in the next few years momentous cases dealing with abortion, civil rights and church-state ties, according to lawyers close to the Court. Judge Scalia has generally insisted on rigidly separating the powers of government branches.
The Soviet offer on strategic weapons has reinvigorated a debate over whether limits on nuclear-armed sea-launched cruise missiles can be verified. The Soviet Union initially proposed that such missiles be banned. But last week, it suggested that they might be deployed on submarines, though not on surface ships. The United States has not included the sea-launched cruise missiles in its proposals. Long-range sea-launched cruise missiles are an area of American advantage. The United States has bought about a third of its proposed arsenal of 758 missiles, known as Tomahawks, which have a range of 1,500 miles and can attack targets on land. The Soviet counterpart, named the SS-NX-21 by NATO, is being tested. The Pentagon says that it will soon be deployed on submarines.
The new Soviet Ambassador is expected to return here from Moscow soon with the Kremlin’s thinking about moving ahead with plans for the next meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Administration officials said today. In advance of his return, the White House said it was giving “serious study” to the latest arms control proposals offered by the Soviet Union in the Geneva negotiations. Apparently seeking to convince Moscow that positive results could be achieved at a summit meeting, Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said: “There are many issues between the Soviet Union of importance to the entire world, and it is useful and it would be timely and it would be beneficial for the leaders of the two countries to join in the meeting before the year’s end.” State Department officials said that Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian affairs, would meet in Stockholm next week with his Soviet counterpart, Vladimir P. Polyakov, who heads the Foreign Ministry’s Near East Department. This is the latest in a series of discussions on regional issues between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Poland arrested Anna Walentynowicz, 57, the Gdansk crane operator whose firing in 1980 sparked the birth of the Solidarity independent trade union. She was accused of causing public unrest. The step, part of a new crackdown on the remaining symbols of the outlawed union, was announced by government spokesman Jerzy Urban. He also disclosed that Zbigniew Wroniak, a senior Foreign Ministry official, has been seized in connection with the apprehension last week of the leading underground Solidarity fugitive, Zbigniew Bujak. Wroniak was charged with “obstructing the investigation” against Bujak.
Suspected Basque guerrillas killed two Spanish army officers and their driver in Madrid in an ambush seen by some as an attempt to disrupt campaigning for Sunday’s general election. Two men and a woman fired machine guns at the car carrying Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Besteiro Perez and Major Ricardo Saenz de Ynestrillas. As residents tried to stop the getaway car, about 200 presumed rightists crowded around the victims, giving straight-arm salutes, shouting slogans against both the government and Basque guerrillas and calling for the army to take power.
Fifteen people are to go on trial here Wednesday accused in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro. As they finished preparations for the trial, Italian prosecutors said today that the key witnesses would be the accused hijackers themselves. The 15 defendants are accused of various roles in the two-day hijacking, which began off the coast of Egypt on October 7. Among them is Mohammed Abbas, chief of a small group within the Palestine Liberation Organization, who is accused of having ordered and directed the operation.
Police in Rotterdam dug up the remains of a notorious Dutch World War II traitor, ending speculation that he had escaped overseas in 1946 after a fake suicide. Examination of the remains confirmed that Christiaan Lindemans, a double agent who betrayed about 250 resistance fighters to the Nazis, died and was buried in the Netherlands 40 years ago.
Lady Diana Cooper died at her London home at the age of 93. Acquaintances of Lady Diana, the legendary beauty of an age long past, included Sir Winston Churchill, Evelyn Waugh and Arthur Rubenstein.
Israel would consider extraditing Israelis to the United States if they are indicted for involvement in an Israeli spy ring that bought American military secrets, according to Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai.
A new dispute erupted in Jerusalem today over charges that the former Attorney General leaked secrets to reporters this week to put pressure on his successor, Yosef Harish, to investigate allegations against the head of Shin Beth, the internal security organization. The former Attorney General, Yitzhak Zamir, had ordered a police investigation into the role of Shin Beth in the fatal beating of Palestinians seized after they hijacked a bus in 1984. Mr. Zamir was removed from his post earlier this month after he refused to give in to Government pressure to rescind his order for an investigation.
The Archbishop of New York, John Cardinal O’Connor, left Beirut today after a three-day visit, saying he had failed to make contact with five American hostages. “I made many queries about the hostages, but I was unable to perform my mission of delivering the messages I carried for them from their families in the United States,” Cardinal O’Connor said at a news conference before flying to Cyprus on his way to Rome. He spoke at Bkirki, the seat of the Lebanese Maronite Patriarch, nine miles northeast of Beirut.
Fields of purple, red and white poppy flowers, contrasting brilliantly with the dull gray of the surrounding deserts, stretched toward the horizon. In one field, where the petals had fallen to the ground, a line of farmers scraped a brownish-black gum from pale green pods about the size of golf balls. They were harvesting opium that, according to dozens of Afghan rebel commanders and fighters, helps finance their war against troops of the Soviet and Afghan armies. The rebels, encountered here and elsewhere on a 1,000-mile journey through three southern Afghan provinces, admitted they are involved in poppy cultivation. The war, the rebels said, created its own economic and moral imperatives; they said the opium harvest was crucial to their survival and their continued efforts to oust the Communists.
A senior Administration official said today that President Reagan held open the possibility that the United States would extend diplomatic recognition to the Afghan rebels if they acquired “more of the attributes of a government.” The official’s stand on the issue was noticeably different than that taken publicly Monday by the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, after Mr. Reagan met with four leaders of an Afghan rebel coalition based in Pakistan. Mr. Speakes said the President had told the Afghan delegation, led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, that it would be “premature” for the United States to extend such recognition now. The Administration official repeated that point today but told a group of reporters that Mr. Reagan had “encouraged” the Afghans. The official said the use of the word “premature” should not be taken as a polite way of saying “forget it.”
The number of Vietnamese “boat people” reaching Thailand in the first five months of this year climbed by nearly 20 percent over the comparable period last year, a spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said today. Some of the refugees told officials on arrival that they were fleeing from a new census in Vietnam that was intended to find and identify men who were evading military service. Other refugees said that worsening economic conditions were behind their decision to flee. Though figures for Thailand lead the region — with 2,094 arrivals in 187 boats from January through May compared with 1,772 arrivals in 109 boats in the similar period last year — other countries around the South China Sea have also reported increases.
Apparently eager to court the new Philippine government of President Corazon Aquino, China has offered a new package of economic benefits and has also pledged to continue withholding support for the Communist Party of the Philippines, Philippine Vice President Salvador Laurel said. Ending a three-day visit to Peking, Laurel told reporters that China will provide $25.4 million in crude oil on a deferred-payment basis and $20 million in new commercial trade assistance. Peking will also renew $20 million in credit, he said.
Communist guerrillas in the southern Philippines raided a town and bombed a village dance hall in separate attacks, killing 17 civilians and an army captain, military officials said. The attack on Malabog, 615 miles southeast of Manila, killed eight civilians and wounded six, they said. Hand grenades tossed into a dance hall in Alungan, 335 miles southeast of Manila, resulted in the deaths of Capt. Lope Nicart and nine civilians.
A top Canadian official denied that Michael K. Deaver was hired by Canada to lobby the United States about acid rain, but merely to provide public relations and communications advice. External Affairs Minister Joe Clark testified in Ottawa before a Canadian Parliament committee studying the government’s contract with Deaver, which also is the subject of investigation in the United States. Clark insisted Canada’s hiring of Deaver after he left his post last year as deputy White House chief of staff did not violate U.S. laws.
The commander of the Panamanian Army denied all charges of involvement in criminal activities today and brushed aside calls from the opposition for his resignation. In an interview, the commander, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, insisted that he and the army would continue to play a major role, together with the civilian President, in running the country. But General Noriega is widely seen as the true wielder of political power in the country and the army has either imposed or deposed the last five presidents. “The role of the defense force in this country is different from any other armed forces,” General Noriega said. “Here the President of the republic, who rules and takes decisions, is a friend of ours. We are his subaltern and his support. We’ve learned to walk together.”
A U.S. Air Force air-refueling jet tanker crashed into the jungle while trying to land at Panama’s Howard Air Base, killing all four crew members aboard, military officials said. A U.S. Southern Command spokesman said that the KC-135 Stratotanker, based at Grissom Air Force Base in Indiana, crashed before dawn just south of Rodman Naval Base, half a mile south of Howard, while on final approach. The identities of the dead were not immediately released.
Leftist guerrillas rammed a crane into a motorcade carrying Colombia’s Interior Minister as he rode through central Bogota today and fired at his bodyguards, the police said. The official escaped unhurt, but a policeman was killed. After the attack, President Belisario Betancur and his Cabinet ministers decided to maintain a two-year-old state of siege. They had earlier been expected to repeal the measure. The crane missed the limousine of the official, Jaime Castro, and plowed into a second car carrying his bodyguards, the police said. A caller who identified himself as Commandante Oscar of the M-19 rebel group told a radio station in Bogota that the attack was in revenge for the storming by the army of the guerrilla-occupied Palace of Justice in November, in which nearly 100 people died.
Left-wing Peruvian rebels hurled dynamite at two churches in the first guerrilla attack against the Roman Catholic Church in Lima, religious workers said. At Our Lady of Patronage Church, a national monument, a blast blew open heavy outer wooden doors, knocked out windows and damaged religious images on the walls, a nun said. At Immaculate Heart of Mary Church, an explosion smashed 28 large windows, a priest reported. Although no one claimed responsibility, Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas were suspected.
The President and First Lady participate in a welcoming ceremony in honor of the President of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay and Mrs. Julio Maria Sanguinetti.
The son of Josef Mengele told an American television audience yesterday that he had helped conceal the fugitive Nazi war criminal because “I would never betray my father.” Speaking with evident anguish, the son, Rolf Mengele, a 42-year-old West German lawyer, acknowledged having secretly visited his father in Brazil two years before Dr. Mengele’s drowning there in 1979, but he denied being part of a “conspiracy” that protected the long-sought death camp doctor. He said that although he was “ashamed” of his father and repelled by the killings he committed at Auschwitz during World War II, “I could not tell his hunters where he was.” “I would do it again like this,” Mr. Mengele said in halting English on the Phil Donahue program on NBC.
Eleven blacks were killed across South Africa Monday during the one-day strike commemorating the uprising in Johannesburg’s black satellite city of Soweto 10 years ago, the government said today. The government also imposed a ban on live television transmissions by foreign journalists, adding to the already tight restrictions on the operations of broadcasting crews and newspaper reporters. The announced death toll was the highest for a single day since the country’s white leaders imposed a nationwide state of emergency last Thursday, suspending many civil rights and sharply curtailing the rights of news organizations to report events. Nonetheless, the authorities described events Monday as demonstrating the Government’s success in preventing even more bloodshed on the anniversary of the Soweto uprising, which began in 1976 with protests against the educational system for blacks and lasted for nearly a year.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher stood up to criticism in the House of Commons today in resisting the adoption of British economic sanctions against South Africa. “The purpose is not to hurt those whom we least wish to hurt,” she said, alluding to possible economic harm to South African blacks. As expected, her majority held, defeating by 331 to 206 an opposition motion.
The House Armed Services Committee today published details of a draft bill to reorganize the nation’s military, giving added power to senior generals and admirals who command combat forces in the field. The bill, which in many respects mirrors a measure approved last month by the Senate, goes beyond the Senate version in delegating authority to the chiefs of large military commands made up of units from the three armed services. The bill, which has yet to be considered by the full Armed Services Committee, was drafted by its Subcommittee on Investigations. Representative Les Aspin, a Wisconsin Democrat who is chairman of House Armed Services Committee, called the proposed legislation “a much stronger bill than has passed the United States Senate.”
A House panel debating sweeping immigration reform legislation rejected a proposal that would have required federal agents to obtain search warrants before raiding open farm fields to check for illegal aliens. The Democratic-controlled Judiciary Committee also turned down a move to exempt small businessmen and homeowners from provisions in the bill that could subject them to hefty fines if they knowingly hired a worker — even a maid or a gardener — who was in the country unlawfully. The measure would offer amnesty to many persons here unlawfully but seek to deter new arrivals by imposing sanctions on employers who hire them.
House and Senate negotiators remained deadlocked on a 1987 budget today as the House rejected a Senate compromise offer. House Democats then made a counteroffer that the Senate negotiators went off to study after raising questions. The military budget and revenue increases remain the key issues separating the two sides. With the House negotiators still opposed to revenue increases unless they are supported by President Reagan, it appears it will be difficult to break the impasse without major concessions from the Senate.
The Department of Education told public school chiefs they can park mobile classrooms on parochial school grounds to conduct remedial classes for disadvantaged children. The mobile classroom or van can be parked on the grounds of a Roman Catholic or other parochial school “at a sufficient distance from the private school buildings so that (it) is clearly distinguishable from the private school facilities,” the department said in advice mailed to all 50 state school superintendents.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today that it was investigating the extent to which headquarters personnel should have been aware of problems with the space shuttle’s O ring seals. Officials of the agency also said that a high-level office would be established to monitor such problems in the future. The announcements by top officials of the space agency came at Congressional hearings that are continuing to delve into the disaster that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and its seven-member crew on Jan. 28. The failure of the O rings on one of the shuttle’s booster rockets was found to be the cause of the disaster. At a hearing of the Senate Subcommittee on Science, Technology and Space this morning, Dr. James C. Fletcher, Administrator of NASA, said he would create a “new and crucial office” to exert “direct authority” over safety, reliability and quality assurance. He said that the office would report directly to him and be independent of other NASA functions. Such an office had been recommended by the Presidential commission headed by William P. Rogers, which studied the Challenger disaster, but in previous hearings NASA officials had appeared reluctant to commit themselves to establishing it.
A federal appeals court in St. Louis upheld arson and firearm convictions of the man who founded a white-supremacist group in Arkansas. A three-judge panel approved the convictions of James D. Ellison, 38, who along with his followers lived on a paramilitary compound in north-central Arkansas of the group, called the Covenant, the Sword and the Arm of the Lord. Ellison, 38, was convicted in July in Fort Smith, Ark., on charges that he participated in racketeering activity and interstate travel to promote arson, the court said.
Extra-Strength Excedrin capsules were removed from store shelves around the country at the request of the manufacturer, Bristol-Myers. The company acted after the authorities labeled as homicide the cyanide-poisoning death of Sue Snow Webking, a 40-year-old banker who lived in a suburb of Seattle. “Although we believe this to be a local, isolated incident, we are also asking all stores throughout the United States to quarantine Excedrin capsules for the time being and to remove Excedrin capsules from store shelves until we have more information on the situation in Auburn,” said Harry Levine, a vice president of Bristol-Myers in New York, which makes the pain-reliever. Mrs. Webking, who was 40 years old, collapsed at home Wednesday and was pronounced dead on arrival at Harborview Medical Center here. An autopsy was conducted by the King County Medical Examiner’s office, but not until Monday afternoon did laboratory analysis determine that she had died of acute cyanide poisoning.
Two witnesses in the espionage trial of Jerry A. Whitworth testified today that they might have unwittingly been used by the prosecution’s star witness, John A. Walker Jr., to leave stolen military data for Soviet agents. The testimony of the two, Laurie Robinson and Roberta Puma, came on the first day of the presentation of the defense of Mr. Whitworth, who is accused of stealing secret Navy cryptographic data and passing it to a Soviet spy ring headed by Mr. Walker in exchange for $332,000 over a 10-year period. He is also charged with tax fraud. The testimony of the two women was offered to attack the credibility of Mr. Walker, who has pleaded guilty to espionage and is awaiting sentencing. Defense attorneys have indicated since the start of the trial 12 weeks ago that their attempts to discredit Mr. Walker’s testimony would play a crucial role in Mr. Whitworth’s defense.
The Communications Workers of America and the American Telephone and Telegraph Company reached a tentative settlement yesterday that could end the strike by 155,000 union members by Sunday. While the wage terms in the proposed three-year contract are similar to those in the company offer that the union rejected before walking out June 1, the union said it achieved several of its main goals, including improved employee security and benefits for service technicians. The communication workers’ president, Morton Bahr, had said the union was determined not to agree to contract concessions, which many unions have accepted in recent years. Yesterday he said, “In this climate of rollbacks and givebacks, we were able to win solid wage and benefits improvements.” A.T.&T. also expressed satisfaction with the accord. The company’s position was that it needed to reduce labor costs to compete against the largely nonunion companies that have entered the lucrative long-distance business since the telephone industry was deregulated.
A mentally retarded man whose fight to escape execution drew support from international rock stars and mental health groups won a reprieve in Atlanta, eight hours before he was scheduled to die. The Georgia Board of Pardons and Paroles decided to halt the execution of Jerome Bowden, scheduled for 7 PM Tuesday, for up to 90 days while his mental competency is evaluated. Bowden, 33, was convicted in 1976 of murder in the death of Kathryn Stryker, who was beaten to death during a robbery in her Columbus home.
Six of the eight white people who were shot in a racial incident last week, reportedly by a black man, have asked that charges be dropped against the suspect in order to relieve tensions. “We’re offering as much as we can to bring this community back to its feet,” Larry Craig, 33 years old, a spokesman for the group, said Monday. “Nobody got seriously hurt. We’re willing to swallow our pride and let it ride.” The county prosecutor, John T. Corrigan, said he was “pleased to hear” the victims’ position and said he would make a decision soon on how to proceed. Michael Spraggins, 23, of suburban Parma, who is charged with one count of felonious assault in the shotgun shooting, is free on $5,000 bond. The shooting occurred June 10 while Mr. Spraggins was visiting the only black family in a white neighborhood. The family has since moved away.
Members of the United Steelworkers of America have ratified a new contract with the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the nation’s second largest steel company, that includes reductions in wages and benefits, a union spokesman said Monday. Bethlehem’s losses have reached $2 billion over the past four years. The contract calls for reductions totaling $1.96 an hour, according to Russ Gibbons, a spokesman for the union. The ratio of benefit and wage reductions is still to be negotiated, he said. The contract was approved by slightly more than 80 percent of the union’s 24,800 members at Bethlehem. In return for the union concessions, the company is to create a profit-sharing fund for employees, to which it would add preferred stock if it made no money. A spokesman for Bethlehem said the contract “will help improve Bethlehem’s ability to survive, compete and succeed.”
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) voted to reaffirm the church’s prochoice stand on abortion. By a 281-266 margin, church commissioners voting at the group’s annual meeting in Minneapolis rejected a measure that would have commissioned a study of whether the church’s 3.1 million members wanted to reconsider opinions on abortion. The Rev. Bart Tarman of Santa Barbara said the assembly “has missed a dynamic opportunity to reconsider the church’s abortion position.”
The Roman Catholic Church in this country faces a severe shortage of men entering the priesthood and of both men and women entering religious orders, a conference of bishops concluded Monday. But the bishops rejected such proposals as allowing women to be ordained or priests to marry. The eight-day meeting, at St. John’s University in Collegeville, Minn., drew 259 bishops, representing most of the active bishops in the United States. The bishops reached no conclusions on how to stem the decline in the number of new priests and in the religious orders, but, according to Bishop James W. Malone, the president of the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, they had not expected to do so.
Richard Ramirez, accused of 14 slayings and 31 other felony counts stemming from a series of nighttime attacks that terrorized Californians, was ordered to stand trial Sept. 2 after a defense request for a delay was rejected today. Arturo Hernandez, a defense lawyer, also said today that he would seek a change of venue to northern California because of the widespread publicity here about the case in killings done by a man often described as the “night stalker.”
Wheat farmers began a first harvest under a new law that reduced planting and will further reduce depressed prices. Benefits under the costly new law will help alleviate the effects of the crop shortfall.
Kate Smith died at the Raleigh (N.C.) Community Hospital at the age of 79. Miss Smith, whose vibrant voice made Irving Berlin’s “God Bless America” an unofficial national anthem, was one of the most popular singers of the century. She never had a formal music lesson. President Reagan expressed sorrow over her death, saying: “Kate Smith was a patriot in every sense of the word. She thrilled us all with her stirring rendition of ‘God Bless America’ and sang with a passion which left few eyes dry.” Miss Smith had been in poor health since 1976, when she suffered brain damage as a result of a diabetic coma. In January, her right leg was amputated because of circulatory problems associated with her diabetes, and on May 9, she underwent a mastectomy.
University of North Carolina Center Brad Daugherty is the first pick in the NBA draft, by the Cleveland Cavaliers. The second pick, by the Boston Celtics, is Maryland forward Len Bias. And so the stage is set for one of the most shocking stories of 1986.
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4–3, as Rafael Ramirez doubled home Dale Murphy with the winning run with two out in the 10th inning to cap a two-run rally. After Mike Marshall’s second homer gave the Dodgers a 3–2 lead, the Braves began their comeback against Ken Howell (2–4) when Claudell Washington drew a leadoff walk and moved to second on a sacrifice. After Murphy walked, Tom Niedenfuer relieved, and Washington advanced to third as Bob Horner flew out to right. Ken Oberkfell then grounded a single to score Washington with the tying run, and Ramirez followed by lining a shot to right field that Marshall missed.
The Detroit Tigers upended the Baltimore Orioles, 6–3. Kirk Gibson went 3 for 5 and had three RBIs to highlight a 15-hit attack. Lou Whitaker and Dave Bergman also had three hits apiece for Detroit to back the four-hit pitching of Randy O’Neal (1–3).
Mike Witt scattered nine hits and Doug DeCinces hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning as California shut out Texas, 4–0, and further tightened the race in the AL West. Witt, 8–4, walked one and struck out five in pitching his sixth complete game and second shutout of the season. The victory moved the Angels, tied with Kansas City for second place, within 1 ½ games of the division-leading Rangers, who lost their fourth straight and became the last team in the American League to be shut out.
The Philadelphia Phillies beat the Chicago Cubs, 11–8. Mike Schmidt’s bases-loaded single — his second hit of the inning — drove in two runs to cap a six-run eighth inning and help lift Philadelphia past Chicago.
Pitcher Chris Welsh lined a two-run single to highlight a decisive three-run sixth inning tonight that carried the Cincinnati Reds to a 5–4 victory over the Houston Astros. Welsh (2–1) scattered seven hits over six and two-thirds innings, and used his first hit of the season to help the Reds overcome a 2–0 deficit. Cincinnati scored three unearned runs off Manny Hernandez (1–2) in the sixth to snap a 2–2 tie. Eric Davis reached base on a fielding error by the third baseman Phil Garner and came around to score on a sacrifice, a steal and Dave Concepcion’s single through a drawn-in infield. Bo Diaz followed with a single, but Concepcion was thrown out when he tried to advance to third. Ron Oester followed with a double and Welsh capped the rally with an opposite-field two-run single.
Gorman Thomas hit a three-run homer and Alvin Davis had his first five-hit game to help the Seattle Mariners to their fourth straight victory, beating the Indians, 5–2. Seattle starter Mike Morgan, 5–6, gave up nine hits, including at least one in each of the first six innings, but did not allow a run until Joe Carter hit a two-run homer in the sixth, his ninth of the season. Morgan pitched his third complete game.
The Toronto Blue Jays edged the Milwaukee Brewers, 2–1. Jesse Barfield, who singled home the game’s first run in the 10th inning, doubled home the winner with one out in the 12th. Barfield’s double drove in Willie Upshaw, who drew a walk from the Milwaukee reliever Dan Plesac. Tom Henke (6–3) pitched two innings of hitless relief as the Blue Jays won their fourth straight game.
Kent Hrbek and Tom Brunansky hit consecutive firstinning home runs to boost Minnesota over the White Sox, 4–1. Mike Smithson, 6–5, allowed 10 hits before being relieved by Keith Atherton with one out in the seventh and runners on first and third. Atherton walked John Cangelosi to load the bases but struck out Carlton Fisk and Harold Baines and retired the White Sox in order in the eighth and ninth to earn his first save of the season.
It might be baseball’s most intriguing question of the season: How does a team beat the Mets? Tonight, the Montreal Expos did it with pitching and with defense, and then, when the night was done, they talked about a race that still has the distinct appearance of a runaway. Joe Hesketh, who seemed in danger of falling out of the Expos’ pitching rotation, struck out 11 batters in eight and one-third innings, and his teammates supported him with three exceptional defensive plays in the outfield to give Montreal a 4–2 decision at Olympic Stadium. The defeat ended the Mets’ seven-game winning streak and was only their 17th defeat in 61 games this season. Montreal reduced its still-sizable deficit in the National League East to 10 ½ games, the margin when the series opened Monday.
Ken Griffey baffled the Yankees by his unexplained absence last night, and Alfonso Pulido baffled Boston with his assortment of off-speed pitches. The Yankees nearly put one over on the Red Sox, but they fell a run short, losing by 7-6, after leaving six runners on base in the last two innings. Joe Niekro, the Yankees’ starting pitcher, did not fool the Red Sox with his knuckleball. Dwight Evans hit a pair of home runs following Don Baylor’s fifth and sixth singles of the series, and Bill Buckner also hit a two-run home run, all in the first three innings for a 7–2 lead.
The Royals defeated the A’s, 2–1. A pair of throwing errors and run-scoring singles by Frank White and Steve Balboni helped the Kansas City Royals score twice in the fourth inning. The Royals’ Danny Jackson (3–4) scattered seven hits, struck out five and walked four over eight innings. Dan Quisenberry got a save.
The Cardinals turned back the Pirates, 7–2. Clint Hurdle’s three-run homer highlighted a four-run seventh inning, and the rookie Greg Mathews pitched his first major-league complete game. Mathews (3–1) scattered five hits and retired 11 straight batters at one point as the Pirates lost their fifth straight.
The Padres downed the Giants, 8–5. Graig Nettles hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning as San Diego rallied from a four-run deficit to win. Steve Garvey led off the eighth inning with a bunt single and Nettles hit Jeff Robinson’s 2–0 pitch into the right-field seats for his 10th homer. Craig Lefferts, 4–2, the fourth Padres pitcher, went two innings to gain the victory. Rich Gossage pitched the ninth inning to record his 10th save. San Diego trailed 5–1 but battled back for four runs in the sixth to tie the game on run-scoring singles by Garvey, Kennedy, Garry Templeton and Flannery off San Francisco starter Mike Krukow and Robinson.
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Atlanta Braves 4
Detroit Tigers 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
Texas Rangers 0, California Angels 4
Philadelphia Phillies 11, Chicago Cubs 8
Houston Astros 4, Cincinnati Reds 5
Seattle Mariners 5, Cleveland Indians 2
Toronto Blue Jays 2, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Chicago White Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 4
New York Mets 2, Montreal Expos 4
Boston Red Sox 7, New York Yankees 6
Kansas City Royals 2, Oakland Athletics 1
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
San Francisco Giants 5, San Diego Padres 8
Stock prices drifted downward on Wall Street yesterday and trading volume remained depressed as investors, already concerned about this week’s expiration of stock index options and futures, were also bothered by weakness in the economy. “Dull, dull, dull,” complained Jack Conlon, head trader of E. F. Hutton & Company, who said the lack of interest on the part of investors was caused by their inability in “coming to grips with the weak economy.” The Dow Jones industrial average, which rallied sharply on Friday, fell 5.99 points yesterday, to 1,865.78. It was the blue-chip index’s second consecutive loss and came after the Government reported that housing starts fell 7.4 percent in May.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1865.78 (-5.99)
Born:
Jeff Otah, NFL tackle (Carolina Panthers), in New Castle, Delaware.
Aaron Pettrey, NFL kicker (Cincinnati Bengals), in Raceland, Kentucky.
Damjan Rudež, Croatian NBA small forward (Indiana Pacers, Minnesota Timberwolves, Orlando Magic), in Zagreb, SR Croatia, SFR Yugoslavia.
Joe Crawford, NBA small forward (New York Knicks), in Detroit, Michigan.
Died:
Kate Smith, 78, American singer (“God Bless America”; “When The Moon Comes Over The Mountain”), radio star, and NHL Philadelphia Flyers good luck charm, of respiratory arrest.
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