The President praised the Kremlin, saying it had begun to make a serious effort toward arms control that could represent a turning point in Soviet-American relations. Mr. Reagan made the comment in addressing a high-school commencement in Glassboro, New Jersey, where President Johnson and Alexei N. Kosygin, the Soviet Prime Minister, met 19 years ago. Mr. Reagan said recent events had created a potentially positive atmosphere between himself and the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. “I am committed — utterly committed — to pursuing every opportunity to discuss and explore ways to achieve real and verifiable arms reductions,” the President told the graduating class of Glassboro High School in its crowded gymnasium. Among those present was Governor Thomas H. Kean of New Jersey. In an unusually positive speech, Mr. Reagan paid tribute to Soviet suffering during World War II and voiced a yearning for a summit meeting and for an accord to cut nuclear weaponry. White House aides said the positive tone was intended as a signal to the Soviet Union that the United States was serious about arms control. Beyond this, officials said, the speech was meant to ease concerns in Congress and among the European allies over Mr. Reagan’s decision to abandon agreed limitations in the unratified 1979 strategic arms treaty.
The House of Representatives approved a resolution today urging President Reagan to stay within the limits on nuclear weapons established by the strategic arms treaty negotiated with the Soviet Union in 1979. The final vote on the measure, which has no force of law, was 256 to 145, as 37 Republicans defected from the President’s position. Earlier, the House defeated a milder resolution offered by Republican leaders, 222 to 187. In a related development, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved a similar resolution as an amendment to the military spending bill. Sponsored by Gary Hart, Democrat of Colorado, the measure was adopted by a vote of 10 to 9.
Farming has resumed on land near the crippled Chernobyl nuclear plant, but the agricultural teams will be rotated every 10 days, the Soviet news agency Tass said in an indication of lingering concerns about radiation contamination. The resumption of agriculture in the evacuated zone around the Chernobyl plant, where an April 26 nuclear accident has so far resulted in 26 deaths, came as the Supreme Soviet, approved plans to double nuclear power output by 1990.
Fyodor D. Fedorenko, a 78-year-old suspected war criminal deported by the United States, was sentenced to death today by a Soviet court. The press agency Tass said that Mr. Fedorenko, a Ukrainian who served as a guard in German death camps during World War II, had pleaded guilty to charges of treason, going over to the German side and taking part in punitive actions and in mass executions “of citizens of many countries.” According to statements at his 10-day trial in the Crimean city of Simferopol, in the Ukraine, Mr. Fedorenko, as a 33-year-old Red Army soldier, surrendered soon after the Germans invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941 and was later recruited as an SS camp guard. Tass said Mr. Fedorenko had committed his “most grievous crimes” at three camps in Poland: Treblinka, northeast of Warsaw; Stutthof, east of Gdansk, and Belzec, northwest of Lvov. A total of 900,000 people were killed at these camps, Tass said.
In defiant but often contradictory court testimony in Genoa, Italy, the Palestinian gunman who prosecutors say once confessed to killing a disabled New York man during the Achille Lauro hijacking denied today that the crime had ever taken place. According to the confession, which the court said was given to a prosecutor Nov. 8 and which was made public today, Leon Klinghoffer, who was confined to a wheelchair, was chosen to be killed “so that everyone would know that we did not have any pity for anyone.” Magid al-Molqi, accused of being the assassin, is one of 15 men on trial here for various crimes connected with the hijacking of the cruise ship in October.
The United States Ambassador to Sweden, Gregory Newell, apparently unfazed by police concern that two men might have been stalking him, made a festive visit to his family roots in Dakarna Province today. He was carefully escorted by police bodyguards on the lookout for the two men who were chased from a private estate where the Ambassador was dining Tuesday after guards found them lurking with guns. The police had no developments to report on the men, who did not fire their weapons but escaped after a guard fired at them. Police Superintendent Harald Bostrom said that while they could have been alarmed game poachers, investigators had to take seriously the other possibilities that they were preparing an attempt on the Ambassador’s life or a kidnapping in the family of the wealthy dinner host, Bo Axelson Johnson.
Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar will rule on the dispute between France and New Zealand over the bombing last July of the environmentalist ship Rainbow Warrior “in the very near future,” a United Nations spokesman said today. The spokesman, Francois Giuliani, said in a statement, “They have agreed to refer all of the problems between them arising from the Rainbow Warrior affair to the Secretary General of the United Nations for a ruling that both sides are confident will be equitable and principled.”
Coluche, one of France’s best-known anti-Establishment comedians, was killed in a motorcycle accident near the French Riviera town of Grasse. Coluche, 41, whose real name was Michel Colucci, was driving alone at Opio, near Grasse, when he collided with a truck, police said. Coluche was also known for his humanitarian work.
Israeli Justice Minister Yitzhak Modai said in Tel Aviv that Israel may allow U.S. officials to question an Israeli officer charged in Washington with being the contact for convicted spy Jonathan Jay Pollard. Modai, returning from talks in Washington, said the United States had not asked to interrogate Colonel Aviem Sella, who is now commander of a large Israeli air base. “But if there is such an appeal, we will consider it,” he told reporters at a news conference at Ben Gurion International Airport. Modai said it would also be up to Sella whether he wanted to be questioned. “The man has civil rights in this country like anyone else,” he said.
John Cardinal O’Connor, the Archbishop of New York, said today that the plight of the Palestinian people, if left unresolved, “has to spawn terrorism.” At a news conference after a meeting with Pope John Paul II, Cardinal O’Connor sought to make clear that his support for “a Palestinian homeland” did not in any way imply a criticism of Israel, or a political proposal.
Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi said today that he was at home when American planes bombed Tripoli in April and that he helped rescue his wife and children while “the house was coming down around us.” Colonel Qaddafi said reconciliation with the United States is impossible while President Reagan is in office.
South Korean prosecutors said they have charged a leading dissident cleric, the Rev. Moon Ik Hwan, with plotting riots and inciting students to violent anti-government demonstrations. Moon, 68, a Presbyterian minister who studied in the United States, headed the United Masses Movement for Democracy and Unification until his arrest on May 23. On that day, he addressed 2,000 protesters at Seoul National University and called for an end to President Chun Doo Hwan’s regime and to U.S. influence in South Korea.
Philippine President Corazon Aquino denied reports that Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile had broken away and engineered a coup attempt. The rumor-which originated with a broadcast on radio station DZME, an outlet identified with deposed President Ferdinand E. Marcos-had brought 3,000 people to a rally in Enrile’s support at Camp Aguinaldo. “As you can see, everything is still OK,” Aquino told reporters as she and the armed forces chief of staff, Fidel V. Ramos, left a meeting.
Ernest Bennett, father-in-law of deposed Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier, has denied a U.S. allegation that he had links to a ring smuggling cocaine from Colombia to the United States, his lawyer said in New York. The lawyer, John de Roos, released the text of a letter Bennett sent to French newspapers that printed the allegations, made last week by an American Embassy official in Haiti. Bennett, who now lives in Paris, asserted that the accusations were “aimed at trying in a new way to sully” Duvalier and his family.
About 500 leftist Salvadoran guerrillas, using mortars and mines, attacked an army garrison in the eastern provincial capital of San Miguel today, killing or wounding at least 50 soldiers, a military commander said. It was the largest military operation by members of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front this year, and the first of such magnitude in San Miguel, El Salvador’s third-largest city, since September, 1983. Radio Venceremos, the rebel’s radio station, said there were at least 253 army casualties and said 12 guerrillas were killed. A military source said 57 soldiers were killed in the attack, including four women, and at least 80 were wounded.
The Sandinista Government today withdrew soldiers who had been occupying a Roman Catholic social agency for eight months and returned the agency’s buildings to church authorities. There was no indication that the agency would be allowed to reopen, however. A delegation from the Archdiocese of Managua entered the building today and said occupiers had made off with furniture, telephones, typewriters, medicine, two vehicles, a photocopying machine and other items.
An American serviceman was shot and killed by a Honduran soldier during joint maneuvers in Honduras, U.S. military sources said. The name of the U.S. soldier is being withheld pending notification of next of kin, the sources said. The shooting occurred near Juticalpa, about 125 miles east of Tegucigalpa, the U.S. sources said. Military officials from both countries are investigating the circumstances around the shooting. It is believed to be the first case in which an American serviceman was killed by a Honduras soldier since the two countries began holding maneuvers in 1982.
In an effort to confront the military Government, Panamanian opposition leaders today supported a formal accusation that the army chief here ordered the beheading of an opposition leader last year. The accusation was presented today by the family of the slain leader, Dr. Hugo Spadafora, whose decapitated body was found a day after he was seen being detained by Panamanian soldiers last September. The opposition Christian Democratic Party and Authentic Panamanian Party supported a demonstration of about 350 people who backed the family’s demand that the Attorney General investigate whether the army commander, Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega, ordered the killing. Dr. Spadafora’s slaying has come to play a major part in opposition demands for an end to military control of the Government. It is widely believed here that the army summarily dismissed the last President, Nicolas Ardito Barletta, because he tried to investigate the killing last year.
Reagan Administration officials told two House committees that they can neither confirm nor deny allegations that General Manuel A. Noriega, Panama’s military strongman, has links to narcotics trafficking and money laundering in that strategic Latin American nation. State Department officials declined to speculate about Noriega during testimony before the House Select Committee on Narcotics. Officials of the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Treasury Department also denied having evidence in support of the allegations against Noriega or proof of their falsity.
More than 400 jailed leftist guerrillas were killed in battles with Peruvian troops for control of two prisons in the Lima area today, Government and police sources said. A Government source said nearly all the 300 inmates of El Fronton, an island prison, were killed in one battle. Police sources said earlier that as many as 140 guerrillas had died in the fight for the Lurigancho prison outside the capital. The Associated Press quoted a Government official as saying about 250 inmates were killed at both prisons. There was no official confirmation of the death toll at either prison.
The South African authorities, invoking the nation’s emergency decree, imposed a curfew and other prohibitions tonight on segregated black townships in 13 areas in the restive Eastern Cape, the Government Gazette reported. The prohibitions included a ban on possessing T-shirts emblazoned with the names of 47 anti-apartheid groups, including student and community organizations. The curfews were the first known to have been ordered under the emergency decree. The measures followed frequent assurances by official spokesmen that violence in the country had lessened since the emergency decree — the harshest in the country’s recent history — was announced a week ago. The reasons for the curfew were not explained.
College basketball star Len Bias died of cardio-respiratory arrest. Bias, who had been chosen by the Boston Celtics in Tuesday’s National Basketball Association draft, collapsed in a dormitory room at the University of Maryland. A police official said there was apparent evidence that the 22-year-old player and others had been using cocaine. Bias, 22 years old, an all-America forward who said he had always dreamed of playing in the National Basketball Association, collapsed in his dormitory at the University of Maryland in College Park, and was rushed to Leland Memorial Hospital in nearby Riverdale. Dr. Edward Wilson, the emergency room physician, said he had died of cardio-respiratory arrest. Dr. Wilson added that the hospital had not determined the cause. A Prince Georges County police official, who asked to remain anonymous, said there appeared to be evidence that Bias and several others were using cocaine in the dormitory in the hours preceding his death. A Washington television station, WDVM, reported traces of cocaine were found in Bias’s system by doctors during treatment.
Because of serious safety concerns, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is abandoning plans to use a rocket fueled with a highly volatile liquid to launch scientific and Defense Department payloads from the space shuttle, officials said yesterday. The decision, a new setback for the shuttle project, threatened further postponements in the nation’s stalled program of planetary exploration. Future planetary missions and some large, classified Defense Department satellites will probably be reassigned to launchings by unmanned rockets, officials said. The missions immediately affected are the Galileo spacecraft to explore Jupiter and the European Space Agency’s Ulysses spacecraft to orbit and study the Sun. Until the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger last January, they were to have been deployed from shuttles last month and then boosted into interplanetary space by powerful Centaur rockets.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with the staff of the Office of Communications.
President Reagan and the Vice President eat lunch together.
President Reagan has signed an order easing strict government controls on the development of new organisms and giving several agencies responsibility for regulating different kinds of gene-splicing work, Administration officials said. Hundreds of plans have been filed for use of living cells that have been altered by changing their genetic makeup, but scientists have urged careful controls to avert catastrophes such as the development of viruses against which there is no defense.
President Reagan also signed legislation to step up federal efforts against the growing hazard of contaminated tap water, and expressed concern that some of the new law’s federal enforcement provisions were not assigned to the states. The measure broadens and strengthens the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974. It will nearly double spending for drinking water purity, with an average of $164.4 million a year allocated for five years. It also establishes a national program to protect vital underground sources of drinking water.
A House subcommittee voted a sharp cut in financing today for the Pentagon’s $3.8 billion program to build and test a weapon that would destroy orbiting satellites, Congressional aides said. The antisatellite program has been linked politically to a separate program to seek defenses against nuclear missiles, since the two programs would use many similar advanced technologies. In a separate vote, the subcommittee voted to cut $1.4 billion from the missile shield research. The House panel, the Armed Services Subcommittee on Research and Development, first voted to eliminate all funds for the antisatellite program but then adopted an amendment that allows some antisatellite research to continue next year, one aide familiar with the deliberations said.
Coastal state congressmen joined in opposition to a Reagan Administration plan to charge a $10 minimum fee for fishing in the oceans and tidal tributaries. The White House estimated that such user fees could raise $40 million a year. “President Reagan needs to reel in some big bucks, but in this instance he is casting in the wrong pond,” said Rep. Walter B. Jones (D-North Carolina), chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee. Jones was backed by other coastal state lawmakers of both parties.
The American Medical Association called for warning labels on alcoholic beverages similar to those on cigarette packages, and urged the liquor industry to act responsibly in its advertising. “Don’t glamorize alcohol to children,” said Dr. James Sammons, executive vice president of the AMA. The vote of the AMA’s House of Delegates came during its meeting in Chicago.
A House panel took its first formal step toward the impeachment of convicted federal judge Harry E. Claiborne of Nevada, which Claiborne’s lawyer vows will be a “no-holds-barred” battle. Claiborne attended the day-long hearing but declined to testify before the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on courts. The judge, now serving a two-year sentence at a minimum security federal prison camp, was found guilty in August, 1984, on two counts of tax evasion.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously today that sexual harassment of an employee by a supervisor violates the Federal law against sex discrimination in the workplace. Sexual harassment that is “sufficiently severe or pervasive” to create “a hostile or abusive work environment” is a violation even if the unwelcome sexual demands are not linked to concrete employment benefits, the Court ruled, as several lower courts have previously held. But the opinion, written by Justice William H. Rehnquist and joined by five others, said companies are not “always automatically liable for sexual harassment by their supervisors.” Women’s groups had argued that they were, and a Federal appellate court had agreed.
The Court, upholding Social Security, ruled unanimously that the states cannot withdraw their state and local government employees from that pension system. The decision reversed a lower ruling.
A Federal appeals court judge has granted temporary resumption of civil jury trials in Federal courts in seven states, overturning a national order imposed for budgetary reasons. The order Wednesday by Chief Judge Donald P. Lay of the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affects Federal courts in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Arkansas. Judge Lay acted on an emergency motion submitted by lawyers for each side in an Arkansas case brought by James Michael Debes against the Kawasaki Motors Corporation, U.S.A., and the Kawasaki Motors Manufacturing Corporation.
Richard W. Miller, the only Federal Bureau of Investigation agent ever charged with spying, was convicted today on six counts of espionage for the Soviet Union and bribery. After 21 hours of deliberation, the jurors told Federal District Judge David V. Kenyon that they were deadlocked on another charge against Mr. Miller, whether he had accepted an expensive trench coat as a bribe. The Government then moved for dismissal of that count, and the six verdicts of guilty were read aloud. Two of the charges carry a maximum penalty of life in prison.
The defense in the espionage and tax fraud trial of Jerry A. Whitworth ended its case today after presenting 15 witnesses over four days. The witnesses have testified of Mr. Whitworth’s patriotism, loyal friendship and conservative political views in an attempt to show that it would not be in his character to steal secret Navy cryptographic data and pass it to a Soviet spy ring as the Government charges the former Navy radioman did. Other witnesses have been used to attack the credibility of the prosecution’s star witness against Mr. Whitworth, John A. Walker Jr. Mr. Walker’s testimony against Mr. Whitworth was crucial to the Government’s case because, as the admitted head of a Soviet spy ring, he was the only person who could directly implicate Mr. Whitworth in passing stolen materials and receiving money for them.
Murray P. Haydon died yesterday morning, 16 months and 2 days after becoming the third person ever to receive an artificial heart. With his death, only one artificial heart patient, William J. Schroeder, survives. Mr. Haydon was declared dead at 10:45 A.M., according to officials at the Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville. He had remained in that hospital, tethered to machines that boosted his breathing and pumped his metal and plastic heart, almost continuously since Dr. William C. DeVries implanted the device in his chest on Feb. 17, 1985.
Americans are eating less but getting fatter, a panel of experts on obesity concluded. The doctors explained that Americans today are less physically active than they were 50 years ago, and “it’s clear Americans are eating a higher-fat diet,” said William Bennet, a dietary researcher at the Harvard University Medical School. The doctors, at a conference in New York sponsored by the New York Academy of Sciences, also said that obesity relates to environmental factors more than heredity.
The F.D.A. approved a kidney therapy that uses a manmade antibody, a type of treatment that has won wide praise in the last decade. The newly approved treatment is the first to use such a monoclonal antibody. It is designed to help patients who have received kidney transplants overcome internal biochemical problems that often cause those kidneys to fail, or be rejected by the body.
Cyanide-tainted capsules have poisoned a second person in the Seattle area, the authorities announced, and the F.B.I. said 25 agents had been assigned to the case involving Extra-Strength Excedrin.
Health researchers today reported the first case of a patient becoming infected with the AIDS virus from a blood transfusion that had been tested and showed no signs of the deadly disease. The case, which occurred last year in Colorado, involved a rare set of circumstances: a donor who gave blood so soon after a homosexual encounter that he had not yet developed the antibodies that trigger the AIDS blood tests, according to officials with the Centers for Disease Control, an Atlanta-based Federal health facility. The chance of a blood recipient’s getting the virus, which causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome, remains less than 1 in 100,000, said Dr. Harold Jaffe, an AIDS epidemiologist at the center.
Major League Baseball:
The Los Angeles Dodgers set back the Atlanta Braves, 9–4. Steve Sax, Enos Cabell, and Franklin Stubbs drove in two runs apiece to back the nine-hit pitching of Orel Hershiser and lift Los Angeles over Atlanta. Hershiser (6–5) walked one and struck out three in pitching his fourth complete game of the season and enabling the Dodgers to reach the .500 mark at 33–33. Zane Smith (5–8) was the loser.
Darrell Evans, pinch-hitting, singled home the tying and lead runs in the eighth inning, and Lou Whitaker added a two-run home run in the ninth as the Detroit Tigers beat the Baltimore Orioles, 7–5, tonight for a sweep of their four-game series. Evans came through against the Baltimore reliever Don Aase (2–3), who had saved seven of the Orioles’ last nine victories. Kirk Gibson triggered the winning rally with a one-out walk and one out later Chet Lemon doubled off the glove of the first baseman Eddie Murray down the right-field line. Evans then batted for Tom Brookens and put the Tigers ahead as they swept a four-game series from Baltimore for the first time since 1962.
The Astros whipped the Reds, 6–2. Glenn Davis hit a two-run home run, sparking a 15-hit attack that led Houston. Davis’ 14th homer of the season capped a three-run first inning against Mario Soto (3–7.) Bill Doran led off with a double and scored on a single by Jose Cruz before Davis homered. Doran hit an run-scoring single in the second off the reliever Joe Price and Alan Ashby doubled home another run in the third. Doran drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth off Scott Terry. Jim DeShaies (4–2) won his third consecutive decision. He gave up eight hits in seven innings.
The Cleveland Indians pounded the Seattle Mariners 8–1. Tony Bernazard, Joe Carter and Mel Hall all homered in the first inning and Tom Candiotti pitched a five-hitter to lead Cleveland. Bernazard and Carter hit consecutive home runs with one out in the first off Mike Moore (3–7.) After Andre Thornton walked, Hall hit a two-run shot to center-field for a 4–0 lead. Bernazard’s homer was his fourth of the season, Carter’s his 10th and Hall’s his ninth. Candiotti (5–6) struck out nine and walked three for his fifth complete game of the season. He lost his shutout when Bob Kearney hit his second home run with one out in the eighth, Seattle’s first hit since the third inning. Cleveland added a run in the sixth when Brook Jacoby scored from third base before Julio Franco was tagged for the third out in a rundown between first and second.
The Chicago White Sox edged the Minnesota Twins, 9–8. Carlton Fisk and Ron Kittle hit home runs in the fourth inning, and the White Sox scored six runs in the sixth for the victory. The White Sox entered the sixth trailing by 5–3, but Bobby Bonilla doubled in one run, a second scored on an infield out and Wayne Tolleson singled in the go-ahead run. Joel Skinner hit a single that scored Tolleson and John Cangelosi hit a run-scoring double before Fisk hit a sacrifice fly for the decisive run and a 9–5 lead. Randy Rush brought the Twins one run away in the seventh with a three-run homer, his fourth. Floyd Bannister (3–4) was the winner, limiting the Twins on one run and one hit in one and one-third innings before he was hit on the elbow by Steve Lombardozzi’s single in the seventh and left the game.
Bob Kipper combined with three pitchers on an eight-hitter and drove in the winning run with his first major-league hit in the fifth inning tonight as the Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Montreal Expos, 4–2. Kipper improved his record to 3–6 as he worked five innings and allowed four hits. Cecilio Guante picked up his third save with two innings of relief. Bryn Smith (4–5) was the loser. The Pirates scored twice in the fifth to break a 2–2 tie. Tony Pena and Jim Morrison singled to put runners at first and third. Morrison stole second and Kipper got his first major league hit with a single to right scoring Pena. Joe Orsulak hit a single up the middle and Morrison came home from third to improve the Pirates lead to 4–2.
The Phillies bested the Cardinals, 5–3. Pitcher Kevin Gross’ second career homer keyed a four-run fifth inning and Mike Schmidt also homered, for Philadelphia. Gross (6-5) gave up six hits in eight and two-thirds innings. Don Carman got the final out for his first save. The Phillies snapped a scoreless tie in the fifth. Glenn Wilson walked, Darren Daulton topped a single down the third-base line and Steve Jeltz hit a run-scoring double. Gross then hit on the first pitch from the starter Ray Burris (3–3) for his first home run since last Aug. 25.
The Padres downed the Giants, 8–3. Graig Nettles twice hit two-run home runs and Garry Templeton hit a two-run triple for San Diego. The home runs gave Nettles 12 for the season and 380 for his career, moving him past Orlando Cepeda into 25th place on the career list. Eric Show (5–4) pitched seven innings and gave up five hits and six walks. Craig Lefferts pitched the last two innings. Nettles’s first homer broke a 2–2 tie in the fourth inning. It came off rookie Terry Mulholland (0–2), who started and lasted just three and one-third innings.
The Oakland Athletics bowed to the Texas Rangers, 3–2. Rookie Ed Correa pitched a four-hitter and helped Texas snap a five-game losing streak. Correa (5–4), the youngest player in the major leagues at 20, struck out seven and walked only one, He retired 10 batters in a row at one stretch. The A’s scored their first run in the eighth when Dusty Baker doubled, moved to third on Mike Davis’s ground out and scored on Alfredo Griffin’s squeeze bunt. Jose Canseco hit his 17th homer in the ninth for the A’s final run.
The numbers were impressive: 9 runs, 18 hits, home runs from Rickey Henderson and Mike Pagliarulo, four-hit games from Don Mattingly and Ken Griffey. But consider the result: a 10–9 defeat in 10 innings to the surging Toronto Blue Jays and a Yankee losing streak that has now reached five games. The Yankees seemed to wallow in their misery when it was over, wondering how they could score so often — six runs in a three-inning stretch — and still lose again. “When you score that many runs and keep taking the lead,” Manager Lou Piniella said later, “you’ve got to be able to hold it. If you do, it takes the starch out of the other team. But when you let them back like we did, you’re constantly fighting an uphill battle.”
The scheduled game between the Chicago Cubs and the Mets at New York was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader on July 29.
Los Angeles Dodgers 9, Atlanta Braves 4
Detroit Tigers 7, Baltimore Orioles 5
Houston Astros 6, Cincinnati Reds 2
Seattle Mariners 1, Cleveland Indians 8
Chicago White Sox 9, Minnesota Twins 8
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, Montreal Expos 2
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 5
San Francisco Giants 3, San Diego Padres 8
Oakland Athletics 2, Texas Rangers 3
New York Yankees 9, Toronto Blue Jays 10
Stock prices dropped moderately yesterday as selling pressure swelled at the end of the session. The Dow Jones industrial average, which managed a small gain on Wednesday, dropped 13.08 points yesterday, to 1,855.86, despite being more than 5 points higher with only 60 minutes of trading left. Investors took cover before the often-volatile expiration of stock index futures, index options and individual stock option that occurs today. In addition, traders said, the market was reacting to continued gloomy economic forecasts, this time in the form of the International Business Machines announcement that it expects lackluster sales and profits for the remainder of 1986. Suresh Bhirud, market analyst with the First Boston Corporation, said Wall Street was “clearly worried that the economic growth rate will be slower than what people had expected.”
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1855.86 (-13.08)
Born:
Marvin Williams, NBA power forward and small forward (Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets, Milwaukee Bucks), in Bremerton, Washington.
Will Ta’ufo’ou, NFL running back (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Redwood City, California.
Erin Mackey, American stage actress (‘Glinda’ — “Wicked”), in Fullerton, California.
Died:
Len Bias, 22, American basketball player (Boston Celtics draft choice; second-overall pick for 1986 draft), of a cocaine-induced seizure.
Murray P. Haydon, 59, artificial heart recipient, in Louisville.
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