The senior Soviet Air Force officer in the United States was ordered expelled from the country today after he was caught in what Federal agents described as an elaborate counter-espionage operation. The officer, Colonel Vladimir N. Izmailov, 43 years old, was apprehended late Thursday night by several agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation as he tried to dig up secret documents left as part of the months-long operation. The documents had been buried next to a telephone pole in rural Maryland, officials said. They said the colonel had been meeting for months with an American Air Force officer who was masquerading as a top-level traitor but actually worked secretly for the bureau.
The Supreme Soviet, the nominal Parliament, issued an appeal to the United States Congress today to join in preventing the Reagan Administration from scrapping major arms-control agreements. The appeal was adopted at a session of the foreign-affairs committees of the Supreme Soviet at which Yegor K. Ligachev, the second-ranking member of the Politburo, and top Kremlin officials denounced President Reagan’s announcement that he would no longer consider himself bound by the terms of the 1979 strategic arms treaty.
A Soviet diplomat who was working under cover as an intelligence agent in northern Africa has defected to the United States, intelligence sources said today. The sources said the diplomat, Oleg Agranyants, had been a senior official in the Soviet Embassy in Tunis. They said he had approached American officials about a month ago and has since been brought to this country with his family for detailed questioning. NBC News, which reported the defection Thursday, said Mr. Agranyants was responsible for all K.G.B. operations in northern Africa and worked with Palestinian guerrillas in the region. The sources would not describe the information provided by Mr. Agranyants.
The new head of the Soviet Film Makers’ Union, elected last month in a purge of the union’s old leadership, said today that the group had set up a commission to review censored films. Speaking at a news conference, the union official, Elem Klimov, many of whose own films suffered at the hands of the movie-making establishment, said a “conflict commission” had been formed to review about 25 fiction films and an unspecified number of documentaries and television movies that had been relegated “to the shelf.”
The military budget for 1987 approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee would cut $1.5 billion from President Reagan’s program to develop advanced defenses against nuclear missiles.
The former Spanish Prime Minister, Adolfo Suarez, rose before a cheering crowd crammed into a small theater here. “In these last four years, the Socialists have been arrogant,” he said of the Government of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez. “They have been autocratic. And no other party can take away votes from them better than we can.” And with that message and his own charisma, the tanned and handsome 53-year-old Mr. Suarez has staged a surprising political comeback to become the wild card in the Spanish elections Sunday. Although the Socialists are projected to win big over a divided opposition, Mr. Suarez could be the key in keeping the Socialists, a center-left party, from retaining their parliamentary majority. Polls predict that Socialist defections to Mr. Suarez could help give him more than 10 percent of the vote and more than 30 of the 350 seats in the Congress of Deputies.
With the campaign to introduce a civil right to divorce in Ireland winding into its final stages, the Legion of Mary here in County Tipperary has called for a three-hour prayer vigil in the cathedral in order to preserve Ireland as the last European nation that is constitutionally committed to the Roman Catholic ideal of an indissoluble marriage bond. Proponents of a proposed constitutional amendment that is to be put to the voters in a referendum next Thursday say it is needed to deal with the spreading problem of marital breakdowns in Ireland, which may involve as many as 70,000 of an estimated 800,000 couples. Ireland, they say, has an increasing number of couples living together in stable unions who want to wed but cannot do so under the law because one of the partners has been in a marriage that failed. The argument is easier to make in middle-class areas of Dublin that would like to be seen as cosmopolitan than it is here in the rural heartland, 75 miles southwest of Dublin, where an unmarried couple living together can still cause a scandal. Fine Gael, the dominant party in the minority coalition Government in Dublin that called the referendum, is finding it harder than usual to get people here to distribute leaflets making the case for the yes vote sought by Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, the party leader.
One of the hijackers of the cruise ship Achille Lauro told an Italian court here today that a fellow hijacker had admitted killing a handicapped New York man aboard the ship. He also testified that the operation had been directed by Mohammed Abbas, leader of a Palestinian guerrilla faction. Ahmad Maruf al-Assadi, a key witness for the prosecution, said the Palestinian gunman accused of slaying Leon Klinghoffer came to him soon after the killing with blood on his clothes and announced, “I have killed the American.” Mr. Klinghoffer used a wheelchair.
An American model was convicted and sentenced to 14 years in prison today for voluntary homicide in the shooting of an Italian playboy. fter eight hours of deliberations, a panel of two judges and six jurors found the 28-year-old defendant, Terry Broome of Elgin, South Carolina, guilty in the killing of Francesco D’Alessio, 40, in June 1984. She had faced a possible sentence of life imprisonment. The court also handed down sentences totaling 3 years and 11 months to three Italian defendants. Miss Broome testified that she had not intended to kill Mr. D’Alessio but had taken a .38 caliber pistol to his apartment to try to make him stop taunting her in public.
Shiite Muslim kidnappers freed a French television correspondent and a cameraman in West Beirut shortly before midnight tonight. “We were left free near the Hotel Beau Rivage and then walked to the hotel,” the correspondent, Philippe Rochot, said as he sat beside the cameraman, Georges Hansen, in the hotel’s lobby here. Mr. Rochot, 39 years old, is the Middle East correspondent of the French network Antenne 2. He and Mr. Hansen, 45, were members of a four-man television crew kidnapped March 8. The other two crew members, who are still missing, are a soundman, Aurel Cornea, 54, and a lighting engineer, Jean-Louis Normandin, 34.
A bitter dispute between the Ontario government and the province’s doctors appeared to deepen today, as the provincial legislature voted to prohibit physicians from charging higher fees than those set by the government. In turn, doctors vowed to extend a strike that has already lasted nine days. The Ontario Medical Association said it would “dramatically and decisively” step up its job action, perhaps shutting down entire hospitals, including intensive care units. The provincial government is seeking to keep the doctors from charging more than the fees set by the province’s Health Ministry. The legislation approved today calls for doctors who engage in extra billing to be fined $250 for the first offense and $1,000 for repeated offenses. It is to take effect after several technical details are worked out.
Several former officers of the Nicaraguan rebel forces assert that their top military leaders are siphoning off large amounts of money received from the United States, to enrich themselves at the expense of their troops. Furthermore, some of these former officers said, American officials have been warned about the abuses for years, ever since the Central Intelligence Agency began financing the rebels clandestinely in the early 1980’s, but have continued to back the rebel leaders who are believed to be involved. A total of $27 million has been appropriated by Congress for nonmilitary aid in the current fiscal year, and a request by President Reagan for $100 million, including $70 million in military aid, depends on approval by the House next week. Interviewed in the Miami area in the last few days, the former officers of the contras, as the rebel forces are called, said their assertions of corruption were based mostly on their experiences in the field. They described the use of phony receipts, black market currency deals, the substituting of inferior goods and other techniques.
A guerrilla tried to fire a mortar shell at a Lima, Peru building where the Socialist International began its annual meeting today but the weapon exploded and killed her, the police said. The attempted attack came a day after police officers and troops took prisons in the Lima area, leaving hundreds of inmates dead after an uprising by guerrilla prisoners. The attempt to fire a shell from a homemade mortar at the convention center occurred a few minutes before President Alan Garcia arrived to open the four-day Socialist International meeting, the police said.
Overriding the opposition of the country’s two nonwhite chambers of Parliament, South Africa’s white leaders tonight forced into law two security measures that give the authorities sweeping powers to deal with unrest. The new measures enable the authorities to detain opponents for six months without trial and to declare “unrest areas” in which the police will have virtually unbridled freedom of action. Under existing law, the authorities had the right to detain people without trial for 14 days in nonemergency situations. Critics of the two laws approved by the white-dominated President’s Council, the powers of which are superior to Parliament’s, say the measures will enable President P. W. Botha to call off the nationwide state of emergency while retaining unfettered police control of black townships and squatter camps in which people will have few if any civil rights. Human rights activists, many of whom are now in hiding or in detention under the state of emergency declared last week, denounced the legislation when it was before Parliament. They said the laws would give the authorities the same powers they now have under the emergency decree without a formal emergency declaration.
Both votes tonight were preceded by hours of bitter debate, with opponents charging that the legislation would strip black South Africans of any legal rights. “This law says, ‘Let us put a moratorium on justice and morality,’ ” said Peter Marais, a mixed-race member of the President’s Council and member of the opposition Freedom Party, attacking the detention law. James Rennie, a white member of the Progressive Federal Party, said, “We have to ask ourselves whether the passing of this bill will turn South Africa into a police state.” Fanie Herman, a white Conservative Party member, said, “We must act absolutely, quickly and drastically to prevent further chaos. There is no time for sweet-talking.” Although the white chamber of Parliament has approved the measures twice, both the mixed-race and Asian houses have twice rejected the legislation within the past month. Blacks are not represented in Parliament.
International and domestic pressure on the South African authorities to release those detained under the emergency decree increased yesterday, and South African opposition leaders warned of a possible new wave of arrests under security legislation that becomes law today. In Paris, representatives of more than 130 nations called for sweeping economic sanctions against the Pretoria Government, and urged the leaders of the United States and Britain to reassess their opposition to sanctions. The statement came at the close of a five-day United Nations conference on apartheid. In Geneva and New York, world church leaders appealed to the South African authorities to lift the emergency decree and information restrictions immediately. The World Council of Churches called on the United States Senate to support legislation calling for comprehensive economic sanctions.
Doctors removed two small polyps from President Reagan’s colon during a routine examination to determine whether cancer had reoccurred in his large intestine. His physician, Dr. T. Burton Smith, said he was in “good health.” The statement did not say whether the growths removed today were benign or malignant. The President underwent major abdominal surgery for cancer of the colon nearly a year ago, on July 13. In January three polyps, or growths, about the same size as those found today were removed. Dr. Smith said the polyps would be given a standard laboratory evaluation and the results were expected tomorrow but did not indicate if they would be made public. Mr. Reagan left the hospital late this afternoon for the Presidential retreat in Camp David, Maryland, accompanied by his wife, Nancy. Asked how he felt, Mrs. Reagan said “fine,” and the President answered, “A-O.K.” Mrs. Reagan had accompanied the President to Bethesda for the five-hour examination. As he arrived, wearing green slacks and a black and white checked shirt, the President spread his arms and said “fine, fine” when asked how he felt. Asked if he was having any trouble, Mr. Reagan said, “No.”
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Legal Eagles.”
The Senate today eliminated a provision in its tax-revision bill that would have allowed a limited amnesty for taxpayers who voluntarily confessed their cheating to the Internal Revenue Service. The Federal amnesty program proposed in the bill would have been far more limited than those tried in several states in recent years. Even so, today’s close votes reflected how divided senators have become on the idea of a Federal amnesty. The amendment eliminating the amnesty provision was one of a series of minor amendments cleared away today by the Senate in preparation for a final vote on the landmark tax bill next Tuesday. While dozens of amendments are still pending, Senate leaders agreed on Thursday night to take a final vote on the legislation late Tuesday afternoon. The sweeping package is expected to be overwhelmingly approved.
A secret space shuttle mission for the Defense Department may be switched from a facility being built at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida because of the aerospace crisis, an official of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said today. That crisis started with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger last January and was exacerbated by the failure of several unmanned rockets, delaying the vast majority of the nation’s space program. Aerospace experts outside the Government say the secret shuttle mission, known in space agency terminology as “62-B,” is meant to lift the first of a new generation of spy satellites into orbit around the Earth. They say the switch, which would decrease the satellite’s effectiveness because of the changed orbit that would result, is being considered because of the nation’s current shortage of spy satellites.
After three months of decline, consumer prices rose two-tenths of 1 percent in May, signaling a return of modest inflation, the Labor Department said today. “The party’s over,” said Dorothea Otte, assistant director for economic forecasting at Georgia State University’s Center for Economic Forecasting in Atlanta. “We are not going to see three months of negative numbers for a long time to come.” Earlier this year there were steep declines in energy prices that produced three months of deflation, but economists say the economy is now returning to a moderate underlying rate of inflation that for the rest of the year should range between 3 percent and 4 percent on an annual basis. The May increase, on an annual basis, amounted to 2.2 percent.
The midair collision in the Grand Canyon on Wednesday has reinforced demands that binding rules replace the voluntary procedures established for flights there. Representative Richard H. Lehman, Democrat of California, said it was clear “that the days of voluntary supervision and self-regulation of these flights are over.” He has a bill before the House calling for Federal rules to limit the number and routes of flights over the Grand Canyon and other national parks. William Penn Mott Jr., director of the National Park Service, said Thursday on NBC-TV’s “Today” program, “We do think that it’s very necessary that flights down below the canyon be eliminated completely.”
A California jury began deliberations today in the murder and conspiracy trial of Stephen Bingham, 15 years after the Government charged he played a major role in San Quentin prison’s bloodiest day. The jury elected a retired school teacher, Mary Bradford, 61 years old, as foreman and deliberated for one hour and 20 minutes, then recessed until Monday. Mr. Bingham’s guilt does not hinge on his fleeing from the law for 13 years, nor does his surrender two years ago mean he is innocent, Judge E. Warren McGuire of Superior Court told jurors before they began deliberating. Judge McGuire also instructed jurors not to find Mr. Bingham guilty of murder without first finding him guilty of conspiracy. Mr. Bingham, 44, is accused of conspiring with George Jackson, a black activist inmate, to aid him in breaking out of the prison, and of smuggling a gun, clips and a wig inside a tape recorder to the prisoner in a visit at San Quentin on Aug. 21, 1971. Mr. Jackson attempted a breakout in which he, three guards and two inmates were killed. Mr. Bingham faces two counts of murder. He could be sentenced to life in prison if convicted.
A Federal appeals court panel has ruled that the Justice Department may label as “political propaganda” three Canadian films dealing with the subjects of nuclear war and acid rain. The three-member panel’s decision came in a 26-page opinion by Judge Antonin Scalia, President Reagan’s newest nominee to the Supreme Court. It said the term “political propaganda” did not amount to a constitutionally prohibited governmental pronouncement that the films contain “mistatements, half-truths and attempts at misleading.”
Rescuers with drills today freed a Colorado teenager wedged in a narrow mine shaft overnight and a man who was seriously injured while trying to pull the youth to safety. The rescued youth, Thad Scheer, 17 years old, was treated for exposure and lack of oxygen from the poor air inside the cavern. He was hospitalized in satisfctory condition. One of the rescuers, Keith Dahl, 25, suffered a broken neck when he passed out inside the cavern and fell, said Jane Brown of Mercy Hospital. He was in the intensive-care unit because of fluid in his lungs, she said. The rescue ended a 12-hour ordeal in which more than 100 people from 16 agencies and 10 local contractors tried to rescue the pair, the authorities said.
Five convicts serving life sentences, including three murderers, fled Alabama’s maximum security Holman Prison after setting fire to the power station and blacking out the entire prison, officials said today. The prisoners fled Thursday night through a hole they cut in a fence, dodging bullets fired by guards who scrambled in the dark to block the escape. None of the convicts was hit and there were no other injuries, according to a Department of Corrections spokesman, Debbie Herbert. Two of the fugitives were captured within two miles of the prison and one was caught outside the fence shortly after the escape, Ms. Herbert said. A posse using tracking dogs searched for the other two escapees. They were identified as Steven Lamont, 30 years old, and Donald Ard, 33. Mr. Ard was serving life without parole for the 1981 contract slaying of an Army sergeant. Mr. Lamont was serving a life sentence for robbery.
Bristol-Myers will end the sale of all nonprescription drugs in capsule form because of the poisoning deaths of two Seattle area residents who had consumed contaminated Extra-Strength Excedrin.
The Reagan Administration today unveiled a complex and far-reaching program for overseeing genetic engineering research and the products of the nation’s maturing biotechnology industry. The package of guidelines, rules and definitions, affecting four Federal regulatory agencies and two research agencies, is the first coordinated framework that any nation has produced for regulating the new industry. “Biotechnology is expected to become a major industrial force in the nation’s economy,” the White House said in a statement accompanying the new regulations. “The framework provides a measure of regulatory certainty for industry. Implementation of the policies in the framework will allow U.S. industry to efficiently deal with commercialization and promote increased competitiveness internationally.”
Children are flying alone in record numbers, according to airline spokesmen. They say the surge in young frequent fliers is the product of the growing number of divorced American parents and several years of airline deregulation that has brought fares down and made flying routine for more Americans.
For eight years, a clerk in the Federal Courthouse in Manhattan passed confidential information about organized-crime cases to members of the Gambino crime family, Federal prosecutors charged yesterday. The charge that the Gambino family had infiltrated a Federal courthouse was contained in a racketeering and conspiracy indictment of 16 people, including a group the Federal law-enforcement authorities said was “the ruling hierarchy of the Gambino organized-crime family.” According to one count in the indictment, the clerk, Mildred Russo, conspired from 1975 to 1983 with Gambino family leaders, including the late boss of the family, Paul Castellano, to obtain information about secret grand jury matters and other criminal proceedings. Mrs. Russo was charged with being a conspirator with her son-in-law, Augustus Sclafani, who was identified as being associated in criminal activities with the Gambino group.
In an unusual move that is indicative of its problems, People Express cut its fares by about 30 percent yesterday in most of its markets. The cut came at a time when the airline, which has had heavy losses recently, was hoping to build up its cash by keeping fares high. Summer is the season when demand is strongest among the students, retired people and leisure travelers who are the airline’s traditional customers and the airline tries to salt away a hoard of money to get it through the rest of the year. Donald C. Burr, president of the airline, said that the higher fares that People had put in “did not take in the marketplace.”
The Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: The Cure, Psychedelic Furs, and Level 42 headline; other performers include: Simply Red, Madness, Ruby Turner, Amazulu, Lloyd Cole, Black Uhuru, The Wailers Band, Loudon Wainwright III, John Martyn, The Housemartins, The Waterboys, The Pogues, Gil Scott-Heron, Robert Cray Band, and Christy Moore.
Heisman Trophy winner Bo Jackson will shun professional football and sign with baseball’s Kansas City Royals, it was reported Friday night. Jackson, the No. 1 pick in the NFL draft by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, said he would announce his decision today.
Officials continued to gather facts today concerning the final hours of Len Bias’s life while his friends and acquaintances continued to mourn him. Bias, 22 years old, an all-America forward from the University of Maryland and the first-round draft choice of the Boston Celtics in Tuesday’s National Basketball Association college draft, collapsed suddenly early Thursday morning in a dormitory room on campus here and was later pronounced dead at Leland Memorial Hospital in nearby Riverdale. Doctors said the 6-foot-8-inch Bias had died of cardio-respiratory arrest, adding that they did not know what caused the attack. Reports by a Washington television station, WDVM, stating that traces of cocaine were found in Bias’s system and test results indicating that the player may have used the drug in the hours preceding his death cast an even greater pall over his death.
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After leading the club to a 26–38 record, Tony LaRussa is fired as manager of the White Sox and replaced by Jim Fregosi. LaRussa will be hired to manage the A’s early next month.
The Baltimore Orioles routed the Boston Red Sox, 14–3. Tom O’Malley drove in five runs with two doubles and a single, leading a season-high 20-hit attack that carried Mike Boddicker and Baltimore past Boston. The Orioles, who had lost four consecutive games and seven of their last eight, got three hits apiece from O’Malley, Rick Dempsey, Juan Bonilla and Mike Young. The Red Sox had won three straight. Boddicker (10–1) pitched a six-hitter for his sixth consecutive victory. He became the second 10-game winner in the American League, joining Boston’s Roger Clemens, who is 12–0 and was scheduled to face Baltimore on Saturday. Boddicker struck out seven and walked three in his third complete game. O’Malley doubled and scored in the first inning, had a two-run single in the fifth and hit a three-run double in the eighth.
The Mariners beat the White Sox, 5–3. Jim Presley doubled to start a four-run second inning and homered in the third, spoiling Doug Rader’s debut as interim manager of the Chicago White Sox Mark Langston, 7–5, combined with two relievers on a five hitter.
The Reds swept a twinbill from the Braves. Dave Concepcion’s bases-loaded double ignited a four-run first inning that started Cincinnati to an 8–5 victory over Atlanta and the Reds’ first doubleheader sweep in more than two years. The Reds won the first game, 6–4, as Buddy Bell drove in three runs and Tom Browning pitched six innings for the victory. The sweep was the Reds’ first since April 29, 1984, against San Francisco. Cincinnati has won six of its last eight games while Atlanta has dropped four in a row. Bill Gullickson (5–6) earned his first victory since May 24 by stopping the Braves on seven hits over eight innings in the second game, including home runs by Andres Thomas and Dale Murphy. Thomas also hit a homer in the ninth off John Franco.
Ruppert Jones homered leading off the game and hit a two-run triple in the second inning as the Angels won their fourth straight game, downing the Royals, 6–2. Ron Romanick, 4–5, gave up eight hits before leaving after George Brett started the Royals’ eighth with a single. Reliever Doug Corbett finished up, allowing a sacrifice fly to Steve Balboni that scored Brett.
Carmelo Martinez singled home the tying run and San Diego took the lead when the ball got past Los Angeles center fielder Ken Landreaux for an error as the Padres scored three times in the eighth inning to beat the Dodgers, 5–4. Reliever Ken Howell, 2–5, gave up Tony Gwynn’s third hit of the game, a one-out single. Kevin McReynolds walked and Howell struck out Steve Garvey, who had driven San Diego’s first two runs. Martinez then singled to left-center field. Gwynn scored easily and McReynolds followed him across the plate on Landreaux’s error. Garry Templeton followed with a single that scored pinch runner Marvell Wynne with what proved to be the decisive run.
The Brewers blanked the Tigers, 1–0. Tim Leary pitched a four-hitter to lead Milwaukee, ending the Tigers’ four-game winning streak. It was the first major league shutout for Leary. Leary (6–5) won his third consecutive decision. The 27-year-old right-hander struck out six and walked one in his second complete game of the season. The Brewers, held hitless for three innings by Walt Terrell (6–5) scored in the fourth inning on consecutive singles by Ernest Riles, Cecil Cooper and Ben Oglivie. Terrell allowed four hits and struck out five through eight innings.
Frank Viola gives up 8 runs, including a grand slam by Joe Carter, in 7 ⅔ innings and picks up the win as the Minnesota Twins edge the Indians, 9–8. Cleveland hits 3 homers in the 5th and 2 in the 6th.
Hubie Brooks went 4 for 4 with two runs batted in and Tim Raines also drove home two runs tonight to lead the Montreal Expos to a 7–2 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. Andy McGaffigan (5–2) pitched six innings for the victory. Bob McClure, acquired this month from Milwaukee, went three innings for his first save as an Expo. Montreal jumped on the Pirates’ starter, Bob Walk (2–4), for two runs in the first inning. Vance Law walked and scored from first on Raines’s double off the left-field wall. Brooks followed with a single up the middle to make the score 2–0.
Before their millionth Shea Stadium customer of this sparkling season, the Mets prevented the nearly unthinkable last night — a three-game losing streak — and wore down the Cubs, 10–3. Sid Fernandez permitted hits in only one inning, the fourth, when he yielded three. He hurled seven innings and raised his record to 8–2 while Keith Hernandez, Gary Carter and Ed Hearn stroked homers. Those performances came after the Mets had lost two straight to the second-place Expos at Montreal. In that series, Hernandez went 0 for 14.
The St. Louis Cardinals rocked the Philadelphia Phillies, 9–2. Bob Forsch tossed an eight-hitter and Curt Ford and Jack Clark supported him with bases-empty home runs in the St. Louis victory. Forsch (6–4) struck out three and walked five in hurling his second complete game. Ford, who had three hits and scored three runs, and Clark both hit home runs off the Phillies’ starter, Charles Hudson (4–5).
The San Francisco Giants bunted Bob Knepper to death Friday night and made Vida Blue the winner in Round Four of his 1986 pitching duel with the Houston Astros’ 10-game winner. “We started bunting in spring training and we’ve been doing it all season long,” manager Roger Craig said after his team’s 3–1 victory. “The players all want to bunt and they’re not surprised when we call for one.” Blue, 5–3, pitched two-hit ball for seven innings, followed by Juan Berenguer who worked two hit-less innings for his second save. Blue and Knepper are even, with two victories apiece, in their four matchups this year. Candy Maldonado broke a 1–1 tie in the seventh inning, driving in a run as he grounded into a force-out and getting his 11th RBI of the season as a pinch hitter. Chris Brown singled home an insurance run in the eighth.
Texas left fielder Gary Ward had to sit out Thursday night’s game with the Oakland A’s because he “lost a game of rock, fist and scissor” against teammate Pete Incaviglia. The night’s rest proved beneficial for Ward on Friday night when he hit a double and an inside-the-park home run in the second inning as the Rangers scored nine runs en route to a 10–7 victory over the A’s at Arlington, Texas “Bobby (Rangers Manager Bobby Valentine) likes to give players a rest every now and then,” Ward explained, “so last night it was between me and Incaviglia.””We played a game of rock, fist and scissor and I lost, so I had to take the night off. I was ready to play tonight, though.” The nine-run inning also featured a home run by Larry Parrish and what Valentine called the “biggest McGoof play of the season.” The play in question produced a double error by Oakland starter and loser Chris Codiroli, 5–8, that opened the door for five unearned runs and made it possible for Ranger rookie right-hander Bobby Witt to coast to his fourth victory in nine decisions. The Rangers lashed eight hits in the big inning, which Ward launched with his double, a fly ball that was badly misjudged by left fielder Dusty Baker. Parrish capped the inning with his ninth homer of the season off reliever Dave Stewart.
In Toronto, the Yankees score in each of the last 6 innings to win a slugfest with the Blue Jays, 10–8, in 10 innings. The Jays score 6 in the 9th to tie, led by George Bell’s grand slam. The ninth inning seemed to drift away, as if some higher element had decided to deny the Yankees for one more night. When George Bell delivered the grand slam that tied the game, Dave Righetti dropped to his knees on the pitcher’s mound. When the umpire threw out a new ball, the pitcher heaved it angrily over the fence in right field. The Yankees were two outs away from an 8–2 victory tonight, then one out away from an 8–4 victory. Righetti lost both leads, but Mike Pagliarulo and Rickey Henderson hit decisive doubles in the 10th inning that helped lift them to victory.
Baltimore Orioles 14, Boston Red Sox 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Chicago White Sox 3
Atlanta Braves 4, Cincinnati Reds 6
Atlanta Braves 5, Cincinnati Reds 8
California Angels 6, Kansas City Royals 2
San Diego Padres 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Detroit Tigers 0, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Cleveland Indians 8, Minnesota Twins 9
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Montreal Expos 7
Chicago Cubs 3, New York Mets 10
St. Louis Cardinals 9, Philadelphia Phillies 2
Houston Astros 1, San Francisco Giants 3
Oakland Athletics 7, Texas Rangers 10
New York Yankees 10, Toronto Blue Jays 8
The “triple witching hour,” famous for its bizarre fluctuations in stock prices, lived up to its reputation yesterday, when blue-chip stock prices soared and trading volume skyrocketed as professionals and large institutions started buying stocks by the bucketful just minutes before Wall Street was to close for the weekend. “The buy programs were tremendous,” said a Charles McNulty, a sales trader at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Company. “The volume just went crazy.” The Dow Jones industrial average finished the session with a 23.68-point gain, at 1,879.54. It had been only 1.93 points higher with 30 minutes of trading remaining, and was up only 14.18 points at the closing bell.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1879.54 (+23.68)
Born:
Patrick O’Bryant, NBA center (Golden State Warriors, Boston Celtics, Toronto Raptors), in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Allie Quigley, WNBA guard (WNBA champions-Sky, 2021; WNBA All-Star, 2017-2019; Phoenix Mercury, Indiana Fever, San Antonio Silver Stars, Seattle Storm, Chicago Sky), in Joliet, Illinois.
Dreama Walker, American actress (“Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23”), in Tampa, Florida.
Lary [Larissa Herden], German pop and R&B singer (“Das neue Schwarz”), born in Gelsenkirchen, West Germany.
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