Soviet negotiators have signaled a willingness to work on verification problems for long-range mobile missiles and have for the first time suggested some possible verification measures, Administration officials say. The Soviet move came in a negotiating session on strategic arms in Geneva on Wednesday. Officials said the move on verification should be seen as another sign that the Geneva arms talks, once thought to be moribund, have the potential for serious give-and-take. The officials added that there were no signs that President Reagan’s renunciation of the unratified strategic arms treaty of 1979 had upset the talks. The Soviet move on verification measures was presented not as a set of detailed proposals but as indications of the sort of procedures both sides might agree upon to verify long-range mobile missiles, officials said. The Soviet concepts largely resemble the United States verification approach for medium-range mobile missiles, which American negotiators have proposed in the parallel Geneva talks on medium-range arms. One verification concept reportedly mentioned by the Russians is the monitoring of missiles as they leave factories so each side can count the other’s missiles. Another is restricting mobile missiles to specified areas to aid in detection. Soviet negotiators also said trains carrying the Russians’ mobile SS-24 missiles could be made to look different from ordinary rail cars, so they could be picked out by American spy satellites, American officials reported.
Soviet helicopters have been dumping water on the town of Pripyat and villages near the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor to keep windstorms from spreading radioactive dust into outlying farmland, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported. Soviet news reports also said that meteorological experts have been seeding clouds to induce rainfall before the clouds reach the contaminated area. Scientists fear that heavy rains could wash radioactive soil into the Pripyat River, which feeds the drinking-water supplies of Kiev.
Soviet authorities, uncovering a major scandal in night schools, have charged more than 100 teachers and administrators with padding payrolls, enrolling non-existent students and taking bribes, the newspaper Soviet Russia reported. Hundreds of other teachers and administrators were fired or reprimanded, and more than 1,000 educational facilities were closed, the paper said. The scandal centered on adult extension courses in schools funded by the government in the Russian Federation, the largest of the country’s 15 republics.
The Socialist Party of Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez is heavily favored as Spaniards vote in parliamentary elections on Sunday. But five national parties and eight regional ones hope at least to clip the wings of the Socialists by denying them a repeat of their parliamentary majority. Loss of the majority would mean that the 44-year-old Mr. Gonzalez would likely head a minority government, forcing him to negotiate more in Parliament. Elected four years ago with 202 of the 350 seats in Parliament, the Socialists have had the first majority Government since the death of Franco in 1975.
Kurt Waldheim privately telephoned Vice President Bush two months ago seeking to assure the Reagan Administration at a high level that the accusations that he took part in Nazi war crimes were not true, White House officials say. The previously undisclosed phone call prompted a discussion among staff members of the National Security Council that resulted in Mr. Bush’s being advised that the affair could grow and that he should steer clear of any involvement, officials said. The conversation is believed to be the only occasion in which Mr. Waldheim personally made contact with the Administration. It came at a time when the Justice Department was considering whether Mr. Waldheim should be barred from entering the United States because of his actions in the Balkans as a German Army officer in World War II. The Justice Department’s inquiry, as well as a parallel one by the State Department, is still under way.
At Stonehenge, the summer solstice was greeted, but rolls of barbed-wire barricades were raised to keep most people out. The barricades were erected to fend off the “Hippies,” a band of about 1,000 caravan wanderers who have alarmed British authorities. Stonehenge seemed even more inexplicable today with rolls of barbed-wire barricades up to keep the practicing Druids and everyone else from entry on a sunny summer solstice. “English Heritage: No Unauthorized Entry,” proclaimed a sign beside the ancient circular puzzlement of huge man-hewn standing stones, while a row of policemen stood like priestly silhouettes of the state this dawn, waving visitors on by. “This is damn ludicrous,” said Gia Topham, lolling a farmer’s field away from what she says is her favorite and most magical mystery. “I sat here staring at the dear stones — they are my temple — and the police came along and had me fill out a form just for looking.” With her black leather jacket, wild red hair and breezy attitude that the earth itself is for flopping onto and musing upon, Miss Topham was mistaken as a lurking member of a sect that, to Americans at least, now sounds as dated as the Druids — the “Hippies.”
The leader of a secular Israeli organization called the “Committee Against Religious Violence” was rescued by police after he was besieged by a crowd of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem, police said. The ultra-Orthodox Jews were apparently offended when Avraham Fried tried to drive through the mixed secular-religious neighborhood on the Sabbath. Fried fired a shot into the air to try to disperse the crowd, but his car was stoned before police arrived to free him. A police spokesman said there were no injuries.
Two Cypriot engineering students abducted in Muslim West Beirut in April were released in good health and flown home, only hours after two freed French hostages returned to Paris. A Cypriot government spokesman said Stavros Yiannaki and Panayotis Tirkas were freed after the “personal mediation” of Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat, in response to an appeal by Cypriot President Spyros Kyprianou. In Paris, French television journalists Philippe Rochot and Georges Hansen were met by Premier Jacques Chirac on their arrival at Orly Airport.
One person was killed and eight wounded when security forces opened fire on angry crowds in the Indian state of Punjab. Authorities blamed rising tensions over the transfer of Chandigarh, a city in Haryana state, to Punjab in exchange for 70,000 acres of Punjab territory. The Indian government later announced a tentative date of July 15 for the transfer.
China has conducted 32 nuclear tests since the 1960s, the official New China News Agency said. This is more than the 27 to 29 that foreign observers had estimated. China exploded its first atom bomb in the Gobi Desert in 1964. The agency report praised the bomb’s creator, nuclear physicist Deng Jiaxian, 62, saying he had directed 15 of the tests. Premier Zha Zayang announced in April that China would cease above-ground nuclear tests, and it is believed that the nation has not conducted an above-ground test since 1980.
Two Australians lost their final appeals today against death sentences for drug smuggling and are to be hanged. They would be the first Westerners executed under Malaysia’s tough antidrug laws. The defendants, Kevin Barlow and Brian Chambers, both 28 years old. were convicted last July of possession of 6.3 ounces of heroin at Penang airport in 1983. No date was set for execution, but lawyers expect it soon. Malaysia has hanged 36 people, including citizens of other Southeast Asian nations, for drug offenses. Another 107 are under death sentences but are appealing.
President Corazon C. Aquino and Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile appeared today at an air force gathering and denied reports of widening political differences between them. “You will agree with me that action speaks louder than words,” President Aquino said. “And what you see today I think you believe rather than some unfavorable reports that you are hearing about or reading about.” Mr. Enrile later told reporters: “You know there are many people who want to cripple the Government. They want to create intrigues. I do not know who they are. But whoever they are, they want to create intrigues.” Supporters of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos held demonstrations this week in support of Mr. Enrile and Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, the armed forces Chief of Staff, prompting rumors of a military takeover. In an interview with The Associated Press, General Ramos discounted speculation about a coup attempt, saying of the military, “We do not have that kind of background.” General Ramos also appeared at the air force gathering today with Mrs. Aquino and Mr. Enrile.
The Nicaraguan Government said today that it would be willing to negotiate limits on military aircraft, ships and eight types of weapons as part of a Central America peace agreement. In a letter sent to countries involved in a regional peace effort, Foreign Minister Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann said Nicaragua was willing to sign a peace agreement like that drawn up by the Contadora group. The treaty, which has not been made public, was to have been signed June 6, but the deadline passed with several Central American countries still unhappy with the draft agreement. The Nicaraguan statement said regional peace agreement should outlaw “irregular forces or subversive groups,” such as the American-backed anti-Sandinista insurgents. Nicaragua said it was prepared to limit weapons it classified as “offensive,” including airplanes, helicopters, tanks and heavy artillery.
Nicaragua’s Defense Ministry said that government troops captured a foreigner June 16 in a clash with U.S.-backed rebels and that the man may be an American. A brief communique said the “mercenary” had identified himself to a former Costa Rican officer, during a visit to Costa Rica, as “Lalio Warnes of North American nationality.” U.S. Embassy press attaché Susan Clyde said she had no confirmation of the report.
Panama’s 1984 election was rigged by the nation’s military strongman, General Manuel Antonio Noriega, conclusive evidence assembled by the United States shows. Reagan Administration officials said both the Central Intelligence Agency and secret analyses provided by the United States Embassy in Panama concluded that extensive vote fraud took place. A senior State Department official said there was “absolutely no question” the Defense Force’s intervention came at the express order of General Noriega. A White House official with direct knowledge of the situation in Panama similarly said C.I.A. field reports had painted a clear picture of the vote-stealing and had tied it directly to General Noriega. “I saw the original reports in the daily intelligence briefs,” he said. “They were extremely accurate.”
A leading leftist politician accused the Peruvian military today of executing about 60 imprisoned guerrillas who had given up after prison riots this week. The politician, Senator Javier Diez Canseco, also predicted, as did many other Peruvians, that the brutal suppression of the uprisings in three prisons would increase the level of violence in the growing war between the armed forces and the Maoist guerrilla group called Shining Path. “Terrorism will find new justification for assassinations, for suicidal acts, for attempts against Government authorities, the military and police,” Mr. Diez said, “and the dirty war that has been conducted in this country for several years will reach unprecedented levels.” The riots and the Government’s response to them appeared to have opened a dispute within the the Unified Left coalition, of which Senator Diez is a leading member. Another coalition leader, Mayor Alfonso Barrantes of Lima, a Marxist, expressed understanding Friday of the difficulties the riots caused for the Government of President Alan Garcia.
The kin of South Africa’s missing are flocking to the offices of the Detainees Parents’ Support Committee with stories of late-night arrests and detentions. The Support Committee’s 40 offices around the country search for those blacks who have been detained under the state of emergency declaration. In ones and twos they come to the dingy offices on second floor of the large gray stone building on De Villiers Street here. They are all black, and someone they know is missing. In the offices of the Detainees Parents’ Support Committee, four harried-looking white women listen to stories of missing relatives, of brothers arrested in the middle of the night, of fathers who failed to return from work, of wives who have not been heard from. “My brother was taken,” a slight young man said slowly. When? he was asked. “At 2 this morning,” he replied. Where? “In Soweto.”
South Africa issued new prohibitions affecting 119 political and church groups around Cape Town, but restrictions on reporters were eased. Meanwhile, the Government also reported a “significant decrease” in violence.
President Reagan, saying criticisms of his judicial nominations were politically motivated, today denounced “partisan use of the confirmation process” by Democrats in the Senate. Defending his appointments to the Federal bench, which have come under increasing criticism in his second term, Mr. Reagan said the attacks were aimed at qualified conservatives who simply failed to conform to “liberal ideology.” He said his judicial appointments were marked by candidates of “proven abilities and the finest character.” The remarks, in the President’s weekly radio address, were his sharpest criticism of Democratic senators and some legal scholars who have said the quality of his judicial appointments, especially those submitted for Federal appeals courts, had declined markedly in his second term.
Two tiny polyps removed from President Reagan’s intestine were not cancerous, his personal physician said today. The physician, Dr. T. Burton Smith, said in a statement that Mr. Reagan was given the news today at the Presidential retreat at Camp David, Maryland, where he is resting for the weekend after a complete physical examination Friday. Mr. Reagan has had two such examinations since he underwent surgery for cancer of the colon last July 13. In January three small polyps were removed and later determined to be noncancerous.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.”
American climate researchers have moderated the most extreme predictions of prolonged freezing and possible human extinction put forward three years ago as part of the outlook for the aftermath of a nuclear war. Because of the widely debated implications that such a “nuclear winter” would have for strategic policy, Government agencies have spent millions of dollars since 1984 on computer calculations and other research to assess the possibility that smoke and soot could shut out sunlight, causing a chilling of the earth’s climate. The calculations now suggest cooling would be less severe and less long-lasting than was believed, with an initial drop of perhaps 25 degrees Fahrenheit instead of as much as 45 degrees. Scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the three main centers of research on the subject, caution that they are signaling no general retreat from the idea that indirect aftereffects of nuclear war would cause human misery on a scale without precedent. They say that, beyond the immediate casualties from blast and radiation, their computer models still show the potential for widespread crop destruction from the torrents of smoke that would be sent skyward by burning cities and forests. And the scientists believe that hundreds of millions of lives would be lost to a broader combination of devastating effects, from changes in rainfall patterns to the breakdown of industrial society.
Ultra-fundamentalist Christian sects are steadily gaining members, spurred by charismatic leaders who exercise virtually unlimited control over members’ lives and thoughts, religious scholars say. The experts say that while many of these largely unknown sects grew out of mainline fundamentalist religions, others have sprung up within isolated congregations of non-fundamentalist Protestant denominations.
While Jack F. Kemp was tossing a football for the Buffalo Bills 23 years ago, James Keane was showing fans to their seats. “If he’d ever taken his nose out of the air, he would have seen me,” said Mr. Keane, a Buffalo Common Council member who now shares the political arena with Mr. Kemp as the Democrat bidding for Mr. Kemp’s House seat. The quarterback may not have noticed the usher, but the Congressman is being forced to take note of the challenger. Suddenly, instead of 1988 — the vintage many people associate with Mr. Kemp — there is 1986 for him to worry about. From the Collins Moose lodge to the Gowanda Shriner parade, from the Varysburg fire parade to the Warsaw dairy festival, Mr. Keane is tirelessly spreading his message throughout Erie County: “Jack Kemp cannot serve two masters. He has betrayed the interests of western New York to fuel his Presidential ambitions.”
Unjustified strip searches of female prisoners by New York City police employees are the subject of a million-dollar lawsuit brought by a high school junior who says she was subjected to one last year. Samantha Hodges, a 16-year-old from Brooklyn, was arrested on an unexplained criminal charge, handcuffed, taken to a cell and strip-searched by two female Police Department employees last November.
The United Steelworkers union staged a 55-city town meeting. using high technology to broaden its call for import restrictions, aid to the unemployed and programs to revive dying communities. “We’re here to help save America’s industry and jobs, and to bring the issues to the people and to Congress,” USW President Lynn Williams told labor leaders, steel industry officials and union members at a Washington hotel. His words were carried by satellite to high schools, civic centers and union halls across the nation in a “Save American Industry and Jobs” program.
Contract talks between AT&T and its striking workers went past a midnight deadline as both sides haggled over several remaining issues, spokeswomen for both sides said early today in Washington. Both sides appeared optimistic that the three-week nationwide walkout by 155,000 members of the Communications Workers of America would end this weekend. Although the parties reached tentative agreement on a national contract Tuesday, when they set the Saturday midnight EDT deadline for completing negotiations, several local issues involving the six corporate divisions of AT&T had not been resolved.
A three-member Federal mediation panel has suggested that track maintenance employees who struck the Maine Central Railroad accept the company’s offer of $26,000 in severance payments to any worker who is laid off. But the panel left most other key issues in the strike unresolved. The Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees struck the rail line, owned by Guilford Industries, March 3. President Reagan ordered creation of the panel to temporarily halt the strike when it spread to two other Guilford lines and employees of Conrail, the freight system in the Northeast and Middle West, began honoring picket lines. The union had rejected the severance offer, saying it wanted lifetime pay protection, or compensation until the age of 65, for the 116 union members still employed and more than 100 others furloughed before the strike. The panel suggested that the company and union negotiate productivity agreements similar to those in effect at the other two Guilford lines. The panel rejected Guilford’s request for a broader examination the company’s demands for changes in work rules and wage and benefit concessions. And it did not say whether the company acted properly when it dismissed hundreds of workers who returned to their jobs after the panel was created. That issue is being argued in Federal court in Maine.
The priest who baptized Kate Smith 22 years ago praised her “life of service” and led the congregation in singing “God Bless America” at a funeral mass for the singer in Washington. Father Albert Salmon of Ticonderoga, New York, eulogized Smith, who died Tuesday at age 79, as a woman of humility who kept her sense of humor through bouts with cancer and crippling diabetes. She will be buried at Lake Placid, New York.
A computer malfunction apparently triggered excessive radiation doses to two cancer patients in Tyler, Texas, earlier this year, causing the death of one man, officials said. Officials in Georgia said an identical machine unleashed a huge radiation dose in 1985 on a patient, causing nerve damage. In Austin, a Texas Bureau of Radiation Control investigator said the East Texas Cancer Center incidents came after the operator entered a wrong command into the linear accelerator and then corrected it. Officials said the incident at the Kennestone Regional Oncology Center in Marietta, Georgia, involved “an unforeseen sequence of computer commands.”
A 30-mile stretch of busy Interstate 40 across northern Arizona was reopened after being closed for more than six hours by a train derailment that spilled hazardous chemicals, state officials said. The derailment blocked Chicago-to-Los Angeles Amtrak trains. Truck traffic was forced on a detour of about 145 miles and cars were routed about 50 miles out of the way. Authorities said 36 cars of a Santa Fe freight train derailed near Parks, 16 miles west of Flagstaff.
Seven women were arrested after they stripped to the waist in a Rochester, New York, park to protest what they called a sexist state law forbidding women, but not men, to go topless in public. Several men peeled off their shirts and sat down in a show of solidarity, organizer Ramona Santorelli said. “There were about 600 gawkers” at the park, a police officer said. The women were charged with exposure of a person, which carries a maximum penalty of 15 days in jail or a $250 fine.
The Boomtown Rats singer Bob Geldof (34) weds broadcaster and writer Paula Yates (27) in Las Vegas; they divorce in 1996.
Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women’s record).
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Bo Jackson, college football’s Heisman Trophy winner in 1985 and the first pick (by Tampa Bay) in the NFL draft, stuns observers nationwide by signing with the Kansas City Royals instead.
Roger Clemens became the seventh pitcher in major league history to start a season with 13 consecutive victories, giving up six hits over eight innings today as the Boston Red Sox beat the Baltimore Orioles, 7–2. Clemens, who leads the American League with a 2.18 earned run average, struck out six to raise his league-leading total to 114. He walked three before Bob Stanley worked the final inning. Rube Marquard’s 19–0 start for the 1912 New York Giants was the best ever. The best start in the American League was 15–0 by Cleveland’s Johnny Allen in 1937 and Baltimore’s Dave McNally in 1969. Dwight Evans hit a three-run homer in the first inning and had a run-producing single in the eighth as Boston won for the fourth time in five games. Baltimore has lost 8 of its last 10. The Red Sox captalized on two wild pitches by Ken Dixon (6–5). Singles by Ed Romero and Bill Buckner gave Boston runners at first and third with two outs in the first. Don Baylor swung and missed for a third strike, but the pitch was wild, allowing Baylor to reach first and Romero to score. Evans followed with his eighth homer of the year for a 4–0 lead. The Red Sox went ahead by 5–1 in the fourth without a hit. Baylor led off with a walk. With one out, Tony Armas walked on another wild pitch and Baylor reached third. Rich Gedman followed with a sacrifice fly. Baltimore scored its first run in the fourth. Juan Beniquez walked and went to third on a single by Jim Dwyer. Cal Ripken’s one-out single, which extended his hitting streak to 17 games, tying a career high, drove in Beniquez. Clemens then worked out of a bases-loaded, one-out jam
The Mariners edged the White Sox 7–6. Carlton Fisk’s two-run double keyed a four-run fourth inning and the reliever Bill Dawley closed with four perfect innings, leading Chicago over Seattle. The victory was the first in two games since Doug Rader was named interim manager, replacing Tony LaRussa who was fired Friday. Neil Allen (4–0) was the winner and Bill Swift (1–4) took the loss. Both were warned by the umpire Ted Hendry about throwing at batters. Dawley got his first save in his 22d relief appearance of the season.
Ozzie Virgil went 3 for 4 and drove in two runs, including the game-winner, to help Atlanta snap a four-game losing streak, defeating Cincinnati, 7–6. Rick Mahler (8–5) pitched seven and one-third innings and allowed six runs. Paul Assenmacher pitched to one batter before Gene Garber went the final one and one-third innings to collect his sixth save. The Reds’ starter and loser, Chris Welsh (2–2), surrendered five runs on eight hits in seven and one-third innings.
The California Angels squeaked past the Kansas City Royals, 4–3. Brian Downing and George Hendrick drove in two runs apiece to lift California past Kansas City for the Angels’ fifth consecutive victory. Kirk McCaskill (7–4) scattered 12 hits through six and one-third innings as the Royals suffered their sixth loss in 10 games. Doug Corbett closed out the seventh and Terry Forster pitched the last two innings for his fourth save. With the score tied at 3–3 in the fourth inning, Gary Pettis doubled and scored on one of Downing’s three singles to give the Angels the lead. Pettis also had a triple and a single.
Rookie John Kruk, just recalled from the minors, singled home Tim Flannery from second base with two out in the 14th inning to give San Diego an 8–7 victory over Los Angeles. Flannery singled to open the inning and Tony Gwynn followed with an infield single, his fourth hit of the game, raising his National League-leading average to .354. Kevin McReynolds and Lance McCullers struck out before Kruk singled off Alejandro Pena, 0–1, the sixth Los Angeles pitcher.
The Tigers edged the Brewers, 4–3. Lou Whitaker’s ninth-inning sacrifice fly drove in the winning run after three walks had loaded the bases and Detroit defeated Milwaukee. After one out in the ninth, the reliever Mark Clear (2–3) walked the pinch-hitters Johnny Grubb and Darrell Evans. Dan Plesac relieved Clear and walked Dave Collins. Pat Sheridan, a pinch-runner, scored on Whitaker’s fly. Frank Tanana, Bill Campbell and Willie Hernandez combined on a six-hitter for the Tigers. Tanana, seeking his fourth consecutive victory, was relieved by Campbell to start the eighth with the score 3–3. Campbell (1–1) gave up a one-out triple to Rob Deer, but the Brewers failed to bring Deer home. Hernandez went in to start the ninth and gained his 13th save. The Tigers took a 1–0 lead on a controversial play in the first inning. Whitaker doubled, then scored from second after a pitch by the starter, Juan Nieves, got past the catcher, Rick Cerone. A fan grabbed the passed ball. Whitaker was stopped at third, but the Detroit manager, Sparky Anderson, convinced the umpires to wave him home.
Tony Bernazard and Brett Butler each drove in three runs to lead Cleveland, 7–5. Don Schulze pitched the first 6 ⅔ innings to improve to 4–4. Scott Bailes, who appeared in his league-leading 35th game, went 13s innings and Ernie Camacho recorded the last two outs for his eighth save. It was Camacho’s first save since June 1. Mark Portugal, 2–7, went the first 5 ⅔ innings for Minnesota and took the loss.
Sid Bream had three hits, including a two-run homer, and Bill Almon and Johnny Ray each drove in three runs as Pittsburgh rapped out 17 hits, crushing the Expos, 14–1. Rick Rhoden (7–4) allowed just three hits as he pitched his third complete game of the year, walking none and striking out 10. Rhoden helped himself with a pair of singles, including a third-inning single that accounted for the game-winning RBI. Rhoden lost his shutout when Montreal scored an unearned run in the seventh. The second baseman Vance Law, who pitched the last two innings for Montreal and allowed one run, doubled, went to third on the center fielder Barry Bonds’s error and scored on George Wright’s sacrifice fly. Pittsburgh took a 4–0 lead in the third inning. Jay Tibbs (4–3) struck out Almon, who reached first when the third strike was a wild pitch. Singles by Rafael Belliard and Rhoden made it 1–0, Joe Orsulak singled a run across and Ray hit a a two-run double. The setback cost the Expos a chance to gain ground on the first-place New York Mets in the National League East and kept them 10 games behind.
In a rare and classic bottom-of-the-ninth confrontation, the Mets sent three of baseball’s top hitters to the plate against Lee Smith of the Chicago Cubs yesterday, each representing the winning run. But Smith, despite the bellowing of more than 42,000 fans at Shea Stadium, struck out in order Keith Hernandez, Darryl Strawberry and Gary Carter. Each went down swinging with two runners on base as Smith preserved an 8–6 victory. Thus, the Mets’ seven-game home winning streak ended the hard way, after they had battled back to tie the game at 6–6 going into the ninth. Instead, the Cubs won at Shea for the first time since 1984, after losing 11 in a row here. Their winning blow came against Jesse Orosco, of all people, the sixth pitcher for the Mets in a 3-hour-14-minute game. Orosco was called to open the ninth against Keith Moreland, who had produced six hits in 14 career times at bat against him. Orosco was high with a fastball and Moreland slammed a home run into the left-field bleachers. Another run scored later in the inning on a force-out grounder by Chris Speier. It was only the seventh time in 28 appearances a team had scored against Orosco this year.
Mike Heath drove in four runs, including two with a ninth-inning double, to lift St. Louis over Philadelphia, 8–6. With the score tied, 6–6, Tommy Herr led off the St. Louis ninth with a single off the loser Don Carman (3–1) but was forced at second by Jack Clark. Willie McGee singled to right and, after the pinch-hitter Jose Oquendo struck out, Heath doubled into the left-field corner to score Clark and McGee. The Cardinal reliever Todd Worrell improved to 4–7 and Ken Dayley pitched the ninth for his third save. The season ends for Phils catcher Daron Daulton when he tears the ACL in his left knee in a home plate collision with the Cards’ Mike Heath.
Chili Davis singled home a run in the first inning and doubled home another in the fourth today, raising his National League-leading total of runs batted in to 50 and powering the San Francisco Giants to a 2–1 victory over the Houston Astros. With the victory, San Francisco moved to within a half-game of Houston for the lead in the National League West. The San Francisco starter, Scott Garrelts (6–6), came back from a physical collapse of five days earlier and limited the Astros to seven hits over seven and one-third innings. Garrelts struck out five batters and walked two. His scoreless-inning streak ended at 18 in the eighth, when the Houston pinch-hitter Jim Pankovits hit a homer. Last Monday night at San Diego, Garrelts went five shutout innings before leaving because of hyperventilation, which drained his strength. Chuck Hensley and Juan Berenguer finished. Berenguer retired five batters, allowing only a walk, for his third save of the season, all in the last four days. Berenguer has given up just one run in 25 relief innings this season. The Astros protested the game, saying that Giants coaches made two trips to the mound with Glenn Davis at bat in the eighth inning. Rules allow two trips to a pitcher, but only one per batter.
Charlie Hough pitched a three-hitter and Steve Buechele and Ruben Sierra hit home runs as Texas beat Oakland, 3–2, for a club record 10th consecutive home victory. Two of the hits off Hough (6–3) were bases-empty home runs by Jose Canseco, his 18th, and Bruce Bochte, his fifth. The loser was Rick Langford (1–7) as Oakland suffered its 13th straight loss on the road.
In the game’s tightest moment, Lou Piniella waved toward the bullpen one more time today. Dave Righetti came in. The afternoon crumbled. It has been this way three times in three games here. Righetti has failed to do his job, and the Yankees have struggled. This time, however, they were saved by Rickey Henderson and by Mike Easler, who made decisive contributions in a 4–2, 10-inning Yankee victory over the Toronto Blue Jays. All three games have gone 10 innings, and all three have been marked by inauspicious efforts from Righetti, who has still been summoned by Piniella despite a poor stretch in which he lost the series opener Thursday and has failed to protect two leads in two subsequent games.
Baltimore Orioles 2, Boston Red Sox 7
Seattle Mariners 6, Chicago White Sox 7
Atlanta Braves 7, Cincinnati Reds 6
California Angels 4, Kansas City Royals 3
San Diego Padres 8, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Detroit Tigers 4, Milwaukee Brewers 3
Cleveland Indians 7, Minnesota Twins 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 14, Montreal Expos 1
Chicago Cubs 8, New York Mets 6
St. Louis Cardinals 8, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Houston Astros 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Oakland Athletics 2, Texas Rangers 3
New York Yankees 4, Toronto Blue Jays 2
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Gartrell Johnson, NFL running back (New York Giants, Atlanta Falcons), in Miami, Florida.
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Assi Rahbani, 63, Lebanese composer, with his lyricist brother, Mansour (“Biya el-Khawatim” — “The Ring Seller”).
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