Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, proposed today that the Senate Foreign Relations Committee send the 1979 strategic arms limitation treaty to the Senate for consideration. He acted in the apparent expectation that the unratified treaty would then be formally disapproved. Mr. Helms, a treaty opponent, made the suggestion in a closed meeting of the committee, according to Congressional aides. No action was taken today because of lack of a quorum, and the proposal is to be brought up again on Thursday, an aide said. The treaty was signed in 1979 by President Jimmy Carter, but after the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan later that year, Mr. Carter said he would not seek Senate approval. As a technical matter, the treaty remained before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, which had held hearings on it. Treaty supporters said that they doubted the committee would approve Senator Helms’s proposal and that they thought it was a distraction from the issue of whether it was in the United States’ interest to keep within the numerical limits in the treaty.
Yugoslavia opened its first Communist Party Congress in four years today in a glum and self-critical mood. “We are face to face with stagnation in development, with weakening unity in the Yugoslav community and in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, with greater distortions and departures from proclaimed aims and with violations of some of the social norms and values which we asserted in the revolution,” said Vidoje Zarkovic, the party leader, in an unusually downcast keynote speech. His words were in contrast with the festive air of the flag-bedecked, ultra-modern convention center.
The United States Ambassador, Ronald Lauder, has a prior commitment and will not attend the ceremony when Kurt Waldheim is sworn in as President next month, an embassy spokesman said today. The spokesman said that Felix Bloch, the embassy’s second-in-command, would represent the United States at the ceremony on July 8. The spokesman said Mr. Lauder’s absence had nothing to do with the controversy over Mr. Waldheim’s war record. Mr. Waldheim has been accused by the World Jewish Congress and others of knowing about or being involved in Nazi war crimes. He denies all wrongdoing.
The Senate approved a resolution stating that former U.N. Secretary General Kurt Waldheim should be denied his annual U.N. pension of $81,650 because of disclosures about his service as a Nazi intelligence officer during World War II. The non-binding resolution urges President Reagan to instruct the permanent U.S. representative to the United Nations to object to the annual payment to the Austrian president-elect. Waldheim has received the payment since retiring as secretary general in 1982.
Britain’s Prince Andrew and his fiancée, Sarah Ferguson, flew to Northern Ireland for an unannounced one-day visit amid tight security. Armed soldiers were seen crouching on roofs as the couple pulled up in a bulletproof limousine to tour a new hospital complex in Belfast. Hundreds of police were stationed outside the hospital to hold back crowds straining for a glimpse of the couple, who will be married July 23. Andrew, 26, second-oldest son of Queen Elizabeth II, last visited Northern Ireland in 1977. It was the first visit for Ferguson, also 26. “Everyone seems so happy here,” she said of the crowds.
A former Belgian Prime Minister was convicted today of tax fraud and forgery and was given a three-year suspended sentence. The former official, Paul Vanden Boeynants, described in the court ruling as a “compulsive and visceral cheat,” was also fined $13,500. The 67-year-old Christian Democrat, one of the most powerful and colorful politicians in Belgium’s postwar history, was Prime Minister from 1966-68 and 1977-79. The panel of judges said that Mr. Vanden Boeynants had set up an intricate web of shadow companies to hide income from his real estate and slaughterhouse businesses. It also said that he had used forged documents to cover up the fraud.
The head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service, accused of having ordered and then covered up the slayings of two captured Palestinian hijackers in April 1984, resigned today in exchange for immunity from prosecution. Three top deputies of the official, Avraham Shalom, were also granted immunity, but were allowed to keep their jobs, Government officials said. The three deputies, who were implicated in covering up the episode, were identified as two lawyers who work for the domestic intelligence service, Shin Beth, and a senior aide to Mr. Shalom. Shin Beth is roughly equivalent to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Arrangement Is Criticized The arrangement was immediately denounced as a “whitewash” and “a cover-up” by some Israeli lawyers, Justice Ministry officials, newspaper editors, Members of Parliament and even some Labor Cabinet ministers.
The Israeli Interior Ministry has disclosed a controversial plan to identify some converts to Judaism by listing them as such on their identity cards. Shoshana Miller, converted to Judaism by a Reform rabbi in the United States, told a reporter that the Interior Ministry refused to grant her Israeli citizenship even though Israel’s Law of Return automatically grants citizenship to any Jew who asks for it. Orthodox Jewish legislators have long sought to recognize as Jews only those converted by Orthodox rabbis. After a legal appeal by Miller, the ministry — headed by an ultra-Orthodox rabbi — agreed to register her as a Jew but said her identification card would label her a convert.
Syria is planning a limited war with Israel later this year to regain the disputed Golan Heights and is seeking military support from its Arab neighbors, according to an article in the latest edition of Jane’s Defense Weekly. This week’s edition of the magazine quoted unidentified “moderate Arab sources” as saying that Syrian government and military officials have visited several Arab countries, including Libya and Jordan, in recent weeks to brief their leaders on the war plan. Jane’s said Jordan is believed to have resisted Syrian pressure to launch “diversionary attacks” across the Jordan River to coincide with Syria’s attack.
A Lebanese army force was deployed around three embattled Palestinian refugee camps on the outskirts of Beirut, and bulldozers removed huge sand barricades from one of them, the Chatilla camp, as a Syrian-mediated truce took hold. Fighting between Shia Muslim militiamen and the camps’ Palestinian defenders have left at least 150 people dead. Despite the truce, the Shias, members of the powerful Amal militia, remained entrenched around the camps, apparently preventing Palestinian refugees from leaving.
The State Department called on the Islamic fundamentalist regime in Iran to stop its persecution of the Bahai religion. A State Department spokesman said that about 200 Bahais have been executed in Iran, more than 750 are in jail and much of their property has been confiscated. The Bahai faith, founded in the 19th Century in what is now Iran, is regarded by Iran’s clerical leadership as a heresy. At one time, the Bahai population in Iran numbered more than 300,000.
Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, in a step enhancing national unity, won an agreement today from the leader of an insurgent guerrilla group to end a 20-year rebellion in mountainous northeast India. This evening the guerrilla leader, Laldenga, head of the Mizo National Front, formally renounced the insurgency and made plans to take over as the Chief Minister of the territory of Mizoram, heading a coalition with Mr. Gandhi’s Congress Party. The Mizoram accord was widely seen as a political gain for Mr. Gandhi, even though it was not likely to have any immediate effect on the rebellion of other guerrilla groups in the northeast or on other secessionist movements in India.
Suspected Tamil guerrillas launched attacks in the violence-torn northeastern section of Sri Lanka, killing 17 people and injuring 61, a Defense Ministry spokesman said. He said three separate bus explosions, an ambush of a military jeep and an attack on police who were escorting a fourth bus were all intended to disrupt a conference in the capital of Colombo, where President Junius R. Jayewardene outlined proposals giving the minority Tamils limited autonomy. Tamil separatists are fighting for an independent state in the mostly Sinhalese and Buddhist country of 15 million. Jayewardene, whose proposals do not address the question of a separate state, said further meetings will be held in mid-July.
A writer who spent 17 years in internal exile after one of his early works displeased Mao Zedong was appointed China’s Minister of Culture today. In his new position, Wang Meng will be partly responsible for judging what Chinese and foreign works should be published here. Mr. Wang, 51 years old, said several months ago that he had used “every possible occasion” to persuade top Communist Party officials that he did not want to succeed the retiring minister, Zhu Muzhi. But the party hierarchy, led by Deng Xiaoping, evidently decided that appointing a victim of past repression to the culture post would be a powerful signal of its intention to persist with more relaxed policies toward the arts that have been resisted by party conservatives.
Philippine leaders told Secretary of State George P. Shultz today that they had no illusions that their offer to talk with Communist insurgents would end the rebellion, United States officials said. But they told the Americans they thought such an offer was necessary to demonstrate they had gone “the extra mile” to avoid bloodshed. This blunt appraisal of the military situation was conveyed to Mr. Shultz and his top aides by President Corazon C. Aquino, Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and Gen. Fidel V. Ramos, the Chief of Staff, in separate talks. Added to what the American Secretary heard from top officials dealing with the economy, this produced a strikingly optimistic appraisal of the situation in the Philippines from Mr. Shultz and his senior advisers.
A mass Communist rebel gravesite containing at least 62 bodies has been found on the island of Mindanao, the Philippine Army said. A defector was said to have told Army officers that the murders took place in a purge last fall after a guerrilla unit lost three battles with the Army and suspected informers were in its midst. Digging at the gravesite is still going on, an army spokesman said today. Troops were led to the site, outside the village of Opol on the northern coast of Mindanao, by a 16-year-old defector from the New People’s Army, according to the military. The boy is reported to have told the regional commander that the killings took place in October 1985, after guerrillas lost three battles with the army, leading them to suspect informers in their ranks.
President Reagan, concerned about strains with Mexico and its economic crisis, plans to invite President Miguel de la Madrid to a meeting in the United States, American officials said today. They said an invitation going out in the next few days would raise the possibility of a meeting in California in August. Mr. Reagan, who arrived here today for a brief vacation, is scheduled to return around August 15. The United States has recently been walking a narrow line between voicing concern about Mexico’s political and economic problems and a desire to soothe Mexican feelings in the wake of accusations of corruption and drug trafficking being voiced in Washington. Officials said Mr. Reagan wanted to tell the Mexican leader that the tensions had been exaggerated, but that the United States was concerned about the flow of narcotics and about Mexico’s problems.
The U.S. will tighten border controls because of a sharp rise in illegal immigration and drug and arms trafficking from Mexico. Law officials say American authorities are often attacked by drug and weapons traffickers using machine guns. Washington’s new policy calls for increased manpower and upgraded equipment.
The House of Representatives handed the Reagan Administration a major victory today by voting to provide military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. The vote was 221 to 209. The Democratic-controlled House, which only three months ago rejected military aid, reversed itself in the face of personal lobbying by President Reagan. Fifty-one Democrats voted for aid, and 11 Republicans against. A White House official said President Reagan, over the last two days, had been instrumental in gathering eight to ten votes in favor of aid through personal telephone calls and other efforts. Even as he was flying across the country today, he was telephoning House members and succeeded in changing the minds of some. One Democrat who was persuaded to change sides was Representative Mario Biaggi of the Bronx, who voted in March against aid. Mr. Reagan, who was at a fund-raising dinner in Las Vegas en route to a vacation at his Santa Barbara ranch, said the vote was “only round one, but, oh boy, what a round.”
A time bomb exploded on a tourist train in the station at Cuzco, Peru today, killing 7 people and wounding at least 38, the authorities reported. A United States Embassy spokesman said an American was among the dead but said he did not know the person’s name.
South African authorities threatened further action today against journalists deemed to be violating regulations imposed under the nation’s newest emergency decree. The head of the Government’s Bureau for Information said this could include the closing of local newspapers. “We do not want a confrontation with the foreign media,” Louis Nel, Deputy Minister for Information, told foreign journalists, but added that the Government “has no alternative but to inform you that we will not hesitate to take whatever steps we deem necessary to insure compliance with the state-of-emergency regulations.”
Britain issued a formal protest today against South Africa’s state of emergency and the jailing of anti-apartheid activists. The Foreign Office summoned the South African Ambassador, Denis Worrall, to receive the protest from Ewen Fergusson, deputy undersecretary. In Pretoria, Tessa Solesby, second-ranking minister at the British Embassy, called on a senior official of the South African Foreign Ministry with a similar message. The protest followed a meeting Tuesday between Lynda Chalker, a deputy to the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, and Oliver Tambo, head of the banned African National Congress, which seeks to overthrow white minority rule in South Africa. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher previously had opposed contacts with the African National Congress.
The Senate voted to approve a compromise military retirement bill worked out by House-Senate negotiators that would cut the pensions of military personnel who enlist after August 1. The Senate approved the House-Senate conference bill on a voice vote, sending the measure to the House for final action. Supporters argued that the bill would reduce military pension costs by 18%, or $3.2 billion annually. Senator John Glenn (D-Ohio) said the changes would meet “our need to retain qualified men and women in the military services.”
The House Armed Services Committee overwhelmingly approved legislation to reorganize the military by giving more power to commanders who direct combat forces and limiting Navy independence, congressional sources said. The bill, which differs from a Senate version approved in May, was endorsed by a 38–5 vote in a closed session and is expected to go to the floor of the House next month, the sources said. The Navy and its infantry, the Marine Corps, oppose the House committee bill.
Reagan Administration officials said today that the President might telephone key senators to seek their votes for a judicial nomination that has been described as a test of the Administration’s ability to continue placing its choices on the Federal bench. Officials denied that the calls would be a sign that the nomination was in trouble. But there were growing indications that the full Senate might reject the appointment of Daniel A. Manion, a lawyer in private practice in Indiana, to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. “I think we’re very close to beating the nomination,” said Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, a leading figure in the effort to defeat the appointment. Mr. Manion, whose legal background and political views have drawn repeated fire from a broad array of critics, including legal scholars, would be the first of the Administration’s judicial nominees to be rejected by the full Senate.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with John Tuck, Deputy Assistant for Legislative Affairs.
President Reagan is presented with a painting by John B. Regan, Director of the Clark Couny Community College, Community Relations.
A panel passed an omnibus bill for the third time in five years to revise the nation’s immigration laws and to curtail the influx of illegal aliens. The vote of 25 to 10 concealed the deep differences in the panel, the House Judiciary Committee, over many provisions of the measure.
Judges must dismiss libel suits by public officials and public figures before Federal trial unless the evidence suggests they can prove libel by “convincing clarity,” the Supreme Court ruled. The 6-to-3 decision, although technical, was hailed by press advocates as a major victory that would encourage judges to dispose of weak lawsuits without requiring costly trials.
AIDS virus infection may be rising more rapidly among American military applicants than many health officials had believed, according to the first detailed analysis of applicants’ blood tests.
In a key ruling for the defense, Federal District Judge John P. Vukasin Jr. said today he would instruct the jury in the espionage trial of Jerry A. Whitworth that the prosecution must have proved that he stole classified Navy data with the intent of aiding the Soviet Union. Defense attorneys argued that because the Government had written the indictment against Mr. Whitworth naming the Soviet Union as the country he intended to aid, prosecutors were required by law to prove precisely that. The Government’s key witness, John A. Walker Jr., who has acknowledged heading the Soviet spy ring to which Mr. Whitworth is accused of belonging, testified in April that he never directly told Mr. Whitworth where the materials were going.
The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the jailing of reputed Gambino crime family boss John Gotti and the revocation of his $1 million bail. Judge Eugene Nickerson, in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, on May 13 ordered Gotti jailed until the August 18 start of his racketeering trial in order to protect potential witnesses. Gotti surrendered May 19 after the appeals court refused a stay pending its decision. John Gleason, an assistant U.S. attorney in Brooklyn, said there is “no question” that Gotti threatened Romual Piecyk, a Queens man who had charged that Gotti and another man assaulted and robbed him.
Paul Castellano was ordered killed on a Manhattan street last December by his underworld rival, John Gotti, a federal agent testified. Law-enforcement authorities say they have evidence implicating Mr. Gotti in the murders of Mr. Castellano, who was said to be the chief of the Gambino crime family, and his top aide, Thomas Bilotti.
Negotiators for 76,000 members of the Communications Workers of America and AT&T agreed on a new contract, but disagreements over provisions covering 47,000 other employees continued to stall settlement of a nationwide strike, officials said. An AT&T spokesman said bargaining also is “essentially completed” on settlements covering about 32,000 union members who work in four other AT&T divisions.
ITT is negotiating to sell its telecommunications operations, the cornerstone of its business, to Compagnie Generale d’Electricite of France for more than $2 billion, according to Wall Street sources. They said that ITT planned to retain a 30 percent interest in a new company set up by C.G.E., and perhaps other European partners, to run the acquired telecommunications business. The sale would be ITT’s most dramatic reshaping in its 66-year-old history. The sources said that the two companies had expected the French Government, which owns C.G.E., to approve the sale yesterday but that the approval was delayed for undetermined reasons. “They’re close,” one source said, commenting on the progress of the talks.
A sheriff’s marksman mistakenly thought he had a gunman in his sights when he shot and killed one of three hostages the robber was using as a shield to escape from a jewelry store, the authorities said today. “It was not an accidental shot,” said Sheriff Sherman Block. “What I’m saying is, it was a tragic end. It was a mistake.” Hugh Skinner, 64 years old, the manager of the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store on exclusive Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills, was killed. Two other hostages were found slain inside the store. Mr. Skinner was killed Monday night in the climax to the standoff at the store where five people had been taken hostage that morning. The gunman, identified as Steven Livaditis, 22, suffered minor injuries. He was held for investigation of multiple murder and robbery.
A grand jury has indicted the president of Westfield State College on four counts of indecent assault and battery stemming from a complaint by a student who received a controversial $10,000 settlement from the school. Francis J. Pilecki, 52, did not appear for arraignment on the indictment returned by a grand jury in Springfield, Massachusetts, because he is hospitalized for “serious depression,” said his lawyer, Robert Keefe. Judge Lawrence J. Urbano agreed to postpone Pilecki’s arraignment until July 9, and Keefe said his client will plead innocent.
The remains of 36 cavalrymen were reburied at the Custer Battlefield National Monument in Montana on the 110th anniversary of the Battle of the Little Bighorn. The Indian victory galvanized the nation into financing the Indians’ final defeat at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1890.
Initial experiments suggest a test of spinal fluid may be able to help doctors in diagnosing Alzheimer’s disease. “We have enough pilot data which is encouraging enough to see if the test would prove itself in clinical trials,” said Dr. Henry Wisniewski, director of the Institute for Basic Research in Developmental Disabilities on Staten Island in New York. The test reveals how much of a particular protein is present in a patient’s spinal fluid.
Doctors could save the lives of an estimated 1,100 newborns each year and prevent brain damage in others by giving an antibiotic to expectant women infected with a common bacteria, researchers said in a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine. A new study found that ampicillin administered to infected women during childbirth significantly reduced the chances of their babies’ contracting group B streptococci disease, which can lead to permanent brain damage and sometimes death.
The percentage of adult Americans who smoke cigarettes is lower than it has been in more than 40 years, according to the latest Gallup Poll, but at least 3 adults in 10 continue to smoke them. The poll, conducted by telephone interviews with 1,004 adults June 9 to June 16, found that 31 percent said they had smoked cigarettes in the previous week, the lowest level recorded since Gallup first audited smoking habits in 1944.
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The Phillies give 41-year-old Steve Carlton his unconditional release and call up Bruce Ruffin to take his place in the starting rotation. Carlton had refused to retire.
The New York Yankees did not get their sweep of the Boston Red Sox tonight, but they did get the kind of relief pitching they will need if they are to catch the first-place Red Sox at some later date. Alfonso Pulido, Brian Fisher and Dave Righetti shut out Boston for seven and two-thirds innings, allowing only two hits. The Yankees’ problem was the first one-third. That was the part of the game that Doug Drabek, the starter, pitched, and that’s the part in which the Red Sox scored all their runs in the first inning in a 5–4 victory.
The Chicago White Sox slipped past the Minnesota Twins, 4–3. Bobby Bonilla scored from first base on a two-out double by Greg Walker in the sixth inning, breaking a 3–3 tie. Bonilla, who had singled to center off Frank Viola (7–6), slowed down approaching third base after Walker’s double into the left-field corner. But when Bonilla saw the relay throw going to second base, he raced home safely ahead of Steve Lombardozzi’s throw. The Minnesota manager, Ray Miller, was then ejected for arguing that Bonilla never touched the plate.
Kirk Gibson hit two homers and drove in five runs, and Darrell Evans and John Grubb also had homers as the Detroit Tigers routed the Baltimore Orioles, 11–2. Gibson hit a two-run homer in the Tigers’ three-run first inning. He hit another two-run homer, his seventh of the season, and Evans hit a bases-empty shot, his 11th, in the third. Grubb hit his first leading off Detroit’s four-run fourth. The Detroit starter Jack Morris (7–4) allowed seven hits, walked three and struck out nine. Mike Boddicker (10–2) lasted only two and two-thirds innings for Baltimore. He gave up six runs on five hits, snapping his consecutive victory string at seven.
The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Houston Astros, 4–3. Dave Parker singled home the winning run in the 10th inning to prevent the Astros from moving back into first place in the National League West. With one out, Tracy Jones singled off the reliever Aurelio Lopez (1–1), moved to second on Dave Concepcion’s grounder and scored on Parker’s single.
The Royals edged the A’s, 5–4. Jorge Orta singled off Bill Mooneyham with one out in the bottom of the ninth inning, scoring Rudy Law from second base with an unearned run. Law hit a one-out single off Mooneyham (1–2) and was safe at second when the shortstop Alfredo Griffin muffed George Brett’s potential double-play grounder. Mooneyham then gave up Orta’s line-drive hit into left field.
Rick Mahler allowed one hit over the first seven innings, Bob Horner rapped a two-run double in the eighth and Atlanta held on to edge Los Angeles, 3–2. Until the Dodgers broke through for two runs in the eighth, they had managed only one hit off Mahler, 9-5, a third-inning single by Franklin Stubbs. The Braves took a 1–0 lead with two out in the sixth against Rick Honeycutt, 4–4. Dale Murphy tripled into the right-field corner with two out and scored when third baseman Enos Cabell misplayed Horner’s sharp grounder near the bag. It was the Dodgers’ 87th error of the season, most in the majors.
The Mets decided not to run for the hills yesterday just because the Montreal Expos were shoving them around. Instead, they finally did some cuffing of their own and beat the Expos, 5–2, while Sid Fernandez pitched his fourth straight victory and his ninth of the season. It wasn’t that people were yelling panic after the Expos had beaten the Mets four straight times in a week. But there was a little rustling in the audience. Then, on a summery cool afternoon before 33,030 fans in Shea Stadium, the Mets snapped out of it. Kevin Mitchell got three hits and raised his rookie batting average to .352, George Foster hit his 12th home run of the season, the Mets treated themselves to four runs in the fourth inning — and a red-faced sweep was averted.
The Cubs downed the Phillies, 10–7. Shawon Dunston knocked in three runs, including two in a four-run sixth inning, to help the Cubs snap a three-game losing streak. Dunston’s double gave the Cubs a 7–5 lead and made a loser of Charles Hudson (4–6). Guy Hoffman (3–2) got the victory by retiring one batter in the bottom of the fifth. Lee Smith relieved in the ninth and notched his 11th save. In the top of the sixth, Dave Martinez doubled in Leon Durham and Ron Cey, who had walked, to tie the score at 5–5 and knock out Hudson. Tom Hume hit Terry Francona with a pitch and then gave up Dunston’s two-run double to left.
Mark Langston sets a Mariners record with 15 strikeouts in a 6–1 three-hitter against the White Sox. Mark Langston looked more like the pitcher who led the American League in strikeouts as a rookie two years ago than the ailing sophomore he became in 1985. His victory was helped by Danny Tartabull, who drove in three runs with a homer and a two-run single.
The San Diego Padres set back the San Francisco Giants, 3–1. Dave Dravecky, the San Diego pitcher, singled in two runs as he ended a personal four-game losing streak. Dravecky (6–7) drove in two runs in the fourth inning, giving San Diego a 3–0 lead. He had to pitch out of trouble frequently during his seven and one-third innings. San Francisco got leadoff batters on base four times against the left-hander, and he left with two runners on in the eighth. Lance McCullers relieved Dravecky and walked the only man he faced. Craig Lefferts came on with the bases loaded and got Candy Maldonado to ground into a pitcher-to-home-to-first double play.
The Cardinals edged the Pirates, 2–1. Vince Coleman singled in the 10th inning, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Tom Herr’s single and a Pittsburgh throwing error. It was the sixth straight victory for St. Louis. After Coleman walked and reached second against the reliever Pat Clements (0–4), the pinch-hitter Tito Landrum walked. Herr then dumped a single into right field, and Coleman, after first stopping as he rounded third base, sped home when the right-fielder Joe Orsulak’s throw struck Herr.
Kirk McCaskill one-hits the Rangers 7–1, vaulting California past Texas into first place in the American League West. The right-hander walked two and struck out 10 in notching his fourth straight victory and fifth complete game of the season. The Rangers’ only hit is Steve Buechele’s 3rd-inning home run.
The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–1. Jessie Barfield and Rance Mulliniks hit home runs in support of six-hit pitching by Jim Clancy and Dennis Lamp as Toronto defeated Milwaukee. Clancy (7–5) had lost his last two starts and suffered a slight hamstring pull in his most recent outing.
New York Yankees 4, Boston Red Sox 5
Minnesota Twins 3, Chicago White Sox 4
Baltimore Orioles 2, Detroit Tigers 11
Cincinnati Reds 4, Houston Astros 3
Oakland Athletics 4, Kansas City Royals 5
Atlanta Braves 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Montreal Expos 2, New York Mets 5
Chicago Cubs 10, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Cleveland Indians 1, Seattle Mariners 6
San Diego Padres 3, San Francisco Giants 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
California Angels 7, Texas Rangers 1
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1885.05 (+9.5)
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Bradley Fletcher, NFL cornerback (St. Louis Rams, Philadelphia Eagles, New England Patriots), in Cleveland, Ohio.
Bobby LaFromboise, MLB pitcher (Seattle Seahawks, Pittsburgh Steelers), in Downey, California.
Aya Matsuura, Japanese pop singer, and actress (Hello! Project), born in Himeji, Hyōgo, Japan.
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