The Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, has informed President Reagan that he is prepared to compromise on the issue of medium-range missiles, according to Administration officials. They said the pledge was contained in a letter Mr. Reagan got last Monday. Although Mr. Gorbachev did not specify the nature of the compromise, officials called the offer promising. Mr. Reagan has asked his experts for reactions to this offer and other Soviet arms proposals when he returns from California in two weeks, the officials said. As of now, the two sides have proposed the elimination of medium-range missiles in Europe but differ on what to do about Soviet missiles in Asia and about French and British missiles. Officials said Mr. Gorbachev could be signaling a formula that would allow some Soviet missiles to remain in Europe and Asia and let the United States keep an equal number in Europe and elsewhere. Such an approach would be more agreeable to Western European and Asian leaders and could even be similar to an earlier American offer. The officials said the Gorbachev offer was one of several factors that was driving the United States to reconsider its basic negotiating position.
Another factor is that in the State Department’s view, the United States should respond positively to the Soviet Union’s proposals or risk jeopardizing the arms talks. Still another is concern that Congress is cutting back on the President’s program to modernize the nuclear forces. This could leave the United States without bargaining chips to trade for Soviet concessions. “The view, even among some conservatives, is that we are now at the peak of our leverage, and it is all downhill from here,” one official said. That view was reinforced by Congressional action in the last two weeks. The Senate Armed Services Committee voted to reduce the President’s request for the Strategic Defense Initiative, the space-based missile defense program commonly called “Star Wars,” from $4.8 billion to $3.6 billion. The House Armed Services Committee voted an even deeper cut, to $3.4 billion. It also decided to limit deployment of the MX missiles to 10, until the Pentagon presses ahead with the development of the new and smaller Midgetman missile.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz expressed frustration today over Soviet refusal to set a date for talks leading to a summit meeting. Speaking with reporters on his way back to Washington after a week in the Far East, Mr. Shultz commented on a recent exchange of letters between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. “It takes two to have a meeting, and if they don’t want to have a meeting, there is not much we can do,” he said aboard his plane en route from Manila. Despite some recent optimistic White House statements about the possibility of a summit meeting this year, Mr. Shultz’s advisers fear that the Soviet Union has decided to delay setting a date for a foreign ministers’ meeting to prepare for Reagan-Gorbachev talks in the belief that it can first extract arms control concessions from the United States. The Soviet Union recently submitted proposals, and the United States has yet to respond.
A Palestinian has confessed to planting the suitcase bomb that exploded Thursday at the airport counter of El Al Israel Airlines in Madrid, the Spanish police said today. The Palestinian, Nasser Hassan el-Ali, said the bomb was timed to go off while the El Al plane was in flight to Tel Aviv, the police said. Nearly 100 people were aboard the flight, airline officials said. Instead, the bomb went off prematurely during a security check. The explosion in the terminal wounded 13 people, one of whom remains listed in serious condition in a hospital, the police said. The suitcase belonged to Isaias Manuel Jalafe, a 32-year-old Spaniard with a police record as a small-time thief. The police said in a statement that Mr. Jalafe had thought he was carrying illegal drugs for Mr. Hassan. Mr. Jalafe was paid $1,000 for the mission, the statement said. According to the police statement, Mr. Hassan holds the rank of lieutenant in the Fatah Uprising, a group headed by Col. Saed Musa and based in Damascus, Syria. The faction broke away from the main Fatah group headed by Yasir Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
Four bombs detonated by remote control killed a civil guardsman and injured 11 people in northern Spain, authorities said. Three of the bombs were hidden in lampposts along the San Sebastian-La Coruna highway near the coastal town of Zarauz and exploded as civil guardsmen passed by. A fourth exploded in the city of Bilbao as national police were patrolling its red-light district. No group claimed responsibility for the bombings, but authorities blamed the Basque separatist group ETA, an acronym for Basque Homeland and Freedom, which is seeking independence for the northern Basque provinces.
A Solidarity activist was arrested as thousands of Poles laid wreaths at a monument to victims of a 1956 uprising in the western city of Poznan. The uprising, in which 74 people were killed and 574 wounded, was the first workers’ revolt in Communist Poland. ‘The only reminder of the uprising in Poznan is the monument-two 60-foot-high crosses inscribed “For Freedom, Law and Bread.” With scores of police watching and sometimes checking identity documents of those laying wreaths beneath the crosses, people applauded when Solidarity activist Janusz Palubicki was arrested as he laid his wreath. No reason was given for his arrest. Solidarity founder Lech Walesa was prevented from attending the ceremonies.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, will try to allay a rise in anti-Soviet feeling in Poland as a result of the Chernobyl nuclear accident when he attends the Polish Communist Party’s 10th Congress, which starts Sunday. Mr. Gorbachev, whose visit was not announced publicly, was expected to arrive in Warsaw today to attend the conference. The meeting will open on Sunday with a keynote speech by the Polish party leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, informed Polish sources said. The sources said Mr. Gorbachev’s decision to attend the congress was a sign of his personal approval of General Jaruzelski’s efforts to rebuild his party’s shattered authority and morale. But they reported that the Soviet leader was also anxious to defuse increased public resentment of the Soviet Union after the accident in April at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, which caused radioactive particles to be blown over a wide area of northeast Poland.
The Yugoslav Communist Party wound up a national convention today by electing a rejuvenated Central Committee, in which 127 out of 165 members are new. The committee then announced a 23-member party presidium in which only six people were held over from the previous policy-making body. The challenge for the leadership will be to put the national interest ahead of the concerns of the six republics and two autonomous provinces that make up Yugoslavia. The Government of Prime Minister Branko Mikulic, which took office last month, is trying to pull the country out of its worst economic crisis since World War II.
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in London in support of economic sanctions by Britain and other European nations to pressure South Africa’s white leaders to end apartheid. The protesters listened to speeches in Hyde Park, then marched to Clapham Commons, about four miles away, for a seven-hour rock concert to benefit the anti-apartheid campaign. Police estimated that 25,000 people took part in the rally. The AntiApartheid Movement, which organized the demonstration, put the number at 100,000.
A majority of OPEC ministers appeared today to be edging toward a tentative agreement to curtail crude oil production and lift prices to a level of $17 to $19 a barrel from their current range, $12 to $14. Rilwanu Lukman, the Nigerian Oil Minister and conference president, said after a two-hour session this morning that “the bulk of OPEC members have accepted a certain range of prices that we think we’ll go for.” But a minority that included Iran, Libya and Algeria appeared determined to reject the agreement. The Algerian Oil Minister, Belkacem Nabi, told reporters: “Nobody has made any proposals. There is nothing on the table. There are just empty dishes.”
Missile-firing Iranian warplanes hit two oil tankers anchored in United Arab Emirates waters, previously considered safe from Persian Gulf War attacks, marine salvage executives reported. The two ships-the Cypriot-registered Superior and the Liberian-registered Koriana-were about 10 miles off the emirate of Dubai, awaiting repairs for damages from previous war attacks incurred during the past month. At least four crew members were reported injured in the latest attacks.
After four years of negotiations, Afghanistan and Pakistan are still deadlocked on crucial issues involving a settlement of the Afghan war, according to officials close to the talks. “We are not on the verge of a breakthrough,” a Pakistani official said. The two sides are farthest apart on the schedule for withdrawing the 120,000 Soviet troops in Afghanistan. At a meeting last month in Geneva, Afghanistan proposed a four-year schedule, and Pakistan called for six months, according to the sources. The Afghans agreed to negotiate on the period, hinting that they might shorten it to three or three and a half years. Pakistan still considers that too long. “The Pakistanis are not going to engage in anything that is transparently a sellout,” a State Department official said. The United States position is that Soviet forces could be out in three to four months.
Three people were killed today when a rebel land mine blasted a van in a security force convoy in eastern Sri Lanka, the National Security Ministry said.Ministry said. A spokesman told reporters that the van that a soldier in another vehicle was wounded as the convoy passed Aluthoya in the Trincomalee district, 160 miles northeast of the capital.
Four of seven Canadian Sikhs, charged with plotting to bomb India’s Parliament buildings, were released from custody Friday on $50,000 bail each. The bail hearing for the three other defendants in the conspiracy case was adjourned until Wednesday. The seven Sikhs were arrested June 14 and charged with conspiring with Sikhs in the Netherlands and India to “commit an indictable offense in the Republic of India.” In addition to the attack on Parliament, the charges say the suspects plotted to bomb trains and an oil refinery. The prosecutor, Dean Paquette, argued that all seven should be denied bail because of the severity of the charges. Mr. Paquette said the defendants are members of the fundamentalist Sikh group Babbar Khalsa, which has advocated violence in achieving its goal of an independent Sikh nation in northwestern India. But Judge Anton Zuraw said evidence disclosed at the hearing was not strong enough to deny bail to the four men, Rampal Singh Dhillon, 27 years old, of Brampton, Ontario; Ajaib Singh Bagri, 27, of Kamloops, British Columbia; and Surmukh Singh Lakhaian, 32, and Daljit Singh Deol, both of Hamilton, Ontario.
Saying he had the right to “defend my honor,” former Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo has threatened to sue former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico John Gavin. In an open letter to Gavin reprinted in several Mexico City newspapers, Lopez Portillo charged that Gavin implied in testimony at a U.S. Senate hearing last week that corruption made Lopez Portillo rich. Referring to local press reports on Gavin’s testimony, Lopez Portillo wrote, “You are a liar who defames and slanders, by which I will be forced to pursue you before the competent courts.”
The spread of AIDS in Haiti is now predominantly through heterosexual intercourse, according to new results of a continuing study reported at an international meeting in Paris. Researchers say that since 1983 there has been a sharp rise in AIDS cases among heterosexuals.
A Honduran soldier who killed a U.S. Army sergeant and wounded another during military maneuvers said he was defending himself after the two attacked him. Miguel Angel Castro Flores, 24, jailed in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, told reporters that the Americans grabbed him while he was filling his canteen at a river, tied him up and beat him “without justification.” He later freed himself, grabbed a knife from one of them and turned on his captors, he said. According to the U.S. account, Castro Flores attacked the two Americans after they took him “prisoner” during U.S.-Honduran war games June 21.
The Reagan Administration has begun a high-level reassessment of United States policy in South Africa intended, in part, to forge closer ties with black leaders involved in the conflict there, a high-ranking Administration official said today. At the same time, the Administration has quietly established indirect contact with leaders of the outlawed African National Congress, the most prominent of the groups seeking to overthrow the South African Government, he said. Conceding a “shift in emphasis” in American policy, the official indicated that the United States was moving quickly to open new channels, especially to those it considered nonradical blacks and “various factions of the white community,” amid concern about a worsening situation in South Africa. The key goal of American policy, the official said, remains a dialogue between blacks and the South African Government.
An explosion rocked a South African shopping center today, wounding two whites. The authorities reported nine more blacks were slain in the nation’s violence, four of them reportedly anti-Government guerrillas. Also today, the Government acknowledged that Zwelakhe Sisulu, a prominent black journalist and son of an imprisoned nationalist, Walter Sisulu, was detained Friday.
A crew of 350 works night and day to make sure that the Statue of Liberty positively sparkles for the ceremony Thursday night marking the completion of her restoration. For everyone involved in the planning of her centennial celebration on the Fourth of July weekend the biggest strain is the dwindling of time. Lady Liberty needs paint, sod and muscle. Operation Sail 1986 needs more berths and fewer flood tides. The Harbor Festival organizers would settle for some electrical cable. With several million guests on the way, Presidents Reagan and Mitterrand among them, organizers of the Statue of Liberty centennial celebration have little patience for last-minute glitches.
President Reagan enjoys a horseback ride in the morning.
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. (D-Delaware), giving the Democrats’ response to President Reagan’s weekly radio address, accused the Administration of threatening the independence of the federal courts by trying to make deals for Senate approval of Daniel A. Manion, the Indiana conservative whose confirmation for the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago remains uncertain. “Judicial pork-barreling is dead wrong,” Biden said. A 48-46 vote to confirm Manion is to be reconsidered next month.
The Republican Party embarked on a new program to enlist minority participation because, GOP Chairman Frank J. Fahrenkopf Jr. said, Republicans “do not intend to turn our backs on black Americans.” Fahrenkopf told the summer meeting of the Republican National Committee in St. Louis, “No subject is more critical to the future of our party than minority participation.” The committee created an advisory commission on minority participation to study the problem. Historically, the Republican Party has done poorly among black voters.
The USS Helena, the 38th fast-attack submarine authorized by Congress, was launched at Groton, Connecticut, as about 100 protesters staged a peaceful “die-in” by lying behind police barricades to represent past and future nuclear victims. Demonstrators staged a three-hour vigil outside the Electric Boat shipyard on the Thames River before the launching ceremony for the latest addition to the Navy’s nuclear fleet.
About 100 anti-abortion protesters marched outside the Sanger Center, an abortion clinic in Cincinnati, and 21 people were arrested for violating a court order that limited picketing of the center. “Getting arrested is the most courageous thing anyone can do,” said James Condit Jr., one of the group’s leaders. Clinic officials quietly watched the protest and arrests from their front lawn, videotaping the event.
The Democratic Party confirmed Alabama Attorney General Charles Graddick as the winner of Tuesday’s gubernatorial primary runoff but an aide to his opponent, Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, said he may challenge the results. The official party vote count gave Graddick 470,051 votes to Baxley’s 461,295 in the bitter campaign to succeed four-term Governor George C. Wallace. Baxley may challenge the results because Republicans were allowed to cross party lines in the runoff and vote for Graddick, a former GOP party member who openly courted the Republican voters.
Federal investigators say “misinterpretation” of weather conditions by the crew was partly responsible for the crash of Delta Flight 191 that killed 137 people at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport last August 2, the Dallas Times Herald reported. A staff report given to the National Transportation Safety Board cited as “contributing factors” the crew’s failure to abort the landing earlier and inadequate staffing procedures at weather facilities serving the airport, the newspaper said. The L-1011 jet met violent wind shifts across its landing path and slammed to the ground about a mile short of the runway.
A woman who refused to testify against a former boyfriend accused of raping her was released after three days in jail after a judge ruled that her imprisonment was further victimization. Judge Dennis Yule of Franklin County Superior Court had sentenced her to 30 days in jail for contempt of court after she refused to testify in the trial of Maurice Young, 28 years old. At a hearing Friday Judge Yule said that his intention was not to punish her and that further incarceration would not change her mind. The prosecution has filed motions to admit statements she made after the alleged assault Jan. 24. A hearing will be held Monday. Deputy Prosecutor Johnette Sullivan said the decision would bear on whether the state could continue its case against Mr. Young.
Contract negotiators for Caterpillar Inc. and the United Automobile Workers resumed talks yesterday in St. Louis after extending an expired contract for five days. The contract covers nearly 17,000 workers in five states. Word of the extension to July 3 came shortly after a strike deadline of midnight Friday. The U.A.W. is believed to be seeking a two-year contract with higher wages and more job security. Caterpillar is believed to be offering a 40-month contract. Meanwhile, negotiators for the United Steelworkers of America and the Aluminum, Brick and Glass Workers and for Alcoa and the Reynolds Metals Company resumed talks today in Hollywood, Fla., for the first time since 15,000 workers struck Alcoa four weeks ago over wages and benefits.
The Northeast leads the boom in housing that started last spring and is shaping up in many parts of the country as the biggest and hottest since shortly after World War II.
Thunderstorms left behind by Hurricane Bonnie drenched the lower Mississippi Valley, and severe storms rolled across Minnesota and Iowa. The storms battered Arkansas, northeastern Louisiana and central Mississippi. In Union County, Arkansas, heavy rains washed out roads and bridges. “We’ve got secondary roads and bridges washed out all over the county,” said Deputy Sheriff Rance Nation Jr. The first hurricane of the season slammed into the Texas coast last Thursday, killing four people and causing millions of dollars in damage from the east Texas coast to Shreveport, Louisiana.
Texans angered because France refused to allow United States warplanes to fly over France to bomb Libya in April are refusing to be hosts to French exchange students. “There’s a lot of anti-French feeling,” said Carol Ann Carl, state coordinator for the Nacel Cultural Exchanges program. Problems in some other states have been reported. Ms. Carl said that when families that have had French students in their homes ask friends to be hosts this year, “they are told, ‘How can you be involved after what the French did to us?’ ” Two hundred and fifty homes are needed for French students in Texas, but there are only 200 sponsors so far.
The judges of the Los Angeles Municipal Court have voted overwhelmingly to remove the presiding judge in a dispute over judicial conduct. But she has refused to step down. “I remain presiding judge and I am proceeding with the responsibilities before me,” the judge, Maxine F. Thomas, said after her peers voted 57 to 13 Wednesday to oust her from the post, which sets court policy and assigns cases. The presiding judgeship is a year-long assignment done on a rotating basis. The Municipal Court code governing the removal of a presiding judge, who serves at the pleasure of the other judges, requires only a majority vote of the judges to “remove the incumbent from his or her office.”
Laws requiring seat belts to be used in automobiles will take effect in six more states Tuesday, a group promoting the safety measures said today. The new statutes for Florida, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana and Maryland mean 26 states and the District of Columbia will have mandatory seat belt laws as of July 1, said a representative of the group, Traffic Safety Now Inc.
American CBS news correspondent Mike Wallace (68) weds fourth and final wife Mary Yates.
A pathologist who conducted an autopsy on Don Rogers, the Cleveland Browns’ star defensive back who died Friday in Sacramento, California, at age 23, said that the most likely cause of death was a drug overdose. The pathologist, Dr. Joseph Pawlowski, said a cocaine overdose was the likely cause.
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Atlanta got run-scoring singles from the pinch-hitters Ted Simmons and Terry Harper in a three-run seventh inning that carried the Braves to a 5–3 victory in their game with the San Diego Padres. The rally started with one out when the reliever Lance McCullers (4-2) hit Rafael Ramirez with a pitch. After Ozzie Virgil singled and Andres Thomas struck out, Simmons made it 2-2 with a pinch-hit single to left. Harper followed with his pinch-single off the reliever Gene Walter, driving in Virgil. Simmons also scored on the play when the ball got by the left fielder Carmelo Martinez for an error. The Braves got their final run in the eighth on Ken Oberkfell’s double. The victory went to Zane Smith (6-8) who allowed five hits and one walk in seven innings. Paul Assenmacher pitched the ninth for his seventh save despite allowing a run-scoring single to the pinch-hitter John Kruk.
Ed Romero drove in three runs and Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd won his 10th game today as the first-place Boston Red Sox defeated the Baltimore Orioles, 7-3. Boston’s 14th victory in its last 19 road games, coupled with New York’s loss to Toronto, gave the Red Sox a seven-game lead in the American League East, where all seven teams are above the .500 mark. The Orioles have lost 14 of their last 19. Boyd (10-5) won for the eighth time in 10 starts with relief from Bob Stanley, who pitched the final one and two-thirds innings for his 13th save.
Wally Joyner’s eighth-inning single snapped a tie and Jerry Narron’s three-run double capped a six-run inning as the California Angels beat the Cleveland Indians 9-3 Saturday night. Neither California’s Don Sutton nor Phil Niekro of the Indians, the starters in the first meeting of 300-game winners in 94 years, figured in the decision. Cleveland’s Cory Snyder hit two homers off Sutton. Sutton departed after seven innings, allowing three runs. Niekro went 6 ⅓ innings. Sutton went into the game with a record of 301-233. Niekro stood 304-256. The last time 300-game winners met was in 1892, when Tim Keefe and Pud Galvin faced each other.
The Mets, who have been struggling a bit lately, scored three runs in the ninth inning today and beat the Chicago Cubs, 5-2. And they did it in style by getting the key hits off Lee Smith, who had stopped them cold by striking out three heavy hitters in a similar jam one week ago. The victory was the 48th of the season for the Mets against only 21 losses, the best record in baseball as the major leagues approach the halfway mark. It was also the seventh victory against no losses this season for Roger McDowell, the second-year relief pitcher, who became the first player in the 25-year history of the club to win seven games and lose none at the start of a season.
Pinch-hitter Candy Maldonado’s single with the bases loaded in the ninth inning snapped a tie and Luis Quinones followed with a three-run triple, sending San Francisco to a 5-1 victory over the Reds. With none out in the ninth, Maldonado — batting .409 this season as a pinch-hitter — hit a soft single over the Reds’ drawn-in infield. Quinones hit a liner to left that skipped off the wet turf and bounced past the left fielder Eric Davis. Frank Williams (1-0) pitched the final two innings to get the victory after the starter Mike Krukow allowed just five hits and one run over the first seven innings. The Reds starter John Denny (5-7) walked Joel Youngblood to start the Giants’ ninth and Chili Davis doubled off the right-hander’s leg, bringing on the reliever John Franco, who walked Chris Brown to load the bases.
The Detroit Tigers downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 8-5. Darrell Evans hit a two-run homer, and Kirk Gibson had a homer and scored three runs as the Tigers recorded their fourth consecutive victory. Detroit, 36-35, is over .500 for the first time since May 31. Lance Parrish singled home Gibson to break a 5-5 tie with two outs in the bottom of the seventh inning after Gibson had reached second on an error by Jim Gantner, the Milwaukee second baseman. Evans followed Parrish’s single with his 12th homer, giving Detroit an 8-5 lead. The Tigers started the game-winning rally off Bob Gibson (1-1). Bill Campbell (2-2) pitched the final three and two-thirds innings for the victory. Milwaukee had tied the game at 5-5 on Rob Deer’s two-run homer off Dave LaPoint in the fifth inning. The Tigers took a 5-3 lead with four runs off Bill Wegman in the fourth. Chet Lemon and Pat Sheridan hit run-scoring singles to drive out Wegman, and Tom Brookens greeted Gibson with a two-run double. Gibson connected in the bottom of the first, giving him four homers in the last four games and nine this season.
The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers, 6-4. Kevin Bass hit a run-scoring double in a three-run first inning and then hit a home run in the seventh for Houston. Terry Puhl also hit a home run, in the fifth, for Houston. The rookie Jim Deshaies (5-2) won his fourth straight game, lasting eight and two-thirds innings. He scattered nine hits and got his first run batted in with a single in the third inning. Aurelio Lopez got the last out for his third save. Bob Welch (3-6) lost his fifth straight decision. He gave up five runs in six innings. Jeff Hamilton’s sacrifice fly gave the Dodgers a 1-0 lead in the first. Walks to Steve Sax, Bill Russell and Franklin Stubbs had loaded the bases with one out. The Astros responded with three runs in the bottom of the first. Bill Doran singled, stole second and scored on Craig Reynolds’s single. After Glenn Davis was hit by a pitch, Bass doubled in Reynolds. A walk to Jose Cruz loaded the bases and Davis scored on a walk to John Mizerock. The Dodgers cut the deficit to 3-2 in the second when Sax doubled in Craig Shipley. Houston increased its lead to 4-2 in the third on singles by Cruz and Puhl and Deshaies’s single. The Astros added runs in the fifth and seventh when Puhl hit his second home run of the season and Bass hit his 11th. It was Bass’s second home run in two nights.
The Twins spanked the Rangers, 7-2. Kirby Puckett’s triple ignited Minnesota’s five-run fifth inning that was aided by two Kansas City errors. Trailing 2-1, the Twins got only two hits in the fifth but were assisted by a wild pitch, two walks, and two errors.
In losing to the Toronto Blue Jays, 7-4, New York extended their Yankee Stadium losing streak to nine games, marking the first time the Yankees have lost nine in a row at the stadium. Joe Niekro was the Yankee starting pitcher and like the two before him, Doug Drabek and Ron Guidry, he left the game early. Drabek lasted one-third of an inning last Wednesday night in Boston, Guidry made it through only two and two-thirds innings against Toronto Friday night and Niekro pitched one and two-thirds today, a total of four and two-thirds innings from their starters in three games. In the first inning, he gave up a one-out single to Rance Mulliniks, and Lloyd Moseby followed with the first of his two home runs.
The Chicago White Sox bested the Oakland Athletics, 4-1. Joel Skinner lined a two-run double and Ron Kittle added a two-run single to highlight a four-run fifth inning for Chicago. Richard Dotson pitched the first eight innings, scattering seven hits, to improve to 6-7. Bob James relieved after Dotson issued a leadoff double to Bruce Bochte in the ninth and finished for his 11th save. The A’s took a 1-0 lead in the third as Bochte and Dusty Baker led off with singles, putting runners at the corners. Mike Davis’s sacrifice fly made it 1-0. Oakland then loaded the bases on a drag bunt by Alfredo Griffin and a two-out walk by Tony Phillips, but Dotson induced Carney Lansford to hit into an inning-ending forceout.
Hubie Brooks hit his 14th home run and Jeff Reardon collected his 18th save tonight as the Montreal Expos defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3-2. Brooks broke his club record for homers by a shortstop when he hit a 1-1 pitch into the third deck in the third inning against the starter Rick Reuschel (4-8), who lost his fourth straight decision. Joe Hesketh (6-4) won for the sixth time in seven decisions as he worked the first five innings. Reardon entered the game with one out in the seventh and runners at second and third. He retired Joe Orsulak and Tony Pena to end the threat and then held Pittsburgh hitless over the final two and two-thirds innings. The Expos took a 2-0 lead on Brooks’s homer and went to 3-0 in the fourth when Al Newman singled, stole second, took third on Pena’s throwing error and scored on Wright’s sacrfice fly. Pittsburgh scored in the fourth when Rafael Belliard’s run-scoring single drove in Jim Morrison. The Pirates cut the deficit to 3-2 in the seventh when Barry Bonds doubled off the reliever Tim Burke and scored on Johnny Ray’s single.
The Rangers set back the Mariners, 5-2. Jose Guzman threw a six-hitter and Tom Paciorek drove in two runs with a homer and a single to lead Texas. Guzman, 7-8, allowed just two walks and struck out five batters in his second complete game of the season.
Ron Roenicke hit a bases-loaded sacrifice fly and Milt Thompson followed with a run-scoring single in a three-run 10th inning for Philadelphia. An error on Thompson’s single scored the third run in the 10th. Steve Bedrosian (4-3) who got into and out of a ninth inning bases-loaded no-out jam, pitched two inning for the victory. Tom Hume, who gained his first save in Friday’s 17-inning game, pitched the 10th for his second. Pat Perry (1-2) started the 10th for St. Louis and took the loss. Trailing by 4-1, St. Louis tied the game in the seventh on two singles, two doubles and five stolen bases. Terry Pendleton doubled, stole third with one out and Vince Coleman singled him in. That chased the starter Bruce Ruffin, who was making his first major-league appearance.
San Diego Padres 3, Atlanta Braves 5
Boston Red Sox 7, Baltimore Orioles 3
Cleveland Indians 3, California Angels 9
New York Mets 5, Chicago Cubs 2
San Francisco Giants 5, Cincinnati Reds 1
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Detroit Tigers 8
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Houston Astros 6
Kansas City Royals 2, Minnesota Twins 7
Toronto Blue Jays 7, New York Yankees 4
Chicago White Sox 4, Oakland Athletics 1
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Texas Rangers 5, Seattle Mariners 2
Philadelphia Phillies 7, St. Louis Cardinals 4
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Kellie Pickler, American country music singer (“Best Days of Your Life”, “Red High Heels”), and television personality, in Albemarle, North Carolina.
Shadia Simmons, Canadian actress (“Strange Days at Blake Holsey High”), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
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