The Soviet Union has proposed that American and Soviet officials meet in Geneva next month to discuss President Reagan’s decision not to abide by the strategic arms agreement of 1979, Administration officials said today. American officials said that no decision had been made on how to respond to the Soviet proposal and that Administration officials disagreed about what it signified. They said it would be discussed this week. Some senior officials favor a positive response, but Defense Department officials have reportedly criticized the idea of such a meeting. Under the proposal, Mr. Reagan’s decision on the 1979 accord would be discussed at a special session of the Standing Consultative Commission, a body of American and Soviet Government experts, to begin July 22. The commission was set up under the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty to consider disputes about adherence to strategic arms treaties and to deal with other technical arms control matters. The 1979 strategic arms agreement was never ratified by the United States, but has been informally adhered to. This is the first time the Soviet Union has sought a special meeting of the commission, which normally meets twice a year and is not due to meet until late September.
The United States asked for a special session of the commission in the summer of 1983, after it expressed concern that Soviet construction of an early warning radar in central Siberia violated the ABM treaty. The Soviet Union rejected this request and noted that a regularly scheduled meeting of the commission was several weeks away. Administration officials offered varying interpretations of the Soviet offer, which officials said was not explained in detail. One skeptical view is that the move is primarily intended as part of a larger Soviet effort to draw attention to the Administration’s decision to repudiate the 1979 agreement, and to press the Administration to reverse that decision. “It should be seen in the context of a full Soviet political offensive against the decision,” an official said. But another view is that the Soviet proposal may be a serious effort to seek clarification of the Administration’s decision on the 1979 agreement. The United States is set to exceed the limits set by the agreement toward the end of this year, as new cruise missiles are deployed on B-52 bombers.
The Polish leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, held out the prospect of a limited amnesty for political prisoners today as he opened the first congress of the Polish Communist Party since the time of the Solidarity union upheavals. As Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, sat nearby, General Jaruzelski, dressed in civilian clothes, sought to stress that the Solidarity era had ended. Meanwhile, on the streets of Warsaw and Poznan, some evidence was offered that people were still willing to confront police formations and to raise their fingers in the union’s forbidden “V” sign, recalling the days before Solidarity was crushed by martial law in December 1981. In Poznan, police wielding riot sticks broke up a march of a few thousand people who left a mass at a Roman Catholic Church heading for the monument erected by Solidarity in memory of workers killed in an uprising 30 years ago. And in Warsaw, a mass was followed by a march of workers carrying Solidarity banners and flashing the “V” sign. The crowd dispersed peacefully.
A political role for the armed forces, a traditional taboo in Communist countries, was vigorously debated at the congress of the Yugoslav Communist Party, which ended Saturday. In a development that surprised Yugoslav and foreign analysts, the Defense Minister, Adm. Branko Mamula, went so far as to deny charges that had not been made public that the armed forces aspired to seize political power. The source of the accusation was not disclosed, but Yugoslavs at the congress said they assumed the Defense Minister’s angry speech and comments in debate were motivated by recent speeches at a youth congress and demonstrations in Slovenia, the northern republic, where considerable anti-militarist sentiment was disclosed.
West German police have arrested two executives of a major aerospace company on suspicion of espionage for the Soviet Bloc, the newspaper Die Welt reported. Citing unidentified security sources, the paper said that the two executives worked for the Munich-based Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm company. One suspect was identified only as a 42-year-old deputy department chief who participated in research and development involving military equipment over the past decade. The other was described only as working for a “Communist secret service.”
Portugal’s Socialist Party ended its sixth congress by removing remnants of Marxist leanings from party statutes and electing former Finance Minister Vitor Constancio, 42, as secretary general. He succeeds Mario Soares, who resigned when he was elected Portugal’s president last February. The congress adopted new principles calling for an open economy with private enterprise and public cooperatives. Observers said the action was aimed at broadening the party’s political base.
Prime Minister Garret FitzGerald, his political future in doubt, was belittled in his own land today as “Garret the Good” who failed with his “starry-eyed pluralism” in trying to lead the Irish electorate to legalize divorce. In hard-edged judgment, political commentators concluded that his gamble with a divorce referendum was such a serious misjudgment of the people that he must next face the test of whether he should continue as leader. Dr. FitzGerald, insisting he does not regret his risky initiative, is vowing to prevail as Prime Minister by going to the voters. Politicians, sensing no immediate parliamentary challenge, say this electoral test will most likely occur at the regular general election next year, with the decisive rejection — by a margin of 63 to 37 percent — of the FitzGerald divorce initiative high on the agenda.
A leading Labor Party minister called on Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir today to resign from the Israeli Government because of his reported participation in covering up the killing of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers by Israeli agents. The official, the Minister of Health and a former army Chief of Staff, Mordechai Gur, made his appeal for Mr. Shamir to step down after a stormy debate in the Cabinet over whether or not to order a commission of inquiry to look into the role of Israeli politicians in the scandal involving Israel’s domestic intelligence service, Shin Beth. It was the first time since the Government was formed in September 1984 that a Labor minister has asked for Mr. Shamir’s resignation, and it was indicative of how serious the Labor-Likud dispute is becoming. Mr. Shamir is to become Prime Minister again in October, according to his power-sharing agreement with Prime Minister Shimon Peres.
Kidnappers holding five Americans hostage in Lebanon are reported to have issued new demands for freeing their captives. A Beirut news magazine said today that the conditions were passed on to John Cardinal O’Connor, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of New York, when he visited Beirut this month. The magazine Al Shiraa said the release of the hostages was made contingent on Israeli withdrawal from an enclave in southern Lebanon and the dismantling of an Israeli-sponsored Christian militia there.
California Rep. Robert K. Dornan (R-California) delivered a letter to Syrian President Hafez Assad from 251 U.S. legislators requesting help in freeing Americans held hostage in Lebanon. After meeting in Damascus with Foreign Minister Farouk Shareh, Dornan said he obtained a pledge that Syria will do all it can to help. Five Americans are believed held by kidnappers in Lebanon.
The body of a second U.S. airman has washed ashore in Libya, the official Libyan news agency Jana reported. It said the body, found near Benghazi, is that of the pilot of a U.S. warplane shot down by Libyan anti-aircraft fire April 15 when U.S. jets attacked Tripoli and Benghazi. Another U.S. airman was found May 6 on a beach west of Tripoli, the agency noted. An Air Force F-111 was lost during the raids, and its two-man crew — Captain Fernando L. Ribas-Dominicci, 33, and Captain Paul Lorence, 31 — have been listed as killed in action.
Iraqi warplanes bombed two Iranian villages inside the southern Persian Gulf war front today, killing five civilians and wounding 28, Teheran radio reported. The radio said bombs hit Saadi and Abudi, two villages about 37 miles east of the southern front.
An Afghan official accused the United States and Pakistan of collaborating in kidnaping the chief of Afghanistan’s mission in Karachi last week. “Baz Mohammed Rahyad was transferred forcibly to the U.S. Consulate” in Karachi, said Ghulam Hassan, second secretary at the Afghan Consulate there. “It was a kidnapping.” The Islamabad newspaper The Muslim, quoting unidentified sources, said the 30-year-old diplomat was an “undercover intelligence operative” who fled last week with a “wealth of precious information” about Soviet and Afghan activities in Pakistan after receiving word that he was to be sent back to Kabul.
Policemen in the Punjab arrested more than 100 Hindu militants today to try to avert violence during a Hindu protest strike, the police said. The Press Trust of India said members of Hindu Shiv Sena were seized in predawn raids. Shiv Sena had rejected pleas by politicians to cancel the strike, which was called to protest the killings of Hindus by militants campaigning for an independent Sikh nation.
South Korean dissident leader Kim Dae Jung called on the U.S. government to openly support the democratic movement in his country, as it did in the Philippines. Otherwise, he told a reporter, anti-Americanism will grow among South Koreans. Kim also disclosed that for the first time since returning from exile 17 months ago, he has been invited to the U.S. Embassy in Seoul-for next Friday’s Independence Day reception.
Talks between China and Portugal began today on ending more than 400 years of foreign rule over Macao, the six-square-mile Portuguese territory on China’s southern coast and the oldest Western settlement in Asia. In 1979, Portugal unilaterally declared the enclave to be Chinese territory under Portuguese administration. Peking has promised to follow the same “one country, two systems” arrangement that was used in the Sino-British accord on Hong Kong.
Miguel Cardinal Obando y Bravo appealed today for prayers for one of his senior aides, a priest who he said had been barred from returning to Nicaragua. The aide, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo, was prevented from boarding a flight in Miami on Saturday, apparently after the airlne had been advised that he would not be admitted into Nicaragua.
The South African authorities, seeming to favor some black factions over others, permitted thousands of Zulus to crowd a sports stadium here today for a rally addressed by their leader, Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi. The rally coincided with reports of a crackdown on the nation’s black labor activists and with official acknowledgement of continued violence, now said to have claimed 88 lives since the country’s newest state of emergency was proclaimed on June 12. Over all, more than 1,900 people, the majority of them black, have died in the protests and violence that began in September 1984. Under the emergency decree, virtually all black political meetings are outlawed in an effort to stem what the authorities call a “revolutionary onslaught” against the government. The gathering was depicted as a prayer meeting for peace, but most of those who attended carried traditional Zulu weapons. In a speech, Chief Buthelezi expressed concern about “the high toll of deaths of blacks at the hands of blacks.”
Senator John P. East was found dead on the floor of the garage at his home in Greenville this morning. The County Medical Examiner ruled the death a suicide. The police said the garage was sealed and full of fumes from a station wagon inside. Dr. Stan Harris, the Medical Examiner, said after conducting an autopsy that Senator East had asphyxiated from breathing carbon monoxide. The Senator, a 55-year-old Republican, who had driven from Washington with an aide on Saturday, was alone in the house this weekend. Here in the state capital, Governor James G. Martin Jr. called the death “a tragic loss for North Carolina,” and ordered state flags flown at half-staff.
President Reagan places a call to Mrs. Priscilla East, widow of Senator East (R-North Carolina) to express his condolences upon the loss of her husband.
Dozens of Presidential aides and Secret Service agents and a White House press corp of 150 will accompany President Reagan and Mrs. Reagan on their visit to New York City on the Fourth of July weekend. Mr. and Mrs. Reagan will stay on the nights of July 3 and 4 at the Rockefeller family estate in Pocantico Hills in Westchester County.
Blacks suffer under Reagan Administration policies that allow unemployment to soar and abet a hostile racial environment, Benjamin L. Hooks, the executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, said at the N.A.A.C.P.’s convention in Baltimore.
NAACP Executive Director Benjamin L. Hooks pledged the civil rights group would continue to fight apartheid and called the South African government of P.W. Botha the most repressive on the face of the earth. Hooks, in a keynote address in Baltimore to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s 77th convention, said the group has long fought apartheid in South Africa and “our opposition tonight is no less intense than it was at the beginning of our involvement.” Althea Simmons, chief lobbyist and Washington bureau director, said the NAACP first condemned apartheid in 1910 and, “We have called for total divestment for years.”
Thousands of homosexuals and their supporters marched yesterday afternoon in the 17th annual New York Gay/Lesbian Pride Day parade, following a lavender stripe from Central Park to Greenwich Village. As in years past, the event was a half carnival and half political rally, demonstrating what organizers called “the diversity of the gay community” and its interests. Marchers included members of several organizations calling for increased rights for homosexuals as well as a group of transvestite beauty queens led by “Miss Gay Rochester” and someone on stilts dressed as a purple butterfly. The issues and the tone of the march, as a result, were equally varied. While many marchers were in a celebratory mood as a result of recent legislation passed by the City Council prohibiting discrimination against homosexuals in housing and employment, others chose to emphasize what they called “the crisis of AIDS” and were more somber.
Religious conservatives failed to take over the leadership of the Texas Republican Party as its moderate chairman won reelection in Dallas. Diana Denman, the state GOP vice chairwoman backed by the conservative bloc, said she pulled out of the chairman’s race just before voting began Saturday night because it appeared she would lose to incumbent George Strake. She went on to win reelection as vice chairman, defeating Kay Danks in a vote of 2,367 to 2,300. The ballot for chairman, which followed a boisterous debate over rules and procedures, gave Strake 3,882 votes and Austin minister Sam Hoerster 744 votes. After the vote, Strake praised the conservatives, saying they bring a concern about moral issues to the party.
A 37-year-old paralyzed woman fighting for the right to be removed from a respirator died in Toms River, New Jersey, before the state’s highest court could hear her case. A Superior Court judge ruled June 23 that Kathleen Farrell, who suffered from Lou Gehrig’s disease, had the right to be taken off the respirator that was keeping her alive. However, he stayed the ruling so that the state Supreme Court could consider appeals by her sons, and an emergency hearing had been set for Tuesday. Farrell’s husband, Francis, declined to comment after her death.
A federal judge has ruled that a mass naturalization ceremony in St. Louis will not be part of the nationally televised Liberty Weekend extravaganza, making St. Louis the third city to pull out of the Statue of Liberty festivities. U.S. District Judge John Nangle said that he was afraid the producers of the ABC television program would make a spectacle of the ceremony for new citizens. The other two cities to withdraw are Washington and Los Angeles.
The new reality of U.S. immigration was represented by the arrival in Los Angeles last week of a young woman from Philippines who was coming to join her Korean-American husband in Garden Grove in Orange County, a California suburb, already full of the sights, sounds and smells of the Far East. Like thousands of immigrants today, the Filipino woman does not come from America’s original roots in Europe. She is part of a sea change in immigration that is altering the political, social and economic fabric of America in a complex way.
Conservatives have failed to take over the leadership of the Texas Republican Party, which has re-elected its moderate chairman. Diana Denman, the state vice chairman, who was backed for the chairmanship by the conservative bloc, said she withdrew from the race just before voting began Saturday night because it appeared that she would lose to the incumbent, George Strake. She won re-election as vice chairman, defeating Kay Danks, 2,367 to 2,300. The ballot for chairman, which followed a boisterous debate over rules and procedures, gave Mr. Strake 3,882 votes and an Austin minister, Sam Hoerster, 744 votes.
Rescue workers today found the bodies of two cousins who were killed when lightning set off explosives at a coal surface mine in central West Virginia, officials said. The bodies were covered by four to five feet of dirt, rocks and coal blown loose in Saturday’s explosion at the High Power Mountain Energy Corporation’s strip mine, said Mark Scott, director of the state’s Division of Mines and Materials.
Copper workers at one of five companies facing strike deadlines this week voted to accept pay cuts recommended by union officials, as negotiations continued with two companies, Kennecott Corp. and Inspiration Consolidated Copper Co. The 430 unionized workers at Newmont Mining Corp.’s Pinto Valley Copper Co. approved pay cuts from $13.66 an hour to about $11 on average, chief union negotiator Edgar Ball said in Phoenix. Workers at Newmont’s Magma Copper Co. were voting on a similar pact, and ASARCO workers will work without a contract after the current pact expires.
An attempt to resurrect the downtown “Light Up Atlanta” festival, canceled last year after complaints of rowdiness, ended in turmoil as the transit police shot a man who opened fire at a subway station. Officials of the Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority said the man was standing just inside an entrance at the Five Points station when he began firing at a crowd outside.
Jail terms are not likely for drug buyers, sellers or users if they are arrested in New York City. Two out of three people arrested on felony charges of sale or possession of substantial amounts of narcotics in the city last year were not indicted, according to the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. While citizens have been calling for more police as a solution to the drug epidemic, employees of the criminal justice system say the system is so overloaded, underfinanced and inefficient that more low-level arrests could move the system further toward paralysis.
Heavy rains in north central Louisiana covered roads with water and forced evacuation of at least two families as the remnants of Hurricane Bonnie continued to cover the state. In the northwestern area, where the hurricane flooded more than 300 homes in the Shreveport area, mop-up efforts and damage assessments continued. Intermittent rainfall kept many homes flooded. The largely rural north central part of the state saw three to five inches of rain in 15 hours ending Sunday morning. More rain was expected and the National Weather Service issued flash flood warnings for Natchitoches, Winn and Jackson parishes.
Firefighters in Utah began mopping up yesterday, hitting the hot spots in a week-old fire that charred 8,500 acres on Pine Valley Mountain. California crews reported containment of a 700-acre brush and timber fire in Yosemite National Park. Forest Service officials said crews expected to have the dwindling Pine Valley blaze contained by late last night. The fire at Glacier Point, 3,200 feet above Yosemite’s tourist-crowded main valley, was contained Saturday, said a National Park Service spokesman, Tom Pimentel. Two minor injuries to firefighters were reported.
Richard Branson aboard Virgin Atlantic Challenger II reaches Bishop Rock, Isles of Scilly, fastest crossing of Atlantic.
U.S. Senior Open Men’s Golf, Scioto CC: Dale Douglass wins by 1 stroke ahead of Gary Player for his lone Champions Tour major title.
FIFA World Cup Final, Estadio Azteca, Mexico City: Argentina beats West Germany, 3-2 in front of 114,600.
Major League Baseball:
Tom Seaver’s fondest desire was to end his playing career near his Connecticut home, and yesterday he was finally granted his wish. But it was the Boston Red Sox, the division leaders in the American League East, who landed the 41-year-old pitcher, apparently outmaneuvering the Yankees, who were unwilling to part with any of their young pitchers. The Red Sox sent Steve Lyons, an outfielder and third baseman, to Chicago in a deal that was completed late Saturday night. Seaver, who had been pursued by both the Red Sox and Yankees since last winter, may have forced a trade when he informed the White Sox last week that he was considering quitting.
Ken Griffey no longer has to renew his three-year-old request to be traded because the Yankees sent him to the Atlanta Braves. In acquiring Paul Zuvella along with Claudell Washington for Griffey, the Yankees hope they no longer will have to seek a shortstop who they believe can play adequately on a regular basis. “Claudell will play in the outfield and Zuvella will play shortstop,” Manager Lou Piniella said after the Yankees announced the trade following their 6–3 loss to Toronto.
David Palmer pitched a four-hitter and drove in the go-ahead run as Atlanta Braves completed a three-game sweep, beating the Padres, 3–1. Palmer (4–6) broke a 1–1 tie in the fourth inning when he lined a double that Tony Gwynn misjudged in right field, scoring Andres Thomas, who had reached on a two-out triple to center field. The victory was the fourth in a row for the Braves and their sixth in eight games. The sweep enabled Atlanta to take sole possession of third place in the National League West, one game ahead of the Padres.
Tony Armas hit a two-run homer and Jeff Sellers pitched a nine-hitter today, helping the Boston Red Sox complete a three-game sweep of the Baltimore Orioles with an 8–3 victory. The victory gave Boston an eight-game lead over second-place New York in the American League East. Sellers (1–3) surrendered home runs to Lee Lacy and Cal Ripken but otherwise avoided trouble as Boston won its fourth straight game and eighth in its last 12. Mike Boddicker (10–3) was the loser. Boston took a 2–0 lead in the first inning when Marty Barrett singled, went to third on Wade Boggs’s double and scored on Bill Buckner’s groundout. Boggs, who went to third on the ground ball, scored on Jim Rice’s sacrifice fly. Armas hit a homer in the second inning after Dwight Evans walked. Boddicker did not allow a hit after the second inning until Rice doubled with one out in a three-run eighth inning. Boddicker then hit Don Baylor with a pitch, the 17th time this season Baylor has been plunked, tying the Boston record for one season set by Jack Barry in 1916.
The Indians beat the California Angels, 6–4. Joe Carter hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning and the right-hander Ken Schrom earned his sixth straight victory. Schrom (8–2) scattered eight hits in seven and two-third innings before getting relief help from Ernie Camacho, who got his 11th save.
Dwight Gooden was good today in Wrigley Field, but not great. So the puzzle of the last two months remained: Where did the mastery go? But the Mets went to the rescue of their 21-year-old ace by punishing Rick Sutcliffe and beating the Chicago Cubs, 7–4. It took a little doing because the Cubs nailed Gooden for three runs in the fourth inning. But Darryl Strawberry hit a two-run home run for a tie in the fifth, and George Foster hit a home run for the lead in the sixth, and after that, Gooden held on.
The San Francisco Giants bowed to the Cincinnati Reds 4–3. Ron Oester’s bases-loaded grounder up the middle scored the pinch-runner Eric Davis in the bottom of the ninth inning to give Cincinnati the victory. Bo Diaz singled to start the inning off Mike LaCoss (7–3) and was replaced by Davis. LaCoss’s balk sent Davis to second, and he beat Mike Aldrete’s throw to third on a sacrifice bunt by Dave Concepcion. After Buddy Bell was intentionally walked, Oester grounded the second pitch from the reliever Chuck Hensley for a single. Ron Robinson (6–0) struck out Aldrete to end the ninth and get the victory in relief of the starter Tom Browning, who gave up six hits in eight and two-thirds innings.
Detroit beats Milwaukee 9–5 in the first game of a doubleheader split. The Brewers win game 2, 3–1. Ted Higuera pitched a four-hitter over eight and one-third innings and Dale Sveum, Ernest Riles and Charlie Moore drove in runs, helping Milwaukee snap a five-game losing streak in the second game of a doubleheader. In the first game, Lou Whitaker’s two-run homer highlighted a five-run second inning and Darrell Evans drove in four runs with three hits to carry the Tigers to their fifth straight victory. With that victory, Sparky Anderson became the first manager to win 600 games in each league. He managed the Cincinnati Reds to 863 victories in nine seasons.
Consecutive run-scoring singles by Kevin Bass and Jose Cruz in the seventh inning lifted the Houston to a 2–1 victory today over the Los Angeles Dodgers, and moved the Astros back into first place in National League West. Manny Hernandez (2–3) pitched the seventh inning and gave up one hit to earn the victory. Frank DiPino pitched the final two innings to earn his third save. The Astros took the lead when Phil Garner reached second on the shortstop Craig Shipley’s two-base throwing error to lead off the Houston seventh. Garner moved to third after Glenn Davis struck out but reached on Fernando Valenzuela’s wild pitch. Bass followed with a single to left with Cruz collecting an infield hit to drive in Davis with the game-winning run. The victory gave the Astros their first sweep over the Dodgers in Houston since June 1984. The Astros moved a half-game ahead of San Francisco, which lost to Cincinnati.
Roy Smalley hits a 3-run homer, off Bret Saberhagen, in the 1st and the Twins jump to a 9–0 lead after 3 innings. They beat the Royals, 9–4, finishing the game with a double play when Willie Wilson is ruled out at second base for sliding too hard. The rookie Allan Anderson (2–1) gave up eight hits, struck out four and walked one in seven and two-third innings. Keith Atherton got the last two outs for his fourth save.
Maybe the Yankees can tie the Detroit Tigers tonight. Besides being better than anything they have done in the past 10 games at Yankee Stadium, a tie would enable the Yankees to parallel the worst home plunge of New York’s American League franchise since 1913. The Yankees lost again yesterday, 6–3, to the Toronto Blue Jays, marking their 10th consecutive home defeat, unprecedented at Yankee Stadium, and dropping the Yankees a season-high eight games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox. The Blue Jays, completing a first-ever three-game sweep of the beleaguered Yankees, won with a three-run rally in the ninth inning, with Cliff Johnson’s pinch-hit single driving in the tie-breaking run.
John Cangelosi’s sacrifice fly in the top of the 10th inning off the Oakland reliever Doug Bair lifted the Chicago White Sox to a 6–5 victory over the A’s. Bair (0–1) loaded the bases by issuing two walks and yielding a single to the pinch-hitter Jerry Hairston in the 10th to set up Cangelosi’s game-winner with one out.
The Expos beat the Pirates, 6–4. Tim Raines had a single, double and triple and two stolen bases, and Andres Galarraga hit a home run to lead a 15-hit attack for Montreal. Raines tripled with two outs in the first inning and scored on Tim Wallach’s single to give the Expos a 1–0 lead. Pittsburgh tied it in the second on doubles by R. J. Reynolds and Jim Morrison, before Galarraga led off the fourth with his eighth homer of the year off the starter Mike Bielecki (4–5). Montreal made it 3–2 when Raines’s single scored Mitch Webster, who had tripled with two outs in the fifth. Floyd Youmans (7–5) worked the first five innings to win for the seventh time in his last nine decisions. He left the game because of a bruised right thumb suffered while batting. Bob McClure pitched the final inning for his third save.
The Seattle Mariners pummeled the Texas Rangers, 9–3. Jim Presley hit a homer and a double and drove in four runs, while Mike Moore (4–7) gave up eight hits and no walks. Presley has driven in 24 runs in his last 22 games to move into second place in the American League in RBIs with 57. He hit a two-run double in the first inning, grounded out in the second for his third RBI and then hit his 16th home run in the seventh.
Juan Samuel connects for a grand slam in the top of the 9th inning and the Phillies edge the Cardinals, 8–7. Samuel’s homer, just clearing the wall in left-center, came off the St. Louis reliever Todd Worrell (5–8). It gave the victory to Don Carman (4–1) the victim of a three-run St. Louis eighth.
San Diego Padres 1, Atlanta Braves 3
Boston Red Sox 8, Baltimore Orioles 3
Cleveland Indians 6, California Angels 4
New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 4
San Francisco Giants 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Detroit Tigers 9
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Detroit Tigers 1
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Houston Astros 2
Kansas City Royals 4, Minnesota Twins 9
Toronto Blue Jays 6, New York Yankees 3
Chicago White Sox 6, Oakland Athletics 5
Montreal Expos 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Texas Rangers 3, Seattle Mariners 9
Philadelphia Phillies 8, St. Louis Cardinals 7
Born:
Tom Koehler, MLB pitcher (Miami Marlins, Toronto Blue Jays), in the Bronx, New York, New York.
Stephen Williams, NFL wide receiver (Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Houston, Texas.
Austin Drage, English pop singer (“The X Factor”), in London, England, United Kingdom.
Iya Villania [Raelene Villania-Arellano], Australian actress and presenter, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Died:
John P. East, 55, American politician (Senator-R-North Carolina), by suicide.
Jack Christiansen, 57, American NFL football player. 1951-58 (Detroit Lions — 3 x Champion, 5 X Pro Bowl), NFL and coach (San Francisco 49ers, Stanford University), after surgical complications.
Robert Drivas [Choromokos], 50, American stage and screen actor (“Cool Hand Luke”; “Illustrated Man”; “Our Private World”), and theater director, of AIDS complications.
Dusolina Giannini, 83, Italian-American dramatic soprano (New York Metropolitan Opera, 1935-42), and teacher.
Ida Mae McKenzie, 75, American actress.
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