A Soviet Foreign Ministry official asserted today in Moscow that the Soviet Union had proposed an approach for rescheduling talks to prepare for the next Soviet-American summit meeting. The State Department expressed surprise at the statement, which was made by Vladimir F. Petrovsky, a Deputy Foreign Minister. State Department officials said no formal response had been received to proposals that a date be set for talks between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. The ministers were to set a date and an agenda for a second meeting between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Administration officials said the Soviet Union was stalling and challenged Moscow to set dates for the proposed high-level talks. Charles E. Redman, a State Department spokesman, also complained about a speech by Mr. Gorbachev in Warsaw on Monday in which he said, “The cause of disarmament has not been advanced by a single millimeter because of the American Administration’s open obstruction.” Mr. Redman said the speech did not contribute to better relations and had more in common with “propaganda tactics” than with serious negotiations.
In another speech in Warsaw today, Mr. Gorbachev told factory workers that his recent letter to Mr. Reagan, outlining Soviet arms offers, had been intended to remove the obstacles blocking a summit meeting. Mr. Gorbachev has been taking the position that there is no point in having a meeting without progress on arms issues. At a White House reception, Ambassador Yuri V. Dubinin of the Soviet Union voiced optimism about a summit meeting and said, “We are now hoping for preparatory work on both sides.” These exchanges were the latest developments in the dispute over the timing of a new summit meeting and of the foreign ministers’ preliminary consultations. Last November, at the end of their first meeting in Geneva, Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev agreed on follow-up sessions in the United States in 1986 and in the Soviet Union in 1987. Mr. Reagan invited Mr. Gorbachev to come in June, but the Soviet leader has delayed agreeing to a specific date because of the absence of progress in the arms control talks in Geneva.
While Mikhail S. Gorbachev used his appearance at the congress of the Polish Communist Party to urge the West to take his arms-control offers seriously, he had a message for Eastern Europe as well. Essentially, the message was that Moscow will not tolerate any Solidarity-style upheavals and that it stands ready to intervene militarily to preserve Communist dominance in the countries of the Warsaw Pact. The party convention is the last of a series of such congresses in Eastern Europe, and the Soviet leader chose it to affirm the doctrine that the Soviet Union will step in if it feels that Communist gains on its borders are threatened. He told the 1,800 party delegates here that their convention was being held at the end of “a period of keen ideological and political confrontation,” by which he meant the rise and suppression of the Solidarity movement in 1980-81.
A decision by the United States Ambassador to Austria to skip Kurt Waldheim’s inauguration as President next Tuesday has illustrated the tender state of United States-Austrian relations. The Ambassador, Ronald S. Lauder, will not even be in the country when the inauguration takes place next Tuesday. Officially, Mr. Lauder has attributed his intended absence to “personal business” in the United States. He would not elaborate on the explanation in an interview yesterday, but it is thought that the decision reflected his unease with the controversy over Mr. Waldheim’s war record.
Masked gunmen stormed the fashionable home of a Libyan businessman in Versailles, France, and shot him to death, French police said. There were no immediate suspects or claim of responsibility for the murder of Mohammed Bouzou, 54, chairman of the SA Trame Export firm, headquartered in Nice. A relative of Bouzou had been an official in the government of King Idris I, who was toppled by Colonel Moammar Kadafi in 1969. However, police said it is not known if Bouzou was opposed to Kadafi, who has ordered exiled Libyan dissidents to return home or face assassination.
The Israeli Supreme Court today challenged the Government to explain why there was no police investigation of allegations that the head of Israel’s domestic intelligence service ordered the killings of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers and that he subsequently covered up his involvement. The court order came after a three-judge panel listened to five different appeals in the last two days arguing that President Chaim Herzog abused his amnesty powers with his decision last Wednesday to grant amnesty to the intelligence chief, Avraham Shalom, and three deputies before they were either investigated, charged or convicted. The appeals were made by various lawyers and citizens’ groups who contended that the President had used his amnesty authority not as tool of mercy, as it was intended, but as means of supplanting the legal process. In its unanimous decision today, the three-judge court did not rule on the legality of the presidential grant of immunity. What it said, in effect, was that even if the amnesty stands, the Government must still show legal cause within 14 days why it did not carry out a police investigation.
The Kuwaiti Cabinet resigned amid mounting criticism of government mismanagement of security issues and financial affairs. The resignations were submitted to the crown prince, Sheik Saad al Abdullah al Sabah, by the foreign minister, Sheik Sabah al Ahmed al Sabah, who apparently was acting on behalf of the entire 16-member Cabinet. Informed sources said one reason for the resignations was a request by Parliament to have four of the ministers questioned over alleged shortcomings in their ministries.
Iran and Iraq reported today that heavy fighting raged around Mehran, an Iranian border town seized by Iraqi forces six weeks ago. Iraq said in a statement that an Iranian attempt to retake the town had failed, but that fighting continued. Iranian communiques later spoke of “remarkable victories” by their forces, with hundreds of Iraqi casualties and the destruction of two Iraqi brigade headquarters.
Afghan guerrillas shot down a military transport plane carrying 100 troops, Western diplomats in Pakistan said. They said the four-engine plane was on a flight from Kabul, the capital, to Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. The diplomats said they had conflicting reports on whether the troops were Afghan or Soviet. There were no reports of survivors, or of what type of weapons were used to down the plane.
Two American climbers were killed when an avalanche struck them at the 20,000-foot level on 28,253-foot K-2, the world’s second-highest mountain, in northeastern Pakistan. Other members of the nine-member party identified the dead as John Smolich, 35, leader of the party, and Alan Pennington, 34, both of Portland, Oregon. The accident happened June 21, but it took several days for other climbers to descend and relay word.
China said its relations with the Soviet Union have reached a stalemate, delaying plans for an exchange of visits between the foreign ministers of the two countries. Vice Foreign Minister Qian Qichen, leaving Peking on a six-nation tour of Europe and North Africa, said economic relations are good but “political relations are in a stalemate-no progress.” In Moscow, the Soviet Communist Party daily Pravda said conditions are ripe for improving Sino-Soviet relations.
An aging and confused Mao Tse-tung brought catastrophe to China by launching the 1966-76 Cultural Revolution, General Secretary Hu Yaobang said in a major speech in Peking preceding the Communist Party’s 65th anniversary. The address was one of the party’s strongest attacks yet on China’s revolutionary leader. Hu delivered the speech on April 9, and it was just published in commemoration of the July 1, 1921, founding of the Communist Party of China.
Japanese Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe said he will seek the leadership of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party this year. Abe, campaigning for Sunday’s general election, told a press conference that the public wants a new generation of leaders. Abe was the first of Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s three main rivals to announce his bid for the party post. Nakasone cannot seek a third term unless party rules are changed, and his political future after October depends on how well his party does on Sunday.
The Nicaraguan Foreign Minister told the Security Council today that the vote by the House of Representatives to provide military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels “constitutes a declaration of war, carries with it dangerous and unforseeable consequences and is one more step in the direction of sending United States troops to Nicaragua.” The Foreign Minister, the Rev. Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, said that because of the vote last week to send $100 million in military and other aid, “now United States military personnel will openly train this mercenary army and supply it with heavy weapons, transports and everything needed to implement this policy of terrorism.” Addressing a meeting of the Security Council called by Nicaragua to expose what it called the Reagan Administration’s “aggression” against its seven-year-old revolution, the Foreign Minister accused Washington of a policy of state terrorism in its attempt to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government.
A senior Nicaraguan leader said today that steps taken against the opposition last week did not signal the beginning of a crackdown. But the leader, Bayardo Arce Castano, said non-Sandinista groups in Nicaragua function “within a framework of limitations that exists and will continue to exist as long as the aggression continues.” He was referring to the guerrilla war being waged against the Sandinistas by United States-supported rebel groups operating from Honduras. In comments to foreign correspondents, Mr. Arce defended the decisions last week to close the opposition newspaper La Prensa and to refuse the Rev. Bismarck Carballo, a Roman Catholic priest known for his anti-Sandinista views, permission to re-enter the country after a trip abroad.
The Pope arrived in Bogota, Colombia, and condemned the economic power exercised by wealthy countries over poor ones. John Paul II also urged Colombia’s political leaders to resist terrorism.
The police said today that eight bombs had exploded in Santiago, Chile and three leftist guerrillas had died in a raid on their home. The violence comes just before a 48-hour strike called by the Chilean opposition that is scheduled to start Wednesday. The three guerrillas, members of the Manuel Rodriguez Patriotic Front, committed suicide when security forces surrounded their house after overnight bomb attacks, the police said. Other bombs damaged two banks, an electricity generator, a railway crossing, a clothes factory and a lamp post. Two buses were burned by fire bombs and a bus terminal sprayed with gunfire, according to the police.
A bomb exploded in Johannesburg, wounding eight people. The bomb exploded in a liquor outlet in central Johannesburg today, in a further attack on civilian targets after two similar explosions in the city center a week ago. The explosion rocked an area close to corporate offices where a visiting delegation from Yale University was meeting with officials of I.B.M. to discuss the corporation’s role in seeking political change in South Africa. There was no immediate suggestion that the two events were related. No one in the delegation was wounded.
Four black activists were killed and two were wounded after South Africans said to be allied with the police lured them into a house with promises of weapons and then raked the house with gunfire, according to an affidavit of a statement given by one of the survivors. The killings took place June 19 in Chesterville, a black township in Durban, the document said. The township has been racked since October by violence between young anti-apartheid militants and their opponents.
U.S. Senator Gary Hart today called for the Reagan Administration to take stronger measures against the South African Government, including demanding the “unconditional release” of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the outlawed African National Congress. Speaking before about 3,000 delegates at the 77th annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People here, Mr. Hart, a leading Democratic Presidential prospect, said Mr. Reagan should get in touch with the South African President, P. W. Botha, and insist that he begin negotiations toward majority rule in that country. “And unless those negotiations begin now, we should recall our Ambassador, withdraw our defense attaché, sever military ties, revoke South African airline landing rights, and even suspend diplomatic relations,” the Colorado Democrat said.
President Reagan signed a major overhaul of the military pension system that will reduce retirement benefits for new recruits after August 1. The measure, designed to cut long-term costs by about 18%, does not affect the 1.4 million people now drawing pensions or potential benefits for the 2.1 million now eligible for pensions. Under the new law, people retiring after 20 years will receive a pension of 40% of basic pay. Beyond 20 years, the annuity would increase 3.5% each year to a maximum of 75% at 30 years. Currently it is 50% after 20 years and 75% after 30 years.
The President and First Lady participate in a photo opportunity for the special 50th anniversary edition of Life magazine.
The President and First Lady host a reception for members of the Diplomatic Corps and their spouses.
The Supreme Court, sharply limiting First Amendment protection for commercial speech, today ruled 5 to 4 that governments may sometimes ban truthful advertising of products and services that are legal to sell. The decision upheld Puerto Rico’s tight restrictions on local advertising of casino gambling, which is legal there. It also appeared to support the constitutionality of restrictions on advertising of liquor and, perhaps, of cigarettes and other products. Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist’s majority opinion suggested broadly, but somewhat ambiguously, that states can ban or restrict advertising “of products or activities deemed harmful, such as cigarettes, alcoholic beverages and prostitution.”
Democrats and Republicans press extraordinary efforts for control of state legislatures in the 1986 elections. Both parties are working tirelessly to establish their dominance and to control the drawing of election districts after the 1990 census.
A high-level Israeli delegation has met with Justice Department officials to discuss prospects for criminal charges against an Israeli Air Force colonel who has been linked to a spy ring, sources close to both governments said today. Two sources said the Israeli delegation, which included the Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Meir Rosenne, concluded the talks Monday without reaching agreement on the legal status of the colonel, Aviem Sella. A Reagan Administration official declined to say specifically what was discussed at the meeting but indicated that Israel had not won substantial concessions from the prosecutors. Colonel Sella has been threatened with indictment in a case involving the purchase of top-secret American military documents by an Israeli espionage operation.
A Federal district judge refused today to grant a new trial to the condemned killer Theodore R. Bundy, but the judge ordered the execution delayed for 24 hours to allow defense lawyers time to appeal to a higher court. The judge, William Zloch, initially refused to intervene in Mr. Bundy’s execution, which had been scheduled for 7 AM Wednesday, but reversed himself 15 minutes later to allow defense lawyers additional time to appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. The judge stayed the scheduled execution until 7 AM Thursday. Mr. Bundy, who failed to win stays Monday from the Florida Supreme Court and a Circuit Court judge in Miami, was in a cell a few feet from the electric chair at Florida State Prison. Mr. Bundy, 39 years old, was convicted of killing two sorority sisters and a 12-year-old girl in Florida. He is suspected by law-enforcement officials of killing as many as 36 women in four Western states.
A team of engineers has recommended that NASA install a space shuttle bail-out system so that astronauts can escape during a low-altitude emergency, but the group found no way to save lives in an accident such as the one that destroyed Challenger. A crew wearing special suits and breathing oxygen could use parachutes when the spacecraft is moving at low velocity below 100,000 feet in gliding flight, said Al Louviere, an engineer at the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
A panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit heard oral argument today on the Government’s emergency appeal against a proposed instruction to the jury in the trial of Jerry A. Whitworth for espionage and tax fraud. The judges, who heard arguments by telephone call, granted a Government request Friday that halted the start of closing arguments in the trial. The prosecutors contend that the wording of the instruction as proposed by Federal District Judge John P. Vukasin Jr. could make it harder to convict Mr. Whitworth of espionage. The closing arguments had been scheduled to start Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency announced new rules requiring installation of systems to catch leaks from tanks handling hazardous wastes. The rules require containment systems on tanks and their pumps and pipes immediately for new tanks, within two years for systems handling highly toxic dioxins and before existing tanks are 15 years old for all other systems. Owners will be required to install leak detection systems and to inspect tanks regularly. The EPA said the new rules will cover 16,000 tanks handling 20 billion gallons of waste annually.
Cross-country rail shipments of the once-molten fuel and other highly radioactive rubble from the core of the damaged Three Mile Island nuclear reactor will begin this month. TMI’s operator and the Department of Energy said the waste will be shipped 2,300 miles through seven states on its way from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, to the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls for research and storage, pending disposal.
A Federal district judge today declined to impose prison terms on five church workers convicted May 1 as participating in a conspiracy to smuggle aliens into the country illegally and instead suspended their sentences and placed them on probation. But the atmosphere in Federal District Court surrounding Judge Earl H. Carroll’s action was marked by the same high emotion and legal ambiguity that characterized the trial of 11 people involved in smuggling Central Americans into the country. Five of the eight defendants convicted May 1 were sentenced today. The judge will continue sentencing for the three others Wednesday. Three others were cleared on all counts.
Two investment bankers were charged yesterday with participating in an insider trading ring with Dennis B. Levine, the Wall Street professional who pleaded guilty last month in what the authorities described as the largest insider trading case ever uncovered. The two, Robert M. Wilkis, formerly with Lazard Freres & Company and E. F. Hutton, and Ira B. Sokolow, formerly of Shearson Lehman Brothers, signed consent decrees but neither admitted nor denied the civil charges, which were brought by the Securities and Exchange Commision. They did agree to repay their profits and damages, were permanently enjoined from breaking securities laws and were permanently barred from working in the securities industry. Mr. Wilkis, who is 37 years old, was dismissed from Hutton on June 7 and Mr. Sokolow, 32, was dismissed from Shearson on Monday.
Soaring liability insurance rates are prompting some municipalities around the country to cancel long-planned Fourth of July fireworks displays. The high cost or unavailability of liability insurance has caused the cancellation of more than a dozen celebrations throughout Pennsylvania, including one at the state capital in Harrisburg.
13,000 Philadelphia workers struck the city for the first time in eight years, confronting Mayor W. Wilson Goode with a major test in his effort to regain public confidence. The municipal employees unions are seeking pay increases of up to 16 percent and improved benefits. A second strike, by 5,000 aides, orderlies and licensed practical nurses at eight hospitals, was settled hours after it began. But pickets remained at two other hospitals. Although a few pickets appeared shortly before midnight Monday, the municipal workers’ strike began officially at 12:01 AM after last-minute talks between the city and two unions broke down amid recriminations.
A new union benefits plan is in place, the A.F.L.-C.I.O. announced. It said it would offer its 13.1 million members low-interest credit cards and discount legal services. Officials said the “Union Privilege Mastercard” would be the lowest priced of any nationally distributed credit cards, with rates about 13.5 percent and no annual membership fee.
New Federal jury trials of civil lawsuits are being convened after a two-week hiatus resulting from budget problems, a court official said today. New trials got under way Monday after White House officials gave assurances that President Reagan planned to sign a supplemental spending bill to provide $3.8 million for court operations, said Edward Garabedian, assistant director for personnel and financial management at the Administrative Office of the United States Courts.
Assertions of sexual misconduct have stunned Westfield State College in Westfield, Massachusetts. The college’s president, Francis J. Pilecki, has been indicted in the sexual assault of two male students.
An experimental aircraft crashed and disintegrated during a test flight at the Naval Air Engineering Center in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing one of five crew members and injuring three. The unusual craft combined four helicopters and a blimp. The crash occurred near the site of the 1937 explosion of the German dirigible Hindenburg and the fiery deaths of 36 occupants.
Midwestern rivers swollen by persistent rain prompted evacuations in southeastern Nebraska, while flood-weary residents of central Iowa built a dike to keep the Raccoon River in check. The 750 residents of DeWitt, Neb., were told to leave their homes as water levels on three rivers kept rising. Eight people trapped by water near De Witt were rescued by helicopter. In West Des Moines, city crews and nearly 100 volunteers struggled to complete a half-mile-long dike to hold back the Raccoon.
An exotic six-sided animal thought to be extinct and a previously unknown type of blind shrimp have been found living near geysers on the Atlantic floor, a scientist back from an expedition two miles beneath the ocean surface said. Dr. Peter Rona of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said his team also saw massive mineral deposits. The blind shrimp roams around the edges of the geysers to eat while trying to avoid being scalded by the 660-degree water, Rona said. The six-sided creature about the size of a silver dollar, covered with rows of black dots, previously had been seen only in rock fossils more than 70 million years old.
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Candy Maldonado, who tied the score with a ninth-inning pinch-hit homer, hit a two-run single with two outs and the bases loaded in the 10th inning tonight to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 9–6 victory over the Atlanta Braves. The loss snapped Atlanta’s five-game winning streak and made a winner of Jeff Robinson, who pitched the final two innings to improve his record to 5–2. Chris Brown doubled off the right-center field fence to start the 10th off Joe Johnson (6–7). Brown took third on Bob Brenly’s groundout. Bob Melvin walked, and one out later Randy Kutcher walked to load the bases. Maldonado then lined a two-run single to right, and Kutcher also scored when Terry Harper let the ball get past him for an error. San Francisco tied the score at 6–6 in the ninth off Gene Garber. Maldonado, batting for the pitcher Juan Berenguer, drilled a 1–0 pitch into the left-field seats for his sixth home run and fourth pinch-hit clout. Dale Murphy hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning to give Atlanta a 6–5 lead. With San Francisco leading, 5–4, and one out in the seventh, Ken Griffey drew a walk from Berenguer and Murphy hit his 14th home run.
The Baltimore Orioles downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 7–3. Fred Lynn’s two-run homer broke a fifth-inning tie and Mike Flanagan won for the first time since April 17. Lynn, who had three hits and drove in three runs, broke a 3–3 tie with his ninth homer of the season and first since June 7. The clout came against Bill Wegman (2–7), making his second start in three days after getting knocked out in the fourth inning Saturday against Detroit. Flanagan (2–5) broke a four-game personal losing streak and won for the first time in 11 starts. He struck out six, walked four and allowed seven hits in six innings. Rich Bordi pitched the final three innings for his third save.
In the Red Sox dugout between innings at Fenway Park on Monday night, Tom Seaver approached John McNamara. “This is the first time in a long time,” the 41-year-old right-hander told the Red Sox manager, “that I’ve looked out on the field and wanted to be pitching.” And last night Tom Seaver showed why the Red Sox wanted him pitching. In his first start following a weekend trade, Seaver earned his first victory since April as the Red Sox battered the Toronto Blue Jays, 9–7. In seven innings, he allowed four runs and nine hits, but none of the nine were off The Wall that hovers in left field. Mixing the speed of his pitches, he now has a 3–6 record this season with a 4.44 earned run average.
The Chicago White Sox defeated the California Angels, 5–3. Ozzie Guillen hit a two-run double and California first baseman Wally Joyner’s error allowed three more to score, keying a five-run third inning.
The Montreal-Chicago game was suspended after seven scoreless innings because of darkness and will be resumed tomorrow. [The Cubs would win it, beating the Expos, 1–0. Jody Davis’ two-out, run-scoring single in the eighth lifted the Cubs.]
The San Diego Padres beat the Houston Astros, 7–4. Garry Templeton’s two-run single capped a four-run sixth inning as the Padres knocked the Astros out of first place in the West. Eric Show (7–4) pitched five innings to win his fourth straight game, giving up two runs on three hits. Gene Walter and Goose Gossage gaining his 14th save. The Houston starter, Mark Knudson, was the loser, going five innings and giving up three runs on seven hits. Houston cut the Padres’ lead to 3–2 in the fifth on a run-scoring grounder by Denny Walling. But the Padres rallied in the sixth off the reliever Manny Hernandez on run-scoring singles by Wynne and Gwynn and a two-run single by Templeton.
Neither Dave Righetti nor Willie Hernandez sat in front of his locker last night with his head bowed. Neither felt he had anything to apologize for. “Nobody can be perfect,” Hernandez said. “We’re just human beings. You have the two best guys out there.” Baseball’s best left-handed relievers were not at their best last night, but they both understand the nature of their job. After Righetti gave up two run-scoring singles in the ninth inning that enabled Detroit to tie the score, Hernandez gave up a home run to Dale Berra in the 10th that enabled the Yankees to win, 5–4.
The Cleveland Indians blanked the Oakland Athletics, 9–0. Mel Hall connected for a pair of two-run homers and Tony Bernazard hit two bases-empty shots to lead Cleveland Indians over Oakland in a game marked by a fight. John Butcher held the A’s to seven hits. Brook Jacoby also had a homer for Cleveland to help Butcher, acquired recently from the Minnesota Twins, earn his first victory against five losses. The game was interrupted for 10 minutes in the seventh inning by a brawl that started when Pat Corrales, the Cleveland manager, and Dave Stewart, an Oakland reliever, got into a fight. With Cleveland leading 7–0, Bernazard led off the seventh against Stewart with a homer. Stewart’s next pitch came high and inside to Julio Franco, prompting a warning from the home-plate umpire, Derryl Cousins. Corrales came out of the Indian dugout to talk to Cousins and pointed and yelled at Stewart, who was on the mound. Stewart yelled back and the two men rushed each other. Stewart knocked Corrales down before both benches cleared. Stewart had to be restrained by several players after learning he was ejected. Corrales and the A’s manager, Jeff Newman, were also ejected.
Mike Schmidt led off the 12th inning with his 15th home run to give the Phillies a 5–4 triumph over the Pirates. Schmidt’s homer over the left-field wall on a 2–2 pitch greeted the reliever Larry McWilliams (1–5), the fifth Pirates’ pitcher. Tom Hume (1–0) worked two and a third scoreless innings for the victory. The game was delayed by rain for nearly an hour in the bottom of the 12th inning and took more than five hours to complete.
Pinch-hitter Ricky Nelson’s tiebreaking single keyed a four-run eighth inning as Seattle handed Kansas City its fifth straight loss by a score of 8–5. Danny Tartabull led off eighth with a single off Dan Quisenberry, 0–2. Tartabull took second on a sacrifice and, after a two-out intentional walk, Nelson singled to left for his first hit of the season. Nelson, who was called up from the minors last week, then stole second and John Moses followed with a two-run single. Phil Bradley then greeted reliever Steve Farr with an RBI single.
The Mets, strutting along unchallenged and almost untouched, muzzled the St. Louis Cardinals tonight, 2–1, with their pitching tandem of Sid Fernandez and Roger McDowell and ran their latest winning streak to five games. They also ran the Cardinals’ latest losing streak to five games, even though Danny Cox matched Fernandez for seven innings. But the Mets seemingly can do no wrong in this season of success. Fernandez was cuffed around for nine hits, but he still managed to stop the Cardinals, who in one year have nose-dived from No. 1 on offense in the National League to No. 12 and last. 10–2 for Fernandez As a result, Fernandez won his 10th game of the season against only two losses, and McDowell now has saved seven and won seven without losing. And, perhaps the ultimate sign of success, the Mets beat the Cardinals for the sixth straight time in Busch Stadium this season and raised their overall record to 51 victories and 21 defeats.
The Texas Rangers shut out the Minnesota Twins, 5–0. Charlie Hough pitched a five-hitter, and Pete O’Brien and Pete Incaviglia hit two-run homers each as the Rangers snapped the Twins’ four-game winning streak. Hough (8–3) walked three and struck two and was backed by four double plays. He has won six of his last seven decisions. O’Brien hit his ninth home run in the fourth inning against Mark Portugal (2–-8) after a single by Scott Fletcher. Incaviglia capped the Rangers’ scoring with a two-run shot in the eighth, his 14th. Portugal went five and two-thirds innings and was gave up three runs. He was replaced in the sixth by Frank Pastore after the Rangers scored their third run on consecutive two-out singles by O’Brien, Incaviglia and Gary Ward. Hough was bailed out of possible trouble by double plays in the first, third, fourth and fifth. Defensive plays by O’Brien at first and two by the third baseman, Steve Buechele, also helped thwart the Twins. The Twins got only two runners as far as second against Hough, who went the distance for the first time in 12 outings.
A steady, heavy rain forced postponement of the game between Los Angeles and Cincinnati, with the Dodgers leading the Reds, 2–1, in the bottom of the fourth. The game will be replayed from the start on August 8.
San Francisco Giants 9, Atlanta Braves 6
Milwaukee Brewers 3, Baltimore Orioles 7
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Boston Red Sox 9
Chicago White Sox 5, California Angels 3
Montreal Expos 0, Chicago Cubs 1 (completed on July 2)
San Diego Padres 7, Houston Astros 4
Detroit Tigers 4, New York Yankees 5
Cleveland Indians 9, Oakland Athletics 0
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Kansas City Royals 5, Seattle Mariners 8
New York Mets 2, St. Louis Cardinals 1
Minnesota Twins 0, Texas Rangers 5
The Dow Jones industrial average, after trading in the shadow of 1,900 for more than a week, closed above that level yesterday for the first time ever. Along the way it set its second record in two days. The Dow, which was off moderately in early trading, finished 10.82 points higher, at 1,903.54, as advancing stocks ran ahead of declining issues by 899 to 659. On Monday, the Dow reached a peak of 1,892.72.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1903.54 (+10.82)
Born:
Charlie Blackmon, MLB outfielder (MLB All-Star, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019; NL Batting champion, 2017; Colorado Rockies), in Dallas, Texas.
Erin Henderson, NFL linebacker (Minnesota Vikings, New York Jets), in Aberdeen, Maryland.
Karri Rämö, Finnish NHL goaltender (Tampa Bay Lightning, Calgary Flames), in Asikkala, Finland.
Rob Schremp, NHL centre (Edmonton Oilers, New York Islanders, Atlanta Thrashers), in Syracuse, New York.
Adam Berti, Canadian NHL left wing (Chicago Blackhawks), in Scarborough, Ontario.
Died:
Roy Poole, 62, actor (“Winds of War”).
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