Recent Soviet initiatives at the Geneva arms talks have stirred a debate within the Reagan Administration over whether it is prepared to accept limits on its antimissile research program in return for cuts in strategic arms. Up to now, the United States has not confronted such a decision. Previously the Soviet Union did not make an offer that is so attractive that the United States feels compelled to rethink its position on the space-based missile defense program. The program is known officially as the Strategic Defense Initiative and popularly as “Star Wars.” When the Soviet Union first said last year that it would agree to deep reductions in strategic weapons, as the Americans had proposed, it asked for too much in return: a total ban on all antimissile research. Neither the Administration nor most of its critics were prepared to abandon research. But with the recent Soviet proposals, the situation may be starting to change, officials say.
Five of the thirteen victims of the Chernobyl nuclear accident who received transplants of bone marrow are still alive, according to Dr. Robert P. Gale, the Californian who made a dramatic flight to Moscow to assist Soviet physicians with the delicate operations. “I think they’ll survive,” Dr. Gale said yesterday of the five remaining transplant patients. Given the severity of the patients’ conditions and the obstacles that face all marrow transplants, he said, “We’re pleased with the results.” Six other patients who suffered exceptionally high doses of radiation and received transplants of fetal liver rather than bone marrow have died.
Radioactive rain from the Soviet nuclear disaster at Chernobyl has so befouled the green highlands around here that what the Welsh call the “oen” — the lamb — is now under government protection from slaughter until the last traces of fallout are gone. The government ban, imposed June 13, is keeping an estimated three million lambs from going to market from some of the most productive sheep farms in North Wales, Scotland and Cumbria in northern England. The ban is the only remaining official quarantine measure in Western Europe after the initial alarm arose over Chernobyl in May. These had included widespread European restrictions on the sale of produce and livestock.
The stolid, humorless diplomat who helped Josef Stalin assert Kremlin dominance in Eastern Europe is now a doting grandfather who lives in quiet retirement in a Moscow suburb closed to foreigners, according to the Soviet press. The first news story in a generation about Vyacheslav M. Molotov, the tough right hand of Stalin who was sent into political limbo 30 years ago and is now a 96-year-old pensioner, appeared in the weekly Moscow News on Wednesday. “I am happy in my old age. I wish to reach the age of 100,” said the man who became known as “Iron Pants” during long service as foreign minister that made his stern visage as familiar to the world as Stalin’s. The Moscow News article skirted politics and did not delve into the past of the man who helped V.I. Lenin forge the 1917 Bolshevik revolution. Molotov said the highlights of his life now are Saturday visits by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren. “Then, everything goes back to life around me,” he said. “My friends do not forget me either…. I keep abreast of all events… It is a pity my age and health prevent me from taking an active part…. The older you are, the more you want to be useful to society.
Prime Minister Turgut Ozal arrived in Nicosia on the island of Cyprus today, the first visit by a Turkish head of Government to the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Since its founding in 1983, the secessionist state has been internationally boycotted, recognized only by Turkey. Mr. Ozal’s visit was denounced by, among others, the United States and the Soviet Union. Prime Minister Ozal said that Turkey would undertake a program of economic support that it hopes will lead to such progress as to make international recognition inevitable. Last month Mr. Ozal invited Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of Greece to meet him on the “green line” dividing the Turkish-occupied zone from the rest of the Republic of Cyprus.
Europe’s Ariane 2 rocket failed on a May 31 launch because of a faulty ignition system for its third-stage engine, an investigatory commission has concluded. A report by the commission, released in Paris, made 14 recommendations for refining and testing the ignition system. It was not clear to what extent this will delay launches of the rocket, which competes with U.S. systems for commercial use. The United States’ space shuttle and Titan and Delta rockets all are sidelined after failures. The Ariane was destroyed by ground technicians 42 minutes after takeoff from the European Space Agency’s center at Kourou, French Guiana, on its 18th launch.
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, in remarks broadcast on Israel radio, blamed political rivals for charges that he approved the 1984 killings of two captive Palestinian terrorists. At a meeting of Cabinet ministers from his right-wing Likud Bloc, he prodecide if it should investigate the posed that the coalition Cabinet possibility of political involvement in the affair. Shamir has said that any probe would reveal secrets of Shin Bet, the internal security service blamed for the two deaths.
A U.N. convoy loaded with food and medical supplies entered a Palestinian refugee camp outside Beirut, ending a monthlong siege imposed by heavy fighting between Shia Muslim militiamen and Palestinian guerrillas. The convoy was set up as part of a Syrian-mediated truce ending the fighting over the Sabra, Chatilla and Borj el Brajne camps on Beirut’s southern outskirts, in which scores have been killed. After hours of delay during which Amal militiamen searched the trucks, the convoy was allowed into Borj el Brajne.
An American missing in Lebanon for 10 months and believed to have been held by drug traffickers has been freed unharmed and handed over to the United States Embassy in a Beirut suburb, according to reports today. The embassy confirmed the release of the American, Steven John Donahue, 32 years old, of Hollywood, Florida, in a message to the State Department in Washington, Western diplomats said. Mr. Donahue’s family reportedly paid a ransom of more than $400,000 for his release. The diplomats said Mr. Donahue’s abduction and reappearance was not in any way linked to the politically motivated kidnappings of five Americans by Muslim Shiite extremists. The five, abducted in Muslim West Beirut over a period of two years, are still missing.
Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi brought President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen and President Haider abu Bakr Attas of South Yemen together for their first meeting on the subject of unification, Libya radio reported. The radio, monitored in London by the British Broadcasting Corp., said both Yemeni leaders declared they were ready to work toward achieving unity. Yemen, a pro-Western nation, and South Yemen, allied with the Soviet Bloc, began unification talks in 1982, but the process was halted by factional fighting.
President Reagan places a call to James D. Phillips, Counsel General in Casablanca, Morocco.
Iran has turned back a six-week-old Iraqi counteroffensive, retaking a strategic border town and driving Iraqi forces back to their own territory, according to reports from both sides reaching here today. The Iranians were said to have recaptured the town, Mehran, in two days of heavy desert fighting, according to official communiques from both Tehran and Baghdad. In the nearly six years of the Persian Gulf war, rarely have both sides given similar accounts of an engagement. Shortly before 8 A.M. today, the official Iranian news agency issued a two word bulletin: “Mehran liberated.” A little over an hour later, a statement from the Iraqi military command said: “The Iranian enemy managed to enter the Iranian town of Mehran, and our forces withdrew to international borders.” Military analysts said the setback to Iraq might prove to be psychologically significant, since Baghdad had staged its counterattack largely to make up for the embarrassment of Iran’s capture of the former Gulf oil port of Fao in February. The Iranians remain entrenched in Fao, despite repeated claims of Iraqi advances and the pouring of enormous amounts of Iraqi materiel and troops into the area.
The United States today gave Vietnam its first written commitment to support Hanoi’s plan to resolve, within two years, the issue of Americans missing in action since the Indochina war. Richard Childress, a member of the National Security Council, said at a news conference here that Vietnam in turn had given assurances that it would provide Washington with written reports on its progress in the search and would investigate reported live sightings of missing Americans. The two sides left open the possibility of establishing an American technical office in Hanoi. The Vietnamese promised to deliver “especially productive” information in August and October.
Washington and Havana have agreed to have emissaries meet in Mexico City next week for negotiations on reviving a 1984 immigration agreement, Reagan Administration officials said. Cuba suspended the accord after the United States began broadcasts by Radio Marti.
Salvadoran government spokesman Roberto Viera said that prospects for a new round of peace talks have dimmed because leftist rebels have refused to hold private meetings that would lay the groundwork for a public dialogue. “Without the private meetings, there is really no reason to hold the public talks,” Viera said. Commander Susana, second in command of the largest rebel army in El Salvador, the Popular Liberation Forces, said the guerrillas rejected the preliminary sessions because the government refused to open them to representatives of other political sectors, such as labor unions and human rights groups.
Telling the Security Council “we have the evidence of Sandinista aggression,” Vernon A. Walters of the United States used multicolored charts, shipping records and photographs today to defend military aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. In response to Nicaragua’s assertion that it developed its armed forces to defend itself against the rebels, Mr. Walters said Nicaragua’s armed forces “had already grown to be the largest in Central America by late 1980, well before the time even the Sandinistas assert it faced any military threat.”
Pope John Paul II, addressing a crowd put at more than half a million, appealed today to this country’s guerrillas to lay down their arms and “put an end to destruction and the deaths of so many innocents.” The political arm of one guerrilla group, meanwhile, made public a letter to the Pope in which it complained about what it called “an atmosphere of horror” created by the Government’s war against insurgents, estimated to number 20,000. The leftist Patriotic Union asked for a meeting with the Pope to discuss Government abuses that they said were “proscribed by civilization,” including torture and “disappearances.” Speaking to a throng whose members withstood a downpour to attend mass, John Paul made clear his uncompromising opposition to guerrilla violence.
The Paraguayan government announced that it would not allow the Spanish director of the Charitas Roman Catholic radio station to return to Paraguay. Interior Minister Sabino Augusto Montanaro said that Father Javier Arancon, who has been director of the radio since 1982, has been barred from the country. Montanaro refused to say why Arancon had been stopped at the border as he returned from a trip to Argentina. A Charitas spokesman said the station was convinced that the move against Arancon was the result of the station’s coverage of political unrest in April and May.
A general strike in Chile began violently as five people were reported shot dead in Santiago and Valparaiso. The general strike, scheduled to last for two days, was called by opposition and labor groups in an effort to persuade military leaders to help end the nearly 13-year regime of General Augusto Pinochet. In addition to the fatal shootings, tear gas was fired at anti-Government protesters in a downtown Santiago plaza. More than 200 people were reported detained, mostly in Santiago and the southern city of Concepcion. About a dozen were reported wounded, including a military officer hurt by a bomb blast in Concepcion. At the end of the day, the military ordered four radio stations to halt news coverage indefinitely because of their aggressive reporting of the strike. The stations, Radio Cooperativa, Radio Chilena, Radio Santiago and Radio Carrera, were told to limit their programming to music and commercials, plus twice-a-day announcements of Government declarations.
The South African Government announced today that it had prepared criminal charges against 780 of the thousands of people held under the emergency decree imposed June 12. The Government said that the charges included murder, arson and assault and that detainees, once charged, would be permitted access to lawyers — a privilege thus far denied. Meanwhile, Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, Archbishop-elect of Cape Town, condemned a spate of bomb attacks since the emergency decree. He called them “acts of terrorism” and said they would not solve the country’s problems.
In beginning a new policy review on South Africa, the Reagan Administration is pursuing two possibly contradictory goals: to block moves in Congress for drastic economic sanctions against Pretoria, and to heighten pressure on the South African Government to begin high-level interracial negotiations for abolishing apartheid. Some Congressional critics of the Administration’s policy of “constructive engagement” with South Africa have argued that it is not possible to bring about the talks sought by Washington without being willing to invoke the harshest possible sanctions to make the South African Government take notice. But discussions with key Administration officials reveal that the “reassessment” is taking place within carefully circumscribed limits. The White House and the State Department have already decided, three weeks before the study is to be completed, that the Administration will not endorse severe economic sanctions.
President Reagan signed a $1.7 billion catchall spending bill today, saying it provided urgently needed money but complaining that several of its provisions infringed on the powers of the executive branch. The measure, including money to keep several Government agencies and programs running for three months, was approved by Congress late last month. “The act provides urgently needed funds for the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service, federal courts, disaster relief and a number of other domestic programs, and for the enhancement of embassy security, as well as assistance for the Philippines and Ireland,” Mr. Reagan said. “However, there are several provisions that continue to be objectionable and that infringe on the executive branch’s ability to administer and regulate federal programs.” In particular, he objected to a provision forbidding the federal government to solicit or study any proposals to sell the Tennessee Valley Authority or the Federal Power Marketing Administrations without specific Congressional authorization.
President Reagan signed legislation Tuesday overhauling the military retirement system, rewarding those who make a life career in the services and reducing pensions for those who leave early. The Military Retirement Reform Act of 1986 does not affect those now in uniform or those who have already retired, but it will change pensions for anyone entering the armed forces after August 1.
President Reagan participates in an interview with Johanna Neuman, White House correspondent for USA Today.
The Supreme Court today firmly endorsed the use of affirmative action in the workplace to cure past discrimination against minority groups when other approaches would not work. The Court did so in two cases in which it ruled that, as a remedy for job discrimination, judges may sometimes order racial preferences that benefit members of minority groups who are not personally victims of discrimination. Six of the Court’s nine members explicitly rejected the Reagan Administration’s argument that judges have no power to order job preferences for minority group members at the expense of white employees unless all those who benefit have personally suffered from discrimination. In that decision, involving a New York City sheet metal workers’ local, those six held that judges may order racial preferences in union membership and other contexts if necessary to rectify especially “egregious” discrimination. Five of them upheld such a preference in the case at hand, while the sixth supported the principle but said the order to the union constituted an illegal quota.
The Supreme Court’s two rulings upholding affirmative action in jobs were “disappointing” and “extremely unfortunate,” William Bradford Reynolds, the Assistant Attorney General for civil rights, said. In contrast, leaders of civil rights organizations said they were pleased and relieved by the decisions. The Supreme Court’s rulings today on affirmative action amount to a rejection of the policies and arguments that the Reagan Administration has been advancing for six years in the field of civil rights. Since President Reagan took office, Justice Department officials have argued that numerical hiring and promotion goals were invalid as a remedy for employment discrimination, and that relief could be awarded only to identified victims of discrimination. The Court explicitly and forcefully rejected that argument today in cases involving a New York labor union and the Cleveland Fire Department. Race-conscious remedies, including goals, “may be appropriate where an employer or a labor union has engaged in persistent or egregious discrimination, or where necessary to dissipate the lingering effects of pervasive discrimination,” Associate Justice William J. Brennan Jr. wrote in a passage summarizing the logic of a majority of the Court.
The space agency said today that it planned to modify the flawed rocket joints that caused the loss of the space shuttle Challenger rather than carry out a radical redesign or elimination of the whole joint. John Thomas, who heads the agency’s redesign team for the solid-fuel booster rocket at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., unveiled what he described as “the two alternatives” for redesigning the faulty joint that are favored by both his team and engineers at Morton Thiokol Inc., the builder of the rocket. The alternatives would change or eliminate various features of the joint that failed on the Challenger flight and would add some new features as well. But the alternatives would not require a major redesign of the entire joint configuration and would not require that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration dispose of any of its existing stockpile of rocket segments. Most of the proposed changes were under consideration well before the loss of the Challenger and its crew of seven on January 28. However, the proposals were never carried out.
The explosion of an Air Force Titan rocket in April and the loss of a NASA Delta rocket in May were apparently caused by random failures, not major design flaws, officials said today. But they said the incidents pointed up a need for increased quality control and backup systems. Brig. Gen. Nathan Lindsay said the Titan program was expected to get back in the air by early next year, but Lawrence Ross, chairman of the Delta accident review board, declined to predict when those rockets could resume launchings. The next Delta launching had been scheduled for mid-August. While that date probably cannot be met, Mr. Ross said no major redesigns were required, indicating that flights could resume within several months.
With a plea from its chairman for simplicity in Federal regulations and honesty in military contracting, a Presidential commission charged with reforming the Pentagon’s management published its final report today after a year of deliberations. “Our study of defense management compels us to conclude that nothing merits greater concern than the increasingly troubled relationship between the defense industry and the Government,” the report said. Both of them must change their behavior, the panel said, to avoid endangering the national security by further eroding public trust in the military-industrial complex. David Packard, chairman of the panel, the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, said that with the White House, the Defense Department, Congress and the military contracting industry broadly supporting his group’s recommendations, they should be swiftly carried out.
Mayor W. Wilson Goode of Philadelphia called for renewed labor negotiations and vowed to press on with the city’s Fourth of July celebration despite a strike by more than 15,000 municipal employees. “I feel the unions have a right to express themselves, to demonstrate, to picket; that is one of those rights that we have under our Constitution,” Goode said. “But the people of this city also have a right to this celebration.” Goode said that security would be increased to “ensure that people are safe.” Trash piled up on streets as municipal workers struck for a second day today, and one union leader vowed to turn the city’s Fourth of July festivities into “an unpleasant situation.” Most libraries and recreation centers were closed and other city services were curtailed.
Gerald Eugene Stano came within two hours of the electric chair today before the Florida Supreme Court stayed his execution indefinitely. The case of Mr. Stano, who had confessed killing 41 people, has been overshadowed as attention has focused instead on the fate of Theodore R. Bundy, who was convicted of killing two Florida sorority women and whohas been linked to many other killings. Mr. Bundy was also scheduled to die in the electric chair Thursday, but the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta postponed his execution indefinitely to give his lawyers time to frame an appeal. Mr. Bundy, a 39-year old former law student whose suave good looks and polish invested his case with a certain fascination and national interest, was thought by some investigators to be responsible for the murders of three score young women in a trail that reached from the moss-draped oaks of Tallahassee to the redwood forests of the Pacific Northwest. Mr. Stano, a heavyset short-order cook, has confessed to killing 41 young women, and law-enforcement officials say that his spree might have been the longest in the United States.
Kent State officials, amid some criticism of their decision, disqualified the winning design for a memorial to mark the shootings of 13 students at a 1970 war protest because a member of the design team is Canadian. University trustees, acting on the recommendation of President Michael Schwartz, then voted to choose a design by Bruno Ast and Thomas J. Rasmussen of Chicago, who originally finished second. Contest rules required all entrants to be U.S. citizens.
New ways for disciplining doctors for incompetence are in place, the American Medical Association said. Parts of the plan, approved by the association’s board of trustees two weeks ago, are only proposals, most of which would be carried out by other groups. Others were approved at the convention and are already under way. Together they would place the medical association, a private organization representing about half the nation’s doctors, at the center among the public and private groups that regulate the nation’s physicians.
A shift in Democratic foreign policy is suggested by a report by a party policy group that is strikingly different from key policy sections of the 1984 national Democratic platform. The report avoids the issue of Nicaragua and combines a low-key criticism of the Reagan Administration’s foreign policy with a tough line toward Moscow.
Despite a decline in smoking and more public emphasis on health, a greater number of Americans admit to exercising less, gaining weight, sleeping less and drinking more than in the past, according to a new study by the National Center for Health Statistics. “In general, between 1977 and 1983 there appears to have been an increase in unfavorable health practices,” the report said. On the positive side, the agency found a 10% decline in the rate of smoking and a slight decrease in the rate of snacking.
Americans’ willingness to join the national crusade against drunk driving is exemplified by their overwhelming support for a national law that would raise the drinking age in all states to 21. In the latest Gallup Poll, 80% expressed support for such a law while 17% were opposed. The national consensus includes large majorities from population groups that would be most directly affected if a national drinking-age law were enacted — young adults (18 to 29 years) and residents of states where people under 21 can still drink alcoholic beverages legally.
A tornado tore into a mobile home park on the outskirts of Jacksonville, North Carolina, killing three people as four of the homes were flattened, authorities said. Six other people were injured-three critically-as thunderstorms swept the Carolinas and northern Georgia. The most severe storm hit in the area of the Triangle Trailer Park, just outside Jacksonville. The three killed were a 1-month-old child, a 4-year-old girl and an adult woman, said Doris Martin, a hospital spokeswoman. Tornadoes were reported at Nags Head, North Carolina, and near Center Hill, North Carolina, but with no damage.
“Gone With the Wind” dominates talk in Atlanta on the 50th anniversary of publication of the novel that Margaret Mitchell wrote there. Some of the talk is fond and some is hostile. The book and David O. Selznick’s benchmark movie version are works of fiction upon fiction, myths upon romantic myths.
Hundreds of warships and yachts converged on New York Harbor amid final preparations for a razzle-dazzle Liberty weekend of ceremony, spectacle and entertainment. Under leaden skies that forecasters predicted would clear for tonight’s relighting of the statue, windjammers and fighting craft from dozens of countries scudded to berths.
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Tony LaRussa, dismissed as manager of the Chicago White Sox 12 days ago, agreed today to take over as manager of the Oakland A’s, who have lost 5 straight games and 23 of their last 28. LaRussa was given a multiyear contract. The latest Oakland defeat came here today, a 7–3 decision that gave Cleveland a sweep of a three-game series. In becoming the fourth Oakland manager in the last six years, LaRussa will be joined by his friend and former Chicago pitching coach, Dave Duncan. LaRussa will manage his first game at Milwaukee Friday, according to Roy Eisenhardt, president of the Oakland club.
The Atlanta Braves beat the San Francisco Giants, 7–4, as Omar Moreno’s three-run homer and Zane Smith’s two-run single highlighted a six-run rally in the fourth inning for Atlanta. It was the sixth victory in seven games for the Braves and knocked the Giants out of first place in the National League West, one-half game behind Houston. He walked none, but hit two batters. In the second inning, Ken Griffey hit his first homer since being traded to the Braves on Sunday.
The Milwaukee Brewers blanked the Baltimore Orioles, 1–0. Rick Cerone drove in a run with a fourth-inning sacrifice fly and rookie left-hander Juan Nieves (7–2) pitched a five-hitter for the Brewers and struck out eight. The game was delayed at the start by rain for 45 minutes.
After 14 wins, Roger Clemens suffers his first loss as Toronto scores 3 times in the 8th inning to down Boston 4–2. Clemens was one game short of the American League record for consecutive wins at the start of a season. Clemens allowed only one hit — Bell’s 15th homer of the season in the fourth inning — over the first seven innings, but started his downfall by walking Ernie Whitt to start the eighth. Damaso Garcia then singled, and after Clemens made a fine play to turn Tony Fernandez’s sacrifice bunt attempt into a force-out at third, Rance Mulliniks lined the first pitch to him into the left-field corner for a double to tie the score at 2–2. Bob Stanley came on in relief but quickly surrendered the last two Toronto runs.
The Angels defeated the White Sox, 4–3. Reggie Jackson’s first triple in almost two years drove home three runs in a four-run first inning for California. The victory — in a game in which all the runs were scored in the opening inning — halted a four-game winning streak by the White Sox. Chicago is 7–3 since Jim Fregosi replaced the fired Tony LaRussa as manager.
The Chicago Cubs beat the Montreal Expos twice — finishing yesterday’s suspended game with a 1–0 win on Jody Davis lined a single to center in the eighth inning, then Davey Lopes hit a home run with one out in the bottom of the ninth for the Cubs’ 5–4 victory in the regularly scheduled game.
The Reds edged the Dodgers, 4–3. Tony Perez doubled with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the 10th to rally the Reds. It was the sixth straight loss for the Dodgers, who tumbled into last place in the National League West. The Reds moved out of last place for the first time since April 26.
Denny Walling has a pair of homers and a pair of singles to drive in 6 runs as the Houston Astros beat the visiting San Diego Padres, 8–1. Mike Scott strikes out 3 and allows just six hits for his 8th win. He allowed six hits and did not walk a batter as Houston took the final game of the three-game series. Andy Hawkins, 5–5, was knocked out in the sixth after giving up five runs on seven hits.
The Yankees used a new third baseman — Dave Winfield — last night, and they may soon have a new pitcher because Ron Guidry, who suffered his seventh consecutive loss, very likely will wind up on the disabled list. On the last pitch he threw in the Yankees’ 8–3 loss to Detroit, Guidry was struck by a line drive between the index and middle fingers of his left hand. He suffered a laceration that had to be closed with stitches, and the injury could prompt the Yankees to put him on the disabled list and send to Columbus for Scott Nielsen, a right-hander, who is 9–2. Nielsen’s arrival would give Manager Lou Piniella, who favors a youth movement, a young corps of starting pitchers: Dennis Rasmussen, in his third year in the major leagues, and four rookies — Bob Tewksbury, Doug Drabek, Alfonso Pulido and Nielsen. In starting last night, the 35-year-old Guidry gave up three runs and 10 hits in seven innings, which turned out to be the Yankees’ most effective pitching of the game. Brian Fisher and Al Holland, the relievers, allowed the final five runs that put the game beyond the Yankees’ reach.
A grand slam in the first inning by Andre Thornton, the sixth of his career, put the Indians ahead for good, as they downed the Oakland A’s, 7–3. Thornton’s 12th homer of the year with none out in the first inning gave Cleveland a 4–0 lead and helped complete a three-game sweep of the series over Oakland. The A’s have lost all six games against the Indians this season and 23 of its past 28 games. Cleveland reliever Dickie Noles, who came in for starter Don Schulze in the fifth inning, gained his second victory against one loss by limiting the A’s to one run on five hits in four innings. Scott Bailes pitched the last two outs. A’s starter and loser Bill Mooneyham, 2–3, gave up singles to Tony Bernazard and Brett Butler and walk to Joe Carter before Thornton’s 400-foot drive over the center field fence. Mooneyham gave up another single to Mel Hall before striking out three straight batters.
The Philadelphia Phillies bowed to the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4–3. Tony Pena singled to score Rick Reuschel, a pinch-runner, from third base with two out in the ninth for Pittsburgh, and Rick Rhoden pitched his third straight complete-game victory. Rhoden, 9–4, won for the sixth time in his last seven decisions, allowing six hits and blanking the Phillies over the last five innings. Rhoden also went 3-for-4 and started the Pirates’ winning rally in the ninth with a lead-off single off reliever Don Carman, 3–2.
The Mariners beat the Royals, 5–3. Ken Phelps and Scott Bradley hit solo homers as Seattle handed the Royals their sixth straight loss. The three-game sweep dropped the third-place Royals, last year’s world champions, five games behind the American League West-leading Texas Rangers. Mike Morgan, 6–7, scattered nine hits, walked none and struck out three in eight innings
The Mets surged 11 ½ games in front in the National League’s East tonight when they beat the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–3, for their sixth straight victory and the Cardinals’ sixth straight loss. It was also the seventh time in a row the Mets had beaten the Cardinals, who won the pennant last season with the best offense in baseball. And the difference was remarkable: In April, the Mets swept a four-game series from the Cardinals here, and tonight they completed a three-game sweep. And they did it even though Rick Aguilera didn’t survive the fifth inning against Bob Forsch, and it took three relief pitchers for the Mets to finish.
The Texas Rangers routed the Minnesota Twins, 10–2. Mike Mason pitched six innings of two-hit ball, and Oddibe McDowell and Larry Parrish each drove in three runs for Texas. Mason (5–2) didn’t allow a hit until Mickey Hatcher bounced a one-out single to center in the fifth.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 7
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Baltimore Orioles 0
Toronto Blue Jays 4, Boston Red Sox 2
Chicago White Sox 3, California Angels 4
Montreal Expos 4, Chicago Cubs 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 3, Cincinnati Reds 4
San Diego Padres 1, Houston Astros 8
Detroit Tigers 8, New York Yankees 3
Cleveland Indians 7, Oakland Athletics 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Kansas City Royals 3, Seattle Mariners 5
New York Mets 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Minnesota Twins 2, Texas Rangers 10
Stock prices reached record levels for the third day in a row, but the advance lacked the conviction that Wall Street might have liked. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 5.49, to a new peak of 1,909.03. On Tuesday it closed above 1,900 for the first time ever.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1909.03 (+5.49)
Born:
Lindsay Lohan, American actress (“Another World”; “Freaky Friday”; “Mean Girls”), in New York, New York.
Brett Cecil, MLB pitcher (All Star, 2013; Toronto Blue Jays, St. Louis Cardinals), in Annapolis, Maryland.
Rene Tosoni, Canadian MLB outfielder (Minnesota Twins), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Jameson Konz, NFL tight end (Seattle Seahawks), in Uniontown, Ohio.
Nick Hennessey, NFL tackle (Buffalo Bills), in Salem, Massachusetts.
Died:
Peanuts Lowrey, 68, MLB outfielder and coach.
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