THUNDERBOLT
OPERATION THUNDERBOLT: Israeli airborne commandos staged a daring nighttime raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda, freeing the 105 hostages and Air France crew members held by pro-Palestinian hijackers and flying them back to Israel aboard three Israeli planes. The hostages and their rescuers were due in Israel Sunday morning after a brief stopover at Kenya’s International Airport, where at least two persons were given medical treatment in a field hospital on the runway. No details of the extent of the casualties were available pending notification of the families. Reports from the scene said that the terrorists had been killed in the skirmish, but military sources declined to confirm or deny this.
A week earlier, on 27 June, an Air France Airbus A300 jet airliner with 248 passengers had been hijacked by two members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine – External Operations (PFLP-EO) under orders of Wadie Haddad (who had earlier broken away from the PFLP of George Habash), and two members of the German Revolutionary Cells. The hijackers took hostages with the stated objective of compelling the release of 40 Palestinian and affiliated militants imprisoned in Israel as well as the release of 13 prisoners in four other countries. Over 100 Ugandan soldiers were deployed to support the hijackers after the flight landed, and Amin, who had been informed of the hijacking from the beginning, had personally welcomed the terrorists at Entebbe. After moving all of the hostages to a defunct airport, the hijackers separated all Israelis and several non-Israeli Jews from the larger group of passengers, subsequently moving them into a separate room. Over the next two days, 148 non-Israeli hostages were released and flown out to Paris. The 94 remaining passengers, most of whom were Israelis, and the 12-member Air France crew continued to be held as hostages.
Representatives within the Israeli government initially debated over whether to concede or respond by force, as the hijackers had threatened to kill the 106 captives if the specified prisoners were not released. Acting on intelligence provided by Mossad, the decision was made to have the Israeli military undertake a rescue operation. The Israeli plans included preparation for an armed confrontation with Amin’s Uganda Army.
Initiating the operation at nightfall on 3 July 1976, Israeli transport planes flew 100 commandos over 4,000 kilometers (2,500 mi) to Uganda for the rescue effort. The Israeli forces landed at Entebbe on 3 July at 23:00 IST, with their cargo bay doors already open. Because the proper layout of the airport was not known, the first plane almost taxied into a ditch. A black Mercedes car that looked like President Idi Amin’s vehicle and Land Rovers that usually accompanied Amin’s Mercedes were brought along. The Israelis hoped they could use them to bypass security checkpoints. When the C-130s landed, Israeli assault team members drove the vehicles to the terminal building in the same fashion as Amin. As they approached the terminal, two Ugandan sentries, aware that Idi Amin had recently purchased a white Mercedes, ordered the vehicles to stop. The first commandos shot the sentries using silenced pistols. This was against the plan and against the orders – the Ugandans were to be ignored, as they were believed not to be likely to open fire at this stage. An Israeli commando in one of the following Land Rovers opened fire with an unsuppressed rifle. Fearing the hijackers would be alerted prematurely, the assault team quickly approached the terminal.
The Israelis left their vehicles and ran towards the terminal. The hostages were in the main hall of the airport building, directly adjacent to the runway. Entering the terminal, the commandos shouted through a megaphone, “Stay down! Stay down! We are Israeli soldiers,” in both Hebrew and English. Jean-Jacques Maimoni, a 19-year-old French immigrant to Israel, stood up and was killed when Muki Betser and another soldier mistook him for a hijacker and fired at him. Another hostage, Pasco Cohen, 52, was also fatally wounded by gunfire from the commandos. In addition, a third hostage, 56-year-old Ida Borochovitch, a Russian Jew who had emigrated to Israel, was killed by a hijacker in the crossfire.
According to hostage Ilan Hartuv, Wilfried Böse was the only hijacker who, after the operation began, entered the hall housing the hostages. At first he pointed his Kalashnikov rifle at hostages, but “immediately came to his senses” and ordered them to find shelter in the restroom, before being killed by the commandos. According to Hartuv, Böse fired only at Israeli soldiers and not at hostages. At one point an Israeli commando called out in Hebrew, “Where are the rest of them?” referring to the hijackers. The hostages pointed to a connecting door of the airport’s main hall, into which the commandos threw several hand grenades. They then entered the room and shot dead the three remaining hijackers, ending the assault. Over the course of 90 minutes, 102 of the hostages were rescued successfully, with three having been killed. Now, as the third became July 4th, the raiders had to get out of Entebbe with those they had rescued…
Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktaş was sworn in as the first president of the Turkish Federated State of Cyprus, a breakaway republic that had been proclaimed in 1975 in the northern portion of the island republic of Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea after Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus following the 1974 overthrow of the government by Greek Cypriots seeking union with Greece. He chose Necat Onuk, general secretary of the National Unity Party, to be premier of the state, set up in February, 1975, seven months after Turkey invaded the northern part of the island.
In the second phase of Spain’s transition to democracy after the end of the government of Francisco Franco, King Juan Carlos I selected Adolfo Suárez, who had been the deputy secretary-general of Movimiento Nacional, Spain’s only legal political party, during the Franco regime, as Prime Minister to succeed Carlos Arias Navarro, who was dismissed on Friday. Because of Suárez’s Francoist background, he was viewed by the King as being the most likely to persuade the more conservative legislators of the Cortes Españolas of the need for reform. Mr. Suarez is 43 years old and is a personal friend of the King. He was one of three candidates recommended to the King by the Council of the Realm. His appointment is expected to bring about a substantial improvement in the relations between the Palace and the Prime Minister’s office.
Italy’s Communist Party, which gained considerable strength in the recent national elections, made another advance when the leaders of the other parties agreed to yield the presidency of the Chamber of Deputies to a Communist. The decision, made at a meeting of Communist officials and other party leaders, will give the Communists their most important parliamentary post in the history of the republic. The president of the Chamber of Deputies — the equivalent of Speaker — will be elected tomorrow when the newly-elected Parliament convenes.
The Soviet Union dedicated a bronze monument at Babi Yar, a ravine near Kiev where German troops executed thousands of Russians, including many Jews, during World War II. Tass news agency said the monument consists of 11 figures including a young mother with her child and a Communist member of the anti-Nazi underground. Previously, the site of the massacre had been marked only with a simple stone slab placed in 1966.
Bombs exploded in four hotels in the Irish Republic tonight, apparently linked to the sectarian warfare in Northern Ireland between Roman Catholic and Protestant extremists. The only reported casualty was an 11‐year‐old boy who was seriously wounded in the blast at the Royal George Hotel in Limerick. Other hotels bombed were in Dublin, Rosslare and Killarney. A Dublin newspaper received a warning telephone call from a man identifying himself as a member of the Ulster Volunteer Force, a militant Protestant organization. A bomb also went off in a hotel in Londonderry, Northern Ireland, damaging one wing but causing no casualties. In another incident in Londonderry, a British soldier was critically wounded by a sniper at a road checkpoint.
Scotland Yard said that four men and a woman have been arrested in connection with the theft of $3.8 million in cash from London’s Heathrow Airport. Police in Zurich, Switzerland, detained Stephen Raymond, 30, a British employee of the American-owned air courier firm Purolator Services Ltd. He was reportedly seized with $306,000 in his possession. The others were arrested in London and a Scotland Yard spokesman said that detectives had recovered “hundreds of thousands of pounds” worth of money in various currencies. The theft occurred when two men described as having “impeccable” credentials coolly collected the banknotes from warehouses at the airport.
The heat wave in the United Kingdom, at the time in a state of drought conditions, reached its hottest day, with a temperature of 96.6 °F (35.9 °C) in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
West German serial killer Joachim Kroll, who confessed to having killed 14 people since 1955 (including nine girls) was arrested at his apartment in the Huckingen section of Duisburg. Police had been conducting a house-to-house search for a missing child when they received a tip from a neighbor about Kroll’s behavior and a blocked drainage pipe.
Violent anti‐Israeli demonstrations broke out in Nablus in the occupied West Bank of the Jordan River today following the shooting yesterday of an Arab teenager, witnesses reported. Israeli soldiers used tear gas to disperse hundreds of Arabs protesting the youth’s death, the Israeli occupation, a new Israeli tax and the Christian attacks against a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon, reporters said. The youth was killed and more than a dozen others were wounded by Israelis yesterday after a crowd burned a tax office, an Israeli bank branch and marched on the Christian quarter of Nablus shouting for vengeance, Israeli authorities reported. Most West Bank shops have been closed for three days to protest the tax, which went into effect July 1. It was postponed for a month in the West Bank to give merchants time to study the complex law.
Another attempt to attain a cease‐fire failed today and fierce fighting continued between rival factions in various parts of Lebanon. An Arab League delegation under Secretary General Mahmoud Riad held talks here with Palestinian and leftist leaders in an effort to salvage the truce agreement, which Mr. Riad himself negotiated yesterday with the Christian bloc under President Suleiman Franjieh. The cease‐fire was to go into effect at midnight but heavy clashes in which field artillery and surface‐to‐surface rockets were used continued throughout the night and today. Again, the burden of the fighting centered on the Palestinian camp of Tell Zaatar in the southeastern suburb of Beirut.
Palestinian leaders and many Arab diplomats do not agree with the idea that the Arab peacemaking effort in Lebanon has failed because of inter-Arab rivalries. The Palestinians say they are convinced that most of the Arab world is united against them and that the established governments are either supporting or tolerating a Syrian campaign to cut the Palestinian movement “down to size.” This is what Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader, told the Arab League Council in a stormy all‐night session earlier this week. “You, the 20 members of the League, are sitting here either in silence or paying lip‐service to the Palestinian cause while the Palestinians are being slaughtered. Palestinian blood is cheap to you,” Mr. Arafat told the envoys, according to officials who attended the closed‐door session.
South Korea asked North Korea today to unconditionally resume the political dialogues that have remained suspended for the past four years. Speaking for the South, Chang Key Young, the Southern co-chairman of the South‐North Coordinating Committee, blamed the current deadlock on North Korea’s provocation of military tension. Mr. Chang’s statement marked the fourth anniversary of the July 4 communique that the two Koreas signed after former President Richard M. Nixon’s visit to Peking in 1972.
Some children in the primitive Tasaday tribe in the Philippines have died, official sources reported in Manila. These would be the first reported deaths among the 27 Stone Age people since they were discovered five years ago. The cause and number of deaths were not immediately known. But an investigator reportedly was sent to the reservation, with an announcement expected sometime this week.
Separatist groups from the remote Marshall and Palau Islands pressed demands at the United Nations this week for independence from the United States-administered Trust Territory of the Pacific. Four of the petitioners were Marshallese, and they wore outsized yellow lapel buttons with the slogan “Free the Marshall Islands” when they appeared before the Trusteeship Council to report on a catalogue of grievances. Separatist movements have been growing for years in the three archipelagoes — the Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas — which make up the trust territory of 2,100 islands scattered across 3 million square miles of the western Pacific. Only 100 of the islands are inhabited. According to the petitioners and the lawyers assisting them this was the year to vigorously push the independence campaign. in part because the Northern Marianas had already succeeded in negotiating a separate political commonwealth arrangement with the United States and also because of the American Bicentennial.
Peru’s military regime said it had closed the nation’s 12 major political news weeklies because they tried to destroy the unity of the armed forces. The closures of the weeklies followed imposition of a state of emergency after street disturbances in Lima against price increases. Troops and armored personnel carriers continued to patrol the city where at least 300 people have been arrested since Thursday’s unrest.
Morocco and Mauritania today threatened to pull out of the Organization of African Unity unless the current summit meeting immediately ceased all discussion on the Western Sahara region. The threat came after a meeting of the organization’s Foreign Ministers approved controversial resolution on the area and passed it on to the summit for action. The draft, passed on a 29 to 2 vote, called on all “occupying forces” — Morocco and Mauritania — to withdraw from the western Sahara and allow its people the right of self-determination. The two countries took over the territory bordering the Atlantic last year when the Spanish colonial administration withdrew, claiming the people of the area approved the action. But the Algerian‐backed Polisario liberation movement has been waging a guerrilla war since then, saying it was the rightful leader of the Saharans.
Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri declared that loyalist forces had crushed a rebellion against his pro-Western regime that claimed at least 100 lives. It was the fourth unsuccessful coup in five years against the moderate Arab leader’s rule. The official Sudan radio said an unspecified number of foreigners had been arrested for participating in the coup attempt. It gave no nationalities and did not say whether the foreigners were Arabs.
Another meeting, possibly next month, is projected between Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Prime Minister John Vorster of South Africa to accelerate their search for a political solution in Rhodesia. According to conversations in the last week with sources familiar with the Secretary’s talks last month with Mr. Vorster, no dates for a second round were set. But the sources said that, given the urgency of the situation in Rhodesia, where guerrilla fighting is expected to rise dramatically in the fall, the two men have left open the possibility of a meeting early next month, when Mr. Kissinger plans to visit Iran.
Hundreds of South African blacks saluted with clenched fists and shoulted, “Amandla!” (power) as the body of a 13-year-old boy, Hector Peterson, was buried in Soweto township. He was said to be the first person to die in last month’s black riots. Forty-six other victims of the rioting were buried, but South Africa’s white government banned a mass burial for fear it would lead to more violence, so black leaders urged people to congregate for the “symbolic” funeral of Hector Peterson. All but two of the 176 persons who died in the riots were black.
President Ford vetoed a $3.3 billion military construction bill, saying he found “highly objectionable” a provision that would have required a President to give Congress about a year’s notice before closing or cutting the civilian staff of a military installation. “The President must be able, if the need arises, to change or reduce the mission at any military installation if and when that becomes necessary,” Ford said. The Pentagon had recommended that Ford veto the bill because it said it would be forced to delay shutdowns or cutbacks at at least 16 military bases.
President Ford’s popularity rating has dipped another two percentage points, according to a Gallup Poll survey. Ford received an approval rating of 45% from the 1,524 adults interviewed June 11-14. He had received a 50% rating, his highest of the year, in mid-March, but the level of approval dropped to 48% in April and 47% in May. Full results of the latest survey: 45% approved of “the way Ford is handling his job as President,” 40% disapproved and 14% had no opinion.
The nation’s mayors — both Democratic and Republican — are in agreement on one issue: The federal government is doling out urban aid in such small amounts, and snarling it in so much red tape, that current programs are inadequate to assure the survival of the cities. Estimates of the U.S. budget devoted to domestic programs ranged from a Democrat’s 8% to a Republican’s 51%. But interviews conducted by the Associated Press at the U.S. Conference of Mayors in Milwaukee found agreement that city taxpayers are sending too much money to Washington and not getting enough back.
Senator Russell Long, chairman or the Senate Finance Committee, has decided to give the committee a chance to reconsider its earlier decisions on the pending tax bill. He has taken this unusual step in apparent concern over criticism of the bill’s many special-interest provisions. The bill has been scrutinized by public-interest law groups, chiefly the Tax Reform Research Group, which is financed by Ralph Nader’s Public Citizen. The decision to re-examine the provisions marks the first time that the committee or its chairman has responded to public criticism of the secrecy in which tax law provisions benefiting a single company, industry or individual are written.
Vice President Rockefeller and Johnny Cash led Washington’s Bicentennial parade up Constitution Avenue, and 500,000 other people, according to the official estimate, turned out to watch more than 50 bands, 60 floats and 90 marching units. After leading for a while, Mr. Rockefeller and Mr. Cash moved to a reviewing stand where they watched from behind bulletproof glass. The Vice President took off his suit coat and took pictures like everybody else.
An international flotilla of warships sailed under the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge into New York Harbor and more than 200 high-masted sailing ships moved into temporary berths at Sandy Hook and Gravesend Bay in preparation for the city’s sea and land Bicentennial celebration tomorrow. At precisely 8 AM, the cruiser USS Wainwright, her blue-tipped missiles pointing skyward, moved smartly under the bridge, leading 52 naval ships from 22 countries taking part in the International Naval Review tomorrow. Scores of small pleasure boats scurried about as the warships began moving into New York’s lower bay, and the Coast Guard reported that more than 30,000 small boats were in and around the harbor and amid the tall ships off Sandy Hook. And as the carrier USS Forrestal, the review ship for today’s military sea parade, moved toward its anchorage in the Narrows, the Coast Guard reported “wall‐to‐wall” pleasure boats around her.
David Trager, the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was “suffering from arteriosclerosis” and was “out of step” with the major goals of federal prosecutors. In an unusually sharp attack against the F.B.I. by a high government official, Mr. Trager said in an interview that “most of the cases they (the F.B.I.) bring to us are insignificant.” He also said that the F.B.I. was “wasting resources on trivia, and I don’t think they have the ability or the people to do the job in areas we consider priorities — official corruption and white-collar crime.” Mr. Trager, who has been in charge of one of the largest Federal prosecutorial units for more than two years, accused the F.B.I. of refusing to cooper. ate with his office in several “sensitive areas,” such as corruption inquiries. The bureau’s investigative methods, he continued in an interview, were “a hangover from the Hoover days,” a reference to the late J. Edgar Hoover who was the director of the F.B.I. for 48 years until his death in 1972.
The Labor Department is rewriting a controversial farm safety booklet described as demeaning to farm workers. One example cited was a warning that manure is slippery and can cause falls. Farmers complained that the pamphlet, “Safety With Beef Cattle” — written by Purdue University specialists for the Labor Department’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration — insulted their intelligence with such statements as “Hazards are one of the main causes of accidents. A hazard is anything that is dangerous.”
The head of the National Right to Life Committee called today for a Congressional investigation of the Supreme Court because of its recent decisions on abortion. “The newest decisions on abortion indicate that the majority of the Supreme Court of the United States is still dancing to the tune of the population control advocates,” said Dr. Mildred Jefferson of Boston, president of the anti‐abortion organization. Last week the Court struck down a Missouri law requiring parent and spouse consent for abortions. “These abortion rulings which cancel parental protection for unwed pregnant teen‐agers, deny the father’s right to safeguard his unborn child and extend the doctor’s license to kill the unborn child, force a public policy on abortion which threatens our nation’s survival,” Dr. Jefferson said.
A Federal judge has agreed to reconsider a plan to bus an additional 900 Louisville, Kentucky blacks during the coming school year after hearing objections from black parents. District Judge James Gordon, who ordered the busing of 22,000 students to desegregate the Louisville‐Jefferson County school system last year, said yesterday that he understands the concerns of the black community. “When I call upon you to suffer, it’s to keep you from having all‐black schools,” he said. The judge also said he did not want Louisville to become a city where only blacks were bused to the suburbs.
America’s national parks and monuments are deteriorating rapidly because there is not enough money or people to take care of them, a House committee reported. The blame, according to a report by the House Government Operations Committee, should be shared both by White House budget officials and by Congress for its failure to provide more money even if not requested by the White House. The National Park Service’s resources “are now, and have for the last several years, been inadequate to carry out the tasks which the NPS is mandated to perform,” the report said, without criticizing the Park Service itself.
An Arkansas man who offered big profits for raising rabbits was arrested on federal mail fraud charges. Curtis Edward Venn of Mammoth Springs, Arkansas, was accused in a grand jury indictment of defrauding investors in nine states, including California. Authorities said Venn’s firm, Rabbit Ranchers of America, Inc., allegedly promised customers that offspring from rabbits they bought from the firm would be purchased for sale to laboratories and were promised substantial profits. The indictment said the firm was largely a “facade” and Venn did not intend to buy back any rabbits. He ran the firm from postal boxes in Kay County, Oklahoma.
National guardsmen, the police and civil defense workers evacuated more than 1,000 persons yesterday from flooded areas of southwest Missouri and southeast Kansas, where up to 12 inches of rain fell in a little more than 24 hours, United Press International reported. The authorities rescued the flood victims in helicopters, private fishing boats and other craft. Not a single fatality or serious injury had been reported. The rains began early Friday, dropping 9 ½ inches on Beaumont, Kansas, and about 7 inches on Joplin, Missouri. The National Weather service called the 12 ½ inches of rain in Cherryville, Kansas, “more than could be expected to occur there once in 100 years,” and greater than the yearly rainfall for Los Angeles or San Diego. The Jasper County civil defense director, Lea Kungle, said that up to six feet of water had flooded the stores in one block of downtown Joplin. “There have been cars completely covered, turned over and washed into ditches,” she said. “My secretary had it happen to her. She had to get out or she would have died.”
Jules Feiffer’s stage comedy “Knock Knock”, starring Judd Hirsch, closes at the Biltmore Theatre, NYC, after 152 performances.
Brian Wilson performs with the Beach Boys for the first time after his 12 year stage absence, at Anaheim Stadium in California.
Björn Borg of Sweden won the first of five straight men’s singles championships at Wimbledon, defeating Ilie Nastase of Romania in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2 and 9-7.
Major League Baseball:
White Sox owner Bill Veeck staged a “Breakfast Special,” starting at 9:30 AM (CDT), and attracted a crowd of 10,099, but the Rangers did the feasting with a 3–0 victory behind the three-hit pitching of Nelson Briles. The morning game was believed to be the first of its kind ever held at Comiskey Park.
Bob Bailey hit two homers and Johnny Bench added one, but the Reds had a battle on their hands before edging the Astros, 9–8. Bailey accounted for four RBIs and Bench for three. With the score tied, 8–8, Ken Griffey led off the Reds’ eighth with a single and went to second on a passed ball. After Joe Morgan walked, Griffey stole third. One out later, Bench bounced to Enos Cabell, but the third baseman bobbled the ball as Griffey crossed the plate with the deciding run.
Ken Holtzman gained his first victory in a Yankee uniform by defeating the Indians, 7–3, before a crowd of 64,529, largest crowd in the major leagues so far this season. Mickey Rivers, who had hit only five homers in 456 games with the Angels before coming to the Yankees in a winter deal, equaled his entire previous career total with his fifth circuit clout of the season. Roy White also homered for the Yankees, hitting a two-run shot. Although he was the winner, Holtzman needed help from Sparky Lyle in the eighth inning to save his decision.
The Tigers’ rookie sensation Mark Fidrych shuts out the Orioles 4–0 for his 8th straight victory. Fidrych pitched the first shutout of his major league career and raised his record to 9–1 by defeating the Orioles before a crowd of 51,032, second largest turnout of the season in Detroit. Rusty Staub started the 21-year-old righthander on his way to triumph by smashing a homer with two men on base in the first inning. Jason Thompson accounted for the other run with a circuit clout in the fourth.
Frank White, Al Cowens and Fred Patek drove in two runs apiece to pace the Royals to a 7–5 victory over the Athletics. White, breaking an 0-for-13 slump, singled with the bases loaded in the sixth inning to break a 4–4 tie and account for his first RBIs since June 10. Sal Bando hit his seventh homer over a stretch of seven games for the A’s to raise his season’s total to 18.
Still unbeaten, Rick Rhoden gained his eighth straight victory for the Dodgers, defeating the Padres, 3–1. Willie Davis homered in the first inning for the Padres’ run. The Dodgers tied the score with a tainted tally in the second and then went ahead against Dave Freisleben in the seventh when Steve Yeager singled, Rhoden sacrificed and Davey Lopes doubled. An error and singles by Reggie Smith and Bill Russell added an unearned run in the eighth inning.
After scoring once on a wild pitch, the Brewers added three runs on a bases-loaded double by Art Kusnyer and defeated the Red Sox, 6–2. Cecil Cooper and Carl Yastrzemski homered to give the Red Sox a 2–0 lead before the Brewers erupted for all their runs in the seventh inning. After the Brewers tied the score at 2–2 and had the bases loaded with two out, Tom House relieved Reggie Cleveland and uncorked a wild pitch to allow the deciding run to score. Charlie Moore then walked and Kusnyer cleared the sacks with his double to clinch the victory.
In a pitchers’ duel, Bill Singer prevailed over Nolan Ryan as the Twins shut out the Angels, 2–0. Singer allowed five hits. Ryan gave up only four, but three of them came in the third inning when the Twins scored their runs on a double by Bob Randall, single by Steve Braun, pass to Roy Smalley and single by Rod Carew.
A wild pickoff throw by Darold Knowles in the 10th inning enabled the Mets to defeat the Cubs, 3–2, for their ninth straight victory. The loss was the Cubs’ eighth in a row. Tom Seaver had a 2–1 decision in his grasp until the ninth inning when Jerry Morales homered to tie the score. Skip Lockwood, who relieved Seaver after the Mets’ ace began to falter in the 10th, was the winner. Bud Harrelson opened the Mets’ half with a triple, leading to intentional passes to Joe Torre and Mike Phillips. Knowles replaced Rick Reuschel and struck out Bruce Boisclair, but then tried to pick off Phillips at first and when his throw got past Pete LaCock, Harrelson scored the winning run.
A daring slide by Dave Cash, who dove headfirst between the legs of catcher Manny Sanguillen, provided the Phillies with a two-out run in the ninth inning to defeat the Pirates, 3–2. Cash singled with one out and moved to second on a grounder by Larry Bowa. Mike Schmidt followed with a single to left field. Richie Zisk made a strong, accurate throw, but Sanguillen straddled the plate to catch the ball and Cash slid with arms outstretched to touch the plate before being tagged by the Pirates’ catcher.
Joining the ranks of 10-game winners, Dick Ruthven pitched the Braves to a 4–0 victory over the Giants. The Braves’ righthander allowed five singles. John D’Acquisto suffered his fifth straight defeat for the Giants, giving up three runs on four hits and six walks in 3 ⅔ innings.
Following the lead of Lynn McGlothen, who pitched the Cardinals to a 3–0 victory in the previous night’s game, John Denny shut out the Expos again, 9–0. The Cardinals clinched the outcome in the first inning, scoring four runs, with two crossing the plate on a triple by Ted Simmons.
Texas Rangers 3, Chicago White Sox 0
Houston Astros 8, Cincinnati Reds 9
New York Yankees 7, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 0, Detroit Tigers 4
Oakland Athletics 5, Kansas City Royals 7
San Diego Padres 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 3
Boston Red Sox 2, Milwaukee Brewers 6
California Angels 0, Minnesota Twins 2
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 3
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Atlanta Braves 4, San Francisco Giants 0
Montreal Expos 0, St. Louis Cardinals 9
Born:
Wade Belak, Canadian NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche, Calgary Flames, Toronto Maple Leafs, Florida Panthers, Nashville Predators), in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (d. 2011, by suicide).
Grant Wistrom, NFL defensive end (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 34-Rams; St. Louis Rams, Seattle Seahawks), in Webb City, Missouri.
Andrea Barber, American actress (‘Kimmy Gibbler’ — “Full House”), in Los Angeles, California.
Shane Lynch, Irish singer (Boyzone — “Words”, “No Matter What”), in Dublin, Ireland.
Died:
Revol Samuilovich Bunin, 52, Soviet Russian classical music composer, from a bronchial asthma attack. Bunin, the author of nine symphonies and an opera, had been working on a second opera, The People’s Will, at the time of his sudden death.
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