THE BICENTENNIAL AND THE RESCUE
Independence Day: America’s Bicentennial
The U.S. celebrated its bicentennial, in recognition of the 200th anniversary of the July 4, 1776 adoption of the Declaration of Independence from Great Britain.
Philadelphia, where the nation was born 200 years ago, joyously celebrated July 4 with the traditional bells, flags and fireworks. Al least one million people were on the festive streets, and President Ford delivered a commemorative address. The original cracked Liberty Bell was softly sounded with a rubber mallet and hundreds of other bells in Philadelphia’s many steeples and towers rang out in response. President Ford came here from Valley Forge to recall that first Fourth of July as “the beginning of a continuing adventure.” unfinished, unfulfilled, but still unchallenged as model of social and political achievement. The world is ever conscious of what Americans are doing, for better or for worse,” he said at Independence Hall, “because the United States remains ‘today the most successful realization of humanity’s universal hope. The world may or may not follow, but we lead because our whole history says we must.”
The rest of the country celebrated its 200th birthday with pageantry and prayer, games and parades, picnics and fireworks and with the peal of bells and the chant of protests. The day began with the flag raising at dawn on Mars Hill Mountain in Maine, where dawn reached the continent, and moved on to Fort McHenry, in Baltimore Harbor, where it was greeted by the rocket’s red glare of the national anthem. The activities were to end nearly a day later with an indigenous festival in American Samoa. At 2 PM, Eastern daylight time, descendants of the Revolutionaries laid hands symbolically on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia. and bells rang in the 50 states and in American communities overseas. At Independence Hall, President Ford read the day’s keynote address. This being an American festival, many new records were claimed: the largest cherry pie (60 square feet), at George, Washington; the largest cake (69,000 pounds), at Baltimore; the largest fireworks display, in Washington, D.C.; the largest gathering of sailing ships, in New York Harbor.
The police estimated that six million people visited Manhattan for the Fourth of July festivities and that two million people gathered south of City Hall, almost filling up the area down to the Battery. It was a friendly crowd, and there seemed to be a minimum of friction.
Buoyed by panoramic spectacles that included a unique armada of tail-masted ships, a massive fireworks display and a series of festivals that took over downtown Manhattan, millions of New Yorkers and visitors in a happy mood observed the nation’s Bicentennial yesterday. It was a day of mammoth presentations. Uncounted crowds lining the waterfront of the magnificent but underused harbor saw a virtually unbroken bridge of small craft that reached from the shores of Brooklyn. to the coast of New Jersey. More than 225 sailing ships under 31 flags paraded up the Hudson, a river that foretold their doom in 1807 when Robert Fulton’s smoky little Clermont started steamboat service on it.
A rescue mission at the Entebbe Airport in Uganda ended successfully as airplanes landed safely in Israel with 102 of the remaining 106 hostages from Air France Flight 139, which had been hijacked a week earlier on June 27. A 29-man assault team from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Sayeret Matkal special forces unit, led by Lieutenant Colonel Yonatan Netanyahu, landed at Entebbe on Saturday night at 11:00 pm local time (2000 UTC July 3), flew out 53 minutes later and landed in Kenya at Nairobi. Along with three of the hostages at Entebbe, all seven of the hijackers, at least 33 Ugandan Army soldiers and Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu — whose younger brother Benjamin Netanyahu would become Prime Minister of Israel almost 20 years later — were killed in the raid. Israeli commandos fired light machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade back at the control tower, suppressing the Ugandans’ fire. According to one of Idi Amin’s sons, the soldier who shot Netanyahu, a cousin of the Amin family, was killed by return fire. The Israelis finished evacuating the hostages, loaded Netanyahu’s body into one of the planes, and left the airport. The entire operation lasted 53 minutes – of which the assault lasted only 30 minutes. All seven hijackers present, and 45 Ugandan soldiers, were killed. Eleven Soviet-built MiG-17 and MiG-21 fighter planes of the Uganda Army Air Force were destroyed on the ground at Entebbe Airport. Out of the 106 hostages, 3 were killed, 1 was left in Uganda (74-year-old Dora Bloch), and approximately 10 were wounded. The 102 rescued hostages were flown to Israel via Nairobi, Kenya, shortly after the raid.
The raiding team arrived in three C-130 transport airplanes. Among the ruses used by the Israelis were to transport a Mercedes limousine and two Land-Rover jeeps by cargo plane to Entebbe, where an agent in a Ugandan Army uniform impersonated President Idi Amin and was accompanied by faux bodyguards. The Israeli commando unit that made a daring air raid Saturday night on Entebbe airport in Uganda flew home with the hostages they had rescued. Military officials said that four Israelis — three hostages and an army officer — had been killed and that seven of the 10 hijackers who had held the hostages captive at the airport and about 20 Ugandan soldiers had also been killed. The success of the raid, which surprised most Israelis, electrified the country. Flags were brought out and people rejoiced in the streets.
“We heard a voice in Hebrew. It was about 11:30, but I could not be sure. The Israeli said for everyone to remain on the ground, don’t move, and wait. There was more gunfire. Then we heard somebody say ‘It is O.K. now. Get ready to move to the door. You are going home.’” This was an account by one of the hostages rescued from Uganda. Others told stories today of fear and despair, problems over kosher food, talks with the hijackers, visits from President Idi Amin and finally of their relief when they heard the voices say it was time to go home. “I could not believe the miracle,” said Akiva Laxer, a 30‐year lawyer who was being hugged by relatives at his parents’ apartment. “It was the greatest surprise of our lives. All we can do is thank God.”
French officials and hostages who had been released last week by hijackers of the Air France plane said in Paris that they had substantial evidence that President Idi Amin of Uganda had been in collusion with the hijackers, both in the seizure of the plane and after it landed in Uganda. The hijackers’ negotiations with Israel reportedly got much tougher Saturday night after Mr. Amin retuned to Uganda from a meeting of the Organization of African Unity.
Amin was furious upon learning of the raid, and reportedly boasted that he could have taught the Israelis a lesson if he had known that they would strike. Following the raid, Maliyamungu had 14 soldiers arrested under suspicion of collaborating with the Israelis. Once they were gathered in a room at Makindye Barracks, he shot 12 of them with his pistol. Uganda Army Chief of Staff Mustafa Adrisi reportedly wanted to incarcerate or execute Godwin Sule, the Entebbe Air Base commander, who was absent from his post during the raid. Sule had left the air base early that day to meet a female companion at Lake Victoria Hotel on 4 July. Despite Adrisi’s demands, Sule’s closeness to President Amin guaranteed his safety.
Dora Bloch, a 74-year-old Israeli who also held British citizenship, was taken to Mulago Hospital in Kampala after choking on a chicken bone. After the raid she was murdered by officers of the Uganda Army, as were some of her doctors and nurses, apparently for trying to intervene. In April 1987, Henry Kyemba, Uganda’s Attorney general and Minister of Justice at the time, told the Uganda Human Rights Commission that Bloch had been dragged from her hospital bed and killed by two army officers on Amin’s orders. Bloch was shot and her body was dumped in the trunk of a car that had Ugandan intelligence services number plates. Her remains were recovered near a sugar plantation 20 miles (32 km) east of Kampala in 1979, after the Uganda–Tanzania War ended Amin’s rule. Amin also ordered the killing of hundreds of Kenyans living in Uganda in retaliation for Kenya’s assistance to Israel in the raid. Uganda killed 245 Kenyans, including airport staff at Entebbe. To avoid massacre, approximately 3,000 Kenyans fled Uganda as refugees.
President Ford congratulated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin of Israel on the rescue of the hostages in Uganda and said that a senseless act of terrorism had been thwarted. A State Department official said that United States first learned of the Israeli raid at about 5:30 P.M. Saturday when the Israeli Ambassador, Simcha Dinitz, telephoned Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in New York.
Several top European officials expressed warm approval today of Israel’s rescue of the hijacking victims in Uganda as a victory against terrorism generally. The operation took place shortly after Israeli and French negotiators broke up a late night session here on plans for dealing with the hijackers and for trying to have them extend their Sunday noon deadline for executing the hostages. The diplomats kept in close contact with the West German and Swiss Governments, an official said, because they also held prisoners whose release was being demanded in exchange for the hostages. Both French and Israeli spokesmen here said that no prior information of Israeli’s plan to free the hostages was given to any foreign government.
When the hijacked Air France airliner landed at Entebbe Airport in Uganda last Monday, most people. Israelis among them, concluded that the sheer distance from Israel precluded the kind of military operation that had been employed against terrorists in the past. Not only were the hostages being held 2,500 miles from Israel, they were under the supervisory guard of President Idi Amin of Uganda, one of Israel’s most vociferous critics. Clearly no help could be expected from that quarter and, as the week progressed, Israelis concluded that President Amin had in fact become an accomplice to the hijacking, as Foreign Minister Yigal Allon described him today. It came as no surprise then, when the Israeli Government announced on Thursday that it was reversing its long‐standing policy and was prepared to negotiate with the hijackers. “There was no choice,” Haaretz, the leading Israeli independent daily commented, and most Israelis seemed to agree. But, as Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin revealed in his speech to Parliament today, the military option was in fact being explored from the first moment. “The Israel Defense Forces and the intelligence community lost not a single hour required for thinking, planning and preparation,” the Prime Minister said.
A West German firm, Kraftwerk Union A.G., signed multibillion dollar contracts in Tehran to build Iran’s first two nuclear power stations. The agreements between the German firm and Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization followed the signing earlier Sunday of a government-to-government accord on nuclear cooperation. The contracts are for two 1,200megawatt plants worth about $1.6 billion each.
Spain’s new premier, Adolfo Suarez Gonzalez, takes office today after pledging himself to continued political reform. Immediately after his appointment by King Juan Carlos on Saturday, Suarez vowed to maintain the reform momentum for the nation of 36 million. His task was geared to dismantling much of the house the late dictator Francisco Franco built, but without letting it fall on him. The 43-year-old lawyer, himself a product of the Franco system, was one of three candidates for the post suggested by the 16-man Council of the Realm, an advisory body created by Franco. The term of office is five years.
Hungary confirmed that meat prices will be raised by about a third as planned, 10 days after Poland canceled a similar increase that set off rioting by workers there. Hungarian public opinion was prepared for the new prices, since the increase was announced last November. Wages will also go up slightly this week. The 30% increase in prices for the heavily subsidized meat and meat products industry will be the first increase in 10 years. Higher production, processing and distribution costs were cited.
The recent collapse, of Poland’s plans to raise food prices is seen by Western analysts as underscoring increasingly serious economic and social problems. Poland is viewed as a nation whose expectations of better living standards are exceeding the Government’s ability to deliver. The protests against the proposed price changes, which would have put the overall cost of food up 40 percent and some items as high as 100 percent, ranged from street demonstrations and sit-down strikes in factories to the ripping up of railway tracks halting the Paris-Warsaw express. The violence of the reaction is explained by official Polish statistics that show food costs representing as much as half of the income of the families of some lower paid workers.
Rightist Christian forces said today that they had captured the Palestinian camp at Tell Zaatar, which could set the stage for even wider warfare in Lebanon. A spokesman for the Rightists was quoted by the radio station controlled by the Christian Phalangist Party as having declared that by early afternoon only one small pocket of resistance remained at the camp in the southeastern suburbs of Beirut. The radio added that arrangements had been made with the Red Cross for the evacuation of the Palestinian combatants and the wounded. Palestinian sources, however, said that Tell Zaatar was still holding fast, although it had been under heavy attack since early today. The fall of Tell Zaatar could have serious repercussions.
India’s Prime Minister Indira Gandhi arrived in Kabul, Afghanistan, on a four-day official visit. Afghan President Muhammad Daoud welcomed her after she flew in from East Berlin where she had also visited. Mrs. Gandhi and Daoud are expected to discuss a broad range of bilateral, regional and international issues.
Voters in Mexico participated in elections for President and for the Congress of the Union (consisting of the 64-member Senate and 237-member Chamber of Deputies). The Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI), which had maintained a monopoly on the government since 1929. José López Portillo, the former Finance Minister of Mexico, was elected without opposition as the 58th president and would be inaugurated on December 1.
Colombia has closed the Bogota bureau of United Press International for filing a “totally false” report of the assassination of President Alfonso Lopez Michelsen. The report was transmitted inadvertently from Bogota by a new employee who was to begin work today, UPI said. The prospective employee, who was practicing on a teletype machine, was immediately dismissed. UPI expressed its regrets for the mistake and said it would appeal the government order. Colombia also revoked the journalistic credentials of Guillermo Tribin of the Spanish news agency EFE for sending a similar report. Lopez, 63, vacationing at Espinal, said he was “profoundly” disgusted by the incident.
Agents hired by the Argentine Navy carried out the revenge murder of three Roman Catholic priests and two seminary students at the San Patricio church in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
Sudan recalled its ambassador from Libya and Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiri called for an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss “a treacherous invasion” of his country. In Cairo, the Arab League accused Libya of “preparing and carrying out” an armed invasion last week against pro-Western Sudan. Sudan’s official radio in Khartoum reported, “The Sudanese government has firm evidence providing that Libya has trained and equipped about 1,000 mercenaries and provided them with transportation facilities in an attempt to topple the nation’s legitimate regime.” The broadcast said captured mercenaries of different nationalities confessed they were trained in Libya. Official press reports in Sudan have placed the number of people killed and wounded in the invasion at about 600.
Jimmy Carter has asked Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine to visit him at home in Plains, Ga., to discuss the possibility of the Senator running for Vice President on the Carter ticket. Mr. Carter said that he expected to talk to several other persons about the vice-presidential nomination before the Democratic convention starts next Monday. He said that it would be wrong to assume that there was any special significance in Senator Muskie’s being the first to be invited. Senators John Glenn of Ohio, Frank Church of Idaho and Walter Mondale of Minnesota were said by a highly knowledgeable source to have the best chances of being selected.
Despite Jimmy Carter’s wide lead over President Ford and Ronald Reagan in many national polls, Americans are far from sold on the former Georgia governor as their next President, TIME magazine said. A TIME poll shows that doubts persist even among registered Democrats about Carter. The magazine said the poll showed that while 47% of the polled Democrats are satisfied with Carter as their party’s nominee, another 44% would prefer someone else. President Ford is far more popular among voters than Ronald Reagan, his opponent for the Republican Presidential nomination, according to the poll by TIME Magazine.
A bomb blew out the front of a bank in Revere, Massachusetts, hours after authorities arrested two Maine men in connection with a series of terrorist bombings in three states. Two other suspects were still being sought. The bomb that damaged the Revere bank apparently was thrown through a window. No one was hurt. The FBI said Everett C. Carlson of Portland, Maine, was arrested at his home and charged with interstate transportation of explosives. Joseph A. Aceto, 23, of Portland, was in custody in Topsfield, Mass., on the same charge after an attempt to blow up a police barracks failed. A search of Aceto’s Portland residence turned up 58 sticks of dynamite, 15 blasting caps and a sawed-off shotgun. There have been 12 bombings in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts since April 22.
Governors from around the country began gathering in Hershey, Pennsylvania today to discuss what role the states will play in the nation’s third century, to talk election year politics and to greet Queen Elizabeth II. Governor Robert D. Ray Jr. of Iowa, chairman of the National Governors’ Conference, predicted that the states would take a greater leadership role in United States life in the next century. He made the comment on NBC‐TV’s “Meet the Press” interview program. Governor Michael S. Dukakis of Massachusetts, appearing on the same program, said that the role of the Federal Government had to be “concentrated on problems of compelling national interest,” such as foreign policy and unemployment. There has been too much Federal involvement in details that can be left to states, he said.
A bipartisan welfare reform task force of state governors proposed that the federal government establish a standard, nationwide income maintenance system for persons whose income puts them below the poverty line. The proposal came as all but five of the state executives were expected in Hershey, Pennsylvania, today for the two-day 68th National Governors Conference. The minimum income support plan, the outgrowth of a two-year study by governors under the leadership of Republican Governor Daniel J. Evans of Washington, includes a work incentive plan for the unemployed.
A civil rights era was ended in the small hours yesterday in the historic Mississippi River port city of Memphis amid rancor, reminiscences, negotiations and celebrations. Closing with the traditional banquets and parties, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s 67th annual convention saw the retiring executive director, Roy Wilkins, greeting longtime friends and adversaries, as had been his custom for half a century. There was no hint, except in whispered confidences, that the convention had ushered the country’s most influential civil rights group into a new leadership style. The organization had acted in the convention’s final hours, with some visible pain and unavoidable controversy, to take from Mr. Wilkins the unofficial but very real power and influence in association affairs that he had wielded without question for decades. This power has now been placed firmly in the board of directors.
Rejecting the more permissive stand of the American Bar Association, the ethics committee of Washington lawyers has approved the principle that if a partner of a law firm is disqualified from representing a client because of a conflict of interest, the law firm should be disqualified. The strict conflict‐of‐interest rule of the committee, which almost certainly will win final approval in the next few months, could have a major impact on the operation of some of most powerful law firms in the United States.
A massive failure knocked out power in Utah and southeastern Wyoming during the sweltering Fourth of July evening, and some areas remained without electricity into the night. A Utah Power & Light Co. executive said the failure was triggered by a break in a high-voltage transmission line from the Pacific Northwest. The failure browned out portions of Utah, knocked others off and on repeatedly and left large areas with no power at all. Some Utah communities, most major hospitals, airports and law enforcement agencies went to emergency power systems. The Salt Lake City Water Department asked residents to use water only for emergencies because of large-scale damage to pumping stations, which had to be shut down.
A blaze that destroyed 30 acres of lodgepole pine in Yellowstone National Park his been brought under control, the park officials said today.
Opening ceremony of the Dai Bosatsu Zendo Kongo-ji Zen monastery at Livingston Manor, high in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
James Hunt of Britain, driving a McLaren, rolled to an unchallenged victory in the 62d French Grand Prix today after a Ferrari debacle eliminated the Italian team.
Cale Yarborough, “hot as a firecracker and mighty tired;’ broke away from David Pearson and Bobby Allison today and charged to victory in the $170,000 Firecracker 400 stock-car race.
Major League Baseball:
After losing the first game of a doubleheader, 7–6, in 12 innings, the Rangers rebounded and defeated the White Sox, 3–2, in the second game. The White Sox, who had scored a total of only four runs in five prior contests, avoided defeat when Kevin Bell tied the score with a single in the ninth inning. In the 12th, Bill Stein doubled and, with one out, Bucky Dent was safe on an error. Stein was thrown out at the plate on a grounder by Chet Lemon, but Dent advanced to second on the play and scored the winning run on a single by Jorge Orta. In the nightcap, the Rangers picked up a run in the fourth inning and made it 3–0 when Bill Fahey singled a pair across in the eighth. As a result, the Rangers were able to triumph although the White Sox rallied for two runs in their half on a double by Brian Downing, single by Lemon, a wild pitch and single by Orta before Joe Hoerner relieved and saved the game.
Johnny Bench hit a two-run single in the fifth inning to break a 2–2 tie and George Foster smashed a three-run homer in the eighth inning to clinch the Reds’ 7–2 victory over the Astros. Cesar Cedeno homered with a man on base in the Astros’ first before the Reds picked up a pair of singletons to forge a deadlock. Then in the fifth, Joe Morgan singled, Foster doubled and Bench singled to decide the outcome.
With last-inning help from Sparky Lyle, Dock Ellis gained his sixth straight victory when the Yankees defeated the Indians, 4–3. The Yankees scored three of their runs in the second on singles by Graig Nettles and Oscar Gamble, an infield out, single by Willie Randolph, a stolen base and single by Jim Mason. The deciding marker followed in the sixth on a double by Thurman Munson, infield out by Chris Chambliss and sacrifice fly by Nettles. The Indians’ runs all came on homers — two by Rico Carty and one by George Hendrick.
Ken Singleton drew a walk with the bases loaded in the eighth inning to force in the Orioles’ deciding run in a 7–4 victory over the Tigers. With the Tigers leading, 4–3, Mark Belanger singled in the eighth, Bobby Grich walked and Reggie Jackson singled to tie the score. After Andres Mora struck out, Lee May was handed an intentional pass to load the bases and Singleton coaxed his walk to force in Grich. Mora iced the victory for the Orioles with a two-run double in the ninth inning.
Mike Norris, who was out most of last season because of an operation to remove bone chips from his elbow, allowed only three hits and pitched the Athletics to a 6–0 victory over the Royals. Joe Rudi had a two-run double in the A’s attack.
Tying the National League record for most victories before the All-Star break, Randy Jones racked up his 15th for the Padres, defeating the Dodgers, 5–2. The Padres pulled four double plays in support of their lefthander, who allowed nine hits. The Padres collected 12, including a homer and two doubles by Dave Winfield, who drove in two runs. Four other Padres had two hits apiece.
Cecil Cooper, who has been a hitting terror against the Brewers this season, batting .520 (13-for-25), smashed a two-run homer and a single in three trips to lead the Red Sox to a 3–1 victory. The Red Sox scored in the first inning on a walk to Cooper and double by Fred Lynn, but the Brewers came back with their lone tally in the home half on a double by George Scott, a walk and single by Mike Hegan. Cooper then decided the game with his homer in the fifth.
Although Frank Tanana, who is second in the American League in strikeouts, fanned only one, the Angels won the opener of a doubleheader, 5–3, before the Twins came back to take the nightcap, 9–5, in a slugfest that produced a pair of grand-slam homers. Ron Jackson made Tanana’s victory possible by getting three hits including a homer, and driving in four runs. Craig Kusick had a three-run shot for the Twins. In the nightcap, the Twins took a 5–0 lead before the Angels erupted to tie the score in the seventh inning on a walk with the bases loaded and a grand slam by Jackson. However in the eighth, two hit batsmen and a walk filled the sacks for the Twins and Rod Carew clouted his second slam of the season to give the Twins their victory and a split of the twin-bill.
The Mets extended their winning streak to 10 games with a 9–4 victory in the opener of a doubleheader before being stopped by the Cubs in the nightcap, 4–2. The Mets’ streak was their longest since 1972. Mike Phillips, Bud Harrelson and reliever Skip Lockwood, who replaced winner Craig Swan in the seventh inning, each drove in two runs for the Mets in the first game. Rick Monday hit a two-run homer for the Cubs, who suffered their ninth straight defeat. Breaking their losing streak in the second game, the Cubs scored two runs in the fourth inning on a single by Mick Kelleher and added an unearned pair in the seventh for their victory. Kelleher walked in the seventh and when Ray Burris bunted, Mickey Lolich threw the ball over the head of first baseman Ed Kranepool. Right fielder Dave Kingman retrieved the ball and followed with a wild throw to the plate, allowing both runners to score.
On the nation’s bicentennial anniversary, Philadelphia splits a doubleheader with Pittsburgh. Although Tim McCarver deprived himself of a grand-slam homer, the Phillies won the first game of a doubleheader, 10–5, but the Pirates erupted for six runs in the seventh inning of the second game and captured a 7–1 verdict. In the second inning of the opener, when the Phillies scored four runs, McCarver came up with the bases loaded and topped the right field fence with his drive. Garry Maddox, who was on first, held up fearing a possible catch, and was passed on the basepaths by McCarver. As a result of his faux pas, McCarver was called out and had to settle for a three-run single. The Pirates had homers by Tommy Helms and Bill Robinson before forcing the exit of Steve Carlton in the seventh inning, but Ron Reed came out of the bullpen and saved the game. In the nightcap, the Pirates took a 1–0 lead in the sixth inning on a triple by Rennie Stennett and infield out by Al Oliver before their explosion in the seventh that featured two RBIs for Bob Robertson with his first triple since 1971.
A sacrifice fly by Gary Thomasson in the sixth inning drove in Darrell Evans and lifted the Giants to a 3–2 victory over the Braves. Evans opened the stanza with a single and advanced on a sacrifice by Ken Reitz. After stopping at third on a single by Chris Speier, Evans scored the deciding run on Thomasson’s fly to center field.
After being shut out by the Cardinals twice in succession, the Expos came back to gain a 4–3 victory after escaping possible disaster in the ninth inning. The Expos picked up a run in the first and added three markers in the second on singles by Barry Foote, Gary Roenicke and Don Stanhouse, a double by Pepe Mangual and an error by Lou Brock. After pulling within one run, the Cardinals staged their ninth-inning threat. Bake McBride delivered a pinch-single and was forced at second on a bunt by Vic Harris. Although Jerry Mumphrey, batting next, struck out, Stanhouse was pitched out and left the mound in favor of Dale Murray. The reliever then proceeded to walk both Ron Fairly and Brock before retiring Ted Simmons on a grounder to end the game.
Texas Rangers 6, Chicago White Sox 7
Texas Rangers 3, Chicago White Sox 2
Houston Astros 2, Cincinnati Reds 7
New York Yankees 4, Cleveland Indians 3
Baltimore Orioles 7, Detroit Tigers 4
Oakland Athletics 6, Kansas City Royals 0
San Diego Padres 5, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
Boston Red Sox 3, Milwaukee Brewers 1
California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 3
California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 9
Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 9
Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 2
Philadelphia Phillies 10, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Philadelphia Phillies 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 7
Atlanta Braves 2, San Francisco Giants 3
Montreal Expos 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Born:
Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle road racer, 2001 Grand Prix world champion for 250cc racing; in Saitama (killed in race accident, 2003)
Rohan Nichol, Australian TV actor (“Home and Away”); in Geraldton, Western Australia.
Died:
Yonatan Netanyahu, 30, Israel commander killed freeing Israeli hostages during Operation THUNDERBOLT at Entebbe in Uganda, brother of later Israeli Prime Mister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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