Mikhail S. Gorbachev told President Francois Mitterrand today that Western Europe should not let itself be treated as a “theater of operations” and should set an example of peaceful coexistence. The Soviet leader did not mention the United States by name, but the thrust of his comments at a dinner for the French visitor was that Western Europe should be more assertive in pursuing its own interests. President Mitterrand arrived today on a four-day visit after meeting with President Reagan at the July 4 celebrations in New York.
The Soviet Union’s chief arms negotiator, Viktor P. Karpov, said he believes that an East-West agreement banning chemical weapons can be signed this year. He added that most major differences between Moscow and Washington over the ban have been resolved. Karpov, speaking at a news conference in Bonn, also said that new Soviet nuclear arms proposals made last month would allow the United States to continue laboratory research on a “Star Wars” space defense system.
Soviet General and spy for the U.S. Dmitri Polyakov arrested in retirement in Russia. Polyakov was a major general in the Soviet GRU during the Cold War. According to former high-level KGB officer Sergey Kondrashev, Polyakov acted as a KGB disinformation agent at the FBI’s New York City field office when he was posted at United Nations headquarters in 1962. Kondrashev’s post-Cold War friend and former high-level CIA counterintelligence officer Tennent H. Bagley says Polyakov “flipped” and started spying for the CIA when he was reposted to Rangoon, Moscow, and New Delhi. On his second assignment to New York in 1959–1961, Polyakov approached counterintelligence agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to offer his services as an informant. Polyakov maintained that he was a Russian patriot, motivated to become a double agent because of his disgust with the corruption of the Communist Party elite. Bagley says he was told by former high-level KGB officer Sergey A. Kondrashev that Polyakov was sent, in early 1962, to the FBI’s New York City field office to feed disinformation to it, and that he did so until he returned to Moscow in late 1962. Bagley says Polyakov was recruited by the CIA in 1965 after he was posted to Rangoon, Burma, and that he spied for the Agency from then until he was recalled from New Delhi, India, to Moscow in 1980, at which time he disappeared from the CIA’s “radar”. Bagley says Kondrashev told him that an unnamed “mole” in the CIA had reported to KGB headquarters what Polyakov was telling the CIA, and that Polyakov was arrested, tried, and executed because the KGB realized he was telling the CIA more than he was supposed to. Polyakov was suddenly recalled to Moscow in 1980, arrested in 1986, tried, and finally executed in 1988. In the CIA, Polyakov was known by code names “Bourbon” and “Roam”, while the FBI referred to him as “Tophat”.
Two judges and a jury began deliberations at a villa outside Genoa, Italy, in the trial of 15 men accused in the hijacking of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro last October 7-9 and the murder of an American passenger, Leon Klinghoffer. State Prosecutor Luigi Carli has asked for life terms for seven defendants and a total of 148 years in prison for the other eight. Only five of the defendants are in custody. The others, including Abul Abbas, the alleged mastermind of the hijacking, were tried in their absence on charges linked to the incident. Under Italian law, judges and jurors jointly decide verdicts and sentences.
European space officials said they are investigating whether sabotage was responsible for the failed launch of an Ariane 2 rocket May 30, although there is no direct evidence to support the theory. “I can confirm today that… there is not much to attach to the theory of sabotage,” Frederic d’Allest, chairman of Arianespace, the Frenchled Ariane consortium, said at a Paris news conference. But he added: “You can never rule out anything 100%.” Officials said a flaw in the rocket’s third stage was the most likely reason for the failure shortly after liftoff from Kourou, French Guiana.
Elan Steinberg, executive director of the World Jewish Congress, made public at a news conference today a document indicating that Kurt Waldheim’s wartime intelligence unit ordered the deportation of Greek Jews. Mr. Waldheim, who is to be sworn in as President of Austria on Tuesday, was deputy chief of an intelligence unit in German Army Group E in the Balkans during World War II.
In a growing struggle with Yasser Arafat, Jordan today closed all 25 offices of Al Fatah, the Palestinian leader’s mainstream group in the divided Palestine Liberation Organization. King Hussein of Jordan, who broke with Mr. Arafat in February over the failure of their effort to agree on peace talks with Israel, has since then been challenging Mr. Arafat’s leadership in the P.L.O., which has its headquarters in Tunis and dissident factions in Syria. Mohammed al-Khatib, the Jordanian Information Minister, announced the Al Fatah office closings and said, “This measure is being taken purely on grounds of national security and has no other interpretation.” The closed offices include that of Mr. Arafat’s chief delegate in Amman, Khalil Wazir, known as Abu Jihad.
President Reagan telephoned Prime Minister Nakasone today to congratulate him on the Japanese election results, and both pledged to continue close cooperation, the White House said. “The President extended his congratulations on the Liberal Democratic Party election victory and praised Prime Minister Nakasone’s leadership,” said the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes. He told reporters that the two men spoke for five minutes and pledged to continue close cooperation between their two countries.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, welcoming his ruling party’s spectacular election victory on Sunday as the “voice of heaven,” pledged today to use the success to pursue anew his diplomatic and economic policies. But Mr. Nakasone gave no clear sign of whether he would seek a change in present Liberal Democratic Party rules that require him to step down in three months. He repeated an oft-stated promise to abide by party regulations, a statement that does not preclude an attempt to revise them. On the whole, no dramatic shifts in Japanese direction seemed likely. The Liberal Democrats have governed nonstop since 1955 and, despite many ups and downs over the years, they have not wavered substantially from a basic pro-business, pro-West outlook.
Two Australians convicted by Malaysia of trafficking in heroin were hanged this morning. The executions, at 6:50 AM Malaysian time (5:50 PM, New York time) were the first death sentences carried out on non-Asians under Malaysia’s stringent narcotics code, which since 1983 has made the trafficking of more than 15 grams of heroin a mandatory capital offense. The two men were found to have nearly 180 grams when they tried to leave the country through the international airport on Penang Island in November 1983.
The Reagan Administration said today that former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines had been warned that his efforts to undermine the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino were “inconsistent with his status as a guest in the United States.” It said Mr. Marcos, who is in exile in Hawaii, should realize that he “is part of the past of Philippine politics” and should stop trying to instigate trouble. But officials said there were no plans to deport Mr. Marcos because no government was willing to take him.
Marcos loyalists ended a siege tonight at a Manila hotel after two days. Hundreds of rebel soldiers and civilian supporters ended the occupation hours before a deadline set by President Corazon C. Aquino. The soldiers were told by Government officials that the incident would be forgotten and that they would not be punished. Arturo M. Tolentino, who declared himself acting president on Sunday on behalf of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos and led the takeover, left the building earlier.
New Zealand will release the two French secret agents imprisoned for their role in the sinking of an environmentalists’ ship last July provided they spend the next three years on a remote French Pacific island, the French Government announced today. In return for their release, France has agreed to pay New Zealand $7 million in compensation and to stop blocking sales of New Zealand butter and meat to Europe. In addition, France’s new conservative Government will apologize for the sabotage operation, which was carried out under the previous Socialist administration. The ship, the Rainbow Warrior, which belonged to the Greenpeace environmental movement, was blown up in Auckland harbor. A photographer on the ship died.
Canada refused to admit Gerry Adams of Northern Ireland, president of the legal political wing of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, because of his criminal record, a Canadian immigration official said. Adams, who is also a member of the British Parliament from the province, was denied permission to board a Toronto-bound flight in Amsterdam. The immigration official cited Adams’ conviction for having attempted in 1974 to escape from prison, where he had been held for two years under emergency powers invoked by Britain. He was planning to address a meeting of Irish-Americans in Niagara Falls in Ontario province.
The opposition National Action Party, accusing Mexico’s governing party of electoral fraud, said today that it would probably seek the annulment of the gubernatorial and municipal elections Sunday in Chihuahua. The party’s gubernatorial candidate, Francisco Barrio Terrazas, neither declared victory nor conceded the election. But his accusations of fraud indicated that his party felt it had failed in its bid to capture a state governorship from the governing Institutional Revolutionary Party. The Institutional Revolutionary Party has governed Mexico for 57 years. The election was regarded by both parties as a critical test of the governing party’s ability to continue its domination of Mexican politics.
Leading opposition parties in Nicaragua called on the Sandinista Government today to hold new national elections and asserted they would win with 80 percent of the vote if such elections were held. The opposition also proposed formation of a “National Peace Commission,” to include all civilian groups in the country, that would seek a negotiated solution to Nicaragua’s problems. The Sandinistas have rejected such demands in the past. Over the last two weeks, they have moved against what they call “unpatriotic forces,” closing the opposition newspaper La Prensa and exiling two prominent Roman Catholic clergymen, the Rev. Bismarck Carballo and Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega.
A Chilean novelist, Ariel Dorfman, said today that a Washington-based photographer who died of burns in Santiago on Sunday had not been given proper medical care. Mr. Dorfman said at a news conference after returning from Chile that the Chilean-born photographer, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19 years old, had been treated in the Posta Centrale, which Mr. Dorfman described as an ill-equipped, emergency center without proper facilities to treat burns. As a result of efforts by Mr. Rojas’s family, friends and the United States Embassy, Mr. Dorfman said, Mr. Rojas was to be transferred to the Hospital del Trabajador, which the novelist described as a good private hospital. But a policeman at the emergency center refused to let Mr. Rojas be moved, declaring that he was under arrest, Mr. Dorfman said.
A Liberian opposition politician, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, fled arrest after staging an illegal weekend rally, the Star newspaper said today. The paper said that the woman, a former Citibank vice president whose case has drawn attention in the United States, held the rally in Buchanan, about 70 miles from Monrovia, without a permit. Her arrest was ordered by the local Senator, Charles Williams, who was quoted as having said that he would have personally jailed her if she had been caught by the police. She was one of more than 20 political prisoners released from jail by President Samuel Doe last month after being held in connection with an attempted coup in November 1985. The prisoners were told to stay in Liberia.
Ugandan troops mistakenly attacked a government ideological training center in a forest outside Kampala, the capital, in the belief that it was a dissidents’ camp, and seven people were killed, the Ugandan Defense Ministry announced. The army commander has been arrested and an inquiry commission has been established, the ministry said. Personnel at the school, one of several set up by the ruling National Resistance Movement, apparently were mistaken for supporters of exiled former President Milton Obote.
The State Department, citing “hostile diplomatic behavior,” said U.S. aid to Zimbabwe will be reviewed as a result of a senior Zimbabwean official’s criticism of American policy toward South Africa. Former President Jimmy Carter, who was visiting Zimbabwe, walked out during a speech by David Kariamazira, minister of youth, sport and culture, during a Fourth of July reception at the U.S. Embassy in Harare. Kariamazira criticized the United States for applying economic sanctions against Nicaragua, Poland and Libya while refusing to take strong measures against South Africa. State Department spokesman Bernard Kalb called the remarks “an uncalled-for breach of propriety.”
The South African authorities today formally lifted longstanding restrictions on Winnie Mandela, the activist wife of the jailed nationalist leader Nelson Mandela. At the same time, the Government reported that nine more blacks were slain around the nation, and mine company representatives reported that 15 black miners were killed in what the employers described as factional fighting. Thousands of miners were said by union officials to be on strike at several gold and diamond mines to protest the detention of labor leaders. South Africa’s newest state of emergency, which began on June 12, has spurred black labor unions into open protest against the authorities’ actions, and some labor officials say the protest could take the form of a national stoppage a week from today.
Britain’s Foreign Secretary postponed a visit he had hoped to make to South Africa this week because he had been told that President P. W. Botha would be unavailable to meet him. Despite the rebuff, Sir Geoffrey Howe said he was going ahead with a planned mission to the region as a representative not only of the British Government, but of the 11 other member nations of the European Community as well.
The Supreme Court strikes down the Gramm-Rudman deficit-reduction law. Automatic spending cuts are void as written in the new deficit-reducing law, the Supreme Court ruled. The 7-to-2 ruling struck down the central provision of the most sweeping measure Congress has devised to curb soaring Federal deficits. The Court ruled that the automatic spending-cut mechanism violated the Constitution’s doctrine of separation of powers because it gave the Comptroller General, who is subject to removal by Congress, the executive power to estimate, allocate and order the spending cuts needed to meet deficit targets set by the law.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with Antonin Scalia, Judge, Associate Justice-designate of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Negotiations resumed for the first time in a seven-day strike by 14,000 municipal workers in Philadelphia, leading Mayor W. Wilson Goode to cancel the announcement of an emergency plan to remove tons of uncollected trash. Talks between the city and striking blue-collar and white-collar employees continued, under a news blackout imposed by a state mediator. City officials and union leaders expressed hope for reaching a settlement. The walkout, which began after previous negotiations collapsed June 30, has halted most City Hall services and has closed libraries, museums, medical care and recreational centers in the nation’s fifth-largest city, including many swimming pools.
The Health and Human Services Department refused to take emergency action against a widely prescribed arthritis drug that is suspected of causing death among the elderly. Officials of the department said that research findings do not support allegations of unreasonable risk from taking the medicine Feldene. HHS Secretary Otis R. Bowen denied a petition that he declare the drug an “imminent hazard” to the health of people 60 and older. The Public Citizen Health Research Group had contended that the drug posed a substantial risk of gastrointestinal bleeding, but the assertions were disputed by Pfizer Inc., manufacturer of Feldene.
A Justice Department investigation has cleared Terrence M. Scanlon, a member of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, of charges that he had misused his office. As a result, the Senate has scheduled a vote on his confirmation as chairman of the commission for next Tuesday. The Justice Department informed the Senate and the commission of the results of its investigation on June 17, but the department’s letter has not been made public.
The American Federation of Teachers, meeting in Chicago, honored Sharon Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher killed in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in January, and announced intern-mentor programs in seven major cities to attract bright college graduates to the profession. AFT President Albert Shanker said the teacher-mentor initiative, backed by a $114,000 grant from the American Can Co., also will open career opportunities for the veteran instructors who serve as mentors. The money will help to launch programs in New York, Chicago, Miami, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Minnesota, Atlanta and San Francisco.
A District of Columbia jury returned unlawful-entry convictions against 18 defendants arrested in a demonstration at the Library of Congress, but acquitted two others. The group staged a sit-in March 13, to protest a shortening of reading room hours that Congress later reversed by passing a special appropriation. Those found guilty could face maximum sentences of six months in jail and $500 fines.
A federal court ruled that school officials in suburban St. Louis violated students’ rights to free speech and a free press when they deleted articles about divorce and teen-age pregnancy from their school newspaper. In doing so, the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the finding of U.S. District Judge John F. Nangle, who decided last year that the Spectrum, published at Hazelwood East High School, was an educational exercise exempt from constitutional guarantees. The three-judge appellate panel said that the paper is a public forum for the expression of student opinion and, as such, is protected by the First Amendment.
The man arrested after a daylong siege at a Beverly Hills jewelry store, in which three hostages died, wants to plead guilty against his attorney’s advice and be executed, it was reported today. In an interview with The Los Angeles Herald Examiner, the man, Steven Livaditis, said he did not want his case to “drag on” through the courts. “I took other people’s lives,” the newspaper quoted Mr. Livaditis as saying. “I feel I deserve the death penalty.” Mr. Livaditis, 22 years old, a Brooklyn-born drifter, faces three murder charges and a dozen other charges for the June 23 siege at the Van Cleef & Arpels jewelry store on Rodeo Drive. A store security guard was stabbed to death in the attempted robbery and a store clerk, one of five people taken hostage, was fatally shot. The store manager was killed by a police marksman who mistook him for the gunman in an attempted escape. A public defender, Michael Demby, said he would try to persuade Mr. Livaditis to change his mind on the plea.
A judge issued his final rulings denying defense motions to dismiss all 100 charges against the two remaining defendants in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case. Attorneys for Peggy McMartin Buckey, 59, and her son, Ray Buckey, 27, asked Superior Court Judge Roger Boren to dismiss one count of conspiracy and 99 counts of child molestation on grounds that the two defendants were denied due process rights at their lengthy preliminary hearing. Boren had tentatively denied the motions last month. After finalizing his rulings, he scheduled a trial-setting hearing for August 22. “I don’t think there was any deprivation of due process to the defendants,” the judge said. “I do hereby deny the motion as to each defendant.” Buckey and his mother are charged with molesting 14 of their pupils at the now-closed preschool in Manhattan Beach.
[The McMartin preschool trial was a day care sexual abuse case in the 1980s, prosecuted by the Los Angeles District Attorney, Ira Reiner. Members of the McMartin family, who operated a preschool in Manhattan Beach, California, were charged with hundreds of acts of sexual abuse of children in their care. Accusations were made in 1983, with arrests and the pretrial investigation taking place from 1984 to 1987, and trials running from 1987 to 1990. The case lasted seven years but resulted in no convictions, and all charges were dropped in 1990. By the case’s end, it had become the longest and most expensive series of criminal trials in American history. A pivotal case during the Satanic panic, the McMartin investigation began when a mother accused a teacher of molesting her son. Authorities and social workers began using highly suggestive interviewing techniques on children at McMartin, resulting in a number of fantastical allegations, including satanic rituals in underground tunnels and hot-air balloons. Over the years, many of the children recanted or contradicted their original allegations, and said they were influenced and coerced by suggestive questioning. The mother who initiated the claims was diagnosed with and hospitalized for acute paranoid schizophrenia and, in 1986, was found dead in her home from complications of chronic alcoholism before the preliminary hearing concluded. The case was pivotal in informing how child abuse investigations are conducted today.]
The General Accounting Office today proposed reorganizing and expanding Federal efforts to curb radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas that may be infiltrating the homes and increasing the cancer risk of millions of Americans. The G.A.O., an investigating and auditing arm of Congress, recommended that the Environmental Protection Agency be placed in charge of research on curbing public exposure to radon, which is odorless and tasteless.
An Army ban on smoking took effect around the world. It prohibits smoking in Army facilities, vehicles and aircraft, except for specially established smoking areas.
Temperatures soared to 93 degrees in Bettles, Alaska, north of the Arctic Circle, as the state was gripped by a heat wave. Nenana in central Alaska reported 95 degrees, hotter than Miami Beach, Florida. For nine consecutive days, Fairbanks, also in central Alaska, had highs averaging 87 degrees; the normal high is 73 degrees. It drops to 50 below there in winter, giving the city a temperature spread of 137 degrees. The unusual weather was attributed to a warm air mass that is heated by 22 hours of sunshine daily. The heat spawned lightning strikes that started fires throughout the state.
IBM-PC DOS Version 3.2 (updated) released.
It is reported that British “Culture Club” singer Boy George is being treated for heroin addiction.
American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee sets world heptathlon record of 7,148 points in the inaugural Goodwill Games at Moscow.
Increased mandatory drug tests for all players were announced by the National Football League. The new anti-drug program, is the most far-reaching among the major professional sports leagues.
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Jose Canseco and Dave Kingman shelled Boston’s Roger Clemens with consecutive home runs in the sixth inning tonight as the Oakland A’s marked Manager Tony LaRussa’s debut with a 6–4 victory over the Red Sox. The A’s, winning for only the third time in their last 22 road games, handed Clemens a second consecutive loss after he had gone 14–0, the fifth best start in major-league history. Clemens allowed seven hits and six runs, one unearned, before being relieved with no one out in the sixth. He struck out five, raising his total to 138.
The Chicago White Sox defeated the Cleveland Indians, 4–3. Greg Walker’s sacrifice fly to deep center field with the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth snapped a 3–3 tie and enabled Chicago to end the Indians’ seven-game winning streak. Julio Cruz led off the ninth against Ernie Camacho (1–2) with a single and went to second on John Cangelosi’s sacrifice. Scott Bailes came in to pitch to Ozzie Guillen, who singled sharply to center, forcing Cruz to hold at third. Harold Baines drew an intentional walk to load the bases. With the Indians playing with five infielders, Walker hit his sacrifice fly.4
The Orioles routed the Royals, 8–1. Floyd Rayford, Cal Ripken and Fred Lynn hit home runs, boosting Baltimore over Kansas City, which suffered its 10th consecutive defeat, a club record. Mike Boddicker (11–4) scattered eight hits in snapping a personal three-game losing streak.
Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 1–0, as Alejandro Pena combined with three relievers on a two-hitter for his first victory in nearly two years, and Ken Landreaux scored on a first-inning error in left field by Vince Coleman. The Dodgers won the game despite committing three more errors, running their season total to 99. Pena (1–1), making his second start of the season after nine relief appearances, pitched five innings and allowed two singles. Carlos Diaz pitched one inning, Tom Niedenfuer pitched two and Ken Howell finished for his sixth save. Andy Van Slyke and Tom Herr had the St. Louis hits.
Rookie Wally Joyner hits a 3-run homer in the top of the 16th to give California a 3–1 win over the Brewers. Dan Plesac takes the loss with Terry Forster winning. Dich Schofield led off with a triple to the center-field wall but had to hold third as Jerry Narron grounded out to second. After Dan Plesac (5–6) walked George Hendrick, a pinch-hitter, and Gary Pettis, Joyner followed with a triple to the left-field wall. The run batted in gave the rookie forst baseman 64 for the season. The Milwaukee starter, Bill Wegman went 11 innings, giving up four hits and two walks.
The Minnesota Twins bested the Detroit Tigers, 10–8. Kent Hrbek hit his 20th home run, a 449-foot blast, and Kirby Puckett had a single, double and triple to help Minnesota outslug Detroit. Mike Smithson (8–7) got the victory despite allowing seven runs, including a pair of homers to Lou Whitaker. Keith Atherton relieved Smithson in the Tigers’ four-run seventh inning and earned his sixth save.
In Montreal, the Astros roll over the Expos, 12–1, as Glenn Davis belts a pair of homers and drives in 5 runs and Kevin Bass adds a grand slam. Davis hit a two-run homer in the third inning off Dennis Martinez (0–2) to give Houston a 3–1 lead. He added a three-run shot in the fifth. The two home runs gave Davis a league-leading 19 and helped Mike Scott (9–5) to the victory. Scott pitched seven innings, allowing four hits and striking out seven to raise his major league-leading total to 158.
It was 93 degrees in Shea Stadium last evening, the ball was carrying and the pitchers were serving up some fat ones. And, in the batting bee that followed, the Mets had one of their better hitting nights of the season but one of their worst pitching nights, and they were finally outhit and outscored by the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6. The Mets don’t lose very often these days in their season of galloping success, but they lost this time even though they made two stirring rallies that tied the score at 3–3 in the fifth inning and 4–4 in the sixth. Then they made a third rally in the seventh, and that one was stirring, too. But it stopped one run short, and then John Franco of Brooklyn came out of Pete Rose’s bullpen and stopped them for good.
The first two Phillies hitters in the game — Gary Redus and Juan Samuel — hit home runs off Atlanta’s David Palmer. Redus adds another in the game, as does John Russell, to give Shane Rawley a 7–3 win. Rawley (11–4) became the second pitcher in the National League to win 11 games, even though he gave up 11 hits, walked six and struck out three in eight innings.
The Pirates’ Sid Bream’s three-run homer off Rich Gossage in the top of the 10th inning powered Pittsburgh over the San Diego Padres, 3–1. The victory went to Cecilio Guante, 3–1, who pitched the final two innings in relief of starter Rick Rhoden, who was bidding for his fourth straight complete game. Rhoden allowed only four hits and struck out five in the first eight innings.
Together, they were a study in contrasting emotions. Scott Nielsen played the part of a nervous rookie on the verge of his big-league debut; Dave Winfield was an angry, unsettled veteran. But late tonight, separated by a few empty locker stalls in the visiting clubhouse at Arlington Stadium, they found a large measure of satisfaction. Winfield was left out of the starting lineup for the third time in five games, and he directed his pregame unhappiness at the Yankee hierarchy. Then he entered the game in the third inning and collected a triple, double and four runs batted in during a 14–3 rout of the Texas Rangers.
Jimmy Key scattered eight hits over seven innings, struck out a personal-record 10 batters and picked off two base runners for Toronto as the Blue Jays beat the Mariners, 7–5. The victory was the fifth in a row for Key (8–5), who has won eight of his last 10 decisions. Bill Caudill, who came on with two out in the eighth and the tying run at third, worked the last one and one-third innings for his first save since August 3, 1985.
Oakland Athletics 6, Boston Red Sox 4
Cleveland Indians 3, Chicago White Sox 4
Baltimore Orioles 8, Kansas City Royals 1
St. Louis Cardinals 0, Los Angeles Dodgers 1
California Angels 3, Milwaukee Brewers 1
Detroit Tigers 8, Minnesota Twins 10
Houston Astros 12, Montreal Expos 1
Cincinnati Reds 7, New York Mets 6
Atlanta Braves 3, Philadelphia Phillies 7
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Diego Padres 1
New York Yankees 14, Texas Rangers 3
Seattle Mariners 5, Toronto Blue Jays 7
Stock prices plunged from recent record levels on newfound concern about the economy and warnings from two prominent market specialists. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose past the 1,900 level last Tuesday for the first time, fell 61.87 points — its biggest point loss ever.. Yesterday’s drop meant that the Dow, in just six and a half hours of trading, had lost 3.25 percent of its value and that stocks over all had dropped in value by some $74 billion. Still, brokers said, there was no sense of panic on Wall Street, where big gains and big losses in a single session are becoming more commonplace.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1839 (-61.87)
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