The United States and Soviet Union have agreed in principle to a meeting on verification of limits on nuclear test explosions, a major sticking point in arms control discussions, Reagan Administration officials said. The meeting has not been scheduled but is expected to occur sometime this summer, the officials said. No location was announced. It would be the first such session since negotiations that led to the unratified 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty. Officials said the purpose of the talks will not be to negotiate but to exchange information on the complicated and sensitive topic.
President Francois Mitterrand, ending talks with Mikhail S. Gorbachev, said in Moscow today that the prospects for a meeting between President Reagan and the Soviet leader this year remained uncertain. The French president, concluding a four-day visit to Moscow that followed talks with Mr. Reagan in New York earlier this month, told a news conference that “diplomacy still has a lot of work to do” if there is to be a Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in 1986. “I think both clearly want a meeting, but Mr. Gorbachev said it must be broad and substantial,” Mr. Mitterrand said. Moscow and Washington have recently resumed preliminary discussions about a visit to the United States by Mr. Gorbachev later this year. The Soviet Union broke off discussions after the United States carried out air raids against Libya in April.
A Palestinian who confessed to the murder of Leon Klinghoffer, an American tourist aboard the liner Achille Lauro, was convicted and sentenced today to 30 years in prison for his actions during the ship’s hijacking in October. In passing sentence, an Italian jury rejected a prosecution demand that the defendant, Magid al-Molqi, be given a life term, Italy’s maximum sentence, for killing Mr. Klinghoffer, a 69-year-old New Yorker who used a wheelchair. Mr. Molqi and two confederates were found guilty of a “kidnapping for terrorist ends that caused the killing of a person.” The other two were given prison terms of 24 years and 15 years. The jury, however, ordered life sentences for three fugitives — the Palestinian leader Mohammed Abbas and two associates — who were tried in absentia and whom Italian officials acknowledge they are unlikely to apprehend. All were convicted for their role in organizing the hijacking.
A political duel in Italy appeared to have stymied the Christian Democratic Party’s attempt to form a cabinet. Foreign Minister Giulio Andreotti, who has led five previous governments, was asked by Italy’s President to try again, but Socialist representatives criticized the move, saying it “made a solution to the crisis even more distant.”
The United States agreed to an immediate 10% reduction of its 4,500 military personnel at one of four bases in Spain, officials said after the first round of bilateral negotiations in Madrid. In a joint communique, Spanish and U.S. officials announced that “the United States will reduce part of its military personnel at Torrejon (air base), replacing them with civilians, most of them Spanish.” The communique, which said a second round of talks will be held in Washington in October, refers to the talks as “part of the process leading to the renewal of the mutual treaty of defense and cooperation,” which expires in 1988.
France’s new conservative government has changed its position, deciding not to manufacture a neutron bomb in the immediate future. according to French defense officials. The disclosure came as Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, making his first speech on military issues since taking office, pledged his government to a new arms buildup designed to fill what he called a $2.4 billion gap in French arms buying for which he blamed the Socialist administration.
The bombing of an annex of the police headquarters in Paris has intensified a fierce nationwide debate over the government’s program to combat crime and political violence, according to French political commentators. The explosion Wednesday, which killed a senior police officer and wounded 22 others, three seriously, has temporarily united politicians of the left and right in mutual disgust and indignation. Le Quotidien, a rightist newspaper, decried the bombing in a banner headline as “The filthy challenge.” “The shock!” proclaimed another headline in the leftist newspaper Liberation.
Two Israeli soldiers were killed and nine wounded today in a three-hour battle with four Palestinian guerrillas on the coast just north of Israel’s border with Lebanon. All four guerrillas died in the fighting. Hours later, Israeli aircraft attacked what were described as Palestinian bases in Lebanon. Israeli security sources quoted by Reuters said at least 10 people were killed or wounded in the air raid, on the outskirts of the Lebanese city of Sidon. An Israeli spokesman said the targets, near the Ain Khilwe refugee district, had been used by four Palestinian guerrilla groups. He identified the groups as Al Fatah, the mainstream Palestine Liberation Organization group headed by Yasser Arafat; a pro-Syrian, anti-Arafat group headed by Abu Musa; the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, which is based in Syria, and the Popular Struggle Front, a pro-Libyan group. The army spokesman would not identify the aircraft used in the attack. Security sources in Lebanon said they were four helicopters. The earlier machine-gun and grenade firefight erupted after the Palestinians were intercepted off the rocky sea front in a rubber dinghy apparently headed for Israel, according to the Israeli military.
Iran said its forces had captured almost 10 square miles of Iraqi territory in the central border region near Mehran and killed or wounded more than 1,000 Iraqi soldiers. A military communique said an estimated 70 Iraqis were taken prisoner, including Brigadier General Ahmed Turkman Rashid, commander of the 10th Armored Division’s 24th Battalion. Iran claims to have captured 200 square miles-most of it occupied Iranian territory-since launching an offensive 10 days earlier.
Pakistan’s leading opposition figure said today that while military spending in this country was “far too high,” she would nevertheless continue the United States military aid program here if she succeeded in toppling the Government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. “We definitely want to keep the door open on the aspect of aid,” said Benazir Bhutto, referring to military and economic assistance for Pakistan enacted in 1981. The Reagan Administration announced a new six-year package of $4.02 billion to be submitted to Congress next year. Miss Bhutto, who has drawn hundreds of thousands of people at anti-Government rallies around Pakistan, the biggest demonstrations in the country’s history, added that she would do nothing in the coming months to undercut the negotiations between Washington and Islamabad on the new aid.
Protesting Muslims hurled rocks, burned shops and killed a Hindu in a second day of communal violence that has claimed 13 lives in the Gujarat state capital of Ahmedabad, police said. Authorities moved to avert further unrest by deploying additional security forces and extending a day-old curfew to new areas of the city, 800 miles southwest of New Delhi. The violence was triggered Wednesday when Muslims began throwing rocks at a Hindu religious procession of 50,000 people winding its way through the city.
Heavily armed Bangladeshi police fought demonstrators hurling gasoline bombs in running battles in Dhaka that left at least 200 people injured on the opening day of Parliament, which was boycotted by most opposition members. Trouble flared when activists of the seven-party opposition alliance headed by Khaleda Zia tried to break through the six-mile-long security ring around the building. President Hussain Mohammed Ershad opened the nation’s third elected assembly in 16 years with a two-hour speech as 92 of 102 opposition members demonstrated by staging a “mock Parliament” outside.
President Corazon C. Aquino said today that she planned to meet with President Reagan in the United States on September 17. She said the trip would include an address to a joint session of Congress and a meeting with bankers in the hope of winning easier terms for the repayment of a $26 billion foreign debt. Speaking at a forum of religious and business leaders, she confirmed that her new ban on rallies that are not a legitimate exercise of free speech would apply to those planned by the supporters of Ferdinand E. Marcos.
The State Department said today that efforts to revive an immigration agreement with Cuba had collapsed. Officials said two days of talks in Mexico City had foundered over disagreements about possible Cuban radio broadcasts to the United States. Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, said Cuba “insisted on proposals that would have required major and disruptive changes in the organization of radio broadcasting in the United States.”
The Lawyers Committee for Human Rights criticized El Salvador’s armed forces, its courts and President Jose Napoleon Duarte for failing to prosecute major human rights abuses. The New York-based group said the courts have failed to prosecute 16 major cases of human rights abuses since 1980, blaming the armed forces in part for covering up or blocking some of the cases. It accused Duarte of failing to deliver on promises he made in his election campaign to investigate and prosecute major instances of human rights abuses and said authorities “lack the political will and power to discipline Salvadoran soldiers for the crimes they commit.”
An explosion last week that killed 32 people as they rode in a truck through a remote part of northern Nicaragua has become a new source of conflict between the Government and Roman Catholic bishops. According to reports in the pro-Government press, all 32 victims, who included women and children, were civilians. The reports said they died when a mine placed by rebels exploded beneath their truck near the remote village of San Jose de Bocay. The bishops are under attack for not having condemned the killings. The official statement in which the Government announced on Friday that it had decided to expel Bishop Pablo Antonio Vega from Nicaragua said the victims at San Jose de Bocay had been “murdered by Reagan’s and Vega’s mercenaries.”
The President of Brazil, upset over strong criticism of his government’s land redistribution program by elements of the Brazilian Roman Catholic hierarchy, met with Pope John Paul II today in an effort to win his help in calming church-state relations. President Jose Sarney expressed satisfaction with the meeting and said “a conversation with the Pope is almost like a confession.” He said the Pope had offered “friendship, encouragement and help.” For his part, John Paul strongly endorsed agrarian reform in a homily given at a mass said in honor of Mr. Sarney.
Policemen ringing a Santiago, Chile courthouse arrested 11 of 15 leaders of last week’s two-day general strike who were trying to make voluntary court appearances, and tear-gassed their supporters outside a court. Fifteen leaders of the strike July 2 and 3 who later went into hiding tried to make court appearances today, but only four made it through a police cordon. The rest were arrested, and policemen threw tear-gas canisters into a crowd of their supporters outside. Those arrested included Lautaro Ojeda, the 78-year-old head of a pensioners’ association. Three of the strike leaders, including a pregnant woman, remained in hiding. The 18 strike leaders had insisted they wanted to appear voluntarily to face charges without being treated like “common criminals.” They face charges under security laws for organizing the strike.
A bomb exploded in Johannesburg at the stock exchange, but there were no injuries and little damage, the Government said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The incident came as the country’s biggest black-led labor federation announced plans for a day of protest strikes.
Ending the “siege mentality” of South Africa’s leaders should be an aim of United States policy, said the senior Administration official on African affairs. He urged that ways be found to “rekindle prospects for negotiation and dialogue” between whites and blacks, but appeared to rule out the kind of severe economic sanctions backed by the House of Representatives.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse, saying that the public needs to know more about cocaine, said today that there had been dramatic increases in cocaine-related injuries and deaths in recent years. Reports from medical examiners in 25 metropolitan areas show that 185 cocaine-related deaths were reported in 1981 and 580 in 1984, and that the incomplete count for 1985 stands at 563 and is expected to go higher after all the reports are received. The compilation was made public at a news conference today. Many of those people died of heart problems as a result of cocaine use, and the Government said it issued the statistics because of the publicity resulting from the recent cocaine-related deaths of Len Bias, the University of Maryland basketball star, and of Don Rogers, a defensive back for the Cleveland Browns football team. Both athletes were found to have died of cardiac arrest as a result of cocaine intoxication.
Mixed results for the President came in the Supreme Court term that ended Monday. President Reagan won a significant reaffirmation of Presidential primacy in executing the laws, but was defeated on many issues at the heart of his social agenda.
President Reagan attends the Dothan-Houston County Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Alabama.
President Reagan meets with members of the U.S. Precision Helicopter Team (World Champion Helicopter Squadron from Fort Rucker, Alabama).
Citing a “relatively slow” economy and low inflation, the Federal Reserve Board today cut its benchmark lending rate to 6 percent from 6 ½ percent. The reduction, the third this year, brought the crucial discount rate to its lowest level since the start of 1978. The discount rate, which the Federal Reserve charges on loans it makes to financial institutions, normally leads to widespread declines of interest rates charged businesses and consumers. The declines, in turn, tend to enliven the economy by encouraging individuals and corporations to borrow more and spend more.
A defense attorney today told the jury in the trial of Jerry A. Whitworth that Mr. Whitworth had written a series of anonymous letters admitting involvement in espionage for the Soviet Union. However, in his closing argument, the lawyer, James Larson, depicted Mr. Whitworth as a man who was deceived into believing that the classified Navy data he had stolen was being sold to Israel and who had tried to extricate himself from espionage activities when he found out the truth. The letters, received by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in San Francisco in 1984, were signed “RUS. Somewhere. U.S.A.” In them, the writer offered to expose an espionage conspiracy in exchange for anonymity and freedom from prosecution. The first said, “I didn’t know that the info was being passed to the U.S.S.R. until after I had been involved a few years.’
Hundreds of inmates at the District of Columbia’s sprawling prison complex in nearby Lorton, Va., set fire to a dozen crowded dormitories early today, forcing the temporary evacuation of more than 800 prisoners to more crowded, higher-security cellblocks. Twenty-nine inmates and nine guards were injured, city correction officials said. One prisoner was seriously wounded by gunfire and others were affected by tear gas or hurt by attacks by other inmates, officials said. There were no escapes.
A citizen group that captured illegal aliens along the Arizona-Mexico border last weekend consists of “Americans standing up and doing something,” a leader of the organization said. The group, whose action drew sharp criticism from Federal authorities, also assists anti-Communist forces in Central America.
Officials unlocked the door of a boxcar in Laredo, Texas Wednesday afternoon and found 26 illegal aliens locked inside by smugglers, with one man dead, another dying and a 16-year-old girl suffering from shock and dehydration. The aliens had been put in the metal car here for the trip from the border to San Antonio, agents of the United States Border Patrol said.
Negotiations between Philadelphia officials and 2,000 striking white-collar municipal workers continued, and the city delayed a court hearing to today on forcing health-care and social-service employees back to their jobs in the 10-day strike by municipal employees over pay and subcontracting of city jobs. No talks were scheduled, however, with the union representing 12,000 striking blue-collar workers, including trash collectors whose work stoppage has left tons of garbage accumulating on streets, sidewalks, backyards and empty lots.
A chemical fire smoldering in a derailed railroad car in Miamisburg, Ohio, could burn for days, authorities said, as up to 40,000 weary residents headed home after being evacuated, some for the second time. At least 11 people remained hospitalized, including two with previous respiratory disorders who were in critical condition. The tanker car carrying white phosphorus, a volatile and highly toxic chemical, caught fire Tuesday.
The Phelps Dodge Corporation stopped operating its copper smelter at Douglas, Arizona, today to comply with state air quality standards, but the company says it hopes to win the right to restart the plant. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency refused Wednesday to extend the smelter’s 1982 exemption from state standards governing sulfur dioxide emissions. Phelps Dodge has said it could not economically run the smelter, which emits nearly five times the amount of sulfur dioxide allowed by state regulations, under the standard.
A judge set a September 15 trial date for convicted Watergate burglar Frank Sturgis, who pleaded innocent to accepting $12,000 worth of stolen Rolex watches in an influence-peddling scam. Circuit Court Judge George Orr in Miami set the date after Sturgis entered his plea to charges of dealing in stolen property. Sturgis, 62, was arrested June 18 for allegedly promising an undercover police officer that he could help get reduced prison sentences for drug dealers.
A Texas sheriff’s deputy taken hostage by an armed prisoner in a jail escape was found unharmed tonight, and hundreds of searchers were reported closing in on the convict. After the deputy, Rosalie Williams, 24 years old, was found, the Upshur County Sheriff’s Department said the escapee, Jerry Walter McFadden, a thrice-convicted rapist who is charged with capital murder, was believed to be on foot in the woods in nearby Big Sandy.
A slow-moving coal train rammed the rear of a stopped 87-car freight train in heavy fog in Nebraska early today, killing one crew member and injuring three others, one critically, a railroad spokesman said. Both Union Pacific Railroad trains were eastbound on the same track at the time of the collision that killed a rear brakeman in the caboose of the freight, said John Bromley, a railroad spokesman in Omaha.
People Express Inc., in a move to win valuable time to solve its financial problems, has agreed to sell its Frontier Airlines subsidiary to United Airlines, the carriers announced yesterday. With the $146 million sale price, the low-cost People Express will increase its cash reserves to more than $190 million, giving it a cushion of perhaps a year to put into effect its ambitious strategy of expanding into a full-service airline. Airline industry analysts said the sale would give new life to this strategy, but added that success was uncertain. Robert Joedicke, an analyst for Shearson Lehman Brothers Inc., noting that such a change in direction will not be made easily or quickly, commented: “Can the leopard change its spots? I don’t know. Until that happens it will be a rough road.”
Leadership by women in the West is a strong tradition whose origins are provoking spirited discussion, particularly since the two major parties in Nebraska nominated women for Governor, over whether the frontier experience of earlier generations is a factor.
An anonymous caller claimed to have poisoned boxes of sugar-free Jell-O gelatin in Chicago and Detroit, prompting at least four grocery chains to pull the product from their shelves in four Midwestern states as a precaution. Kroger pulled the dessert from its 57 stores in Michigan; Jewel removed sugar-free Jell-O from its 218 stores in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Michigan; Dominick’s Finer Foods will not sell the product at its 75 Chicago-area stores, and A&P will withdraw the product from its Michigan stores, officials said.
The southern Atlantic Coast continued to swelter as a heat wave went into its fifth day and temperatures climbed above 100 degrees in Georgia and South Carolina, where the heat was blamed for one death. In Georgia, where temperatures have reached 100 all week, heat has killed 400,000 chickens, the Georgia Department of Agriculture said. Record highs were reported in Columbia, South Carolina, 103; Augusta, Georgia, 102; Savannah, Georgia, 101, and Charleston, South Carolina, 100. Meanwhile, showers and thunderstorms drenched most of the Mississippi Valley, the lower Ohio Valley, the southern Appalachians, central Virginia and North Carolina.
The Ford Motor Company said today that it planned to introduce seat belts with shoulder harnesses for the rear seats of its passenger cars in the “next few years.” The company declined to be more specific. The Ford announcement came a day after Government and industry sources said that a National Transportation Safety Board report would assert that back-seat passengers might be safer in some automobile accidents when they were not wearing the lap seat belt.
A teenager who lost part of both legs in Oregon’s worst mountain-climbing accident flashed a big smile from his wheelchair as he left a hospital and headed home Wednesday. The boy, Giles Thompson of Longview, Washington, 16 years old, was released after nearly two months at Providence Medical Center. “He’s done amazingly well through this whole thing,” said Dr. Christopher Hike, the orthopedic surgeon who directed the treatment. “I don’t have any worries about him in the future.”
Scientists said they have produced the world’s most powerful continuous magnetic field, a force about 700,000 times stronger than Earth’s. The feat was accomplished in March at the Francis Bitter National Magnetic Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was reported in this month’s edition of Applied Physical Letters. The new record of 336,000 gauss surpasses the previous record of 300,000 gauss, set in 1977.
Two new studies reached opposite conclusions on whether the health of nonsmokers can be damaged by others’ cigarette smoke. A British study, by a team at the Institute for Cancer Research, said it is difficult to determine whether tobacco smoke causes lung cancer among nonsmokers because relatively few nonsmokers get lung cancer. In sharp disagreement was a report by retired Du Pont Co. research executive Judson Wells, who analyzed eight existing studies and concluded that up to 46,000 deaths a year are caused by other people’s cigarette smoke.
Soviet and other Eastern-bloc athletes dominated the competition today at the Goodwill Games. But in basketball, the United States women won the championship by defeating the Soviet team, 83–60. It was only the third defeat for the Soviet Union in 155 international games dating back to 1957.
Major League Baseball:
Oil Can Boyd (11–6) flies into a rage after learning that he has been left off the American League All-Star team and storms out of Fenway Park prior to Boston’s game against the Angels. He will be suspended indefinitely by the Red Sox and eventually scuffle with local police before checking into a hospital for psychiatric testing. The weirdness continues as the Angels score 3 in the 12th to take a 7–4 lead. Boston then scores 3 to tie and when Todd Fischer replaces Mike Cook, he balks in Dwight Evans with the winning run.
The Baltimore Orioles topped the Chicago White Sox, 5-3. John Shelby broke a ninth-inning tie with a bases-loaded triple to give Mike Flanagan the victory. Juan Beniquez opened the ninth with a double off Joe Cowley (4-5) and Mike Young drew a walk. Bob James relieved Cowley and struck out Al Pardo but gave up a base-filling single to Juan Bonilla before Shelby tripled to deep center. Shelby then scored as Tom O’Malley reached first on a fielder’s choice. Flanagan (3-6) gave up one run on six hits over eight innings, including a triple in the eighth to John Cangelosi, who scored the tying run as Ozzie Guillen grounded out.
The Texas Rangers bowed to the Cleveland Indians 9-6. Rookies Cory Snyder and Andy Allanson hit consecutive two-run singles in the fifth inning and Ken Schrom won his seventh straight game for Cleveland.
The Astros pummeled the Phillies, 11-4. Glenn Davis drove in four runs in support of Mark Knudson’s first major league victory. Knudson (1-3) allowed seven hits in 6 and one-third innings, walking one and striking out three. Charles Hudson (4-9) took the loss. Knudson retired 16 straight before four consecutive singles produced two Philadelphia runs in the seventh.
The Los Angeles Dodgers clobbered the Cubs, 11-4. Ken Landreaux’s two-run double keyed a five-run first inning and Reggie Williams collected three hits to lead Los Angeles. Orel Hershiser, 8-6, pitched 6 ⅔ innings for the victory. He allowed all four runs and eight of the Cubs nine hits.
The Seattle Mariners defeated the Milwaukee Brewers, 4-1. Spike Owen and John Moses each drove in a run and scored one to help the Seattle beat Milwaukee in a game delayed by rain three times, for a total of 3 hours and 44 minutes. The loss was the fifth straight for the Brewers. The losing streak matches their longest of the year.
Shunned by those who selected the American League pitchers for the All-Star Game next week, Dennis Rasmussen focused his attention on his starting assignment tonight, saying, “I still want to win tonight very badly and get us going.” Rasmussen did win, gaining his 10th victory against two defeats, and as he did so, he must have thought he was pitching for an all-star team. The Yankees, who resemble also-rans more often than all-stars, crushed the Minnesota Twins, 11–1, as each of their nine starting batters scored a run in the sixth inning. The first 10 Yankees who batted in that decisive inning reached base, and the Yankees’ fun was diluted only when Don Mattingly grounded into a double play, although Steve Lombardozzi had to make a diving stop of the grounder near second base to make the double out possible.
The Expos beat the Reds, 8-6. Vance Law, Tim Wallach and Hubie Brooks drove in two runs apiece for the Expos. Bryn Smith (7-5) went seven innings for the victory. Bob McClure, the third Montreal pitcher, allowed a two-run single to Dave Parker in the ninth inning. Jeff Reardon finished for his 20th save. The Expos broke the game open with a six-run fourth. With two out, Al Newman and Smith walked and Tim Raines delivered a tiebreaking single. Law followed with a controversial triple down the left-field line. The third-base umpire, Steve Rippley, ruled the ball fair, giving the Expos a 5-2 lead. Several Reds argued the call and Max Venable, who was on the bench, was ejected.
The widely rumored decline and fall of the Mets came to an end — or at least a pause — last night in Shea Stadium, when New York snapped a three-game losing streak and almost casually defeated the Atlanta Braves, 5–1. It was mainly a pitching performance of distinction by Bob Ojeda, one of several members of the Mets’ staff who did not make the All-Star team despite superior numbers in the first half of the season. Ojeda scattered seven hits and won his 10th game against two losses since joining the Mets last winter from the Boston Red Sox. He also pitched his fifth complete game and won for the fourth straight time, and has not lost a game since May 31.
The San Diego Padres edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 4-3. Tony Gwynn and Kevin McReynolds hit consecutive home runs off John Tudor in the eighth inning to lead the Padres. Tudor (6-5), who has not won since June 7, allowed nine hits, struck out five and walked one before he was relieved after McReynolds’s homer. Gwynn tied the score with his ninth homer on a 1-0 pitch to lead off the eighth. McReynolds followed with his first home run since June 14, his 13th of the year. Craig Lefferts (6-3), the third San Diego pitcher, pitched two innings to gain the victory in relief of Dave Dravecky, who allowed all three Cardinal runs and six hits before he gave way for a pinch-hitter in the fifth.
Bob Brenly hit a three-run homer and Randy Kutcher added a bases-empty shot to highlight a five-run fifth inning as the Giants downed the Pirates, 6-3. Vida Blue (6-4) scattered six hits over the first five innings for the victory. He gave up one run while walking four and striking out two. Scott Garrelts, the fourth San Francisco pitcher, relieved with runners on first and second and one out in the ninth and picked up his first save. With the score tied, 1-1, the Giants battered Bob Walk (5-4) in the fifth. Kutcher led off with a homer over the left-field fence. It was his fifth homer since coming up to the majors on June 18. Rob Thompson followed with a double to the left-field corner and scored when Jeffrey Leonard singled through the box. Two outs later, Mike Aldrete walked and Brenly followed with his fifth homer of the season.
The Toronto Blue Jays downed the Oakland A’s, 8-4. Jesse Barfield’s double broke a 3-3 tie in the seventh and Damaso Garcia’s fourth single of the game led a five-run inning for Toronto. After his double scored George Bell, Barfield scored on Ernie Whitt’s single. After an intentional walk to Rick Leach, Garcia singled Whitt home and Leach scored on the play on an error by the right fielder, Mike Davis. Tony Fernandez then doubled in Garcia. Jim Clancy (9-5) yielded six hits over eight innings, striking out six and walking just one for his third straight victory. Dave Kingman had tied the score at 3-3 for Oakland by slugging Clancy’s first pitch of the seventh for his 20th homer.
The scheduled game between the Detroit Tigers and the Royals at Kansas City was postponed due to rain. The game will be made up as part of a doubleheader tomorrow.
California Angels 7, Boston Red Sox 8
Baltimore Orioles 5, Chicago White Sox 3
Texas Rangers 6, Cleveland Indians 9
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Houston Astros 11
Chicago Cubs 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 11
Seattle Mariners 4, Milwaukee Brewers 1
New York Yankees 11, Minnesota Twins 1
Cincinnati Reds 6, Montreal Expos 8
Atlanta Braves 1, New York Mets 5
St. Louis Cardinals 3, San Diego Padres 4
Pittsburgh Pirates 3, San Francisco Giants 6
Oakland Athletics 4, Toronto Blue Jays 8
With a debate raging over whether the Federal Reserve Board would lower interest rates, the stock market was sharply lower for most of yesterday’s session before a flurry of buy orders in the last hour resulted in a modest advance. After the market closed, the rate dispute was settled when the Fed announced that it would cut its discount rate to 6 percent from 6 ½ percent. The Dow Jones industrial average gained 5.76 points yesterday, to 1,831.83. The blue-chip index had been off more than 20 points at times.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1831.83 (+5.76)
Born:
Wyatt Russell, American actor (“The Falcon and the Winter Soldier”; “Lodge 49”), in Los Angeles, California.
Charles Johnson, NFL defensive end (Carolina Panthers), in Hawkinsville, Georgia.
ByungHo Park, South Korean MLB designated hitter and first baseman (Minnesota Twins), in Seoul, South Korea.
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