Some nuclear arms experts say the Administration’s proposal for deep reductions in strategic arms could increase the vulnerability of American nuclear forces to Soviet attack. These experts are urging the Administration, as it ponders a response to a recent Soviet strategic arms counteroffer, to modify its proposal and thus make American forces less vulnerable. The Administration is considering how its proposal for deep strategic arms cuts should be changed to respond to the latest Soviet moves at the Geneva arms talks. “Our present proposal would leave us with a force posture that tends to be less stable than it is now,” said Brent Scowcroft, a retired Air Force general who was President Ford’s national security adviser. Mr. Scowcroft said the Administration’s proposal needs important changes. Officially, the Administration says its formula for achieving a 50 percent cut in strategic arms would lead to a more stable balance by forcing a large reduction in the Soviet Union’s force of land-based missiles, which the Administration deems to include weapons suitable for carrying out a first strike. Administration officials also note that the proposal would force a major reduction in the throw-weight, or payload, of Soviet missiles.
Two senior police officers in the Royal Ulster Constabulary have been removed from operational duty as part of a continuing investigation into charges that police pursued a “shoot to kill” policy against unarmed Roman Catholics. The action, the first against policmen to result from the controversial inquiry, was announced tonight by constabulary officials at the end of a day of sectarian tension marked by clashes in Portadown between policemen and Protestants. The two officers, who were not identified, were transferred from line duty to administrative work until the inquiry can be completed. It focuses on charges that there might have been an official coverup of abuses in shooting incidents involving six Catholics in 1982.
From the Eiffel Tower to the Coliseum to the Parthenon, a familiar figure is missing from the European landscape — the American tourist. According to recent interviews by New York Times correspondents, the shunning of Europe by American tourists has borne out the direst predictions of the spring, when a rash of terrorism, the Soviet nuclear accident and a weakening dollar sent American travel bookings plummeting. The sharp drop in visits by traditionally freer-spending Americans, at a time when travel by Europeans has remained generally stable or has increased, has stunned and embittered many Europeans, the survey shows. The actual summer falloff — 50 percent or more in many cases — is especially dramatic after the boom 1985 season. Some in the travel industry are predicting that a recovery will not occur until 1988.
Despite the recent reduction in terrorist activities by Middle East groups, United States intelligence analysts say they anticipate new efforts by these organizations to carry out “indiscriminate” attacks in Western European capitals. The American bombing of Libya, increased security precautions at airports and tighter surveillance of Libyan and other Arab personnel in European capitals have produced a lessening of terrorist incidents in the last three months, the State Department’s top terrorist expert said. But an intelligence report circulating within the Administration says the terrorists have proved adaptable to change and can be expected to continue their recent pattern of trying to kill large numbers of people with sudden attacks. The trend has included the attacks last December on the Rome and Vienna airports and a bombing in a West Berlin discotheque.
The devastating attack on a police headquarters in the heart of Paris on Wednesday was a bold and apparently sophisticated operation for a far-leftist French terrorist group that had suffered some serious reverses in recent months, experts on terrorism here believe. The group, Direct Action, took responsibility for the bombing attack, which killed a police officer and wounded 22 other people. The attack was one of several in recent months, including the bombings of two French companies on July 5 and 6.
Former President Richard M. Nixon began a six-day private visit to Moscow that is to include a meeting with Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the former Soviet ambassador to Washington and the Kremlin’s top adviser on relations with the West. Nixon, 73, refused to talk to reporters upon his arrival at Sheremetyevo Airport. His spokesman, John Taylor, said he did not know if Nixon would meet with Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev. Nixon, the first U.S. President to visit Moscow, was last there in 1974 for a summit meeting with then-President Leonid I. Brezhnev.
Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin said Jordan’s King Hussein asked Israel to bomb Syrian troops while the Jordanian army was battling the Palestine Liberation Organization in 1970. Rabin, who was ambassador to Washington at the time, said in a speech over Israel radio that the request for help was relayed by then-Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger after three armored Syrian brigades invaded Jordan. Israel and the United States both sent warning to Syria and its ally, the Soviet Union, and the Syrian forces withdrew, Rabin said.
The Indian army was placed on alert today after 14 people were killed and 50 hurt in violence arising from religious rivalries in the western state of Gujarat, the United News of India reported. The news agency said the state government called on the army to assist civil authorities in riot-torn Ahmedabad, where 11 of the 14 people were killed today. The death toll in four days of sectarian violence stood at 37, with 250 wounded.
The political influence of Islamic conservatives is growing in the Southeast Asian nation of Malaysia almost as fast as the popularity of Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is falling, according to scholars and diplomats here. “I don’t think I have ever before heard so much anti-Government talk,” a scholar said. Malaysia is constitutionally required to hold a national election by next year. It had been expected to take place by now, but the Prime Minister has been slow to set a date, diplomats say.
It all looks easy for Japan’s governing party now that it has won a smashing victory at the polls. But when party leaders scheduled national elections for last Sunday they were testing the fates as well as the political waters. Any of them could have looked at a calendar and realized right off that it was the worst possible day for such a significant undertaking. Millions of Japanese, politicians included, put full faith in a lunar-year system borrowed long ago from China, a six-day cycle of lucky days, unlucky days and so-so days, when good fortune may come in the morning only to disappear in the afternoon.
President Reagan has sent a laudatory letter to President Corazon C. Aquino of the Philippines, saying her ability to quell a recent rebellion “has shown the world the mettle of your Government,” the White House said today. “The sober and peaceful approach you have taken to deal with the political incident that took place in Manila this weekend is greatly admired,” Mr. Reagan said in the letter, dated July 8. On Sunday, Arturo M. Tolentino, a former running mate of Ferdinand E. Marcos, holed up with about 300 soldiers in the Manila Hotel and proclaimed himself acting president. The rebellion ended Tuesday, several hours before a deadline set by Mrs. Aquino for an end to the uprising.
A classified Defense Department assessment of the October, 1983, U.S. invasion of Grenada found that the mission was marred by confusion, hasty planning and lack of information, the New York Times reported. A CIA operative apparently refused to fly over the Caribbean island nation as a crisis hit its radical government, causing a blackout of intelligence data, the assessment showed. The operation’s flaws also included mistaken information about the strength of the island’s defenses, a decision to land Army Rangers in daylight hours and a nearly crippling lack of communications among the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine units that took part in the invasion.
Salvadoran rebels offered a negotiating plan for upcoming peace talks that calls for a cease-fire in the civil war and a reorganization of the government to include the guerrillas. The proposals were made by Joaquin Villalobos, a leader of the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front, in a broadcast on the rebels’ clandestine Radio Venceremos. In a subsequent speech, President Jose Napoleon Duarte ignored Villalobos’ plan and reiterated his longstanding policy that the guerrillas must put down their weapons and join the democratic process.
After three and a half years of intense military buildup, the United States is prepared to maintain a military presence in Honduras for years to come, according to several military officials and diplomats in Honduras. Official United States policy is that the American military role is temporary. But some American officials speak of Honduras’s gradually becoming like South Korea, developing into a permanent United States military staging area, manned and armed to contain a perceived Communist threat, in this case from Nicaragua. Others say a Nicaraguan guerrilla victory or an American invasion of Nicaragua would end the need for a major American military presence in Honduras, but they are unsure either will occur.
Opposition parties vowed today to begin a new round of protests after Chile’s President Augusto Pinochet indicated he would seek to stay in power until 1997. The centrist Social Democratic Party said it would organize “a wide mobilization, at all levels, to stop Pinochet.” Even some right-wing organizations that have generally been sympathetic to General Pinochet’s 13-year-old Government expressed opposition to a second term for the President.
A military court in Guinea-Bissau convicted 56 people of conspiring to overthrow the government and sentenced 12 of them to death, according to reports reaching Lisbon. Among those sentenced to die were Paulo Correia, former justice minister and former vice president of the governing Council of State, and former Supreme Court Justice Viriato Rodrigues, who were charged with leading the conspiracy in the former Portuguese colony in West Africa.
About 1,000 mourners, some clenching their fists in defiance of emergency decrees, marched, sang banned songs and chanted outlawed slogans at a funeral today in Soweto. The funeral was reportedly for a 19-year-old man shot last week. He was said to have been trying to burn the house of a Soweto city council member. The march proceeded for two minutes, until the marchers were ordered into vans and cars. But as they drove to the cemetery, some opened car windows and raised clenched fists, an act that has been outlawed under the emergency decree of June 12. The slogans they chanted and the anthem they sang after the 4 ½-hour graveside service were also illegal under the emergency regulations, which prohibit statements deemed subversive. The regulations forbid reporting any activity or even the presence of security forces during the funeral without permission from the government. Chief spokesmen of the Bureau for Information and the South African police would not comment on the events.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). President Reagan today reaffirmed his opposition to curtailing research on a defense system against nuclear missiles, saying such a shield was not a “bargaining chip” in arms control talks with the Soviet Union. In his weekly radio address, Mr. Reagan indicated he would continue a negotiating position that seeks reductions in offensive weapons and that rejects the idea of American concessions on the development of a missile defense system, which the Administration calls the Strategic Defense Initiative and which is popularly known as “Star Wars.” The President’s remarks offered a glimpse of the Administration’s expected response to the latest Soviet arms control proposal, which was received by American negotiators in Geneva on June 11. Mr. Reagan and other senior officials have said that they view the new Soviet offer positively and that they expect to provide a formal reply in the next few weeks. Mr. Reagan ruled out the possibility of limiting research on the “Star Wars” program in the hope of securing deep reductions from the Russians in offensive weapons. But he did not address the issue of whether a schedule for deployment could become a subject of negotiation.
The Reagan Administration is working on proposals that would delay or deny Medicaid benefits for many people with high medical costs, including disabled children and elderly people needing long-term care. Under one proposal, people with high health care costs would have to pay their entire share of the bills they had accrued before Medicaid would start paying its share. Under current law, people eligible for Medicaid may pay their share in installments. Another proposal would sharply restrict Medicaid eligibility for people who put money in trust funds to support their disabled or retarded children.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “The Magnificent Seven.”
Steven McDonald, New York City Police Department patrolman, was shot and paralyzed by 15-year-old Shavod Jones. The shooting left him quadriplegic. A former U.S. Navy hospital corpsman and third generation NYPD police officer, McDonald was shot in the line of duty by Jones, one of three boys he was questioning about bicycle thefts in Central Park. McDonald and a co-worker were on patrol in Central Park because there had been reports about a robbery in the park. While attempting to question Jones, McDonald noticed something in another boy’s sock, and when he wanted to see what it was, Jones shot McDonald three times. The first bullet hit him in the head, above his eye; the second hit his throat and caused him to have a speaking disability; and the third shattered his spine, paralyzing him from the neck down and leaving him quadriplegic and in need of a ventilator. Several months after he was shot, McDonald reported to the press that he had forgiven Jones for his actions. McDonald discussed the reasons for his forgiveness in some detail in the foreword of a 2014 book titled “Why Forgive?,” written by friend and pastor Johann Christoph Arnold. Jones served nine years in prison for the shooting and had called McDonald to apologize, but the two never met in person after the incident. Jones was killed in a motorcycle crash on September 10, 1995, four days after his release on parole. McDonald died of a heart attack in 2017. He was given a full police funeral at St. Patrick’s Cathedral with Cardinal Dolan presiding over the Mass. Thousands of civilians and law enforcement officers gathered inside and outside the cathedral to pay their final respects and goodbyes, and the Mass was broadcast on the city’s PIX 11 out of respect for McDonald’s legacy.
The American Legion of Ohio condemned a proposed memorial to the 13 Kent State University students who were killed or wounded when National Guard troops fired into a campus crowd of anti-war demonstrators in 1970. The 1,300 delegates representing 142,000 member veterans at the Legion’s state convention in Cleveland approved a toned-down resolution declaring the planned monument “an insult to the patriotic veterans who served their country honorably.” An earlier version had called the project a memorial to terrorists and suggested that the four protesters who died were felons. “Why should a memorial be built to a situation where there was civil disobedience?” said Legion spokesman Douglas Weakley.
A striking white-collar workers’ union in Philadelphia approved a new contract but promised to honor the picket lines of blue-collar sanitation workers, who still have not reached agreement with the city. Meanwhile, the city entered a second day of accepting bids from private trash haulers to collect an estimated 8,600 tons of rotting garbage piling up at 15 temporary dump sites around the city. White-collar workers belonging to District Council 47 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees overwhelmingly approved a pact reached earlier that provides a 10% pay raise over two years.
A 16-year-old girl who masterminded the robbery and stabbing death of an elderly Bible teacher in Indiana was sentenced to die in the electric chair. The prosecutor in the case said Paula Cooper was the youngest person to receive the death sentence in modern legal history. Cooper admitted planning and leading three other Gary teen-agers in the May, 1985, hold-up and stabbing of Ruth Pelke, 78. Cooper stabbed Pelke 33 times with a butcher knife before stealing ten dollars and her car. According to authorities, Cooper attacked guards in the juvenile center after her arrest and had to be moved to the County Jail. There, it was reported that she bragged about her crime and had said she would do it again. The others received prison sentences ranging from 35 to 60 years. Her death sentence was overturned on appeal in 1989, resulting in a 60-year prison sentence. She was released on parole in 2013 but died by suicide in 2015.
The Lions Club International voted down a proposal to allow women to join the 1.3-millionmember club, but its new president predicted the measure will eventually pass. With just under 38,000 affiliates, the club claims to be the world’s largest international service organization. Fifty-nine percent of the estimated 6,600 to 7,000 delegates attending the 69th annual convention in New Orleans voted in favor of the proposal, short of the two-thirds majority needed to change the constitution. Officials said the greatest opposition came from some chapters in the South and those dominated by members in their 50s and 60s, as well as from the Lions Auxiliary.
A 5-day-old fire in a derailed tank car filled with phosphorus was extinguished, allowing about 300 people in a Dayton, Ohio, suburb to return home. Fifteen cars of a freight train derailed Tuesday, forcing more than 17,000 people to leave their homes ahead of a potentially toxic cloud of white smoke, and as many as 40,000 people were evacuated Wednesday. Railroad inspectors said the derailment was caused by an expansion that warped a rail five inches out of line during 90-degree temperatures. Residents have filed class-action lawsuits totaling $450 million in state and federal courts in connection with the accident.
A Texas murder suspect and rapist was recaptured two days after he escaped from jail and a day after the deputy he had taken as a hostage escaped from him. The prisoner, Jerry Walter McFadden, who is awaiting trial in the May slaying of an 18-year-old high school student, was returned to the Upshur County Jail late Friday after the police found him hiding not far from where his hostage escaped Thursday. The hostage, Rosalie Williams, 24, an Upshur County sheriff’s deputy, said she believed Mr. McFadden “might kill me at any time.” Officials said she was not harmed. Mr. McFadden, who had a .38-caliber pistol that he had taken from the jail, offered no resistance when he was found in a vacant house about 10:30 PM Friday. He was charged with capital murder in the death May 5 of Suzanne Harrison, who was sexually assaulted, beaten and strangled. He has been previously convicted of rape three times. Today, Mrs. Williams, who escaped from Mr. McFadden late Thursday after being held for more than 16 hours, thanked more than 700 well-wishers at a rally in her honor. “God has heard us all,” she said.
A middle-aged San Francisco schoolteacher won a record $3 million slot machine jackpot at Harrah’s Tahoe in Stateline, Nevada, the casino said today: Tom Yturbide, Harrah’s senior vice president and general manager, said the winning gambler, who wanted to remain anonymous, hit the jackpot Friday after spending about $40 on the $1 unlimited progressive machine.
Peoples Drug Stores has removed tubes of Aquafresh toothpaste from shelves in Washington, D.C., because of a cyanide contamination threat similar to others plaguing manufacturers around the nation, store managers said. No cyanide has yet been found. Beecham Products, manufacturers of the toothpaste, said it received an anonymous phone call at its Pittsburgh headquarters Friday reporting cyanide contamination of several tubes of 2.7-ounce Aquafresh toothpaste in a Peoples Drug Stores outlet in the metropolitan Washington area.
A moderate earthquake occurred today in Ohio and parts of Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan and West Virginia, but no injuries and little damage were reported. The magnitude of the 4:20 AM quake, the second in Ohio this year, registered 4.2 on the Richter scale, a measure of energy released, according to the United States Geological Survey’s Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colo.
Florida’s runaway growth — in land development and population — is bringing despair. Some Floridians worry that the damage it causes, in both environmental and human terms, far outweighs the profits and the increased national stature to be gained by the addition of three million to five million people in the next 14 years.
The ability to confine atoms through the use of light has been demonstrated by scientists at A.T.&T. Bell Laboratories. It was possible to see the atoms’ motion with the unaided eye.
British singer Boy George, a pioneer in the rock world trend of androgynous chic, was arrested and charged with heroin possession, police said. Nearly 12 hours after taking him in, Scotland Yard released the 25-year-old pop star on unspecified bail and ordered him to appear before a London magistrate July 29. Boy George, who is said to be undergoing treatment for heroin addiction, left Harrow police station in north London in a chauffeur-driven car with a police escort, smiling and waving. George’s friend Marilyn, also a pop singer who sports the transvestite look, was arrested on drug charges earlier in the week and released pending further hearings.
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After losing two games in a row, Roger Clemens figured he had better win again for the Boston Red Sox fans “before they really panic.” “So it was another tester for me,” Clemens said today after improving his record to 15–2 with a five-hit, 3–2 victory over the California Angels. Clemens edged Mike Witt in a duel of All-Star Game-bound pitchers on Bill Buckner’s two-run homer in the sixth inning. Clemens threw 124 pitches and was kept busy clearing his spikes of mud on a rainy day. “I pitched pretty well,” the right-hander said after striking out eight and walking two batters. “I did what I wanted to do, I kept mud off my spikes and I didn’t slip around out there.” The strikeouts increased his American League-leading total to 146. Clemens retired the first nine batters before Ruppert Jones beat out an infield hit in the fourth, moved to second on Jack Howell’s sacrifice and scored on Wally Joyner’s single to left. Boston tied the score in the fourth as Wade Boggs walked, took second on a single by Buckner and scored on Jim Rice’s single. The Angels capitalized on an error by Buckner to go ahead in the sixth. Howell grounded weakly to first, but Buckner fumbled the ball. Howell then stole second and scored on Joyner’s double to right. Marty Barrett started the Boston sixth by grounding a 3–2 pitch to left for a single. Boggs lined out, but Buckner hit a 1–2 pitch into the Angel bullpen in right for his 10th homer.
Harold Baines had four hits, including a double in a four-run sixth inning, to lead the Chicago White Sox past the Baltimore Orioles, 6–3. With Chicago trailing by 2–1, Ozzie Guillen opened the sixth with a single and Baines doubled. Guillen scored as Greg Walker grounded out and then Jerry Hairston doubled Baines home. Steve Lyons singled to score Hairston, knocking out Mike Boddicker (11–5). Lyons stole second and scored on a single by Julio Cruz off Brad Havens.
The Texas Rangers downed the Cleveland Indians, 11–6. Scott Fletcher led a 15-hit Texas attack with three hits, including a two-run homer, and Charlie Hough defeated Cleveland for the eighth consecutive time. Hough (9–4), a member of the All-Star team, allowed nine hits, struck out four and walked two. Hough, who last lost to Cleveland on April 23, 1984, left after seven and two-thirds innings after eighth-inning homers by Joe Carter, Pat Tabler and Cory Snyder. The victory snapped a three-game Ranger losing streak and ended the Indians’ three-game winning streak. It was only Cleveland’s third loss in 13 games. Fletcher, who also doubled, drove in two runs and scored three. John Butcher (1–6) lasted only two and two-thirds innings, giving up six runs and nine hits. Each Texas starter had at least one hit by the third inning.
Tony Walker, a rookie, had three of Houston’s 14 hits, including a home run, and drove in three runs to lead the Astros past the Phillies, 4–3. Nolan Ryan (6–6) won his third straight game, allowing three hits over six innings, walking five and striking out eight. Dave Smith pitched three perfect innings to pick up his 17th save. Shane Rawley (11–5), who has been selected to the All-Star team, had his seven-game winning streak snapped. He gave up four runs and nine hits in three innings before leaving for a pinch-hitter. Kent Tekulve pitched in relief for Philadelphia, tying Elroy Face’s league record for career appearances at 819. Philadelphia took a 1–0 lead in the first when Gary Redus scored from third on a wild pitch by Ryan. Redus had walked, stolen second and taken third on a throwing error by the Houston catcher, John Mizerock. Houston scored three runs in the second. Walker hit his second homer of the season — both off Rawley -and Ryan’s run-scoring single scored Mizerock, who had tripled. Philadelphia tied the score at 3–3 in the third. Redus doubled and scored on Juan Samuel’s triple. Mike Schmidt then doubled in Samuel. Houston broke the tie in the bottom of the inning when Walker singled in Kevin Bass.
The Detroit Tigers bowed to the Kansas City Royals, 7–4. Frank White knocked in two runs, and Willie Wilson and Lonnie Smith each scored twice to lead the Royals. Charlie Leibrandt (9–6) gave up six hits in eight innings, with two strikeouts and three walks. Steve Farr and Danny Jackson pitched the ninth, Jackson getting his first major league save. Dave Engle doubled three times for three of Detroit’s seven extra-base hits. Alan Trammell’s seventh home run gave the Tigers a 1–0 lead in the first, then Wilson hit his fifth home run leading off the bottom of the inning. Smith followed with a walk, went to second on a single by Mike Kingery and scored on White’s single. Larry Herndon walked and Engle doubled in the Detroit second, then Dave Collins doubled them home for a 3–2 lead.
Leon Durham drove in three runs with a single and a two-run homer and Jerry Mumphrey knocked in the tie-breaking run with a seventh-inning single, leading the Chicago Cubs past Los Angeles, 7–4. Shawon Dunston started the winning rally with a one-out single off reliever Tom Niedenfuer, 5–4.
The Seattle Mariners outslugged the Milwaukee Brewers, 15–9. Danny Tartabull and Scott Bradley drove in four runs apiece and Seattle scored seven runs in the third inning en route to a season-high 15 runs. The Mariners, who have won nine of their last 13 games, equaled a season high with 18 hits, and they were helped by four Milwaukee errors and four walks. Seattle right-hander Jerry Reed, 1–0, with a 9–1 lead in the third inning, pitched five innings for the victory.
Earlier in the day, Roger Clemens picked up his 15th victory of the season for the Boston Red Sox. Tonight, Scott Nielsen gained his 15th victory of the season as the Yankees breezed past the Minnesota Twins, 8–0. This was only Nielsen’s second start for the Yankees, so it was only his second victory for them. The first 13 came in Fort Lauderdale, where he was 4–0, and in Columbus, where he was 9–3. The fact that he, in any way, has matched Clemens’s victory total is not necessarily a coincidence. They were operated on within days of each other last August by Dr. James Andrews in Columbus, Georgia, Clemens for his shoulder, Nielsen for his elbow.
John Denny combined with Ron Robinson on a two-hitter, and Buddy Bell batted in one run and scored another tonight as the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Montreal Expos, 2–0. The Expos’ starter, Dennis Martinez (0–2), matched zeroes with Denny until the seventh, in which Bell opened with a double off the glove of the third baseman, Tim Wallach. Kurt Stillwell followed with a ground single to the right of Hubie Brooks, scoring Bell. The Reds, winners of seven of their last nine games, scored again in the eighth when Pete Rose singled, stole second and scored on a single by Bell. Denny (6–8) who left for a pinch-hitter in the seventh, allowed only Tim Raines’s single to right field in the third inning. The right-hander struck out six batters and walked two. Robinson worked three innings for his seventh safe. He allowed a leadoff single to Raines in the ninth. The Reds had the leadoff batter reach second base in both the third and sixth innings, but were unable to score against Martinez. In the third, Ron Oester doubled to open the inning and advanced to third on Denny’s sacrifice. But both Eddie Milner and Rose failed to get the ball out of the infield. Milner started the sixth with a double into the right-field corner. He took third when Rose followed with a long fly to right field, but was stranded on Dave Parker’s infield popup and Eric Davis’s strikeout.
The Mets staged a 25-year reunion of old-timers yesterday to salute their adventurous past, then got back to the business of their rosy future and wiped out the Atlanta Braves for the third straight game. They overwhelmed the Braves, 10–1, and did it not many hours after they had overwhelmed them Friday night, 11–0. And that was only a day after they had beaten them, 5–1. So, after losing three straight to the Cincinnati Reds, the Mets reversed their rumored decline and fall, and roared again. Two players roared the loudest. Rick Aguilera, who has been struggling to keep his job as the No. 5 man in a five-man rotation, pitched seven innings of five-hit ball and delivered his longest and best performance of the year. And Lenny Dykstra, the flying young center fielder, got four more hits during a 14-for-22 spree that has raised his batting average to .344.
Andy Van Slyke and Curt Ford hit consecutive run-scoring doubles in the first inning off Ed Whitson, keying a three-run burst that boosted St. Louis over San Diego, 4–2. Whitson, making his first appearance for the Padres since he was acquired from the New York Yankees on Wednesday, gave up four runs in five innings and took the loss.
The San Francisco Giants defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–1, as Mike Krukow held Pittsburgh to seven hits and Rob Thompson hit two triples and a single for San Francisco. Thompson’s second triple highlighted a two-run second inning in which the Giants took a 2–1 lead. Krukow led off the inning with a single and stole second before Thompson tripled. Chili Davis singled in Thompson. Thompson singled and scored in the fifth. Krukow (11–5) beat Rick Rhoden (9–5) in his sixth complete game. The victory kept the Giants in a first-place tie with the Astros in the National League West. Krukow walked a batter and struck out five. He has won seven of his last nine decisions and is 8–2 with five complete games at Candlestick Park this season. The triples were Thompson’s first in the major leagues. Rhoden was given a 1-0 lead in the second on Tony Pena’s two-out homer, his seventh home run of the season. Leading by 2–1, the Giants added a third run in the fifth. Thompson singled with one out and took third on Jeffrey Leonard’s single. Leonard stole second and Davis was walked intentionally to load the bases. Chris Brown followed with a sacrifice fly.
The A’s beat the Blue Jays, 5–3. Dave Stewart gave up four hits over seven innings and Mike Davis was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in helping the A’s snap a four-game losing streak. Stewart (2–0), making his third start since joining the A’s on May 28, struck out seven and walked two. Steve Ontiveros worked the ninth for his eighth save. The game also included a relief appearance for Dave Stieb, his first since October 4, 1980. Jose Canseco hit Stieb’s first pitch for a two-run homer, his 22nd homer of the season. The loss snapped a personal five-game winning streak for Jimmy Key (8–6), who worked seven innings and allowed two runs on nine hits and two walks. With the score tied at 1–1 and one out in the sixth, Key loaded the bases on a walk to Dave Kingman and singles by Carney Lansford and Dusty Baker. With a 2–2 count, Key struck Davis in the arm with a pitch, scoring Kingman and giving the A’s a 2–1 lead.
California Angels 2, Boston Red Sox 3
Baltimore Orioles 3, Chicago White Sox 6
Texas Rangers 11, Cleveland Indians 6
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Houston Astros 4
Detroit Tigers 4, Kansas City Royals 7
Chicago Cubs 7, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Seattle Mariners 15, Milwaukee Brewers 9
New York Yankees 8, Minnesota Twins 0
Cincinnati Reds 2, Montreal Expos 0
Atlanta Braves 1, New York Mets 10
St. Louis Cardinals 4, San Diego Padres 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, San Francisco Giants 3
Oakland Athletics 5, Toronto Blue Jays 3
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Nick Vincent, MLB pitcher (San Diego Padres, Seattle Mariners, San Francisco Giants, Philadelphia Phillies, Miami Marlins, Minnesota Twins), in Poway, California.
Lavelle Hawkins, NFL wide receiver (Tennessee Titans, San Diego Chargers), in Stockton, California.
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