U.S. scientists installed the first Western monitoring station at a Soviet nuclear test site, placing about a dozen seismic devices in the rugged hill country of Kazakhstan, a member of the group said in Moscow. Thomas Cochran of the Washington-based National Resources Defense Council said his group received strong Soviet support for the project, which he hopes will show it is possible to set up stations for monitoring a nuclear test ban. He said seismologists and geologists from the University of California, San Diego, installed seismometers last week about 1,800 miles southeast of Moscow near the city of Semipalatinsk. The scientists say it will enable them to monitor a moratorium on underground testing that the Soviet Union began last August 6 and extended, despite the refusal of the United States to join, until this August. 6. The scientists, the first from the West allowed here, are affiliated with the Natural Resources Defense Council, which is seeking to show that a ban on underground nuclear tests can be policed.
The weeklong closing of crossing points into the Turkish Cypriot state was intended as “a slap in the face of the Greek Cypriot leadership,” said Rauf Denktaş, President of the internationally unrecognized republic. The leader of the Turkish Cypriots was triumphant, like a prizefighter after defending his title, when he talked with a reporter shortly after he lifted the blockade Saturday. The obstruction cut off two battalions of the United Nations peace-keeping force from the rest of the international contingents and prevented foreign diplomats from crossing into the zone that has been occupied by the Turkish Army since 1974.
In the heat of still another night of sporadic confrontation and violence, the police force of Northern Ireland quietly indicated Saturday at midnight just how beleagured it has become in the treacherous politics of a divided Ireland. Leaders of the force announced the suspension of two senior officers in the investigation into charges that the police might have victimized unarmed Roman Catholics in “shoot to kill” excesses directed at Irish Republican Army terrorists four years ago. The action was the first to be announced against ranking policemen in the long simmering controversy about the force, which is formally known as the Royal Ulster Constabulary. It was an instant flag to both sides in the sectarian struggle. In the absence of a full-fledged political life because of the province’s dependence on England, the behavior of the local police in life-and-death confrontations is often the main stuff of debate.
Israel’s Attorney General, Yosef Harish, urged the Cabinet today to establish a special commission of inquiry to investigate the Shin Bet domestic security scandal before the Israeli Supreme Court orders a formal police investigation. The Cabinet has scheduled a special session for Monday to decide the issue. The Israeli Supreme Court is considering several legal challenges to the blanket amnesties granted by President Chaim Herzog to Avraham Shalom, head of the domestic security service, Shin Bet, and three of his aides for their roles in the deaths of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers in April 1984 and a later cover-up. Justice Ministry sources said it appeared from the questions being raised by the Supreme Court that it intends to rule that the amnesties, which were granted to the security men before any police investigation, trials or convictions, were not legal without a proper investigation.
A measure of law and order returned to Beirut just over a week after Syrian soldiers were deployed in West Beirut. Beirut is the calmest it has been in the last two and a half years. Traffic jams, crowded beaches and brisk restaurant business are signs that a security plan sponsored by Damascus has so far succeeded.
Iraqi jet fighters crippled a tanker and an Iranian tugboat in the northeastern Persian Gulf in an effort to tighten a blockade on Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal, gulf-based marine salvage executives said today. An Iraqi military official speaking on the Baghdad radio announced in a series of broadcasts beginning Saturday night three raids on large maritime targets.
Iran has ordered Hugh Pope, a correspondent for the Reuters news agency, to leave the country, accusing him of disclosing military secrets in a report on an Iraqi air raid on a satellite ground station. The Islamic Guidance Ministry, which handles the foreign press, said Pope breached its rules by not obtaining authorization for a July 4 visit to Assadabad, 100 miles southwest of Tehran, even though it was not in a restricted zone. Pope reported that an air raid there knocked out a satellite station.
The Soviet-backed government of Afghanistan said that its forces killed 13 guerrilla leaders and scores of their followers in recent fighting in the western province of Herat. Afghan state radio, monitored in Islamabad, Pakistan, did not provide dates. The radio also said that government forces seized two cannons, three mortars and 142 rifles and other arms and destroyed four supply depots.
A sharp increase in the illegal crop of opium poppies in Pakistan this year will be a major topic of discussion during Prime Minister Mohammad Khan Junejo’s visit with President Reagan and other officials in Washington this week, according to Pakistani officials. Mr. Junejo is scheduled to arrive in Washington on Tuesday. The increase in poppy production has stirred concern that the recent lifting of martial law has contributed to a slackening in the Government’s enforcement drive against narcotics. Pakistani officials said Mr. Junejo, who took office last year after parliamentary elections in February, wanted to use the American visit to spread the word that he and his Cabinet had in fact taken control of the Government after martial law was lifted December 30.
India has agreed to buy sophisticated MIG-29 fighter aircraft from the Soviet Union and to produce the plane in India, the United News of India reported. India would be the first country outside the Soviet Union to acquire this latest Soviet fighter, which is not given even to Warsaw Pact allies. The agency said that more than two squadrons will be bought, or about 24 to 40 planes, and that substantial numbers also will be produced by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. India has said that it needs MIG-29s to counter any threat posed by U.S. F-16 fighters sold to Pakistan.
Exiled leaders of Sri Lanka’s Tamil minority held talks with President Junius R. Jayewardene in Colombo about ending civil strife that has killed more than 4,000 people in the last three years. Appapillai Amirthalingam, secretary general of the Tamil United Liberation Front, said the talks centered on Jayewardene’s proposal to delegate authority to elected councils to be set up in the island’s nine provinces. The Tamils have been seeking a separate state in northeastern Sri Lanka.
More than four times the number of so-called boat people arrived in Hong Kong in June than in the corresponding month last year, according to refugee officials in the British colony. The officials said last week that 337 Vietnamese reached Hong Kong in June this year, compared with 83 in June 1985. So far, 1,134 Vietnamese have arrived in Hong Kong in 1986, more than the total for all of 1985. Refugees reaching Hong Kong are confined to prison islands by British authorities as a means of dissuading other Vietnamese from following them.
Riot policemen chased supporters of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos around a downtown Manila park today and prevented them from holding a rally. Annie Ferrer, a model who was among seven protesters detained briefly by police, said the protesters had planned to take an oath of loyalty to Arturo Mr. Tolentino, who staged a 38-hour rebellion in Mr. Marcos’s name one week ago.
Gunmen abducted 10 Filipino nuns and an American missionary in separate incidents in the predominantly Muslim city of Marawi, church officials and army officials reported today. A message from the 24th Infantry Battalion in Marawi, on Mindanao, 500 miles south of Manila, said the missionary, Brian Lawrence, was taken from his quarters near Mindanao State University at about 10:30 PM Saturday.
Canada is ready to act alone in imposing economic sanctions on South Africa if other members of the Commonwealth fail to reach agreement, Prime Minister Brian Mulroney said today after talking with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher of Britain. After a 90-minute meeting, Mrs. Thatcher told reporters that she and Mr. Mulroney had conducted “preliminary discussions on matters affecting South Africa” and that her position on sanctions had not changed. Mrs. Thatcher, who is opposed to imposing broad economic sanctions on South Africa, repeated her view that a recent report on South Africa by the members of a Commonwealth mission did not specifically recommend that the Commonwealth impose economic sanctions.
As tensions rose in the streets tonight, the Chihuahua State Election Commission met to announce the results of voting a week ago in hotly disputed statewide elections. The commission appeared to be prolonging the announcement process, and the complete results had not been made public by late tonight. Mexico’s ruling party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was expected to be the official winner in the races for Governor, 14 state legislative posts and 67 municipal governments.
The American military presence in Honduras has been established by the Defense Department through a variety of methods without explicit approval from Congress, according to Congressional sources and the General Accounting Office. The methods include military exercises in which airstrips, roads, barracks and radar stations have been built. Helicopters and other equipment brought in during maneuvers, have been left behind in American hands.
The repression of human rights in Nicaragua is systematic and widespread, a human rights group asserted in a report made public yesterday. The group, the International League for Human Rights, examined the Nicaraguan Government’s treatment in recent years of religious organizations, the press, labor unions, political parties and other groups that have opposed the Sandinista leadership. “Repression of activists in Nicaragua is not as conspicuous or as bloody as in other parts of Central America,” said Nina H. Shea, program director of the New York-based group and author of the report. “But it is more insidious and systematic.”
The reputed leader of the world’s largest cocaine-smuggling ring was extradited by Spain to his native Colombia to face charges of falsifying cattle export documents, ending a custody battle lost by the United States. Jorge Luis Ochoa, 36, is wanted in the United States on charges of smuggling 3,300 pounds of cocaine from Colombia into the United States via Nicaragua in 1984. He is not expected to face drug charges in Colombia.
Senator Jesse Helms, ending a weeklong visit to Chile, has strongly criticized the United States Ambassador for attending the funeral of a young man who was fatally burned during anti-Government protests. “If President Reagan were here, I believe he would send this Ambassador home,” Senator Helms, Republican of North Carolina, said in an interview Saturday night with a state-run television network. Senator Helms accused the Ambassador, Harry G. Barnes Jr., of having “planted the American flag in the midst of a Communist activity” on Wednesday when he went to the funeral of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, a 19-year-old Chilean who lived in Washington with his mother, a political exile. Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, said in a telephone interview from Washington today that Mr. Barnes had attended the funeral with the State Department’s knowledge. He said he could not remember whether Mr. Barnes had been instructed to attend.
Thousands of people are starving in Uganda’s populous West Nile region, and relief workers have declared it a disaster area, a U.N. spokesman said. Those suffering are Ugandan refugees who have returned by the thousands from Sudan, where they had fled to escape the civil war that ravaged Uganda over the last year. Officials estimate that more than 70,000 Ugandans have moved back since mid-May, fleeing attacks on refugee camps in southern Sudan by gangs of armed men.
The South African Government announced new measures today to oppose classroom protest, saying students who do not enroll for the beginning of a new school term Monday will be barred from classes for the rest of the year. The measures, ordered by President P.W. Botha, were announced as the authorities girded for possible mass protest from black labor unions and rebellious students on Monday, when the country’s biggest black labor federation has called a national day of stoppages and sit-ins to protest the national state of emergency. Students have expressed anger at previously announced regulations supposed to stamp out classroom protest, including the issuing of identity documents to students in an effort to keep the school grounds free of what the authorities call outside agitators.
Faced with the prospect of a boycott by five or more African countries protesting the British Government’s stand on South Africa, the organizers of the Commonwealth Games in Edinburgh announced today that they were barring two South African-born athletes who were to have competed for Britain. The ban on Zola Budd, the world record holder in the 5,000 meters, and Annette Cowley, a swimmer who attends the University of Texas, came as Tanzania became the fifth state in the 49-nation grouping to announce that it would not be sending a team to the games, which are due to start July 24. Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya had earlier announced that they would be keeping their athletes home. The boycott of the games, which is now expected to be taken up by other states in Africa, and possibly the Caribbean, appeared to have been triggered by a series of interviews given by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher last week in which she vehemently expressed her opposition to what she called “punitive sanctions” against the Pretoria regime.
Congress returns from recess on Monday to Capitol Hill to confront politically difficult choices over budget priorities. The atmosphere is colored by the approach of the elections in the fall for all members of the House and a third of the Senate. The pressure on Congress to take responsibility for the budget has been increased since the Supreme Court struck down a law last week that would make automatic budget cuts if Congress failed to meet annual targets for deficit reduction. But the Court left in place a fallback mechanism that permits Congressional passage of the cuts through legislation that then must be signed by the President. As they begin what is supposed to be a five-week summer session, the lawmakers will also face a wide range of other issues, including the confirmation of two Supreme Court nominations, the continuing battle over aid to the Nicaraguan rebels and a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s tax code. A sampling of Congressmen as they toured their districts over the last two weeks shows that many lawmakers will bring back concern that the tax measure’s benefits focus on middle-class taxpayers. Many report, for instance, that constituents are demanding preservation of tax breaks granted to holders of Individual Retirement Accounts.
The President and First Lady return to the White House from their weekend trip to Camp David.
The President and First Lady attend a private dinner party hosted by Mr. and Mrs. Graeber.
Combined Federal, state and local spending on civil and criminal justice accounted for 3 percent of all government spending in the fiscal year 1983, the Department of Justice said today. A study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics shows that spending on justice programs in 1983, the latest year for which figures are available, totaled almost $39.7 billion, or $170 per capita, ranking its cost well below those for other major government services. “We spend almost twice as much on housing and the environment, more than four times as much on education and almost six times as much on national defense and international relations,” said Steven R. Schlesinger, director of the bureau. “Even interest payments on the public debt consume more than three times as much as we spend for all justice activities.”
Contract talks recessed indefinitely between Philadelphia officials and the union for its blue-collar workers, while the city moved toward hiring private trash haulers to work under police guard on the 13th day of the city workers strike. A major obstacle in the talks was the city’s demand for an audit of the workers’ health and welfare fund, Earl Stout, president of District Council 33 of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers, said after the negotiations were adjourned. “We are not going to allow that to happen,” Stout said.
Cocaine overdoses have killed 34 people in South Florida since January, twice as many as a year ago, and officials say the drug is cheaper, purer and more available than ever, the Miami Herald reported. By comparison, the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office, covering an area with more than twice the population of South Florida, reported 30 cocaine deaths through the end of May, the newspaper said. “We used to think heroin was the most addictive substance known to man,” said Dr. Dolores Morgan, director of addictionology services at Mount Sinai Medical Center of Miami Beach. “Now we know that cocaine puts heroin not in the minor leagues, but in the little leagues.”
The small central Oregon town of Antelope, taken over for four years by followers of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, celebrated its new freedom with speeches and tears. “It was like living in a police state,” one longtime resident said when about 250 people gathered to dedicate a new monument marking the town’s release from the political rule of the Rajneeshees. The monument depicts a bronzed life-size antelope in mid-stride and a plaque includes a quotation by the 18th Century Irish statesman Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
A gathering of Nazi sympathizers, white separatists, anti-Semites and Ku Klux Klan members convened the Aryan Nations World Congress IN Hayden Lake, Idaho this weekend. They called for a white, male-dominated homeland in the Northwest. It was the first gathering of right-wing racists from the United States and Canada since the conviction in the spring of 10 members of the Order, a group whose leader died in a 1984 fire that began in a gun battle with the police. Similar isolated flare-ups of violence, including the murder of a prominent family in Seattle last December, for which a man described at his trial as “an avowed racist” received a death sentence, have renewed national attention to the amorphous movement whose members believe that America should hew to a white supremacist position.
The leader of an expedition to the wreck of the Titanic rode a midget sub to a depth of more than two miles southeast of Newfoundland to see the hull of the luxury liner firsthand. Robert Ballard, leader of the Navy-financed exploration, and two crew members made a six-hour dive in preparation for an 11-day examination of the ship, which hit an iceberg and sank on April 14, 1912. A photography rig was lowered to the wreck by cable to take 3,000 photographs before the explorers descend again today. A team on the surface vessel Atlantis tested a lawnmower-sized robot that will be guided down the Titanic’s grand stairway and send back high-resolution television pictures of the vessel from top to bottom.
An Eastern Airlines plane struck a pocket of violent turbulence 20,000 feet above Palm Beach, Florida, injuring at least 18 people, two seriously, as they were tossed about the cabin, officials said. The pilot of the A-300 warned passengers that the flight was likely to encounter turbulence because of a thunderstorm and told them to fasten their seat belts, an airline spokesman said. But at least two Spanish-speaking passengers on Flight 977 from New York’s Kennedy Airport to Miami Airport said they did not understand the pilot’s warning in English.
A 31-year-old convenience store clerk who said he left the Bronx because he was tired of crime was shot by a holdup man Friday, one month after moving to Merritt Island, Florida. “I expected this stuff in New York, but not here,” the man, Gustav Kakuk, said Saturday, a day after he was shot in the head while working at the Six Pack Junction. He said he decided to move from the Bronx in January after he found a drug dealer, shot through the head, lying in front of his apartment. In Florida, Mr. Kakuk told the police that his assailant, a man in a tank top and shorts, drew a pistol and demanded that the safe be opened. Mr. Kakuk said he opened it and handed the man nearly $100. The robber shot Mr. Kakuk in the left side of the head, missing the brain, and left.
Representatives of postal workers in the Northeast have voted to censure their union’s national president for his support of the teamsters’ president Jackie Presser, who is under indictment, union officials said. At a regional meeting of the American Postal Workers Union Saturday, about 200 delegates representing 90,000 union members in the Northeast voted to censure the national president, Moe Biller, a spokesman, Ken Leiner said today. The national union has about 260,000 members. In May Mr. Biller, speaking at the International Brotherhood of Teamsters convention in Las Vegas urged unions to rally behind Mr. Presser, who is charged with labor racketeering and embezzlement of $700,000. Mr. Biller said the indictment was “an attack against all organized labor.”
Hundreds of firefighters battled 85 wildfires ranging over more than 300,000 acres of brush and forest in Alaska, most of them started by lightning. Fires have blackened 431,751 acres of forest and grassland in Alaska by Saturday, including 346,500 acres of Federally managed land, despite the efforts of 1,125 firefighters. No populated areas were threatened and one fire may even improve moose habitat, officials said. The fires included a growing 78,000-acre forest fire that burned two and a half miles from Denali National Park, said Susan Swartz of the Bureau of Land Management. Another fire burned 180 acres inside the park. A 42,000-acre fire was burning inside the Yukon Charley Rivers National Preserve northeast of Fairbanks, but Federal officials have decided not to fight that fire, in an undeveloped preserve at the Arctic Circle. Park officials say they believed some of the fires could improve the moose habitat by burning dense, old-growth woods. The first new growth after a fire is choice moose food.
Laws to make insurance affordable again for cities, schools, physicians and businesses whose policies have been canceled or whose premiums have soared have been enacted by more than 40 state legislatures before they adjourned for the summer. But many experts doubt that the new laws will achieve their goals.
The second earthquake in a week shook the Los Angeles area. The quake, which measured 5.3 on the Richter scale, broke glass but caused little other property damage. The initial shock, followed by several smaller ones, was felt along a 150-mile stretch of coastline, from San Diego in the south to Oxnard, 55 northwest of Los Angeles and as far inland as Yuma, Arizona. An earthquake struck the Palm Springs area on Tuesday, injuring 40 people and causing $5 million in damage.
Florida’s aging retirees from other states are outliving the cost-effectiveness that led Florida to welcome them 25 years or more ago. Many of the very old are now struggling economically, and their need for long-term medical care and other aid is creating a state crisis.
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Dick Schofield drove in three runs, Brian Downing hit a two-run homer and John Candelaria and Doug Corbett held Boston to six hits as the California Angels defeated the Red Sox by 12–3 today. The Angels split the four-game weekend series. They reached the All-Star break with a 48–39 record, a game and a half ahead of Texas in the American League West. Boston retained its seven-game lead over the New York Yankees in the East with a 56–31 record. The Angels had a season high of 17 hits in the game, which was delayed for nearly three hours at the start by heavy rain. The game was played on a soggy field. Schofield doubled in two runs in the sixth and hit a disputed homer in the fourth. He drove a ball to left, and Umpire Terry Cooney ruled that it bounced off the light tower and back onto the field for a home run. The Red Sox argued that the ball hit high off the 37-foot wall and should have been a double. Candelaria (2–0) gave up two hits and three walks in five and one-third innings. He struck out seven in his second start since undergoing surgery on his left elbow on April 16. Corbett did not walk a batter as he earned his eighth save. The Red Sox fell behind, 10–0, and did not score until the eighth inning.
The Chicago White Sox shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 7–0. Joel Skinner hit a three-run home run and Neil Allen pitched a five-hitter. Allen (6–1), who began the season in the bullpen, pitched his first complete game since 1983, when he was with the Cardinals. He struck out four, walked one and allowed only one Oriole to reach third base. Greg Walker tripled twice for the White Sox and scored each time. Julio Cruz singled in two runs.
The Texas Rangers topped the Cleveland Indians, 5–3. Larry Parrish singled home the tie-breaking run as Texas scored twice in the top of the 10th. Pete O’Brien led off the 10th by blooping a single off Scott Bailes (7–5), who was pitching in relief. O’Brien took second on Pete Incaviglia’s groundout against Ernie Camacho, who then walked Gary Ward intentionally before Parrish singled. Steve Buechele hit into a force-out, sending Ward in from third for the fifth run. The Indians fell behind, 3–2, in the seventh inning on consecutive homers off Phil Niekro.
The Philadelphia Phillies edged the Houston Astros, 5–4. Mike Schmidt hit his second home run of the game with one out in the top of the 11th inning, giving Philadelphia the victory. Schmidt, who hit a three-run homer off the Houston starter, Bob Knepper, in the sixth inning, drove a pitch from the Dave Smith (1–6) over the left-field wall for his sixth game-winning run batted in of the season. It was the 477th home run of Schmidt’s career and his 19th of the season. Steve Bedrosian (6–3) was the winner, pitching three innings of one-hit relief. Schmidt’s three-run homer in the sixth put the Phillies ahead by 4–1 against Knepper, who failed for the eighth time to achieve his 11th victory of the season. Schmidt’s homer followed singles by Bruce Ruffin and Rick Schu.
The Detroit Tigers blanked the Kansas City Royals, 5–0. Kirk Gibson and Lou Whitaker hit home runs in support of Jack Morris’s four-hit pitching. Morris (9–6) had 12 strikeouts and three walks in his second shutout and fourth complete game in a row. He has thrown 22 consecutive scoreless innings. Morris struck out every man in the Royals’ batting order at least once. Gibson hit a three-run homer in the third for Detroit’s first runs.
The Los Angeles Dodgers turned back the Chicago Cubs, 4–3. Alex Trevino’s two-run double off the glove of the Chicago left fielder, Jerry Mumphrey, with two out in the bottom of the ninth lifted Los Angeles. Steve Sax started the winning rally with a leadoff single off the Chicago relief ace, Lee Smith (6–7), and stole second. Ken Landreaux, who had three hits, walked but Mike Marshall grounded into a double play as Sax took third. Len Matuszek walked before Trevino hit a drive toward the left-field corner. Mumphrey, who was moved from center field to left in the ninth, chased the drive to the wall but the ball glanced off his glove as Sax and Matuszek scored.
Behind Juan Nieves, the Brewers snap a 7-game losing streak with a 5–0 win over the Mariners. Nieves strikes out 12 en route to his 3rd shutout, tops in the American League. Rob Deer hits his 16th homer of the year for Milwaukee.
Bert Blyleven, who had been ineffective much of this season, pitched a three-hit shutout in the Twins’ 5–0 victory over the New York Yankees. It was Minnesota’s first shutout of the season and only the second by any team against the Yankees. Blyleven, whose curveball is reputed to be the best in baseball, walked only one and struck out eight, retiring 13 in a row leading to the ninth and permitting only one runner to reach second base until the ninth inning.
Kurt Stillwell singled home a sixth-inning run to give Cincinnati the lead over Montreal in a game that was suspended by rain with one out in the top of the sixth with the Reds ahead by 3–2. The game will be resumed at the point of interruption in Cincinnati on July 24 before the next regularly scheduled meeting of the two teams. The Expos will be the home team for the completion of the suspended contest. Today was Cincinnati’s last scheduled visit to Montreal this season. The Reds ultimately will win this game, 10–2.
The Mets wiped out the Atlanta Braves for the fourth straight time yesterday and made a rousing exit for the All-Star break with a 2–0 victory, a .702 record of success and a 13-game lead. Chuck Tanner, the manager of the Braves, who scored two runs in four games in Shea Stadium, put it bluntly: “They’ve got the halo over their heads this year. If they play just .500 ball in the second half, they’ll waltz home. And their biggest problem will be winning the playoff.”
The Padres walloped the Cardinals, 13–6. Marvell Wynne had three hits, including two doubles, and three RBIs and Steve Garvey had two hits during a seven-run fourth inning for San Diego. LaMarr Hoyt (5–4) went the first six innings, allowing three earned runs for his third consecutive victory. Bob Stoddard pitched the final three innings for his first save, allowing a run in the ninth. The St. Louis starter, Tim Conroy (3–4), allowed seven runs and five hits in three and two-thirds innings. In the fourth inning Garvey led off with a single and one out later Conroy hit Terry Kennedy with a pitch and walked Jerry Royster to load the bases. A run scored on a wild pitch before the Cardinal second baseman, Tommy Herr, fielded Wynne’s grounder and threw wildly to the plate as two more runners scored and Wynne raced to third. Hoyt doubled Wynne home and, after Bip Roberts struck out, Conroy walked Tony Gwynn and was relieved by Ray Burris. Kevin McReynolds greeted Burris with a run-scoring double and Garvey capped the inning with a two-run single.
Harry Spilman, a reserve first baseman, drove in four runs with a double and a three-run homer and Mike LaCoss allowed five hits in seven innings today, leading the San Francisco Giants to an 11–4 victory over the Pittsburgh Pirates. San Francisco’s triumph, coupled with Houston’s 5–4 loss to Philadelphia, put the Giants one game ahead of the Astros in the National League West and gave them undisputed possession of first place at the All-Star break for the first time since 1978, a year in which they eventually finished third. The Giants jumped on Rick Reuschel (4–11) for three runs in the first inning. Randy Kutcher led off with a home run, his sixth in just 24 major league games. Robby Thompson singled and went to third on a single by Jeffrey Leonard, who stole second. Chris Brown’s grounder scored Thompson, and Spilman grounded a run-scoring double down the first-base line. The Giants made it 7–0 with four runs in the third inning. Chili Davis and Brown hit one-out singles and Spilman followed with a home run off the foul poll in right field. It was Spilman’s first National League home run of the season after hitting three with Detroit.
The Oakland Athletics whipped the Toronto Blue Jays, 10–5. Mike Davis’s triple sparked a five-run seventh inning as Oakland built a rally on a two-out, two-run error. The A’s, trailing by 4–3, batted around in the seventh. They scored the last two runs in the inning when the Toronto first baseman, Willie Upshaw, dropped a throw from third base. Mickey Tettleton singled in a run in the eighth, then Jose Canseco added his league-leading 23d homer in the ninth. Dwayne Murphy, a pinch-hitter, started the seventh with a single off Mark Eichhorn, a relief pitcher. Davis hit his triple, which tied the game, off Bill Caudill (2–1). Donnie Hill singled Davis home. Tom Henke relieved and walked Tettleton and Tony Phillips to load the bases. An out later, Canseco forced Phillips at second as Hill scored. Canseco stole second and scored behind Tettleton when Upshaw dropped a throw from Rance Mulliniks on Dave Kingman’s grounder.
California Angels 12, Boston Red Sox 3
Baltimore Orioles 0, Chicago White Sox 7
Texas Rangers 5, Cleveland Indians 3
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Houston Astros 4
Detroit Tigers 5, Kansas City Royals 0
Chicago Cubs 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Seattle Mariners 0, Milwaukee Brewers 5
New York Yankees 0, Minnesota Twins 5
Cincinnati Reds 10, Montreal Expos 2
Atlanta Braves 0, New York Mets 2
St. Louis Cardinals 6, San Diego Padres 13
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, San Francisco Giants 11
Oakland Athletics 10, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Born:
Pernilla Lindberg, Swedish golfer (Olympics, 2016; LPGA tour), in Bollnäs, Sweden.
Died:
Joseph “Coke” Escovedo, 45, Mexican-American percussionist (Santana; Malo; Azteca), from cirrhosis.
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