The Senate voted a pact with Britain that would make it easier to extradite accused terrorists from the United States and try them at home. The Senate approved today a landmark treaty with Britain that may make it easier to extradite suspects accused of terrorist crimes from the United States. The heart of the new treaty, which does not require House action, limits the right of suspects to avoid extradition by asserting their political motivations for the crimes of which they may be accused. The previous treaty, like most extradition pacts with other countries, gave judges considerable latitude. Under the treaty approved today, Federal judges can block extradition of suspects only by determining that the accused would “be prejudiced at his trial or punished, detained or restricted in his personal liberty by reason of his race, religion, nationality or political opinions.”
The Polish Parliament removed Finance Minister Stanislaw Nieckarz, replacing him with a close adviser to the premier. The new finance minister, Bazyli Samojlik, 43, had headed a team of Premier Zbigniew Messner’s economic advisers. Western diplomats said the change gives Messner, an economics professor, a chance to exert more influence on the handling of Poland’s huge hard-currency debt. Poland’s foreign debt surpassed $30 billion this year, and Nieckarz was unable to stop its growth during his four years in office.
The Polish Government approved a limited amnesty today for some political prisoners and criminals, but top leaders of the outlawed Solidarity union will not be eligible. Lech Walesa, the Solidarity leader, denounced the measure. “The mountains have brought forth a mouse,” he said. “We expected from the authorities a national reconciliation.” The amnesty measure, which takes effect on July 23, is the third since martial law was imposed in 1981. It raised hopes here that economic ties with the West might improve. The United States said last week that it was prepared to improve relations with Poland if there was a national reconciliation in the country, including the release of political prisoners. The United States has lifted most of the economic sanctions it had imposed when martial law was proclaimed in 1981. But several key sanctions remain, including the refusal to grant Poland “most favored nation” trading status or trade credits.
Former Turkish Prime Minister Bulent Ecevit went on trial in Ankara today on charges of involvement in political activity. All political party leaders, including Mr. Ecevit, were banned from party politics until 1992 for their part in what has been described as the tumultuous period that led to the military coup in September 1980. Mr. Ecevit said in his defense that since laws obliged him to vote in elections, he should be free to express his opinion. His wife, Rahsan, sat among several hundred spectators who applauded him when he finished.
The First Vice President of Syria asserted today that the American and French hostages in Lebanon were being held by “militias” in the Beirut area, not in the Bekaa region or in other Syrian-controlled areas, as some Western officials believe. The official, Abdel Halim Khaddam, declined to identify the militias or say which nation, if any, was controlling them. But the militias are widely believed by French and Mideastern officials to be composed of extremist Shiite Moslems with close ties to Iran. Although Mr. Khaddam did not mention Iran, French and Middle East officials said he seemed to be implying that Syria was not responsible for the fate of the hostages, and that France must approach Tehran to obtain their release.
Pakistan and the United States signed an agreement allowing Pakistan to buy advanced computer and communications technology. U.S. officials said it contains tough guarantees banning use of the technology in any nuclear program. U.S. officials, who gave no details, said it was similar to one signed with India last year. The U.S.-Pakistan accord was signed during a Washington visit by Pakistani Prime Minister Mohammed Khan Junejo, who said in a television appearance that Pakistan’s nuclear program is for peace, not for nuclear weapons.
John F. Burns, chief of the Peking bureau of The New York Times, was taken into custody yesterday by Chinese security officials as he and his family were about to leave China for a three-week vacation in Hong Kong. He was taken to a detention center in the capital. Officials from the Peking Public Security Bureau told diplomats that Mr. Burns had been detained in connection with a recent trip that he made through the Chinese countryside. Mr. Burns, 41 years old, was not formally charged, but Peking officials told an official from the United States Embassy that he was being investigated on suspicion of “entering an area forbidden to foreigners, gathering intelligence information and espionage.”
Japan has decided in principle to join the Reagan Administration’s space-based defense research, a senior Government official said today. The official said there was general agreement among Japanese leaders to permit private companies and research institutes to take part in the missile-defense program, which is officially called the Strategic Defense Initiative and is popularly known as “Star Wars.” But the Japanese official added that divisions remained over whether Government agencies should also become involved, and that has delayed a final decision on Japan’s role.
The Director of Central Intelligence, William J. Casey, originally proposed to Ferdinand E. Marcos that he call the early presidential election that ultimately led to Mr. Marco’s exile, according to an article by Senator Paul Laxalt. Mr. Laxalt, a close personal friend of President Reagan who was a Presidential envoy to the Philippine President in October 1985, wrote that they “briefly discussed” such an election that month, adding that “this possibility had been previously broached to him by C.I.A. Director William Casey.” The decision to hold an early presidential election instead of waiting for promised balloting in 1987 proved to be politically disastrous for Mr. Marcos. His opposition, which had previously been splintered, united under the candidacy of Corazon C. Aquino. International election observers concluded that she probably won the election but that massive vote fraud had occurred.
Two men waiting in ambush machine-gunned to death the publisher and star reporter of a Mexican newspaper that has taken a strong stand against corruption and drug smuggling in the border city of Matamoros, police said. Ernesto Flores Torrijos, 46, publisher of El Popular, and reporter Norma Moreno Figueroa, 24, were shot as they stepped from their car in front of their office in Matamoros, across the Rio Grande from Brownsville, Texas. Witnesses said dozens of shots were fired. Police said they have no suspects. It was the second time in a month that crusading Mexican journalists have been murdered in the border state of Tamaulipas.
Six United States airplanes with civilian pilots under contract to the State Department will participate this fall in a 45-day Mexican effort to eradicate opium fields, Administration and Congressional officials said today. Use of United States citizens to pilot aircraft involved in drug eradication efforts in Mexico is unusual. The plan is part of a renewed effort to combat the growing use of Mexico as a place for cultivation and collection of illegal drugs destined for the United States, Reagan Administration officials told the House Task Force on International Narcotic Control. The six Thrush planes, considered the best aircraft for crop-dusting, will double the capacity of Mexican forces to spray opium crops with herbicides. The Thrush is about 30 feet overall, with a wingspan of 44 feet.
Reagan Administration officials testified that the Mexican drug eradication program — once a model for other nations — has deteriorated since 1981 because of corruption and economic recession in Mexico and increased U.S. demand for drugs. At a hearing of the House Task Force on International Economics Control, officials from the State Department, Drug Enforcement Administration and Customs Service said that Mexico, the No. 1 source for heroin in the United States, also is supplying more marijuana than ever before and is increasingly a conduit for cocaine. An additional $2 million has been requested to re-establish the drug eradication program.
U.S.-Bolivian differences over drugs came to light. Bolivian officials say they plan to try to halt the processing and transportation of cocaine rather than eradicate the nation’s huge cocoa crop. American officials say the only truly effective strategy is to destroy the crop. The Bolivian Interior Minister announced today that drug raids about to begin here with assistance from the United States military would continue until the drug trade was wiped out in Bolivia. The official, Fernando Barthelemy, said American troops would provide support for the raids for as long as necessary. About 100 American troops in combat gear and carrying weapons, including M-16 rifles, arrived today in Trinidad, Bolivia, airlifted from American bases in Panama. Trinidad, in the Beni region of north central Bolivia, is the heart of the nation’s cocaine-producing region.
An American envoy who arrived in Santiago earlier this week pressed Chilean Government officials for assurances that there would be a democratic transition in 1989, according to sources familiar with the discussions, which ended today. However, the Cabinet ministers and military leaders who received the envoy, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Robert S. Gelbard, showed confusion sometimes outright disagreement over the intentions of Chile’s military leader, General Augusto Pinochet. Mr. Gelbard, who is the deputy to Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams, spent four tightly scheduled days seeing a number of Cabinet ministers, high-ranking military officers, political opposition leaders and Juan Cardinal Francisco Fresno. Although American officials had expressed hope that General Pinochet would receive Mr. Gelbard and Ambassador Harry G. Barnes Jr., a Government official said such a meeting was rejected because Mr. Gelbard was not of sufficient rank. But the official said the President had passed the word that he had no opposition to other Government or military officials talking to Mr. Gelbard.
President Reagan has tentatively decided to make a major speech on South Africa policy in which he will announce the appointment of a black North Carolina businessman as the American Ambassador to Pretoria, White House officials said today. The officials said that the President would meet with the businessman, Robert J. Brown, Tuesday morning and then deliver the remarks. The speech will not be televised nationally and will be delivered to an outside group, the officials said. The tentative decision indicated that the Administration was determined to nominate Mr. Brown in the face of growing criticism of his private business dealings. Meanwhile, organized labor leaders expressed opposition to the nomination of the businessman, Robert J. Brown, asserting that his company had engaged in “union-busting” activities in his home state of North Carolina.
A Lutheran minister, ordered expelled by the South African Government, left Johannesburg yesterday after being detained at the airport by the police, who apparently wanted to insure that he got on his plane to New York, sources in South Africa said. The minister, the Rev. Brian Burchfield, had been served with a deportation order on Saturday. No reason was given for his expulsion.
A preliminary analysis of tape recordings from the space shuttle Challenger indicated that in the final seconds before the explosion the crew was unaware of the impending disaster, the space agency said yesterday. The recording of engineering data and voices of crew members speaking on the cabin intercom stopped at the same time as the last communications were received at Mission Control in Houston, which occurred 73.631 seconds after the shuttle lifted off Jan. 28, according to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It was thus impossible to determine from the recordings if the seven crew members died instantly or lived through all or part of the cabin’s plunge into the Atlantic Ocean. Transcripts of communications between the crew and ground control also did not indicate any awareness of the explosion to come.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the House-Senate Conference on tax reform in the Oval Office study.
President Reagan addresses a group of business leaders on he current trade legislation.
Congress today overwhelmingly ratified $11.7 billion in spending cuts made earlier under the budget-balancing law. The House approved the cuts by 339 to 72, a larger margin than the Democratic leadership had expected. The Senate then approved them on a voice vote with no dissent and sent them to President Reagan. Administration officials have said Mr. Reagan will sign the bill. The $11.7 billion was cut in March from hundreds of Federal programs for 1986 under the law’s automatic spending-cut mechanism. But the Supreme Court struck down this mechanism last week and ruled the cuts invalid. It stayed its order for 60 days to permit Congress to affirm the cuts and keep them in effect. In striking down the automatic mechanism, the Court said it violated the Constitution’s separation of powers by giving to an officer of Congress, the Controller General, executive powers to estimate, allocate and order the cuts needed to meet deficit targets. Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, a Republican, who is chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, was not overly optimistic about the future of the fallback provision. He said before the votes in the House and the Senate: “It will be, at least, a minor test, and I stress minor test, as to whether the fallback will work.” After voting to keep the spending cuts intact, the House began to debate an appropriations bill for the Commerce, State and Justice Departments that is $1 billion over the target approved in the 1987 Congressional budget resolution.
A bill aimed at stopping aliens from entering the country through fraudulent marriages to U.S. citizens was approved unanimously by the Senate immigration subcommittee and sent to the parent Judiciary Committee. Senator Paul Simon (D-Illinois), the bill’s sponsor, cited estimates indicating that 50,000 aliens gain entry each year through fake marriages. His bill calls for deportation of aliens involved in such marriages and provides penalties of five years in prison and fines of $250,000.
Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger, praising the partnership between government and the defense industry, called for renewed support of “Star Wars,” known as the Strategic Defense Initiative, and attention to technology export controls. Weinberger, addressing the St. Louis World Affairs Council in Washington, also warned that the Pentagon remained “determined to purge defense work of any practices that are improper or illegal and to suspend or blacklist contractors who fail to fulfill the public trust.” The Pentagon the day before suspended Litton Industries from receiving new contracts because of a 321-count fraud indictment.
Philadelphia carters, defying a court order, refused to begin picking up the huge mounds of refuse throughout the city. Judge Edward J. Blake ordered the striking union to show cause today why its members should not be dismissed. Mayor W. Wilson Goode vowed they would be if they continued the 17-day walkout.
Detroit officials took a union to court to force essential municipal employees back to work. A state mediator called the two sides to his office for the first negotiations since the strike began Wednesday.
Lee A. Iacocca called on a group of Democratic activists to halt their efforts to draft him for President in 1988. The Chrysler Corp. chairman had sent letters to the Federal Election Commission disavowing the actions of the Draft Lee Iacocca for President Committee. The group was formed 24 hours earlier to try to develop grass-roots support by means of direct mail, phone banks and advertising.
LTV filed for court protection from more than 20,000 creditors under Federal bankruptcy laws. The action by the parent company of the nation’s second-largest steel manufacturer was the largest bankruptcy filing in American history. A company spokesman said that LTV, which also has wide operations in the energy and aerospace fields, had immediately halted payments on its $4.2 billion in debts. After filing for protection under Chapter 11 of the bankruptcy laws in the Federal Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan, the company obtained permission from Judge Burton R. Lifland to borrow up to $300 million from unidentified lenders to meet last week’s payroll. A Chapter 11 filing permits a company to remain in business while working out a plan to repay its creditors.
A tale of matricide, drugs and greed began to unfold in Fort Myers, Florida, as the prosecution’s opening argument in the murder trial of Steven Benson described him as capable of placing a cab bomb that killed his wealthy mother and nephew and scarred his elder sister. The bespectacled 34-year-old defendant listened silently as his defense team told the jury that he was a “loving son” caught in an unescapable emotional and financial trap.
The presiding judge said today that he would allow the jury the option of life sentences for three men found guilty of organized criminal activity in a case of torture on a Texas ranch. Testimony in the sentencing phase of the trial began today before Judge Tom Blackwell, despite last-minute efforts by defense attorneys, who said they believed the complicated wording in the jury’s verdict meant the conviction had been reduced from a first-degree felony to a second-degree felony, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and a $10,000 fine. The jury found a Kerr County rancher, Walter Wesley Ellebracht Sr., 55; his son, Walter Wesley Ellebracht Jr., 33, and a former ranch hand, Carlton Robert Caldwell, 21, of Alamogordo, N.M., guilty of engaging in organized criminal activity by conspiring to commit aggravated kidnapping or murder.
Tacoma, Washington-based Weyerhaeuser Co. and representatives of about 6,500 striking members of the International Woodworkers of America reached tentative agreement on a new contract as the walkout that began June 16 entered its second month, federal mediators announced in Portland, Oregon. Talks on local issues will be held today and union members are expected to vote on a new contract next week. Federal mediator Norman Lee declined to comment on the progress of negotiations with the Lumber, Production and Industrial Workers, which represents another 1,000 strikers. Details of the latest contract offer were not made public.
The Addison County State’s Attorney, John Quinn, who is prosecuting John Zaccaro Jr. on drug charges, contended today that it was not unconstitutional to prosecute famous people to attract publicity. He said in a court brief that his office was not prosecuting Mr. Zaccaro on drug charges because his mother is Geraldine A. Ferraro, the former Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate. In an argument filed in Vermont District Court, Mr. Quinn cited several court cases in which prosecution of famous people was permitted. In one case, he said, a person was selected for prosecution “on the basis of his political prominence, as the media attention that the case would receive would maximize the deterrent effect.” Mr. Zaccaro, a Middlebury College senior, is charged with possession of cocaine and sale of a regulated drug. His attorney, Charles Tetzlaff, has asked Judge Francis McCaffrey to dismiss the charges because Mr. Zaccaro was being selectively prosecuted.
Governor Bill Sheffield of Alaska has ordered reductions of $550 million in the state’s $2.5 billion budget in the face of worldwide oil price cuts. About 80 percent of state spending is based on revenue from royalties and taxes paid by North Slope oil producers. State revenue officials say the state loses about $150 million for every dollar drop in the price per barrel. Governor Sheffield, speaking on statewide television Wednesday night, said he would take steps immediately to meet $550 million of an $857.2 million revenue shortage forecast by state oil price analysts earlier this week. If things get worse after an oil price forecast in late September, he said, “I’ll crack down the spigot even more.” The Governor, a first-term Democrat, is seeking re-election. For now, Mr. Sheffield will freeze $300 million in new public works projects approved by the Legislature this spring; ask 16,000 state workers to accept a 10 percent pay cut to slice another $80 million from the budget; order $95 million in unspecified reductions in state agency budgets, and reduce state aid to local school districts and municipal governments by $75 million, or about 10 percent.
One-third of the students entering Texas public colleges and universities cannot pass a test on material they should have mastered in the 10th grade, a special study committee reported. The 15-member committee asked the Texas College Coordinating Board in Austin to recommend that public college freshmen be required to take a basic skills test on mathematics, reading and writing.
A $100-million lawsuit has been filed by the state of West Virginia against 75 asbestos producers, charging that they knowingly failed to warn officials of the hazards of asbestos and asbestos products in state buildings. The suit against manufacturers in 17 states and firms in Canada, South Africa and England was filed on behalf of Governor Arch A. Moore Jr. and at least 15 state agencies. The suit, filed in Monongalia Circuit Court, seeks compensatory damages and unspecified damages for future claims by workers exposed to the material.
The Roman Catholic Church, in what is believed to be a first, named a lay woman to share the ministry of an established parish. Elaine Blondin Kriedel, a Yale Divinity School graduate, and Father Daniel F. McSheffery will work together at the 1,100-family St. Augustine’s parish in North Branford, Connecticut, starting August 1, McSheffery said. The appointment grew out of a program established in 1981 by the Most Rev. John F. Whealon, archbishop of Hartford.
Although there is concern that transfused blood may have infected some people with AIDS and public anxiety about transfusions has mounted, the health authorities contend that today’s blood supply is perhaps safer than it has ever been, in part because of dramatic changes in the nation’s blood banks. Blood transfusions have never been entirely safe, but today blood banks are screening donors more strictly, using more advanced tests, labeling and matching blood more efficiently and processing blood in ways that eliminate elements that may carry dangers. They are also discarding blood if there is even the slightest fear that it is contaminated. Although the introduction of AIDS virus into the nation’s blood supply is a setback, all but a tiny percentage of tainted units have been eliminated and over the years other tests have made it possible to remove blood contaminated with other microbes. The result, health officials from New York and New Jersey said in a statement Wednesday, is a blood supply “as safe, or safer, than it has ever been.”
A powerful nuclear weapon was detonated deep beneath the Nevada desert today, the 14th announced nuclear test since the Soviet Union began a unilateral test ban last August. The blast, which had an explosive yield of up to 150,000 tons of TNT, shook the ground at the Nevada Test Site for several minutes after being set off in a shaft 2,100 feet deep at Pahute Mesa, 102 miles northwest of Las Vegas. The National Earthquake Information Center in Golden, Colorado, said the blast registered 5.6 on the Richter scale.
Emmy 13th Daytime Award presentation: Susan Lucci loses for 7th time.
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The Baltimore Orioles downed the Minnesota Twins, 6–2. Lee Lacy hit a home run and drove in three runs, and John Shelby and Cal Ripken also hit homers for Baltimore. Lacy led off the fourth inning with his seventh homer and delivered a two-run single in the eighth, knocking out Frank Viola (9–8). Shelby, in a 5-for-47 slump, broke a 1–1 tie in the sixth by leading off with his sixth home run. Ripken hit his 14th homer to open the seventh. Baltimore placed the first baseman, Eddie Murray, and the reliever, Tippy Martinez, on the 21-day disabled list. The two moves increased to 12 the number of players placed on the list this season by the Orioles, a club record, and the top mark in the league this year.
Rance Mulliniks’ three-run homer capped a five-run fifth inning to lead the Toronto Blue Jays over the California Angels, 8–5. Left-hander Jimmy Key, 9–6, won his sixth game in seven decisions. He gave up two runs on eight hits in six innings and issued a season-high six walks. John Cerutti got the final two outs, one of them an RBI grounder by Rob Wilfong, for his first major-league save.
The San Francisco Giants beat the Chicago Cubs, 6–4. Vida Blue and Randy Kutcher each hit home runs and Jose Uribe drove in two runs for San Francisco. Blue (7–4) allowed two hits, walked two and struck out one before Frank Williams, who yielded three hits in two innings, relieved him the sixth. Jeff Robinson pitched the eighth inning before Scott Garrelts relieved. Uribe gave San Francisco the lead with a run-scoring single in the fourth. The Giants loaded the bases on a single by Chili Davis and walks to Chris Brown and Bob Brenly. Uribe followed with a base hit to right for his first game-winning hit of the season.
The Philadelphia Phillies bowed to the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6, in 11 innings. Pete Rose’s two-out triple off the glove of the right fielder, Glenn Wilson, scored Wade Rowdon in the bottom of the 11th inning. The Reds scored three unearned runs off the reliever, Steve Bedrosian, in the bottom of the ninth to send the game into extra innings. The triple was Rose’s second of the season. Max Venable drew a one-out walk from Tom Gorman (0–1) but was forced out by Rowdon. Rose, batting right-handed, lashed a line drive into the right center-field gap that glanced off Wilson’s glove as Wilson fell trying to make the catch.
The Detroit Tigers edged the Texas Rangers, 2–1. Larry Herndon doubled home the tying run and scored when Kirk Gibson drew a bases-loaded walk with two outs in the ninth inning, for Detroit. The Texas starter, Ed Correa, and Mitch Williams (7–2) had combined on a six-hitter through eight innings. But Darnell Coles led off the ninth with a single and scored one out later on Herndon’s pinch-double.
For six innings, the game hung tenuously on an unearned run. Nolan Ryan, 39 years old and near the end of a glorious career, had risen to become The Express again. He was firing fastballs past the Mets tonight, and he was beating them. Then, the night turned. Ryan became sluggish, and the Mets erupted quickly. They scored all of their runs in the final two and two-thirds innings and beat the Houston Astros, 13–2, for their 60th victory of the season and their sixth straight on the road.
The Kansas City Royals defeated the Cleveland Indians, 5–1. Frank White hit a bases-empty homer in support of Bret Saberhagen. Saberhagen, the struggling 1985 Cy Young winner, gave up five hits in eight innings as he raised his record to 5–10. Saberhagen, who struck out six and walked none, retired 11 straight batters until Joe Carter hit his 16th home run with two out in the seventh. The Royals won without Manager Dick Howser, who was home with a sore neck. The third-base coach, Mike Ferraro, filled in for Howser.
Floyd Youmans pitched a four-hitter and struck out nine over seven innings tonight as the Montreal Expos handed the Atlanta Braves their fifth straight defeat, 4–2. Youmans (10–5) walked four en route to his sixth straight victory. Jeff Reardon finished the game, recording his 21st save. The loser, Rick Mahler (10–9), lasted two and one-third innings, giving up seven hits and four earned runs. Montreal took the lead in the second inning when Hubie Brooks led off with a single, moved to second on a groundout by Tim Wallach and then to third on a single by Wayne Krenchicki. He scored on a groundout by Vance Law. The Expos added three runs in the third with five consecutive singles off Mahler. Tim Raines and Mitch Webster opened with singles before Andre Dawson, Brooks and Wallach each drove in runs with singles.
Dave Winfield did not get a hit last night and Dave Righetti did not pitch particularly well. But the two Yankees who have been the most frequent targets of George Steinbrenner’s criticism this season impressively showed how they help the team with other elements of their play. First Righetti and then Winfield threw out a runner at home plate in the ninth inning at Yankee Stadium, preserving a 5–4 decision over the Chicago White Sox and Dennis Rasmussen’s 11th victory of the season. Don Mattingly’s two-run home run in the fifth inning turned out to be the decisive hit.
The San Diego Padres edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 2–1. Lance McCullers allowed four hits over seven innings for his first major-league victory as a starter. Garry Templeton had three hits and his one-out double drove in San Diego’s first run in a two-run fourth inning against the losing pitcher, Rick Rhoden (9–6). McCullers (5–3) walked one and struck out four in his third major-league start. The right-hander became a starter July 4 after 58 career relief appearances and was a 6–4 loser to the Pirates in his previous start. Craig Lefferts pitched the final two innings for his third save.
At the Kingdome, Jim Presley hits a walk-off Grand slam in the 11th, against Bob Stanley, as the Mariners whip the Red Sox, 5–1. Reliever Bob Stanley, 5–3, retired the first two Seattle batters in the 11th before Harold Reynolds reached on an error by first baseman Bill Buckner. After Reynolds stole second, John Moses was given an intentional walk and Phil Bradley then drew a walk that loaded the bases.
The St. Louis Cardinals crushed the Los Angeles Dodgers, 12–2. Tommy Herr had three hits and John Tudor, supported by 17 hits, got the victory after having had six straight losses. Tudor (7–5) allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked one in eight innings.
Minnesota Twins 2, Baltimore Orioles 6
Toronto Blue Jays 8, California Angels 5
San Francisco Giants 6, Chicago Cubs 4
Philadelphia Phillies 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Texas Rangers 1, Detroit Tigers 2
New York Mets 13, Houston Astros 2
Cleveland Indians 1, Kansas City Royals 5
Atlanta Braves 2, Montreal Expos 4
Chicago White Sox 4, New York Yankees 5
San Diego Padres 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 1
Boston Red Sox 1, Seattle Mariners 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, St. Louis Cardinals 12
For the second consecutive day, stock prices rose moderately as investors, still shaken after a sharp correction in the last two weeks, cautiously re-entered the market looking for bargains. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 7.60 yesterday, to 1,781.78, after climbing about 5 points on Wednesday. But the gain was deceptive because American Can, one of the 30 components in the Dow, rose 9 ½, to 85, after announcing the proposed sale of its packaging business to Triangle Industries for $570 million.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1781.78 (+7.6)
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Dana, Korean [Hong Sung-mi] South Korean singer and actress (TSZX), in Seoul, South Korea.
DeAngelo Smith, NFL safety (Detroit Lions), in Columbus, Ohio.
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