After two and a half years of largely fruitless negotiations, diplomats trying to negotiate safeguards against a surprise attack in Europe are now saying a formal East-West agreement has become a likelihood. With one month of formal talks remaining, delegates to the conference on military confidence-building measures in Europe, held here since January 1984, say important differences have been bridged in the last few weeks. “It would be rash to speak about the prospect of success,” Richard L. Barry, the chief American negotiator, told the 35-nation conference as it adjourned for a one-month recess today. “But I am guardedly optimistic that a substantial agreement of the kind my government has always supported is within our grasp.” The chief Soviet negotiator, Oleg A. Grinevsky, said, “In recent days the conference has been given new and fresh impulses which steer it directly to the achievement of positive results.” The conference on military confidence-building measures is one of several forums created to advance the 35-nation agreement on Security and Cooperation in Europe, generally known as the Helsinki accords, signed in 1975. A success in Stockholm would represent the first concrete agreement between the East and West since a largely unsuccessful review of the Helsinki meeting was held in Madrid in 1983.
State Department officials said today that hopes for a high-level Soviet-American meeting this summer, at which details for a summit meeting later this year would be arranged, appeared to have faded. Instead, they said, the first opportunity for Secretary of State George P. Shultz to begin talking with Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze about the summit meeting might not occur until the Soviet official comes to the regular United Nations General Assembly session, which begins September 22. It has become almost a ritual for the two sides to meet in New York, and sometimes in Washington as well, during the last weeks of September or the first week of October. But Bernard Kalb, the State Department spokesman, said today that there was no agreement on a date for such a meeting. He added, however, that “traditionally, there has been a get-together between the U.S. Secretary of State and the Soviet Foreign Minister on the fringes, as the diplomats say, of the U.N. General Assembly session.” For the last several months, Mr. Shultz has been pressing the Soviet Union to set a date for a session at which he and Mr. Shevardnadze would begin discussions on a summit meeting. He has argued privately and publicly that until dates are set, it is difficult to make progress within the two Governments’ bureaucracies on various arms-control and other issues.
The Soviet Union, after having set May 15 as the date for a Shultz-Shevardnadze meeting, canceled that meeting because of the American attack on Libya. Moscow has declined offers to reschedule it, taking the position that it will wait for the American arms-control responses, to see if they go far enough to warrant hopes of progress at a summit meeting. Otherwise, the Russians have said, they would have no problems with conducting the usual meeting at the time of the United Nations.
The head of the Soviet atomic safety committee was dismissed today, nearly three months after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. In a one-sentence announcement, the official press agency Tass said the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, the nation’s nominal Parliament, had “released from his duties” Yevgeny V. Kulov, 57 years old, chief of the State Committee for Safety in the Atomic Power Atomic Industry since 1983. The magazine New Times indicated that radiation was still leaking in small amounts from the crippled Chernobyl reactor, about 70 miles north of Kiev in the Ukraine. The magazine quoted Valery Legasov, deputy director of a state atomic energy institute, as saying Chernobyl “forced us to revise once again the concept of the development of nuclear power engineering in the country.”
The West German authorities took the unusual step today of blockading the East German Mission in Bonn, where an East German scholar who is accused of being a spy was hiding for a fourth day. An East German diplomat delivered a protest note to the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl. But Government officials described it as mildly worded, and the Bonn Government spokesman, Friedhelm Ost, said the Government sought “to undertake everything to prevent an escalation.” At the root of the standoff was the double defection of Herbert Meissner, a 59-year-old East German economist and the deputy head of the East German Academy of Sciences. In written affidavits, Mr. Meissner confessed last week to West German officials that he spied for East Germany, after the police in West Berlin apprehended him for shoplifting. He later fled to the East German Mission here, and he faces an arrest order by the Bonn Federal Prosecutor on suspicion of espionage if he leaves the building. In an interview apparently taped by East German television in the mission rooms and broadcast this evening, Mr. Meissner accused West German authorities of staging the shoplifting, threatening him with lengthy jail sentences to soften him, and finally drugging him to induce him to sign a statement saying he had come to the West of his own accord.
“The problem with Margaret Thatcher,” a retired British ambassador commented the other night, “is that she has never learned that ‘no, but’ and ‘yes, but’ mean the same thing.” The comment was prompted by the British Prime Minister’s assertive stand on the issue of sanctions against South Africa, which, in the view of the Prime Minister’s critics, combines a great deal of moral certitude with hardly any diplomatic guile or finesse on an issue that is already exceptionally delicate for Britain. Mrs. Thatcher had said “no, but” on sanctions, but her “no” had been so insistent and her “but” so understated that her stand was soon caricatured here, in the press and elsewhere, as one of solidarity with P. W. Botha, the South African President. In an unusual series of interviews, Mrs. Thatcher had argued not only that “punitive sanctions” would be ineffective in forcing political change in Pretoria but also that it was “immoral” and “utterly repugnant” for comfortable Westerners to consider actions that could imperil the livelihoods of poor Africans. The catch, officials here point out, was in the adjective “punitive.” In none of the interviews did she rule out the possibility that further “measures” against South African might have to be taken in the event of the failure of a diplomatic mission on which she had dispatched the Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe.
The sister of a kidnapped American journalist said today that she would go to Syria to seek the help of senior Government officials there in freeing her brother and the four other Americans believed to be hostages in Lebanon. The woman, Peggy Say, whose kidnapped brother, Terry A. Anderson, is the chief Middle East correspondent for The Associated Press, said at a news conference here today that Syria had granted her a visa and that she would fly to Damascus on Sunday.
American officials pressed the Chinese Government today to explain the detention of the chief of the Peking bureau of The New York Times. The bureau chief, John F. Burns, 41 years old, was taken into custody Thursday and put in the Pao Zhu detention center in Peking after 15 hours of questioning at the airport here.
Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone was virtually assured today that his governing Liberal Democratic Party would extend his term beyond its scheduled expiration in the fall. Mr. Nakasone has proved so strong after the party’s landslide victory in national elections early last week that none of his potential rivals are now willing to challenge him. His authority was affirmed Thursday night when the three men considered his most likely successors met at an exclusive restaurant in Tokyo and agreed to bide their time. Their decision underlined the sharp reversal in fortune that has been building for Mr. Nakasone since the July 6 election. Until then, he seemed doomed to abide by Liberal Democratic rules that limit the party leader, and hence the Prime Minister, to two consecutive two-year terms.
Malaysia’s Prime Minister announced today that Parliament would be dissolved to clear the way for general elections. The election commission set a vote for August 2 and 3. The Prime Minister, Mahathir Mohamad, said legislative assemblies in 11 of Malaysia’s 13 states would also be dissolved in order to hold simultaneous state elections. The assemblies in Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo will not be dissolved because they were elected only recently, he said.
Kidnappers freed a U.S. missionary in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur. Some of the men who had held the missionary, Brian Lawrence, for six days handed him over to a negotiator and 30 policemen. No ransom was paid. He said his abductors had treated him well.
Land mines apparently planted by United States-backed rebels are causing growing numbers of casualties among civilians as well as Government soldiers, according to accounts from this northern region of Nicaragua. In a telephone interview from Washington, a spokesman for the rebel Nicaraguan Democratic Force denied that rebels were placing mines on roads used by civilians. The spokesman, Bosco Matamoros, called a mining incident July 2 in which 34 people were killed near here “a tragedy” and said the Sandinista Government had rejected proposals to create neutral zones that both sides would respect. In recent months, dozens of deaths have been reported in Jinotega Province, where the insurgents have been active for years. The heaviest single civilian toll attributed to a land mine was in the July 2 incident, which occurred when a truck hit a mine a few miles north of this farming village.
A district attorney has filed murder charges against the army general and the forces he commanded in quelling a prison riot last month. More than 100 inmates were purportedly slain after they had surrendered. The complaint by Cesar Girao Zegarra charges Brigadier General Jorge Rabanal, “who commanded the operation, and all other parties involved,” with homicide in the killings at Lurigancho Prison.
United States and Bolivian forces today undertook the first of several planned drug raids. The purpose of the raids, American and Bolivian officials said, is to disrupt the cocaine trade by putting cocaine processors out of business. That, they said, would make it less profitable for Bolivian farmers to grow coca, from which cocaine is produced. One large cocaine laboratory was raided in a northern jungle today. No shots were reported fired, and Bolivian and American officials said the operation went smoothly. The Bolivian Information Minister, Herman Antelo, said the United States was providing “only technical, logistical, communications and transportation support.” “I want to say most emphatically, this is not an American troop deployment,” Mr. Antelo said at a news conference this evening.
Twenty-five Chilean soldiers have been arrested in connection with the fatal burning of a 19-year-old Chilean during an anti-Government protest this month, the army said today. General Carlos Ojeda, commander of the Santiago garrison, said 3 officers, 5 noncommissioned officers and 17 conscripts had been arrested and were at the disposition of a civilian judge investigating the case. The teenager, Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, had returned to Chile from Washington, where he lived with his mother, a political exile. He was severely burned during demonstrations on July 2 and died four days later. Witnesses said soldiers had sprayed Mr. Rojas and a friend with a flammable liquid and set them afire. The friend, Carmen Quintana Arancibia, 18, remains in grave condition. The army had asserted that no soldiers were involved, but General Ojeda said tonight that “new investigations have indicated that certain army personnel may have participated.” He did not identify the arrested soldiers.
Robert J. Brown, the black businessman tentatively selected as the new Ambassador to South Africa, had close connections with a prominent Nigerian Government official who was later accused of absconding with millions of dollars from that country. The Nigerian, Umaru Dikko, was a senior political adviser to his brother-in-law, former President Shehu Shagari, who was overthrown by the military December 31, 1983. Shortly afterward, Mr. Dikko fled Nigeria for London, where, in a bizarre kidnapping attempt in 1984, Nigerian-paid agents were stopped as they tried to sneak him out in a crate and take him back to Nigeria to stand trial on corruption charges. Mr. Brown’s selection as Ambassador to South Africa could cause problems with the Nigerian Government, a State Department official said.
Labor leaders from the United States, Britain and West Germany arrived in South Africa today to show solidarity with the nation’s beleaguered black labor movement and to press for the release of labor figures held under emergency powers. Lane Kirkland, president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., told reporters in Johannesburg that the labor delegation, from the Brussels-based International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, would seek to visit some of South Africa’s detained labor leaders in prison. Meanwhile, one of the country’s most prominent detainees, Zwelakhe Sisulu, was freed today from three weeks’ detention. Mr. Sisulu, editor of The New Nation, an activist newspaper sponsored by the Roman Catholic Church, was the only detainee whose identity had been acknowledged by the authorities.
President Reagan meets with several senior White House officials to discuss the current situation in South Africa. President Reagan restated his opposition today to economic sanctions against South Africa, and the White House announced that he would deliver a major speech next Tuesday in the hope of forestalling such measures by Congress. Mr. Reagan voiced his continued opposition at the White House after a meeting earlier in the day with the British Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe.
The space agency said today that it would seek designs for entirely new solid-fuel rockets for the space shuttle, but added that it would not await a second-generation booster before resuming flights. The move by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration was the first to reopen competition for the booster rockets since the Thiokol Corporation, now Morton Thiokol Inc., won the original contract 13 years ago. Officials of the agency said today that they would also solicit new ideas “regarding joint redesign” on the Thiokol rockets from Thiokol’s competitors. Agency officials had said earlier this week that an improved version of the existing booster rockets would be ready in time to allow shuttle launchings by early 1988. The failure of the booster’s seals caused the January 28 Challenger disaster, which killed seven astronauts. The move today deferred a comprehensive overhaul of the boosters until the early 1990’s, when the next generation of rockets is expected to be ready. Meanwhile, the space agency is depending on modifications of the existing design, primarily involving the safety seals that members of a Presidential investigative commission concluded were “deeply flawed,” to get the shuttle flying again.
A top space agency official said the two-step booster redesign process violated none of the findings of the Presidential commission, which issued its report last month. That report warned, “No design options should be prematurely precluded because of schedule, cost or reliance on existing hardware.” The official, David L. Winterhalter, acting director of the shuttle propulsion division at NASA headquarters, said in an interview, “There is no question in my mind, or in anyone’s mind, that the redesign of the Thiokol motor will be safe for flight.” The motivation for seeking a new booster design, he said, was to “improve booster performance,” rather than to improve safety. In recent weeks, however, other NASA officials have conceded privately that no serious thought was given to improving the performance of the Thiokol boosters before the accident. Instead, engineers at the agency had focused most of their attention on improving the shuttle’s liquid-fuel main engines, which were operating at full capacity and showing signs of overstress.
President Reagan places a call to Patrick Aloysius Cardinal O’Boyle, former Archbishop of Washington.
The Reagan Administration has mobilized an army of tax lawyers, economists and computers to defend its top domestic initiative as Congressional conferees go about crafting a compromise on overhauling the tax code. The battle plan calls for influencing the course of the landmark legislation every step of the way. Seated a few feet in front of the conferees as they began work Thursday was an entourage of Treasury Department officials who plan to assert White House positions on every one of about 300 provisions that will be incorporated in the final bill. Working behind the scenes as the strategic and analytical pipeline to this front-line defense is the 130-member staff of the Office of Tax Policy, the same brain trust that created the Treasury’s initial tax overhaul blueprint and President Reagan’s subsequent plan that served as the foundation for the proposals adopted by the House and Senate.
The Senate Judiciary Committee decided today to postpone confirmation hearings for President Reagan’s two nominees to the Supreme Court by a week. The decision followed intense negotiations with Democrats and civil rights groups. “Everyone would like more time for the hearings,” said one Democrat on condition he not be identified. “Both sides agree more time would be better.” A hearing on the nomination of Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist to become Chief Justice had been scheduled to begin Tuesday, and a hearing on the nomination of Circuit Judge Antonin Scalia to become an Associate Justice had been scheduled to begin July 29. Each hearing was delayed a week. In exchange, Democrats on the Judiciary Committee agreed not to delay motions to bring the nominations to the Senate floor. The Democrats made no agreement about staging a filibuster once the nominations are debated.
Charges of unlawful entry against four apartheid protesters were dismissed in Washington today after a government lawyer said she was not prepared to try the case. The dismissal was immediately criticized by the defendants, who said they had hoped to use the trial to criticize American policy toward South Africa. After today’s action by Superior Court Judge Frank Schwelb, they asserted that the Government simply wanted to buy time.
The Defense Department plans to establish a new command to direct a buildup in special operations forces, the military units that can be used to intervene in small conflicts, using unconventional tactics and equipment. The command would be centered in Washington and headed by a three-star general or admiral, according to Admiral William J. Crowe Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. But it would not ordinarily run the actual operations of the commandos.
A wide white-black disparity in assets is the most dramatic feature of a Census Bureau study. White Americans, whose incomes are almost twice those of blacks, have accumulated 11 times more assets, according to a study the Census Bureau published today. It found that nearly a third of black households had no major assets at all. While income levels have been studied frequently, the Census Bureau provided an unusual look at what it called individual wealth — the ownership of savings, housing, automobiles, stocks and the like, minus debts. The study covered all assets except cash on hand, home furniture, jewelry, pension rights and the cash value of life insurance policies.
Labor Secretary Bill Brock, backing cottage industry, will soon propose regulations that would lift a 43-year-old ban on the manufacture of most types of clothing and jewelry by people employed in their homes, department and industry officials said today. The proposed regulations, expected within two weeks, would require employers who want to hire workers to make garments or jewelry at home to register with the Federal Government so that minimum wage and child labor laws could be enforced, according to the officials. Both critics and supporters of the ban on commercial work in the home have described the dispute as a first skirmish in a larger battle over the proliferation of home-based clerical work. Using computer terminals and advanced technology, more and more companies have been experimenting with assigning office work in the home.
Hours after striking garbage collectors and their union leaders were found in contempt of court for defying a back-to-work order, Mayor W. Wilson Goode said today that the union leaders assured him the workers would return to work at 7 AM Saturday. Along with the contempt citation, Judge Edward J. Blake gave Mr. Goode explicit authority to dismiss any of the nearly 2,500 sanitation workers if they did not begin picking up the more than 40,000 tons of garbage that has accumulated since municipal workers went on strike 18 days ago. If the assurances are not kept and workers do not return, the Mayor said later, private haulers would immediately begin to remove trash from 15 emergency dumps around the city. Any workers who failed to report Saturday would be sent dismissal notices, he said at a news conference. Those who return, he said, “will be assigned to work throughout the weekend in the cleanup” of the dumps.
A judge refused today to order 7,000 striking municipal employees back to work but agreed to hear the city’s argument that workers who perform “essential services” should be required to return. The city said that to insure public health and safety, workers such as operators for the emergency telephone line, detention officers at police headquarters and chemists for the Water Department must return. “There is a strong possibility that waterborne diseases, such as typhoid and various kinds of dysentery, will be transmitted,” the city’s lawsuit said.
A group of parents who fought to keep a 14-year-old AIDS victim out of school has decided to end its battle, the group’s attorney said today. The student, Ryan White, was barred by school officials one year ago from attending classes at Western Middle School in the suburb of Kokomo because of fears that the disease could be transmitted. He returned on April 10 when a state judge dissolved an injunction banning the boy from classes. The Indiana Court of Appeals today rejected the parents’ appeal of the judge’s ruling on procedural grounds. David Rosselot, attorney for the parents’ group, said they asked him Tuesday to drop the action. “Nobody feels any differently about AIDS in the classroom,” he said. “The finances just happened to be the biggest stumbling block.”
Former Governor Ray Blanton of Tennessee was released today from the Samaritan Center, a halfway house in Nashville, after serving two years in prison for conspiracy to obtain state liquor licenses. Mr. Blanton, a 56-year-old Democrat who served as Governor from 1975 to 1979, was convicted in 1981 of plotting to dole out liquor licenses to his friends. He entered prison in July 1984 after being sentenced to a three-year term.
The state’s star witness in the Fort Myers, Florida murder trial of the tobacco heir Steven Benson testified today that the defendant did nothing to help his mother, brother and sister when their car exploded. Mr. Benson’s sister, Carol Kendall, was wounded in the explosion last July that resulted in two counts of first-degree murder against her brother.
More Americans seek fresh produce, according to food experts. They say people are increasingly spurning canned fruits and vegetables in favor of fresh produce, much of it now imported. In some states the trend has helped revive the family farm and roadside stand.
Videotapes are released showing Titanic’s sunken remains. Searchers found a Titanic safe and tried unsuccessfully to pull it open with a remote-controlled claw. Dr. Robert D. Ballard, the expedition leader, said the safe’s handle was grasped, but it would not open. He and his companions uncovered the safe in the debris to the stern of the sunken luxury liner.
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The Kansas City Royals announce that 50-year-old manager Dick Howser, who led the club to a World Championship last season, will miss the rest of the season to undergo treatment for a brain tumor that is later revealed to be malignant. third base coach Mike Ferraro will manage the club in Howser’s absence.
Against Baltimore’s Scott McGregor, the Twins first two batters — Kirby Puckett and Gary Gaetti — hit homers. Puckett hit his 18th homer, his fourth leading off a game, on the second pitch from Scott McGregor, and five pitches later Gaetti connected for his 19th. Puckett adds another and Kent Hrbek a 4th to help Minnesota to a 7–3 win over the Orioles. Bert Blyleven is the winning pitcher.
The Toronto Blue Jays blanked the California Angels, 2–0. Jim Clancy pitched a two-hitter for eight and one-third innings and became the top winner in Toronto history. Clancy (10–5), whose 98 victories is one more than Dave Stieb, won his fourth consecutive decision. He has been with the team for 10 seasons and is one of three remaining original Blue Jays from the 1976 expansion draft. Ruppert Jones singled with one out in the third and Wally Joyner led off the fourth with a single for California’s only hits off Clancy. After Clancy walked Reggie Jackson with one out in the ninth, Mark Eichhorn, pitching in relief, gave up a single to Rob Wilfong before picking up his fifth save. California’s Bob Boone caught the 1,746th game of his career, passing Atlanta’s Ted Simmons for fourth place on the all-time list.
Scott Sanderson limited San Francisco to one hit, a fourth-inning double by Jeffrey Leonard, through seven innings and Lee Smith pitched two perfect innings in relief today as the Chicago Cubs beat the Giants, 2–1. Sanderson (5–6) retired the first 11 batters before Leonard doubled to right field. Chili Davis followed with a hard grounder that handcuffed Davey Lopes, the third baseman, and bounded into left field. Lopes was given an error on the play, which allowed Leonard to race home with an unearned run. Sanderson was in control thereafter, striking out nine and limiting the Giants to two walks before yielding to Smith, who struck out three in earning his 15th save. The Giant starter, Mike LaCoss (9–4), had won two straight and four of his last five decisions. But he got into trouble in the first inning when Ryne Sandberg, who had three hits, singled with one out and took second when Gary Matthews walked. One out later, Keith Moreland lined a single to left, scoring Sandberg and Matthews for a 2–0 lead.
The Phillies bowed to the Reds 6–5. Dave Parker drove in four runs with a single and a three-run homer, helping Tom Browning and Cincinnati to the victory. Browning (8–7) pitched six shutout innings to pull his record above .500 for the first time this season, getting his fifth victory in his last six decisions.
Jack Morris pitched a two-hitter for his third straight shutout, and Kirk Gibson had four singles to lead Detroit over the Texas Rangers, 5–0. Morris, who ran his scoreless innings streak to 29, retired 22 of the last 23 batters, including 18 in a row at one point. The right-hander raised his record to 10–6 with his third straight victory and sixth consecutive complete game. He allowed Minnesota six hits and Kansas City four hits in his previous two shutouts. Texas has now lost 7 of its last 10 games.
The streak had been on their minds, but the Mets did now allow themselves to become consumed by it. They simply went about their business: winning big and staying in first place. But when it all ended tonight -when they lost to the Houston Astros, 3–0, failing to score a run for the first time after 110 games — the Mets finally conceded the streak’s relative importance. “It’s tough to go through a whole year without being shut out,” Keith Hernandez finally said. “We’d done it for almost 90 games this season, so you’ve got to tip your hat to the team and the pitcher that beat you.
The Cleveland Indians scraped past the Kansas City Royals in extra innings, 3–2. Brett Butler scored on an error in the 10th inning by the shortstop, Buddy Biancalana, and Cleveland snapped a three-game losing streak. Butler, who scored all three Cleveland runs, singled with one out and went to second when Joe Carter singled for his fourth hit. Reliever Dan Quisenberry (0–4), then coaxed a potential double-play grounder from Andre Thornton, but Biancalana threw wildly to second base, enabling Butler to score. It was the first game for the Royals since learning that Manager Dick Howser will undergo surgery for a brain tumor. The third-base coach, Mike Ferraro, is the interim manager.
Hubie Brooks had three hits and drove in three runs to lead the Expos to a comeback 5–4 victory in a game interrupted by rain for two hours and eight minutes. Andre Dawson also had three hits while Mitch Webster added two and scored three runs as the Expos handed the Braves their sixth consecutive loss. Tim Burke, 7–2, pitched three innings for the win and got last-inning relief help from Jeff Reardon, who notched his 22nd save. Jeff Dedmon, 3–4, was the loser.
If the Yankees continue their recent surge, no one will have to pay them left-handed compliments about their performance against left-handed pitchers. With a left-handed hitter, Mike Pagliarulo, providing the punch, the Yankees outslugged the Chicago White Sox, 8–4, last night for their third consecutive victory in games started by left-handed pitchers. Pagliarulo hit his 22nd home run, a three-run shot, and added a double and a run-scoring single as he continued to show marked improvement against left-handed pitchers. Don Mattingly, who hasn’t had trouble hitting left-handers for several seasons, hit his 16th home run and drove in another run with a groundout.
Joaquin Andujar (5–2) pitches Oakland to a 6–1 win over Juan Nieves (8–4) and the Brewers. Three relievers followed Andujar, with Steve Ontiveros working the final 2 ⅔ innings for his ninth save. Andujar won for the first time since May 7. The veteran right-hander went on the disabled list June 6 because of a pulled hamstring. Nieves pitched and won Milwaukee’s last game, before the break, to give him two consecutive starts in 2 games.
U. L. Washington went 3 for 4 and drove in five runs and Jim Morrison knocked in three runs with three singles to lead a 14-hit Pittsburgh attack as the Pirates hammered the Padres, 12–7. The victory ended both the Pirates’ three-game losing streak and a seven-game slide by Rick Reuschel. Sid Bream also collected three hits to help Reuschel (5–11) earn his first victory since June 2. Reuschel pitched seven innings. The Pirates collected six hits and five runs off the starter, Andy Hawkins (6–7), who lasted just four innings. They scored five more in the fifth on five hits, including Washington’s three-run triple, off Dave LaPoint, who retired just one batter.
Danny Tartabull hit a three-run homer and Alvin Davis scored three runs as Seattle handed Boston its third straight defeat, winning, 10–4. Seattle took advantage of two Boston errors in the first inning to score four runs. John Moses led off by reaching base on an error by shortstop Rey Quinones, and Phil Bradley followed with a single. Two outs later, Moses scored from third on an error by Wade Boggs. Tartabull then hit his 15th homer for a 4–0 lead.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–3. Franklin Stubbs and Len Matuszek hit two-out homers to key a three-run first inning for Los Angeles. The Los Angeles rookie, Reggie Williams, also hit a home run, his first in the major leagues. It came off the St. Louis right-hander, Danny Cox (3–8). Fernando Valenzuela (12–6) struck out eight and walked two.
Minnesota Twins 7, Baltimore Orioles 3
Toronto Blue Jays 2, California Angels 0
San Francisco Giants 1, Chicago Cubs 2
Philadelphia Phillies 5, Cincinnati Reds 6
Texas Rangers 0, Detroit Tigers 5
New York Mets 0, Houston Astros 3
Cleveland Indians 3, Kansas City Royals 2
Atlanta Braves 4, Montreal Expos 5
Chicago White Sox 4, New York Yankees 8
Milwaukee Brewers 1, Oakland Athletics 6
San Diego Padres 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 12
Boston Red Sox 4, Seattle Mariners 10
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, St. Louis Cardinals 3
With the prospects of a weak economy tugging the stock market lower and the hope of lower interest rates coaxing it higher, Wall Street yesterday experienced one of its more chaotic sessions. Share prices finally closed mixed in relatively heavy trading. While the discussion about the economy was going on, traders were also trying to determine what effect, if any, the expiration of certain stock index options and futures, as well as options in some key blue-chip stocks, would have on the market. As it turned out, the expirations sent the Dow from plus 18 points, with 30 minutes of trading remaining, to a closing loss of 3.80 points. The blue-chip index, which finished at 1,777.98, lost 43.45 points for the week.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1777.98 (-3.8)
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Hilee Taylor, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers), in Laurinburg, North Carolina.
Walter Sharpe, NBA power forward (Detroit Pistons), in Huntsville, Alabama.
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