The Administration has tentatively decided on a formal response to recent Soviet arms control proposals in the Geneva talks and is sending two envoys to consult with American allies about the plan, Administration officials said today. Paul H. Nitze, an adviser to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, was scheduled to leave today to consult with European allies about the decision, officials said. Edward L. Rowny, an arms control adviser to President Reagan, is also expected to leave soon to brief Asian nations and Canada. The White House has prepared the draft of a letter from President Reagan to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, which is expected to be the focus of the consultations. Administration officials have said the letter covers a range of arms control issues and will address the issue of research into a missile defense system. The Soviet Union has proposed that the 1972 antiballistic missile treaty be strengthened as part of an agreement to reduce arms. The Administration has pulled back from a proposal, which was supported by some State Department officials, that each side simultaneously reduce the number of underground nuclear tests it conducts each year as the number of strategic arms is reduced. The proposal, which had been under consideration by the Administration, was included in an earlier version of a draft of a letter from President Reagan to Mr. Gorbachev, officials said. It had been seen by some Administration officials as a way to respond to the Soviet initiatives calling for a ban on the underground testing of weapons. But the proposal encountered strong resistance within the Administration and officials say that it is no longer part of Mr. Reagan’s proposed response to Mr. Gorbachev.
The explosion at the Chernobyl nuclear power station was caused by unauthorized and poorly controlled experiments during scheduled repairs, the Politburo said today. The Politburo, in a report read on the television news, announced three dismissals of high-ranking officials and the initiation of criminal proceedings against people responsible for “gross breaches” of discipline and operational regulations at the power plant. The Politburo also said that direct economic losses from the accident April 26 totaled about 2 billion rubles, equivalent to $2.7 billion, and that the loss of the plant’s power output had “created difficulties with the power supply to the national economy.” The Politburo issued its statement after a special meeting Friday to discuss the report of a Government commission set up directly after the accident to study its causes.
East Germany has asked noted lawyer Wolfgang Vogel, who has negotiated numerous spy exchanges, to take charge of its negotiations with West Germany to secure the release of a suspected spy who has taken refuge in the East German mission in Bonn, Friedhelm Ost, Bonn’s chief government spokesman, said. Ost said Bonn was ready for talks “any time” to settle the diplomatic dispute over Herbert Meissner, 59, deputy chairman of the East German Academy of Sciences, who fled to the mission last Tuesday. He claimed he had escaped from West German intelligence agents who had kidnapped him and forced him to sign a statement saying he wanted to defect. Bonn denied the charge.
The Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro will carry American passengers for the first time since Palestinian terrorists hijacked the ship last October and killed American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, officials of the line said. About 30 students from high schools in Glendale, California, will be among 800 passengers leaving Genoa this week on a 10-day cruise to Spain, Portugal and Morocco. A number of Americans also have reserved cabins for the 1987 America’s Cup competition off Australia.
French authorities expelled a suspected member of the Spanish Basque separatist group ETA (Basque Homeland and Freedom). Jose Varona Lopez, believed to be a member of the ETA’s military arm Commando Madrid, was deported to Spain under an order from the Interior Ministry. Police said they sought the expulsion of Lopez after learning he was “preparing to commit terrorist acts” in France. France recently deported the suspected leader of ETA, Domingo Iturbe Abasolo, to Gabon.
Senior Israeli defense officials and military officers say that in the last year Syria has acquired a new military option that seriously complicates Israeli military planning. That option is to make a powerful surprise attack with the goal of recapturing all or part of the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, and with the hope of quick superpower intervention to stop hostilities before Israel could deliver a decisive retaliatory blow and recapture the territory. As explained by Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin and others, the key to Israeli strategy now is to convince President Hafez al-Assad of Syria of two things: that his initial thrust would not be successful, and that, even if it were, Israel would not accede to superpower pressure to stop fighting before it had responded decisively. That message was conveyed repeatedly to reporters throughout a week of briefings and speeches by Israeli Government leaders, military planners and field commanders, and nongovernmental experts. The week of briefings and conferences in Israel for American journalists was sponsored by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, a group with a pro-Israeli orientation.
Gunmen killed four Lebanese Christians associated with the American University of Beirut today, including a doctor at the American University Hospital. Three others were wounded in the attack, on a bus operated by the university and traveling from Muslim West Beirut to the Christian east side. The killings were seen as an attempt to disrupt a Syrian-sponsored security plan in West Beirut. The attackers, apparently Muslim militiamen, ambushed the bus as it approached a crossing on the so-called Green Line on its way from the American Hospital to East Beirut. The gunmen entered the bus, carrying 40 doctors, nurses and other hospital and university staff members, and sprayed them with bullets from automatic weapons fitted with silencers, the police said. The killers escaped in a car. The wounded were rushed to the nearby Barbir Hospital and were later taken by ambulance to the American University Hospital.
Three months after returning to Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto is said to be stepping up her drive to oust President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq from office by organizing supporters to engage in immense disruptions in the streets later this year. Officials in Miss Bhutto’s organization, the Pakistan People’s Party, said this week that 150,000 “doves of democracy” had been recruited to lead a nationwide protest against the Government by blocking streets, closing stores and encouraging strikes. “We don’t have guns in our hands, but we can protest according to the popular ways introduced in all the democratic countries of the world,” said Jahangir Badar, president of the Punjab Province branch of the Pakistan People’s Party. In an interview, Miss Bhutto said she could not disclose the timing or the details of the protests, but she promised they would be peaceful.
Punjab security forces raided the headquarters of a Sikh extremist group at the end of a 24-hour police sweep along the India-Pakistan border, the Press Trust of India reported. The news agency quoted Amritsar district police chief M.I. Alam as saying the headquarters was discovered in marshlands at Mand during raids by 2,000 paramilitary troops and police. Alam did not say how many people were apprehended there, but authorities said a total 180 suspected extremists were arrested in raids in Amritsar, Karputhala and Ferozepur districts. The Sikh extremists are seeking to set up an independent state.
Suspected Tamil guerrillas attacked the town of Kantalai in northeastern Sri Lanka, killing 10 civilians. The government said the attack was in retaliation for the earlier slaying of 39 Tamils in the same region that some witnesses said was carried out by army troops, an official source said in Colombo, the nation’s capital. In another development, a Tamil rebel group with exile headquarters in Madras, India, said that 10 Tamils were killed and 12 injured when a Sri Lankan military helicopter bombed a bus 170 miles northeast of Colombo. The minority Tamils are seeking an independent state in northeastern Sri Lanka.
The Peking bureau chief of The New York Times remained in Government detention here today for a third day as American and British officials pressed efforts to visit him. The correspondent, John F. Burns, has not been charged, but Peking officials told a United States Embassy official this week that he was being investigated on suspicion of “entering an area forbidden to foreigners, gathering intelligence information and espionage.” A. M. Rosenthal, executive editor of The Times, arrived in Peking today with the paper’s foreign editor, Warren Hoge, to help secure Mr. Burns’s release.
Gunmen kidnaped a Swiss tourist and his female Filipino guide who had been picnicking on Santa Cruz Island, across a strait from Zamboanga, Philippines, police reported. The island is frequented by pirates and smugglers, police added. The victims, identified as Hans Kunzli and Adelina Gamoa, were abducted by several men who dragged them into their boat and fled toward Basilan island, 10 miles from Zamboanga, police said. Kunzli is the ninth foreigner to be kidnaped in the Mindanao region since 1978. The military has blamed most of the abductions on Muslim separatist guerrillas.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra today defended recent actions by his Government against the opposition and denied that the measures represented a radicalization of Sandinista rule. Mr. Ortega, speaking to thousands of people at a ceremony commemorating the seventh anniversary of the Sandinista-led revolution that ousted Gen. Anastasio Somoza Debayle, also predicted the fighting against United States-backed rebels would increase in the coming months. He said that opponents of his Government were free to dissent “within the institutional framework,” but that owners of the closed opposition newspaper La Prensa and some other opposition leaders should get at least 30-year jail sentences, the maximum allowed under Nicaraguan law.
Bolivian officials say they were surprised and distressed when the Reagan Administration offered last month to send Army helicopters and troops here to help carry out the raids against cocaine traffickers that are under way now. The Bolivian Government had been requesting United States assistance for many months on grounds that neither the police nor the military had helicopters or other equipment adequate for attacks against cocaine laboratories in remote jungle areas. Although the Bolivian Government was pleased that the United States had finally responded, “we would have liked assistance of a different nature, entirely run by the Bolivians,” Jacobo Liebermann, President Victor Paz Estenssoro’s closest adviser, said in an interview. “But instead we got the invasion of Normandy.” The government announced that two raids were conducted today, but that only “normal activity” was found because the sites turned out to be ordinary ranches, not cocaine laboratories.
The head of Brazil’s Environmental Protection Agency has resigned after 12 years in his post, citing what he called attempts to curtail the agency’s independence. The former agency chief, Paulo Nogueira Neto, said: “Resigning was the strongest measure I could take to call attention to a disastrous problem. It was shock treatment. I couldn’t function without autonomy.” Mr. Nogueira, 64 years old, left his job Thursday and has been replaced by Roberto Messias Franco, a 39-year-old geographer. The agency is under the Urban Planning Ministry. Mr. Nogueira said the ministry would not answer his letters and would not grant him the money and staff he needed. Deni Schwartz, the Urban Planning Minister for the last four months, said the problem was Mr. Nogueira’s inability to get things done.
The White House has decided not to name Robert J. Brown, a black businessman from North Carolina, as the next ambassador to South Africa because of problems raised by background checks, a senior Administration official said. There was no known alternate candidate to replace Mr. Brown. This decision means that it will not be possible for President Reagan to announce the appointment of a black ambassador during his scheduled policy speech on South Africa to be delivered Tuesday afternoon.
An American Lutheran minister who was to have left South Africa on Thursday night but instead spent the night in jail was allowed to leave Friday, the State Department said yesterday. The minister, the Rev. Brian Burchfield, was ordered expelled by South Africa last week.
Visiting international labor union leaders appealed to South Africa today for an urgent answer to their request for a meeting with unionists held under the state of emergency. The development came as the Government reported that security forces shot dead four more people in township unrest during the night. The official death toll is 162 since June 12, when the state of emergency was declared.
Although the stage in Washington clearly is set for the most extensive overhaul of the nation’s tax law since World War II, public reaction to tax revision is generally unenthusiastic, the Gallup Poll found. And, despite the consensus of lawmakers that the new tax program will be fairer than the present one, 64% of the respondents think their taxes will either go up or stay the same and only 22% think their taxes will go down.
As the fall election campaign approaches, both political parties are paying increasing attention to the seven Senate seats vacated by incumbent lawmakers who decided to retire. For most of this year, political interest has focused on the 18 Republican Senators who are defending their seats in November. But political strategists now say that the seven open seats will play a critical role in determining the composition of the Senate and the fate of President Reagan’s legislative agenda over the next two years. Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, the chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, called these states a “really crucial battleground” in the fall campaign. Thomas Griscom, executive director of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, said: “When you factor in the open seats, the numbers change dramatically.”
Democratic Party leaders meeting in Washington chose three Southern cities among six finalists for their 1988 convention after hearing arguments that the party needs to recapture the once-Democratic South to win the presidency. Only two cities — Detroit and the Cleveland suburb of Brook Park — were eliminated from the preliminary list of eight possible sites. Still in the running, with the winner to be chosen by the end of the year, were Atlanta, Houston, New Orleans, Washington, New York and Kansas City.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on the POW’s and MIA’s.
A group of Vietnam veterans who marched from Washington arrived yesterday at Grant’s Tomb for a vigil for 2,400 Americans still missing in Southeast Asia. Fewer than three dozen veterans made the full march, and only about 100 people greeted them upon their arrival in Manhattan — far fewer than the 1,000 organizers had hoped to draw.
Garbage trucks rolled here today for the first time in nearly three weeks as striking sanitation workers, threatened with the loss of their jobs, obeyed a three-day-old court order and returned to work. The workers, wearing blue masks over nose and mouth to block the stench that has increasingly permeated Philadelphia, immediately waded into the 10-foot-high mounds of plastic garbage bags and other refuse that residents have deposited in 15 emergency dumps since July 1. That is when the garbage collectors went on strike over a new contract. “It feels good to be back at work,” Joe C. Thomas, a 48-year-old sanitation worker with 21 years’ service, said as he checked out the big yellow Loadmaster compactor truck that he drives. “I’m ready to leave at 7,” he said at 6:52 AM.
Three thousand Ford Motor Co. employees struck the Hapeville, Georgia, plant in suburban Atlanta, contending the auto maker had accelerated the assembly line at the ultramodern plant without hiring more workers. The plant, which was reopened in October after a five-month, $250-million retooling, is one of two in the country that makes the popular Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable automobiles. No talks were scheduled, union and company spokesmen said.
Weyerhaeuser Co. workers, under a tentative contract agreement, would take a $4 cut in pay and benefits, with the losses to be made up for most workers under a profit-sharing plan, officials said. Local union officers in Portland, Oregon, predicted that the offer will be rejected by the members. Union members have been on strike since June 16 and are expected to vote on the accord this week. The union represents about 6,500 Weyerhaeuser employees in Oregon and Washington.
Spurred by increased competition, the air shuttles that link New York with Washington and Boston are introducing amenities and services that are likely to change what has long been a speedy but Spartan way of life for millions of commuters. Pan American World Airways, which has announced that it will begin shuttle flights to Boston and Washington on October 1 that will offer more services than have been available on Eastern Airlines, is now proposing to build its own shuttle terminal at La Guardia Airport. Meanwhile, Eastern, the pioneer in the air-shuttle industry, is adding assigned seating and more comfortable accommodations. It is also considering offering food and beverage service for the first time.
A New York jury awarded $65 million to a woman who said she was misdiagnosed by doctors at a city-run hospital, but the city said it will ask the court to reduce the amount because it is “excessive.” Agnes Whittaker, 55, of Brooklyn, had gone to Lincoln Hospital on July 15, 1982, complaining of abdominal pain after eating an egg roll. During 18 hours of examination, during which her bowel was punctured, she was finally diagnosed as having gastritis and sent home, her lawyer said. Later the same day she went to St. Barnabas Hospital, where doctors discovered an obstruction in her intestines.
Three men convicted in a scheme to kidnap drifters for slave labor that left one man dead have been given sentences in Kerrville, Texas, ranging from four months to 15 years in prison. Walter Wesley Ellebracht Sr., 54, a rancher, was given the lesser term, while his son Walter Wesley Ellebracht Jr., 33, got 15 years in prison, and a former ranch foreman, Carlton Robert Caldwell, 21, received 14 years for conspiracy to commit aggravated kidnaping and murder. The charges stemmed from the abduction, cattle-prod torture and slaying of Anthony Bates, a drifter. The state claimed Bates, like other hitchhikers, was lured to the Ellebracht ranch with the promise of work and then was forced into slavery.
In the first lawsuit to be brought in connection with the Delta Air Lines crash in Dallas last August, a jury has awarded $605,000 to the widow of one of the victims. Katharen Reynolds of Hollywood, Florida, whose husband, Paul, 32 years old, was one of 137 people killed in the crash, had sought $3.7 million in compensation and lost wages.
Faced with a high number of recruits flunking from the police academy, city officials are planning a program to help them learn to read and write. Nearly one-fourth of the department’s current class has failed 6 weeks into the 18-week program, the police said.
Mandatory blood tests of U.S. military recruits show that blacks test positive for exposure to the AIDS virus at a rate four times as high as whites, public health experts said in Washington at a national conference on AIDS and blacks. Experts cited Defense Department figures as new evidence that acquired immune deficiency syndrome has joined a list of other diseases, including cancer, tuberculosis and hypertension, that disproportionately affect blacks.
The marriage of Caroline Kennedy to Edwin A. Schlossberg of New York, a New York business executive and artist, took place at Our Lady of Victory Roman Catholic Church in Centerville, Mass., near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Cape Cod. The wedding of President Kennedy’s daughter was attended by 400 guests. In a small weathered church decorated with the flowers of Cape Cod, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy, the daughter of the late President, married Edwin A. Schlossberg today. Her uncle, Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, gave away the 28-year-old bride, who is still remembered by many Americans as a child riding a pony on the White House lawn. And the day seemed to revive, for a poignant moment, that “Camelot” era of more than two decades ago as former aides to President Kennedy gathered here with other family friends for his daughter’s wedding to Mr. Schlossberg, the 41-year-old president of a New York company specializing in the design of museum interiors and exhibitions. The wedding was a topic of wide interest despite the family’s efforts to hold down the glare of publicity. A crowd of 2,000 spectators lined the approaches to the church and a nearby wooded hillside, some perched in trees. When they heard applause from inside the church, the crowd outside also applauded.
Tim Witherspoon KOs Frank Bruno in 11 for heavyweight boxing title.
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Mets players Ron Darling, Tim Teufel, Bob Ojeda, and Rick Aguilera are arrested following an early-morning fight with off-duty police officers working as security guards outside a Houston bar, but are all released in time for their Astros game that evening. On January 26th Darling and Teufel will be fined $200 while charges against Ojeda and Aguilera will be dropped.
The Baltimore Orioles blanked the Minnesota Twins, 1–0. Rick Dempsey hit a home run and Don Aase notched his 25th save for Baltimore. Aase, making his 41st appearance, was summoned for Mike Flanagan (4–6) when Greg Gagne walked with one out in the seventh. Aase walked Kirby Puckett, but induced Gary Gaetti to bounce into an inning-ending double play. Flanagan scattered five singles and struck out six over six and one-third innings. He stranded eight and walked three. Dempsey lined his ninth home run with one out in the second inning off Neal Heaton (3–9). It was Dempsey’s first RBI in his last 15 games. Heaton pitched his fourth complete game and allowed five hits, striking out five and walking one.
The California Angels clobbered the Toronto Blue Jays, 9–3. Ruppert Jones hit two homers and drove in four runs, and John Candelaria pitched five and one-third innings for his third straight victory since coming off the disabled list for the Angels. Candelaria (3–0) held Toronto to four hits, including a two-run homer by George Bell in the fourth. The left-hander walked one and struck out five. Bell hit his second homer of the game and 19th of the season in the ninth inning. Jones hit a home run to lead off the first inning and added a three-run shot, his 11th, in the seventh. After Jones’s first homer gave the Angels a 1–0 lead, they benefited from three unearned runs in the second off Dave Stieb (2–10). The third baseman, Garth Iorg, and first baseman, Willie Upshaw, each misplayed grounders before Wally Joyner’s run-scoring single made it 4–0.
The Chicago Cubs came from behind to rout the San Francisco Giants, 11–6. Gary Matthews and Shawon Dunston hit three-run homers, and Dave Martinez hit his first career home run for the Cubs. With San Francisco leading, 5–1, Matthews connected in the third, bringing the Cubs to within a run. Chicago took the lead when Dunston and Martinez hit homers on consecutive pitches with two out in the fifth. Matthews’s 11th homer of the season was his fifth in 12 games. Ryne Sandberg added his ninth homer in the eighth, after the Cubs had taken a 10–6 lead. The Cubs had 15 hits and tied a season high with the four home runs. Steve Trout was knocked out in the Giants’ four-run third inning.
The Cincinnati Reds downed the Phillies, 5–2. Dave Parker hit a two-run homer and Bill Gullickson gave up six hits in seven innings, helping Cincinnati extend its winning streak to five games. Gullickson (7–6) gave up two runs, walked one and struck out five. Ron Robinson worked two innings to earn his eighth save. Shane Rawley (11–6) surrendered four runs, gave up six hits and struck out four. With Cincinnati leading, 1–0, Wade Rowdon opened the third with a double and scored on Buddy Bell’s single. Parker then hit a Rawley pitch off the right-field foul screen for his 18th home run. The Phillies cut the lead to 4-2 in the fourth. With one out, Jeff Stone beat out an infield single. After Juan Samuel struck out, Mike Schmidt hit his 21st home run.
The Detroit Tigers topped the Texas Ransgers, 5–3. Kirk Gibson smashed a three-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 12th inning. Gibson’s 13th homer of the season, off Greg Harris (3–8), came after singles by Lou Whitaker and Alan Trammell. The victory went to Willie Hernandez (5–4), who pitched two innings and gave up a homer to the Rangers’ Don Slaught with one out in the 12th. The Texas starter, Charlie Hough, blanked Detroit on two hits until John Grubb singled with one out in the sixth. Darnell Coles followed with his 12th homer of the season to make the score 2-2. Pete O’Brien hit his 12th homer of the season, off the Detroit starter, Randy O’Neal, with two out in the first inning to give Texas a 1–0 lead. The Rangers added a run in the fourth. Steve Buechele ended an 0-for-15 slump with a two-out-single that scored Larry Parrish, who had doubled.
Craig Reynolds hit a two-out home run in the bottom of the ninth off Roger McDowell tonight, giving the Houston Astros a 5–4 victory and ruining a spirited comeback in which the Mets scored four times in the top of the ninth. Reynolds, the shortstop who pitched for the Astros Thursday in the series-opening 13–2 rout by the Mets, clubbed a 2-and-2 pitch from McDowell, the last of four Met pitchers, into the bleachers in right field. Mike Scott, the Houston starting pitcher, had an apparent two-hit shutout and a 4–0 victory going as he began the ninth. But everything unraveled quickly. The Mets scored four times, leaving Scott with no decision and without his 10th victory. Len Dykstra opened the ninth with a home run off Scott, which seemed harmless at the time. But after Wally Backman popped back to the pitcher, Keith Hernandez singled sharply to center and Gary Carter lined a double into the gap in left-center field for the Mets’ second run. Scott, who struck out seven, then was replaced by Dave Smith, the Astros’ ace reliever. But his first pitch to Darryl Strawberry was deposited deep into the right-field bleachers, tying the score. Dwight Gooden, whose season has been marked by a series of good, bad and indifferent performances, struggled once more tonight. He gave up nine hits and four runs and pitched to three batters in the sixth without getting an out. He gave up a two-run homer to Denny Walling in the fifth but was not involved in the decision.
Tony Bernazard led off the game with a home run tonight and Mel Hall keyed a five-run third inning with a two-run single, helping the Cleveland Indians to a 6–4 victory over the Kansas City Royals. It was Phil Niekro’s 307th career victory. Niekro, who scattered eight hits, tied Mickey Welch for 14th on the career victory list. Niekro (7–6) had two walks and a strikeout before being relieved by Scott Bailes after the Royals scored four unearned runs in the seventh. Ernie Camacho got the last two outs for his 13th save. Kansas City’s rookie starter, Scott Bankhead, dropped to 3–4 with his fourth straight loss. Bernazard hit his eighth homer of the year in the first. Brook Jacoby doubled leading off the third inning and went to third base when Chris Bando singled. Bernazard’s grounder scored Jacoby, then Brett Butler and Joe Carter singled, loading the bases for Hall. Hall’s single brought on Mark Gubicza, who gave up a run-scoring single to Cory Snyder. Hall scored the fifth run of the inning on Julio Franco’s groundout.
Andres Thomas hit a three-run homer, and Ted Simmons had four hits and scored two runs as the Atlanta Braves snapped a six-game losing streak tonight with a 7–2 victory over the Montreal Expos. David Palmer (6–8) gave up five hits in five and a third innings for the victory. Gene Garber pitched the last two innings for his 11th save. Jay Tibbs (4–6) was the losing pitcher, giving up eight hits and five runs in six innings. Atlanta went ahead in the second inning when Simmons led off with a double off the center-field wall. A fly ball by Rafael Ramirez moved Simmons to third and he scored on Ozzie Virgil’s sacrifice fly to left. The Braves added four runs on four hits against Tibbs in the sixth.
The Yankees’ Kiddie Korps did not have a good day yesterday. Bob Tewksbury developed a stiff shoulder and Scott Nielsen developed a pitch that the Chicago White Sox hit early and often. Nielsen made only his third major-league start, but he gained the distinction of giving up more runs and more hits in a game than any other Yankee pitcher this season. The White Sox battered the rookie for eight runs and 13 hits as they posted an 8–3 victory that temporarily interrupted the Yankees’ march toward the first-place Boston Red Sox.
The Milwaukee Brewers fell to the Oakland Athletics, 3–2. Carney Lansford hit a two-run triple to center field with two out in the eighth inning to give Oakland the victory. Lansford delivered against the reliever, Mark Clear (2–4). The ball got past the center fielder, Robin Yount, who tried to make a diving catch, and Dwayne Murphy and Bruce Bochte scored on the hit. Dan Plesac, a relief pitcher, walked Tony Phillips to open the A’s eighth and was relieved by Clear after Phillips was forced at second on Murphy’s attempted sacrifice. Jose Canseco popped out to first and Bochte walked before Lansford tripled. The loss was the Brewers’ first of the season in which they led after seven innings. The Oakland reliever, Bill Mooneyham (3–3), was the winning pitcher. Dave Leiper and Doug Bair finished, as Bair got his third save.
The Pittsburgh Pirates topped the Padres, 4–3. Jim Morrison’s single to center with two outs in the bottom of the ninth scored Mike Brown from second base with the tiebreaking run. Trailing by 2–0 in the top of the ninth, the Padres rallied to take the lead on a homer by Marvell Wynne and Steve Garvey’s two-out two-run homer. Craig Lefferts (6–4) got the first batter in the bottom of the ninth but Johnny Ray singled and Brown singled, driving out Lefferts. Rich Gossage came on and retired R. J. Reynolds on a flyout. Tony Pena tied the game with a single to center and Morrison followed with his game-winning single.
Dwight Evans drove in three runs and Roger Clemens notched his 16th victory tonight to help the Red Sox snap a three-game losing streak with a 9–4 triumph over the Seattle Mariners. Clemens (16–2) was making his first appearance against Seattle since he struck out a major league-record 20 batters against the Mariners April 29 at Fenway Park. The right-hander allowed six hits, struck out eight and walked two in eight innings. Joe Sainbito pitched the ninth for Boston. Evans delivered a two-out, two-run single to cap a three-run first and added a run-scoring single in the sixth. Bill Buckner and Marty Barrett each had three hits for Boston.
The Cardinals edged the Dodgers, 2–1. Andy Van Slyke hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the seventh to give St. Louis the victory. Bob Forsch (8–6) allowed six hits, walked none and struck out three over seven and one-third innings in the 100-degree heat at Busch Memorial Stadium. Todd Worrell pitched the final inning for his 16th save. Bob Welch (4–8), who has won one of his last 16 starts, allowed just one unearned run and three hits before Van Slyke’s fifth homer broke a 1–1 tie. Welch pitched seven innings, allowed five hits, struck out six and walked none.
Minnesota Twins 0, Baltimore Orioles 1
Toronto Blue Jays 3, California Angels 9
San Francisco Giants 6, Chicago Cubs 11
Philadelphia Phillies 2, Cincinnati Reds 5
Texas Rangers 3, Detroit Tigers 5
New York Mets 4, Houston Astros 5
Cleveland Indians 6, Kansas City Royals 4
Atlanta Braves 7, Montreal Expos 2
Chicago White Sox 8, New York Yankees 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Oakland Athletics 3
San Diego Padres 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Boston Red Sox 9, Seattle Mariners 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Born:
Evan Dietrich-Smith, NFL center and guard (Green Bay Packers, Tampa Bay Buccaneers), in Salinas, California.
Julius Williams, NFL linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars), in Decatur, Georgia.
Died:
Alfredo Binda, 83, Italian road cyclist (first to win Giro d’Italia x 5; World Road Race C’ship 1927, 1930, 1932).
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