President Reagan, in a draft of his response to the latest Soviet arms proposals, has decided against including any explicit overall formula to limit defenses against missile attacks in return for deep cuts in offensive nuclear forces, Administration officials said today. Western diplomats and some State Department officials had been pressing for such a compromise to break the long deadlock in arms talks. Mr. Reagan’s decision, as stated in a draft of a letter to Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, is intended to show that he understands Moscow’s domestic and international goals and the reasons that the Soviet Union does not want an expensive race in defensive technologies, officials said. “The President emphasizes his agenda, mainly big cuts in offensive forces, his commitment to defenses, but gets across the idea that he knows Gorbachev needs a quid pro quo to buy time for competition with us on defenses,” a high-ranking official said. Administration officials said Mr. Reagan’s preliminary decision entailed several specific counterproposals to Moscow, including some “new ideas.” One of these new ideas was described by officials as highly unusual, but they did not elaborate on it or give other specifics.
According to the sources, Mr. Reagan does not respond directly to Soviet proposals to ban deployment of space-based defensive weapons for 15 to 20 years and to negotiate on restricting research to laboratory testing. Moscow has made such limits a condition for its agreement to major reductions in intercontinental-range missiles and bombers. “The good news is that he talks about these issues, about his Strategic Defense Initiative and about the Antiballistic Missile Treaty” of 1972, an Administration official said. “The bad news is that he does not answer the Gorbachev ideas explicitly, and that the connections are not complete.” Several American envoys are being dispatched to consult with allies on the draft of the President’s letter. Mr. Gorbachev wrote to Mr. Reagan late last month. The envoys are expected to return at the end of this week for White House meetings on final decisions. Mr. Reagan and Secretary of State George P. Shultz are said to hope that the letter will lead Moscow to set a date for a summit meeting later this year.
Mr. Gorbachev canceled summit preparations after the American bombing of Libya in April, and he told Mr. Reagan in his letter that a summit meeting would make sense only if it promised “concrete results” on arms limitations. Speaking of the “new ideas” and counterproposals reportedly included in Mr. Reagan’s response, a high Administration said that “it will be up to the Russians to stitch these all together” to see that the President is trying to take their concerns into account. Most officials stressed that the tone of the draft was much like that of the Gorbachev letter, positive and intended to convey a willingness to bargain.
The Politburo report issued Saturday on the Chernobyl nuclear disaster seemed a far cry from the terse initial announcement issued 68 hours after an explosion ruptured the fourth reactor. Instead of the simple “accident” reported then, the Politburo this time spoke of “gross breaches,” “grave consequences,” direct losses amounting to $2.7 billion, hundreds of thousands of medical examinations and penalties against high officials ranging from firings to criminal proceedings. Yet beyond the catalogue of damage and the lists of culprits, much of which has been reported in the press in the three months since the disaster, the Politburo statement offered only a new hint about what had caused the explosion in the fourth reactor — an unspecified and unauthorized experiment. Although the reactor was down for routine maintenance, the Politburo said, managers and specialists at the Chernobyl reactor conducted experiments with the “turbogenerator operation regimes,” experiments that violated operating procedures and were neither cleared with higher authorities nor properly prepared for.
Soviet oil production rose to 312 million tons (about 2.2 billion barrels) in the first half of 1986, putting it on track for passing the 600-million-ton level this year after two years of falling output, the Communist Party newspaper Pravda reported. The six-month figures show a generally improving economy. Areas targeted in Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s modernization drive recorded sharp increases, with the production of industrial robots up 25%, calculators up 16% and metal-cutting tools up 28%. However, there was a 4% drop in foreign trade.
President Reagan places a call to the First Lady, who is currently in London, UK.
An Israeli navy patrol boat captured a number of guerrillas in a vessel flying a Cypriot flag off the Lebanese coast, an Israeli army spokesman said. The crew and an undisclosed number of guerrillas were brought to Israel for questioning. The army said the guerrillas belong to the Fatah faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization and are still being held. Five crew members were released. The announcement gave no indication of whether the boat was on a mission to attack Israeli targets.
The sister of an American journalist held hostage in Lebanon arrived in Damascus Sunday to try to meet President Hafez al-Assad in her mission to free her brother and other hostages, state-run Damascus radio said. Peggy Say, sister of Terry A. Anderson, manager of the Beirut bureau of The Associated Press, arrived from Cyprus where she said at a news conference that her visit to Damascus would fulfill her promise to her father and brother before they died, “to exert all efforts to release Terry.” Mr. Anderson’s sister said she believed President Assad “had a lot of influence in this area” and she would take his advice.
New York Times correspondent John F. Burns, jailed in Peking on suspicion of espionage, was visited by his wife and U.S. and British officials, the first Westerners to see him since his detention early Friday. U.S. Embassy spokesman Lynn Noah said the reporter is “well and in good spirits.” Two senior Times editors are still waiting for approval to visit Burns. Chinese authorities have said that Burns, 41, is being held for “carrying out intelligence activities” during an unauthorized motorcycle trip into a restricted area of central China earlier this month.
Chief Justice Warren Burger has stayed a mandate ordering Irene Marcos, daughter of Ferdinand E. Marcos, the deposed Philippine President, to testify before a grand jury or go to jail for contempt of court, a spokesman for the Supreme Court said today.
A 3-year-old American girl has been kidnaped in the southern Philippines, an army spokesman said in Manila. The child, identified as Linaces Cawley, was seized Friday while playing outside her house on Basilan Island. Manila newspapers said she is the granddaughter of a Filipino-American, William Cawley. Her abductors were not known. Last week, Muslim rebels released 10 Roman Catholic nuns and an American Protestant missionary kidnaped in separate incidents on Mindanao Island.
A district judge in Auckland ordered today that two French agents convicted of bombing a ship operated by the environmentalist group Greenpeace appear in court in September to answer new charges. It was not immediately clear what effect this ruling would have on an agreement for the two to be released on Tuesday to the French-administered atoll of Hao and for France to pay New Zealand $7 million in compensation for the bombing.
The Nicaraguan Government is claiming an important victory in the wake of the uneventful celebration Saturday of the seventh anniversary of the Sandinista takeover. A leading Sandinista official, Commander Rene Vivas, said thousands of Government agents spent “months of arduous work” and used techniques not known to have been previously used in this country to prevent a rebel attack on the celebration.
A Soviet-built MI-17 helicopter of the Nicaraguan air force crashed on takeoff near the country’s Caribbean coast, killing 16 soldiers aboard, Interior Minister Tomas Borge said. One soldier survived the crash near the town of Bluefields in eastern Zelaya province, he said. Zelaya has been the scene of fighting between government troops and U.S.-backed Nicaraguan contras, but Borge did not indicate if there was any evidence that the rebels had fired on the Sandinistas’ helicopter.
Nicaragua has completed building a major airport on the Atlantic coast near the Honduran border, the pro-government newspaper El Nuevo Diario said. The airport, at Puerto Cabezas, 250 miles northeast of Managua, has an 8,250-foot runway that can handle planes as large as a Boeing 727, the paper said. The new runway is slightly shorter than one at Punta Huete, near Managua, which U.S. experts say can handle any Soviet plane.
Nearly 1,000 supporters of Nicaragua’s Sandinista government held a rally at Los Angeles High School in California to celebrate the seventh anniversary of the overthrow of dictator Anastasio Somoza, while about 30 anti-Sandinista protesters gathered across from the school, chanting “Somoza was first, Ortega is next.” Somoza was overthrown on July 19, 1979, and a military junta was set up headed by Daniel Ortega, who is now president of Nicaragua. One speaker at the pro-Sandinista rally was newspaper columnist Alexander Cockburn, who blamed U.S. policies for unrest in the Central American nation and denied that the Nicaraguan revolution was engineered by the Soviet Union or Cuba. But across the street, anti-Sandinista speaker Benjamin Cuadra took an opposite view, accusing the Sandinistas of having “sold out the Nicaraguan revolution to Soviet imperialism.”
Salvadoran Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas disclosed that he met earlier this month in Colombia with Salvadoran rebel leaders in an effort to arrange a third round of peace talks between the government and guerrillas. He said he also met last week with President Jose Napoleon Duarte. “I can only say that the third meeting is still planned,” the archbishop said, “and that preparation continues, although slowly.”
Dense clouds and light rain swept over the tropical Beni region of Bolivia today, preventing further helicopter raids by a Bolivian police unit and American support troops against cocaine-processing centers. The strike force used the day to review intelligence reports after three straight failures to find drug centers. A police source said 200 additional members of the police unit known as the Leopards were to have been flown to Trinidad, 260 miles northeast of La Paz, to augment 72 members of the Leopards already taking part in the operation, but the bad weather forced a delay in that movement and it was put off until Monday.
A statement from Robert J. Brown on Monday officially removing himself from consideration as the next Ambassador to South Africa was expected by senior Reagan Administration officials. The Administration reportedly decided late Friday not to go ahead with naming Mr. Brown, a black businessman from North Carolina, because of problems raised by his business background. Mr. Brown is head of a public-relations firm in High Point, North Carolina.
The South African police disrupted a church service in Cape Town yesterday for relatives of people who are being detained under that nation’s emergency decree, and they later fired tear gas at the congregation and arrested at least three worshipers, a participant in the service said. In a black township near Johannesburg, meanwhile, more than 100 soldiers and policemen briefly detained a high-ranking international delegation of labor leaders, including Lane Kirkland, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., and the group’s leader, John Vanderveken, general secretary of the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions. The labor delegation also met yesterday with Bishop Desmond M. Tutu, who is scheduled to meet today with President P. W. Botha to discuss the state of emergency declared on June 12. In Pretoria, the state Bureau for Information said security forces killed two more blacks yesterday in the violence that has claimed more than 2,000 lives since September 1984. The official death toll since the current emergency decree was imposed now stands at 164.
California’s new attitude toward companies doing business in South Africa, Governor George Deukmejian says, should influence Congress and his friend, President Reagan. The Governor, a conservative Republican who had opposed divestment, made a switch last week, two days before the University of California’s Board of Regents decided Friday to divest the university’s portfolio of all South Africa-related holdings.
President Reagan’s chief economic adviser predicted continued economic growth for the U.S., but a leading economist cast doubt on the nation’s financial health. “The conditions leading to recession in the past are not around today,” said Beryl Sprinkel, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, appearing on NBC’s “Meet The Press.” “The leading indicators are very strong. Interest rates have been going down, the stock market has been on a rising trend most of the time. The prospects are for continued improvement in economic activity.” But Alan Greenspan disputed the Administration’s expectations. “It’s too early to say we’re on the edge of a recession,” Greenspan said, “(but) there is no question that the underlying framework is deteriorating.”
President Reagan has lunch with Vice President and Mrs. George Bush.
Efforts to declare English the nation’s official language appear to be gaining strength in parts of the country despite opposition from civil rights groups and ethnic organizations. Officers of U.S. English, a Washington, D.C., organization that is spearheading the campaign nationally, say that its members are seeking passage of legislation or voter-initiated referendums to declare English the official language of 14 states, including California.
U.S. military officials in Turkey, Greece, Korea, Thailand and the Philippines have wasted at least $1.7 million in foreign aid, much of it on such extravagances as luxury housing and an improper flight to a birthday party, according to Pentagon audits obtained by United Press International. In Turkey, Defense Department officials used security assistance funds to lease an apartment for visiting dignitaries where a steward served meals and unlimited alcohol, the Pentagon’s inspector general reported. Visitors occupied the apartment for only 2 ½ months during the year it was leased, the December, 1985, report said. Pentagon officials disputed many of the findings, calling the expenditures “valid” and “appropriate.”
An earthquake measuring 5.9 on the Richter scale shook the Fox Islands near Unalaska, Alaska, causing minor damage in the town, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake, the fourth in the last 24 hours, was centered about 40 miles southwest of Unalaska, a fishing community in the Aleutian Islands chain. No injuries were reported in the temblors.
Reports of fires and leaking fuel in 1984-86 Ford Motor Co. E350 vans are being investigated by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Virginia officials, who license the vans for use as ambulances, said that one-third to one-half of local rescue agencies using the ambulances have reported incidents of fuel leaking or spurting out when the gasoline cap is removed. Ford said in a statement that it had inspected several problem vehicles and identified possible contributing factors, such as non-Ford fuel caps that do not properly relieve pressure.
Urban police departments could substantially increase the arrest, prosecution and conviction of career criminals by establishing special units to hunt down repeat offenders. That conclusion, based on a study of the Washington D.C., Police Department and financed by a Justice Department grant, said such units may be the answer to combatting criminals who commit five or more serious crimes a week. Criminals picked up by the Washington unit were more likely to be prosecuted and convicted on felony charges, and more likely to be imprisoned than those arrested by other officers. Unit officers made about half as many total arrests as non-unit officers, but the apprehensions were for more serious offenses.
Train traffic resumed through the site of a tank-car derailment in Miamisburg, Ohio, that spewed toxic phosphorus fumes for five days and forced the evacuation of about 30,000 people. CSX Transportation, the operator of the train that derailed July 8, sent a train across the track at low speeds to check on rebuilt portions of the track and a bridge, Fire Capt. Mike Sennet said. Officials said that workers had removed the last phosphorus from the tank car. Ten families were evacuated as a precaution during the phosphorous removal but later returned to their homes.
Forest fires are a greater risk to people, their property and the nation’s forests and brushlands than they have at any other time this century, according to Federal and state forestry officials. The risk has grown as as Americans have built second homes, retirement homes, or fled the city to wilderness areas. Wildfire danger, the Forest Service warns, has not been so severe since the catastrophic fires of 1800’s.
Philadelphia’s blue-collar employees voted to end their 20-day strike against the city, but it was uncertain whether the strike was actually over. On Saturday nearly 2,500 sanitation workers, faced with contempt of court and loss of their jobs, returned to work. On Sunday about 6,000 of the 10,000 other workers still on strike reportedly voted to return to work, also without a new contract.
About 250 people in Uniontown, Pennsylvania watched as Ku Klux Klan members set fire to a cross at a rally this weekend after a counterprotest that drew 400 people. At the counterprotest Saturday, sponsored by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Jake Milliones, president of the Pittsburgh Board of Education, said: “The K.K.K. is part of our history. When they go away, then we will go away.” The authorities said both demonstrations were peaceful. The Klan leader, Jim Blair, told his crowd Saturday night, “It’s time for whites to come together and unite under one banner.” Mr. Blair is the Imperial Wizard of the Invisible Empire, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The four-hour Klan rally was held on a farm 60 miles south of Pittsburgh. The counterprotest was at the Fayette County Courthouse.
Four adults and a child died in Moorestown, New Jersey, when a stolen state police cruiser, being pursued by state troopers, ran a red light at high speed and crashed with a second car on a heavily traveled highway, the police said. Another child was critically injured. The police said the troopers’ car was stolen by a man they identified as Steve G. Bolling, 25 years old, of Browns Mills, New Jersey.
Westbound traffic in California on Interstate-80 in Fairfield was “hog wild” for more than an hour after a truck overturned and spilled 62 large pigs onto the roadway, the California Highway Patrol said. Traffic was backed up for about five miles while CHP officers and a crew from the Fairfield Fire Department corralled the squealing critters. “The pigs and the truck were just everywhere,” a CHP spokeswoman said. She said the truck driver, whose name was not released, was not hurt.
A tree surrounded by 10 stones bearing the names of the 10 astronauts who have died in the line of duty was dedicated Saturday by an organization of women who are pilots. The stones bear the names of the seven astronauts who died in the Challenger on January 28, and the three Apollo 1 astronauts who died in 1967. The International Group of Women Pilots sponsored the service at the International Forest of Friendship south of Atchison, Kansas. The group was founded by Amelia Earhart, an Atchison native who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by air.
Farmland prices are not falling as steeply as they had been over the last five years. To many farm experts, the slowdown might be a sign that the farm depression is easing. While the land decline has caused hardships, the shakeout of inflated values has also brought land prices into a healthier relationship with land income, the experts say.
Scenic train rides are being derailed by the liability-insurance crisis. Rail clubs around the country report that they have canceled dozens of scheduled excursions by privately owned rail cars and locomotives because of soaring insurance rates. “We’re only able to get $1 million insurance for the price of $5 million last year,” said an official of the National Railway Historical Society chapter in Bluewater, Michigan.
Despite earlier assumptions that most of the stern section of the Titanic disintegrated when the ship sank 74 years ago, examination of photographs taken Saturday by the unmanned sled Angus have shown that most of the stern section lies on the ocean floor relatively intact. This was reported yesterday by Dr. Robert D. Ballard, leader of the expedition from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts that has been surveying the wreckage of the great luxury liner. Dr. Ballard reported by radio to his home base at Woods Hole that he hopes today to descend in the Alvin, a three-man submersible vessel, to explore the stern. He said he hoped to see whether the name of the British liner’s home port, Southampton, is still visible on the stern.
British Open Men’s Golf, Turnberry: Australian Greg Norman wins his first major championship at even-par, 5 strokes clear of runner-up Gordon J. Brand. The 31-year-old long-hitter led by a shot going into this final round, just as he had in this year’s Masters and United States Open. He failed to win either, causing some to wonder if he could win a major event. He had tied for the 1984 United States Open after 72 holes, only to be beaten by Fuzzy Zoeller in the 18-hole playoff. Norman answered his doubters today, blasting out of a bunker into the hole for a birdie at No. 3. He never looked back on his way to a one-under-par 69. This gave the 6-foot-1-inch strong man of golf an even-par 280 and the slim silver cup that has gone to the winner since 1872. It also gave him the biggest margin of victory in a British Open since Johnny Miller won by six shots in 1976.
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The Baltimore Orioles topped the Minnesota Twins, 8–3. Jim Traber, a rookie substitute for the injured first baseman, Eddie Murray, hit a three-run homer and had another run batted in for the Orioles. Traber, recalled from Rochester of the International League last week when Murray was put on the 21-day disabled list, went 3 for 4 as the Orioles had 13 hits. He hit the home run in the first inning, had a run-scoring single in the sixth and doubled in the eighth and scored on a home run by Larry Sheets..
The Toronto Blue Jays defeated the California Angels, 6–3. Lloyd Moseby’s run-scoring single broke a 10th-inning tie and George Bell followed with a three-run homer for the Blue Jays. The Angels scored twice in the ninth to tie at 2–2, but Damaso Garcia opened the Toronto 10th with a single against Doug Corbett (2–2). Garcia took second on Tony Fernandez’s sacrifice bunt and remained at second on an infield hit by Garth Iorg. Moseby, who led off the ninth with his 14th homer, lined Corbett’s first pitch to right for a 3–2 lead. Donnie Moore relieved Corbett, and Bell hit his 20th home run.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Chicago Cubs, 5–4. Jeffrey Leonard’s eighth-inning infield single tied the game and Chris Brown’s sacrifice fly scored Rob Thompson with the go-ahead run for San Francisco. The Giants started the eighth trailing, 4–3, but Randy Kutcher reached base on a fielding error by the shortstop, Shawon Dunston. Thompson’s single chased the starter, Dennis Eckersley (3–6), and Leonard singled against Lee Smith. Smith struck out Chili Davis, but Brown’s fly let Thompson slide home ahead of the throw from the center fielder, Dave Martinez.
Juan Samuel had four hits and scored four runs today as the Philadelphia Phillies pounded Cincinnati, 9–3, to end the Reds’ five-game winning streak. Charles Hudson (5–9) ended a personal six-game losing streak as he allowed five hits in eight innings. Kent Tekulve got the last three outs. Hudson struck out seven and walked three in 90-degree heat for his first victory since May 14. Von Hayes hit a two-run double in the sixth and singled in a run in the seventh for the Phillies. Dave Parker hit his third homer in three days for Cincinnati’s last two runs. The first run came on Eric Davis’s homer in the second, his 13th of the season. Ron Roenicke had three hits and drove in three runs to raise his batting average with runners in scoring position to .407.
The Detroit Tigers blanked the Texas Rangers, 4–0. Eric King, a rookie, pitched a six-hitter for his first major league shutout as the Tigers swept the four-game series and extended their winning streak to five games. King (6–2) struck out six and walked one in his second complete game of the season. He allowed only one runner to reach third base. Kirk Gibson had the game-winning run batted in for the fifth consecutive game, a major league record. Scott Fletcher of the Rangers extended his hitting streak to 16 games. Jose Guzman (9–9) lasted only three and two-thirds innings and tied a Texas team record by hitting three batters.
The Mets had not played a game like this since last summer, not since that 19-inning marathon with the Atlanta Braves that began on July 4 and ended at 3:55 AM on July 5. That game, which the Mets won, was full of strange and unpredictable twists, and so was this one today, which the Mets lost. But when it finally came to an end — 15 innings and 5 hours 29 minutes after it began — they talked about coming back. The deciding run was full of controversy — Bill Doran was ruled safe at the plate on a one-out, bases-loaded bouncer to first by Kevin Bass — and it gave the Astros a third straight victory, 9–8, after they had dropped the series opener Thursday night.
The Kansas City Royals nipped the Cleveland Indians, 3–2. Frank White hit the first pitch from Dickie Noles in the bottom of the ninth inning for a home run to provide the victory. Noles (2–2) relieved John Butcher, the starter, with one out in the seventh. White’s 12th home run of the season completed a rally from a 2–0 sixth-inning deficit. The Royals’ Steve Farr (7–1) pitched one inning of relief after Dennis Leonard allowed six hits in the first eight innings. George Brett, playing for the first time since missing 14 games with an injured right rotator cuff, was hitless in four times at bat, including a run-scoring groundout.
Bob Tewksbury, who developed a stiff shoulder while throwing in the bullpen Saturday, did not throw yesterday. “I didn’t do anything today,” the pitcher said. Neither did his teammates, and some of them played in the game the Yankees lost to the Chicago White Sox, 8–0. The White Sox, who have averaged 7.4 runs in Neil Allen’s seven victories, knocked Bob Shirley out of the game in the third inning and continued their assault against Tim Stoddard, holding a 7–0 lead after three innings. The Yankees, to look at the broader picture, haven’t done much generally on Sundays this season. Allen’s crisp two-hitter marked the second straight Sunday shutout and the seventh successive Sunday setback for the Yankees. Sunday, in fact, is the only day of the week on which the Yankees have a losing record, 5 victories and 11 defeats.
The Milwaukee Brewers split with the Oakland Athletics in a doubleheader, winning 7–2 in the opener, then losing 4–2 in the nightcap. Ernest Riles gave the Brewers the lead with a three-run home run in the fourth inning, and Dale Sveum followed with another homer in the opener of a doubleheader. Teddy Higuera (11–7) won with a seven-hit performance over seven innings. In the second game, Alfredo Griffin’s two-out single in the third inning capped a three-run rally for the A’s. The winner, Jose Rijo (4–8), pitched his second complete game of the season, yielding seven hits, striking out 12 and walking one. He got the last five outs on strikeouts. Gorman Thomas gave Milwaukee a 1–0 lead in the second inning with a home run, his first since returning to the team as a free agent. The A’s Dave Kingman hit his 21st homer of the season in the sixth.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the San Diego Padres, 4–2. Johnny Ray singled in a run and Jim Morrison doubled in another during Pittsburgh’s three-run sixth inning, and Junior Ortiz hit two sacrifice flies. Larry McWilliams (2–5) pitched three hitless innings for the victory after relieving the starter, Mike Bielecki, in the sixth. McWilliams retired a batter after a 25-minute rain delay in the ninth, then Don Robinson got the last two outs for his fourth save. After the Padres had taken a 2–1 lead in the top of the sixth, Barry Bonds singled, breaking an 0-for-23 slump, and Bill Almon walked to chase the San Diego starter, Dave Dravecky (7–8). Ray greeted Craig Lefferts with a single that scored Bonds. Morrison followed with his second double of the game, a drive off the left-field wall. After an intentional walk and a popout, Ortiz’s sacrifice fly scored Ray.
Scott Bradley drove in five runs with a home run and a single today to help the Seattle Mariners rout the Boston Red Sox, 9–5. As a pinch-hitter in the fourth inning, Bradley hit a three-run home run. He then hit a two-run single during the five-run sixth inning. The East Division-leading Red Sox lost for the fifth time in their last seven games. Don Baylor hit a two-run homer, the 300th of his career, for Boston in the eighth inning. The winner, Jerry Reed (2–0), went five innings, allowing seven hits and three runs. Boston took a 2–0 lead in the first inning on Dwight Evans’s two-run single. A run-scoring groundout by Rich Gedman made it 3–0 in the third. The Mariners went ahead with a four-run fourth. Singles by Alvin Davis, Danny Tartabull and Spike Owen produced one run before Bradley hit his second homer of the season.
The Los Angeles Dodgers downed the St. Louis Cardinals, 7–2. Franklin Stubbs and Steve Sax hit bases-empty home runs and Rick Honeycutt combined with two relievers on a four-hitter for Los Angeles. Honeycutt (6–5) gave up all four hits as he pitched into the seventh. Tom Niedenfuer ended a threat with two on and none out in the seventh. Ken Howell then pitched two innings for his seventh save. The Dodgers had 14 hits, the last a two-run single by Stubbs in the ninth. Two other Dodger runs scored earlier after throwing errors by Mike Heath, the St. Louis catcher, on stolen bases. Willie McGee tripled in St. Louis’s first run in the first, then hit a homer in the sixth. Mariano Duncan gave Los Angeles a 1–0 lead in the first when he singled, stole second and third and scored on Heath’s first error. Ozzie Smith singled and McGee tripled in the first for the Cardinals’ first run, but Honeycutt picked McGee off third. Sax matched his career high for a season in the third inning with his fifth homer of the year, giving the Dodgers a 2–1 lead.
Minnesota Twins 3, Baltimore Orioles 8
Toronto Blue Jays 6, California Angels 3
San Francisco Giants 5, Chicago Cubs 4
Philadelphia Phillies 9, Cincinnati Reds 3
Texas Rangers 0, Detroit Tigers 4
New York Mets 8, Houston Astros 9
Cleveland Indians 2, Kansas City Royals 3
Chicago White Sox 8, New York Yankees 0
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Oakland Athletics 2
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Oakland Athletics 4
San Diego Padres 2, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Boston Red Sox 5, Seattle Mariners 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 7, St. Louis Cardinals 2
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Jermey Parnell, NFL tackle (Dallas Cowboys, Jacksonville Jaguars), in Blytheville, Arkansas.
Daniel Elder, American classical composer, chiefly of choral music (The Heart’s Reflection), in Athens, Georgia.
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Helen Craig, 74, American actress (“Snake Pit”, “They Live by Night”).
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