President Reagan is willing to negotiate on disputed issues in the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty as a way of bridging differences with the Soviet Union over space-based missile defenses, Administration officials said today. The officials said this was one of the positive signals in a draft response to a letter last month from Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. The Soviet Union contends that the Americans’ space-based missile defense program, known popularly as “Star Wars,” will violate the 1972 ABM treaty, and the United States says it will not. Administration officials seem to suggest that the United States is ready to deal with Soviet concerns in the context of that treaty.
Officials appear to be hinting that the Americans wanted the Russians to read this as a signal to bargain on the space-based defenses without Mr. Reagan’s saying so explicitly. In an apparent effort to deter the United States from developing space-based missile defenses, the Soviet Union has proposed that the two sides commit themselves not to withdraw from the ABM treaty for 15 or 20 years and tighten the language on allowable research, development and testing of new missile defense systems. The United States has already said that it will abide by a “strict interpretation” of the treaty. “That was our response in speeches and press guidance,” an official said, “and what the President may now be suggesting is that he is willing to make commitments.” The officials were careful not to specify the details of Mr. Reagan’s offer. Some said the proposal itself was short on specifics. “We are bargaining, after all,” an official said.
Meanwhile, a White House spokesman, Edward P. Djerejian, confirmed that Mr. Reagan had approved the basic thrust of the answer to Mr. Gorbachev’s letter of June 23 and that American envoys were about to consult the allies on it. Mr. Djerejian said the final version of the response would be sent to Mr. Gorbachev before the end of July. Mr. Djerejian and other White House officials said that the response would be “comprehensive,” and would address not only the content of the Gorbachev letter, but the latest arms control proposals made by Soviet negotiators in Geneva. Those proposals call for deep cuts in offensive nuclear forces in return for strict limits on the development of defenses. Officials said Mr. Reagan’s proposed response was positive and friendly, and expressed a willingness to compromise and reach agreement. But the officials also said the draft was ambiguous in content.
Moscow is bidding vigorously for preeminence in space while all major American rocket systems have been grounded by failure. Already this year, the Soviet Union has conducted more than 40 launchings, established a large new space station and ferried astronauts between stations in orbit for the first time.
The Soviet Union announced that it has appointed the director of a Leningrad nuclear station to head a new ministry for atomic energy, set up to prevent a repeat of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that has claimed 28 lives so far. A Politburo report on a government commission’s investigation into the April 26 disaster said that the new ministry, to be headed by Nikolai F. Lukonin, is to monitor safety and “raise the standards of management and responsibility for the development of nuclear power engineering.”
President Reagan participates in a signing ceremony for Proclamation 5512, to commemorate Captive Nations Week, 1986.
Twelve antitank rockets were fired at the Defense Ministry today, followed minutes later by a powerful car-bomb blast outside the building. Nine people were reported wounded in the two attacks. The police attributed the attacks to Basque separatist guerrillas. A Defense Ministry statement said that six of the rockets hit the building and that one landed in the office of the deputy personnel director, Vice Adm. Carlos Vila Miranda, wounding him slightly. Defense Minister Narcis Serra was in his fourth-floor office but was not hurt, the statement said.
In Paris today, a 20-pound car bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the French terrorist group Direct Action took responsibility, the police said. The bomb shattered windows along the facade of the main building and across the street. The police said the explosives had been packed in the trunk of a car parked outside the heavily protected headquarters. The attacks came a week after a car bombing in Madrid killed 10 members of the paramilitary Civil Guard. The Basque separatist group E.T.A. took responsibility for that attack.
West Germany allowed an East German economist suspected of espionage to return home today. A Bonn Government spokesman said the economist, Herbert Meissner, the deputy head of the East German Academy of Sciences, was allowed to return to East Germany after the Bonn Federal Prosecutor dropped a warrant for his arrest and an investigation into charges that he was a spy. Mr. Meissner, 59 years old, had been in the East German Mission here since last week, unable to leave West Germany without risking arrest.
Giulio Andreotti abandoned an 11-day effort to form a new Italian government, and President Francesco Cossiga turned to caretaker leader Bettino Craxi to try to solve the monthlong problem. Andreotti, the prime minister-designate since June 27 when Craxi lost a routine parliamentary vote, made a final effort to forge a new coalition in talks with leaders of the former five-party ruling coalition but could not agree. If Craxi is equally unsuccessful, Cossiga could name another prime minister-designate.
The “Wedding Countdown,” a feature every morning in The Daily Mail for more than two weeks, proclaimed “2 Days to Go” as Prince Andrew drove his fiancee to a side entrance of Westminster Abbey today in a blue Jaguar for their final wedding rehearsal. When she completes her marriage vows on Wednesday, Sarah Ferguson, the daughter of Prince Charles’s polo manager, will be formally known as the Princess Andrew. But at least until she marries a young officer in the Royal Navy, who happens to be fourth in line to the British throne, she remains “Fergie” to all of Britain and much of the rest of the world.
Roman Catholic and Jewish spokesmen plan to meet in Switzerland this week in an effort to resolve a dispute over the establishment of a Catholic convent at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland, sources said. Franciszek Cardinal Macharski, head of the Archdiocese of Kraków, in which Auschwitz lies, has left Poland to attend the meeting, according to a spokesman for the Cardinal in Kraków.
The Vatican threatened two U.S. nuns with disciplinary measures for signing a pro-choice advertisement discussing abortion that appeared in the New York Times in 1984. Sisters Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey, who run a shelter for the homeless in Charleston, West Virginia, were among 27 nuns, priests and brothers who signed the ad, which held that the church’s ban on abortion is not “the only legitimate Catholic position.” The other 25 have since affirmed their adherence to Catholic doctrine. The Vatican statement said it hopes that the nuns’ order, Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, can resolve the case without the Vatican having to take action.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres secretly flew to Morocco tonight for talks with King Hassan II, Israeli sources here said. The precise purpose of the trip was not immediately disclosed, but it appeared to be an attempt at a dramatic Middle East realignment. The trip by an Israeli leader to an Arab country was the first such high-level visit since Israel signed a peace accord with Egypt in 1979 after Anwar el-Sadat’s historic visit here. Flurry of Mideast Moves Mr. Peres’s trip seemed part of a flurry of Middle East maneuvering coming after King Hussein of Jordan expelled Yasir Arafat’s supporters. The King is battling the Palestine Liberation Organization, led by Mr. Arafat, for the loyalty of Palestinians on the Israeli-occupied West Bank.
The Palestine Liberation Organization has decided to move its Jordanian offices to Iraq and the Sudan if permission from those Governments could be obtained, Palestinian sources said. The P.L.O. will also seek Arab mediation to resolve its conflict with King Hussein of Jordan, who closed the group’s offices in Jordan earlier this month. Palestinian sources here in contact with the P.L.O. said the decisions were made Sunday at the end of a weeklong meeting in Tunis of the central committee of Al Fatah, the largest group within the P.L.O.
The Peking bureau chief of The New York Times spent a sixth day in Government custody today with no sign of a change in his situation. The correspondent, John F. Burns, has not been charged with any offense, but Peking officials have told a United States Embassy official that he is being investigated on suspicion of “entering an area forbidden to foreigners, gathering intelligence information and espionage.” On Monday, Mr. Burns was allowed his first visitors since being detained. He saw his wife, Jane Scott-Long, and their two small children, and met with United States and British Embassy officials as well as the executive editor of The Times, A. M. Rosenthal, and the foreign editor, Warren Hoge.
The executive editor of the New York Times, A. M. Rosenthal, said that China’s detention of the newspaper’s Peking correspondent is damaging China’s image and is detrimental to U.S.-Chinese relations. John F. Burns, 41, has been in police custody in Peking since Thursday. Chinese officials say he is being investigated on suspicion of spying in restricted areas while on a motorcycle trip. After meeting with Burns, Rosenthal said the detention “is not only bad for John Burns, but it is not good for relations between China and the United States, and the longer it goes on the worse it will become.”
Reaffirming a five-year-old policy to trim government spending, Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone’s Cabinet approved guidelines that will limit the increase in the nation’s 1987 budget to only 1%. Although the guidelines allow exceptions for defense, foreign aid and social welfare, the Cabinet’s decision guaranteed that the percentage increase in defense spending next year will be the lowest in 27 years. In actual expenditures, however, the guidelines will allow the second-highest one-year gain in defense outlays since the end of World War II, with a total of $22.93 billion.
Philippine marines and three gunboats surrounded a remote Muslim stronghold in the southern Philippines where separatists rebels were holding a Swiss tourist and his Filipina girlfriend. Hans Kunzli, 45, an interior decorator from Zurich, and Adelaida Gamboa were kidnaped Saturday from the resort island of Santa Cruz off the port city of Zamboanga. Military officials said there has been no contact with the kidnapers. Meanwhile, a 3-year-old Filipino-American girl abducted on Friday was released unharmed by suspected Muslim rebels, police said. Her parents own a rubber and coconut plantation on Basilan island across the strait from Zamboanga.
Mexico could receive $12 billion in new loans under an accord it plans to sign today with the International Monetary Fund, Mexican Government and international lending authorities said. Mexico says it needs the funds to help it cope with a deep recession, plunging revenue from oil exports and the burden of keeping up payments on its present $98 billion in foreign debt.
A correspondent for The Washington Times said today that he and an American freelance journalist were detained for nine hours Friday by the Nicaraguan authorities in Managua and then expelled after their notebooks, film and other materials were confiscated. The correspondent, Glenn Garvin, had written a series of articles, published last week, on what he described as “the increasing political divisions in Nicaragua, the country’s economic chaos and dwindling civil liberties, and the heavy involvement of Cubans in the Sandinista Government.” The State Department said a protest would be filed.
Chilean President Augusto Pinochet said today that he had not decided whether to seek re-election when his eight-year term expires in 1989 despite an earlier hint that he might do so. “There is no personal candidacy, and I wouldn’t announce one now because many things may happen in three years,” the 70-year-old President and army commander said in a speech opening a national gathering of mayors.
At the urging of the White House, Robert J. Brown today officially removed his name from consideration as the next United States Ambassador to South Africa because of difficulties he was expected to face in winning confirmation by the Senate. Mr. Brown withdrew as Mr. Reagan prepared for a major policy address in which White House aides said they expected him to call for the release of Nelson Mandela, the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress. It is already Administration policy, expressed publicly by Secretary of State George P. Shultz, that Mr. Mandela should be released.
Bishop Desmond M. Tutu met with President P. W. Botha for almost two hours today and said later that the two had discussed “the serious and deteriorating situation in the townships, the state of emergency, the crisis in education, the harassment of churches and church people.” The Bishop, Johannesburg’s first black Anglican Bishop and the Archbishop-elect of Cape Town, said he had urged the lifting of the state of emergency that was decreed last month, the withdrawal of troops from the nation’s townships and the release of political prisoners and of the 4,000 to 4,500 people detained without trial under the emergency decree. “I put what I think is the standard case — that the state of emergency does not help solve the situation,” Bishop Tutu said. “It may bring relief, but it’s like an aspirin or a toothpick.”
The Senate approved a two-year extension of export controls designed to prevent sophisticated technology and other goods useful in warfare from falling into Communist hands. The bill, which now goes to the House, would authorize $35.9 million for enforcement in each of the next two fiscal years, up from $29.4 million approved for the current fiscal year.
President Reagan hosts a luncheon with members of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.
Agriculture Department analysts said today that the new farm law, which represented an abrupt policy shift, might cost the Government twice what economists estimated last December. Their official cost estimate for farm programs under the law passed late last year is now $26 billion for the fiscal year 1986, but analysts acknowledged today that it could exceed $31 billion and might soar to $35 billion. The program has not succeeded in stemming the decline in overseas sales of agricultural products, except for cotton and rice, the budget analysts acknowledged. As a result, the costs of taking over and storing surplus crops are mounting rapidly.
The Senate Commerce Committee is expected to be asked Wednesday to approve transferring $400 million to the Federal space program from the Government-owned Conrail freight railroad. The proposal is aimed at helping the Nation Aeronautics and Space Agency through a crisis arising from the collapse of the space shuttle program. The agency has asked Congress for $7.7 billion for the 1987 fiscal year, but has already found itself facing a shortage of nearly $1 billion.
Democratic Senators said today that they might find it impossible to block the appointment of Daniel A. Manion to a Federal appeals court in Chicago. A vote on the hotly contested nomination is expected to come as early as Tuesday. Democrats have questioned the Indiana lawyer’s legal experience and objected to his strongly conservative political views. Democratic Congressional aides who asked not to be quoted said that they could count on only 49 votes against the nomination. Vice President Bush would vote if there was a tie.
The Federal Aviation Administration adopted tougher flammability standards to delay the spread of fire and creation of smoke and toxic fumes in aircraft. The new rule for existing and new commercial aircraft with 20 or more seats requires the use of “more fire-resistant and slower-burning materials than those currently allowed for cabin sidewalls, ceilings, partitions, stowage compartments, galleys and other interior structures,” the Transportation Department said.
The House set a debate and a vote today on whether for the first time in a half century it should impeach a federal judge — Harry Claiborne of Nevada, a spokeswoman for Rep. Robert W. Kastenmeier (D-Wisconsin) said. Kastenmeier is chairman of the House Judiciary subcommittee that originally reported the articles of impeachment. Because federal judges are appointed for life and can be removed only by Congress, Claiborne, who is collecting his $78,700 yearly salary while in prison for tax evasion, could return to his job as a federal judge in Nevada after his prison term unless he is impeached by the House and removed from office by the Senate.
After charging that the cable television industry has too much control over what TV stations a viewer can watch, Federal Communications Commissioner James H. Quello said he will urge his fellow commissioners to reinstate a rule requiring cable TV firms to carry all local stations. The issue is to be voted on by the FCC on August 7. A federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., overturned the panel’s longstanding “must carry” rule in July, 1985, saying the free-speech clause of the Constitution forbids the government to tell a cable company what programs to transmit. The court invited the commission to recast the rule.
A sharp earthquake, the fourth in California in two weeks, shook a wide area of the state today and rattled buildings as far east as Salt Lake City, 700 miles away. There were no injuries, but at least 20 homes were destroyed in California and other extensive damage was reported. Seismologists said that the earthquake at 7:42 AM had a magnitude of 6.2 on the Richter scale of earthquake severity and that its epicenter was in the White Mountains near the town of Bishop, 240 miles southeast of here near the Nevada border. The quake, which opened deep fissures in the earth, sent rocks tumbling down mountain slopes and collapsed the ceiling of a Burger King outlet in Bishop, came 24 hours after a quake measuring 5.5 in the same area. About seven minutes after today’s earthquake, the area shook again with a temblor measured at 5.2 that was followed by dozens of smaller shocks.
Many economists and workplace experts are dissatisfied with the way the Federal Government measures trends in employment. The unemployment rate, determined in a monthly survey of 59,000 households by the Federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, once was the pivotal measurement of job needs and social distress. Now, some experts say, this measure understates the true number of unemployed and the hardships faced by some people counted as employed. The bureau’s other major monthly survey, a recently expanded survey of 250,000 businesses based on payroll records, provides a more useful measurement, they say. Earlier this year, Dr. Janet L. Norwood, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics, told a House subcommittee conducting hearings on the nation’s unemployment measurements, “We know that the unemployment rate by itself does not always reflect adequately the problems experienced by some groups of our population.”
The number of people in San Francisco who got Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) through injecting drugs has almost doubled in six months, prompting one doctor to warn that the city is “on the verge of a second epidemic.” Chris Geoghegan, a disease control investigator with the San Francisco Health Department, said there were 12 cases of AIDS contracted through intravenous drug abuse in the city in December, 1985. As of June, 1986, there were 23, she said. Another 232 cases have been among people who are both drug abusers and homosexuals, said Dr. Dean Echenberg, head of disease control for the Health Department. Homosexuals and intravenous drug users are two groups hit hardest by the disease, which robs the body of its immune system. Dr. Richard Chaisson of San Francisco General Hospital said, “This year, with IV drug users, we’re where we were in 1981 with gay men.”
Detroit contract talks advanced for the first time in a strike that began Wednesday, union leaders reported. The walkout has halted bus service and trash pickups for the city’s 1.2 million residents.
The Army helped the Teamsters Union win a close union election among civilian workers at an Oklahoma military base last October, the Washington Post reported. Army documents obtained by the Post indicated that the intervention was arranged by President Reagan’s political director, Mitchell Daniels, and the office of Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. A complaint issued Feb. 19 by the Federal Labor Relations Authority, which can overturn the election results, said the action violates a law requiring the government to remain neutral in union races. The Army has contested the charge, the Post said.
A 26-year-old woman with a history of child abuse submitted to sterilization to get a lesser charge in a plea agreement disclosed today in County Criminal Court. The woman, Debra A. Williams of Columbia, South Carolina, had been charged with murder in the death by starvation of her 12-week-old son, James Williams, in November 1985.
The first shipment of radioactive fuel, damaged in a March, 1979, accident, has been moved from the Three Mile Island nuclear plant in Pennsylvania on a rail trip to the Department of Energy’s National Engineering Laboratory in Idaho Falls, Ida., officials for both GPU Nuclear Corp., which operates the plant, and the Department of Energy contractor, EG&G Inc., said in Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Giving some pupils alternative textbooks to ones that violate their religious beliefs would open a “floodgate” of demands for different books in every subject, Tennessee’s Education Commissioner testified today. The commissioner, Robert McElrath, was the state’s leading witness in a suit brought in Federal District Court by fundamentalist Christian parents attacking “heathen” textbooks. The parents seek alternative textbooks. Seven fundamentalist Christian families are suing Hawkins County school officials over a 1983 Holt, Rinehart & Winston series. Federal District Judge Thomas Hull is hearing the case without a jury.
The First Amendment rights of prisoners are not violated by a Virginia Department of Corrections policy that limits inmate correspondence, a divided appeals court ruled today. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit voted 2 to 1 to uphold a district court dismissal of a complaint by an inmate, John B. Vester.
Adult magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse will remain available for sale to military personnel despite reservations expressed about such publications by the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, a Pentagon spokesman said. When displayed at military PX (post exchange) and commissary stores, however, the front covers of adult magazines are masked with brown paper except for the magazine title and the magazines are placed high in racks out of reach of children, he said.
Southeast farmers need aid at once because of the two-week drought that has dried up their crops and killed many animals, farmers and state officials told a Federal panel in Atlanta. Temperatures have been near or above 100 degrees Fahrenheit in some areas for 15 days and some cities have had highs above 90 for more than a month.
The Statue of Liberty has been luring 11,000 people a day since her reopening on July 5, more than double the number who visited before the restoration. Visitors reported three-hour waiting periods yesterday. They also said the statue’s main elevator was off limits to visitors all afternoon and added that some computerized exhibits were not working.
Pleasure Island plans are unveiled as part of the Walt Disney World Village, now Disney Springs, in Florida.
Bárbara Palacios Teyde, 22, of Venezuela, is crowned the 35th Miss Universe.
Major League Baseball:
The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Atlanta Braves, 3–1, as Mike Schmidt hit a two-out, two-run single in the ninth inning to lift Philadelphia. With one out in the ninth, a pinch-hitter, Tom Foley, singled to right off Jeff Dedmon (3–5). Gary Redus hit a bouncer back to the mound and Dedmon threw to second, but no one was covering the bag. Ken Oberkfell caught the ball just inside the outfield grass and Dedmon was charged with an error. One out later, Juan Samuel was hit by a pitch to load the bases and Schmidt singled on a 1–2 pitch to left-center field, scoring Foley and Redus.
The Kansas City Royals downed the Baltimore Orioles, 6–1. Steve Balboni doubled home the winning run in a three-run eighth inning and blasted a two-run homer in the ninth. Danny Jackson (6–6) and Steve Farr combined on a six-hitter, aided by three double plays. Farr pitched the final two innings to notch his fifth save after Jackson scattered four hits over seven innings, struck out four and walked four. Frank White, aboard on a leadoff walk in the eighth, scored from first base to snap a 1–1 tie when Balboni’s liner caromed high off the left-field wall. Balboni went to third on Jim Sundberg’s single and scored on Willie Wilson’s two-out single off Odell Jones. Sundberg scored the inning’s third run from second base when the Baltimore first baseman, Jim Traber, missed a pickoff attempt on Wilson by the Oriole catcher, Rick Dempsey. With two out in the ninth, White coaxed a walk off Brad Havens and Balboni followed with his 19th homer.
Right-hander Bill Wegman allowed five hits and pitched into the eighth inning for his first victory in more than a month as Milwaukee beat California, 5–3. Wegman, 3–8, walked one and struck out two to halt a winless streak of six starts. Dan Plesac, who earned his eighth save, entered in the eighth and gave up a sacrifice fly to George Hendrick. After Milwaukee took a 1–0 lead against Ron Romanick, 5–8, on successive second-inning singles by Rob Deer, Dale Sveum and Jim Gantner, the Brewers had a four-run rally in the third. California rookie Wally Joyner’s hitting streak ended at 12 games.
Jerry Mumphrey went 4 for 4 to lead a 13-hit Chicago attack, and Jamie Moyer and Lee Smith combined on a seven-hitter, leading the Cubs to a 6–1 victory over San Diego. Moyer (2–2) allowed five hits, struck out three and walked three before being lifted for a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning. The Cubs nullified two of Moyer’s walks by equaling a season-high with three double plays.
The subject was still unapproachable. The Mets had requested that postgame questions pertain only to baseball, but it only seemed logical to wonder: Did Rick Aguilera pitch tonight with the past on his mind? The disturbing memory of Houston was still there, even as Aguilera continued his impressive comeback and the Mets put an end to their losing streak with a 4–2 victory over the Cincinnati Reds. Aguilera pitched in total and almost effortless command, striking out a career-high nine batters and working a season-high eight innings. One of the two runs he allowed was unearned. Jesse Orosco pitched the ninth for his 13th save.
The Chicago White Sox bowed to the Cleveland Indians, 5–2. Mel Hall drove in two runs with a run-scoring single and his team-high 17th homer and Rich Yett pitched four and two-thirds innings of two-hit relief to lead Cleveland. Yett (4–0) allowed two singles while striking out four and walking none after relieving the starter, Bryan Oelkers, with one out in the fifth. Joel Davis (4–5) was the loser.
The Minnesota Twins blanked the Detroit Tigers, 1–0 in a pitcher’s duel. Kirby Puckett scored from first base on a single, and Frank Viola and Keith Atherton combined on a four-hitter. Puckett, who walked to open the sixth inning, scored when Kirk Gibson made a weak throw from right field and Allan Trammell’s relay was in the dirt following Kent Hrbek’s bloop single. Viola scattered three Detroit hits. He allowed only one runner to reach third base. But Lance Parrish was thrown out at the plate by Mickey Hatcher on a single to left in the second. Viola struck out four and walked one.
The Houston Astros nipped the Expos, 8–7. Glenn Davis and Jose Cruz hit run-scoring singles in the ninth inning tonight, rallying Houston. Cruz went 4 for 5, including a home run and a double, and drove in three runs. Davis also drove in three runs as Houston won its fourth straight game. With Houston trailing, 7–6, Billy Hatcher led off the Astros’ ninth with a single off Jeff Reardon (6–5). Hatcher stole second and, after Denny Walling walked, Davis singled home the tying run. A bunt single by a pinch-hitter, Jim Pankovits, loaded the bases and Cruz then singled home Walling.
Mike Pagliarulo and Rickey Henderson homered in a four-run first inning as New York beat Texas, 8–4. Rookie right-hander Doug Drabek, 2–2, allowed eight hits over 6 ⅔ innings, working out of trouble. Bobby Witt, the fast and wild Texas pitcher, reached a remarkable milestone last night. He walked enough Yankees and pitched few enough innings that he has now walked 93 batters in as many innings this season. In the process, he became the losing pitcher as the Yankees defeated the Rangers. No records are listed in record books for more walks than, or the same number of walks as innings pitched. However, this season no other pitcher in the major leagues who has pitched an appreciable number of innings has walked as many batters as the number of innings he has pitched. Floyd Youmans of Montreal leads the National League in walks with 73, but he has pitched 113 ⅔ innings.
Kurt Young tossed a three-hitter over eight and two-thirds innings and retired 14 batters in a row in one stretch, while Tony Phillips and Dave Kingman hit home runs to lead the Oakland A’s to a 5–2 victory over the Boston Red Sox tonight. Young (7–6), a left-hander, got his first career victory against the Red Sox, whose lead over the Yankees in the American League East dwindled to five games. He walked four and struck out five. Dwight Evans spoiled the shutout with a two-out homer in the ninth, his 13th of the season, after a walk to Don Baylor. Doug Bair came on to get the final out.
The Toronto Blue Jays whipped the Seattle Mariners, 8–3. George Bell and Jesse Barfield hit two home runs each to lead a 16-hit attack for Toronto. The Toronto outfielders opened the fourth inning with back-to-back home runs off Mark Huismann (2–3). Barfield lead off the seventh with his 23rd homer to tie him with Jose Canseco and Mike Pagliarulo for the American League lead. Bell, who also hit a home run in the first inning, is right behind his teammate with 22 homers.
The St. Louis Cardinals topped the San Francisco Giants, 8–3. Willie McGee hit two home runs and a pinch-hitter, Curt Ford, added a three-run double as St. Louis beat Steve Carlton and San Francisco. Carlton, who hit a three-run homer in the second inning, fell to 4–10 over all, including 0–2 in three starts for the Giants. He gave up three earned runs on five hits in six innings. McGee connected for a bases-empty homer in the first inning and a two-run shot in the fourth. It was the first time McGee had hit two home runs in a game since Game 3 of the 1982 World Series against Milwaukee.
Philadelphia Phillies 3, Atlanta Braves 1
Kansas City Royals 6, Baltimore Orioles 1
Milwaukee Brewers 5, California Angels 3
San Diego Padres 1, Chicago Cubs 6
New York Mets 4, Cincinnati Reds 2
Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 5
Minnesota Twins 1, Detroit Tigers 0
Montreal Expos 7, Houston Astros 8
Texas Rangers 4, New York Yankees 8
Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 5
Toronto Blue Jays 8, Seattle Mariners 3
San Francisco Giants 3, St. Louis Cardinals 8
Trading volume on Wall Street sank to its lowest level in two months yesterday, and stock prices were mostly lower as investors, fearing a repeat of the volatility of the last two Mondays, decided that inactivity was the wisest investment decision. Another cause of the contraction in volume, according to traders, was the Government report, due today, of the gross national product for the second quarter. Most experts believe the report will confirm weakness in the nation’s economy. The Dow Jones industrial average, which dropped 62 points on Monday, July 7 and more than 27 points on Monday, July 14, gained a meager 1.13 points yesterday, to 1,779.11, while other indicators were declining moderately.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1779.11 (+1.13)
Born:
Jason Thompson, NBA power forward and center (Sacramento Kings, Golden State Warriors, Toronto Raptors), in Camden, New Jersey.
Wesley Woodyard, NFL linebacker (Denver Broncos, Tennessee Titans), in LaGrange, California.
Betty Gilpin, American actress (“GLOW”), in New York, New York.
Diane Guerrero, American actress and singer (Encanto), in Passaic, New Jersey.
Died:
Virginia Hewitt, 60, American actress (Carol — “Space Patrol”), of cancer.
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