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President Reagan is prepared to delay deployment of space-based missile defenses for five to seven years if the Soviet Union agrees to expanded testing of the systems in the meantime, Administration officials said today. The offer, the officials said, is contained in a draft response to a letter last month from the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev. In effect, the offer would guarantee that the United States would continue to adhere for five to seven years to the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which the Soviet Union contends prohibits the space-based defense system, known popularly as “Star Wars.” Under the proposal, Washington would move toward Moscow by extending the time required to withdraw from the ABM treaty and deploy new defenses, if the Russians were to allow research, development and testing of the defenses, known officially as the Strategic Defense Initiative. There is disagreement over the American timetable for deployment of space-based weapons; the earliest estimates call for initial deployment in the early to mid-1990’s.
The ABM pact, which limits existing defenses and prohibits the development, testing or deployment of space-based systems, has no expiration date. Under its present terms, either side can withdraw on six months’ notice. Officials said Mr. Reagan’s proposal was intended to resolve differences with the Soviet Union over his plans to develop a space-based missile defense system and thus clear the way for cuts in offensive nuclear forces. In an evident attempt to delay the American program, Moscow had suggested that the two sides agree to adhere to the ABM pact for 15 to 20 more years, and Soviet negotiators have talked informally of 10 years.
Under the Reagan approach, the United States and the Soviet Union would agree to wait five years after giving notice, plus two more years if they agreed to discuss the possibilities of sharing missile-defense technologies. Research on new systems could be conducted throughout this period, according to the American view, and deployment could begin in the last two years by mutual agreement. Officials expressed the hope that the offer, when delivered by the end of the month, will provide a way of ending an impasse and open the door for a summit meeting later this year.
Nobel Peace laureate Lech Walesa said he fears that Polish authorities are preparing charges against him and other dissidents of the outlawed Solidarity labor union for a major political trial. In a statement released after he was summoned for an eighth round of police questioning in his Baltic coast hometown of Gdansk, the founder of Solidarity gave no indication of what he thought the charges would be. Walesa said those who might be brought to trial include his priest, Father Henryk Jankowski, and two of his former advisers, Bronislaw Geremek and Tadeusz Mazowiecki.
Bettino Craxi announced today that political leaders had reached an understanding under which he would stay on as Italy’s Prime Minister. The political leaders said the agreement between Mr. Craxi, a Socialist, and Ciriaco De Mita, the leader of the Christian Democrats, would bring an end to the crisis that has paralyzed Italy’s Government for almost a month. Mr. Craxi declined to go into details or to say whether there was a full resolution. But he said the talks had laid the foundation for “political stability for the rest of the legislature.” Parliament’s term expires in 1988.
Prince Andrew married Sarah Ferguson before 1,800 invited guests in Westminster Abbey and a global television audience estimated at 300 million. She is now Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York. At its core, under all the layers of pomp, circumstance and tabloid romanticizing, was the simple and dignified marriage ceremony of the established church in which the Queen’s second son today told his bride, “I plight thee my troth.” “I give thee my troth,” Sarah Ferguson replied to Prince Andrew, echoing his pledge of truth and faith. Coming after the royal coach processions with their mounted guards in gleaming breastplates and after a trumpet fanfare, it was an essentially private moment, one that could be seen more clearly by a global television audience estimated at 300 million than by 1,800 invited guests in Westminster Abbey. A moment later, after draping his brocaded stole over the couple’s clasped hands, the 102d Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie, pronounced “that they be man and wife together.” In that instant, Miss Ferguson — whose broad silken train flowed behind her for 17 ½ feet — became not only a wife but also Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York.
The commoners’ fascination with the British royal wedding parade was absolute. “Listen, mate,” a middle-aged man said to his wife, “this world is full of gray, drab plastic people. We need the color from them. History, color, tradition.”
West German officials exchanged a convicted East German spy today for two accused Western agents, Bonn’s chief Government spokesman said. The spokesman, Friedhelm Ost, said in a telephone interview that Bonn freed Hansjorg Thaten, 62 years old, who had been sentenced to three years in prison for spying for East Germany. Mr. Ost said East Germany, in turn, released a man and a 60-year-old woman, but said he did not have their names. Mr. Ost said details of the charges against the two were not immediately available.
Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel ended a 48-hour visit to Morocco tonight and said he and King Hassan II had agreed in principle to have further contacts to advance the cause of peace. But King Hassan, in a speech to Moroccans tonight, emphasized that his talks with Mr. Peres had produced no agreements and that neither side had changed its positions. Israeli and Moroccan officials said an official communique would be issued simultaneously in Morocco and Israel on Thursday. The one-page communique will be the first joint statement by Arab and Israeli leaders since Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty in 1979.
The Palestine Liberation Organization today appealed through its dominant group, Al Fatah, for a meeting of Arab nations to discuss the Israeli-Moroccan talks. Most Arab nations waited to see the outcome of the meeting between King Hassan of Morocco and Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel. The Syrian radio said President Hafez al-Assad spoke Tuesday by telephone with Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, the Libyan leader, about Syria’s decision to break relations with Morocco. So far, Libya, which has a treaty of union with Morocco, has shown no sign of following Syria’s example.
Iraqi warplanes bombed an arms factory just south of Tehran and other targets in Iran including a steel plant, an army camp and two railroad bridges today, a military spokesman said. The attacks ended a three-month lull in Iraqi bombing raids on or near Iranian cities. Iran made no specific mention of the targets as reported by Iraq, but said Iraqi warplanes struck at Tehran’s southern outskirts, injuring seven civilians.
An all-party political conference ended in Sri Lanka with an appeal that the Tamil minority submit proposals on how to end the ethnic war that has killed more than 4,000 people in three years. The six-day conference, called by President Junius R. Jayewardene, also authorized an opposition party leader to negotiate a cease-fire with the guerrillas, most of them Hindus, who are fighting the predominantly Buddhist Sinhalese majority for an independent Tamil homeland in the northern and eastern part of the island. Jayewardene approved plans for negotiations on a possible cease-fire.
The Peking bureau chief of The New York Times, expelled from China after being detained for nearly a week on suspicion of espionage, said here today that he would not have ridden through the Chinese countryside on a motorcycle if he had had any intention of spying. Earlier in the day, the correspondent, John F. Burns, was placed aboard a Chinese state airlines plane for Hong Kong. The official New China News Agency said he had been ousted for “activities incompatible with his status as a journalist,” and authorities told his editors that he had entered a forbidden military zone and taken “numerous photographs of classified objects.” The case grew out of a 1,000-mile motorcycle trip Mr. Burns made into central China in late June and early July.
Japan’s newly reelected Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone promised to placate international partners who are upset over Japan’s huge trade surplus — $52.6 billion at the end of March. But he skirted the issue of whether he hopes to stay in office beyond October, when he is due to step down. In his first news conference since Parliament reelected him Tuesday, Nakasone also promised to overhaul the economy and privatize the state-owned railroads. Nakasone, 68, is nearing the end of his second two-year term as president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, a post that traditionally carries with it the premiership.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee voted 26 to 2 to increase this year’s aid to the Philippines by $250 million to help President Corazon Aquino combat economic problems and Communist insurgents. Rep. Stephen J. Solarz (D-New York), chairman of the Asia subcommittee and sponsor of the increase, said the cash grant represents about one-fourth of the Philippines’ budget deficit and that he hopes it will encourage Japan and other countries to help cover the rest of the deficit. Congress has already appropriated $391 million in aid for the Philippines this year.
Nicaraguan elementary and high schools will make civil defense — including emergency action if a U.S. military force invades — part of the regular curriculum this year. The newspaper El Nuevo Diario said 720,000 youngsters will receive the training in the semester that begins next month on how to act during bombings, earthquakes, other natural disasters and wars. Deputy Education Minister Julian Corrales told the paper that the training will replace previous “superficial courses in civil defense” because of “the growing threat of an American military invasion.”
The Nicaraguan Government said today that its expulsion last week of two American journalists had been a mistake and said they could return when they pleased. In an official communique, the Interior Ministry said the two journalists could work in Nicaragua despite their “abundant misinformation regarding the reality of Nicaragua.”
A civilian judge in Chile indicted an army lieutenant in the fatal burning of a young photographer but ordered the release of the seven other soldiers held as suspects. Witnesses have said that soldiers detained Rodrigo Rojas, 19 — a Chilean living in the United States who had returned to his native country — and a female Chilean companion during a national protest against military rule July 2. According to the witnesses, the soldiers doused the couple with gasoline and set them afire. Rojas died, and his companion remains in critical condition. Originally, 25 soldiers were arrested as suspects, but 17 were released Monday.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz held out the possibility today that the Reagan Administration might join its allies in imposing sanctions against South Africa in two months if Pretoria does not move by then to open negotiations on ending apartheid. Although he repeated President Reagan’s opposition to efforts in Congress to impose economic sanctions, Mr. Shultz, apparently in an effort to delay such moves, introduced the possibility for the first time of joint American-European sanctions in September. He said the Administration wanted the flexibility to increase pressure in coordination with its allies as the situation evolved. In an atmosphere often charged by emotional debate, Mr. Shultz testified for four hours before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The debate was dominated by the sanctions issue. On Tuesday, President Reagan strongly opposed any sanctions, leading many in the committee today to express sentiments ranging from disappointment to outrage.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz said today that the Director of Central Intelligence had assured him that the United States had not given South Africa any intelligence on the principal anti-apartheid guerrilla group. The New York Times reported today that according to current and former Government officials, the United States forwarded sensitive information on the African National Congress, including political intelligence and specific warnings of planned guerrilla attacks. The sources said the sharing of information on the organization began under the Reagan Administration and continued at least into the mid-1980’s. It could not be learned whether the flow of data was continuing, The Times said.
The South African Government offered a broad welcome today to President Reagan’s statement Tuesday on the nation’s crisis and said “foreign intervention and threats” would only promote a siege mentality in Pretoria. Prominent anti-apartheid activists, by contrast, scorned Mr. Reagan’s speech, in which he said the United States should “stay and work, not cut and run” in its relationship with South Africa. The contradictory reactions prompted some political commentators to suggest that the speech had highlighted differences in South Africa that the United States has said it wants to bridge with its policies. “Such contradictory responses within South Africa to President Reagan’s policy speech yesterday show how polarization grows, how little time there really is,” The Star, Johannesburg’s anti-apartheid afternoon newspaper, said in an editorial today.
The South African Government, meanwhile, reported that six more blacks were slain, five of them in the so-called tribal homeland of KwaNdebele north of Pretoria, which is a center of conflict because the government plans to declare it independent later this year.
President Reagan, denouncing “the liberals in Washington,” said today that this year’s Congressional and gubernatorial elections marked a pivotal moment that could “permanently alter” the nation’s political landscape. In a swing to Dallas and Miami that served as a preview of his plans for autumn, Mr. Reagan defended his economic record and his policies in Central America, accused Democrats of seeking to increase spending and taxes and said his Administration had spurred the start of a realignment of American politics. “Believe me, the liberals in Washington know what’s at stake in this election,” Mr. Reagan told Texans this afternoon in the balloon-filled Dallas Apparel Mart. He stood beside the beaming Republican gubernatorial candidate, Bill Clements, a former Governor who is seeking to unseat the Democratic incumbent, Mark White.
President Reagan receives a call from Clint Eastwood.
President Reagan places a call to Senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kansas).
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill, flanked by 11 chairmen of House committees, today called for a bipartisan House effort to develop a comprehensive drug law and bring it to the floor for a vote by Sept. 10. The attempt could disrupt an already tight House schedule of work on an array of pending legislation covering tax revision, reduced Federal spending, military programs, the environment, highways and mass transit. Mr. O’Neill designated Representative Jim Wright of Texas, the House Democratic leader, to head the effort to deliver legislation along with Representative Robert H. Michel of Illinois, the House Republican leader. Mr. Wright said that the “game plan” that was discussed at the meeting focused on a single package of legislation embracing five broad areas: eradication of drug crops, interdiction of drug shipments and of drug traffickers, law enforcement, public education and treatment of drug users.
Daniel A. Manion will be a judge on a Federal appeals court in Chicago. The Senate voted 50 to 49 today to give final approval to Daniel A. Manion’s appointment as a Federal appellate judge in Chicago after a divisive debate about the Indiana lawyer’s competence and political views. Vice President Bush cast a vote in support of Mr. Manion, breaking a 49-to-49 tie. The tie vote alone, however, would have sufficed to approve the nomination. The vote capped months of debate among lawmakers and legal scholars. The nomination of Mr. Manion, a lawyer from South Bend, became a test of President Reagan’s ability to place judges on the Federal bench as Democrats made him a symbol of their concern about the quality of Mr. Reagan’s appointments.
The chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, in a policy shift, said the commission will seek to uphold minority hiring goals for private employers who discriminate because of recent Supreme Court rulings. Clarence Thomas, appearing before a Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee hearing on his reconfirmation for a second term, said that “the EEOC will make a clear statement to our people that goals and timetables are one form of relief” available under employment discrimination laws.
Convicted spy Ronald W. Pelton has agreed to disclose the nature of the information he gave to Soviet agents about U.S. intelligence-gathering projects, officials said. Pelton, 44, who faces life imprisonment for each of the three espionage convictions last month, compromised top-secret information on U.S. eavesdropping capabilities. His sentencing, which was set for Monday, has been postponed. The government had said it might recommend a lighter sentence in exchange for the disclosures.
The General Accounting Office told Congress that grenades, ammunition and other explosives stolen from the Pentagon’s global stockpiles are increasingly being used in civilian explosions. The GAO said at a Senate Armed Services Committee task force hearing on inventory management that the Defense Department’s caches of weapons, estimated to be worth $162 billion, are so large and widespread and accounting practices are so filled with problems that it is difficult to determine the scope of the problem.
A 24-cent cigarette tax, 8 cents more a pack than the present tax, would be imposed on Oct. 1 under a bill approved, 11 to 8, by the Senate Finance Committee to meet part of the revenue increase proposed in the 1987 budget. But hours later, after lobbying by legislators from tobacco-growing states, the House Ways and Means Committee defeated an identical proposal, 28 to 4.
Talks in the eight-day Detroit strike by 7,000 workers recessed without a settlement. Charles Jamerson, mediator for the Michigan Employment Relations Commission, said that talks will resume today. Earlier, Mayor Coleman Young rejected a request that he and James Glass, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ Council 25, join in the bargaining. Young said a meeting with Glass “would generate more heat than light and would not be productive.” The strike over wages has left the city with no bus or garbage service.
Massachusetts Governor Michael S. Dukakis signed a bill intended to ease a medical malpractice insurance crisis. Dukakis called the new law “a critical first step” in ensuring quality medical care in the state. The law puts a cap of $500,000 on damages for the pain and suffering of malpractice victims. It also limits the amount that lawyers can charge for defending or filing malpractice suits and allows doctors to pass on to patients a portion of huge retroactive insurance premium increases, which had sparked the crisis.
Defense attorneys seeking to have charges dismissed against Peggy McMartin Buckey, 59, one of two remaining defendants in the McMartin Pre-School molestation case, have filed a 130-page petition with the state Court of Appeal in Los Angeles — accompanied by an unwieldy 800-pound truckload of supporting documents. Dean R. Gits and Andrew R. Willing, representing Buckey, argued that her constitutional rights were repeatedly denied during her 18-month preliminary hearing and that the statute of limitations has expired on some of the charges. Buckey’s son, Raymond Buckey, 28, is expected to file a similar petition. Charges against five others, including the nursery school’s founder, were dropped for insufficient evidence. The appellate court is expected to decide within a few days whether to review the case; if not, it will go to trial in October.
Convicted killer-rapist William Archie Fain was arrested by Scotts Valley (California) police for drunken driving. Fain, released from San Quentin in October, 1983, after serving 16 years for killing a 17-year-old Stanislaus County youth and raping two girls in 1967, was booked into the Santa Cruz County jail and released. Fain became one of the state’s most controversial criminals when Governor George Deukmejian, in an extraordinary move, overrode the prison parole board and canceled his scheduled parole in April, 1983. Fain, now 40, eventually was paroled, even though 62,500 people signed petitions asking he not be released. He was finally freed after an appellate court ruled that his parole had been improperly rescinded.
An insurance executive awaiting trial on charges of running a prostitution ring of college students, juveniles and other women in Providence, Rhode Island pleaded not guilty today to four new felony charges in the case. The second indictment was issued July 3 against the executive, Stanley E. Henshaw 3d, after prosecutors dropped prostitution charges against the second of two Brown University students whose March arrests brought on the investigation. The latest indictment charged Mr. Henshaw, who is 43 years old, with soliciting another to commit a crime, conspiracy, pandering and violating Rhode Island’s law against oral sex and sodomy.
The Southeast is receiving hay from the Middle West to help feed drought-starved livestock. Air Force cargo jets, trains pulling boxcars and fleets of trucks carrying hundreds of tons of hay donated by Midwestern farmers are due to arrive this weekend in the Southeast, where crops have wilted and pastures have burned.
All 1984-1986 Audi 5000s with automatic transmissions are being recalled to install new gear-shifting mechanisms to prevent sudden, unexpected acceleration, Audi of America Inc. announced. The redesigned mechanism requires drivers to depress the brake pedal while shifting out of park into drive or reverse, the company said in a statement. About 132,000 vehicles were affected by the recall.
Hurricane Estelle, downgraded to a tropical storm, veered away from Hawaii after battering the state’s largest island with 20-foot waves that destroyed five homes and forced the evacuation of scores of residents. No injuries were reported. Many homes in the Vacationland community on the rocky coast south of Hilo were reported flooded. The hurricane, centered 175 miles southwest of South Point, the state’s southernmost tip, had sustained winds of 70 mph and gusts up to 85 mph and was moving west at 20 mph, a National Weather Service forecaster said.
Commercial production of the first genetically altered vaccine for humans was approved today by the Food and Drug Administration, opening what Federal officials called a new era for vaccine production. The new vaccine is intended to protect against infection by the hepatitis B virus, a major cause of liver disease throughout the world. Although a conventional vaccine derived from human blood has been available since 1982, the genetically engineered version will greatly increase the potential supply and could ease widespread fears of contamination that have discouraged use of the conventional product, Government and industry officials said. AIDS and other diseases, including hepatitis B, can be passed by contaminated blood products. However, no cases of AIDS or hepatitis B have been attributed to the conventional hepatitis vaccine.
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Juan Samuel and Von Hayes homered and Bruce Ruffin (3–1) pitched a six-hitter to lead the Philadelphia Phillies over the Atlanta Braves, 4–2. It was the fourth straight victory for the Phillies, and the faltering Braves have lost three in a row and 14 of their last 16 games.
The Kansas City Royals beat the Baltimore Orioles, 7–3. Steve Balboni and Willie Wilson drove in two runs each in a four-run second inning. Scott McGregor (6–10), the Baltimore starter who has failed to go past two innings in his last three starts, walked Frank White to open the inning and then Balboni hit an 0–2 pitch over the center-field fence for his 20th homer. McGregor then walked two batters before being relieved by Nate Snell. Wilson promptly hit a two-run double to right.
California’s Brian Downing leads off the bottom of the 10th with a home run off Milwaukee’s Danny Darwin to make Kirk McCaskill a 3–2 winner. This is the last time this century that both starters complete an extra-inning game.
The San Diego Padres bested the Chicago Cubs, 7–5. Marvell Wynne hit an eighth-inning double to drive in Leon Roberts with the winning run as the Padres ended a five-game losing streak. Wynne’s double to left got past a diving Gary Matthews and made a loser of Ray Fontenot (3–5). Craig Lefferts (7–4) pitched one perfect inning for the victory in relief of Andy Hawkins.
The news that emerged from Dave Johnson’s office might have been as significant as the game itself. Before the Mets completed a sweep of their three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds tonight, winning by 3–2 at Riverfront Stadium, it was announced that the slumping George Foster had lost his job in left field, a clear sign that his unproductive tenure in New York may finally be coming to an end. And it was Kevin Mitchell, one of the two players who will fill Foster’s spot, who delivered the decisive blow in the eighth inning. His two-run homer off Ron Robinson, which traveled an estimated 450 feet to center, carried the Mets back from a 2–1 deficit and gave Ron Darling, now 10–3, the victory.
The Cleveland Indians downed the Chicago White Sox, 7–2. Brook Jacoby’s two-run single keyed a four-run second inning and Ken Schrom pitched a five-hitter to win his eighth straight decision. Schrom (11–2) struck out four and walked none for his third complete game. The right-hander has not lost since May 25, and his streak is the longest for a Cleveland pitcher since Fritz Peterson won 10 straight in 1975.
In a 12–2 win at Tiger Stadium, Johnny Grubb belts a 6th-inning pinch grand slam and Kirk Gibson adds a 3-run homer in the 8th. Jack Morris (11–6) goes 8 innings for the win. Morris saw two errors snap his scoreless inning streak at 32 on a unearned run in the first inning. Allan Anderson (2–3) was the loser.
The Houston Astros edged the Montreal Expos, 4–3, as Davey Lopes, playing his first game for Houston, singled home Dickie Thon from second base with two outs in the 11th. The victory was the sixth straight for Houston. The Expos lost their fourth in a row. Tim Burke (7–3), a relief pitcher for the Expos who walked the bases loaded in the 10th but got out of the jam, walked Thon to open the 11th. Thon was sacrificed to second and, after Bill Doran struck out, Kevin Bass was intentionally walked. Lopes, acquired Sunday from the Chicago Cubs for Frank DiPino, a left-handed relief pitcher, singled to left on Burke’s first pitch.
In making up four games on Boston in the week since the All-Star Game break, the Yankees have not traveled as remarkable a distance as the 90 feet that Ron Hassey safely traversed in dashing and sliding from home plate to first base yesterday. Hassey’s nimble-footed romp — with two out and the bases loaded in the 10th inning — gave the Yankees a 3–2 victory over the Texas Rangers, slashed the Red Sox division lead over them to three games.
Carney Lansford twice hit two-run home runs, and Tony Phillips drove in three runs to pace a 16-hit attack today, leading the Oakland A’s to their fourth straight victory, a 9–2 triumph over the Boston Red Sox. The loss extended Boston’s longest losing streak of the year to four games and seven of their last eight. And Boston’s lead in the East Division over the second-place Yankees fell to three games. Dave Stewart and Jay Howell combined for a six-hitter. Stewart (3–0) allowed five hits and struck out six in eight innings. Howell allowed one hit in his first appearance since coming off the disabled list May 26. Lansford broke a 1–1 tie in the third inning with his first homer of the season. Phillips knocked Al Nipper (4–7), the Boston starter, out of the game in the fourth with a two-run double that gave Oakland a 5–1 lead. Lansford hit his second homer, his ninth of the season, off Tim Lollar, who relieved Nipper, later in the fourth to put the A’s ahead, 7–1.
The Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates, 6–5. Ken Landreaux ended an 0-for-14 slump with a two-run homer. Winning for the fourth time in their last five games, the Dodgers broke a 2–2 tie with three third-inning runs keyed by Landreaux’s homer. Rick Reuschel (5–12), who starter for the Pirates, lost for the eighth time in his last nine decisions.
In Toronto’s 6–2 win at Seattle, Tony Fernandez hits a single in the 7th with the play ending up five players touched the ball a total of eight times with the catcher getting the put out at second. Retrosheet’s John Jarvis calls this the longest putout string he’s recorded. Jesse Barfield hit his major-league-leading 25th home run, and Dave Stieb got his first career save to lead the Blue Jays. Jim Clancy (11–5) won his fifth straight decision. He gave up six hits in seven and two-thirds innings before Stieb took over and struck out Jim Presley with the bases loaded.
Danny Cox allowed six hits over eight innings and Andy Van Slyke drove in two runs as the St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants, 4–3. Cox (4–8) did not walk a batter but needed relief help from Rick Horton and Todd Worrell, who got the last two outs for his 18th save.
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Atlanta Braves 2
Kansas City Royals 7, Baltimore Orioles 3
Milwaukee Brewers 2, California Angels 3
San Diego Padres 7, Chicago Cubs 5
New York Mets 3, Cincinnati Reds 2
Chicago White Sox 2, Cleveland Indians 7
Minnesota Twins 2, Detroit Tigers 12
Montreal Expos 3, Houston Astros 4
Texas Rangers 2, New York Yankees 3
Boston Red Sox 2, Oakland Athletics 9
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Pittsburgh Pirates 5
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Seattle Mariners 2
San Francisco Giants 3, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Wall Street stock prices rose slightly yesterday, but the Dow Jones industrial average fell just short of reaching the 1,800 level. Investors’ attention was again riveted on the stocks of corporations that reported quarterly earnings. “Totally, completely earnings driven,” is how John Havens, head of block trading at Kidder, Peabody & Company, described yesterday’s market action. The Dow Jones industrial average, which rose 16 points on Monday, gained another 3.24 points yesterday, to finish at 1,798.37. The blue-chip index had penetrated the 1,800 level several times during the session, only to succumb to profit taking.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1798.37 (+3.24)
Born:
Ayaka Komatsu, Japanese model and actress (“Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon”), in Ichinoseki, Japan.
Reece Ritchie, English actor (“The Outpost”), in Lowestoft, England, United Kingdom.
Kenwin Cummings, NFL defensive end (New York Jets, Dallas Cowboys), in Maxton, North Carolina.
Andrew Carignan, MLB pitcher (Oakland A’s), in New London, Connecticut.
Charel Allen, WNBA guard (Sacramento Monarchs), in Monessen, Pennsylvania.
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