The Hungarian Communist Party has ordered a new crackdown on dissidents, including restrictions on publishing and travel, dissident sources said. The Politburo, which met in secret session last month, also ordered establishment of a weekly “blacklist” of dissidents found to have published abroad. The reason for the new restrictions was not clear, but dissident sources speculated that the government is concerned about the upcoming 30th anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian uprising, crushed by Soviet tanks, in which 5,000 people were killed and 40,000 were imprisoned.
The Yugoslav Government is keeping a watch on Serbs and Montenegrins in Kosovo Autonomous Province to prevent them from staging protest marches on Belgrade. The two groups charge that the region’s Albanian ethnic majority is trying to force them from their ancestral homes. The Serbs and Montenegrins of Kosovo began agitating during a Communist Party convention in June. The police blocked roads to forestall planned marches to dramatize the issue.
The most powerful atom smasher in the world is being created by Soviet physicists to give the Soviet Union a dominant role in particle physics in the next decade. Engineers at the construction site in Serpukhov, 60 miles south of Moscow, are drilling a tunnel 13 miles in circumference to house the giant device. An American proposal to forge ahead with an even bigger device is mired in budget troubles, its prospects uncertain at best. Signs of activity abound at Serpukhov, the site alive with thousands of workers. Scientists are making prototype parts for the atom smasher. Construction crews are building a huge factory where its key components are to be manufactured.
Radio Free Europe broadcasters have not been accustomed to call-in shows or other forms of contact with the listeners who huddle over shortwave radios in Warsaw or Prague, twisting the dial to get around almost incessant jamming. So it was a heady feeling about eight months ago when the broadcasters realized that Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria have direct-dial telephone links that allow calls to the station in Munich. Since then, regular broadcasts have been giving listeners numbers to call and soliciting comment, criticism or just musings. “We’ve made many changes since it started,” E. Eugene Pell, the head of the United States-financed station and its sister, Radio Liberty, said recently. “We’re thinking along the lines of the old radio mailbag programs based on people’s calls.”
Three policemen from the Royal Ulster Constabulary were killed by gunmen as they sat in their unmarked patrol car in the border town of Newry, Northern Ireland. A spokesman said several gunmen dressed as butchers in white coats walked up to the parked car on a shopping street, fired into it and also threw a hand grenade inside. The grenade did not explode. The Irish Republican Army, fighting to end British rule in the province, claimed responsibility for the attack.
A four-car train filled with vacationers plowed into a van at an unmanned rail crossing in northeast England, killing nine people and injuring 52, police said. The train, traveling from the seaside city of Bridlington to Hull, was carrying nearly 300 people when it rammed the light truck at a grade crossing in the village of Lockington and three cars jumped the track. The two people in the truck, a cattle dealer and his 10-year-old foster son, were critically injured. Transport Secretary John Moore said an inquiry will be held on the rail accident, the worst in Britain in two years.
Nearly 16% of all Britons live in poverty, government figures showed. The number of people receiving state handouts — the level at which poverty is assessed — rose from 5.9 million in 1979, the year Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher took office, to 8.8 million in 1983 out of a population of 56 million. “Life at this level of income is basic and sparse,” said Malcolm Wicks, director of the Family Policy Studies Center. “Poverty is a grim fact of life for many British families.” The figures were released just after Parliament began its summer recess, and opposition politicians immediately accused the government of a cover-up.
A new Cabinet with few changes was sworn in here today, reflecting Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez’s determination to maintain continuity despite high unemployment and a new round of Basque terrorism. Mr. Gonzalez, a Socialist who is slightly left of center, was sworn in for his second four-year term this week after his party won a parliamentary majority in elections June 22. Among the 15 Cabinet officers sworn in by King Juan Carlos in a brief ceremony in the Zarzuela Palace were four new officials, each in secondary positions. The key ministries of Economy, Interior, Foreign Affairs and Defense did not change hands.
Tens of thousands of West Germans and Austrians descended on this Bavarian hamlet today for a two-day rock concert to protest nuclear power. The event was organized by local activists with the backing of national parties of the left, including the Greens, the Communist Party and the youth wing of the Social Democrats. The concert was staged on a grassy field about 20 miles from the village of Wackersdorf, where West Germany is building a $3 billion installation to process spent nuclear fuel. Wackersdorf has become a symbol of resistance to nuclear energy, particularly since the Chernobyl accident in April, and has emerged recently as a minor irritant in normally cordial relations between Bonn and Vienna. The site is about 80 miles from the Austrian border. In recent months the police have fought armed demonstrators at the Wackersdorf site, and officials said 10,000 policemen were on duty over the weekend.
The Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco, one of five kidnapped Americans missing in Lebanon, was freed today by a radical Shiite group that said he was being released after nearly 19 months as a captive because his health was worsening. The group, Islamic Holy War, indicated its action did not mean that other hostages it says it is holding would soon be freed. The group said that its action was “a final good-will gesture” and that the fate of the other American hostages was now the responsibility of the United States. Father Jenco, a 51-year-old Roman Catholic priest from Joliet, Illinois, who has a long history of heart ailments, was alone when he was found near Lake Karun in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon. The local authorities handed him over to Syrian military intelligence officers who control that area, and he was taken to Damascus.
Vice President George Bush, en route to the Middle East, may cap his tour by visiting Morocco if it would help spur Arab-Israeli peace efforts, Bush’s press secretary, Marlin Fitzwater, said. “At the moment, we don’t have any plans to go to Morocco, but I wouldn’t rule it out,” Fitzwater said in Frankfurt, West Germany, where Bush was to spend the night before going to Jerusalem for talks with Israeli leaders. Bush also has scheduled meetings with King Hussein in Jordan and with President Hosni Mubarak in Egypt. Bush left Washington on Friday for the 10-day tour. Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres met last week in Morocco with King Hassan II on Middle East peace issues.
Four people were killed here today as crowds of Hindus clashed with the police, threw rocks and set fires in New Delhi to protest the killing of 15 Hindu bus passengers in the Punjab on Friday. In scenes reminiscent of the violence after the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi in 1984, Hindus singled out several Sikh-owned stores, vehicles and homes for attack. One group stormed a Sikh temple, burned the Sikh holy book, the Guru Granth Sahib, and smashed windows, furniture and chandeliers. Some of the attacks were said to have been organized by militant Hindu organizations, which have gained strength as attacks by Sikhs have increased in recent months.
Thailand mobilized its police force today to maintain order for parliamentary elections on Sunday, which follow six weeks of campaigning that authorities said left eight people dead. A record 3,811 candidates from 16 political parties will contest 347 seats in the lower house of Parliament, which chooses the prime minister. Prime Minister Prem Tinsulanonda is widely expected to retain his post, which he has held since 1980. The police said a special 126,000-member emergency force would keep order at polling areas throughout this country of 26.1 million eligible voters. A ban on further political activities and on the sale of liquor began today and will continue until midnight Sunday. The campaign was marked by allegations of widespread vote-buying and falsifying of identification cards needed for voting.
A group of South Pacific governments, seeking to end French colonial rule in New Caledonia, hope to take their campaign to the United Nations, according to Vanuatu’s Prime Minister. The Prime Minister, Walter Lini, said in an interview Thursday that a call for support would be made next month by the South Pacific Forum, a regional association that includes Australia and New Zealand. In the interview, Prime Minister Lini, a Melanesian nationalist, also called for the independence of Irian Jaya, the Indonesian province in the western half of New Guinea. The eastern half is part of the independent state of Papua New Guinea.
President Reagan plans to renew a year-old ban on the export of some goods to South Africa and may send a special mission to warn the Pretoria Government that unless it speeds political change, stiffer penalties will follow, a ranking Administration official said today. The mission, in the form of a special envoy or a group of legislators, would be intended to caution South Africa about Congressional pressure for more serious economic sanctions. The official said the President wanted to make sure the South Africans understand the position in which the Administration finds itself. U.S. for Talks With Guerrillas The United States is seeking the release from prison of Nelson Mandela, the black leader, the start of a dialogue between the South African Government and the African National Congress, the black guerrilla group, and further easing of apartheid.
Geoffrey Howe, Britain’s foreign secretary who is visiting southern Africa, was told by leaders of the tiny black kingdoms of Swaziland and Lesotho that economic sanctions against South Africa would hurt their people. Both Lesotho and Swaziland depend heavily on South Africa for food, transportation and communications. Lesotho is surrounded by South Africa, and Swaziland nearly so. Their comments supported Britain’s position that sanctions would not end apartheid and would hurt South African blacks and black neighboring states.
Migration of white professionals from South Africa is at a record level, according to an official report. While the country’s turmoil largely remains distant from white neighborhoods, fears about the future appear to have begun to outweigh the advantages of a luxurious life for some whites. The desire to emigrate, however, seems to be more common among English-speaking whites than among Afrikaners. A well-to-do white woman asked a furniture shipping company here the other day how complicated it would be to send two cars to Australia. She said she and her husband, like many other whites, wanted to emigrate but not, apparently, to lose all wealth and privilege in the process: one of the cars, she said, was a vintage Rolls-Royce. After almost two years of strife and violence in this divided country and the loss of more than 2,000 lives, concern about shipping a Rolls-Royce might seem to be less than pressing. Yet among the nation’s nervous and unsettled white minority of 4.5 million, such concerns are a focus of life for people contemplating an uncertain future or seeking to escape it.
In the first concrete step toward agreement on a final tax bill, Senate conferees today approved more than a dozen measures that would raise a total of $26 billion over the next five years. House conferees said the action by the senators was essential to allow further bargaining on the overall legislation. The most important of the items approved by the senators would reduce the amount of salary that taxpayers could place in 401(k) plans, which defer taxes until retirement, and would limit the ability of taxpayers to use home mortgage loans to finance the purchase of automobiles and other consumer goods. The lawmakers met in closed session for several hours in a windowless room on the first floor of the Capitol, while hundreds of business lobbyists jammed the corridor outside.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on the nation’s economy.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Room With a View.”
Liberal opposition to the nomination of Justice William H. Rehnquist to be the 16th Chief Justice of the United States is hardening amid a flurry of renewed allegations to be aired at hearings beginning Tuesday. But most opponents concede confirmation is highly probable unless damaging new information emerges. Justice Rehnquist, 61 years old, would be the most consistent conservative to head the Court in more than 50 years, most scholars agree. Democrats on the Judiciary Committee plan to question President Reagan’s nominee closely about allegations that he misled the Senate before it confirmed him in 1971 as an Associate Justice. The hearing will run through Wednesday and perhaps beyond.
The effects of what is already the worst drought in the South’s history will probably persist through the rest of the year, officials say, and worsening water shortages could close factories and drive even more farmers toward financial ruin. For five straight days, scattered and sometimes heavy afternoon thundershowers have brought some relief to parched fields and dry cities. But the chances that wells, streams and reservoirs will return to near normal conditions over the next six months are less than one in fifty, according to the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. Parts of the Southeast would have to get as much rain in the next six months as ordinarily falls in an entire year, and fall is historically the driest period of the year, said Grant Goodge, a climatologist at the center. ‘Friendly Hurricanes’ Needed “The odds are that most of the region will be in trouble for the rest of the year,” Mr. Goodge said. In South Carolina, Ann Nolte, an official with the State Water Resources Commission, said, “I never thought I’d say this, but we are all praying for hurricanes — nice, friendly hurricanes that will bring us a lot of rainfall this fall.”
During the first six months of 1986, the Democratic Party held a slim 7-percentage-point lead over the Republican Party in rank-and-file membership, unchanged from the lead the Democrats enjoyed in late 1985, according to a Gallup Poll. During the first half of 1986, 39% of voting-age Americans described themselves as Democrats, 32% as Republicans and 29% as independents. Thus, an upturn in economic optimism in recent polls has failed to increase the Republicans’ grass-roots strength, the pollsters said.
Contributions from political action committees to 87 Senate candidates in the 18 months ending June 30 topped $24 million, Common Cause reported in Washington. It found that incumbents got $4.60 for every $1 their challengers received. Common Cause, a nonprofit citizens’ lobby, has frequently criticized PACS as promoters of special interests that exert excessive influence on congressional votes.
The son of two former South Vietnamese diplomats was charged with murdering them in their home and was held on $100,000 bond. Tran Van Khiem, 60, an attorney and former member of the national assembly in South Vietnam in the early 1960s, pleaded not guilty at his arraignment in District of Columbia Superior Court to two counts of first-degree murder. The victims, found dead in their bedroom, were Tran Van Chuong, 88, South Vietnam’s ambassador to the United States from 1954 to 1963, and his wife, Nam-Tran Chuong, 75, a former permanent observer to the United Nations. Officials said both had been suffocated and beaten.
A congressional study cited continuing problems with the advanced air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) with which the Air Force and Navy hope to arm fighter planes in the 1990s. Rep. Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin), chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, said the report by the General Accounting Office “raises my suspicions even higher” that the missile will not meet its performance and cost goals. The cost of the missile has already tripled from the original estimates, and is now targeted at $5.2 billion for 20,000 missiles, a goal the GAO called doubtful.
[Ed: As usual, Aspin was wrong. AMRAAM proved to be an outstanding weapon and is still in use today. Les was simply an anti-military shithead.]
The number of crimes reported in the United States rose 5 percent last year, the first increase since 1981, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said today. According to figures released by the bureau, there were increases in all major categories of crime. The numbers showed that violent crime, including murder and rape, was up 4 percent in 1985. For the second consecutive year, New York was not among the 25 cities with the worst murder rates. Detroit was No. 1 on the list of cities with populations of 100,000 or more, with 58 murders for every 100,000 residents.
A principal actor in the violent past of the Black Panthers — sought for 14 years in connection with the hijacking of an airliner — arrived under guard from Paris at Kennedy International Airport yesterday. Federal authorities had waited 14 years for the extradition of Willie Roger Holder to stand trial in the hijacking of a Western Airlines jet out of Los Angeles to Algiers in 1972. When Mr. Holder, 38 years old, at last flew in shortly after noon aboard an Air France flight, he was escorted by French security officers who turned him over to agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The F.B.I. said last night that he was being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center pending arraignment in Federal court in Brooklyn on Monday. Mr. Holder and a companion, Catherine Marie Kerkow, were accused of seizing Western Airlines Flight 701 on June 2, 1972, to force authorities to free Angela Davis, a prominent black militant then on trial for murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in San Jose, Calif. Threatening the crew and passengers with what the F.B.I. called a “bomb in an attaché case,” they also demanded $500,000.
A ratification vote by 7,000 municipal workers in Detroit was expected today or Monday on a tentative three-year contract aimed at ending an 11-day-long strike. Terms of the pact were not officially disclosed, but television station WXYZ quoted unnamed union officials as saying the pact contained a 5% wage increase the first year. Subsequent raises would be between 2.5% and 6% the second year and no increase to 6% in the third, with the exact amount to be determined by city finances.
Willie Roger Holder, who is accused of hijacking a plane on June 2, 1972, in an unsuccessful bid to free black activist Angela Davis, was extradited to the United States from France, where he had been arrested on unreported charges, the FBI said. Holder and Catherine Marie Kerkow were accused of hijacking Western Airlines Flight 701 from Los Angeles to Seattle. The hijackers were given $500,000 before the jet flew to Algeria. Kerkow remains a fugitive.
Sixty-seven illegal aliens were scooped up in an Immigration and Naturalization Service sting operation in Midland, Texas. INS officials said they offered cash prizes in a bogus contest to people with longstanding deportation warrants against them. INS spokesman Mario Ortiz said the INS set up the sting in the Midland-Odessa area because of complaints from residents in the economically depressed oil-producing region. “Not only have they violated our laws, but almost all of them have been displacing American workers,” Ortiz said.
San Francisco officials discarded a proposal to pass out clean needles to drug addicts to help guard against the spread of AIDS. After a city health official revealed that such a proposal was being studied, Mayor Dianne Feinstein held a news conference and called it “a terrible and truly offensive idea which would put the health department in a position of aiding and abetting drug addiction.” Health director David Werdegar said there is “no scientific evidence” that acquired immune deficiency syndrome would be reduced by the distribution of clean needles, “but there is evidence that distribution of needles can increase drug use.”
Two prisoners have been charged with conspiracy to commit murder by putting blood serum from an AIDS patient in a correction officer’s coffee. Robert Elliot, the officer, who is now undergoing monthly tests for the deadly virus for acquired immune deficiency syndrome, said he was pleased charges were filed Friday against Lee Adolph Dunn and Robert J. Grimmer. Mr. Dunn was an orderly in a laboratory at the prison hospital. Blood serum and other samples are kept in a lab refrigerator. Correction officials said they learned of the scheme from a third inmate.
In a hot and busy old house in Charleston, West Virginia each day, two Roman Catholic nuns, Barbara Ferraro and Patricia Hussey, tell people who are poor and abused that they must stand up for their rights and fight when unjustly treated. “If we walked away from our own fight with the church over abortion,” asked Sister Barbara, “how could we go on telling others to be strong and keep fighting?” On the other side, arguing with equal fervor, is the Vatican, which says the Roman Catholic Church must speak with one voice in opposition to abortion. Vatican officials have raised the question of whether people with strongly divergent views on key theological issues have the right to call themselves Catholic nuns.
The Air Force is renaming the Sunnyvale Air Force Station in California in honor of Lt. Col. Ellison S. Onizuka, who died in the Jan. 28 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger. Air Force Secretary Edward C. Aldridge Jr. said the facility will be renamed during ceremonies to be scheduled later this year. “The Challenger seven exemplified the pioneering spirit that is the foundation of our country’s space effort,” Aldridge said. “Ellison Onizuka was one of those pioneers. As a crew member who had previously flown aboard a space shuttle mission, Ellison was a major contributor to our conquest of space.” The station is home of the Air Force’s Satellite Control Facility, which is responsible for command and control of spacecraft.
W. Averell Harriman, the durable Democrat who was Governor of New York from 1955 to 1959 and served four Presidents in key diplomatic roles, died early yesterday at Birchgrove, his home in Yorktown Heights, New York. He was 94 years old. Mr. Harriman, who had been in failing health for about a month, died of kidney failure complicated by pneumonia, according to a family spokesman, Robert M. Shrum, Mr. Harriman, a patrician heir to a railroad fortune, first went to the Soviet Union as a businessman in 1926, and in subsequent decades he played a major part in the development of Soviet-American relations. As Ambassador in Moscow during World War II, he had a rough-and-tumble relationship with Stalin, going on to carry out crucial negotiations with Communist governments in later years.
Near midnight Friday, Marvis Frazier, in sweat clothes, stepped out the door of the Queensbury Hotel here and went for a run of a mile and a half. Based on what happened in the ring at the Glens Falls Civic Center today, Frazier should have kept going, due west to his hometown of Philadelphia and out of harm’s way. For Mike Tyson, the undefeated heavyweight, showed no respect for the fighting Frazier name. With an explosive opening barrage of punches, he knocked out Frazier, the 25-year-old son of Joe Frazier, the former heavyweight champion, at 30 seconds of the first round of a scheduled 10-round bout.
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The game was going to be a crossroads of sorts for Dwight Gooden, a chance to test the minor tinkering he had undergone during two sessions on the sidelines earlier this week. In one respect, the young New York Met pitcher passed; in another, he did not. Gooden faltered briefly in the fifth inning of the first game of a double-header tonight against the Atlanta Braves. He was left with no decision, and the Mets were ultimately left with a 4–3 defeat when Ted Simmons’s pinch-hit sacrifice fly scored Ken Griffey with one out in the bottom of the ninth. The Mets also lost the second game, 8–5, despite Howard Johnson’s two-run homer in the second inning. Chuck Tanner, the Atlanta manager, and Andres Thomas, the rookie shortstop, were ejected in the fifth inning after a disputed play at second base.
The Baltimore Orioles edged the Chicago White Sox 2–1. Jim Traber, a rookie, singled to left on an 0–2 pitch with two outs and the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth to drive in the winning run in a game marred by a fight that cleared both benches. Dave Schmidt (0–3), pitching in relief for Chicago, issued two walks and a single to load the bases with one out before getting Lee Lacy to hit into a fielder’s choice. After the count went to 0–2, the rookie hit the next pitch past the third baseman, Tim Hulett, to hand Chicago its sixth straight loss. Ron Bordi (4–1) pitched the final one and a third innings. The fight came in the bottom of the sixth when another Chicago reliever, Gene Nelson, hit Rick Dempsey with a pitch in the back. Dempsey charged the mound and tackled Nelson, causing both teams to rush onto the field. While Nelson and Dempsey were being separated, Chicago’s third-base coach, Doug Rader, got into a fight with Baltimore’s starting pitcher, Ken Dixon. Dempsey, Dixon and Rader were ejected, and Nelson stayed on to pitch the rest of the inning and the seventh.
Doug DeCinces and Bobby Grich hit home runs in the fourth inning today, and Mike Witt scattered five hits over eight innings as the California Angels beat the Boston Red Sox, 4–1. In the meeting between the league’s division leaders, Boston lost for the ninth time in its last 12 games. Because the Yankees also lost, Boston remained four games ahead in the East. The Angels improved their record since the All-Star Game break to 3–6. They were two games ahead of Texas going into today’s game. Witt (10–7) walked one and struck out four. Donnie Moore pitched the ninth inning for his ninth save. Witt fell behind, 1–0, on a leadoff homer in the third by Rich Gedman, his eighth, but the Angels mounted a four-run rally against Bruce Hurst. Brian Downing drew a one-out walk off Hurst (5–5) ahead of DeCinces’s 11th homer. One out later, Grich hit his sixth.
The Chicago Cubs topped the Los Angeles Dodgers, 9–4. Shawon Dunston drove in four runs with a homer, double and single. Dennis Eckersley, the Chicago starter, had the game-winning RBI on a two-run double. Eckersley (4–6) gave up four runs in seven innings before giving way to Frank DiPino. Eckersley, only a .163 hitter despite two homers this season, hit his double to right field in the second inning. He scored on a wild pitch by Rick Honeycutt (6–6).
The Cincinnati Reds bested the Montreal Expos, 7–6. Bo Diaz drew a two-out, bases-loaded walk in the ninth inning from Bob Sebra to give the Reds the victory. It was Diaz’s fourth RBI of the game. Diaz put the Reds ahead by 6–5 in the eighth with a bases-empty homer. Tim Raines tied the score at 6–6 in the top of the ninth with his second triple of the game, after Mitch Webster’s single. Raines also hit his eighth home run of the season in the fifth inning. Sebra (1–1) retired the first two Cincinnati batters in the ninth. But Pete Rose was hit by a pitch and Dave Parker doubled. Eric Davis was intentionally walked, bringing up Diaz.
The Detroit Tigers nipped the Kansas City Royals, 4–3. John Grubb’s fielder’s choice grounder with the bases loaded scored Alan Trammell in the 11th inning, giving Detroit the victory. Trammell led off the 11th with a single off Steve Farr (7–2) and took third on Kirk Gibson’s single. Lance Parrish was walked intentionally to load the bases. Dave Collins flied out to short left for the first out. Grubb then grounded to the first baseman, Steve Balboni. He threw to the catcher, Jim Sundberg, but it was to the right of the plate, away from the sliding Trammell.
Each answer was short and each word was hesitant yesterday as a dejected Lou Piniella was forced to talk about his pitching staff that had been battered for a second straight game by the Minnesota Twins. “We just got to get better starting pitching,” Piniella said. When asked how, Piniella dismissed the question: “We have to get people out.” For more than three hours yesterday, not counting a 1-hour-57-minute rain delay, four of his pitchers were battered by the Twins for 15 hits as they defeated the Yankees, 8–4, at the Stadium. On Friday night, the Twins won by 9–5. The three-game series with the Twins, which ends today, was supposed to enable the Yankee sluggers to feast on the Twins’ pitchers and close the gap on the faltering Boston Red Sox in the American League East. Instead, it has been all Minnesota as the Twins raked eight Yankee pitchers for 17 runs and 29 hits in two games. However, the Yankees lost no ground to the Red Sox, who were beaten by the California Angels, 4–1. The Yankees still trail the Red Sox by four games.
Eric Plunk pitched two-hit ball for six innings, surviving seven walks, and three relievers followed with perfect work to give the A’s a sixth straight victory, as they shut out the Blue Jays, 2–0. Jose Canseco raised his total of runs batted in, the best in the major leagues, to 81 with a single in the third off the losing pitcher, John Cerutti (5–3). He also singled to open the A’s sixth, stole second and scored on Carney Lansford’s single.
The Philadelphia Phillies defeated the Houston Astros, 3–2. Don Carman allowed two runs in six innings, making his third straight start after relieving in his first 119 major league appearances. Carman (5–2) allowed six hits, struck out two and walked three. In his three starts, Carman has allowed two earned runs in 17 innings. Tom Hume pitched two and two-thirds innings for the Phillies, giving up one hit and striking out two. Dan Schatzeder retired Denny Walling on a grounder for his second save, stranding Kevin Bass, who had doubled off Hume to start the ninth. Mark Knudson (1–4), who allowed four hits and all three runs in six innings, took the loss. Philadelphia took a 1–0 lead in the first when Jeff Stone hit a one-out triple and scored on Juan Samuel’s grounder to shortstop. The Phillies made it 2–0 in the second when Von Hayes, who has a 10-game hitting streak, led off with his eighth homer of the season. Houston scored in the third when Dickie Thon walked and came around on consecutive singles by Billy Hatcher and Davey Lopes. Gary Redus led off the Phillies’ third with his fourth homer, and Houston pulled to within 3–2 in the fifth on Bill Doran’s sacrifice fly.
Steve Carlton combined with two relievers on a four-hitter tonight as the San Francisco Giants routed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 9–0. Bob Brenly drove in four runs with two doubles. Carlton, making his fourth start for the Giants since signing a free-agent contract July 3, scattered three hits and struck out five in seven innings for his first victory in a San Francisco uniform. He is 5–10 on the year and 1–2 for the Giants. It was also Carlton’s first triumph since June 1, a 16–5 decision over San Diego as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies. Frank Williams and Juan Berenguer each pitched one inning for the Giants. The Giants gave Carlton an early lead with four runs in the first inning off Larry McWilliams (2–6).
The Seattle Mariners downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–2. Jerry Reed held Milwaukee to four hits over 5 ⅓ innings to win his third game in seven days and Danny Tartabull drove in four runs with a homer and a single. Bill Wegman, 3–9, was knocked out in the third, giving up six hits and five runs in 2 ⅓ innings.
The San Diego Padres bowed to the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–2. Greg Mathews, a rookie left-hander, scattered eight hits over six and one-third innings, and Curt Ford doubled to highlight a three-run first inning as the Cardinals won their fifth straight. Mathews (6–2) struck out one and walked one before giving way to Ricky Horton, who got his second save with one-hit relief. The Cardinals, who sent the Padres to their seventh setback in eight games, parlayed three hits and three walks in the opening inning. Vince Coleman, after singling to start the game, stole his 64th and 65th bases on successive pitches by LaMarr Hoyt (5–6). Ozzie Smith followed with a walk, and Tommy Herr’s groundout scored Coleman. After Andy Van Slyke grounded out, Ford doubled to right field to score Smith and added the third run on Terry Pendleton’s single.
The Texas Rangers beat the Cleveland Indians, 8–5. Scott Fletcher’s run-scoring double, Pete Incaviglia’a run-scoring single and a two-run error by Mel Hall, Cleveland’s left fielder, powered a fifth-inning rally for Texas.
New York Mets 3, Atlanta Braves 4
New York Mets 5, Atlanta Braves 8
Chicago White Sox 1, Baltimore Orioles 2
Boston Red Sox 1, California Angels 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 4, Chicago Cubs 9
Montreal Expos 6, Cincinnati Reds 7
Kansas City Royals 3, Detroit Tigers 4
Minnesota Twins 8, New York Yankees 4
Toronto Blue Jays 0, Oakland Athletics 2
Houston Astros 2, Philadelphia Phillies 3
San Francisco Giants 9, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Seattle Mariners 5
San Diego Padres 2, St. Louis Cardinals 4
Cleveland Indians 5, Texas Rangers 8
Born:
Monica Raymund, American actress (“Chicago Fire”), in St. Petersburg, Florida.
Mickell Gladness, NBA power forward (Miami Heat, Golden State Warriors), in Birmingham, Alabama.
Died:
W. Averell Harriman, 94, American politician (Governor-D-New York, 1955-1959) and ambassador to USSR (1943-1946).
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