Secretary of State George P. Shultz and a senior Kremlin official met in the first high-level exchange in more than three months to begin preliminary planning for the next U.S.-Soviet summit. Shultz’s meeting in Washington with Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Bessmertnykh marked the resumption of quiet nuts-and-bolts diplomacy between the superpowers after months in which President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev bombarded each other with speeches and other public statements. A State Department official said some progress was made during the talks but declined to disclose details.
Mikhail S. Gorbachev said today that the Soviet Union would withdraw six regiments from Afghanistan by the end of the year, and asked that the move be matched by a reduction of Western aid to the guerrillas. In a televised speech from the Pacific coast city of Vladivostok, he also gave a noncommittal response to President Reagan’s recent letter on arms control, and called for closer relations with China. Western diplomats said the troop withdrawal would cut Soviet forces in Afghanistan by 6 percent. The number of soviet troops in Afghanistan is estimated at 120,000, and the number of Afghan guerrillas as high as 30,000. Mr. Gorbachev said the six regiments would be withdrawn in such a way as to make possible verification by “anyone interested,” presumably meaning American spy satellites. In the Vladivostok speech, Mr. Gorbachev said Mr. Reagan’s reply on arms control had been delivered over the weekend. The letter “sets one thinking” and is being studied with “responsibility and attention,” Mr. Gorbachev said.
The Reagan Administration scoffed today at Mikhail S. Gorbachev’s announcement that six Soviet regiments would be withdrawn from Afghanistan. At the same time, State Department officials proposed to a visiting Soviet official today that Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz in mid-September to begin planning for a summit meeting at the end of the year. Within hours of Mr. Gorbachev’s statement that six regiments, amounting to some 6,000 troops, would be withdrawn, the White House and the State Department noted that partial withdrawals had been reported in the past. The Administration said the moves had later turned out to be only routine “rotations of forces,” while the total force level in Afghanistan remained the same.
The Reagan Administration is investigating a purported attempt to divert a shipment of militarily sensitive high-technology equipment to the Soviet bloc, officials said today. The shipment was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, which said it involved one of the largest conspiracies to smuggle sensitive technology to Communist nations. A Commerce Department spokesman, Desiree Tucker, confirmed that an investigation was under way. At the Pentagon, officials also confirmed an investigation on a diversion of high-technology equipment, part of which was seized last month at an airport in Vienna by Austrian customs officials. The Wall Street Journal said that tens of millions of dollars of goods were involved, and that the cargo had been routed to a Turkish buyer in Austria by a Belgian company. The article said some of the products involved were made by Tektronix Inc., of Beaverton, Oregon, which specializes in scientific measuring devices.
A furious Iceland suspended whale-catching for research purposes to avoid what it said was a U.S. threat to impose a crippling boycott on Icelandic fish products, the country’s main source of income. Prime Minister Steingrimur Hermannsson, citing strong pressure from Washington on a North Atlantic Treaty Organization ally, said, “Theirs was an intolerable and flagrant intervention into the internal affairs of this nation.” U.S. officials expressed bafflement at Iceland’s sharp reaction and denied issuing any threats of trade sanctions if the number of whales being caught was not reduced.
The Queen does not write letters to newspapers, but the most prominently displayed letter in The Times of London today was dispatched from the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh, where she is now staying. Immediately it was assumed that the letter had been written with her approval — possibly at her insistence -to serve as the royal last word on her supposed “clash” with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. The letter was signed by Sir William Heseltine, her private secretary, who also is not expected to engage in epistolary combat. Sir William did not resort to diplomatic circumlocution in seeking to stamp out the impression that Queen Elizabeth II might have tried to put pressure on Mrs. Thatcher by allowing palace aides to make her views known to a Sunday newspaper. He said it was “preposterous” to imagine that the Queen would violate Britain’s unwritten constitution in this manner and equally “preposterous” to think her aides would do it for her.
A bomb blast in the Berlin Wall on the allied side shattered nearby windows but caused no injuries. The police said the explosion might have been intended to draw attention to the wall’s nearing 25th anniversary. The East German Government began building the wall on the East-West city border on August 13, 1961, to halt the flight of refugees. The police said there was no attempt today by East Germans to flee to the American sector’s Kreuzberg District through the hole in the wall. The East German Foreign Ministry, in a protest to the West Berlin city government, denounced the explosion as a serious, provocative attack on the East German state border. East German workmen repaired the wall this afternoon. A West Berlin police spokesman said the four-and-a-half-pound bomb exploded at 2:25 A.M. near Checkpoint Charlie, where people traveling between the two sides of the city must pass. It blasted a hole through the 13-foot-high wall and shattered windows in homes and cars within 200 yards, the spokesman said. He said that no group took responsibility for the blast. The West Berlin city government also condemned the blast. The city spokesman, Jorg Henschel, said the city wanted the wall dismantled, but only by peaceful means.
A huge bomb planted in a car devastated a three-block area in a Christian suburb of Beirut today, killing 31 people and wounding 120 others. “This is carnage,” said Joseph al-Hashem, a Christian member of the Cabinet, after inspecting the burned buildings and twisted steel in the suburb, Ain al Rummaneh. Hours after the blast, which occurred during the morning rush hour, a large cloud of smoke hung over the area as workers searched for civilians who might still be trapped in the rubble. Firefighters struggled against flames that destroyed three blocks of apartments. The police declared as many as 30 other buildings within 500 yards of the bombing uninhabitable. It was the seventh explosion in Christian districts this year, and the most devastating. No group has taken responsibility for the previous six explosions, in which 60 people were killed and 350 wounded.
The car blown up today, a Mercedes-Benz, was parked near an office of the Phalange Party of President Amin Gemayel. Police explosives experts said the car had contained the equivalent of 450 pounds of TNT attached to a timing device. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon said the car had crossed into the Christian neighborhoods in and near Beirut from West Beirut, the Muslim sector of the city, but this report was not confirmed by the police. Hospitals in East Beirut, the Christian sector, issued repeated appeals for blood donors as their rooms and wards overflowed with casualties. Ten bodies in the morgues were mutilated beyond recognition, according to the Voice of Lebanon.
Kidnappers kept an American priest chained by an ankle to the wall of a room where he was blindfolded in solitary confinement in his first six months as a hostage in Lebanon, he told his family at a reunion in Weisbaden, West Germany. The priest, the Rev. Lawrence Jenco, said that when his captors asked him whether he wanted anything he invariably replied, “a taxicab.”
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quoted as saying that International Monetary Fund conditions for relieving Egypt’s economic crisis would cause unrest in his country, and he will not accept them. “The people would get out of control,” Mubarak told the Hamburg magazine Der Spiegel. “The IMF doesn’t think of that one bit.” He was quoted as saying the IMF wants his government to end food subsidies and to raise interest rates to 20% from 11% in exchange for rescheduling its $36-billion foreign debt and receiving new credits.
Vice President Bush abandoned plans today to visit Morocco after receiving no encouragement from King Hassan II for the trip, Bush aides said. Mr. Bush’s decision came despite urging by Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel that he make the trip. Mr. Bush’s aides had expected a Morocco visit to be a major event in his trip to the Middle East. Mr. Bush spent today sightseeing in the old walled city and also met with Anatoly Shcharansky, the human rights activist.
Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi made an impassioned plea for unity and calm, addressing Parliament in a capital torn by protests and violence between Hindus and Sikhs. Gandhi called the challenges to national unity “nothing short of treason.” He spoke as riot police quelled scattered violence in New Delhi during a general strike called by right-wing Hindus to protest the massacre of 14 bus passengers, all Hindus except one, by Sikh separatists in Punjab state last week. “The issue of a separatist state is not negotiable,” the prime minister said.
General Adolfo Blandon, head of the Salvadoran joint chiefs of staff, announced a plan to rebuild and repopulate strategic areas of the country, currently in its sixth year of civil war. The goals of the U.S.-backed plan are to rout antigovernment guerrillas from key areas of the country, install armed civilian defense groups and, after securing the area, to restore public works and services destroyed by the war. Blandon said the U.S. Agency for International Development would be the principal source of funding for the program, dubbed “United to Reconstruct.” It is the second sweeping counterinsurgency plan presented in three years.
President Daniel Ortega Saavedra said yesterday that Nicaragua had filed suit against Honduras and Costa Rica at the International Court of Justice, seeking a ruling that would prohibit military actions by Nicaraguan rebel forces operating from those countries. “It is known that the United States has compromised the sovereignty of some neighboring countries of ours, like Honduras and Costa Rica, in order to maintain its aggression against Nicaragua,” Mr. Ortega charged in an interview here. He said Nicaragua had been forced to turn to the World Court for help because efforts to negotiate accords with its neighbors had failed.
Leftist rebels set off bombs at 17 sites in Lima, Peru, including luxury hotels, banks, stores and a restaurant, the police and news reports said today. Newspapers said two waiters were injured in one attack. The bombings began Sunday night after power towers outside Lima were dynamited and the capital was hit by a blackout that lasted 90 minutes. An official with the Civil Guard, Peru’s uniformed police force, said 167 people were arrested after the attacks. The official said most were detained for not having identification papers and were released within a few hours. The police blamed terrorists for the violence but did not say whether they believed the attacks were the work of the Shining Path or the pro-Cuba Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement.
Democrats in Congress denounced a Reagan Administration agreement to increase textile imports from South Africa despite growing pressure to impose trade sanctions on that nation because of its apartheid policy. “It’s outrageous,” House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O’Neill Jr. (D-Massachusetts) said of the 4% boost, due to take effect September 1. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Massachusetts) and Rep. William H. Gray (D-Pennsylvania) also vowed to opposed the little-noticed agreement, arranged June 27. Kennedy said the move would be harmful to U.S. textile workers.
The South African authorities reported today that eight more blacks had died in the nation’s violence, and the Government continued to crackdown on the nation’s black high schools. The Bureau for Information, the only official source of news under the six-week-old state of emergency, said seven of the deaths occurred Sunday in black areas in the Eastern Cape. The area, centered on the economically depressed city of Port Elizabeth, is one of the most defiant black sections in the country, perhaps because of a high unemployment rate and a history of resistance to white rule. The information bureau said four of those killed were burned in Kwazakele township outside Port Elizabeth. The bureau attributed the deaths to “black-on-black violence.” There is fierce competition in segregated townships between blacks opposed to apartheid and those they accuse of collaborating with the system of racial and ethnic compartmentalization.
A widening hole in ozone over the South Pole is increasingly worrying scientists. They warn that even a small rise in ultraviolet radiation, which ozone blocks, is dangerous to humans and ocean life.
The Challenger crew members were probably aware that the space shuttle was in trouble in the final seconds before it disintegrated and may well have survived the initial breakup, according to evidence made public today. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which had previously said the crew was unaware of the impending disaster, made public a transcript of tape recordings in the January 28 flight’s final seconds that provided “the first potential indication,” the agency said, that the crew knew the accident was occurring. According to the transcript, the last recorded communication by any of the astronauts was the comment “uh oh,” made by the pilot, Michael J. Smith, 73 seconds after launching, just after the shuttle lurched and before it broke up in flames. NASA also disclosed that at least three of the seven individual emergency breathing supplies on the shuttle had been manually activated, indicating that the astronauts were struggling to survive in the spacecraft’s final moments. There were indications that one of the packs could not have been turned on by the person using it, and that one of his companions turned it on for him. Today’s disclosures raised questions as to how long the agency has known that the breathing supplies were activated and whether it could have made the information public earlier. The equipment was recovered from the ocean floor a month and a half after the accident.
The agency made this finding public in the report of an expert team that investigated the cause of death of the astronauts. The information that NASA has developed may eventually prove useful in efforts to redesign the shuttle and its cabin and could shed light on crew survival under extreme circumstances. The report, by Dr. Joseph P. Kerwin, the NASA official who headed the team, said: “The cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined; the forces to which the crew were exposed during orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or injury; and the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure.” The team’s report appeared to strike a middle ground between those who have suggested that the astronauts died instantaneously and others who worried that they might have suffered an agonizing plunge to the sea after their capsule separated from the rest of the shuttle at the time of breakup.
President Reagan plans to announce a broad new campaign in the next few weeks to combat the use of narcotics, White House officials said today. One key White House official said Mr. Reagan might deliver a nationally broadcast speech to open the campaign, but that no final decision had been made. On Thursday Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. and other House leaders announced a drive for bipartisan legislation to deal with drug abuse. Administration officials denied that the White House interest in narcotics was related to that Democratic-led program, but they conceded that the issue had abruptly taken on political overtones. “The White House is getting increasing pressure from Republicans all over the Hill who say the Democrats are going to kill us with this issue,” said one Administration official involved in the narcotics effort. “This is not what’s driving the President, though. Whether it’s Mrs. Reagan’s involvement in the drug issue or not, it’s personally felt by him.” Nancy Reagan has made drug prevention her prime task as First Lady, and several White House officials said today that they were certain her efforts had influenced the President’s interest in the narcotics issue.
President Reagan participates in an Agriculture Policy meeting.
The President and First Lady meet with Vladimir Horowitz, concert pianist and his wife Wanda Toscanini.
Major civil rights and women’s groups declared their opposition today to the proposed elevation of Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court to Chief Justice of the United States. Also today, Senate aides said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was expanding its background examination of Justice Rehnquist into allegations that he harassed black and Hispanic voters in the 1960’s. These developments came the day before the Senate Judiciary Committee is to open televised hearings on the nomination. The beginning was postponed from 10 AM Tuesday to 4 PM at the request of Democratic senators so they could attend the funeral of W. Averell Harriman in New York.
The Pentagon’s Strategic Defense Initiative Organization used money earmarked for “Star Wars” research for unauthorized projects such as air-conditioning for office buildings and roof repairs, according to a congressional audit. The General Accounting Office concluded that the expenditures should have been charged against Pentagon military construction funds. The GAO rejected a response to its findings by Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, director of the “Star Wars” program, who said the research funds were used properly because the projects involved “test support facilities and support requirements.”
Striking city workers rejected a new contract, voting to continue a 13-day walkout that has paralyzed bus service and created mountains of garbage in Detroit. The pact was defeated by a 3–1 margin by striking members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Union leaders recommended approval of the contract, and said they will ask the city to take the dispute to independent, binding arbitration. The three-year contract had made some raises contingent on the city’s financial condition.
A judge in Chicago ruled that two followers of radical politician Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. cannot force the Illinois Democratic Party to support their candidacies. Circuit Judge David Shields said that the Democratic primary victories on March 18 by Mark Fairchild and Janice Hart, for lieutenant governor and secretary of state, entitled them only to places on the November ballot. The Democratic State Central Committee argued that it would be unconstitutional to force the party “to engage actively in an effort to elect candidates whose positions are abhorrent to them.”
A grand jury indicted the son of actor Ryan O’Neal on manslaughter charges in the boating death of his friend, Gian Carlo Coppola, 23, the son of film director Francis Ford Coppola. The Anne Arundel County grand jury in Annapolis, Maryland, returned a six-count indictment against Griffin O’Neal, 21, of Beverly Hills. Witnesses said O’Neal was operating the boat that hit a tow line at the mouth of the South River near Chesapeake Bay.
Federal agents arrested 14 people in the New Orleans area and accused them of planning to overthrow the government of Suriname. The 14 members of the mercenary group were charged with violating the U.S. Neutrality Act, which deals with armed overthrow of a foreign government. They allegedly planned to pose as financiers in order to take Suriname leader Desi Bouterse hostage, authorities said.
Outside the South, prices rose because of the devastating Southern drought. The prices of poultry, eggs and many vegetables and fruits have reached the highest levels in months in the Northeast and Middle West. Federal officials said the drought and heat had caused wholesale poultry prices to rise 25 percent in the last three months.
Public universities are advancing into major fund-raising efforts. Ohio State University has opened a campaign for $350 million, the University of Minnesota is out to raise $300 million, and Rutgers and a dozen other public universities are, or soon will be, seeking at least $100 million each from foundations, corporations and wealthy individuals.
Eight families who say that chemicals in their city’s water system have caused six leukemia deaths and numerous illnesses won the first round of a major lawsuit today when a Federal jury found that W. R. Grace and Company “substantially contributed to the contamination” of two wells. The jury in the case, brought by 33 residents of Woburn, an industrial suburb of 36,000 people 12 miles northwest of here, found that a second concern, Beatrice Foods Company, was not responsible for any contamination. The trial moves to a new phase Sept. 15 when the same jury of three men and three women is to begin hearing testimony on whether the chemicals caused the leukemia or the plaintiffs’ other health problems, including disorders of the heart, the central nervous system and the immune system. If the jury finds that to be the case, it will then decide what damages to award the plaintiffs.
The University of Iowa announced a policy today that forbids faculty members to have romantic relationships with students, as part of an effort to rule out sexual harassment. “Sexual harassment is reprehensible, especially in a university community, and is simply inconsistent with the educational mission of the university,” said James Freedman, president of the University of Iowa.
The sailing vessel C-Lyon tested the Coast Guard’s patience too often and Coast Guard officials said today that they seized the vessel and its pilot for an investigation. The 54-foot boat issued a distress call at 7:45 PM Sunday. Captain James M. Carolyon of Jacksonville said she was taking on water and adrift and disoriented with four people aboard. Petty Officer Brandy Ian said rescue boats found the C-Lyon 30 miles off Cape Canaveral, but, checking their records, found she had reported trouble nine times since November. Petty Officer Ian said the captain was told he could not move his boat “until everything is investigated: the vessel, the captain’s license, everything.” Petty Officer Ian said the owner “raised a big ruckus” when officers tried to board. “He was physically restrained and put in handcuffs and was charged with impeding boarding officers,” she said.
The Port Neal generating station in Salix in northwest Iowa was severely damaged by a tornado that destroyed 12 cars in the parking lot, said Dick Engel, an Iowa Public Service spokesman. A security guard was taken to a Sioux City health center, Engel said. The twister was one of at least six that struck Woodbury County and destroyed a motel and a convenience store in Sloan, officials said. In Spencer, two farm homes were destroyed but no one was hurt.
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Don Baylor’s two-run home run and a bases-empty homer by Dwight Evans led the Boston Red Sox to a 3–1 victory over the Chicago White Sox tonight, extending Chicago’s losing streak to eight games. The triumph was only the third in 11 games during the current road trip for the Red Sox and it ended a two-game losing streak. It was the first time since July 10 that a Boston pitcher other than Roger Clemens had won a game.
The Detroit Tigers downed the Cleveland Indians, 5-1. Jack Morris allowed his first earned run in 44 ⅔ innings but worked seven innings for his fifth straight victory as Detroit defeated Cleveland and ended Ken Schrom’s winning streak at eight games. Morris (12-6) allowed six hits, striking out six and walking one. Bill Campbell came in for the final two innings. Morris began his streak with three straight shutouts but he allowed an unearned run against the Minnesota Twins last Wednesday. He had last allowed an earned run in a loss to Texas July 4. His earned-run average has dropped from 4.23 to 3.21. Detroit has won 10 of its last 13 games; Cleveland has lost four of five.
Glenn Davis, who entered the game in an 0-for-19 slump, belted a three-run home run in the eighth inning tonight and singled in the other run to lead the Houston Astros to a 4-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves. Davis singled home a run in the first and then rallied the Astros with a three-run shot that made a winner of Bob Knepper (13-7). Dave Smith pitched the ninth inning to pick up 18th save for the first-place Astros. Doyle Alexander, who took a five-hitter and a 2-1 lead into the eighth, fell to 1-3 since moving to the National League.
The Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Kansas City Royals, 6-0. Jim Clancy pitched a four-hitter and Tony Fernandez drove in four runs with a triple and a homer for Toronto. Clancy (12-5) won his sixth straight. It was his 100th career victory.
Orel Hershiser pitched a three-hitter and singled in a run in the fourth inning Monday night to lead the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 2-1 victory over the San Francisco Giants. The defeat, coupled with Houston’s victory over Atlanta, dropped the second-place Giants 3 ½ games behind the Astros in the National League West. Hershiser, 10-7, struck out 10 batters to equal his best effort of the season, and walked three in recording his fifth complete game of the year. The Dodgers’ right-hander, who raised his career record against San Francisco to 6-0, lost his shutout in the seventh when right fielder Franklin Stubbs played Chris Brown’s hit into a triple. Chili Davis scored Brown with an infield out.
Joe Niekro, dejected, stood off to the side of the mound with his arms folded. Manager Lou Piniella worked the dirt on the other side, kicking it casually, his head down. For a team in the thick of the race, the Yankees have had many of these small, uneasy moments, and for one fundamental reason: Their pitching continues to hold them back. Niekro had little control over his knuckleball from the start tonight, and he had to go a secondary pitch, the slider. The Brewers pounced on him and he was gone in less than two innings, leaving the Yankee hitters with the chore of overcoming what one of their pitchers had wrought. They did not make it all the way back, and the Yankees lost to the Brewers, 5–4.
Kirby Puckett drove in four runs with a three-run homer and an 11th-inning single that scored Greg Gagne with the winning run for Minnesota as the Twins edged the Seattle Mariners, 6-5. Keith Atherton (5-3) allowed one run in three innings in gaining the victory. Gagne opened the 11th with a single off Karl Best (1-2). After Steve Lombardozzi sacrificed, Puckett followed with a long hit into left-center field that bounced over the fence. The hit was scored a single when Puckett stopped at first as the game ended.
The Pittsburgh Pirates beat the Montreal Expos, 7-4. R. J. Reynolds drove in three runs as Pittsburgh extended Montreal’s losing streak to four games. The Pirates trailed, 4-3, entering the seventh inning, which started with singles by Joe Orsulak and Barry Bonds. Johnny Ray, Sid Bream and Reynolds all hit run-scoring singles, and the Pirates added their final run on a wild pitch by Bob Sebra.
Even if there were occasional bouts of complacency, it would be easy to forgive the Mets. But they have not faltered once. In a season full of accomplishment, they have not so much as paused to consider the possibility of a lapse. They returned home last night from a sometimes bland, sometimes regrettable road trip, and they exploded grandly against the Chicago Cubs. Bob Ojeda claimed his 12th victory, Howard Johnson delivered a crushing bases-loaded double in the first inning, and the Mets coasted to a 9–2 victory in front of 38,890 at Shea Stadium.
The California Angels topped the Oakland Athletics, 6-3. Doug DeCinces drove in three runs with a double and homer and Kirk McCaskill gained his 12th victory for California. The triumph ended Oakland’s winning streak at seven games. McCaskill (12-6) allowed a leadoff single to Mike Davis in the ninth -only the sixth Oakland hit — before leaving in favor of Donnie Moore, who earned his 11th save. McCaskill walked five and struck out nine.
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 3-1. Alan Knicely hit his first home run of the season to break a 1-1 tie in the ninth inning, and Danny Cox pitched a three-hitter as St. Louis won its seventh straight. Cox (5-8) struck out eight, equaling a career high, and walked none in gaining his second straight victory. He has not walked a batter in 25 consecutive innings. Tommy Herr flied out to open the ninth against Bruce Ruffin (3-2), who allowed only two hits through eight innings. Knicely hit a 2-0 pitch over the wall in center field, 408 feet away. Tito Landrum followed with a single and scored on Terry Pendleton’s two-out double. St. Louis took a 1-0 lead in the first on a one-out walk to Ozzie Smith and Herr’s run-scoring double to right.
The Cincinnati Reds bowed to the San Diego Padres, 5-2. Tony Gwynn, Kevin McReynolds and Jerry Royster hit bases-empty home runs, helping San Diego snap a three-game losing streak. Andy Hawkins (7-7) allowed six singles over eight and one-third innings to gain the victory. Rich Gossage got the last two outs for his 17th save. The loss ended a four-game winning streak for Tom Browning (9-8), who departed after five innings having surrendered nine hits and four runs, including all three homers. San Diego took a 1-0 lead in the first inning on a two-out double by McReynolds and a run-scoring single by Steve Garvey. Nick Esasky singled home the Reds’ runs in the ninth.
The Orioles’ Larry Sheets’s eighth-inning run-scoring single and the combined seven-hit pitching of Storm Davis and Don Aase enabled Baltimore to beat Texas, 4-3. Davis (7-8) went seven innings to earn his ninth career victory without a loss over the Rangers. Aase allowed two hits over two innings and earned his 27th save.
Boston Red Sox 3, Chicago White Sox 1
Detroit Tigers 5, Cleveland Indians 1
Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 4
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Kansas City Royals 0
San Francisco Giants 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 2
New York Yankees 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Seattle Mariners 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Montreal Expos 4
Chicago Cubs 2, New York Mets 9
California Angels 6, Oakland Athletics 3
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Cincinnati Reds 2, San Diego Padres 5
Baltimore Orioles 4, Texas Rangers 3
The Monday “jinx” continued yesterday on Wall Street, where stock prices sagged badly under the weight of rising interest rates, a weak economy and a misalignment in the level of stock index futures. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 36.14 points, falling to 1,773.90. With yesterday’s drop, the Dow has now fallen 36 points, 28 points and 62 points in three of the last four Mondays. The string was broken only by a one-point rise on Monday, July 21.
What ails the American economy? Why, in the face of strongly growing spending by consumers and the Federal Government, has the economy faltered, and why have American workers been unable to increase their output of goods and services? Economic growth has slowed to a crawl. From April through June, the nation’s total output, adjusted for inflation, grew at an annual rate of only 1.1 percent. Productivity — the output per hour of all persons employed in private businesses — rose by only one-tenth of 1 percent last year. In nonfarm businesses, productivity actually fell by three-tenths of 1 percent. Business spending on plant and equipment has stagnated. Corporate profits have weakened. The stock market, after a spectacular two-year run-up that ignored the sluggish recovery, has sustained sharp setbacks. Rising interest rates and the weak economy were factors in today’s drop of 36.14 points in the Dow Jones industrial average.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1773.9 (-36.14)
Born:
Lauri Korpikoski, Finnish National Team and NHL left wing (Olympics, bronze medal, 2014; New York Rangers, Phoenix-Arizona Coyotes, Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets), in Turku, Finland.
Darin Ruf, MLB first baseman, outfielder, and pinch hitter (Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, New York Mets, Milwaukee Brewers), in Omaha, Nebraska.
William Middleton, NFL cornerback (Jacksonville Jaguars), in New York, New York.
Donald Washington, NFL safety (Kansas City Chiefs), in Indianapolis, Indiana.
Semih Erden, Turkish NBA center (Boston Celtics, Cleveland Cavaliers), in Istanbul, Turkey.
Essence Carson, WNBA guard (WNBA champions-Sparks, 2016; WNBA All-Star, 2011; New York Liberty, Los Angeles Sparks, Phoenix Mercury, Washington Mystics, Connecticut Sun), in Paterson, New Jersey.
Alexandra Chando, American actress (“As the World Turns”, “The Lying Game”), in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Alexandra Richards, American model; daughter of Keith Richards, in New York, New York.
Died:
Cliff Melton, 74, American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1942; NL saves leader 1937; NY Giants).
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