The United States and the Soviet Union made no progress on salvaging or replacing the unratified 1979 treaty limiting strategic arms during a week of talks in Geneva that ended today, Administration officials said. The sessions were described by a high Reagan Administration official as “very acrimonious and very polemical.” He said this was not surprising because “there was no possibility of there being a meeting of the minds on this issue.” At the Geneva sessions, one official said, the United States delegation told the Soviet side that the decision by President Reagan on May 27 to repudiate the 1979 treaty later this year was final.
He said that the American side also informed the Russians that the United States had no intention of abiding any more by the 1972 interim accord on limiting strategic arms. The accord officially expired in 1977 but had been adhered to by both sides since then. The 1972 accord is known in arms control parlance as SALT I, and the 1979 agreement as SALT II. In 1972 the two sides also agreed on a treaty limiting strategic defensive missiles, known as the ABM treaty, and that remains in effect. Discussions continue between Washington and Moscow on the contemplated duration of the treaty. Both sides issued blunt statements indicating the wide gap between them. The United States said the Soviet side “rejected” Mr. Reagan’s call for agreement on “an interim framework of truly mutual restraint” to substitute for the 1979 accord, pending conclusion of a new treaty with deep cuts in offensive weapons.
The Soviet side said it had warned of the “extremely dangerous consequences” if the United States refuses to abide by the past accords. The sharp words at Geneva, and the failure to make progress on this issue, contrasted with the conciliatory remarks by Mr. Reagan in a speech on Tuesday about Soviet relations, and the expectations here that there has been movement toward a second summit meeting by the end of the year. The Soviet Union had called for a special session of the Standing Consultative Commission to discuss its concerns about the Administration’s policy toward the previous arms control accords. The commission was set up in 1972 under the ABM treaty, and has been the place where both sides expressed concern about violations and discussed technical aspects of existing accords.
The nation’s trade deficit, the force behind much of the economic pressure being felt worldwide, continued in June at a record-breaking pace of $170 billion a year, the Commerce Department reported today. At $14.17 billion, last month’s deficit — the amount by which imports exceed exports — was little changed from May’s $14.21 billion. Most analysts took the result as further evidence that the falling dollar had done little to correct the trade situation. A weak dollar ordinarily encourages exports and discourages imports. In fact, there would have been a considerable worsening in June without a large shipment of gold bullion to the Japanese Government. “There’s no change in trend that’s evident,” said Robert G. Dederick, a former Commerce Department official who is now chief economist at Chicago’s Northern Trust Company. Last year’s trade deficit was a record $148.5 billion. The deficit has wounded American manufacturing and farming and raised the prospects of protectionist legislation. Next week, the House of Representatives is to vote on an override of President Reagan’s December veto of legislation that would restrict textile imports, and today’s report served as a lightning rod for Democratic leaders.
Fear of fallout from the April 26 Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union has slashed Western tourism to Black Sea holiday resorts, Romanian and Bulgarian officials complained. Ioan Goga of the Bucharest Tourism Ministry said about 40,000 Western tourists have canceled holidays in Romania this summer because of what he called “Chernobyl psychosis.” Many of the tourists switched to vacations in Greece and Spain, he said. In Bulgaria, a state tourism official said Western tourism has fallen 20% from last year’s level.
A former Soviet television commentator has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for spying for West Germany, the official trade union daily Trud reported today. It said the defendant, Ilya Suslov, had been tried by a Moscow military court last month for “high treason in the form of espionage” involving the transfer of state secrets on space and technology to West Germany. The report said Mr. Sulov was host of the television program “Man, Earth, Universe” in the early 1970’s, and in recent years had worked for the Soviet feature service Novosti. It said an investigation into his espionage activities began in July 1985.
Arrest warrants have been issued for members of a Middle East terrorist group that may have been linked to the bombing of a West Berlin discotheque and other attacks, according to Italian judicial officials. The warrants, which reportedly involve several people in Italy and abroad, are aimed at members of a group that had been unknown to the authorities, said Luigi Carli, the prosecutor heading the investigation in Genoa. The warrants are a result of an investigation that came after a Jordanian student was arrested in Genoa in June, the officials said Tuesday. The student, Awni Hindawi, is said to be related to suspects in the bombing of La Belle Club in West Berlin in April and an attempt to put a bomb aboard an El Al jet in London a few days later. Two people died in the discotheque bombing, including an American serviceman, and 250 people were wounded. Evidence that Libyan diplomats in East Berlin helped organize the bombing was cited by President Reagan to justify air strikes on Libya.
A man walked into a Northern Ireland village pub, killed a Protestant businessmen with two pistol shots to the head and escaped, police and witnesses said. The outlawed Irish Republican Army claimed responsibility and said John Kyle, 37, was killed because he was providing building supplies to the security forces. The British domestic news agency, Press Association, said Kyle owned a sand and gravel quarry near a police station being rebuilt after a bombing. The pub is in Greencastle, about 65 miles west of Belfast.
A drifter suspected of being London’s “Stockwell Strangler” was charged with two of the eight murders linked to the serial killer. Kenneth Erskine, 23, was accused in the slayings of Janet Cockett and William Downes-two of the elderly victims strangled in their beds in South London since April, police said. Erskine was arrested in the rundown Brixton neighborhood of South London on Monday. The “Stockwell Strangler” was named after South London’s Stockwell neighborhood, where five of the victims were found. The eight victims — ranging in age from 68 to 94 — all lived alone.
The Swiss President said today that Switzerland should consider abandoning nuclear power and seeking alternative sources of energy. He ruled out an immediate halt in operations at the nation’s five nuclear power generating stations, but President Alphons Egli said in a nationally televised interview that there was growing concern in Switzerland about continued use of such installations.
The Rev. Lawrence Martin Jenco kept a promise today to the militant Shiites who held him captive in Lebanon for nearly 19 months and delivered a message from them to Pope John Paul II. Father Jenco, who was freed Saturday in the Bekaa region of Lebanon, did not disclose the contents of the message, but he told reporters, “The religious factor is of great importance in this matter.” The priest, 51 years old, met briefly with the Pope and Vatican officials shortly after the Pope’s weekly general audience this morning. After the meeting, Father Jenco said, “To keep my promise I have given a confidential message from my captors to the Holy Father.”
The Israeli Supreme Court ruled today that the Government could expel 45 American-born members of the Black Hebrew group for overstaying their visas. An Interior Ministry spokesman, Yitzhak Agassi, said they would be deported to the United States in the next few days. The ministry issued the order for their expulsion in April. It would be the first such expulsion of members of the group, which claims direct lineage to the people of the Old Testament. The group, which began to arrive here in 1968, is said to have 1,500 members in Israel. Mr. Agassi said many other members of the group were living in Israel illegally and would also be expelled. “Our policy is like that of any other country,” he said. “We expel illegal aliens.”
Vice President Bush arrived here from Jerusalem today carrying a private message from the Israelis for King Hussein that is said to offer new suggestions on Middle East peace, but is not expected to bring about a breakthrough. Mr. Bush said that as he left Jerusalem, Prime Minister Shimon Peres of Israel had presented him with “some ideas to share” with the King. However, Mr. Bush conceded at a news conference that the message contained “nothing new.” American and Israeli officials declined to give any details of the message, but said it “did not deal with nuts and bolts.”
Saudi Arabia, a conservative monarchy, said it will provide more than $50 million in aid to the Marxist government of South Yemen. Saudi Finance Minister Mohammed Aba Khayl said the package of credits, development projects and commodity assistance resulted from a visit last week by Haider abu Bakr Attas, who became president of South Yemen after a bloody January power struggle in the country on the Arabian Peninsula’s southwestern tip. The aid and credit package will finance port expansion, hospital equipment, housing, ambulances, firefighting equipment and wheat.
Members of South Korea’s ruling and opposition parties formed a 45-member special parliamentary committee to push through constitutional revision and democratic reform. The committee is composed of 23 government party members and 22 opposition legislators. Inauguration of the committee marked an important compromise between the two sides, even if they fail to reach agreement on how to restructure South Korea’s political system. Since February, the major opposition New Korea Democratic Party and dissident groups have pressed demands to replace the indirect presidential election system with a direct ballot.
A blast and fire aboard a cruise ship anchored off a Bahamas island forced 987 passengers to flee in lifeboats. A calypso band and open bar on a sandy beach awaited them. Nineteen passengers were treated for smoke inhalation suffered as thick smoke swirled from the blaze in a storeroom of the Emerald Seas, a Miami-based veteran of runs to Nassau.
The opposition People’s National Party of former Prime Minister Michael N. Manley decisively defeated the ruling Jamaica Labor Party in local elections, officials said today. Prime Minister Edward P. G. Seaga conceded defeat and said, “Obviously, the outcome of this election will bear much analysis and obviously there is much to be thought about in terms of what we do from here.” Mr. Manley’s party, which has said it would call for early national elections if it won the election Tuesday, captured 10 of 13 parish councils, according to the Electoral Commission. With partial returns in, the People’s National Party won 105 seats and the Jamaica Labor Party 43, with 39 undecided.
Delegates from the United States and Nicaragua squared off against each other in the Security Council today as diplomats worked on the text of a resolution involving the two countries. The resolution calls for compliance with a recent World Court decision outlawing American financial backing of anti-Government guerrillas in Nicaragua. “Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement?” asked Vernon A. Walters, the chief American delegate, adding, “Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua’s private sector?” He continued, “What is a lie is that the Sandinistas claim that they want a negotiated settlement” in Nicaragua.
The Bolivian Ambassador to the United States told members of a Senate subcommittee today that his country would need an immediate $100 million loan to help defray the loss of income in Bolivia because of reduced cocaine exports. Since the United States Army, in conjunction with Bolivian antinarcotics police, began attacking cocaine processing laboratories in north-central Bolivia this month, “we have interrupted the manufacturing flow of cocaine,” the Ambassador, Fernando Illanes, told the Senate Appropriations Committee’s defense subcommittee. And because illegal shipments of cocaine represent Bolivia’s largest source of export income — larger, the Bolivian Government estimates, than all the legitimate sources of export income combined — there is now a “desperate need for new dollars,” he said. State Department officials said the cocaine raids that began almost two weeks ago appeared to have disrupted Bolivia’s economy. Bolivia “has been coming under increasing pressure in recent days,” a State Department official said, as black market sales of dollars have increased.
A firmer U.S. stand on Chile is likely, according to Elliott Abrams, an Assistant Secretary of State. The State Department’s leading Latin America specialist said that if the United States had to vote now on new international loans for Chile, he would recommend voting no. But Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, said the first vote on a development bank loan for Chile will not occur until October, leaving “plenty of time for the government to make all sorts of changes” that would persuade the United States to vote yes. He told a House Banking subcommittee that those changes should include a speedier transition to democracy from the military dictatorship of President Augusto Pinochet and curbs on human rights abuses.
A Cabinet minister in the most troubled of South Africa’s so-called homelands died in a car-bomb attack, the authorities reported today, and in other incidents assailants attacked a police station, killing seven people. The slain official, Piet Ntuli, Minister of Home Affairs in the KwaNdebele homeland, was reputed to have led blacks who oppose young anti-apartheid militants in the poverty-stricken area north of Pretoria. He died when a bomb exploded in his car Tuesday night near Siyabuswa, KwaNdebele’s makeshift capital, but the identity of his attackers was not known, the authorities said.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with Secretary Shultz to discuss the President’s desire to send the current U.S. Ambassador to Liberia to South Africa.
Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist today specifically denied allegations by more than 10 people who have said they saw him questioning or challenging voters about their qualifications at polling places in Phoenix in the early 1960’s. Testifying under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Justice Rehnquist said flatly that he had never “harassed or intimidated” voters and had not personally “challenged” the qualifications of any voters between 1958 and 1968. Justice Rehnquist, President Reagan’s nominee to be Chief Justice of the United States, also said he did not recall approaching any voters in those years to question them about their qualifications or to ask them to prove their ability to read, as several people have alleged. But he said it was possible he had taken such an action in 1954. Democratic senators questioned him closely about recent statements by more than 10 people to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and to news organizations, including The New York Times, that they had seen Mr. Rehnquist at Phoenix polling places in the early 1960’s demanding that voters demonstrate that they could read or that they were otherwise qualified to vote.
Supreme Court justices are insulated by life tenure and social tradition from the rough-and-tumble of politics, but after 15 years on the Court, Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist is being called to account. Some 50 witnesses are scheduled to give their views of him.
President Reagan met with leaders of national service organizations and plans for them to become involved in the fight against drug abuse. Announcing that President Reagan was planning to use “the full power of the Presidency” to curb the use of narcotics, the White House said today that he was considering widespread drug testing for Government employees. Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, said that Mr. Reagan would start a major effort next week to curb narcotics and “will seek to remove drugs from schools, the workplace, athletic programs and from all elements of society.” Although Mr. Reagan had decided to play an active role against narcotics before the recent cocaine-related deaths of two athletes, Mr. Speakes said the highly publicized deaths had heightened national awareness of the drug problem. Responding to a question, the spokesman also said there were no plans at the moment to increase funds for cities, such as New York, where narcotics treatment centers are virtually overwhelmed because of financial cutbacks and the increased incidence of the abuse of crack, a purified, highly addictive form of cocaine.
Prompted by a lack of confidence that Congress can reduce the deficit on its own, the Republican-controlled Senate today approved a mechanism to make cuts automatically. The proposal, approved 63 to 36 as an amendment on the bill to raise the Government’s debt ceiling by $244 billion, to $2,320 billion, would give the Office of Management and Budget the authority, with some limitations, to calculate the need for the cuts and impose them. The plan faces an uncertain future in the House. The Democratic leadership is leery of giving more power to the Reagan Administration and prefers the law’s fallback mechanism, which requires House and Senate votes and Presidential approval before the same cuts, half of them in the military budget, would go into effect.
The House, by a vote of 193 to 226, rejected a move to order the Federal Aviation Administration to rehire up to 1,000 air traffic controllers who were fired in 1981. The proposal is part of the $10.3-billion transportation bill, which is strongly opposed by the Administration, both because of the controller provision and airline sanctions against South Africa. The President fired 11,345 controllers for conducting an illegal strike. Rep. Guy V. Molinari (R-N.Y.), author of the proposal, said that the nation faces a crisis and that the air traffic control system needs relief.
The Justice Department, facing a budget shortfall, has ordered its 93 U.S. attorneys to begin no new investigations that involve travel or legal expenses for the next two months. The department, in an internal memo, also told its chief prosecutors to stop using computer research services, limit travel for ongoing investigations, seek to delay court cases, buy no new equipment and reduce orders for court and grand jury transcripts until the 1986 fiscal year ends Sept. 30. While the cost-cutting measures are intended to be temporary, a spokesman said, they could grow worse if a fiscal 1987 budget freeze approved by the House last week takes effect in October.
Deported aliens can re-enter the country under their own names because the Immigration and Naturalization Service does not keep a record at entry points of all illegal aliens and criminals who have been deported, a new General Accounting Office study charges. The study found, for example, that out of a random selection of 87 aliens who were deported from New York City between 1983 and 1985, the names of only three appeared in the computerized data system used by immigration inspectors to identify undesirable aliens at airports and other points of entry. The study of the program, the National Automated Immigration Lookout System, or Nails, was done at the request of Senator Alfonse M. D’Amato, Republican of New York.
A recall of more than 200,000 automobile child safety seats was announced by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration because they may crack or break in an accident. The seats, manufactured by Century Products Inc. of Stow, Ohio, and Kolcraft Products Inc. of Chicago, include Century Models 100, 200, 300 and 400 XL and Kolcraft Rock’n Ride (Model 13123).
The Consumer Product Safety Commission voted to declare methylene chloride, a major ingredient in spray paints and paint strippers, a hazardous substance requiring danger warnings. The panel, in a prelude to formal hearings, said that it took the action because scientists have classified the chemical as a probable human carcinogen. The Food and Drug Administration has moved to ban it from hair sprays.
Bargaining stalled in Pittsburgh between the steelworkers union and the USX Corporation, and both sides believed a strike tonight was highly likely. David Roderick, chairman of USX, formerly the U.S. Steel Corporation, said the company had to have a competitive labor agreement and would not accept a wage freeze the union has proposed. A strike would shut the steel-making operations of USX, formerly the United States Steel Corporation, the largest steel producer in the country. It would be the first strike at the concern since the last nationwide steel strike in 1959, which lasted 116 days.
Detroit’s garbage collectors said they will return to work today, promising to begin hauling away the 42,500 tons of trash that has piled up during the 15-day walkout by 7,000 municipal workers. Chief steward Vernon Williams of Teamsters Local 214, which represents the city’s 600 trashmen, said union members decided to end their strike because some members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees’ Council 25 have crossed picket lines. The strike involves 7,000 AFSCME members and another 5,000 workers, including bus drivers and trash haulers, who were honoring the picket lines.
Employees of Bell Atlantic, the parent of most local telephone companies in the Middle Atlantic states, have voted to authorize a strike if their contract demands are not met, a union official said today. Current contracts for Bell Atlantic workers in the Washington, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware expire August 10. “Our negotiators now have a clear signal from the rank-and-file members of our union to insist on a fair contract that reflects the profitable operations of Bell Atlantic,” said a statement by Pete Catucci, vice president of District 2 of the Communication Workers of America. The major obstacles in negotiations, which have been under way in Washington since June, are salary and job security, Mr. Catucci said. The union said the strike authorization was “overwhelming,” although a breakdown of the vote was not given.
Crews in Boone, Iowa, salvaged cookies, skis, chemicals and other goods after the middle 16 cars of a freight train were blown off a bridge in a storm and plunged 185 feet into a river valley. Only small amounts of hazardous chemicals leaked into the Des Moines River, environmental officials said. Chicago & North Western Transportation Co. said it hoped to restore service on one track of the main east-west line by today.
A two-year regimen of chemotherapy can save the lives of some young leukemia victims after they relapse following initial treatment, a new study said. Doctors tested the treatment on 39 youngsters with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, one of the most treatable forms of cancer. About 70% to 80% of all children with the disease achieve long-term, relapse-free survival. However, the outlook for survival dims when relapse occurs, the report said. The new study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, suggests that a rotating series of four chemotherapy drugs can prevent some deaths.
Ten police officers from six police departments in eastern Massachusetts, including two police chiefs, have been indicted on charges of stealing police examinations and raising their own test scores and lowering the results of their rivals. William F. Weld, the United States Attorney, charged today that the men formed a “tightly knit clique moving to seize governmental power” and “posed a serious threat to law enforcement” in Massachusetts. As an example of the threat, the Middlesex County District Attorney, Scott Harshbarger, cited a $1.5 million bank burglary that he said was carried out by the ringleaders of the group, who were then able to ward off investigation for five years. Mr. Weld, who has been nominated by President Reagan to head the criminal division of the Justice Department, said the case was unusual and one of the most serious examples of police corruption in recent American history.
Long-range forecasts see no break in the hot, dry weather that has caused the Southeast’s worst drought in a century, according to the National Weather Service. Officials said both the 30-day and 90-day forecasts now predict a 60 percent probability that temperatures will be hotter than normal and a 55 percent chance that rainfall will be less than normal across most of the region.
Many Southern farm families fear they will soon lose everything after fighting drought and depressed prices for nearly 10 years. Buddy Wren of Vidette, Ga., looked out over his crops of stunted cotton and corn in sandy fields and said quietly, “I’m going to have nothing.”
By 1991 the number of AIDS cases in New York City will total 40,000, with nearly 30,000 deaths, according to a new estimate reported yesterday by Dr. Stephen C. Joseph, the New York City Commissioner of Health. In 1991 alone there will be as many cases of acquired immune deficiency syndrome in New York City as the cumulative total from 1981, when the disease was first detected, to 1986, Dr. Joseph said at a meeting on AIDS at the health department. As of yesterday, 7,132 AIDS cases had been reported to the Health Department, of whom at least 4,028, or 56 percent, have died. There is no effective treatment for AIDS, which destroys the body’s immune and eventually proves fatal.
Contrary to the long-held belief that a gash was ripped in the Titanic when she struck an iceberg, it appears instead that the collision loosened or buckled seams in the hull, thereby flooding and sinking the giant liner. Dr. Robert D. Ballard, leader of the expedition that made 11 dives onto the sunken ship, said today that he and his colleagues had observed many buckled plates well below the waterline. But they found no gash. The collision “did not generate a gash,” he said, adding that “the damage was really separation of the plates” of the steel hull.
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An arbitrator rules against the Major League owners for including clauses in the contracts of several hundred players that allow random drug testing without negotiating with the players union.
Greg Kosc, the first-base umpire, ruled that Roger Clemens, Boston’s leading pitcher, failed to touch first base with two outs in the fifth inning tonight. The play enabled John Cangelosi to score the go-ahead run from third as the Chicago White Sox beat the Red Sox, 7–2. Clemens (17–3), who has the most victories in the majors, was ejected for arguing the call and then lunging at the umpire. “There’s no question in my mind I got the bag,” said Clemens, who went to cover first when Harold Baines hit a grounder to Bill Buckner. Kosc defended his call. “I honestly believe I had the play right,” said the umpire. “Why would I want to call the guy safe?” A video replay appeared to show that Baines was out, but Kosc said, “The replay is wrong because they got the wrong angle.” Besides Clemens, two Boston players who left the dugout — Al Nipper and Bruce Hurst, both pitchers — were ejected. “I will pick up their fines,” said Clemens, who gave up eight hits and struck out only one. Jose DeLeon (1–0) pitched the first six innings for Chicago. Dave Schmidt pitched the final three innings for his sixth save. Tim Hulett went 4 for 4, including a two-run homer, to lead Chicago’s 13-hit attack.
The Detroit Tigers routed the Cleveland Indians, 11–3. Eric King allowed six hits over seven and one- third innings as Detroit won for the 11th time in 14 games since the All-Star Game break. King (8–2) yielded all three runs on two homers by Tony Bernazard, who hit a solo homer in the sixth and a two-run homer, his 10th, in the eighth.
The Atlanta Braves bowed to the Houston Astros, 4–2. Jim Deshaies stopped Atlanta on four hits in eight and two-thirds innings and Glenn Davis hit his 23rd home run to lead Houston. Deshaies (6–3) struck out nine and walked only one before needing last-out relief from Dave Smith, who recorded his 19th save. The only runs off Deshaies came on a two-run homer in the ninth by Ken Griffey, his fifth.
The Toronto Blue Jays topped the Kansas City Royals, 7–2. Ernie Whitt and Jesse Barfield hit homers in a five-run fifth inning as Joe Johnson gained his first American League victory. The Royals committed two errors in the inning. The Blue Jays have lost six straight games. Johnson, who was obtained July 6 from Atlanta, scattered six hits through six and two-thirds innings. Dennis Leonard (6–10) was the loser.
Bob Welch and Tom Niedenfuer combined on a six-hitter and Mike Scioscia’s squeeze bunt capped a three-run first inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers completed a three-game sweep of the fading San Francisco Giants with a 4–2 victory Wednesday night. Right-hander Bob Welch, 5–9, retired 18 of the first 19 batters and allowed four hits over seven innings while striking out eight. Niedenfuer pitched the final two innings for his sixth save. The defeat was the fourth in a row for the second-place Giants, who fell 4 ½ games behind the West Division-leading Houston Astros. Welch held the Giants without a run until the seventh when Robby Thompson led off with the Giants’ second hit, a single, and Joel Youngblood hit his fifth home run.
Their new slugger went down swinging three times. The closest they came to scoring was when a runner was thrown out at home after he slowed down to watch the play unfold. And another Yankee starting pitcher was tagged. The Yankees were shut down by the Brewers this afternoon, 5–0, frustrated by the left-handed screwball pitches of Ted Higuera and frustrated with themselves. In raising his record to 13–7, Higuera walked just one batter, Ron Kittle, the right-handed designated hitter acquired from the Chicago White Sox late Tuesday night, and struck out six, getting Kittle three times. The loser was Doug Drabek, the starter, who dropped to 2–4. Drabek pitched into the sixth, which was something of an accomplishment because the Yankee starters in the previous two losses here did not get past the second inning.
The Seattle Mariners nipped the Minnesota Twins, 4–2. Spike Owen hit a two-run single in the sixth inning to help the Mariners end a three-game losing streak. Mike Morgan (8–10) allowed two runs and four hits in the first five innings while striking out one and walking five.
The Montreal Expos edged the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–2. Andre Dawson scored from third on a wild pitch for the Expos’ second run in the seventh inning. The Expos trailed, 2–1, but Wallace Johnson hit a pinch-hit homer, his first in the major leagues, to tie the score with no one out. Two outs later, Dawson walked and took third on a single by Hubie Brooks, who missed his last eight games with an injured left hand. Dawson then raced home when the reliever Jim Winn’s pitch sailed past his catcher, Tony Pena..
Sid Fernandez struck out 11 batters in five innings last night, but he also gave up the deciding runs in the first inning that helped the Chicago Cubs survive a lengthy rain delay and beat the Mets, 4–3, at Shea Stadium. By the time game ended, at 12:48 this morning, no more than a few thousand spectators remained in the stands. A steady drizzle was still falling when the game picked up after a delay of 1 hour 57 minutes, and it continued even as the tarp was removed and the two teams took the field.
The California Angels downed the Oakland Athletics, 6–2. Doug DeCinces lined a pinch-hit double in the eighth inning to break a 2–2 tie. John Candelaria (4–1) pitched seven innings, allowing five hits and two runs, striking out five and walking none. Donnie Moore worked two innings for his 12th save.
The St. Louis Cardinals defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–3. Curt Ford and Terry Pendleton each singled home a run in the fifth inning and Todd Worrell earned his 21st save. The game was tied, 2–2, in the fifth when the Cardinals collected four straight singles, including the key hits by Ford and Pendleton. Worrell then worked out of a tough situation in the seventh as Bob Forsch (10–6) won his fourth straight. Forsch pitched six innings, and gave up nine hits.
Graig Nettles knocked in five runs with two homers, his first in nearly six weeks, and Ed Whitson gained his first victory since returning to San Diego to lead the Padres over Cincinnati, 9–3. The Padres pounded Reds starter John Denny, 7–10, for 10 hits on six runs in 5 ⅓ innings.
The Texas Rangers tripped the Baltimore Orioles, 5–3. Don Slaught hit a two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the 11th inning to lead the Rangers. Slaught, whose 11th homer set a club record for a catcher in one season, came after Steve Buechele singled off Nate Snell (2–1).
Boston Red Sox 2, Chicago White Sox 7
Detroit Tigers 11, Cleveland Indians 3
Atlanta Braves 2, Houston Astros 4
Toronto Blue Jays 7, Kansas City Royals 2
San Francisco Giants 2, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
New York Yankees 0, Milwaukee Brewers 5
Seattle Mariners 4, Minnesota Twins 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 2, Montreal Expos 3
Chicago Cubs 4, New York Mets 3
California Angels 6, Oakland Athletics 2
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Cincinnati Reds 3, San Diego Padres 9
Baltimore Orioles 3, Texas Rangers 5
A late rally in blue-chip stocks helped Wall Street snap its two-day slide, but share prices over all were mixed yesterday as investors continued to fret over the nation’s economy, trade deficit and interest rates. Larry Greenwald, co-manager of equity trading for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, said a “combination of factors” was responsible for yesterday’s improvement, including rumors that the high-technology companies in the United States might get trade relief from imports. Led by technology issues, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 12.52 points, to 1,779.39, its first gain since last Friday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1779.39 (+12.52)
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Scott Diamond, Canadian MLB pitcher (Minnesota Twins, Toronto Blue Jays), in Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Jimmy Wilson, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins), in San Diego, California.
Robert Brewster, NFL guard (Dallas Cowboys), in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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