Western journalists on a visit to a cemetery near Moscow discovered the recently dug graves of two more victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. The two graves, which were found in a special plot that contains most of the other victims of history’s worst nuclear power plant accident, bear dates after the last official announcement on the death toll. The ruling Politburo said July 19 that 28 had died as a result of the Chernobyl accident. There has been no official confirmation of the higher death toll.
A Soviet court convicted a U.S. citizen and his Soviet partner of smuggling antique violins out of the country. The newspaper Soviet Russia said Peter Thomas D’Oria, a graduate of Fordham University in New York, was sentenced to 32 years in jail for smuggling an antique violin worth $59,700 out of the Soviet Union. The paper said that D’Oria, who is married to a Soviet woman but retains his U.S. citizenship, had worked as a translator. His Soviet partner, Sergei Dyachenko, a lecturer at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, was jailed for seven years. The American Embassy in Moscow said it is investigating the report.
Americans will be able to fish in Siberian rivers for the giant taimen, the largest member of the trout family, next summer, with an exploratory expedition possible early this fall. The agreement to allow Americans to fish in Siberia, one of the more unusual to emerge from the improvement in relations between Moscow and Washington, was negotiated and signed in Moscow last month.
Thirty-one people were convicted by an Italian court on organized crime charges and sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to 28 years. Authorities said those convicted were members of the Graziano clan, part of a Mafia-type organization involved in extortion rackets and trade in contraband cigarettes and drugs in the Naples area. The stiffest sentence, 28 years, was given to Antonio Manzi, convicted of drug trafficking. Pasquale Raffaele Graziano was sentenced to 25 years in prison for complicity in the 1983 murder of a rival crime boss.
In France, the Interior Minister’s efforts to ease procedures for the expulsion of foreigners have led to a heated debate over French immigration policy. Those opposed to the efforts contend that the Government not only is withdrawing France’s traditional welcome to refugees but also is fanning a new flame of chauvinist sentiment. They say they fear that foreigners will ultimately be subject to summary expulsion by the police. The Interior Minister, Charles Pasqua, responded in Parliament a few days ago by affirming the country’s traditional role. “France deserves its name as a land of asylum,” he said.
An emergency ministerial meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries was virtually in a shambles today, amid bitter recriminations that Saudi Arabia was seeking to depress oil prices to cripple Iran’s war effort against Iraq, a Saudi ally. The ministers met this evening for the second time today in the suite of the Nigerian Oil Minister, Rilwanu Lukman, who is the conference president, and said they would continue their discussions on Sunday. But the Algerian Oil Minister, Belkacem Nabi, said there was “very little hope” the 13 ministers would produce an accord.
Vice President Bush arrived here today on the third leg of his Middle East trip after disagreeing with the Jordanian Prime Minister about the prospects of advancing the Middle East peace process. At a news conference in Aqaba, Jordan, before leaving for Egypt, Mr. Bush said: “I hope that my visit has further strengthened our mutual understanding and trust. I sense agreement that an atmosphere exists here to advance the peace process.” In a briefing for reporters, however, the Jordanian Prime Minister, Zaid al-Rifai, was less optimistic.
Saddam Hussein offers peace in open letter to Iran.
Rivers and streams overflowing their banks after three days of rain have flooded at least 125 villages throughout Pakistan, officials said today. No deaths have been reported, but the officials estimated that more than 150 dwellings collapsed in the floods. The worst hit villages were in Gujranwala, Pasrur, Wazirabad and Sialkot districts in Punjab state, about 125 miles southeast of Islamabad. Heavy monsoon rains over the previous three days swelled area rivers, already running high from snow melting in the Himalayan and Karakoram Mountains. The government set up camps for evacuees, and the army was using boats to rescue marooned villagers.
In a burst of gunfire, arson and rock throwing, angry mobs of Sikhs and Hindus did more than wreck the tranquility of a middle-class neighborhood in western New Delhi last weekend. They also shattered any remaining complacency that the Sikh-Hindu conflict, perhaps the most serious threat to India’s national unity, was on its way to being eased. A weeklong curfew in western New Delhi was lifted Wednesday, and tensions have diminished. But the story of how the violence began and spread, leaving six people dead, epitomizes the reasons why hostilities between Hindus and Sikhs will be hard to overcome.
For the first time in at least six months, participants in negotiations to end the violent guerrilla insurgency in Sri Lanka say they have achieved marked progress in narrowing their differences. “There is room for cautious optimism,” a senior Indian official involved in the talks said today, referring to the most recent round of talks, which ended last week. The official added that recent discussions between the Sri Lanka Government and ethnic minority Tamil leaders in Colombo, the Sri Lanka capital, had been conducted in a “friendly and frank atmosphere.” The negotiations have been between representatives of the Government and leaders of the Tamil United Liberation Front, a moderate group. India has acted as a sponsor and mediator, and Tamil leaders have made frequent visits to New Delhi to br
Massive flooding caused by storms that hit China’s Jilin province 12 times during the months of June and July has affected 1.86 million people and inundated 2.5 million acres of farmland, the official News China News Agency reported. The agency’s report provided no details on deaths or injuries in the northeastern province but said rescue teams were sent to the province. It added that 165 miles of dikes have been breached and that 80,000 homes suffered damage. Last year in Jilin, at least 50 people died and more than 2.7 million homes were damaged in flooding that began in July.
Health officials in Hong Kong said today that three more people had been diagnosed as having cholera, prompting them to declare the British colony a cholera-infected area. The last time Hong Kong was declared a cholera-infected area was in 1979. The colony’s Medical and Health Department said the three new cholera cases, reported in the last two days, brought to seven the number reported this year. The department said the declaration was made according to World Health Organization regulations. But it said that there was no cause for alarm and that residents could receive free vaccination at eight government clinics. An Indonesian newspaper, meanwhile, said cholera had killed 59 people in West Sumatra since early June. The newspaper, Kompas, said the dead were among 712 cholera patients admitted to health centers and hospitals in the province. Doctors attributed the outbreak mostly to poor sanitation. Authorities said it was under control.
A combination of local hostility and political activism has dimmed United States Navy hopes for a new landing strip in Japan that the Navy considers vital to train aircraft carrier pilots. A vote to recall two assemblymen this week on Miyake Island, 110 miles south of Tokyo in the Pacific Ocean, almost guaranteed that long negotiations will be needed before the Navy gets what it wants, if it gets it at all. The vote was the latest sign of resistance in some Japanese localities to the United States military and, more directly, to the central Government for acceding to American wishes. This mood in no way reflects a pervasive nationwide antipathy toward either Americans in general or even the military. It does demonstrate that residents of Japanese small towns want control over their own land, even when Government leaders insist that national interests and commitments to their American allies must prevail.
Two men have been charged with beating a man to death in front of dozens of onlookers after a rally by followers of former President Ferdinand E. Marcos, the police said today. Corporal Florentino Bagallon said Gerry Neri, 27 years old, a cigarette vendor, and Raul Billosos, 22, were charged with murder. Corporal Bagallon said arrest orders had also been issued for three Marcos loyalist leaders and about 50 other people who were photographed either cheering or participating in the beating death of Steve Rodriguez last Sunday. The incident occurred at Rizal Park in Manila after the police broke up an unauthorized rally by Marcos followers. A group of people attacked Mr. Rodriguez, who was wearing a yellow shirt, a color associated with Mrs. Aquino.
Australia is getting ready for a yearlong birthday party in 1988, the 200th anniversary of the first migration from Europe. It was in January 1788 that Britain, having lost its trans-Atlantic prison colonies to the American Revolution, began unloading convict ships here. The plans may sound familiar to veterans of the American Bicentennial and the Statue of Liberty’s recent birthday. There will be tall ships, fireworks and a celebration of immigration, not all of it European. The theme here is “Living Together.” But there is a tricky task ahead: getting Australians to work up some enthusiasm for the festival. Self-promotion is not a local trait, a visitor is told. On the contrary. Try to float a balloon of patriotic hoopla past an Aussie and he will come at it with a very large pin, Australians say.
Canadian Pacific Ltd. and the Chicago-based Sara Lee Corp. have been placed on the Arab boycott list, officials of the Arab Boycott of Israel Office announced in Damascus, Syria. The officials said the two companies are among 17 firms placed on the list at a meeting of liaison officers, which also agreed not to boycott French car-maker Renault and West Germany’s Siemens AG. They said no action was taken against Renault and Siemens because they presented evidence that they had no dealings with Israel.
The Canadian Government is taking a tough stance toward pornography, going so far as to introduce legislation that could result in bans on publications like Playboy and Penthouse. The Canadian offensive is contained in a law introduced recently by the Progressive Conservative Party Government of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. It provides for penalties of two to five years in jail for those convicted of distributing pornography.
The Salvadoran Government appears to be engaged in a major confrontation with church officials after repeated accusations by police informers that churches have knowingly aided leftist guerrilla groups. Senior church officials say they feel increasingly threatened by the charges, which they contend are part of a Government-backed campaign to keep nongovernmental groups from working with refugees and in social projects. “They have accused me of being a Communist,” said Medardo Ernesto Gomez, the head of the Lutheran Church here, who was arrested and tortured by the police three years ago. “It worries us, because to call someone a Communist here is practically a death sentence.”
The family of an American journalist who disappeared in Guatemala last year has concluded that he and a companion were captured and killed by guerrillas. The journalist, Nick Blake, 27 years old, of Philadelphia, and Griffin Davis, 38, an American who lived in Guatemala, disappeared in March 1985 while traveling in a remote area of northern Guatemala where rebels are active. The Blake family’s accusation could be politically significant in the United States, where the Reagan Administration has been seeking to renew military aid to Guatemala. The aid was halted after American officials criticized Guatemala’s human-rights record in the late 1970’s.
The Chilean government expressed “deep annoyance” over a U.S. State Department official’s threat to exert economic pressure if human rights abuses continue in Chile. U.S. Ambassador Harry G. Barnes Jr. was called to the residence of Foreign Minister Jaime del Valle Alliende and handed a note conveying the Chilean reaction. Del Valle said the government was reacting to statements made by Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Elliott Abrams. Speaking Wednesday before a congressional banking subcommittee, Abrams said he would recommend the United States vote against a $250-million World Bank loan for Chile in October unless the military government stops violating human rights.
Four people died and more than 20 were wounded today when a bomb exploded in a butcher’s store in Walvis Bay, an enclave in South-West Africa where South Africa has a naval base, the authorities said. A second bomb tore through a post office in Muizenberg, near Cape Town, but no major injuries were reported. The bomb shattered windows in nearby stores and an apartment house, and a white postmaster was slightly wounded, the authorities said.
Distaste for apartheid is growing among white South Africans. They are more unhappy with the racial barriers than they were a year ago and a majority now want Nelson Mandela, head of the African National Congress, freed from prison, according to a public opinion poll conducted last month for the Sunday Times of London. Forty-five percent of whites polled said they were unhappy with apartheid, up from 32 percent last August. Fifty-six percent said Mr. Mandela should be freed, compared to 40 percent last August. The survey also found blacks to be about evenly divided on the question of foreign economic sanctions.
Pressure on Margaret Thatcher to put economic risk second to “moral principle” and end her opposition to sanctions against South Africa, will come from leaders of six Commonwealth Nations who gathered in London for a three-day meeting starting today with the Prime Minister. Heads of Government from Canada, India, Australia, Zimbabwe, the Bahamas and Zambia will participate in the meeting against a background of growing sentiment in the United States Congress for action against the Pretoria Government.
A confrontation seemed to be looming today between a bipartisan group of Senators and the Reagan Administration over Congressional access to sensitive papers written by William H. Rehnquist when he was a high-ranking Justice Department official in the Nixon Administration. At a meeting on Capitol Hill late Friday, the Senators gave department representatives a revised, more narrowly focused request for opinions and memorandums written by Mr. Rehnquist, the Associate Justice who is President Reagan’s nominee to be Chief Justice of the United States. An earlier, broader request was rejected Thursday by the President under the doctrine that the executive has the privilege of withholding information from Congress or the courts to guard the confidentiality of executive branch deliberations, the reason cited in this case, or to protect national security. No Need ‘to Change Position’ But today a spokesman for the Justice Department said officials would probably not comply with the new request.
A solid majority of Americans continues to approve of President Reagan’s handling of the duties of his office, despite a substantial recent decline in consumers’ financial optimism, a Gallup Poll says. In the mid-July poll, 63% approve of Reagan’s overall job performance, while 28% disapprove and 9% are undecided. These ratings are slightly below his peak of 68% approval in May. The latest poll also found evidence that consumer optimism is starting to cool. A further weakening in consumer optimism could affect the November elections, the poll concludes.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on international trade.
The President and First Lady watch the movie “Nothing In Common.”
Two key members of the House Armed Services Committee said they will offer a proposal this week to keep the Defense Department from profiting from inflation. “Our proposal forbids the Defense Department from burying inflation funds in the defense budget,” said Chairman Les Aspin (D-Wisconsin) and Rep. Nicholas Mavroules (D-Massachusetts). They said their proposal will be offered as an amendment to the $292-billion Pentagon spending plan for fiscal 1987. The amendment will set up an independent inflation fund in the Treasury and any money used to reimburse a contractor for the impact of inflation would have to be taken from that fund.
The process is complicated and the results will be murky. But the election of thousands of precinct delegates in Michigan’s Republican primary Tuesday will produce the first winners and losers of the party’s 1988 Presidential marathon. At stake is Vice President Bush’s effort to avoid an early stumble as he tries to fend off challenges from Representative Jack F. Kemp of upstate New York and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the television evangelist from Virginia. Mr. Bush, the party’s acknowledged front-runner for the nomination, has invested close to $1 million, more than twice what each of his opponents says he has spent, as well as substantial political capital in this contest, which even state party officials acknowledge was not designed to produce instant or conclusive results.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is seeking to determine whether Senator Jesse Helms or one of his aides passed sensitive American intelligence information to the Chilean Government, according to Congressional and Reagan Administration officials. The officials said the inquiry was focusing on charges that the Chileans had been tipped off about a covert American intelligence-gathering operation. They said the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence asked for the investigation after reviewing evidence from the State Department that there had been a leak of information to Chile, possibly by Senator Helms, a North Carolina Republican, or one of his staff. Helms Denies Any Disclosure Intelligence sources familiar with the evidence said there was little doubt that secrets had been passed to the Chileans.
“We really appreciate the Ohio farmer,” racing driver Richard Petty said as a fleet of NASCAR racing team trucks roared out of Columbus after hundreds of volunteers worked into the night to load them with hay for the drought-stricken Southeast. The goal of 20,000 bales, set by the “Caravan of Care/Hayride 500,” was surpassed. All 43 trucks, sponsored by NASCAR stock car drivers and crews, were filled. “This is one day all you guys can consider the highway patrol your friend,” Governor Richard F. Celeste told the drivers as they prepared to leave on the 483-mile trip back to North Carolina.
No new negotiations were planned as pickets stood outside the gates of USX Corp. steel mills for the second day of a work stoppage by 22,000 United Steelworkers members. “Everything’s fairly peaceful,” USX spokesman Tom Farrell said in Pittsburgh. All 16 plants of the company-formerly U.S. Steel Corp.-in nine states were shut down when the union’s contract expired at midnight Thursday. “The mood right now is determined, unified and relieved in the sense that at least we now know we’ve got a fight,” said Gary Hubbard, union spokesman. USX seeks to reduce its labor costs by up to $3.50 an hour from the current $25.20 while the union has proposed a wage freeze and a small reduction in health benefits.
Presbyterian Hospital in New York has been accused of mishandling the case of a man alleged to have killed two people and wounded nine others in a slashing rampage aboard the Staten Island ferry. A report issued by the state Commission on Quality of Care for the Mentally Disabled said that although there was a vacancy, a resident psychiatrist at the hospital discharged Juan Gonzalez, 43, a homeless Cuban refugee. Gonzalez had been hospitalized July 3 after he was overheard saying Jesus told him to kill, but was released July 5, two days before he allegedly used a short sword in the attack.
Soviet and American travelers ended their six-day “peace cruise” down the Mississippi River in St. Louis and joined schoolchildren in singing “We Are the World.” The 53 Soviet citizens and 130 Americans began their voyage for mutual understanding on the river boat Delta Queen in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Placard-carrying protesters greeted the cruise at each stop, but they were heavily outnumbered by enthusiastic crowds. The Soviet contingent included a cosmonaut, medical researchers, educators, writers, journalists and researchers.
A judge in Memphis has ordered a chemical company to pay $12.7 million to people living near a landfill, ruling that the company disregarded their health in its site selection and management of the dump. The residents filed suit in 1978 against the Velsicol Chemical Company, complaining that they suffered from kidney and liver damage, blurred vision, shortness of breath, nausea, headaches, skin rashes and other ailments because of hazardous chemicals deposited at the 200-acre landfill in western Tennessee.
Each passing week seems to bring another new drug-related charge against some local Miami police officer as the rising tide of cocaine smuggling exposes more and more officers to bribes and payoffs. “It’s not unusual for a patrol officer to stop a car in Miami on a routine traffic violation and find the guy has $20,000 or more in cash on him,” said one high-ranking law-enforcement official here. “With some cops, sooner or later they’re going to take the money, one way or another. And that’s just the beginning. It’s hard to stop after that.” The beleaguered Miami Police Department, with more than a dozen officers facing charges ranging from drug dealing to murder, is the focus of an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation into drug-related corruption. Twenty-five other police officers, some of them of high rank, have been subpoenaed as witnesses or as targets of the investigation. Police Chief Clarence Dickson, named 18 months ago to head the 1,033-member force, has been criticized from inside and outside the department as a weak commander. Last month he put out a statement saying he had no intention of resigning.
Discovery of a new virus among AIDS patients has been reported by a Government scientist at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in Washington. The scientist, Dr. Shyh-Ching Lo, said in an article in The American Journal of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine that he did not know what relationship, if any, the microbe has to the lethal disease that paralyzes the immune system.
A Philadelphia community group under investigation on charges of misusing funds spent more than $8,000 in public money to finance an appearance at a 1984 banquet by Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, according to a report published today. The group, the Inner City Organizing Network, used the money to pay for a banquet facility, Mr. Farrakhan’s airplane tickets and hotel accommodations, The Philadelphia Inquirer said.
For agents of the U.S. Border Patrol, record arrests of illegal aliens from Mexico mean only futility. The goal is not victory, or even containment, but simply maintaining a conspicuous presence in the face of a torrent of illegal crossings of the Rio Grande. Estimates are that from two to five aliens make it by the border patrols for each one caught.
A tornado touched down today in downtown Detroit, overturning two cars on an interstate highway and injuring two people, the authorities said. Two other tornadoes were reported in Macomb County, just north of Detroit, where trees were damaged but no one was injured, the State Police said. The Detroit twister touched down at about 3:30 PM near Interstate 96, flipping two cars over and damaging an abandoned vehicle, said Sgt. Kimo Kaaikala of the State Police. Two people were taken to Mount Carmel Mercy Hospital, but their condition was not immediately known. At Camp Grayling in northern Michigan, a National Guardsman was struck by lightning but suffered minor injuries, said Larry Akers, a Crawford County sheriff’s deputy.
Roy M. Cohn died at the Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland-d. Mr. Cohn’s 38-year career as a flamboyant, controversial defense lawyer recently ended in disbarment in New York State. A spokesman for the Magnuson center said the immediate cause of death was “cardio-pulmonary arrest,” and that the death certificate also listed two secondary causes of death, “dementia” and “underlying HTLV III infections,” which most scientists believe is the cause of AIDS. Mr. Cohn was 59 years old.
Curtis Cup Women’s Golf, Prairie Dunes CC: Great Britain & Ireland beat the US 13–5, the visitors’ first win on American soil.
Lee Elder fires a record 11-under-par 61 on his way to winning the Senior PGA Merrill Lynch/Golf Digest Commemorative at Sleepy Hollow CC; the record stands for 11 years.
American athlete Jackie Joyner-Kersee beats her own world heptathlon record by 13 points (7,161) in Houston.
Major League Baseball:
Willie McCovey, remembered as much for a last out he made as for his 521 home runs, will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame Sunday along with two old-timers, Bobby Doerr and the late Ernie Lombardi. McCovey, the 6-foot-4-inch first baseman who spent most of his 22-year career with the San Francisco Giants, is ninth on the career home-run list and has more homers than any other left-handed hitter in National League history. He led the league in homers three times and in runs batted in twice. His 18 grand slams are second on the career major-league list to Lou Gehrig’s 23. But he is remembered as much for the line drive right at Bobby Richardson, the Yankee second baseman, for the final out of the seventh game of the 1962 World Series. The tying run was on third base and the winning run on second at the time. “People ask me how I’d like to be remembered,” McCovey said. “I tell them I’d like to be remembered as the guy who hit the line drive over Bobby Richardson’s head.”
George Brett drove in three runs with a double and a single, and Steve Balboni hit a three-run homer during an 11-run seventh inning today as the Kansas City Royals routed the Red Sox, 13–2. The Royals snapped a four-game losing streak. Held to four hits for six innings by Tom Seaver, the Royals jumped on the 41-year-old pitcher and three relievers, Bob Stanley, Tim Lollar and Sammy Stewart, in the seventh.
The Chicago White Sox beat the Detroit Tigers, 5–3. John Cangelosi tripled and scored the go-ahead run on a sacrifice fly. With the score 3–3, Cangelosi hit a triple down the right-field line leading off the fifth inning and came home on Daryl Boston’s second RBI of the night.
With their manager ejected for protesting a strike call, the Yankees continued to struggle today on a road trip in which they have won only once in six games. They lost, 6–5, on a run-scoring single by Cory Snyder off Dave Righetti with one out in the 10th inning after rallying to tie in the ninth. They also rallied Friday night and won, 5–3, on Don Mattingly’s home run in the ninth, their only victory on the trip so far. Still, they remained four and a half games behind the first-place Boston Red Sox, who also lost today.
Dodgers Alejandro Pena and Tom Niedenfuer combine to one-hit the Reds 7–1, allowing only Eddie Milner’s leadoff home run off Pena in the 6th inning. It is the 5th time Milner has collected the only hit in a one-hitter, tying Cesar Tovar’s Major League record. Enos Cabell belts a grand slam as the Dodgers break the game open with a 6-run 8th. Cabell connected against John Franco, a reliever, for his first career grand slam and his first home run since last August 12. Reliever Tom Niedenfuer (6–4) drives in the other 2 runs.
The Milwaukee Brewers tripped the Texas Rangers, 9–8. Paul Molitor hit a two-out single to score the deciding run in the bottom of the eighth. The Texas starter, Charlie Hough, a knuckleball pitcher, had control problems, throwing three wild pitches and giving up two walks and two home runs in four and two-thirds innings. He left the game trailing, 7-6.
The Minnesota Twins whitewashed the Oakland A’s, 8–0. Mike Smithson pitched a two-hitter and Tom Brunansky keyed a five-run first inning with a two-run homer, his 20th, for the Twins. Smithson, the tallest pitcher in the majors at 6 feet 8 inches, had a no-hitter until Dwayne Murphy lined a line-drive single to center with one out in the seventh inning. Smithson (9–9) also gave up a leadoff single to Donnie Hill in the eighth. Smithson struck out eight and walked seven in the strongest performance of his four-year major league career.
One of the last pockets of resistance to the Mets’ blitzkrieg probably disintegrated yesterday when the Montreal Expos reported disabling injuries that could end the season for two of their regulars: Hubie Brooks, the star shortstop and leading hitter in the National League, and Mike Fitzgerald, the team’s No. 1 catcher. Both suffered hand injuries Friday night, and both went on the disabled list yesterday. So the Expos were heavily revamped and decidedly weakened last night when they took the field before 43,069 fans in Shea Stadium. And the Mets promptly delivered the coup de grace, beating them for the second consecutive time, 4–1, in a game interrupted twice by rain for a total of 1 hour 38 minutes.
The Philadelphia Phillies crushed the Chicago Cubs, 12–2. Juan Samuel went 4 for 5 with two doubles and a triple, and drove in three runs. Kevin Gross pitched a five-hitter for his first victory in nine starts. The Phillies finished with 18 hits, 13 for extra bases. Gary Redus hit two triples and a double as Philadelphia set a team record with five triples in the game. Gross (7–8) struck out eight and walked one in gaining his first victory since June 19. Scott Sanderson (5–8) was the loser.
The St. Louis Cardinals downed the Pittsburgh Pirates, 7–3. Ozzie Smith drove in three runs, and John Tudor (10–5) won his fourth straight decision. It was the Cardinals’ ninth victory in 11 games. St. Louis trailed by 2–1 in the fifth when Terry Pendleton, who had three hits, led off with a triple into the right-field corner. Two outs later, Vince Coleman walked and stole his 70th base. Both runners scored when Smith lined a single to right off Larry McWilliams (2–7). Smith later singled home a run for the Cardinals in a four-run eighth inning.
The Houston Astros nipped the San Diego Padres, 5–4. Davey Lopes hit a two-run homer and Jose Cruz added a three-run shot in the first inning, while Mike Scott struck out 11 over seven innings for Houston. For Scott (11–7), it marked the sixth time this season he has struck out 10 or more batters. He got two innings of relief help from Aurelio Lopez and Dave Smith, who recorded his 21st save. The Padres starter, Eric Show (7–5), making his first appearance since July 8, faced only five batters before he was lifted because of an injury. He had been placed on the disabled list after his last start because of continuing problems with tendinitis in his right elbow.
The Seattle Mariners set back the California Angels, 7–3. Ken Phelps and Jim Presley hit three-run homers and Alvin Davis added one with the bases empty for the Mariners. Mark Huismann (3–3) pitched four innings in relief to get the win. Gary Pettis stole his 28th base of the season and 140th of his career, moving him past Sandy Alomar to become the Angel’s career leader. Seattle’s Phil Bradley extended his hitting streak to 14 games.
The San Francisco Giants defeated the Atlanta Braves, 7–5. Jose Uribe led off the seventh inning with a pop-fly double and scored the tie-breaking run on Dan Gladden’s single. A sacrifice by Will Clark sent Uribe to third base before Gladden broke a 4–4 tie with his single to center off Doyle Alexander (1–4). Robby Thompson’s run-scoring double chased Alexander, and Joel Youngblood drove in a run with a sacrifice fly off Jeff Dedmon. Omar Moreno’s leadoff double sparked a two-run sixth that made it 4–4.
The Baltimore Orioles edged the Toronto Blue Jays, 5–2. Cal Ripken’s three-run homer broke a sixth-inning tie for Baltimore. Scott McGregor (8–10) gave up two runs on four hits in six and a third innings, and Don Aase pitched the final two innings for his 28th save. Jim Clancy (12–6) was the loser, ending his six-game winning streak. Juan Bonilla drew Clancy’s first walk of the game leading off the sixth and Fred Lynn walked with one out. Ripken followed with his 17th home run. Jesse Barfield, leading the major leagues in homers, hit his 27th.
Kansas City Royals 13, Boston Red Sox 2
Detroit Tigers 3, Chicago White Sox 5
New York Yankees 5, Cleveland Indians 6
Cincinnati Reds 1, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
Texas Rangers 8, Milwaukee Brewers 9
Oakland Athletics 0, Minnesota Twins 8
Montreal Expos 1, New York Mets 4
Chicago Cubs 2, Philadelphia Phillies 12
St. Louis Cardinals 7, Pittsburgh Pirates 3
Houston Astros 5, San Diego Padres 4
California Angels 3, Seattle Mariners 7
Atlanta Braves 5, San Francisco Giants 7
Baltimore Orioles 5, Toronto Blue Jays 2
Born:
Dominique Barber, NFL safety (Houston Texans), in Plymouth, Minnesota.
Lily Gladstone, American actress (“Killers of the Flower Moon”), on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, Browning, Montana.
Died:
Roy Cohn, 59, American lawyer (“grand inquisitor” for US Senator Joseph McCarthy; George Steinbrenner; Aristotle Onassis; Donald Trump; Mafia figures; Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York), of complications of AIDS.
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