A career diplomat, Alexander M. Belonogov, has been named Soviet ambassador to the United Nations, the Foreign Ministry announced in Moscow. Belonogov, 55, formerly the Soviet envoy in Egypt, succeeds Yuri V. Dubinin, named to the U.N. post in March, then two months later appointed Soviet ambassador in Washington. Belonogov’s appointment rounds out a string of recent Soviet diplomatic shuffles, including the appointment of new ambassadors to Britain, France, Spain, Japan and China.
The U.S. State Department confirmed today that Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union will meet in Washington on September 19 and 20 to talk about prospects for a summit meeting. A State Department spokesman, Charles E. Redman, said the United States expected the foreign ministers to “discuss what additional preparations may be needed for a summit meeting later this year.” When Mr. Redman was asked whether there was a specific agreement to have President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev meet before the end of 1986, the spokesman said, “I have nothing further.” President Reagan said last Tuesday that the United States had agreed to a Soviet “work plan” that would lead to a summit meeting later this year. On the same day, American officials said the two countries had tentatively agreed to the foreign ministers’ meeting here.
Dr. Robert P. Gale, a UCLA bone marrow specialist, said the death toll from the Soviet Union’s Chernobyl nuclear disaster on April 26 has risen to 30, confirming reports of Western journalists who found two new graves in a special cemetery plot near Moscow for Chernobyl victims. Gale, who has just completed another Soviet visit to help treat Chernobyl victims, was interviewed in Tel Aviv.
Only 31 Soviet Jews were allowed to emigrate in July, the second lowest monthly figure in 151⁄2 years, the Intergovernmental Commission for Migration reported in Geneva. The record low was 29 in August, 1985. The July arrivals brought to 447 the number of Soviet Jews arriving in the West through the first seven months of 1986. Of the 31 Soviet Jews permitted to leave in July, the commission said, only 12 went directly to Israel from Vienna, a major transit point for Soviet Jewish emigrants.
A British soldier was shot and killed near the line dividing Protestant and Roman Catholic communities in West Belfast in Northern Ireland. Police said that gunmen believed to belong to the outlawed Irish Republican Army crossed from the Catholic district and shot the man, who belonged to the Ulster Defense Regiment, in front of his home. Earlier, the wife of a former part-time soldier was wounded in the hand when a parcel bomb exploded as she opened it. A similar parcel bomb sent to a prison officer was defused.
Guerrillas fired mortars, grenades, and machine guns at the British air base at Akrotiri, Cyprus and at a beach crowded with families of servicemen, a British military spokesman said today. A pro-Libyan group said it was responsible. The only injuries reported in the attack Sunday were minor wounds suffered by two wives of British servicemen. Both women were still in the base hospital today. The British military spokesman on Cyprus, Maj. Gordon Birdwood, said, “Several 60-millimeter mortar rounds hit the married quarters area within the base and several rocket-propelled grenades landed on the beach next to the surfing club, which was also raked by machine-gun fire.” In Beirut, a previously unknown group calling itself the Unified Nasserite Organization said it had carried out the attack in retaliation for Britain’s help to the United States during the American air strikes against targets in Libya on April 15.
Millions of third-world workers, drawn to Europe to do jobs that Europeans did not want, find themselves and their children caught between two worlds. Although many European governments have proclaimed a halt to the third-world influx, the “guest workers” are staying on and, in significant instances, resisting assimilation. Meanwhile, staggering levels of unemployment and white racism block their movement into the mainstream.
Ministers of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries unanimously reached a tentative agreement tonight on an Iranian proposal to limit the group’s production in a bid to stop the steep decline in prices. The agreement, which will be presented in detail on Tuesday, is designed to cut OPEC production to 16 million barrels a day from roughly 20.5 million barrels at present. Analysts said that the accord, if enforced, would likely mean that prices, now at an average of about $7 a barrel for some grades, might bottom out or be reversed. OPEC ministers have said in the past that they hoped such a production target would lift prices to between $15 and $19 a barrel. Prices had been more than $30 a barrel late last year.
Israeli officials are contesting subpoenas from Federal grand juries investigating whether Israel illegally tried to export American technology for manufacturing cluster bombs, Reagan Administration officials said today. The subpoenaed Israelis work in their country’s military purchasing office in New York. It remained unclear whether they would soon be required to make appearances before grand juries in Iowa and Pennsylvania. There were indications that the Justice Department planned to enforce the subpoenas, but one Administration official suggested late today that a last-minute agreement might permit the Israelis to submit affidavits instead.
The Soviet Union announced today that it would start discussions with Israel this month on the opening of consulates. The announcement of the forthcoming talks, to be held in Helsinki, Finland, was made by the Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennadi Gerasimov. It was the first acknowledgment that the Soviet Union had been working toward a renewal of relations with Israel. The Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies, except Rumania, broke relations with Israel during the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Moscow is the main arms supplier of Syria, Israel’s chief antagonist in the Middle East. In Jerusalem, Israeli officials, in confirming the announcement, said the meeting would set ground rules for discussing “purely consular affairs.” At a Moscow news briefing, the Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Soviet Government was seeking consular relations in part to better oversee Soviet real estate holdings in Jerusalem. The Russian Orthodox Church owns properties in the Old City.
Lebanese troops and policemen backed by Syrian soldiers deployed today in the predominantly Shiite Muslim southern suburbs of Beirut as an explosion ripped through a cafe in East Beirut, the Christian sector of the capital, killing two people and wounding 30 others. The blast was the fourth explosion in the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital in a week. In all, 37 people have been killed in East Beirut and scores have been wounded. In West Beirut, the capital’s Muslim sector, a car bomb killed 27 people and wounded 180 last week.
Vice President Bush met here today with President Hosni Mubarak and told him that domestic budget considerations would not allow the United States to provide additional aid to help Egypt meet pressing financial needs. Mr. Bush held a two-hour private meeting with the Egyptian leader as he neared the end of a 12-day trip to the Middle East. He is to return to Washington late Tuesday.
Philippine President Corazon Aquino asked the country’s Central Bank to set conditions for foreigners to convert their Philippine loans into equity investment, and to allow more liberal repatriation of profits. She said the scheme would ease the burden of the country’s $26-billion foreign debt. At least one creditor has converted part of its loan to equity: American Express Bank Ltd. bought a 40% stake in Manila’s International Corporate Bank by converting $16 million of its loan to equity.
A small commercial plane with 13 on board crashed off the island of St. Vincent Sunday night. The St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister, James Mitchell, said today that he would seek United States help in a search. Mr. Mitchell said that St. Vincent coast guard vessels and helicopters from Trinidad and Tobago had not been able to locate the plane, and that vessels with sonar devices were needed. Mr. Mitchell said he believed that the plane had gone down in deep waters between St. Vincent and the nearby island of Bequia.
Five people, including a district governor, were killed in guerrilla attacks over the weekend in the southeastern state of Ayacucho, in Peru, the police said today. Leftist guerrillas of the Shining Path movement were suspected. All four members of a civil defense patrol made up of Indian peasants were stabbed to death on Saturday by people believed to be Shining Path guerrillas wielding machetes in the town of Ccentabamba, 100 miles northeast of Ayacucho. Another guerrilla band shot dead the 36-year-old governor of the Vischongo district, 70 miles south of the state capital. The dead governor is Tenorio Quispe, a member of the ruling American Popular Revolutionary Alliance. The Shining Path movement has vowed to kill 10 alliance members for every imprisoned guerrilla who died in the quelling of riots at three Lima area prisons in June. At least 156 inmates were killed in the crackdown.
A car bomb exploded outside a military barracks in Santiago, Chile, killing the driver and injuring three other people. The car apparently blew up before reaching its target, police said. Soldiers in the barracks were allegedly involved in the death of Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, a 19-year-old Chilean. The youth, who had been living with his exiled mother in Washington, reportedly was doused with gasoline and set afire by soldiers during a demonstration July 2. His female companion was critically burned. No one claimed responsibility for the car bomb.
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher agreed today to limited sanctions against South Africa, but refused to endorse the stiffer program of other Commonwealth leaders with whom she has been meeting here. The British leader, appearing to retreat from her stand that any sanctions would be “immoral,” said at a news conference that her limited measures would have “a very much bigger impact” than those adopted by the other countries because Britain had a larger stake in South Africa. In public, the Commonwealth leaders tried to describe the meeting in positive terms. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada said Mrs. Thatcher might have “endorsed sanctions less emphatically than the others, but she has endorsed them.”
Hundreds of black students walked out of a Soweto high school today after soldiers guarding the school confiscated a military-style jacket from a pupil and refused to return it, a school official said. The official at the Naledi High School, who asked not to be named, said all the students had left their classrooms. Reports that dozens of children were arrested could not be confirmed. Elsewhere in Soweto, black children continued to boycott classes to protest the deployment of policemen and soldiers at their schools, but school officials said the boycott was less effective than last week, when 10 of 56 schools were emptied. More than 15,000 pupils participated in the school boycotts last week. Pupils and teachers in Soweto said tension had been increased by reports that one or more children were bitten by police dogs at schools Thursday.
The Ministry of Constitutional Development and Planning said today that the South African Government planned to let all restaurants and movie theaters decide whether to serve people of all races. Since April, owners of businesses with a liquor license have been allowed to decide whom they would serve. A ministry spokesman, Peter Pullen, said the planned new move would extend that choice to owners of fast-food outlets, cinemas and restaurants without liquor licenses.
Colorization of black-and-white films by computers is provoking a debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Opponents contend that the technique degrades major works of art, likening it to putting lipstick on a Greek statue. Advocates see it as a potential gold mine that enables them to revive movies for high profits.
The Congressional Budget Office now projects that the 1987 budget deficit will be $173 billion, almost $30 billion above its ceiling in the budget-balancing law, according to Congressional sources. The new projection is high enough to trigger the spending cut process under the law, which set a $144 billion deficit ceiling for 1987. If Congress restores the law’s special mechanism, these cuts would be made automatically. Otherwise, the law would force the Congress to vote on across-the-board cuts just months before the November elections. If they were approved, they would be presented to President Reagan for his consideration.
President Reagan participates in a Cabinet Meeting to discuss drug abuse policy. In a later press conference, President Reagan called for mandatory drug tests for federal workers in sensitive jobs, and said he and his Cabinet might set an example and take the tests themselves. Declaring a “national mobilization” against narcotics abuse, Mr. Reagan said he sought a “drug-free workplace” for all Americans. He urged private groups to help the government “pressure the user at school and in the workplace to straighten up, get clean.” Mr. Reagan announced a series of “goals” in his anti-narcotics efforts, including expanding public awareness of the dangers of drugs and strengthening law enforcement. But the President, speaking to reporters in the White House press room, declined to address the details, scale or costs of his Administration’s new campaign against narcotics abuse. Details will be announced, he said, in “the near future.”
With questions still unresolved about the nomination of Associate Justice William H. Rehnquist of the Supreme Court to be Chief Justice of the United States, the Senate Judiciary Committee is to begin consideration Tuesday of President Reagan’s other Supreme Court nominee, Judge Antonin Scalia of the Federal appellate bench. Both nominations could become embroiled in a dispute between a bipartisan group of Senators and the Reagan Administration over access to internal documents of the Office of Legal Counsel, a unit in the Justice Department that provides legal advice to the Attorney General. Both nominees have served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of that office. Last week President Reagan, invoking the doctrine that the executive branch has the privilege of withholding information from Congress and the courts, denied a request by Democrats on the Judiciary Committee for opinions and memorandums written by William Rehnquist when he headed the Office of Legal Counsel from 1969 to 1971. Although there have been efforts by some senators and department officials to reach a compromise, the impasse was unresolved as of this evening.
The House and the Senate began debate today on separate bills for the Department of Defense, both of which are major challenges to the Reagan Administration’s Pentagon policies. Both bills for the fiscal year beginning October 1 substantially cut the amounts for the President’s proposed space-based missile shield, the Strategic Defense Initiative, and there will be moves in both branches for further cuts. Major debates are also expected on chemical weapons, the antisatellite missile, and a ban on nuclear testing, all votes that will challenge the President’s arms control policy. In addition, the debate in the House and the Senate will focus on how to trim programs for the fiscal year 1987 to bring them into conformance with the spending ceiling in the 1987 budget resolution. The bills under consideration authorize programs and set limits on spending, but actual appropriations are to be debated later.
The House passed legislation authorizing a 2% increase in disability benefits for 2.3 million veterans and sent the bill to the Senate. The measure allowing the cost-of-living adjustment of payments veterans receive for service-connected disabilities is estimated to cost $156 million in the 1987 fiscal year. Scheduled to take effect December 1, the measure also applies to dependency and indemnity payments to widows and children of veterans who died as a result of service-related injuries. The Reagan Administration, citing the lower COLA for Social Security beneficiaries, has indicated it will seek a smaller increase for disabled veterans in the Senate bill.
Three New York City undercover officers joined an Oriental crime ring last year in a ceremony in which they pricked their fingers, let their blood mingle in a wine glass and sipped from the glass, one officer testified. The induction into the group known as United Bamboo was recorded by a hidden camera. The videotape was played in the trial of 11 men charged with being affiliated with the gang. Prosecutors contend that the group was active in Asian communities in California, New York and Texas, and that it carried out the murder of a Chinese-American writer who was critical of the Taiwan regime.
Louisiana Governor Edwin W. Edwards urged the nation’s legislators to push for an import tax on oil or face almost total dependence on foreign sources. Edwards, addressing the National Conference of State Legislatures in New Orleans, said oil-producing states have been financially devastated by the low price of oil. For each dollar drop in the price of a barrel of oil, Louisiana loses roughly $50 million, he said.
Senator Jesse Helms assailed the State Department today for disclosing information to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence linking Mr. Helms to a disclosure of sensitive intelligence matters to the Government of Chile. “They want to intimidate me and harass me, and it’s not going to work,” the North Carolina Republican told reporters. The New York Times reported Sunday that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was investigating assertions that Mr. Helms or a member of his staff had disclosed classified American intelligence to Chilean officials. According to the report in The Times, the State Department transmitted the original allegations to the Senate committee, which then informed the F.B.I. At his news conference Senator Helms said the charges were “trumped up.” Speaking of the State Department he said, “They know, and I certainly know, that I have violated no rules of classification.”
A lawyer for political groups of radical politician Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. denied a New Jersey bank’s charges of racketeering through unauthorized use of credit cards for the 1984 LaRouche presidential campaign. Attorney William Cagney called the allegations by First Fidelity Bank of Newark “totally without any legal merit.” The bank filed suit last week, accusing LaRouche and his organization of swindling the bank out of hundreds of thousands of dollars through fake credit card contributions to the campaign.
An unarmed Tomahawk cruise missile fired from the battleship USS Iowa malfunctioned and automatically aborted its flight, landing in a southern Alabama swamp, the Pentagon said. The incident occurred about 16 miles west of Monroeville, Alabama, more than an hour after the missile was launched in the Gulf of Mexico. The aborted flight followed a successful test of another Tomahawk the day before, said a spokeswoman for the Pentagon’s cruise missile office.
Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. has ordered Admiral Carlisle A. H. Trost, chief of naval operations, to begin a design program for a tall ship for the service, despite concerns among Navy brass and Congress about financing the project. In a memo obtained by the Associated Press, Lehman said that the Navy needs a large, square-rigged sailing ship for training, to augment recruiting programs and to serve as “a public symbol of the traditions and heritage of our naval service to enhance our relations with the American people.”
The police are seizing the cars of people arrested for buying crack in Manhattan under a 1970 Federal law that allows the confiscation of property used in narcotics transactions. Forty-three people, most from middle-class suburban municipalities in New Jersey, were arrested for possessing drugs last week and 30 autos were confiscated.
A condemned murderer who escaped from a county jail in Texas remained at large today after officers recaptured a woman who fled with him. The killer, Richard Donald (Stony) Foster, 33 years old, and Cindy Davis, 27, escaped Sunday night after Mr. Foster, wielding a knife, locked a jailer in a cell, said the Stephens County sheriff, James Cain. The authorities said they captured the woman without resistance about 8 AM about 25 miles northeast of Breckenridge. The authorities were hunting for Mr. Foster in the same area.
In the first agreement reached between a former Bell System operating company and the Communications Workers of America since divestiture, the union today announced a pact with Pacific Telesis, parent company of Pacific Bell and Nevada Bell. The three-year agreement, which affects 44,000 workers, includes a no-layoff provision for the life of the contract, an average increase of $3,862 in total cash compensation over three years, a jointly administered training, retraining and career development program and improvements in benefits.
An open pit mine has come back to life at the edge of the crumbling city of Butte, Montana in the Rockies, ending three years of idleness here in the copper industry, enforced by a crippled market. Once again extraction machinery is gnawing away in the 200-foot-deep Continental pit, one of a handful of mining areas here. Yellow 170-ton dump trucks throw up gray clouds of dust as they daily haul 40,000 tons of copper and molybdenum ore to a concentrator, where it is processed for shipping. Shipments are expected to begin in mid-August. The new mining venture, begun July 15 by Montana Resources Inc., is different from its predecessors. The company has decided not to hire union workers in a city long known as a union stronghold, which is still full of unemployed union miners. And wages are substantially below those paid by the Anaconda Company before it closed its operation at the pit in 1983. At the time copper was fetching 78 cents a pound and American companies said they needed $1 a pound to break even.
Much of the South and Mid Atlantic had moderate rainfall over the weekend, providing the first substantial break in the scorching conditions plaguing the 10-state region. But experts said it would require weeks of such weather to end the South’s costliest drought.
More than 2,000 firefighters from across the Northwest used bulldozers, airplanes and helicopters to fight about 100 lightning-sparked blazes raging over nearly 100,000 acres of forest and rangeland in Oregon, Idaho and Washington. The biggest fires scorched 62,000 acres of Oregon’s sparsely populated south-central rangeland and 34,000 acres in southwestern Idaho. In Washington, about 300 firefighters worked to contain a 200-acre fire in the Okanogan National Forest.
Biologists are borrowing from computer science and theoretical physics to achieve a new understanding of the normal and abnormal rhythms of the heart that make the difference between life and sudden death. They are seeking to improve surgical and drug techniques that must now often be worked out by trial.
Physical attractiveness has many social and psychological benefits. But one specialist, David Buss, reports that, in mating, a man’s looks matter less than his social status and his wealth.
U.S.F.L. team owners called off the 1986 season and will try to field a more powerful, larger football league next year. The decision by team owners of the league, which has not had a game since last summer, was announced six days after it was awarded only $3 in triple damages in a long antitrust suit against the National Football League. [Ed: In the event, the U.S.F.L. has played its last game.]
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White Sox pitcher Jose DeLeon (2–0) beats Boston’s Roger Clemens (17–4) for the 2nd time in 5 days 1–0 at Fenway Park. DeLeon and the White Sox also won 7–2 on July 30th. Clemens finished with a four-hitter on his 24th birthday. But Chicago managed to score without a hit in the eighth inning when Carlton Fisk led off with a grounder that Wade Boggs, the third baseman, fumbled for an error. Ozzie Guillen followed with a sacrifice bunt that Clemens fielded cleanly but lobbed into right field, putting runners on second and third. Julio Cruz then hit an 0–2 pitch to center field for a sacrifice fly that scored Fisk.
Possibly because the Mets are so far in front, the silly season may be upon us in baseball. To wit: The Mets, who have grown accustomed to seeing other teams lose, saw the Chicago Cubs lose several things today in Wrigley Field. The Cubs lost two arguments to the umpires. They lost their cleanup hitter, Keith Moreland, who was ejected during the first argument. And they lost their manager, Gene Michael, who was kicked out during the second argument after he had repositioned the umpire’s cap on his head. But the Mets didn’t see the Cubs lose the main event of the afternoon: the ball game. Instead, the Cubs got nine hits in six innings off Ron Darling and rolled on to take the Mets, 4–2, while Dennis Eckersley beat the ranking team in baseball for the second time in a week.
The Los Angeles Dodgers downed the Houston Astros, 7–3. Bill Madlock keyed a five-run seventh inning with a two-run single that broke a 3–3 tie and helped Los Angeles to its eighth straight victory. The victory was the fifth straight for Fernando Valenzuela (15–6), who allowed 7 hits and struck out 11 for his league-leading 13th complete game. With Los Angeles trailing, 3–1, the Dodgers’ Mike Scioscia and Mariano Duncan opened the seventh inning with singles against the Houston starter, Jim Deshaies, putting runners at first and third. Charlie Kerfeld (7–2) came in and Duncan stole second on the next pitch. Alan Ashby’s throw went into center field, allowing Scioscia to score and Duncan to take third. Franklin Stubbs, a pinch-hitter, walked and was sacrificed to second by Valenzuela before Kerfeld loaded the bases with a walk to Steve Sax. The Houston first baseman Glenn Davis booted a grounder by Enos Cabell as Duncan scored, and Madlock followed with a line drive to center that scored two more. Bill Russell hit a suicide squeeze bunt to make it 6–3.
The California Angels bowed to the Minnesota Twins, 6–5. Gary Gaetti hit a one-out single in the ninth inning to drive in Greg Gagne from second base and give Minnesota the victory. The Twins, who tied the score at 5–5 with an unearned run in the eighth inning, handed California its third straight defeat.
One week and three tries after they made a trade to bolster their lineup against left-handed pitchers, the Yankees still can’t win games started by opposing left-handed pitchers. Although they knocked Ted Higuera out of the game with a ninth-inning rally, the Yankees nevertheless lost to Milwaukee, 5–4, last night. That marked the third time the Yankees lost games started by left-handers since they acquired Ron Kittle from the Chicago White Sox a week ago. For the entire season, the Yankees have won 11 games and lost 21 when left-handed pitchers have started against them. Their record in games started by right-handers is 47–28.
The Montreal Expos nipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–4. Wallace Johnson and Tom Foley each drove in two runs in a four-run seventh inning. Trailing by 2–1, Montreal began its rally with two out and the bases empty against Barry Jones (0–1), a reliever. Luis Rivera was safe on an error by the shortstop U. L. Washington, making all four runs unearned, and Dann Bilardello and the pinch-hitter Mitch Webster walked to load the bases. Johnson hit a high chopper to the right side of the infield, and, with two out and the runners moving, both Rivera and Bilardello scored. Foley then drove in two more with a double over the head of the left fielder R. J. Reynolds, giving Montreal a 5–2 lead.
The Atlanta Braves defeated the San Diego Padres, 4–1. Dale Murphy hit two home runs and drove in three runs to back the pitching of Jim Acker, a converted reliever. Acker (2–1), obtained from Toronto July 6, allowed six hits over eight scoreless innings before he was credited with a ninth-inning run.
Danny Tartabull, who had homered twice in the game, hit an RBI single that capped a three-run rally in the eighth inning gave Seattle a 9–8 victory over Oakland. Tartabull went 4 for 5 with four RBI. He hit a home run in the first inning and a two-run homer in the fourth prior to his bases-loaded single with one out in the eighth. A two-run double by Jose Canseco and Dave Kingman’s three-run homer highlighted a five-run rally in the seventh that lifted Oakland into an 8–4 lead.
The Cincinnati Reds edged the San Francisco Giants, 2–1. A run-scoring double by Buddy Bell in the eighth inning helped Cincinnati, which was held hitless for six and two-thirds innings by Terry Mulholland, break a six-game losing streak. Mulholland, a rookie pitcher making his sixth major league start for San Francisco, had a no-hitter until Tony Perez doubled to left-center field with two out in the seventh inning. Mulholland (0–5) then gave up his fifth walk before getting his fourth strikeout to end the inning.
The St. Louis Cardinals squeaked by the Philadelphia Phillies 3–2. Terry Pendleton laid down a suicide squeeze bunt with one out in the ninth inning to give St. Louis the victory. Vince Coleman began the ninth with a double and stole his fourth base of the game, giving him a major league-leading 75.
The Baltimore Orioles clobbered the Toronto Blue Jays, 12–2. Larry Sheets hit a two-run home run, the first of five home runs by Baltimore in support of Mike Boddicker. Sheets hit the home run in the second inning. Jim Dwyer had a three-run homer in the third. John Shelby hit one in the fourth. Jim Traber added a two-run homer in the fifth, and Fred Lynn had Baltimore’s last home run of the game, in the seventh inning for his 18th. Boddicker (14–5) pitched eight innings, giving up five hits and both Toronto runs.
Chicago White Sox 1, Boston Red Sox 0
New York Mets 2, Chicago Cubs 4
Houston Astros 3, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
California Angels 5, Minnesota Twins 6
Milwaukee Brewers 5, New York Yankees 4
Montreal Expos 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Atlanta Braves 4, San Diego Padres 1
Oakland Athletics 8, Seattle Mariners 9
Cincinnati Reds 2, San Francisco Giants 1
Philadelphia Phillies 2, St. Louis Cardinals 3
Baltimore Orioles 12, Toronto Blue Jays 2
A dramatic last-hour rally led by blue-chip oil shares helped the market to overcome earlier technical weakness and close with a modest gain yesterday. The strength of the oil sector reflected reports that OPEC members were drawing closer to an agreement that would lower their present production ceiling. Market sentiment was also improved late in the session by a rally in bond prices related to today’s beginning of the Treasury’s three-day quarterly refunding that involves a record $28 billion of notes and bonds. At the close of the volatile stock market session, the Dow Jones industrial average was up 6.33 points, to 1,769.97, after having been down 25 points at midday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1769.97 (+6.33)
Born:
Joique Bell, NFL running back (Philadelphia Eagles, Indianapolis Colts, Detroit Lions, Chicago Bears), in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
Garrett Graham, NFL tight end (Houston Texans), in Brick, New Jersey.
Marshall McFadden, NFL linebacker (Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders, St. Louis Rams), in Lamar, South Carolina.
Alex Castellanos, MLB outfielder (Los Angeles Dodgers), in Miami, Florida.
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