President Reagan’s top arms negotiators and a key Pentagon adviser will meet with Soviet officials in Moscow on Monday to discuss negotiations to curb nuclear and space weapons, the White House announced today. A United States official, who requested that he not be named, said the American team would go to the Soviet capital with instructions to get a reaction to President Reagan’s latest arms control proposals, outlined in a letter to the Soviet leader, Mikhail S. Gorbachev, late last month. The American team will be led by Mr. Reagan’s top arms adviser, Paul H. Nitze, and will include Max M. Kampelman, Edward L. Rowny, Ronald F. Lehman 2d and Maynard W. Glitman. Other members will be Richard N. Perle, the Assistant Secretary of Defense who is the Pentagon’s top arms control expert, and Col. Robert E. Linhard, special assistant to the President for national security affairs. The names of the Soviet experts were not disclosed by the White House. The American official said that the meeting in Moscow would not be a negotiating venture, but that the purpose was to lay out positions on both sides, so “we can hit the ground running” when the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, meets with Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington on September 19 and 20. “In that sense, it’s a procedural meeting,” the official said.
The Shultz-Shevardnadze session will be a planning meeting for a possible summit meeting later this year by Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev. Mr. Reagan, in his letter, invited Mr. Gorbachev to press negotiations in Geneva, which reopen on Sept. 18, to reduce nuclear weapons on both sides, even if the 50 percent cutbacks that both leaders have called for cannot be achieved in the first stage. The American official said the Moscow trip was set up last week when Mr. Shultz met with the Soviet’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Aleksandr A. Bessmertnykh. Mr. Shultz’s meeting with the Kremlin official was the highest-level United States-Soviet contact since mid-March. The White House statement described the meeting set for Monday as a gathering of experts “to discuss issues related to the negotiations on nuclear and space arms.”
A yearlong Soviet halt in testing nuclear weapons expired today, on the anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Mikhail S. Kapitsa, a Deputy Foreign Minister, said at a news conference that the Government would make its intentions known within a few days. The halt of underground tests, the only kind permitted under the 1963 treaty on a partial test ban, started on the Hiroshima anniversary last year and became a centerpiece of Soviet foreign policy. The test halt, which was initially due to expire last New Year’s Eve, was repeatedly extended as the Soviet Union kept urging the United States — unsuccessfully — to join the moratorium.
A police spokesman today confirmed reports that a tale of a spectacular escape from East Berlin last week was a hoax. A self-confessed accomplice added that the fanfare around Heinz Braun’s supposed flight through the Berlin wall had been designed as a practical joke to mock East Germany’s Communist rulers and spotlight the tragedy of the 25-year-old wall. But the accomplice, Wolf Quasner, a sometime art dealer and “escape helper,” acknowledged that the ruse, in its tragicomic dimension, had become a serious embarrassment for a small group of activists who, for ideals or profit, devote much time and effort, sometimes at considerable personal risk, to the business of smuggling political refugees across the wall. The police spokesman said Mr. Braun, a former East Berlin tire salesman, had confessed that he had fabricated the tale he described at a news conference last Friday about escaping to the West in a Lada station wagon painted like a Soviet patrol car and filled with mannequins dressed in fake Soviet army uniforms, was a hoax.
Police experts and Basque radicals expressed strong doubts today about the authenticity of purported threats by Basque guerrillas against citizens of European Community countries in Spain. A letter signed by the separatist group E.T.A., sent to several embassies in Madrid this week, warned of unspecified attacks in retaliation for support for the Spanish Government. Police experts told the state news agency they believed the letter, bearing the E.T.A. stamp, was forged. They said it contained the word “Spain,” a word the separatist organization never used. Basque radical sources said that the threats were totally illogical and that it would not be the first time false statements had been made in the name of E.T.A. A Government official, Jose Maria Rodriguez, said analyses made by intelligence services showed “neither the wording nor the aims belong to E.T.A..”
Poland’s authorities are moving toward freeing Adam Michnik, a veteran opposition campaigner for the banned Solidarity trade union, a Supreme Court judge said today. Mr. Michnik, one of about 300 political prisoners estimated by Solidarity to be held in Polish jails, is serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence for planning a nationwide strike and belonging to an illegal organization.
Albania, by choice one of the world’s most isolated nations, opened its first railway link with the rest of Europe. Albanian and Yugoslav officials observed the occasion by hoisting snifters of Albanian brandy at Titograd, just across the border in Yugoslavia. The 40-mile rail link connects Titograd with the Albanian town of Shkoder. An Albanian diplomat said the line will be used only for cargo, including exports of minerals and farm produce. “No passenger coaches are planned initially,” the diplomat said.
Malta said it warned Libya that warplanes were headed its way shortly before the U.S. air attack began last April 15. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said there was no reason to discount the claim, but he maintained that “the raid was a tactical surprise.” A Malta government spokesman said the warning was a routine communication between air controllers and that the nationality of the planes was not determined. “We relayed the information to Libya, but they didn’t appear to act on it,” he said, adding that the warning was in keeping with a 1984 friendship treaty with Libya.
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher underwent a successful hourlong operation on her right hand at a London hospital to correct Dupuytren’s contracture, a disease in which tightening tissues under the skin pull the little finger toward the palm. Thatcher, 60, has had the ailment for about 10 years.
A New York musician was found dead of a drug overdose in a London mansion owned by British pop singer Boy George, police said. Michael Rudetski, 27, was in Britain to work on new material with the singer and had been staying at the house. Boy George, 25, whose real name is George O’Dowd, was recently fined for heroin possession and treated for addiction to the drug. He was not at home. Rudetski was found on the floor of the living room by George’s older brother, Kevin O’Dowd. Police said no drugs were found in the house.
In a move that may prevent the spread of a major scandal, Israel’s Supreme Court today upheld the legality of presidential pardons given the head of the country’s domestic intelligence service and three aides in the deaths of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers. All four men had been implicated and pardoned — but never formally charged — in connection with the 1984 beating deaths of the Palestinian suspects and a subsequent cover-up. Officials here said the two-to-one ruling by the court had opened the way for lower-ranking agents of the agency to seek similar pardons. Tonight, the Israel state radio reported that eight members of the agency, known as Shin Beth, had applied for pardons during the day. There was no confirmation from either the Ministry of Justice or the office of President Chaim Herzog.
Israel’s Parliament passed a watered-down anti-racism bill and outlawed private contacts with the Palestine Liberation Organization in a trade-off between rival factions of the national unity coalition. The anti-racism bill, however, was so weakened that even militant Rabbi Meir Kahane — whose anti-Arab activities were originally targeted by the bill — voted for it, raising both hands. The bill makes it illegal to incite racism, defined as the persecution or degradation of a group “on account of its color, racial affiliation or national-ethnic origin.” The measure was passed only after the Labor Party agreed to back the PLO bill sponsored by the right-wing Likud Bloc.
Under renewed pressure from the United States, Egypt and Israel were reported to be near agreement today on final technical details that could lead to the settlement of a border dispute. The dispute, over Taba, a 25-acre wedge of desert on the Gulf of Aqaba, has been a major obstacle to better relations. It is the most sensitive of 15 border points that have been in dispute since Israel completed its withdrawal from Sinai in 1982. Egypt and Israel have been arguing over final details of an agreement to submit their dispute over Taba to international arbitration.
Jordan’s King Hussein and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak held their first face-to-face talks in three months in Alexandria. They were believed to be focusing on peace prospects after their separate talks with Vice President George Bush, who has returned to Washington after his 10-day Mideast tour. Hussein’s six-month-old rift with Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat was also thought to be a topic. More talks are scheduled today.
China has offered Vietnam “tremendous” aid to rebuild its economy and closer diplomatic relations in an effort to persuade Hanoi to withdraw from Cambodia, Prince Norodom Sihanouk said at a news conference here today. Although the Prince, a former Cambodian head of state, did not say when the Chinese offer was made, it apparently is still on the table at a time when Hanoi is choosing a new generation of Communist Party leaders. Diplomats in the region have been watching to see if Vietnamese officials who favor improved ties with China will gain in the leadership contest, or whether the next generation will remain pro-Soviet.
Three American soldiers on duty in South Korea have died from unknown causes, Army spokesmen said today. The three soldiers from the Second Infantry Division, the Army’s main combat unit in South Korea, did not return Monday night from a training exercise in which they were to have forded a river.
Goldman, Sachs is negotiating to sell a large stake to the Sumitomo Bank Ltd., Japan’s — and the world’s — third-largest bank. The premier investment banking house, is one of the last independent partnerships on Wall Street.
Japanese gathered at Peace Memorial Park today in Hiroshima for ceremony marking the first atomic bomb attack, in 1945. Thousands attended memorial service for the victims of the bomb that was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, by a U.S. B-29 bomber, the Enola Gay.
When the rains finally came last year to the drought-riddled continent of Africa, they brought with them swarms of locusts. Agricultural experts now say the locusts threaten to cause catastrophic plagues that could affect a great swath of sub-Saharan Africa. For the first time in at least 50 years, according to agricultural experts, four major species of locusts, in addition to grasshoppers, are simultaneously breeding, hatching, feeding and swarming in Africa, from the Red Sea to South Africa. The locusts rise into the air, eclipsing the sun and riding the wind in a mass onslaught on forests, crops and grasslands. Since biblical times, they have been regarded as among God’s worst punishments.
South African customs agents stalled trucks from Zambia and Zimbabwe, some up to 24 hours, in the wake of those countries’ endorsement of economic sanctions against Pretoria. Both landlocked black-ruled nations ship exports and imports through South Africa. Customs officials said the long inspections at the border were for a statistical survey. “The screws are undoubtedly being tightened,” a South African freight official said.
The U.S. Ambassador to Denmark, Terence A. Todman, has scheduled a news conference for today to announce he is removing himself from consideration as Ambassador to South Africa, according to State Department officials. They said Mr. Todman, the senior black officer in the Foreign Service, wanted to end speculation.
American Catholic bishops endorsed economic sanctions against South Africa for the first time. In a letter, the bishops said that failure to take such action now “would be morally indefensible.”
A day after the Justice Department turned over to the Senate Judiciary Committee 25 documents by Justice William H. Rehnquist, two committee members said nothing was emerging to suggest he was involved in questionable activities at the department during the Nixon Administration. “There doesn’t appear to be anything dramatic or spectacular,” Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. told reporters today. Senator Paul Simon, Democrat of Illinois, said the documents contained “nothing sensational, but perhaps the basis for some additional questioning.” The committee held four days of hearings last week on President Reagan’s nomination of Justice Rehnquist to be Chief Justice of the United States. The only hint of the specific contents of the papers was in a five-page index to the documents described by Congressional aides. The typed, detailed index included references to memorandums from Justice Rehnquist to familiar personalities of the Watergate period, including John W. Dean 3d, the former White House counsel, and former Attorney General John N. Mitchell.
Some civil rights and feminist groups today assailed Judge Antonin Scalia as hostile to the concerns of women, the poor and members of minorities, and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. said he seemed to favor a “profound” shift from Congress to the President of the power to set national policy. But the American Bar Association and several lawyers, both Democratic and Republican, said the judge had an outstanding legal mind whose conservative views would be tempered by openness to opposing arguments and zest for intellectual debate. Conservative groups, including Concerned Women for America, also strongly supported President Reagan’s nomination of Judge Scalia to the Supreme Court. They seemed enthusiastic, much as liberal groups seemed alarmed, by the prospect that confirmation of Judge Scalia would shift the Supreme Court markedly to the right on such issues as affirmative action, separation of church and state and women’s rights.
The House of Representatives voted today to uphold President Reagan’s veto of a bill that would have placed strict limits on imports of textiles from 12 countries, most of them in Asia. The vote was 276 to 149, or eight votes short of the two-thirds margin needed to override a veto. The final tally followed geographical lines more than partisan lines, as 205 Democrats and 71 Republicans opposed the President. Forty-three Democrats and 106 Republicans backed Mr. Reagan’s position.
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) with a group of Republican Members of Congress.
President Reagan attends the National Conference on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Prevention.
Budget Director James C. Miller 3d said today that Congress would have to cut at least $10 billion in spending before the end of September to stay below the ceiling in the budget-balancing law. Mr. Miller, in a briefing for reporters on the Reagan Administration’s midyear review of the budget and its economic forecast, said estimates by the Office of Management and Budget, which he heads, indicated that the nation’s budget deficit for the fiscal year 1987, which begins on Oct. 1, would be greater than $154 billion. That would set in motion the process for making spending cuts under the budget legislation.
Clarence Thomas, whose leadership of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has been criticized by civil rights groups, won overwhelming bipartisan approval today for a second four-year term as chairman. By a vote of 14 to 2, the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee backed Mr. Thomas, who was appointed by President Reagan in 1982. Howard M. Metzenbaum of Ohio and Paul Simon of Illinois, two of the seven Democrats on the committee, voted against Mr. Thomas, with Mr. Metzenbaum expressing “great regret” for this.
President Reagan, overruling his budget advisers, has ordered accelerated buying of crude oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, situated under salt domes in Texas and Louisiana. A White House statement said that building up oil reserves to 750 million barrels was “the best defense against the effects of rapid price escalation or supply interruptions.” The decision was a victory for Energy Secretary John S. Herrington, who has argued for an aggressive buying program while oil prices remain low. Because of the federal deficit, Budget Director James C. Miller III had urged halting purchases when current contracts expire. The reserve now has 503 million barrels.
Performing a drama not seen in Congress for more than half a century, a House delegation marched into the Senate chamber and demanded the impeachment trial of jailed federal judge Harry E. Claiborne for “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Rep. Peter W. Rodino Jr. (D-New Jersey), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, stood in the well of the Senate and read four articles of impeachment against Claiborne, who is serving a two-year sentence in federal prison for tax evasion and continues to draw his $78,700 annual salary for the lifetime appointment. The House passed the articles, similar to a grand jury indictment, 406 to 0 on July 22. The Senate is expected to conduct a trial in mid-September after the summer recess.
The House today approved a package of drought relief measures designed to aid farmers in the Southern and Middle Atlantic regions. The vote was 418 to 0. The aid package, which was estimated to cost $530 million, was sent to the Senate, which approved a similar proposal last week. Both Congressional proposals are designed to complement a package of relief measures put into effect last Friday by the Reagan Administration.
A conservative law professor will not be nominated for a seat on a Federal appeals court, Reagan Administration officials said. The American Bar Association has said it would oppose efforts to appoint Professor Lino A. Graglia of the University of Texas Law School, whose constitutional views and opposition to court-ordered busing have been criticized.
George Bush seemed the clear victor in Michigan’s election of Republican precinct delegates, according to early returns and polling data. Backers of Representative Jack F. Kemp and the Rev. Pat Robertson, the television evangelist, claimed second place for their candidates in the start of voting for the party’s 1988 Presidential nomination.
Only 10 days after the Challenger disaster, the program manager for the space shuttle told a Presidential commission in closed session that the space agency suspected for nearly a year that cold temperatures could touch off the erosion of critical safety seals on the shuttle’s solid fuel rockets. Arnold Aldrich, the operational chief of the shuttle program, made the statements to the commission in its first briefing on how a failure of the seals could have caused the accident that killed seven astronauts. Mr. Aldrich said reviews of four or five cases of damage to seals in previous shuttle flights had indicated that the worst damage occurred in cold weather. Mr. Aldrich’s previously unpublished testimony is contained in more than 3,000 pages of documents made public by Tuesday by the commission that investigated the accident. In interviews today, two members of the Presidential commission, who asked not to be named, said that they interpreted the testimony to indicate that well before the Challenger was launched Mr. Aldrich had probably known of the debate within the space agency over whether a launching in cold weather would be dangerous.
Proposed tests of redesigned space shuttle boosters appear to meet only “minimal” requirements based on a “clearly success-oriented” schedule, and more testing should be required, an independent oversight panel said. But Guyford Stever, chairman of the National Research Council panel, said in an interview at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, that NASA is doing a good job overall, and he is optimistic about the ultimate success of the program. The panel was set up after the presidential commission investigating the Challenger disaster called for an independent assessment of the redesign work.
The AFL-CIO, using a special low-interest credit card as a lure, launched a campaign to recruit non-union workers into a labor movement that has lost 3 million members since 1980. The federation’s executive council, meeting in Chicago, approved a reduced dues program for associate members and eligibility to special Union Privilege MasterCards, with loan rates of 13.5% and 15.75%. Other programs planned include discounts on life insurance, prescription drugs and travel and financial services.
A federal judge refused to block a District of Columbia law that bars insurance companies from refusing to sell health and life insurance to Washington residents who test positive for exposure to the AIDS virus. Judge Thomas F. Hogan’s ruling allows the nation’s most sweeping law on acquired immune deficiency syndrome and insurance to take effect today, pending final resolution of the case. The law prohibits insurance companies for the next five years from testing people for exposure to the AIDS virus or from denying coverage to those who have tested positive.
The main computer used by air traffic controllers at Chicago Center, the Federal Aviation Administration’s busiest facility, failed Tuesday, delaying hundreds of flights, an agency spokesman said today. The failure, which lasted two hours, during which a backup computer operated, caused no safety-related incidents, a spokesman, Robert Buckhorn, said. The incident at 2 PM was caused by the failure of a computer element that feeds the computer radar information and other data critical to tracking and directing flights in the crowded Chicago airspace, agency sources familiar with the breakdown said.
William J. Schroeder died at Humana Hospital-Audubon in Louisville, Kentucky, after surviving 620 days with a permanent artificial heart. He was the world’s last remaining and longest surviving recipient of the device. His survival, and that of Murray P. Hayden, who lived for 488 days, showed that people could live long term on the artificial heart. But the strokes and other complications both men suffered blunted initial enthusiasm for the device.
A judge upheld R. J. Reynolds and rebuffed the Federal Trade Commission. The administrative law judge, Montgomery K. Hyun, ruled that a complaint the F.T.C. had filed against the tobacco company should be dismissed because the First Amendment fully protected editorial advertisements. The commission had termed the ad “false or misleading” because it understated the health risks of smoking.
A fire erupted at a St. Petersburg, Florida chemical plant today, sending a cloud of chlorine gas billowing 3,000 feet into the air and forcing the police to evacuate a 20-square-block area. No serious injuries were reported, but the police said Humana Hospital had treated and released seven people experiencing breathing problems. Paramedics also treated several children at Gladden Park, which is outside the evacuation area but in the path of the drifting chlorine cloud. The fire was in an industrial area about 15 blocks northwest of downtown. The evacuated area included homes, a mobile home park and some businesses northwest of the plant.
Record rain in Milwaukee drowned an elderly woman and an 11-year-old boy, flooded basements and stranded travelers. Fifty to 70 homes were evacuated in suburban Wauwatosa, where the Menominee River overflowed. The Weather Service said 6.78 inches of rain fell in 24 hours, breaking the city’s record of 5.7 inches, set in 1917. About 400 people were stranded when Mitchell International Airport was closed. The 80-year-old woman apparently fell and drowned in two feet of water that had flooded her basement apartment. The boy was playing in a park when he stepped into the Kinnickinnic River to wash his feet and was swept away, officials said.
Phil Katz releases archiving utility PKARC for DOS.
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George Foster’s career with the Mets came to a controversial close today after the 37-year-old power hitter got into a dispute with Manager Dave Johnson over Foster’s remarks on racial influences in baseball. The Mets issued a statement tonight saying Foster would be released because he had been “ineffective as a part-time player” since he was benched 16 days ago as the team’s left fielder. They added that Lee Mazzilli, the onetime star center fielder for the Mets who was signed to a minor league contract last week, would be called up from their Tidewater farm club Thursday to replace him. But both Johnson and Foster acknowledged that the controversy over Foster’s remarks had hastened his release. And both invoked the same phrase to make the point: “The comments probably were the straw that broke the camel’s back.” Foster was hitting .216, a falloff from the previous year’s .229. He will play 15 games for the White Sox before retiring for good.
In a wild game that features a Major League-record three grand slams, Texas scores 7 runs in the final 2 innings to beat Baltimore 13–11. Toby Harrah’s grand slam in the 2nd gives the Rangers a 5–0 lead, but Baltimore rallies for 9 runs in the 4th, thanks to grand slams by Larry Sheets and Jim Dwyer, the 5th time in Major League history a team has hit 2 grand slams in one inning. Bobby Witt and Jeff Russell serve up the gopher balls.
The Red Sox jump on Floyd Bannister for 7 runs in the first two innings and coast to a 9–0 whitewash of the White Sox. Marty Barrett’s two-run homer in the first inning and Bill Buckner’s bases-loaded double in the second supported Bruce Hurst’s three-hitter. Hurst (7–5) won his second consecutive start after two losses since returning from the 21-day disabled list July 18. It is the 11th consecutive loss for Bannister against the Bosox, a streak stretching back to 1982.
The Mets finally solved the Chicago Cubs today after four straight losses in a week’s time. They did it with some of their old flair: Mookie Wilson poked a two-run single into right field off Lee Smith in the 12th inning to steer the Mets to a 7–6 victory. That sounds all right as far as it goes. But the bad news for the Mets was that they would have won the game a lot earlier if Dwight Gooden hadn’t blown a 5–3 lead in the ninth inning. He needed two outs to win, but Jody Davis clipped him for a two-run home run downwind in Wrigley Field, and the Doctor missed the chance to win No. 12. The game was Part One of a doubleheader that was never quite finished tonight, after a 48-minute rain delay and those extra innings. In the second game, the Mets were leading by 6–4 when the umpires suspended play after seven innings because it was getting dark and Wrigley Field has no lights. The game will be resumed in the top of the eighth inning Thursday before the regular game. The Mets won this game, again by the score of 7–6.
The Los Angeles Dodgers down the Houston Astros, 7–4. Len Matuszek had the first two-homer game of his career to drive in three runs, and Mike Marshall snapped an 0-for-15 slump with a two-run single as Los Angeles won its ninth game in its last 10. Rick Honeycutt (8–6) allowed five hits, struck out three and walked two in five and a third innings. Tom Niedenfuer pitched the final three and two-thirds innings for his seventh save as the Dodgers took the three-game series 2–1 to move 5 ½ games behind the Astros in the National League West.
The Minnesota Twins beat the California Angels, 5–2. Gary Gaetti hit a home run and a double, drove in three runs and scored two, and Bert Blyleven retired 18 consecutive batters en route to a five-hitter. Blyleven (11–10) struck out seven and did not walk a batter during his 10th complete game of the season, tying him with Mike Witt of the Angels for the league lead.
Now that the Mets have released George Foster, Dave Winfield is the highest-paid player in New York who has to wonder whether he will be in the lineup on a given night. Winfield, though, may have earned himself another start with his performance last night. The $1.86-million outfielder lashed a pair of singles and a home run, driving in two runs, as the Yankees stopped the Milwaukee Brewers, 5–3. Ron Guidry, scattering seven hits in seven and two-thirds innings, gained his sixth victory against nine defeats. The victory also was only the Yankees’ 12th against 21 losses in games started by left-handed pitchers.
The Montreal Expos nipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 3–2. Tim Raines and Mitch Webster hit run-scoring triples and Floyd Youmans scattered five hits over seven innings. Youmans (11–7) won for the 11th time in his last 14 decisions. He walked two and struck out four. Jeff Reardon pitched the ninth for his 25th save.
The Atlanta Braves defeated the San Diego Padres, 4–2. Pinch hitter Bob Horner doubled in the tying run and Rafael Ramirez followed with a pinch-hit, two-run single off reliever Rich Gossage in the ninth as Atlanta rallied past San Diego.
Rookie Jose Canseco doubled home the tiebreaking run in the ninth inning as Oakland beat Seattle, 7–5. Alfredo Griffin led off the ninth with an infield single that second baseman Harold Reynolds threw away for an error, allowing Griffin to reach second. Pete Ladd relieved Matt Young, 7–5, and gave up Canseco’s opposite-field double to right. Canseco advanced to third on Dave Kingman’s deep fly ball and scored on Carney Lansford’s single.
The San Francisco Giants edge the Cincinnati Reds, 2–1. Mike Aldrete, a pinch-hitter, lined a single to center with two outs in the 14th inning to drive in Chris Brown. Aldrete, a rookie, hit a 1–2 pitch for after a single by Will Clark, Brown’s double and a walk to Candy Maldonado loaded the bases with one out.
Don Carman sent Ozzie Smith home on a balk with the winning run with two out in the eighth inning as the Cardinals nipped the Phillies, 2–1. Carman (5–3) was in a full windup when Smith bluffed running home. Carman hurried his motion to Alan Knicely and Umpire Greg Bonin called the balk.
The Toronto Blue Jays blanked the Kansas City Royals 8–0. Jimmy Key and Tom Henke combined on a five-hit shutout and Garth Iorg drove in three runs to power Toronto. Key (10–7) did not allow a runner beyond second base and gave up only four singles. The 25-year old left-hander struck out five and walked two in seven-inning, beating Danny Jackson (6–8). Dennis Leonard, who relieved Jackson with two outs in Toronto’s five-run fourth, surrendered two more runs in the fifth.
Texas Rangers 13, Baltimore Orioles 11
Chicago White Sox 0, Boston Red Sox 9
New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 6
New York Mets 7, Chicago Cubs 6
Houston Astros 4, Los Angeles Dodgers 7
California Angels 2, Minnesota Twins 5
Milwaukee Brewers 3, New York Yankees 5
Montreal Expos 3, Pittsburgh Pirates 2
Atlanta Braves 4, San Diego Padres 2
Oakland Athletics 7, Seattle Mariners 5
Cincinnati Reds 1, San Francisco Giants 2
Philadelphia Phillies 1, St. Louis Cardinals 2
Kansas City Royals 0, Toronto Blue Jays 8
Stock prices ended mixed yesterday, as caution over the Treasury’s three-part refunding helped stymie activity. After moving in a narrow range throughout the day, the Dow Jones industrial average closed up a scant 2.53 points, at 1,779.53, as declining issues outnumbered advancing issues by 862 to 693. Investors in equities remained cautious about the how well the Treasury’s sale of 10-year notes yesterday and 30-year bonds on Thursday would be received. They also continued to assess the course of interest rates and the outlook for oil prices.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1779.53 (+2.53)
Born:
Jake McGee, MLB pitcher (World Series champions-Dodgers, 2020; Tampa Bay Rays, Colorado Rockies, Los Angeles Dodgers, San Francisco Giants, Milwaukee Brewers, Washington Nationals), in San Jose, California.
Erik Condra, NHL right wing (Ottawa Senators, Tampa Bay Lightning, Dallas Stars), in Trenton, Michigan.
Bryan Young, Canadian NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers), in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada.
Died:
William J Schroeder, 54, longest-survivor with permanent artificial heart, after 620 days with Jarvik VII man-made pump.
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