[Ed: The biggest open wound of the Cold War. No one in 1986 would have believed you if you told them it would be gone in four years…]
The Soviet Union said today that it had granted asylum to a former employee of the Central Intelligence Agency who disappeared last September under suspicion of selling secrets to Moscow. According to the Government press agency Tass, the former C.I.A. man, Edward L. Howard, told the Soviet authorities in seeking asylum that he had “to hide from the U.S. secret services, which were persecuting him without foundation.” In Washington, officials said Mr. Howard’s defection and his disclosures about what he knows about American intelligence had done immeasurable damage to national security. Since the night in September when he abandoned his family and fled into the New Mexico desert, intelligence officials have feared that Mr. Howard would go to the Soviet Union and reveal intelligence techniques. Mr. Howard is believed to be the first C.I.A. employee to defect to the Soviet Union. In 1960, two employees of the National Security Agency, Bernon F. Mitchell and William H. Martin, turned up here. Another employee of the National Security Agency, Victor Norris Hamilton, defected in 1963. In the Howard case, a brief Tass announcement said, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet was “guided by humanitarian considerations” in granting asylum. The Presidium is the Soviet Union’s collective presidency, headed by Andrei A. Gromyko. The report gave no other details.
An American arms control delegation is going to Moscow over the next few days with no specific agenda, but in the expectation that the Soviet Union may respond to recent American proposals, Reagan Administration officials said today. The proposals were made by President Reagan in late July in response to a letter from Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader. Administration officials said the Moscow meeting, which is to start Monday and is expected to last two or three days, was suggested by the Soviet Union as part of a series of talks that might ultimately lead to a summit meeting later this year. The Moscow arms talks will be preliminary to a meeting between Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze of the Soviet Union scheduled for mid-September, and could also facilitate the regular Geneva arms talks, which resume September 18.
Officials said no breakthrough was expected in the Moscow talks, but they expressed hopes that the fact of talks’ being held would counter arms control moves in Congress that are opposed by the Administration. The Senate late tonight approved a resolution urging the Reagan Administration to seek Senate ratification of two treaties limiting nuclear testing and to resume negotiations immediately on a comprehensive test ban treaty with the Soviet Union. The two treaties, which the United States is observing although they were not consented to by the Senate, are the 1974 Threshold Test Ban Treaty and the 1976 Peaceful Nuclear Explosions Treaty.
The Soviet official who heads his country’s delegation to the U.S.-Soviet arms-control negotiations in Geneva is among four men who will meet next week with U.S.. arms experts in Moscow. The Soviet delegates will be Viktor P. Karpov, the Geneva delegation chief; Alexei A. Obukhov, the Geneva negotiator on medium-range weapons; Col. Gen. Nikolai Chervov, and Nikolai Ditinov. The U.S. delegation to Moscow will be led by Paul H. Nitze, President Reagan’s top arms adviser.
The leaders of six nonnuclear countries called on the United States and the Soviet Union today to halt all nuclear testing under a verification plan that the six Governments would administer. Leaders of Mexico, India, Greece, Tanzania, Sweden and Argentina said they would underwrite the cost of the verification plan, establish seismic monitoring stations in both countries and provide the personnel to operate it. “We remain convinced that no issue is more urgent and crucial today than bringing to an end all nuclear tests,” the nations said in a communique at the close of the two-day meeting in this seaside resort. The six leaders — who constitute the so-called Five Continent Peace Initiative — also condemned the development of weapons in outer space, specifically calling for a halt to development of anti-satellite weapons.
A Moscow Circus couple defected in Argentina and flew to Miami in a bid for political asylum. The couple are Bertalina Kazakova and Nikolai Nikolsky, a 35-year-old husband-and-wife tightrope act.
A New York group says the Polish Government has continued to use imprisonment as a weapon against Solidarity supporters despite periodic amnesties. The group, the Committee in Support of Solidarity in New York, has issued a report listing 772 cases of people in prison or detention for political crimes from August 1985 until last month. The list includes prisoners who are awaiting trial, those sentenced and imprisoned, those who were held in custody and given suspended terms or heavy fines and those who were arrested or sentenced to prison terms eventually released. Most of the prisoners, the report said, were arrested or detained for taking part in the Solidarity movement or for distributing or printing underground publications.
A Northern Ireland politician was arrested in the Irish Republic after a group of pro-British Protestants raided a village across the border. Peter Robinson, a member of Parliament and deputy leader of the Rev. Ian Paisley’s Democratic Unionist Party, was allegedly among a mob of 300 Protestants, many wearing masks and carrying clubs, who hoisted the Ulster flag over the village of Clontibret, smashed windows in the police station and beat two policemen before being driven off. The raid reportedly was intended to show that border security, which is supposed to stop the movement of Irish nationalist guerrillas, is inadequate.
The United States issued a formal protest to Romania over the razing of a church and a synagogue in Bucharest, Assistant Secretary of State Rozanne L. Ridgway told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee. Romania’s largest Seventh-day Adventist church was demolished just two weeks after the last Sephardic synagogue in Bucharest was destroyed, Ridgway said. Both were razed to make way for an urban renewal project.
An Italian court has frozen $4.9 million in Libyan Government funds on deposit here to cover longstanding debts owed to two Italian companies. The action was ordered Wednesday in Milan at the request of two small concerns that delivered earth-moving equipment and tow trucks to Libya in 1981 and 1982 and said they were never paid. The companies are Co. Fa. of Milan and C.F. S.p.A. of Piacenza. The decision was viewed as a potentially significant precedent because funds belonging to the Libyan Government were involved and because Libyan debt to Italian companies amounts to almost $700 million, according to recent official estimates. The Libyan Ambassador to Italy, Abdurrahman Shalgam, said Libya would soon appeal the judgment, which he said violated terms of the companies’ contract calling for adjudication of disputes by a Libyan court or a neutral tribunal. He also said Libyan Government funds should not have been involved in a dispute between commercial concerns.
King Hussein of Jordan and President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt ended 24 hours of talks on Middle East peace prospects today amid a news blackout. Journalists, told earlier to expect a statement about the first meeting in three months between the two United States-backed leaders, were kept away from the former royal palace of Ras el-Teen, where the two men held a third private meeting this morning before King Hussein flew off. The King, accompanied by Queen Noor, left this Mediterranean port city for an undisclosed destination.
Iraq said its warplanes today hit Iran’s Kharg Island oil terminal three times, and an oil refinery, a power station and two generators in Isfahan, Iran’s second-largest city, which is 240 miles from the Iraqi border. The official Iraqi news agency said the attacks were in response to an Iranian long-range artillery strike Wednesday that killed 74 civilians and wounded 140 at a housing complex in the northern Iraqi province of Sulaimaniya. The official Iranian news agency, monitored in Cyprus, quoted a military spokesman who denied that Iran had shelled Sulaimaniya, saying the attacks were aimed at two residential and industrial areas and that several civilians were wounded. Iraq said the attacks on Kharg devasted one of two main jetties and left other important targets in flames.
Iran has arrested an American telecommunications engineer on spying charges. Jon Pattis, 49, of Aiken, South Carolina, is the first U.S. citizen to be accused of espionage by Iran since 1979, when the staff at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran was taken hostage. A State Department spokeswoman said the department is working with the Swiss government, which represents U.S. interests in Iran, in negotiating for Pattis’ release. He reportedly had been working at Iran’s telecommunications center at Assadabad.
The Chinese Government has agreed to join an American interfaith foundation in undertaking a study of the Eastern European Jews who found refuge in Shanghai in World War II, the American group said yesterday. The Appeal of Conscience Foundation made the announcement at a news conference yesterday in which a rabbi and a priest reported on their trip last month to China. Among the initiatives announced were an exchange of books on religion between the foundation and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, as well as the visit of a Chinese religion scholar to the United States early next year. Some 20,000 Jews escaped Nazi persecution by fleeing to Shanghai from Germany, Poland and Austria between 1938 and 1941. All of the European Jews were believed to have left the country after the war. The two clergymen who made the trip, Rabbi Arthur Schneier, president of the foundation, and the Rev. Vincent O’Keefe, former president of Fordham University, said they had noticed “a dramatic and positive shift” in Peking’s attitude toward religion.
The U.S. House of Representatives today approved $350 million in new economic and military aid for the Philippines, including $200 million in cash to help the Government of President Corazon C. Aquino meet budget deficits. The vote was 219 to 178. But the House first voted to reduce the cash transfer fund by $50 million after several members said that the $250 million that had been requested was excessive at a time of severe budget deficits in the United States. The bill, entitled the Assistance for Democracy Act, also earmarks $109 million in economic aid for Haiti.
Promised talks between the Salvadoran Government and leftist rebels are being delayed because the two sides remain far apart on the date, locale and security measures for the meeting, a Government spokesman said today. The delay in renewing negotiations to end the six-year-old civil war has led to growing public pessimism, matched by assessments by top Government officials that is little prospect of major agreements when talks are ultimately held. “I believe the third round of talks will occur, but we have to pray a lot,” Archbishop Arturo Rivera y Damas said in a mass on Wednesday.
The new President of Colombia took the oath of office today with a pledge to give priority during his four-year term to combating “absolute poverty” and ending decades of political violence. President Virgilio Barco, a 64-year-old political centrist with strong ties to the United States, also promised in an inaugural address to continue the fight against narcotics trafficking. With soldiers guarding city streets, the scholarly-looking, white-haired engineer took the oath of office before an audience that included five Latin American Presidents and Secretary of State George P. Shultz. Earlier, Mr. Barco met with Mr. Shultz, who also used his visit here to confer with the Presidents of El Salvador, Honduras, Costa Rica and Venezuela.
A district mayor in the Andean city of Ayacucho, Peru, was shot to death by Maoist guerrillas participating in a revenge campaign against officials of the ruling American Popular Revolutionary Alliance, police said. Braulio Zaga, 54, was gunned down by Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) guerrillas soon after leaving home with his wife, they said. The guerrillas have vowed to kill 10 members of the ruling party for every accused rebel inmate who died in the crushing of mutinies in three Lima prisons in June.
Terence A. Todman, the United States Ambassador to Denmark, said today that the Reagan Administration should not appoint a new envoy to South Africa until it develops a more credible opposition to apartheid. Mr. Todman, who is black and has been mentioned as a possible successor to Herman Nickel as Ambassador in Pretoria, was speaking at a news conference at the American Embassy here. He has been Ambassador to Denmark since 1983. “I think once we have a policy that finds credibility with the South Africans, with the people of southern Africa and with the rest of the world, then we can start thinking of who is the very best person to go to South Africa to implement that policy,” Mr. Todman said.
Curfews in South African black townships and bans on political meetings and mass funerals in eastern Cape Province have been lifted in an administrative move, the South African Police said today. Local newspapers published a notice announcing that a series of orders issued by the police chief, Ernest Schnetler, under the two-month-old state of emergency had been lifted. The official said the move was meant to clear confusion over the orders.
Facing intense Republican pressure to seize the narcotics issue quickly, the White House tentatively plans to propose a $100 million program next week aimed at combating the use of drugs in schools, Administration officials said. Administration officials said that Republican legislators had told the White House that unless the Administration drew up specific legislation quickly, the Republicans in Congress would feel compelled to endorse a comprehensive $2 billion to $3 billion antidrug bill that is being pressed by the Democratic leadership. The officials said intense Republican political pressure to keep Democratic politicians from capitalizing on the drug issue was a factor in overcoming President Reagan’s resistance to committing large amounts of money to drug programs. Although Mr. Reagan in recent years had limited the amount of Federal funds for narcotics programs, Administration officials said that several weeks ago he enthusiastically supported a national antinarcotics campaign. But, they said, the details were bogged down because of considerable internal debate.
President Reagan places a call to Diarmuid F. O’Scannalin, Co-Chairman of the Oregon State Republican Party.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with members of the White House Military Office.
President Reagan today indicated that he was ready to restrict the space agency from honoring some of its contracts for launching foreign and commercial satellites when space shuttle flights resume, White House officials said. But they suggested that he would approve some launchings on a priority basis, Mr. Reagan overruled some of his senior advisers at a meeting of the Economic Policy Council as he presented a broad outline of the Administration’s policy. He ordered the National Aeronautics and Space Administration to draw up a list of launching priorities for outstanding contracts NASA has for placing foreign and commercial payloads in orbit over the next eight years, the officials said. Mr. Reagan’s request indicated that some contracts would be honored while others were likely to be ended.
Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee today requested and received access to additional documents dating from William H. Rehnquist’s service as head of the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. But despite the widening inquiry, several key senators said that nothing appeared likely to emerge that could threaten Justice Rehnquist’s confirmation as Chief Justice of the United States. It seemed unlikely that Justice Rehnquist would be asked to appear again before the committee, which is to vote next Thursday on his nomination and that of Judge Antonin Scalia to be an Associate Justice. Senator Paul Simon, an Illinois Democrat, said the new request was prompted by references in the initial 24 documents, delivered to the committee Tuesday night, to other conversations and memorandums.
A Congressional subcommittee investigating the activities of Michael K. Deaver has received a report recommending that an independent counsel examine evidence of “possible perjury” by Mr. Deaver in his testimony before the panel, the chairman said today. The chairman, Representative John D. Dingell, Democrat of Michigan, said his subcommittee would vote on the recommendation by its staff next Tuesday. By voting it will decide whether to refer the evidence to the independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour Jr., who has already been appointed to investigate conflict-of-interest charges against Mr. Deaver. In an interview tonight, Mr. Dingell said: “The report will recommend referring certain findings of the subcommittee with regard to Mr. Deaver to the special prosecutor. The report will contain several instances of possible perjury in Deaver’s testimony.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee passed on a voice vote a bill to crack down on phony marriages between U.S. citizens and foreigners trying to remain in the United States. The bill would allow foreign spouses to obtain temporary residency but would require that they prove that they are still married two years later by showing cohabitation, joint tax returns or other evidence. It would toughen penalties for violations.
With Vice President Bush casting a tie-breaking vote, the Senate today killed an amendment intended to block the first limited production of a disputed nerve gas bomb. The tally was 51 to 50. The Vice President was called to the Senate chamber to preside after supporters of the amendment won an initial vote, 50 to 49. Mr. Bush voted against the amendment at the end of the roll-call, although the 50-to-50 tie at that time was enough to kill the amendment. It was the Vice President’s third vote in four years to break a tie on behalf of nerve gas weapons.
Congress’s Budget Office differed significantly with the White House in predictions for economic growth and the size of the Federal budget deficit next year. The C.B.O. predicted that the real gross national product would rise by 3.5 percent, as against a 4.2 percent increase forecast by the White House, and that the deficit would be at least $12.5 billion greater than the amount predicted by the White House.
Steven W. Benson, an heir to a $10 million tobacco fortune, was convicted of first-degree murder today in the bombing deaths of his mother and her adopted son. Mr. Benson, 35 years old, sat silently as the jury returned with the guilty verdicts after deliberating 11 hours over two days. Mr. Benson’s lawyer described his client as in a “state of shock” at the verdict. A sentencing hearing is scheduled Friday, when prosecutors could seek the death penalty. Mr. Benson was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of his mother, Margaret Benson, 63 years old, heiress to a $10 million fortune from the Lancaster Leaf Tobacco Company of Pennsylvania, and her grandson, Scott, 21, whom she had adopted. They were killed July 9, 1985, when two pipe bombs tore apart the family’s Chevrolet Suburban van at Mrs. Benson’s estate in Naples, Florida.
The Government’s auto crash tests showed poor performances by more than a third of the 26 cars tested, including two new, low-cost imports -the Hyundai Excel from South Korea and the Yugo from Yugoslavia — and Ford’s Taurus and Sable.
Former Tennessee Governor Winfield Dunn won the Republican nomination for his old job, and state House Speaker Ned McWherter defeated four rivals in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, in which the three leading candidates spent more than $7 million. Dunn, who held office from 1971 to 1975, easily swept to victory, amassing 120,601 votes, or 94%, with 56% of precincts reporting. Hubert Patty, a Maryville lawyer, and Charles G. Vick, a manufacturers’ representative from Memphis, each had 3% of the vote. McWherter collected 165,962 votes, or 44%, followed by Jane Eskind, the chairman of the state Public Service Commission, with 32%, and Nashville Mayor Richard Fulton with 23%.
A bill to increase the nuclear power industry’s liability for damages from a reactor accident to $6.5 billion from $660 million was approved by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. The higher liability cap is the same as contained in legislation under consideration by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The nuclear industry won a major victory when the House panel voted, 29 to 13, against a proposal by environmental and consumer groups to make the nuclear power industry liable for all damages to people and property from a plant accident.
The nation’s largest publicly owned home health care company and five officers and employees were indicted in the alleged theft of $1.82 million from the Medicaid program in New York from 1981 to 1985. In addition, those charged are accused of engaging in a statewide criminal conspiracy to fabricate. thousands of company records to deceive outside auditors and conceal the theft, New York state Medicaid special prosecutor Edward Kuriansky said. Professional Care Inc., based in Plainview, New York, provides home nursing, medical equipment and respiratory care services in 44 cities in 13 states, Kuriansky said.
Lung cancer among white men in the United States is declining and may have passed an all-time high, a report published by the national Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta said. In the report, researchers with the National Cancer Institute said the incidence of the disease in white males had been rising about 10% a year and peaked in 1981, then fell 4% in 1982-83, the latest year for which figures were available. Dr. Marcia Will of the Institute said the 1981 high was 82.8 cases per 100,000 white males, and with the decline in smoking, that rate may never again be reached.
The nation’s farm population has dropped 11.6 percent since the start of the depression in American agriculture in 1980, according to a study published today by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Commerce. There were 5.35 million people living on farms in 1985, or 2.2 percent of the nation’s population of 238.7 million, according to the study. In 1980, the farm population totaled 6.05 million.
A Federal jury found today that Hustler magazine and its publisher, Larry Flynt, had libeled an executive at Penthouse, and the panel awarded the executive $2 million in damages. Hustler said it would appeal. The plaintiff, Kathy Keeton, a Penthouse vice chairman who is also president of Omni magazine, sued Hustler and Mr. Flynt for $1.6 million in Federal District Court here, saying she had been libeled by Hustler since 1975. She said Mr. Flynt published a cartoon that falsely suggested she had caught venereal disease from Penthouse’s publisher, Bob Guccione, with whom she lives. Ms. Keeton sued Hustler and Flynt for $80 million in 1977 in Ohio, where Hustler had its offices. The court ruled that the statute of limitations had run out. In 1980, Ms. Keeton filed the suit again in New Hampshire, which at the time had less strict statute-of-limitation laws. An appeals court in Boston dismissed it. The United States Supreme Court reinstated the case in 1984, saying a plaintiff in such a suit may shop around for a state with the most favorable laws.
A rare New England tornado swept through downtown Providence, Rhode Island, during the evening rush hour, tossing cars into the air and injuring 20 people. “Right in a ball of clouds, I saw balls of… green light. I could see the funnel cloud. I just kept taking pictures until I realized I should call someone,” said Franklin Meglio, a clinic supervisor at Rhode Island Hospital. The tornado, the first in Rhode Island since 1974, damaged buildings and knocked out power to 4,800 homes. Policemen patrolled streets to prevent looting. Another twister hit Bedford, Massachusetts, uprooting trees and damaging small planes at an airport, but no injuries were reported.
Dan Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel, and Anne Knabe begin a cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina.
A judge today threw out a lawsuit against the rock star Ozzy Osbourne and two record companies. The suit charged that the British singer’s music contributed to the suicide of a teenager in 1984. The suit against Mr. Osbourne, CBS Records and Jet Records was brought by the parents of John McCollum, who was 19 when he shot himself, reportedly after listening to an Osbourne song, “Suicide Solution.” Mr. Osbourne said he wrote the song as a warning against drug and alcohol abuse. Judge John Cole of Superior Court ruled that the defense had not produced facts that would remove the lyrics from the protection of the First Amendment. The suit, filed in October 1985, charged that CBS Records had issued Osbourne albums on the Jet label “with the knowledge that such would, or at the very least, could promote suicide.”
“Honky Tonk Nights” opens at Biltmore Theatre NYC for four performances.
Major League Baseball:
Gary Ward drove in five runs, including the first of four runs in the seventh inning, as the Texas Rangers came from behind for the second straight game and beat the Baltimore Orioles, 9–8, tonight. With Baltimore’s Don Aase, the major-league leader in saves, sidelined with a back injury, the Rangers rallied against Brad Havens (3-2) and Mike Flanagan, making his first relief appearance since 1982. Run-scoring singles by Ward and Larry Parrish followed a double by Toby Harrah and a one-out walk to Pete Incavaglia, routing Havens. Flanagan yielded Don Slaught’s run-scoring single and Steve Buechele’s sacrifice fly.
In Anaheim, the Angels edged the Seattle Mariners, 4–3. Jack Howell led off the 11th inning with a home run to right field to give California the victory. Howell had scored the tying run in the ninth after leading off with a pinch-hit double. He hit his third homer of the season in the 11th, on a 2–1 pitch by Pete Ladd, 6–3.
The Mets won part of one game and all of another from the Chicago Cubs today in Wrigley Field, and sort of swept an overnight doubleheader. They played the final two innings of a game that was suspended by darkness Wednesday, and won it, 7–6. Then they played nine more innings and devastated the Cubs in the main event, 12–3, as Rick Aguilera pitched his sixth straight victory. But mostly it was a day when some dreams were fulfilled in Wrigley Field, and one of them starred Lee Mazzilli, who came home to the Mets after four and a half years of roaming.
The Detroit Tigers won two from the Cleveland Indians, by scores of 15–1 and 6–2. Lou Whitaker drove in three Detroit runs with two singles, for his sixth r.b.i. of the night, leading Tigers to a sweep of a doubleheader and a four-game series. Whitaker also drove in three runs in the Tigers’ rout in the first game. Kirk Gibson’s three-run homer powered a five-run fourth inning as Jack Morris cruised to his sixth victory in his last seven decisions in the opener. The Tigers have won 17 of their last 23 games. Mark Thurmond (2–1) pitched six scoreless innings in the nightcap, making his third start since he was acquired from San Diego July 9. He allowed six hits. Bill Campbell relieved for his third save.
Unlike Ron Guidry the night before, Joe Niekro did nothing last night to brighten the Yankees’ pitching outlook for their stretch run in the season’s final eight weeks. Neither did a couple of the Yankees’ left-handed relievers, Al Holland and Rod Scurry. Niekro, who compiled a 5–2 record in the first six weeks of the season, was knocked out of the game in the fifth inning as the last-place Milwaukee Brewers shelled the Yankees, 10–2, for their sixth victory in seven games against the Yankees in the past 11 days. The loss, combined with Detroit’s doubleheader victory over Cleveland, dropped the Yankees into fourth place for the first time this season.
The Montreal Expos bested the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5–4. Dann Bilardello’s single broke a tie in the top of the ninth inning, giving Montreal a four-game sweep. With one out, Tom Foley doubled to left-center off Don Robinson (2–1), the fifth Pirate pitcher. Foley scored when Bilardello singled to center in his first time at bat. Andy McGaffigan (6–4) worked two scoreless innings of relief for the victory. Tim Burke and Bob McClure pitched the ninth, McClure getting his fifth save.
John Tudor scored the go-ahead run on a bunt and allowed seven hits over eight and two-thirds innings as St. Louis stretched its home winning streak to a club-record 10 games, beating the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–5. The Phillies played the game under protest because of a play at first base in the first inning. Vince Coleman of the Cardinals bunted and was ruled safe by the first-base umpire, Larry Poncino. The Phillies asked Poncino to ask the second-base umpire, John McSherry, for help on whether Kevin Gross, who was covering the base, tagged Coleman out. However, Poncino refused and a protest was lodged. Coleman scored later in the inning on a sacrifice fly by Curt Ford after advancing to second on a wild pitch and stealing third for his 77th stolen base of the year.
The Toronto Blue Jays nipped the Kansas City Royals, 5–4. Willie Upshaw hit a run-scoring single in the eighth inning after Steve Farr’s balk had tied the score for Toronto. The Blue Jays entered the inning trailing by 4–3, but chased the starter Mark Gubicza when Lloyd Moseby led off with a walk. Bell greeted Farr with a single and Jesse Barfield reached on an infield single, loading the bases. Farr sent Moseby home on a balk and Upshaw singled up the middle.
Texas Rangers 9, Baltimore Orioles 8
Seattle Mariners 3, California Angels 4
New York Mets 12, Chicago Cubs 3
Cleveland Indians 1, Detroit Tigers 15
Cleveland Indians 2, Detroit Tigers 6
Milwaukee Brewers 10, New York Yankees 2
Montreal Expos 5, Pittsburgh Pirates 4
Philadelphia Phillies 5, St. Louis Cardinals 6
Kansas City Royals 4, Toronto Blue Jays 5
With blue-chip issues providing some underpinning for the market, stock prices rose moderately yesterday as caution continued over the course of interest rates and the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average, which gained 2.56 points on Wednesday, finished 6.75 points higher yesterday at 1,786.28. Advancing issues outnumbered declines by 881 to 670. Investors also maintained a wait-and-see attitude concerning the effect of the agreement by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries to put a temporary lid on production in September and October. Leading oil issues were slightly lower yesterday.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1786.28 (+6.75)
Born:
Danario Alexander, NFL wide receiver (St. Louis Cardinals, San Diego Chargers), in Marlin, Texas.
Jordan Danks, MLB outfielder (Chicago White Sox, Philadelphia Phillies), in Austin, Texas.
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