The Soviet Union’s foreign-policy apparatus has been undergoing a major overhaul, including the most thorough reorganization of the Foreign Ministry in memory, according to Soviet officials and Western diplomats. The structural and personnel changes have resulted in a shift of authority away from the Foreign Ministry to the party’s Central Committee. The key person in policy making is now Anatoly F. Dobrynin, the former Ambassador to the United States, who, as a national party secretary, became a member of the top Soviet leadership in February. The changes have contributed to the development under Mikhail S. Gorbachev of a more flexible, less dogmatic foreign policy that presents new challenges, problems and opportunities for the West, the diplomats said. Western diplomats cited Soviet overtures to China and Israel as well as improved relations with the United States as evidence of a less ideological approach among Russians. “There is a degree of suppleness they have not shown before,” a Western diplomat said this week. The recent movement in arms-control talks stems in part from Soviet proposals in June that bore Mr. Dobrynin’s pragmatic stamp, diplomats said. Moscow proposed a compromise on medium-range missiles and offered cuts in strategic forces in exchange for an extension of the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty that would have the effect of delaying American development of a space-based missile defense.
Widespread rioting broke out in Roman Catholic areas of Northern Ireland on the 15th anniversary of Britain’s introduction of internment of terrorist suspects without trial, a policy that was abandoned in 1975 following worldwide condemnation. In Belfast, Londonderry and Downpatrick, rioters hurled more than 100 firebombs at security forces, who responded by firing about 140 rounds of plastic bullets, police said. At least 13 security force members were injured and about 60 people were arrested.
About 3,500 demonstrators marched through the city center today to protest the Berlin wall, and the United States Ambassador to West Germany, Richard Burt, predicted the barrier would someday be “one of history’s bad memories.” Scores of demonstrators carried small city of West Berlin and American flags. Others held black banners bearing the names of some of the 73 people known to have been killed trying to escape over the wall. The wall, hastily put up by East German soldiers, marks its 25th anniversary Wednesday.
Fresh talks between the United States and the European Communities in Brussels aimed at resolving a long-running trade dispute over citrus and pasta exports made some progress, a Common Market spokesman said. The spokesman said the talks between U.S. Trade Representative Clayton K. Yeutter and Willy de Clercq, the European commissioner in charge of external affairs, would continue today “with some hope for a solution.” The dispute centers on retaliatory duties imposed on U. S. citrus fruits and European pasta products.
Greece has started a new campaign against the international narcotics trade and has simultaneously introduced some of the strictest penalties of any Western country for possessing drugs. The new effort is receiving major assistance from the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and several other international bodies. “Greece is situated on the crossroads of the international narcotics trade,” the Greek Public Order Minister, Antonis Drossoyannis, said recently at a news briefing.
More than 1,500 Turks have been on trial before military courts since 1982, severely curtailing the defendants’ civil rights and freedom to work, travel and speak freely, Western diplomats and others here say. The defendants, all of whom are now free on bail, had been imprisoned, many for years beginning with the military coup in 1980. Many have reported being tortured or otherwise mistreated, and most say they have witnessed abuse of other prisoners. The trials continue to draw condemnation from other countries, including the United States, and international human-rights organizations. “It is not clear when either trial will end,” the State Department reported in its annual assessment of human rights.
Longtime ties between the island nation of Malta and Libya have cooled in recent months despite continued statements of support on both sides, according to Maltese officials, business officials and diplomats. In an interview on Tuesday, Prime Minister Karmenu Mifsud Bonnici denied widespread reports in the region that Malta had become disenchanted with its Arab neighbor. Because Libya is a “friendly country,” he said, Maltese radar operators gave the Government of Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi as much as a 45-minute warning of the American air raid last April and would do so again. But before the interview, key officials and diplomats here affirmed that relations had weakened. This was primarily because Malta’s association with Libya had failed to touch off a widely expected economic boom here.
Efforts to heal a rift in the P.L.O. have made some progress, according to three factions of the Palestine Liberation Organization that recently held a meeting in Moscow. The assessments were made public in Beirut after the meeting. The Kremlin is said to have been pressing the P.L.O. to close ranks in preparation for a possible Middle East peace conference, in which the Russians would like to take part.
A statement purportedly issued by the Islamic Holy War organization warned the United States today that its policy in Lebanon was harming the case of American hostages held here. The statement also appeared to reject appeals in New York on Friday by an Anglican Church envoy, Terry Waite, that negotiations for the release of the hostages be renewed. In its reference to the United States, the typewritten statement in Arabic said, “They must know that persisting in their policy toward the peoples of the third world and Lebanon in particular will not be helpful to the case of the hostages.” Identical copies of the text were delivered to offices of international news agencies here, along with a black-and-white photograph of one American hostage, David P. Jacobsen.
A European-made airliner, fitted with General Electric jet engines, has been delivered to Libya in violation of an embargo on exporting U.S. technology to the regime of Colonel Muammar Qaddafi, the British newspaper Observer reported. The plane, once owned by British Caledonian Airways, was flown to Libya from Jordan last week despite attempts by the company to stop the flight. British Caledonian said last month that it had begun legal proceedings to block the planned resale to Libya of two A-310 Airbuses that had been sold to a Hong Kong aircraft trading firm. The second Airbus is expected to be delivered to Libya soon.
Iranian border gunners today shelled Basra, Iraq’s second-largest city, killing 6 civilians and wounding 38, the Iraqi military command said. A command statement distributed by the state-run press agency said 3 houses had been destroyed, 4 set afire and 18 damaged by the shells. Basra, with a population of one million, is on the disputed Shatt al Arab waterway and is 14 miles west of the southern sector of the Iraq-Iran warfront. It has been the target of several unsuccessful Iranian ground offensives in the six-year-old war, and in the last two weeks it has been shelled almost daily. Iran said today its planes had bombed oil installations in Aqra, in the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region. Iran’s official press agency, monitored in Cyprus, said its jets had inflicted heavy damage but gave no details. The Iranian agency also said Iraqi warplanes bombed the Iranian border town of Armardeh in Kurdistan Friday, killing 2 civilians and wounding 10. Scores of civilians have been reported killed on both sides in the last two weeks in what appear to be retaliatory strikes on economic centers.
Security forces raided a farmhouse outside Jullundur in the Indian state of Punjab and arrested three Sikh extremists, including India’s top fugitive who is wanted for terrorism, police said. Authorities identified the fugitive as Manbir Singh Chaheru, 29, commander in chief of the Khalistan Commando Force, the largest of several terrorist groups fighting for an independent Sikh state in the Punjab. Authorities also arrested the owner of the farmhouse, former army Maj. Baldev Singh Ghuman and two other extremists, Charanjit Singh and Santokh Singh. The raiders seized a light machine gun and four rifles. Julius F. Rebeiro, director general of the Punjab police, has described Manbir Singh as “the biggest killer in India today.”
Chinese officials are holding talks with representatives of Mongolia in a bid to improve strained relations, China announced today. The talks were announced just two weeks after Moscow said it might withdraw some of its troops from the north Asian nation. China describes the Soviet military presence in Mongolia along its northern border as a threat to its security and an obstacle to better Chinese-Soviet relations. China Daily said Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Shuqing arrived in Ulan Bator, the Mongolian capital, on Thursday. He is the highest ranking Chinese official to visit there in 20 years. Mr. Liu began discussions with Mongolian officials immediately after his arrival, the official New China News Agency reported.
In the second such accusation in a week, North Korea said today that South Korean troops fired large-caliber machine guns and automatic weapons across the demilitarized zone at a North Korean guard post. North Korea’s official press said that on Friday South Korean troops fired “several hundred rounds” with 12.7-millimeter machine guns and M-16 automatic rifles. The dispatch did not mention any casualties, but termed the reported incident “a grave provocation.” North Korea said earlier that on Tuesday South Korean troops fired across the demilitarized zone.
Engineers restored electricity to the downtown section of Ottawa, ending a three-day blackout in the Canadian capital caused by a fire at a power substation. Repair efforts were plagued by soot from the fire in a control panel that settled on the switching equipment and by dampness from rain. Portable heaters finally were used to dry the equipment, Ottawa Hydro officials said. The federal government sent home 30,000 employees Thursday after the lights went off in the 100-square-block area, and released more than 15,000 workers again Friday. Downtown businesses also were hard hit by the blackout.
More than 100 civilians have been killed or wounded by land mines in El Salvador this year, according to human rights organizations, the army and the United States Embassy here. Although both the army and leftist guerrillas use land mines, the majority of civilian casualties appear to be caused by guerrilla mines, according to several villagers and to leading human rights officials. The indiscriminate use of mines now seems to be one of the major causes of civilian casualties in the civil war, according to human-rights officials, who say considerably more people are being wounded by mines than by Government bombing. “People are afraid,” Juan Antonio Carbajal said of the danger of land mines. “Many have died in this way.”
Four years ago, just minutes after he was sworn in as President, Belisario Betancur, in an emotional address to a huge crowd that filled the historic Plaza Bolivar, renewed his campaign pledge to end decades of internal warfare. Last Thursday, as his newly inaugurated successor, Virgilio Barco Vargas, stepped out of Congress, he looked instead at the plaza occupied by troops and at a Palace of Justice scarred by a leftist terrorist attack last November. For many Colombians, these two images were a telling metaphor: the hope generated by Mr. Betancur’s commitment to peace in 1982 has been replaced by resignation to a conflict between army and insurgents.
Peruvian air force Alfa-37 jets bombed, strafed and fired rockets at two cocaine dealers’ bases in the Amazon jungle as part of a sweeping assault on a dozen such bases in Peru, an Interior Ministry communique said. It was the first time anywhere that jet warplanes were used in an anti-narcotics operation, Interior Minister Abel Salinas told the official news agency Andina. Civil guard helicopters were also used in the attacks on the facilities, some of which were outfitted with concrete airstrips.
The police used tear gas today to disperse a crowd of about 2,000 mourners at a funeral in Johannesburg’s black township of Soweto, and authorities evicted families who have refused to pay rent in two townships south of the city, officials said. The Government’s Bureau for Information said the funeral was for three youths killed in factional fighting a week ago. “At the cemetery, a portion of the crowd became unruly and the police then opened up with tear gas,” a bureau spokesman said. “The crowd then dispersed and there was no damage, no injuries and no arrests.”
The Republican-controlled Senate, meeting in a rare Saturday session, tonight wearily approved a scaled-down $295 billion military bill that would mean a major reduction in President Reagan’s antimissile research program. The vote of 86 to 3 sends the bill to the House, which is debating its own $285 billion version. Voting no were Tom Harkin of Iowa, John Melcher of Montana and William D. Proxmire of Wisconsin, all Democrats. The Senate action capped six days of debate and votes on more than 90 amendments on the bill, which establishes and continues military programs for the fiscal year 1987. The chamber was forced into a Saturday session because of the push to complete major legislation before the scheduled start next Friday of the three-week summer recess.
President Reagan underwent a two-hour urological examination at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center today and declared afterward, “Everything’s normal, everything’s fine.” A moment later the White House physician, Dr. T. Burton Smith, issued a statement saying: “The examination revealed no abnormalities or evidence of tumor or any other disease. No further urological examinations are planned.” The statement appeared to end a spate of concern and speculation about Mr. Reagan’s health after the disclosure Friday that he had canceled a weekend trip to the Presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., to undergo the examination today. White House officials said they did not know if Mr. Reagan was experiencing any symptoms that made him decide to have the examination.
President Reagan makes a radio address to the Nation on U.S. Supreme Court nominations.
President Reagan participates in a photo opportunity with composer and singer Neil Sedaka and his family.
Senate conferees on the tax bill agreed tonight on a proposal limiting the amount homeowners could borrow against their personal residences in order to claim more tax deductions. The proposal, part of the new offer Senate conferees are to present to House negotiators Monday, is aimed at preventing homeowners from circumventing tight new restrictions on deductions for interest other than home mortgages. The original Senate proposal would have allowed homeowners to avoid these limitations by taking out second mortgages or home equity loans up to the market value of each residence to finance consumer purchases like cars, with the interest entirely deductible.
Republicans continue to far outpace Democrats in raising money, but for the first time in nearly a decade both parties are collecting less than in previous years, a Federal Election Commission study showed. In the 18 months ending June 30, Republicans raised $186.1 million, more than five times the $35.1 million the Democrats took in, but both parties collected less money than they did during the same cycle of 1983-1984. In the earlier period, which was a presidential election cycle, the Democrats raised $59.7 million, while the Republicans took in $207.7 million.
Federal agents took more than $3 million in alleged drug-trafficking receipts and arrested a 13th suspect in what they call the biggest cocaine-smuggling ring in the United States. U.S. Attorney James West said that Michael Phillippo, manager of a country club at Ardsley, New York, was being held on a smuggling conspiracy charge after $3.1 million in cash was found at his home in North Tarrytown, New York West described Phillippo as a “principal lieutenant” in an operation that brought in 7.5 tons of cocaine from Colombia in the last six years. Indictments of the others were announced last week, after $4.2 million was found at one man’s home. No cocaine was found.
From the street corners of New York City to City Hall, Congress and the White House, concern about illegal drugs has exploded this summer, bringing a level of activism among church and community groups unseen in the last decade. The rise of the drug issue is in part a result of the sudden appearance of crack — cocaine in a new, powerfully addictive form — and the cumulative growth of cocaine addiction in the years since large numbers of Americans began inhaling the drug. But political and religious leaders, scholars and law-enforcement officials say that other factors have also contributed, including the dynamics of national politics and a changing agenda among black leaders. They also say that such bursts of national concern have occurred several times since the turn of the century. “With several factors put together, people will get aroused to a situation that they might otherwise accept as normal,” said Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Democrat of New York, who noted that drug addiction had never disappeared as a serious problem in New York and other cities.
Millions of people remain out of work since they lost jobs in the recession and experts say public and private programs to help retrain them have been inadequate. In the past, many workers took it for granted that the training and education they received before they joined the workforce would last a lifetime, but in an era of great economic and technological changes, experts on the work place say the nation has only begun to explore what could be extensive retraining programs to insulate workers from job losses.
Poor people would get cash instead of food stamps, Medicaid, public housing and school lunches subsidies if White House officials are successful in their attempts to persuade state welfare officials to provide the ready money. The White House is soliciting ideas for such a proposal as it conducts a comprehensive study of the social welfare system in an effort to reduce dependency on Government programs.
The Chief Justice reversed remarks made four years ago in a widely publicized dissent from a Denver lawyer’s admission to the Supreme Court Bar, and said the lawyer, Michael T. Rose, was “of good moral and professional character.” Mr. Rose, now of Charleston, South Carolina, had been seeking vindication since Chief Justice Burger issued his dissent.
A cruise ship that ran aground in Alaskan waters was refloated on the rising tide and towed to a protected cove, a day after its 143 passengers were evacuated by boat and then flown to the mainland. No one was injured when the 307-foot North Star ran aground Friday on rocks near Prince of Wales Island and began taking on water through two holes in the hull. Authorities had not determined why the ship grounded. Some of the ship’s 60 crew members stayed aboard and patched the holes, a Coast Guard spokesman said. The North Star probably will be towed to a larger port for permanent repairs, he said.
The General Motors Corporation, which markets 44 percent of all the cars sold in the United States, has decided to offer free repairs of defective seat belts in its cars and trucks. The company’s decision, acknowledged earlier this week, could put pressure on its competitors to match or exceed its plan in moves that could save automobile owners millions of dollars in repairs and replacement costs. General Motors rejected lifetime warranties for seat belts, noting that it did not provide a lifetime guarantee on any of the parts or systems in its vehicles. But, in response to an inquiry, the company said, “If there are any safety-related defects in our safety belts, G.M. will correct them at no charge.”
The Army has assigned convicted felons, alcohol and drug abusers and mentally ill or medically disabled people to guard nuclear and chemical weapons at sites across the country, an Army audit has found. Security agents of questionable reliability have exposed such weapons to possible theft by terrorists, the Army Audit Agency said. Army officials’ failure to perform proper background checks on civilian guards also may have left vulnerable secret war plans and a satellite communications site that sends data to the White House, the report added. Auditors suggested the poor quality of many of the Army’s 15,000 civilian security guards could be traced to high turnover.
Southern Baptist churches in Tennessee were urged to make today a day of prayer for relief from the Southeast’s drought. “Farmers are already severely affected economically, and all of us will soon feel the effect,” said Dr. James McCluskey, a Knoxville pastor. Agricultural losses from the drought are estimated at more than $2.3 billion. Scattered rain showers last week did little to curb the months-long drought, a hydrologist with the U.S. Geological Survey said.
A Coast Guard cutter will help American fishermen retrieve 150 crab pots left behind when two Soviet vessels chased a U.S. boat from disputed waters in the Bering Sea, officials said. “The cutter, aided by Coast Guard C-130 aircraft overflights, will determine the location of the crab pots and maintain surveillance… while our crab boats retrieve their pots,” Senator Frank H. Murkowski (R-Alaska) said from his Washington office. The 108-foot crabber Katie K was about 160 miles west of St. Matthew Island, in an area claimed by both the United States and the Soviet Union, when it was fired upon and pursued by two Soviet vessels last Wednesday.
“Honky Tonk Nights” closes at the Biltmore Theatre in NYC after four performances.
This was a match that Wimbledon was deprived of twice, one that would be called a classic if it were played again a month from now in the United States Open. Instead, Boris Becker and John McEnroe met on a scenic mountaintop in Vermont today, the boy wonder of professional tennis against the player described by his peers as an uncompromising genius, back on the tour after a six-month sabbatical. For two and a half hours in a match interrupted twice by rain, Becker and McEnroe offered a contrast in styles and temperaments. This was Becker’s power against McEnroe’s finesse, the West German teen-ager’s clenched-fist resolve against a simmering cauldron of emotion apt to bubble over at any time. Ultimately, Becker’s uncommon poise for an 18-year-old overcame McEnroe’s intimidation tactics and a serve that abandoned him so unexpectedly in the decisive third set tiebreaker when he surrendered 4 match points, 2 when serving. Thus Becker won, 3–6, 7–5, 7–6, and advanced to Sunday’s final of the Volvo International where he will play the No. 1-seeded Ivan Lendl, who beat Jimmy Connors, 6–4, 3–6, 6–2, in today’s other semifinal.
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Trailing 3–2, Candy Maldonado opened the 10th inning with a home run and Bob Brenly later doubled and scored on a squeeze bunt, lifting the San Francisco Giants to a 4–3 victory over Atlanta and snapping the Braves’ five-game winning streak. Mike Aldrete tied the game in the ninth with only the Giants’ fifth hit of the game, his second homer of the season. Maldonado hit a 2–1 pitch from reliever Jeff Dedmon, 3–6, over the left-field wall for his seventh homer of the season. Brenly was sacrificed to third after his double and Will Clark’s squeeze bunt brought him home. Scott Garrelts, 10–7, got the victory. After surviving a bases-loaded jam in the ninth, Garrelts loaded the bases again in the 10th with two outs, forced in a run by hitting Dale Murphy with a pitch, but got Bob Horner on a fly out.
The Cleveland Indians downed the Baltimore Orioles, 8–2. Joe Carter hit a two-run double and Cory Snyder and Brett Butler hit bases-empty homers for Cleveland. The Orioles lost their fourth straight. Jose Roman (1–0) got his first major-league victory, going five and one-third innings. Brian Oelkers pitched two and two-thirds innings of one-hit relief, then Ernie Camacho pitched the ninth. The three held Baltimore to five hits. Brook Jacoby gave the Indians a 1–0 lead in the second with an RBI double. But Larry Sheets hit his 14th homer in the bottom of the inning to put the Orioles ahead by 2–1. Carter followed fifth-inning singles by Andy Allanson and Julio Franco with a double, giving Cleveland a 3–2 lead.
John Candelaria pitched a three-hitter, striking out 10 batters, and Doug DeCinces hit two home runs as the California Angels shut out the Seattle Mariners, 5–0.
Juan Samuel hit a pair of doubles and a single and drove in two runs to lead Philadelphia over Chicago, 4–2, ending the Phillies’ five-game losing streak. Charles Hudson (7–10) was the winner, but he needed help from Kent Tekulve to get out of a sixth-inning jam. Steve Bedrosian got his 14th save. Dennis Eckersley (6–7) was the loser. Samuel went 3 for 5, sparking Philadelphia’s 13-hit attack. He hit a two-run double in the third inning after a walk to Steve Jeltz and a single by Jeff Stone. Philadelphia added two runs in the fifth inning on a single by Stone, another double by Samuel, a sacrifice fly by Von Hayes and a run-scoring single by Ron Roenicke. Chicago’s runs came on home runs by Ryne Sandberg, his 13th, in the first inning, and Gary Matthews, his 14th, in the sixth inning.
A two-run home run by Buddy Bell off Fernando Valenzuela broke open a pitching duel with John Denny today and sent the Cincinnati Reds to a 6-2 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bell lined his ninth homer of the season over the left-field wall in the fifth inning with the score tied at 1–1. Cincinnati’s third consecutive triumph over the Dodgers ended Valenzuela’s five-game winning streak. Valenzuela (15–7), the National League’s top winner, allowed eight hits and five runs over six innings. He has not won at Riverfront Stadium since June 13, 1983. Denny (9–10) gave up both runs and seven hits over six innings, and John Franco worked the final one and one-third innings for his 18th save. Bo Diaz went 3 for 3, including a homer in the eighth off Joe Beckwith, the Dodger reliever. Diaz scored three runs.
Wade Boggs went 4 for 4 and raised his major league-leading average to .356 tonight as the Boston Red Sox beat the Detroit Tigers, 8–7, for their third straight victory. Boggs also drew two walks and scored three runs, and Dwight Evans had a homer and drove in three runs. Al Nipper (7–7) got the victory with help from Joe Sambito and Calvin Schiraldi, who got the save. Frank Tanana (9–5) took the loss, ending his five-game winning streak. Tanana gave up six runs on seven hits in five and one-third innings. Boggs led off the game with single, took third on Marty Barrett’s double and scored on Evans’s force-out. Boggs opened the third with another single and later scored on a sacrifice fly by Evans that put the Red Sox ahead for good at 2–1. Boston added a run in the fourth when Boggs got third hit of the game. Evans hit his 15th homer of the season in the fifth for a 4–1 lead and the Red Sox scored twice in the sixth on Rich Gedman’s ninth home run, a double by Romero and Jim Rice’s RBI single. Alan Trammell had four hits for Detroit and drove in three runs.
The Houston Astros downed the San Diego Padres, 6–2. Denny Walling continued his success against Andy Hawkins, the San Diego pitcher, with a three-run home run and a run-scoring double. The home run was Walling’s ninth of the season and his fourth this season off Hawkins. Walling has five hits in eight at bats against Hawkins, driving in 10 runs.
Jim Deshaies and Charlie Kerfeld combined on a three-hitter. Deshaies (7–3) pitched five innings, giving up two runs on three hits. The victory is his sixth in his last seven decisions. Kerfeld pitched four hitless innings, gaining his fourth save. Glenn Davis hit his 24th home run of the season for Houston’s last run, tying him with Mike Schmidt for the National League lead. Hawkins (8–8) was the loser, going two innings, giving up five runs on five hits.
The Brewers edged the White Sox, 1–0. Teddy Higuera pitched a six-hitter, outdueling Chicago’s Jose DeLeon, and Milwaukee won on a run-scoring wild pitch by DeLeon in the third inning. Higuera, 15–7, struck out nine as he threw his third shutout and 10th complete game.
“Slump” is probably not the right word. Maybe “malaise,” or “flat feeling.” Whatever it is, the Mets seemed to have a slight case of it tonight as they turned into the eighth inning trailing the Montreal Expos, 6–1, with only two hits to show for their evening’s work. But then they made a rapid and theatrical recovery, one of their best of the season. They swatted three pitchers for seven runs in the eighth, three of them crossing on a home run by Mookie Wilson. And, after the Expos had come back to tie the score again, the Mets scored two more runs in the ninth off Jeff Reardon to bring down the curtain on a far-fetched 10–8 victory. They not only got Ron Darling off the hook but snapped the Expos’ winning streak at five games and widened their lead to 17 games in the National League’s East.
Brian Fisher was in the dugout, putting on his warmup jacket, standing with his back to the field. He knew Dan Pasqua was batting and he said to no one in particular, “Hit one out now.” Fisher still was facing into the dugout when Pasqua swung. “I heard it,” the pitcher said. “It sounded awesome. You can tell when the ball is crushed.” Pasqua, leading off the ninth inning yesterday against Bud Black, crushed the ball all the way into the right-center-field bleachers, giving the Yankees a 3–2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. The home run, Pasqua’s first in the major leagues out of the park against a left-handed pitcher, also made a winner of Fisher, who has quietly returned to the form that made him an effective reliever last season. Pasqua’s hit off Bud Black, 4–6, came on an 0–1 pitch and was the fifth Yankee hit against three Royals pitchers.
The Minnesota Twins clobbered the Oakland Athletics, 9–2. Gary Gaetti knocked in three runs with a double and a single, and Frank Viola (12–8) pitched seven innings of two-hit ball for Minnesota. The Twins held a 4–0 lead after two innings. Jose Canseco, the A’s rookie slugger, was hit on the left hand by a pitch from Atherton. X-rays were negative.
The Pittsburgh Pirates whipped the St. Louis Cardinals, 8–5. Johnny Ray hit a home run and drove in three runs for Pittsburgh, ending the Pirates’ five-game losing streak and St. Louis’ five-game winning streak. Pittsburgh also ended a 15-game losing streak at Busch Stadium that began in 1984, and the Cardinals’ 11-game winning streak at home, their longest since a 16-game string in 1963. Bob Walk (5–6) went five innings and overcame his own two throwing errors and five walks to get the victory. Don Robinson pitched the final one and two-thirds innings for his sixth save. Ray Burris (4–5) who replaced the St. Louis starter, Tim Conroy, in the first inning, took the loss. Pittsburgh broke a 3–3 tie in the fifth when Tony Pena doubled home Jim Morrison, who had singled with one out. Pittsburgh added three more runs in the sixth on singles by Ray and Barry Bonds and a run-scoring grounder by Pena. Sid Bream added his 12th homer in the ninth.
Pete O’Brien hit his second home run of the game, leading off the 10th inning, giving Texas a 7–6 victory over Toronto. The Rangers rallied for their fourth straight victory. They trailed 6–2 after seven innings, but O’Brien hit a two-run homer in the eighth and Texas scored twice in the ninth.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 3
Cleveland Indians 8, Baltimore Orioles 2
Seattle Mariners 0, California Angels 5
Philadelphia Phillies 4, Chicago Cubs 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Cincinnati Reds 6
Boston Red Sox 8, Detroit Tigers 7
San Diego Padres 2, Houston Astros 6
Chicago White Sox 0, Milwaukee Brewers 1
New York Mets 10, Montreal Expos 8
Kansas City Royals 2, New York Yankees 3
Minnesota Twins 9, Oakland Athletics 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Texas Rangers 7
Born:
John McCarthy, NHL left wing and centre (San Jose Sharks), in Boston, Massachusetts.
Patrick Cannone, NHL centre (Minnesota Wild), in Bayport, New York.
Died:
Jef Scherens, 77, Belgian track cyclist (World Championships, gold, sprint, 1932-1937, 1947).
