A group of senior American officials arrived in Moscow today for high-level talks about the latest American and Soviet arms control proposals. The group is scheduled to meet with Soviet officials Monday and Tuesday for discussions on arms control prospects after a recent exchange of proposals by Mikhail S. Gorbachev, the Soviet leader, and President Reagan, according to Western diplomats. The Americans, led by Paul H. Nitze, arms control adviser to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, were met at Sheremetyevo Airport by United States Embassy officials. No Soviet officials appeared to be present as the delegation arrived from London on a United States Air Force jet. Mr. Nitze and the other Administration officials declined to talk to reporters and left immediately by motorcade for a downtown hotel and consultations at the American Embassy.
Both American and Soviet officials have said that they expect the talks to produce no breakthroughs but that the discussions may provide the best reading to date on the chances for a meeting later this year in Washington between Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev. Although the two leaders agreed last November in Geneva that Mr. Gorbachev would come to the United States sometime in 1986, Washington and Moscow have not agreed on a date. Mr. Gorbachev has said repeatedly that a second meeting would be pointless without significant arms control progress. The American delegation, according to diplomats, hopes that Soviet officials will provide at least a preliminary response to proposals Mr. Reagan outlined in a letter to Mr. Gorbachev in late July. Mr. Reagan was replying to proposals the Soviet leader made in June. The only formal Soviet reaction has been a noncommittal response by Mr. Gorbachev in a speech in late July.
The “Star Wars” missile-defense program should be part of arms-reduction talks with the Soviets but the U.S. bargaining stance should remain secret, the Air Force general who runs the program said on NBC’s “Meet the Press” program in Washington. “I do not believe it’s ‘Star Wars’ or arms control. I believe it’s ‘Star Wars’ plus arms reduction,” said Lieutenant General James A. Abrahamson, who heads the Strategic Defense Initiative program.
An American family of five escaped death or injury when a bomb exploded under their car in a parking lot in Hanau, West Germany, while they were attending a local festival 100 yards away, police said. The explosion ripped open the car, blowing away its doors and fenders but causing no casualties. The car carried U.S. military plates issued to American service personnel and their dependents in West Germany. The family’s identity was withheld, and there was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast.
About 2,500 militant Irish nationalists accompanied by a score of American supporters marched through Belfast under tight security after two nights of widespread riots in Northern Ireland. The march by backers of the outlawed Irish Republican Army was a part of weekend activities marking the 15th anniversary of Britain’s imposition of internment without trial. The practice was abandoned by Britain in 1975, but Irish nationalists still mark the occasion annually with rallies. Among the marchers were 20 to 25 members of the New York-based Irish Northern Aid Committee.
In an odd note of agreement with their adversaries, the nationalist Roman Catholics of the Falls Road area held a parade of their own today and voiced denunciations of the British-Irish treaty. To a fife and drum rendition of “Bold Fenian Men,” the marchers stepped out under the eyes and, at various turnings, sniper-scopes of hundreds of British soldiers. Amid a tense summer of parades by the Protestant loyalist majority, the nationalist minority marched peacefully through their own neighborhood as they commemorated the 15th anniversary of the British use of internment without trial as a police tactic in the community. “I can still see the look on my father’s face when they broke into our house and took him away,” said Margaret Flynn, a community organizer for whom the midnight roundups of internment in 1971 marked the end of the neighborhood’s passivity at being a minority enclave in northern Ireland.
Negotiators for Egypt and Israel reported today that they had resolved all but two conditions for the international arbitration of their border dispute over the slice of beachfront called Taba. A statement read to reporters after six days of talks here said the two sides had yet to agree on the three arbitrators and on an annex demarcating the boundaries of the 25-acre wedge of desert on the Gulf of Aqaba. Last Tuesday, Vice President Bush said at the end of his 12-day visit to the Middle East that the two sides were on the verge of a breakthrough.
The Palestine Liberation Organization criticized Vice President George Bush’s recent tour of the Middle East and Jordan’s proposed aid program for Palestinians who live in Israeli-occupied territories. The PLO linked the aid proposal to what it said was a U.S.-Israeli plan for permanent Israeli occupation of the West Bank. A statement issued in Baghdad, Iraq, at the end of a meeting of the PLO’s Executive Committee also condemned the talks between Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres and Morocco’s King Hassan II last month and reiterated the PLO call for an international Mideast conference.
Gunbattles in East Beirut raged between rival Christian factions, and spread north to the port of Junieh and east to the mountains. Beirut radio reports said fighters loyal to the Phalangist Party of President Amin Gemayel were gaining the upper hand against supporters of Samir Geagea, the commander of the Lebanese Forces militia. In a separate development, Israel planes and helicopters attacked what the Israelis called guerrilla positions in two Palestinian districts near Sidon.
There are no major obstacles to closer ties between Tehran and Moscow, a senior Iranian official said. Mohammed Javad Larijani, deputy foreign minister for economic and international affairs, said Iran views ties with the Soviet Union as “a long-term relationship, requiring a solid and extensive base.” Iran-Soviet relations have improved since Tehran cracked down on Iran’s Tudeh (Communist) Party and expelled 18 Soviet diplomats in 1983. Larijani said the two countries are discussing the resumption of Iranian sales of natural gas to the Soviets and exports to Europe through a Soviet-built pipeline.
Assassins in India shot a retired army Chief of Staff who was India’s most decorated soldier. Four assailants in the western city of Pune shot General Arun S. Vaidya, who received a death threat from Sikh militants a few days ago. The murder threatened to once again aggravate tensions between Hindus and Sikhs throughout the country. Indian leaders were stunned and dismayed. No one took responsibility for the slaying, but the general was widely known to have been on the Sikh militants’ “hit list” because of his role in supervising the army raid that routed hundreds of armed radicals from the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the Sikh religion’s holiest shrine, in June 1984. This evening the Government issued a nationwide alert, instructing local authorities to watch out for possible violence. Police officers in the capital intensified their patrols to prevent a recurrence of clashes that erupted last month after the killing of Hindus on a bus in the Punjab.
To the world’s roster of guerrilla leaders whose strategic brilliance is matched by their ruthlessness, people here say they have added a new name. His followers call him “Tamby” — Tamil for “Little Brother” — but he was born Velupillai Prabakaran 32 years ago in what is now northern Sri Lanka, the center of Tamil nationalism. Over the last few months this publicity-shy leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has risen to the top of the ethnic separatist movement that is threatening to split Sri Lanka. His violent seizure of power this spring in the northern city of Jaffna, a rebel stronghold, cost the lives of at least 175 fellow Tamils. It also involved the killing of his most prominent rival in the Tamil separatist movement, according to members of his organization and Sri Lankan military officers.
The 1986 K2 disaster concludes. This refers to a period from 6 August to 10 August 1986, when five mountaineers died on the eight-thousand-meter-high K2, in the Karakoram during a severe storm. Eight other climbers were killed in the weeks preceding, bringing the total number of deaths that climbing season to 13.
President Corazon C. Aquino gave the nation’s highest civilian award today to a former senator who has fought for decades to remove United States military bases from the Philippines. “I want to see the country free from any foreign domination of any kind before I die,” the former senator, Lorenzo Tanada, said before receiving the award, the Legion of Honor. Mr. Tanada, 88 years old, has insisted that the bases violate Philippine sovereignty. He leads a group called Bayan, or Country, that wants the bases dismantled immediately.
President Reagan plans to tighten the United States economic embargo of Cuba that was first imposed in the early 1960’s, Administration officials said today. The staff of the National Security Council has prepared a directive providing for stronger enforcement of the embargo, which prohibits a range of financial transactions with Cuba. The new rules would further restrict the flow of funds to Cuba through gifts and family remittances, the officials said. The purpose is to deny Cuba hard currency and American goods it now obtains by circumventing the embargo.
Nicaraguan rebels plan to seize an important town in Nicaragua if they receive the $100 million in Reagan Administration aid that Congress appears ready to give them, according to diplomats, political leaders and military analysts in the region. In interviews in Nicaragua and elsewhere in Central America, the officials said they also expected the rebels to begin launching bolder attacks on military targets. The officials, most of whom have access to detailed intelligence reports, said American money would probably be used mainly to help the rebels counteract Government advantages in air power, intelligence capacity and officer training.
The Peruvian Government, vowing to wage a battle alone against drugs, has started a major anti-cocaine operation and sent two squadrons of air force planes against traffickers’ bases in the Amazon jungle. Interior Minister Abel Salinas said at a news conference that at the outset of the operation Saturday afternoon the jets strafed, bombed and fired rockets at two of 12 bases targeted by the campaign.
Sudan and Libya have signed an agreement for the Khartoum government to buy Libyan oil with money withheld from Sudanese workers in Libya, Sudanese Prime Minister Sadek Mahdi said after a short visit to Tripoli. Mahdi, who met with Libyan leader Moammar Kadafi, told reporters at Khartoum airport that his government will reimburse the migrants in Sudanese pounds. He gave no further details. Last year, Libya expelled thousands of Arab workers or blocked their remittances, saying it was reducing dependence on foreign labor because of adverse economic conditions.
Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress, the principal guerrilla organization fighting white rule in South Africa, is willing to meet with Secretary of State George P. Shultz to discuss ways of dismantling the apartheid system, Zambian President Kenneth D. Kaunda said. Shultz told the Senate Foreign Relations ComImittee last month that he was ready to hold unconditional talks with Tambo and would tell him of strong U.S. opposition to violence as a political tool. The Reagan Administration has until recently refused to have formal talks with the ANC, which it regards as Communist-dominated.
President Reagan’s chief economic adviser said a surprisingly buoyant economy may help the government avoid the prospect of making across-the-board spending cuts next year under the Gramm-Rudman law. Beryl W. Sprinkel, chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers, stuck to the Administration’s optimistic economic growth forecast, which he said will help keep the federal budget deficit below the ceiling required under the law. While the Administration lowered its 1986 growth forecast last week to 3.2%, it said the U.S. gross national product would expand by a robust 4.2% in 1987.
President Reagan receives a call from his son Michael E. Reagan.
The President and First Lady enjoy lunch with each other in the White House Solarium.
The Senate’s cut in President Reagan’s military programs proposal will slow research efforts on an antimissile shield, but will not decimate the program, its director said today. The Senate Saturday overwhelmingly passed a $295 billion military programs bill for 1987 that would slow Mr. Reagan’s arms buildup and would restructure the space-oriented missile defense program. But the head of project, Lieutenant General James Abrahamson, said today that the program would survive despite the Senate’s cut, to $3.9 billion from the $5.3 billion that the Reagan Administration requested.
With less than three months remaining until the fall elections, most incumbent Republican Senators have a large advantage in campaign funds over their Democratic challengers. This means the Democrats are facing an uphill struggle in their fight to regain control of the Senate after six years of Republican rule. Money seldom guarantees victory in politics, and Democratic leaders still predict that they will gain a majority in the November elections. But they concede that the Republicans’ overwhelming lead in the fund-raising sweepstakes gives the incumbents a crucial advantage in many states where races are now considered close. Senator George J. Mitchell of Maine, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, says that, given the money situation, it is “something of a miracle” that the Democrats are still able to mount a challenge for control of the Senate. “They’ve got 100 factors in their favor,” he said of the Republicans. “The first 99 are money and the last one is Reagan’s personality.”
Southerners favor Vice President George Bush and Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A. Iacocca among all possible presidential candidates, a 17-state poll said. Former Senator Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tennessee) and Sen. Gary Hart (D-Colorado) also fared well in the survey conducted by the Charlotte (North Carolina) Observer in advance of the Southern Governors Conference, which began Sunday. Two of the poll’s biggest losers were television evangelist Pat Robertson, who is considering a Republican presidential bid, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson, an unsuccessful Democratic presidential hopeful in 1984.
A majority of Americans said Supreme Court justices should be picked by the voters instead of the President, a poll found. The survey, released by the National Law Journal at the American Bar Assn.’s convention in New York, reported that 59% of the 1,004 respondents said high court justices should be elected, compared to 39% who thought they should be appointed and 2% who didn’t know. The survey found there is little awareness of how the Supreme Court operates or who its members are: 59% said they did not know who William H. Rehnquist is, despite his well-publicized nomination to replace retiring Chief Justice Warren E. Burger. The poll also found that lawyers do not get much respect-only 12% of those responding said they would recommend a law career to their children.
Elsie Douglas, secretary to Associate Justice Robert H. Jackson of the Supreme Court, says Justice William H. Rehnquist is smearing the reputation of a great man by maintaining that memorandums Mr. Rehnquist wrote in 1952 supporting racial segregation reflected the view of Justice Jackson, now dead. In a letter to Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, Mrs. Douglas said Friday that it “surprises me” that Justice Rehnquist would repeat that assertion.
The Deaver inquiry widened. Federal investigators looking into the propriety and legality of lobbying by Michael K. Deaver, the former White House deputy chief of staff, are now including his business dealings in Asia, according ot Congressional and Administration sources. A court-appointed independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour, and a House subcommittee are both collecting information on Mr. Deaver’s actions regarding Korea and Japan.
70,000 phone workers walked out in New York, parts of New England and 12 states in the West and Middle West in a contract dispute. It was the industry’s second major contract dispute since the breakup of the Bell system in 1984. But walkouts by 130,000 other workers in six mid-Atlantic states and parts of New England, the Middle West and Southwest were averted as talks continued with one regional company and tentative pacts were reached with two others.
Martin Luther King 3d will challenge a longtime white incumbent in Atlanta primary elections for a seat on the Fulton County Commission. Mr. King, the 29-year-old eldest son of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., is seeking his first elected office. He is one two challengers in Tuesday’s Democratic primary for the countywide seat now held by Milton G. Farris, a member of the commission since 1971.
Anti-nuclear weapons protesters rallied at a weapons component test site in California and an arms depot in New York State Saturday, the 41st anniversary of the United States atomic bombing of Nagasaki. About 100 demonstrators sang peace songs, carried anti-nuclear banners and joined hands Saturday near Livermore, California, at the entrance to Site 300, where explosives used in nuclear weapons’ triggers are tested.
Despite efforts by medical authorities to curb deliveries by Caesarean section, new Federal data show that they have continued to rise, prompting calls for a renewed campaign. In 1984, 21.1 percent of the nation’s 3.7 million deliveries were by Caesarean section, a more than fourfold increase since figures were first compiled in 1965. The proportion of such births is rising by nearly 1 percent a year, said Paul J. Placek of the National Center for Health Statistics. But according to a new study by two Chicago obstetricians, the number of Caesarean deliveries could be halved, saving more than $1 billion a year in hospital costs alone. Other experts have questioned the study’s specific goal, but agree that a significant number of Caesarean deliveries are medically unjustified.
The United States is grappling with an eight-year-long pattern of increased rabies among wild animals, but the deadly disease has struck few pets and no people. This year, 3,040 rabies cases were reported to the national Centers for Disease Control as of July 20, up 5% from the 2,892 cases at the same point a year ago and part of the trend, said Dr. Daniel Fishbein, a rabies specialist with the Atlanta-based CDC. Rabies, which attacks the brain and nervous system, is almost always fatal once it takes hold. However, Fishbein said, “There’s probably a lower risk of a human getting rabies than almost any other disease you can think of.”
About 3,000 California residents were forced to flee their homes after three tanker train cars carrying volatile gas derailed, officials said today. No explosions, no leaks and no fires were reported, the Grover City Administrator, Arnold Dowdy, said. Residents were allowed to return to their homes this afternoon, about 18 hours after the derailment. Nine cars of an 85-car Southern Pacific freight train traveling south jumped the track late Saturday in this seaside community 160 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Three of them carried iso-butane, a colorless, odorless gas used as fuel, Mr. Dowdy said. Fearing leaks and an explosion, law-enforcement agencies from throughout San Luis Obispo County evacuated some 3,000 residents, about a third of the city, Mr. Dowdy said. Residents were allowed back in their homes at 2:30 P.M. after railroad workers uprighted the overturned tankers and determined they posed no threat, Mr. Dowdy said.
Range fires ignited by summer lightning storms burned out of control in tinder-dry Utah and Nevada today, consuming more than 24,000 acres. “We’re just grubbing and digging, trying to get a line around the fire,” said Scott Brayton, a Bureau of Land Management spokesman in central Utah, where a 5,000-acre blaze near Jericho, Utah rushed through juniper and sage. The bureau said eight fires larger than 100 acres had burned more than 20,000 acres over the weekend. In Nevada, two brush fires caused by lightning were merging and had blackened 3,900 acres about 30 miles east of Carson City. The bureau said 200 firefighters were battling the blazes, which erupted Saturday. Ninety firefighters using 13 pumper trucks as well as bulldozers and helicopters battled the Jericho fire, 80 miles southwest of Salt Lake City. The Utah and Nevada fires grew as firefighters in Oregon and Idaho were in the mopping-up stages of forest fires that raged for most of last week.
“Me & My Girl” opens at the Marquis Theatre, NYC, and runs for 1,420 performances.
The Marquis Theatre opens at 1535 Broadway, New York City.
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The San Francisco Giants edged the Atlanta Braves, 4–3. Harry Spilman, a pinch-hitter, delivered a two-run single with two out in the ninth off Gene Garber to give San Francisco the victory. Chris Brown singled off Garber (4–3) with one out. After Joel Youngblood struck out, Bob Brenly walked and Chili Davis hit an infield single to load the bases. Spilman, hitting for Juan Berenguer (2–2), lined a single to right that scored Brown and Luis Quinones, a pinch-runner. Scott Garrelts pitched a perfect ninth for his third save and second in two games.
The Cleveland Indians downed the Baltimore Orioles, 6–3. Scott Bailes, a rookie, won his first major-league start, and Mel Hall had four of Cleveland’s 17 hits. The Orioles lost their fifth straight. Bailes (9–7), who leads the American League with 51 relief appearances, was pressed into service as a starter after the Indians played two doubleheaders in Detroit before coming to Baltimore. Bailes was lifted after walking Rick Dempsey to open the seventh with the Indians ahead by 4–1. Fred Lynn, a pinch-hitter, the first batter to face Dickie Noles, hit his 19th home run. Tony Bernazard, who had earlier tripled and singled, hit an RBI-double in the eighth, and Pat Tabler added a run-scoring single in the ninth as Cleveland completed a three-game sweep.
The California Angels shut out the Seattle Mariners, 4–0. Mike Witt pitched three-hit ball over eight innings as California completed a four-game sweep of Seattle. Witt (13–7) allowed three doubles, two by Danny Tartabull, while striking out four and walking four. Donnie Moore pitched a hitless ninth. California swept a four-game series at home for the first time since May 1982. The Angels extended Seattle’s scoreless streak to 19 innings. The Mariners were held to three hits Saturday night in a 5–0 loss. California took a 1–0 lead in the first inning. Bobby Grich led off with a double and scored on George Hendrick’s two-out single off Mark Langston (9–9). Langston lost his fourth straight decision. He is without a victory in eight starts since June 30.
Ed Lynch pitched a six-hitter and Gary Matthews hit a three-run homer in the first inning as the Cubs whitewashed the Phillies, 4–0. Lynch (3–1) turned in his first complete game and first shutout this season. He walked none and struck out seven. Lynch retired the first 10 batters he faced before Juan Samuel singled with one out in the fourth. Bobby Dernier drew a walk to open the Cub first and Ryne Sandberg beat out an infield hit before Matthews hit his 15th homer, off Mike Maddux, who fell to 0–5.
The Los Angeles Dodgers blanked the Cincinnati Reds, 5–0. Greg Brock hit two home runs as Los Angeles averted a four-game sweep by the Reds. Dennis Powell (2–3) scattered three hits in seven and one-third innings and struck out six. Powell was making his first start since surgery May 2 to remove bone chips from his left elbow. Ken Howell finished. Brock drove in the Dodgers’ last three runs with his 11th and 12th homers of the season. He hit a two-run homer in the seventh and a home run in the ninth. Mario Soto (4–10) was victimized by Brock’s first homer and a pair of misplays that set up the Dodgers’ first two runs. Soto allowed seven hits and struck out four over six and two-thirds innings. It was his fifth start since coming off the disabled list July 18 after recovering from a sore shoulder. He has just one victory since May 22.
In a Boston 9–6 win at Detroit, Darrell Evans belts a grand slam for Detroit in the 7th and Rich Gedman matches it with a pinch slam in the 8th. It’s the second game in 4 days in the American League where multiple grand slams are hit. Don Baylor has a pair of solo shots for Boston, while Roger Clemens goes 6 innings in a no-decision. The Tigers had taken a 6–4 lead in the seventh on a grand slam by Darrell Evans, his 18th home run this season and ninth career slam, off Tim Lollar. Joe Sambito (2–0) got the victory and Calvin Schiraldi got his third save.
Dave Dravecky won for the first time in six weeks as the San Diego Padres ended a five-game losing streak today with a 5–3 victory over the Astros, the leader in the West. Dravecky (8–9) allowed a run and five hits in six innings. Craig Lefferts pitched two perfect innings, then gave up two hits and was charged with two runs in the ninth. Rich Gossage finished for his 19th save. Kevin McReynolds hit a homer as San Diego ended the four-game winning streak of Bob Knepper (14–8). Knepper pitched seven innings and gave up all five runs on eight hits. San Diego scored three runs in the first. Tony Gwynn walked with one out, John Kruk singled and both scored when Steve Garvey lined a double to left. Garry Templeton followed with a double that scored Garvey.
The Milwaukee Brewers nipped the Chicago White Sox, 5–4. Gorman Thomas hit a homer with one out in the 11th inning to give Milwaukee the victory. Thomas connected against Dave Schmidt (0–4) for his 14th home run of the season, four with Milwaukee. Schmidt had replaced Ray Searage, who had taken over to start the 11th and had struck out the leadoff batter, Cecil Cooper. Mark Clear (3–4) shut out the White Sox on two hits over the final three innings for the victory.
In the latest episode of life on a roll, Sid Fernandez was sitting in the Mets’ dugout in the seventh inning contemplating the fact that he hadn’t won a game in a month and had a pretty good chance of losing this one: The Mets were trailing the Montreal Expos, 2–1, and Fernandez had just been lifted for a pinch-hitter. At that moment, the Mets did it again. After scoring nine runs in the last two innings Saturday night and burying the Expos, they rallied for four in the seventh today and buried the Expos again, 7–2. In a few minutes’ time, Fernandez went from being a losing pitcher to being the winning pitcher, and the Mets left town with an 18-game lead over the Expos in the National League’s East, the largest lead they have ever held.
At Yankee Stadium, the Royals club three Yankee pitchers to win, 13–3, Dennis Rasmussen (12–3) takes the loss. Steve Balboni has 4 hits, including a homer, to drive in 5 runs, Jim Sundberg collects 2 homers and 4 RBIs, and Darryl Motley hits a grand slam. The Yanks drop to 6 games behind the Red Sox and a game ahead of Baltimore. The Yankees retire Billy Martin’s uniform number 1 during Billy Martin Day at Yankee Stadium.
After blowing a 5–2 lead in the second game Sunday, the Minnesota Twins found little relief in their bullpen and Manager Ray Miller was searching for answers after losing a double-header to the Oakland A’s. “You’re as good as your bullpen,” Miller said. “You’ve got to have somebody to close the deal, like Jay Howell did for them today.” Howell saved both games, finishing off Oakland’s 6–2 victory in the first game and shutting down the Twins in the nightcap, which the A’s won 6–5. Carney Lansford’s sacrifice fly capped a four-run Oakland comeback in the sixth inning of the second game. In the opener, Curt Young, 9–7, pitched seven shutout innings and Rusty Tillman drove in his first two major-league runs. Howell, with nine saves this season, pitched 1 ⅓ innings in the first game and got the final two outs of the second. The right-hander has spent most of the season on the disabled list, but said he now feels at full strength.
Pitcher Bob Forsch pitches 7 ⅓ innings and hits a grand slam to lead the Cardinals to a 5–4 win over the Pirates. Ricky Horton pitched to one batter, then Todd Worrell set the major-league record for rookies by getting his 24th save of the season. Vince Coleman stole four bases for the fourth time this season and moved 12 games ahead of the pace set by Lou Brock when he set the National League record of 118 in 1974. The winning streak is Forsch’s longest of his 13-year career. He had a no-hitter through the first five innings before pinch hitter Joe Orsulak led off the sixth with a double.
The Toronto Blue Jays edged the Texas Rangers, 8–7. Rick Leach hit a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning to give Toronto the victory. Cliff Johnson and Buck Martinez, another pinch-hitter, drew leadoff walks from Mitch Williams (8–4) to start the 10th. Ron Shepherd ran for Johnson and took third on a groundout before Leach hit his sacrifice. Mark Eichhorn (9–4) pitched three innings of hitless relief for the victory. The loss stopped the Rangers’ four-game winning streak. The Rangers tied the score with two runs in the seventh. Doubles by Steve Buechele and Oddibe McDowell and a triple by Ruben Sierra off Luis Aquino made it 7–7.
San Francisco Giants 4, Atlanta Braves 3
Cleveland Indians 6, Baltimore Orioles 3
Seattle Mariners 0, California Angels 4
Philadelphia Phillies 0, Chicago Cubs 4
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Cincinnati Reds 0
Boston Red Sox 9, Detroit Tigers 6
San Diego Padres 5, Houston Astros 3
Chicago White Sox 4, Milwaukee Brewers 5
New York Mets 7, Montreal Expos 2
Kansas City Royals 13, New York Yankees 3
Minnesota Twins 2, Oakland Athletics 6
Minnesota Twins 5, Oakland Athletics 6
Pittsburgh Pirates 4, St. Louis Cardinals 5
Toronto Blue Jays 8, Texas Rangers 7
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Ryan Torain, NFL running back (Denver Broncos, Washington Redskins, New York Giants), in Topeka, Kansas.
Ketia Swanier, WNBA guard (WNBA champions-Mercury, 2009; Connecticut Sun, Phoenix Mercury, Atlanta Dream), in Columbus, Georgia.
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