American and Soviet arms-control officials met in Moscow today for eight hours in talks that the chief American negotiator called “serious” and “exploratory.” The American, Paul H. Nitze, who is an adviser to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, also said in a statement through the United States Embassy that the talks will continue Tuesday. Americans and Russians appeared to be in an amicable mood as they parted for the day. The head of the Soviet delegation, Viktor P. Karpov, who has been leading the Soviet side in the regular arms talks in Geneva, smiled as he emerged from a Foreign Ministry villa in woods south of Moscow. The Americans, including Mr. Nitze, Max M. Kampelman, the chief negotiator in Geneva, and Richard N. Perle, Assistant Secretary of Defense, bid farewell to Mr. Karpov and his colleagues with handshakes and smiles.
Western diplomats said Mr. Nitze’s description of the talks suggested that they had ranged over arms control proposals contained in letters recently exchanged by President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. The discussions were proposed by the Soviet Union as one of a series of meetings leading up to a mid-September meeting in Washington between Mr. Shultz and Foreign Minister Eduard A. Shevardnadze. They are then to determine whether there will be a summit meeting later this year. That decision, according to Soviet and American officials, rests to a great extent on whether differences on arms control can be narrowed in the talks here and in the regular negotiations in Geneva, resuming next month.
The purpose of the talks here, as outlined by Soviet officials in meetings in Washington last month, is to try to identify areas in which progress can be made. Because of the limited time remaining this year, it is unlikely that a complete arms control treaty can be produced. But there may be an interim agreement on some issues such as reductions in medium-range missiles. Mr. Reagan and Mr. Gorbachev agreed at their first meeting, in Geneva last November, that the Soviet leader will visit Washington in 1986 and Mr. Reagan will come to Moscow in 1987, but the two sides have been unable to set a date for the Gorbachev trip. Mr. Gorbachev has said that a meeting this year would be pointless unless it produces tangible progress in reducing nuclear weapons.
President Reagan says that East Germany should dismantle the Berlin wall and that its continued existence “will remain a burden on our relations with those regimes responsible for it,” according to an interview made public today. As Wednesday, the 25th anniversary of the beginning of construction of the wall approaches, Mr. Reagan called it “an affront to the human spirit.” The wall was built to stop the flow of refugees from East Germany to the West. “I would like to see the wall come down today and I call upon those responsible to dismantle it,” Mr. Reagan said in an interview with the newspaper Bild, West Germany’s largest daily. “No regime can attain genuine legitimacy in the eyes of its own people if those people are treated as prisoners by their own Government.” Mr. Reagan said the wall “reminds us of the continued forced division of Europe, of Germany and of Berlin.”
The chairman of the House intelligence committee has challenged Reagan Administration allegations that the Soviet Union has not adhered to the strategic arms treaty of 1979. The legislator, Representative Lee H. Hamilton, who heads the House Select Committee on Intelligence, says in a published article that the Administration does not have a clear case on the purported noncompliance. The charge that the Soviet Union has not abided by the 1979 treaty, which was never ratified by the United States, has been one of the arguments made by the Reagan Administration for abandoning its provisions. The House is scheduled to vote Tuesday on an amendment to a military spending bill that would compel the Administration to keep United States military programs within treaty limits.
Fishing boats accompanied by the Coast Guard entered a disputed area of the Bering Sea today to retrieve crab pots that were abandoned after they were pursued by Soviet craft. Two Soviet vessels were sighted, but neither interfered with the recovery operation, said a Coast Guard spokesman, Glenn Rosenholm.
Soviet authorities said they will decide by the end of the week whether to allow a Moscow woman to leave the country so she can donate bone marrow to her leukemia-stricken brother now living in Israel. Inessa Flerova and her husband reported a “rather positive” meeting with R. A. Kuznetsov, director of the Soviet visa office, on the request. For four months, Flerova has been denied permission for a mercy trip to Israel despite her plea that the life of her brother, Mikhail Shirman, is at stake.
Soviet citizens have donated jewelry, works of art and cash to the special government fund set up to aid victims of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, State Bank Board Chairman Viktor Dementsev said. The fund, now totaling $700 million, was set up a few days after the April 26 disaster that so far has claimed 31 lives and forced the evacuation of over 100,000 people.
Adam Michnik, the 39-year-old historian and Solidarity adviser, was released from prison today under a limited amnesty, according to opposition sources. Mr. Michnik, a defender of the ideals of the banned Solidarity union, has served 18 months of a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence; he was convicted of having favored planning for an illegal strike, which was later called off, and of having belonged to an illegal organization that sought to foment social unrest. Mr. Michnik would have normally been due for release in October, but last week the Supreme Court urged the prosecutor to treat his case as under the limited clemency approved by Parliament. Mr. Michnik’s cause had been championed by many influential West Europeans, including Prime Minister Bettino Craxi of Italy. Mr. Craxi had sought Mr. Michnik’s release and linked it to the prospect of inviting the Polish leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, to Rome.
A U.S. Army private who went absent without leave from his post in West Germany last month may have defected to Cuba, the Defense Department said. Responding to a report on Radio Havana, the Pentagon said it is investigating the possibility that the missing soldier, Pfc. Hugo Romeu, 31, of Glenview, Illinois, “may indeed be the individual alluded to” by Radio Havana. The radio, monitored in Miami, claimed that a man it identified as Army Captain Hugo Romeu Almeida has defected to Cuba because of his objections to U.S. foreign policy on Central America.
A former Libyan diplomat, who is suspected of organizing terrorist actions in Rome, was released from jail today over the protests of investigating magistrates. The former diplomat, Arebi Mohammed Fituri, 47 years old, left Regina Coeli Prison this afternoon after a court ordered him released from preventive detention. He is still a suspect in an investigation into the possibility that Libyan diplomats here gave money to Middle Eastern terrorist groups operating in Europe, a senior judicial official said today. An informer told investigating magistrates last year that Mr. Fituri and another Libyan diplomat had tried to enlist him in an assassination plot involving the United States Ambassador in Italy and other diplomats here. In seeking Mr. Fituri’s release, his attorneys argued that Mr. Daghugh was “an equivocal personality and totally untrustworthy.”
Israeli negotiators affirmed today that there had been progress in the Taba border talks with Egypt, but said a final agreement was unlikely for 18 more months. On Sunday, Egyptian officials announced in Cairo that negotiators had resolved all but two conditions for international arbitration of the four-year-old dispute over Taba, a 700-yard stretch of beachfront on the Gulf of Aqaba in the Red Sea. But the draft agreement reached by negotiators for the two sides left open the two most important issues: the names of the international law experts who would act as independent arbiters and the technical question of exactly where each side claims the boundaries lie. “We have an arbitration agreement with a hole in it,” a senior Israeli Foreign Ministry official told reporters today at a briefing on the issue.
Seven more agents of Shin Bet, the Israeli secret service, are seeking presidential pardons in the 1984 killings of two captured Palestinian bus hijackers, President Chaim Herzog’s office said. Three Shin Bet men, among them the former chief, have already been pardoned. It could not be determined what role any of the seven may have played in the incident, in which interrogators beat to death two of the terrorists who had hijacked the bus and held 35 Israelis hostage. A police investigation into the killings has begun.
Israeli jets attacked what the Israelis described as Palestinian guerrilla targets in Lebanon today for a second consecutive day. This time, they struck at sites near Baalbek, a predominantly Shiite Muslim city in the Syrian-controlled Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon. A Syrian Army communique said Syrian ground defenses forced the Israeli aircraft to pull back toward the sea. The communique, broadcast by the Government-run Damascus radio, said the Israeli raiders killed and wounded several civilians and damaged several buildings. The statement said the attack was aimed at “residential locations” in Majdelion and Hadath Baalbek, which are west of Baalbek, an ancient city about 40 miles east of here. Reuters quoted Palestinian military sources as saying eight people, including an 18-month-old boy and four Palestinian fighters, were killed and five were wounded in the raids. The Israeli radio, monitored here, quoted an Israeli Army spokesman as saying the targets were two bases of the Syrian-backed Palestinian group led by Colonel Saed Musa. The colonel, also known as Abu Musa, broke away three years ago from Al Fatah, the mainline Palestinian organization led by Yasser Arafat, the Palestine Liberation Organization chairman.
Saudi Arabia has arrested a group of Iranian pilgrims, apparently on suspicion of illegal demonstrations. The Saudis’ King Fahd said he will not permit meddling by foreigners during the annual Muslim pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca. The Saudis released no details on the arrests, but Tehran radio said 113 Iranian pilgrims were arrested on arrival in Jidda, the Saudi capital. Saudi Arabia has warned pilgrims not to mix politics and religion, and Saudi media have accused Iranians of illegally demonstrating at Mecca and Medina.
Hindu demonstrators in Pune, India, damaged six shops belonging to Sikhs to protest the assassination of India’s most decorated soldier. The victim, retired General Arunkumar Shridhar Vaidya, 60, was cremated with full military honors as his wife, wounded in the attack, and three daughters wept. Callers to an Indian news agency claimed responsibility for the killing on behalf of militant Sikh separatists. Vaidya had received numerous threats over his role, as chief of staff, in the army’s 1984 assault on the Sikhs’ holiest shrine, where revolutionaries were in hiding. Security forces were on a high state of alert today after the assassination Sunday of the retired Indian Army Chief of Staff just days after he received a death threat purportedly sent by Sikh extremists. Indian leaders suspended Government business to mourn the shooting of the officer.
U.S. government complaints about lax security at Manila International Airport should be fully resolved in the next two to three weeks, Philippine Tourism Minister Jose Antonio Gonzalez said. Once the problems are corrected, the U.S. officials are expected to lift the travel warnings issued last week that threaten to harm tourism and the islands’ recovery efforts, Gonzalez said. Security has been tightened in passenger screening and airport perimeter guarding, he said.
Representatives of the National Democratic Front, the Communist rebel group, rejected the Philippine military’s conditions for giving them safe conduct to attend cease-fire negotiations with the Government. In a statement, the rebel negotiators Antonio Zumel and Saturnino Ocampo said that these conditions place the talks “in jeopardy.” Agriculture Minister Ramon Mitra, the Government’s representative, opened formal negotiations with the rebels last week. The Communist negotiators also accused the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Fidel V. Ramos, of “overruling and negating commitments and guarantees” made earlier by Government officials. The rebels rejected General Ramos’s condition that safety passes issued to the rebel representatives’ bodyguards indicate names, personal data, place of origin and destination. The guards also were forbidden to carry firearms.
The United States announced today that it was formally suspending its military obligations to New Zealand under the Anzus treaty because of New Zealand’s refusal to allow American ships carrying nuclear weapons into its ports. The decision was announced in a communique after Secretary of State George P. Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger met with their Australian counterparts. Australia, New Zealand and the United States were the original parties to the treaty, concluded in 1951. Mr. Shultz, alluding to New Zealand’s refusal to admit nuclear-armed ships, said at a news conference after the meeting that “New Zealand has in effect withdrawn from the security relationship by withdrawing one of its most important contributions to that agreement.”
Cold, hungry and crowded into two lifeboats, 152 men, women and children were spotted through the fog off Newfoundland yesterday and picked up by three Canadian fishing boats. They said they had been adrift for five days, the Canadian Coast Guard reported. How they came to be adrift and where they came from remained a mystery. Fisherman who rescued them described the castaways as Asians, possibly from Sri Lanka, and said they were taken aboard at midafternoon in the choppy seas of St. Mary’s Bay, about seven miles west of the fishing port of St. Shotts on the southeastern coast of Newfoundland, Canada’s easternmost province.
President Reagan, who is to meet this week with President Miguel de la Madrid, will urge the Mexican leader to undertake greater efforts to curb narcotics trafficking, a ranking Administration official said today. The official said that during President de la Madrid’s working visit, Mr. Reagan would also “demonstrate confidence” in the steps Mexico is taking to solve its serious economic problems Absent from the three hours of talks at the White House, the official said, would be any substantive discussion of Central America. “We certainly have agreed to disagree” on that issue, said the official, a key policy maker on Central America. Mexico is a member of the four-nation Contadora group, which seeks a negotiated peace treaty for all of Central America. Secretary of State George P. Shultz said last Thursday that “the only real answer” to the crisis would be the emergence of a freely elected democratic government in Nicaragua. Congress, meanwhile, is considering an Administration proposal for $100 million in aid for the guerrillas seeking to overthrow the Nicaraguan Government.
Angola asserted today that South African forces had attacked a town and Government troops nearly 200 miles inside southern Angola. But the South African- and American-backed rebel group fighting the Marxist Government here claimed responsibility for the attack. The rebels, who call themselves the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, said they had damaged an air base in retaliation for Angolan Government attacks on insurgent positions.
A provincial supreme court ruled today that the parts of South Africa’s emergency decree permitting detention without trial and for indefinite periods were invalid. Lawyers said that if the ruling, issued in Natal Province, survived a Government appeal and was upheld in other provinces, it could force the authorities to release the thousands of people detained since the state of emergency was proclaimed on June 12. The Government has refused to say how many people it is holding, but independent estimates put the figure as high as 10,000. The ruling handed down today was the latest and most far-reaching judicial challenge to the state of emergency, which was proclaimed by President P. W. Botha to end protest and violence in South Africa’s black townships.
Many leading Democrats, including some Presidential aspirants, are reaching for new themes in economic and industrial policy that depart sharply from those the party has stressed for decades. These Democrats would tell business and organized labor not to rely on the Government to help them survive and compete with foreigners. They say wages and salaries should be tied to a company’s performance, not fixed for years by collective bargaining. They hold that management should pay less attention to short-term gains and that the pensions of retired executives ought to be cut if the companies run into trouble after the executives leave. “They’re stressing the theme of competitiveness,” said Steven S. Smith, a political scientist at the Brookings Institution. “It’s a theme that many Democrats are trying on for size. It says that many of the features that make capitalism work are being neglected, like taking risks. It lets the Democrats reach out to new voters without losing their old voters.”
President Reagan participates in a meeting to discuss the legislation relating to the 55 mph speed limit.
President Reagan attends a birthday party in honor of Mr. Poindexter.
Drug screening began in earnest at the White House, with Vice President George Bush and an undisclosed number of presidential aides taking part in the testing. “It is, and should be, confidential,” Larry Speakes, White House press spokesman, told reporters, refusing to say how many aides volunteered or to speculate on the test results. President Reagan took the test Saturday. Speakes said the urine samples, taken in the White House physician’s unit, were to be sent to the U.S. Naval Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia, where they will be tested.
On a trip to Illinois Tuesday to garner farm state support for Republican candidates, President Reagan will announce plans to increase fees paid to farmers for storing surplus grain, Administration sources said today. The measure, increasing the fees by almost 20 percent, would raise the incomes of thousands of farmers in the Middle West and elsewhere who are anticipating near record harvests of wheat, corn and other grains. It would add from $200 million to $300 million to the costs of the Federal farm program, which is anticipated to exceed $30 billion this fiscal year, according to an estimate by the House Agriculture Committee. It was unclear immediately if new Federal funds would be provided or if the money would come from existing programs.
A State Department official said today that proposed Congressional cuts in spending for international affairs would have devastating effects on national security. He said the budget being contemplated by Congress could jeopardize leases on foreign military bases, anti-narcotics efforts, famine aid in Africa and other programs. The official, John C. Whitehead, the Deputy Secretary of State, asked legislators in a statement “to take another look, to review the decisions they have made.”
The Reagan Administration said today it still opposed sweeping changes in a law that excludes aliens on ideological grounds, but the Administration offered to work with Congress on more modest changes. Civil libertarians, artists and scholars have said provisions of the law, the McCarran-Walter Act of 1952, violate freedom of speech and other rights. Senator Charles McC. Mathias Jr. has proposed a bill to lift restrictions on international travel, the import of books and magazines from specified countries and the admission of visitors with ties to the Communist Party.
Attorneys for Michael K. Deaver, the lobbyist who was formerly White House deputy chief of staff, said today that a House panel should refer any evidence of possible perjury by him to a court-appointed independent counsel “for full and impartial investigation.” The lawyers made the request a day before an investigations subcommittee was expected to approve such a referral on its own.
A special panel has found that many of the Veterans Administration’s heart surgery units have been performing so few operations that mortality rates were above normal in some cases, and V.A. officials said today that about one-third of them would be closed. “Procedures for closing them are now being developed,” Dr. John A. Gronvall, the V.A.’s deputy chief medical director, said in an interview. “We’re now deciding which ones to close.” Last year the Veterans Administration asked a special panel of outside physicians to investigate the system’s 51 heart surgery units. The panel recommended last fall that no unit should perform fewer than 150 open-heart procedures a year because some hospitals performing fewer than that number of procedures had higher-than-average mortality.
The National Transportation Safety Board recommended today that shoulder safety belts be installed in the rear seats of all new automobiles to enhance passenger safety. The recommendation came as the board, an independent Federal agency, made public a study of 26 frontal collisions in which at least one passenger in the vehicle wore a lap-only belt. The study indicated that rear-seat passengers wearing a lap-only belt suffered serious or fatal injuries. The safety board said that in frontal collisions, the restraint of lap belts may cause serious head, spinal and abdominal injuries. But the report cautioned that because the number of crashes investigated was so small, statistically significant conclusions could not be made, and that it was unable to say whether or not rear-seat passengers should be advised to use lap-only belts. An official of the Department of Transportation’s Highway Traffic Safety Administration said that in studies it had conducted, lap belts had been found to reduce the risk of injury. “We truly disagree with the board’s report,” said Diane K. Steed, Administrator of the highway safety agency.
Senator Jesse Helms today asked the Justice Department to determine whether the Central Intelligence Agency or other intelligence services had spied on him and his staff when they went to Chile last month. In a letter to Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d, Mr. Helms, a North Carolina Republican, wrote, “I have absolutely nothing to hide, but I will be deeply disturbed if it is discovered that the C.I.A. or other U.S. intelligence agencies have violated the law.” Mr. Helms and his staff are now the subject of an inquiry by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is looking into allegations that they might have passed sensitive intelligence information to the Chilean Government.
The Illinois Democratic Party joined third-party gubernatorial candidate Adlai E. Stevenson III in challenging the nominating petitions of the Rev. Charles Koen of Cairo, a civil rights leader, who is running for governor on the Illinois Independent Party ticket. Stevenson won the Democratic nomination in March, but launched a third-party bid after refusing to run on the same ticket as two supporters of political extremist Lyndon H. LaRouche Jr. Democrats hope to make the election a one-on-one race between Stevenson and Governor James R. Thompson.
A U.S. Border Patrol plane crashed during the search for a Cuban inmate still at large a day after 16 prisoners escaped from a federal institution in Florence, Arizona, authorities said. Pilot Bruce Weber of Tucson was listed in critical condition at a Phoenix hospital, said Bill Duckham of the Border Patrol’s Tucson office. Weber was the only person in the single-engine Cessna 182.
The U.S. Army has begun an investigation to determine whether two aging models of helicopters should be grounded because of a pattern of engine failures. The investigation, which focuses on the OH-6 and OH-58A light observation helicopters, is expected to be completed some time this week, said Lieutenant Colonel Craig MacNab, an Army spokesman. The two copters use the same engine, made by the Allison Division of General Motors.
Louise James, the owner of a MOVE row house destroyed with 60 others in a fiery battle between members of the cult and Philadelphia police, will not be allowed to return to the house in the newly rebuilt neighborhood, the city said. All other residents displaced by the May 13, 1985, confrontation have been offered the chance to return, said city housing official Barbara Farley. James is the sister of MOVE founder John Africa and the mother of MOVE member Frank James Africa. Both died in the incident. Farley said properties in the rebuilt neighborhood were owned by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, which took possession after the fire.
Foreigners receive nearly a fourth of the kidneys transplanted at District of Columbia hospitals, while U.S. military dependents needing kidneys are turned away, a study said. Calling for an Americans-first transplant policy, the Health and Human Services Department report said reviews of organ transplant programs in 17 cities showed that foreigners tend to receive kidneys more quickly than U.S. citizens. The report said more than 200 kidneys are shipped abroad each year although nearly 10,000 Americans are on waiting lists.
A Durham, North Carolina, woman was electrocuted when she became entangled in a downed power line when she got out of her car and a 7-year-old girl was in critical condition after she and six other people in the state were hit by lightning as severe thunderstorms marched across the Southeast. The thunderstorms developed along a slow-moving cold front that promised some relief from the scorching heat and drought that has plagued the Southeast this summer, but also brought violent weather.
A Greek statue with a doubtful past is scheduled to go on display in October at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. The larger than life-size marble sculpture of a youth, dated around 530 B.C., is regarded as one of the most important works of art to have entered the United States since World War II. It has become the subject of controversy among experts despite many sophisticated tests made to establish its authenticity.
Divers were ready to raise the wreck of an 18th-century British warship from Delaware Bay off Lewes, Delaware, where she sank in 1798. Rough water delayed attempts to raise the ship, the HMS de Braak, which preyed on Spanish ships in the New World. Marine historians say the wreck is a major historical and archeological treasure. The salvage operation is costing $2 million.
PGA Championship Men’s Golf, Inverness Club: Bob Tway holes a famous bunker shot on the 18th to beat Australian Greg Norman by 2 stokes.
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves defeat the San Diego Padres, 11–6. Dale Murphy hit two home runs and doubled, driving in four runs to power Atlanta. Murphy’s three-run homer off a reliever, Gene Walter, capped a six-run second inning, and he hit a leadoff home run in the fifth off Eric Show. Murphy has 20 homers this season.
The Toronto Blue Jays bowed to the Baltimore Orioles 3–1. Mike Flanagan allowed only two hits in eight and one-third innings, and an error by the Toronto second baseman, Garth Iorg, ended a scoreless tie in the sixth inning as Baltimore snapped its five-game losing streak. Don Aase finished the two-hitter for his 29th save after a walk to Ron Shepherd and a double by Tony Fernandez scored a run and finished Flanagan (6–7).
Bert Blyleven pitched a three-hitter for his fifth straight complete game and Gary Gaetti hit a sixth-inning homer as the Minnesota Twins shut out the California Angels, 2–0. Blyleven, 12–10, outdueled Don Sutton, took over the American League lead with his 11th complete game, and pitched his 53rd career shutout. He allowed only singles as he improved his lifetime record against California to 27–12, walking two batters and striking out five. Gaetti’s leadoff homer in the sixth was his 24th of the season. Tom Brunansky singled in the ninth and scored on Billy Beane’s single for Minnesota’s second run.
The Cubs parade a record 10 pitchers in a 17-inning 10–8 loss to the Pirates. Pittsburgh uses 7 hurlers. The game is a continuation of a contest started on April 20, but was postponed because of darkness. Barry Jones, the winning pitcher who strikes out the side, and Barry Bonds, who hit the game winning RBI, were in the minors when the game started. Loser Frank DiPino started the season with Houston. A three-run homer by Mike Diaz and a home run by Barry Bonds highlighted a seven-run second inning for the Pirates in the second game, which Pittsburgh won again, 10–7.
Pete Rose singles 4 times and doubles to set a National League-record with his 10th 5-hit game, breaking Max Carey’s mark. Rose has 3 runs batted in as his Reds lose to the Giants, 13–4. A three-run homer by Bob Brenly put San Francisco ahead, and Bob Melvin’s three-run triple highlighted a seven-run seventh inning as the Giants won.
Jack Morris pitched a three-hitter for his league-leading fourth shutout, and John Grubb and Lou Whitaker each had a home run as the Detroit Tigers beat the Boston Red Sox, 5–0, tonight to salvage the final game of a four-game series. Morris (14–7) struck out three and walked four for his 10th complete game, tying him for the American League lead. The Tigers gave Dennis (Oil Can) Boyd (11–8) his second loss in two starts since returning from a three-week suspension. Grubb hit his 10th homer of the year leading off the second inning. In the third, Whitaker hit Boyd’s first pitch into the upper deck in right field with a man on for his 16th home run.
The Houston Astros edged the Los Angeles Dodgers, 7–6. Alan Ashby lined a two-run double in the ninth inning to give Houston the victory. His bases-loaded hit down the right-field line came with one out against Ken Howell (4–8). With Houston trailing by 6–5, Denny Walling led off the ninth with a single and Glenn Davis walked. Kevin Bass followed with a drive to center field over Reggie Williams’s head, but Walling held up to see if the ball would be caught and was thrown out at the plate. Davis advanced to third and Bass to second on the throw home, and Jose Cruz was intentionally walked to load the bases. Ashby followed with his game-winning hit.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Milwaukee Brewers, 6–1. Russ Morman drove in three runs on a two-run homer in the fifth and a single in the eighth to lead Chicago. Floyd Bannister (7–9) scattered eight hits for his second victory in his last seven outings and his third complete game this year.
The St. Louis Cardinals nipped the Montreal Expos, 5–4. A two-run homer by Mike LaValliere in the eighth inning lifted St. Louis. With the Cards trailing by 4–3, Terry Pendleton led off the eighth with a double and Clint Hurdle walked with one out. After Pendleton was caught stealing, LaValliere hit his home run off Floyd Youmans (11–8), his second home run of the season.
Cleveland’s irrepressible Indians, scrapping to stay alive in the American League East race, were sabotaged by the enemy within last night. The enemy, disguised as the Indians’ relief corps, snatched a victory from the grasp of Phil Niekro and handed it to the Yankees. Allowing the Yankees to score three runs in the seventh inning was criminal enough. Walking Mike Fischlin with two out and two on in the ninth inning was a capital offense. Don Mattingly followed Fischlin’s walk with a single against Frank Wills that gave the Yankees a 6–5 victory over the team that had crept two games back of them by sweeping a three-game weekend series in Baltimore.
Seattle’s Danny Tartabull said he was only trying to get the run in from third with the bases loaded, but he wound up driving in everybody. “My job was to just drive in one run, but I just took an inside-out swing and I was fortunate,” said Tartabull, whose seventh-inning grand slam off loser Doug Bair, helped the Seattle Mariners defeat the Oakland A’s 6–4 tonight. “I was just trying to drive the ball, and if I get a base hit, that’s great. And if I get a home run, that’s even better,” said Tartabull, whose slam was the second of his career and 19th of the year. The Mariners broke a 4–4 tie in the ninth when Spike Owen and Domingo Ramos drew bases-loaded walks off Oakland reliever Fernando Arroyo.
Dwight Gooden won No. 12 and the Mets won No. 75 tonight, and then Dave Johnson sat back and considered the joys of being 40 games over the .500 mark and said, with a little smile and a lot of greed: “I’d like to be 50 over.” The Mets, winning games at a possibly historic rate, overpowered the Philadelphia Phillies tonight, 8–4, and added to their stratospheric numbers: They have won six of their last seven games in their most recent sprint, and 75 games this season against 35 losses, and they have drawn 19 in front of the Montreal Expos in the National League’s East with 52 games left to play. Everything the Mets touch seems to turn into gold, and it happened again tonight. Ray Knight, the star retread, hit two doubles for two runs that gave the Mets the early lead against Don Carman. And Gary Carter drove in his 86th run of the season with a single in the fifth and his 87th with a walk with the bases loaded in the sixth. Then he came to bat in the eighth with runners on first and third and two down, and the Phillies walked him so that the left-handed Dan Schatzeder could pitch to the left-handed Strawberry. And they did it with second base open, not first. No problem. Strawberry skimmed a single into center field, two runs crossed and the Mets roared on.
San Diego Padres 6, Atlanta Braves 11
Toronto Blue Jays 1, Baltimore Orioles 3
Minnesota Twins 2, California Angels 0
Pittsburgh Pirates 10, Chicago Cubs 7
San Francisco Giants 13, Cincinnati Reds 4
Boston Red Sox 0, Detroit Tigers 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, Houston Astros 7
Chicago White Sox 6, Milwaukee Brewers 1
St. Louis Cardinals 5, Montreal Expos 4
Cleveland Indians 5, New York Yankees 6
Seattle Mariners 6, Oakland Athletics 4
New York Mets 8, Philadelphia Phillies 4
Stock prices surged ahead yesterday, propelled by falling interest rates and buying programs sparked by positive index futures figures. Only a relatively low trading volume marred the strong daylong advance. At the close of the New York Stock Exchange, the 30-share Dow Jones industrial average was up 28.54 points, at 1,811.16, the biggest gain since a 36.06-point rise on June 13. The gain followed an 18.98-point rise for all of last week.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1811.16 (+28.54)
Born:
Pablo Sandoval, Venezuelan MLB third baseman and first baseman (All-Star, 2011, 2012; San Francisco Giants, Boston Red Sox, Atlanta Braves), in Puerto Cabello, Venezuela.
Colby Rasmus, MLB outfielder (St. Louis Cardinals, Toronto Blue Jays, Houston Astros, Tampa Bay Rays, Baltimore Orioles), in Columbus, Georgia.
Tracy Porter, NFL cornerback (NFL champions, Super Bowl 44-Saints, 2009; New Orleans Saints, Denver Broncos, Oakland Raiders, Washington Redskins, Chicago Bears), in Port Allen, Louisiana.
Jonathan Luigs, NFL center (Cincinnati Bengals), in Little Rock, Arkansas.
Died:
Chuck McKinley, 45, American tennis player (1963 Wimbledon), of a brain tumor.
