The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives handed the Reagan Administration two defeats on military policy today by cutting the budget for the space-based missile-defense program and by requiring adherence to the unratified 1979 strategic arms treaty. In a vote of 239 to 176, generally along party lines, the House approved $3.1 billion for the antimissile program. This was just above last year’s allocation to the program, known officially as the Strategic Defense Initiative and popularly as “Star Wars.” The Administration had asked for $5.3 billion, and 33 Republicans joined Democrats in voting for the cut of more than $2 billion. Even with the sharp reduction, the missile-defense effort is the largest single program in the Defense Department budget. The House then voted, 225 to 186, again on party lines, to bar money for any deployment of nuclear weapons in excess of the limits of the 1979 arms treaty. The Administration has announced that it will no longer observe the provisions of the treaty. Similar but somewhat less drastic funding and testing restrictions have been approved by the Senate. On Wednesday, the House is to vote on yet another arms-control proposal, this one to ban tests in space for an antisatellite missile. Approval would be another setback for the Administration.
Soviet and American officials ended two days of high-level arms-control talks today, but declined to say whether they had narrowed differences and improved the chances for a meeting later this year between President Reagan and Mikhail S. Gorbachev. A Soviet spokesman said only that the talks were held in a “businesslike atmosphere.” He also said that another American-Soviet meeting would take place in Washington this week and that the Soviet delegation, which left Moscow today, was headed by Vitaly A. Mikolchak, a deputy chief of the Foreign Ministry’s Department of the United States and Canada. Discussing the Moscow talks that just ended, the Americans refused to add anything to a statement on Monday that characterized the talks as “serious” and “exploratory.” After a lunch at the United States Embassy with their Soviet counterparts, the seven-man American delegation, led by Paul H. Nitze, arms-control adviser to Secretary of State George P. Shultz, left Moscow aboard a United States Air Force jet.
A Soviet Foreign Ministry official and his delegation arrived in Washington today for several days of meetings with American officials that are to begin Wednesday, the State Department said today. The meetings with the Soviet delegation headed by Vitaly A. Mikolchak will cover Soviet-American issues such as human rights and cultural and scientific exchanges, a State Department spokesman said.
The Soviet Union, in an official protest, demanded that the United States, France and Britain halt demonstrations marking the 25th anniversary today of the start of construction of the Berlin Wall. Moscow called the demonstrations “hostile to the cause of peace.” The heightened tension prompted the U.S. diplomatic mission in West Berlin to issue a “higher state of alert” because of a possible attack on American companies or soldiers in West Berlin, a mission official said.
Finland refused asylum to a defecting Soviet soldier but said it will deport him to a third country rather than hand him back to the Soviet Union. An Interior Ministry statement did not say when Igor Azhevski, 23, will be deported or name the third country. It said he will not be allowed to stay because he committed crimes in Finland and does not qualify for asylum. Azhevski was sentenced by a Finnish court to a suspended five-month prison sentence and fined $920 for illegally crossing the border, for theft and other offenses.
West Germany said it expects to pay its farmers about $240 million, twice the amount originally envisaged, in compensation for loss of income resulting from the April 26 Chernobyl nuclear plant accident in the Soviet Union. Agriculture Ministry officials said the government has received 314,000 applications for compensation. They said the number was so large because farmers have followed government guidelines to the letter, by destroying produce and not putting cattle out to pasture to prevent radiation contamination. Bonn has received no response from Moscow on its demand for compensation.
The Rev. Ian Paisley, carrying on a “no surrender” tradition that goes back three centuries, paraded past crowds of cheering Protestant loyalists today. His appearance was plainly designed to scotch talk that his time is passing as leader of the province’s resistance to political change. “There’s our man!” shouted a parade watcher as Mr. Paisley offered a white-gloved wave and a tip of his black bowler hat while a band boomed out “The Wild Colonial Boy.” “Ulster still says no!” he shouted, beaming.
Shiite Muslim militiamen clashed with United Nations peacekeeping troops in southern Lebanon overnight and today. A leader of the mainstream Shiite militia Amal and two comrades were reported killed and 17 French soldiers were wounded, 7 of them seriously. Three Amal militiamen were also wounded. A spokesman for the United Nations troops, Timor Goksel, said the incident was “definitely the most serious” involving the United Nations forces since the Israeli Army withdrew most of its troops from southern Lebanon in June 1985. Both sides exerted efforts to calm the situation. In Paris, diplomats said the clash between the French and Amal was surprising, given normally good relations between them. The French are reported to have asked Amal’s help in securing the release of seven French hostages being held by pro-Iranian gunmen in West Beirut and in the Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon. Amal said in a statement that it held the United Nations troops responsible for the fatalities, who included the second in command for Amal in the Tyre district, Haidar Khalil, and his bodyguard, Hussein al-Dahaini.
Iran fired on Baghdad with a long-range missile, according to reports from Iran and Iraq. Iran said a surface-to-surface missile, the first to be fired against Baghdad in 13 months, had struck the Dowra oil refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad, a city of four million people. Iraq said without elaborating that the missile hit an “insignificant” location. Iran’s official press agency, monitored in London, said the Dowra refinery near Baghdad was “hit and smashed.” It said any Iraqi attacks on “civilian and industrial targets would be met by crushing the military, economic and industrial centers of Iraq.” Hours later, reports said, Iraqi jets raided an Iranian oil terminal, setting three supertankers on fire. Iraq raided the Iranian terminal at Sirri Island, severely disrupting Iranian exports.
Iraqi warplanes for the first time attacked Iran’s remote Sirri Island oil terminal, setting three tankers ablaze, hours after an Iranian missile struck an oil refinery in Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, according to reports from the two combatants. Shipping sources in Bahrain said 12 seamen of various nationalities were missing and believed dead in the Iraqi air raid. Sirri is 600 miles south of the nearest Iraqi military air base. The raid indicated that Iraq has acquired the capability for in-flight refueling to extend the range of its warplanes and expose all of Iran’s 500-mile coast to air strikes. “The flames of Iraqi rage spiraled sky-high over Sirri,” an Iraqi military spokesman said in a radio statement announcing the attack. “The raid was meant to prove that the arm of Iraq is capable of reaching any Iranian target no matter how far it may be.”
Afghan guerrillas have stepped up their attacks on Kabul, the Afghan capital, hitting the Soviet and Polish embassies with rockets, Western diplomats said in Islamabad, Pakistan. They also said Soviet helicopter gunships have been seen heading south of Kabul, suggesting that intense fighting is continuing in Logar province.
A Sikh militant arrested in India near Amritsar, was suspected of masterminding the killings of 50 people, including the slaying of 14 Hindu bus passengers last month. The Punjab police announced the capture of the militant, Tarsem Singh Kuhar, and 20 members of his gang.
The 152 Sri Lankans rescued off Newfoundland by fishing boats Monday each paid up to $5,000 to be smuggled into Canada, Canadian officials said. They reportedly asked to be classified as refugees. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police said the people were Tamils who claimed to be fleeing persecution.
Proposed aid for Nicaraguan rebels survived a test in the Senate. The Senate voted 54 to 46 to kill an amendment that would have eliminated the $100 million the Reagan Administration proposes to give the rebels. The vote, which came after two days of debate on the Administration’s Nicaraguan policy, was the crucial test of Senate sentiment and made eventual passage of the bill a virtual certainty. The measure has already been approved by the House.
A Guatemalan program of rural security patrols is being used as an instrument of Government oppression, Americas Watch, a New York-based human-rights group, charged in a report released today. The patrols, called Self-Defense Civil Patrols, enlist villagers to police the areas near their homes. Most patrols are made up of Indians from Guatemala’s mountains. Patrol leaders are either appointed by the military or chosen by villagers. The use of the groups to intimidate villagers who may oppose the Government or local leaders has been reported since the patrols’ formation in 1982 to counter guerrilla activity. A State Department official said that even though there might be some abuses by patrols, the improved protection of the villages warranted their existence. “The pros outweigh the cons,” said James Cason of the State Department’s Guatemala desk.
Nine Colombian soldiers were killed when leftist guerrillas set off explosives in a commandeered bus-the fourth rebel attack since President Virgilio Barco Vargas took office August 7, the Defense Ministry said. The bus, blocking a road in central Santander province, was blown up when an army patrol reached the scene, eyewitnesses said. The ambush was blamed on the rebel National Liberation Army. It brought to 31 the number of people killed in rebel attacks since Barco was sworn in, pledging to pacify the violence-plagued nation.
A military court in Santiago reversed a civilian judge today and accused an army patrol commander of “unnecessary violence” in the burning death of a Chilean-born United States resident during anti-Government demonstrations. The court rejected the army version that Rodrigo Rojas de Negri, 19 years old, a resident of Washington, and Carmen Quintana Arancibia, 18, were burned when she kicked over a can of gasoline while trying to put up a barricade during protests on July 2.
Britain evacuated 30 of its citizens from the southern Sudan today amid a rebel siege of a provincial capital and a famine threatening thousands of people with starvation. A British Embassy spokesman in Nairobi said the Britons were taken to the Kenyan capital. It was the second evacuation in two months. Other diplomats said small charter aircraft were used for swift landings and takeoffs from the airport in the provincial capital of Juba. The airport has been closed to most air traffic for several weeks because of rebel attacks.
The Angolan Defense Ministry said its forces killed 40 South African troops in turning back two attacks on army installations around the town of Cuito Cuanavale in southern Angola. The ministry said two Angolan soldiers and 23 civilians were killed by South African shelling of the town. South Africa has withheld comment on the reported attack by its troops on Cuito Cuanavale, 185 miles inside southeastern Angola.
President Reagan endorsed a call for Western nations to meet with South Africa to seek to resolve the crisis there. He also said in his televised news conference from Chicago that he strongly opposed economic sanctions against South Africa and that many black leaders there agreed with him. He opened his news conference with a plea for Senate endorsement of his $100 million aid request for Nicaraguan rebels.
South African President P. W. Botha urged white followers tonight to “shed the spirit of defeatism and doubt” about the nation’s future and rally to his tentative program to change racial policies. In a speech in Durban to a rare congress of his ruling National Party — a meeting billed as an effort to consolidate support — Mr. Botha also hinted at an early vote of white opinion, either by referendum or general election, on future power-sharing with the black majority. Mr. Botha gave no details, saying only that a vote could come “sooner than most people expect.” The South African leader, while denouncing what he termed “interference and threats from abroad,” said that negotiations were still possible with the United States, Britain and West Germany, along with South Africa’s neighbors, over certain regional security and economic problems.
A House subcommittee said today that Michael K. Deaver, the former deputy White House chief of staff, lied in sworn testimony this spring, and it asked an independent counsel to investigate the possibility of perjury charges. The Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations voted 17 to 0 to adopt a staff report concluding that Mr. Deaver, who is a close friend of President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, “knowingly and willfully” made false statements in testimony before the panel May 16. The subcommittee was looking into allegations that Mr. Deaver, now a lobbyist, used his former Government service and his friendship with the President to benefit his clients. The court-appointed independent counsel, Whitney North Seymour Jr., is already investigating whether Mr. Deaver’s lobbying activities violated ethics laws that restrict contact between former top officials and the agencies they worked for. Mr. Deaver “may have violated Federal criminal statutes relating to perjury, false statements and obstruction of a Congressional investigation,” the panel said in a cover memorandum.
President Reagan tonight pledged an “unshakeable” commitment to the nation’s farmers and vowed to act on their behalf for as long as he is office. In a nationally broadcast news conference, Mr. Reagan attempted to ease concern in the nation’s Farm Belt that his Administration was insensitive to the financial crisis of farmers, a charge that the Democrats are expected to make in the fall campaign. Mr. Reagan’s remarks came in an opening statement at the news conference at the Hyatt Regency O’Hare. Although Mr. Reagan announced no new initiatives tonight, he touted programs already under way, including his decision to sell four million metric tons of American wheat to the Soviet Union. The President, wrapping up a day of campaigning in Illinois, including a trip to the State Fair in Springfield, said: “The message in all this is very simple. America’s farmers should know that our commitment to helping them is unshakeable. As long as I’m in Washington, their concerns will be heard and acted upon.”
President Reagan participates in a tour of the livestock holding pens at the Illinois State Fair Grounds.
President Reagan participates in the Junior Livestock awards ceremony and presents each Grand Champion with a Blue Ribbon.
President Reagan said tonight that voluntary drug testing, which he is encouraging in the Government and elsewhere in the nation, would not violate the constitutional rights of employees. In a nationally broadcast news conference here, Mr. Reagan said that any White House officials who declined to take the examination would be under no threat of losing their jobs. About 78 senior aides, including Vice President Bush, began tests on Monday.
The space agency said today that it had selected a new rocket design for the space shuttle that would be safe and would also enable the agency to continue to use all of its existing rocket segments. John Thomas, who heads the agency’s rocket redesign team, said that the proposed new rocket design struck “a fairly good balance” between the need to develop a safer rocket and the need to get the shuttle flying again by early 1988, the current schedule. “We have made good progress and I think we’re well on the way to accomplishing a good safe redesign,” Mr. Thomas told a news conference at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. predicted today that the House would approve a proposal this fall for a new mechanism to make Federal spending cuts automatic. “When push comes to shove, the votes are out there” to amend the budget-balancing law, the Speaker told reporters. Since the law’s original mechanism was struck down by the Supreme Court, the Senate has approved a proposal to replace it by giving the final authority to the Administration’s Office of Management and Budget to determine what cuts are to be made. The Senate has sent this proposal to the House as an amendment to the $244 billion increase in the Government’s debt ceiling, which is now $2.079 trillion.
U.S. citizens living abroad evade paying as much as $2 billion a year in federal taxes, according to a report released by a House subcommittee. In addition, the report said, U.S. citizens living at home and businesses dodge additional billions of dollars of tax liability by failing to report income they earn from abroad, such as from interest on deposits in foreign banks or dividends on stocks they own in foreign companies. Of U.S. citizens living abroad, about 60% do not file returns, the House report said.
A Senate appropriations subcommittee voted to curb the activities of the Commission on Civil Rights and ban its hiring of outside consultants. In an amendment to a catchall 1987 appropriations bill, the panel limits the pay for its part-time commissioners and for Chairman Clarence M. Pendleton Jr. and holds each commissioner to one special assistant. In addition, it limits the number of days each member can bill the commission for its work. The commission has come under fire from a wide array of critics who contend it has not carried out its duties.
The House passed legislation to require the safe removal of deadly asbestos that lawmakers say is threatening 15 million children in 30,000 public schools nationwide. To help ease the financial burden on school districts, the legislation, which was sent to the Senate, would create a $100-million federal trust fund to make loans for cleanup costs and establish regulations for inspection procedures. The action is the result of dissatisfaction with the EPA’s current program that requires schools only to inspect for the cancer-causing fiber and alert the public to its presence.
Plans to oppose affirmative action programs around the nation have been dropped by the Justice Department, but it will give tacit approval to unions and individuals who challenge them, William Bradford Reynolds, Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights said. He made the announcement in a panel discussion at the American Bar Association’s annual meeting in Manhattan.
A report on V.A. heart surgery deaths says that more than half of the 134 patients studied had died following “preventable errors.” A hearing on an internal audit of 21 Veterans Administration heart surgery units with higher than normal mortality rates was held by a House panel.
A study by the National Academy of Sciences recommends that the Government ban cigarette smoking on all domestic airline flights, contending that smoke in large jetliners is harmful to health and safety, sources said today. The recommendation is the most controversial part of a broader report on air quality in aircraft cabins to be released Wednesday by the academy’s National Research Council. The study was ordered by Congress for the Federal Aviation Administration.
Striking suburban bus drivers in the Detroit region ratified a new contract today, ending a five-day walkout that had halted service for 40,000 commuters. The final tally among the 113 members of the striking union, Teamsters Local 247, was 58 to 26. The Southeastern Michigan Transportation Authority, operator of the buses, said service was to resume Wednesday morning.
Michigan Bell Telephone Co. employees walked off their jobs after contract talks broke off, bringing to 52,000 the number of phone workers on strike nationwide. Dave Kohler, spokesman for the Communications Workers of America, said 12,600 members left work when an agreement extending the old contract expired. He said pickets at Michigan Bell sites would be set up immediately. Meanwhile, in New York, a strike involving 40,000 workers entered its third day.
A student at New York Technical College in Brooklyn who believed the school owed him $700 shot five people on the campus, killing one man, and two other people were hurt trying to escape, authorities said. The gunman kept police and rescue workers at bay for about an hour before surrendering. A suspect, identified as Van Anthony Hull, 29, a student in the college’s work-study program, was in custody, police said. “He had ammunition and two guns and apparently he knew how to use them,” Chief of Patrol Robert Colangelo said.
Ford Motor Co. said it is recalling about 42,000 1985- and 1986-model Lincoln Continentals and Mark VII luxury cars for possible brake defects. Ford said that parts could stick, causing the brake system supply motor to run on and lead to a partial loss in braking. No accidents or injuries have been reported.
Wind-whipped fires roared across hundreds of thousands of acres of grazing land and forest in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Nevada and Utah after two nights of lightning storms, and houses were threatened in southwestern Idaho. The U.S. Forest Service said it hoped to have as many as 8,000 firefighters and support personnel in several national forests in eastern Oregon alone by today. Governor John V. Evans of Idaho declared a state of emergency and ordered the National Guard to help fire crews. More than 500 fires were reported burning on 535,000 acres of forest and rangelands in the five Western states, according to the national fire command post in Boise, Idaho.
Major League Baseball:
The San Diego Padres nipped the Atlanta Braves, 4–3. Bruce Bochy drove in two runs, and Rich Gossage earned his 20th save for San Diego. Gossage pitched the final two innings for the save, giving him seven consecutive seasons with at least 20 saves, and 277 in his career.
The Toronto Blue Jays shut out the Baltimore Orioles, 3–0. Jesse Barfield took the league lead with his 29th homer and drove in three runs, and Jim Clancy pitched a four-hitter for Toronto. Clancy (13–6) did not walk a batter and struck out five as the Orioles lost for the sixth time in seven games. Barfield hit a two-run homer in the sixth inning off Scott McGregor (8–11) after a one-out single by George Bell.
The Angels beat the Twins, 5–4. Doug DeCinces singled over a five-man infield with the bases loaded in the 12th inning. Minnesota reliever Ron Davis, 2–6, started the 12th by yielding consecutive singles by Wally Joyner and Brian Downing, which put runners at first and third. Davis intentionally walked Reggie Jackson, then was relieved by Roy Lee Jackson.
The Pittsburgh Pirates bowed to the Chicago Cubs, 3–1. Leon Durham hit his 12th homer of the season to break a fifth-inning tie and drove in another run with a bases-loaded single in the sixth. The Cubs beat the last-place Pirates for only the second time in 11 meetings this year. Scott Sanderson (6–9) went seven innings, allowed six hits, walked none and struck out six in recording his first victory since July 18. Lee Smith allowed one hit over the final two innings for his 22d save.
The San Francisco Giants edged the Cincinnati Reds, 2–1. An error by a rookie shortstop, Kurt Stillwell, on Dan Gladden’s bases-loaded grounder let in the tiebreaking run in the sixth. Vida Blue (9–6) pitched the first five innings, giving up four hits and striking out two and walking three.
Steve Carlton, signed by the Chicago White Sox today, lasted only three innings and was the losing pitcher tonight in his American League debut, giving up six runs in the 7–3 loss to the Detroit Tigers. Carlton, 41 years old, a four-time Cy Young Award winner, was signed after clearing waivers. He gave up seven hits, including two home runs. He struck out four — raising his career total to 4,004 — walked two and had one wild pitch. With one out in the Detroit first, Alan Trammell doubled and scored ahead of Mike Heath’s first home run of the season. In the second, Chet Lemon singled and scored on Lou Whitaker’s grounder. Lemon hit a three-run homer in the third with Heath and Darrell Evans on base, his first homer since May 14 and only his fourth of the year.
The Houston Astros blanked the Los Angeles Dodgers, 3–0. Nolan Ryan came off the disabled list and did not allow a hit for five and one-third innings, and Jose Cruz hit a two-run second-inning triple for Houston. Ryan, who has pitched five career no-hitters, gave up the first hit when Steve Sax looped a single to left field with one out in the sixth. Ryan (8–7) also gave up a hit to Bill Madlock in the sixth.
Jorge Orta hit a two-run homer in a three-run sixth inning of the second game as the Royals swept the doubleheader and cut Boston’s lead in the East to three and a half games. Frank White doubled in three runs and Darryl Motley doubled in two on way to the 5–1 victory in the opener. The Royals had five double plays behind Danny Jackson (7–8) and Steve Farr. Boston’s Don Baylor sets an American League record when he is hit by a pitch for the 25th time, breaking the season record he held with Bill Freehan (1968) and Kid Elberfeld (1911). The Royals Bud Black does the plunking. Baylor will end the season being hit 35 times: the Major League record is 50 by Ron Hunt. The start was delayed 1 hour 12 minutes by rain. Manager Dick Howser of the Royals, visited with his players for an hour before the first game. It was the first time Howser was at Royals Stadium since he underwent surgery for a malignant brain tumor July 22. In the second game, Mark Gubicza (6–5) allowed seven hits in seven and two-thirds innings, struck out seven and walked two, as the Royals won again, 6–5. Bud Black and Dan Quisenberry finished, Quisenberry getting his 10th save.
The Montreal Expos walloped the St. Louis Cardinals, 10–3. Bob Sebra pitched his first complete game in the major leagues, and Andre Dawson and Tim Raines drove in four runs each for Montreal. Sebra (2–2) was backed by a 16-hit attack as the Expos snapped a three-game losing streak. Sebra allowed eight hits, struck out six and walked one. Montreal knocked out John Tudor (11–6) during a seven-run second inning.
If he had a chance to keep himself in the Yankees’ starting pitching rotation, Joe Niekro pitched himself out of it last night. Tim Stoddard, on the other hand, pitched himself into the good graces of the manager by restoring some semblance of sanity to a game that threatened to become one of the more forgettable played at Yankee Stadium this season. Niekro, who has pitched ineffectively for two months, lasted only 15 batters. However, Ken Schrom, Cleveland’s 11-game winner, pitched to only 14 batters, and he provided the impetus for the Yankees’ 6–4 victory.
At Oakland, the Mariners stop the A’s in the 9th when Carney Lansford grounds into a triple play, but they don’t stop Mike Davis who hits a walk-off homer in the 10th for a 3–2 A’s win. Mickey Brantley tied the score for the Mariners with his first major-league homer — and second major-league hit — leading off the ninth. Seattle snuffed out the ninth-inning threat with its second triple play of the season. Bruce Bochte walked and took second on Dave Kingman’s bunt single down the third-base line. Domingo Ramos, the third baseman, then caught a line drive by Carney Lansford and threw to the second baseman, Harold Reynolds, to get Bochte, who was running on the play. Reynolds then threw to first to get Kingman, who was also running on the play.
The Mets don’t lose too often these days, and neither does Rick Aguilera. But they both took the tumble tonight, and afterward Manager Dave Johnson said: “I think we’ll survive.” They’ll survive because they have won 75 games and lost only 36, placing them 39 games over the .500 level of achievement, and they hold an 18-game lead over the pack in the National League’s East. They are in fat city and tonight’s 3–1 loss didn’t rattle the dishes. The Phillies got only two hits off Aguilera in six innings and one more off Doug Sisk in the final two. It was the first game Aguilera had lost in three months, and it ended a winning streak of six games that he had fashioned since getting back his job as the No. 5 pitcher on the most successful staff in the big leagues. But he was outpitched by Kevin Gross, who gave up a leadoff home run to Lenny Dykstra but then stopped the Mets on five other hits and struck out 10 batters. And he was undermined by Howard Johnson, his third baseman, who booted a routine grounder in the third inning that helped stake the Phillies to three runs.
At Arlington, Texas, Glenn Braggs homered twice, his second and third of the season, and Robin Yount’s two-run single highlighted a five-run second inning as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Texas Rangers by a score of 7–2.
San Diego Padres 4, Atlanta Braves 3
Toronto Blue Jays 3, Baltimore Orioles 0
Minnesota Twins 4, California Angels 5
Pittsburgh Pirates 1, Chicago Cubs 3
San Francisco Giants 2, Cincinnati Reds 1
Chicago White Sox 3, Detroit Tigers 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 0, Houston Astros 3
Boston Red Sox 1, Kansas City Royals 5
Boston Red Sox 5, Kansas City Royals 6
St. Louis Cardinals 3, Montreal Expos 10
Cleveland Indians 4, New York Yankees 6
Seattle Mariners 2, Oakland Athletics 3
New York Mets 1, Philadelphia Phillies 3
Milwaukee Brewers 7, Texas Rangers 2
Late buying sent stock prices soaring again yesterday, with the Dow Jones industrial average climbing 24.33 points, to 1,835.49. That was its best level of the day and marked a gain of 52.87 points for the first two days of the week. On the New York Stock Exchange, where the turnover rose to 131.7 million shares, from 125.6 million shares on Monday, the 1,500-issue Big Board composite index jumped 1.57 points, to 140.02. Gains there exceeded losses by 1,171 to 484.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1835.49 (+24.33)
Born:
Kyle Arrington, NFL cornerback (NFL Champions, Super Bowl 49-Patriots, 2014; Tampa Bay Buccaneers, New England Patriots, Baltimore Ravens), in Accokeek, Maryland.
Rob Klinkhammer, Canadian NHL left wing and centre (Chicago Blackhawks, Ottawa Senators, Phoenix-Arizona Coyotes, Pittsburgh Penguins, Edmonton Oilers), in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada.
Died:
Howard Jarvis, 83, Californian who helped start the nation’s tax revolt of the late 1970’s.
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