Administration officials said today that Soviet interest in the Moscow arms talks this week focused on the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty, which may have to be modified as part of a package calling for reductions in nuclear offensive weapons and allowing some work on future defensive systems. Administration officials said the Soviet Union, while stressing the need for preserving the ABM pact, had paid less attention to limiting medium-range and strategic, or intercontinental-range, nuclear weapons. A State Department spokesman said the two days of discussions had been “serious, substantive and businesslike.” White House officials gave a similar assessment, Limitations on all three types of arms — strategic and medium-range offensive weapons and new defensive systems — have figured in discussions between the United States and the Soviet Union. Officials said the Moscow talks had produced no breakthroughs and the Soviet Union had made no counteroffer to the latest American proposals, contained in a July 25 letter from President Reagan to Mikhail S. Gorbachev. They described the talks as basically free of polemics, and said there would be a follow-up meeting in Washington, probably in early September. The State Department spokesman, Charles E. Redman, in assessing the talks, said: “Each side was able to hear the other out in detail and to express its own views. Ideas were explored and there was a good exchange.”
Paul H. Nitze, who led the seven-member American delegation, met today separately with Secretary of State George P. Shultz and with Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger. The White House said Mr. Nitze would brief President Reagan later this week. The arms-control discussions and other Soviet-American meetings are part of an effort to narrow differences in preparation for talks in mid-September between Mr. Shultz and the Soviet Foreign Minister, Eduard A. Shevardnadze, and ultimately for a possible summit meeting this year. The Soviet Union, in concentrating on the ABM treaty in the 13 hours of talks in Moscow on Monday and Tuesday, was said to have raised questions about how the pact should be interpreted and strengthened and how limits on defensive systems were needed to achieve cuts in strategic arms. The treaty prohibits the deployment of new defensive systems and, in the last round of regular arms talks in Geneva, the Russians sought to forestall American development of a new space-based missile defense system by suggesting that the two sides commit themselves to adhere to the treaty for at least 15 more years as part of a larger agreement.
The United States and the Soviet Union are trying to limit a proposed international convention that would require countries to report fully on any release of radioactivity, according to officials here. More than 60 countries, stirred to action by Soviet failure to provide immediate information about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster when it occurred during the night of April 25-26, have gathered here to negotiate the new convention. The officials said the American and Soviet delegates were trying to exclude from the reporting requirement any radioactive pollution caused by nuclear tests or by an accident involving a nuclear weapon.
The House today dealt the Reagan Administration new setbacks on arms control, voting for a one-year moratorium on testing of the antisatellite missile in space and narrowly approving a one-year delay in the production of new chemical weapons. On Tuesday night the House approved a cut in the President’s program for a space-oriented defense against missiles and passed a measure requiring adherence to the terms of the unratified strategic arms treaty of 1979. Last Friday, it voted a one-year moratorium on all but the smallest underground nuclear tests. The vote today on the moratorium on tests of the antisatellite missile was 222 to 197. The vote on nerve gas was 210 to 209.
The leaders of a divided Germany today marked the 25th anniversary of the wall that sunders Berlin, on this side proclaiming the barrier a bold triumph and in the West declaring it a cause for shame and mourning. Perched on a reviewing stand overlooking the sweep of Karl Marx Allee, Erich Honecker, leader of the East German Communist Party, told a thinnish crowd and massed troops with rifles that the wall “saved peace for our people and for the other peoples of Europe.” Less than two miles away, at a somber ceremony in the former Reichstag building, which lies hard by the graffiti-daubed western side of the wall, Chancellor Helmut Kohl condemned the 13-foot-high barrier as “perhaps the most visible expression of the moral difference between a free democracy and totalitarian Communism.” The parallel ceremonies were almost a metaphor for what the wall has come to represent over a quarter of a century — a psychic barrier between West and East, attacked by one side as a device to imprison, justified by the other as a means of protection. “It was a historic deed that preserved the liberty of our people and laid the foundations for the sustained prosperity of our socialist state,” said Mr. Honecker, who in August 1961 was the Politburo member charged with stopping the flow of East Germans fleeing to West Berlin.
Pope John Paul II today joined in the commemoration of those who died trying to cross the Berlin wall and called for the reconciliation of all peoples. Addressing a group of West Germans at his regular general audience, the Pope said Roman Catholics in West Berlin were marking the 25th anniversary of the wall’s construction today with a liturgical service for reconciliation. “Let us pray together with these our brothers and sisters, above all for the victims, and also for all the persons and families that have directly suffered from it,” he said to a crowd of several thousand people in the Pope Paul VI Audience Hall at the Vatican.
The Defense Department has released $67 million to help develop Israel’s Lavi fighter-bomber, but Israel had to agree to consider alternatives to the controversial aircraft, a Pentagon spokesman said. Major Larry Icenogle said Israel has agreed to consider other ideas, including the purchase of U.S.-built warplanes or the use of more private American technology in developing the plane. The Lavi, whose name means lion in Hebrew, is a single-seat, single-engine aircraft designed to replace Israel’s aging Kfirs and U.S.-made A-4 Skyhawks.
The 10-member Israeli inner cabinet approved a draft agreement with Egypt tonight for international arbitration of the border dispute over the Taba beach resort, Prime Minister Shimon Peres announced in Jerusalem. Mr. Peres, speaking at a news conference, predicted that all would be ready for formal signature in two weeks. [ In Cairo, an Egyptian Foreign Ministry official predicted that it would take some time before the agreement was signed, The Associated Press reported. ] The two sides have yet to agree on the selection of three arbitrators from a list of 30 names submitted by Richard W. Murphy, a United States Assistant Secretary o State.
A bomb exploded in Christian east Beirut commercial district today, and police said at least seven people were killed and 20 wounded. Police said that a sedan packed with 220 pounds of explosives blew up at a coffee shop about 100 yards from St. Joseph Hospital in the Dora neighborhood. Christian-controlled radio stations said the powerful explosion set several shops on fire. There was no immediate claim of responsibility. The explosion came as rival Christian militia factions were reported locked in renewed street battles in three other east Beirut districts.
A delegation of Arab-Americans seeking the release of Americans held by Muslim terrorists in Lebanon failed to contact the hostages’ captors due to “the difficult circumstances still prevailing in Lebanon,” the group’s leader said in Damascus, Syria. Archbishop Philip Saliba of the Antiochan Orthodox Church of North America said the delegation arrived in Damascus last week and met with Syrian President Hafez Assad on Tuesday. Three Americans are believed held by Muslim fundamentalists, who have reported killing a fourth. As a condition for the hostages’ release, the terrorists have demanded the release of 17 comrades jailed in Kuwait.
Iran said it bombed an oilfield in northern Iraq today. The report came a day after Iran fired a long-range missile into Baghdad, the Iraqi capital, and Iraqi jets retaliated by attacking an Iranian oil-export terminal at Sirri in the Persian Gulf. The official Iranian press agency said today that Iranian jets struck oil installations two miles northeast of the Iraqi town of Kirkuk, hitting a computer control center.
Hundreds of political dissidents, including the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, were arrested or forced to restrict their movements today in the widest crackdown on Government critics since martial law was lifted last year. The arrests, in which prominent politicians were rounded up or confined to their homes here and in Karachi, came as Miss Bhutto and others vowed to defy a Government ban and hold a rally in Lahore on Thursday. The rally was to have marked a new step in the plan to overthrow the Government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. This evening, an opposition spokesman said at a clandestine news conference that leaders not arrested would proceed with the rally, timed for Pakistan’s independence day on Thursday.
Three days after a former army Chief of Staff was assassinated by suspected terrorists, the Indian Government pushed through legislation today that will enable it to take direct control of the battle against Sikh terrorism in northern India. Until now, the anti-terrorist campaign has been conducted by the state governments because, under the Indian Constitution, law enforcement is handled by the states.
Five U.S. Army specialists arrived in Hanoi for another round of talks on the fate of nearly 1,000 U.S. servicemen missing in action in Vietnam. U.S. officials said the Americans will turn over substantial information on the missing to the Vietnamese, who predicted progress in this four-day session and in another round scheduled in October. The two sessions, technical in nature, are expected to focus on the recovery of remains at warplane crash sites. In all, 2,434 Americans are listed as missing in the region, 11 years after the end of the Vietnam War.
Senator Richard G. Lugar, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, announced today that he would return to the Philippines next week, seven months after he served as an observer of elections that led to the ouster of President Ferdinand E. Marcos. Mr. Lugar, an Indiana Republican, said he would travel to the Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Fiji to discuss trade and security issues. “American foreign policy is at a critical juncture in the Pacific,” Mr. Lugar said in a statement.
President Reagan and President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico met today and agreed to seek measures intended to reduce drug trafficking through Mexico and expand trade and investment between their two countries. The meeting of the two Presidents and some of their top aides was intended as much to smooth over recent tensions in United States-Mexican relations as it was to make progress on particular issues, and on this count it appeared to have succeeded. Mr. Reagan, in a brief statement upon Mr. de la Madrid’s departure after more than two hours of meetings at the White House, described their reunion as “one of our most constructive and, I think, fruitful.” Mr. de la Madrid called it “particularly satisfactory.”
The Administration plans to announce details Thursday of a major new program to stop drugs at the Mexican border. The plan will cost $266 million and involve hundreds of additional Federal officers. The plan, to be announced by Vice President Bush, Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d and other Federal officials, will be the first enforcement initiative under President Reagan’s newly declared “national crusade against drugs.” It is intended to staunch the flow of marijuana, cocaine, heroin and amphetamines from Mexico, Federal officials said.
A former police commander has been sentenced to four years in prison for taking a bribe from a reputed drug trafficker accused in the slaying of a United States narcotics agent. Judge Oscar Vazquez Marin in Guadalajara found the former commander, Armando Pavon Reyes, guilty Tuesday of accepting a $300,000 bribe from the reputed drug trafficker, Rafael Caro Quintero, so that Mr. Caro Quintero could flee Guadalajara, according to the Government news agency Notimex. Mr. Pavon Reyes was commander of the Federal Judicial Police in Guadalajara, 320 miles west of Mexico City, when a United States Drug Enforcement Administration agent, Enrique Camarena Salazar, was abducted by gunmen on February 7, 1985.
Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte said that his government has accepted a rebel proposal to hold talks in Mexico City on August 20. Duarte said the meeting between representatives of the U.S.-backed government and the leftist rebels will be private and preliminary but may lead to a third formal meeting similar to two held in 1984. Details of the Mexico City meeting have not been made public, but government officials expressed doubts that Duarte will take part, as he did in the 1984 talks. Those meetings failed to make any progress toward a peace settlement in the long guerrilla war. Roman Catholic Church leaders have been acting as go-betweens in arranging the meetings.
The Senate gave President Reagan a major foreign policy triumph tonight by approving his request for $100 million in aid to the Nicaraguan rebels. The vote was 53 to 47, as 11 Democrats joined 42 Republicans in voting for aid. Republican leaders fought successfully all day to thwart Democratic attempts to amend the aid package, which was attached to a bill appropriating money for military construction. The construction bill was then adopted, 59 to 41. The aid deal approved tonight is identical to the one adopted by the House earlier this summer, and Republican leaders hope that a House-Senate conference on the measure will move swiftly. However, Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., the Speaker of the House and a firm opponent of aid to the rebels, known as contras, has threatened to block a conference on the military construction bill until late September, according to Senator Jim Sasser, a Tennessee Democrat. If Mr. O’Neill succeeds in doing that, the aid package could still be trampled in the rush as lawmakers head home for the November elections.
Angolan troops have killed 187 guerrillas in recent fighting in eastern Angola, the Angolan Defense Ministry said. Government forces also captured two rebels of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, which is backed by South Africa. Angola said earlier that 40 South African troops helping UNITA were killed. UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, said that only Angolan rebels, and not South Africans, were battling Angolan troops.
The Administration moved today to qualify President Reagan’s announced support for an international conference with South Africa, indicating there had been a misunderstanding of President P. W. Botha’s proposal for such a parley. Both the State Department and the White House said an international conference would have to deal with apartheid and not just with regional economic and security issues. Mr. Reagan, speaking in a news conference Tuesday night, said he welcomed what he described as President Botha’s “idea” of a high-level meeting of Western nations with South Africa. The South African President had mentioned such talks in a speech in Durban earlier in the day.
The South African Government offered the country’s black majority its first nationwide elections in 300 years today, but made clear that the vote would be to choose those black leaders prepared to negotiate with the white minority. At the same time, the armed forces warned black-governed African nations that South Africa had “not even started to use our muscle and capabilities” against those of its neighbors, notably Zimbabwe, seeking economic sanctions. The offer of elections and the threat of reprisals were made at an unusual congress in Durban of the governing National Party, the political voice of the 2.8 million-member Afrikaner elite that has ruled the land since 1948.
William H. Rehnquist took too much of a drug because it was “overly prescribed by doctors” to treat a painful back condition, according to Senator Orrin G. Hatch, a member of the Judiciary Committee. Senator Paul Simon said he would vote against Justice Rehnquist today because he questioned the Justice’s veracity in testimony before the panel and opposed his record on civil rights and civil liberties.
The House Budget Committee has began searching for about $10 billion in new budget cuts, its chairman said today. Meanwhile, sponsors of a proposal to provide a new automatic mechanism to cut spending said they would try to force final action on that proposal before the August recess, scheduled to begin at the end of the week. The effort could cause a confrontation between the House and the Senate, possibly delaying the recess. House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., Democrat of Massachusetts, said “if push comes to shove” the House would approve putting the new mechanism in the budget-balancing law. But several Democrats argued that the proposal could be beaten if it came to a vote, especially before the recess, because some key southern Democrats have agreed to oppose it.
The campaign to relax the frequently ignored 55-mph national speed limit has picked up momentum from President Reagan, a longtime foe of federal infringement on states’ rights. After a recent meeting with Reagan, Senator Steven D. Symms (R-Idaho), a strong advocate of relaxing the speed limit, said: “We got more than we expected.” The President, he said, “believes we should return to the pre-1974 law allowing state and local governments to set their own speed limits.” States cannot set limits higher than 55 without risking loss of U.S. highway money.
President Reagan participates in a meeting with Representative LaFalce (D-New York) to discuss the general issue of industrial competitiveness.
Nancy Reagan’s personal maid has been arraigned on charges of helping to illegally export munitions, the White House announced today. The maid, Anita S. Castelo, is on paid administrative leave, the White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, said. He said Mrs. Castelo, who was born in Paraguay 45 years ago and became a citizen of the United States in 1967, had been on the executive residence staff since 1981. Reached by telephone late today at the Castelo home in Takoma Park, Maryland, a Washington suburb, Mrs. Castelo’s husband, Manuel, said: “I cannot say anything, anything at all. On the advice of my attorney, we cannot do anything, except pray.”
Continental Airlines will begin a trial program to discourage smoking on all flights by offering discounts on future travel to passengers who do not smoke during Continental flights, the airline said. Under the program, which Continental will try out for 30 days, beginning August 25, passengers who do not smoke during a flight will receive a coupon good for 10% off Continental advance-purchase fares. The coupon will be good from September 15 through November 15.
The president of the American Bar Association, Eugene Thomas, said advertising by lawyers is here to stay, but the ABA will work to eliminate ads that hustle or deceive the public. Delegates to the ABA’s annual convention in New York, which ended Wednesday, overwhelmingly said they support advertising by lawyers, which was sanctioned by the Supreme Court in 1977. A majority also disagreed with retiring Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, who said in his farewell speech to the ABA that improper advertising has done serious damage to the profession.
The Federal Election Commission fined a campaign committee of Rep. Jack Kemp (R-New York) and a Kemp political action committee $2,750 each, after finding that election law was violated when one group sold copies of Kemp’s book, “The American Idea,” to the other in August, 1984. Documents showed that the campaign committee sold the PAC thousands of copies of the paperback collection of Kemp’s speeches at a total price of $23,366, of which $5,000 — the legal maximum — was treated as a contribution to the PAC. The commission said the PAC took too long to repay the balance — until December, 1985 — so the donation was $18,366 more than the law allowed.
Wyche Fowler Jr. will be the nominee of Georgia Democrats next fall against Senator Mack Mattingly. Representative Fowler, of Atlanta, scored an impressive victory in Tuesday’s primary over Hamilton Jordan, a former assistant to President Jimmy Carter. Mr. Jordan, the former White House aide who had hoped to force Mr. Fowler into a runoff Sept. 2, conceded late today that Mr. Fowler had won the primary outright by gaining slightly more than 50 percent of the ballots cast in the four-man race. Mr. Jordan had about 31 percent of the vote. His concession came after several hours of confusion, with Mr. Jordan holding out in the hope that late returns from two rural Georiga counties, where about 3,000 ballots had yet to be counted because of computer problems, might give him enough votes to force a runoff.
The 1986 drought is not only destroying the row crop farmer of the South, but also the economy built around him. There is a progressive collapse from farmer to seed and fertilizer distributor to cotton gin, grain elevator and town merchant. Across the South, in the areas hardest hit by drought, the historic spirit and economic structure of the region’s agriculture are breaking down. Withered by too many dry seasons, sapped by years of economic losses, depleted by shrunken values for land and equipment and robbed of hope by commodity prices that are lower than production costs, the row crop farmer and the economy built around him have been devastated by the drought of 1986, the worst in a century. From farmer to seed and fertilizer distributor to cotton gin, grain elevator, town merchant and distant factory, there is progressive collapse. Crushed beneath it is the spirit of the Southern family farmer, who now produces a mixed crop of corn, wheat, cotton, peanuts and soybeans.
No charges are to be filed against the sheriff’s marksman who killed the manager of a Beverly Hills jewelry store in the mistaken belief that he was the gunman who had killed two hostages in a robbery attempt, prosecutors say. The prosecutors announced the decision Tuesday, the day after the gunman charged in the case, Steven Livaditis, 22 years old, was ordered to stand trial for the murder of Hugh Skinner, the store manager, and two other hostages. Mr. Livaditis is to be arraigned in Superior Court August 25.
The Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations convened a meeting of city leaders today to discuss a recent series of racial incidents while four religious groups issued a joint statement condemning racial intolerance. The purpose of the meeting of the city’s business, religious and academic leaders was to develop a citywide response to the acts of racial intimidation that have recently erupted in several neighborhoods, city officials said. A statement by clergymen representing Protestants, Roman Catholics and Jews pleaded for cooperation among peoples of different races and creeds.
Fifteen men from Ohio were indicted on federal child pornography charges, the largest number ever under the Child Protection Act of 1984, authorities in Cleveland said. Assistant U.S. Attorney Richard G. Lillie said the indictments, the result of a five-month postal service investigation, allege that the unidentified men used the mails to send or receive videotapes that showed children engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
If Rear Admiral Grace Hopper could have her way, the clock on her office wall would be frozen at one minute to midnight tonight and her date of retirement from the Navy would never come. As they must, the clock’s hands will continue their inexorable sweep -counterclockwise, in keeping with the 79-year-old admiral’s contrary ways. On Thursday she will report to Boston Harbor for a farewell ceremony aboard the U.S.S. Constitution, ending her tenure as the nation’s oldest active duty officer.
A growing majority of Americans supports an outright ban on the portrayal of sexual violence in magazines, movies and videocassettes, according to the Gallup Poll. In the latest survey, conducted July 11 to 14, 73% favor a ban in their communities on the sale or rental of videocassettes displaying sexual violence (up 10 points from a March, 1985, survey), 74% want a ban on theaters that feature movies depicting sexual violence (up 6 points) and 73% want a ban on magazines that show sexual violence (up 3 points).
Severe thunderstorms socked the nation’s midsection, unleashing floods and large hail, while a third day of rain in the drought-stricken Southeast left farmers optimistic about some late-season crops. Up to 7 inches of rain across parts of Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa prompted flood warnings. Hail the size of golf balls pounded the northeast Kansas town of Sabetha, breaking dozens of windows in homes, businesses and cars and damaging roofs.
Fire coordinators sent all but 10 percent of the nation’s Federal forest firefighters into action yesterday against more than 500 fires on 330,000 acres of forest and range in Idaho, Oregon, Montana, Utah and Nevada. The Interagency Fire Center at Boise, Idaho, the national forest fire command post, said 13,500 firefighters and thousands of support personnel from Federal agencies were involved. Officials said only 81 crews were being held in reserve. In Idaho, where 165,000 acres have burned in 100 fires started by lightning since Sunday, Governor John V. Evans has declared a state of extreme emergency. In Oregon, where 105,000 acres have been charred, 175 fires were burning nearly the length of the state.
Longtime use of birth control pills does not increase a woman’s risk of breast cancer even if she has a family history of the disease, the largest study ever conducted on the question has concluded. Earlier studies generally absolved birth control pills of any major role in breast cancer. The latest report is the first to examine the effect oral contraceptives have on smaller groups of women who might be at increased risk of breast cancer.
Fossils discovered in western Texas have been identified as the remains of the world’s oldest known birds, 75 million years older than any found before, and as strong evidence supporting theories that birds evolved from dinosaurs, scientists reported yesterday. Paleontologists said the discovery could lead to major revisions in thinking about the origin of birds, their link to early dinosaurs and their diversity and widespread distribution much earlier than had been thought. At the least, they said, the find was almost certain to knock the 150-million-year-old Archaeopteryx from its perch as the earliest bird. The fossil bones, dug out of 225-million-year-old mudstone, belonged to two birds the size of crows, according to Sankar Chatterjee, a paleontologist at Texas Tech University who led the discovery team. He said he was naming the creature Protoavis, or first bird.
Herschel Walker, the 24-year-old running back who had been the United States Football League’s most celebrated player, agreed to terms today on a five-year contract with the Dallas Cowboys. Financial terms were not disclosed, but Walker will receive $1 million a year, according to a source close to the team. Walker reached a handshake agreement with the Cowboys at dawn after a 22-hour bargaining session between his agent, Peter Johnson, and the team president, Tex Schramm. He will become the highest-paid player in Cowboys’ history and among the highest paid in the National Football League.
Major League Baseball:
The Atlanta Braves edged the San Diego Padres, 8–7. Chris Chambliss, who had not hit a homer since his first time at bat of the season, hit a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth inning off Rich Gossage, capping a four-run rally for the Braves. Gossage (5–5) relieved to start the ninth with the Padres leading by 7–4. The Braves’ Omar Moreno was 5 for 5 with a home run and a double.
The Baltimore Orioles nipped the Toronto Blue Jays, 7–6. Larry Sheets, who struck out in his previous two times at bat, hit a homer with one out in the 13th inning for the winning run. Sheets connected for his 15th home run of the season on a 1–0 pitch from Luis Aquino (0–1) the fifth Toronto pitcher.
Frank Viola hurled a five-hitter for his fourth straight victory and Mark Salas drove in three runs as Minnesota beat California, 6–2. Viola, 13–8, walked two and struck out five. The only hit he allowed through six innings was Dick Schofield’s double in the first.
The Pittsburgh Pirates bowed to the Chicago Cubs 9–8. Shawon Dunston capped an eighth-inning rally with a two-run homer, for Chicago. The Cubs trailed, 8–6, heading into the bottom of the eighth. Dunston lined Robinson’s first pitch into the seats.
The Reds shrug off two homers by Candy Maldonado, one a grand slam, and beat the Giants, 8–6. Kurt Stillwell’s bases-loaded single capped a three-run eighth inning that lifted Cincinnati. The Reds, who trailed by 5–0 after a grand slam by Maldonado in the third inning and by 6–5 after another homer by Maldonado in the top of the eighth, snapped a three-game losing streak. The Giants had won four straight.
The Detroit Tigers bested the Chicago White Sox, 5–2. Chet Lemon, Dwight Lowry and Darnell Coles hit home runs, for the Tigers. Randy O’Neal (2–7) took a six-hit shutout into the ninth inning, but Jerry Hairston led off with a pinch-single and one out later, Harold Baines hit his 18th home run. Willie Hernandez relieved O’Neal and got the final two outs. Four Tiger runs came in the second inning against Joe Cowley (8–7), who had won three straight decisions.
Kevin Bass has a hit and 2 RBIs to extend his hitting streak to 20 games, but Houston falls, 5–3 to the Dodgers. Orel Hershiser (12–8) is the winner, needing relief help for the last out. Hershiser was reached for three runs on three hits and two walks in the ninth before Tom Niedenfuer got his eighth save by striking out a pinch-hitter, Phil Garner, with the tying runs on base.
Jim Rice drove in two runs on three hits tonight as the Boston Red Sox defeated the Kansas City Royals, 5–2, and ended a three-game losing streak. Tom Seaver (6–10) scattered nine hits over seven and two-thirds innings for his 310th career victory. Seaver, who struck out four and walked one, shut out the Royals after the first inning. Calvin Schiraldi finished up for his fourth save.
The St. Louis Cardinals beat the Montreal Expos, 6–2. Danny Cox (7–9) pitched a seven-hitter and John Morris, a rookie, drove in two runs, as St. Louis earned its 17th victory in its last 22 games. Morris had a sacrifice fly in the second inning and a run-producing single in the fifth.
The Yankees unleashed their ancient wizard on Cleveland last night and once again he performed magical feats using only his left arm. Tommy John, who last Friday night pitched seven and two-thirds shutout innings against Kansas City in his return from the disabled list, tossed seven and one-third shutout innings against the Indians last night as the Yankees completed a sweep of the three-game series with a 4–0 decision. The sweep gave the Yankees their first three-game winning streak in three weeks. They won only 6 of 17 games between the streaks.
The Oakland Athletics sunk the Seattle Mariners, 4–1. Bruce Bochte and Mike Davis hit homers to back the combined four-hit pitching of Dave Stewart and Jay Howell for Oakland. Danny Tartabull’s 20th homer of the season, leading off the second inning, gave Seattle a 1–0 lead, but Stewart did not allow another hit until the seventh.
When you’re riding 18 games in front of the field, you can handle the bad news. To wit: The Mets lost their second straight to the Philadelphia Phillies tonight, 8–4, and the Phillies even hit four home runs, which nobody has done against the Mets in three and a half months. Also, Bob Ojeda lost his second straight after going undefeated for two months. And the Mets were muzzled by Bruce Ruffin, a rookie lefthander who has worked in the big leagues less than two months.
The Texas Rangers defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in extra innings, 5–4. Ruben Sierra’s two-out single in the 12th inning scored Don Slaught from third base with the winning run.
San Diego Padres 7, Atlanta Braves 8
Toronto Blue Jays 6, Baltimore Orioles 7
Minnesota Twins 6, California Angels 2
Pittsburgh Pirates 8, Chicago Cubs 9
San Francisco Giants 6, Cincinnati Reds 8
Chicago White Sox 2, Detroit Tigers 5
Los Angeles Dodgers 5, Houston Astros 3
Boston Red Sox 5, Kansas City Royals 2
St. Louis Cardinals 6, Montreal Expos 2
Cleveland Indians 0, New York Yankees 4
Seattle Mariners 1, Oakland Athletics 4
New York Mets 4, Philadelphia Phillies 8
Milwaukee Brewers 4, Texas Rangers 5
The stock market recorded a strong performance yesterday, shrugging off talk of a correction with its third gain of the week. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 9 points yesterday, to 1,844.49, bringing the average up 61.87 points this week. Other averages posted much stronger gains, and advances ran well ahead of declines, by 1,121 to 510. Falling interest rates and general investor confidence over the prospect for equities and the economy were given as explanations for the gains.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1844.49 (+9)
Born:
Demetrious Johnson, American mixed martial artist, in Madisonville, Kentucky.
Died:
Caterina Jarboro, 88, African-American opera singer and the first black female performer to sing on opera stage in the U.S.
Helen Mack, 72, American actress (“Son of Kong”, “Milky Way”), of cancer.
