The Soviet Union said today that the head of its nuclear power industry at the time of the Chernobyl accident had been expelled from the Communist Party. The official, Gennadi A. Veretennikov, was one of six who lost their party cards or received reprimands. They were accused of negligence in running the Chernobyl plant. A fire and release of radioactivity in the station’s No. 4 reactor during the night from April 25 to 26 has resulted in about 30 dead and led to the evacuation of more than 100,000 people from an area of about 300 square miles. The latest penalties, announced in Pravda, the party daily, brought to 12 the number of top officials who have been dismissed from their jobs or otherwise penalized. Party reprimands and, all the more, the loss of party membership are serious impediments to Soviet career advancement.
Peter Robinson of Northern Ireland made a rare daylight appearance in the Irish Republic today, being hooted and hollered at as he quickly drove south across the green hills to the courthouse to answer charges of causing trouble in a midnight border raid. “The I.R.A. has killers in this town,” said Mr. Robinson, a Member of Parliament, a leader of the hard-line Democratic Unionist Party of Northern Ireland — and, in the eyes of this republican stronghold, one of the villains of the chronic sectarian strife taking place five miles to the north across the border in Northern Ireland. For miles around, residents of County Louth came to town to catch a glimpse of Mr. Robinson and his party leader and mentor, the Rev. Ian Paisley, the most outspoken leader of Protestants loyal to Britain who offer no quarter to nationalist Roman Catholics in the north. Heavily protected by Irish policemen, the two northern politicians denounced southern justice and demanded to know why Irish Republican Army terrorists were not so easily arrested when they passed on their forays into the north.
Secretary of State George P. Shultz has sent a letter to Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres suggesting wide-ranging reform of Israel’s economy, an Israeli Cabinet minister said. “(Shultz) said that stopping inflation was only a first step… and that what is needed now is a structural change in the economy,” Moshe Arens, minister without portfolio, told state television. The television, quoting from the letter, said Shultz recommended that Israel cut taxes, expand capital markets and sell government-owned firms.
The police today prevented about 30 militant Israeli Jews from illegally praying on the Temple Mount, a site sacred to Muslims and Jews. The militants, members of a group called the Temple Mount Faithful, prayed instead outside the walls of the broad esplanade that includes two of Islam’s holiest shrines, Al Aksa and Dome of the Rock mosques. The prayer marked the annual Jewish fast day of Tisha b’Av, commemorating the biblical Temple’s destruction. Under an agreement between the Israeli police and Moslem religious officials, anyone can enter the mount area but only Muslims can pray there.
A car laden with what the police estimated was 280 pounds of explosives blew up on a crowded street in the predominantly Christian sector of the Lebanese capital of Beirut today. The authorities said 20 people were killed and 100 wounded. A huge cloud of black smoke covered the entire quarter of Al Dora on the northeastern outskirts of the city as fires raged out of control. A large number of passing and parked cars were set ablaze. The Christian radio station Voice of Lebanon said the dead included seven people, one of them a 5-year-old, who were incinerated in two passing cars. Rescue workers wearing gas masks dug under the rubble looking for survivors. Women and children trapped in the upper stories of shattered buildings screamed for help. The police said the blast damaged as many as 50 apartments. They said the bomb was composed of TNT and incendiary material. Armed militiamen cordoned off the area and fired in the air to clear the way for ambulances and firemen.
As the casualty toll mounted, local radio stations broadcast appeals for blood donations. Doctors in a nearby hospital said they did not have enough beds to accommodate the wounded. It was the second major car-bomb attack in the Christian part of the Beirut area in less than three weeks, in addition to three smaller explosions. During the same period, two especially devastating car-bombings also took place in West Beirut, the Muslim sector of the capital. In all, about 100 people have died in the blasts and more than 400 have been wounded, the overwhelming majority of them Lebanese civilians. While rival Muslim and Christian factions blamed each other for the violence, ordinary Lebanese were thrown once again into a state of shock, fear and uncertainty. Radio Free Lebanon, the station of the Christian militia known as the Lebanese Forces, today repeated its assertions that Syrian intelligence agents were behind the spate of bomb attacks. The object, it said, was to destabilize East Beirut.
Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said his country cannot help free hostages in Lebanon, including American and French nationals. He told a Geneva news conference that despite ideological links with the pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad (Islamic Holy War) faction in Lebanon, Tehran has no influence over “political actions,” such as taking hostages. “These hostages in Lebanon have nothing to do with Iran, and trying to create a linkage between these two is sort of a psychological and propaganda warfare,” Velayati said.
Sixteen crewmen on the Iranian-owned supertanker Azarpad were killed in the Iraqi raid Tuesday on Iran’s key Persian Gulf oil terminal at Sirri Island, survivors from the vessel said today. The death toll, reported as first survivors were brought to hospitals in the United Arab Emirates, was the highest in a single strike on shipping in the six-year-old war Iran-Iraq war.
The Pakistani authorities arrested and jailed the opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today, as street protesters stepped up a campaign against the Government of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. On the most turbulent day of political protest since 1983, at least four people were killed in clashes with the police in Lahore, and several hundred were reported wounded here and in Karachi, Larkana and Peshawar. The police in Lahore and Karachi used tear gas, clubs and some gunfire to break up large groups of demonstrators, who were defying a Government prohibition on public meetings imposed earlier this week. Protesters in Lahore shouted, “Death to Zia!” and “Zia is a Dog!” Others screamed, “Death to the Americans,” apparently because of the Reagan Administration’s support for the Government. In Washington, the State Department criticized the crackdown, saying, “We regret the numerous arrests, including that of Benazir Bhutto, and the limitations placed on freedom of movement.” Miss Bhutto, the 33-year-old head of the Pakistan People’s Party, was arrested tonight after addressing several thousand people at a rally in the port city of Karachi. The Government said she would be held for one month.
Vietnam has released a U.S. veteran who set sail from the Philippines 16 months ago in an attempt to bring out a Vietnamese woman, the White House announced. It said the Vietnam War veteran, 44-year-old Robert Schwab 3d of Atlanta, had arrived in Bangkok, Thailand, to undergo medical tests. The White House said that details about the Vietnamese woman were “a private matter.”
The Reagan Administration said that its bargain-rate sugar sale to China will not disrupt world markets or the security relationship with Australia — a sugar-producing U.S. ally already angered by American farm subsidies. White House spokesman Larry Speakes said China gave assurances that its purchase of 145,850 metric tons of sugar would not interfere with its acquisitions from other nations.
An American photographer died of severe altitude sickness during a Sino-American expedition on the upper reaches of the Yangtze River. David Shippee, 29, of Boise, Idaho, died August 3 and was buried beside the Tuotuo River, a tributary of the Yangtze. Shippee, a staff photographer on leave from the Idaho Statesman newspaper, had been hired to document the trip from the Yangtze’s source down the river 2,000 miles to Yibin in Sichuan province. He first became ill at an altitude of 14,000 feet. Death was attributed to altitude sickness complicated by fluid in the lungs.
Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile asserted today that the military had uncovered a plot by supporters of Ferdinand E. Marcos to kidnap President Corazon C. Aquino and restore the former President to power. Speaking before a group of businessmen’s wives, Mr. Enrile said the plot called for the seizure of the presidential palace, communications centers and nine military camps. Under the plan, 44 civilian and military leaders, including Vice President Salvador H. Laurel, General Fidel V. Ramos, the armed forces chief, and Mr. Enrile would be abducted by commandos in “an early morning blitz or lightning assault,” he said.
As he concluded his visit here, President Miguel de la Madrid of Mexico offered and received his first criticism today in what has been an unusually harmonious three-day encounter with United States officials. Addressing reporters and guests at a luncheon sponsored by the National Press Club, the Mexican President called for greater protection for the rights of migrant workers in this country, and cautioned the United States to “avoid taking unilateral decisions on problems of common interest that consequently affect both sides of the border.” While the issue has been played down in official meetings here, Mr. de la Madrid also took the opportunity to reiterate his country’s differences with the United States over policy in Central America. “Violence will not take care of the problems,” he said. “Violence in Central America also implies the risk that there will be political agitation in the rest of Latin America to the detriment of relations between the United States and the countries of Latin America.”
An agent of the United States Drug Enforcement Administration working in Guadalajara, Mexico, was abducted by the police, detained overnight, interrogated and tortured by officers before being released today, Federal officials said. “Our information is very limited at this point,” John C. Lawn, head of the drug agency, said this evening. But Mr. Lawn said the agent, Victor Cortez, a native of Arizona, “was detained by Jalisco State Police officers Wednesday.” A senior American official said Mr. Cortez was “tortured — severely beaten and worse.” Another official said, “They used a cattle prod and more.”
Five Central American nations agreed to establish a commission to work out details for a regional parliament, underscoring their decision to take charge of the area’s conflicts, one leader said. Vice presidents, foreign ministers and legislators from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras met in Guatemala City to discuss formation of the regional forum, a move that has languished since its proposal in January.
A Honduran air force C-130 transport plane carrying about 50 Honduran military men and some family members crashed in a remote region northeast of Tegucigalpa, the government radio station reported. Quoting air force sources, it said there were no known survivors. U.S. Embassy spokesman Arthur Skop said the four-engine turboprop belonged to the Honduran air force and was part of the U.S. military assistance program. “It was not a U.S. plane,” he said.
President Reagan meets with a group of Bolivian Cabinet Ministers.
A former member of Chile’s ruling junta and 39 other people, most of them military figures, were indicted on charges that they belonged to a death squad responsible for dozens of disappearances a decade ago. The victims are presumed dead. Judge Carlos Cerda Fernandez, investigating the case of 13 Communist Party leaders who vanished in Santiago in 1976, indicted and ordered the arrests of the 40, including retired air force General Gustavo Leigh, a member of the four-man junta that seized power in 1973. The others named were 17 air force members, 14 policemen and eight civilians.
Angola said today that South African forces had lost 95 men in two days in an attempt to capture the Angolan town of Cuito Canaval, 156 miles north of the Namibian border. South Africa has made no direct comment on the charges of a raid into Angolan territory. The National Union for the Total Independence of Angola, a rebel group fighting Angola’s Marxist Government, says its forces, rather than South Africans, are doing the fighting.
The Rev. Allan Boesak, an outspoken South African opponent of apartheid and president of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches, criticized the Reagan Administration here today for what he called its “immoral stance on apartheid.” Because of that position, he told a convention of black journalists, it will “make no difference to the South African people at all” whether Mr. Reagan names a black or a white to be the next United States Ambassador to South Africa. Mr. Reagan is reported to have been considering appointing a black to the Pretoria post.
The Senate moved toward a confrontation with the White House today as it prepared to adopt legislation that would impose stringent economic sanctions on South Africa. In a test vote on Wednesday, the Republican-controlled chamber voted 89 to 11 in favor of a bill that would ban all new investment in South Africa as a way of exerting pressure on Pretoria to abandon its racial system of apartheid. After debating the issue throughout the day, the Senate recessed late this evening. Today Larry Speakes, the White House spokesman, was asked what message Mr. Reagan would send to the Senate on the sanctions issue. The answer, he said, was, “Don’t.” The President, Mr. Speakes added, “feels strongly about sanctions” and continues to oppose them.
President Reagan will give the go-ahead Saturday for the space agency to construct a replacement shuttle orbiter, Administration officials said today. The orbiter would be financed through a plan that includes some changes in the American space program, the officials said. The long-awaited decision by Mr. Reagan ends months of Administration consideration of the future of the nation’s space program since the shuttle Challenger was destroyed January 28, killing the seven astronauts aboard. The Administration officials said a new shuttle would take about seven years to construct. The financing of a new shuttle had emerged as a key concern after Mr. Reagan agreed in principle to built a replacement two months ago. Administration officials said the money for a fourth orbiter and for improvements recommended by a Presidential commission on the three existing shuttles would come from a combination of sources. The cost of a new shuttle has been estimated at $2 billion to $3 billion and the corrective improvements at $526 million.
The Senate Judiciary Committee voted today to recommend confirmation of President Reagan’s nomination of William H. Rehnquist to become Chief Justice of the United States and of Judge Antonin Scalia to succeed him as an Associate Justice. The vote in favor of Justice Rehnquist was 13 to 5, with all the negative votes cast by Democrats. The panel voted unanimously in favor of confirming Mr. Scalia, now a Federal appeals court judge. Each Democrat who voted against Justice Rehnquist expressed his opposition in somewhat different terms, ranging from doubts about the Justice’s candor and judicial ethics to disapproval of his record on civil rights.
President Reagan speaks with Elinor G. Constable, Senior Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs.
The nation’s governors would not be allowed to block their states’ National Guard units from participating in Central American training exercises under a proposal added by the House to the pending $286-billion defense authorization bill on a 261–159 vote. A final vote on the bill is expected today. Stung by several provisions aimed at blocking weapons development or testing, the White House condemned the measure and repeated an earlier veto threat unless it is significantly altered by legislative conferees who will meet next month to reconcile the bill with a competing Senate version.
The Senate passed and sent to President Reagan for his signature legislation banning the importation and manufacture of “cop-killer bullets,” which can penetrate bullet-resistant vests worn by police officers. But the bill exempts those armor-piercing bullets made for rifles and legitimate sporting purposes. Passed by voice vote, the measure defines the banned ammunition as bullets made of iron, beryllium copper or depleted uranium. Standard bullets are made of lead.
The Pentagon inspector general’s office will investigate charges that top Navy officials pressured Raytheon Co. to punish an executive who openly criticized defense spending, it was disclosed. The official, Lawrence Korb, until 1985 an assistant defense secretary, will resign from his post September 1 at Raytheon, the nation’s ninth largest defense contractor. Raytheon reassigned Korb from his job as vice president for corporate operations to a post as special adviser, shortly after Korb suggested that the Defense Department should settle for a budget lower than that proposed by President Reagan.
A new congressional study found that ocean incineration of hazardous waste could be an interim way to deal with some poisons, and may sometimes be safer, cheaper and more usable than land-based burning. Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment said at-sea incineration may be the best way to deal with highly chlorinated chemicals, such as PCBs. “Ocean incineration could be a useful option today, but it is clearly not a panacea,” the report said.
The nationwide peace march arrived in Chicago, where the demonstrators were welcomed by Mayor Harold Washington to “the largest nuclear-free zone city in the world.” About 250 marchers, who are urging worldwide nuclear disarmament with their cross-country walk, were joined by several hundred others and walked through the downtown Loop, carrying signs that read “Bread Not Bombs” and “Star Wars-$1 trillion? No Way!” The 600 marchers — only about 250 walk at any one time — began their trek in Los Angeles on March 1, and plan to finish in Washington.
The Navy, almost a year after the policy change was announced, said it had begun limiting ship deployments to six months. The aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and nine escorts will depart their East Coast home ports next Monday bound for the Mediterranean, where they will relieve the carrier USS America (CV-66) and 10 escorts. That would ensure that the America battle group can return home by September 10, the Navy said.
New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo, citing a UCLA study that said seat belts provide substantial protection to school bus passengers, approved a law requiring that large school buses be equipped with seat belts, making New York the first state to enact such a measure. Seat belts will be mandatory in all school buses manufactured for use in the state after July 1, 1987. Additional padding on seat backs and seat tops also will be required, but it will be up to school boards around the state to decide whether the belts must be used.
The Environmental Protection Agency today set a safety standard for radioactive radon gas in residences and estimated that as many as eight million homes in the United States may exceed it. Federal officials said people in such homes should not permit smoking indoors. The home safety standard was the first set by the agency for the colorless, odorless gas that comes from radioactive decay of uranium. Prolonged exposure to the gas can cause lung cancer, and the agency urged homeowners to take steps to reduce the amount of radon in their homes if it exceeded the new standard.
A 13-year-old Tustin, California girl who fought with her parents over their drug use finally turned them in to the police, along with a trash bag filled with pills, marijuana and cocaine she found at home, the police said today. “She decided she was going to have to do something, and she did,” said Police Chief Charles Thayer. “I heard she was a little misty eyed, a little reluctant to do this to her parents, but she had nowhere else to go.” The girl’s parents, Bobby Dale Young, 49, a bartender, and Judith Ann Young, 37, a United States Bankruptcy Court clerk, were charged today with one count each of cocaine possession, according to the Orange County Deputy District Attorney, Jim Mulgrew. Both were released on their own recognizance. Their daughter, Deanna, was taken to Orangewood Children’s Home, a county shelter for abused and abandoned children, the police said.
Major forest fires are plaguing the Northwest. An uncontrolled blaze in Idaho was one of hundreds that were started Sunday night by a dry lightning storm that swept through the high country of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Montana. Throughout the Northwest, officials said, more than 350,000 acres of range and forest land have been burned.
When the 1,200 West Point plebes arrive next week from summer training to begin classroom work, they will find personal computers on their desks, part of a technological revolution sweeping the military academies. As the computers are phased in for freshmen cadets over the next four years, all students will be expected to use them to solve engineering problems and write essays, to learn their class ranking, to make appointments with professors or to be summoned to the commandant’s office, and probably to communicate with one another. West Point’s academic dean, Brig. Gen. Roy K. Flint, said that access to the Z248’s, as the model is known, “will change the whole concept of teaching” at the Academy, while enabling it to send graduates into Army orderly rooms “unencumbered by ignorance of the computer.” Computers are also being issued to plebes at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, to freshmen at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs and to military personnel at sites throughout the world. About 100,000 personal computers have been purchased from the Zenith Data Systems Corporation.
It was a grand old retirement ceremony as the “Grand Old Lady” stood on the deck of “Old Ironsides” to accept her country’s plaudits for 43 years of Navy service. “I regret leaving active duty,” Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, 79, the nation’s oldest active military officer and the co-inventor of the widely used computer language COBOL, told a gathering on the 189-year-old Constitution in Boston. “Do you realize I’m the last of the World War II WAVES to leave active duty?” Retirement age for military officers is 62, but Hopper, who is nicknamed “the Grand Old Lady of Software” and “Amazing Grace,” had been given approval by Congress for yearly extensions. “She’s challenged at every turn the dictates of mindless bureaucracy,” Navy Secretary John F. Lehman Jr. said as he awarded her the Defense Department’s highest honor, the Distinguished Service Medal, for exceptional meritorious service.
Doubleday & Company, the publishing house that also owns the New York Mets, appears to be for sale, publishing sources said yesterday. Financial data about its operations are being circulated, Wall Street sources said, to a small group that includes Time Inc.; Bertelsmann, the German publisher; Gulf and Western Inc., which owns Simon & Schuster, and the Newhouse family, which owns Random House. It was not clear whether the Mets would be included in any sale. For its part, Doubleday denied it was for sale. John O’Donnell, the company’s vice chairman, said the company “was not soliciting anyone’s interest in buying Doubleday & Company either in whole or in part and we do not wish to hear from anyone about such an interest.”
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At County Stadium, Ken Griffey belts an 8th inning grand slam, off Craig Lefferts, as the Braves snap a 3–3 tie and win, 7–3, over the Padres. Atlanta’s first two batters in the eighth were retired before Billy Sample doubled. After Ken Oberkfell walked, Gene Walter (2–2) was replaced by Craig Lefferts, who walked Dale Murphy, loading the bases. Griffey then sent a drive over the center-field fence for his fourth career grand slam.
Against the Giants, Reds player-manager Pete Rose is 3-for-4 as the Reds win, 2–0. John Denny pitched a three-hitter and rapped a run-scoring single. Pete Rose had three singles as the Reds gained a split of their four-game series with the Giants.
The Baltimore Orioles walloped the Cleveland Indians, 12–2. Larry Sheets, Juan Beniquez and Lee Lacy cracked run-scoring doubles in a six-run second inning, keying a 17-hit attack. Storm Davis (9–9) gave up nine hits, striking out five and walking none in pitching his second complete game of the season. He lost his shutout when Cory Snyder led off the second with his 14th homer. Sheets added a two-run homer, his 16th homer of the year, in the eighth, and Eddie Murray had two RBIs.
The Chicago White Sox downed the Detroit Tigers, 8–2. Ron Hassey’s two-run double capped a four-run first inning for Chicago. Jose DeLeon won his third game in four decisions with relief from Bob Thigpen and Ray Searage. DeLeon struck out seven and allowed four hits in five and one-third innings. Thigpen walked five batters in his two and one-third innings, loading the bases with two out on walks in the eighth, bringing in Searage. He got Kirk Gibson to hit into a force-out and pitched the ninth to close the game. Frank Tanana (9–6) was the losing pitcher, giving up five runs on eight hits in one and one-third innings.
The Los Angeles Dodgers bowed to the Houston Astros, 3–2. Glenn Davis capped a three-run eighth inning with a run-scoring single that gave Houston the victory over Fernando Valenzuela and extended its lead in the West to five games. Valenzuela (15–8) took a two-hit shutout into the eighth, but Dickie Thon led off with a single and Bill Doran singled one out later. Billy Hatcher followed with another single, making it 2–1 and sending Doran to third. Phil Garner tied the score with a groundout before Davis’s single to center knocked in Hatcher.
Tony Armas knocked in four runs, three of them in the third inning on his seventh home run of the year, and Don Baylor singled in the go-ahead run as the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals, 11–6, tonight. The Red Sox, who also got homers from Rich Gedman and Dwight Evans, increased their lead in the American League East to four games over the Yankees, who were idle. Al Nipper (8–7) won and Calvin Schiraldi got his fifth save. With the score tied at 6–6, Wade Boggs led off the sixth with a triple against Bud Black (4–7). After Marty Barrett and Jim Rice grounded out to third, Baylor singled to score Boggs.
The Montreal Expos edged the Chicago Cubs, 5–4. Tom Nieto hit his first home run of the season with two out in the 10th. Nieto fouled off several 3–2 pitches from Ron Davis (0–1) before connecting over the left-field wall. Davis, who took over to start the ninth, was making his first appearance since being acquired from Minnesota in a trade this week.
In his rookie season, Kevin Mitchell has had no easy time while playing for a Met team that is coasting to a division title. Mitchell had to win his way onto the roster in spring training and then had to play six different positions in the field and bat in nine positions in the lineup before Manager Dave Johnson found a permanent spot for him as the left fielder. His emergence led in part to the release of George Foster last week. But right after winning the spot, Mitchell went into an 0-for-18 batting slump that required a call for the help of Bill Robinson, the batting coach. The help paid off last night as the Mets defeated the St. Louis Cardinals, 4–3, in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium before dropping a 5–1 decision in the second game. After giving his team the lead in the seventh inning of the opener, the 24-year-old Mitchell gave the Mets the game in the bottom of the ninth. With the Mets trailing, 2–1, in the seventh, Mitchell, who had struck out twice, blasted his 10th homer of the season, scoring Mookie Wilson from second base. After Jesse Orosco failed to hold the lead in the ninth inning and the Cardinals tied it, 3–3, Mitchell came up again with Wilson on second and two out. This time, Mitchell drove a sharp single to right-center that provided the Mets with the comeback victory.
The Philadelphia Phillies nipped the Pittsburgh Pirates, 8–7. Von Hayes led off the bottom of the ninth with a home run after Gary Redus had tied the game in the eighth with his second homer of the game. Hayes, who was 3-for-3 in the game, hit a 3–2 pitch off Barry Jones (1–2) over the right-center-field fence.
Mickey Hatcher had three hits and five runs batted in as the Minnesota Twins, scoring a total of 11 runs in the third and fourth innings, massacred the Seattle Mariners, 14–1. Mark Portugal, 3–8, scattered seven hits for his first complete-game victory of the season. Mark Langston, 9–10, was the loser. Minnesota, which had 15 hits, scored four runs in the third inning, with Hatcher knocking in two with a double. The rally was extended by two Seattle errors, one each by second baseman Harold Reynolds and shortstop Spike Owen. The Twins added a season-high sevens runs in the fourth inning.Greg Gagne singled home the first run and Hatcher later hit a two-run single.
The Texas Rangers spanked the Milwaukee Brewers, 8–2. Ruben Sierra hit a three-run homer as Texas jolted Ted Higuera, a 15-game winner, for five runs in the second inning. The loss snapped Higuera’s personal five-game winning streak and left the left-hander with a 15–8 record. The victory moved the second-place Rangers to one and one-half games behind idle California in the American League West. Mike Loynd, a Ranger rookie right-hander, earned his second victory without a loss. He allowed five hits in seven innings. Dale Mohorcic pitched the eighth inning to tie an American League record for consecutive appearances by a relief pitcher. He matched the mark set by Bennett Flowers of Boston in 1953.
San Diego Padres 3, Atlanta Braves 7
San Francisco Giants 0, Cincinnati Reds 2
Baltimore Orioles 12, Cleveland Indians 2
Chicago White Sox 8, Detroit Tigers 2
Los Angeles Dodgers 2, Houston Astros 3
Boston Red Sox 11, Kansas City Royals 6
Chicago Cubs 4, Montreal Expos 5
St. Louis Cardinals 3, New York Mets 4
St. Louis Cardinals 5, New York Mets 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 7, Philadelphia Phillies 8
Minnesota Twins 14, Seattle Mariners 1
Milwaukee Brewers 2, Texas Rangers 8
The stock market ended higher again yesterday as it continued to be buoyed by the prospects of further interest rate cuts. Although the Dow Jones industrial average rose only 0.42, to 1,844.91, advances again ran well ahead of declines, this time by 1,030 to 554. Gene Jay Seagle, director of technical research at Gruntal & Company Inc., pointed out that the stock market rally that began hesitantly in early August at 1,763 on the Dow average has persisted and widened. “The Dow easily carried past the 1,830 level, where a correction had been anticipated,” Mr. Seagle said.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1844.91 (+0.42)
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Terin Humphrey, American gymnast (Olympics, silver medal, uneven bars, 2004), in Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Keiland Williams, NFL running back (Washington Redskins, Detroit Lions), in Lafayette, Louisiana.
Young Deuces [Rudy Strong], American hip-hop artist, and rapper (Streetz-n-Young Deuce; Son Of A Soldier), in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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