Five former senior policy makers have suggested to the Reagan Administration a comprehensive strategy that would include an agreement with the Soviet Union to put off testing of space-based weapons for up to 10 years. The former officials, who served in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations, suggested that the United States should follow what is called a “restrictive” interpretation of the 1972 treaty limiting antimissile defenses. They also said the United States should continue to abide by the numerical limits on long-range nuclear weapons in the unratified 1979 treaty on strategic arms. These and other proposals on arms production and arms control were included in a 3,500-word “talking paper” sent to Secretary of State George P. Shultz on August 1 by Harold Brown, who was Defense Secretary under President Carter. An accompanying letter said the document’s “general thrust is endorsed” by Melvin R. Laird, Defense Secretary under President Nixon; James R. Schlesinger, Defense Secretary under Presidents Nixon and Ford and Energy Secretary under Mr. Carter; Brent Scowcroft, national security adviser to Mr. Ford, and Cyrus R. Vance, Secretary of State under Mr. Carter.
The effort to seal the damaged Chernobyl nuclear reactor in a concrete tomb has been complicated by serious design difficulties and by inadequate supplies of concrete, according to Western diplomats and Soviet news reports. The key problem, according to these reports, is how to build a structure that will effectively enclose the still-warm reactor but not trap so much heat that a new fire or explosion could occur at the reactor, which was damaged in the early-morning hours of April 26 in the world’s worst commercial nuclear accident. “They’re attempting something that’s never been done before,” one Western diplomat said of the effort. “The biggest problem is going to be venting the heat. They’ve got to monitor the temperature and keep it under control so it doesn’t overheat.”
The Soviet Union’s Pacific Fleet has been engaged in the last week in one of the largest exercises it has conducted in recent years, United States Navy officials said. “After observing the buildup of the Soviet Pacific Fleet over the past few years, now the largest of their four fleets, we were expecting them to go to work to build their proficiency,” said Admiral James A. Lyons Jr., commander of the United States Pacific Fleet, in a statement made public by the Pentagon on Thursday. United States ships and aircraft are monitoring the Soviet maneuvers.
The Soviet Union is developing new biological weapons despite treaties prohibiting them and testing the devices in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, Douglas J. Feith, deputy assistant secretary of defense for negotiations policy, said. Feith made the charge in a report to the House Intelligence Committee. “Evidence of many types and from a variety of sources has established that the Soviets and their clients have… used mycotoxin weapons banned by the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention of 1972,” the document said.
Youths threw stones and gasoline bombs at the police in clashes across Northern Ireland overnight and early today. Eleven police officers and six civilians were hurt, the police said. The police fired plastic bullets to disperse Protestant and Roman Catholic youths in Belfast, Londonderry and Portadown. Several people were arrested. The police and firefighters in a Catholic section of Londonderry were attacked early today with gasoline bombs and other projectiles at the scene of a shoe-store fire. “One officer received minor injuries,” an official at the Royal Ulster Constabulary said. “There were no arrests, but the premises were extensively damaged. The fire was malicious.”
After a year of relative calm, groups of English soccer fans have turned violent again. Two episodes recently have brought calls by public officials for harsh measures to stop “soccer hooliganism” and revived the debate over why some British supporters seem prone to such behavior. The recent incidents involving British soccer fans occurred before and after exhibition matches between English and Dutch teams. On the night of August 7, three people were stabbed and one person was seriously injured during a brawl among 150 rival soccer fans on a North Sea ferry bound for the Netherlands. The captain, concerned by the threat posed to other passengers, turned the ship around after locking drunken British fans in the bar. He returned to Harwich, where the police made 14 arrests.
Dubai allowed Libya to take possession of a European airliner with U.S.-built engines, despite a legal wrangle over whether the plane’s sale broke U.S. export rules, aviation sources said in Dubai. The plane is one of two Airbus 310s originally owned by British Caledonian Airways. After a series of sales through intermediaries, Libya bought both, taking possession of one early this month. Because U.S. export rules prohibit sending U.S. technology to Libya, British Caledonian and the U.S. government had sought to stop both deals. Dubai held the second plane six weeks before deciding Libya was legally entitled to possession.
A car bomb exploded in Iran’s shrine city of Qom, killing 11 people and injuring 100, Tehran radio reported. The official Iranian news agency said the explosion, the deadliest of six bombings reported by the Iranian media since the beginning of the year, was the work of “agents of imperialism,” a label often applied to various underground groups. Qom, 100 miles southeast of Tehran, is considered Iran’s holiest city. The bombing occurred as Shia Muslim pilgrims were visiting Qom as part of Eid al Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice.
Iraqi warplanes raided two hydroelectric power stations in Iran, and one plane was lost, according to reports from both sides. Iran’s official news agency said an Iraqi Mirage F-1 fighter-bomber was downed by anti-aircraft fire near Dezful in Khuzistan province. Iraq reported that the plane, after bombing two power stations, crashed due to a technical failure. Meanwhile, Lloyds Shipping Insurance Brokers raised premiums for war-risk insurance from 0.25% to 0.5% of the value of the ship. It will now cost $50,000 to cover a $10million ship for a seven-day trip in the war zone.
A 2-year-old Afghan girl lay barely conscious on a tattered cloth, her appendix ruptured. The doctor treating her, a West German who had set up a rudimentary clinic in the shade of a mud wall, thought he might be able to save her with large injections of antibiotics. The child whimpered as an injection was given. The doctor, Karl Friegang, was on a one-month tour of three remote provinces in southwestern Afghanistan to see if a safe place could be found for a small hospital. While on the way, he held open-air clinics like the one 80 miles north of Kandahar.
Scattered rioting and anti-government protests continued in Karachi and rural parts of southern Pakistan for the fourth straight day today, while in Lahore 2,000 protesters held a peaceful march through the city. Reuters reported tonight that army troops had been called out to the city of Tatta, 55 miles east of Karachi, where on Friday anti-Government protesters stormed a police station and a jail, freeing several prisoners. The report could not be confirmed. The use of army troops in the rural part of southern Sind Province, a stronghold for Benazir Bhutto, the opposition leader, was considered a significant step in the sporadic conflict between the government and the demonstrators. In Karachi the police again used tear gas and shotgun fire to disperse crowds, and a dozen people were reported wounded. But the rioting in both Karachi and the rural areas remained confined to several hundred young people and again fell short of the expectations of anti-Government leaders, who are seeking the overthrow of President Mohammad Zia ul-Haq and elections by next month. The protesters have been predicting that there would be a huge upheaval in the streets after Miss Bhutto and several hundred others were arrested this week.
Vietnam permitted U.S. military officials to inspect the wreckage of American bombers shot down during the Vietnam War and released new information on missing U.S. soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel Joe Harvey, head of the Hawaii-based Joint Casualty Resolution Center, said in Bangkok, Thailand. He declined to elaborate but said the U.S. delegation gave the Vietnamese reports of sightings of U.S. servicemen still alive in Vietnam. U.S. officials have said there are about 100 unsubstantiated reports of American soldiers alive in Vietnam. Hanoi has denied it is holding any Americans but has agreed to investigate the reports. Harvey, who led the U.S. delegation that visited Hanoi last week, said he expects to receive further information on the sightings in future talks with the Vietnamese.
Notes taken by a telephone operator during the takeover of the Manila Hotel last month appear to show both prior knowledge and direct involvement by former President Ferdinand E. Marcos from his exile in Honolulu. A transcript of the notes, provided today by a Malacanang Palace source, quoted Mr. Marcos, in a series of telephone calls to the hotel, as giving instructions to two of the leaders of the takeover and urging them to call for his return to the Philippines. “Tell Turing to draft a resolution and send to Reagan at the White House stating you want me back there,” the transcript quotes Mr. Marcos as having told one of his allies in the hotel. Turing is the nickname of Arturo M. Tolentino, Mr. Marcos’s running mate in the February 7 election, who declared himself acting president at the start of the July 6 incident.
The manager of the Manila airport has asked the United States Federal Aviation Administration to carry out a new inspection and has requested a withdrawal of a Transportation Department warning that security measures at the airport are inadequate. A senior security official at Manila International Airport said the request had been made both because corrective measures had been taken since a previous inspection and because “the deficiencies they saw do not warrant the kind of actions they made.” The airport manager, Reli German, defended the airport, saying, “Our security measures at the Manila International Airport are in fact better than most international airports, including several in the United States.”
Prisoners lured a guard into a cell by faking illness today, stole the officer’s keys and led all but one of the 141 inmates in a mass escape from jail in Guadalcanal, the capital of the Solomon Islands, the authorities said. “Only one prisoner stayed behind,” Police Constable John Lioha said in a telephone interview from the capital, Honiara, on the island of Guadalcanal. “He refused to go because he was an honest man.” Nearly 18 hours after the jailbreak on the island, about 1,500 miles northeast of Sydney, the police said they had recaptured 83 escapees. The authorities said 10 had returned voluntarily. The police started a search for the remaining prisoners, described as dangerous but not armed.
The captain of a West German cargo ship denied that he transported 155 Sri Lankans to Canada and set them adrift in lifeboats. Contacted at sea by a West German radio network, Wolfgang Bindel expressed astonishment at accusations that he and his crew pocketed about $400,000 for transporting the Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in the hold of his 425-ton ship, the Aurigae, in an attempt to smuggle them into Canada. Canada has issued the refugees one-year work permits while it studies their requests for political asylum.
A squadron of A-37 jets took off from Iquitos last weekend, dipped through rain clouds hanging over Peru’s northern jungles and released bombs over two airstrips built by cocaine traffickers. The publicity that followed confirmed that the planes had hit their target; although both airstrips were abandoned, the operation’s main purpose had been to dramatize the Government’s commitment to fight narcotics. It was not, however, an empty gesture. This week, special antidrug policemen using helicopters seized 12 more airstrips as well as four laboratories used for processing coca paste into coca base before it is flown north to Colombia for purifying into cocaine.
Sudanese rebels shoot down a Fokker F-27, killing 57 people.
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said today that he hoped that the conflict in Angola would end and that the United States and Angola would establish diplomatic relations, Angola’s official press agency said. Mr. Jackson, who arrived in Luanda today on the third stop of an eight-nation African tour, said he was working to achieve a new United States policy toward Africa, based on respect for each nation’s independence, according to the press agency, which was monitored in Lisbon.
President Reagan meets to discuss candidates for the position of Ambassador of the U.S. to he Republic of South Africa.
The South African Government, reporting 15 more blacks slain in guerrilla and township violence, today denounced sanctions approved Friday by the United States Senate as “protectionism dressed in morality.” The Senate voted, 84 to 14, in favor of sanctions, in a move designed to bring pressure on South Africa to speed political change. The measures approved included bans on the import of South African steel, uranium, coal, iron, textiles and agricultural products, a ban on American petroleum exports to South Africa and on new American investments and the withdrawal of landing rights for South African Airways. The measures “will not help reform,” said the Deputy Finance Minister, Kent Durr. “Reform has a cost. The less able South Africa is to finance reform, the more difficult reform is.”
Congressional negotiators approved legislation tonight that would make monumental changes in the Federal income tax law affecting the finances of nearly every household and business in America. The measure, which now faces single yes-or-no votes in the Senate and the House of Representatives, would dramatically lower tax rates while abolishing or restricting many deductions and other tax preferences. Final approval when Congress returns next month from a three-week recess is likely, but by no means certain. Under the accord worked out behind closed doors today, the top tax rate for individuals, now 50 percent, would be cut to 28 percent, while corporations, whose top rate is now 46 percent, would be taxed at 34 percent. Those top rates are each one point higher than the maximums contained in the Senate version of the tax bill, approved in June.
The conferees approved the measure by voice vote shortly before midnight with only two audible dissents. But the ease of passage did not reflect the strong misgivings held by many of the lawmakers. “It brings a sense of justice to the way we tax income and a new sense of fairness to those who pay,” said Representative Dan Rostenkowski, the leader of the House conferees. The sweeping package is the product of nearly two years of discussion and controversy and long days and nights of tedious bargaining over the last month. It would result in an average tax cut for individuals, by 1988, of about 6 percent.
President Reagan flies into Rancho del Cielo.
President Reagan today attacked the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives as waging “a reckless assault on the national defense of the United States.” In an unusually blunt and sternly worded speech that assailed House Democrats for recent military cutbacks and proposals on arms control, Mr. Reagan said that the measures, if enacted, would represent a potential danger to the national security of the United States. “Soviet arms negotiators must be mystified today that U.S. legislators would give away in Washington what they must have been unable to win in Geneva,” Mr. Reagan said. “Soviet military planners must be astonished at the blows the House delivered this week to America’s national defense.”
Congress finally headed for home early this morning after passing legislation that will raise the national debt ceiling and allow the Government to continue borrowing money while the lawmakers enjoy a three-week summer holiday. That action completed an exhausting day on Capitol Hill in which the Senate adopted a tough set of sanctions against the Government of South Africa and the House approved a measure that cuts deeply into President Reagan’s proposal for the military budget. The Senate also ratified several diplomatic nominations that had been sidetracked by Senator Jesse Helms, Republican of North Carolina, who accused the appointees of not carrying out the Administration’s conservative foreign policy. Those included Morton I. Abramowitz as Assistant Secretary of State and Frank G. Wisner as Ambassador to Egypt.
The Administration’s order that the space agency get out of the commercial launching business marks the final abandonment of the Government’s two-decade struggle to run a space shuttle service that would pay for itself, aerospace experts say. The transfer of commercial launchings to private industry, despite the objections of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, reverses a national policy that has long made the shuttle the nation’s main route to space. Many officials have backed away from that policy since the Challenger disaster January 28 killed the crew of seven and led to a sharp reexamination of the space program. President Reagan said Friday that the launching of private satellites “can be done better and cheaper by the private sector,” while relieving a huge backlog of payloads awaiting shuttle flights. But in interviews over the last two days, more than a dozen aerospace industry executives, analysts and academic experts said it would take at least five years for an industry until now discouraged from competing with the shuttle to develop launching capabilities.
Senate and House candidates have spent $192 million on the 1986 elections with just over half the primaries completed, a jump of 18% over 1984, the Federal Election Commission reported. According to FEC data, the candidates raised $262 million in the first 18 months of the campaign, a 23% increase. Special-interest political action committee contributions jumped 29% and accounted for about 25% of all funds raised. In the battle over the Republican-controlled Senate — viewed as the key issue in the 1986 elections — Republican candidates raised $76 million, while Democrats raised $48 million.
The interstate highway system laid out 30 years ago and now about 98% complete would be finished under a multibillion-dollar authorization bill approved by the House. Passed on a 345-34 vote and sent to the Senate, the measure authorizes $13.9 billion a year from the highway trust fund for construction, bridge rebuilding and other projects. To complete 1,203 miles of the 42,500-mile highway network, the bill authorizes $3.3 billion a year through 1992 and $1.7 billion in 1993. Money was also approved for nationwide mass transit systems, starting with $3.2 billion in 1987 and reaching $4.15 billion in 1991.
Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A. Iacocca has overtaken Vice President George Bush in the latest Gallup Poll presidential test race and currently leads 48% to 42% among registered voters. Iacocca now runs a better race against Bush than does Senator Gary Hart (D-Colorado) or New York Governor Mario M. Cuomo. Bush and Hart are in a dead heat, 45% to 45%, while Bush holds a 53%–37% lead over Cuomo. A year ago, Iacocca trailed Bush 35% to 52%. Though Iacocca has denied interest, his supporters are pressing for his nomination.
Blood banks that freeze the blood of consumers for a fee and store it for later use are opening around the country because of a growing fear by many Americans that they may be infected with AIDS during a transfusion. Doctors and community blood bank operators say the concern is also prompting more Americans to donate blood exclusively to relatives and friends, through what some call “blood clubs.” Health officials fear the trend may disrupt the blood supply for the general public.
The Justice Department will repay employees who are successfully sued for damages caused by their violation of citizens’ constitutional rights, under a reimbursement policy authorized by Attorney General Edwin Meese 3d. In some cases, the Government may also pay the costs of settling lawsuits against individual employees when there has not been a judgment or verdict.
Approval of a blind trust for Representative Dan Rostenkowski was given in 1980 by the House ethics committee based on his written assurance that he had no dealings as an investor or employer with the Chicago businessman he chose as an independent manager of the trust. But records show that the two men, along with a several other investors, had founded a bank and had been partners in an apartment building.
A nuclear power plant in New Jersey was built and licensed to operate before its owners and regulators discovered that an important safety system had been designed and installed backwards, Federal officials and company spokesmen reported. The error would not have caused an accident, the officials said. But if an accident had occurred, the flawed safety system could have made it far more difficult to contain, according to a spokesman at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Carl Abraham. Mr. Abraham said that the problem was in the original design drawings of the Hope Creek plant in Lower Alloways Township. “The original drawings were incorrect,” he said. The flawed system, he added, was “built according to the drawings.”
Bus and streetcar drivers in New Orleans overwhelmingly approved a new contract, averting a strike that threatened to idle a mass transit system that serves 200,000 people a day. Members of the Amalgamated Transit Workers Union Local 1560 voted 424 to 23 to approve the new contract tentatively agreed upon late Friday by negotiators. Drivers first were offered a 10% pay raise over three years, but accepted about a 3% increase over two years in return for better job security, a union spokesman said.
A medical and legal battle over a brain-dead pregnant woman ended today with the death of her tiny baby, a day after his premature birth. The woman and her fetus had been the center of a court battle between the woman’s husband and a man who said he was the baby’s father. The 1-pound, 1-ounce, unnamed son of 25-year-old Donna Piazzi, delivered three months early in an emergency Caesarean, died of multiple organ failure at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital. Mrs. Piazzi, whose life-support systems were discontinued after the delivery, was admitted to University Hospital on June 27, comatose from what appeared to be a drug overdose. Her husband, Robert, asked the hospital then to discontinue life support. But David Hadden, whose claim of paternity has not been challenged by Mr. Piazzi, asked officials to keep the woman alive so that the fetus could develop. A judge ordered life-support systems maintained.
Thick smoke obscured parts of the Northwest as about 12,000 firefighters continued to battle range and forest fires that have threatened homes and charred at least 300,000 acres. Almost 110,000 acres still burned out of control in Idaho and eastern Oregon, and more lightning like the storms that ignited the fires a week ago was predicted. Heavy smoke, which grounded earlier fire-retardant air drops, built up again in west-central Idaho valleys, said a spokeswoman for the Boise National Forest. Firefighters in Idaho concentrated on a fast-moving 1,300-acre range fire south of Salmon that had threatened 40 homes and on blazes near Garden Valley that had charred nearly 10,000 acres. The Oregon fires included several out of control in the Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla national forests.
Tropical Storm Charley strengthened to near-hurricane force with 65-mph winds and wobbled erratically on a track that forecasters warned could threaten North Carolina’s Outer Banks. The storm, which earlier churned to a halt with 55-mph winds, picked up strength and was moving northeast at less than 5 mph. A hurricane watch and gale warnings were posted from Bogue Inlet to south of Oregon Inlet in North Carolina, and small craft were warned to stay in port from Savannah, Georgia, to Cape Lookout, North Carolina.
Madonna’s “True Blue” album is #1 for 5 weeks, and her single “Papa Don’t Preach” is #1 for 2 weeks.
Dale Holman, of the Richmond Braves (International League) becomes the first professional baseball player to ever play for two teams in one game. The game was suspended because of rain on June 16 when he was in the lineup for Syracuse. By the time the game is completed today, Holman had been traded to Richmond and is in the lineup (as noted by Doug Lyons).
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Kevin Bass drove in three runs and Matt Keough and Charlie Kerfeld combined on a five-hitter as the Houston Astros beat the Atlanta Braves 7–4 Saturday night. Keough, 3–3, winning his first game as a starter in more then two years, allowed two runs on three hits in 5 ⅔ innings, striking out five and walking two. Kerfeld earned his sixth save by pitching the final 3 ⅓ innings. Loser Rich Mahler, 11–12, gave up five runs on seven hits, walking one and striking out four in five innings.
At Boston, Lou Whitaker led a 21-hit attack with a double and two singles, and Larry Herndon hit a pinch-hit grand slam in a five-run eighth inning today, helping Jack Morris and the Detroit Tigers to a 12–6 triumph over the Boston Red Sox. Nursing a 7–5 lead, the Tigers loaded the bases with one out in the eighth inning against a reliever, Sammy Stewart, then scored five times on a bases-loaded walk by another reliever, Joe Sambito, and Herndon’s grand slam on the next pitch. The homer was Herndon’s fifth and the first grand slam of his career. Morris (15–7) allowed nine hits in seven innings, including three by Tony Armas and homers to Dwight Evans and Don Baylor. Morris won for the eighth time in nine decisions, striking out three and walking three before he left after Baylor’s leadoff homer in the eighth.
The California Angels beat the Oakland A’s, 5–2. Right-hander Mike Witt pitched one-hit ball following Dwayne Murphy’s first-inning solo homer and Doug DeCinces drove in three runs as the California Angels downed the Oakland A’s. With the victory, the American League West-leading Angels moved 3 ½ games in front of second-place Texas.
The Milwaukee Brewers edged the Chicago White Sox, 6–5. Ben Oglivie, a pinch-hitter, hit a two-run triple in the eighth inning to help Milwaukee win. With the Brewers trailing by 4–3 with two outs in the eighth, Dale Sveum and Jim Gantner both singled off Gene Nelson (5–5). Oglivie, batting for Rick Cerone, tripled to center field for a 5–4 lead. Oglivie’s hit knocked out Nelson and brought in Bobby Thigpen. Thigpen gave up a single to Paul Molitor scoring Oglivie. George Foster drove in a run with a triple for Chicago in the bottom of the eighth to complete the scoring. John Henry Johnson (1–1) was the winner with relief from Mark Clear, who pitched the last one and one-third innings for his 11th save.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the San Diego Padres, 4–1. Buddy Bell hit a three-run homer to provide the Reds’ margin of victory. Bell’s fifth-inning homer gave him a 14-game hitting streak. He hit a pair of homers in the first game of a doubleheader Friday, and now has five in the last eight days.
The Cleveland Indians nipped the Baltimore Orioles, 2–1. Phil Niekro watched an old-timers’ game before the regularly scheduled Baltimore-Cleveland contest, and noted with some amusement that he is older than a dozen of the participants. The 47-year-old Niekro pitched eight and one-third innings for his 309th career victory and Andre Thornton and Tony Bernazard stroked run-producing singles to lead the Cleveland victory. Niekro (9–9) struck out five and walked one. Eddie Murray hit a homer in the ninth to spoil Niekro’s bid for his 46th career shutout. Dickie Noles and Bryan Oelkers combined to finish up. The start was the 683d of Niekro’s career as he passed a Hall of Famer, Pud Galvin, and went into fourth place on the career list. Cy Young had 818 starts, followed by Don Sutton (695) and Gaylord Perry (690). Mike Flanagan (6–8) took the loss despite notching eight strikeouts in pitching his second complete game.
The Yankees lost to the Royals, 4–2, on a bright, hot afternoon as Danny Jackson, the Kansas City starter, held the Yankees to only five hits and his replacement, Bud Black, squelched them altogether. The Yankees’ four-game winning streak ended, but they lost no ground to first-place Boston, which also lost today, 12–6, to Detroit. Whatever the Yankees do these days, it seems, the Red Sox do the same. For the 15th time in the last 20 days, the Yankees and Red Sox had the same result on the same day and consequently, the Yankees remained four games behind the Red Sox in the American League East.
Jamie Moyer, a rookie, had a perfect game for six and one-third innings tonight, then finished with a two-hitter as the Chicago Cubs beat the Montreal Expos, 5–0. Moyer (4–3) walked none and struck out four for his first major-league complete game. Floyd Youmans (11–9) was the loser and went eight innings, scattering five hits. Moyer, who last year was pitching in Class AA ball, retired 19 batters in a row before Jim Wohlford blooped a single over Ryne Sandberg, the Cubs’ second baseman. The only other Montreal runners to reach base were Tim Wallach, who was hit with a pitch in the eighth, and Wohlford, who singled in the ninth. Chris Speier drove in three runs for Chicago.
The Mets’ storybook season took a jolt yesterday when Gary Carter, their All-Star catcher, went on the disabled list for 15 days after he suffered a partial tear of the outer ligament in his left thumb while playing first base against the St. Louis Cardinals. Carter was hurt as he was making a diving backhand stop in the third inning of the Mets’ 3–1 loss in 11 innings. His hand and wrist were wrapped in a cast, where they will remain for one week. Then he will need a week of exercises to regain the strength in his hand. The afternoon became a total flop for the Mets when Gooden was outpitched by Greg Mathews, a rookie working in the big leagues only two and a half months. And, although Lee Mazzilli hit a home run in the ninth inning to tie the score at 1–1, the Mets lost when the Cardinals scored two runs in the 11th off Roger McDowell.
The Pittsburgh Pirates downed the Philadelphia Phillies, 6–1, but were then blanked, 6–0, in the nightcap of their doubleheader. Tom Hume and Kent Tekulve combined on a one-hitter for Philadelphia, and Mike Schmidt and Juan Samuel hit home runs in the second game. Hume (4–0), normally a reliever, was making his first start since July 28, 1984. He allowed one hit in six innings, struck out one, walked none and had a no-hitter until Rafael Belliard lined a single with one out in the sixth. Tekulve pitched three hitless innings to gain his third save. Sid Bream drove in four runs with a homer and three singles, and Rick Rhoden (13–7) pitched a five-hitter for Pittsburgh in the opener.
The Seattle Mariners beat the Minnesota Twins, 7–6. Alvin Davis hit a two-out solo home run in the ninth inning to boost Seattle over Minnesota. The blast made a winner of Pete Ladd, 8–4. Jose Tartabull homered earlier for the Mariners.
The Los Angeles Dodgers edged the San Francisco Giants, 6–5. Steve Sax highlighted a five-run fourth inning with a two-run single, and Bob Welch continued his mastery over San Francisco. Welch (6–9) ran his career record against the Giants to 17–2, including 6–0 at Candlestick Park. He gave up seven hits, struck out seven and walked two, leaving after a one-out RBI-single by Bob Brenly in the ninth. Ken Howell came on and walked Harry Spilman, gave up a two-run pinch-double to Candy Maldonado, a run-scoring fielder’s choice by Dan Gladden and a walk to Rob Thompson. Howell gave way to Tom Niedenfuer, who struck out Chili Davis with two men on base for his ninth save. The Giants struck first on Brenly’s ninth homer, a second-inning drive with no one on. But the Dodgers answered by sending 10 batters to the plate in the fourth against Mike LaCoss.
The Toronto Blue Jays crushed the Texas Rangers, 13–1. Jimmy Key allowed five hits over seven innings, and Ernie Whitt drove in four runs with two doubles and a single to pace Toronto’s victory. Damaso Garca and Tony Fernandez each hit a homer for Toronto. The Blue Jays scored four runs in the first inning against Charlie Hough (9–8) and put the game away with a six-run fifth inning. Hough, who hasn’t won since July 12, is 0–4 in his last seven starts. Key (11–8) allowed only two hits going into the sixth, but the Rangers spoiled his shutout bid with a one-out single by Oddibe McDowell and a run-scoring double by Scott Fletcher.
Houston Astros 7, Atlanta Braves 4
Detroit Tigers 12, Boston Red Sox 6
Oakland Athletics 2, California Angels 5
Milwaukee Brewers 6, Chicago White Sox 5
San Diego Padres 1, Cincinnati Reds 4
Baltimore Orioles 1, Cleveland Indians 2
New York Yankees 2, Kansas City Royals 4
Chicago Cubs 5, Montreal Expos 0
St. Louis Cardinals 3, New York Mets 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 6, Philadelphia Phillies 1
Pittsburgh Pirates 0, Philadelphia Phillies 6
Minnesota Twins 6, Seattle Mariners 7
Los Angeles Dodgers 6, San Francisco Giants 5
Texas Rangers 1, Toronto Blue Jays 13
Born:
Martín Maldonado, Puerto Rican MLB catcher (World Series champions-Astros, 2022; Milwaukee Brewers, Los Angeles Angels, Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, San Diego Padres), in Naguabo, Puerto Rico.
Yu Darvish [Farid Yu Darvishsefat], Iranian-Japanese NPB and MLB baseball pitcher (NPB: All-Star, 2007–2011; Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters; MLB: All-Star, 2012–2014, 2017, 2021; Texas Rangers, Los Angeles Dodgers, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres), in Habikino, Osaka, Japan.
Shawn Pyfrom, American actor (Andrew Van de Kamp — “Desperate Housewives”), in Tampa, Florida.
Died:
John Hurley, 45, American songwriter (“Son of a Preacher Man”), from liver failure and a brain hemorrhage.
Werner Fussan, German composer (Heiteres Aquarium) and educator.
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