The Soviet Union voiced disappointment today at the refusal of the United States to join in a halt of underground nuclear tests. In a televised speech Monday, Mikhail S. Gorbachev announced that a yearlong Soviet moratorium was being extended to January 1, and he called on the United States again to join in to make the test halt permanent. He said the signing of an accord on a total test ban might be the centerpiece of any summit meeting this year. The Reagan Administration affirmed its longstanding position that a moratorium was not in its interest. At a news conference today, the Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennadi I. Gerasimov, said Moscow was encouraged by the generally positive response from world leaders and still hoped that the United States would reconsider its opposition. “We believe common sense and reason will prevail in the end,” he said. He said that the only thing blocking agreement was “political will.” The United States has declined to join the Soviet halt on the ground that it was a public relations gesture, that a ban cannot be properly verified and that testing is needed for weapons development and to insure the reliability of the American arsenal. In his speech on Monday, Mr. Gorbachev said, “I am appealing to the wisdom and dignity of the Americans not to miss another historic chance on the way toward ending the arms race.”
The Soviet Union said today at the 35-nation East-West security conference in Stockholm that it was prepared to accept on-site inspections of troop movements. The comment by the Soviet delegate, Oleg A. Grinevsky, was regarded as a breakthrough at the start of the final session of the 32-month-old talks. When the conference opened in January 1984, Andrei A. Gromyko, then the Soviet Foreign Minister, said demands for inspection were “an excuse to peek through the neighbor’s fence.”
The Soviet Union has apparently completed a naval exercise in waters to the north of Japan that was among the largest conducted by its Pacific Fleet in recent years, Pentagon officials said. The officials said the largest ships observed during the weeklong exercise appeared to be sailing for ports on the eastern Siberian coast. The maneuvers, disclosed by Pentagon officials August 12, involved more than 15 surface warships and at least 15 submarines, the officials said. Among the participating ships was the aircraft carrier Minsk, one of the largest vessels in the Soviet navy, and the cruiser Frunze.
The Soviet Union said today that it planned no further talks with Israel after a 90-minute meeting in Helsinki on Monday. The Foreign Ministry spokesman, Gennadi I. Gerasimov, said at a briefing that the talks had produced no agreement and “there are no plans for a continuation of this meeting.” The comment appeared to dash expectations that the Soviet Union was prepared to move toward improved relations with Israel, broken during the Arab-Israeli war of 1967. An Israeli spokesman painted a more hopeful picture on Monday, describing the session as “candid and correct” and saying that the two sides had agreed to continue contacts, probably through their interests sections in the Dutch Embassy here and the Finnish Embassy in Tel Aviv. In Israel, Prime Minister Shimon Peres expressed puzzlement at Mr. Gerasimov’s comment and said it was not certain that contacts would now cease. “It is hard to interpret the Soviet nuances,” he said. On the Israeli talks, Western diplomats speculated that the Soviet Union had been thrown on the defensive because of criticism by Arab leaders and might have concluded that any potential gains would be offset by the hostile reaction in the Middle East.
Soviet authorities issued exit visas to the family of Anatoly Shcharansky, enabling them to join the freed activist in Israel, his mother said in Moscow. She said they planned to fly to Vienna on Sunday.
One of Poland’s longest serving political prisoners, Leszek Moczulski, said today that he had been granted two days’ leave from jail to attend his father’s funeral and undergo medical tests. Mr. Moczulski, a 56-year-old historian who founded a small opposition party called Confederation for Independent Poland, was jailed in April for leading an illegal organization. Speaking to reporters in his apartment here, Mr. Moczulski said he went to his father’s funeral Monday and would return to prison Wednesday morning. Medical tests showed that he had probably suffered a heart attack in prison, and his doctors’ certificate recommended that he stay in an intensive heart care unit.
An explosion ripped through a four-story building in London housing an Iranian news vendor and an employment agency, killing one person and injuring 13. Police sent an anti-terrorist squad to check for evidence of a bomb amid reports that two men were seen running from the building at the time of the explosion. The news vendor reportedly was opposed to the Iranian regime of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and has sold anti-Khomeini videotapes.
Lebanese Christian and Muslim factions have begun transforming their militias into army-style units with tanks and other heavy military hardware. The development is widely viewed here as a sign that a long struggle still lies ahead for control of this country, already divided by more than a decade of civil war. Lebanon’s three dominant militias — the Lebanese Forces, a Christian group; the Shiite movement Amal, and the Progressive Socialist Party, a Druse group — have completed plans for creating their own armies separate from the Government force. A week ago Nabih Berri, the Minister of Justice, who heads Amal, took the salute at a military parade in Beirut’s mainly Shiite southern suburbs as 800 men in khaki uniforms and leather caps marched to martial music played by a military band. Several Soviet-built T-54 tanks and many armored personnel carriers were also on display.
Syria is planning to increase its arms purchases from the Soviet Union over the next year by allocating more than 55% of total government expenditure to defense, Jane’s Defense Weekly reported. The authoritative British magazine said that arms spending in the coming year will be $3.6 billion, an increase of 5% over last year. It said that purchases of sophisticated Soviet equipment like the MIG-29 Fulcrum and SS-21 missiles will account for over half of the expenditures.
A car bomb exploded today in a central square in the Iranian capital of Tehran, killing 20 people and wounding scores of others, Iran’s official news organizations reported. There were unconfirmed reports that as many as 75 people may have been wounded. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack. On Saturday, an explosion in the Muslim holy city of Qum, 100 miles southeast of Tehran, killed 13 people and wounded more than 100. Today’s blast, in Teheran’s Ferdowsi Square, came in the middle of the morning rush hour in one of the most crowded areas of the city, the official Islamic Republic News Agency said in a dispatch monitored in Nicosia. A radio broadcast from Tehran, monitored in London, put the number of dead at 20 and said the explosives were planted by “American agents.” The 8:20 A.M. explosion damaged a bus, four automobiles and seven motorcycles, wounding their passengers, the press agency said. It also shattered windows in nearby buildings. Iran said the car was thought to have been packed with 50 pounds of explosives.
Afghan rebels armed with anti-aircraft weapons appear to have driven back a major offensive by Soviet-backed troops, Western diplomats said in neighboring Pakistan. They said the rebels’ effective use of anti-aircraft fire has cut Soviet air cover for ground forces in Logar province, keeping the troops at bay. Both sides reported heavy fighting last month in Logar, about 15 miles south of Kabul.
The slum area known as Lyari in the old part of Karachi was strewn today with rubble and smoking skeletons of burned-out cars and trucks, the remains of five days of battles between residents and the riot police. And the residents were themselves smoldering with bitterness. “They have raided our houses and jailed hundreds of our people,” said an old man. Another man lifted his shirt to reveal shotgun pellet wounds on his back. “They have the bullets, tear gas and shells,” a shipyard worker said of the police. “Our only weapons are rocks.” In the midst of the worst burst of political violence in Pakistan in three years, the busy port city of Karachi on the Arabian Sea has again become a place of entrenched hatreds and seemingly irreconcilable grievances, shaking the country’s political foundation. The unrest has flared from the nationwide campaign of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a coalition of 11 opposition parties seeking to oust the President, Gen. Mohammad Zia ul-Haq. Each side feels victimized by the other, and by forces beyond their control.
The head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met today with military and civilian leaders in Manila, then flew south to the sugar-producing island of Negros. A Defense Ministry spokesman said Senator Richard G. Lugar, Republican of Indiana, discussed the Communist insurgency and military reforms in meetings with Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile and the armed forces Chief of Staff, General Fidel V. Ramos.
The Labor Government handed down Australia’s toughest budget in 20 years today, slashing billions of dollars off public spending. Welfare, health, education, the military and foreign aid were all hit with cuts that Treasurer Paul Keating said would trim the equivalent of $1.9 billion in United States currency from government spending. Mr. Keating told Parliament the budget was a response to the collapse in returns from Australia’s primary exports, which had cut more than the equivalent of $4.1 billion from a gross domestic product of about $155 billion in United States currency. He said that there would be no real growth in government spending and that the budget deficit would be slashed to the equivalent of $2.2 billion this year against last year’s $3.6 billion.
Mexican federal authorities have detained 11 state judicial policemen in Guadalajara for questioning in the alleged torture of a U.S. drug agent last week, sources in Mexico City and Washington said. U.S. officials have charged that Jalisco state police tortured Drug Enforcement Administration agent Victor Cortez Jr. He was picked up along with a Mexican informant last week by police in the state capital, which is known to be a haven for drug traffickers. The United States has accused the Mexican police of “unprovoked, brutal and criminal acts against an American official accredited to the government of Mexico.”
Britain and Guatemala renewed diplomatic ties after a five-year break arising from Guatemala’s longstanding claim to territory in Belize, a neighboring ex-British colony. The British Foreign Office said both countries agreed to restore relations to the consular level and hope to re-establish full diplomatic links by the end of the year. British officials stressed that the agreement does not alter Britain’s commitment to the defense of Belize, a tiny Caribbean state between Mexico and Honduras that became independent in September, 1981.
President Reagan said in an interview made public today that unless the Nicaraguan Government sought democracy, the “only alternative” for the rebels there would be “to have their way and take over.” Mr. Reagan’s comments to a Mexican newspaper, Excelsior, were his bluntest and most explicit to date about the ultimate aim of Administration policy in aiding the Nicaraguan rebels, or contras, as they are widely known. In the past, Mr. Reagan and his aides said the ultimate American aim in backing the rebels was to apply sufficient pressure on the Sandinista Government to force it to make concessions, but not to overthrow it. Originally, the Administration explained its support of the insurgents by saying it was part of an effort to cut a flow of arms to guerrilla forces in El Salvador. In Washington, a White House spokesman, Dan Howard, said the President’s comments to the Mexican newspaper represented “no change” in policy. But he said that to justify its level of support for the contras, the Administration needed “an ultimate goal,” which the President stated.
Colombia has a drug problem, Government officials have acknowledged for the first time. The major abuse problem has worsened markedly over the last year as consumption of a dangerous coca-based substance called bazuco has spread from low-income groups into middle-class and professional circles.
The Sudanese government said it no longer will negotiate with rebels in southern Sudan who shot down a civilian airliner last weekend. Officials branded rebel leader John Garang a criminal, according to state-owned radio. “The criminal confessed of his crime without any guilt… killing women and children and increasing the famine crisis,” Information Minister Mohammed Tewfik Ahmed said.
The nation’s economy grew at an annual rate of only six-tenths of 1 percent in the second quarter, heightening fears of stagnation. The Commerce Department’s revision of the gross national product, the Government’s broadest measure of economic activity, found an economy turning over in the April-June period at the slowest rate in nearly four years. The preliminary estimate for the quarter, published last month, was 1.1 percent. The biggest factors in the revision were a sharper decline in farm exports and a much smaller increase in farm inventory investment than had been anticipated.
President Reagan enjoys a morning horseback ride around the grounds at Rancho del Cielo.
The proposed tax revision will harm newborn companies that have become very important to the nation’s economy, according to venture capitalists. Members of the group, who provide the seed money for promising but risky new businesses in the hope of gigantic returns, argue that the entrepreneurs deserve credit for creating jobs and growth.
Secretary of Education William J. Bennett said America’s schools should be run like small businesses, and called for shutting down those schools that cannot deliver what the public wants. Addressing delegates meeting in Washington for the White House Conference on Small Business, Bennett declared: “We must have greater accountability in the schools. You know about accountability. You know that if your product isn’t good, if your services aren’t good, you’re going to go out of business. We need something more like that in education.”
The Advisory Council of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has expressed “great concern” about the ability of the space agency to maintain the nation’s leadership in space. In a letter released today, Daniel Fink, chairman of the council, told James C. Fletcher, the Administrator of the space agency, that steps NASA had taken to recover from the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger appeared to be “neither adequate nor sufficiently rapid.” Mr. Fink, an aerospace consultant, said the independent 25-member council met earlier this month to review the state of the space program since the shuttle explosion, in which seven astronauts died January 28.
A divided U.S. Court of Appeals voted to uphold the constitutionality of a District of Columbia law prohibiting protesters from carrying banners or placards within 500 feet of a foreign embassy. The lawsuit was filed after demonstrators protesting the downing of a Korean Air Lines Boeing 747 jet by a Soviet fighter in September, 1983, were turned away from the Soviet Embassy. While upholding the district ordinance 2 to 1, the appellate panel did vote to send the case back to a trial court to determine whether police violated the law when they arrested protesters who said they wanted to pray silently on the sidewalk in front of the embassy.
An administrative law judge declined to dismiss a $1.37-million fine levied against Union Carbide Corp. by federal officials, who accused the chemical giant of more than 200 safety violations at its plant in Institute, West Virginia. Judge James Burroughs, in dismissing a company motion, said he would hold hearings on whether to uphold the fine, the largest ever issued by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Burroughs set no date for hearings on the citations, the result of a six-month inspection that followed a series of chemical leaks involving Union Carbide plants, including one in Bhopal, India, that killed more than 2,000.
A government advisory panel recommended that Americans be protected from the devastating costs of catastrophic illness through better and more comprehensive health insurance. The panel presented its report to Health and Human Services Secretary Otis R. Bowen, who was ordered by President Reagan in his State of the Union address last February to study the problem and come up with recommendations by the end of the year. The advisory committee said it agreed with Reagan Administration policy that the best solution lay in better private insurance coverage, not through more government programs.
A 7-year-old girl suffering from a rare liver disease recorded a television and radio appeal for an organ donation to save her life. Doctors say Christina Wilson, of Henrietta, New York, will die in five months from biliary atresia unless a suitable liver is found. A 6-year-old New Jersey boy delivered a similar plea over the weekend on behalf of his baby sister, but the 2-year-old girl died before a liver donor was found.
A man who beat, slashed and burned to death a cashier at a drive-in movie theater was executed early today in Huntsville, Texas after the United States Supreme Court and Governor Mark White rejected last-minute appeals. Randy Lynn Woolls, whose arms were tattooed with symbols of death and drug abuse, died by injection at 12:23 AM, Attorney General Jim Mattox said. Mr. Woolls, 36 years old, blamed drugs for his repeated trouble with the law, including the 1979 slaying of Betty Stotts.
The Mayor and the City Council of Santa Barbara, California, facing a nationally orchestrated demonstration to overturn a ban against sleeping in public, voted today to repeal the ordinance. At a hearing at City Hall, more than 100 people spoke out about the homeless, whose overnight presence in parks and on streets has prompted a debate that has divided this city nestled between the Pacific Ocean and Los Padres National Forest. Mayor Sheila Lodge, who until recently had defended the ban against sleeping in public places, shifted her position, some said, as it became apparent that Mitch Snyder, a Washington-based advocate for the homeless, was planning the demonstration here for Labor Day weekend. Mr. Snyder had also threatened to make Santa Barbara a target of a national tourist boycott, a move that would be catastrophic to a city whose primary industry is tourism.
A homemade 30-millimeter antitank weapon discharged at an Arlington, Virginia service station today, apparently as a man was trying to sell it, setting off a fire and explosion that injured three people, officials said. A fire department spokesman said the man, who had parked a pickup truck at the station in suburban Washington, was showing the weapon to another man when it went off, firing a round into a nearby gas pump.
The Vatican, in censuring an influential American theologian, significantly expanded the area of Roman Catholic teaching considered beyond debate, according to senior Vatican officials. They said the order forbidding the Rev. Charles E. Curran from teaching theology at Catholic University was an effort to eliminate dissent against the church’s positions on sexual morality.
Father Curran will press legal action to be reinstated as a moral theology professor at Catholic University, according to friends of the Roman Catholic theologian. Father Curran maintained silence about his plans, but associates said he would challenge the dismissal.
The new Federal tax bill may force New York City to cut its 250,000-apartment construction and renovation program in half and revamp its garbage disposal plans because of higher interest costs, city officials said yesterday. New York is not alone. Across the nation, state and local governments face the burden of higher interest for capital projects, which critics of the tax proposal warn would raise the cost of projects or result in cancellations. The reason is that the proposed Federal tax revision would curtail exemptions for municipal bonds used to finance housing and certain other projects -sports arenas, industrial development bonds and parking lots — that the proposal defines as having private rather than governmental purposes.
Carbon monoxide from a faulty boiler seeped into the air-conditioning system of the Stateline Hotel and Casino in Nevada just before midnight Monday, forcing the evacuation of 500 people and sickening dozens, the authorities said today. Larry Matheis, administrator of Nevada’s Health Division, said 30 people reported some illness, and that 13, including two pregnant women, were ill enough to require treatment. Twelve were admitted to hospitals, where they were listed in either fair or satisfactory condition today.
A recent series of storms brought the parched Southeast some of its heaviest rains in nearly a year, but officials say that the region’s worst drought in a century is still not over. In the last several days, torrential downpours, including those that accompanied Hurricane Charley, have flooded streets, drowned cropland and replenished some municipal reservoirs to a point that officials in three states have eased restrictions on water use. In South Carolina, Charlotte, N.C., and some suburbs of Atlanta, mandatory restrictions on homeowners and municipal water users have been replaced by requests for voluntary conservation. But even with the heavy rain, rainfall totals in most places remain at barely half of the normal rate for the year to date.
Joe Cribbs, the star running back who became expendable in Buffalo with the development of Greg Bell and the drafting of Ronnie Harmon, was traded by the Bills to the San Francisco 49ers. The deal, for undisclosed draft choices, came as National Football League teams scrambled to get their rosters down to the 60-player roster limit.
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Dave Stewart gave up four hits in seven and two-thirds innings, and Mike Davis and Dave Kingman singled in runs as the Oakland A’s sent the Baltimore Orioles to their fourth straight loss, by a score of 4–1. Stewart (6–1) struck out five and walked one. Jay Howell finished for his 11th save.
Doyle Alexander pitched a complete game, hit a sacrifice fly and keyed a three-run fourth inning with a double, and Omar Moreno drove in two runs to lead Atlanta over the Cubs, 7–2. Alexander, 3–4, hit a sacrifice fly to tie the score 1–1 in the second inning. With two outs in the fourth, Glenn Hubbard singled and went to third on a double by Alexander. Moreno drove in both runners with a single and then scored on a double by Dale Murphy. Alexander allowed nine hits, striking out six and walking one. Chicago starter Rick Sutcliffe, 4–11, was lifted for a pinch hitter in the fifth and has not won a game in four starts since coming off the disabled list.
Nick Esasky and Eric Davis hit home runs to help Tom Browning win for the first time in a month with a four-hitter, sending Cincinnati past St. Louis, 6–1. Esasky’s sixth-inning homer, a two-run shot to center field, snapped a 1–1 tie and let the left-hander Browning even his record at 10–10. Browning had lost three in a row, his last victory coming July 18. Davis hit his 17th home run to lead off Cincinnati’s three-run eighth inning. Tony Perez also drove in a run with a triple, and Esasky hit a sacrifice fly for his third RBI.
Paul Molitor did everything in the Milwaukee Brewers’ 5–3 victory over the Cleveland Indians Tuesday night except steal a base. Maybe he would have done that too, except that he never had to stop at first base. “He did a week’s worth in one night. I don’t remember ever seeing a third baseman have as a great a day offensively and defensively,” Brewer manager George Bamberger said. This is all that Molitor did: He homered to left field leading off the game, and homered to right field in the seventh inning. He doubled to right and scored in the third inning, and doubled home a run off the center field fence in the ninth inning. Both his second double and second home run doubled one-run Brewer leads. He didn’t get the game winning RBI, but moved that run to third base with a sacrifice bunt.
Lou Whitaker had a bases-loaded double as he drove in five runs in the second game to help the Tigers get a split of the doubleheader, taking the nightcap, 8–3, after dropping the first game, 5–2. Whitaker had a two-run homer in the opener, giving him seven RBIs for the night. Bob Boone hit a two-run homer and run-scoring double, and Doug DeCinces had a single, double and run-scoring triple as the Angels beat the Tigers in the first game. In the opener, Kirk McCaskill (13–7) gave up four hits and five walks in seven and one-third innings as the Angels won their fourth straight, ruining the return of Detroit’s Dan Petry. Petry (4–6) was making his first appearance since undergoing surgery for bone chips in his right elbow June 10. He gave up three runs, two earned, on seven hits in the five innings he worked.
At Royals Stadium, Frank White belts a walk-off homer in the 11th to give Kansas City a hard fought 9–8 win over Texas. White drives in 7 runs with 2 homers, a single and double. White, who earlier rallied the Royals back from a 7–1 deficit, hit his 16th home run of the season on a 2–1 count off Dale Mohorcic. White had a three-run homer in the sixth inning.
They have become baseball’s glamour team, the dominant Mets, and they won another game tonight, 6–4 over the Dodgers. But they are not skimming along as they had been in the first half of the year. Tonight at Dodger Stadium, they held a 4–0 advantage and lost it, making two sloppy errors on one play to help the Dodgers out — very unlike these Mets — before Len Dykstra hit a single in the sixth inning to bring home the Mets’ pitcher, Ron Darling, with what turned out to be the winning run. For Dykstra, the hit came after a slump, and for Darling, the run meant in the end that he would become the fifth Met pitcher to reach the 12-victory mark this season. He has lost four times.
Kirby Puckett and Kent Hrbek hit consecutive home runs in the third inning, and Gary Gaetti added a two-run homer in the sixth, leading the Minnesota Twins to a 5–1 victory over the Boston Red Sox tonight. Puckett, Hrbek and Gaetti each hit their 25th homers of the season as Minnesota ended a four-game losing streak. The Twins, who lead the majors with 154 homers, are the only team with three 25-homer men. Mark Portugal (4–8) gave up a run on nine hits and two walks in seven and two-thirds innings. George Frazier got the save.
Tommy John was gone. He had already showered and changed and left the clubhouse as the Yankees considered the developments that led to one more untimely defeat. His scoreless streak was over; he was hurt again. The night had become another loss and another lost opportunity. John had been the Yankees’ savior, but last night he could not help them. A line drive had struck him on the inside of his left foot in the second inning. Eventually, it knocked him out of the game. Ultimately, the Yankees were handed a 7–3 setback by the Seattle Mariners. The Yankees failed to gain ground on Boston, which dropped a 5–1 decision to Minnesota yet maintained its lead of five and a half games in the American League East. The Yankees have lost three in a row, but this one was brutal. They got a towering three-run homer from Dan Pasqua in the first inning, and then Mark Langston — who was 0–5 since June 30 and had failed in nine previous attempts to win his 10th game -turned unhittable. Langston retired 15 consecutive batters after the home run, 11 of them on strikeouts. He finished the night with 14 strikeouts.
The Houston Astros blanked the Pittsburgh Pirates, 1–0. Kevin Bass hit his 18th homer, and Jim Deshaies, a rookie left-hander, combined with Dave Smith on a four-hitter. Houston pitchers now have shut out Pittsburgh for 33 consecutive innings. Mike Scott shut out Pittsburgh on four hits to start the three-game series Monday night, and Bob Knepper pitched a seven-hit shutout the last time the two clubs met, on May 22 in Houston. Deshaies (8–3) won for the seventh time in his last eight decisions, giving up four hits and striking out nine in eight and two-thirds innings. Dave Smith got his 25th save. Bass led off the second with a home run over the right-field wall against Mike Bielecki, whose record fell to 6–9.
Kevin McReynolds drove in a career-high five runs with a three-run homer, a single and a sacrifice fly to lead the San Diego Padres past the Montreal Expos 7–1 Tuesday night. Andy Hawkins, 9–8, allowed six hits and one unearned run, striking out two and walking two for his third victory in four decisions.
Jeff Stone dodged an inside pitch from San Francisco’s Scott Garrelts and fouled off a high delivery before belting a game-winning, pinch homer for the Philadelphia Phillies Tuesday night at Candlestick Park. “The one I fouled off probably would have been ball four, but I wanted to hit the ball, not walk,” he said after his team’s 6–5 victory over the Giants. The homer, with two out in the eighth inning, made the score 6–4. If Stone had walked, he probably would have been taken out for a pinch runner because of a sore right knee.
Lloyd Moseby went 4-for-4 with two RBIs, Willie Upshaw homered and Dave Stieb and Tom Henke checked Chicago on five hits, leading Toronto past Chicago, 5–1. White Sox on Tuesday night. Stieb, 4–10, hadn’t won since he beat Kansas City on July 29. He allowed baserunners in all but two of his seven innings and walked four while striking out five.
Oakland Athletics 4, Baltimore Orioles 1
Atlanta Braves 7, Chicago Cubs 2
St. Louis Cardinals 1, Cincinnati Reds 6
Milwaukee Brewers 5, Cleveland Indians 3
California Angels 5, Detroit Tigers 2
California Angels 3, Detroit Tigers 8
Texas Rangers 8, Kansas City Royals 9
New York Mets 6, Los Angeles Dodgers 4
Boston Red Sox 1, Minnesota Twins 5
Seattle Mariners 7, New York Yankees 3
Houston Astros 1, Pittsburgh Pirates 0
Montreal Expos 1, San Diego Padres 7
Philadelphia Phillies 6, San Francisco Giants 5
Chicago White Sox 1, Toronto Blue Jays 5
Stock prices fell across the board yesterday, smothered by nervousness over the course of the economy and the implications of tax law revisions. The overall decline, the first in seven sessions, pulled the Dow Jones industrial average down 6.61 points, to 1,862.91. The Dow had advanced nearly 87 points over the preceding six sessions, registering its strongest rally in recent weeks.
Dow Jones Industrial Average: 1862.91 (-6.61)
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Christina Perri, American singer-songwriter (“Jar Of Hearts”), born in Bensalem, Pennsylvania.
Austin Adams, MLB pitcher (Cleveland Indians, Minnesota Twins, Detroit Tigers), in Montgomery, Alabama.
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Jaap [Jacobus Albertus Wilhelmus] Burger, 81, Dutch politician and chairman (PvdA).
Hermione Baddeley, 79, British actress (“Camp Runamuck”; “Maude”).
Lorenzo Tucker ‘the Black Valentino’, 79, American actor (“Black King”).
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